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by Capt. Dale Dye, USMC (Ret.) -
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
A 1st Infantry Division NCO prepares to move his men, all armed with the M14 rifle, against an enemy position in mid-1965.
This fully rigged and modified M16 rifle was issued to U.S. Air Force Security Police at Tan Son Nhut Airbase for perimeter patrols. It features an attached AN/PVS-1 Starlight Scope and an XM148 grenade launcher.
A Screaming Eagle from the 101st Airborne pumps out full-automatic fire from his M16 during Operation Cook in late 1967.
This familiar image of an M60 machine gunner from the 173rd Airborne Brigade demonstrates the amount of extra ammunition a grunt platoon was willing to carry to keep the machine gun in action.
A trooper from the 173rd Airborne Brigade pumps fire onto a target near LZ English in 1969. This .50 BMG M2 is rigged to a pintle mount on an M151 Jeep.
A U.S. Navy sailor guards suspected Viet Cong guerrillas during 1967. His arm is a well-worn Thompson M1A1 submachine gun with two 30-round magazines wired together.
A Marine infantryman prepares to mount an LVTP-5 amphibious tractor somewhere in the South China Sea. He's carrying one of the many Browning M1919 .30 caliber machine guns that the armor crews typically used.
A soldier of the 8th Infantry prepares to check an enemy position armed only with his issue .45 ACP pistol while a fellow infantryman provides surface security.
This familiar photo shows a U.S. Navy SEAL on a mission early in the war. He's got the standard drum magazine loaded on his Stoner 63 with several belts of extra ammunition draped over his shoulders.
An assistant machine gunner from 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, ready to move out with his L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle (SLR) loaded and locked. The FN FAL was fairly heavy for confined jungle work at nearly 10 lbs. unloaded, but the Aussies swore by its knockdown power in combat.
A Marine sniper and his spotter operating with 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines in Vietnam, scans for targets with his Remington Model 700 rifle resting on his helmet for additional stability.
Army intelligence specialists from the 173rd Airborne Brigade inventory a large cache of enemy weapons in late 1965. The variety is staggering, but the majority of the captured rifles are typical bolt-action Mosin-Nagant Model 1944s—some still in the padded wrapping that protected them on the trip down the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
If you can find anyone these days willing to talk for five minutes about the Vietnam War, ask about which images from that conflict leap first to mind. If you haven't hooked into some former hippie or nearsighted political geek, the response will likely involve two enduring icons from the Greater Southeast Asia War Games: the Huey helicopter and the M16 rifle. I've been asking the question for more than 30 years now, in connection with making movies and writing books about military subjects, and those are the two responses that usually score highest amongst veterans and non-veterans alike.
I don't know much about Hueys, despite a lot of time spent riding in the back of them and wondering how in the heck they managed to stay airborne, so we'll dance over that topic for now. I'm a gun guy—have been since age 10 when my dad first took me squirrel hunting in the woods of southeast Missouri—and this is a gun magazine, so let's talk about the M16. More to the point, since there's a certain sense of reverie in this 40th year since the end of the war, let's talk about the M16 in Vietnam. And then I'll offer some personal observations about the very special relationship combat men have with their guns.
Some Vietnam vets give the M16 a big thumbs-up. Others give it an extended middle finger. It depends on personal perspective for the most part, and that always trumps factual data among folks who can speak from first-hand combat experience. I carried an M16 because I was ordered to do so, but I never came to trust it completely, especially after I saw a couple of fellow Marines killed in a firefight while they were desperately trying to assemble a cleaning rod and knock a hung cartridge case out of a fouled chamber. I also learned that the original rifle, with the three-prong flash suppressor, was handy for breaking the bailing wire on a case of C-rations, but that was not asset enough to make me comfortable with the rifle in situations beyond getting to the chow in the field. You know the drill—once bitten, twice shy—and I wasn't the only Marine who felt that way. I distinctly remember a battalion commander who kept moving his outfit around so his men couldn't be pinned down by supply officers and forced to turn in their M14s in exchange for the black plastic rifle.
No question the original M16—sometimes called the "Matty Mattel" rifle by critics due to its plastic and aluminum construction and the "widow maker" by fans of its light weight and firepower—had teething problems when it was originally introduced into combat units in Vietnam. In the simplest terms, shooters were encountering excessive fouling, which resulted in jams and malfunctions at the worst possible times.
A large-scale Congressional investigation discovered there were essentially three major problems with the M16 and its issue ammunition. These included a high-residue propellant that fouled the action after a magazine or two of fire, the lack of a chrome-lined chamber and barrel, and a lack of proper maintenance training and equipment among the troops carrying the rifle in jungle conditions. The Army quickly addressed those problems and came up with the M16A1—plus a blitzkrieg training program and the proper equipment for rifle maintenance—to produce one of the most significant and effective battle rifles of the 20th century.
Yeah, maybe so. I'm willing to grant that the M16A1 did yeoman service during the hottest combat years in Vietnam, but there's no denying that a lot of outfits parted with their more rifleman-like M14s reluctantly. Right up to the last time I was on a Southeast Asian battlefield in mid-1970, I saw soldiers—and a lot of Marines—still carrying the M14 and swearing by its increased range, accuracy and lethality. I also saw a lot of soldiers and Marines opting to carry other arms despite problems with ammunition resupply and without a reliable source of spare parts.
I will never forget watching infantrymen from two battalions of the 5th Marines roaring all over Hue City during the Tet Offensive in 1968, carrying Thompson submachine guns, M2 carbines and even BARs that they'd pilfered from an ARVN armory. Maybe it was the influence of John Wayne movies or parental war stories, but those guys went through that supply of World War II-vintage guns like kids on Christmas morning. And a lot of them chose to hang onto those guns—particularly the Thompsons, for which ammunition was readily available from pistol stores—long after that seminal street fight was done and dusted. There was a brisk trade between the northern-most Marines and soldiers of I Corps and local ARVN units. A mint-issue M2 carbine still in Cosmoline could be had for a couple of cartons of Kools or Salems.
Beyond the rugged, combat-guy image that such World War II-era arms imparted—and that was important to a lot of folks—there was also a desire to have the biggest hammer available when trying to nail the enemy. The under-powered carbines were all show, I grant you, but there were a lot of line dogs who insisted that a .30-caliber round from an M1 or BAR or a burst of .45 ACP from a Thompson was the definitive answer to the Chicom AK and the SKS. Different strokes for different folks, I guess, and it always comes down to what you trust when lives are on the line.
Anyone involved in ground combat bets his or her life on the arms they carry for offensive or defensive action against an enemy carrying and relying on similar arms. That's the nature of the beast in war. Army and Marine Corps infantrymen in Vietnam—and to a lesser but still crucial degree tankers, artillerymen and combat support troops—understood that from the moment they embarked on that first patrol in the jungle or dug-in to defend a hard-won piece of misty high ground. After a while, they became so accustomed to having a rifle in hand that they were more than a little antsy when those weapons were not within easy reach. Those who have fired individual or crew-served weapons at an enemy and suffered return fire in exchange for their efforts will always have indelible memories—fond or otherwise—of the arms they carried in combat.
There is a very personal relationship that develops between a combat soldier or Marine and the weapon on which he relies for survival. It's an odd sort of love affair that has roots in both practical application and in dogma such as the Rifleman's Creed (applicable to any personal firearm carried in combat) that states, in part, "My rifle is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its sights and its barrel. I will keep my rifle clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other."
We have a new generation of combat veterans among us these days. Men and women who carried a new generation of weapons to war into places such as Iraq and Afghanistan, who have returned with a fresh understanding about the crucial importance of small arms in warfare. They understand—as did those of us who fought in Vietnam—that there is no strategy or tactic that equals victory in armed conflict if it does not include that muddy, grimy, dog-tired infantryman with just his personal weapon to help him survive in a life-and-death encounter.
Small Arms Of The Vietnam War
Researcher and frequent contributor Tom Laemlein and Capt. Dale Dye, USMC (Ret.), have collaborated on a new book, Small Arms Of The Vietnam War: A Photographic Study, which is available in both hard copy ($35) and digital editions ($15) at bookstores or from medium.com. The 222-pp. book covers the small arms used during the conflict by both sides through photographs of all the arms in the hands of the troops who used them. It is broken down by type (handguns, rifles, shotguns and machine guns), and by who carried them (Americans, Australians, South Koreans, Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), etc.). There are more than 40 pages devoted to the arms used by the Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese Army (NVA).
If Capt. Dye's name seems familiar, it is because he has been working in Hollywood as an advisor, actor and director for more than 30 years and has appeared in such films as "Platoon," "The Rough Riders" and "Saving Private Ryan," just to name a few, as well as in the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers." His company, Warriors, Inc., provides technical military services for the entertainment industry, including training actors to think and act like soldiers. Capt. Dye served as an enlisted Marine in Vietnam, including 31 combat actions, and he earned a Bronze Star with "V" device and the Purple Heart.
