#rolf muller

[magnetoeisenhardt]

Hooded Justice

I recently re-watched Watchmen (2019) with my roommate, and she said something really clever that changed my mind on a hang-up I had. While I loved Watchmen (2019), I was originally a bit put off at the retcon of Hooded Justice’s origin story. Originally Rolf Muller, HJ was originally a Nazi sympathizer at the very least, and I felt it was strange to change the Nazi white supremacist character into a Black man. This Extraordinary Being (Ep 6) was perhaps one of the greatest episodes of television of all time, so I didn’t care too much, but I did wonder why they didn’t pick literally any other character.

However, my roommate loved the change, and pointed out to me that HJ is, in the Watchmen universe, the first Superhero. If the first Superhero is a Nazi, then the origins of the Superhero are inherently fascist. If the first Superhero was a Black man dealing with systemic racism, then the origins of the Superhero inherently lie in the experience of the marginalized. In real life, the Superhero genre was created by Jewish immigrants, fleeing antisemitism in Europe. William Reeves more accurately reflects the origin of the Superhero than Rolf Muller.

Furthermore, while I think Alan Moore is a brilliant writer who was majorly screwed over by DC, and I have a lot of respect and sympathy for him, his take about Superhero’s being inherently fascist was totally ahistorical and insulting. My roommate made me realize that William Reeves is the perfect rebuttal to that idea. I’m really glad I re-watched it with her.

[kwebtv]

Kessler - BBC One - November 13, 1981 - December 18, 1981

Drama (6 Episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Clifford Rose as Ludwig Kessler

Alan Dobie as Richard Bauer

Nitza Saul as Mical Rak

Alison Glennie as Ingrid Dorf

Nicholas Young as Franz Hoss

Ralph Michael as Colonel Hans Ruckert

Bernard Hepton as Albert Foiret

Angela Richards as Monique Durnford

Juliet Hammond-Hill as Natalie Chantrens

Guy Rolfe as Don Julian Yqueras

Oscar Quitak as Josef Mengele

Jerome Willis as Hugo van Eyck

John Moreno as Jose Garriga

Robert Morris as Karl Leider

Jeremy Wilkin as Gidney

Harold Innocent as Deakin

Royston Tickner as Maurer

John Dearth as Graun

Ishia Bennison as Ruth Liberman

Robert Eddison as Heinrich Himmler

Gareth Milne as Muller

[curaduria-politicoespectral]

Horacio fue ejecutado con el hacha sangre cayó al suelo. uno de los romanos preguntó: Qué debe suceder con el cadáver del vencedor? El pueblo respondió al unísono: Que el cadáver del vencedor sea expuesto sobre los escudos de la tropa. Que el cadáver del asesino sea arrojado a los perros Para que lo destrocen otro de los romanos preguntó: Cómo debe ser llamado Horacio en la posteridad? Y el pueblo respondió al unísono:  Debe ser llamado vencedor por Roma  Debe ser llamado asesino de su hermana  En una sola respiración su mérito y su culpa.  Porque las palabras deben permanecer puras.  Ya que una espada puede ser destruida  Y un hombre también puede ser destruido  Pero al caer en el movimiento del mundo  Las palabras son irrecuperables  Volviendo las cosas conocibles o irreconocibles.  Mortal es para el hombre lo irreconocible. 1

1 Muller Heiner (1968). Der Horatier, traducción al español de Heidi y Rolf Abderhalden.

Horacio (1994) - Mapa Teatro y el Teatro Experimental de la Picota.

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[tcorey68]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: 12 Days of Scent Fragrances.

[subtilitas]

Buchner Bründler - Renovation and addition of a 1961 house originally designed by Rolf Müller, Allschwil 2019. Via, 2, photos (C) Daisuke Hirabayashi.

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The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel) (1930) Josef von Sternberg

September 5th 2021

[littlemissonewhoisall]

I really wish HBO Watchmen fans would refer to the show's version of Hooded Justice by his real name because the comic's Hooded Justice was an outright Nazi and as a Jewish comic fan it's pretty uncomfortable to see people praising that name.

[raptorific]

Watchmen Spoilers but I’ve seen a ridiculous number of people lately who seem to believe that the Hooded Justice reveal is a retcon of his “original comics identity” which was, like, not established. People specifically say he was nazi strongman Rolf Muller, which was never actually confirmed (or even implied by a reliable source, unless you consider the in-universe equivalent of Alex Jones’ InfoWars a reliable source) in the original comics! And even beside that, his perceived support of the Nazis and his perceived insistence on superheroes remaining apolitical (also coming from an unreliable narrator) was specifically retained in the series, although instead of being left to assume they were meant at face value, they were explained specifically as very pointed barbs at another character’s cowardice and racist leanings. It’s not a “retcon” unless you actually change something, if everything that’s actually been firmly established stands as-is, then it’s not retroactive continuity, it’s just... continuity. Like, the reveal that the White Supremacist newspaper was wrong when they said the Seminal Superhero was a White Supremacist, that’s not a retcon, that’s just like... something you should’ve assumed if you have the basic literacy skills to translate words on a page into thoughts in your brain

[thecomicsnexus]

The Judge of All the Earth

WATCHMEN #3 NOVEMBER 1986 BY ALAN MOORE, DAVE GIBBONS AND JOHN HIGGINS

SYNOPSIS (FROM DC DATABASE)

Doctor Manhattan is having problems with his relationship with Laurie when he multiplies himself and she finds out that 'one of him' had been working while she was being romantic with another. Laurie walks out on Manhattan, going to meet up with Dan Dreiberg.

