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We released the last of our butterflies this weekend. In total 58 - 24 girls and 34 boys. All strong healthy flyers. Last year I had a lot that could not fly.
It is sad to see an end of another year.
Does anyone know if temperature has anything to do with weather the caterpillar hatches as a boy or girl. It seems as though the cat's reared in a warmer temperature turned out to be female and the room that was a bit cooler produced more males.


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VIDEO: Ringing in the New Year at YesterCades
The gaming parlor in Red Bank provided a unique way to ring in 2013.
Gamers toasted 2013 in style at the YesterCades New Year's Eve party. Patrons enjoyed food, party favors and a festive atmosphere during the two-hour gaming session from 10 p.m. to midnight.
The second annual New Year's Eve party provided a unique holiday experience for those in attendance, according to YesterCades owner Ken Kalada.
"It's a different environment. Most people are used to going to their friend's house, going to bar, going to a club. It's really getting everyone together. It's a different form of entertainment," Kalada said.

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Tiger Woods won the 2012 AT&T National by two shots over Bo Van Pelt. (Stan Badz/PGA TOUR)
By Brian Wacker, PGATOUR.COM
Tiger Woods will be unable to defend his title at next week's AT&T National and will be out until the British Open due to a left elbow strain.
"I was examined after I returned home from the U.S. Open, and the doctors determined I have a left elbow strain," Woods said on his website.
Woods injured the elbow en route to winning THE PLAYERS Championship, his first victory at TPC Sawgrass since 2001 and his fifth of the season.
In his next start, he had his worst career finish in the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide Insurance, tying for 65th. He shot 79 in the third round at Muirfield, also his highest career score in the event.
"I have been advised to take a few weeks off, rest and undergo treatment," Woods said. "I'll be ready to go for the British Open, and I'm looking forward to playing at Muirfield.
"I would like to extend my regrets to AT&T, our sponsors and the fans in the Washington, D.C., area.The AT&T National means a lot to me and my foundation. It's especially difficult not defending at my own tournament. It's going to be a great event, and I look forward to being there to provide my support."
Woods aggravated the injury when hitting out of the rough in the opening round at last week's U.S. Open at Merion, where he finished at 13-over 293 for his highest score in 16 professional starts in the tournament.
U.S. Open champion Justin Rose stopped by the Late Show with David Letterman to do the top-10 list.
Hunter Mahan has had tremendous success at the Travelers Championship. (Condon/PGA TOUR)
By Rob Bolton, PGATOUR.COM Fantasy Insider
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Once upon a time, Hunter Mahan was your lock for the Travelers Championship. From 2006-2009, he won once, finished second twice and added a T4. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that he's the all-time money leader of the event with over $2.4 million.
If he's dropped on your short list at TPC River Highlands, it's with good reason since he has failed to add a top 10 since. However, he capped a T11 last year with a career-low 61. He's also coming off a share of fourth place at the U.S. Open. That's good for his best finish in a stroke-play event all year. That's also good enough for me. Mahan is my play.
This is also a fine site for 2010 champ Bubba Watson. He's third on the tournament's money list with five cuts made. His record includes a T6 in 2008 and a co-runner-up last year. If Mahan weren't available to me, I'd burn the lefty right now.
Stewart Cink (fourth in all-time money) and Ryan Moore (fifth) are solid complements in two-man formats. Moore will rise into focus again later.
If you wanted to swing for the fences, pencil in John Rollins, who sits sixth in my Power Rankings. He's in tip-top form and has a pair of top fives at the Travelers Championship the last two years.
Last week: Lee Westwood; T15; $132,453.00
Overall Record: 23-for-25
Earnings: $4,955,679.66
Wins: 1
Top 5s: 6
Top 10s: 11
Top 25s: 16
Missed Cuts: 2
Withdrawals: 0
Disqualifications: 0
TPC River Highlands is prepped to test players' shotmaking skills. (Rogash/Getty Images)
By Jeff Shain, PGATOUR.COM contributor
Positioned as his event is following the U.S. Open, Tom DeGrandi is bound to hear the question from at least a few casual fans strolling his course.
"Why can't you guys do that every week?"
Translation: Why isn't every PGA TOUR stop set up to be the ultimate test of the world's best golfers?
Given the orders, DeGrandi certainly has the ability to narrow the fairways for the Travelers Championship and put greens on the edge of the speed limit. He has plenty of lush rough to work with this year.
But in the end, that's not the challenge the TPC River Highlands was meant to produce.
"We're not the U.S. Open," said DeGrandi, now in his 20th year as director of golf course maintenance at the layout that overlooks the Connecticut River.
River Highlands, rather, was meant to showcase players' shotmaking ability as opposed to their survival skills. All but one of the past 15 editions have produced a winning score of at least 14-under par, which happens to be Marc Leishman's winning score last year.
"This will be like a finely mowed lawn compared to what they saw at Merion," said DeGrandi.
Until the remnants of Tropical Storm Andrea dropped buckets of rain all along the East Coast two weekends ago, preparations were fairly stress-free for DeGrandi and his staff. The course took nearly 9 1/4 inches of rain in an eight-day span that ended last Thursday.
Though damage from all the rain was minimal, the soft ground forced workers to cool their heels for a few days.
"After that much rain, it's sort of 'Do No Harm,' " DeGrandi said. "You could say, 'Let's cut' and now you've got tire marks in your turf. There's a lot more downside than upside, when you could just wait a day and have a much better outcome."
Crews got caught up just in time for players' arrival on Monday. And though the bentgrass greens might not be quite as fast to start as officials would like, the tradeoff is that the 4-inch rough will be U.S. Open quality.
"Get that moisture in there with the fertilizer, and the rough gets crazy thick," DeGrandi said.
River Highlands also will feature a new look at the par-4 seventh hole, which had been fairly nondescript in past years. Eleven new trees were planted along the fairway's left side, with new mounding also boosting the challenge.
"I think it's going to toughen up that hole by maybe a half-shot," DeGrandi said.
Even so, it isn't meant to be compared to the U.S. Open. DeGrandi suggested it wasn't much different than what anyone might want at their own place of work.
"If you take the most stressful week in your job and have that be every week," he said, "you'd hate your job. Those weeks mentally wear them out. It's exciting to watch, but you can't do that every week."
Check out Justin Rose being interviewed on MSNBC's Morning Joe and CNBC's Squawk on the Street.
The PGA TOUR travels to Cromwell, Conn. this week for the Travelers Championship. Our panel of experts has made its selections and now it's time for you to make yours. Leave your picks in the comments section below and don't forget to sign up to play PGATOUR.COM's fantasy golf to compete with our panel in the PGATOUR.COM EXPERTS league.
By Brian Wacker, PGATOUR.COM
NEW YORK -- U.S. Open champ Justin Rose is in Manhattan for a media blitz Tuesday that includes stops at various talk shows, including the Today Show and the Late Show with David Letterman. PGATOUR.COM's Brian Wacker is along for the ride with Rose and will file reports and photos throughout the day.
6 a.m. ET: Justin Rose and wife Kate emerge from their room at the Intercontinental Hotel in Times Square after only a few hours sleep. Rose played a corporate outing on Monday and had forgotten his golf clubs. "I usually only have two things to remember," he said. "Suitcase and golf bag. I had suitcase and trophy." Kate held the U.S. Open trophy as they arrived at MSNBC's Morning Joe, calling it her "bling" for the day.
