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NEW YORK -- Dominic Chianese has been acting and singing for over four decades, culminating in his high-profile role on HBO's "The Sopranos" as the stoic, vengeful mob boss Uncle Junior, and in two sold-out evenings of cabaret at Judy's Chelsea, a Manhattan nightclub, Dec. 5 and 12. He has performed on and off-Broadway, in movies and on TV.
If he hadn't gotten off a bus in 1952, it's possible none of it would have happened.
Back then, Chianese was a wiry 20-year-old, recently discharged from the Marine Reserves and working construction jobs with his father, Gaetano "Tony" Chianese, a bricklayer. He had been singing seriously since high school and wanted to become a professional musician. But he hesitated, partly because he wasn't sure his father would understand or approve.
On this important day, the two men were riding from their home in the Bronx to work on a garden apartment in Clifton, N.J. "We were on a bus full of bricklayers from the Bronx," recalls Chianese, 68, sitting in a coffee shop not far from his apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side. "My father was sitting in the front of the bus. I was in back. "
Chianese came across an audition ad in the New York Herald Tribune seeking singers for a musical company specializing in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. He asked his father if he could skip bricklaying that day and get off the bus at 74th Street to audition.
"He said, 'An audition? For what?'
"I said, 'Singing.'"
The elder Chianese waited about four or five seconds before answering. "Finally, he said, 'Okay.'"
Chianese auditioned and made the cut. Since then, he has performed more or less nonstop, in a surprising variety of settings.
In the mid- to late '60s, he was the master of ceremonies at the West Village coffee shop Gerde's -- better known as Folk City because of the musical acts that played there, from Bob Dylan to Emmylou Harris and Arlo Guthrie. He also sang in "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris," a late '60s, off-Broadway revue of the composer's work. (Chianese will likely perform a couple of Brel songs in his cabaret act, with accompaniment by pianist David Lahm.)
As a dramatic actor, Chianese was in "Richard III" on Broadway with Al Pacino in 1979. Five years later, he appeared opposite John Lithgow in a production of "Requiem for a Heavyweight" that played several cities in tryouts, but closed on Broadway after two nights.
"It was a fine production," he says. "Johnny Lithgow was powerful in that one. He's a great comedian, but he was out there breaking hearts. . . . When it closed so fast, it was stunning to all of us."
Wednesday brings the opening of the film "Cradle Will Rock," a drama about the New York theater scene in the 1930s. Chianese has a couple of juicy scenes as the Italian-born, conservative father of an American-born, fascist-hating actor (John Turturro).
He was noticed by casting agents as a supporting player in HBO's mob docudrama "Gotti." Chianese suspects his visibility in that film led to his being invited to audition for Uncle Junior on "The Sopranos." (The drama's second season begins Jan. 16; HBO is repeating the entire first season Dec. 26-Jan. 2.)
Like lead character Tony Soprano, the North Jersey mob underboss played by James Gandolfini, Uncle Junior is a recognizably ordinary suburbanite, with thick glasses, bad posture and a lightning-fast recall of favors given and received. "I used to play catch with you when you were a kid!" he grouses to Tony in the pilot episode, by way of demanding respect.
But this seemingly myopic and crotchety old man is a ruthless manipulator. He isn't above consulting Tony's scheming mother for advice and ordering hits on people who thought they were his allies.
Chianese isn't big on Method acting. He believes in studying the text, understanding the character and saying his lines in as direct and unfussy a manner as possible. He thinks research and character identification are useful tools for an actor. But they are no substitute for poring over the dialogue and stage directions -- especially if the script was written by someone with a brain in his head.
"The playwright's vision is the one you should aim for," he says. "Uncle Junior can only be played one way. That's because (series creator) David Chase was very specific in creating this character. He knows what this man is about, what he values. He protects his money, he hates the FBI, he loves his family.
"I believe that Shakespeare has to be played a certain way. I feel the same about any playwright of talent. The text tells you what to do -- at least, it should. Even in a terrible piece of writing, you can bring yourself to the character and find something in there worth playing, but our job as actors isn't to try to make it interesting. That's the writer's job."