Meanwhile, Manhattan's ex-wife Janey Slater is giving an interview with a news editor of the Nova Express. She states that she has cancer that she presumably received through connection with Manhattan.

Manhattan gets dressed and transports from his home to his television interview where he meets up with a government official named Forbes telling him what to, and what not to say. One of his questions that he cannot say is about his involvement with the Russians in Afghanistan. Then, one of the audience members is Doug Roth of Nova Express who ask Manhattan of his relationships with his colleague Wally Weaver, Slater, and his former nemesis Edgar Jacobi, if he knew that all of them had a fatal form of cancer, among others. Forbes quickly intervened and stopped the interview, but while he and Manhattan were leaving Manhattan became overwhelmed by questions. A very distressed Manhattan yells "I said leave me alone!" and transported everyone outside of the building.

Laurie meets up with Dan who gave her some coffee and they talked about her troublesome relationship and where she will stay that night. She decided on a hotel and walked him to Hollis Mason's place, but while walking through an alleyway they were almost mugged by a gang of knot-tops. They take out the entire group. Leaving the alleyway, Laurie decides to go find a hotel and to leave Dan alone. Once arriving at Hollis' place, Hollis shows Dan the interview of Manhattan's incident on television.

Manhattan arrives back at his home to find out that it is being quarantined. He decides that he is leaving, telling a soldier to leave a message for Laurie and his superiors. He said he is going to Arizona, and then Mars. He goes to the Gila Flats test base in Arizona, where he took a picture of himself and Janey Slater many years ago at a carnival. On Mars he explores in a childish excitement and then finds a rock to sit on.

Laurie goes back to the base to find that everything is being taken away by military personnel in hazmat suits and she is told by Forbes that she is ordered to undergo a cancer scan and is ask about whether she has put Manhattan in emotional stress. Unaware of Manhattan's incident, she is offended by Forbes for considering herself responsible for something until the man, deeply exasperated, snaps to her that she is no longer welcome to the base, since his superiors believe that Manhattan is not coming back in which his absence has severe global consequences.

The next day, Dan awakes from his bed to find Rorschach has broken into his home (again), whom shows Dan a newspaper with the front page of Manhattan's departure from Earth. This news also makes Rorschach being more convinced of his mask killer theory.

That night, the news vendor receives the evening edition and is shocked to read from the headlines. Anxiously, he gives the kid a copy of Tales of the Black Freighter for free, and even his cap. The headline he read is "Russians Invade Afghanistan".

Tales of the Black Freighter A young mariner is the sole survivor of a battle with pirates and wakes up on a deserted island where dead bodies are piled next to him. The mariner recalls the disaster of the attack and about thinks about the pirates of the "black freighter" bearing down on his home and his unsuspecting family. He then begin the arduous task of burying his shipmates throughout the entire day.

UNDER THE HOOD

Chapter V Hollis described the 1950's as cold and bleak, both for himself and for masked adventurers in general. The Minutemen have become irrelevant in society as their exploits were being reported less frequently and treated as a joke. Sally Jupiter have her daughter Laurie in 1949, when her marriage began to deteriorate. Her marriage ended in 1956, and since then Sally has been successful in raising her daughter. The Comedian remained the only member of the Minutemen who has been treated seriously in the eyes of the public partly due to his government connections, and was turning into a patriotic symbol.

During the height of the McCarthy era, the remaining active masked adventurers testified before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, and were forced to reveal their identities. The Comedian was excepted because of his allegiance. This doesn't present any immediate problems for most of the Minutemen, such as Captain Metropolis' outstanding military record and Hollis' service in the police force. But Mothman met with more difficulty due to his associations with left-wing friends during his student days. He was eventually cleared, but the investigations were both lengthy and ruthless, and Hollis speculates that the pressure may have prompted his drinking problem that later contributed to his mental ill-health.

Hooded Justice remained the only masked adventurer who refused to testified, on the grounds that he was not prepared to reveal his true identity to anyone. When pressed, he vanished. Hollis presumed that the Hooded Justice retire rather than revealing his identity. But almost a year after Hooded Justice vanished, the New Frontiersmen publish an article about the disappearance of a circus strongman named Rolf Muller, who quit his job at the height of the Senate Subcommittee hearings. Three months later, a badly decomposed body was found washed up on the coast of Boston. The body was identified as Muller's that was shot through the head. The article further stated that Muller, whose family was East German, had been on the run for fear of being uncovered during the Communist witch hunts, and implied that Muller was executed by his Communist superiors. Hollis speculated that Muller and Hooded Justice are the same person, but find this troubling to accept his fellow costume fighter was a spy, and leaving him to wonder who had killed them. This has took Hollis a long time to realize to accept it as a mystery.

Another problem that contributed to the downfall of costumed adventurers was the absence of costumed criminals. These criminals turned in their costumes along with their careers, but some opted for a less extroverted and more profitable approach as "ordinary men in business suits" who ran drug and prostitution rackets.

By March of 1960, Doctor Manhattan came, whose presence make the term "masked hero" and "costume adventurer" obsolete. Hollis recalled how the public reacted with feelings of disbelief of an actual superhuman being with incredible powers. The presence of Manhattan made Hollis to conclude that the regular heroes are replaced. In the closing months of 1958, Ozymandias first appear after busting a major opium and heroin smuggling racket, and earned a reputation amongst the criminal fraternity for his boundless and implacable intelligence and a large degree of athletic prowess.