Rose on the set of Morning Joe. Click here for a clip from the interview.
6:30 a.m.: On the set of MSNBC's Morning Joe, Rose says of the names on the U.S. Open trophy, these are players he's read about and idolized and, "All of a sudden I'm part of that club. It's surreal." He also says of his late father Ken, "He gave up so much for me to be a professional golfer." On the way to NBC for The Today Show, Rose is stopped a few times by passersby. Even in New York it's hard to be inconspicuous carrying the U.S. Open trophy.
7:30 a.m.: During a break for breakfast before appearing on the Today Show, Rose excuses himself for an interview with ESPN's Mike & Mike radio show. Talking about the U.S. Open, Rose says, "You have to not be afraid of failure. You have to expect to win but not be afraid of not doing it." When Rose three-putted No. 16 on Sunday, he thought to himself, "I'm good. I can handle this."
Rose walking down Fifth Avenue
8:30 a.m. ET: Rose just arrived at the Today Show, where just prior to going on the air signed autographs and took pictures with fans, even letting one of them hold and kiss the U.S. Open trophy. It's been a whirlwind morning for Rose this morning. Up next: A visit to the SiriusXM studios.
Rose arriving at the Today Show.
Rose on the Today Show.
Rose signs autographs during the Today Show.
Rose gets ready to be on SiriusXM Radion.
9 a.m.: Rose just arrived at SiriusXM Radio, where he just heard the ESPN Radio call of his U.S. Open win. The first question from Steve Phillips and Evan Cohen: Which Justin would he rather hang out with, Timberlake or Bieber. Rose's answer: Timberlake. With him is of course the trophy, which doesn't yet have his name engraved on it. "I was thinking if taking a pen and scratching my name in it," he joked. How tough was Merion? Said Rose: "Maybe I was the least loser because the golf course was definitely the winner."
9:30 a.m.: At the end of last year, Rose and Adam Scott made a bet that whoever won a major first, half of the winner's check would go to the victory party. Scott of course won the Masters. Rose answered by winning the U.S. Open. So who's on the hook? "I think Scotty's on the hook," Rose said. Or perhaps Albany, the club in the Bahamas where both are members.
A photo of the names of U.S. Open winners engraved on the trophy.
10 a.m.: Rose took a photo of the trophy on way to the New York Stock Exchange. His name isn't yet engraved on it. He gets to keep it for a year then can buy a replica that's about 90 percent the size of the original.
Rose can't stop staring at the trophy. He said the trophy spent the night in the bed with him on Sunday night. He's been taking pictures of the names on the trophy and said it's "surreal" to think his name will be on the trophy, too.
Rose gets ready for yet another interview. Click here for his clip from Squawk on the Street.
10:30 a.m.: Rose just arrived on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, where he's appearing on CNBC's Squawk on the Street. Rose posed for pictures with several of the traders before going on air -- and to some extent stopped the action on the floor of one of the busiest exchanges in the world because it seems everyone wants to get a glimpse of the newest U.S. Open champ.
11 a.m.: Rose just wrapped up at the New York Stock Exchange and is heading back to the hotel for a little R&R. Rose didn't get more than a few hours of sleep after arriving in New York Monday night. One other tidbit: Rose will apparently have a British Airways flight named after him -- B.A. Flight 281, in honor of his winning score at Merion.
The view from Rose's room at the InterContinental Times Square.
Rose gets ready for another appearance on national television.
2:30 p.m.: Justin Rose emerges from a quick rest at the Hotel InterContinental in Times Square ready for his appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, where he's going full out with his wardrobe -- red pants, blue shirt and shoes, red and blue tie. With a young family, Rose says he's rarely awake when the show is on but he's excited about the appearance. "A day like this I feel a bit like a fish out of water," he says. "But I'm just enjoying the ride."
3 p.m.: Prior to his appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, Justin Rose has a taping with PGA TOUR Entertainment, where he talks about the emotion of winning and what it's like to be a major champion 15 years after a splash at the British Open as a 17-year-old. "People always thought I'd have to win the Open Championship to be remembered, but maybe this is the one I'll be remembered for."
Rose goes over some lines for the top-10 list before meeting David Letterman.
4 p.m.: Rose has arrived at the Late Show with David Letterman and is practicing the top-10 list for his appearance tonight. It's been a whirlwind for Rose, who adds that while it has been a long day he's looking forward to his appearance. "This should be exciting," he said. "Go out with a bang." After hearing the top-10 list, he's right. Rose burst into laughter over it.
5 p.m.: After beginning his day at 6 a.m., Rose's day is finally done, concluding with a reading of the famed top-10 list on Letterman. But the week isn't over. Rose departs for the Travelers Championship, where he's playing this week. Rose has long been committed and says he didn't want to back out of his commitment. His children will be waiting for him when arrives after they were flown up to Connecticut from Orlando.
By Sean Martin, PGATOUR.COM
Moscow, Idaho, isn't known as a place that's produced plenty of PGA TOUR players, but the small town was the perfect setting for Chris Williams to develop his game. Williams, the world's No. 1 amateur, is making his pro debut at this week's Travelers Championship.
He grew up playing the University of Idaho Golf Course, and virtually had free reign of the place when the students departed for the summer. "We really didn't have a driving range," said Williams, the rare elite player who uses a 10-finger grip. "So for me to practice, I had to go out and practice on the course, and it was great because no one was there. The town is 20,000, and that's with 10,000 students. So nobody plays the golf course. … It's like a ghost town in the summer, so I was able to play and practice on the course as much as I wanted."
Williams compiled an impressive amateur resume at the University of Washington. He won the 2012 Western Amateur, arguably the second-strongest amateur event in the country, and was a quarterfinalist at the U.S. Amateur. He also won the 2011 Sahalee Players Championship and 2011 Pacific Coast Amateur. Williams represented the United States at the 2011 Walker Cup and 2012 World Amateur Team Championship, where he teamed with Justin Thomas and Steven Fox for the victory. Thomas is playing the Travelers Championship as an amateur.
Williams will be represented by Excel Sports Management and has signed with Nike. This is the second consecutive year that the world's No. 1 amateur will make his pro debut at the Travelers Championship. Patrick Cantlay did so last year. He missed the cut and is playing this season on the Web.com Tour, where he won the Colombia Championship.
Williams also has received sponsor exemptions to the AT&T National, Reno-Tahoe Open and Wyndham Championship. PGA TOUR non-members can receive as many as seven sponsor exemptions per season.
Williams was exempt into last week's U.S. Open by virtue of winning the Mark H. McCormack Medal as the world's No. 1 amateur. He missed the cut by a shot.
"I missed the cut, but I had this to look forward to right around the corner," he said. "It was a good week, but I was ready to move on and start my professional career, and it was nice to be able to hop on that 45-minute charter and come right up here."