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In a Meaford State of Mind
I got back from Meaford this afternoon. We had a pretty wet and "rustic" weekend, but the weather co-operated enough for us to visit Sauble Beach. Adrian thought we could get some good shots for my modeling portfolio with the storm waves in the background. We got exactly enough 'good' weather to accomplish that. As the designated photographer's victim I didn't get much of a chance to take photos myself. I did manage to get a nice series this morning around the farm and beaver pond when the sun finally came out for a few hours before we left.
I enjoyed driving around with Adrian, we took interesting side roads all the way up and listened to Verve Remixed on my iPod. We traveled along Airport Road all the way to Georgian Bay instead of thundering up Highway 400, and crossed some steep but rolling hills. I kept thinking that I'd love to try them on my bike someday.
We stayed with Adrian's friend Roger, who was at his parent's farm/cottage tinkering with the rusty old cars he's hauled there, including a recently acquired 1948 GMC fire engine. Roger actually lives in San Diego, so this is a pretty optimistic activity... The farm is definitely isolated, and with few supplies and no running water due to a dry well we might as well have been camping. Sheryl had a good laugh this afternoon when I told her about the conditions, but I did get through a good chunk of Margaret Atwood's novel Oryx and Crake.
The woods were pretty close in on all sides of the farm so there was no view to speak of. The sky did finally clear at about midnight though, so I was able to enjoy my favourite cottage activity; staring into the starry abyss. I hate to say it, but I'm really going to miss the family cottage. It was the perfect place to soothe the soul...
|Listening to: Peter Gunn (Max Sedgley Remix) by Max Sedgley and Sarah Vaughan from Verve Remixed 3.


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In a principals' email letter, MGRHS's Kaiser briefs two initiatives
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:22:02 -0500
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To All Mt. Greylock Families
Warmest New Year Greetings and welcome to the first in a series of quarterly Mt. Greylock Regional School Updates, which focus on larger developments shaping your students' education now and in the near future. Today we cover two major middle school and high school initiatives:
Mt. Greylock has long been known for teaching writing well, and we're delighted to announce that our middle school teachers are adopting the Collins Writing Program, a nationally recognized method for teaching and assessing writing across the curriculum. (More on Collins at www.collinseducationassociates.com/cwp.htm). Even better, because Lanesborough and Williamstown elementary schools also employ the Collins writing method, our incoming Mt. Greylock students will be building on a firm foundation established in elementary grades. Our teachers' efforts have already improved writing instruction for middle schoolers and will help make next year's new middle schoolers feel at home from their first day at Mt. Greylock.
Meanwhile, we have been working to ease the equally challenging transition from middle school to high school. A group of ninth grade teachers led by Kellie Houle spent a day last summer establishing common expectations, assessments, and cross-curricular connections for new high school students, which were shared with students on the first day of school and with parents at this fall's Open House events. Evan Paris and Brian Gill have developed a parallel ninth grade wellness curriculum, which focuses on activities that build community and citizenship. Our teachers have taken these efforts to the next level by meeting monthly with small groups of ninth graders so that now at least one adult in the building besides their guidance counselor knows each student well. These initiatives have proved to be particularly timely in light of recent incidents in which a few ninth graders threatened other students using grossly disrespectful language. Teaching tolerance and addressing bullyi
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These are but two of many efforts at Mt. Greylock to improve every aspect of your students' educational experience. We look forward to sharing more in future updates. For breaking news, keep reading "Weekly Highlights" (thanks to Pat Dunleavy for excellent work on that essential parent communication!) and our occasional school-wide e-mail announcements.
If you have questions about these initiatives or any aspect of your students' education, please feel free to e-mail us.
And all best wishes for a happy and healthy 2010.
Ellen Kaiser
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Tim Payne
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Christina Board: Wilmington vote should happen in city
The Christina School Board postponed a vote on its plan with the state to consolidate its Wilmington schools. Board members said the vote should take place at a meeting more accessible to Wilmington residents and continued to parse its details.
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Wednesday, 17 September 2008
Trixie gave me an award YAY!!
And I'll give it straight to RONJAZZ as he needs all the support he can get right now
Now repeat after me firebyrd, you will not spend the rest of the evening fiddling with the magic carpet ride that is the black box!!
You will instead go and make a coffee, go to the toilet, and say hello to your son, and NOT sit here any more messing about. Well at least not until you've done those tasks!!
Go on MOVE!
Right now
I can see you still sitting there, you need to move, or there will be trouble.
I want some more people to be my followers, please if you love me, pretty please hit the button. Or I shall cry and cry till I'm sick.
And then if no-one loves me I'll have to go down the garden to eat worms
And you wouldn't want to be responsible for that would you?
Haven't got any pics of worms, so this will have to do instead.
So chores have been achieved after a fashion, as it's cold milk, not coffee, been for a pee, and son came downstairs to me, but that's only so he can make a sandwich!
19 comments:
- Sorrow said...
bad black box!
naughty naughty, taking our byrd for a ride.
Chores still not done here, if you come over and do mine, I promise to pour you some hot water, and sit with my feet up and laugh...
and then we both will have escaped the black box!
- 17 September 2008 at 21:26
- Fire Byrd said...
so let me get this straight I do the chores and you laugh.... ummm, think black box more likely!
- 17 September 2008 at 21:40
- Trixie said...
I've BAND myself from using it... for tonight anyway. lol.
- 17 September 2008 at 22:42
- Trixie said...
There you go, I'm following you, just to shut you up, lol. I don't even use blogger, lol!
- 17 September 2008 at 22:45
- Unknown said...
please don't cry...
and worms?
...a good source of protein...billions of fishes can't be wrong...
...oh, and there's always time for coffee...and chocolate...and chocolate covered worms...
- 18 September 2008 at 03:07
- Walker said...
Don't look at the box.
Look away
No don't
Look away
ah dang it all
Worms are good for you and i think I hae a recipe somewhere for them if you want me to look for it.
- 18 September 2008 at 05:11
- Annie Wan said...
black box over chores any day, so i'm no help really ... and thanks for following me too x
- 18 September 2008 at 06:38
- Lady in red said...
awwww hugs
the black box does wear off after a while I promise
- 18 September 2008 at 07:05
- virtualjourney said...
rofl - I'm in good company.
Someone suggested a 12 step recovery programme 'Hello, I'm x, and I used to be a Black Boxer.....'
- 18 September 2008 at 09:23
- Val said...
love your blog! thanks :-)
- 18 September 2008 at 13:04
- nitebyrd said...
Isn't that "Black Box" like a drug? I spent 2 hours the other night zooming around blogland when I should have been actually doing something like study! LOL
Byrd, I'll follow you anywhere. :D
You and Ron both deserve the award. Congratulations!
- 18 September 2008 at 19:00
- Fire Byrd said...
trix, you are a star, thanks!
pix, I think it's you. Chocolate covered worms indeed... pah!And thanks for putting you up as a follower xxx
Thanks walker I'll get back to you on that!!
mei, thanks, so glad those Manillos are grazing my blog!
Lady, good, it can't come soon enough I need sleep!
VV, sign me uo immediately.
val, welcome and thanks for stopping by.
nitebyrd, you are just too kind with your lovely words.
- 18 September 2008 at 21:24
- Glitterstim said...
I can't resist the black box. I'm addicted.
No! Not addicted! I'm "focused"! That's better :o)
:o) BJ
- 18 September 2008 at 21:43
- Fire Byrd said...
Ah Ms Jones that's a much better way to describe it!
- 18 September 2008 at 21:46
- trousers said...
I turns out I was the first one ever to use the Black Box! I feel I've finally accomplished something...it's taken me long enough to put the widget up on my own site though.
At this rate, I will sort out which blogs I follow before the year's out... x
- 18 September 2008 at 22:20
- Fire Byrd said...
That's you all over, always wanting to be first!!! HA!
Now all you gotta do is get your own followers list and join mine.... please!
- 18 September 2008 at 22:31
- Enigma said...
Thanks for the suport, oh trixie of the beautiful photos.
I,m a leader, not a follower, but i'll break my rule for you.
- 19 September 2008 at 12:55
- Deborah Carr (Debs) said...
Glad there aren't any pics of worms.
I found my way here from trixie's site.
- 19 September 2008 at 13:43
- Fire Byrd said...
Then Enigma, I am suitably honoured, so thank you for stopping by and putting yourself up there.
Debs, welcome, yeah worms yucky things even if they are good for the garden
- 19 September 2008 at 18:40


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Back At It
Hello and happy Monday friends!
