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Rivers and lakes are polluted as a result of conventional approaches to urban landscaping and stormwater management. Urban areas are covered with hard surfaces – buildings, streets, driveways, walkways, parking lots. Stormwater systems are engineered to facilitate or speed-up runoff (the movement of water over land), leaving a legacy of poor water quality. Health problems related to water pollution in general are estimated to cost Canadians $300 million per year.
Large concentrations of toxic chemicals, such as oil, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and heavy metals, wash from the urban environment into the storm sewer system when it rains or during spring snow melts. Hardened surfaces disrupt the natural water cycle and prevent rain from soaking into the ground, bypassing the natural filtration of soil and vegetation.
It is estimated that combined sewer overflows (where sewer and storm sewer water collection is combined) from cities around the Great Lakes amount to hundreds of billions of litres of raw sewage and stormwater each year. Further, the under-funding of updating and replacement of storm sewers is expected to continue for at least two decades and will continue to contribute to degradation of receiving waters.
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In summary, stormwater runoff impacts water quality and quantity by:
- transporting pollution directly into lakes and rivers;
- eroding shorelines, loss of topsoil that hastens further runoff;
- warming up surface water, making it more susceptible to waterborne bacteria and hazardous to fragile marine life;
- overflowing sewage treatment facilities, allowing untreated human waste to flow directly into surface water; and
- robbing groundwater aquifers(underground storage of water) of adequate recharge (the ability to gather and store water underground) capacity
RAIN: What's the solution?
SLOW IT DOWN: Capture and release rain more slowly. This will reduce the volume entering the stormwater system.
SOAK IT UP: Allow more rain to soak into the ground by installing rain gardens and increasing permeable areas.
KEEP IT CLEAN: Avoid polluting activities (leaving pet waste, cigarette butts, spreading lawn fertilizer, de-icing salts, driveway sealing and carwashing).
- Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, Redefining Conservation: Annual Report 2009/10, Gord Miller, et al. 2010
- EcoJustice Canada (Dr. Elaine MacDonald, Liat Podolsky). GREEN CITIES, GREAT LAKES: Using Green Infrastructure to Reduce Combined Sewer Overflows, 2008
- National Water Research Institute. Threats to Sources of Drinking Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Health in Canada, 2008


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Number | ART 703 |
Title | Teaching Photography in the Middle and High School |
Credits | 3.0 |
Prerequisites | ART326 or equivalent. Permission of instructor and/or acceptance in MAT Art program |
This graduate studio course introduces students to the methods, practices and materials involved in teaching photography at the Middle and High School levels. Both chemical and digital processes will be demonstrated and explored. Darkroom work will include basic black and white printing processes, alternative processes including pinhole photography and hand coated emulsion; digital work will include the basic use of Adobe Photoshop to manipulate images. The use of both film and digital cameras will be explored. This course is an elective for MAT Art students and for continuing education students with permission of instructor. Four scheduled studio hours, plus five open studio hours per week.

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Spright"ly (?), a. [Compar. Sprightlier (?); superl. Sprightliest.] [See Sprite.]
Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance.
The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
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26 comments:
- June said...
Wow again! Do you know the name of this fella? I'm too lazy to look up :-)
- July 17, 2008 at 7:40 AM
- Larry D said...
Beautiful photo and quote. The blue wings are incredible.I think this is a Pipevine Swallowtail.
- July 17, 2008 at 8:28 AM
- Mary said...
What a beautiful butterfly!I was going to ask the name, but see that someone else has identified it. Lovely photo!
- July 17, 2008 at 8:48 AM
- Robert said...
This is yet another fantastic capture. The colors are great. It's so sharp. I love it. And I love your quote to go along with it. Nicely done. :)
- July 17, 2008 at 9:00 AM
- For The People said...
That is a really nice second try. I posted a butterfly yesterday. I got started a little earlier today. Stop by my place if you get a chance. Have a wwonderful day!
- July 17, 2008 at 9:25 AM
- Willard said...
Another wonderful set of photos since I commented last!
I always enjoy visiting your blog and seeing what shots you have captured! - July 17, 2008 at 9:46 AM
- GranmaL said...
That is an amazing picture. The colors are spectacular!
- July 17, 2008 at 9:54 AM
- Old Wom Tigley said...
Hi Kerri
I'm well impressed you you dragon and butterfly pictures,I have never bee able to get a real good shot of any of them. We get a few butterflies and moths around the grden but it seems they are very timid... and Dragon flies more so. - July 17, 2008 at 10:03 AM
- Your EG Tour Guide said...
Beautiful butterfly, Kerri. Very nice photo!
- July 17, 2008 at 10:09 AM
- happyone said...
Such a beauty. Love the colors!!
- July 17, 2008 at 10:28 AM
- dot said...
Perfect capture of a real beauty!
- July 17, 2008 at 11:09 AM
- CG said...
Thanks for sharing this glorious butterfly. Apparently there is a shortage of butterflies in the UK this year :(
- July 17, 2008 at 12:17 PM
- Ms. Math said...
What an incredible butterfly! The blue on the wings is stunning! Another great contribution to project black! (What kind of plant life is in your area that attracts such an array of butterflies?)
- July 17, 2008 at 12:28 PM
- photowannabe said...
You just keep outdoing yourself Kerri. this is beautiful. I wish we had some of those flying around here.
- July 17, 2008 at 2:09 PM
- Jenty said...
Oh wow Kerri, how incredible!
- July 17, 2008 at 2:44 PM
- Paulie said...
O wow! Just when I think you can't find a more gorgeous butterfly, you go and do it! Super wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!
BTW, I left a comment on all the posts down to the last Friday skywatch. Yes, I am finally catching up --it might take time for me some weeks but I eventually get there. - July 17, 2008 at 4:11 PM
- Leora said...
Lovely. How nice that you can use this butterfly for Project Black!
- July 17, 2008 at 5:41 PM
- Becky and Gary said...
Amazing. So beautiful. We don't have many butterflies this year for some reason.
- July 17, 2008 at 6:23 PM
- Laura said...
Stunning butterfly!! Very pretty!!
- July 17, 2008 at 11:38 PM
- Dick said...
What a beautiful color, you did it again, fantastic picture.
- July 18, 2008 at 11:30 AM
- MedaM said...
I've never seen such beautiful blue butterfly in private. It is really lovely with its blue wings. You've done excellent job, indeed.
- July 18, 2008 at 4:25 PM
- Rose said...
Very handsome!
- July 18, 2008 at 5:12 PM
- Louise said...
What a fabulous butterfly and a great capture of it. It almost doesn't look real. Spectacular!
- July 20, 2008 at 1:08 AM
- ellen b said...
this is a fabulous shot for anything including project black!
Have a great week... - July 20, 2008 at 11:27 PM
- Dusty Lens said...
Stunning colors, the black and blue combination, amazing the diversity of life.
- July 21, 2008 at 8:58 AM
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Hinotori (satellite)
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Hinotori (ひのとり ) is the name of the a Japanese artificial satellite which was put into orbit.
The launch was a project of the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of the University of Tokyo.
The satellite was sent into orbit on February 21, 1981.[1]
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The Supreme Court of the United States has granted certiorari in Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi v. IndyMac MBS, Inc., taking up an issue that affects the management of class action securities litigation. Specifically, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that the tolling rule of American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah, 414 U.S. 538 (1974) – tolling statutes of limitations for putative class members upon the commencement of a class action – does not apply to the three-year statute of repose that governs claims under Sections 11, 12(a), and 15 of the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act"). See Police & Fire Ret. Sys. of Detroit v. IndyMac MBS, Inc., 721 F.3d 95 (2d Cir. 2013). The Supreme Court's review of the Second Circuit's holding in IndyMac is likely to resolve an issue on which some courts have disagreed.
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Monday, October 21, 2013
Each heart has some pain
In this world ........
Each heart has some pain...
Simply it differs by the way of expression
Some hide it…..in their eyes
some hide it……in their smiles!
Friday, October 18, 2013
Better to stay alone
Sometimes better to say alone…
Because no one have hurt you when you staying alone
That's why better to be stay alone!!!
Friday, October 11, 2013
Don't wait
Don't wait too late
To propose your love
To your much-loved one
How much you love and feel them.
Because if you lose them
You have No stuff will feel that pain
And your heart will cry loudly
No one won't listening you
So don't wait too late
To showing your true love
To your beloved one!!!!
Thursday, October 10, 2013
My Heart
You are staying in my heart always….
I got all joy happiness in my life with your love
Every moment I am thinking about you
I felt that ache when I'm missing you
When you are staying with me
My inspiration makes me bold and strong
So please never will go without me
And keep staying in my heart always!!
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Don't let go yourself
Don't let go yourself gets angry …
It results…. Make worse your beloved
And your love will end
When you will be wake up from your anger…..
Your beloved one will be gone!
So don't get angry always and care your dear one forever!!!!
Monday, October 7, 2013
Value for that some one
In our life waiting for someone
Is a sign of true love and patience.
Anyone can say I love you to beloved one,
But no one can't wait for that someone
to proving that true love and value for that someone!!!
Pure Love
Pure love Likes a….
