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Cecil Taylor

Cecil Percival Taylor (March 25, 1929 – April 5, 2018) was an American pianist and poet.

Taylor was classically trained and was one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an energetic, physical approach, resulting in complex improvisation often involving tone clusters and intricate polyrhythms. His technique has been compared to percussion. Referring to the number of keys on a standard piano, Val Wilmer used the phrase "eighty-eight tuned drums" to describe Taylor's style. He has been referred to as being "like Art Tatum with contemporary-classical leanings".

Early life and education

Taylor was raised in the Corona, Queens neighborhood of New York City. As an only child to a middle-class family, Taylor's mother encouraged him to play music at an early age. He began playing piano at age six and went on to study at the New York College of Music and New England Conservatory in Boston. At the New England Conservatory, Taylor majored in composition and arranging. During his time there, he also became familiar with contemporary European art music. Bela Bartók and Karlheinz Stockhausen notably influenced his music.

In 1955, Taylor moved back to New York City from Boston. He formed a quartet with soprano saxophonist, Steve Lacy, bassist Buell Neidlinger, and drummer Dennis Charles. Taylor's first recording, Jazz Advance, featured Lacy and was released in 1956. The recording is described by Richard Cook and Brian Morton in the Penguin Guide to Jazz: "While there are still many nods to conventional post-bop form in this set, it already points to the freedoms in which the pianist would later immerse himself." Taylor's quartet featuring Lacy also appeared at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival, which was made into the album At Newport. Taylor collaborated with saxophonist John Coltrane in 1958 on Stereo Drive, now available as Coltrane Time.

1950s and early 1960s

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Taylor's music grew more complex and moved away from existing jazz styles. Gigs were often hard to come by, and club owners found that Taylor's approach of playing long pieces tended to impede business. His 1959 LP record Looking Ahead! showcased his innovation as a creator as compared to the jazz mainstream. Unlike others at the time, Taylor utilized virtuosic techniques and made swift stylistic shifts from phrase to phrase. These qualities, among others, still remained notable distinctions of Taylor's music for the rest of his life.

Landmark recordings, like Unit Structures (1966), also appeared. Within the Unit, musicians were able to develop new forms of conversational interplay. In the early 1960s, an uncredited Albert Ayler worked with Taylor, jamming and appearing on at least one recording, Four, which was unreleased until appearing on the 2004 Ayler box set Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962–70).

By 1961, Taylor was working regularly with alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons, who would become one of his most important and consistent collaborators. Taylor, Lyons, and drummer Sunny Murray (and later Andrew Cyrille) formed the core personnel of the Cecil Taylor Unit, Taylor's primary ensemble until Lyons' death in 1986. Lyons' playing, strongly influenced by jazz icon Charlie Parker, retained a strong blues sensibility and helped keep Taylor's increasingly avant garde music tethered to the jazz tradition.

Late 1960s and 1970s

Taylor began to perform solo concerts in the latter half of the 1960s. The first known recorded solo performance was "Carmen With Rings" (59 minutes) in De Doelen concert hall in Rotterdam on July 1, 1967. Two days earlier, Taylor had played the same composition in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Many of his later concerts were released on album and include Indent (1973), side one of Spring of Two Blue-J's (1973), Silent Tongues (1974), Garden (1982), For Olim (1987), Erzulie Maketh Scent (1989), and The Tree of Life (1998). He began to garner critical and popular acclaim, playing for Jimmy Carter on the White House Lawn, lecturing as an artist-in-residence at universities, and eventually being awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 1991.

In 1976, Taylor directed a production of Adrienne Kennedy's A Rat's Mass at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in the East Village of Manhattan. His production combined the original script with a chorus of orchestrated voices used as instruments. Jimmy Lyons, Rashid Bakr, Andy Bey, Karen Borca, David S. Ware, and Raphe Malik performed in the production as the Cecil Taylor Unit, among other musicians and actors.

1990s and the Feel Trio

Following Lyons' death in 1986, Taylor formed the Feel Trio in the early 1990s with William Parker on bass and Tony Oxley on drums. The group can be heard on Celebrated Blazons, Looking (Berlin Version) The Feel Trio and the 10-disc set 2 T's for a Lovely T. Compared to his prior groups with Lyons, the Feel Trio had a more abstract approach, tethered less to jazz tradition and more aligned with the ethos of European free improvisation. He also performed with larger ensembles and big band projects.

Taylor's extended residence in Berlin in 1988 was documented by the German label FMP, resulting in a box set of performances in duet and trio with a large number of European free improvisors, including Oxley, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Han Bennink, Tristan Honsinger, Louis Moholo, and Paul Lovens. Most of his later recordings have been released on European labels, with the exception of Momentum Space (a meeting with Dewey Redman and Elvin Jones) on Verve/Gitanes. The classical label Bridge released his 1998 Library of Congress performance Algonquin, a duet with violinist Mat Maneri.

Taylor continued to perform for capacity audiences around the world with live concerts, usually playing his favored instrument, a Bösendorfer piano featuring nine extra lower-register keys. A documentary on Taylor, entitled All the Notes, was released on DVD in 2006 by director Chris Felver. Taylor was also featured in a 1981 documentary film entitled Imagine the Sound, in which he discusses and performs his music, poetry, and dance.

2000s

Taylor recorded sparingly in the 2000s, but continued to perform with his own ensembles (the Cecil Taylor Ensemble and the Cecil Taylor Big Band) and with other musicians such as Joe Locke, Max Roach, and Amiri Baraka. In 2004, the Cecil Taylor Big Band at the Iridium Jazz Club was nominated a best performance of 2004 by All About Jazz. The Cecil Taylor Trio was nominated for the same at the Highline Ballroom in 2009. The trio consisted of Taylor, Albey Balgochian, and Jackson Krall. In 2010, Triple Point Records released a deluxe limited-edition double LP titled Ailanthus/Altissima: Bilateral Dimensions of Two Root Songs, a set of duos with Taylor's longtime collaborator Tony Oxley that was recorded live at the Village Vanguard.

In 2013, he was awarded the Kyoto Prize for Music. He was described as "An Innovative Jazz Musician Who Has Fully Explored the Possibilities of Piano Improvisation". In 2014, his career and 85th birthday were honored at the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia with the tribute concert event "Celebrating Cecil". In 2016, Taylor received a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art entitled "Open Plan: Cecil Taylor".

Taylor, along with dancer Min Tanaka, was the subject of Amiel Courtin-Wilson's 2016 documentary film The Silent Eye.

Ballet and dance

In addition to piano, Taylor was always interested in ballet and dance. Taylor's mother, who died while he was young, was a dancer and played the piano and violin. Taylor once said: "I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes." He collaborated with dancer Dianne McIntyre in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1979, Taylor composed and played the music for a twelve-minute ballet "Tetra Stomp: Eatin' Rain in Space", featuring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Heather Watts.

Poetry

Taylor was a poet, and cited Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, and Amiri Baraka as major influences. He often integrated his poems into his musical performances, and they frequently appear in the liner notes of his albums. The album Chinampas, released by Leo Records in 1987, is a recording of Taylor reciting several of his poems while accompanying himself on percussion.

Musical style and legacy

According to Steven Block, free jazz originated with Taylor's performances at the Five Spot Cafe in 1957 and with Ornette Coleman in 1959. In 1964, Taylor co-founded the Jazz Composers Guild to enhance opportunities for avant-garde jazz musicians.

Taylor's style and methods have been described as "constructivist". Despite Scott Yanow's warning regarding Taylor's "forbidding music" ("Suffice it to say that Cecil Taylor's music is not for everyone"), he praises Taylor's "remarkable technique and endurance", and his "advanced", "radical", "original", and uncompromising "musical vision".

This musical vision is a large part of Taylor's legacy:

Playing with Taylor I began to be liberated from thinking about chords. I'd been imitating John Coltrane unsuccessfully and because of that I was really chord conscious.

Personal life and death

In 1982, jazz critic Stanley Crouch wrote that Taylor was gay, prompting an angry response. In 1991, Taylor told a New York Times reporter "[s]omeone once asked me if I was gay. I said, 'Do you think a three-letter word defines the complexity of my humanity?' I avoid the trap of easy definition."

Taylor moved to Fort Greene, Brooklyn in 1983. He died at his Brooklyn residence on April 5, 2018, at the age of 89. At the time of Taylor's death, he was working on an autobiography and future concerts, among other projects.

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Who Is a Continental Philosopher? 5 APRIL 2011 / DAVID AUERBACH / 1 COMMENT In the debate over continental philosophy a few posts back, there was some question as to which philosophers fell under the rubric of continental philosophy. In the eyes of many observers, indeed, a certain strain of French thought has come to stand for the entire field. Both positive and negative attention have been focused around Derrida, Lacan, Foucault, etc., to the exclusion of many, many others. So I was glancing through the Blackwell Companion to Continental Philosophy (1998) on Google Books tonight, edited by Levinas evangelist and Leiter nemesis Simon Critchley. Even Critchley and co-editor William Schroeder relegate that French strain to just one corner of a large tradition, and most of the names are far less contentious. Rather than trying to answer what continental philosophy is, I think it’s better just to look at these names to get a sense of what the field encompasses. Part I: The Kantian Legacy:. 1. The Context and Problematic of Post Kantian Philosophy: Frederick C. Beiser (University of Indiana, Bloomington). 2. Kant: Robert B. Pippin (University of Chicago). 3. Fichte: Ludwig Siep (Universitat Munster). 4. Early German Romanticism: Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis: Ernst Behler (University of Washington, Seattle). 5. Schelling: Jean Francois Courtine (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris). 6. Hegel: Stephen Houlgate (University of Warwick). Part II: Overturning The Tradition: . 7. Feuerbach and the Young Hegelians: Lawrence S. Stepelevich (Villanova University). 8. Marx: Michel Henry (University of Montpellier III). 9. Kierkegaard: Merold Westphal (Fordham University). 10. Schopenhauer: Robert Rethy (Xavier University). 11. Nietzsche: Charles E. Scott (Pennsylvania State University). 12. Freud: John Deigh (Northwestern University). 13. Bergson: Pete A. Y. Gunter (North Texas State University). Part III: The Phenomenological Breakthrough:. 14. Neo Kantianism: Steven Galt Crowell (Rice University). 15. Husserl: Rudolf Bernet (Louvain Catholic University). 16. Scheler: Manfred S. Frings (The Max Scheler Archives, Des Plaimes). 17. Jaspers: Kurt Salamun (University of Graz). 18. Heidegger: John D. Caputo (Villanova University). Part IV: Phenomenology, Hegelianism and Anti Hegelianism in France:. 19. Kojeve: Stanley Rosen (Boston University). 20. Levinas: Hent De Vries (University of Amsterdam). 21. Sartre: Thomas R. Flynn (Emory University). 22. De Beauvoir: Kate Fullbrook (University of the West of England) and Edward Fullbrook (freelance writer). 23. Merleau Ponty: Bernhard Waldenfelds (Ruhr Universitat Bochum). 24. Bataille: Robert Sasso (University of Nice). 25. Blanchot: Paul Davies (University of Sussex). Part V: Religion Without The Limits of Reason:. 26. Franz Rosenzweig: Paul Mendes Flohr (Hebrew University). 27. Martin Buber: Maurice Friedman (San Diego State University). 28. Marcel: Philip Stratton Lake (Keele University). Part VI: Three Generations of Critical Theory:. 29. Benjamin: Rebecca Comay (University of Toronto). 30. Horkheimer: Gunzelin Schmidt Noerr (Frankfurt am Main). 31. Adorno: Hauke Brunkhorst (Frankfurt am Main). 32. Bloch: Hans Dieter Bahr (University of Vienna). 33. Marcuse: Douglas Kellner (University of Texas at Austin). 34. Habermas: Thomas McCarthy (Northwestern University). 35. Third Generation Critical Theory: Max Pensky. (SUNY, Binghampton). Part VII: Hermeneutics:. 36. Schleiermacher: Ben Vedder (University of Tilburg). 37. Dilthey: Rudolf A. Makkreel (Emory University). 38. Gadamer: Dennis J. Schmidt (Villanova University). 39. Ricoeur: Richard Kearney (University College, Dublin). Part VIII: Continental Political Philosophy:. 40. Lukacs: Gyorgy Markus (University of Sydney). 41. Gramsci: Ernesto Laclau (University of Essex). 42. Schmitt: G. L. Ulmen (Telos Press Ltd). 43. Arendt: Robert Bernasconi (Memphis State University). 44. Lefort: Bernard Flynn (Empire State College, SUNY). 45. Castoriadis: Fabio Ciaramelli (University of Naples). Part IX: Structuralism and After: 46. Levi-Strauss: Marcel Henaff (UCSD, California). 47. Lacan: William J. Richardson (Boston College). 48. Althusser: Jacques Ranciere (University of Paris VIII). 49. Foucault: Paul Patton (University of Sydney). 50. Derrida: Geoffrey Bennington (University of Sussex). 51. Deleuze: Brian Massumi (McGill University). 52. Lyotard: Jacob Rogozinski (University of Paris VIII). 53. Baudrillard: Mike Gane (Loughborough University). 54. Irigaray: Tina Chanter (Memphis State University). 55. Kristeva: Kelly Oliver (University of Texas at Austin). 56. Le Doeuff: Moira Gatens (University of Sydney). A reasonable list. It definitely has a French bias, but it’s not too bad. If compiled today, it would probably include Agamben, Badiou, and Negri too. The unforgivable omission is Ernst Cassirer, who is only mentioned twice in the Neo-Kantianism article and once in passing by Beiser (whose work I very much like). Schlegel, Schiller, Saussure, Bourdieu, and Barthes also seem rather important. Given the inclusion of a bunch of cultural and sociological thinkers, sociologists Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Georg Simmel should definitely be on this list. Other worthy omissions: Humboldt, Brentano, Croce, Mauss, Lowith, Valery, Fanon, Bachelard, Blumenberg, Apel, Eco, Bouveresse, and Virilio. (Not that I like all of them.)

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The Tale of Mister Robert “Bob” Gray.

Full fanfiction is located here.

At this time, dear readers, we must take a moment to break away from our narrative at hand. Because, at this time, we need to focus on a different narrative to understand the current story, the stories we've read, and the stories we will, someday, read.

Pennywise the Dancing Clown came from a story widely known – widely loved. But as it were, the words jumped off the pages of that book and landed in a collection of minds – a hive of thoughts. The named “Robert 'Bob' Gray” became a topic of focus, for so little had been officially written about him. The monster took the name, true as gold, and that was the word of God – or rather... that was the word of the monster's creator, Its author. Beyond that name, not much else was known about Mister Gray, and certainly nothing else was ever, or had ever, been explained.

Bob Gray became the start of a question. “Gray” was a query, a thing of mystery that so many desired to solve. Through readers' own suppositions they did conceive various tales about “Mister Gray” – who he was, what he did, and how he became an urban legend.

Mister Gray.

Bob Gray.

Robert Gray.

Each of those whispers, those quandaries, those theories, those amateur fictions... they led to arguments, debates,and essays – but none of them were one hundred percent accurate.

However...

None of them were one hundred percent wrong, either.

A good story is an amalgam of half stories. Tales pieced together like an epic foil ball, containing only the most compelling bits carefully cherry-picked from the bunch.

So this, dear readers, is the actual, true-to-god, story of Mister Robert “Bob” Gray. Would I lie to you? Me? Your storyteller? Why yes – that's what any good storyteller would do. So, as I'd said in the beginning: If you don't trust me... then stop reading. Are we ready? Let us begin...

The Tale of Mr. Robert “Bob” Gray (better known as) Pennywise the Dancing Clown

Gray was a man between the age of thirty and thirty-five, and he was a tall man with sandy-brown hair and striking blue eyes. True enough, his hands were large, his fingers long, and his legs put him around six and a half feet tall. He wasn't a heavy man, but by no means was he scrawny – not at his height and certainly not at his age.

Gray was indeed an immigrant from Sweden who had, at the ripe age of seventeen, sailed over to the northeasternmost region of the great United States of America. He did indeed come over to the land of the free with little else but spare change and a willingness to work – even if it broke his back. Now, understand this... his name wasn't Bob Gray back in the old country. No. His birth-given name was Robert Grå. Just like that, with the funny circle above it and everything, or so the Americans said. Hell, it meant the same damn thing between the languages, but those American types sure relied heavily on everything being spelled out in English. And so... Robert Gray it became – or Bob if someone was feeling particularly informal.

By his twenties, Bob had made a name for himself in the township of Derry, Maine. In so much that he was the man you'd call on if you'd needed odd jobs done. Some farm work here. Some machinist work there. And every year there'd be a carnival that rolled through Derry, as sure as rain. The event lasted through a long, summer weekend, and when it was over, those carnies packed up that carnival like stuffing socks in a suitcase. You'd better believe Bob Gray was willing to help out with the odd jobs at this event. It was only for a weekend, but the coin was good.

A carnie – a real leathery fella – by the nickname of Carnie Ron had been the one who'd personally tasked Bob Gray for the right wages. He'd set Bob to work on various chores like fixing things that went broke and restocking prizes, food, and refreshments as they'd been consumed (maybe once in awhile thieved) throughout the weekend. The downside for Bob was that this carnival only came once a year. A man needed to live the rest of those twelve months. Regardless, he took what he could, worked his duties, and collected pay from Carnie Ron.

It wasn't until Bob's third year that things had changed. One of the carnie hands, not Ron, asked Mister Gray to fill in as a clown – something to keep the younger kids entertained while their ma's and pa's drank themselves loose on cheap stout (which made them spend all the more coin for the rest of the night).

