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Titans (巨人 Kyojin?, lit. "Giant(s)") are the false primary antagonists in the Attack on Titan series. They are a race of giant humanoids that appeared roughly 107 years ago and rapidly exterminated humanity to the point of near-extinction. If put into a calculable perspective, the Titans first appeared in year 743. Their origins, overall numbers, and their physiological workings trace back to the Eldians, whose ancestor Ymir Fritz gained the power of Titans to build the empire of the Eldians until the Marley government turned the tide of the war and oppressed the Eldians by turning some of them into mindless Titans using unknown methods.
AppearanceTitans greatly resemble nude human beings. They are bipedal creatures with the same number and arrangement of limbs and features one would expect in human beings. They are all deformed by human standards to a greater or lesser degree, ranging from minor abnormalities in proportions (enlarged head, small limbs, etc.) to apparently lacking skin and subcutaneous tissues, although they do not bleed from such deformities, indicating that they perhaps possess some other mechanism to compensate for this. The vast majority of Titans have a masculine body shape, although all of them lack reproductive organs (they have no need to reproduce since they are humans transformed through unknown methods).
Titans, almost universally, have exceptionally wide mouths with an enormous number of small, square teeth. Although some only possess canines, a majority of Titans lack them. In all likelihood, they have and use incisors for their primary activity: eating humans. Titans do not possess a complete or functioning digestive tract, and merely have a stomach-like cavity that eventually fills up with what they swallow. After consuming a certain amount, they would be forced to regurgitate and empty out the cavity before they can eat more humans.
Titans are subconsciously compelled to seek out and devour humans for a chance that they may be Titan shifters, as only Titan shifters can change them back to human after eating them. They do not derive any real sustenance from humans, as they did not taste human flesh for nearly a century after the Walls went up. This did not affect their activity or numbers. It should also be noted that once a Titan has filled up its stomach-like organ with dead humans, it regurgitates them in a giant ball and continues eating more as soon as possible.
It should be noted, as mentioned above, that Titans eat humans for no other apparent purpose than killing them. They ignore all other animals and any non-human forms of life, so it could be a possibility that the Titans are trying to eat a Titan shifter in order to become one themselves, and thus be able to resume human form. As it is shown in Marley, these humans are rogue Eldians transformed into Titans.
Most Titans have no intelligence at all and are simply mindless beasts, easy to trick, distract, or deceive. However, some Titans, mostly Titan shifters, possess a vast level of intelligence comparable to or exceeding an experienced and cunning human. For example, the Female Titan and, to a lesser extent, the Colossus Titan display acute intelligence, a trait not found in an ordinary Titan. A Titan encountered by Ilse Langnar possessed enough intelligence to speak and bow before her, calling her "Lady Ymir".However, although most Titans show no visible or audible form of communication, they are apparently aware of - and able to deduce hostile intent from - other Titans and Titan shifters, as demonstrated when Eren Yeager first transformed into his Titan form and was attacked almost immediately by other Titans who perceived him as a threat. Titans do possess the ability to roar, but do not appear to possess the vocal organs necessary to speak human languages.
The most dangerous aspect of the Titans is their unpredictability. They do not follow a strict set of guidelines and have seemed to increase in abilities and attributes as the series goes on. After the supposed breach of Wall Rose, Titans were seen moving in the dead of night when they should be inactive, traits they normally do not express. It has been theorized by Hange Zoë that since Titans receive sustenance from sunlight, moonlight would also be sufficient enough, due to the moon being reflected sunlight.
The Titans' body structure and power source are very mysterious and they apparently violate several known laws of science, seemingly capable of spontaneously generating both energy and mass. Their extremely high level of activity and body temperature indicates the need for a massive intake of energy to fuel them, yet they apparently never need to eat at all. They possess vocal organs and are able to emit simple sounds like roars and screams, yet they apparently do not need to breathe. They do seem to become less active at night or if deprived of sunlight, and so it may be possible they draw their primary source of energy from the sun. Individual Titans seem to possess varying levels of stamina once deprived of sunlight; the captured Titan "Sonny" became docile and nearly comatose after only an hour's deprivation, while fellow captive "Bean" maintained a high level of activity three hours after last seeing sunlight. Hange Zoë has theorized that new Titans may be able to use the small amount of sunlight reflected off of the moon as energy at night time. She reasons that this is why there were so many Titans storming Utgard Castle during the supposed breach of Wall Rose, as it is believed that many of those Titans had been freshly created from Ragako.[1]
Titans' bodies also seem unusually light for such large creatures - a severed arm is described as weighing almost nothing, and they are able to move at high speeds despite their size. Due to their size, Titans possess enormous strength and when combined with this lightness, they can put on amazing bursts of speed and agility.
In addition to their size, speed, strength and large numbers, Titans also possess incredible regenerative abilities - the only sure-fire way to kill them known to date is by slicing out the nape of the back of the neck. They regenerate lost and damaged body parts within seconds to minutes, including severed heads (although, there are rare instances where the head will not regenerate if the nape is cut through or blown off). It should be noted that the vulnerable area is where the real human body would be for shape-shifting Titans, as proven by Eren Yeager. When struck at this site, the human controlling the Titan (or rather, what remains of them) is decapitated, killing both. After death, Titan corpses rapidly evaporate to skeletal remains, then to nothing at all.
How Titans react to pain stimuli varies from one to another. Many Titans will utterly ignore injuries which would be agonizingly painful to a human, such as losing limbs, being impaled through the heart, or having their eyes gouged out (even if such injuries will soon regenerate). In combat, some Titans will completely ignore armed humans who are attacking them, and simply proceed to attempt to eat whichever human is closest to them. Others seem vaguely aware of humans who are attacking them, and if injured will have a reaction that might be pain but more accurately seems like simple annoyance. Some actually do seem to react in pain and shout when they are injured. In Hange's experiments, Bean shrieked in pain when they gouged out its eyes with a heated metal spear, but Sonny seemed oblivious to the fact that Hange had impaled it through the heart region using a spear.
They can be controlled and commanded by the power of the Founding Titan to be used as weapons of mass destruction as they had been in ancient times. However, without the Founding Titan, they wander aimlessly following no orders.
Types of Titans
Titans are classified according to their size and abilities. The following is a list of various known Titans so far in the series.
Typical Titans
| Ranging from 3-15 meters in height, these Titans compose the vast majority and have wide variation. They all resemble humans but with lesser to greater deformities, some of them walk on two feet while others walk on all fours. They are also variable in regards of their level of activity and response to pain. Their only common feature is their mindless nature. They would always head towards the first human on sight, without further planning or reasoning, making them easy to deceive and lure into traps. However, they are still dangerous due to their sizes, physical strength and numbers. In the past, they were used by Titan shifters as cheap killing machines against the other nations of the world.
Notable Titans of this type:
|Any Titan that displays abnormal behavior or intelligence is classed as an abnormal. Unlike most Titans which mindlessly attack and devour humans on sight, abnormals often ignore nearby humans and charge to more important locations where they can do more damage. Some abnormal Titans possess noticeable physical deformations, such as lacking skin in certain areas or carrying less weight than others.
Notable Titans of this type:
First discovered inside Wall Sheena when the Female Titan tries to escape over it. These type of Titans have a similar appearance to the Colossus Titan and can be found inside the Walls. Although they appear to be alive, they are weakened and immobile due to lack of sunlight.
A Titan mentioned by Rod Reiss had the ability to harden its skin and create the giant Walls, similar to that of the Wall Titans. The relationship between these Titans and that undoubtedly important Titan is currently unknown.
Titan shifters are humans capable of transforming into Titans who have various unusual traits and skills that can be honed and directed with purpose. These Titans are usually stronger and/or faster than typical ones and retain their intelligence during a controlled transformation. They generally do not have any deformations that hinder their skills, and often resemble their human "pilot." A skilled Titan shifter can move more quickly and regenerate parts of their body just by focusing, and even discard their body entirely and regain a new Titan form within minutes.
