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Roundabout's BYE BYE BIRDIE Starts Full Rehearsals 7/28, Previews Begin 9/10
After a 48 year absence, Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents the first new Broadway production of Bye Bye Birdie as the inaugural production of the new Henry Miller's Theatre (124 West 43rd Street) beginning Thursday, September 10th, 2009 with an official opening on Thursday, October 15th, 2009. This will be a limited engagement through January 10th, 2010. The production began full cast rehearsals today, Tuesday July 28th.
Additional cast members include Catherine Blades, Deanna Cipolla, Paula Leggett Chase, Riley Costello, John Treacy Egan, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Todd Gearhart, Patty Goble, Suzanne Grodner, Robert Hager, Nina Hennessey, Natalie Hill, Julia Knitel, Jess Le Protto, David McDonald, JC Montgomery, Jillian Mueller, Paul Pilcz, Daniel Quadrino, Emma Rowley, Tim Shew, Kevin Shotwell, Allison Strong, Jim Walton, Brynn Williams, Branch Woodman
Roundabout is proud to welcome back six artists who have previously worked at the theatrical institution: John Stamos, Gina Gershon, Bill Irwin, Paula Leggett Chase and Colleen Fitzpatrick.Bye Bye Birdie's design team includes Andrew Jackness (Sets), Gregg Barnes (Costumes), Ken Billington (Lights), ACME Sound Partners (Sound), Howard Werner (Projections), David Holcenberg (Musical Director), Howard Joines (Musical Coordinator), David BrIan Brown (Hair & Wigs), Jonathan Tunick (Orchestrations) and David Chase (Music Supervisor).In Bye Bye Birdie, the exuberant rock n' roll musical comedy, it's 1960 and hip-swingin' teen idol superstar Conrad Birdie (Funk) has been drafted into the army. Birdie's manager Albert (Stamos) and his secretary Rosie (Gershon) have cooked up a plan to send him off with a swell new song and one last kiss from a lucky teenage fan... on "The Ed Sullivan Show"! Bye Bye Birdie received the 1961 Tony Award® for Best Musical and features such beloved songs as "Put on A Happy Face," "Kids," "Spanish Rose," "The Telephone Hour" and "A Lot of Livin' To Do."
Major support provided by Bank of America. Lead support provided by Roundabout's Musical Theatre Production Fund partners: Perry and Marty Granoff, The Kaplen Foundation, Peter and Leni May, John and Gilda McGarry, Tom and Diane Tuft. Generous support also provided by The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation.Tickets are available online at www.byebyebirdieonbroadway.com or by phone at (212)239-6200. Ticket prices range from $86.50 - $136.50. To become a Roundabout subscriber visit www.roundabouttheatre.org or call Roundabout Ticket Services (212)719-1300.All tickets for the first preview performance on September 10th will be $10, made possible through the generous support of Bank of America. These tickets will only be available for purchase at the Henry Miller's Theatre box office, beginning at 12pm on Monday, August 10. Bye Bye Birdie will play Tuesday through Saturday evening at 8:00PM with Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:00PM. John Stamos (Albert Peterson). Actor/producer John Stamos continues to find success in many different areas of the entertainment world. He was recently seen starring in NBC's Emmy Award-winning drama series "ER." Stamos played Tony Gates, a maverick, hot-tempered, and flirtatious doctor and Gulf War veteran. His addition to the ensemble cast helped create a resurgence in ratings for one of the longest-running prime-time dramas on TV. Since he joined the cast, the show reached its milestone 300th episode and completed its 15th and final season on NBC. Stamos has also enjoyed tremendous success on Broadway, most recently starring in the Tony Award-winning "NINE." His Broadway debut came in 1995's "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" and, in 2000, he starred as the Emcee in "Cabaret," which was very well received. Through his St. Amos banner, he recently produced and starred in "The Two Mr. Kissels," a Lifetime original movie based on the true story of two multimillionaire brothers who married the women of their dreams and wound up dead. He is also co-producing a feature film version of the TV Classic "The Jeffersons" for Sony. Additional producing credits include an Emmy nomination in 2000 for co-producing the ABC miniseries "Beach Boys: An American Family" and the highly rated CBS telefilm "Martin & Lewis." Not limiting himself to behind-the-camera work, he was recently seen in Neil Meron and Craig Zadan's Emmy and Golden Globe nominated adaptation of "Raisin in the Sun" for ABC. He was also recently seen starring in the A&E original film "Wedding Wars" as a gay wedding planner who leads a nation wide strike for gay marriage rights. His additional television film credits include "The Marriage Fool" opposite Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett. Stamos also starred in ABC's 2005 comedy "Jake in Progress." In 2001, he starred in the ABC romantic comedy "Thieves" about a pair of master thieves who become covert government agents. USA Today said of his performance, "the real revelation here is Stamos." On the big screen, he made his entry into the independent film world in the black comedy Dropping Out, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2000 and in the contemporary romantic comedy Grownups. His recent film credits include the independent films I Am Stamos and Knots. Stamos' career has spanned over 25 years, beginning with the hit soap "General Hospital." He later segued to one of the most iconic family television programs playing "Uncle Jesse" on the popular ABC series "Full House." Stamos has also displayed his musical talents over the past 20 years while touring with "The Beach Boys." John currently lives in Los Angeles.
Gina Gershon (Rose Alvarez) has enjoyed a successful and diverse career in entertainment, earning acclaim as a film, television and stage actor, as a singer/songwriter/musician and most recently as an author. Gershon's prolific film career began when she made her feature debut as a dancer in the 1981 film Beatlemania. She landed her first speaking role with a memorable turn in John Hughes' box office hit Pretty in Pink. In addition to her breakout roles in Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls and the Wachowski Brothers' Bound, Gershon has appeared in such films as Red Heat opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cocktail opposite Tom Cruise, John Sayles's City of Hope, Robert Altman's The Player, the John Woo blockbuster Face/Off opposite John Travolta and Nicolas Cage, and Michael Mann's Oscar-nominated The Insider opposite Al Pacino. Gershon was most recently in Richard LaGravenese's P.S. I Love You opposite Hillary Swank and will next be seen in Taylor Hackford's Love Ranch opposite Helen Mirren. On television, Gershon's notable credits include the CBS mini-series, "Sinatra", the TNT original movie "Legalese"' opposite James Garner, Kathleen Turner and Mary Louise Parker and David E. Kelley's action detective drama "Snoops". Gershon has recurring roles in ABC's Emmy Award-winning comedy series "Ugly Betty", Larry David's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" for HBO, and FX's "Rescue Me". She recently guest starred on the Danny McBride HBO series "Eastbound & Down", and will next be seen starring in the Lifetime mini-series "Everything She Ever Wanted". Gershon recently made a huge splash on Broadway, receiving rave reviews as the Italian flight attendant Gabriella in the 2008 Tony Award-winning revival of Boeing Boeing. She will return to the stage this fall to star in the first-ever Broadway revival of Bye Bye Birdie. Additional stage credits include a 2001 starring role as Sally Bowles in Sam Mendes's Broadway revival of Cabaret at Roundabout Theatre Company, the stage plays Camille opposite Kathleen Turner and Jon Robin Baitz's The Substance of Fire (both at the Long Wharf Theatre), and in Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues. As a founding member of the New York-based theater company Naked Angels, Gershon has appeared in numerous productions with the company. Gershon also appeared in the original production of William Mastrosimone's Nanawatai, which opened the Los Angeles Theatre Center. Having always enjoyed singing and songwriting, Gershon's musical career blossomed with the independent film Prey for Rock & Roll, receiving critical acclaim for her role as singer/guitarist Jacki. Her powerful turn as a rock performer in this project led Gershon to star in the IFC documentary Rocked, which followed her on the road touring with the indie rock band Girls Against Boys. Gershon's musical career continues to thrive with her latest CD "In Search of Cleo", a compilation of original songs with a unique sound that mixes country, rock and jazz. Additionally, Gershon has also played Jew's harp on recordings for Herbie Hancock, the Scissor Sisters, Rufus Wainwright and Christian McBride. In 2007, Gershon became a first time author, co-writing a novel for young adults with her brother Dann entitled Camp Creepy Time.
Bill Irwin (Mr. Harry MacAfee) recently played Vladimir in Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Waiting for Godot at Studio 54. He is an original member of Kraken and San Francisco's Pickle Family Circus. Original works include Fool Moon, Largely New York, The Harlequin Studies, Mr. Fox: A Rumination, The Happiness Lecture, and The Regard of Flight. Theatre: Broadway/West End revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (2005 Tony Award, Helen Hayes Award), The Goat or Who is Sylvia, Accidental Death of An Anarchist, 5-6-7-8 Dance!, Waiting For Godot, Scapin, The Tempest, Garden of Earthly Delights, Texts for Nothing, A Flea In Her Ear, 2003/2004 Signature Theatre season devoted to his original work, The Seagull, A Man's A Man, 3 Cuckolds. Television: PBS Great Performances; "Bill Irwin Clown Prince," "Third Rock from the Sun," "Northern Exposure," "Sesame Street," "Elmo's World," "The Regard of Flight," Closing Ceremony 1996 Olympic Games, "The Cosby Show," "The Laramie Project," "Subway Stories," "Bette Midler: Mondo Beyondo," "Law and Order," "Life on Mars," "CSI." Film: Rachel Getting Married, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Igby Goes Down, Lady in the Water, Dark Matter, Raving, Across The Universe, Popeye, Eight Men Out, Silent Tongue, Illuminata, My Blue Heaven, A New Life, Scenes from a Mall, Stepping Out.Awards: National Endowment for the Arts Choreographer's Fellowship, Guggenheim and Fulbright and MacArthur Fellowships.