And that's just what Bob did. He put on the clown suit, which was little more than a dingy, old pair of men's pajamas, and caked some white pancake makeup all over his sun-soaked face. Then, Mister Gray took a bit of red paint and gave himself a big, merry smile from ear to ear. He looked just like the Cheshire Cat, if that wicked old cat was ever the clownin' type.

“Hand me all those balloons,” Bob had told that same carnie hand, and – boy oh boy – Mister Gray took to being a clown like a duck takes to water. The kids got a dance out of him, silly voices, crazy faces, and each one of them walked away with their own balloon after they'd begged their ma's and pa's (til they were blue in the face, no less) for the extra coin to buy their very own from the clown. Why, Bob even took a paintbrush to the balloons and signed each one of them, like he'd been peddling out his very own autograph. (As if he'd been anything to anyone at the time, but for that measly hour, to those kids, Mister Bob Gray was like a god.) Before he'd signed his first balloon, Bob had to think of a name on the fly. He saw those coins jingling in the youngsters' hands and it just came to him: Pennywise. Pennywise the clown. The clown that danced, even sang a tune or three, and handed off balloons with his signature and everything.

It wasn't long after that day that Bob Gray got to thinking that he could do this for a living. He could entertain, sing, dance, and overcharge for cheap balloons. (And he could do it more than once per year!) So, with the money he'd saved thus far, Mister Gray bought an old, worn down caravan off Carnie Ron. He'd fixed her up and painted a likeness of his clownin' self across her side. Then he wrote the words, as big and as grand as he could: The Great Pennywise – The Dancing Clown. And, sure enough, that had been Mister Bob Gray's modest source of income for years to come.

What Bob Gray hadn't known was ...that in all that time... he was being watched. (And interestingly enough, he'd been watched by two very different sets of eyes.)

The first, and prettiest, set of eyes that'd been watching Mister Gray from afar belonged to Miss Melody Sharp. She was a provocative young woman with a lean build and a face that could charm the skin off a snake. Her hair was thick and golden and often prettily decorated with some ribbons or another. Her eyes were deep and beautiful, like a pair of sparkling sapphires. One look from her and it could melt any man's heart. (Well... almost any man's.) It was true. Miss Melody was a lovely thing, and even lovelier was her soul. She'd help just about any person in need, no questions asked. Miss Sharp was a kind girl with a gentle touch and a soothing voice. Why, her tone was so pacifying that her own birth-given name didn't do it justice. Yes, just about any man in the Derry township could agree that listening to Miss Melody Sharp speak was like being serenaded by a warm, beautiful song.

Now... don't ask me why... but poor Melody, for some unholy reason, had her sweet heart set on Mister Bob Gray. One could theorize that she took to him because he'd been so engaging in his performances. Perhaps he amused her which had, in some way, bewitched the sweet girl. One could also argue that she took to him because, admittedly, Mister Gray was a handsome man with those unconventionally attractive Scandinavian looks. Oh sure – he was tall and strong and his eyes were piercing blue. So blue, in fact, you could swear that god himself plucked two pieces of the sky and stuffed them right in Gray's sockets on the day he'd come squalling into the world.

So, without a doubt, Miss Melody Sharp had fallen for Mister Bob Gray. Unfortunately – because life just isn't fair, even if you are as darling and as elegant as Miss Sharp – the man could have cared less. She came around after his shows while he'd been winding down back behind the caravan, and it was always the same sad story.

“Evening, Robert!” she'd say with the prettiest smile. “I baked you a shepherd's pie.” And little Melody would approach Mister Gray, often times while he was still in his clown makeup, offering the man some painstakingly handmade gift or another. Poor thing. She went a-courtin' after Bob, day in and day out, never quite getting the hint that he was dead set on remaining a lifelong bachelor.

“Thank you, Miss Melody,” he'd always say, without so much as looking at her. His tone was often quiet, unimpressed, perhaps with a hint of eagerness for her to just go away. Now, there was nothing actually wrong with Mister Gray. Nothing criminal about him. He simply wasn't interested. Some folk balked at his persistent indifference to Miss Sharp, and that's how rumors circulated, but – true as gold – Bob only cared about Bob.

Melody didn't see this for what it was. She persisted in her own way, in spite of his antipathy. “There's a dance at the local hall coming up...” That was her usual line when that time of year came around. “Gee, I'd hate to go alone...”

But of course, Bob Gray, with that thick head of sandy hair sitting on that prominent forehead of his would look down at the hopeful, young woman, clear his throat, and say, “I'm sure you'll manage.” Then he'd turn right back around and stare into that mirror of his as he wiped his makeup from his skin.

Melody had taken Bob for a coy man, which was part of her whole denial over the issue. In spite of his day to day vocation, she was convinced he was shy. And that was the long and short of their relationship, if you had the cheek to call it such a thing.

Then... there had been the other set of eyes watching Bob Gray. These eyes were much different from those of Melody Sharp. These had been the devil's eyes. Eyes from another place – a dark place – not anywhere bright enough to be considered another world. It was like an unworld. A void. Nowhere that any man or woman would willingly go. Perhaps it'd been a place that led straight to hell for all one knew. Hell or death. Or perhaps both.

What is known about the Derry township is that a great evil thrived somewhere at its core. This was an unfortunate truth, one that no citizen wanted to advertise, but a truth with which every citizen was all too familiar. Some said the town was cursed. Others said that the evil bore the town, itself. There was no true agreement on the matter, but, true enough, it had been the same evil that plagued Derry in its later years to come. It was the same evil that eventually caused the Ironworks Factory explosion, the same evil that burned down the Black Spot. Hell, it was the same evil that skyrocketed both the citywide death toll and the headcount of missing children at an alarming rate. This evil... It had a mind. It was conscious. It was self aware. And, regrettably, It took notice of Mister Robert Gray.

For a brief time, It merely watched him. It studied everything about Gray – his daily routine, his habits, his apparel, and his performances. It took to him, you see. It took to his likeness. In a way, It envied Gray – how easily he drew in crowds of people. Gray simply saw them as potential meal tickets... easy coin.

But It...

It saw them as potential meals. Plain and simple.

Bob Gray hadn't been too difficult to drive to madness. No sir. All it took were some whispers in his mind, driving his thoughts to dark places, forcing the man to slowly become unhinged. Gray had begun to question his sanity the night he'd seen himself eat a boy. The creature – It – took to shapeshifting into the very spitting image of Bob Gray. It had strut around, looking exactly like him, right before his eyes, causing the man's mind to snap faster than a stale twig.

“I'm you, Bob!” It had said, dragging around the half dead body of a bleeding and terrified boy. That same boy had earlier been part of the paying crowd that gathered to see Gray's dancing clown performance. Gray screamed, night after night, watching a nightmarish facsimile of himself gruesomely eat away at the flesh and bone of one horrified patron or another.

Tragically, Bob Gray – the man – had become convinced that he, himself, was the killer. Such a thing wasn't true, but try telling that poor son of a bitch that after the terrors he'd been forced to see. Becoming unhinged didn't take long. No sir. Gray's grip on reality had long since slipped clean away and he couldn't live with himself any further. After two weeks of watching the other Bob Gray, Mister Gray fastened a rope up to the branch of a tall tree, secured it snugly around his neck, and promptly took his own life.

The creature... It was delighted. With the real man out of the picture, It was able to take over his appearance, his caravan, and his dancing clown routine. It took over his life. It was the new Mister Robert “Bob” Gray, now. It continued to feed off the patrons who came to see Pennywise do his dance – oh yes – like shooting fish in a barrel. Easy meals – and these types scared real easy, too. It ...Gray... made their meat jump with flavor.

The creature went by Bob's name, who frequently introduced himself as Pennywise, just as his muse (now swinging from a tree) had done. Nothing seemed to be standing in his way to endless meals. No more hunting and starving. No more worrying that he couldn't fill his belly before his long sleep. The whole setup was about as convenient as running a farm.

One day, however, after a few weeks of this delicious convenience, Miss Melody Sharp – oblivious and as innocent as pie – went calling on Mister Bob Gray just as she'd always been apt to do. Melody circled the caravan, peeking around for him, but found that, as it were, he didn't appear to be home. The caravan was, indeed, the man's home. She knew this well. He wasn't the type to stray too far from it for too long. However... without warning – without even a sound – Melody almost jumped out of her own skin when she turned to see Bob Gray just standing mere inches from her, as if he'd noiselessly appeared from thin air!

“Robert!” she'd yelped, raising a hand to her heaving chest. “You startled me half to death. That wasn't very kind, sir.” She chuckled a bit, for there was a part of Melody who had been amused by her own shock, and so her chuckle turned into a laugh. Composing herself, she then beamed a warm smile to the tall man staring her down with intense eyes; a man who sported a grin that didn't seem to sit quite right on his comely face. It looked like the smile of the clown, as if it had been glued, indefinitely, to Gray's lips. It did, indeed, give Melody pause before she continued. “I...” the young woman stammered, “I made you something.”

He stared her up and down – she was dressed in a frilly, sky blue dress with white trim. It was warm that day, so her hair was done up in some fancy knotwork to which only pretty girls like Melody knew the secret method. Gray found her... appealing. Just that brief bounce of shock had sent an appetizing aroma to his sensitive nose – like fresh meat simmering in a spicy stew.

Melody handed him a box. It had been conscientiously gift-wrapped, almost too perfect to tear open. “Go on,” she smiled.

Without a word, Gray nimbly untied the white ribbon around the box, then ripped at the shiny, red paper, peeling it away from the parcel. The box was a simple paper cube, likely something she'd found in her attic. Melody's smile widened as she blushed a little. “Open it up, Robert.”

Gray popped and flipped open the paper flap and looked down. Inside, there was some sort of ivory fabric, pleated and lacy, made from some fancy material or another.

“Here,” huffed Melody, too excited to wait for him to take it out. “Let me.” Miss Sharp removed the item and draped it around Gray's neck. “See?” Ruffs. She'd sewn together custom-made, Elizabethean neck ruffs for the man's Pennywise costume. “I hope you like it.” Still smiling and blushing, she awkwardly looked down.

Gray, he ...It... had never been given a gift before. Certainly nothing intended for the indulgence of his (Its) own vanity. He reached to the back of his neck and fastened the ruffs together, spying himself in one of the makeup mirrors. The ruffs, indeed, looked good. And because Gray looked good, he felt a multitude of good feelings wash over him in that instant. He turned to Miss Melody, clutched her delicate hand, stared into her eyes, and said, “Thank you, Miss Sharp. This is a beautiful gift.”

Melody's blushing cheeks reddened even more. “Will you wear it to your next show?” she'd asked. Some part of her expected Robert to tell her no, rip off the ruffs, stuff them back in that box, and send her on her way.

“Oh yes, Miss Sharp. Melody. Yes I will wear it. I will wear it to every show.” He held her hands a bit tighter, now. Just a squeeze. Then, he let her go.

Melody's heart nearly melted. Meanwhile, Gray excused himself, but unlike in the past, he did so warmly, with a tone that seemed to say, “Oh Melody... please do come visit me again...”

And so... she did. Miss Sharp, bless her innocent heart, did not realize the man called Robert Gray – to whom she'd devoted the remainder of her free time on Earth – was truly not the same man as the one that snubbed her again and again. No. She visited nightly with a foul thing. A skinwalker that had been asleep for billions of years, only having recently awoken within the last few hundred. Thereafter, It followed a sleep cycle of twenty-seven years only to emerge, hunt, and eat on the flesh of Derry folk, before returning to Its rest.

Melody was none the wiser, but she sure was tickled to see Mister Bob Gray hungrily wolf down her shepherd's pie for once in her life. She wondered... did his feelings change for her? Had Robert finally warmed up to her advances? And oh how he wore her hand sewn neck ruffs! Each time she caught his act, he'd faithfully had them wrapped round his oh-so-handsome collarbone. Melody was elated. Robert had finally taken to her.

Now, this is the point in our tale, dear reader, where one might think this wicked creature had depraved plans for the likes of poor Miss Melody Sharp. Did the thought cross Gray's mind to plunge the delicate young maiden into her deepest fears and then proceed to eat her alive? Oh yes! This thought did indeed cross Gray's mind – and more than once, assuredly.

But...

Melody had a certain something about her. Even all the Derry men could agree on that. Perhaps even some of the Derry women, if you can open up your mind and wrap your head around such a thing. Sure enough, that certain something, that unconditionally giving nature of Melody's, well... it was powerful enough to transcend barriers even of the dark, extradimensional kind. People like Miss Sharp don't come around all too often. This dark tale goes to show just how much of a rarity she'd been. Perhaps her certain something failed on the real Robert Gray, but... on the likes of this entity... on this creature... it sure hadn't failed in the least. Gray's ability to probe deep into Miss Sharp's psyche and read her every whim had, unbeknownst to her, enchanted a monster. Not an easy feat to do. Sometimes it was what was on the inside that counted... and in this case, it counted for one's very life.

Gray complimented Melody's shepherd's pie each and every time she'd brought it around, singing the utmost praise to its delicious texture and taste. The animal meat within had been seasoned just right, almost enough to rival the scared, savory flesh of a quivering child.

“They say the quickest way to a man's heart is through his stomach,” Miss Sharp would laugh.

Gray laughed along with her, oh how he laughed and laughed. Sort of a haunting giggle, really, but Melody cheerfully paid no mind.

One night, Miss Sharp came to Gray, very nervous, hoping to ask him the same question she'd asked each year. The dance. She wanted him to accompany her to the dance at the local hall where all of the township would surely be in attendance.

“Will you do me the honor?” she'd asked. “I know, I know. I ask every year, but–”

“What about now?” said Gray.

Melody quirked a half smile. “N-now?”

Gray took her small hand in his, cupping his other hand to her slender waist. “Would you kindly dance with me now Melody Sharp? Out here? Under the moonlight?”

On cue, her cheeks flushed and she smiled. “Of course, Mister Gray.” Miss Sharp couldn't believe it – she had won this man's heart.

Gray pulled her close, swaying gently, leading Melody along with his graceful strides. He rested his chin on the curve of her head as she felt the soothing heave of his chest against her face. For some time their quiet waltz continued, silently but beautifully, beneath the glow of the moon above, until Gray lifted her innocent face to meet his eyes. He leaned downward and gently kissed the young woman on her velvet, soft lips. She tasted as he'd imagined – sweet and fresh. Gray found himself unable to unlock his mouth from hers. Melody pressed against him in her own, eager way – meanwhile her small but firm hands cupped the rugged contours of his jawbone and neck.

Gray lifted Melody from her feet, still embracing, forever trapped in the perfect kiss. And the two eventually found themselves back inside his caravan, clothing off, making love on a bed roll stuffed with down. Melody had never lain with a man in all her life – and as far as Gray knew, she was assuredly his (Its) first, as well. Their lovemaking was raw, but slow, bathed in a soft light provided by a neighboring kerosene lamp.

Gray had hunted the humans... had fed on the humans... but this...

“I love you,” Melody Sharp had whispered against his lips, now wet from her kisses.

It had been a phrase the humans said to each other when their affections had... blossomed. Gray, for all his evil and wickedness, could only hear himself utter those same words back to her.

“I love you too...” Even though this monster had spent centuries playing deadly tricks on people, this was indeed no ruse. The creature that had driven Bob Gray to suicide, stole his life away, and murdered those who paid to see him dance, deeply felt love – of all things – for Miss Melody Sharp.

And as she moaned and panted against Gray as he bucked his hips into her, he resolved to himself that while almost all humans were potential meat – Melody Sharp certainly was not.

Time went on and the two continued their trysts, but as all stories have a beginning, there must come the inevitable end. Whether Melody Sharp knew it or not – she'd trapped the heart of a monster. Not a small victory, which undeniably makes her the hero of this tale. In spite of how everything shall boil down in the end, Melody Sharp was the one who had saved the monster inside of Mister Robert “Bob” Gray.

Now, Gray, for all that he (It) was... had been a cloud of malevolence cast over Derry. Perhaps, Melody did not perish by the wicked creature's hand in of itself – Its influence was still the death of her. Gray's corruption spread like a disease through the hearts of Derry residents far and wide. Murder. Rape. Arson. All accounts of such heinous deeds increased in frequency, namely when the creature's eyes were open.

Gray waited for Melody that night, as he always had each and every night. How he missed her when she was away. But Miss Melody never came to the caravan that night. She'd taken her usual walking path – oh yes – but this time some men had been waiting for the poor girl. They'd been watching Miss Sharp, memorizing her routine over the course of some time. These men knew that the young lady had coin on her and they were, unfortunately, the desperate criminal types in a rush to leave the great state of Maine. Now, be aware they didn't violate Miss Melody – no they did not. As previously stated, they were in a rush. The thoughts had crossed their ugly minds, sure, but the coin was all they wanted. Truth be told, had Melody handed over her purse, then everyone would've walked away in one piece. But Miss Sharp, deep in her gracious heart, was a hero – she was a fighter. And, bless her efforts, she tried to fight off those men, but she lost that battle. She lost it hard.

In fact, it had been in that very moment when one of the men – whose eyes Melody had nearly clawed from his face – stuck his knife deep in her belly that Gray looked up at the moon above and gasped in sync with Miss Sharp's final breath. Those awful men ran off with her coin – they even took her shepherd's pie. All the while, Gray raced across the Derry landscape, moving faster than any mortal man could do. Though he hadn't moved fast enough and, in the end, he found his love lying flat on the wet earth, bleeding red through the center of that sky blue dress of hers.

Gray took Melody in his arms and shushed her as she choked. Blood bubbled from the corners of her mouth and he held her closer, knowing all too well when a human's death was near.

“R – Robert...” she'd managed to say.