Notable Titans of this type:
While the true nature of the Titans remains a mystery, their origins have been documented in the legends of the Eldian people. Over 1,800 years ago, it is said that Ymir Fritz, an ancient monarch of the royal Fritz family, made a deal with the "Devil of All Earth". It is unknown what she offered the Devil, but in return by some means she was granted the power of the Titans. Ymir became the first known Titan and Titan shifter, and used her Titans and her own power of the Progenitor Titan to perform great deeds for her civilization, such as the building of roads and bridges across the lands. When Ymir died, her "soul" was split, being passed down unto nine Titan shifters.[2][3]
After the death of Ymir, the nine Titans made use of the Titans and their own powers to conquer the peoples of the world, known collectively as the Marleyans. Upon conquering the world, the nine Titans established the nation of Eldia, led by the Fritz family who held Ymir's Progenitor Titan. Afterwards, the other eight Titan clans began to fight amongst each other, though throughout the generations the Fritz family maintained order with the Progenitor Titan. However, after 1,700 years, the Marleyans stole seven of the nine Titan shifters and waged war against the Eldians.[4] When the 145th Fritz King inherited the Progenitor Titan and chose to abandon the conflict, the Great Titan War began, in which the Titans were used by the Marleyans to wipe out the nation of Eldia. The King and his family fled to the island of Paradis, where he used Colossus Titans to construct three Walls around his territory. In years after, Marley would send undesirable citizens to Paradis as mindless Titans, doomed to wander the island in search of food.[5][6]
In the aftermath of the destruction of Ragako, the true nature of the Titans is discovered. The investigation performed by Hange Zoë reveals that the villagers had been transformed into Titans by some unknown means, as a captured Titan is discovered to have once been Connie Springer's mother. Examination of test subjects show that no human body remains within the nape, but Hange speculates that the spinal cord operates as an organ separate from the main Titan body. As such, it is concluded that most Titans have completely absorbed the human within, leaving only the central nervous system intact as the means of controlling the Titan body. The method used to slay Titans is revealed to sever the upper vertebrate of the human "pilot" (or what remains of them), killing them via decapitation.
It is stated by Ymir that the Beast Titan is the one responsible for transforming the villagers of Ragako, though the method employed remains a mystery. It is also unknown how Titan shifters avoid being absorbed by their Titan forms, possibly a result of more advanced methods. It is theorized by Dot Pixis to be the only difference between Titan shifters like Eren Yeager and regular Titans.
Hange theorizes that Titans can absorb abilities from their victims, allowing an ordinary Titan to regain human form by devouring a Titan shifter. This was discovered when Ymir, then a regular Titan, devoured the young Titan shifter Marcel and regained human form. Hange theorizes that not only can Titan shifting be transferred this way, but other unique traits such as Eren's Coordinate ability could be transferred in the same fashion. This is now confirmed as a fact by Rod Reiss and now it is known that memories will also be transferred to the one who ate the shifter, along with any powers they may possess. It is also possible that beliefs can be passed down if the person ate somebody of their bloodline, as the Reiss who possessed the Coordinate would be bound to the will of their ancestor, the First King, making them not want to exterminate the Titans, and never revealing to anybody the reasons why.
It is revealed that the injection that Grisha Yeager gave his son Eren was able to turn Eren into a normal Titan, allowing Eren to eat Grisha. Grisha, being a Titan shifter, transformed Eren into a Titan shifter and passed down the Coordinate and Frieda Reiss' memories at the cost of Grisha's life. The Reiss family has done this method for years, having one Reiss transform into a Titan via injection and eat the holder of the Coordinate, gaining Titan powers, memories of the lost world, and the Coordinate.
The serum in the injection is, most probably, the method through which most, if not all, Titans were created, though its way of administration can vary, as evidenced by the Beast Titan's inoculation of Ragako, implying that the agent can be spread through a multitude of mediums other than just a serum. Rod Reiss also gives insight into the vast multitude of physical structures and frames the Titans manifest, implying that it is actually possible for a serum to induce a certain kind of Titan, and in Rod's case, an immense Titan twice as big as the Colossus Titan. According to Hange, the serum is derived from human spinal fluid, but contains elements beyond the capability of their current science to analyse. The serum is also difficult to study because it begins to vaporize immediately upon contact with air.
- Some Titans are modeled after friends and acquaintances of Hajime Isayama. Sometimes, he will even take requests.[7]
- In the August 2016 Issue of Bessatsu Shonen Magazine, Isayama was asked of what is it like to come out of a Titan's body. He stated, "Just think that it's like coming out from a sauna."[8]
- While many Titans have a masculine appearance, some Titans seen have had feminine facial features although retained a masculine body shape.
- ↑ Attack on Titan manga: Chapter 73 (p. 12)
- ↑ Attack on Titan manga: Chapter 86 (p. 17)
- ↑ Attack on Titan manga: Chapter 86 (p. 27)
- ↑ Attack on Titan manga: Chapter 86 (p. 18)
- ↑ Attack on Titan manga: Chapter 86 (p. 27 - 35)
- ↑ Attack on Titan manga: Chapter 86 (p. 45)
- ↑ Bessatsu Magazine 2014-08
- ↑ Bessatsu Magazine 2016-08


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CASUAL LEXAn Informal Assemblage of Why We Say What We Say
By WEBB GARRISON
Rutledge Hill PressCopyright © 2007 Webb Garrison
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Chapter OneABOVE BOARD
Gamblers and confidence men have followed the track since the beginning of organized horse racing. A standard attraction at a medieval race was a crude gambling wheel that was a forerunner of the roulette wheel we know today. This device was customarily mounted on a stand, the sides of which were draped with brightly colored cloth.
Unscrupulous operators would install a treadle under the stand to regulate the stopping point of the wheel. Though the ruse was exposed, it continued to flourish. A gambler who wished to convince bystanders of the honesty of his game would point to his wheel and cry, "All above the board, sirs! All above the board!" This claim that there was no concealed treadle under the board soon entered common speech as aboveboard, meaning "straightforward" or "without concealment."
Stud poker was popularized during the cowboy era. More than any other game, it separated cowpokes from their wages and miners from their dust. Complex rules govern the way in which cards are dealt, held, and played.
With other cards exposed so that opponents may see them, a lucky player sometimes holds an ace that is face down-concealed "in the hole." That card may be the pivot on which a game turns.
Any asset or source of strength, kept secret by its holder, is so much like a concealed playing card that it is an ace in the hole.
Regardless of how tough a person may be, he or she has a weak spot somewhere. Such was the case with one of the greatest heroes of Greek mythology.
In ancient times it was common knowledge that the water of the river Styx was potent-so potent that a baby dipped into it received supernatural protection. Skin touched by the water remained pliable yet tough as steel.
One mother decided to give her son a kind of immortality. Hours after the boy was delivered, she hurried to the river and, holding him by his heel, dipped him into the mysterious water. That made Achilles invulnerable over most of his body.
But in the end, Achilles was killed during the Trojan War by a wound to his heel-the part left covered when his mother dipped him in the river. Water didn't touch his heel, so the mythological superman had a small but mortal flaw.
Stories about the mother's son have survived after many centuries. As a result, any seemingly invincible person's weakest point is his or her Achilles' heel.
Wandering peddlers, who have since given way to telemarketers, were once a familiar part of the European and American scene. A typical fellow carried a few household articles in a pack; if well established, he might drive a wagon with a variety of goods.
Many a peddler made his real money not by the sale of goods but by the purchase of old gold from persons he encountered. Even a veteran found it hard to assess the value of filled and plated articles by examination. But a positive test was easily used. After filing a shallow groove in a piece, the prospective buyer would touch it with nitric acid. Color reactions gave a reasonably accurate index as to the gold content and hence the true value.
Bottles of nitric acid were used on so many articles containing gold that any exacting trial came to be called an acid test.
Count Abraham Lincoln among the famous people sporting a prominent Adam's apple. Male chauvinism is responsible for the centuries-old name.
Pioneer English anatomists were puzzled by the section of cartilage that refused to stay in one spot. Folktales explained that Adam should not have taken that apple from Eve in the Garden of Eden. When he yielded to her temptation, a piece of fruit stuck on the way down. Ever since, it has moved when men eat or talk in order to warn: "Beware of the temptress!"
In truth, the growth of the visible knot is stimulated by male hormones. Because women have a small amount of this hormone, they also have a small version of the Adam's apple.
Antimony is a mineral common in Egypt and the Middle East. Arabs made a fine black powder with the antimony and called it kohl. Dabbed onto the eyelids, the stain was one of the earliest cosmetics.
Queens and women of wealth spent fortunes on the finest variety of eye shadow, which they called al-kohl-literally "the powder." Queen Shub-ad of Ur kept her al-kohl in a silver box fifty-five hundred years ago.