Honey of a blossom flower
Buzzing of bumble bee
Warm like ray of morning sunshine
Thoughts in my mind
Breath of my life
Smile on my lips
Twinkle of my eyes
Beat of my heart...
Till my end of that day in my life!
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Fear to Love
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Love More
No one can born in this World
True and perfect always!
If you ignore or hate people
For some silly and simple mistakes
You will be always live alone in this world.
So forgive mistakes and love more!!!
Friday, August 30, 2013
Love At First Sight
Anyone feel or tell how it is possible love at first sight?
Is that such a wonderful feeling possible it?
I have asked that query so many times in my mind,
Before when I met you.
I felt that mysterious and splendid emotion,
When my eyes laid on you.
I grasped that love has no color, time and limits
I implicated that all when I fallen love with you at first sight!!!!
Love Is Everything
"To love someone is nothing,
To be loved by some one is something.
But to be loved by the one you….
Love is everything. "
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Never wait to propose your love
Never wait to propose your love
To someone how much your love them
How much you loving and care about them
Because if they are vanished
They never know about your love
They can't hear your weeping and pains inside your heart
So never wait to propose your true love to your dear ones!!!
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Perfection On Imperfection In Real Love
In reality life true love means
Believe a person with all breakdowns
Stupidities, hideous end and nevertheless…
And make out perfection on imperfection in real love!!!
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Loving someone
The most excellent thing in life is ……..
Loving someone one who knows about your all slips
And failings but still think about you
Own self you are entirely great gift in life!
Friday, May 31, 2013
let them go alone
If their presence can't add value to my life,
Then their absence will make no difference.
so it's better to let them go alone!!!
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Be patient
Be patient Good thing come to those who wait….................
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The most-hated tech firm in the world right now, Carrier IQ, is facing a whirlwind of crticism that its software is being used to log user keystrokes, store text messages, track locations and even record telephone calls on over 141 million devices worldwide. While we wait on an adequate response from the company, Lookout Labs has developed an app that can check to see whether your phone is running the dreaded stalker software. Like getting an STD test, we're guessing a lot of you will want to get the Carrier IQ-test.
To download the app, simply click on the link below. Just to make clear: the app doesn't actually remove Carrier IQ from your phone; it simply checks to see if it is running. Removing Carrier IQ is a potentially tricky act since the software is deeply integrated into handset firmware and requires special device privileges for removal. In other words, don't even try. Hopefully carriers will cave to public pressure and release updates that remove the software in the near future.
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chaotic quanta:
In QUFD Physics, there are two generalized 'locations' where the term applies, although actually both 'locations' are but one and the same 'location'. 'Chaotic quanta' actually 'appear', instantaneously and momentarily, as the 'dynamics' of the nominal 'functioning' of the Incorporeal Condensate of the Upper Mind 'does-it's-thing', with regard to all the 'inputs' that have been 'presented' to the Ground-State of the Condensate. In the processing of such 'dynamics', Order and Chaos are continually reevaluated, producing various instantaneous 'Levels of Order' and 'Levels of Chaos', to be considered further by the 'dynamics'. It is here, to such interim 'Levels of Chaos', that the term may be applied. But also, by extension of the very same 'Level', of either Chaos or Order, such a 'Level' may be repeatably re-generated by the processing 'dynamics', such that the specific instantaneous 'condition', on the Landscape of the Mind, remains for numbers-of-cycles of the processing, a 'condition' that might lead to the onset of 'entropy', with regard to that specific instantaneous 'condition'. It is when such a situation occurs, that the 'refresh process' (via sexuality, both physical and of the Mind and Spirit!) becomes necessary. (See the terms 'refresh rate of the mind' and 'refresh process of the human mind' in this Dictionary.) Also see the term 'quanta' in this Dictionary, for a complete discussion of the term.
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A world class guitar hero, a Grammy nominated songwriter and composer, an international recording artist with over 30 acclaimed solo albums to date, and a soundtrack composer for film and television, GARY LUCAS is on the move in 2017.
Dubbed "The Thinking Man's Guitar Hero" by The New Yorker, "The world's most popular avant-rock guitarist" by The Independent (UK), "One of the 100 Greatest Living Guitarists" (Classic Rock), "Legendary Leftfield guitarist" by The Guardian (UK), "Guitarist of 1000 Ideas" by The New York Times, "a true axe God" by Melody Maker, and "One of the five best guitarists in the world" by the national Czech newspaper Lidove Noviny; the British world music magazine fRoots recently described Gary Lucas as "without question, the most innovative and challenging guitarist playing today." Rolling Stone's David Fricke wrote: "Gary Lucas is one of the best and most original guitarists in America...a modern guitar miracle." Best-selling author/producer Dan Levitin ("This Is Your Brain On Music") recently cited Gary as "the greatest living electric guitarist". Gary was also dubbed "one of the world's greatest guitar players" by HITS Magazine. Pete Frame, music journalist, founder/editor of legendary UK music magazine ZigZag, and author/creator of 5 volumes of "Rock Family Trees" said of Gary, "Can there be another musician as adventurous, ingenious, accomplished, diverse, intrepid, hard-working and well-travelled as Gary Lucas?"
2016 was Gary's best year ever—and 2017 is looking even better yet, with upcoming Gary Lucas album releases including a superb lost Gods and Monsters live album "Find It, Amigo: The Great Lost Gods and Monsters Live Album" on Dot Time; "The World of Captain Beefheart featuring Gary Lucas and Nona Hendryx" (Knitting Factory Records); "Gary and Toni Go Nutz!" (Rare Lumiere), a duo album recorded in Budapest with songs and free improvisation from Gary's Pearly Clouds saxophonist partner; and "Cool Hand Luke", a new Gary Lucas solo acoustic album recorded in Prague and featuring original compositions and Gary's arrangements of Duke Ellington, Leos Janacek, Elmer Bernstein, the Rolling Stones, and much more. On the live front, Gary is starting the year with three NYC based shows, including a high profile appearance performing solo before the UN General Assembly Fri. January 27th as part of their Holocaust Remembrance Day celebrations; the premiere of his new live film score accompanying Orson Welles' silent 1938 surrealist classic "Too Much Johnson" at Roulette Brooklyn; a solo appearance on Valentine's Day Feb. 14th at the Music Hall of Williamsburg as part of a Benefit for Planned Parenthood of NYC; and an upcoming spring European tour with Italian vocalist/collaborator Alessio Franchini as part of Alessio's "A Touch of Grace" Tribute to Jeff Buckley. Gary is also producing a new album up in Oxford England in early Feb. 2017 by UK singer/songwriter Ed Laurie, whose previous work received much airplay in the US on NPR.
2016 saw the release of 3 acclaimed Gary Lucas albums: "Gary Lucas' FLEISCHEREI: Music from Max Fleischer Cartoons" (Cuneiform)—a mixture of Tin Pan Alley, swing and Harlem jungle jazz drawn from the soundtracks of Max Fleischer's early 30's Betty Boop and Popeye Cartoons and featuring Joe Fiedler, Jeff Lederer, Rob Garacia, Michael Bates, and Sarah Stiles. The album was just picked as "One of the Best Albums of 2016" by DownBeat Magazine, and cited as "One of the Best Indie Albums of 2016" by Goldmine Magazine. In 2016 Gary Lucas' FLEISCHEREI performed at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens; the Washington DC Jewish Film Festival at the AFI Silver Theater MD; the Porgy and Bess Jazz Club in Wien; the Boston Jewish Film Festival; at the City Winery NYC and City Winery Chicago seders; and at the City Winery NYC klezmer brunch.
2016 also saw the release of Gary Lucas' PEARLY CLOUDS album (Trapeze), based on traditional Hungarian folk music, featuring saxophonist Toni Dezso and vocalist Eniko Szabo. The album received spectacular reviews including "A record of spiritual longing and timeless musical transcendence" (fROOTS), and "Unusual and compelling listening" (BBC 3).
2016 began with the release of Gary Lucas and Jann Klose's acoustic folk pop album STEREOPTICON (Cosmic Trigger) which received "4 Stars" in MOJO. No Depression wrote: "The harmonies, vocal interactions, and clear precise acoustic guitar provide the listener with enchanting listening."