Hollis first met Manhattan and Ozymandias during a Red Cross relief in June of 1960. His encounter with Manhattan was described as a strange experience which lasts for a short time until it almost seems normal. It was then that Hollis decided to retire his heroics and opened his own auto repair business. Soon, he was visited by a young admirer who proposed to borrow his identity as the new Nite Owl. After visiting his admirer's home and seeing his technology that will be use on the war on crime, Hollis permitted. Hollis also learned of Sally Jupiter's daughter, who was also carrying on her mother's legacy. Hollis conclude that the super-hero has become a part of American life for better, or for worse.

REVIEW

Tales of the Black Freighter is still the thing about Watchmen that I don’t like. I understand “why it’s there”, but it doesn’t make it more entertaining to me.

There is one thing that I can take home of that, and it’s the relationship between the news vendor and the young reader. When I started reading comics, newsstands was the only accessible place for kids to get them. As a result, you would cultivate some sort of friendship with your local news vendor. That is very similar to what we’ll see during Watchmen. It is interesting that this comic book came out through the direct market (I assume because of its content, quality and lack of bar code), so that relationship is a bit ironic.

Narration in this issue is sometimes coming from a comic-book, and other times it’s other people’s dialogues. Usually when people talk, we see something that tends of be the opposite of what they’re saying.

This is the first time we see full frontal nudity in the comic. According to the annotated version, this may very well be the first time in a mainstream comic-book... but I hardly doubt that. Even for mainstream, this is 1986.

To be continued...

[kevindurkiin]

Samba, The Easy Way

VA – Samba, The Easy Way (2017)

01 Tony Hatch & The Satin Brass – Latin Satin (2:57) 02 I Marc 4 – Momenti D’Estate (2:23) 03 Das Orchester Peter Jacques – Avenida Copacabana (2:03) 04 Andre Penazzi – Samba Da Madrugada (3:11) 05 Dick Hyman – Jazz ‚N‘ Samba (2:38) 06 Wojchiech Karolak & Zbigniew Kalemba – Samba (2:55) 07 Gianni Oddi – Una Giornata A Rio (2:21) 08 Lado’s Latin Combination – Chucito (2:22) 09 Orchester Dave Martin – Verena (3:24) 10 The Fritz Maldener Orchestra – Pernambuco Samba (2:01) 11 Heinz Kiessling – Strange Feeling (2:20) 12 Bud Sherman And His Music – Black Pepper (2:25) 13 Helmut Zacharias – Lion’s Samba (2:41) 14 Harry West And Strings – Brazil-Strings (2:47) 15 Rolf-Hans Muller – Viva La Samba (2:50) 16 Rolf Ericson – Maids Of Balboa (2:43) 17 Luis Faraz‘ Tropical Band – Samba Tamba (2:31) 18 Orchester Henry Monza – Purling Spring (2:24)

Samba, The Easy Way published first on https://soundwizreview.tumblr.com/

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Watchmen Timeline Explained

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We've made a complete and chronological timeline of the events of Watchmen, from the original book to the HBO show. It...wasn't easy.

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This article contains nothing but spoilers for Watchmen, both the book and the HBO series.

HBO’s Watchmen is non-linear and occasionally confusing (or “infuriating” as Dr. Manhattan puts it) in its use of time. The book from which it draws inspiration is similarly non-linear and occasionally confusing in its use of time. To make matters even trickier, the show expands upon and even retcons events that take place or are alluded to in the book.

So what’s a fan to do? Why, make a complete and chronological Watchmen timeline, of course! That’s a perfectly sane and normal activity for any well-adjusted adult, and it certainly didn’t give me any severe migraines or make me question my own perception of time at any point. Nope. None at all.

read more - Watchmen: Unanswered Questions We Have From the Finale

To compile this complete Watchmen timeline, I only used stated dates from the book by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, dates and events from the show itself, dates noted in HBO’s official supplemental materials, Peteypedia, and the occasional date from actual real life (for example, the birth of lawman Bass Reeves). I don’t consider DC’s Before Watchmen prequels canon (and apparently neither does this show) but I DID cheat and use dates from some long out-of-print Watchmen roleplaying game supplements that Alan Moore consulted on to date a couple of events from the book. 

Now, let's get to work...

July 1838 - Bass Reeves born.

1908 - Nelson Gardner (Captain Metropolis) born.

1915 - Will Reeves born.

1918 - Obie Williams, Will Reeves’ father and the great-grandfather of Angela Abar, serves during World War I. It’s here he picks up (and keeps) a German propaganda flier indicating that there’s more racial equality in Germany than there is in the United States. He carries it with him until passing it on to Will.

May 25, 1921 - Trust in the Law, a silent movie about Bass Reeves, premieres.

May 31 - June 1, 1921 - The Tulsa Race Massacre takes place. Will Reeves and June Abar escape Tulsa.

1936 - Hans Osterman takes his son Jon from Germany to England to escape the rise of the Nazis. There they stay with other refugees in an English manor home, sheltered by a kind young couple, who later inspire Dr. Manhattan to create life in their image.

Nelson Gardner honorably discharged from the Marines.

1938 - Will Reeves (Hooded Justice) and Hollis Mason (Nite Owl I) graduate from the New York Police Academy.

Spring 1938 - Action Comics #1, the first appearance of Superman is published. Will Reeves and others take notice. The arrival of superheroes as a publishing phenomenon inspires a number of people to put on costumes and fight crime. Ironically, the presence of real world superheroes ends up killing them as a viable genre in comic books, where other genres such as pirate stories instead become dominant in the form and pop culture.

Oct. 1938 - After intervening in a mugging after he had been the victim of a racist attack by his police office colleagues, Will Reeves makes his costumed debut as Hooded Justice.