Harris English is making his first start since winning the FedEx St. Jude Classic. (Lyons/Getty Images)
By Sean Martin, PGATOUR.COM
Justin Rose isn't resting after his victory at last week's U.S. Open. He'll be back in competition Thursday at the Travelers Championship. He's not the only one who is at TPC River Highlands after having success at Merion. Those who played last week will have to switch strategies rather quickly, though. Merion was one of the toughest tests of the year. Players have to go low to win at TPC River Highlands, though. Here are some of the groups PGATOUR.COM is keeping an eye on. Let us know your favorite groups in the Comments section below.
· Justin Rose-Keegan Bradley-Zach Johnson: The game's newest major champion will play with two fellow major winners. The Travelers Championship also is an opportunity for Bradley to return to his native New England. They tee off of TPC River Highlands' first tee at 12:50 p.m. Thursday.
· Marc Leishman-Jason Dufner-Bubba Watson: Two Travelers Championship winners are joined with Dufner, who's coming off a fourth-place finish at the U.S. Open. Leishman won last year's Travelers Championship, while Watson won in 2010 and was runner-up last year. They tee off at 1:00 p.m. Thursday off TPC River Highland's first tee.
· Harris English-Rickie Fowler-Hunter Mahan: Two of the game's young talents are paired with a two-time Travelers winner. English, 23, is making his first appearance since winning the FedEx St. Jude Classic. Fowler, 24, finished 10th at last week's U.S. Open. Mahan's first professional victory came at the 2007 Travelers Championship. The 31-year-old finished fourth at the U.S. Open, his best showing in a major championship. They tee off at 7:40 a.m. Thursday off the 10th tee.
· Kevin Streelman-Webb Simpson-Lee Westwood: Streelman, No. 7 in the FedExCup standings, is joined by last year's U.S. Open champion and the world's 12th-ranked player. They tee off at 7:50 a.m. Thursday on TPC River Highlands' 10th hole.
Nicolas Colsaerts has maintained a heavy U.S.-based schedule in 2013. (Redington/Getty Images)
By Sean Martin, PGATOUR.COM
Nicolas Colsaerts is in his first season as a PGA TOUR member. This week's Travelers Championship is one of the new stops on his schedule. He arrives at an unfamiliar venue after doing something that's becoming a more regular occurrence: contending at a major.
Colsaerts finished 10th at the U.S. Open. He also was seventh at last year's Open Championship and was in fourth place, three shots off the lead, through three rounds at last year's U.S. Open before fading to 29th.
"Funny enough, like the more difficult the tournament is and the course is the more you're going to get the most out of your game," Colsaerts said. "The further we were going into the week, the tougher the course was getting, and that really played to my advantage knowing that I was going to be in control of my ball and give myself the off chance here and there.
"Mentally‑wise, it's such a fight that you dig deep and one or two shots can be so important. It's always easy at the end of the week to look back and think I could have been a bit closer. I made a double-bogey and a triple-bogey on Saturday and that got me just a little bit too far to be really threatening over Sunday. But I thought I did really well to fight until the end and get a top-10 in a major tournament again."
Colsaerts, who moved to No. 109 in the FedExCup, felt like last week's success could translate to a good showing in his debut at TPC River Highlands.
"It's obviously a little wider than last week, so whoever played last week is going to feel pretty confident with the driver on the holes here," Colsaerts, 30, said. "But, I think, if one of these courses were guys like me that keep it in play or hit driver most of the time, they'll probably have those shorter irons that turn into a bit of an advantage."
The U.S. Open was Colsaerts' third top-10 in 12 starts this season. He also tied for ninth at the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship and finished eighth at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.


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step deux : clearing and cleaning
step trois : a fresh coat of paint
step quatre : and viola! a comfortable living space.
i love love love decorating. my room is about 1/3 the size of my old room, so decorating in a tiny space was a challenge. i have a lot of junk. so minimizing the objects, yet still keeping my personality was a bit mind boggling.
let's take a tour, shall we?
okay, so i've used this colour for my past three bedrooms, i just love it so much!!! i've gone from a more blue-tint to a more green-tint. tiffany blue against white always makes me happy. i know painting is such a huge pain, but waking up every morning and seeing these walls instantly makes me happier. so the point here is…. the pain of painting = worth it.
let's admit it. we all spend more time at our computer than anything else, so the space better be comfy and cozy.
though there is a lot to look at here, i really think the rug defines the space. my eye is instantly drawn to the floor with the light grey dots. without this rug, this space would feel empty.
computer chairs are so out. this is actually a dining room chair and not only is it comfortable but it's beautiful. you can see that i've used gold accents throughout the room and this chair is a big statement piece.
my desk has an "antique" feel too it, but it's placed with modern objects, so the space isn't too polished nor too country.
the inspiration board is a must and i believe everyone should have one. it's a daily reminder of your goals, dreams, and the things you love. (but these can be tricky, you can either go very simplistic like me, or overly crowded… just not junky!!!)
photos are a must must must!!! i always revisit my time in paris or memories with my friends when i look at these photos.
if you are going to splurge your money on one thing, then i suggest a fantastic mattress. mine is an extra soft serta with jersey knit sheets. you spend 1/3 of your life sleeping, why not do it in comfort and style? (cute bedding is a plus also.)
i am a candle nut. i always have candles burning (even as i type) it is scientifically proven by me that candles are relaxing because a.) happy scents always makes for a happier you and b.) the bright, warm orange glow is hauntingly memorizing and always interesting to look at.
patterns are a must!!!!!!!! they can be found in simple things such as pillows or even your mouse pad! don't go for one, go for all, just make sure the colours are all complementary. (hint- yellow and grey are totally the "in" colours this season) in fact, once i get my next place, with enough money, i'm totally going the bold, wallpaper route.
coming from the hills of tennessee, nature and space is a big plus for me. since i get neither of those in the big apple, i have little hints all around my room. from the owl on my desk, to a pine cone on my beloved books.
here you can see a crystal hanging in my window. i am a big believer in feng shui. when you move into a new space always clean it. (mop the floors, wipe the walls, and fabreeze the !@#$ out of it.) i even went one step closer and put the crystal in the window to invite good energy and i performed a sage ceremony in my room. sage removes negative energy and invites positive energy (just make sure you open the windows and shower afterward because it's not the most pleasant scent.)
lamps are huge this season. don't get a small, plain lamp that just provides light, get a bold, bright statement piece.
i constantly question myself everyday if this is where i need to be right here and now. keeping things like my film camera and idol, charlie chaplin, in sight all the time remind me why i'm here.
mirrors can take a small space and make it bigger.
don't bore down your bed! spice it up with some unique pillows and a comfy throw!
small art and photographs are out. make big statements with big photos…
alison goldfrapp is not only an awesome musician, but she is a strong and inspiring woman.
even the smallest details need attention! this glass doorknob from anthropologie cost me $6!!! now every time i enter my room, i am instantly happy and transported into the space. (handles, doorknobs, light switches, and fan pulls should never be plain and ignored!!!)
so maybe you got a little crazy with the hammer and nails and put a few too many holes into the wall. easy fix? photos!
personality!!! my books are my personality in the room. here i have a mixture of my most beautiful hardbacks to the books i read the most.
(hint, don't have time to light candles? aroma's are instant and always within the space. my scent is "provence" which is lavender. it instantly transports me back to my time living in france.)
so my room isn't completely complete. i still need a frame for my klimt artwork and my puffy frame from shop scad is currently en-route to me. but let's just pretend these things are really there and my space is complete.
so make a big statement in a small space!!!! you don't need to hire a professional to take your space from frumpy to glam. just put your imagination to the highest degree and you can have a more comfortable and visually pleasing space in no time!!!