“I'm here,” he croaked in reply, his once smooth voice changing under the duress of watching her die. As Melody's life slipped away, all the affection Gray had for her sunk downward, deep into a forgotten place where he locked away his (Its) sensitivities. Gray's affection was replaced with a heavy layer of malice and hatred for Derry. Hatred for the humans. Hatred for their children. Oh how... how... he would make them suffer. Make them scream. Make them into his food forever and always. They took her from him. Miss Sharp could have been the one to quell his urgency to always consume – but not anymore.

Gray hugged Melody's limp, delicate body close and rocked her. He shuddered with grief so fiercely that he began to lose his form. Tendrils inched out from his spine as he arched forward, cradling his love. But... deep down... that affection still lingered. It was still there... somewhere... buried within a monster who wept into the night. Melody Sharp may have died, but her long lasting impression on Mister Robert “Bob” Gray never did.

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The grasp of hope part 2 (fanfic)

La saisie d’espoir ,Ch. 2: “The housekeeper“

Part 1

Title: The grasp of hope / La saisie d’espoir

Pairing: Amicia x Melie (Melicia)

Genre: Romance

Rating: K

Overall word count: 8k +

Chapter word count: 2,638

Disclaimer: The characters are not mine but Asobo studios property. But I’m always happy to borrow these wonderful characters.

Note for this chapter: This chapter is heavily centered about an OC, an old and kind woman who works as a housekeeper

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‘”What if you’re going to upset her with staying... not able to give her what she deserves?’ was enough to cloud her mind once more and make her sneak silently but quickly out of the room, leaving her lover behind without another looking back; she knew that she couldn’t bear to leave then. “

Chapter 2: The housekeeper

The thief managed to stay silent the whole time she was sneaking through the upper level of the estate. Much to her disadvantage, the size of this house and therefore the walk through it was long enough to make her think and getting lost in those thoughts once she was down the stairs. As she was walking slowly through the ground level she carefully leaned against the walls, almost as if she’d use them as a hiding spot in case someone was walking by.

It was a good plan and would have worked out if she wasn’t lost in her thoughts. Because due to not paying any attention to her surroundings she didn’t hear the soft hum coming from the kitchen, which should have made her alarmed and maybe search for a different way.

But the thief continued walking slowly in that direction, the noise of her hand trailing the stone wall made the person in the kitchen stop humming and turn around to face the source of noise: “An early riser as I see, eh?” Said person shook her head in amusement and started laughing, making the thief jump slightly, now being pulled out of her thoughts, and gasp at being caught.

“I-” Melie stared at the person in front of her, who turned out to be the old but friendly lady the group met while freeing the house and who now worked as a housekeeper and servant for the De Rune’s.

‘Shit.’ Was all that went through Melie’s mind at the moment, being caught off guard and not knowing how to respond. But before she could think of something to say or to just start running without another word, the old woman laughed again and waved her hand at Melie, inviting her to join her at the cattle.

“C’mere, young lady. Ya can help me with preparing today’s meal if yer already here.”

Melie didn’t exactly know why she followed the invitation and sat down on a simple wooden stool next to the fireplace on which a stew broiled in the cattle, but she did and now was watching the housekeeper cutting some vegetables. It took the thief a few seconds to regain her voice and all she was able to let out was a: “Not sure if you should call me a lady, ma'am. I ain’t one.”

The old woman only laughed softly in response before she showed her a gentle smile: “Usually women’re flustered at being called a lady even if it ain’t suitable for them. But you and the little lady are courtin’ each other, yes? It indeed makes yer suitable for the title, in the future for sure at least.”

“Uhm...” The red haired girl looked down at the mentioning of her and Amicia being a couple and sighed, reminded of what she was about to do.

She didn’t have to think of more as a response because the housekeeper noticed her reaction and therefore something being wrong: “Something has yer stirred up I see?”

Melie gasped quietly and blinked as her head shot up to face the old woman, being more than surprised at how she could tell. But she didn’t have time to question her about it and she blinked again when the woman simply dumped a sack of potatoes and two wooden bowls in front of her. The older spoke once more as she was handing the young thief a flat knife: “Talk, my child. About what has made yer heart so heavy. And talkin’ gets easier when you’re doin’ something, like being productive.”

The thief was hesitant about opening up to the kind housekeeper, remembering how she often heard old women spreading every bit of gossip, and she really didn’t want this to spread around: “Sure that ya wouldn’t gossip it around, madame? We all know that it’d be nice to share what the young De Rune’s girlfriend worries about, eh?”

Immediately after letting those words out, the thief already regretted her choice of words, knowing that it really wasn’t necessary to be so rude: “Ah shit- uh- I didn’t mean to-”

But the old women interrupted her with a soft laugh and waving it off: “Don’t you apologize, young lady. Ya can’t be too careful enough nowadays, saw it with my own old eyes. But my lips will remain closed, don’tcha worry.”

Melie still felt more than uncertain about being honest, but she guessed that it would be better to share that worry and to ease its weight through this than to keep it forever. And in a way this old lady did radiate trustworthiness off, which eased her to speak in a low voice, noticeably a bit ashamed as she took care of the first potato while letting her deepest worries out: “I...I-” Her voice failed her at first and she looked down on the ground once more, only able to continue in an even quieter tone when she felt the housekeepers hand on her shoulder, encouraging her to try talking again: “I… I don’t think that I’m good enough for Amicia… She- she’s just so damn wonderful in every way, there’s nothing you can’t love about her, even when she’s kinda childish… ‘ts still cute. And- and she’s rich, a knight’s daughter…”

Melie’s hesitation fully faded away as she started speaking and soon she didn’t whisper anymore, even though her voice was still drowned in uncertainty: “And I- ‘m a lousy thief in comparison. Hell- I can’t and couldn’t ever give her what she deserves, all the fancy stuff ya know? I can’t give her that or any other good thing she is used to, so she’d probably get upset about being with me… and I don’t want her to get upset-”

While Melie was speaking, the housekeeper only shook her head as a response, but still keeping her soft, motherly smile as she thought about the problems the youth had in relationships. That soft smile only faded when Melie came to her last part, about what she was about to do: “Hell I couldn’t stand her being upset… and me being the reason for it. So- I wanted to leave… it probably sounds weird- but maybe she’ll forget about me and can get the happy and wealthy life she deserves-”

smack!

Without hesitation and without waiting for the younger woman to finish talking, the old housekeeper shook her head and lightly smacked the back of Melie’s head while scolding her, her motherly care never really leaving her voice or actions: “What a foolish thing to believe! Love doesn’t die, young lady. The only thing you’d do with leaving would be to break both of yer hearts. More than if ya stay and ya two would realize years later that ya don’t fit and would peacefully part.”

Melie was about to puff her cheeks out and complain about the smack on her head, but didn’t want to be rude again so she decided to wait until the housekeeper was finished speaking. Her idea of complaining afterwards completely vanished though when the housekeeper brought up an interesting point. That was when said old woman continued cutting vegetables; before that, while she was still talking, she turned around to get back to work while gladly taking the few potatoes that Melie peeled off while letting her heart out: “Besides- I think ya by her side is the best thing to happen, n’ the best fate the little lady could’ve wished for.”

That sentence was what caught Melie’s attention and made her tilt her head at the housekeeper: “Wh-what d’you mean by that? Best fate for her?”

At first the older woman only chuckled softly while working, only a few moments later she spoke with an amused tone in her voice: “Ya need to know- I know the little Amicia since she’s born. I’ve worked for this family till the first year of the little boy. And she’s always been quite the adventurous ‘n stubborn minded, ya know?”

The soft laugh she let out at the end also made Melie laugh; the thief really could perfectly picture Amicia being like that as a child: “She never got rid of that then. But how comes you stopped after Hugo was born?”

“Hmm- I finished training the younger housemaids, ‘twas my time to retire,” The housekeeper quickly answered with an amused laugh and smile before she went back to what she wanted to say: “Anyway- ya could see that she wasn’t made for the path she’d have to take as a lady. Followin’ a husband and other men without a word, livin’ for high expectations, go on gatherings but no adventures… Her mother wasn’t made for that too, she’s the most noble and independent lady I’ve known. But she was only lucky that Sir Robert let ‘er be the way she was, ‘cos he loved her the way she was. And Amicia-”

The servant paused and showed Melie a soft smile “-Truly is lucky to have found ya, to have ya by her side. She has everythin’ she wants with ya, y’know? Freedom and love. She dreamed of that since she was small- always has been the dreamy romantic. And still seems to be.”

Melie was silent after the housekeepers speech, gladly she finished peeling before, because now she was too struck by that information to do anything besides sitting on the stool with an agape mouth, lost in her thoughts which worked all the new aspects of this revelation in.

And the housekeeper decided to let her take all the time she needs for thinking, taking the rest of the potatoes while deciding and watching Melie for a few seconds from time to time.

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And so their conversation died. The housekeeper went back to quietly humming her song from before while preparing today’s meal, and Melie still thought about everything. Now with the new view, the thief started to feel dumb for thinking that leaving was a good solution, or a solution at all.

It took minutes until Melie’s thoughts were finally all sorted out and she was able to give the housekeeper a proper response: “D… D’you really think that…? I mean- I never really thought of it like that… “

“It’s only natural, one thinks that the wealthy and noble are simply lucky and don’t have their problems. Not famine- nor sickness… but their own burdens. And to be fair- I thought so too ‘till I started working for the De Rune’s, or rather for Sir Robert even before he started courting the noble lady. Thought that he’d be a horrible person- greedy, not caring; we poor know the prejudices we have, eh?”

The housekeeper grinned slightly when she got a nod and soft laugh from Melie as a response before she continued while laughing as well: “And we two, young lady, can also tell how wrong we were in the De Rune’s case. They’re kind to everyone who’s not disrespectful, a trait barely anyone truly has.”

“Oh we really were-” Melie laughed even more and nodded in agreement, grinning happily at the old woman after a bit of time passed “Ya really know them well, don’t ya?”

“Over 20 years of working for a family indeed makes ya know them well, and make the children see ya as a part of their family too,” The housekeeper nodded and smiled softly back, “So trust this old lady here when she says that Amicia couldn’t be happier anywhere else. And ya can also trust me when I say that ya should talk to her about it... tell her what was on your mind.”

Melie’s amusement died at the last sentence, worry and a little bit of panic spreading in her mind as she blinked in disbelief: “I can’t tell her that…! ‘twas stupid of me to think so, what would she think of me if I told her that I believed that?”

“Ya may be assuming the worst, that she’d think lower of ya, don’t yer think so?”, The housekeeper only stopped talking to get a response from Melie, a slow nod in this case, before she continued: “But don’t immediately assume that, dear. Y’know… a good relationship is only good if it’s built on trust and honesty, no matter what kind of relationship. It ain’t bad, not at all, to be honest about your fears… ‘cos-”

While she spoke, she slowly trailed through the room, to the cattle and back to the counter while being watching with anxious looks from Melie. At her ‘Cos’ she turned around to face the thief with one of her motherly smiles, seemingly typical for her: “’Cos ya never know if she ain’t worrying about the same thing. Ya both are very well aware of your different heritages. Yer worried about not being good enough for her and making her upset with it… but did’ya ever think of that the little lady might worry that yer not comfortable with this kinda life, with bein’ so close to this higher class? Or that it ain’t what ya wanted in life and get upset ‘bout it?”

The way the old woman stressed ‘might’ during her speech and the knowing smile she gave her at the end made Melie realize that the housekeeper wasn’t just speculating; she knew that Amicia had the same worries as the thief and tried to make the two talk about it with this indeed very obvious hint. So she sighed softly and looked at the housekeeper in front of her with an unsure smile: “Guess it really would be the best then, huh…? Will just have to see how-”

Melie stopped talking and blinked when she noticed the housekeeper looking at her with a raised eyebrow and a slight smirk, making the thief laugh with it, “Hey! I swear I’ll do that!”

“So no more running away? Wonderful,” Now the housekeeper laughed once more, not being able to keep the smirk up for too long.

“Yeah- promise that I won’t think of something stupid like that again… looks like your smack knocked some sense into me- usually it did quite the opposite,” Melie shrugged her shoulders at the end when she thought back to her father and how he treated her and Arthur, and to how she has more reasons now to be glad about running away from him.

The housekeeper first looked at her with a concerned look and wanted to ask further, but decided against it when she got a mumbled “Just a shitty poor father, y’know?” from Melie before she could say anything, realizing that it was Melie’s hint of not wanting to talk about him.

The thief sighed relieved when she saw that the older woman nodded at her before going back to the cattle, fully concentrated on her working again. So Melie decided to watch her, it was relaxing in a way, and even offered a bit of help here and there which was gladly accepted from the housekeeper’s side.

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This went on for a while and both women enjoyed talking more, or rather the housekeeper telling old stories while Melie gladly listened, while preparing the meal together.

“Oh the little lady was always on the run. Y’know when she was just 6- she was bored one day and saw Lady Beatrice walking towards her laboratory. So of course, like every other child, she sneaked into the laboratory. And oh was everyone surprised that she only got caught when she decided to sneak up on her mother and scare her-” The housekeeper was just merrily telling one of her favorite stories about little Amicia’s adventures when she heard quick foot steps coming closer to them.

“Huh…? Who could be-” Melie wasn’t even able to finish her question and turn around as she was interrupted by a very joyful and also slightly breathless “There you are!”

~To be continued~

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CKUA - The Midway: 2018

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The Midway was a special program which typically aired from 9:00am-12:00pm (or sometimes 10:00am-2:00) on CKUA from 2016-2019 during statutory holidays.

Click “keep reading” below for my 2018 Midway playlists.

Explore my playlist history for other dates and programs.

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AIRTIME // TITLE // PERFORMING ARTIST // ALBUM

2018-02-19

^^ listener recommendation ++ selected from CKUA’s “house blend” playlist

09:00 // Monday Morning // Pulp // Different Class

09:06 // Cowboy Song // Thin Lizzy // Uncut Nov 2001

09:11 // Glory Hallelujah // The Give ‘Em Hell Boys // Barn Burner

09:19 // Navajo Rug // Ian Tyson // All the Good ‘Uns

09:21 // S Lazy H // Corb Lund // Things That Can’t Be Undone

09:29 // Winter // Celeigh Cardinal // Everything and Nothing At All

09:35 // Viva La Vida // Coldplay // Viva La Vida…

09:39 // Shop Around // Smoky Robinson & the Miracles // Motown Forever

09:43 // You Really Got a Hold on Me // The Beatles // With the Beatles

09:48 // Another Day // Paul McCartney // Wingspan

09:54 // I Was Born Under a Wandering Star // Lee Marvin // Paint Your Wagon

10:02 // Be There // Kimberley MacGregor // I Am My Own

10:06 // Mary Jane’s Last Dance // Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers // Greatest Hits

10:11 // Back in Black // AC/DC // Back in Black

10:18 // Rose of the Valley // Duane Eddy // Road Trip

10:21 // Like Water // Graftician // Wander/Weave ++

10:26 // No Wrong // Bahamas // No Wrong 45 ++

10:32 // Devil in Disguise // Elvis Presley // Hits

10:35 // Christine’s Tune // The Flying Burrito Bros // 20th C. Masters

10:38 // I’m No Elvis Presley // Lindi Ortega // Little Red Boots

10:42 // Pretty Thing // Michael Rault // Crash! Boom! Bang!

10:44 // Not Fade Away // The Rolling Stones // Grrr!

10:46 // Maggie’s Farm (live at Newport) // Bob Dylan // No Direction Home

10:52 // You Keep Me Hanging On // Vanilla Fudge // Classic Rock 1968

10:56 // Why Do You Love Me? // Jom Comyn // I Need Love

11:01 // Leaving the Table // Leonard Cohen // You Want It Darker

11:07 // Rabbit in Your Headlights // UNKLE & Thom Yorke // Psyence Fiction ^^

11:12 // My Soul’s in Louisiana // Otis Taylor // ________ ^^

11:16 // Give Me a Sign // Edward Sharp & the Magnetic Zeroes // Give Me a Sign 45

11:20 // Distant Sky // Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds // Skeleton Tree

11:27 // He’ll Have To Go // Jim Reeves // Essential Jim Reeves ^^

11:30 // Once in a Lifetime // Talking Heads // Remain in Light

11:34 // Murder in the City (live) // The Avett Bros // _________ ^^

11:39 // Love is the Drug // Roxy Music // The Collection ^^

11:43 // I’ll Take You There // The Staples Singers // Greatest Hits

11:48 // Fun Fun Fun // The Beach Boys // Good Vibrations

11:50 // Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio? // The Ramones // Greatest Hits

11:55 // Memories // Leonard Cohen // Death of a Ladies’ Man

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2018-03-30

^^ listener recommendation ++ selected from CKUA’s “house blend” playlist

09:00 // Friday on My Mind // The Easybeats // Greatest Hits

09:05 // Walk of Life // Dire Straits // Greatest Hits

09:09 // Walk on the Wild Side // Lou Reed // Transformer

09:14 // Love Minus Zero // The Walker Bros // Take It Easy With the WB

09:17 // All Along the Watchtower // Jimi Hendrix // Electric Ladyland

09:21 // When the Ship Comes In // The Hollies // Hollies Sing Dylan

09:24 // Here’s That Rainy Day // Bob Dylan // Triplicate

09:31 // Laugh Laugh // The Beau Brummels // Greatest Hits

09:36 // No Surprises // Radiohead // OK Computer

09:39 // You Don’t Scare Me // Whitney Rose // Rule 62

09:44 // Come To Me // Sue Foley // The Ice Queen

09:48 // I Ain’t Cool // The Sheepdogs // Changing Colours ^^

09:52 // Bad Bad News // Leon Bridges // Good Thing

09:56 // Ain’t That Good News // Sam Cooke // Ain’t That Good News

10:03 // The Priests of Golden Bull // Buffy Sainte-Marie // Medicine Songs

10:09 // Whiskey // Joey Landreth // Whiskey EP

10:12 // Bad Bad Man // The Give ‘Em Hell Boys // Barn Burner

10:16 // After Midnight // Eric Clapton // Complete Clapton

10:19 // Give Me One Reason // Tracy Chapman // _____

10:24 // Still Crazy After All These Years // Paul Simon // The Essential

10:28 // The Addams Family Theme // Vic Mizzy // Greatest Hits of TV

10:31 // Winter // Celeigh Cardinal // Everything and Nothing At All

10:37 // Go // Kimberley MacGregor // I Am My Own

10:42 // Everybody’s Coming To My House // David Byrne // American Utopia

10:47 // I Wanna Prove To You // The Lemon Twigs // Do Hollywood

10:51 // This Winter Revisited // F&M // ______ ^^

10:54 // North To Alaska // Johnny Horton // The Essential

10:58 // I Can See For Miles // The Who // The Who Sell Out ^^

11:02 // Shining in the Distance // The Stray Birds // Magic Fire

11:08 // When You Ain’t Home // Lindi Orgega // Faded Gloryville

11:12 // I Don’t Know Why I Love You But I Do // Clarence “Frogman” Henry // Collected Works

11:14 // Heroes (live) // King Crimson // DGM Live

11:20 // Goldfinger // Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan // Small Town

11:26 // Secret Love // Nels Cline // Lovers

11:30 // Zoot Allures // Frank Zappa // Zoot Allures

11:34 // 13 Engines // What If We Don’t Get What We Want? // _____ ^^

11:38 // Nedayeh Bahar // Habibi // Cardamom Garden

11:41 // Disarray // Preoccupations // New Material

11:45 // Say it Louder // Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats // Tearing at the Seams

11:49 // Don’t Stop Me Now // Queen // Greatest Hits

11:52 // Heart of Oak // Richard Hawley // Hollow Meadows

11:56 // Goodbye Stranger // Supertramp // Retrospectacle

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2018-05-21

Today’s theme: because Victoria Day falls between Mothers’ Day and Fathers’ Day, the theme of this program is going to be parents & music. I want to hear from you. Get in touch with names of formative songs your parents introduced to you, and/or songs you introduced to your parents that turned their cranks.