Other Gary Lucas 2016 highlights included:
The US premiere of his live solo film score accompanying Luis Bunuel's "The Exterminating Angel" (1962) at Pioneer Works in Red Hook Brooklyn 3/18/16, reviewed by jazz critic Jim Macnie
The Brooklyn premiere of his live solo film score accompanying Wu Yonggang's 1934 Chinese silent film "The Goddess" at Pioneer Works Red Hook Brooklyn 7/8/16 reviewed by Richard Porton (Cineaste) and Glenn Kenny (NY Times)
Closing the Jewish Museum of Vienna's "Stars of David" exhibition devoted to Jewish musicians with a solo acoustic concert 10/1/16
Live clip from Gary Lucas' solo concert | Interview with TV 24 Wien
Headlining the Pisa Internet Festival in Italy with a solo acoustic concert at Teatro Lumiere 10/6/16
Performing a solo concert at the Gaia Arts Center Havana Cuba with special guest vocalist Danae Villanueva Blanco 5/18/16
Live clip from Gaia | Preview of Lucas' concert in Cuban national newspaper Granma
Giving a Guitar Masterclass and seminar on the craft of songwriting at the Amsterdam Musik Conservatorium 12/7-12/8/2016
Giving a Guitar Masterclass and a solo concert for disadvantaged children at the Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin in Mexico City by invitation of the US Embassy Mexico 11/9/16
Performing a solo concert plus a reunion with musicians from the Czech underground (Plastic People of the Universe, DG 307 and Urfaust) at Blues Bahnhof Prague 12/10/16
Performing a 30's Chinese pop tribute with longtime collaborator Sally Kwok at the Peace Hotel Shanghai for the 30th anniversary of Sally Kwok and Andrew Bull 11/3/16
Performing at the "Hendrix in Harlem" Tribute at the Apollo Theater with Fishbone, Nona Hendryx, Ernie Isley and others 11/26/16
Gary Lucas and Jeff Buckley's version of Bob Dylan's "Farewell Angelina" featured on the soundtrack of Cameron Crowe's Showtime series "Roadies" 7/3/16
2015 was also one of Lucas' best years ever—finishing with a bang in Mexico City Dec. 8th where Lucas performed for the second year in a row by invitation of the U.S. Embassy at the Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin, as part of their Music Outreach Program for disadvantaged children. Earlier this year, Gary performed a similar concert for disadvantaged children in Sotogrande Spain.
Gary's appearance in Mexico City was directly on the heels of his 4 nights as Artist in Residence at Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool England, where Lucas performed 6 different solo projects, including his new Jeff Buckley Symposium and his live solo guitar score accompanying the 1931 horror classic "Frankenstein".
Gary made three separate solo tours of Italy in 2015 through the auspices of Luca Zannotti and Musiche Metropolitane, where his profile continues to rise.
These included a marathon 2 1/2 hour acoustic solo concert in Venice in December, an appearance at legendary Italian singer/songwriter Vinicio Caposella's "Moon in June Festival" in Umbria on his birthday June 20th, and multiple performances in Bologna, Milan, Asti, Livorno, Milano and other cities with his friend Italian singer/songwriter Alessio Franchini—including Alessio's "Touch of Grace" Tribute to Jeff Buckley at the Teatro della Luna in Milano in March. There was much attendant Italian media exposure, including La Stampa TV, Italian national newspaper La Republicca, and a televised performance with many noted Italian artists on the famous Italian music program "Red Ronnie Live at the Roxy Bar".
Lucas also received two major awards in Italy this year—a Lifetime Achievement Award presented to him in December at the Premio Ciampi Festival in Tuscany, named for legendary Italian songwriter Piero Ciampi. In March, Gary received the U.S. Consul General's Award for Cultural Diplomacy at a private party in his honor held in Milan at the residence of U.S. Consul General Philip T. Reeker, with invited guests including the editor of Italian Rolling Stone.
Other 2015 highlights included Gary leading his longtime supergroup Gods and Monsters as Music Director of "A State of Grace", a multi-artist tribute to both Tim and Jeff Buckley Down Under, which saw Gary perform with singer/songwriter Martha Wainwright, Steve Kilbey (The Church), and other vocalists before 6000 people over 6 nights in large theaters and arts centers in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and at the Brisbane Festival.
2014 began with a bang with the successful world premiere Jan. 8th of Lucas's new live score for Shanghai silent film classic "The Goddess" at Fundacion Botin in Santander Spain, followed by a performance there with Gary's Spanish "Dracula" project Jan. 10th. Gary's new duo collaboration with UK vocalist Peter Hammill (Van Der Graaf Generator) entitled "Otherworld" was released Feb. 3rd on Esoteric/Cherry Red Records (see the press release here), followed by their live debut Fri. Feb. 21st at London's Union Chapel. The album went on to receive 4 and 5 star reviews internationally, and landed the pair on the cover of both Guitar Player Magazine and Rock Society Magazine. The duo headlined the Gouveia Art Rock Festival in Portugal in May and packed the Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris in Mexico City in November, which was selected one of the year's best concerts by Gastv.mx, and was taped for national public television of Mexico. While there, Gary was invited to play a free solo concert for disadvantaged children at the Benjamin Franklin Library by US Ambassador to Mexico Earl Anthony Wayne, who wrote Gary a personal letter of appreciation for taking part in the Ambassador's Music Outreach program.
In February, Gary recorded a new album in Budapest with Hungarian jazz-rock ensemble DeBORT, led by saxophonist Toni Deszo, and was interviewed by Rockbook Hungary. Later that month Gary journeyed to Columbus Ohio to perform his live score for Jose Mojica Marins' 1967 Brazilian cult classic "This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse", one of his many live music and film projects. In addition to "The Goddess", which received much praise from Film Society of Lincoln Center Director Emeritus Richard Pena, Lucas premiered two new live film scores, accompanying the legendary 1931 James Whale-directed "Frankenstein" on Halloween at the United Palace Theater in Harlem NY with his original music, and premiering his new score for Dreyer's classic 1931 "Vampyr" the following day Nov. 1st (Day of the Dead) at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring Maryland, where he also performed his score for Spanish "Dracula". AFI programming director Todd Hitchcock especially praised Gary's new "Vampyr" score. In April Gary presented a well-received masterclass at Rutgers University School of Music in New Jersey for Prof. Chris Opperman's class. Early May saw the release of Gary and Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy's Wild Rumpus album "Musical Blaze-Up" as a double vinyl disc (which rapidly sold-out its pressing), and as a digital download. The pair released several 12 inch vinyl singles over the last few years to wide acclaim, and made live appearances in NYC, London, Brussels, Romania, and Hyderabad India. Their release was greeted by raves in the press, including a feature in the UK's prestigious DJ Magazine. In June Gary celebrated the 25th anniversary of his longtime NYC-based avant-supergroup Gods and Monsters with a special concert at Le Poisson Rouge in Manhattan, which featured guest vocalists Jann Klose (who he has been collaborating on songs with), Felice Rosser, Gisburg, and Dusty Wright, and touched on music spanning Gary's entire career. In July Gary sat in as a special guest with Mongolian/Buryat vocalist/world music star Namgar at Barbes in Brooklyn, the start of a promising new collaboration. This August he debuted his new "Fleischerei" project—a tribute to the music of Max Fleischer's Betty Boop and Popeye cartoons featuring NYC music theater star Sarah Stiles ("Into the Woods", "Avenue Q") and trombonist/arranger Joe Fiedler ("Sesame Street")—at a private party at The Bridge Golf Club in Bridgehampton LI. Gary's swinging, jazzy ensemble made their public debut in November at BAM Cafe, and they are working on their debut album. Gary also has been working on a new acoustic folk-pop duo project with singer Jann Klose and lyricist Dan Beck entitled Lucas Klose. Their song "Mary Magdalene", marking the second anniversary of Hurricane Sandy's devastating impact on the Eastern US seaboard, was featured on CBS News and 1010 WINS News Radio, and they are currently in the studio recording new tracks for their debut album. In addition, Gary recorded a new song last fall with longtime associate Italian vocalist Alessio Franchini in Livorno Italy, and will be performing live in Alessio's tribute to Jeff Buckley in Milan in March 2015, "A Touch of Grace". Gary also performed two Classic Album Sundays Tributes to the "Grace" album in Oslo and in Brooklyn, marking the 20th anniversary of the album's release. And Gary's book "Touched By Grace: My Time with Jeff Buckley" (Jawbone) was named One of the Best Books of 2014 by HITS magazine editor Roy Trakin in his year-end wrap-up.
2013 was a year of many triumphs for Gary Lucas. His latest album "Cinefantastique" (Northern Spy)—a collection of some of Gary's own film music plus his solo arrangements of classic themes from Fellini, Hitchcock, Werner Herzog, Bela Tarr and other greats—was named one of the Top 10 Roots Albums of 2013 by the Philadelphia Citypaper, and was hailed as Guitar Album of the Year by the Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog. During 2013, Lucas sold out six shows, three of them with his long-running Spanish "Dracula"—including high profile appearances at the Jerusalem Film Festival 7/16/13, the Silent Movie Theatre in Hollywood 7/30/13, and at the Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City 11/30/13. Additionally, Gary performed with the film in uptown NYC at the vintage 30's landmark United Palace Theatre in Harlem 11/1/13. On Oct. 5th 2013 he sold-out the expanded concert version of his celebrated 30's Chinese pop concert "The Edge of Heaven"—featuring Shanghai divas Sally Kwok and Mo Hai Jing and Gary's longtime band Gods and Monsters—at BAM's Fisher Space Oct. 5th as part of a two night engagement, which featured sumptuous visual projections of scenes of old Shanghai. He also sold out a trio version of this concert with his two female singers on 7/19/13 at the 1930 Club in Shanghai itself. He also sold out a special tribute to Don Van Vliet at the Paradiso in Amsterdam on Feb. 17th entitled "The World of Captain Beefheart", produced by Co de Kloet and featuring Gary with The Metrtopole Orchestra (an unprecedented second appearance with them in a year), vocalists Nona Hendryx, Jolene Grunberg, Tom Trapp and others.