I have been MIA since Thanksgiving, so I will give you a condensed 4 days of recap to spare you reading about my life all day long. I hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving and didn't shoot anyone on Black Friday like we had happen here. Well not here in this apartment, but Nordstrom–the place I first think of when I hear Black Friday shooting. ANYWAY, let's get to it:
Things have been crazy for us moving half way across the country, living in temp housing, and gearing up to close on our final destination in the middle of December. We decided to keep Thanksgiving low key and ordered dinner from Whole Foods. It did not disappoint. We ordered the dinner for four, which included a turkey breast, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce. I also bought a pumpkin cheesecake because pumpkin pie is sub par.
We didn't do any crazy shopping, but did head to (what I thought was) the last donut stop on our list: The Donut Vault. We split a buttermilk old fashioned and it was decent, although I may not have liked it as much because it was cold and not usually my favorite. Apparently they have an eggnog one coming up which may change my mind.
After the donut, we took a long walk north of us to Lincoln Park where we decided to go to the zoo.
Since it was chilly out, there weren't many people at the zoo. We got front row seats to a lot of different exhibits. We made it about half way through before we were hungry and stopped for some pho. We will be back another day!
This weekend warmed up again, so there was more time spent outside. We headed over to the Navy Pier where they are setting up some kind of magical Christmas wonderland to play in next week. Count me in.
We headed to Wicker Park to cross two more things off our dining list: The Bongo Room for brunch and Stan's Donuts, the fifth and final donut place on the list. We were told about Stan's the day before, so although I thought my gorging on donuts was done, I realized I would have to do it one more time. Both were amazing! Stan's had a much larger selection than any we had been to and I may check it out again in the future for some diversity. I got the vegetarian croissant sandwich at The Bongo Room: grilled croissant, muenster cheese, baby spinach, tomato slices, sauteed mushrooms, scallions, cucumber slices, alfalfa sprouts, and an egg on top. Oh, let's not forget the BASIL mayo. Go hard or go home.
This morning I worked all of that off with a serious workout at Sweat on State, which I will fill you in on a little later. Again, I hope you had a great holiday and a great weekend and remember to stay warm!
Question of the day: What did you do this weekend? What's your favorite donut?


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Ever had to go scradging? How I spent my 15th birthday
It was March 1947, after a long, long winter. Father had two fields in Hall Fen, Little Thetford, and another by the Fish & Duck, and all were near the railway and the river. If it wasn't sparks from passing locomotives devastating the summer corn crop or "pitting down" peat fires, which had to be dug out, it was the threat of winter flooding from burst banks. And this year turned out to be a real disaster.
With the long thaw the floods came rapidly and with a vengeance. Water from Bedford, Cambridge, St. Ives pouring down the Great Ouse, that bleak windy week-end every bank became topped with flood water, with the grim prospect of bursting banks and maybe flooding half of Little Thetford.
Standard emergency procedures crashed into action at the Great Ouse Catchment Board offices in Ely, where telephone calls were pouring in as fast as the water in the rivers. All the Board's tugs and barges – together with tugs lent by the Beet Factory – were mobilised to get clay out quickly to reinforce some 125 miles of banks at risk, especially where wanted urgently. But the critically great height of the flood waters made it impossible for many of the strings of barges to get under several of the bridges, even with the tugs weighted down almost to deck level. This often meant it was a "You're on your own, fellers" situation.
To make up the banks you have to have men and a supply of Gault Clay, but in a panic situation, if there is none, and the water is nearly over the top,the only alternative is scradging.
Hall Fen, Little Thetford, was looking bad – six inches or so to go and it would have been over the top. . Once it starts to come over you have had it – time to go home defeated and let it flood. The worst danger point was near Braham Dock where the Grunty Fen Catchwater discharges (or tried to discharge) into the Great Ouse just north of Hall Fen. Here the catchwater drain is banked up for its last half mile, and the build-up from the catchwater meeting the overloaded river makes a breach a high risk.
Scradging gangs – normally four men – each take a stretch of bank, say a hundred yards at a time. One man digs big chunks of turf out below the bank on the land side. Two men each carry turf up to the top of the bank. There the fourth man precariously packs these turfs in a line all along the bank top to raise it by three or four inches. If they've time – usually never – they repeat the process adding a second line along the top.
We all worked desperately from dawn to dusk and the bank held. But we woke wearily in the morning to find that the bank had gone near the Fish and Duck. I believe some barges even got washed through the breach. All land from the Fish & Duck to Braham Dock was under water, and the railway embankment was washed away at one point leaving the rails suspended.
Recovery took some time but all credit was due to the clear-up efforts of the Great Ouse Catchment Board, the Internal Drainage Boards, the Army, the War Agricultural Executive Committee ("War-Ag"), civic and voluntary workers and the Prisoners of War. See these two Getty Images photos here and here.
Thankfully scradgers are all redundant – the magnificent Ely Ouse – Essex Water Transfer Scheme which intercepts the highland water, tunnels it to Kirtling and tips it into Essex bound for London – has brilliantly precluded any repeat flooding. Hall Fen Little Thetford is safe!
John Kisby 2010
The 1947 floods
The river floods that began in mid-March 1947 affected over 1,000 square miles (2,600 km2) of England. Thirty counties were underwater for nearly two weeks, during the worst flooding for over 200 years. Before the flooding, snow had been falling continuously since 23 January, with drifts up to 23 feet (7.0 m) deep in places. The winter of 1946–1947 had been very severe, with mean average temperatures 4 °C (7 °F) below normal, for that time of year. As the thaw began in mid-March, the warmer weather brought heavy rains. The rain running off the frozen ground, combined with the thaw, overwhelmed multiple rivers in England and eastern Wales, which flooded.
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Joash, the defensive stalwart or simply the'dirty' boy ?
In Summary
- Is Joash Onyango the menacing defensive stalwart that marks his territory with panache or simply the 'dirty' boy in the beautiful game of football?
- Since the weekend game, the player has gained attraction and fame under the 'Joash-Act tag, and is today the most talked about Kenyan footballer.
- So, who is Onyango? He is 25.Calm.Shy off the pitch. He joined Gor on Jan 1, 2017 from Western Stima and quickly established himself as an important cog at the heart of the team's defence,
Is Joash Onyango the menacing defensive stalwart that marks his territory with panache or simply the 'dirty' boy in the beautiful game ?
Since the weekend game, the player has gained fame under the 'Joash-Act' tag, and is today the most talked about Kenyan footballer.
On Saturday, he probably made the most important tackle of his football career when he hacked Ghana's forward Majeed Warris from behind in the D-area when the forward was dashing for goal, ready to pull the trigger.
Unknown to Warris, Onyango who was closing in had other ideals, sweeping him off the ball and with it a free-kick at the edge of the box awarded to Ghana.
With it, the Moi international Sports Centre terraces grew numb as they feared for the worst from the resultant free kick which fortunately ran into a defensive wall.
With his exit, the Stars had to fight tooth and nail for a handsome 30 minutes to protect the slender win they had.
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And with that, Stars earned a famous victory over the fancied Black Stars of Ghana, rekindling their hopes for a slot in next year's Afcon finals set for Cameroon.
The victory took Stars points tally to 3, thrusting the group wide open as each team has same points.
But beneath the adrenaline on the terraces, beneath the drama that ensued on the pitch, beneath the celebrations that went into the dressing room… beneath it all, a star was born and his football light seems to shine even brighter.
Flashback to May 16 as Gor Mahia tackled USM Algers at the same venue in a Caf-Confederations match, Onyago suffered the same fate, leaving K'Ogalo to sweat it out a man less for more than 60 minutes.
It's however his latest act that has earned him admirers the most with fans, coaches and even striker Michael Olunga applauding him.
So, who is Onyango? He is 25.Calm.Shy off the pitch. He joined Gor on Jan 1, 2017 from Western Stima and quickly established himself as an important cog at the heart of the team's defence, seamlessly fitting into the big shoes left by former skipper Musa Mohamed , who interestingly partnered him at the heart of the defence during Saturday's knife-edge battle.
Meanwhile, Gor Mahia assistant coach Zedekiah 'Zico' Otieno, a former K'Oalo great and ex-defender says there was "nothing wrong" with the action taken by Onyango that led to the red card last Saturday.
In fact Zico opines that at times, as coaches, they encourage defenders to 'die' for the team even if it means getting marching orders.
He lauded Onyango for his action saying he actually saved the nation from what was going to be a clear goal by the four- time African champions.
Zico related Onyango's Saturday incident to the 2010 World Cup quarter-finals match where Uruguay player Luis Suarez stopped the ball with his hands to hand Ghana a missed penalty right at the death which would have made the Black Stars the first African team ever to cruise to the World Cup semi finals.
Suarez got the red card, but Asamoah Gyan , failed to convert the resultant penalty,crushing the African dream while handing Uruguay the chance to sail to the semis after a painful penalty shoot-outs.
According to 'Zico' , the tackle was bookable but for the good of Harambee Stars.
Zico however thinks that the red-card meted on Onyango against Algers was a blunder by the centre official.