Jayne Houdyshell (Mrs. Mae Peterson). Broadway: Wicked; Well (2006 Tony Nomination, Theatre World Award Winner 2006). Off-Broadway: The New Century at Lincoln Center Theater (Outer Critics Circle Nominations, Drama League Nomination), The Receptionist at Manhattan Theatre Club (2008 Lucille Lortel Nomination, Drama League Nomination), The Pain and the Itch (2007 Drama League Nomination); Well, Public Theatre (2004 Obie Award and Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel Award Nominations); Much Ado About Nothing, NYSF; Fighting Words, Playwrights Horizons; True Love, Zipper Theater; Attempts on Her Life, Soho Rep. Regional Theater: The Pain and The Itch, Steppenwolf Theatre (2005 Jefferson Award); The Clean House, Wilma Theatre (2005 Barrymore Award), Yale Repertory Theater, McCarter Theatre, Actors Theater of Louisville, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Missouri Repertory Theater, Syracuse Stage, Geva Theatre, Asolo Theater, Studio Arena Theater, Meadow Brook Theater and many others. Film: Everbody's Fine, Garden State, Changing Lanes, Trust The Man, and Things That Hang From Trees. Television: "Unorthodox", "Conviction", "Law & Order", "Law & Order: Criminal Intent", "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and "Third Watch". Proud Member of Actors Equity Association.
Dee Hoty (Mrs. MacAfee). Broadway credits include: Footloose (Tony Award Nomination); The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public (Tony Award Nomination), The Will Rogers Follies (Tony Award Nomination); Mamma Mia!; City of Angels; Me and My Girl; Big River; The Five O'Clock Girl; Shakespeare's Cabaret. Los Angeles: Dr. Doolittle (opposite Tommy Tune); Mamma Mia! (Donna). Dee's National Tour credits include: Barnum (opposite Stacy Keach). Favorite Off-Broadway and regional roles include Kay Thompson in Stormy Weather at Pasadena Playhouse & Prince Music Theater (Barrymore Award); Follies at the Paper Mill Playhouse and creating roles in Lanford Wilson's Book of Days and Arthur Laurents' Two Lives. Her recent television and film credits include The Understudy, "Law & Order", "Law & Order: Criminal Intent". Dee is working on workshop productions of Dangerous Beauty and Elf: the Musical. She is a native of Cleveland, Ohio and a graduate of Otterbein College.NOLAN FUNK (Conrad Birdie). One of Hollywood's rising stars, Nolan Gerard Funk is best known to family audiences for his starring role as Nikko in the Columbia Records/Nickelodeon movie Spectacular! Nickelodeon premiered Spectacular! in February 2009 and over 14 million viewers watched the first week it aired in the United States. With the number one soundtrack and a top ten album on itunes, Funk also had his first song
Bye Bye Birdie will star John Stamos (Albert Peterson), Gina Gershon (Rose Alvarez) & Bill Irwin (Mr. Harry MacAfee) with Jayne Houdyshell (Mrs. Mae Peterson) & Dee Hoty (Mrs. MacAfee). The cast will also feature Matt Doyle (Hugo Peabody), Molly Ephraim (Ursula Merkle), Jake Evan Schwencke (Randolph MacAfee), Allie Trimm (Kim MacAfee) and Nolan Funk as "Conrad Birdie." Robert Longbottom will direct and choreograph Bye Bye Birdie with a book by Michael Stewart, music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams.
on the billboard charts, "Break My Heart". Receiving rave reviews for his performance, this showcased the former national gymnast as a unique triple threat. Spectacular! is yet to be released internationally. Funk has made numerous guest starring appearances on TV series including "The L Word", "Smallville", "Supernatural", "Lie to Me" and a recurring role on "Aliens in America". He most recently played an elitist prep school murderer on ABC's "Castle". His movie appearances include X2 and the upcoming films Triple Dog and Bereavement opposite Alexandra Daddario (Fox's Percy Jackson). A diverse performer, he played real life rapist Michael Magidson in Lifetime's The Gwen Araujo Story by Oscar nominated director Agnieszka Holland. He also played a tormented jock in Deadgirl, which screened at the Toronto Film Festival in 2008. Funk received a Leo Award nomination in 2007 for his work on the youth television series Renegadepress.com and had his first live performance this year with David Archuleta at New York City's Hard Rock Cafe. He is a spokesperson for Nickelodeon's "The Big Green Help" and has publicly supported the charity organization Champions Against Bullying. Matt Doyle (Hugo Peabody). Broadway: Spring Awakening. National Tour: Spring Awakening. NY Theatre: The Butcherhouse (SPF), Lunch (NY Musical Theatre Festival). Film: Once More with Feeling. TV: "Gossip Girl" (recurring). Recording: "Bare: A Pop Opera". LAMDA: Titus Andronicus, The Relapse, Much Ado About Nothing, Women Beware of Women.Molly Ephraim (Ursula Merkle). Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof, Into the Woods, (Little Red Ridinghood) Drama League Nom. Off-B'way: End Days -2009 (Rachel Stein) at EST. Film/TV: Disney's College Road Trip (Wendy Greenhut); "Law and Order," and HBO Pilot "The Wonderful Maladys". Regional: Olive in The 25th
Annual... Spelling Bee at Barrington Stage Co. & North Shore Music Theatre; NYMF's College: The Musical; Arden Theater's Into The Woods, Barrymore Nomination; Gerda in The Snow Queen at the Prince Music Theater. B.A. in Religion from Princeton University.Jake Evan Schwencke (Randolph MacAfee). Jake Schwencke, 10 is thrilled to be playing Randolph in the new production of Bye Bye Birdie. His most recent appearance was in the Cynthia Nixon hit Distracted. He has been on the National Tour of Les Miserables and Whistle Down the Wind. Jake is the voice of the Hippo and the Turtle in the 20th Century feature film Ice Age III. In addition to many commercials and voiceovers he has appeared locally in many theatrical productions. Allie Trimm (Kim MacAfee). A San Diego native, she made her Broadway debut in Jason Robert Brown's 13, the Musical in the role of Patrice. Regional: 13 (Patrice), Goodspeed; The Secret Garden (Mary Lennox); Festival of Christmas '05, '07, Lamb's Players Theater; How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Old Globe Theatre. TV: "30 Rock". Readings: Georgia Stitt's, Water; A.D. Penedo and Marshall Pailet's On a Glorious Day. Allie will sing the National Anthem for the Los Angeles Dodgers this summer.Catherine Blades (Ensemble) is 17 years old from Cedar Rapids, IA and is thrilled to be making her Broadway debut in Roundabout Theatre's revival of Bye Bye Birdie. Catherine played Amaryllis in the National Tour of The Music Man. Regional: Ruthless (Tina Denmark). Other favorites: The Wizard of Oz (Dorothy), Peter Pan (Peter Pan), Fiddler on the Roof (Chava) and The Secret Garden (Mary Lennox).Deanna Cipolla (Ensemble). Deanna is honored to make her Broadway Debut! Previous experience includes various soundtracks , NY Pops 25th Birthday Gala, and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Sincere thanks to Roundabout Theatre, family, friends, Visitation Academy, PPAS, Locker School of Dance and Camp Broadway. Special gratitude to James Donegan, Mark Tumminelli, Mom & Dad. Paula Leggett Chase (Gloria Rasputin, Ensemble). Broadway: Curtains, The Pajama Game, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Kiss Me, Kate, Damn Yankees, Crazy for You, A Chorus Line. Also: Cabaret (w/Joel Grey), Queen of Hearts (Princess Di), Dames at Sea (Joan; Garland, Dean B. Goodman Awards). TV: "Law & Order," "As the World Turns," PBS' "Carmen Sandiego" (Mediva). Husband: David. Sons: Kyler and Dashiell.Riley Costello (Ensemble). Broadway: 13, the Musical. Other NY: Sick Bastard (Reading); 101 Dalmations (Broadway League Presentation). Regional: Bye Bye Birdie, The Boyfriend, Singin' in the Rain (Broadway by the Bay); The Secret Garden, Big, The Music Man, The Pajama Game (Hillbarn Theatre).John Treacy Egan (Ensemble). Broadway: The Little Mermaid, The Producers, Jekyll & Hyde.