Other highlights of 2013 include Lucas receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Barezzi Festival in Parma Italy, where he performed a marathon 3 hour set both solo and later as a Tribute to Jeff Buckley featuring well-known Italian singer/songwriter Vinicio Caposella and vocalist Alessio Franchini, who has worked extensively with Lucas over the years—including a Buckley Tribute show May 17th at Teatro Corso in Venice. In mid-October Gary performed solo as part of a production of Federico Garcia Lorca's play "La Casa de Bernarda Alba" at the Gaia Arts Center in Havana, his 7th appearance there. Gary played legendary Parisien bookstore Shakespeare and Company twice in 2013, with vocalists Jeanne Madic May 13th, and on Nov. 7th with vocalist Tim Watt, the latter an in-store appearance in support of his new book "Touched By Grace", which was published in English in 2013 by Jawbone Press to rave reviews, including 4 Stars in MOJO. In November he played Royal Festival Hall in London 11/14/13, and dates in Bristol, Aberdeen and Edinburgh in support of his new book. In May of 2013 Gary was profiled in a documentary "Gary Lucas in Havana" by Klaus Totzler on Austrian national television ORF and on 3SAT TV, on the heels of the European premiere of his live score accompanying Jose Mojica Marins' Brazilian horror classic "Esta Noite Encarnerei no teu Cadaver" at the Melkweg Amsterdam May 12th. Lucas also played a special concert in Brooklyn's Littlefield on June 11th with Austin ensemble Mother Falcon and rock goddess Amanda Palmer. He finished out 2013 performing in his ancestral home in Eastern Europe (Gary is of Bohemian descent) with several high profile shows in the Czech Republic—Spanish "Dracula" at Kino Aero Prague 12/18/13 and at Kino Siska Brno 12/19/13—and he debuted his new Ghosts of Prague ensemble with Richard Mader and vocalist Pat Fulgoni on Dec. 14th at Prague's floating club Jazz Dock. Gary finished the year out with a well-received solo show at the Budapest Jazz Club Dec. 21st, where he jammed with avant-garde ensemble deBORT's leader saxophonist Toni Deszo.
In Jan. 2012 alone Gary performed his Spanish "Dracula" project at Bilbao's annual Musiketan Festival; sold-out two nights of his Captain Beefheart Symposium at Liverpool's Royal Philharmonic Hall; recorded numerous tracks with Bryan Ferry at Olympia Studios in London; and appeared on the cover of two national Portuguese national newspapers in support of his solo performing debut in Lisboa and Porto. He performed his Coffin Joe live music and film project twice at SXSW after successfully playing the US premiere at the Lincoln Center LatinBeat Film festival, and returned to NYC to make high profile solo appearances at Le Poisson Rouge and Joe's Pub, also headlining a tribute to avant-garde legends The Shaggs at The Bellhouse in Brooklyn where he returned in June to perform with his longtime supergroup Gods and Monsters. In July Gary performed live before an estimated viewing audience of 400 million on CNBC in a segment devoted to Gibson Guitars, sold out the Silent Movie Theater in LA with his live score accompanying "The Golem", and was interviewed later that summer on the national French ARTE Channel for the documentary "Rock Attitude". In August, Gary traveled to Germany for his second appearance at the annual Zappanale, this time with his reunited Beefheart tribute band Fast 'N' Bulbous, and also made his performing debut solo in Sardinia at the Santa Arresi Jazz Festival, and then went to Amsterdam for a sold-out show at the legendary Paradiso entitled "The Music of Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas", featuring the 60 piece Metropole Orchestra, Italian vocalist Alessio Franchini and several Dutch singers. This coincided with the publication in September of Gary's first book "Touched by Grace—La Mia Musica con Jeff Buckley" by well known Italian music book publisher Arcana, which received rave reviews in the Italian press and which Gary supported with several Italian in store appearances and concerts, including Feltrinelli in Trieste, the FNAC Megastore in Milano, and the Madame Guitar Festival in Tricesimo (Gary's third appearance there). Later in the month Gary appeared at the Toronto Film Festival in support of the new film about Jeff Buckley's early days in NYC, "Greetings from Tim Buckley", starring Penn Badgley and featuring Tony-award winner Frank Wood as Gary. The film received outstanding reviews and will be released worldwide in cinemas in spring 2013. In October, Gary did a 3-1/2 hour interactive Facebook interview with Roch Parisien. He also performed a stellar night with the Les Paul Trio and singer Jann Klose in NYC's Iridium Jazz Club. Later that fall Gary traveled to Paris where he performed a masterclass and a concert with French guitarist David Konopnicki and his band at the Henri Dutilleux Music Conservatoire; created two signature TonePrints for TC Electronics of Denmark which will be available free for download by guitarists worldwide in spring 2013; and performed at legendary Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Co. He then performed a week of shows in the Czech Republic, headlining Prague's Alternativa Festival solo, appearing live for 3 hours of interviews and performance on national Beat Radio, performing in Jablonec Bohemia with his "Monsters from the Id" music and film project; and finished out the year with a trip to Havana—his fifth appearance there—where he performed three nights at the Gaia Arts Center in a tribute to Michelangelo Antonioni on the occasion of his 100th anniversary; performed live on national Radio Havana and Radio Taino; and was interviewed and filmed performing live by national Austrian television ORF for a program which will air in 2013. Gary starts the year with a bang headlining the famed Paradiso in Amsterdam Feb. 17th with "The World of Captain Beefheart", a gala concert featuring the 60 piece Metropole Orchestra and legendary Nona Hendryx. The show will go out live on producer Co de Kloet's national Dutch Radio 6 program "Co Live"—listen here—and will be filmed for broadcast later this year.
In 2012 Gary was profiled in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the International Herald Tribune to coincide with the release of his supergroup Gods and Monsters' new studio album "The Ordeal of Civility" (Knitting Factory), produced by Jerry Harrison which is receiving rave reviews—4 Stars in MOJO and named one of the Best of the Year in Rock's Backpages. He released a vinyl only album in the Czech Republic "Gary Lucas Plays Bohemian Classics" (Faust Records) featuring his solo acoustic arrangements of Dvorak and other Czech classical composers. That year Gary performed at the Grammy Museum in LA as part of their "Great Guitar" Series which further bolstered his credentials as "one of the best and most original guitarists in America" (Rolling Stone).
Gary just wrapped recording the debut album of his psychedelic dance music project Wild Rumpus with his partner Colleen "Cosmo" Murphy a/k/a DJ Cosmo, and their latest 12 inch vinyl single "Cloudhopping" sold out its first pressing in one week. He recently premiered his new live solo guitar score for Luis Bunuel's "El Angel Exterminador" at the 33rd Havana Film Festival and rocked the 48th New York Film Festival with the US premiere of his Spanish "Dracula" project performing his original solo guitar score live to accompany a screening of the legendary 1931 film.
In the last few years, Gary Lucas made successful performing debuts in China, Cuba, the Canary Islands, Colombia, Brazil, Costa Rica and Mexico alongside his usual non-stop touring in Europe and North America, and is coming to BAM's new Fisher Space in Brooklyn in Oct. 2013 for two nights with the expanded concert version of his celebrated album of 30's Chinese pop, "The Edge of Heaven". Featuring Gary, his band, and two female vocalists from Shanghai, the project received standing ovations in June 2011 at both the 64th Holland Festival in Amsterdam and the Nijmegen MusicMeeting. His recent album, "Rishte" (Harmonia Mundi), a blues/raga collaboration with Indian vocalist Najma Akhtar, made #4 on the World Music Charts Europe and the pair garnered a 5 star review in The Financial Times for their live show and an ovation at WOMAD Los Palmas. He released his first ever coloured vinyl single "Music for the Eden Project" on 5nakefork Records last year to acclaim which has been used as the soundtrack for UK visual artist Paul McGowan's installation at the Eden Project in Cornwall.
Gary Lucas tours the world relentlessly both solo and with several different ensembles, including his longtime band Gods and Monsters, whose ranks once included the late singer Jeff Buckley. Gary co-wrote two of Jeff Buckley's most famous hits, "Grace" and "Mojo Pin", which opened Jeff's double platinum Sony album "Grace", which MOJO magazine named the #1 Modern Classic Rock Album. Their early collaborations can also be heard on the Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas album "Songs to No One", which charted internationally with worldwide sales approaching 100,000. Other notable Lucas albums include his recently reissued 2001 album "The Edge of Heaven", an album of Gary's lush arrangements of 30's Chinese pop songs, which made #1 on the World Music charts and received rave reviews around the world. To date he has released over 20 acclaimed albums in multiple genres, and performed in over 40 countries.
Gary Lucas leads several different ensembles, including his longtime NYC-based band Gods and Monsters, a super-group psychedelic jam band based around Gary's guitar playing, singing, and Grammy-nominated songwriting, featuring Billy Ficca (Television) on drums, Ernie Brooks (Modern Lovers) on bass, Jason Candler (Hungry March Band) on alto sax and Joe Hendel on trombone and keyboards. With their illustrious pedigrees they comprise an art-rock supergroup comprising a major cross-section of the rock avant-garde (Beefheart, Buckley, Television, Modern Lovers)—Time Out New York raving "The group is mind-blowing!" and The New Yorker hailing them as "An underground-rock fan's dream team".