Chianese has six children and 10 grandchildren. Three of his children are in the arts. Daughter Rebecca Scarpatti is a playwright. Another daughter, Sarah Francesca, programs film festivals. Son Dominic Chianese Jr. is an actor whose most recent screen credit is as one of the museum thieves in the "The Thomas Crown Affair."
Chianese says he'd like to translate his "Sopranos" success into a variety of dramatic and comedic roles. He also wants to do more cabaret; he's happiest singing and playing his guitar, and often visits New York-area nursing homes to perform for residents.
He says that, although he has been singing since he was a kid, he didn't fixate on the notion of becoming a professional singer until he saw Frank Sinatra perform at the Paramount Theater in Manhattan in 1947. The bobby-soxers were screaming. Chianese sat 10th row center. Sinatra was magnificent -- a skinny god of music in a white shirt, a brown sports jacket and a green tie.
"He hit me right where the heart was," Chianese remembers. "His first number was Harold Arlen's 'I've Got the World on a String.'
"I don't remember any other song but that one. It's the first song in my act -- my opener. I tell you, it made an impression. His voice! The singing. Back then, if you were an Italian-American boy from the Bronx, that was your way into the dream world. If you weren't a boxer or a ballplayer, then it had to be performing, singing, something like that.
"I couldn't be a boxer. My father knew that. I couldn't follow in his footsteps, either, and he knew that, too. That's why he let me get off the bus."
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U.S. stock futures pointed to a plunge for the Dow at this morning's open as oil prices and bond yields were collapsing. Crude futures plunged overnight after OPEC's production-cut deal failed and the 10-year Treasury yield made shocking new lows in a global flight to the perceived safety of bonds. (CNBC)
* 10-year Treasury yield hits new record low just above 0.3% (CNBC)
* Fed to step up cash injections for banks to guard against market pressure (CNBC)
* Oil sank as much as 30% on fears of an all-out price war (CNBC)
Wall Street stock futures hit the "limit down" 5% early Monday, meaning Dow futures can't trade below 1,255 points. Any spark of optimism, seen when the Dow cut major losses in the final 10 minutes of trading Friday, was nowhere to be seen Monday. During regular hours, market trading halts could occur at "three circuit breaker thresholds" on the S&P 500. (CNBC)
* El-Erian: US stock market could end up dropping 20%-30% when the bottom is finally reached (CNBC)
* Cramer: Collapse of oil prices and bond yields is worse than 'the chaos of 2007-2009' (CNBC)
* CNBC's live markets blog update throughout the day
U.S. coronavirus cases spiked over the weekend, reaching 564 with 22 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. Over 100 people in New York — most in Westchester County — tested positive. (Johns Hopkins)
* Thousands prepare to get off ship hit by coronavirus in California (AP)
* Sen. Ted Cruz, Rep. Paul Gosar self-quarantine after interaction with CPAC attendee who tested positive (CNBC)
Global coronavirus cases numbered nearly 107,000 with more than 3,600 deaths, according to the World Health Organization. In Italy, the government imposed restrictions on the movement of about a quarter of its population. (CNBC)
* Disneyland Paris maintenance worker tests positive for coronavirus (Reuters)
* Shanghai Disneyland resumes some resort operations as infections slow (Reuters)
Carnival Corp. (CCL), Royal Caribbean (RCL), and Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH) are under further pressure today, after the State Department recommended that Americans avoid trips on cruise ships in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus. (USA Today)
* Coke, Clorox, other brands urges Attorney General Barr to fight coronavirus price gouging (CNBC)
* Amazon won't dock warehouse workers for missing shifts during coronavirus crisis (CNBC)
* Costco is pulling free samples from their stores as coronavirus panic spreads (USA Today)
Twitter (TWTR) has reached a deal with investment firms Elliott Management and Silver Lake. The deal comes after Elliott's attempt to oust Jack Dorsey as CEO. The deal, which does not change Dorsey's role as CEO, includes a $1 billion investment in Twitter from Silver Lake. (CNBC)
* Twitter labels edited clip of Biden retweeted by Trump as manipulated media (Reuters)
Boeing (BA) will be ordered by regulators to relocate electrical wires located inside the grounded 737 MAX jet, according to The Wall Street Journal. This would be the latest potential delay in the return to service for the jet, which has been grounded for more than a year.