Gor Mahia assistant secretary general Ronald Ngala also lauded the centre-back.
'"When an opponent is attacking, you must use any means possible to stop him even if it means sustaining bruises. It is normal for a defender, goalkeeper and defensive midfielder to be given marching orders due to their defensive roles'' Said Ngala.
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Afternoon of Sept 4th 2015, in the Conventional Center of Sao Mai Corporation (Binh Khanh district, Long Xuyen city), IDI Multinational Development and Investment Joint Stock Co. (an Affiliate of Sao Mai Group) and VP Bank signed the Strategic Partnership Agreement.
Under the Agreement, VPBank shall finance IDI a total credit limit of up to VND330 billion to supplement its working capital in food-processing. Apart from credit support, VPBank will also offer a preferential fee of domestic and international money transfers, export-import L/C, FX and cash management service.
Mr. Fung Kai Jin, Deputy CEO and Head of SME Division said VPBank is one of the few banks with a separate division targeting SMEs. And thanks to this specialization, VPBank SME is able to provide such optimal financial solutions to customers as well as organizations to realize their goals. Moreover, VPBank SME Division also promotes its investment in human resources, products, and operating system to fulfill the long-term commitment to the SME community.
The strategic coorperation with VPBank will enable IDI to enjoy such an abundant financial resource as well as excellent services to cope with its demand on investment and business expansion.
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Established in 2003 in Lap Vo district, Dong Thap province, IDI Multinational Development and Investment Joint StockCo. now possesses VND983-billion chartered capital with 3500 staffs.
In 2005, IDI started building its own industrial complex to aquaculture and process Tra catfish into products such as: exported fillet, fishmeal, refined fish oil, fish feed products and product package manufacturing etc.
In 2008, IDI began to export Tra catfish products. And in 2012, IDI entered into Top 5 of Tra catfish exporters in Vietnam and has maintained the first rank till now.
Most of IDI's products are exported to 150 customers in 50 countries. Amidst the 2014, IDI made profit of VND2,120 billion and it is estimated to earn VND3,012 billion in 2015.
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Founded in 1993, VPBank now owns over 200 transaction points nationwide with the ambition of being listed in Top 5 Vietnamese joint stock commercial banks in 2017. In 2015, VPBank has received 6 prestigious awards, noticeably the "SME of the Year" honored by Asian Banking and Finance magazine.
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Go Jellyfishing for Tickets to SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS Starting Monday
Tickets go on sale to the general public on Monday, June 26 at 10:00am ET for SpongeBob SquarePants on Broadway at The Palace Theatre (1564 Broadway - Broadway at 47th Street). Preview performances begin Monday, November 6th with an official opening on Monday, December 4th. For tickets visit Ticketmaster.com or call 877-250-2929.
Citi is the official U.S. credit card of SpongeBob SquarePants on Broadway. Citi cardmembers will have access to Preferred Seating beginning June 26th at 10:00 AM EDT through Citi's Private Pass program. For complete details visit www.citiprivatepass.com.
SpongeBob SquarePants cast will include Ethan Slater as SpongeBob SquarePants, Gavin Lee as Squidward, Lilli Cooper as Sandy Cheeks and Danny Skinner as Patrick. The full cast will be announced at a later date.
A legendary roster of Grammy Award winners. A visionary director and Tony Award-winning design team. One of the world's most beloved and unforgettable characters. Turn them all loose on Broadway and what do you get? SpongeBob SquarePants!
Acclaimed Steppenwolf director Tina Landau and the groundbreaking designers behind Fun Home, Hedwig, and Spring Awakening have brilliantly reimagined Bikini Bottom for the Broadway stage, bringing the spirit of SpongeBob to life with humanity, heart, and pure theatricality. With an original score from some of the biggest names in pop and rock, SpongeBob SquarePants explodes with energy.
Stakes are higher than ever before as SpongeBob and all of Bikini Bottom face the total annihilation of their undersea world. Chaos erupts. Lives hang in the balance. And just when all hope seems lost, a most unexpected hero rises up and takes center stage.
Get ready to dive to all-new depths of theatrical innovation at SpongeBob SquarePants, where the power of optimism really can save the world!
SpongeBob SquarePants is a musical production conceived and directed by Tina Landau, book by Kyle Jarrow, orchestrations, arrangements & music supervision by Tom Kitt, with choreography by Christopher Gattelli.
SpongeBob SquarePants is a one-of-a-kind musical event with original songs by Yolanda Adams, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of AEROSMITH, Sara Bareilles, Jonathan Coulton, Alexander Ebert of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, The Flaming Lips, John Legend, Lady Antebellum, Cyndi Lauper, Panic! At the Disco, Plain White T's, They Might Be Giants and T.I., and a song by David Bowie. With additional lyrics by Jonathan Coulton and an additional song by Tom Kenny and Andy Paley.
The design team includes scenic and costume design by David Zinn, lighting design by Kevin Adams, projection design by Peter Nigrini, sound design by Walter Trarbach, hair and wig design by Charles G. LaPointe and casting by Telsey + Company/Patrick Goodwin, CSA.
Nickelodeon and Sony Masterworks Broadway have recorded the cast album of SpongeBob SquarePants and will announce its release shortly.
SpongeBob SquarePants will be produced by Nickelodeon with The Araca Group, Sony Music Masterworks and Kelp on the Road.
Since its launch in July 1999, SpongeBob SquarePants has reigned as a pop culture phenomenon. The series has been the most-watched animated program with kids 2-11 for more than 15 consecutive years, and over the past several years, it has averaged more than 100,000,000 total viewers every quarter across all Nickelodeon networks. SpongeBob SquarePants is the most widely distributed property in Viacom history, seen in more than 208 countries and territories and translated in 55+ languages. Paramount Pictures' second feature film based on the property, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, in 2015 at #1 opening weekend. A third feature has been announced for 2019, timed to the series' landmark 20th anniversary. The character-driven cartoon chronicles the nautical and sometimes nonsensical adventures of SpongeBob, an incurably optimist and earnest sea sponge, and his undersea friends.
Tickets will be available to the general public online via Ticketmaster.com, or by calling 877-250-2929 on Monday, June 26th, or at The Palace Theatre box office (1564 Broadway - Broadway at 47th Street) beginning in Fall 2017. Ticket prices range from $49 to $159.
Group discounts are available for groups of 12 or more through Group Sales Box Office at Broadway.com by calling 1-800-BROADWAY x2 or online at www.broadway.com/groups.
For more information on SpongeBob SquarePants, visit SpongeBobBroadway.com.
Ethan Slater (SpongeBob SquarePants) is beyond thrilled to be making his Broadway debut (!) as "SpongeBob" in SpongeBob SquarePants! Recent credits: World Premiere of SpongeBob in Chicago (BroadwayWorld Chicago Best Actor Award), and "Modell" in Diner at DTC (Dir. Kathleen Marshall); Off-Broadway: Baghdaddy (St. Luke's), PEMDAS (59e59), Claudio Quest (NYMF), What We Know (Teatro Circulo), Independents (FringeNYC); Film: "Lightning Bugs in a Jar" (Cannes 2015), "EVOL"; Web Series: "Redheads Anonymous", "New Mayor of New York". Ethan is a Vassar graduate and member of OYL. More at Ethanslater.com
Gavin Lee (Squidward). Broadway: Thenadier in Les Misérables, Bert in Disney's Mary Poppins (Tony and Olivier nominations, Drama Desk and Theater World Awards). Other theater: Showboat (Carnegie Hall), Holiday Inn (World premiere, Goodspeed), Mary Poppins (1st national tour). London's West End: Top Hat, Mary Poppins, Crazy For You, Peggy Sue Got Married, A Saint She Ain't, Me And My Girl, Oklahoma! and Contact. TV: Woodford in "White Collar" (season six), "Law and Order SVU," "The Good Wife."
Lilli Cooper (Sandy Cheeks). Ecstatic to be back in Bikini bottom! Broadway: Spring Awakening (OBC), Wicked (Elphaba). Theater favorites: Sundown, Yellow Moon (WP Theater), Natasha, Pierre...Great Comet (ART), The Wildness (Ars Nova), Noir (NYSF & NAMT), The Threepenny Opera (Atlantic Theater), LMNOP (Goodspeed). TV: Bull (CBS), Elementary (CBS), creator and star of the web-series: "It's Not Okay, Cupid" (Glamour.com). Proud LaGuardia Arts and Vassar alum. Incredibly grateful to Stone Manners Salners, Telsey & Co. and Ann Kelly. For Paulie and Dubdub. Lillicooper.com
Danny Skinner (Patrick) is excited to be making his Broadway debut as Patrick in SpongeBob SquarePants. Off-Broadway: Pluck the Day (Inaugural Season of The Araca Project); Film: Allison Clemens; Web Series: "New Mayor of New York", "Professional Friend". He holds a BFA from Syracuse University.