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As person after person filed into the Presbyterian Church's Annual Thanksgiving Community Dinner on Tuesday, church members welcomed strangers into the fellowship hall in their own way - a handshake, a smile, a "hello."
The unofficial door greeter was Pastor John Holland, who along with other church volunteers had been out earlier in the day delivering meals to those who were unable to attend. Holland said what impressed him the most about those special deliveries was just simply making contact with people and acknowledging them, listening to them. After all, being recognized and heard translates into being valued and when you're valued, you're loved. As Holland put it, showing God's love is what it's all about.
Inside the fellowship hall, those in attendance were a cross section of the community, from young to old and from every station in life, all sitting next to one another, talking. These visitors to the church were served by church members, as well as members of Boy Scout Troop #259 which is sponsored by Heights United Methodist Church. Also serving dinner were those in the Mason County Day Report program.
It appeared those who were not only breaking bread but serving the meal were a testament to all people being equal in God's eyes. As church member Pam Heib put it, "none of us are any different from the other."
This year's dinner turned out to be the largest one yet with 350 meals served. Church members prepared 12 20-pound birds and 100 pound of potatoes, as well as plenty of dressing, gravy, green beans, desserts and rolls. Goody bags full of candy were also given out to many children.
This year marked the 15th anniversary for the church's dinner.


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LINCOLN, Neb. — Tom Osborne, who put together one of the most successful coaching runs in college football history before serving in Congress and taking the reins as Nebraska's athletic director five years ago, is retiring.
The 75-year-old Osborne announced at a news conference Wednesday that he would step down Jan. 1, though he will stay for an additional six months to assist in the transition to a new athletic director.
"At some point, whether you're able to function or not, just the perception that you're getting old can get in the way," Osborne said. "I don't want to be one of those guys everybody is walking around wringing their hands trying to figure out what are we going to do with him? That happens sometimes."
Osborne, who had double-bypass heart surgery in 1985, said he has no health issues that led to his decision.
"I'm probably healthier today than when I was a member of Congress. That takes a big toll on you," he said.
Basketball coach Tim Miles tweeted news of Osborne's retirement announcement shortly before Osborne spoke to reporters. Miles said Osborne leaves "an unreal legacy" at Nebraska.
Associate athletic director Jamie Williams, who played tight end for Osborne in the early 1980s, said, "They don't make a lot of Tom Osbornes. There aren't a lot of living legends left that you can rub elbows with every day. For him to say he's going off to pasture, I told him we have more dragons to slay. Sometimes fishing becomes more important."
Osborne said he told chancellor Harvey Perlman in August that he planned to retire after the football season. Perlman said a search firm had been hired to identify candidates to succeed Osborne, and that he has already interviewed some of them.
"The decision will be his," Osborne said, referring to Perlman. "I'll support him any way I can."
Besides the success his Cornhuskers teams enjoyed from 1973-1997, Osborne served in Congress and lost a gubernatorial bid before returning to the university in 2007 to take over the athletic department. He oversaw the rebuilding of the football program he loves and shepherded the school's move from the Big 12 to the Big Ten. Continued...
Under Osborne's watch, the athletic department has built a new basketball practice facility and entered into a public-private partnership to build a 16,000-seat basketball arena in downtown Lincoln that will open for the 2013-14 season. He also oversaw an expansion project that will increase Memorial Stadium's capacity to more than 90,000 next year.
Perlman had asked Osborne to take over the athletic department at a time of turmoil. The football program was struggling under Bill Callahan, and staff morale was low under athletic director Steve Pederson.
Osborne recalled Wednesday that when he first met with athletic department executives, a few of them told him they were receiving counseling because of stress. Several staff members either had quit or were considering quitting.
"I wouldn't say things were awful," Osborne said, "but things were a little fragmented. Some people had quit and some people were thinking about quitting. People pulled together very quickly. Hopefully, it has worked out well."
Osborne fired Callahan after the 2007 season and hired Bo Pelini, who made the Huskers competitive again and led them to the Big 12 championship game in 2009 and 2010. Among Osborne's other key personnel moves: hiring Miles from Colorado State last March to coach the men's basketball program and hiring former major-leaguer Darin Erstad in 2010 to coach baseball at his alma mater.
Osborne is most widely known for his coaching. Every one of his 25 teams won at least nine games, and three of his last four teams won national championships. He retired with a career record of 255-49-3, an .836 winning percentage that ranked fifth all-time among Division I coaches, and 13 conference titles. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1998, the year after he retired.
Osborne turned to politics after his coaching days. By overwhelming margins, voters in the western Nebraska district elected him to the House of Representatives in 2000, 2002 and 2004. In perhaps the greatest upset in Nebraska political history, Osborne lost to incumbent Dave Heineman in the 2006 Republican gubernatorial primary.
Osborne finished his third term after the crushing defeat, then returned to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he taught classes in leadership and business ethics before taking the reins of the athletic department.
"I feel we're well positioned," Osborne said. "We worked hard on the culture and part of that has not just been internal. We've tried to link this place with the former players. ... Whatever we've accomplished couldn't happen if we didn't have a united fan base. It would be hard to find one equal to our fans around the country. It allows a program in a state of 1.8 million to be competitive with programs in densely populated areas."
Perlman praised Osborne for stabilizing the athletic department. Continued...
"There are people you can admire from a distance and then when you get up close you see all the warts," he said. "That's not been my experience with Tom. It's been fun to interview head coaches with him and to see the national respect and awe they have of his reputation."
Williams said he hoped Osborne would stay involved in Nebraska athletics long after the new athletic director is hired.
"But at some point," Williams said, "he has to do more fishing."
Osborne joked that his wife approved of his decision.
"It leaves me with a great deal of fear and trepidation," he said with a smile, "because she keeps reminding me the garage hasn't been cleaned in three years and I can see a whole list of things popping up."
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BCTG wrote:cesspool program, Angry Jack will be drinking heavily tonight
claver2010 wrote:BTW I know EndlessMike likes to read USCHO every so often but there is some serious trolling going on in the BU threads, pretty hilarious
Wow, they can't even score OFF the ice.
This is starting to sound a lot like Penn State and Paterno - two, over the hill, has beens running programs into the ground amidst sexual debauchery.
Hey top story on Channel 7!
claver2010 wrote:BTW I know EndlessMike likes to read USCHO every so often but there is some serious trolling going on in the BU threads, pretty hilarious
NorthEndEagle wrote:IN SPAZ WE TRUST!
Endless Mike wrote:claver2010 wrote:BTW I know EndlessMike likes to read USCHO every so often but there is some serious trolling going on in the BU threads, pretty hilarious
I'm enjoying the BU thread right now.
wolverineneshl wrote:I read from another board that BC signed a big forward named Calnan for 2013. If BC can take advantage of BU's PR problems, we should be able to win some more Beanpots and make the FF or NCAA tournaments if we can outrecruit BU for the top notch players.
Next year will be tough without Kreider and Almeida, also players like Carey and Dumoulin will be gone. Addressing the offensive needs of next year will be tough.