Off-Broadway: Batboy, When Pigs Fly! TV: "30 Rock," "Law & Order." Film: "Last Night," "The Producers." Solo CD: Count the Stars. - johntreacyegan.comColleen Fitzpatrick (Ensemble). Roundabout: Sunday in the Park With George, 110 in the Shade, Company. Broadway & NY: Road Show, Mother Courage w Meryl Streep, Lestat, Passion & Into the Woods (both original cast), Jerome Robbins' Broadway, and Cats (original cast). Mamma Mia! (#1 Tour as Donna Sheridan). Numerous leading roles in regional theater. Concerts & Recordings: 4 @ Carnegie Hall, 3 @ Encores!, and many more. Much tv/ film/ soaps/ PBS. Todd Gearheart (Ensemble). Broadway debut. Off-B'way: Incident at Vichy, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Young Girl and the Monsoon, Chaos Theories, Big Doolie. Regional: Guthrie Theatre, ALLIANCE THEATRE, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Film/TV: Law&Order, Law&Order: SVU, Lipstick Jungle. Member TACT (The Actors Company Theatre). CCM Graduate and studied with Utah Hagen.Patty Goble (Ensemble). Broadway: Curtains (Jessica Cranshaw), The Woman In White, La Cage Aux Folles, Kiss Me Kate, Ragtime, and The Phantom of the Opera. NYC performances: Jerry Springer, the Opera; Show Boat; South Pacific (PBS) and Candide (PBS) with the New York Philharmonic. Suzanne Grodner (Ensemble). Broadway: The Rose Tattoo. Off-Broadway: Sarah/Sarah (MTC), Cakewalk & Death Defying Acts (Variety Arts). Nat'l Tour: Ken Hill's Phantom. RegionalL: Many, including: Emma, World Premiere (Cincinnati Playhouse), Wintertime (ACT, Seattle), Distracted (TheatreWorks, CA). TV: All three "L&O's," "Ed," "As The World Turns."Robert Hager (Ensemble). Broadway: Spring Awakening. Regional/Tour: Scooge The Musical, The Who's Tommy, Jesus Christ Superstar, Pippin. Readings: Captain Louie. Proud AEA member. Nina Hennessey (Ensemble). Broadway: Cats, Les Miserables, Dreamgirls, Snoopy, Woman of the Year, Chess AFA Concert, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas AFA Concert. Off-Broadway: Sheba, Dali, Cummings & Goings, Close Enough for Jazz, Odyssey, Sweet Mainstreet , Radio City Music Hall. Regional: Silk Stockings, Lady in the Dark, Cinderella, Fanny, Gift of the Magi, Tintypes, Three Musketeers, Miracles in Glastonbury National Tour: Annie. Television: "Law & Order," "One Life to Live," "Another World," "All My Children," "The Rosie O'Donnell Show," "Late Night with David Letterman," "The Today Show." Recordings: Hair ,Cast Album(2006 Grammy Nomination); Out of Nowhere, The Two Siberians; The Web, Tropical Escape-Craig Peyton; Dancing with the Lion, Andreas Vollenweider; Nina Hennessey Live at the Metropolitan Room.Natalie Hill (Ensemble). Broadway/Nat'l Tour: Grease (Cha Cha), Joseph...Dreamcoat (Narrator), Hairspray. Regional: Miss Saigon (Ellen) Pioneer Theatre Co, Romeo & Bernadette (Bernadette) Papermill/Coconut Grove; Camille Claudel & Brigadoon, Goodspeed; Footloose (Rusty); WSS (Anita); 2002 Olympic Torch Ceremony (Nat'l Anthem). Omaha Symphony Soloist. Training: Bachelor of Music, NYU.Julia Knitel (Ensemble) is ecstatic to be making her Broadway debut at sweet sixteen! Paper Mill Playhouse 2009 Rising Star Best Actress award recipient and National High School Musical Theater Award nominee. Thanks to mom & dad for the vocal coaching and the endless support. Love to all family and friends! www.juliaknitel.comJess Le Protto (Ensemble). Broadway: Original cast of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2007 & 2007), Boy From Oz (vacation u/s); National Tours: Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Broadway's Leading Men; Off Broadway: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (NY City Center Encore Series, Sugar Beats, People Garden; TV: Maury Povich, Law & Order: SVU, One Life to Live. Thanks to Nancy Carson, everyone at For Dancers Only and Fine Arts Conection, and special thanks to my supportive family.David McDonald (Ensemble). Broadway: Les Miserables, Side Show, Mamma Mia. Off Broadway: Forbidden Broadway, Perfect Crime. Regional: Man of La Mancha - Cervantes/Don Quixote, Zhivago -Komarofsky, Adrift in Macao - Mitch Boonton, Lucky Duck - Wolf. Radio City Music Hall - Santa. T.V. - All My Children - Barney Paulson. Love to Julie,Meghan and Alyssa.JC Montgomery (Ensemble). Broadway: The Color Purple, Parade, Swing, Smokey Joe's Cafe', Thou Shalt Not, The Boys from Syracuse and The Little Mermaid. National Tours of Les Miserables and Joseph ...Dreamcoat. TV: "Law and Order," recurring role of Judge Everret Mason. Numerous roles on "Law and Order CI and SVU." Numerous national and regional commercials and daytime dramas. Love to my wife Kim and our boys Trevor and Marcus.Jillian Mueller (Ensemble) is thrilled to be part of the cast of Bye Bye Birdie. Broadway: two holiday seasons of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical. New York credits: Warsaw (NYMF) and Le Corsaire with ABT at the Metropolitan Opera House. Jillian has also performed regionally at the Count Basie Theater. Many thanks to her teachers, family and Jack for their support. Special thanks to Granger and the band.Paul Pilcz (Ensemble) Paul is thrilled to be making his Broadway debut in Bye Bye Birdie. Training: Montclair State University's BFA Musical Theatre Program, The Fine and Performing Arts Center (FPAC) in Freehold Regional High School District. Favorite Roles include: You're A Good Man Charlie Brown (Schroeder), West Side Story (Big Deal). Special thanks to Dina Bogner at Generation TV, TM Talent, his teachers, friends, mom, dad, Stephanie and Shari for all of their love and support!Daniel Quadrino (Ensemble). Daniel is thrilled to be making his Broadway debut with such an amazing cast! He would like to thank his mom, dad, and brother for all their love and support. He couldn't have done it without them! BIG thanks to Jim Carnahan Casting for such a great opportunity.Emma Rowley (Ensemble). Singing and dancing since the age of three, Emma Rowley sang her first solo in her school's talent show at six years old. After bringing down the house with "Broadway Baby", she went on to play various roles in community theater, including an orphan in Annie and Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden. She also sang The National Anthem at RFK stadium for the Washington Nationals. In the summer of 2007, Emma was cast as Baby Louise in the New York City Center's Encores production of Gypsy. She reprised this role in the 2008 Broadway production which starred Patti LuPone, and was directed by librettist Arthur Laurents. A native Virginian, Emma loved living in New York City for seven months, taking full advantage of all that the city has to offer musical theater lovers. She trained with vocal coach Bob Marks, took classes at the Broadway Dance Center, and saw as many shows as possible. She also enjoyed playing Francine in the staged reading of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn with The Peccadillo Theater Company and singing at Carnegie Hall for the New York Pops 25th Anniversary Gala.Tim Shew (Ensemble). Broadway: Wonderful Town (Lonagan), Les Miserables (Jean Valjean), Guys and Dolls, Sunset Boulevard, King David, The Scarlet Pimpernel. Santa @ Radio City. Natl. Tours: The Light in the Piazza, Les Miserables, Bernstein's MASS at Carnegie Hall/Kennedy Center. 1st show: Bye Bye Birdie 35 years ago. "Goin Steady"with J+J!Kevin Shotwell (Ensemble) is honored to be making his Broadway debut in this amazing revival of Bye Bye Birdie. He is a native of Delaware who has been involved in many productions throughout the region. Favorite roles include West Side Story (Riff) , Children of Eden (Cain), and Big River (Huck) .Allison Strong (Ensemble). Broadway debut! Currently pursuing a BFA in Musical Theatre at Montclair State University, NJ. NY: The White Rose (reading), York Theatre Co. Regional: New Voices of 2006, 2007 (Paper Mill Playhouse). For her grandma, Mamita, who passed away just days before Allison received the wonderful news about Birdie casting.Jim Walton (Ensemble). Credits include Crazy For You and Follies: In Concert (PBS), Guys and Dolls, The Music Man, And The World Goes Round, Sweeney Todd, 42nd Street, and Merrily We Roll Along. With brother, Bob, wrote Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical. Website: midlifethecrisismusical.comBrynn Williams (Ensemble). Broadway credits: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, In My Life, ...Grinch, 13. TV/film: "The Naked Brothers Band", "Between the Lions', "Star Search', ''Live in Hollywood' . Other: Pittsburgh Steelers' 75th Anniversary Gala. Thanks to GOD, Mommy, Grandy, Barry Kolker, KRS Entertainment Group, Toby Orenstein, Amelia DeMayo.Branch Woodman (Ensemble) Broadway: Crazy For You. National Tour: Big, The Musical. NY: Disappearing Act, Out of This World. Regional: Dancing in the Dark (The Old Globe), She Loves Me (Paper Mill), Call Me Madam, George M (Goodspeed).The Durst Organization and Bank of America recently announced the completion of the Henry Miller's Theatre on West 43rd Street in Times Square. The 1,055-seat house inside the new 55-story Bank of America Tower will be New York's first LEED rated theatre. Henry Miller's Theatre is the first new Broadway theater built in over a decade and sets new standards for environmentally sustainable design and construction of performing arts venues. Henry Miller's Theatre sits behind the preserved and restored neo-Georgian façade of the original 1918 theater. The theater and the Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park are an Empire State Development Corporation project and a joint venture of The Durst Organization Inc. and Bank of America, N.A.By 1969, after being used as a Broadway theatre for 51 years Henry Miller's Theatre was abandoned as a legitimate theater. In 1998, Roundabout Theatre Company transformed, reopened and operated the venue as a Broadway theatre with their Tony award winning production of Kander & Ebb's Cabaret. Cabaret ran for nine months, closed because of a construction accident at an adjacent building, re-opened briefly, and transferred to Studio 54 for a five-year run. The revitalization of Henry Miller's Theatre is consistent with Roundabout's history of bringing dilapidated, lost theatres back to life and programming the venues as viable, live performance spaces for the benefit of theater artists and audiences and managing them efficiently.Henry Miller's Theatre serves the company's mission by providing more opportunities for artists as well as audiences. With Henry Miller's Theatre, Roundabout will create 80-100 new jobs each year for artists and theater staff through its activities. Beyond this project, the institution continues to employ hundreds of artists each year, including actors, designers, directors, playwrights, stage crew, front of house staff and administrators. The new theater venue will also enable Roundabout to increase its educational outreach beyond the 6000 students currently served as well as provide a greater percentage of lower priced tickets to families and students. Education@Roundabout will be able to offer even more professional development workshops for educators and experiential learning opportunities for students through its partnerships with schools and onsite after school programs for teens.ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY is one of the country's leading not-for-profit theatres. The company contributes invaluably to New York's cultural life by staging the highest quality revivals of classic plays and musicals as well as new plays by established writers. Roundabout consistently partners great artists with great works to bring a fresh and exciting interpretation that makes each production relevant and important to today's audiences.Roundabout Theatre Company currently produces at three permanent homes each of which is designed specifically to enhance the needs of the Roundabout's mission. The off Broadway Theatre Center, Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, which houses the Laura Pels Theatre and Black Box Theatre, with its simple sophisticated design is perfectly suited to showcasing new plays. The grandeur of its Broadway home on 42nd Street, American Airlines Theatre, sets the ideal stage for the classics. Roundabout's Studio 54 provides an exciting and intimate Broadway venue for its musical and special event productions. Together these three distinctive venues serve to enhance the work on each of its stages.Roundabout Theatre Company productions are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; New York State Council on the Arts; National Endowment for the Arts; and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. American Airlines is the official airline of Roundabout Theatre Company. Roundabout Theatre Company's 2009-2010 season includes Mark Saltzman, Irving Berlin & Scott Joplin's The Tin Pan Alley Rag, directed by Stafford Arima; Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie, starring Sienna Miller & Jonny Lee Miller, directed by Mark Brokaw; Michael Stewart, Lee Adams and Charles Strouse's Bye Bye Birdie, starring John Stamos, Gina Gershon, Bill Irwin & Nolan Funk, directed and choreographed by Robert Longbottom; Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking, directed by Tony Taccone; Theresa Rebeck's The Understudy, with Julie White, directed by Scott Ellis; Adam Gwon's Ordinary Days, directed by Marc Bruni; Noël Coward's Present Laughter starring Victor Garber, directed by Nicholas Martin and Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, with Patch Darragh, Judith Ivey, Keira Keeley, directed by Gordon Edelstein. Roundabout's sold out production of The 39 Steps made its second Broadway transfer to the Helen Hayes Theatre on January 21, 2009.
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Giannina Braschi
Puerto Rican writer
(Redirected from Yo-Yo Boing!)
Giannina Braschi (born February 5, 1953) is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, and essayist who writes in English, Spanish, and Spanglish. She is the author of the postmodern poetry collection "Empire of Dreams" (1988), the bestselling Spanglish novel "Yo-Yo Boing!" (1998), and the postcolonial dramatic novel "United States of Banana" (2011) on the collapse of the American empire.
Empire of Dreams (prose poetry, 1988)Edit
- 'Gods are condemned to live the dream of the imperishable."
- 'Read me, read me. Love me, love.'
- 'Questions don't change the truth, but they give it motion.'
- 'The star wasn't poetry until the madwoman discovered it.'
- 'Acabo de proverbiar la vida. La acabo de matar.'
- 'I have just turned life into a proverb. I just killed it.'
- 'Behind the word is silence, behind that silence is forgetfulness.'
- 'What does winter or autumn or spring or summer know of memory. They know nothing of memory. They know that seasons pass and return. They know that they are seasons. That they are time. And they know how to affirm themselves. And they know how to impose themselves. And they know how to maintain themselves, What does autumn know of summer. What sorrows do seasons have. None hate. None love. They just pass.'
- 'Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives. Why do you think Christ was killed? They killed him to prove that he wasn't a god. But in killing him, they immortalized the perishable and transformed man into a god.'
- 'I am egg and always will be, and we are eggs and always will be. Fried eggs. Or rotten eggs. Boiled eggs. Or scrambled eggs. Poached eggs. Or round eggs. Eggs. Eggs. Eggs.'
- Poetry is this screaming madwoman.
- 'Let's begin by affirming that poetry has died.'
Yo-Yo Boing! (Spanglish novel, 1998)Edit
- —Poets and anarchists are always the first to go.
—To the frontline. Wherever it is.
- If I respected languages like you do, I wouldn't write at all. El muro de Berlín fue derribado. Why can't I do the same? Desde la torre de Babel, las lenguas han sido siempre una forma de divorciarnos del resto de la humanidad. Poetry must find ways of breaking distance. I'm not reducing my audience. On the contrary, I'm going to have a bigger audience with the common markets — in Europe — in America. And besides, all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds. I feel like Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio, and I even feel like Garcilaso forging a new language. Saludo al nuevo siglo, el siglo del nuevo lenguaje de América, y le digo adiós a la retórica separatista y a los atavismos.
- "I can understand Spanish but I can't understand Puerto Ricans."
- "We have a similar problem. I can understand English, but I cannot understand Americans."
United States of Banana (2011)Edit
- This is a vicious circle. This is the fishmarket. This is working for survival. This is survival of the fastest. This is the Darwinist capital of the capitalist world. A head afraid is a head haunted. A head haunted is a head hunted. Run for your life. Run from the guillotine to a head hunter who saves your head and raises your salary—so you'll be caught in the red of the fishmarket buying gadgets to distract your fragile imagination that is cut in the red market of blood—running and escaping—running again—changing your resume to update the fear you feel of being unemployed tomorrow—in the streets—and from there to welfare—and from there to begging.
- The suicide bomber is an explosion of a contradiction in its paradox, victim and victimizer, yin and yang, two sides of the coin, fire bomb and fire extinguisher, prosecutor and defendant, hangman and hanged.
- Originality is going back to the place where you were what you were—and finding an empty chair. Would you gladly sit on it? No, thank you. It is empty for a reason. That's where my ass was. Not where my head is now.
- It's the end of the world. I was excited by the whole situation. Well, if everybody is going to die, die hard, shit, but what do I know? Is this an atomic bomb--the end of the world--the end of the millennium? No more fear of being fired--for typos or tardiness--digressions or recessions--and what a way of being fired--bursting into flames--without two weeks notice--and without six months of unemployment--and without sick leave, vacation, or comp time--without a word of what was to come--on a glorious morning--when nature ran indifferent to the course of man--there came a point when that sunny sky turned into a hellhole of a night—with papers, computers, windows, bricks, bodies falling, and people running and screaming...
- I saw a torso falling--no legs--no head--just a torso. I am redundant because I can't believe what I saw. I saw a torso falling--no legs--no head--just a torso--tumbling in the air--dressed in a bright white shirt--the shirt of the businessman--tucked in--neatly--under the belt--snugly fastened--holding up his pants that had no legs. He had hit a steel girder--and he was dead--dead for a ducat, dead--on the floor of Krispy Krème--with powdered donuts for a head--fresh out of the oven--crispy and round--hot and tasty--and this businessman--on the ground was clutching a briefcase in his hand--and on his finger, the wedding band. I suppose he thought his briefcase was his life--or his wife--or that both were one--because the briefcase was as tight in hand as the wedding band."
- When the Twin Towers fell—I felt a dentist had pulled out my two front teeth. I could not laugh anymore. And I have the smile of a smiling damned villain. But I also felt the hole in my mouth became a garage, and entering that garage were terrorists in trucks full of explosives and French diplomats—to f*ck us more with other nations—to run over our dead bodies.
- The United States of America will become the United States of Banana. And Puerto Rico will be the first half-and-half banana republic state incorporated that will secede from the union. Then will come Liberty Island, then Mississippi Burning, Texas BBQ, Kentucky Fried Chicken—all of them—New York Yankees, Jersey Devils—you name it—will want to break apart—and demand a separation—a divorce. Things will not go well for the banana republic when the shackles and chains of democracy break loose and unleash the dogs of war. Separation—divorce—disintegration of subject matters that don't matter anymore—only verbs—actions. Americans will walk like chickens with their heads cut off.
- English is a language of mass destruction. Lady Macbeth is a queen of mass destruction. Lear is a king of mass destruction. Hamlet is a prince of mass destruction. Shakespeare is a bard of mass destruction. And Moby Dick is a whale of mass destruction. Why are you a culture of death and destruction? Why do you obliterate villages, cities, and civilizations with your language of mass destruction? Is the destruction worth the destruction? For what purpose did you destroy my language? To impose the sovereignty of your rule of law with weapons of mass destruction—to then say: --I offer you my lifesaver. Now, we can communicate in the same language. English only, please.