Gods and Monsters have toured extensively in Europe over the years, most recently at festivals in the Austrian Tirol, in the Netherlands, and in Moscow and Saint Petersburg Russia in the company of former Talking Heads keyboardist and hit record producer Jerry Harrison (Live, OAR), who produced their latest studio album. Harrison joined the band live at South by Southwest in Austin Texas where Gary Lucas was given an unheard of double-length showcase for both his silent film/live music project "Gary Lucas Plays The Golem" and for Gods and Monsters, which garnered significant press attention—and Harrison played with them live in NYC at the CMJ Festival and also joined them at New York's Knitting Factory for a concert with Czech underground band The Plastic People, where the group was greeted backstage by former Czech President Vaclav Havel and David Byrne. Gods and Monsters recently celebrated their 20th anniversary in June 2009 with an all-star concert at the Gramercy Theater in NYC, produced by Live Nation and featuring guest appearances from Gary's friends Alan Vega (Suicide), Jon Spencer (Blues Explosion) and Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith).
"Coming Clean", Gary's previous Gods and Monsters album was released in 4 different international editions: in Russia under the title "Follow"; in the USA, Canada, and Japan; in the UK and France; and in the Benelux. The reviews were uniformly excellent, with Rolling Stone raving: "Gary Lucas is one of the best and most original guitarists in America...a songwriter of established invention...he plays astounding guitar throughout, but always for the sake of the song." The album received 4 star reviews in MOJO, Uncut, and Record Collector, and also in France's Crossroads and Vibrations. One of the standout tracks on "Coming Clean" was Gary's song "Follow", an anthem he wrote to comfort the victims of AIDS, which was performed in 2007 at a rally in the gay club Crobar in Manhattan attacking the Bush administration's proposed anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment. The song was introduced and sung by Gary's friend comedienne Sandra Bernhard, who performed with Gary on guitar.
In additional to raves from music critics, Gary's work and guitar playing has received praise from his musical peers. He contributed a cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Ain't Got You" to "Light of Day", a Bruce Springsteen tribute album for charity, which prompted the Boss himself to remark after hearing Lucas perform at the famous Stone Pony in Asbury Park: "You're a phenomenal guitarist—and your version of my song was phenomenal!!." Gary also recently received high compliments from Lou Reed, who told him regarding his collaborations with Jeff Buckley, "You're guitar playing was lovely—just lovely!" and described Gary's solo version of his song "European Son" as "Beyond cool! I could listen to you play for hours, Gary". The highest praise though for Gary came from his original musical mentor and hero Leonard Bernstein, who after hearing Lucas play lead guitar in the European premiere of his "Mass" in Vienna 1973 with the Yale Symphony Orchestra enthusiastically remarked, "You were really wailing!"
In addition to Gods and Monsters, Gary co-leads with composer/musician Phillip Johnston the free jazz all instrumental 7-piece ensemble Fast 'N' Bulbous, dedicated to the music of his mentor Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) and featuring some of NYC's greatest improvisers. Applying a free-wheeling horn and guitar-driven approach to the knotty avant-blues/rock/jazz compositions of Van Vliet, they've made triumphant appearances at the Saalfelden Festival in Austria, the Frankfurt Jazz Festival, and the Lisbon Jazz Em Agosto Festival. Their debut album "Pork Chop Blue Around the Rind" received much favorable praise worldwide, was profiled on NPR, and charted on college radio in the US. An extensive European tour which followed saw them selling out shows at the London Jazz Festival and at Amsterdam's BimHuis, as well as concerts in Bern, Vienna, Schwaz, and Llubljana Slovenia. In 2009 the band released their second Cuneiform album "Waxed Oop (An impetuous stream bubbled up)" which received rave reviews internationally.
Gary also played for several years as part of the reunion of Captain Beefheart alumni known as The Magic Band, performing with them at the UK's famed Glastonbury Festival, London's Shepherd's Bush Empire, a sold-out night at Royal Festival Hall, and at the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in LA where they were introduced by Beefheart/Magic Band fan Matt Groening (The Simpsons), and in Camber Sands UK. They made several extensive UK and European tours, which took them to Amsterdam's Paradiso, Belgrade Serbia, and to Sweden, where they performed live on Swedish national television. They released a rehearsal CD "Back to the Front", cited as one of the albums of the year in The Wire, a live double album "21st Century Mirror Men", and a live DVD/documentary, "Crow's Milk" with narration by the late John Peel, one of Beefheart's biggest champions. In fact, the legendary UK underground tastemaking DJ John Peel became one of Gary Lucas' biggest champions shortly after The Magic Band recorded a live session for him, subsequently spinning several cuts from Gary Lucas' solo albums on his widely listened-to program on the BBC on 2 separate broadcasts shortly before he died.
Other long running media champions of Gary's work on UK radio include the late legendary world music maven, producer and author Charlie Gillett, who invited Gary to perform live on his 20th anniversary show in 2006. Verity Sharp and Fiona Talkington also have featured Gary's work on their BBC 3 programme Late Junction, as has club music DJ king Rob Da Bank, who has repeatedly added the avant-dance music of Wild Rumpus, Gary's DJ project with DJ Cosmo, to his popular BBC radio program.
GARY LUCAS established his reputation as a guitarist's guitarist with 5 years spent playing with his childhood hero, the visionary avant-garde vocalist/composer/bandleader Captain Beefheart (a/k/a Don Van Vliet).
A graduate of Yale University, where he was a DJ and served as Music Director at WYBC FM, Gary's childhood dream of joining Beefheart's band came true when he recorded two Captain Beefheart albums in the early 80's on Virgin Records, "Doc at the Radar Station" (1980) and "Ice Cream for Crow" (1982), which featured his explosive solo renditions of Don Van Vliet's twisted instrumental compositions, "Flavor Bud Living" and "Evening Bell"—about which the latter piece Esquire wrote "Gary Lucas apparently grew extra fingers in order to negotiate his way through it". These recordings put Gary on the musical map as a force to be reckoned with, and laid the groundwork for his subsequent career.
In 1988, Gary Lucas mounted his first solo guitar show at New York's downtown mecca for avant-garde and alternative music, the Knitting Factory, and was an instant hit. The club became the launching pad for Gary's ensuing European success, as he was invited shortly after his first Knitting Factory gig to appear at the prestigious 1988 Berlin JazzFest, where a performance of his solo piece "Verklarte Kristallnacht" was broadcast live from the festival on WDR on the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht and absolutely stunned the audience. The Berlin Morgenpost raved in a review the next day: "It is Lucas!"
To date Gary Lucas has released over 20 highly acclaimed albums in various different genres (psychedelic rock, solo acoustic, world music, electronic dance, rock-jazz, classical, ambient), played as a guest on over 50 other albums, and has performed in 40 countries around the world—from Tokyo to Tangier to Tel Aviv.
In summer 2009 Gary made well received debuts in Latin America (closing the 1st International Sao Paulo Fantasy Film Festival SP Terror accompanying the silent horror film "The Golem" and performing and recording in Bogota Colombia with legendary Stones producer Andrew Loog Oldham and in South Korea, appearing at the 5th Jecheon International Film and Music Festival with "The Golem". He has performed in India with DJ Cosmo in their Wild Rumpus project, and made his Australian debut in the company of UK electronica band Future Sound of London. He returned recently for 4 triumphant shows with "The Golem" at festivals in Sydney and Melbourne. He has been a regular visitor to London's Royal Festival Hall (6 separate appearances) and Amsterdam's famed Paradiso (over 20 separate appearances since 1980). He's expanded his touring base to Russia with 5 separate appearances in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. In summer 2006 he performed his original solo guitar score accompanying the silent classic German horror film "The Golem" (1920, d. Paul Wegener and Carl Boese) in landmark cinemas in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, appeared on national tv before an estimated 50 million viewers, and was profiled in the Russian edition of Rolling Stone.
Much of Gary's music has a ghostly haunted feel to it, particularly his film scores and famous songs such as "Grace"—and stems from a childhood love of fantasy, science fiction and horror films. And of course his band is named Gods and Monsters! His very first scoring assignment was for a documentary entitled "Aquatic Ecology" which was narrated by his childhood hero Rod Serling of "Twilight Zone" fame. Later at Yale he co-founded the long running legendary Things that Go Bump in the Night midnight movie series with his pal Bill Moseley, who went on to become a noted horror film star.
Since debuting his live score for "The Golem" (a Kabbalistic tale of a Jewish Frankenstein) in the company of his original collaborator, keyboardist/composer Walter Horn in 1989 at the Museum of the Moving Image on a commission from the BAM Next Wave Festival, he's played with "The Golem" in over 20 countries—including sold-out performances at the Venice Biennale, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, London's Royal Festival Hall, in Budapest, in festivals in Spain, Switzerland and Italy, opening the New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center, as part of a weeklong artist-in-residency at the Quebec City Summer Festival, and in Prague, home of the Golem. He has also performed with the film at Atlanta's Dragon*Con, the largest science fiction festival in the world.