By the early seventeenth century, western travelers used alcohol for "fine powder that stains." Eventually it referred to any substance obtained from an essence-and particularly distillation. Thus alcohol of wine meant the "essence of wine." Soon it became simply alcohol; thus, today's liquid refreshments bear the name of eye shadow used by beauties of ancient Egypt.
Scholars of medieval England developed great pride in their learning. A "man of letters" seldom used ordinary language. Instead he relied almost entirely upon Latin.
Lawyers fond of displaying their knowledge frequently used Latin phrases, even in their courtroom addresses. One such expression was alias dictus, meaning "otherwise called." A criminal known by more than one name might be mentioned as Richard Stone, alias dictus Robert Scott. Use of the sonorous phrase was so frequent that by 1535 ordinary folk had adopted the word alias to designate any assumed name.
Courtroom practices are slow to change. Lawyers continued to use Latin long after it was abandoned in everyday speech.
Alibi was a Latin term meaning "elsewhere" and for centuries was standard in criminal cases. It was common for a defense attorney to rest his case upon evidence that his client was alibi at the time of the crime.
Use of the centuries-old term was so common that it entered modern speech with no change in spelling and little difference in meaning. An accused person who is able to establish an alibi is almost like a citizen in the realm of the Caesars who answered an accusation by saying he or she was elsewhere when the deed was done.
Until modern times, adult white males who paid taxes or could provide military service were the only citizens allowed to vote. Election day was set aside for talking, drinking, and carousing after having voted.
Ballots were hand counted, so results were not announced until long after the polls had closed. Especially in a tight election, announcement of the count was likely to trigger a roar from supporters of the winning candidate.
In a one-sided contest, everybody knew the winner long before the last ballot was counted. This meant that when the polls closed, the outcome was unofficial but decided-it was all over but the shouting of victory.
Late in the nineteenth century, physicians developed great interest in a puzzling phenomenon. Patients who were helped by the first dose of a new drug sometimes had adverse reactions to later doses. At a loss for a more precise name, specialists used the Greek word allos (other) to coin the word allergy, a condition in which reactions are other than standard.
By 1925 the new word had come into general medical use to refer to the peculiar reactions a person has to a variety of substances, whether they be foods, drugs, or environmental elements such as pollen.
In many horse races, only the first three animals to cross the line are counted. Others in the field follow, but the order in which they finish may not be announced.
Newspapers of the nineteenth century made readers familiar with animals that placed in major races. All three were frequently described, with their times, owners, and winnings listed. Toward the end of such a story, it was a common practice to mention many or all of the horses that also ran.
Presidential elections came more and more to resemble horse races with crowded fields. In reporting results of an election, newspapers dismissed many an aspirant for the White House as an also-ran-one who was so far back in the field that his finish order wasn't computed.
By the turn of the century, the political term borrowed from the racetrack was being applied to a person badly beaten in any competition.
Ancient Greek housewives employed special cloths to keep dust out of food pots. They even devised a technical word meaning "to take away the cover." Romans who borrowed the term from these housewives modified it to apocalypsis.
By 200 BC, Judea was in a state of turmoil that lasted for three centuries. National and international distress helped produce a stream of literature making predictions about the future. Hope of sharing in the future glory of God's kingdom made it somewhat easier to bear the burdens of the age. Since a document of this type helped "take away the cover" from the future, Jews called it an apocalypse.
Though many apocalypses were produced, only one stood the test of time: the stirring and poetic account of John's visions on the island of Patmos. Today it is referred to as "the Revelation of Saint John," but to the early church it was known as "the Apocalypse." The impact of this dynamic document was so great that any vision or prophecy dealing with the coming of God's earthly reign is termed apocalyptic literature.
Mass production of cars was late in starting. Henry Ford got the idea from watching an overhead trolley in a Chicago packing plant. In order to build automobiles in large quantity, he had Model-T flywheel magnetos move slowly past workers who each performed only one or two operations.
Production soared 400 percent, so he moved from magnetos to engines and transmissions and then to complete cars. Model-T's in the making, conveyed at six feet per minute past workers who used standardized parts, were sold at prices not imagined when cars were handmade luxuries. Ford launched modern mass production, yet the workers soon complained that their jobs were monotonous.
Even when performed at the keyboard of a computer instead of beside a conveyor belt, any highly repetitive work is likely to be criticized as an assembly line job.
During the days of the windjammers and other great sailing vessels, rigging grew more and more complex. On many ships there were literally hundreds of ropes. If these ropes had been left free to ravel, a hopeless tangle could have resulted. So every ship's master prided himself on the good condition of his "ends"-the taped ends of his ropes.
When other work was slack, members of the crew were frequently put to work repairing the loose ends. Many a captain was accused of ordering such work to keep his men occupied, so a person with nothing important to do is said to be at loose ends.
Dueling by prescribed rules was common in the United States until the mid-1800s, although the various states began to outlaw it, beginning with Tennessee in 1801. In one of the most famous duels, Aaron Burr, the vice president of the United States, killed Alexander Hamilton, former secretary of the treasury.
According to the dueling code, the man challenged had the choice of weapons, and usually they were pistols in America. Each duelist chose a friend to act as a "second," and a surgeon often attended. To avoid the law officers, the meetings often took place at dawn in a forest clearing. The duelists stood back to back and marched an agreed number of paces in opposite directions. Then one of the seconds dropped a handkerchief, and the fighters turned and fired.
On the frontier, disagreements were settled much more informally. Participants used guns, knives, whips, or fists-and they often fought in broad daylight before an audience. The referee would drop a hat (often more readily available than a handkerchief) to start the fight.
The phrase at the drop of a hat, meaning ready to begin a fight or other undertaking, apparently was first used in the West around 1887.
These days, it's possible for one of your fellow workers to go AWOL, or walk off the job without giving notice. Earlier, reference to this term was limited to members of the military.
A fellow wearing the uniform of his country's army or navy or marine corps was never under any delusions about what he could and couldn't do. Discipline is basic to military life. But many buck privates in the rear ranks or a brand-new member of a ship's crew simply walked off his base or vessel when the notion struck him. When discovered and placed under arrest-as he almost always was, sooner or later-he was listed on the roster as having been "absent without official leave."
The initial letters of the damning record, A.W.O.L., became the brand-new word AWOL.
The influence of Poor Richard's Almanac and other publications made Benjamin Franklin one of the most widely read of early American writers.
He is a central character in one of his own stories. In the tale, a young Franklin was approached by a fellow who stopped to admire the family grindstone. In asking to be shown how it worked, the stranger offered young Ben an ax with which to demonstrate. Once his ax was sharp, the fellow walked off, laughing.
Readers should beware of people who have an ax to grind, for they have a hidden motive.
Especially during a group activity, it is common for someone to propose going back to square one. That is shorthand for suggesting: "Let's scrap all we have done, and start over."
Not a bad way to express the notion of giving up and making a fresh start. The expression took shape during the pre-electronic era in which board games of many kinds were in use. Several widely popular ones involved moving tokens in response to a throw of the dice or drawing of a card. At the beginning of a contest, all tokens were placed at the same starting point-square one of the board.
A proposal about going back to square one meant scrapping the ongoing game and starting a new one.
Medieval Europe had few sports as popular as bearbaiting. An animal that was captured as a cub would be trained to fight dogs. Then the bear's owner would take him from village to village and set him against the dogs of local sporting men. These fights usually took place in some public place and constituted community outings. No admission was charged, but the bear's master would take up a collection some time during the exhibition.
Rough though the sport was, a few rules grew up to govern it. For example, the bear's master was required to fasten him to a post with a chain that could not exceed an agreed length. Owners of dogs were expected to keep their animals in hand and to let only a few attack the bear at once.
When a bear was pulled up short by reaching the end of his chain, some of the dogs would hold him at bay. Sometimes one of the pack would slip behind the bear and attack him from the rear. Unable to protect himself from such a backbite, the bear would let out a roar of pain and rage. Good sportsmanship outlawed backbiting, but it was a common occurrence. As early as the twelfth century the term had come to describe anyone taking an unfair advantage. Then its meaning expanded, and the expression entered modern speech to mean speaking ill of a person behind his or her back.