Yolanda Adams: Billboard Magazine's Gospel Artist of the last decade, Yolanda Adams is a 5 time Grammy Award winning artist who believes that her music heals. Not only is Yolanda a phenomenal vocalist, she is the host of the award winning, nationally syndicated radio show "The Yolanda Adams Morning Show". A renaissance lady, she is an author Points of Power, designer of a coffee line Yolanda Adams coffee, and bath & body products line, Simply Yolanda. Most of all she is a proud mom. (www.YolandaAdamslive.com) Twitter/IG: YolandaAdams
AEROSMITH'S Steven Tyler AND Joe Perry: As members of AEROSMITH--America's Greatest Rock & Roll Band--the songwriting team of Steven Tyler and Joe Perry have sold more than 150 million albums worldwide and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They are the recipients of countless awards including four Grammys, eight American Music Awards, six Billboard Awards, 12 MTV Video Music Awards and an Emmy, among many other honors. In 2013 Tyler and Perry were awarded with the Founder's Award at the ASCAP Pop Awards and inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame. With scores of multi-platinum albums, AEROSMITH continues to inspire generations to get their wings, to get a grip and to just push play. It's no wonder their songs remain relevant to this day and they're one of the most beloved bands of all time.
Sara Bareilles: Sara Bareilles first achieved mainstream critical praise in 2007 with her widely successful hit "Love Song," which reached No. 1 in 22 countries around the world from her debut album "Little Voice." Since then, Sara has gone on to receive six Grammy nominations, which include Song of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Love Song" and one Album of the Year for her highly acclaimed third studio album, "The Blessed Unrest." Her book, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song, was released in the fall of 2015 by Simon & Schuster and is a NY Times best seller. Making her Broadway debut, Sara composed the music and lyrics for "Waitress," for which she received her first Tony Award nomination for Best Score and a 2017 Grammy Award nomination for Best Musical Theater Album. She is also making her Broadway acting debut as the lead in "Waitress" for a limited engagement through June 11, 2017. "What's Inside: Songs from Waitress," her most recent solo studio album, is out on Epic Records. For more information, visit www.sarabmusic.com.
David Bowie (1947-2016): David Bowie's first hit was the song "Space Oddity" in 1969. The original pop chameleon, Bowie became a science-fiction character for his breakout Ziggy Stardust album. He later co-wrote "Fame" with John Lennon, which became his first American #1 single. An accomplished actor, Bowie starred in The Man Who Fell to Earth, in 1976. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Driven by an entirely deeper dynamic than most pop artists, Bowie inhabits a very special world of extraordinary sounds and endless vision. In 2013, it was announced that the David Bowie Archive had given unprecedented access to the prestigious Victoria and Albert Museum for David Bowie is...., an exhibition to be curated solely by the V&A in London. Marking the first time a museum has been given access to the David Bowie Archive, the exhibition has gone on to break records in the US, Berlin and France. David Bowie is.... will continue to tour the world for the foreseeable future.
Jonathan Coulton: Jonathan Coulton is from the Internet. While a struggling music industry fell to pieces over file sharing and shifting business models, he quietly and independently amassed a small army of techies, nerds, and dedicated superfans. His songs cover an eclectic range of subjects, from zombies and mad scientists to marriage and parenthood (and now, Spongebob!). You may know him from many things, including the songs from the Portal games, his work on the NPR quiz show "Ask Me Another," or his annual comedy music cruise, the JoCo Cruise. His latest release is "Solid State," a sci-fi concept album (with a companion graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Albert Monteys) about internet culture, trolls, and how love and empathy may yet keep the world from ending.
Alexander Ebert: is an award winning singer, songwriter, composer and front man of the popular folk---rock band Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros (and formerly of Ima Robot).In 2014, he won the Golden Globe for Best Original Score to J.C. Chandor's film All Is Lost starring Robert Redford. He followed that up by scoring Chandor's next film A Most Violent Year. Additionally, he scored the Oscar winning Disney animated short Feast. Ebert was born in Los Angeles in 1978 and currently resides in New Orleans, LA. In 2011, he released his first solo album as Alexander. After the success of the band's 4th studio album, PersonA; Alex Ebert has recently released 'Broken Record'. This is the first song off his latest solo project.
Tom Kenny: voices the TV lead role of "SpongeBob SquarePants" an incurably optimistic sea sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea, in Nickelodeon's iconic hit series SpongeBob SquarePants. The notable voice actor is familiar to Nick viewers as the voice of "Dog" in CatDog, and "Heffer" on Rocko's Modern Life. He has been the recipient of two Annie Awards for his voice work on SpongeBob SquarePants and Adventure Time. In addition to his prolific voice work, Kenny has appeared as a standup comic on such television shows as The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brian, Premiere Blend and Comic Strip Live. Kenny was a regular cast member of HBO's critically acclaimed sketch program Mr. Show with Bob and David and appeared as the office loser "Persky" on Just Shoot Me. He has also guest-starred on The Drew Carey Show, Brotherly Love and Unhappily Ever After. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Jill Talley, son McKinley and daughter Nora.
The Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips are an American rock band, formed in Norman, OK., in 1983. Melodically, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements. Lyrically, their compositions have elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles. They are acclaimed for their elaborate live shows, which feature costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, and frontman Wayne Coyne's signature man-sized plastic bubble, in which he traverses the audience. Q magazine named The Flaming Lips one of the "50 bands to see before you die". The group has garnered three Grammy Awards, including two for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
John Legend: Ohio-born Legend is a critically acclaimed, multi-award winning, platinum-selling singer-songwriter. His work has garnered him nine Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, the BET Award for Best New Artist and the special Starlight Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame, among others. Most recently, Legend won his first Academy Award, first Golden Globe Award, and won the 2015 Critic's Choice Award for his song "Glory," that he wrote and performed with Common, for the film Selma.
Lady Antebellum: With a new sense of history and possibilities, Lady Antebellum's sixth studio album HEART BREAK, had Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott on a new mission - setting aside time to put themselves in new surroundings, and concentrate on writing and exploring musical endeavors with no distractions. With busbee in the producer's chair, the trio had a hand in writing eleven songs on HEART BREAK, resulting in their most intimate and heartfelt work to date. The new music follows more than 18 million units, nine No. One hits, ACM and CMA "Vocal Group of the Year" trophies three years in a row, and countless other honors including Billboard Music Awards, People's Choice Awards and Teen Choice Awards. This week Lady Antebellum also received a 2017 CMT Awards nomination for Group Video of the Year for the lyric video for "You Look Good." For more information about new music and upcoming tour dates, visit www.ladyantebellum.com.
Cyndi Lauper: Lauper is a Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award-winning (Kinky Boots) artist who, after 30 sterling years and global record sales in excess of 50 million albums. With her first album, She's So Unusual, Lauper won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist and became the first female in history to have four top-five singles from a debut album. Since then, Lauper has released ten additional studio albums and was recently inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Overall, during her storied music career, Lauper has been nominated for 15 Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, seven American Video Awards and 18 MTV Awards.
Andy Paley: is the veteran pop/rock composer-producer whose songs have been covered by everyone from Madonna to BrIan Wilson as well as The Beach Boys, the Ramones and, of course, SpongeBob SquarePants. He and Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob, have written two albums worth of buoyant songs for the character including "Don't Be A Jerk (It's Christmas)" and, of course, "The Best Day Ever."
Panic! At the Disco: Award-winning internationally acclaimed rock band Panic! At The Disco released their latest album, Death Of A Bachelor, in January 2016. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, with their single "Victorious" debuting at No. 1 on iTunes Top Songs, iTunes Alternative Songs, and Billboard and Twitter's Trending 140 charts just hours after its release. The platinum-certified album was nominated for "Best Rock Album" at this year's Grammys, was the #4 biggest selling album released in 2016 just behind Drake, Beyonce, and Rihanna respectively, and has amassed over 500 million streams. Most recently, the band is coming off their headline Death Of A Bachelor Tour which sold out arenas across the U.S. including NYC (Madison Square Garden), Chicago (Allstate Arena), LA (The Forum), and many more.
Plain White T's: Hailing from the suburbs of Chicago, the punk-pop outfit Plain White T's began taking shape in 1997, a full ten years before the acoustic ballad "Hey There Delilah" made them Grammy-nominated stars. "Hey There Delilah" topped the charts in ten different countries and helped jump-start sales of their album, Every Second Counts. Plain White T's received two Grammy nominations for the song, and the band returned in 2008 with Big Bad World, featuring the band's usual mix of spunky energy and pop/rock craft. The band returned to action with the 2013 EP Should've Gone to Bed before delivering the full-length American Nights in April 2015. Plain White T's recently resigned to Fearless Records and they are back in the studio working on a new album. "Land of the Living" is the first track to be released by Fearless Records this year, and there is more new music to come.