But "The Golem" was only the beginning of Gary's live music and film work. To date he has composed 7 different live music and film solo guitar scores. He debuted 3 of them at the Havana Film Festival beginning in 2009 over 3 consecutive years, starting with perhaps his most popular live solo guitar score to date accompanying the 1931 Spanish-language "Dracula" (d. Henry Melford) which he went on to perform at the 48th New York Film Festival, at the Transylvania Film Festival performing outside of an abandoned castle, at Royal Festival Hall for the London Jazz Festival where his performance received 4 stars in The Guardian, and in Lodz Poland's Cinergia Festival where he received the Golden Boot Award for his score. Following Spanish "Dracula" Lucas debuted his second live score at the Havana Film Festival accompanying the 1966 Brazilian cult horror classic "Esta Noite Encarnerei no teu Cadaver (This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse)" directed by Jose Mojica Marins, who also stars as the legendary horror icon Coffin Joe. Last year in Havana Gary premiered his score for Luis Bunuel's 1962 surrealist classic "El Angel Exterminador" to close what Lucas refers to as his "Dirty Havana Trilogy".
Other Lucas live music and film projects include "Sounds of the Surreal", a program commissioned by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, accompanying 3 short silent film classics by Rene Clair, Fernand Leger, and Ladislaw Starewicz, with his original guitar scores—which is frequently double-billed with Lucas' "Monsters from the Id", where Gary improvises live soundtracks to clips from sound horror and fantasy classics by Roman Polanski, Mario Bava, Ray Harryhausen, and others. He recently premiered a new expanded version of this work "Monsters from the Id (Rated X)" in Kromeriz Czech Republic. Gary presented the European premiere of "Sounds of the Surreal" in Vienna in September 2007, and in February 2009 played a triumphant performance before a full house in the Wintergarden of NYC's World Financial Center. He also has composed a live silent film score is for the Lon Chaney film "The Unholy Three" (1925, d. Tod Browning) on commission from the Film Society of Lincoln Center which premiered to rave notices at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater in October 2009. And he co composed for the 2009 Holland Festival a live score for Abel Gance's 1919 "J'Accuse" with Reza Namavar featuring the Ensemble Kameleon which received standing ovations in Amsterdam.
Gary Lucas is also working with the UK-based DJ Cosmo (Colleen Murphy) on their dance oriented duo project called Wild Rumpus. Their first single "Musical Blaze-Up" sold out it's 12 inch vinyl run in 2 days upon release in May 2007, was played extensively on the BBC and on European radio, received rave reviews in Time Out London, Time Out New York, and HITS Magazine, and was chosen as one of the Best of the Week by iTunes UK, who made it available for download on a special sampler alongside tracks by Prince, Crowded House and Gwen Stefani. Their second single "Purple Somersault" was similarly well received and sold out its vinyl pressing almost immediately. Gary has been performing one-off sets with Cosmo as Wild Rumpus in a variety of exotic locales, including high profile gigs in Romania and India, and at the London ICA. They made their live NYC debut before a full house at famed New York dance club Cielo. A third single "Rock the Joint" featuring UK Human Beatbox Champion Beardyman entered the UK dance charts on the heels of a hand-animated video by Tabitha O'Connell (Ren and Stimpy) which has had close to 200,000 hits to date. A fourth single "Kazan" was released in Japan in summer 2009, and their new single "Cloud Hopping" sold out its vinyl run in 2 days. Their debut Wild Rumpus album is scheduled for release in 2012.
Over a long performing career Gary Lucas has played and collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley, Bryan Ferry, Lou Reed, John Cale, Chris Cornell, the Plastic People of the Universe, Robyn Hitchock, Nick Cave, David Johansen, Alan Vega, jazz greats Roswell Rudd, Steve Swallow, Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman, the Willem Breuker Kollektieff, Beatrice Demi Mondaine, Cheyenne Schiavone, Melissa Mars, Danie Yvinec, Yael Naim and David Donatien, Sussan Deyhim, Institutional Prostitution (Sadaf Ha and Melissa Gagne), Bill Moseley, Moris Tepper, Cliff Martinez, Eric Drew Feldman, Rick Snyder, Phillip Johnston, Jesse Krakow, Mari Conti, Vernon Reid, Qian Yi, Anton Fier, Jon Langford, Tony Maimone, Ninet Tayeb, Anath Benais, Bob Holman, Greg Cohen, Piers Faccini, Ensemble Kameleon, Marc Ribot, Dean Bowman, Jennifer Charles, Lee Ranaldo, Mary Margaret O'Hara, John Zorn, Peter Stampfel, Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, Jon Spencer, Mike Edison, Kevin Coyne, Italian music stars Vinicio Capposella, Enrico Ruggeri, Fausto Mesolella and Alessio Franchini, Riz Maslen, Claudia Brucken (Propaganda), Paul Humphreys (OMD). Future Sound of London, Joan Osborne (Gary co wrote Joan's Grammy nominated song "Spider Web" from her triple platinum album "Relish"), Najma Ahktar, Bernie Worrell, Haydee and Suylen Milanes, Los Van Van, Sexto Sentido, Mo Hai Jin, Sally Kwok, Jerry Harrison, Karsh Kale, Essra Mohawk, Matthew Sweet, Iggy Pop, Van Dyke Parks, Dead Combo, Adrian Sherwood, Boris Grebentchikov, Eric Mingus, Richard Barone, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Bob Neuwirth, Geoff Muldaur, John Sebastian, Allen Ginsberg, Nona Hendryx, DJ Spooky, Damo Suzuki and Michael Karoli (Can), Dr. John, Graham Parker, Bob Weir, David Krakauer, Frank London, Steve Bernstein's Sex Mob, Medeski Martin and Wood, Tanger, Jean Francois Pauvros, Min Xiao Fen, Sonya Cohen, Celest Chong, Jonathan Kane, Jozef Van Wissem, Fred Schneider (B 52s), Warren Haynes (Allman Brothers, Gov't. Mule), Salman Ahmad (Junoon), Dibyarka Chatterjee, DG307, Lou Pallo and the Les Paul Trio, Jamie Saft, Bobby Previte, Richard Mader, Pavel Ryba, Orlando Sanchez "Cubajazz", Danae Blanco, Vrat Brabenec of the Plastic People, Pavel Zajicek of DG307, David Konopnicki and Autoryno, Project Object, The Magic Band (John French, Denny Walley, Rockette Morton and Michael Traylor), Jann Klose, The Metropole Orchestra, Co de Kloet, Amanda Palmer, Mother Falcon, Anne Waldman, Lukas Ligeti, Genesis P. Orridge and many others.
Some of these collaborations can be heard on his 20 year rarities retrospective album "Improve the Shining Hour" which also features excerpts of his film and tv music for ABC News. Exhibiting a flair for composing soundtrack music going back to early student films he made as a boy in both the narrative and documentary genres, Gary has gone on to score 8 documentaries for ABC shows "20/20" and "Turning Point", as well as music for Showtime and HBO documentaries. In 2001 Gary scored the Oscar nominated Maysles Films documentary "Lalee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton" for HBO, which recently screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of their Maysles Films 50 Year Retrospective, and about which Variety wrote: "Gary Lucas' Delta blues guitar music adds vivid color to this report from America's forgotten underbelly." And he's composed music for documentaries shown on Showtime ("Trust Me"), PBS ("Mayor of the West Side", which was nominated for an Emmy), and at international film festivals ("The Legacy of Jedwabne", which was also broadcast internationally).
Additionally Gary's services as producer have resulted in several major label albums for composer/saxophonists Tim Berne and Peter Gordon on Columbia Records and Columbia Masterworks retrospectively, as well as for the French avant rock band Tanger (French Mercury).
The breadth and scope of Gary Lucas' work is impressive, and he straddles genres with ease. His 2001 entry in the World Music category, "The Edge of Heaven" a dreamy melodic album featuring his arrangements of Chinese pop music of the 1930s, made #1 on the World Music Charts, and garnered an unbelievable amount of international attention, England's Q Magazine awarding it 4 Stars, and MOJO writing: "It is simply gorgeous." In addition, the album was chosen as one of the Best Discs of the year in France's Liberation newspaper. Gary's experiences making the album also was also the subject of a lengthy profile for the album in The Wall Street Journal, as well as an NPR interview. The title song from the album was featured on the soundtrack to the Bill Moyers PBS Series "Becoming American: The Chinese Experience". The album was re released on the Knitting Factory label in 2010 with additional bonus tracks. And last year Gary premiered his expanded concert version for the Holland Festival in Amsterdam featuring two handpicked female vocalists from Shanghai, Sally Kwok and Mo Hai Jin, and his band Gods and Monsters—and received standing ovations two nights in a row.
Gary's most recent foray into World Music was a duo album collaboration with the UK Indian based vocalist Najma Akhtar, who has released many solo albums of her own and has collaborated in the past with Page and Plant and Andy Summers. Gary and Najma's album "Rishte", an album fusing folk, blues, raga, rock and more, was released on World Village/Harmonia Mundi worldwide in summer 2009 and continues to receive accolades around the world, including a 5 star review in the Financial Times.
The critical raves go hand in hand with Gary's international press standing.
In the last few years Gary has been profiled and interviewed in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, DownBeat, the Columbia University Spectator, Record Collector, The Wire, MOJO, the International Herald Tribune, the French daily paper Liberation, featured on the cover of the Jewish Weekly Forward, the national Dutch newspaper Het Parool, and was on the cover this year of two Portuguese national newspapers.