Parker: BU believes in transparency
Coach hopes Nicastro rape charge is 'a horrible coincidence'
By Nancy Marrapese-Burrell
Globe Staff / February 21, 2012
It has been a tumultuous and troubling season for the Boston University men's hockey team and coach Jack Parker.
The latest blow came Sunday morning, when star defenseman Max Nicastro was arrested for rape. He was the second BU player arrested for sexual assault in 10 weeks.
Parker said there was not a great deal he could share about the specifics of the Nicastro case, other than to say Nicastro will get due process through the Dean of Students office and the court system. Nicastro has been suspended indefinitely from the hockey team.
"I don't know how this thing plays out,'' he said yesterday by phone. "It remains to be seen.''
Parker wanted to be very clear that the school, the athletics department, and the hockey program believe in transparency.
Parker was forthright when discussing Corey Trivino, who was arrested for sexual assault Dec. 11. Parker doesn't believe the incidents are symptomatic of a larger problem.
"I hope it's a horrible coincidence,'' said Parker. "I don't want this to be the culture of our team and if it is, we'll change it. We've had problems in the past but we've dealt with them and gotten rid of kids we didn't want in our program, whether it be drinking, school or a whole bunch of things but we've had a few instances and dealt with kids and removed them from our program because they weren't living up to our standards and that's how we will look at Max. Is this the culture of the BU hockey team? Is this the culture of BU athletics? If it is, the buck stops here. But I don't believe it is.''
Parker said the standards at BU are high and for student-athletes, they're even higher.
"Not just BU hockey but BU athletics in general, all the coaches hold these kids to a higher standard [in terms of] how they conduct themselves academically, and on the playing fields and in society,'' said Parker. "We want to make sure we hold them to that standard and if anybody falls below it, we deal with it. I don't think anybody has ever thought that Boston University in general, or the BU hockey team in particular, covered anything up or tried to quiet things down and keep it in house just so a kid can play another game. That's not our M.O. That's never been my M.O. and we deal with individual cases as they come. There are going to be bad instances, no question, and when they happen, we deal with them and I think we've dealt with them appropriately over the years and we'll deal with this one appropriately but there's nothing to be dealt with right now other than the suspension until we see what happens.''
Parker said that unlike Trivino, who had issues with alcohol, Nicastro had not been in trouble.
He said BU tries to give student-athletes resources to make good decisions and to understand proper conduct and the consequences of improper conduct and how to avoid getting into dangerous situations.
"I think the university and the athletic department in particular has done a great job in trying to make sure [the players] on both the men's and women's teams know what's expected and how to conduct themselves,'' Parker said.
Parker said hockey obviously hasn't been the priority the last couple of days. He had a brief meeting with his team Sunday and they will practice today.
"This is not a matter of, 'Hey, I hope you can get over this to win the next hockey game,' '' he said. "People are injured here, people are hurting here, people are feeling bad here.''
The Terriers have four games remaining in the regular season, beginning Friday at Vermont.
"It's not a very good situation all around but one of the things I like about my team is that they've been resilient and they will support their teammate but at the same time, they will support their other teammates in the room,'' he said. "I told them, 'We know who we are, we know what type of citizens we have on this team. People will be painting this with a broad brush and you're just going to have to [keep your chin up] and go about your business as you're expected to go about your business as a good student, a good athlete, and a good citizen.' ''
Parker said he can't be worried about what the outside world is thinking about him and his program.
"If I was worried about what outside people think of me and my program, I would be in a straitjacket probably,'' said Parker. "There is no sense in trying to convince people of this or that. Some people will assume some things and some people will assume other things and in many, many areas, assumptions get proven incorrect.
"I'm hoping it plays out as best for everybody involved as possible but this is about due process. I want to assure anybody who is looking at our program that if there is reason for it to be dealt with severely, it will be dealt with severely. It will be dealt with fairly and properly just like we have in every other instance. We've had a sterling reputation here for a long time. We're not covering anything up. We're not trying to save anybody's reputation.''
Parker said neither player has been convicted and their alleged misdeeds have yet to be adjudicated, but he believes he has his finger on the pulse of the team and it's not pernicious.
"If there is a problem with my team, that stops with me, that's my problem and I should be painted with that brush,'' he said. "Is drinking a problem in college athletics? Yes. Is sexual misbehavior a problem with college students? Yes.
"Do we expect that our guys and gals understand that and take a little bit better look at how they conduct themselves? Yes, we do and we try to give them all the information we can and give them all the help we can to make good decisions but good people make bad decisions and sometimes bad people make bad decisions but we don't know what the decisions are here. I don't think the brush should be dipped in the paint yet.''
He said he and his team will try to make the best of the rest of the year.
"I feel bad for everybody involved. Nobody's going to come out of this a winner,'' he said. "This is a bad situation and it remains to be seen how bad but we'll deal with it.''
claver2010 wrote:Endless Mike wrote:claver2010 wrote:BTW I know EndlessMike likes to read USCHO every so often but there is some serious trolling going on in the BU threads, pretty hilarious
I'm enjoying the BU thread right now.
And that's the clean version a ton of posts w "personal attacks" were deleted
NorthEndEagle wrote:IN SPAZ WE TRUST!
flyingelvii wrote:Would hockey scandals be called ice shavings?
NorthEndEagle wrote:IN SPAZ WE TRUST!
Endless Mike wrote:I did get to see twunts like Scott Copley aka Rover and TerrierByAssociation basically defending the kid by either blaming the victim or trying to downplay the crime, which is funny. Did anyone else here post on USCHO back when TBA stole another poster's girlfriend over the internet? Rover of course is reminding everyone that BC had gambling scandals at one point.
Supahfan99 wrote:Endless Mike wrote:I did get to see twunts like Scott Copley aka Rover and TerrierByAssociation basically defending the kid by either blaming the victim or trying to downplay the crime, which is funny. Did anyone else here post on USCHO back when TBA stole another poster's girlfriend over the internet? Rover of course is reminding everyone that BC had gambling scandals at one point.
Yes. TBA, one of the biggest pissants you could possibly find on this planet, stole UMLGoon's (Ryan Lambert, who now writes for Puck Daddy, he's also a miserable prick but has some redeeming qualities) girlfriend Erin, aka gap-toothed erin, in an internet relationship. He told her how great she was over internet chats, told her he didn't care about her giant gap in her teeth, that UMLGoon was a bad guy for being mean to her, and that he didn't care that she was a hillbilly from New Hampshire.
Not long after that they determined from these internet chats they were in love and he proposed to her - this might have also happened via internet chat. I'm not sure if they even met before their wedding day but they barely knew each other yet had determined they were soul mates. It was love at first aol IM.
Naturally, that marriage didn't last and they're now divorced. It was quite a love triangle of dumb bastards if I've ever seen one. I can't imagine the genetic issues that would have been passed on to a kid had either of those two guys given her the hot beef injection.
Erin can still be found flying to the Frozen Four annually out of the Manchester airport with her parents while wearing her UNH jersey.
Glad we could all share this storytime together.
NorthEndEagle wrote:IN SPAZ WE TRUST!
Endless Mike wrote:Wow, they actually got divorced? Thank you for sharing that, good sir. Top notch.