1939 - Hollis Mason debuts as Nite Owl. The Silhouette, The Comedian, Silk Spectre I, Captain Metropolis, Dollar Bill, and Mothman, all inspired by the exploits of Hooded Justice and Nite Owl, make their crimefighting debut shortly after. 

July 2, 1939 - Adrian Veidt born.

Mid 1939 - The Minutemen form.

March 21, 1940 - Walter Joseph Kovacs (Rorschach) born.

Oct. 2, 1940 - Edward Blake sexually assaults Sally Jupiter (Silk Spectre I) after a meeting of the Minutemen. Hooded Justice intervenes and severely beats Blake. Blake is expelled from the Minutemen shortly after.

1942 - Nelson Gardner (Captain Metropolis) puts crime fighting career on hold to serve in the Marines during World War II. The Comedian joins the war effort, beginning a long career as a government agent and super soldier.

Sept. 18, 1942 - Dan Dreiberg (Nite Owl II) born.

Aug. 7, 1945 - Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Jon Osterman’s life path changes from being a watchmaker to a nuclear physicist.

1946 - Minutemen member The Silhouette is outed as a lesbian in the press, kicked off the team, and subsequently murdered by an old enemy.

1947 - Sally Jupiter quits Silk Spectre career.

1948 - Sally Jupiter and Edward Blake conceive Laurie Juspeczyk (FBI Agent Laurie Blake on the show) in a secret, consensual sexual encounter.

Autumn, 1948 - Jon Osterman accepted to Princeton.

1949 - Laurie Juspeczyk (FBI Agent Laurie Blake) born, the Minutemen disband.

Dec. 1, 1949 - Judd Crawford born.

1952 - Will Reeves (Hooded Justice) uncovers the Cyclops mass hypnosis plot and executes several of their members. 

1954 - The remaining members of the Minutemen are called before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee and asked to reveal their identities in testimony. Hooded Justice disappears after refusing to reveal his identity to HUAC.

1955 - Circus strongman Rolf Muüller found dead. While this fact was never made public, Muller was murdered by Edward Blake, who believed him to be Hooded Justice, in an act of revenge for the beating he received at HJ’s hands in 1940.

J. David Keene gifts Judd Crawford’s father with a replica of George Catlin’s painting, “Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship.”

1956 - Sally Jupiter divorces Laurence Schexnayder. Adrian Veidt begins traveling the world and preparing for his crime fighting career.

1958 - Adrian Veidt makes costumed debut as Ozymandias.

Spring 1958 - Jon Osterman graduates Princeton with a PhD in Atomic Physics.

May 12, 1959 - Jon Osterman begins work at Gila Flats, site of the intrinsic field generator, and meets Janey Slater.

August 1959 - Jon Osterman trapped in Intrinsic Field Generator and torn to atoms.

November 1959 - Jon Osterman “returns” as Dr. Manhattan after reassembling his physical form on the atomic level.

March 2, 1960 - Dr. Manhattan’s existence revealed to the world.

May 1960 - DC Comics begins publishing Tales of the Black Freighter, a pirate comic by Max Shea and Joe Orlando.

June 17, 1960 - Dr. Manhattan meets Adrian Veidt (Ozymandias) for the first time.

May 16, 1962 - Nite Owl I (Hollis Mason) retires.

1963 - Under the Hood, Hollis Mason’s memoir about the Minutemen and his time as Nite Owl is published. Among other things, this popularizes the (incorrect) theory that Rolf Müller was actually Hooded Justice.

March 20, 1964 - Walter Joseph Kovacs begins crimefighting as Rorschach

1965 - Rorschach partners with Nite Owl II

April 14, 1966 - Nelson Gardner (Captain Metropolis) tries and fails to put together a new superhero team, the Crimebusters. Dr. Manhattan first meets Laurie Juspeczyk. Laurie first meets Edward Blake.

May 1966 - Dr. Manhattan begins romantic relationship with Laurie Juspeczyk (Silk Spectre II).

Aug. 26, 1966 - Janey Slater leaves Dr. Manhattan after learning of his affair with Laurie Juspeczyk.

1967 - Adrian Veidt exposes “a plot by rogue right wing extremists in the US military to test biological weapons on the citizens of Nairobi and the surrounding areas.”

1968 - Adrian Veidt begins formulating his master plan to bring about world peace.

March 1971 - Dr. Manhattan intervenes in Vietnam and meets Edward Blake.

June 1971 - The United States declares victory in Vietnam, marking the first VVN night. Edward Blake murders a vietnamese woman carrying his child while Dr. Manhattan stands by and does nothing.

1972 - Fogdancing by Max Shea, an important and influential work of literature in the Watchmen universe, is published.

Aug. 9, 1974 - Nelson Gardner killed in automobile accident in New York City.

1975 - Constitutional amendment abolishing Presidential term limits passed, allowing Richard Nixon to seek re-election. Ozymandias retires and reveals his identity to the public. Rorchach’s activities become more brutal in the wake of a kidnapping case he solved.

March 3, 1975 - Will Reeves is presented with the contents of Nelson Gardner’s will in New York City. Will Reeves is working at a movie theater in Harlem at the time.

1976 - Judd Crawford marries Jane Lestley. Angela Abar born.

Nov. 22, 1976 - Calvin Jelani born.

June 1977 - A superhero exploitation movie called Sister Night is released in Vietnam. It would later go on to influence young Angela Abar.

Aug. 3, 1977 - Nationwide police strike and civil unrest leads to the passage of the Keene Act, outlawing masked vigilante activity. While Silk Spectre and Nite Owl II retire in light of the new law, Rorschach refuses.