^^ listener recommendation ++ selected from CKUA’s “house blend” playlist

09:00 // Monday Morning // Pulp // Different Class

09:06 // Victoria // The Kinks // Arthur

09:09 // These Days Is Coming Soon // The Lemon Twigs // Do Hollywood

09:12 // Today // Jefferson Airplane // Surrealistic Pillow

09:17 // Somebody That I Used To Know // Gotye // Making Mirrors

09:21 // Masseduction // St. Vincent // Masseduction

09:25 // Physical // Juliana Hatfield // Sings Songs of Olivia Newton John

09:30 // We’ve Come This Far // Sloan // Commonwealth

09:34 // Just Like Romeo & Juliet // Sha-Na-Na // __________

09:37 // Romeo & Juliet // Dire Straits // Priviate Investigations

09:45 // Four Out of Five // Arctic Monkeys // Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

09:51 // Treat Her Right // Mr. T. // Greatest Hits

09:55 // Axel F. // Angela Dubeau & La Pieta // __________

10:01 // Nunca Es Suficiente; Natalia Lafourcade; Hasta la Raiz

10:06 // Layla (Strange Brew) // Le Onde Blu // Italy 1960s Beat

10:10 // Nessuno Mi Puo Guidicare // Gene Pitney // Definitive Collection

10:13 // Save the Last Dance for Me // The Shanes // Anthology

10:16 // California Sun // Ola & the Janglers // Swedish Rock & Roll Hits

10:19 // She Taught Me to Yodel // The Scarlets // Collection

10:22 // Boys Night Out // Johnny Reimar // Greatest Hits

10:24 // A Swinging Safari // Bert Kaempfert // Classics

10:29 // My Bonnie // Tony Sheridan & the Beat Bros // Tony Sheridan & the Silver Beatles

10:34 // Why Do You Have To Break My Heart Again? // The School // Reading Too Much Into Things

10:38 // Neon Lights // Kraftwerk // The Man-Machine

10:42 // Das Model // The Cardigans // B-Sides

10:47 // Wipeout // The Eliminators // Planetary Pebbles - Behind the Iron Curtain, vol 1

10:50 // Crazy Guitars // Boomerangs // Planetary Pebbles - Behind the Iron Curtain, vol 1

10:52 // Can Can // Can // Singles

10:57 // Lakes of Mars // Doug Hoyer // Walks With the Tender & Growing Night

11:01 // Hello in There // John Prine // Souveniers ^^

11:09 // Carry Me // The Stampeders // Best of ^^

11:12 // Ghost Riders in the Sky // Gene Autry // Essential ^^

11:16 // I’ve Been Everywhere // Hank Snow // Essential ^^

11:20 // Happy Brasilia // James Last // __________ ^^

11:24 // Crazy Train // Ozzy Osbourne // Anthology ^^

11:27 // Oxygene II // Jean-Michel Jarre // Oxygene ^^

11:30 // Froggy Went a-Courtin’ // Red Allen // Essential ^^

11:35 // Welcome to Earth (Pollywog) // Sturgill Simpson // A Sailor’s Guide to Earth ^^

11:40 // Late Night Radio // Gary Brown // __________ ^^

11:45 // A Sweet Beginning Like This // Fats Waller // Anthology ^^

11:49 // You Make Me Feel Like Dancing // Leo Sayer // You Make Me Feel Like Dancing

11:52 // Twist & Shout // The Isley Bros // Essential

11:55 // End of the Line // Traveling Wilburys // Vol 1

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2018-07-02

Due to some scheduling kerfuffles at the station, the July 2, 2018 instalment of The Midway will last longer and start a whole lot earlier! Coming to your receivers from 6AM-10AM MST, tune in for our post-Canada Day extravaganza.

The theme of this episode is a simple one: what is the best Canadian artist/song you’ve discovered in 2018? It can be a new release, or any Canadian that you weren’t previously aware of - regardless of era.

^^ listener recommendation ++ selected from CKUA’s “house blend” playlist

06:00 // Monday Morning // Pulp // Different Class

06:06 // Changing Times // Iwan Rheon // Changing Times single

06:10 // Hippy Hippy Shake // Chan Romero // USA Roots of the UK Invasion

06:12 // The Devil in His Heart // The Donays // USA Roots of the UK Invasion

06:15 // Twist & Shout // The Isley Bros // Essential

06:19 // Robotic // Hannah Georgas // Hannah Georgas

06:23 // Crash Years // The New Pornographers // Together

06:31 // Psychopath // St. Vincent // STV

06:36 // Summer Sounds // Robert Goulet // Summer Sounds

06:38 // Under the Boardwalk // The Drifters // Greatest Hits

06:40 // Summer Holiday // Cliff Richard & the Shadows // Summer Holiday

06:45 // Suck It and See // The Arctic Monkeys // Suck It and See

06:48 // Street Life // Roxy Music // Collection

06:51 // Everybody’s Coming To My House // David Byrne

06:56 // Houses of the Holy // Led Zeppelin // Houses of the Holy

07:03 // Troubled Mind // Dan Mangan // Troubled Mind single

07:08 // Wendy // The Beach Boys // Good Vibrations

07:11 // Gorilla Song // Sha-Na-Na // Greatest Hits

07:13 // Bananaphone // Raffi // Bananaphone

07:16 // Carry On // Coeur de Pirate // Roses

07:19 // Breaking Down // Florence & the Machine // Ceremonials

07:23 // Stepping Out // Joe Jackson // Night and Day

07:32 // Everything // Celeigh Cardinal // Everything and Nothing At All

07:35 // Tommaso // nehiyawak // Tommaso single

07:39 // My Back Pages // Marshall Crenshaw // Bleecker Street

07:44 // Only a Pawn in the Game // Bob Dylan // The Times They Are A-Changin’

07:48 // The Godfather Waltz // Nino Rota // The Godfather Soundtrack

07:53 // Wish You Were Here // Pink Floyd // Wish You Were Here

08:01 // Radio // Client // City

08:05 // Radio, Radio // Elvis Costello // This Year’s Model

08:08 // Shape Shifter // Lera Lynn // Resistor

08:12 // In the Aeroplane Over the Sea // Neutral Milk Hotel // In the Aeroplane Under the Sea

08:17 // Maybe Tonight // Nicole Atkins // Neptune City

08:21 // Girl Don’t Come // Sandie Shaw // Hits of the 1960s

08:24 // I Only Want To Be With You // Dusty Springfield // Hits of the 1960s

08:26 // Moonshiner’s Daughter // Rhiannon Giddens // Factory Girl

08:31 // Decomposing Composers // Monty Python // Monty Python Sings

08:35 // Girl From Ipanema // Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto // Super Samba

08:39 // Xanadu // Juliana Hatfield // J.H. Sings Olivia Newton John

08:43 // I Wanna Prove To You // The Lemon Twigs // Do Hollywood

08:48 // Depth of My Soul // Thievery Corporation // Saudade

08:51 // No More Disguises // Thievery Corporation // Saudade

08:56 // You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You // Dinah Washington // Blue Box 2

09:01 // O Canada // Osyron // O Canada (music video)

09:04 // Who Do You Love? // Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks // Rock & Roll Originals ++

09:07 // One Foot // Doug Hoyer // To Be a River ^^

09:10 // Glory // Layten Kramer // Glory ++

09:15 // Always For You // J.J. Shiplett // Something To Believe In ^^

09:19 // You Don’t Scare Me // Whitney Rose // Rule 62 ^^

09:25 // Norwegian Wood // Greenwich, Breau, Bickert // Toronto Sessions ^^

09:31 // Changes // Gordon Lightfoot // Original Lightfoot

09:33 // Been Waiting // The Flashing Lights // Sweet Release ^^

09:40 // The Silent // The Bolt Actions // TBA EP

09:42 // Don’t Wanna Hear It // Lindi Ortega // Cigarettes & Truckstops ^^

09:45 // Bye Bye Blackbird // Ringo Starr // Sentimental Journey

09:48 // Blackbird // The Beatles // The Beatles

09:51 // End of the Line // The Traveling Wilburys // Volume 1

09:54 // I’ll Be Seeing You // Francoise Hardy & Iggy Pop // Triple Best

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TITLE // PERFORMING ARTIST // ALBUM // AIRTIME

2018-08-06 - 09:00-12:00

The theme of this episode: what recent folk-festival performance/performer has astonished you? It can be during the current festival season. It can be an artist you’ve loved for years, or someone you’ve only just discovered.

^^ listener recommendation ++ selected from CKUA’s “house blend” playlist

Monday Morning // Pulp // Different Class // Mon 09:01

Maggie’s Farm (live Newport ‘65) // Bob Dylan // The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 // Mon 09:06

Polka Dot Undies // Bowser & Blue // Polka Dot Undies (Single) // Mon 09:12AM

Let The Good Times Roll // JD McPherson // Let The Good Times Roll // Mon 09:17AM

Country House // Blur // ______ // Mon 09:20

Rockaway Beach // Ramones // Loud, Fast Ramones // Mon 09:25AM

Do You Need My Love // Weyes Blood // Front Row Seat To Earth // Mon 09:30AM

Surrender // kd lang // Tomorrow Never Dies Soundtrack // Mon 09:36AM

Underneath the Mango Tree // Diana Coupland & Monty Norman // Dr. No Soundtrack // Mon 09:40AM

Nobody Does It Better // Carly Simon // Clouds In My Coffee: 1965-1995 // Mon 09:43AM

You And Whose Army? // Radiohead // Amnesiac // Mon 09:48AM

Four Out Of Five // Arctic Monkeys // Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino // Mon 09:54AM

She’s Electric // Oasis // (What’s The Story) Morning Glory // Mon 10:02AM

Lille (live at EFMF 2013) // Lisa Hannigan // Live at the CKUA Tent // Mon 10:09AM

Driver’s Seat // Sniff ‘n’ the Tears // Driver’s Seat single // Mon 10:12AM

Breakfast at the Ace // The Rapiers // The Rapiers // Mon 10:16AM

Ford Fairlane // Confusionaires // Make a Little Mess With the Confusionaires // Mon 10:22AM

Big Sunglasses // Dylan Farrell // Blues Before // Mon 10:24AM

Would You Be My Dog? // Celeigh Cardinal // Everything And Nothing At All // Mon 10:30AM

Bizarre Love Triangle // Give 'Em Hell Boys // Barn Burner // Mon 10:34AM

City Lights // King Of Foxes // Golden Armour // Mon 10:38AM

Rock Pool // Cate Le Bon // Rock Pool EP // Mon 10:42AM

Twisting By The Pool // Dire Straits // Twisting By The Pool // Mon 10:47AM

Enola Gay // OMD // Organization // Mon 10:51AM

Bad Luck // Neko Case // Bad Luck (Single) // Mon 10:59AM

Total Eclipse // Klaus Nomi // Klaus Nomi // Mon 11:06AM

From a Logical Point of View // Robert Mitchum // Calypso is Like So // Mon 11:07AM

Phenomenal Woman // Ruthie Foster // The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster // Mon 11:12AM ^^

Gotta Serve Somebody // Mavis Staples // Tangled Up In Blues: Songs Of Bob Dylan // Mon 11:16AM ^^

Mr. Monday // Kobo Town // Jumbie In The Jukebox // Mon 11:22AM ^^

The Letter // Joe Cocker // Sounds Of The Seventies: 1970 // Mon 11:26AM ^^

Steppin’ Out // Joe Jackson // Night and Day // Mon 11:32AM ^^

Preachin’ To The Choir // Rodney Crowell // Fate’s Right Hand // Mon 11:37AM ^^

You Can’t Judge a Book by the Cover // William Prince // You Can’t Judge a Book by the Cover // Mon 11:43AM ^^

And I Love Her // Passenger // The Boy Who Cried Wolf // Mon 11:46AM ^^

And I Love Her // The Beatles // A Hard Day’s Night // Mon 11:51AM

End Of The Line // The Traveling Wilburys // Traveling Wilburys Collection // Mon 11:53AM

I’ll Be Seeing You // Francoise Hardy & Iggy Pop // Triple Best // Mon 11:56AM

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2018-09-03 - 09:00-12:00

The theme of this episode: what is one of your essential live albums? It can be new, old, filled with cheating overdubs, lo-fi, hi-fi, whatever!

^^ listener recommendation ++ selected from CKUA’s “house blend” playlist ~~ today’s featured album: Richard Hawley’s Live at the Devi’s Arse

Monday Morning // Pulp // Different Class // Mon 09:01AM

Maggie’s Farm (live at Newport Folk 1965) // Bob Dylan // No Direction Home // Mon 09:07AM

Goldfinger // Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan // Small Town // Mon 09:14AM

Four Out Of Five // Arctic Monkeys // Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino // Mon 09:19AM

Oliver Cromwell // Monty Python // Sings // Mon 09:28AM

Reelin’ In The Years // Steely Dan // Can’t Buy A Thrill // Mon 09:30AM

Help Me Rhonda // The Beach Boys // Good Vibrations: 30 Years Of The // Mon 09:36AM

Hideaway // John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers // Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton // Mon 09:39AM

Going Down // Freddie King // Ultimate Collection // Mon 09:43AM

Steppin’ Out // Memphis Slim // Rockin’ the Blues // Mon 09:46AM

Shake Your Money Maker // Paul Butterfield Blues Band // Paul Butterfield Blues Band // Mon 09:51AM

Darlin’ // Richard Hawley // Live at the Devil’s Arse // Mon 09:54AM ~~

The Devil in Disguise // Richard Hawley // Live at the Devil’s Arse // Mon 09:57AM ~~

Ain’t That a Shame // Cheap Trick // Live at Budokan // Mon 10:06AM

Hot Rod Lincoln // Commander Cody // 70s Classics // Mon 10:15AM

Rambler // The Madmen // Swedish Rock & Roll Hits // Mon 10:16AM

Pistoleros // The Shanes // The Shanes Anthology // Mon 10:17AM

Satumaa // Reijo Taipale // Satumaa 45 // Mon 10:22AM

Satumaa // Frank Zappa & the Mothers // You Can’t Do That on Stage Anymore 2 // Mon 10:25AM

Impossible Germany (live, 2012) // Wilco // Ashes of the American Flag // Mon 10:31AM

I Wonder If Care As Much // Richard Hawley with Lynn & Jean // Live at the Devil’s Arse // Mon 10:40AM ~~

Lille (live at CKUA Tent, EFMF 2013) // Lisa Hannigan // Live at EFMF 2013 // Mon 10:45AM

Distant Sky // Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds // Distant Sky Live in Copenhagen // Mon 11:51AM

Smoke on the Water // Deep Purple // Made in Japan // Mon 11:00AM

Comfortably Numb // Roger Waters & Van Morrison // The Wall Live // Mon 11:10AM ^^

That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine // Simon & Garfunkel // Live 1969 // Mon 11:14AM ^^

Folsom Prison Blues // Merle Haggard // Live // Mon 11:19AM ^^

New Favourite // Alison Krauss & Union Station // Live // Mon 11:25AM ^^

Murder By Numbers // Sting & Friends // Broadway the Hard Way // Mon 11:29AM ^^

Do You Feel Like I Do? // Peter Frampton // Frampton Comes Alive // Mon 11:31 ^^

Lakes of Mars // Doug Hoyer // REC-YEG Concert Sessions 2012 // Mon 11:39AM

1952 Vincent Black Lightnight // Reckless Kelly // R.K. Was Here // Mon 11:47AM ^^

Just Like the Rain // Richard Hawley // Live at the Devil’s Arse // Mon 11:48AM ~~

That’ll Be the Day // Cliff Richard & the Shadows // The Rock & Roll Years // Mon 11:52AM

Don’t Ever Change // The Beatles // Live at the BBC // Mon 11:54AM

I’ll Be Seeing You // Francoise Hardy & Iggy Pop // Triple Best // Mon 11:58AM

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2018-10-08 - 09:00-12:00

The theme of this episode: a smorgasbord of tunes - food, mood, and gratitude. We’ll also feature some leftovers - songs which listeners recommended for earlier editions of The Midway, but which were not broadcast when received due to time constraints or other impediments. Sharing a feast for the ears.