External linksEdit
- http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/author/giannina_braschi (Library of Congress: On Giannina Braschi, 2012)
- http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5804(2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival webcast)
- http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_global_south/summary/v004/4.1.marting.html (Global South, Diane Marting on Giannina Braschi's Empire of Dreams, 2010)
- http://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2012/september/what-read-now-mixed-genre-literature-giannina-braschi#.UWDNTZPU9ic (World Literature Today, Giannina Braschi on Mixed Genre Literature, 2012)
- http://www.pen.org/video/resonances-contemporary-writers-classics-0 (Giannina Braschi at PEN World Voices Festival 2012)
- [1], public domain video of Giannina Braschi reading from "United States of Banana" (2011)
- [2], public domain video of Giannina Braschi reading September 11th poem: "I saw a torso falling—no legs—no head—just a torso..."
- Current TV News Video on Nuyorican Culture, featuring J Lo, Rita Morena, Pedro Pietri, Fatboy, and Giannina Braschi [3]


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Germany's anti-bribery laws go the distance (Part 1)
This post, the first of two parts, is based on an article that first appeared in the Magazine of the Deutsch-Amerkanische Juristen-Vereinigung by T. Markus Funk. Mr. Funk is a partner at Perkins Coie specializing in global anti-corruption compliance and internal investigations. The article is here.


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Monday, November 5, 2012
It's Over
40 comments:
- Flaun of I Plead Quilty! said...
I'm so sorry you aren't in your lovely new condo, Jacquie, but glad you'll be settled soon.
- November 5, 2012 at 3:26 PM
- Candied Fabrics said...
WoW! What a roller coaster ride! You seem to have quite a positive outlook on what I am sure has been an extremely frustrating time! That you and hubby figured out you need the bigger space for a studio? THe best tasting lemonade ever!
- November 5, 2012 at 3:26 PM
- Jan said...
I'm so glad, for you, that you're settled. Not what you wanted but you have the right attitude.
- November 5, 2012 at 3:28 PM
- Mary P said...
Oh Jacquie! Sorry to hear that you didn't get it. I have heard so many similar horror stories lately from deals being so close to going through and then banks not approving for a variety of issues. :( I'm sure it doesn't make it any easier. I'm glad to hear you are getting more space though, and I hope you feel very settled very soon.
- November 5, 2012 at 3:31 PM
- Aunt Marti said...
Jacquie, I'm sorry the new place didn't work out. I absolutely agree, it's as much trouble to move across town as it is to move across country. And just as much trouble to move out and back into the same apartment!
- November 5, 2012 at 3:32 PM
- Laura said...
Bless your Heart!!! I saw your gorgeous quilts hanging at the Quilt Festival yesterday. They are more magnificent in person!
- November 5, 2012 at 3:32 PM
- Mary on Lake Pulaski said...
That kinda' stinks Jacquie, but of course you have a good attitude! (and a bigger sewing space) I finished piecing my hexies and it's 62" X 80"!! Stop by my blog in your "spare" time. Take care.
- November 5, 2012 at 3:36 PM
- folksmith said...
great idea to move your studio into the bedroom. very thoughtful of your husband.
- November 5, 2012 at 3:37 PM
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- November 5, 2012 at 3:38 PM
- Aliceart said...
Oh, Jacquie, I'm so sorry for what you and your husband have been going through. It does sound as though you are making lemonade out of your lemons. Hang in there!
- November 5, 2012 at 3:41 PM
- Sarah said...
Do you want some help unpacking? I'd be happy to plan a trip into town for an afternoon. I have lived in so many houses in my lifetime that I'm pretty good at moving ;)
- November 5, 2012 at 3:42 PM
- Esch House Quilts said...
I'm so sorry the condo didn't work out! It must feel good to have the waiting over and be able to move forward - especially into a bigger space. Your husband really is a generous genius :)
- November 5, 2012 at 3:50 PM
- LSS said...
Resolution is good, even if it isn't what you ultimately wanted. Stinks to unpack back into the same place but on the upside, you know where everything goes :-) and your hubby is awesome, too! XO
- November 5, 2012 at 3:57 PM
- Valerie said...
Ugh-what a frustrating situation with the condo, so at least there is resolution there. Good luck settling back into your new/old space. And what a sweet hubby! Enjoy that larger studio!
- November 5, 2012 at 4:09 PM
- stitchinpenny said...
So sorry, but if ever you want to write the get it off your chest letter I am sure it would be good reading. Somehow this will be a better thing for you even though it is hard to see the pony right now, keep digging because it is there.
- November 5, 2012 at 4:24 PM
- Betty said...
Am sure you've had the old adage "everything happens for a reason" cited to you enough by now. But just think about the possibilities to write the next chapter - what might be lying ahead?! Your attitude has been an inspiration for me - so glad to see it remains intact! And don't you know Bruno is happier?
- November 5, 2012 at 5:01 PM
- CitricSugar said...
Sorry you didn't get the condo, but it's wonderful that you're married to a man who understands and supports your hobby to the point of not only surrendering the master bedroom as a studio, but suggesting it in the first place. Keeper. :-) Enjoy the peace that comes with the end of limbo.
- November 5, 2012 at 5:04 PM
- Dana said...
UGH! What an exercise in frustration for you! So sorry!!!
great news about the sewing room, though. When life gives you lemons, make a quilt!
- November 5, 2012 at 5:13 PM
- Theresa said...
Such true words....I left my job after ten years back in July. Long story but I was unhappy and found fault with everything. But the luxury of walking away from it gave me time to think and contemplate my future in a very difficult job market. As it happened my replacement didn't work out and I was offered my old job back with more money after 10 weeks. I jumped at it and you know what, that new head space has turned everything around. Sometimes going back to what you know does work.....for now! There will be something for you, there is no doubt. Best wishes
- November 5, 2012 at 5:15 PM
- Cheryl Arkison said...
What a shit experience.
But you have a very smart husband.
Any studio tips. I am FINALLY getting set to fill my space, but hopefully not actually fill it.
- November 5, 2012 at 5:42 PM
- carol said...
I'm so sorry the condo didn't work out. I know what a pain it is to search and search, find something suitable and then have it fall apart. This can only mean that something better is on the horizon. I'll be excited to hear about it when the time comes!
- November 5, 2012 at 5:50 PM
- Ann Marie @ 16 Muddy Feet said...
Well you could always look at it this way. At least you got the carpets cleaned, and the walls painted(maybe) so you were just upgrading the apartment, the hard way. I know what it is like to be hanging, I did it for 9 months earlier this year on not knowing if I was moving across country. It was nice when we made the decision to stay put for now. Life continues on, less stressful.
- November 5, 2012 at 7:18 PM
- Nicole said...
Jacquie, so sorry to hear that the condo didn't work out. But you are so right about having a home and a place to settle down. Good luck with getting settled! Can't wait to see your new studio. You've got an amazing husband!
- November 5, 2012 at 7:39 PM
- Doris said...
Ugh---Jacquie! We had two recent heartbreaks of not getting a dream house, and then being outbid on another we found. BUT. That does not even compare to having to move out and then back in... ugh. But you are right, any home is better than none.
- November 5, 2012 at 8:10 PM
- QuiltSwissy said...
Sorry about not getting the condo. I will tell you ssomething that will certainly make you feel better though.
At the quilt show in Houston, I rounded the corner into the Modern area and lo and behold! I see a few quilts I know. Most I have seen some of the processes that went into ithem! I was so excited.
I went on and on to my companions how I was like your BFF and all.
It was wonderful to see your work hanging in the show! Congratulations!
- November 5, 2012 at 9:26 PM
- Debbie Pine said...
Well darn it all. That's my pc comment for how I really feel about it. Everything happens for a reason, so I'm betting that something wonderful comes along soon. Wishing you a very welcome back home.
- November 5, 2012 at 9:55 PM
- Mary Anne said...
Being unsettled is the pits...as we both know! I've always been a "glass half-full" kinda' gal and I choose to believe that something better will come of this hardship (and I don't just mean a larger sewing space!)
It was great to see you in Houston and I'm so looking forward to February!
- November 5, 2012 at 10:00 PM
- hilary said...
Owning is a money pit. You are now free to travel and do what you love without worrying about mundane maintenance. That's the landlords problem. So glad your hubby suggested a larger space. You certainly have earned it. As much as you loved the condo, that could have become a real money drain with all the fees they charge. Have fun setting up your new space. .
- November 5, 2012 at 10:45 PM
- Kris said...
I live a two-bedroom apartment as well and my hubby and I made the same big bedroom/small bedroom switch you did. It was a bit of "duh!" moment for us after trying to squeeze both of our working spaces into the smaller room. Hope your move back in goes smoothly!
- November 6, 2012 at 6:28 AM
- Pat said...
So sorry about the condo but moving your studio into the larger room is smart. You won't regret it! I've been in the same place for 25 years and when I moved in I made the decision to use the smallest room for sleeping. I've never regretted it and you won't either. Wonderful hubby to suggest it. :D
- November 6, 2012 at 11:11 AM
- cinzia said...
yes, a roof over our heads is a blessing. And good move about swapping the studio and master bedroom. I never understood the need for a big room used just for sleeping!
- November 6, 2012 at 1:41 PM
- monique said...
I can totally sympathize! From May to August was very difficult for us and our 2 teenagers. We decided to move out of our fabulously located shoebox/townhouse so we moved EVERYTHING out, moved staging furniture in, live in a showhome and then, for complicated reasons decided to take our place off the market, move staging stuff out and moved all our stuff back in. I'm still moving back in; a box a day (as I have a back injury to boot). We also did a room reshuffling and I lost my sewing space:( but to a good cause. Sometimes its just good to shake things up. Enjoy your re-nesting. Just knowing where to nest will be a load off of your mind.