1979 - The Comedian frees American and Canadian hostages from Iranian “anti-Manhattanite extremists.”

1980 - Judd Crawford joins the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Department

Early October 1985 - Edward Blake (The Comedian) drunkenly confesses to Edgar William Jacobi (Moloch) the details he has learned of Adrian Veidt’s plan.

Oct. 12, 1985 - Edward Blake (The Comedian) is murdered by Adrian Veidt (Ozymandias). Rorschach begins an investigation and notifies Dan Dreiberg (Nite Owl II) of Blake’s death.

Oct. 13, 1985 - Rorchach notifies Adrian Veidt, Laurie Juspeczyk, and Dr. Manhattan of Blake’s death.

Oct. 16, 1985 - Edward Blake’s funeral.

Oct. 19, 1985 - Dr. Manhattan leaves Earth for Mars, a result of continued public pressure after information planted by Adrian Veidt leads the world to believe that Dr. Manhattan’s presence causes cancer.

Oct. 20, 1985 - Russia invades Afghanistan, bringing the world to the brink of World War III.

Oct. 21, 1985 - Rorschach arrested for violating the Keene Act, framed for the murder of Edgar William Jacobi (Moloch).

Oct. 28, 1985 - Nite Owl and Silk Spectre II return to active duty as costumed adventurers to rescue people from a burning building in lower Manhattan.

Oct. 31, 1985 - Nite Owl and Silk Spectre II break Rorschach out of jail. Hollis Mason (Nite Owl I) is murdered by a gang of Knot-Tops who believe that he’s the same Nite Owl responsible for breaking Rorschach out of prison.

Nov. 1, 1985 - Nite Owl and Rorschach head to Karnak, the Antarctic retreat of Ozymandias, to confront Adrian Veidt about his plans. 

On Mars, Laurie Juspeczyk convinces Dr. Manhattan to intervene on behalf of  humanity, and learns the truth about her parentage. 

Lady Trieu conceived when her mother artificially inseminates herself with Veidt’s genetic material.

Fogancing author Max Shea, and anyone who can connect Adrian Veidt to 11/2 is killed. Rorschach’s journal is delivered to the New Frontiersman offices.

Nov. 2, 1985 - 3 million killed in New York City after Veidt teleports a giant, telepathic, genetically engineered squid into midtown Manhattan. The ensuing chaos averts World War III and ushers in a new era of global cooperation. Intermittent squid rains begin shortly after.

Across the Hudson River in Hoboken, NJ, young Wade Tillman survives the psychic shockwave unleashed by the squid, and is severely traumatized, putting him on a path that leads to him becoming Detective Looking Glass back home in Tulsa, OK.

Rorschach killed by Dr. Manhattan. 

Dr. Manhattan leaves Earth for Europa, begins terraforming the planet and creating life.

December 1985 - Dan Dreiberg and Laurie Juspeczyk assume new identities as Sam and Sandra Hollis. At some point in the next few years, Dan founds Merlincorp and begins providing Nite Owl technology to police departments.

July 1986 - Lady Trieu born.

Mar. 21, 1986 - New Frontiersman begins printing excerpts from Rorschach’s Journal. They’re widely dismissed as the ravings of a crank, and the general public doesn’t believe Adrian Veidt had anything to do with the events of 11/2/85.

c.1988 - Richard Nixon dies in office. Gerald Ford takes over as President.

1992 - Robert Redford defeats Gerald Ford to become the new President of the United States.

Jan. 21, 1993 - Robert Redford sworn in as President, and learns the truth about Adrian Veidt’s involvement in 11/2 via a videotaped confession.

1993 - The Tech Recall and Reintroduction Act is passed, “reintroducing technologies once deemed unsafe or illegal back into the public space” after the paranoia brought on by the events of 11/2. 

c. 1994 - Steven Spielberg releases Pale Horse, a movie about the events of 11/2/1985.

April 19, 1995 - Dan Dreiberg and Laurie Juspeczyk arrested for violations of the Keene Act, in the process of stopping Timothy McVeigh from carrying out the Oklahoma City bombing.

April 28, 1995 - Merlincorp, the technology company owned and operated by Dan Dreiberg and that provides police with crimefighting tech (and Laurie with that crazy Dr. Manhattan dildo), is raided by the FBI. 

1999 - Veidt Enterprises licenses cloning technology. Eventually Lady Trieu uses this technology to clone her mother, Bian.

2004 - Judd Crawford becomes a detective in the Tulsa PD.

2007 - Adrian Veidt’s final public appearance, accepting Kenya’s highest civilian honor, the Chief of the Order of the Golden Heart. Trieu Pharmaceuticals launches Nostalgia.

2008  - The Victims of Racial Violence Act, known by some as “Redfordations” passed.

Lady Trieu first confronts Adrian Veidt in Karnak about her identity and her plans to surpass his accomplishments and make the world a better place.

June 2009 - Dr. Manhattan meets Angela Abar in Mr. Eddy’s bar on VVN Night. Several weeks later, he takes the form of the deceased Calvin Jelani.

Dec. 13, 2009 - Dr. Manhattan, in the form of Calvin Jelani, visits Adrian Veidt in Karnak. Veidt gives Dr. Manhattan a device that will neutralize his powers and his memories so he can live a normal life with Angela Abar. 

Dr. Manhattan sends Adrian Veidt to Europa, the moon of Jupiter where he has been creating life.

Dr. Manhattan meets with Will Reeves.

With the onset of his Veidt-assisted amnesia, Dr. Manhattan “officially” assumes the identity of Calvin Jelani, after taking his form for several months prior.