^^ listener recommendation ++ selected from CKUA’s “house blend” playlist

Monday Morning // Pulp // Different Class // Mon 09:01AM

Hi Hello // Johnny Marr // Hi Hello // Mon 09:07AM

The Right Stuff // Noel Gallagher // Chasing Yesterday // Mon 09:12AM

Snow Bank // Doug Hoyer // Walks With the Tender & Growing Night // Mon 09:19AM

Strawberry Fields Forever // The Beatles // Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club // Mon 09:27AM

Strawberry Cake // Johnny Cash // Strawberry Cake // Mon 09:35AM

You Don’t Scare Me // Whitney Rose // Rule 62 // Mon 09:38AM

The White Witch // Ivoux // Frozen // Mon 09:43AM

Winter // Celeigh Cardinal // Everything And Nothing At All // Mon 09:48AM

Dunes // Alabama Shakes // Sound And Color // Mon 09:55AM

Satin Devil // Dirty Dirty Devils // Dirty Dirty Devils // Mon 10:04AM

Help Me // Joni Mitchell // Hits // Mon 10:08AM

My Favorite Things // John Coltrane // _____ // Mon 10:11AM

Big Rock Candy Mountain // Harry McClintock // O Brother, Where Art Thou? // Mon 10:14AM

Morning Has Broken // Yusuf / Cat Stevens // The Very Best Of Cat Stevens // Mon 10:17AM ^^

Blame It On the Bossa Nova // Eydie Gorme // Greatest Hits // Mon 10:21AM

Telstar // The Tornados // The Tornados // Mon 10:23AM

Telstar (Original Demo) // Joe Meek // Joe Meek Anthology // Mon 10:28AM

Take a Bow // Muse // Black Holes & Revelations // Mon 10:31AM

Money // The Backbeat Band // Backbeat Soundtrack // Mon 10:40AM

Rockaway Beach // Ramones // Loud, Fast Ramones // Mon 10:42AM

Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer // Nat King Cole // Greatest Hits // Mon 10:45AM

Crocodile Rock // Elton John // Greatest Hits // Mon 10:47AM

Money // Pink Floyd // The Dark Side Of The Moon // Mon 10:53AM

Statesboro Blues (Live) // The Allman Bros Band // At Fillmore East // Mon 11:01AM ^^

The Tourist Song // Brad Bucknell & the oHNo Band // self-titled // Mon 11:06AM

Wiggle Wiggle // Bob Dylan // Under a Red Sky // Mon 11:11AM

Bad Guy // Jesse & The Dandelions // True Blue // Mon 11:14AM ^^

Danceland (Come With Me) // The Garrys // Surf Manitou // Mon 11:17AM

Loneliness // Rebekah Higgs // Sha La La // Mon 11:21AM

Trigger // The New Haunts // The New Haunts // Mon 11:25AM ^^

I Wanna Thank You // Sloan // Navy Blues // Mon 11:29AM ^^

Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut // Almond Joy // Vintage Commercials // Mon 11:35AM

Fireworks // First Aid Kit // Ruins // Mon 11:37AM

The Way It Is // Nicole Atkins // Neptune City // Mon 11:44AM

Ice Dance // Danny Elfman // Edward Scissorhands Soundtrack // Mon 11:47AM

Apple Tree // The Hearts // ______ // Mon 11:49AM

Blistered // That Pedal Show Band // Blistered // Mon 11:56AM

I’ll Be Seeing You // Francoise Hardy & Iggy Pop // Triple Best // Mon 11:58AM

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2018-11-12 - 09:00-12:00

^^ listener recommendation ++ selected from CKUA’s “house blend” playlist

Monday Morning // Pulp // Different Class // Mon 09:00AM

Lollipop (Ode To Jim) // Alvvays // Antisocialites // Mon 09:05AM

Danceland (Come With Me) // The Garrys // Surf Manitou // Mon 09:09AM

Christmas All Over Again // Tom Petty // A Very Special Christmas 2 // Mon 09:13AM

I Will // The Beatles // The Beatles (Stereo Remaster) // Mon 09:20AM

Is He Really Coming Home? // The School // Loveless Unbeliever // Mon 09:22AM

The Spell of City Lights // J.D. McPherson // ______ // 09:25AM

The Future Age // The Hearts // Equal Love // Mon 09:30AM

Arnold Layne // The Pink Floyd // Arnold Layne 45 // Mon 09:34AM

Anne of 1000 Days // John Moore // Knickerbocker Glory // Mon 09:42AM

Journey // Sarah Nixey // Night Walks // Mon 09:44AM

Start As You Mean To Go On // Black Box Recorder // The Facts of Life // Mon 09:47AM

Xanadu // Juliana Hatfield // Sings the Songs of Olivia Newton John // Mon 09:53AM

Africa // Weezer // Africa // Mon 10:00AM

Hold the Line // Osyron // Hold the Line // Mon 10:05AM

Do You Remember Rock ‘N’ Roll Radio // Ramones // Greatest Hits // Mon 10:09AM

Breaking Down // Florence & The Machine // Ceremonials // Mon 10:13AM

Time Of The Season // The Zombies // Pop Music: The Golden Era 1951-1 // Mon 10:19AM

True Love Ways // Peter & Gordon // Greatest Hits // Mon 10:23AM

Wonderful Land // The Shadows // Shadows Are Go! // Mon 10:25AM

Midnight // The Shadows // Shadows Are Go! // Mon 10:27AM

While My Guitar Gently Weeps // The Beatles // White Album // Mon 10:31AM

(Nice Dream) // Radiohead // The Bends // Mon 10:37AM

A Boat Lies Waiting // David Gilmour // Rattle That Lock // Mon 10:41AM

Get Ready // The Temptations // The Motown Box // Mon 10:48AM

Did You Feed My Cow? // Sharon, Lois, and Bram // Smorgasboard // Mon 10:50AM

Damn Tattoo // John Wort Hannam // Brambles And Thorns // Mon 10:54AM

Little White Lines // Sweet Vintage Rides // Road Trip // Mon 10:58AM

Time Is Tight // Booker T. & The MG’s // Beg Scream & Shout!: The Big Ol’ // Mon 11:02AM

Take Me Home, Country Roads // John Denver // Behind The Music: The John Denver // Mon 11:07AM

Imagine // Neil Young // ______ // 11:10AM

This Magic Moment // Lou Reed // Lost Highway Soundtrack // Mon 11:13AM

You Belong To Me // Jo Stafford // Pop Music: The Golden Era 1951-1 // Mon 11:18AM

Lodestar // Sarah Harmer // You Were Here // Mon 11:21AM

Crosstown Traffic // Jimi Hendrix // Electric Ladyland // Mon 11:28AM

Quickstep Medley: I’m a Believer, Simon Smith & his Dancing Bear, The Happening, Georgie Girl // Joe Loss & His Orchestra // Top Pop Dance Time

Tous les garcons et les filles // Francoise Hardy // Tous les garcons et les filles // Mon 11:38AM

My Autumn’s Done Come // Hooverphonic // Sit Down and Listen // Mon 11:41AM

Darlin’ (live 2008) // Richard Hawley // Live at the Devil’s Arse // Mon 11:47AM

Memories // Leonard Cohen // Death of a Ladies’ Man // Mon 11:50AM

I’ll Be Seeing You // Francoise Hardy & Iggy Pop // Triple Best // Mon 11:57AM

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80 位科学家死了都是微生物学家

回顾：80 位已故科学家的完整名单，附有照片和令人震惊的细节

作者：艾琳·伊丽莎白健康坚果新闻

这个故事与我们意外的整体医生死亡系列完全不同，你可以在这里找到。不，这是一个单独的列表——不是由我们编制，而是由勤奋的研究人员（底部链接）——我们感谢他们分享这些信息。

Foster Gamble 是第一个提醒我们注意这一点的人；我们只希望对这两起死亡事件进行全面调查，因为我们认为这至少有必要对所有、部分或全部是否真的有关联进行调查。

2006 年去世

#80： 📷Lee Jong-woo ，61 岁。死于：2006 年 5 月 22 日，因为脑部出现血栓。Lee 是该组织与禽流感、艾滋病和其他传染病的全球威胁作斗争的先锋。自 2003 年担任世卫组织总干事以来，李是该国的最高国际官员。据官员称，这位和蔼可亲的韩国人喜欢在新闻发布会上开个玩笑，他是一位热心的运动员，没有病史。

2005 年去世

＃79：列昂尼德·斯特拉昆斯基。死于：2005 年 6 月 8 日，被香槟酒瓶击中头部。Strachunsky 专注于创造对生物武器有抵抗力的微生物。Strachunsky 被发现死在他位于莫斯科的酒店房间里，他从斯摩棱斯克前往美国。调查人员正在寻找这位领先的生物武器研究人员被谋杀与俄罗斯特维尔肝炎爆发之间的联系。

#78: 📷 Robert J. Lull ，66 岁。卒于：2005 年 5 月 19 日多处刺伤。尽管他的车不见了，而且信用卡明显被盗，但凶杀案督察霍莉·佩拉说，调查人员并不相信抢劫是勒尔被杀的唯一动机。她说，劫匪通常会从 Lull 的家中带走比凶手留下的更多的贵重物品。Lull 自 1990 年以来一直担任旧金山总医院核医学主任，并担任加州大学旧金山分校的放射学教授。他曾任美国核医师学会和旧金山医学会主席，并于 1997 年至 1999 年担任医学会杂志《旧金山医学》的编辑。李·卢尔说，她的前夫是核电的支持者，热爱核电。与他人辩论他的政治立场。

#77：托德·考皮拉，41 岁。卒于：2005 年 5 月 8 日根据州法医办公室的说法，洛斯阿拉莫斯医院的出血性胰腺炎。由于他工作的秘密性质，无法获得他的照片。这是他的葬礼照片。在 Kauppila 公开为实验室主任离职的消息感到高兴两天后，他去世了。2004 年 9 月 23 日，由于安全丑闻，考皮拉被导演皮特·纳诺斯解雇。Kauppila 说他被解雇是因为他在实验室调查两个被认为丢失的机密计算机磁盘期间没有立即从家庭度假中回来。明显的安全漏洞迫使 Nanos 关闭实验室数周。Kauppila 声称他被当作磁盘的替罪羊，调查人员得出结论认为磁盘根本不存在。这个错误被归咎于文书错误。他被解雇后，Kauppila 接受了 Bechtel Nevada Corp. 的一份承包商工作，这是一家与洛斯阿拉莫斯和其他国家实验室合作的研究公司。他还在 Megavolt 射线照相术中研究新的散射减少网格，专注于金属板或交叉网格，以阻止散射辐射，同时允许未散射或直接射线通过与其他科学家：斯科特·沃森（LANL，DX-3） , Chuck Lebeda (LANL, XTA), Alan Tubb (LANL, DX-8), 和 Mike Appleby (Tecomet Thermo Electron Corp.)

#76： 📷 大卫班克斯，55 岁。卒于：2005 年 5 月 8 日。班克斯位于昆士兰北部，与其他 14 人一起死于飞机失事。他被称为农业天才，发明了用于牛的捕蚊器。班克斯是澳大利亚生物安全局检疫机构的首席科学家，并积极参与保护澳大利亚人免受有害疾病和害虫的侵害。班克斯博士的大部分工作都涉及预防进入澳大利亚的潜在破坏性疾病。他曾去过印度尼西亚，研究口蹄疫通过群岛传播到澳大利亚的可能性。他为避免澳大利亚牲畜群和果园感染的其他疾病包括猪瘟、尼帕病毒和日本脑炎。

#75： 📷 Douglas James Passaro 博士，43 岁。2005 年 4 月 18 日在伊利诺伊州奥克帕克因不明原因去世。Passaro 博士是一位杰出的流行病学家，他想解开导致胃病的螺旋形细菌的秘密。他是一位教授，他用生物恐怖主义的现实生活练习挑战他的学生。他嫁给了 Sherry Nordstrom 博士。

#74： 📷 Geetha Angara ，43 岁。死亡时间：2005 年 2 月 8 日。这位以前失踪的化学家在新泽西州托托瓦的一个水处理厂的水箱中被发现。来自霍尔姆德尔的 43 岁的安加拉最后一次被人看到是在 2 月 8 日晚上，她在托托瓦的帕塞克河谷水务委员会工厂进行水质测试，她在那里工作了 12 年。潜水员在其中一个空水箱底部的一个 35 英尺深的水槽开口中发现了她的尸体。调查人员将安加拉之死视为可能的凶杀案。纽约大学博士高级化学家安加拉已婚，三个孩子的母亲

#73： 📷 Jeong H. Im ，72 岁。死亡时间：2005 年 1 月 7 日。韩国人 Jeong H. Im 死于胸部多处刺伤，随后消防队员在三楼燃烧的汽车后备箱中发现他的尸体马里兰大道车库。密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校的一名退休研究助理教授和主要蛋白质化学家，MUPD 在哥伦比亚警察局和哥伦比亚消防局的协助下，正在对该事件进行死亡调查。在马里兰大道车库区域看到了一个“感兴趣的人”，被描述为一名 6 英尺至 6 英尺 2 英寸的男性，戴着某种类型的面具，可能是画家面具或石膏板类型的面具。Im 博士主要是一名蛋白质化学家，他是该领域的研究员。

2004年去世

＃72： 📷 达尔文·肯尼斯·韦斯特（Darwin Kenneth Vest），1951年4月22日出生，是国际知名的昆虫学家，是流浪蜘蛛和其他有毒蜘蛛和蛇的专家。达尔文于 1999 年 6 月 3 日凌晨在爱达荷州（美国）爱达荷福尔斯市中心散步时失踪。家人认为他的失踪与犯规有关。在达尔文失踪一周年之际，在爱达荷福尔斯和莫斯科举行了一场庆祝达尔文生平的活动。这些服务包括展示达尔文的作品以及来自学童和老师的感谢信。来自世界各地的至少十几位演讲者分享了达尔文的回忆，最后在蛇河中放置了玫瑰和纪念花圈。当天晚上，在蛇河岸边还举行了烛光守夜活动。

达尔文在 2004 年 3 月的第一周被宣布合法死亡，现在他的家人正在为几家公司申请限制令，这些公司认为未经许可就可以使用他的名字和照片。他的兄弟大卫是遗产的合法保护人，他的妹妹��贝卡正在处理与鹰岩研究和正在进行的研究项目相关的问题。

欢迎媒体帮助定位达尔文。继续努力解决这个谜团包括最近的 DNA 采样。关于他失踪的故事继续在世界各地出现。在 911 悲剧之后，围绕失踪成人调查的问题受到了新的关注。

#s70-71： 📷 汤姆·索恩，64 岁；贝丝·威廉姆斯，53岁；死亡时间：2004 年 12 月 29 日。两名野生动物科学家，夫妻野生动物兽医，他们是全国著名的慢性消耗性疾病和布鲁氏菌病专家，在美国 287 号科罗拉多州北部的一场雪天坠机事故中丧生。

＃69： Taleb Ibrahim al-Daher 。死亡时间：2004 年 12 月 21 日。伊拉克核科学家在巴格达以北被身份不明的枪手枪杀。他正在前往迪亚拉大学工作的路上，在他的汽车在巴格达东北 57 公里处的巴古巴过一座桥时，武装人员向他开火。车辆从桥上急转弯，掉进了Khrisan河。Al-Daher 是当地大学的教授，他从被淹没的汽车中被救出并被送往 Baqouba 医院，在那里他被宣布死亡。📷

#68： 📷 John R. La Montagne ，61 岁。死亡时间：2004 年11 月 2 日。在墨西哥期间死亡，没有说明原因，后来被披露为肺栓塞。博士，Tommie Thompson 领导下的美国传染病部门负责人。曾任 NIAID 副主任。艾滋病项目工作和微生物学和传染病专家。

#67： Matthew Allison ，32 岁。逝世日期：2004 年 10 月 13 日。停在佛罗里达州奥西奥拉县沃尔玛商店的一辆汽车发生致命爆炸。Local 6 News 了解到，这绝非偶然。在一辆被烧毁的汽车内发现。目击者称，这名男子在晚上 11 点左右离开了商店，并在发生爆炸时进入了他的福特 Taurus 汽车。调查人员说，他们在前排乘客的座位上发现了一个 Duraflame 原木和丙烷罐。Allison 拥有分子生物学和生物技术专业的大学学位。

#66： Mohammed Toki Hussein al-Talakani ，40 岁。逝世日期：2004 年 9 月 5 日：伊拉克核科学家在巴格达以南的马赫穆迪亚被枪杀。自 1984 年以来，他一直是一名执业核物理学家。

#65：约翰克拉克教授，52 岁，卒于：2004 年 8 月 12 日。在他的度假屋中被发现上吊。动物科学和生物技术专家，他开发了家畜基因改造技术；这项工作为 1996 年羊多莉的诞生铺平了道路，这是第一个从成年克隆出来的动物。创造羊多莉的科学实验室的负责人。克拉克教授领导了位于中洛锡安的罗斯林研究所，该研究所是世界领先的动物生物技术研究中心之一。他在培育使该研究所享誉全球的转基因绵羊方面发挥了至关重要的作用。他负责在羊奶中生产人类蛋白质（可用于治疗人类疾病）的项目。克拉克和他的团队将他们的研究重点放在蛋白质中 α-I-抗胰蛋白酶的产生上，该蛋白质用于治疗囊性纤维化。