- November 6, 2012 at 4:15 PM
- Jeannette said...
Awe I am so sorry the condo didn't work out after waiting for so long. Sometimes things have a strange way of working out for the best. I can't wait to see the new studio you create! I am sure the new space will be wonderful in no time at all. Good thing is you are in familar space making getting resettled a bit easier for all.
- November 6, 2012 at 5:08 PM
- MariQuilts said...
I'm so sorry to hear that. So nice you are ending up with a larger studio. We did that exact same thing in our apartment on the coast....it works so well.
- November 6, 2012 at 7:46 PM
- QuilterBee said...
I am so sorry. I know how disappointing that is, been there. But you get a brand new bedroom AND and brand spanking new studio without moving!! That's fabulous :o)) I LOVE Bruno, give him a hug and kiss for me, Amie in Tn.
- November 7, 2012 at 1:16 AM
- Judy in Michigan said...
Can you recommend any quilt shops right downtown Chicago? We will be there Dec.1-5. Thanks.
- November 7, 2012 at 7:24 PM
- Ivete Tecedor said...
I'm so sorry to hear that the condo fell through =( But happy about your new larger studio! Your husband sure is a keeper!
- November 8, 2012 at 7:07 AM
- Jacey said...
It's too bad the condo didn't work out for you, but hooray for a larger workspace! Happy unpacking!
- November 10, 2012 at 1:26 PM
- Angela said...
Oh no! I'm just now reading this, and I'm so sorry to hear about the condo! And how crazy is it to move back into your old place!?!?! I hope this means that there's just something so much better around the corner. Hugs!
- November 21, 2012 at 7:41 PM
I love the retro camper material, what store did you get it at?
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Man denies drunken driving charges in fatal crash
Respected teacher James Braga killed in Middleborough crash
James Braga wasn't loved just by his family. He was loved and respected by the entire town of Middleborough, where he had mentored hundreds of youths as a teacher and coach at the high school, one of his sons said.
Braga, 61, was killed last weekend when his car was struck by a 20-year-old man prosecutors say was driving drunk and high on marijuana.
"He was just a great person and, you know, it's a huge loss for our family, but it's also a huge loss for the whole community," Jonathan Braga, 29, one of the victim's three grown sons, told The Enterprise of Brockton. "It's been like a shock wave, I think."
Since the accident, Braga's family has been overwhelmed by calls from around the country from people offering their condolences, said another son, James D. Braga.
Braga, a Vietnam veteran, taught marketing and business classes and also coached boys soccer for years before his retirement.
Braga's three sons sat in tears, their arms around one another, as the man suspected of causing the accident on Route 44 on Saturday night was arraigned Wednesday in Wareham District Court.
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Can photovoltaics ever be romantic? Morphosis Architects' design for a new academic building for the Cornell NYC Tech campus, scheduled to open on Roosevelt Island in 2017, suggests the answer could be yes. The in-progress scheme lofts a "lilypad" of photovoltaic cells five stories in the air, covering the roof of Morphosis' building and bridging a pedestrian street to rest atop a co-location facility (an on-campus business incubator) to be designed by an architect yet to be chosen. By calling it the "lilypad," Morphosis principal Thom Mayne is trying to get out ahead of the nickname curve, and to suggest that his massive array (a.k.a. "the solar farm") is more an element of landscape than of architecture. The structure itself is to be the first net-zero building in New York City, fulfilling its own energy needs and acting as a living embodiment of the future of technology. At a recent briefing on the campus master plan, scheduled to begin the city approvals process this week, Mayne said that the array simply has to be that big to produce enough power—though the pad also seems a lot like an older brother's headlock on to-be-announced Architect #2.
In Cornell's plans, we can start to see a future campus forming along with the two universities' (Cornell has partnered with Israel's Technion University) entrepreneurial, multi-disciplinary graduate curriculum. The metaphors are vegetal, but the concepts are digital. Will this new campus be part of the city, an island destination, a model green neighborhood? Or, will this be Silicon Valley East, where commercial and educational buildings that appear transparent retreat behind an invisible security curtain? You can look, but you can't touch—not without a badge.
In its current incarnation, the floors below the lilypad narrow toward the ground, making the whole thing look like a ship in drydock or, given Mayne's metallic proclivities, a battlestar. Mayne mentions floating trays of landscape across the long western façade to emphasize the jump-cut between the island and Manhattan, the beauty of having your trees and your city, too. Upper floors will have research spaces with no private offices but a "huddle" (a miniature conference room) for every member of the faculty. Lower floors have student work spaces, classrooms, and public access. Mayne's first New York building, the academic building for Cooper Union, at 41 Cooper Square, has the same top-heavy proportion and silvery outcurving sides, albeit crammed onto a tight urban block. That building's most notable interior feature, a swaying set of steps intended both as circulation and social space, has also been adapted for Cornell. A five-story atrium cuts the short way across the long Cornell building, with flights of stairs rising up through its center. The atrium is on axis with Fifty-seventh Street, giving everyone a view down a Manhattan canyon.
If I seem to be laying the scenic metaphors on thick, that's intentional. Mayne's building is just one element in Phase I of a project with a twenty-five-year build out. He's got the prime position in the northwest corner of the site, a short stroll from the tram and the F train. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is designing the master plan, and James Corner Field Operations (of High Line fame) the landscape architecture. As S.O.M. associate director Colin Koop described it, the ground comes first, as soon as the 1939 Goldwater Hospital buildings on the site are demolished. Phase I will include four buildings: Mayne's academic ship, the co-location facility, a housing tower, and an executive-education center with a hotel, all located at the north end of the site. The southern end abuts Southpoint Park, which leads to the brand new Four Freedoms Park at the tip of the island.
S.O.M. has planned a central circulation spine—all pedestrian—running from north to south, with diagonal paths cutting off at angles, framing more Manhattan views and leading to a series of small parks. The design reads as a do-over to the gridded hardscape of the development at the north end of Roosevelt Island. The buildings here will be lower, all but the housing topping out at the lilypad's five stories. When asked for the origin of all those angles (which seem made for Mayne's architecture), Koop talks about the paths of desire people cut across parks, and the cinematic views one gets between buildings on the High Line. The buildings also hew to the center in order to get them up on the natural ridge, nineteen feet above sea level, in case of a five-hundred year flood—another case of letting nature take the lead in the design. Along that spine are sketched thick blue "activation" lines, ground-floor spaces intended for indoor-outdoor flow. The southern end of Mayne's building is a double-height skylit café, open to the public, shaded by the pad, and adjacent to a lecture hall and exhibit gallery. "You've been to the Ace Hotel?" he asked me. "Their lobby is what this space is."
And there it is. The obligatory Ace Hotel reference. Everyone loves the Ace Hotel lobby. It is what "third places" were always meant to be, with better coffee. But in Silicon Valley, they make their own Ace Hotels. Facebook built a Main Street on their campus, with bike repair, a coffee shop, and food trucks. They hired Roman & Williams, designers of the Ace Hotel lobby, to create their main cafeteria. It is urbane, but entirely private. I see plenty of other IRL Facebook elements in the Cornell plans, too: Morphosis's program diagram is studded with the micro-kitchens and breakout spaces so popular in the Bay Area. The workspaces are rows of open desks, periodically interrupted by conference rooms of varying size. Mayne says it right before I think it: it's just like Bloomberg LP's New York headquarters, minus the dayglo colors, where snacks are free, privacy unknown, and the elevators all stop at the main floor so that you have to engage with your co-workers on your way to your desk. Bloomberg, like Facebook, is the spatial equivalent of prevailing dot-com theories of innovation, where chance encounters over snacks color-coded for health lead to the next Gmail. It may be true. But with great innovation comes great paranoia, and those chance encounters tend to be only with fellow employees, on a campus.
Facebook and Bloomberg employees at least have to leave and engage with the insecure world the rest of us call home. Private shuttle buses carry thousands from the South Bay to select stops in San Francisco each day, so it is possible to engage for only a matter of minutes, but that still seems like a crucial distinction. Cornell Tech students won't even have that: Phase I includes student housing across the street from the Morphosis building. (I couldn't help thinking, If these students are so smart, shouldn't they be able to find their own apartment? Or build an app for that?)
Cornell's team says that isolation won't happen here. "We think the next generation of technology will happen in places like New York, dense urban environments, where technology can be brought to bear to solve the problems of everyday people," says Dean Dan Huttenlocher. Cornell students will be taught computer science and engineering, and will receive some business education, but one day a week will be spent in the field, looking at startups, nonprofits, and participating in (Facebook!) hackathons. "Ideally, there is a two-way flow, with New York also coming into the campus," said Huttenlocher. He sees Roosevelt Island as a place apart, with opportunity for reflection, but one actually very well connected to existing tech centers in Dumbo and Chelsea, and nascent ones in western Queens.