2010 - Trieu Industries begins launching space probes.

Dec. 13, 2010 - Adrian Veidt celebrates his first anniversary on Europa.

Dec. 13, 2011 - Adrian Veidt celebrates second anniversary on Europa. To celebrate, he puts on a play dramatizing how Jon Osterman became Dr. Manhattan.

2012 - Adrian Veidt declared missing on Earth.

Dec. 13, 2012 - Adrian Veidt “celebrates” his third anniversary on Europa and begins formulating his plan to escape. He runs afoul of the mysterious Game Warden.

2013 - Adrian Veidt uses the bodies of his servants to spell out the words “Save me daughter” on the surface of Europa, just in time for one of Trieu Industries’ space probes to fly by and see it. Shortly after, Veidt is put on trial by the inhabitants of Europa for attempting to escape. 

read more: Watchmen Finale Explained

2015 - The trial of Adrian Veidt concludes, and he is sent to prison.

Dec. 24, 2016 - The White Night. “Mike” a member of the 7th Kavalary is mysteriously teleported to Gila Flats during his attack on the Abar residence, raising suspicions that Dr. Manhattan is alive and well and living in Tulsa.

2017 - Trieu Industries acquires Veidt Enterprises. Angela Abar adopts the identity of Sister Night in order to continue her police work. A Trieu Industries spacecraft lands on Europa to collect Adrian Veidt and bring him back to Earth.

2018 - Judd Crawford becomes chief of police in Tulsa. Lady Trieu breaks ground on the Millennium Clock.

Sept. 9, 2019 - Adrian Veidt officially declared presumed dead. John Grisham retires from the Supreme Court.

Sept. 16, 2019 - Judd Crawford dies. This is where the events that take place in the present day on the show begin, and they take place over the span of three weeks. 

Mike Cecchini is the Editor in Chief of Den of Geek. You can read more of his work here. Follow him on Twitter @wayoutstuff.

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WARNING: The following contains spoilers for the second episode of HBO's Watchmen, "Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship," which premiered …

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Posters for today’s NOIR CITY 15 screenings. Two double features of heist classics. www.NoirCity.com

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KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL

1:30 PM

Pity poor ex-con Joe Rolfe (John Payne). Trying to walk the straight and narrow, he winds up playing the patsy in a devilishly conceived million-dollar bank robbery. Desperate, he trails the thieves south of the border. There, he tangles with tough guys Neville Brand and Lee Van Cleef, who are as deep in the dark as he is, and falls for good girl Coleen Gray—under the suspicious eye of her cop father (Preston Foster). The first pairing of noir dream team Payne and director Phil Karlson (99 River Street) remains one of the great capers of the 1950s. Presented in 35mm

USA, 1952. United Artists [Park Circus]. 99 min.Screenplay by George Bruce and Harry Essex, story by Harold Greene and Rowland Brown Produced by Edward Small. Directed by Phil Karlson

VIOLENT SATURDAY

3:30 PM

A trio of bandits (Lee Marvin, Stephen McNally, J. Carrol Naish) holes up in an Arizona mining burg, scheming to knock over the bank as the town's oblivious residents go about lives filled with bad habits, bad reputations, and bad romances. Every plotline converges in this one-of-a-kind fusion of pulp fiction and Douglas Sirk-style melodrama, effortlessly balanced by director Fleischer and shot in gorgeously lush Cinemascope. Don't miss your chance to see this small-town powder keg explode on the big screen. Presented digitally

USA, 1955. 20th Century-Fox. 90min. Screenplay by Sydney Boehm, from the novel by W. L. Heath Produced by Buddy Adler. Directed by Richard Fleischer

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LA CITTÀ SI DIFENDE

7:15 PM

The heist drama, Federico Fellini-style. The Maestro has story and screenplay credit on this nearly forgotten film about a quartet of amateur thieves who successfully execute a daring mid-match robbery at a soccer stadium. They must separate to evade the police, but escaping their personal demons proves far more difficult. A humanist crime thriller that's equal parts film noir and neo-realism, featuring a young Gina Lollobrigida. Germi's dynamic direction earned La città si difende the Best Italian Film award at the 1951 Venice Film Festival. Presented in 35mm

Italy, 1951. Società Italiana Cines. [Cinecittà]. 74 min. Screenplay by Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Giuseppe Mangione, and Pietro Germi, story by Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, and Luigi Comencini Produced by Carlo Civallero. Directed by Pietro Germi

BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET

I SOLITI IGNOTI

9:00 PM

A comedy classic that sends up both caper films and neo-realist cinema while being a joy on its own terms. Small-time crooks in Rome join forces to rob a government-run pawn shop, but multiple mishaps and their own boisterous lives may prevent them from carrying out their half-baked scheme. With turns from some of the great names of Italian cinema—Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Claudia Cardinale, Renato Salvatori—forget the remakes and feast on the original! Presented digitally

Screenplay by Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Mario Monicelli Story by Agenore Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli, from a short story by Italo Calvino Produced by Franco Cristaldi. Directed by Mario Monicelli

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Soikeo.info cập nhật:  Havertz - Kỉ lục      gia trẻ tuổi và hy vọng của người Đức

                                                                         Mặc dù mới 20 tuổi nhưng Kai  Havertz đã có gần 150 trận đấu cho Leverkusen trên mọi đấu trường. Tiền vệ  này đã thiết lập nhiều kỉ lục và được coi là niềm hy vọng lớn của bóng đá Đức.             