Boston University Office of the President
Robert A. Brown
One Silber Way
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
February 23, 2012
Dear Colleagues and Students:
For decades the Boston University men's ice hockey team has been a source of tremendous pride for the Boston University community, on and off the ice. Our student athletes have competed at the highest level of collegiate ice hockey and united generations of students, alumni, and friends who cheer for their success and admire their accomplishments.
Today we find ourselves at a crossroads for the men's ice hockey program and the University. As has been extensively reported, two members of our team have been charged with assault this academic year. These charges, if ultimately substantiated, involve reprehensible acts. The Boston University community expects that our student athletes, as representatives of the University, adhere to the same high standards to which we hold all members of our community and which reflect the mission and aspirations of our university.
The charges in these cases understandably lead to questions about whether the hockey team's culture and climate have contributed in some way to the actions of the two individuals. The University must address these questions and, if deficiencies are identified, make appropriate and necessary changes.
I am writing to let you know that I am forming a task force of University trustees, overseers, faculty, and staff which will be charged with studying the culture and climate of the men's ice hockey team and its influence on the behavior of student athletes in our campus community. I stress that the constitution of the task force does not reflect a judgment about the specific facts in the two cases of alleged assault. The determination of both cases must be left to the judicial system.
The constitution of the task force does, however, reflect a University-level judgment that the two incidents indicate something systemic or habitual may foster a team climate that does not comport with the highest standards of conduct we seek to maintain for all members of our community.
I launch this task force with the full support of Head Coach Jack Parker, Athletic Director Mike Lynch, and Bob Knox, Chairman of our Board of Trustees. Coach Parker told The Boston Globe, "I hope it's a horrible coincidence. I don't want this to be the culture of our team, and if it is, we'll change it." Coach Parker's comment is exactly right.
The membership of the task force, its charge, and its work plan will be announced in the next several weeks. The goal is for the task force to offer the University a thoughtful and impartial assessment of the culture and climate of our team, with a view to answering the question whether that culture and climate could have contributed to actions that, in turn, led to criminal charges. I will ask to have a report from the task force early in the summer so that we can begin to address any issues in the coming academic year.
Working together, we will do whatever is necessary to restore the Boston University community's confidence in the men's ice hockey program. I look forward to reporting to you on our progress.
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Basically, you can use a lot of different progresions to support a melody.
For example, if your melody is playing an E, your chords can be Am, C^, E^, Em, etc., etc., etc. Why? Just because those chords have E on them. You can even use available tensions, like a G^13 because the 6th/13th is E.
It's not that hard, you just have to look for chords that share the same notes in order to support the melody. So, you have to get your scales together.
I had a teacher who said the root word in reharmonize is "harm." I think he was the same one who said the root word in analyze is "anal."
Another thing to try: hold one note and see how many chords you can spell around it whether you seem to change the key or not.
For a reference, it is good, but you can also give it another root and explain everything again with other bunch of modulations and modal interchanges. Herp derp, music is beautiful.
You guys are gonna make me crack music theory textbooks again…
I am terrible at this stuff, but I've always found musictheory.net to be a particularly helpful little primer.
My 2 rules are:
1. If it sounds right, it is.
2. If it sounds a little off, close enough.Edit: Bonus Rule: If it sounds good, better add some glitches.
Rule 1 is what I live by. I only use theory to explain stuff after the fact.
Another thing to try: hold one note and see how many chords you can spell around it whether you seem to change the key or not.
I love doing that.
are you asking for rules about breaking the rules?
No. I was just wanted to know what everyone's thoughts and ideas were on the subject. Just looking for a general discussion on it. Not really looking for a tutorial specifically for me, just insights and musings.
Interesting topic.
I think that the more knowledge about harmony you have, the easier you´ll be able to break the rules. By the way, one should have the criteria to discover when the rules should be broken and whent they shouldn´t.
As it has been said here, you can give totally different harmony to a given note, and of course, on the contrary, you can create very different melodies over a given chord or over a chord progression. In theory, any sound can be preceded or followed by any sound, and any chord can be preceded or followed by any chord, being the only judgement basis, the way it sounds. Of course, there are common chord progressions and scales which fit them easily. (In fact, jazz players tend to think in scales and chords as two different expressions of the same thing). Knowing this kind of relationships between chords and melody can be useful if you want to explore new sounds and break the rules of tonality. It could bealso useful to know how to harmonize a given scale.
Theoretically, any note could be played in most situations, the key here is, HOW you play it. Do you play it over a strong or a weak beat? At which volume do you play it? How do you attack it? Which not precedes it? to which note it will be leaded? In traditional instruments (knowing the tecnique of the instrument) it is easier to give the proper expression to a note that does not belong to the tonality, however I think that it can be made also in chipmusic.
Finally, the disonance must not necessary be in the main melodic part, What about a disonance on the bass line? Just listen to jazz walking bass players and you´ll have a huge inspiration resource there.
can you share examples?
I think chipmusic needs more chord tension. just take a note from a chord, and flatten it by a half step. Or put two notes a half step away from each other in the same chord, that can have fun results. Sometimes it just sounds wrong, but other times it's super cool.
I'd just suggest listening to and studying Stravinsky's works.
Stravinsky's a VERY good composer to study. "The Rite of Spring" (and other 20th century works) frequently uses a tonal technique called "Bi-tonality" where there are essentially two key signatures going on at once. It sounds very dissonant at times (I guess to can say it sounds atonal, even though it really isn't), the way he does this, but at other points, it sounds beautiful. This is because of the conflicting nature of each key signature.
For example, a little way into this piece, he combines Eb Major and E Major, and it ends up sounding very clashy, but the music is still tonal.
Certain combinations can sound good (eg. Tonic + Dominant works well). It's a trick that's fun to experement with.
There are no "rules" to tonality, but you can reinforce them if you want to (ie. 16th Century Counterpoint). But, even geniuses like Bach broke the "rules"
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listen to/study kwwrr, especially the album "Big Times" (although it's all consistently dissonant & yet really thoughtfully written and sensible)
Just checked this out. Yeah, you're right. It has an underlying feeling of coherency that permeates throughout, and it has moments of a clear understanding of the basic "conventional" rules, and the dissonance is meaningful. And it still has an element of "melody" to it, however disjointed.
I feel all hoity toity, but I can't describe it any other way =q
Thanks for posting that, btw.
There are no "rules" to tonality... unless you were aiming to compose counterpoint in the style of Bach (and even he breaks the rules)
Yeah, you're right. I should have said "Getting away from conventional western tonality" instead.
And Bach is awesome. He made a composition based on the letters of his name, (H is A, if I'm not mistaken) Edit: It's actually B. That's awesome.
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A nifty way to reach truly atonal sounds in LSDJ is with the PU FINE detune! I like to call the areas between sharp and natural 'narps'
For those who are ready;
No matter how complex your notes, there are only four functions in harmony: tonic, dominant, subdominant, and transitional. Regardless of how you make your notes or how consonant they sound, your song will still follow those for functions, even if you define a tritone stack or flat ninth as "tonic." Once you understand this, there are no rules.
It is also permissible to drive tension by a means other than harmony, such as rhythm, lyric rhyme, or outright storytelling. Just something to think about.