#64： 📷 John Badwey 博士，54 岁。卒于：2004 年 7 月 21 日。科学家和偶然的政治家，因为他反对将人类暴露于污泥的污水废物处理计划。突然出现肺炎样症状，然后在两周内死亡。哈佛医学院生物化学家，专攻传染病。

＃63： Bassem al-Mudares博士。死亡时间：2004 年 7 月 21 日。在伊拉克萨马拉市发现了残缺不全的尸体*。他是博士。化学家，在被杀之前受到了折磨。他是一名拥有化学博士学位的制药公司工人。

#62： 📷 Stephen Tabet 教授，42 岁。2004 年 7 月 6 日死于不明疾病。他是华盛顿大学的副教授和流行病学家。一位世界知名的 HIV 医生和研究员，曾在 HIV 疫苗试验网络的疫苗临床试验中与 HIV 患者一起工作

#61：Larry Bustard 博士，53 岁。2004 年 7 月 2 日死于不明原因。他是能源部的一名桑迪亚科学家，在 2001 年炭疽恐慌期间帮助开发了一种泡沫喷雾剂来清理国会建筑物和媒体网站。他在阿尔伯克基的桑迪亚国家实验室工作。作为生物恐怖主义方面的专家，他的团队提出了一种用于对抗生物和化学制剂的新技术。

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#60：Edward Hoffman，62 岁。2004 年 7 月 1 日死于不明原因。霍夫曼是一位教授和科学家，他还在加州大学洛杉矶分校的医学界担任过领导职务。1973 年，他在圣路易斯的华盛顿大学致力于开发第一台人体 PET 扫描仪。

#59： 📷 John Mullen ，67 岁。卒于：2004 年 6 月 29 日。一名核物理学家被大量砷中毒。麦克唐纳道格拉斯的核研究科学家。调查中的警方不会说明马伦是如何接触到砷的，也不会说明砷的来源。在他去世时，他正在为波音公司做合同工。

#58： Paul Norman 博士，52 岁。卒于：2004 年6 月 27 日。来自索尔兹伯里威尔特郡。当他驾驶的单引擎塞斯纳 206 在德文郡坠毁时丧生。生化武器专家。他周游世界，讲授如何抵御大规模杀伤性武器的祸害。他已婚，有一个 14 岁的儿子和一个 20 岁的女儿，是威尔特郡波顿唐国防部实验室化学和生物防御的首席科学家。航空事故调查处的官员对坠机现场进行了检查，飞机残骸已从现场移至法恩伯勒的 AAIB 基地。

#57： 📷 Assefa Tulu 博士，45 岁。卒于：2004 年 6 月 24 日。Tulu 博士于 1997 年加入卫生部门并担任该县唯一的流行病学家五年。他负责跟踪该县的健康状况，包括梅毒、艾滋病和麻疹等疾病的传播。他还设计了一个系统来检测涉及病毒或细菌的生物恐怖主义攻击。图卢经常协调解决达拉斯县的重大健康问题，例如过去几年的西尼罗河病毒爆发，并与媒体合作向公众通报情况。被发现时面朝下，死在他的办公室里。达拉斯县的流行病学家死于出血性中风。

#56： 📷 Thomas Gold ，84 岁。卒于：2004 年 6 月 22 日。奥地利出生的托马斯戈尔德多年来以各种大胆的理论而闻名，这些理论蔑视传统智慧，并在他 1998 年的著作“深热生物圈”中报道，这一想法挑战了公认的关于石油和天然气如何形成的智慧，沿着方式，提出了一种关于地球上和其他行星上可能存在生命起源的新理论。与心力衰竭的长期斗争。戈尔德关于深热生物圈的理论对其他行星上生命存在的可能性具有重要影响，包括我们太阳系内看似不适宜居住的行星。他是康奈尔大学天文学名誉教授，是康奈尔放射物理和空间研究中心的创始人（并担任了 20 年的主任）。他还参与了航空事故调查。

#55： Antonina Presnyakova ，46 岁。卒于：2004 年 5 月 25 日。一名在西伯利亚前苏联生物武器实验室工作的俄罗斯科学家在一次意外中死于携带埃博拉病毒的针头。科学家和官员表示，这次事故引起了国家病毒学和生物技术研究中心（称为 Vector）安全和保密的担忧，该中心在苏联时期专门将致命病毒转化为生物武器。Vector 一直是美国项目的主要援助接受者。

#54： 📷 尤金·马洛夫博士，56 岁。死亡时间：2004 年 5 月 14 日。尸检证实马洛夫因头部和颈部多次钝器受伤而死亡。定为谋杀。在他的车道尽头找到。替代。致力于可行的能源替代计划和公告的能源专家。诺维奇自由学院毕业生。在涉嫌抢劫中被殴打致死。马洛夫因其对冷聚变的了解而备受尊敬。他刚刚发表了一封“公开信”，概述了他过去 15 年在“新能源研究”领域的成果和原因。马洛夫博士确信，世界上真正看到自由能源装置只需要几个月的时间。

#53：William T. McGuire，39 岁。发现于 2004 年 5 月 5 日，最后一次出现于 2004 年 4 月下旬。尸体在三个漂浮在切萨皮克湾的手提箱中发现。他是新泽西大学教授、高级程序员分析师和纽瓦克新泽西理工学院的兼职教授。他成为世界领先的微生物学家之一，也是开发和监督多层生物防护设施的专家。

#52： Ilsley Ingram ，84 岁。于 2004 年 4 月 12 日死于不明原因。Ingram 是伦敦圣托马斯医院超区域血友病参考中心和超区域出血性疾病诊断中心的主任。虽然他的年龄很可能是他死亡的原因，但为什么没有在新闻媒体上得到家人的证实？

#51：Mohammed Munim al-Izmerly，卒于：2004 年 4 月。这位杰出的伊拉克化学教授在美国拘留期间因钝器外伤导致后脑勺突然击中死亡。他究竟是怎么死的还不确定，但有人从背后打了他，可能是用棍子或手枪。他被殴打的尸体出现在巴格达的太平间，死因最初被记录为“脑干受压”。发现美国医生在他的头骨上做了一个20厘米的切口。

#50：Vadake Srinivasan，死亡时间：2004 年 3 月 13 日。微生物学家在洛杉矶巴吞鲁日将汽车撞到护栏上。死亡被裁定为中风。他来自印度，是学术界最有成就和最受尊敬的工业生物学家之一，拥有两个博士学位。

#49：Michael Patrick Kiley 博士，62 岁。去世：2004 年1 月 24 日。死于大规模心脏病发作。埃博拉，疯牛专家，世界一流。有趣的是，他有一颗善良的心，但它“放弃了”。Shope 博士和 Kiley 博士正在 UTMB Galvaston 国土安全实验室致力于将实验室升级到 BSL 4。实验室必须安全，以容纳热带和新兴传染病以及生物武器化的一些最致命的病原体。

#48： 📷 Robert Shope，74 岁。卒于：2004 年 1 月 23 日。警告流行病的病毒专家，死于肺移植并发症。后来据称死于特发性肺纤维化，这可能是由环境刺激或病毒引起的。使用一种会导致 Shope 博士的肺移植手术被排斥或导致移植手术并发症的药物并不难。Shope 博士领导的科学家小组获得了 1100 万美元的资助，以确保新实验室能够保留这些讨厌的虫子。Shope 博士还与 Mike Kiley 博士就 UTMB Galveston 实验室升级到 BSL 4 进行了会面和合作。升级完成后，该实验室将容纳人类已知的最危险的病原体，尤其是热带和新兴疾病以及生物武器。

#47： Richard Stevens 博士，54 岁。卒于：2004 年1 月 6 日。他在 2003 年 7 月 21 日上班后失踪。一位医生的失踪引发了全国追捕，因为无法应对压力而自杀一个秘密事件，验尸官已经裁决。他是一名血液学家。（血液学家分析血液和造血组织的细胞成分，例如骨髓）。

2003 年去世

#46：Robert Aranosia，61 岁。去世：2003 年 12 月 18 日。在 I-75 向南行驶时，他的皮卡车在 Kawkawlin 河上的一座桥附近驶离高速公路。车辆在降落在中间位置之前翻了几次。Aranosia 被从车上抛出并最终落在了北行车道的路肩上。他是奥克兰县的副法医。

#45：Robert Leslie Burghoff，45 岁。卒于：2003 年 11 月 20 日。科学家。在德克萨斯州南布雷斯伍德的 1600 街区，被一名肇事逃逸的司机撞死。司机被描述为一名 50 多岁的矮个西班牙裔男子，脸略圆。他正在研究困扰游轮的病毒。

#44： 📷 迈克尔佩里奇，46 岁。死亡时间：2003 年10 月 11 日。死于一辆车的车祸。路易斯安那州立大学西尼罗河研究科学家系着安全带溺水身亡。他是帮助抗击西尼罗河病毒传播的路易斯安那州立大学教授。佩里希被称为该国媒介传播疾病的专家之一，他最近领导了一场运动，以遏制西尼罗河病毒的影响，并使路易斯安那州的许多教区努力建立蚊子控制区。

#43： 📷 大卫·凯利，59 岁。卒于：2003 年 7 月 18 日。据说英国生物武器专家在他家附近散步时割伤了自己的手腕。凯利曾任国防部首席科学官和防扩散和军备控制秘书处以及外交部防扩散部门的高级顾问。1994 年至 1999 年担任联合国生物武器检查组（Unscom）的生物武器高级顾问，在同行看来，他在他的领域不仅在这个国家而且在世界上都是杰出的。

#42： 📷 Leland Rickman 博士，47 岁。卒于：2003 年 6 月 24 日。Rickman 在莱索托的教学任务中去世，莱索托是一个四面与南非接壤的小国。加州大学圣地亚哥分校传染病专家，自 2001 年 9 月 11 日起担任生物恐怖主义顾问。他曾抱怨头痛，但死因尚不清楚。这位医生一直在莱索托与加州大学圣地亚哥医学中心欧文诊所的主任克里斯·马修斯博士一起工作，向非洲医务人员传授艾滋病的预防和治疗知识。里克曼，传染病协会的新任主席。加利福尼亚州的一位多学科教授和从业者，在传染病、内科、流行病学、微生物学和抗生素使用方面具有专长。

＃41：'博士。罗杰去世：2003 年夏天. “罗杰”是这位遗传学科学家的化名。当不明原因的物体坠毁时，他 17 岁，1947 年住在新墨西哥州的罗斯威尔。他告诉 1977 年与他一起工作的一位名叫“凯特”的女士，当时他受雇于海军，他帮助清理了 1947 年 UFO 的坠机现场。随后，他在这么年轻的时候就去政府工作，最终成为一名在中国湖为海军工作的遗传学家。尽管他在向凯特讲述了自己的故事后不久就生活在恐惧和躲藏中，但他在 1990 年代末或 2000 年代初退休，她于 2002 年初在圣地亚哥再次见到了他。他告诉她她有危险和他说话，然后他离开了商店。2003 年，她接到他“朋友”的电话，说他在康涅狄格州的养老院被处决。尸体已被一辆看起来像政府的黑色车辆移走。房子已经被清理干净，尸体被移走，没有任何关于他的死亡或存在的公开通知。他在那里和之后的这段时间里，在新郎湖附近的沙漠中发现了许多毁容和异常的动物。凯特认为他可能一直在做这项可怕的实验工作。

#40： 📷 Carlo Urbani，46 岁。去世：2003 年 4 月在曼谷死于SARS（严重急性呼吸系统综合症）——这是他帮助识别的新疾病。由于他的迅速行动，疫情在越南得到控制。然而，由于每天与SARS患者密切接触，他感染了。3月11日，他被送往曼谷的一家医院并被隔离。不到三周后，他就去世了。他是一位敬业且在国际上受人尊敬的意大利流行病学家，他在世界各地与传染病作斗争的工作具有持久价值。

2002 年去世

＃39：罗马库兹敏。2002 年 12 月去世。警方称，一名在康涅狄格州学习的 24 岁俄罗斯外科医生在带着三卷被盗胶卷逃离一家商店时被一辆汽车撞死。他正在学习成为一名整形外科医生。在沃特伯里医院与罗曼·库兹明一起工作的医生说，他们听到他周日晚上去世的消息感到震惊，许多人无法相信这种情况。Kuzmin 于 9 月离开符拉迪沃斯托克，根据 Keggi 骨科基金会项目在沃特伯里医院学习骨科手术技术。组织该计划的 Kristaps Keggi 博士说，库兹敏“非常能干，非常聪明——一个优秀的学生和一个优秀的个��。”

#38B： 📷 David R. Knibbs 博士，49 岁。卒于：2002 年 8 月 5 日。受人尊敬的电子显微镜病理生物学家。

#38： 📷 Steven Mostow，63 岁。卒于：2002 年 3 月 25 日。该国领先的传染病和生物恐怖主义专家之一，曾任科罗拉多大学健康科学中心副院长。他在百年机场附近的一次飞机失事中丧生。他被称为“博士。流感”，以表彰他在治疗流感方面的专业知识和生物恐怖主义方面的专业知识。莫斯托是该国领先的传染病专家之一。

#37： 📷 David Wynn-Williams 博士，55 岁。去世：2002 年 3 月 24 日。在他位于英国剑桥的家附近慢跑时被车撞了。他是南极天体生物学项目和美国宇航局艾姆斯研究中心的天体生物学家。他正在研究微生物适应极端环境的能力，包括紫外线的轰击和全球变暖。

s #35-36：Tanya Holzmayer，46 岁，去世：2002 年 2 月 28 日：旧金山的两名微生物学家死亡。Tanya Holzmayer 在送披萨时被同事Guyang “Mathew” Huang开枪打死， 38 岁，然后他显然开枪自杀了。Holzmayer 于 1989 年从俄罗斯移居美国。她的研究重点是人类分子结构中最受药物影响的部分。Holzmayer 专注于帮助创造干扰导致艾滋病的病毒复制的新药。一年前，Holzmayer 服从高层命令解雇黄。黄从送货员身后出现。他在胸部和头部近距离射击了霍尔兹迈尔几次。当 Holzmayer 跌倒在门口时，Huang 跑到一辆福特 Explorer 前开走了。据福斯特市警察局长克雷格·考廷 (Craig Courtin) 称，枪击事件发生后不到一个小时，黄就给他的妻子打电话。他告诉她枪击事件，并说他要自杀，然后挂断了电话。黄的妻子打电话给紧急服务部门，福斯特市警方用搜查犬搜查了该地区。他们遇到了一个慢跑者，他看到黄的尸体躺在当地人称为“大堤”的人行道上。他向他的头部开了一枪。

#34： 📷 Ian Langford 博士，40 岁，卒于：2002 年 2 月 12 日。被发现死在血迹斑斑且显然被洗劫一空的家中一名俄罗斯人，曾是英国 CSERGE 的高级研究员。他是从事全球环境研究的领先大学研究科学家，专门研究人类健康与环境风险之间的联系。白血病和感染专家。

#33： 📷 Vladamir “Victor” Korshunov 博士，56 岁。死亡时间：2002 年 2 月 9 日。被发现死在莫斯科街头。头部被击中。科尔舒诺夫是俄罗斯国立医科大学微生物学子设施的负责人。他被发现死于家门口，头部受伤。2 月 9 日，俄罗斯《真理报》报道称，科尔舒诺夫很可能发明了一种疫苗，可以抵御任何生物武器。

#32：David W. Barry，58 岁，卒于：2002 年 1 月 28 日。共同发现 AZT 的科学家，AZT 是一种抗病毒药物，被认为是治疗艾滋病的第一种有效药物。死因不明。

＃31：伊万·格列博夫博士。死亡时间：2002 年 1 月。俄罗斯微生物学家。格列博夫死于强盗袭击。享誉世界，为俄罗斯科学院院士。

＃30： Alexi Brushlinski博士。死亡时间：2002 年 1 月。俄罗斯微生物学家。在莫斯科因强盗袭击而被谋杀。享誉世界，为俄罗斯科学院院士。

2001 年去世

#29 📷 Dr. Benito Que ，52 岁。发现时间：2001 年 11 月 12 日。死亡时间：2001 年 12 月 6 日。从所谓的抢劫中发现昏迷。后来在医院去世。在他在迈阿密大学医学院工作的实验室附近的街道上发现的。阙博士的朋友和家人坚信，阙博士遭到四名男子的袭击，其中至少有一个人拿着棒球棒。Que 博士的死亡现在已被正式裁定为“自然”死亡，原因是心脏骤停。他是一名细胞生物学家，曾在血液科从事艾滋病、肿瘤学研究。