Noteworthy live appearances include a specially commissioned concert at the Czech Embassy in Washington DC by invitation of the Czech ambassador to the US spotlighting Gary's solo guitar arrangements of Czech classical music in honor of the 14th anniversary of the Czech Velvet Revolution (Gary is of Bohemian descent on his father's side). Gary has also made several solo tours of Spain, which resulted in many media appearances on national Basque radio and TV, and recently joined forces with the famous Spanish spoken word artist Bruno Galindo which resulted in a sold out appearance in Mexico's Casa de Lago in the fall of 2008 and several very well received shows in NYC fusing Galindo's surrealistic poetry with Gary's ambient guitar.
Gary Lucas has also lectured over the years on his life and career in music, his songwriting technique, extensive collaborations, and the music business from the inside, at the Amsterdam Music Conservatorum, Yale University (his alma mater), the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, New York University and Columbia University. He also has given guitar master classes at Amsterdam's Paradiso, the Amsterdam Music Conservatorum, and at the University of Hawaii. In March 2006 he gave a lecture and solo performance at McGill University in Montreal for a course taught by Prof. Sandy Pearlman (Blue Oyster Cult/Clash producer) and Music School Dean Don McLean entitled "Bruckner and Heavy Metal", where Gary performed his "Bruckner Fantasia" based on themes from Bruckner's 8th Symphony, which was filmed and broadcast on CTV, the Canadian national television network. He also recently gave a Master Class and lecture at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, as part of their "Eyes of the Masters" series.
Recent soundtrack work includes an original music for Sebastian Doggart's "American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi", nominated for the Maysles Award for Best Documentary at the Starz Denver Film Festival. "Trust Me", a Showtime documentary about a summer camp for Christian, Muslim and Jewish children, and a score for award winning Polish film maker Slawomir Grunberg's "They Called Me Mayer July" (2009 documentary) for whom he also scored his searing "Bed and Breakfast 9/11", which was shown on PBS. In addition he scored and is interviewed in Grunberg's "The Legacy of Jedwabne," which is continually playing the international film festival circuit and has been broadcast internationally. He also has contributed music to several BBC documentaries as well as a Canadian Movie of the Week, "Dragon Boys." Gary composed and performed an original score for a documentary about American Ivy League collegiate football, "For Love and Honor" (2008, d. Erik Anjou) as well as a score for the Emmy award winning documentary filmmaker Peter Bull for his latest film "Dirty Business—Clean Coal and the Battle for Our Energy Future", funded and commissioned by the Center for Investigative Research.
Other collaborations include several albums with Dutch lutist Jozef Van Wissem, including "The Universe of Absence," and "Diploplia", and the pair toured and performed live on the Dutch national tv network VPRO show "Free Sounds".
In addition, Gary recently released a collaborative album with UK electronica ensemble The Dark Poets (James Hunter and Sarah Hilliard) "Beyond the Pale" on the Some Bizarre label. In a review of the album the Independent (UK) wrote: "Gary Lucas is possibly the world's most popular avant rock guitarist."
In April 2009 Gary Lucas released a collaborative album with Swiss avant garde guitarist Gerald Zbinden entitled "Down the Rabbit Hole", an epic sound phantasmagoria without words that is racking up impressive reviews internationally. Moors Magazine (Holland) wrote: "Sound so sophisticated and so unusual, they magically transport you without the aid of overdubs. This album is an absolute must!" In Spring 2009 came a collaboration "The Exploding Note Theory" with Italian psych rockers Gallo + The Roosters which was chosen as Album of the Month in Blow Up magazine (Italy).
In November 2009 Gary Lucas released on Knitting Factory Records an album of his spiritual roots duo project Chase the Devil with jazz/blues vocalist Dean Bowman (Screaming Headless Torsos, Don Byron). The duo recorded their debut album with Steve Addabo (Shawn Colvin) and embarked on a well received European tour spanning 6 countries in Nov. 2009. The album received 4 stars in DownBeat and a track from the album "Hinay Ma Tov" was Song of the Day on National Public Radio. Chase the Devil made the short-list of Best Blues Album of the Year in DownBeat.
Also in the works for a 2012 release is a new album of instrumental versions of classic Rolling Stones hits arranged and performed by Gary in the company of several outstanding Latin American musicians, recorded in Bogota and produced by legendary Stones producer Andrew Loog Oldham.
All in all, GARY LUCAS continues to live up the credo of his favorite artist, Bob Dylan—"He not busy being born is busy dying"—by continuing to record, release and perform an astonishing variety of music in as many arenas of the global village as possible.
Gary Lucas makes his home in New York City.
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Gary Lucas first started playing guitar at the age of 9 on the advice of his dad ("Gary, how'd you like to play a musical instrument? How about the guitar?").
His first aspiration was to master the theme from "Exodus" which was a big hit at the time for Pat Boone and Ferrante and Teicher. Lessons however lasted only a few months as it became obvious Gary would rather not practice scales and patterns, but not before he nailed his first guitar hero Duane Eddy's statement-of-first-principles "Dance With the Guitar Man" (besides, the cheap rented practice guitar was causing major blisters to erupt). Simultaneously, as a result of scoring a perfect 100 on an elementary school musical aptitude test, Gary, on the advice of the school band director, took up the French horn which he played throughout his elementary, junior high and high school years in various all-city bands and orchestras of the Syracuse school system, before being summarily thrown out of the band for wearing sandals to rehearsals (a nascent beatnik versus an uptight fascist band director). He never was much good on the horn anyway as he barely had enough upper lip for a good embouchure.
Anyway, throughout the sixties he was in and out of various "combos" as they were then referred to, and later, "groups" and "bands" of the pickup variety. Gary has fond memories of wading through pools of vomit at Syracuse University frat houses to get paid for some of these gigs (which mainly consisted of playing 30 minute versions of "Inna Gadda Da Vida").
His senior year of high school he got a gig working in the documentary film unit of the Upstate Medical Center and scored and played on his first film assignment, "Aquatic Ecology" (narrated by childhood hero and upstate New York resident Rod Serling).
During his sophomore year of college, wherein he was employed as music director of Yale's radio station WYBC FM, he and his buddies made a pilgrimage to New York City to catch the East Coast debut performance of another hero, Captain Beefheart, an event which changed his life.
Vowing that if he ever did anything professional in music in the future, it would be to join Beefheart's Magic Band, Gary went on to interview and become fast friends with Beefheart (Don Van Vliet), until after years of hanging around backstage at his gigs, Gary summoned up the courage to reveal that yes, he played guitar and yes, he would love to audition for the Magic Band.
It was a few years before that goal would be realized; in the meantime he got a gig playing electric guitar in the European premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass in Vienna in 1973, along with the Yale Symphony Orchestra and assorted singers and dancers (broadcast on PBS).
A two year sojourn upon graduation to Taipei Taiwan found Gary playing with a mixed group of Chinese, Swedish and Jewish American kids (including his exclusive tee shirt manufacturer, Hank Frisch, on blues harp) called the O-Bay-Gone Band (translation: The Bullshit Band, in Taiwanese), a gig that brought them much local TV exposure. He returned to the States at the end of 1976 and immediately renewed his acquaintance with Captain Beefheart.
Upon returning Stateside Gary finally hooked up with Captain Beefheart. When he informed his parents by phone that he intended to leave his day job to concentrate on working with Beefheart, his mother replied, "The guitar?! Murray! He's talking about the guitar again!" He went on to play the solo guitar pieces "Flavour Bud Living" and "Evening Bell" on the Doc at the Radar Station and Ice Cream for Crow albums (Virgin Records), becoming a full-fledged member of the Magic Band for Ice Cream for Crow, which established his reputation as a stunning, accomplished interpreter of the highly idiosyncratic and complex Beefheart oeuvre (Rolling Stone wrote that "Lucas should receive some sort of award for finger contortion" in describing his brilliant execution of the fiendishly difficult "Evening Bell" piece, which took 6 weeks just to learn and memorize by ear). This was the first glowing review in a career marked by incredibly favorable press raves for Gary's guitar playing and later, his own music.
After touring Europe with the Magic Band at the beginning of the '80s Beefheart decided to retire from music for a life devoted to painting. Not sure how to continue his playing career after playing in what Lucas regarded as the #1 avant-garde rock band in the world, Gary decided to produce albums for other artists while biding his time to figure out his next playing move, producing two acclaimed albums for CBS Masterworks and Columbia Records by avant-sax players/composers Peter Gordon and Tim Berne respectively.
In 1988 Gary finally mounted his own solo guitar show at the mecca of New York new music, the Knitting Factory and was an instant hit. The New York Times raved, "Guitarist of 1000 Ideas" for his show which drew upon the corpus of blues, rock, jazz, folk, classical and electronic music all brought to bear with the intense showmanship which is a hallmark of Lucas' style. Through the use of digital delays Gary was able to produce the sound of a virtual one-man-band, producing orchestral textures and colors that rival an army of players.