Yeah, you're right. I should have said "Getting away from conventional western tonality" instead.
And Bach is awesome. He made a composition based on the letters of his name, (H is A, if I'm not mistaken). That's awesome.
Bach is probably my favourite classical composer.
Another way of "breaking the tonal centre" which you could be describing in your first post can be achieved by using whole tone scales. Unlike normal major/minor/modal scales, these just go up in whole tones (eg. C, D, E, F#, G#, A#, C). Because there are no semitones in a whole tone scale, there are no resolutions (ie. You can't create proper cadences). This produces a "mysterious" effect.
Although the composition could have an actual key signature, whole tones are a way of disguising it in order to create tension/make things more interesting.
An example, Berg's "Nacht" (whole tones right from the start, but then at 0:49 we get a cadence) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RzlaMU1RVA
A chiptune example is Velathnos's "Action 53" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItbJ7r__
ature=plcp (again, whole tones from the start)
It is also permissible to drive tension by a means other than harmony, such as rhythm, lyric rhyme, or outright storytelling. Just something to think about.
This is also very true.
Dynamics are a great way to produce tension, and it's one that's often overlooked in chiptune I've found.
you should study all my tunes )
i noticed recently that everyone forgot how much better i was than all the new dudes
Seriously. I'm not even kidding-I could write theses on ZZZV chord modulations. Do you play piano?
edit: also, wtf is the "that Avril Lavigne chord progression?"
A chiptune example is Velathnos's "Action 53" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItbJ7r__ ature=plcp (again, whole tones from the start)
That tune has fami-blastbeats! omg awesome
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In the "The Outsider" episode of "Once Upon a Time," Hook is finally able to confront Rumpelstiltskin, and Belle is able to show her heroic side (twice) -- but not without a price. It all starts with Rumpelstiltskin finding a way (creating a potion) to leave the town limits without losing his memory, and a funeral.
The town holds a small funeral for Archie Hopper/Jiminy Cricket, whom they believe was killed by Regina. It has hit them all pretty hard, especially Henry, who had formed a bond with him. Jiminy's death stirs in some of the group a desire to return to the Enchanted Forest, not only to escape Regina, but also to hide from those in the real world who might not understand the magic that has been released in Storybrooke. Plus, they're homesick.
Belle does not much like magic either. In the past, back in the land of the Enchanted Forest, she decides to go on an adventure, spurred on by a pre-Grumpy Dreamy dwarf and his gift of fairy dust. Belle goes with a group of men to hunt a beast (the Yaoguai) that's terrorizing villages. She has a book to guide her, but the brutes get her information and dump her. She misled them, and finds the beast herself. It seemingly attacks her, but she is saved by Mulan. The warrior woman was hunting the beast because it assailed her village. They part ways.
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Back in present-day Storybrooke, Belle is attacked in the library by Captain Hook. Rumpelstiltskin comes to find her after she locks herself in what looks to be an elevator and sends out a garbled cellphone call for help. He tells her that Hook took his wife, so he took Hook's hand, and that's why they are enemies. They discover that Hook's attack was a distraction. Hook, or his minion William Sneed, ransacked Rumpelstiltskin's shop and took the one article of clothing that Rumpelstiltskin could use to cross the town barrier -- clothing belonging to his lost son Baelfire. Rump is going after him, and gives Belle a gun to protect herself.
Speaking of protection, there may be trouble in the Charming household. Henry was given Jiminy's dog, Pongo, and it started Snow White to thinking about getting a bigger place. As she's house-searching, Charming brings up the idea that they should think about going back to the Enchanted Forest to fight Cora and take back their kingdom. Snow would rather stay and build a family. Uh-oh.
Back in the Enchanted Forest, the brutes catch up to Belle, upset at her for deceiving them. Mulan saves her again, and they team up to track and kill the Yaoguai. They do track it down, but Mulan, due to a previous injury, can't face it. That duty falls to Belle. Mulan says she can do it if she finds her "warrior spirit." She also gives her a sword.
In Storybrooke, Belle's books and adventurous spirit lead her to find Hook's boat, even though it is magically invisible. Once on the boat, she finds Archie Hopper, a.k.a. Jiminy! She frees him, telling him to go find Mr. Gold while she continues to search for Baelfire's scarf. He's out of there. She's searching, searching, searching ... oops. Hook has arrived.
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Belle faced off with another beast back in the Enchanted Forest. She gets the attention of the Yaoguai, leading it to a watery trap in the town square. With its fire put out, Belle sees that the creature is asking for help. Time to use the fairy dust conveniently given to her earlier, and poof, the Yaoguai is not a beast but a man. Prince Philip, the true love of Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), who was cursed by Maleficent. Belle introduces Mulan to Philip, a relationship that will hopefully be touched upon later, and she leaves to find Rumpelstiltskin. Too bad the Evil Queen/Regina finds her first. Belle is locked up, a pawn that the queen can use against Rumpelstiltskin later.
Jiminy finds Emma Swan and Henry, telling them that he's all right. Great news, but Emma knows that this revelation, and the way that they pushed Regina, will come back to haunt them.
Present-day Belle has a chat with Captain Hook. He tells her that Rumpelstiltskin not only cut off his hand, but killed his own wife because she wanted to be with him. Rumpelstiltskin finds Hook aboard the boat as Belle tries to make her escape. He beats Hook, but thanks to Belle, doesn't kill him.
The duo later makes their way to the town's border. After a touching talk and Belle's declaration that she would wait for him, Mr. Gold crosses the barrier ... and retains his memory. Belle, on the other hand, is shot by a lurking Captain Hook, falling over the borderline. She loses her memory, and Rumpelstiltskin loses his temper. As he prepares to set Captain Hook on fire, a car from outside the city limits comes barreling by, striking Captain Hook and crashing.
This desire to go back to the Enchanted Forest will probably only grow; we didn't get to see Cora or present-day Regina to know what's going on there; and the show seemed to zero in on the Pennsylvania plates of the car that crashed in the end: 2KFL-138. Maybe a license plate we've seen before? Time to speculate...
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Tsars and maidens, witches and wizards, enchanted castles and vampire lairs, orphans and fools, sorceresses and talking animals: these are the stuff of Russian legend. Woe betide the treacherous wife, the greedy merchant or the jealous stepmother – for, like the best fairy tales, these are merciless fables of revenge and regret. But there is also love, honesty and beauty in plenty. Rich and glorious, these tales take us to the very heart of Russian culture.
In the 6th century, migrants set out from Central Asia to settle on the western shores of the Black Sea and thence spread into Poland, the Baltic, Russia and the Ukraine. With them they took their gods, heroes, spirits and monsters, which became the uniquely Russian characters we know today. Here is the Firebird with its feathers of glowing embers (the inspiration for Stravinsky's Firebird Suite), the Snow Maiden and the ghoulish Baba Yaga – the perennial terror of Russian children, with her chicken-legged house and garden full of bones.
Aleksandr Afanas'ev collected and published over 600 Russian fairy tales and folktales, of which some 170 are gathered here in Norbert Guterman's lively translation, effortlessly demonstrating Afanas'ev's claim to be one of the greatest Russian folklorist of all time. As Roman Jakobson remarked:
'Without these tales a Russian child's bookshelf is incomplete.'