#28： 📷 Vladimer Pasechnik 博士，64 岁。卒于：2001 年 12 月 23 日. 被发现死在英格兰威尔特郡，他家附近的一个村庄。有两个不同的日期被报道：11 月 21 日和 12 月 23 日。死亡统治了中风。他从俄罗斯叛逃到英国。他曾是 FSU 生物武器计划的第一名科学家。人们认为他参与挖掘了 1919 年 A 型流感大流行的 10 名伦敦受害者的尸体。Pasechnik 在计划的挖掘计划宣布六周后去世。2001 年 11 月 23 日，《纽约时报》报道了 Pasechnik 的死发生在两天前。Pasechnik 的死是由弗吉尼亚州的克里斯托弗·戴维斯博士在美国制造的，他说死因是中风。Davis 博士是英国情报部门的成员，他在 Pasechnik 博士叛逃时对其进行了汇报。Pasechnik 积极参与 DNA 测序研究。他刚刚成立了一家公司，就像其他三位微生物学家一样，致力于提供强大的抗生素替代品。Vladimir Pasechnik 博士是 William C. Patrick III 的老板，他拥有美国使用的军用炭疽的 5 项专利。帕特里克现在是军方和中央情报局的私人生物战顾问。帕特里克开发了一种可以将炭疽孢子浓缩到每克 1 万亿个孢子的过程。没有其他国家能够达到每克 5000 亿以上的浓度。去年秋天在美国东部传播的炭疽菌浓度为每克 1 万亿个孢子。帕特里克三世拥有美国使用的军用炭疽的 5 项专利。帕特里克现在是军方和中央情报局的私人生物战顾问。帕特里克开发了一种可以将炭疽孢子浓缩到每克 1 万亿个孢子的过程。没有其他国家能够达到每克 5000 亿以上的浓度。去年秋天在美国东部传播的炭疽菌浓度为每克 1 万亿个孢子。帕特里克三世拥有美国使用的军用炭疽的 5 项专利。帕特里克现在是军方和中央情报局的私人生物战顾问。帕特里克开发了一种可以将炭疽孢子浓缩到每克 1 万亿个孢子的过程。没有其他国家能够达到每克 5000 亿以上的浓度。去年秋天在美国东部传播的炭疽菌浓度为每克 1 万亿个孢子。

#27： 📷 Don Wiley 博士，57 岁。消失时间：2001 年 12 月 16 日. 哈佛大学霍华德休斯医学研究所的分子生物学家，顶级致命传染性病毒专家，在田纳西州孟菲斯郊外的 Hernando de Soto 桥上发现了废弃的租车。他积极参与 DNA 测序研究，最后一次露面是在 11 月 16 日午夜左右，离开田纳西州孟菲斯皮博迪酒店的圣裘德儿童研究咨询晚宴。参加晚宴的同事表示，他没有表现出醉酒的迹象，也没有人承认与他一起喝酒。一个月后发现尸体漂浮。周四，路易斯安那州一家水力发电厂的工人在距离分子生物学家最后一次出现地点以南约 300 英里处发现了唐威利的尸体，该地点是 11 月 18 日在孟菲斯举行的一次医学会议上。2002 年 1 月 14 日（将近两个月后）谢尔比县法医 OC 史密斯宣布他的部门已经裁定威利博士的死是“意外”；从 Hernando de Soto 桥上坠落导致重伤的结果。史密斯说，威利租来的汽车上有类似于桥上施工标志上使用的油漆的油漆痕迹，而且汽车的右前轮毂盖不见了。没有关于 Wiley 博士击中哪些建筑标志的报告。

#26： 📷 Set Van Nguyen 博士，44 岁。卒于：2001 年 12 月 14 日。被发现死在他在澳大利亚维多利亚州工作的实验室的步入式冰箱的气闸入口处。房间里充满了从液氮冷却系统泄漏的致命气体。房间通风。研究疫苗以防止生物武器或武器本身。2001 年 1 月，《自然》杂志发表的信息称，两位科学家 Ron Jackson 博士和 Ian Ramshaw 博士使用基因操作和 DNA 测序，创造了一种毒性极强的鼠痘，这是天花的表亲，Nguyen 博士在同一家澳大利亚机构工作了 15 年. 现在是这个故事的有趣部分。11 月 2 日星期五，《华盛顿邮报》报道说：“官员们现在正在争先恐后地确定一名安静的 61 岁越南移民，每天乘坐地铁往返于她在医院储藏室的工作，是如何接触到致命的本周杀死她的炭疽孢子。他们担心是因为与早期炭疽暴露和死亡的常见因素没有明显的联系：与邮件或媒体没有明确的联系。

#25： 📷 David Schwartz 博士，57 岁。卒于：2001 年 12 月 10 日。在弗吉尼亚州劳登县的农村家庭中，被似乎是一把剑的东西刺死。他的女儿自称为异教女祭司，她的三个异教徒同胞已被指控。他在生物物理学领域备受推崇，被认为是 DNA 测序领域的权威。三名进入神秘学的青少年被指控犯有谋杀罪。

#s22-24：Avishai Berkman ，50 岁。（不许拍照）

📷 阿米兰普艾尔多，59岁

📷 雅科夫·马茨纳，54 岁

所有人都死了：2001 年 11 月 24 日。另一起飞机失事导致 3 名科学家死亡。大约在黑海坠机事件发生时，以色列记者一直在敲响警报，称两名以色列微生物学家被谋杀，据称是被恐怖分子杀害；包括以色列伊奇洛夫医院血液科主任，以及特拉维夫公共卫生部和希伯来大学医学院的主任。世界血液学和凝血专家。这份名单中的前八名在飞机失事中神秘死亡的人中有五名微生物学家从事尖端微生物学研究；而且，五人中有四人在做几乎相同的研究；具有全球政治和金融意义的研究。

#21： Jeffrey Paris Wall ，41 岁。卒于：2001 年 11 月 6 日。尸体被发现躺在他办公室附近的三层停车场旁边。沃尔先生曾就读于加州大学洛杉矶分校。他是一位拥有医学学位的生物医学专家，他还专注于专利和知识产权。 #16-#20：五名未透露姓名的微生物学家。逝世日期：2001 年 10 月 4 日. 五名未透露姓名的微生物学家中的四名在俄罗斯边境黑海附近被导弹击落的飞机上。从以色列到俄罗斯旅行；业务未披露。3位科学家是医学研究或公共卫生方面的专家。以色列的许多人认为，这架飞机上有多达四五名微生物学家乘客。以色列和新西伯利亚都是尖端微生物研究的发源地。新西伯利亚被称为西伯利亚的科学之都。那里有 50 多个研究机构和 13 所完整的大学，人口只有 250 万。

#15：Janusz Jeljaszewicz 教授，去世：2001 年 5 月 7 日，原因未公开。他是葡萄球菌和葡萄球菌感染方面的专家。他的主要科学兴趣和成就是葡萄球菌毒素的作用机制和生物学特性，包括免疫调节特性和丙酸杆菌对肿瘤的实验治疗。

2000 年去世

#14：Linda Reese，52 岁。去世：2000 年 12 月 25 日，她研究了来自新泽西州费尔菲尔德市 19 岁的 Tricia Zailo 的样本三天后，她是密歇根州立大学大二学生。Tricia Zailo 于 12 月 18 日去世，就在她回家度假几天后。Reese 博士是一名微生物学家，与脑膜炎患者一起工作。

#13：迈克·托马斯，35 岁。去世：2000 年 7 月 16 日，在检查了从一名被诊断患有脑膜炎并幸存下来的 12 岁女孩身上采集的样本后几天。他是亨茨维尔克雷斯特伍德医疗中心的微生物学家。

#12：Walter W. Shervington，医学博士，62 岁。去世：2000 年 4 月 15 日在杜兰医疗医院因癌症去世。他是非裔美国人社区心理健康和艾滋病的广泛作家/讲师/研究员。

1998 年去世

#11：乔纳森曼，51 岁。1998 年 9 月在瑞士航空公司 111 航班在加拿大上空去世。他是世界卫生组织全球艾滋病项目的创始主任，并在扎伊尔创立了 SIDA 项目，这是当时非洲最全面的艾滋病研究工作，并于 1986 年加入世界卫生组织，领导全球应对艾滋病的工作。他成为世卫组织全球艾滋病规划的主管，该规划后来成为联合国艾滋病规划署。随后，他成为 1993 年在哈佛大学公共卫生学院成立的 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud 健康与人权中心的主任。 1998 年早些时候，他指责美国国立卫生研究院违反了该中心的规定，在媒体上引起了争议。因未能迅速采取行动开发艾滋病疫苗而损害了人权。

#10： Elizabeth A. Rich，医学博士，46 岁。1998 年 7 月 10 日，在田纳西州探望家人时死于交通事故。她是 CWRU 和克利夫兰大学医院医学系肺科的终身副教授。她还是艾滋病研究中心执行委员会的成员，并领导了生物安全 3 级设施，这是一个专门处理 HIV、毒性结核菌和其他传染性病原体的实验室。.

1994 年 – 1996 年去世

#9： Sidney Harshman ，67 岁。死于：1997 年 12 月 25 日，死于糖尿病并发症。他是微生物学和免疫学教授。他是世界领先的葡萄球菌α毒素专家。

#s6-8： Mark Purdey 、他的律师和与 Purdey Die 一起工作的兽医：CJD 医生 Mark Purdey 对“异常脑蛋白”这个表达很熟悉。Purdey 的房子被烧毁，他在疯牛问题上的律师被赶下马路并死亡，英国疯牛病调查的兽医也死于一场神秘的车祸。CJD 专家 C. Bruton 博士在发表新研究论文之前在一场车祸中丧生。该案的兽医也死于车祸。Purdey 的新律师也出过车祸，但不是致命的。在 Purdey 博士去世之前，他推测 C. Bruton 博士（下面的#2）可能比他被杀之前的论文中透露的更多。

#4-5 📷 Tsunao Saitoh 博士，46 岁。卒于：1996 年 5 月 7 日。在加利福尼亚州的拉霍亚，他和他的小女儿一起被枪杀。他死在汽车的方向盘后面，侧窗被弹开了，车门是开着的。他的女儿似乎试图逃跑，她也被枪杀了。此次袭击与抢劫犯在该国杀害日本人的其他事件相提并论。阿尔茨海默病异常蛋白专家。

#3 Jawad Al Aubaidi 博士。1994 年去世。他是康奈尔大学的博士研究生，受雇领导支原体生物战研究项目。Aubaidi 博士的项目之一是用支原体菌株填充飞毛腿导弹的有效载荷。1995 年，奥拜迪博士被以色列人穆萨德杀害。他的死亡，或者说，无效化看起来像是一场意外。他在自己的家乡伊拉克换轮胎时被卡车撞死。

#2 CJD 专家C. Bruton 博士——刚刚发表了一篇关于 CJD 新菌株的论文——在他的工作向公众公布之前死于车祸。Purdey 推测 Bruton 可能比他的论文中透露的更多。

#1 📷 何塞·特里亚斯，卒于：1994 年 5 月 19 日。Trias 和他的妻子在他们位于马里兰州 Chevy Chase 的家中被谋杀。他们在谋杀前一天会见了他们的一位记者朋友，并告诉他他们计划揭露 HHMI（霍华德休斯医学研究所）对“特殊行动”研究的资助。用于 HHMI 的拨款实际上被转用于特殊的黑人行动研究项目。

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Attention-grabbing Info About Olympic Nations France

Attention-grabbing Specifics About Olympic Nations - France

Did you know?

France may be the birthplace of Pierre de Coubertin, who's the father on the Olympic Motion. This Frenchman was born on January 1, 1863 in Paris. Pierre when said, "The Olympic Motion offers the world an excellent which reckons with the fact of lifetime, and features a probability to guideline this truth toward The good Olympic notion".

The Summer time Olympic Online games had been held in Paris in 1900. For the first time, sportswomen ended up permitted to contend while in the Olympics ( six tennis gamers ). France won first put while in the Game titles with 26 gold, forty one silver and 34 bronze medals.

Marie-José Pérec was considered one of France's biggest sportswomen. She was born in Guadeloupe ( Caribbean island ) and moved to France with her mom when she was sixteen. Marie-Jose turned the next female athlete within the heritage of the Olympic Games to sweep the 200m and 400m ( Atlanta'96 ).

Like Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana and Reunion, New Caledonia -French territory in Oceania- is not member with the Intercontinental Olympic Committee ( IOC ). Why? France doesn't let its territories to compete while in the Olympics. Due to this, New Caledonia's athletes can't compete while in the Olympic Online games. Not like Guam ( American territory trends ), Aruba ( Dutch territory ) and Bermuda ( British territory ), it didn't compete from the 2004 Olympics. Ironically, New Caledonia has many famed sportspeople within the South Pacific. Aquatics: Olivier Saminadin, Thomas Dahlia, Thomas Chacun, Reine-Victora Weber, Lara Grangeon, Diana Bui-Duyet, Adeline Williams and Gilles Durnesnil. Archery: Laurent Clerte, Emmanuel Guilhard, Henry Shiu, Isabelle Soeno and Sylvena Plazenet. Athletics: Vaikula Elise Takosi, Candice Soulisse, Erwin Casser, Bertrand Vili, Eric Frederic, Bina Ramesh, Eric Revillard, Phoebe Wejieme and Daniel Kilamo. Badminton: Nicolas Martoredjo, Florent Mathey, Marc-Antonie Desaynoz, Johanna Kou and Cecile Sarengat. Boxing: Christophe Lestage, Ataale Gyan and Hannequin Benoit. Judo: Sandrine Perel, Kyo Lussaud, Melissa Kaddour, Stephane Courtine, Jonathan Berger, Cyril Chevalier, Paul Dulac, Abedis Trindade de Abreu, Vaea Chadfeau and Diane Hillaireau. Sailing: Chrisptophe Renaud, Alban Rossollin, Feri Malhieu, Michael Borde, Cawle Dabin and Paiscillia Poaniewa. Shooting: Theodore Tein Weiawe, Fabrice Azarro and Phillipe Sinoni. Desk tennis: Frederic Quach, Laurent Sens, Maxime Bataihard, Ornella Bouteille and Alexandra Heraclide. Taekwondo: Annie Odino, Kevin Belhameche, John Trouilet and Arnord Sariman. Tennis: Julien Couly, Elodie Rogge and Nickolas Ngodrela. Triathlon: Oliver Bargibant, Stephane Lacroix and Benedicte Meunier. At the last South Pacific Video games held in Apia ( Samoa / previously Western Samoa ) in November 2007, it concluded 1st between 22 nations around the world and territories. Absolutely, New Caledonia has won a lot more Global gold medals for every capita than some other region of the South Pacific.

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Paris hosted the FIVB Volleyball Adult men's Planet Championship in 1986. Remaining standings: 1.Usa, 2.USSR ( now Russia ), 3.Bulgaria, 4.Brazil, five.Cuba, six.France, 7.Argentina, eight.Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic/Slovak Republic), nine.Poland, 10.Japan, 11.China, twelve.Italy, 13.Greece, 14.Venezuela, fifteen.Egypt, 16.Taiwan.

Jean Schopter turned the very first Frenchman to gain the Roland Garros in 1892.

France deliver 243 athletes into the 1984 L. a. Games. It participated in 19 athletics: archery ( two ), athletics (45), basketball ( 12 ), boxing ( four ), kayak ( 14 ), cycling ( sixteen ), equestrian ( eleven), fencing ( twenty ), soccer ( seventeen ), gymnastics ( nine ), wrestling ( 16 ), modern day pentathlon ( 3 ), rowing ( 22 ), shooting ( 15 ), swimming ( 19 ), tennis ( four ), weightlifting ( 2 ), wrestling ( 8 ), sailing ( twelve ).

This European country won the gold medal in soccer on the 1984 Olympic Games in The us.

France would be the birthplace of fencing. Fencing was designed Portion of the official system for the Olympics in the 1896 Athens Game titles.

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Paris has hosted the Summertime Olympics in 1924. There have been 3,092 athletes from 44 international locations who competed in 19 sports: athletics, aquatics, boxing, biking, diving, equestrian, fencing, gymnastics, modern day pentathlon, polo, rowing, rugby, sailing, taking pictures, soccer, tennis, drinking water polo, weightlifting, wrestling. France came 3rd with 13 golds, fifteen silvers and 10 bronzes.

Eunice Barber is The most well-known athletes in France. She was born on November 17, 1974 in Freetown, Sierra Leone ( Western Africa ), the entire world's poorest state. Eunice suggests, "I had been fortuitous to improve up in Sierra Leone, an English-speaking African state wherever Activity is extremely existing". For political and economic explanations, she moved to France when she was eighteen many years outdated. While in the nineteen nineties, Sierra Leone had among Africa's bloodiest civil wars. Greater than 70,000 Africans were killed and 150,000 had remaining the nation. Under the banner of Sierra Leone, Eunice finished fifth during the heptathlon Competitiveness within the 1996 Olympic Game titles in The us. For numerous sportswriters and professionals, her Olympic general performance was astounding. A few several years later on, she turn into a French citizen.

Best performances:

1999: European Cup-1st heptathlon

1999: Earth Cup-1st heptathlon

2003: IAAF World Championships- 1st extensive jump, 2nd heptathlon

2003: European Cup-1st lengthy jump

2003: IAAF World Athletics Remaining-1st extended soar

2005: IAAF World Championships-2nd heptathlon, third long leap

2005: IAAF Earth Athletics Closing-4th extensive leap

2006: European Cup-2nd long soar

Eunice's favourites:

Motion picture stars: Julia Roberts, Sharon Stone, Demi Moore

Songs: From French to pop songs

Hobbies: Theater, cinematography, music, reading

Style designers: Issey Miyake and Jean Paul Gautier

Songs artists: Celine Dion, Withney Houston, Wyclef Jean.

Alejandro Guevara Onofre: He is a freelance author. Alejandro is of Italian, African and Peruvian ancestry. He has posted over seventy-five exploration paper in English, and in excess of 20 in Spanish, concerning the world challenges, olympic sports, countries, and tourism. His subsequent essay is known as "The Dictator and Alicia Alonso". He is an authority on overseas affairs. Alejandro is the primary writer who may have published a world-e book encyclopedia in Latin America.