They Might Be Giants: From Brooklyn, New York, They Might Be Giants have been performing together for 33 years and drink more coffee than most. They have made some albums and won some awards. They are presenting a brand new, top quality song every week at their web site, DialASong.com.
T.I.: Never one to march behind anyone else, rapper/songwriter/producer T.I. has crafted a standard-setting career that includes three Grammy Awards and status as a hip-hop icon. His distinct flow and lyrical skills drew widespread national attention with 2003's Trap Muzik. His eight-album catalog includes three consecutive No. 1 debuts on the Billboard 200 (2006's King, 2007's T.I. vs. T.I.P. and 2008's Paper Trail). His most recent album was 2012's "Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head. The rapper also counts a string of hit singles, among them "Bring 'Em Out," "What You Know," "Whatever You Like," "Live Your Life" featuring Rihanna and "Dead and Gone" featuring Justin Timberlake. His multi-platinum tally includes a total of four Billboard Hot 100 No. 1's plus sales of more than 30 million singles and 14 million albums.
Tina Landau (Director) is a writer and director, and an ensemble member at Steppenwolf Theatre Company where numerous productions include The Wheel, The Brother/Sister Plays, The Tempest, The Time of Your Life, The Cherry Orchard, Ballad of Little Jo, and her own play Space (also Mark Taper Forum, NY's Public Theatre.) Tina's New York directing credits include Old Hats (also airing on PBS), Big Love, and Iphigenia 2.0 (all at Signature Theatre), A Civil War Christmas (New York Theatre Workshop), Wig Out and Dream True for which she also wrote Book and Lyrics (both Vineyard Theatre), In the Red and Brown Water, Saturn Returns, and Head of Passes (all at the Public), and Floyd Collins (Playwrights Horizons, Old Globe, Goodman) for which she also wrote Book and Additional Lyrics. On Broadway, Tina has directed the revival of Bells Are Ringing and Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts. She teaches regularly in the U.S. and internationally, and has co-authored, with Anne Bogart, The Viewpoints Book.
Christopher Gattelli (Choreographer) was awarded the 2012 Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for his choreography in Newsies. Broadway (choreographer): The King & I (Tony nomination), South Pacific (Tony and Outer Critics Circle nominations), My Fair Lady, War Paint, Amazing Grace, Casa Valentina, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Sunday in the Park With George, Godspell, The Ritz, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, 13, High Fidelity. Off- Broadway: Dogfight (Lortel Award), Altar Boyz (Lortel Award, Callaway Award, Drama Desk Nom.), Bat Boy: The Musical (Lortel Award), 10 Million Miles, Adrift in Maco, tick,tick...BOOM!, I Love You Because. West End/London: South Pacific, Sunday in the Park with George, tick, tick...BOOM! National/International Tours: Newsies, Altar Boyz, Godspell, Grease, Pooh's Perfect Day (World Premiere) Disney Theatricals. Sydney Opera House: South Pacific. Regional: Little Miss Sunshine (La Jolla Playhouse), Kander and Ebb's All About Us (Westport Playhouse), The Baker's Wife (Paper Mill Playhouse), Me and My Girl (Goodspeed Opera House). As director/choreographer, Off-Broadway: Silence! The Musical (Time Magazine's top 10 of 2011), world premiere of In Your Arms (The Old Globe), world premiere of Jim Henson's Emmet Otter's Jug- Band Christmas (Goodspeed Opera House). Also choreographed Coen Brothers' movie Hail, Caesar! and Newsies the movie.
Kyle Jarrow (Book) is a writer and musician who creates work for the stage, film and television. He is creator and executive producer of the upcoming TV series Valor, premiering on the CW network this fall. His digital series Lost Generation (with music by Duncan Sheik) is now streaming on Verizon's go90 platform. Kyle's plays include A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant (Obie Award), The Wildness (Lortel Award nominee), Whisper House (now playing in London), Noir, Love Kills and Hostage Song. Kyle penned the film Armless, which was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival. In addition to his writing work, he leads the rock band Sky-Pony with his wife Lauren Worsham. Their debut album Beautiful Monster is available from Knitting Factory Records. More info on Kyle at kylejarrow.com.
Tom Kitt (Orchestrations, Arrangements, & Music Supervision) received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as two Tony Awards for Best Score and Orchestrations for Next to Normal. Other composing, arranging, and music supervision credits include: If/Then; High Fidelity; Bring it On, The Musical; Disney's Freaky Friday; The 2013 Tony Awards (Emmy Award for original song, Bigger); Grease Live!; Rise (series for NBC); The Winter's Tale, All's Well That Ends Well, Cymbeline (The Public's NYSF); American Idiot; All three Pitch Perfect films; Royal Pains; Penny Dreadful; Julie's Greenroom; Sesame Street; and Everyday Rapture.
David Zinn (Set & Costume Design). Recent Broadway: costumes for A Doll's House Part 2 (Tony nomination), set design for Present Laughter and The Humans (Tony award), and sets and costume for Amelie, Fun Home (Tony nomination) and The Last Ship. Other shows include Airline Highway (Tony nomination), Rocky, Other Desert Cities, Good People, In the Next Room... (Tony nomination) and Xanadu. Recent Off-Broadway includes set design for Hamlet (Public Theater), costume design for Othello (NYTW), and set and costume designs for the The Flick, and Circle Mirror Transformation, and Dogfight. Also Shakespeare in the Park, Manhattan Theatre Club, Signature, Roundabout, Elevator Repair Service and Target Margin. Around the country his work as been seen at Steppenwolf, Center Theatre Group, ART, La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep, Guthrie Theater, Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Los Angeles Opera and San Francisco Opera.
EVIN ADAMS (Lighting Design) Four time Tony winner Kevin Adams has designed Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Tony and Outer Critics Award), American Idiot (Tony Award), Spring Awakening (Tony Award; Olivier nom for the West End production), Next To Normal (Tony nom), The 39 Steps (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Hair (Tony nom), Man And Boy, Everyday Rapture, Passing Strange, Take Me Out, A Class Act,Hedda Gabler with Kate Burton, solo shows by Eve Ensler and John Leguizamo. Off-Broadway: the original production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Scottsboro Boys, Rent, Carrie, new work by Edward Albee, Eric Bogosian, Christopher Durang, Richard Greenberg, Tony Kushner, Terrence McNally, Neil Simon, Anna Deveare Smith and Paula Vogel. Also Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera, Steppenwolf Theatre, Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, Donmar Warehouse, Encores!, MildrEd Pierce (HBO), Audra McDonald in concert (Town Hall, Joe's Pub, Lincoln Center), staged concerts featuring Patti LuPone (Gypsy, Candide, Anyone Can Whistle, Sunday in the Park and Regina) and Blue Man Group in Las Vegas and the Hollywood Bowl. For his work off-Broadway he has received an Obie for sustained excellence and two Lucille Lortel awards.
Peter Nigrini (Projection Design). Broadway: Dear Evan Hansen, Amelie, A Dolls House Part 2, An Act of God, The Heidi Chronicles, The Best Man, Fela!, 9 to 5. Elsewhere: Grounded and Here Lies Love (Public Theatre), Wakey Wakey, (Signature), Real Enemies (BAM Next Wave), Don Giovanni (Santa Fe Opera), The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (2nd Stage), Notes from Underground (Yale Rep), The Grace Jones Hurricane Tour, Blind Date (Bill T. Jones). He is also one of the founders of Nature Theatre of Oklahoma and designs every aspect of their productions which include, No Dice, and Life & Times (Burgtheater, Vienna). Currently: Lucia di Lammermoor (Santa Fe Opera), Ain't Too Proud, The Temptations (Berkeley Rep).
Walter Trarbach (Sound Design). Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention, Cymbeline. As a Partner in SCK Sound Design, his Credits include: Doctor Zhivago and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, andAin't Too Proud. Other Designs: Queen of the Mist, I Am Anne Hutchinson/I Am Harvey Milk, The Man in the Ceiling, The Tin Pan Alley Rag, Becky Shaw, Measure for Pleasure, Farragut North, I Love You Because, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, and Mr. Marmalade. Associate Sound Designs: Catch Me If You Can, Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill (Tony Award), Jesus Christ Superstar, Hands on aHardbody (Drama Desk Award), and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Huntington Theatre Company, The Fifth Avenue, Williamstown Theatre Festival, DC's Shakespeare Theatre Company, Bay Street Theatre. Walter is married to photographer Kimberly Witham
Charles G. LaPointe (Hair and Wig Design).Over 50 Broadway shows including: Hamilton; Beautiful: The Carole King Musical; Anastasia; Amélie; Motown the Musical; Allegiance; On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan; Doctor Zhivago; Of Mice and Men; Violet; Sideshow; Honeymoon in Vegas; Piece of My Heart; The Elephant Man; Radio Golf; The Radio City Spring Spectacular; The Performers; The Apple Tree; After Midnight;; A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder; Soul Doctor; Jekyll and Hyde; Clybourne Park; Bring It On; Newsies; The Columnist; Magic/Bird; Bonnie and Clyde; The Mountaintop; Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; The Merchant of Venice; Memphis the Musical; Henry IV; Cymbeline; Lombardi; Fences; Looped; Miracle Worker; Superior Donuts; 33 Variations; Guys and Dolls; In the Heights; Jersey Boys; The Color Purple; Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me; Good Vibrations; A Raisin in the Sun. Television: The Wiz Live! (Emmy Award Nomination).