Will Ryan, vice president of The Folklore Society, unearths the roots of Russia's rich folkloric traditions, and its most prolific collector of tales, Aleksandr Afanas'ev.
Arthur Ransome wrote in the preface to his own selection of Russian tales: 'I think there must be more fairy stories told in Russia than anywhere else in the world.' This could well be true; each time a folktale is told it changes slightly and becomes to some extent a new tale, and certainly Aleksandr Afanas'ev's collection, large though it is, did not exhaust the stock of Russian folktales of his time. Nevertheless, the substantial collection now to be published by The Folio Society is enough to reveal the character of the Russian folktale in all its variety and exuberance, and at 480 pages should satisfy the most voracious reader.
Russian folktales in translation have a longer history than might be expected – in fact the translations predate the earliest recorded Russian versions. In 1525 the Italian Paolo Giovio wrote down in Latin a tale told by a Russian ambassador to the Vatican, and in the seventeenth century, before the publication of Charles Perrault's French fairy tales, Dr Samuel Collins, the English physician to Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich, recorded several Russian folktales as anecdotes in his account of Russia published as The Present State of Russia (1671). At a less verifiable level, the story of the Russian bride who complained bitterly that her husband did not love her because he did not beat her, which may well have its origin in a Russian tale, became an international anecdote in various elaborations across Europe from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, and a literary joke in pseudo-epistolary works such as Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy (1690s) or Montesquieu's Lettres persanes (1721). It last appeared, I believe, in Goldsmith's Citizen of the World (1762).
In the nineteenth century folktales and folklore in general became a subject of serious study in Europe, especially after the pioneering work of the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in Germany. Partly under the influence of the Grimms, Russian scholars assiduously collected and published Russian oral literature, in particular in the period 1850–70. Their work was not at first widely known outside Russia but fairly quickly found a champion in England in the person of William Ralston, a rather eccentric book cataloguer at the British Museum library, a popular public reciter of folktales of all kinds and a founder member of the Folklore Society, who had reportedly learned Russian by memorising a Russian dictionary. This he had done to such good effect that he became an accomplished translator of Russian literature, and a friend of the novelist Turgenev, whose estate in Russia he visited in 1868. This visit seems to have triggered Ralston's interest in Russian folklore and thereafter he met or corresponded with a considerable number of Russian scholars, including, crucially, the preeminent student of Russian folk belief and collector of Russian folktales, Aleksandr Afanas'ev.
In 1871 Ralston published an obituary and reminiscences of Afanas'ev in the journal The Academy, and thereafter, in two erudite studies, The Songs of the Russian People (1872) and Russian Folk-Tales (1873), Ralston paid tribute to Afanas'ev and drew attention to the vast store of live folklore in Russia, its affinities with the folklore of other parts of the world and the high standards of Russian scholarly research devoted to its collection and publication. This did much to establish Afanas'ev's reputation outside Russia. In the preface to his own book on Russian folktales, which was dedicated to Afanas'ev and contains accurate annotated translations of some fifty Russian folktales, Ralston pointed out that Afanas'ev's published collection contained 332 distinct stories, some with many variants, and amounted to nearly three thousand printed pages, that he had also published separately thirty-three legends, and that a large number of other stories were scattered among the two thousand or so pages of his other great work The Poetic Outlook on Nature of the Ancient Slavs (1865–9). In all Afanas'ev is credited with recording more than six hundred folktales, some in multiple versions, more than comparable with the output of the Grimms.
Afanas'ev, perhaps the best-known scholar of the Russian 'mythological school', was in fact an admirer of Jacob Grimm, and has been called variously the Russian Grimm and, rather anachronistically, the Russian Frazer. He collected folktales in the 1850s and published them in instalments from 1855 to 1867. This was a massive contribution to Russian understanding of their own heritage of popular culture, although it must be said that Afanas'ev's method left much to be desired by modern standards – time, place and circumstance are not often recorded, and a good deal of his material came second-hand from the records of the Russian Geographical Society or the notes of another important folklore collector, the great Russian lexicographer Vladimir Dal'.
Afanas'ev was not the first to publish folktales in Russia – a few are known from the eighteenth century, and several appeared in basic form in popular prints and chapbooks. Folktales heard directly from storytellers also provided material for several of the Russian writers of the early nineteenth century, in particular Pushkin, Russia's greatest poet. There were, of course, other good folklorists who were collecting tales at the same time as Afanas'ev, but none equalled him for the sheer number of published specimens.
Like many another Russian intellectual of the period, Afanas'ev had liberal leanings and suffered for them – he was dismissed from government posts, his book Russian Folk Legends (1860) was banned as blasphemous, and he died in poverty aged only forty-five. But despite his relatively short working life his published output was extensive, his work is still regularly reprinted in Russia and his collection of folktales is a classic and a recognised contribution to world culture.
Afanas'ev's tales are a record of orally transmitted stories, in what more recent scholars would describe as several different genres (myths, legends, fabulates, memorates, etc.). Afanas'ev called his tales Russkie narodnye skazki, of which the second word means 'of the people' and the third means, etymologically, 'something spoken'. This has been translated into English both as 'folktale' and as 'fairy tale', but without going into the nuances employed by specialists, one has to prefer the first term if only because nothing much resembling a fairy, as understood in English, can be found in Russian folklore, and very many of Afanas'ev's tales contain no supernatural or magical element at all. Certainly his collection includes tales with magic and fantastic elements such as magic rings or flying carpets, tales about animals, stories of wizards and witches (some just village magicians, others, such as the well-known Baba Yaga, essentially demons), and the various minor demons and monsters of Russian popular belief. But there are just as many accounts of simple lads performing improbable deeds or outwitting enemies to win the hand of princesses, humorous anecdotes, pseudo-historical stories about figures from the past, and stories about fools, the comeuppance of important persons, and marital relations and deceptions. Some have a moral, some are cynical or cruel, some reflect simple everyday life. A few tales have imported heroes and motifs from the byliny, an oral tradition of folk epic which was just beginning to be collected seriously by other scholars at the time of Afanas'ev's death. The folktales are mostly non-religious, although encounters with the devil and occasional references to saints may be found, and priests are usually the butt of jokes.
After Ralston's translations of some of Afanas'ev's tales, a small but steady stream of translations into English appeared, mostly in the United States. The American folklorist Jeremiah Curtin published nineteen in 1890, and another American scholar Leonard Magnus published seventy-three in 1916. In the same year the popular English writer of novels for children Arthur Ransome, who was living in Russia at the time of the October Revolution and married Trotsky's secretary, published his Old Peter's Russian Tales (1916). Most of these, as he said in his preface, were a re-working from memory of Russian tales from various sources, including Afanas'ev. Ransome's book, like many of the short selections from Afanas'ev regularly published in Russia, was designed for children.
By far the biggest selection in English of tales from Afanas'ev was published in 1945 in the translation of Norbert Guterman. This contains some 175 tales. Guterman was a Jewish émigré scholar from Poland who eventually settled in New York and produced fine translations of French, Polish, Yiddish and Latin books on a wide variety of topics from politics to folklore. His selection from Afanas'ev has been the standard version in English for many years and is now to be published in an elegant new edition by The Folio Society.
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