He admires Frida Kahlo (Mexican painter), JosÄ‚Â© Gamarra (previous president of the Bolivian Olympic Committee ,1970- 1982), Hillary Clinton (ex-Initially Woman with the United states of america), and Jimmy Carter (previous President of your United states of america). Alejandro explained: "The one that I love probably the most is JosÄ‚Â© Gamarra . He devoted his Specialist and personal lifestyle to Activity. JosÄ‚Â© performed a vital role inside the advertising of Olympism in Bolivia -it is amongst the 3rd Globe`s poorest countries- and Latin The united states. His biography is exciting". The sportspeople he most admire is Olympic volleyball participant Flo Hyman. "This African-American sportswoman is my idol... "

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The Soul Finds Its Way:

Healing through Adversity

with Jessica Pimentel & Chris Grosso

Saturday, February 9, 2019

1:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location:

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Chapel of Sacred Mirrors

46 Deer Hill Road

Wappinger, NY

12590

Admission:

$85 online / $95 at the door (dinner included)

What does it mean to accept yourself fully in all of your perfect imperfections; to take an honest, fearless look at your true self and stay there, acknowledging both the frailty and the glory in the same glance? In this workshop, Jessica Pimentel (Maria Ruiz on Orange Is The New Black), and Chris Grosso, best-selling author of Indie Spiritualist, Everything Mind, andDead Set On Living will address this question, guiding participants to use their difficult life experiences as catalysts towards spiritual awakening through various meditations, creative exercises, compassion practices and more.

Jessica and Chris will share their stories of growing up as counter-culturalist youth; finding punk rock/hardcore music and the effect that had on their formative years; as well as finding spirituality and how that continues to play an integral role in their overall wellbeing. Jessica will discuss her career as a musician and actress on Orange Is The New Black (and other shows). Chris will discuss the creative process including writing a book or song, and both will talk about the importance of working with our youth in various capacities to help encourage the expression of their creative passions.

In this workshop, participants will learn to:

- Create an open space for healing

- Make friends with your past

- How to make your dreams a reality

- Learn practices for listening to your heart

- Realign yourself with greater purpose

- How to create anything your heart calls you to from the ground up

- Understand the principles of listening to your heart’s guidance

- Learn to love yourself, and others, without holding back

- Learn how to discover your authentic self through your heart

Jessica Pimentel

Jessica Pimentel The Brooklyn born and raised native New Yorker is best known as an actress in her role as Maria Ruiz on the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black, currently filming its 7th season, and received 3 Screen Actors Guild Award wins and 1 nomination. Featured on both stage and screen, Jessica is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts where she holds a degree in Theater Arts and The High School of Performing Arts (aka “Fame”) where she also studied music performance, composition, and theory. She began her musical career at a young age and is a trained classical violinist as well as a frontwoman for the metal band Alekhine’s Gun and additional vocals for Brujeria and Black Heart Sutra and former bassist of Desolate and several New York Hardcore bands.

Jessica was first introduced to meditation when she was a child by her mother, a psychologist, but began her formal studies in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, logic, debate and meditation in the Gelugpa Tradition in 1994 and was trained by her root guru, the former abbot of Sera Mey Monastery, H.E. Sermey Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Tharchin. She has also received teachings and initiations from many notable teachers such as HH the Dalai Lama, Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Jampa, Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche, HH Kyabje Trijang Choktrul Rinpoche, and Ven. Robina Courtin. Her practice is infused in all things she does, and she uses her art to deepen her practice.

Chris Grosso

Chris Grosso is a youth mental health group facilitator with Newport Academy, public speaker, writer, and best-selling author of Indie Spiritualist, Everything Mind, and Dead Set On Living. He writes for Revolver Magazine, ORIGIN Magazine, and Huffington Post. He is a member of the advisory board for Drugs Over Dinner, hosts The Indie Spiritualist Podcast on Ram Dass’s esteemed Be Here Now and is a member of The Evolutionary Leaders. His work has been endorsed by a diverse mix of celebrated individuals including Jeff Bridges, Ram Dass, Tony Hawk, Bam Margera, Sharon Salzberg, Alex & Allyson Grey, MC Yogi, Tara Brach, Ken Wilber, Jack Kornfield, Krishna Das, Lama Surya Das, Dr. Lissa Rankin, Robert Thurman, Treach (Naughty By Nature), don Miguel Ruiz Jr., and more.

Event Schedule:

Session 1:

1 pm — Introductions

2 pm — Loving Kindness Talk/Practice

2 pm — Tonglen Talk/Practice

3 pm — Group Discussion/Q&A

3:30 pm — Break

Session 2:

4 pm — Unconditional Love and Acceptance Talk/Practice

4:45 pm — Manjushri Talk/Meditation

5:30 pm — Group Discussion/Q&A

6 pm – 7 pm — Dinner

Session 3:

7 pm — Mahassati Hand meditation Talk/Practice

7:30 pm — Live Music Mediation

8 pm — Closing Group Discussion/Q&A

9 pm — End of Event

10 pm — CoSM Closed

Accommodations

Rooms are available for rent in the Grey House, CoSM’s fully renovated Visionary Victorian guest house.

Accommodations for this event must be booked directly through Hospitality. Please call 845-297-2323 ext. 104

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September 5, 2018: Columns

Marjorie Roberts about to open up another block of Jenkins finest on Livermush Monday

Americana Day and Livermush Monday

By KEN WELBORN

Record Publisher

What an amazing fun weekend we were treated to this Labor Day!

At 11 a. m. on Saturday morning, the ridge on E Street in North Wilkesboro where The Record Park is located simply broke out in music when the 13th Annual Americana Day Youth Music program began.

This event, hosted by The Record, pays tribute to our local VFW Post and its Honor Guard with a special day of music, made all the more special by the fact that the players are all under 18 years of age.

Clearly, bluegrass and Americana music is safely in the hands of some very talented young people.

At noon, as is our custom during events at The Record Park, the American flag was raised by the VFW Post 1142's Honor Guard. After Post Chaplain Larry Reavis led everyone in the Pledge of Allegiance, 12-year-old Libby Harbour played the Star Spangled Banner on her fiddle. The sun was bright, the wind was calm, the soldiers and the crowd stood at attention, and the silence was broken by only by Libby's perfectly played rendition of our National Anthem. I said it then, and I'll say it again now, it would bring a tear to the eye of a stone statue.

And so it went for the rest of the day. Youngsters like 8-year-old Lake Carver played and sang with a stage presence that completely belied their youth. Two others, Heidi Holloway and Devin Huie, have both played at 12 Americana Days, and are about to age out of this event. They thankfully both have a future in music that we will all get to enjoy for the years to come.

Americana Day 2018 was truly a beautiful day with beautiful children, and a musical treat for everyone which will be long remembered. Thank you to all who helped.

Then comes Labor Day Monday morning, and I find myself in Carl White's studio with Allen Langley, our mutual friend from Shelby, N.C., recording a podcast with Carl. These podcasts, as Carl says, will tell the story behind the stories. From there we head up NC Hwy 268 West to beautiful downtown Ferguson to introduce Allen to an event like no other, The Grocery Basket Café, 86 year-old Marjorie Roberts, and a unique musical experience known simply as Livermush Monday.

Some 15 years ago, musicians and others who attended the fiddlers convention in Happy Valley near Ferguson, and didn't leave on Sunday evening to go home, found themselves looking for a bit of breakfast on Monday. The Grocery Basket Café was nearby, Marjorie is an angel on this earth, and in no time a few folks began to bring along their fiddles and banjos and such, and Livermush Monday was born. Sometimes there are as many as 15-20 people in a loose circle; one person will start a song and the others will jump in, playing everything from "Froggy went a Courtin'" to "Will the Circle be Unbroken." If you can't pat your foot at Livermush Monday, you have a broken leg.

A few years ago, through our connections with Allen and Carl, Marc Mauney with Jenkins Foods in Shelby was contacted and Marc cheerfully took on a de-facto sponsorship, providing Jenkins Livermush for the event. He spent a lot of time in Wilkes and surrounding areas and we came to know him as a man who didn't mind working hard and who had a heart of gold. Sadly, we lost Marc last year in September to a heart attack, but it was truly uplifting to speak with many of his customers in Wilkes--to them he was far more than just Jenkins Foods, he really had become their friend on many, many levels. Marc Mauney's legacy was well-remembered on Monday.

I spent several hours on Monday at the Grocery Basket Café with Carl, Allen, and a full house of folks from Icard to Ireland--all with a common bond--a love of family, friendship, music and especially love for a wonderful soul who had just celebrated her 86th birthday, Marjorie Roberts.

Her smile would open the vaults at Fort Knox.

What a great weekend, full of music and smiling faces from 8 to 86.

Standing Up

By LAURA WELBORN

There is so much in the news these days revealing the destruction that has been wrought from keeping things secret.

The Me Too movement came from this: the Catholic Church that kept secret the years of abuse by priests and the pharmaceutical companies’ promotion of opioids. Both have been destroying lives with well intentioned people hiding the truth to protect institutions or companies with little regard to the lives lost.

Yesterday, a friend of mine gave me the book “Dopesick-Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that addicted America” by Beth Macy.

The book documents how opioid pain drugs got their start in the 90’s and where they were first heavily marketed. That first market was Appalachia. Wilkes County is part of that region.

We have the highest number of opioid addicted people of any county in the state. I help people everyday who started out on painkillers from an injury or post surgery and ended up unintentionally addicted.

How big is our problem?

Wilkes County has one of the highest rate of opioid-related deaths per capita in the state. In 2016, Wilkes County saw 25 such deaths compared to 10 fatalities by car crashes (many car crashes are related to impairment by alcohol/drugs- which are related to people taking painkillers (opioids) while driving).

In her book, Macy talks about the marketing of the drug OxyContin. It used preliminary and ultimately flawed scientific studies heralding the “less than 1 percent” addiction rate from observations of hospital use of opioid pain relievers. The critical part left out was a 56 percent addiction rate after patients left the hospital and tried handle their pain.

The book talks about Purdue Pharma’s marketing of OxyContin for all kinds of chronic pain, not just cancer, and claimed it was safe and reliable. Pardue sales reps get bonuses for the number of Appalachia doctors they convinced to prescribe Opioids. They fanned out, evangelizing doctors and dentists in all 50 states with the message “prescribing OxyContin for pain is the moral, responsible and compassionate thing to do for people with back injuries, wisdom-tooth surgery and bronchitis.” The wave of Opioid addiction that followed could not be called moral, responsible or compassionate.

The 1996 introduction of OxyContin coincided with pain being defined as “the fifth vital sign.” Traditionally, temperature, blood pressure, respiratory rate, and heart rate were considered the vital signs, and all could be easily measured and recorded. Pain level was different. In 1999, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations approved new mandatory standards for the assessment and treatment of pain. But, unlike the other four vital signs, pain could not be externally measured. Patients were asked to assess their own pain and the goal was no pain. Sales rates and profits for opioid producing pharmaceutical companies skyrocketed. The movement of opioid pain relief had begun and with it the cover up of the devastation and death from addiction.

The book describes several physicians and advocates who tried to stop this movement but were largely ignored. It is the advocates who interest me. The people working to uncover wrong and stop harm. What separates these people willing to risk their own careers, comfort and peace to advocate for the most vulnerable? Is it the power of love and not the love of power? People who are willing to stand up against wrong and challenge rules and institutions when they see harm are a special breed. I think every time we challenge something we see as wrong we are doing God’s greatest work.

Laura Welborn is a Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist with Donlin Counseling Services. See www.Donlincounseling.com

Enemies of Israel Pay the Price

By EARL COX

Special to The Record

Israel has a long history of standing up to bullies and their threats. They require not only an Iron Dome but also an iron fist, occasionally wrapped in a velvet glove, to protect her land and her people.

One of the first bullies to unleash taunts and threats against Israel was the Philistine giant Goliath. His military stance—and the future king of Israel’s response—is an example of how to stand up to bullies, whether individuals or nations.

Before David showed up at the battlefield, things weren’t going well. Goliath’s intimidation tactics were working. Fear had paralyzed King Saul’s army. Nine-feet tall, armored to the teeth, and toting a formidable 14-kilo spear, this guy trained hard and was combat-seasoned. But above all, he was BIG. Israel’s present-day enemies are also “big”— in the sheer numbers of anti-Zionists, radical Islamists, and hostile leftists, globalists and thugs spewing threats, lies and insults like a giant corporate Goliath.

Due to fear, no soldier was willing to confront the giant. But fear is what feeds bullies. The best way to neutralize intimidation is to run at it with the right weapon in hand, which David did. Even school counselors in America, which is facing a rash of bullying, advises kids to look the bully in the eye without hesitation and stand their ground. Bullying only increases “when the bully realizes his victim is not going to stand up for himself,” says author Signe Whitson.

But the truth is, Goliath didn’t have much going for himself except for his colossal size.

His presumed victory was so narrowly focused on bigness that he rashly provoked a one-on-one contest—based not just on ancient custom but also on his own arrogance—that would haunt his people for years: “If [David] can fight and kill me, then we will become [Israel’s] subjects.”

Goliath’s gigantic ego was his undoing. His imperious belief in himself blinded his judgment and limited his focus. The mighty warrior —crippled by inadequate intelligence (in more ways than one)—underestimated his opponent. Could history be repeating itself?

In the giant’s eyes, David didn’t have much going for him. He was young and seemed inexperienced for war. After all, he had no armor or helmet, spear or sword.

Nor did he anticipate David’s speed, training, or motivation: David, zealous for Israel and the G-d of Israel, was appalled that an “uncircumcised Philistine” [defied] the armies of the living G-d.” (1 Sam. 17:26)

Mustered by Saul, David “ran quickly” toward Goliath and hurled a fatal stone into his forehead. The giant fell hard and before the shocked Philistines could react, David again “ran,” grabbed Goliath’s sword, and severed his head.

Unbeknownst to Goliath, David did train for adversity—as a shepherd under sometimes dangerous conditions. The flock’s enemies were his own enemies. He perfected his aim with a sling while guarding the sheep entrusted to his care. When a lion or bear attacked, David killed them head-on thus delivering the sheep from their jaws and laws. His training helped him develop an intense motivation foreign to Goliath’s low mentality. David’s heart was for Israel and for the G-d of Israel. This made him fearless.

Israel has had its share of lions, bears and Goliaths. They still stalk, sniffing at the borders, probing for vulnerabilities. They still brag, threaten and incite violence and fearmonger.

But they underestimate and fail to understand Israel, whose founding documents, laws and defense forces have a different motivation and moral code than to rob, hate, kill and destroy. Israel does not sacrifice its people to lions and bears—it defends them.

As in David’s day, present-day “Goliaths” know nothing of the G-d of Israel’s love for the land and people of Israel. David knew, so he was not afraid to face Goliath—or the “giants” that followed. It is also why he won a seemingly asymmetrical battle.

Let us run, with Israel, toward this band of giants, who share not just the attitude of the Goliath of old, but who also are making the same errors in judgment. Whether our slings are the written or spoken word, diplomacy, a timely vote, or another gift, let’s use it faithfully and fearlessly just as David did.

An Invitation to Come Back

By CARL WHITE

Life in the Carolinas

It was an umbrella day for our cameras and everyone else in Shelby NC, and a lot of people had traveled to the town square for the much-anticipated opening of the Earl Scruggs Center. Earl Eugene Scruggs was born in the nearby farming community of Flint Hill. Growing up, he had been surrounded by brothers and sisters who played the banjo and guitar, so it’s no surprise that they had a significant influence on his life.

The surprise, however, may have come when, at the age of twenty-one, Earl was invited to join Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys. This was just the beginning. Three years later he and Lester Flatt left the Bluegrass Boys and formed the Foggy Mountain Boys; before long the group was simply know as Flat and Scruggs. In 1955 the group joined the Grand Ole Opry and soon the incredibly successful Martha White brand sponsorship become synonymous with the sounds of Bluegrass music. Martha White Self-Rising Flour with Hot Rise “Goodness Gracious, It’s Good” became a common expression of the day.

Another significant public success came in 1962 with their release of "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" on the TV show The Beverly Hillbillies. Flat and Scruggs were guests on the show several times over the years.

The Flat and Scruggs band parted ways in 1969 and Earl went on to organize the Earl Scruggs Revue. They enjoyed much success and the three finger Scruggs style of banjo playing has charmed hundreds of millions of music listeners and players around the world.

The Earl Scruggs Center is located in the middle of the historic Shelby Town Square in the old Court House and is all about the music and stories of the American South. I met a lot of great people on the opening day of the Scruggs Center, and we produced a good segment for Life in the Carolinas on the day’s activities.

After I finished my interviews I was leaving by one of the side doors of the center. I was greeted by someone saying, "Hi, Carl, welcome to Shelby. I’m Allen Langley and I’m a fan of your show."

We had a pleasant conversation, and Allen invited me to come back to Shelby and he gave me a list of things that he thought would be good stories. He shared his contact number and said he would be happy to assist in any way that he could. I come to discover that Allen was right about Cleveland County and he was also true to his word; when I called, he was very helpful in assisting with producing stories in Cleveland County. Allen leads a very busy life running his business activities. He is an active Rotarian, serves on various boards and has a big heart for those in need, with all that going on he found the time to help anyway. Allen is a good friend to have.

I was glad to discover that The American Legion World Series now calls Shelby NC its permanent home. When I met Eddie Holbrook, co-chairmen of the Executive Committee of the American Legion World Series, I came to understand the true power of his community.

I witnessed hundreds of people working together on projects that benefit their community at large. Eddie was the first to tell me that it’s always a team effort. And those around him told me of his tireless work and comment to benefiting everyone.

It seems like that’s the way community champions should be.I’ve been invited to return many times and I have always enjoyed by visits and continued new discoveries.

You can email Carl at [email protected] Carl White is the executive producer and host of the award-winning syndicated TV show Carl White’s Life In the Carolinas. The weekly show is now in its seventh year of syndication and can be seen in the Charlotte viewing market on WJZY Fox 46 Saturdays at noon. For more on the show visit www.lifeinthecarolinas.com You can also catch episodes of Life In The Carolinas on Amazon Prime

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