Meanwhile, for the untechnical, the campus offers intriguing possibilities. Will we take advantage? I've been on Roosevelt Island a number of times, and always seem to find myself in the single, L-shaped Starbucks with no hope of a seat. A large, light, seat-filled café would provide necessary shelter from the winds and a resting place after you have trekked south to Four Freedoms (S.O.M. also plans major improvements to the existing riverfront roads for walking and biking). Programmed correctly, the lecture hall and exhibition gallery could also be a draw. The idea of starting with the landscape, which I referenced in my critique of the Barclays Center, means that half of Cornell's site will lie fallow for a number of years. S.O.M. rendered that southern half as a series of geometric fields, open spaces that could be summer picnic destinations in their own right—an alternative to the alternative that is already Governors Island. But will it be welcoming? Mayne's track record for providing accessible and appealing urban spaces is mixed: the plaza outside his Federal Building in San Francisco is aggressively bare, and the diagonal columns at the base of the Cooper Building had to be fitted with spikes to ward off skateboarders. The central stair there, as here, will be tantalizingly off-limits to the public. Huttenlocher says all of the outdoor spaces will be public, and so will the café—as long as New Yorkers behave.
Best-case scenario: the Cornell NYC Tech campus gives Roosevelt Island the contemporary identity it has never had, and serves as a gateway (with public bathrooms) for the refurbished parks to its south. Its landscaped main street gains a restaurant and a bookstore and a market along with the café, the lecture hall, and the gallery, amenities that need to draw on more than the students, professors, and mentors to survive. There is traffic, pedestrian and bicycle traffic, along those roads and up and down the spine and going both ways on the F train. Students decide Roosevelt Island is too boring and move off campus. Businesses move on campus. Co-location also means co-working. And Cornell's campus starts to look, feel, and act like a more contemporary, more sustainable version of an existing innovation incubator. A neighborhood we like to call Dumbo.
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Testing the Thrust of Your Motors
Bollard testing is a useful tool both for testing the thrust of your motors and also for making comparisons between the thrust generated by different types of propellers. The rig is elegantly simple! You all know that any action produces an equal and opposite reaction right? That is Newtons law of motion. SO if you take some PVC and a piece of pipe or a broomstick you can build a device that will let you see how much thrust your motors are giving you, and swap out propellers to find out which one works best with your motor.
The supplies you will need are a PVC cross:
two 3 foot lengths of PVC of the size that matches the cross
one 6 to 7 foot length of wooden or metal rod that will fit through the cross
you will also need a PVC tee that is the same size as the cross. You will modify the tee to use as a motor mount
2 hose clamps to attach the motor to the motor mount, (you may only need 1)
a drill
a fish scale
a hacksaw
a vise (everyone should have at least one vise!) OK bad pun! bad, bad pun!
Cut a slice off of the long segment of the tee: (you may also need to clip one end down)
Now take your hose clamps and attach your motor to the tee, place one 3 foot section of PVC into the top of the tee and put the other end of the 3 foot section of PVC into one of the slots in the PVC cross.
Drill a hole through the other section of PVC and put a loop of twine into it. This is where you will attach the fish scale to measure your thrust.
Put the other three foot section of PVC into the slot in the cross directly opposite the the one holding the first 3 foot segment.
Now put the broomstick or metal rod through the open holes in the PVC cross and put the motor end in the water with the propeller facing away from you.
Have a person hold each end of the broomstick/metal rod and attach the fish scale to the loop that you put in the PVC or clamp the rig to the test tank if you have a smaller tank like ours.
Apply power to the motor and measure the amount of thrust you motor is giving you.
It is important that the PVC arm holding the motor and the PVC arm the scale is attached to be the exact same length. If one is longer or shorter than the other than the data you get will be meaningless.
While you are doing this test,measure the amperage draw of the motor. You can do this using a multimeter. If you are in a school situation and have access to an oscilloscope and someone who knows how to use it, that can also give you some interesting information about how well the thruster works and what the amperage spike is upon start up of the motor.
We recently conducted a bollard test on the 500 gph bilge pump motors with the Octura propeller and the Master Airscrew prop adaptor I talk about in How to Build a Motor Controller Assembly. This is what we found:
The 500 gph motors with the Octura prop and prop adaptor that I list in How to Build a Motor Controller Assembly draw 3.13 amps going either in the forward or reverse directions and they generate .31 kg (.68 lb)of thrust in the forward direction and .27 kg (.59 lb)of thrust in reverse. When the motors are completely stalled they draw 5.2 amps.
Inexpensive meters are available at Harbor Freight:
If you haven't used a meter before it can be a bit daunting but it is really not too difficult. I am going to attempt to post the tutorial from the MAKE blog.
How to Solder!
In this Make: Video Podcast, Joe Grand shows us how to solder and de-solder
electrical parts.
Yea! It Posted right! My apologies to those of you who caught me over the weekend! I had the multimeter video up by mistake!
Measuring amperage is a bit dicier because you have to place the meter in series with the circuit. I'm going to have to figure out how to make mp4s so I too can make pod casts of tips and techniques I think might be of interest to you. Telling you how to measure amperage with a meter just doesn't have quite the degree of usefulness that a little video would have. Anyhow, cheers for tonight!
For the true geeks among you here is a little introduction to oscilloscopes again compliments of the MAKE blog.
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Still working in her parents' Greek restaurant, Toula Portokalos's daughter Paris is growing up. She is getting ready to graduate high school and Toula and Ian are experiencing marital issues. When Toula's parents find out they were never officially married, another wedding is in the works. Can this big, fat, Greek event help to bring the family together?
IMDB Rating: 6.3
Release Date: 25 Mar 2016
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Runtime: 94 min
Actor : Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Michael Constantine, Lainie Kazan
Writers : Nia Vardalos
Director : Kirk Jones
Language : English
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Since the 1960s, many school districts have promoted magnet schools as a vehicle for reducing minority-group isolation and increasing school choice for parents, students, and teachers. By definition, magnet schools are public schools that are able to attract students of diverse racial and socio-economic backgrounds by offering a special curricular theme or pedagogical approach. In contrast to conventional zone schools, where students are assigned by geographic location, magnet schools usually enroll students on a voluntary basis, drawing from areas beyond the traditional neighborhood locale. The underlying premise is simple: A magnet's specialized focus is compelling enough to draw a diverse range of families to attend a school outside their immediate zone, even if this requires travel to a different, or even distant, neighborhood.
Magnet schools originally emerged as a response to involuntary busing to achieve racial integration of schools and the growing demand for variation in traditional public education. Experiments with "alternative schools," "street academies," and "open classrooms" provided models for magnet schools and gained prominence after federal court rulings in the 1970s that accepted magnet programs as a strategy for voluntary desegregation.1 Between 1982 and 1991, the number of magnet schools doubled, from 1,019 to 2,433, with magnet school enrollment nearly tripling from 441,000 to 1.2 million students.2 Funding from the federal government-with the Emergency School Aid Act from 1972-81—and the Magnet Schools Assistance program (MSAP) from 1985 until present—also encouraged the growth of magnet programs. By 2001-02, more than 3,100 magnet schools were operating in 230 districts.3 Today in 2008, according to Magnet Schools of America (MSA), a nonprofit education association, there are more than 5,000 magnet schools serving approximately 2.5 million children.4


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Major/Minor: Human Development
From her first experience abroad as a student ambassador in Australia, Rachel Bartee '12 understood that experiencing other cultures allowed her to embrace a world vastly different from her comfortable Mt. Airy, Md., upbringing. When she returned stateside, she wanted to find a way to explore new horizons. What transformed her goals of world travel into elementary education she happily credits to lacrosse and "a couple of brilliant and inspirational professors" at Washington College.
Growing up as the "kid sister" in a closely-knit family including her older brother and three cousins in the neighborhood, she hung out with them and picked up lacrosse when they did (she was five at the time). When her two older cousins (E.J. Lewis '09 and Michael Lewis '10) chose Washington College to study and play lacrosse, Rachel followed suit. That turned out to be a real boon for the Shorewomen, as she was the second-leading scorer and voted MVP of the squad in 2011.
Rachel was unsure of her choice of major after freshman year, but when she reflected on her previous summer as a lacrosse camp counselor, she thought of a career in teaching. Drawn to the youngest participants, she recalls "I felt I had something to impart, a sense of inclusion, of wonder at the world. I thought about the way I was raised to accept everyone and to question everything. Third-to-fifth grade children are at the age where they don't judge but are openly curious."
Rachel credits her professors in Human Development and Elementary Education—notably Michelle Johnson, Bridget Bunten and Robert Siudzinski—with instilling a tremendous confidence in her abilities and encouraging her interest in teaching. She spent a semester making bi-weekly visits to Sudlersville Elementary and keeping a journal of her observations. At the end of her sophomore year, she had a seminal meeting with Johnson and Bunten that charted her course of study in the human development major, leading to certification in elementary education. As a student teacher, she'll be in the classroom two days a week during the fall semester and will teach full-time in the spring, somewhere in Kent or Queen Anne's counties.
She says, "I believe teaching is a way of opening a child's mind and giving them their own voice. Teaching isn't about test scores or grades, it is about inspiring children to continue to learn and strive to reach their full potential. In 10 years my answer to this question could possibly change, and that is the beautiful thing about teaching—not only are you teaching others, you are constantly learning from them."
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Have you been trying to find new ways to wear your Girl Scout scarf? If so, then today is your lucky day. We here at Girl Scouts of Nassau County are running a new mini blog series on how to tie your Girl Scout scarf. For those of you who don't know, Donna Ceravolo has been recognized for her wide variety of scarves and different ways to tie them. You never know what you might find Donna wearing, from simple square knots to elaborate bow ties; your selection will never seem dull! Throughout this mini-series we hope to inspire your creativity when it comes to stepping up your Girl Scout uniform! You can pick up one of our beautiful scarves in the Girl Scouts of Nassau County shop, or online at shop.gsnc.org/store/. Follow the simple step-by-step instructions and you'll be on your way to a whole new updated look for your Girl Scout uniform!