 CẢM HỨNG TỪ NGƯỜI ÔNG

 Kai Havertz sinh ra và lớn lên ở Aachen, thành phố nằm gần biên  giới với Bỉ và Hà Lan. Cậu bé không phải con nhà nòi bởi bố là nhân viên cảnh  sát, còn mẹ là luật sư. Khá thú vị là Havertz đến với bóng đá nhờ sự dìu dắt  của người ông.

 "Ông của tôi muốn tôi theo nghiệp bóng đá. Ông giúp tôi  ngay từ những bước đi đầu tiên. Bố và anh tôi cũng tạo cơ hội để tôi chơi  bóng từ rất sớm. Gia đình của tôi rất cuồng bóng đá. Tôi lớn lên như vậy và  nó đã trở thành niềm đam mê không rõ từ lúc nào", Havertz nói về quyết định  theo nghiệp cầu thủ.

 Ông của Havertz, Richard từng là Chủ tịch của một CLB nghiệp dư  có tên là Alemannia Mariadorf. Vì vậy, khi mới lên 4 tuổi, Havertz đã gia nhập  CLB này. Cũng từ đó, cậu bé được huấn luyện và đào tạo bài bản. Havertz nhớ lại  "Mọi người thường nói rằng tôi có tiềm năng để trở thành ngôi sao. Nhưng  khi đó, tôi còn quá nhỏ. Tôi cần 10-12 năm nữa để có cơ hội thi đấu ở  Bundesliga"..

 Sau nhiều năm tập luyện và thi đấu cùng nhóm cầu thủ lớn hơn tại  Mariadorf, Havertz đã gia nhập Alemannia Aachen vào năm 2009 (khi mới 10 tuổi).  Đây là CLB lớn nhất ở Aachen khi đó. Lúc ấy, đội bóng này đang chơi ở giải hạng  2 Đức và cũng là CLB mà Havertz rất yêu mến.

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Tuy vậy, Havertz cũng chỉ có 1 năm gắn bó với Alemannia Aachen.  Lý do là cậu bé chơi quá tốt, đã lọt vào tầm ngắm của nhiều tuyển trạch viên.  Leverkusen đã mê mẩn Havertz sau trận đấu với Aachen và quyết định thâu n���p  tài năng nhí này. Các tuyển trạch viên của sân Bay Arena không mất nhiều thời  gian để đánh giá đây là tài năng rất triển vọng. 

 "Kai lúc đó đang chơi cho đội U12 của Alemannia Aachen. Cậu  ta trẻ hơn các cầu thủ khác và gặp đội U12 của chúng tôi (Leverkusen). Tôi  không nhớ chính xác trận đấu kết thúc với tỉ số bao nhiêu, hình như là 8-3  cho Leverkusen. Nhưng tôi nhớ Kai đã ghi cả 3 bàn thắng cho Aachen. Đó là ấn  tượng đầu tiên của tôi về cậu bé này", Slawomir Czarniecki, HLV đội trẻ  của Leverkusen nói về Havertz.

 Ngay trong mùa hè năm 2010, ở tuổi 11, Kai Havertz đã gia nhập  Leverkusen và được tiếp tục đào tạo ở các đội trẻ. Đó là giai đoạn đầy thử  thách với Havertz bởi cậu bé có thân hình mảnh khảnh và nhỏ bé hơn rất nhiều  so với các đồng đội.

 "Ở tuổi 14-15, tôi vẫn là một trong những cầu thủ nhỏ nhất  đội. Sau đó, tôi bắt đầu thấy sự phát triển mạnh mẽ. Tôi quen với việc chân  mình dài hơn. Nó có tác động lớn tới cách chơi bóng. Ở đội U15-16, tôi gặp  nhiều khó khăn, thậm chí thường xuyên phải ngồi dự bị. Tuy nhiên, tôi vẫn  kiên nhẫn chờ đợi cơ hội để thể hiện", Havertz nhớ lại những ngày ở đội  trẻ Leverkusen.

 KỈ LỤC GIA TRẺ TUỔI

 Nhờ sự phát triển chiều cao, Havertz đã dần khẳng định được tên  tuổi ở đội trẻ Leverkusen. Vào năm 2016, cậu bé đã ghi được 18 bàn thắng  trong 26 trận, giúp U17 Leverkusen giành chức vô địch U17 Đức. Cũng trong năm  đó, Havertz được vinh danh với tấm HCB Fritz Walter, giải thưởng được trao  cho các tài năng trẻ sáng giá nhất của bóng đá Đức.

 Với dấu ấn tạo ra ở U17 Leverkusen, Havertz đã lọt danh sách  tham dự VCK U17 châu Âu 2016 cùng U17 Đức. Ở giải đấu đó, cậu bé tham dự cả 5  trận đấu, ghi được 1 bàn thắng. Chỉ tiếc rằng U17 Đức đã bị U17 Tây Ban Nha  loại ở bán kết.

 Nhưng sau đó không lâu, Kai Havertz đã được gọi lên đội 1  Leverkusen. Cậu bé hẳn không thể quên ngày đầu tiên được luyện tập cùng đội  hình 1 khi đứng cạnh những tên tuổi như Kevin Volland, Chicharito, Hakan  Calhanoglu hay Karim Bellarabi. Havertz thừa nhận "Tất cả họ đều nhìn  tôi như một đứa con nít". HLV Roger Schmidt đã chia làm 2 đội (mỗi đội 6  người) để đá tập. Và rồi cậu bé đã khiến tất cả phải chú ý.

 "Tôi đã ghi bàn, rất nhiều bàn. Tôi nhận ra các cầu thủ đó  không hơn tôi là bao. Tôi có thể chơi cùng họ. Sự tự tin giúp tôi rất nhiều.  Đó là khoảnh khắc đầu tiên tôi nhận ra rằng mình có thể làm những điều lớn  lao", Havertz nhớ lại.