Telsey + Company (Casting). Broadway/Tours: Anastasia, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Hello, Dolly!, War Paint, Present Laughter, Come from Away, Waitress, On Your Feet!, Hamilton, Kinky Boots, Wicked, Something Rotten!, The King and I, An American in Paris, The Sound of Music. Off-Broadway: Sweeney Todd, Atlantic, Classic Stage, MCC, Second Stage, Signature. Regional: Berkshire Theatre Group, Center Theatre Group, 5th Avenue, Goodman, La Jolla, McCarter, New York Stage and Film, Paper Mill, Williamstown. Film: Miss Sloane, Into the Woods, Margin Call, Rachel Getting Married, Across the Universe, Camp, Pieces of April. TV: "This Is Us," "I'm Dying Up Here," "One Day at a Time," "Julie's Greenroom," "Hairspray Live!," "Masters of Sex," "Smash," "The Big C," commercials. www.telseyandco.com
NICKELODEON (Producer). For more than 38 years, Nickelodeon has been at the forefront of creating beloved characters and stories that inspire and entertain audiences around the world by putting kids first in everything it does. The company includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, digital, radio, recreation, books and feature films. As the number-one entertainment brand for kids, Nickelodeon has been at the heart of countless revolutionary TV moments, and it has been home to some of the most legendary cultural hits and iconic characters in television history--SpongeBob SquarePants, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dora the Explorer, Kids' Choice Awards, Blue's Clues, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Hey Arnold!, All That, iCarly and Rugrats. Nickelodeon has been honored with countless honors, including 84 Emmy Awards. Nickelodeon is seen in more than 450 million households globally, and is the number-one-rated basic cable network in the U.S. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB).
The Araca Group (Producer). Founded in 1997 by partners Matthew Rego, Michael Rego and Hank Unger, The Araca Group is a theatrical production and brand activation company. Broadway producing credits include Urinetown, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Wicked, The Wedding Singer, Boeing-Boeing, Rock of Ages, A View from the Bridge, Lend Me a Tenor, Cinderella, A Raisin in the Sun, Skylight, Disgraced, Groundhog Day, and Hello, Dolly! Upcoming: world premiere of The Sting, a new musical based on the Academy Award winning film, premiering at the Paper Mill Playhouse in March of 2018. Brand activation partners include Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Reba McIntyre, P!nk, New York City Ballet, Radio City, Star Wars, Warner Bros., DC Comics, AMC's The Walking Dead and Beyoncé. For more information, please visit araca.com.
Sony Music Masterworks (Producer) comprises the imprints Sony Classical, Masterworks, OKeh, Portrait and Masterworks Broadway. Our artists range from icons to newly developing talents in classical, crossover and adult music, plus new and legendary jazz artists, as well as a vast catalog of musical theatre recordings including classic Broadway shows and original cast albums of today's Broadway hits, most recently Hello, Dolly! starring Bette Midler, Groundhog Day, Dreamgirls, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Kinky Boots, Once, If/Then and An American In Paris."
Kelp on the ROAD (Producer). Stephen Lindsay and Brett Sirota are the Managing Directors of Kelp on the Road, a consortium of investors from around the world. Stephen and Brett, co-founders of The Road Company, have distributed, managed, and produced Broadway and other attractions for 20 years, and will be bringing the tour of SpongeBob SquarePants to cities across North America.
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Co-CIO Francis Gannon studies recent changes in the market, which seems to be consolidating, and how this could impact small-cap investors.
Royce's Charlie Dreifus recently remarked that in 2017 January exhibited a familiar tendency in which the fourth quarter's winners wind up being the inaugural month's worst performers while the that same quarter's worst performers become January's best.
Our friends at Furey Research Partners lent further support to Charlie's observation, developing a three-columned heat map of selected equity sectors, industries, and factors that showed performance in 2015, 2016, and YTD 2017.
Coho Capital 2Q20 Commentary: Podcasts, The New Talk Radio
Coho Capital commentary for the second quarter ended June 30, 2020. Q2 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Dear Partners, Coho Capital returned 46.6% during the first half of the year compared to a loss of 3.1% in the S&P 500. Many of our holdings, such as Netflix, Amazon, and Spotify, were perceived beneficiaries Read More
Certain areas that were negative in 2015 came back strong in 2016 but have taken small steps back so far this year, including Energy stocks. Conversely, big winners from 2015 that suffered through 2016—the biopharma complex as well as the Health Care sector as a whole—have recovered a bit so far this year.
Even more interesting to us, however, was the behavior of a few key areas in which many of our portfolios have significant investments.
Both the semiconductor industry and the overall Information Technology sector were positive for all three periods while Industrials and Materials were down in 2015, rebounded in 2016, and have stayed positive so far in 2017.
Financials showed the mirror image of that last pattern: They were up in 2015 and 2016 before correcting slightly in the early part of this year.
Russell 2000 GICS Sector Returns
One year after hitting a trough on 2/11/16, small-caps are seeing a similar trend. For example, 2017 has so far seen a breather for the Russell 2000 Value Index and a bounce back for the Russell 2000 Growth—the precise opposite (on a much smaller scale) of what we saw in 2016. In other words, it looks a little like 2016's third quarter in miniature.
Russell 2000, Russell 2000 Value, and Russell 2000 Growth Indexes in 2015, 2016 & YTD 2017
This looks very much to us like a small-cap market that's consolidating. The Russell 2000 lost 0.5% from its most recent high on 12/9/16 through 2/9/17. (The large-cap S&P 500 and Russell 1000 Indexes each gained 2.5% for the same period.)
Postelection optimism has been followed by some uncertainty over the new Administration's priorities as well as the time frame and/or implementation plans for important items such as the corporate tax rate, repatriation, and infrastructure spending.
Related to this has been something like an intra-rally pause as investors digest what's happening with the companies they own, the economy, and the federal government's course of action, including that of the Fed. It has been a rewarding ride for small-cap investors, after all. The Russell 2000 advanced 46.7% from 2/11/16-2/9/17.
As we survey the market from our perspective as small-cap specialists, things looks more and more normal to us. The new year has so far seen a lot of small changes—none of which have been very impactful. A pullback would not be surprising, but we still see the current cycle as a young one, with plenty of room to run for small-cap stocks.
Our outlook, then, remains unchanged and optimistic.
We still believe we are in the midst of a multi-year leadership run for small-cap value, ongoing strength for cyclicals, and better times for thoughtful, disciplined active management approaches.
Stay tuned…
Article by Francis Gannon, The Royce Funds


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Show and Tell / October - December 2015
This is a selection of rugs from our September 2015 Exhibition, held at the Beaconsfield Library and at Centennial Hall.
Autumn leaves reborn
By Jacqueline Bouchard
This rug is an original design measuring 49 in. by 22 in. It was hooked on burlap with recycled woolens, yarns, a silk tie and some new wool. The strips were cut by hand. The braided border comes from a recycled piece of Black Watch tartan.
One morning in the Fall 2014 as I was walking through the park, the beauty of the many colourful leaves spread on the ground inspired me to give them a new life and they were reborn in this rug.
|Autumn leaves reborn, by Jacqueline Bouchard
Wonky Houses with Poppies
By Dawna Matthew
This rug, which is actually a wall hanging, measuring 22" x 17.5" was hooked in 2014. It is composed from two of Deanne Fitzpatrick's patterns, Hills Across the Harbour and Big Red Poppies. I wanted something in front of the houses and the space seemed to call out for bright, red poppies!
I was challenging myself to use as much recycled wool as possible. Most of this piece is made from over-dyed men's sports jackets from our local thrift shop. It is all 8.5 cut except, of course, for the proddy poppies with yarn centers and the white fleece in the clouds.
It is bright and cheerful and brings back memories of a camping trip that my husband and I made a few years ago. We spent most of the month of September touring Newfoundland. It was also on this trip that I got "hooked" on rug hooking. We visited the museum in Twillingate which had a beautiful display of hooked rugs with different designs of lighthouses of Newfoundland and Labrador. I left determined to find out more about this craft, came home, joined our guild and have been busy hooking ever since!
|Wonky Houses with Poppies, hooked by Dawna Matthew
Holly Scroll (64" x 17")
By Ti Seymour
I was looking to make a piece that would complement my "winter scene" around the fireplace, during the ski season at our cottage. Karen Kaiser's Wide Cut Class November 2014 was the perfect opportunity to start such a project. Judith Dallegret dyed the rich red over a selection of textiles which enhanced its lovely mottled appearance. Cut to a size 10 it is dwarfed by the hand torn, proddy holly scroll that stands a smidgen higher, dyed by Joni Black.