Through the positive word of mouth that rapidly increased his reputation in New York, Gary was invited to play his solo European debut at the 1988 Berlin Jazz Festival, with the same resulting effect ("It is Lucas!" raved the Berlin Morgenpost).
Subsequently he undertook many trips abroad to perform either solo, or with his band Gods and Monsters, at rock, blues, jazz, folk and experimental music festivals, and on the theater and club circuit.
Gary Lucas performs solo acoustic before the General Assembly of the UN for International Holocaust Remembrance Day 1/27/17
photo by Jason Candler
Gary Lucas in Shanghai 11/9/16
With U.S. Consul General in Milan Phillip Reeker at a reception at his residence sponsored by the U.S. Consulate in Milan 3/21/15
photo by Simonetta Romagnolo


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The past few weeks have not been great for those wishing to get their hands on a Nexus 4 and while LG is still committed to their handset saying that the supply issues will soon change, this has not stopped those rumors spreading in regards to the Nexus 5 (or whatever the successor to the Nexus 4 will be called).
Going back to those supply issues a recent article has come to light where LG's Cathy Robin said that they have over allocated in some countries, meaning that there was an abundance of stock in certain areas, whereas others were told that they had to wait until more stock became available.
Google has on a number of occasions apologized for the lack of Nexus 4 stock and knowing that some areas had more than enough will not go down well with those still waiting for the Android smartphone. However, we shouldn't be surprised because it has been a mess from the start, but maybe things could soon change now that there is finally a reason for the shortage?
Going back to those rumors of the Nexus 5, it seems that some consumers have already given up on the Nexus 4 and are holding out for the release of the Nexus 5. It's already been suggested that LG and Android are committed to a long relationship and hope to bring newer Nexus models, and if we are to believe what we are reading, then the Nexus 5 could be with us sooner than we think. If this is the case then what improvements would you like to see made in the next model?
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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishgalegale /ɡeɪl/ ●○○ noun [countable] 1 DNa very strong wind a severe galeit's blowing a gale British English (=it's very windy)► see thesaurus at wind2 → a gale/gales of laughterCOLLOCATIONSadjectivesa fierce gale (=a very strong wind)The tree was blown down during a fierce gale in 1987.a howling gale (=one that makes a lot of noise)The ship was drifting towards the shore in a howling gale.a severe/strong galeSevere gales disrupted road and rail travel throughout Britain.gale + NOUNgale force (=a measurement showing that a wind is extremely strong)The winds had increased to gale force.verbsa gale blowsIt was a grey winter's day with an Atlantic gale blowing.it's blowing a gale British English (=the wind is blowing very strongly)It was blowing a gale last night.
Examples from the Corpus
gale• However, the weather may not be so good, and rain and gales are frequent.• Up there to starboard, the Bering Sea whipped by arctic gales into choppy swells.• Ridge, hip and gable tiles are commonly displaced by gales, causing accumulation of debris in gutters, valleys and junctions.• Heavy rain driven by gales predicted for last night was forecast to continue for much of today.• A howling gale and torrential rain lashed the windows.• Rain, fog and mist are the acceptable accoutrements of northern gales.• The fence was blown down in the gale last night.• The ship sank in the gale.• The autumn and winter gales had already begun.
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Mission Neighborhood Resource Center
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Address | 165 Capp St., 94110 |
Phone | 415-869-7977 |
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Hours | M-F: 7am-12pm, 2pm-7pm Sat: 7am-12pm (Thursday 6:00pm to 8:00pm is ladies only) |
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165 Capp St., 94110
M-F: 7am-12pm, 2pm-7pm
Sat: 7am-12pm
(Thursday 6:00pm to 8:00pm is ladies only)
Bus Routes: 14 Mission, 22 Fillmore , 33 Stanyan, 49 Mission/Van Ness
Drop-in respite from the streets offering bathroom access, showers, laundry services and lockers targeting Mission homeless communities and those at risk, in particular Spanish-speaking immigrants, LGBT, women, active drug users and SRO tenants. Offers intensive bilingual case management and psychosocial support, including harm reduction psychotherapy, dual diagnosis counseling and support groups. MNRC free medical clinic, a Healthy San Francisco registration site and Health Care for the Homeless Access Point, provides TB testing, same day and primary care, abscess treatment, dental referrals, HIV counseling and testing, and free homeopathy services. Medi-cal and Medicare are accepted. MNRC Community Programs offers the Ladies Night Collaborative, a women-only project every Thursday from 6 pm to 8 pm and the Neigborhood Internship, a leadership development program in collaboration with the Capp Street neighborhood. MNRC is a CHANGES site for shelter bed reservations in the single adult system. Must be age 18 or over.


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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
"You have run out of our money"
Daniel Hannan MEP: The devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Government
(Being a sailor, I especially love the boat references!)
3 comments:
- Hooda Thunkit said...
Oh for some open and candid speech like that on this side of the pond.
(We could use a few like Daniel on City Council too.)
Clear speak and undisputable facts..., how refreshing! - 3:19 PM
- Tim Higgins said...
To stretch the nautical references made by Mr. Hannan:
We here in the US sail with the blind acceptance of the captain of the Titannic. Believing ourselves unsinkable and firm in the knowledge that we have nothing to fear, we push on at full speed ahead in spite of the warnings of icebergs that we have been given.
What's worse however is that even now, perhaps fatally holed in our flawed course and our desire for haste, the Captain of the most wonderful ship that has ever sailed seems only concerned that the band plays more cheerful music as the ship sinks. - 7:59 PM
- Mad Jack said...
Tim: Nice one.
I wish we had a few like Daniel Hannan over here. - 6:19 PM


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Miniature TradingLet us find for you the miniatures you need
communicate randomly with people around the world: throw a message in a bottle
its a pretty cheap deck really I made it and pretty much only had 2 giv $50.00 for the 3 Iseult, 4 Disaster Dragons & 1 Alfred so honestly its a pretty cheap deck anyone can use it. Its a tournament deck and like the name says its based on power however if u dont know how to use it then obviously u'll lose
Found it. This is the answer.
[AUTO]:[Counter Blast (2)] When this unit is placed on (VC), you may pay the cost. If you do, choose an opponent's rear-guard, and retire it. [AUTO]:[Counter Blast (2)] When this unit is placed on (RC), if you have a «Royal Paladin» vanguard, you may pay the cost. If you do, choose an opponent's grade 2 or greater rear-guard, and retire it.
Shine forth, brave sword and defender of the weak! Blaster Blade!
Take that! Bull's eye!
[CONT]:Sentinel (You may only have up to four cards with "[CONT]:Sentinel" in a deck)[AUTO]:[Choose a «Royal Paladin» from your hand, and discard it] When this unit is placed on (GC), you may pay the cost. If you do, choose one of your «Royal Paladin» that is being attacked, and that unit cannot be hit until end of that battle.
As long as there is the Flash Shield, knighthood will never waver.
[ACT](RC):[Counter Blast (1) & Choose a unit named "Future Knight, Llew", a unit named "Barcgal", and a unit named "Flogal" from your (RC), and put them into your soul] If you have a Grade 1 vanguard, search your deck for up to one card named "Blaster Blade", ride it, and shuffle your deck.
Boys will dream. Then the dream eventually becomes reality.
[AUTO](VC/RC):[Choose a «Royal Paladin» from your hand, and discard it] When this unit attacks, you may pay the cost. If you do, this unit gets [Power]+5000 until end of that battle.
Let's rock, sacred thunder! Holy Charging Thunder!
[CONT](VC):Your units cannot boost this unit. [CONT](VC):During your turn, this unit gets [Power]+2000 for each of your «Royal Paladin» rear-guards. [ACT](VC/RC):[Counter Blast (3)] Search your deck for up to one grade 2 or less «Royal Paladin», call it to (RC), and shuffle your deck.
I command you under the name of the King of Knights! Warriors, heed my call!
A knight is he who holds a resolution in his heart.
(TD01):Silence says it all.(BT01):My sword, you shall have.
Auto: When this Unit intercepts, and you have a {Royal Paladin} Vanguard, during that battle, this Unit's Shield gains +5000.
Unshakable, that is the truth.
Leave it to me! I've got a plan!/My dream is to experience all the wonders of the world.
[ACT](VC/RC):[Counter Blast (1)] This unit gets [Power]+1000 until end of turn.
The prayer chants give soul to the holy blade.
"Blow the trumpet! The time has come to fight!"
[AUTO]: When this unit is placed on (RC), choose another of your [Royal Paladin], and that unit gets [Power]+2000 until end of turn.
Unicorn of the sanctuary, loyal only to one who is free of sins.
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Southampton have continued to strengthen their squad before the end of the transfer window by signing Pablo Osvaldo from Roma.
The striker arrives at St Mary's on a four-year deal for an undisclosed club-record fee rumoured to be £15m.
Although born in Argentina Osvaldo has been capped for Italy at both U21 and senior international levels.
And Osvaldo will now be reunited with Mauricio Pochettino who was his manager during a successful 18-month spell with Spanish side Espanyol.
"Southampton football club is delighted to announce the signing of Italy striker Pablo Daniel Osvaldo" a statement from Saints read.
"Osvaldo today agreed terms on a four-year contract with Saints and moves from Serie A side AS Roma."
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