The first scarf we are using is a long and narrow silk scarf.
First, you must fold both edges of scarf to meet in the center.
Second, drape the folded scarf around the back of your neck.
Cross the left side over the right, creating an "x".
Then bring the top piece underneath the bottom then through the hole that your neck is in... it will appear as the beginning of a knot. Just let the two ends of the scarf drop down to hang. This should not be close to your neck. It should hang around your upper torso.


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Cabela's Outdoor Adventures features North America's top outdoor destinations, over 50 hunting and fishing adventures and intensive use of gear and tactics, such as animal calls and stealth skills. Emphasis is placed on moments that are instinctively associated with hunting and fishing, like stalking the animals, squeezing the trigger, hooking a fish or snap-shooting a flushed bird, all while respecting real life hunting rules and regulations. Players can also upgrade their hunting gear with authentically branded real life equipment.
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Sustainable and Highly Inviting Timber Frame House in Amsterdam
We got used to the uniqueness of each new residential architecture project in Amsterdam and this timber frame family home is no exception. Designed by the creative team at Egeon Architecten, the family villa is located on the Rieteiland-Oost island in the IJburg residential development and offers a serene living and working space. The three levels of the residence accommodate the open plan living room on the bottom floor, the private areas in the middle and an office space to literally top it all.
According to the architects, the house was built with sustainability in mind, having "a heat pump and low temperature underfloor heating, natural ventilation, high insulation values of roof walls and floor, special heat-resistant glass, a sedum roof, attention to thermal bridging details and orientation". Due to the extensive use of wood, the interiors look friendly and inviting, with large windows flooding them in natural light. The living room is by far the most welcoming room of the house, with its alluring lake views, its cute guitars and sometimes even its fluffy kitten. So bohemian!


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I am looking for references (books or web links) which have "simple" examples on the use of group theory in physics or science in general.
I have looked at many books on the subject unfortunately they usually require extensive technical coverage of the basics, i.e. the 1st 100 pages or something, to be able to start discussing applications.
I believe that there is an easy way to explain anything (it's just hard to find it).


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Tin Man Battle Plan
Name: Carter Jove
Nomme de Guerre: Thundermachine
Identity: Public / celebrity status
Species: Human
Resource level: Billionaire, high budget, constrained by U.S. law
Age: 32
Hair: Brown-black
Eyes: Hazel
Base of Operations: X-Tech HQ, off the coast of New York City
Citizenship: United States of America
He may not be an engineering genius, but Mr. Jove's take-charge philosophy guarantees that he and only he is responsible for everything the Thundermachine armor does. Charismatic and intellectually capable, he puts his best foot forward in dealing with the challenges of the 21st Century. Troubled by the question of his own responsibility for the uncertain future, he at this point has resigned himself to independent hero-work, accruing more and more capital by means of his meta-powered excursions. If he can use his wealth to bring American civilians some peace of mind, then it's just a bonus. Though he's marketing-friendly, there's no doubt that his encouraging statements made to the general public are actually authentic.
Jove's greatest contribution to the global atmosphere thus far hasn't actually been the Thundermachine brand, but rather X-Tech, the private corporate think-tank which backs his superheroic activities. X-Tech rose out of the science-panic of the early 2000s in which concerns over the international governments seizing scientific research for military use came about. Though they were able to regulate genetic engineering, they could not acquire the designs of Dr. Hermes Bell, Jove's closest associate and initial designer of the Thundermachine armor. Jove is both the chief sponsor and user of X-Tech's designs; his concern that the government may attempt to seize private assets for use in metahuman-based wars is a driving factor in his public activities, using his celebrity status to raise awareness to injustices. He also is wary of those vigilantes with non-public identities who may seek to dominate society in their own way. Toeing the line between state-sponsored hero and independent avenger, he wears the Thundermachine armor with outward pride and inward concern.
Beyond his actions in the suit, Jove donates regularly to various charities and sponsors engineering projects internationally. He has used celebrity status to appear in several advertisements for various products as well as license the Thundermachine brand to produce toys and media related to his project. X-Tech's primary product for public consumption is refined renewable energy sources, moving away from the weapons-manufacturing era that lasted from 1990 to 2007. Because most of the weapons innovation is now pooled into the Thundermachine suit, X-Tech gets much of its funding from investment in the stock market as well as myriad connections with other members of the global elite.
Primary Asset- Thundermachine Device Mk. V
The Thundermachine Armor represents the cutting edge of modern technology, the ulltimate confluence of scientific development and super-styled flair culminating in the creation of a wearable weapons platform capable of competing with even the most powerful biotic agents. What started out as a fighter jet scaled down to a suit of armor has evolved over the last five years into a high-powered mech suit packed with dozens of separate devices.
The primary chassis is built of fullerene nanotubes with an external titanium layer, affording the wearer a significant degree of protection against physical impacts. An internal temp-dampener prevents the user from overheating or overcooling, with a series of polymer composites lining the inside to prevent chafing. This fibrous "wet-web" serves as an additional buffer against physical trauma that would otherwise be incurred on the wearer of the suit, protecting them from crash-landings as well as intense G-forces. The armor is vacuum sealed and contains a persistent oxygen supply which replenishes itself passively when air is available. The user's breath is filtered to prevent contamination.
The armor's power source is derived from a precious tritium base coupled with electrical batteries for secondary components. This radioactive main battery is located within the chestplate and gives the user enough power to operate for prolonged periods of time in extreme situations. For baseline functions, the armor can extend solar-energy collection panels to bolster its own batteries. The tritium core can last nigh-indefinitely, but if the suit is overtaxed, it requires time to cool off. The armor's enhanced chassis and muscle-fiber mimicry give the user vastly enhanced strength, rendering them capable of pressing objects with forces of around 100 tons.
The suit flies using high-powered "force tubes" located in various components. These release valves project enough energy to create thrust when directed downward. Each palm of the armor boasts its own smaller maneuvering emitter which doubles as a kinetic force-blaster. These blasters can project luminous beams of concussive energy for nearly 500 meters at varying degrees of intensity, repelling or even incinerating anything they strike. These emitters are also used for advanced aerobatic maneuvers which put even the most advanced fighter jets to shame. The armor's maximum speed appears to be around Mach 4 when afterburners are engaged; these spare fuel-burning engines are stored in compartments in the back of the suit.
An onboard computer system with a rudimentary real-time management AI connects the wearer to the suit, operating off of retinal movement. The suit's more refined systems are managed not by the machine but by Ground Control at X-Tech, which is in constant contact with the user. The crew can interact with other systems using this OS, hacking remote networks directly and giving the user the equivalent of a 6th sense. This OS keeps track of the user's vitals and can conduct in-flight repairs. The OS can be switched to both a pre-set autopilot as well as manual control back at Ground Control, letting the technicians back at X-Tech control the suit if the user consents. Neither of these systems are required for full functionality, though; the suit can be operated completely manually. Though auxiliary systems may be lost in the event of a power blackout, the pseudo-hydraulic muscle layer beneath the fullerene chassis means the user can still move even without power. The OS can operate via voice command or retinal selection.
The Thundermachine "pit crew" is composed of twenty technicians, engineers, physicists, and weapons designers who are bankrolled to exclusively aid Carter in his superheroic venture. They are led by chief engineer Hermes Bell, who holds half of the rights to the design along with Jove. The in-the-field workers are nicknamed Ground Control, and help guide Jove during field operations. Their network helps Jove manage the suit; they also conduct intelligence operations and research threats in-mission. They manage the armor from X-Tech Headquarters, a building situated off the coast of New York City.
A complete Thundermachine suit costs around 200 million dollars to produce. Carter Jove owns four.
Auxiliary Weapons
- Miniature Gatling Guns - Left and right wrists. Ammo type - fullerene bullets with homing capability.
- Directed EM pulse emitter - right fingertip.
- Napalm projector - right wrist.
- High-range sonics projector - left and right palms. Can also function as speakers.
- Refined cutting laser - right middle finger.
- Neural stun laser - left middle finger.
- Electroshock taser units - left and right knuckles.
- Anti-rad force-field projector - right forearm.
- Tranquilizer gas - releases from left elbow.
- Extendable fullerene blades - left and right forearms. Length: 11 inches.
- Homing rockets - Left and right shoulders.
- Chaff - Left and right shoulder blades.
- Supercooled liquid nitrogen projector - left wrist.
- Magnetic field projector - left shoulder.
- "Bottle-rocket" micromissiles - chest.
- Targeting computer & predictive CQC simulator - helmet.
- Advanced scan / thermal vision / target-tracking device - helmet.
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War in Syria: where do Kurds stand?
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For years the Kurds were persecuted and oppressed but since the Syrian war broke out in 2011, they have enjoyed a certain autonomy in the northeast region close to Turkey and Iraq.Laura Cellier and her panel revisit Syria and look at the impact of the fighting on the country's largest minority - the Kurds.
- William JORDAN, Former State Department official
- Elias WARDE, Member, Syrian National Council
- Shwan ZULAL, Kurdish blogger
- Barak BARFI, Research fellow, New America Foundation
- Majid RAFIZADEH, Lecturer, Oxford University
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