It was a pleasure to hook and proddy my simple design that took just about a month. Even though I used 8 yards, I found I didn't estimate correctly how much I would need overall. So with the festive season upon me, I found myself sounding like a well-known Dickens character "Can I have some more please" holding out my empty rug hooking bag. I guess that's the price you pay for hooking high, which is not a bad thing I'm told by Gene Shepherd … (just a wool seller's dream).
|Holly Scroll, by Ti Seymour


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Thanksgiving Traditions
Thanksgiving is a time for families to gather around and eat the classical turkey meal and share what they are thankful for. This is the most common tradition for Thanksgiving to most families, but the students and teachers that attend Grand Junction high school choose to not follow these basic trends.
Sage Skinner is one of the many students who celebrate Thanksgiving in a unique way. She does not fit the criteria of eating turkey due to her diet. This has resulted in Skinner and her family to find new ways to celebrate the holiday of giving thanks. Skinner now goes back to the traditions of 1621.
"On Thanksgiving I don't eat turkey because I'm a pescatarian, so my family and I eat crab legs. It is important to my family because when they had the original Thanksgiving, they didn't eat turkey, they ate seafood. It is interesting to think that our traditions have changed so much. It's cool to have my family to go back to the basics of eating seafood," Skinner, junior said.
There are many different traditions that families do, such as Mrs. McCune, a literacy teacher at GJHS. She and her family believe in following another direction. For McCune, thanksgiving is still an important holiday to give thanks and wind down with one another in her family.
"We do what is called a not traditional Thanksgiving where we ditch the turkey and the gravy and all of that stuff, and everybody chooses one dish that they really like to eat and then we just serve that. Thanksgiving is great to spend time with family and relax and enjoy each other's company," Mrs. McCune said.
Whether families spend Thanksgiving eating turkey or a meal of their own choice, everyone can agree that Thanksgiving is focused on being thankful for those around us and spending time with loved ones.
Madi Martinez is a senior at Grand Junction high school. She has been apart of the Orange and Black Newspaper since her sophomore year. She began as a...


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It's a study that's going to be difficult for any dog owner to hear — your dog probably hates your hugs.
In an article published in Psychology Today, psychology professor and neuropsychological researcher Stanley Coren argues that most dogs are stressed out by hugs.
Coren and his team analyzed 250 pictures posted to social media of people hugging their dogs.
What they found is that 82 percent of dogs exhibited at least one of the signs of dog stress — including turning their heads away, showing the whites of their eyes, and slicked back ears.
Only 8-percent of dogs appeared to be happy with a hug. The remaining 10 percent appeared neutral.
So, how can you show your dog you love them? Coren recommends giving them a pat, a kind word, and maybe a treat.
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- a conduit or artificial channel for conducting water from a distance, usually by means of gravity.
- a bridgelike structure that carries a water conduit or canal across a valley or over a river.
Words nearby aqueduct
Example sentences from the Web for aqueduct
Take a winter afternoon at Aqueduct Park in Queens several months ago, just a mile from JFK airport.It's Kentucky Derby Day, but What About the Rest of Horse Racing?|Dan Packel|May 5, 2012|DAILY BEAST
I have a can't-miss tip in the seventh at Aqueduct plus a bridge to sell you.March Madness Race Wars and Jimmer Fredette|Buzz Bissinger|March 22, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Segovia is best known for its trilogy of monuments: the Aqueduct, the Cathedral, and the Fortress.Gal With a Suitcase|Jolie Hunt|June 5, 2010|DAILY BEAST
You may trace out the aqueduct all along by the remaining fragments of it.Early Travels in Palestine|Arculf et al.
The romantic appearance of this spot has been greatly changed by the stream being turned into an aqueduct in the summer of 1873.Rambles in Rome|S. Russell Forbes
In addition to its walls the town had vast cisterns, supplied by the aqueduct.Annals of a Fortress|E. Viollet-le-Duc
But this work served not only as a bridge, but as an aqueduct also, when the island was inhabited.
Among the ancient buildings which are still preserved, an amphitheatre, an aqueduct and a city gate may be mentioned.


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Getting Health and Safety Commitment: Where and How to Start
Getting Health and Safety Commitment: Where and How to Start
NEWSROOM: Antea Group
CONTENT: Blog
Reality has set in. You are the new plant safety person and it's time to start moving forward with figuring out how to become the capable and informed safety person that your plant needs.
As we talked about in our first post in this ongoing series:
"…. you do not have to go it alone. Recognize that the same management principles and practices that apply to plant production, operating costs, and quality systems also apply to safety. For instance, where supervisors enforce operating rules, they also enforce safety rules; where they solve production problems, they can assist in solving safety problems; quality issues may also identify safety issues, and so on."
The supervisors mentioned above have significant influence in the organization. However don't forget about the person that has the most influence in an organization--the plant manager. In order for you to succeed in your new role and improve plant safety, you need to ensure you have commitment from the plant manager or whoever is the highest ranking person at the plant location.
Read this post and the rest of the series on the Antea Group blog.
About Antea Group
Antea Group is an international engineering and environmental consulting firm specializing in full-service solutions in the fields of environment, infrastructure, urban planning and water. By combining strategic thinking and multidisciplinary perspectives with technical expertise and pragmatic action, we do more than effectively solve client challenges; we deliver sustainable results for a better future. With more than 3,000 employees in over 100 offices around the world, we serve clients ranging from global energy companies and manufacturers to national governments and local municipalities. Learn more at http://us.anteagroup.com.


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Super Junior member Eunhyuk is a player who gets girl groups' phone numbers(?)
On KBS 2TV "Nocturnal," which will air on the 24th, Eunhyuk appeared as one day MC and revealed how to get girl idol members' phone numbers.
When Eunhyuk boasted that he's close with Kara who appeared as guests, Park Gyuri and Kang Ji Young revealed that Eunhyuk asked them for their phone numbers first.
Kara members added that Eunhyuk asked for their phone numbers when they were guests on the radio program that he hosted and that Eunhyuk's eyes were shaking when he asked them.
When listening to Kara's story, Eunhyuk became flustered and the MCs asked Eunhyuk, "how do idols get each other's phone number?"
Eunhyuk revealed, "it's most important to ask naturally" and he even reenacted how he did it, making everyone burst into laughter.
Eunhyuk's secret to being a player will air on the 24th.
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Pricing for Apple's "more affordable" smartphone, the iPhone Xr, has been listed in South Africa.
The iPhone Xr will start shipping on 26 October, and sells for R15,999 for the 64GB model.
While this may sound like a good price for a new iPhone in 2018, there are two problems – this is not a flagship device, and it is more expensive than top-end Android smartphones.
iPhone Xr vs Galaxy S9
The iPhone Xr was unveiled alongside the iPhone Xs and Xs Max by Apple, the two flagship models in its 2018 line-up.
The Xs starts at R21,999 locally, while the Xs Max starts at R23,999.
This makes the iPhone Xr the "poor man's " iPhone, thanks to its lower price.
It is not only the price that is different, however – the Xr sports less-impressive specifications in certain areas.
While the Xr runs iOS 12, features the powerful A12 Bionic processor, and sports dual-SIM functionality, it falls short in many other areas when compared to the Xs and Android flagships.
This disparity is compounded when you look at the price of Android flagships like the Samsung Galaxy S9 – which is currently available for R12,999 in South Africa.
Key differences include:
- The iPhone Xr has a 6.1-inch LCD (1,792 x 828) display – The Galaxy S9 has a 5.8-inch AMOLED (1,440 x 2,960) screen.
- The entry-level Xr has 64GB of storage – The S9 has 64GB plus microSD 400GB support.
- The Xr has an IP67 rating – The S9 is IP68.
- The Xr supports LTE Cat. 12 – The S9 supports LTE Cat. 18.
Another aspect to consider is technology support in South Africa, of which Samsung Pay is a big plus.
With support for Samsung Pay, the S9 can be used to make payments at virtually any paypoint in South Africa.
Apple's version of this, Apple Pay, is not supported locally – a fact which many Apple users have complained about.
With flagship features and power, and a much lower price point, users interested in buying an iPhone Xr may get a serious lecture from their Android counterparts about paying premium prices for a "non-premium" device.
Which would you buy?
|Galaxy S9 vs iPhone Xr
|SA Price
|Samsung Galaxy S9 (64GB)
|Apple iPhone Xr (64GB)
|Apple iPhone Xr (128GB)
|Apple iPhone Xr (256GB)