Frontiersmen faced a serious problem when it came to starting a fire. Matches were rare, and flint and steel often failed in damp weather. Many pioneers tried to keep a fire burning without interruption for months at a time.
A big green log, next to stones in the back of a fireplace, would smolder for days. Dry wood would be laid in front of it to burn, and the next morning the back log yielded embers from which a new blaze could be started.
As a rule, the back log was not used for fuel, although it could be pulled out and burned in an emergency. Over time, any sort of reserve came to be known as a backlog. In contemporary parlance, a more familiar use of the term refers to an excess number of duties waiting to be performed.
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Arab American National Museum: The Annex @ AANM
13624 Michigan Ave., Dearborn, MI, 48126
6:30-8:30 p.m. Forum on Community, Culture & Race
Artists Speak: Water is Life
This year's Forum creates an interactive setting for attendees to dialogue on arts activism in metro Detroit as it relates to water as a basic need and human right. This event highlights the grassroots efforts being forged by community activists using art in innovative ways to share stories of how water has impacted communities locally, nationally and internationally. Performances and presentations are included; complimentary light refreshments will be available.
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Friday, July 15, 2016 (three venues, indoors + outdoors)
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History (outdoors on the Museum campus)
315 E. Warren Ave.
Detroit, MI 48202
Doors 6 p.m.
Food + drink $
8:30 p.m. Brown Rice Family (world/roots)
Based in Brooklyn, Brown Rice Family members hail from Japan, Jamaica, Haiti, Nigeria, South Africa and the U.S.A., so they are well aware that brown rice nourishes much of the world. Their world roots music, drawn from old and new traditions, nourishes your ears, your mind and your dancing desires. "Before you believe in anything, make sure you believe in yourself," the group declares in reclaiming the roots consciousness of early reggae. BRF takes an organic approach to living and music, promoting global solidarity, natural living and world peace. The even make their own BRF soap. But mostly they make high energy music that encompasses hip hop, Brazilian, Afrobeat, funk, ska and other directions of the African diaspora.
"One of New York's most consistently fun jam bands" – New York Music Daily
Recording: Havana to Kingston (BRF Record Group, 2015)
8 p.m. Spoken Word with Joel Fluent Greene, Ajanae Dawkins, Caesar Torreano & Phoenix Eagle (poetry)
Joel Fluent Greene is a Detroit-based poet, author and event coordinator. He's the host and organizer of this reading. Greene was the longest running host of the iconic Café Mahogany poetry nights. He has held workshops and performed in more than 50 metro area schools, not to mention having shared the stage with the likes of The Roots, Pharrell and Jessica Care Moore. Greene produces the monthly event Mahogany @ the Museum at the Charles H. Wright Museum, The featured readers include poet and performance artist Ajanae Dawkins, who uses her art to "explore God, love, trauma, and identity"; Caesar Torreano, a spoken word artist from Detroit who eats and breathes poetry; and Phoenix Eagle, a member of the Freshwater Wordsmith 2015 Poetry Slam Team.
7 p.m. Warrior's Rhythm featuring Mike Ellison (Afroflow)
Mike Ellison, aka Mike-E, is a hip-hop and spoken-word recording artist, songwriter, producer and actor. Born in Ethiopia to American parents, Mike-E was raised in the U.S. and achieved his creative flowering in Detroit. AfroFlow — flowing from Africa — is his vehicle in recognition of hip hop's indigenous roots. Mike-E's music defies categorization, seamlessly integrating contemporary and classical sensibilities with traditional influences into a unique and personal idiom. Mike E is joined by Master percussionist Chinelo Amen-Ra, born into the Ngoma Za, Amen-Ra New African Cultural Dance Theater family, has been performing since age two, Also, Rain Man Gaston, an exciting, dynamic drummer who commands the stage. Mike E displays a genuine love of music and a passion underlying his message.
"Mike-E is a spoken word and hip hop artist that has been captivating the nation with his mesmerizing lyrics and powerful performances."
– sonicbids.com
Recording: Flytanium (2015)
Detroit Institute of Arts (Indoors, outdoors)
5200 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, MI 48202
Doors 5 p.m. for music on East Lawn
Doors 8:30 p.m. for film at Detroit Film Theatre
Food + Drink $
9:30 p.m. Film: Finding Fela (Dir: Alex Gibney; USA, 2014) in the Detroit Film Theatre
No individual better embodies African music of the 1970s and '80s – and its pivotal role in postcolonial political activism – than Fela Kuti. Taking his native Nigeria by storm, the pioneering musician's Afrobeat sound merged American R&B and funk with Nigerian and Ghanaian traditions to create a new sound to support Fela's anti-establishment credo. The sound spread around the world and made and enemy of the repressive Nigerian military regime. Because of persecution and other factors, Kuti's final years in the 1990s saw his musical output and influence wane; in this past decade, however, a resurgence of interest in his work culminated in the Broadway hit Fela! In this exuberant documentary, Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney interweaves the play's staging with interviews and performances to recapture the essence of the man, his music, and his enduring cultural and political relevance.
"An absorbing if not quite definitive patchwork of the life and legacy of an unorthodox artist" – Hollywood Reporter
6 p.m. Dos Santos Cumbia Dance Party (Mexican Cumbian) in the Rivera Court (updated location)
UPDATE Due to the increased chance of rain this evening, this performance has been moved to the Rivera Court. The event will start as scheduled at 6 p.m. and run until 9:30 p.m.
Dos Santos Anti-Beat Orquesta is a Chicago-based jam band made up of musicians from the jazz, R&B, Mexican folk, punk, and salsa world. They specialize in Mexican cumbia. The band was named one of the most prominent artists at South By Southwest in 2015 and was voted Chicago's Best Emerging Artist of 2015 by the Deli Magazine's Readers Poll. Cumbia dancing and music began as a courtship tradition among the African-descended people of Latin America. It later evolved with Native American and European instruments and dance steps to create numerous variations from Mexico to Columbia. Detroit dance instructors will introduce audience members to the rhythm and movements of the cumbia. This is an all-ages event, and beginners are definitely welcome!
"It seems only a matter of time before the combo becomes a key player on the country's world-music circuit" – Chicago Reader
Recording: Dos Santos (2015)
Scarab Club
217 Farnsworth St.
Detroit, MI 48202
Doors 8:30
Soft drinks $
9:30 p.m. Planet D Nonet (African Township jazz)
The Planet D Nonet is a down and dirty little band from Detroit that plays of range of music from the classic swing of Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson and Count Basie as well as the more space age jazz of Sun Ra and Pharoah Sanders, not to mention their forays into South African township jazz. This program features their township focus with the music of Abdullah Ibrahim, Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath and other townships artists. Founded by drummer R.J. Spangler and trumpeter James O'Donnell in 2007, PD9's most recent Detroit Music Award is recognition as 2016 Outstanding Traditional Jazz Artist or Group. With the way PD9 can transition from sound to sound, it's always a question of which tradition they are mining.
"Planet D plays swing-alicious jazz, booty-shaking big band, funk-atrocious fusion and some tribal-y tunes. And everything served Detroit-flavored." – AXS.com
Recording: Live at the Scarab Club for Concert of Colors (2015, Eastlawn Records)
Saturday, July 16, 2016 (three venues; indoors + outdoors)
Detroit Institute of Arts (Indoors, outdoors)
5200 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, MI 48202
Doors 9 p.m.
Food + Drink $
9:30 p.m. The AfroDixieRemixes Listening Session: A John Sims Project (spiritual, blues, gospel, jazz, funk, calypso, samba, soul, R&B, house, hip hop) in the Detroit Film Theatre
The song Dixie became a de facto anthem of the Confederacy, and along with the Confederate battle flag, a voice for the heritage of the Old South. Today the song is considered offensive by many, conjuring up the racist Jim Crow system. Multimedia artist John Sims chose to confront Dixie subversively through reforming and remixing the song through multiple genres of African American music, in addition to visually appropriating the image of the battle flag in red, black and green – the colors of the pan African flag. Sims' creative resistance features Dixie recordings as spiritual, jazz, funk, calypso, samba, soul, R&B, Hip hop, blues and more. The Detroit listening party advances the experience with collaborations from Detroit-area writers and musicians in the mix.