 Vào ngày 15/10/2016, Havertz đã được trao cơ hội ra mắt  Leverkusen khi vào sân thay Charles Aranguiz ở trận gặp Werder Bremen. Khi  đó, cậu bé trở thành cầu thủ trẻ nhất ra mắt Bundesliga của Leverkusen (17 tuổi  126 ngày).

 Mặc dù còn rất trẻ nhưng Havertz đã tham dự 28 trận đấu cùng  Leverkusen ở mùa giải 2016-17. Tài năng trẻ này cũng ghi dấu ấn với 4 bàn thắng  và 6 đường kiến tạo. Nói về Havertz, tiền đạo của Leverkusen, Kevin Volland  nhận xét "Cậu ta rất điềm tĩnh và có kĩ thuật tuyệt vời. Tôi đã thấy sự  trưởng thành của cậu ấy kể từ khi gia nhập CLB. Đó là sự tiến bộ rất đáng  kinh ngạc. Rất nhanh, cậu ấy đã trở thành nhân tố đặc biệt quan trọng của  chúng tôi".

 Điều khá thú vị là trong khi khoác áo đội 1 Leverkusen, Kai  Havertz vẫn theo học ở trường cấp 2. Tài năng trẻ này từng phải bỏ nhiều trận  đấu để chuẩn bị cho các kì thi, trong đó có trận đấu với Atletico Madrid ở  vòng 1/8 Champions League.

 Qua các mùa giải, Havertz đã thể hiện sự trưởng thành nhanh  chóng. Ở mùa giải 2018-19, tài năng trẻ này thậm chí còn tham dự đầy đủ 34 trận  ở Bundesliga và ghi tới 17 bàn thắng. Khi ấy, Havertz mới 19 tuổi. Anh cũng  trở thành cầu thủ trẻ nhất cán mốc 30 bàn thắng ở Bundesliga và là người trẻ  nhất cán mốc 100 trận ở giải đấu số 1 nước Đức.

 HY VỌNG CỦA NGƯỜI ĐỨC

 ĐT Đức đã gây thất vọng lớn ở VCK World Cup 2018. Họ tham dự giải  đấu với mục tiêu bảo vệ ngai vàng nhưng đã phải ra về ngay sau vòng đấu bảng.  Từ thất bại hổ thẹn này, HLV Joachim Low đã quyết định cải tổ lực lượng theo  hướng trẻ hóa. Gần như ngay lập tức, Kai Havertz được triệu tập. Anh đã ra mắt  Mannschaft ở trận giao hữu với Peru hồi tháng 9/2018.

 Từ đó tới nay, Havertz đã có thêm 6 trận đấu khoác áo ĐT Đức và  ghi được 1 bàn thắng. Đây là 1 trong những điểm nhấn tạo ra sự tươi mới cho  Mannschaft sau thất bại hổ thẹn ở VCK World Cup 2018.

Havertz sở hữu rất nhiều phẩm chất để trở thành ngôi sao tấn  công hoàn hảo. Ngoài chiều cao ấn tượng (1,89m), tiền vệ này còn chơi tốt bằng  cả 2 chân và sở hữu kĩ thuật điêu luyện. Với những đường chuyền sắc sảo,  Havertz từng được sánh với Mesut Ozil. Mặc dù khá cao nhưng tài năng trẻ này  lại có tốc độ rất ấn tượng, có thể đạt vận tốc 35km/h. Đấy là những phẩm chất  ít xuất hiện đồng thời ở một cầu thủ.

 Ở Leverkusen, Giám đốc thể thao Simon Rolfes thậm chí còn coi  Havertz là "DNA của đội bóng". Ông đã sánh Havertz với nhiều ngôi  sao thành danh trước đây của sân Bay Arena như Dimitar Berbatov, Michael  Ballack, Son Heung-Min hay Arturo Vidal...

 Huyền thoại Rudi Voller của bóng đá Đức đã nói về Havertz “Cậu ấy  là của hiếm của bóng đá Đức, trăm năm có một”. Đấy là nhận định không hẳn  không có cơ sở bởi hiện tại, tài năng trẻ 20 tuổi này đang được rất nhiều ông  lớn theo đuổi. Nhiều chuyên gia nhận định Havertz có mức phí chuyển nhượng  không dưới 100 triệu euro. Trong lịch sử, mới chỉ có 7 cầu thủ vượt qua cột mốc  này về giá trị chuyển nhượng.

 ĐT Đức đang ở giai đoạn chuyển giao lực lượng. Thế hệ của những  Ozil, Muller, Kroos đang dần nhường chỗ cho lớp tài năng mới. Trong đó, Kai  Havertz được xem là niềm hy vọng lớn nhất. Sẽ không bất ngờ nếu tài năng trẻ  này trở thành nhân vật của các giải đấu lớn sắp tới như VCK EURO 2020 hay  World Cup 2022...

     Nổi muộn hơn lứa thế hệ của  Công Phượng nhưng Hùng Dũng lại trưởng thành nhanh chóng nhờ nỗ lực không ngừng.  Có thể xem đây là hình mẫu cho lứa thế hệ trẻ của bóng đá Việt Nam.  

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Blog post #446 — Concert review, ★★★★, Piano Recital Fabian Müller @ Brugg, 2018-11-03 — Charles Ives: Piano Sonata No.2, "Concord"; Johannes Brahms: 3 Intermezzi, op.117; Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.23 in F minor, op.57, "Appassionata" #rolfsmblog