Collaborators: Alise Alousa, Roberta Estrela D'Alva, Kahn Santori Davison, Mahogan Jones, M.L. Liebler, Naomi Long Madgett, Jessica Care Moore, Jeff Nelson, Maya Stovall, Stringz of Hardcore Detroit, Rhonda Welsh
Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center (two indoor stages, one outdoor stage)
3711 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, MI 48201
Doors 1 p.m.
1-9 p.m. Build Bazaar vendors inside Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center
1-9 p.m Growth Center vendors on Parsons Street
1-9 p.m Food truck rally outdoors and indoor food vendors
Noon-10 p.m. Biergarten and BBQ on Parsons Street
1-7 p.m. DIA AWAY display on Parsons Street
1-8 p.m. Arts & Scraps kids activities on Parsons Street
Noon-9 p.m. Theatre Bizarre carnival games on Parsons Street
8 p.m. 9th Don Was Detroit All-Star Revue: Detroit's 100 Greatest Songs Showcase
Three-time Grammy Award winner Don Was returns for his 9th Detroit All-Star Revue. Born in Detroit and raised in Oak Park, was played bass and led the 1980s funk rock group Was (Not Was) through four albums and several hit records. Was went on to produce Grammy-winning albums for Bonnie Raitt and Ziggy Marley in addition to producing albums for the Rolling Stones, Khaled, Bob Seger and many others. Was served as music director or consultant for many films, and in 2014 garnered an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction for the CBS television special The Beatles: The Night They Changed America. Was is president of the great jazz music label Blue Note Records and a board member at DIME: Detroit Institute of Music Education. The Detroit All-Star Revue represents Was' commitment to the music scene in his home town. This ninth Revue is a tribute to the 10 greatest songs in Detroit history as voted by readers of the Detroit Free Press. Detroit's 10 greatest will be revealed the night of the show and simultaneously online at www.freepress.com.
"There's tremendous breadth to what's going on with the music in Detroit." – Don Was in Billboard magazine
Don Was Detroit All-Star Revue video channel
5:30 p.m. King Sunny Ade (Nigerian Juju)
King Sunny Ade is the greatest living African musician. A band leader, guitarist, singer and composer, Ade has been listed as one of the 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time and he stands shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Fela Kuti and Hugh Masekela as world masters of modern African music. Ade is a music innovator who brought the pedal steel guitar and clavinet to Nigerian music while maintaining traditional formats. He also incorporated the wah wah effect and created a wall of sound with several electric guitars harmonizing in his compositions. He has influenced the like of the Talking Heads and King Crimson, and collaborated with Manu Dibango and Stevie Wonder. The African Beats, Ade's touring band, is a 17-musician outfit with five dancers who keep the energy surging onstage. This orchestral Afropop percolates with the rubbery talking drum creating a powerful undertow for melodies that float over the rhythms and harmonize with Ade's elegant and soothing voice.
"One of the world's great band leaders" – The New York Times
Recording: Divine Shield (Master Disk)
3 p.m. Yuna (Malaysian pop)
Everybody with ears should have a crush on Yuna Zarai, the Malaysian native singer with the entrancing voice. Yuna's lyrics have the soul of a singer-songwriter delivered in a dance-floor format. The song "Crush," the lead single of her new album featuring Usher, is a light and delightful paen to the first moments of love. The hijabi Muslimah is an atypical pop star who learned to sing in English by listening to her parents' Beatles records, in addition to Fiona Apple and Lauryn Hill. Her transcultural vibe is a natural outgrowth of the music she grew up with. A feat she has achieved again and again in spreading her genre-bending music around the world. Yuna is one of five singers chosen to perform the 2016 Olympics promotional song.
"She's going to change the game, not just musically but culturally…" – Indie-Pop CEO Ben Willis
Recording: Chapters (2016, Verve)
9:30 p.m. Palenke Soultribe (Afro-Columbian electronic)
Energetic Afro-Columbian rhythms blend with modern beats and synthesizer excursions in the entrancing music of Palenke Soultribe. Based in Los Angeles, PST is known for its energetic shows has carved out a unique soundspace a competitive Latin music scene with its forays through a fantastic electronic jungle. Always pushing the conceptual envelope, PST has played festival across the Americas over the past six years. The mix of live instruments with the electronic sounds is crucial in maintaining the organic base of this completely unique music. The music constantly approaches and distances itself from tradition and modernism in a tense push and pull. They call it folkloric deconstruction. Or to put it more simply, as one of their songs cries out, "Oh Mama!"
"You'll be on the dance floor, clamoring for more" — brightestyoungthings.com
Recording: The Best of Palenke Soultribe 2009-2015 (2016)
7 p.m. Brown Rice Family (world/roots)
Based in Brooklyn, Brown Rice Family members hail from Japan, Jamaica, Haiti, Nigeria, South Africa and the U.S.A., so they are well aware that brown rice nourishes much of the world. Their world roots music, drawn from old and new traditions, nourishes your ears, your mind and your dancing desires. "Before you believe in anything, make sure you believe in yourself," the group declares in reclaiming the roots consciousness of early reggae. BRF takes an organic approach to living and music, promoting global solidarity, natural living and world peace. The even make their own BRF soap. But mostly they make high energy music that encompasses hip hop, Brazilian, Afrobeat, funk, ska and other directions of the African diaspora.
"One of New York's most consistently fun jam bands" – New York Music Daily
Recording: Havana to Kingston (BRF Record Group, 2015)
4:30 p.m. Alsarah & The Nubatones (East-African retro pop)
Alsarah was born in the Sudan and moved to the United States with her family at age 12. In a cultural sense the vocalist never left her homeland behind, and she found her artistic purpose through singing in her native Arabic. These songs express remembrance and nostalgia particularly by those who have been displaced. The "song of return" she sings are cultural expressions of remembrance and nostalgia for lost lands, particularly those of Egyptian Nubians displaced by the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s. The Nubatones play traditional East African instruments blended with some modern sounds. The oud often mimics the same lines that Alsarah sings creating a melodic drive that is both smooth and refreshing. She calls her music East African retro pop.
"The new princess of Nubian pop and Sudanese retro…" – The Guardian
Recording: Silt (Wonderwheel Recordings, 2014)
2 p.m. Fred Penner (children's folk)
Canadian-born Fred Penner has a simple, yet powerful message: "Never underestimate your ability to make a difference in the life of a child." He is a children's music icon who has performed throughout North America — transforming children's music into a family affair. His performances of songs such as "The Cat Came Back" and "Sandwiches" are loved by music fans of all ages. The half-hour show Fred Penner's Place aired on CBC-TV from 1985-97 and on the Nickelodeon cable network from 1989-92. He has been named a Member of the Order of Canada for "using music and song to entertain and educate his young audience."
"Not only did I get to relive parts of my childhood, but got to share it with my nephew…"
Recording: Where In the World (2014)
WOLVERINE OUTDOOR STAGE (Sosnick Court, behind Orchestra Place bldg.)
7:30 p.m. Mama Sol & Tha N.U.T.S. (hip-hop/neo-soul)
Mama Sol is an explosive emcee, hip hop artist, inspirational speaker and spoken word spitter. A breast cancer survivor, Sol spreads a positive message through her lyrics and spoken word forays. She's opened for or shared the stage with artists such as Destiny's Child, Cee-lo, Talib Kweli, Dead Prez, Rakim, George Clinton, and Kindred Family Soul. She's actually freestyled on Woodward with Mos Def. A resident of Flint, Sol's "Hard to Swallow" expresses the frustrations of residents in dealing with the water crisis. The N.U.T.S. (New Under the Sun), her band, provide beats and a soundscape that propels the message to memorable heights. Sol believes it is her obligation to inspire others, especially today's youth, with a soulful voice and a conscious vibration.
"Mama Sol fuses lyrics with substance with a style that sounds great to your ears" – Club937.com
Recording: Inside Out (2014)
6 p.m. Britney Stoney (neo-soul)
Singer, songwriter, guitarist Britney Stoney began her performance career with a deep desire to sing and the opportunity at open mic events across Detroit. She's since expanded her musical career to include festivals and even opening for Ziggy Marley. A native Detroiter, Stoney is a 2014 Kresge Arts Fellow and aspires to be a role model for emerging artists. "I feel like I can do anything because of that support from Detroit, because it's such a real place," she told Michigan Radio. "Like if Detroit has my back, I could go anywhere and do this." Stoney calls her music electronic soul, and ranges from folkish paens to rubbery grooves and deep soul.
"A breathtaking vocalist and guitarist fusing alternative folk and soul-pop" – Deep Kutz Music
Recording: Native (2015)
4:30 p.m. Tahnz and The Filthy Animals (jazz/rock/blues)
Formed just last year, Tahnz &the Filthy Animals have been gigging so hard they leave a trail of filth everywhere they go — reportedly leaving an inch of dirt on the stage at PJ's Lager House after their show there. Fronted by angel-voiced vocalist Tahnz, the Filthy Animals play neo-soul tinged with jazz, rock and blues as they experiment with the vast spectrum of music at their fingertips. The Filthy Animals are Brad Frey and Adam Cross on guitars, Jheremie Jacque on bass, and Justin Pullin on drums. They may be filthy but they overcome. As their song says, "You couldn't even imagine what's bothering me; somehow I pull myself up from underneath."
Recording: Swimming (2016)
3 p.m. Casual Sweetheart (indie pop)
All charm and rough around the edges, the ladies of Casual Sweetheart harken back to the indie rock days of the 1990s when it was a spirit that embodied the underground music scene and didn't appear on movie soundtracks. Drummer Dina Bankole, guitarist Ering Norris and bassist Lauren share vocals and portray an in your face sensibility. "I, I, I got something to say" they declare on "Crash Your Party." This is straightforward, unpretentious music from a bunch that can crash any party they want.
"This might be one of the best recombinant garage-punk acts since Grass Window or La Luz…" – Metro Times
Recording: Always/Never (2015)
1:30 p.m. The Sun Drummers (African drums)
The Sun Drummers is an all-star team of African drumming and dancing in the metro Detroit area. Each artist is a powerhouse in the African performance community with their own spark that comes together in a powerful fusion that explodes like the sun. By walking in their footsteps of their ancestors — such as Kamal Amen Ra and King Sundiata Keita — the Sun Drummers bring African drum and dance into a new age. Chinelo "Chi" Amen-Ra, Ayinde Anada, Sowande Keita, Marwan Amen-Ra, Maulana Tolbert and Imani Jamal govern the beats as the Omowale African Dancers, the Bese Saka Cultural Dancers and the Ngoma Za Amen-Ra Dancers add flair and splendor to the program. Sun Drummers members have played with or opened for the likes of Stevie Wonder, John Legend, India Arie, Third World and Kem.
12 p.m. (noon) Roots Vibrations (reggae)
Roots Vibrations' sound is uplifting and fun, featuring creative and seasoned musicians from some of the many Caribbean islands. Founder and lead singer Winfred Julien, from Dominica, West Indies, has been a driving force in the regional Caribbean and Reggae scene, leading the group to five Detroit Music Awards for Outstanding Reggae Band, most recently in 2013 with their positive roots music. "My philosophy is ensuring a great performance by each member of the band. The show stays interesting by playing a mix of original and familiar music in a variety of Caribbean styles. The awards we receive and the response we get is because the audience is our focus," says Julien.
" … mixing up the evolving the sounds of the Caribbean — from reggae to zouk — for two decades…"
– Metro Times
Recording: Detroit Live Sessions (2014)
Sunday, July 17, 2016 (two venues; indoors + outdoors)
Detroit Institute of Arts (Rivera Court)
5200 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, MI 48202
Doors 6:30 p.m.
Food + Drink $
7:30 p.m. Astrid Hadad (Mexican cabaret) in the Rivera Court
Mexican artist, vocalist and cabaret star Astrid Hadad has been described by The New York Times as "one of the most provocative stage acts since the Weimar Republic was in bloom." This enigmatic cabaret performer is also an historian, social critic and activist, whose unconventional vocal and visual performance style is filled with music dubbed 'Heavy Nopal' (after the cactus), combining ranchero, bolero, rumba and rock, and featuring extravagant costumes, rather like portable sets, which are a hallmark of her performances. This Mexican cultural icon has inherited a uniquely Mexican female surrealism and created her own that pulses with campy humor and irony.
"A spectacle that stopped people in their tracks" – National Public Radio
Recording: Vivir Muriendo (2013)
Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center
3711 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, MI 48201
Doors 1 p.m.
1-9 p.m. Build Bazaar vendors inside Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center
1-9 p.m Growth Center vendors on Parsons Street
1-9 p.m Food truck rally outdoors and indoor food vendors
Noon-10 p.m. Biergarten and BBQ on Parsons Street
1-7 p.m. DIA AWAY display on Parsons Street
1-8 p.m. Arts & Scraps kids activities on Parsons Street
Noon-9 p.m. Theatre Bizarre carnival games on Parsons Street
Meijer Main Stage at Orchestra Hall
8 p.m. Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra (Latin jazz)
Ten-time Grammy Award-winning pianist, composer, producer and bandleader Eddie Palmieri fuses the rhythms of his Puerto Rican ancestry to the jazz influences from his native New York. Known for unorthodox approaches to music, Palmieri first made his mark by replacing the customary trumpets with trombones in his Latin orchestra. In the ensuing years he surprised listeners by blending salsa with R&B, pop, rock, Spanish vocals, and jazz improvisation. This led to a new kind of music and a string of 10 Grammys and numerous other awards for musical achievement, including a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master award. He even set another precedent by becoming the first Latino to host a radio program on National Public Radio. Palmieri continues to compose, play and influence musicians throughout the world.
"One of the most celebrated pianists in American history…" – Red Bull Music Academy Daily
Recording: Sabiduría / Wisdom (2014)
5:30 p.m. The Mighty Sparrow (Calypso)
Trinidadian the Mighty Sparrow is the unrivaled Calypso King of the World – among the best known and most successful calypso performers of all time. He was born Slinger Francisco in a small fishing village in Grenada but moved to Trinidad as a small child. Sparrow emerged as the leading calypsonian at the age of 20, winning the Carnival Road March and Calypso King competitions in 1956. By 1958 he became the only calypsonian to have won three Road March Competitions, with songs that were known as witty, ironic and ribald. Sparrow has won a total of eight each Road March and Calypso King titles, and became an ambassador bringing the Trinidadian music around the world. In 2014, Sparrow was given Trinidad and Tobago's highest award, the Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, for his contribution to culture.
"Slinger Francisco is generally regarded as the greatest exponent ever of the calypso/soca art form…" – Caribbeanbeat.com
Recording: Supreme Serenader (1998, AR)
3 p.m. Cibo Matto (Japanese rock duet)
Japanese expatriates Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori formed Cibo Matto, which means crazy food in Italian, in 1994. This New York-based band mostly sang about food in its early years, producing songs like Sugar Water and Know Your Chicken. They've attracted some top flight collaborators: Sean Lennon played bass and guitar in the band for five years; Yoko Ono performed with them in 2013, and Wilco guitarist Nels Cline appeared on their Hotel Valentine album. The band's was one of the more colorful careers of the 1990s as listeners got a peek into the fantasy lives of Hatori and Honda. Hotel Valentine was conceived of as a score for an invisible film with acid jazz, tropicalia and deep bass microhouse sounds spicing the mix.
"They're still impossible to pin to a genre as they float between hip-hop, rock, and jazz, often in the same song." – Consequenceofsound.net
Recording: Hotel Valentine (2014)
9:30 p.m. Battle of Santiago (Afro-Cuban post rock)
The Battle of Santiago marries an electronic spirit with Afro-Cuban rhythms to create a post-rock sound that delights and surprises. Described by some as Radiohead meets Irakere, this band's sound is rooted in a restless transnational experimentalism. Formerly an instrumental groove and micro melodic outfit, Battle of Santiago has added vocals to its lineup with a focus on Afro-Cuban chants. This band's performance concept includes visual multimedia projections and audience extractions by artist-designer Patricio Davila to create a unique and entrancing audio-visual experience. Founded in 2011 by bassist Michael Owen, this Toronto-based outfit's first two recordings have ridden atop Canadian college playlists from the start.
"An adventurous sound that switches directions at the drop of a hat…" – Splinters & Candy
Recording: La Migra (Made With Pencil Crayons, 2016)
7 p.m. Kiran Ahluwalia (Indian African fusion)
Kiran Ahluwalia is a Canadian vocalist who performs musical arrangements of traditional Persian and Punjabi poems. The music is seasoned with electric desert-blues guitar played by her husband Rez Abbasi above a foundation of tabla chatter, while Ahluwalia's voice floats, darts and weaves through the music in classical fashion. Ahluwalia was born in India and moved to Canada at age eight. Later she studied music in India before returning to Canada and winning two Juno Awards for her music. Hers is an inventive approach that does not westernize the sound but fits the electric guitar into the Indian format. The arrangements use accordion to approximate the sound of harmonium and electric bass maintains the songs' architecture.
"A heady hybrid of Indian grooves, Saharan Blues and Western jazz that delivers a blueprint for a borderless world…" – CBC Music
Recording: Sanata: Stillness (ARC/Magenta, 2014)
4:30 p.m. Howling Diablos (funky blues)
Blues and rock are musical kissin' cousins and the Howling Diablos just might be guilty of incestuous musical explorations, along with their uncle funk who keeps things bouncing. The Howling Diablos' jamming live shows are well known to Detroiters. Their song "Carwash" rides on a screaming Mississippi blues riff with a heavy Motor City bottom, yet still manages to find a hip hop attitude. Since forming in the 1990s the Diablos have toured with and opened for acts such as George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic, Alice Cooper, Albert Collins, Ben Harper, Hank Williams Jr., Incubus and the James Gang. Hey, Kid Rock has been known to jump onstage to sing with them. Attracting top guests is old hat to the Diablos; their latest record features Wayne Kramer and the original Vandellas.
"The songs are superb; stylish, funky R&B with Tino's smooth voice and a lot of excellent musicians having a great time." – Metro Times
Recording: Return of the Funk Hand (Funky D Records, 2014)
2 p.m. Detroit Arab American Sound Experience feat. Detroit Jammerz, Compact Deity and Mazaj (Arab American rock)
The Detroit Arab American Sound Experience showcases three local bands — Detroit Jammerz, Compact Deity and Mazaj – that are well rooted in the Detroit rock arena. Each will play their own set and join the others for a grand jam to culminate the show. True to their name, Detroit Jammerz will play a free jam of intense hardcore music. The Jammerz have no songs or prearranged sets, they just get onstage and jam. Compact Deity, formed by guitarist Tarik Al-Kadhim, has been on the Motor City scene since 2006 playing guitar heavy sounds that have no fear of feedback and distortion. Mazaj lyrically travels the turbulent landscape of post 9/11 imigrants engaging themes of injustice, oppression, war and peace with an electric folk rock tinged with blues and world beats.
Compact Deity
Recording: Evil Eye (2011)
Recording: Blue from a Green Zone (2011)
7:30 p.m. Sean Dobbins (jazz)
Jazz drummer Sean Dobbins got his start as sought-after Detroit area jazz sideman at a young age, when he would regularly play with Blue Note artist Louis Smith. He has gone on to play with an impressive list of jazz greats like Marcus Belgrave, Rodney Whittaker, Barry Harris and many others. His sound can be described as hard driving with refreshing melodic sensibility. His Modern Jazz Messengers plays a straight ahead bop style though he often plays with his organ group creating a soulful, funky jazz sound similar to that of Jimmy Smith and Jack McDuff. Dobbins teaches at Oakland University and his recently released record, Journey, is his first nationally distributed release as a leader.
"Over the years, Dobbins has matured into a great bandleader." – Idigjazzblogspot.com
Recording: Journey (Detroit Music Factory, 2015)
6 p.m. Kevin Christian (R&B)
Kevin Christian is a keyboardist and singer originally from Detroit. Whether it's behind the keys or on the dance floor – he teaches competitive hip hop dance to young people – Christian is a great performer. His debut single Heart Like This features vocals from Canton native Redi Choi, bassist Chevy Delorenzo from Long Island, guitarist Tim Knowlton (a Berklee College of Music graduate), and drummer Dan Stover from Ferndale.
Recording: Heart Like This (Saint Eve Records, 2016)
4:30 p.m. Tristen Brooke (acoustic rock)
Tristen Brooke's energetic and percussive guitar playing accompanies a soulful voice. Her astounding talent and love of music grow from studying classical guitar, although flamenco, funk and rock have helped to mold her sound – and her string tapping techniques sets apart from other guitarists. Although a native Detroiter, Brooke began her performing career in Louisville, Kentucky, where she is a force in the vibrant music scene. With her band — Steve Sugarhill on guitar, Luis De Leon on percussion and Joe Easley on bass – Brooke has traversed the U.S.A. playing her funky gypsy rock at festivals and clubs.
"A wonderful presentation of jangly alt-country finesse with a punk rock attitude…" – Nocountryfornashville.com
Recording: Tristen Brooke (2016)
3 p.m. Blue Black Hours (heavy psychedelic)
There are a lot of words thrown around to describe Blue Black Hours' music and most of them harken back to the late '60s and early '70s when psychedelia was a new thing. They have been compared to the Doors, Black Sabbath, Tool and others. All of those influences are in this music but Blue Black Hours has a 21st Century grit to it. It's in the heavier rhythms and the way the guitar lopes through it all – there's a more muscular flex to it. Formed in 2005, these homeboys have had all kinds of influences tied to their music, but that's because they never stay in the same bag for long.
"This is the kind of music you want playing while spacing out some evening on a bean bag in your pal's semi-finished basement after a batch of…brownies and hours of Ren and Stimpy reruns." – Detroit Underground Online Magazine
Recording: Sunlight and Dust (2014)
1:30 p.m. Bomba con Buya (Afro Puerto Rican Bomba)
Chicago-based Bomba con Buya isn't only keeping bomba music alive, the group takes the Afro Puerto Rican style to new heights. Buya is an ensemble using a traditional yet innovative approach to Bomba. Developed during the 18th century among the island's African descendants, Bomba is Puerto Rico's oldest surviving cultural formats as it is about the creative relationship between dancers, drummers and singers. Two years ago a Buya video taken while members played sand and danced on Chicago's Blue Line train went viral around the world. Buya means "good spirit" in Taino, the language of the Island's indigenous people. The members of Buya strive to embody this idea through high-impact performances and community-centered workshops. The ensemble celebrated its fifth anniversary in 2015, however several members of Bomba con Buya have been committed to studying and sharing the Bomba tradition for over 20 years.
Members of Buya present a Bomba Dance & Drum Workshop at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 16 in Southwest Detroit. Click HERE for details.
Recording: Buya Live (2015)
12 p.m. (noon) Iyawo Dance Theatre & Folkloric Women's Vocal Ensemble (dance) feat. the Community Afro Cuban Dance and Drum Class
The Iyawo Dance Theatre is a professional youth dance company for teenagers. It was founded by choreographer-dancer Lisa McCall, a native Detroiter whose extensive career has included working with the likes of Clifford Fears and Katherine Dunham among others. McCall has also choreographed shows for Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Levert and others. The Folkloric Women's Vocal Ensemble and Community AfroCuban Dance and Drum Class complete the circle of cultural performance.


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Financing Higher Education in Tunisia
This paper focuses on Tunisia, which like other developing countries, has allocated increasing levels of resources to education, particularly higher education, mainly through public funding over the past few decades. In 2005-2008, public expenditure on education amounted to around 7.4 percent of GDP, with 2 percent allocated to higher education. However, in the last few years, the budgetary constraints have increased, and are likely to remain so in the near future. These budgetary constraints exist within a context of rapidly increasing student enrollment, and the need to improve the quality of education to insure better employability of graduates. In light of this situation, public policy is obliged to define orientations and programs, improving quality and efficiency while reducing costs and resource wastage, to enhance access and equity. This paper is organized as follows: it begins with an assessment of public expenditure on higher education in Tunisia, with respect to its adequacy, efficiency and equity. Next, in section 2, we explore the challenges posed to financing by demographic evolution, the quality of education and private provision. Section 3 examines some financing reinforcement strategies, and analyzes feasible measures to raise private funding contributions. Section 4 provides some concluding remarks.
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Zinsgewichtete Geldmengenaggregate und wirtschaftliche Aktivität
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Veal Zurich Style
|Leg of veal
|700 Gram (1 1/2 Pound)
|Seasoned flour
|3 Tablespoon
|4 Tablespoon
|Finely chopped shallots
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|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Dry white wine
|125 Milliliter (1/2 Cup)
|125 Milliliter (1/2 Cup)
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Slice the veal as thinly as possible across the grain and cut these slices into thin strips.
Toss in seasoned flour.
Heat the butter in a saute pan.
Add the chopped shallots and fry for 1 to 2 minutes.
Add the veal and saute over high heat for 2 minutes or until well browned.
Sprinkle with paprika, if you are using it.
Reduce the heat, pour in the wine and bring to simmering point.
Stir in the cream and reheat, but do not boil.
Adjust the seasoning and serve at once.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving size
Calories 332 Calories from Fat 113
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 13 g19.3%
Saturated Fat 7.3 g36.3%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 114 mg38%
Sodium 180.5 mg7.5%
Total Carbohydrates 23 g7.7%
Dietary Fiber 0.36 g1.5%
Sugars 7.6 g
Protein 26 g52.4%
Vitamin A 10.7% Vitamin C 0.83%
Calcium 5.7% Iron 8.1%
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The first line you wrote is exactly our product plan for Geek Out Nano. ;-)
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When I recently visited the part of Manchester airport where about 60 people are protesting about the building of a second runway, there was a list of what was wanted and what was not wanted. Included in the Wanted category was "Money, vegan food, people" and included in Not Wanted was "Alcohol, baked beans, meat, sneaky journalists" (whoops) "and Swampy groupies". However, they're keen for anyone to come along, though they all have to take responsibility for themselves, and presumably Swampy is too busy burrowing to have time for goggling teenage girls. (Although now it seems he may be too busy being arrested.) He is, after all, a political protester, not a rock'n'roll star. To be of any use she would have to be interested in the reasons behind it all, not just goofy about one member.
Personally I would be all for my daughter going along and visiting, though I think Zoe might make it clear she'd prefer her to go with a friend. For a start perhaps they could all go - including Zoe, who'd find it fascinating - on a Runway Walk (next ones are on Saturday 22 March - a Funday - and 6 and 20 April; for more info ring 0161 834 8221) where they'd be shown the various camps and a protester would explain the campaign. It's rather creepy when airport security staff line up on the opposite bank of the river and stare pointedly and intimidatingly with binoculars.
As for her GCSEs - since it seemed to me that most of the protesters were knee-deep in GCSEs, A-levels and degrees themselves I doubt there'd be pressure on her to drop out of exams. More likely, there'd be pressure for her to keep in touch but stick with her education. And I should think a week in the rain and mud would be quite enough for her; it's hard work and there isn't a bathroom or a loo for miles. As for safety, nobody on the protest is dumb; they don't want to get killed and they're fully kitted out with ropes and bits of mountaineering gadgetry to ensure that they don't crash to their deaths.
Personally I think that every sixth form in the country should be taken to see what's going on at Manchester. This kind of action is now part of our political system, as it is in Germany and France where protesters use similar methods, and I think it's important for children to see this as well as the stuff that's been around for hundreds of years. A visit to the House of Commons is practically de rigueur for most schoolchildren, so why not a visit to a very interesting and stimulating area where they can see first-hand how it is possible for people to take power into their own hands and have a real effect? It would teach them that nothing is too big for even the littlest man or woman to tackle directly, if they have the will.
Surely she must encourage her daughter not, perhaps, to break the law, but at least witness what is happening? She should be delighted she has a daughter who's so interested, and not one who just wants to stare at soaps all day. She may be a bit of a fan, but at least she's got her sights set on someone admirablen
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My husband and I think the 16-year-old should be persuaded to study over Easter, then take the GCSEs and join the protesters in the summer holidays. She will be a much more welcome protester with exams, than as a drop-out.
This will be difficult for the mother, we know, as teenagers nowadays have great independence. But a few more months of discipline and study should make her more mature and able to deal with the people and situations she will meet underground.
C & R Glover (ferry, St Malo to Portsmouth)
She certainly should go; it will be a disillusioning but valuable educational experience. Otherwise her crush will drag on without useful consequences. By contrast, exam grades guarantee nothing and certainly won't help to protect our future from the greed of big businesses. What ought to worry Zoe is that she isn't going herself. As Edmund Burke wrote: "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good men shall do nothing."
Robert P Clarke
Go with her. Eco-warriors are just as friendly to middle-aged women who can cook, as to pretty young girls who can't (maybe more so). Take lots of lentils. You'll have an amazing time (I promise).
Judith Berns
As I'm a nose-pierced, stripy-jumpered "tree climber", my advice would be to get yourself a dyed T-shirt, a sleeping bag, a packet of king-sized Rizla and some chick peas and get yourself up one of those trees! They are nice people. To meet them yourself with your daughter is one way to be certain. She may be pleased if you take a positive interest. People like Swampy may come across as extreme but it is often hard to get people to listen to issues that are important. If your daughter is as responsible as you say she will finish her GCSEs. If she really is eager to follow through seriously with green issues, then, maybe you should both discuss her continuing her education in the field.
Jenny, Leicester
My husband's reaction was: "Of course, they'll have to let her go"; mine was: "My God, I'd make her pack two dozen condoms". He was horrified, but we both agreed that Swampy is probably a sweet boy who is far too busy, too engrossed with his cause to have sex on the brain - it is the 0.5 per cent of his companions who may be persuasive and relentless in chasing a 16-year-old. A mother always hopes, as she sees her ewe lamb going off with a tent and a youth with acne, that the weather will be ghastly and she'll be home soon, but fate will see to it that the weather is divine, the countryside idyllic and everyone's hormones are at boiling point.
What about getting all the studying done the week before she departs?
If Zoe is really worried she could stay nearby in a B&B and tell her daughter the phone number so she could join her mother if it is too horrendous.
What about taking a male cousin or a girlfriend?
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Wimbledon, London
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My sister Suki, beautiful, brilliant, talented, fascinating, is nearer to a film star, or Becky Sharp, than anyone I have ever met. With ruthless egotism and ambition she has been through three husbands, innumerable lovers, huge houses, stables, yachts, pools, etc. My husband and I, a schoolmaster and a nurse, have always been the poor relations. Now at 60 the husbands and lovers have all gone and Suki is on income support. We are now comfortably retired; the position is reversed. And I feel strangely guilty, and don't know what to do. Should I offer my sister a monthly allowance, which I could ill afford? It would never be enough for her. It's awful - she's always run around in a Porsche and now she can't afford the train fare to anywhere. What should I do?
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My friend Alison asked me if I could make some favour boxes for a baby shower she was hosting in a couple of weeks.
So i created these cute baby blocks in blue, pink and yellow that she could fill with dummy sweets and give out at the party.
They are available to download free for anyone to use and although these will be used as favour boxes they could be used as a gift box for a new arrival or simply used as decorations at a baby shower!
They are really simple to put together too, just print, cut and glue along the left hand ledge. I use my paper scorer to make clean folds but you could use a butter knife to create the creases.
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Phil Steitz [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 12:53 AM > To: firstname.lastname@example.com > Subject: [math] re: move to Apache Commons > > I have always maintained > that the simple lang-like extension stuff fits in Jakarta Commons, while > the math/stat framework stuff does not. I partially disagree with the framework comment. Mainly, because a precedent has been set with commons-logging for allowing such a framework as envisioned by the [math] members. Quoting the [logging] home page: "The Logging package is an ultra-thin bridge between different logging libraries. Commons components may use the Logging API to remove compile-time and run-time dependencies on any particular logging package, and contributors may write Log implementations for the library of their choice." I foresee the proposed [math] API as providing the same purpose; providing a mathematical API where contributors may write "implementations for the library of their choice." > I think that it is to accommodate > the framework and non-Java development ideas that Robert is recommending > the move to Apache Commons. I agree with him. Any non-Java work definitely does not belong in Jakarta, Commons or elsewhere. > I would recommend, however, > that the proposal be rewritten to reflect the broader scope. No problem with that. I will concede, that the [math] group is, IMO, trying to take on too many endeavors at once and maybe a reality check is in order. In the near-term for [math], this is what I would like to see: 1) a 1.0 release 2) expand on the 1.0 features for the next release (i.e. add more distributions, hypothesis tests, root finders, etc.). 3) add ONE new math vertical/discipline for the next release. For instance, we could chose to add a FFT implementation which some people have expressed a desire to have. 4) make another release. For the long-term, I would just keep repeating that cycle. I think this would keep the [math] contributors primarily focused on the things you care about, the mathUtils portion, and with some attention allotted to broadening [math] into the package of our dreams (or nightmares depending on your point of view). Brent Worden http://www.brent.worden.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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