Elizabeth Duke has resigned as chairman of Wells Fargo's board of directors, according to The Wall Street Journal. Duke's departure comes days before she was set to testify on Capitol Hill about the continuing fallout from the bank's 2016 fake-account scandal.
Amazon (AMZN) is likely to succeed in a key argument of its challenge to the awarding of the so-called "JEDI" Defense Department contract to Microsoft (MSFT), according to a U.S. judge. Amazon has charged that Microsoft won the contract because of improper influence by President Donald Trump.
A top Tesla (TSLA) shareholder told the Financial Times the company is "better run," after the hiring of independent directors to oversee CEO Elon Musk. The comments come from James Anderson, head of global equities for the automaker's biggest institutional investor, Baillie Gifford.
The PGA Tour has struck a new, nine-year domestic media rights deal with ViacomCBS and Comcast's NBCUniversal that will keep weekend coverage of most tournaments on CBS and NBC. (CNBC)
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iHexView is a tool used to help in the programming and debug of systems that use ASCII. It is designed for programmers, engineers, and technical support personnel who need a quick reference tool.
iHexView is used as a base converter for Hex, Dec, Oct, and Binary; and also displays ASCII code values in each of these bases.
•Data can be entered as Hexadecimal, Decimal, Octal, or Binary as well as ASCII characters.
•The resulting values for each of the bases and ASCII characters are displayed at the same time. Automatically converted as data is entered.
•Decimal, and Octal data can be viewed as one 32 bit double word, as two 16 bit words, as well as bytes.
•Data entered as an ASCII string uses a slider control to load the data into the register so that the contents of the string can be quickly viewed.
•A standard ASCII chart is available on the info screen as an additional reference.
Changes for iHexView V2.0
Updated the UI, to include new style buttons and layout.
Added new features:
1. New editing features, enabling the selection and changes at the byte level.
2. Added a new Data report screen, where all of the data is listed for the register, and a listing of the ASCII string data including the binary, Hex, Dec, and Oct values.
3. Added a new settings page that will save the users selections so they don't need to be reselected each time the app is opened.
4. Added a new bit shift right/left feature to the binary inout screen.
5. Changed the data registers so that the input screens all work with the same data. Values entered on the HexDecOct screen can be edited on the Binary screen.
In this update we modified the layout for the iPhone X.
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In retrospect, Of Montreal ‘s 12th and previous album, 2012’s lousy with sylvianbriar, is my favorite album in recent years from Kevin Barnes prolific and capricious band, and the two tracks so far premiered of their upcoming album Aureate Gloom doesn’t make me doubt that Barnes and his quartet are on a psychedelic hot-streak at the moment; comfortably channeling the spirit and legacy of San Francisco, the city he decamped to before recording the previous album. “Bassem Sabry”, a track we featured a while back, was a bracing retreat to psych-funk, and new track “Empyrean Abattoir” is Barnes doing his best Syd Barrett impression. Of Montreal is a revitalized band nowadays, and it’s due time to pay attention to their music again. Look for Aureate Gloom on March 3 via Polyvinyl.
Kevin Barnes’ Of Montreal reemerged with newfound vitality on last year’s lousy with sylvianbriar, once again making me pay closer attention to the very prolific and ever-changing outfit. New single “Bassem Sabry”, named after the Egyptian activist and journalist, is the opening track of upcoming album Aureate Gloom, and is Of Montreal’s version of psychedelic funk; sexy and a bit starry-eyed, but it works, and Barnes can check the box of yet another well-made and focused venture. Look for Aureate Gloom on March 3 next year via Polyvinyl.


One of the things that has changed, in this new socially-enabled world we live in, is the accessibility of authors.
This is not just about me. Writers such as Chuck Palahniuk (The Fight Club), Paul Coelho (The Alchemist) and Margaret Atwood (The Handmaids Tale) are all Tweeting. These are among the most popular authors in the world. There are lots more at it too. Here is a list of 100 mainly US authors for starters http://mashable.com/2009/05/08/twitter-authors/
What I’m interested in is, what this means for authors.
There has been a tendency for authors to be unavailable in the past.
When I grew up the idea of contacting an author was something you might do, but only on the rarest of occasions. You expected to be rebuffed. Many authors didn’t even give interviews, never mind tell you the quotes they like from a master in their genre.
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Restaurant Shift Managers needed for one of the fastest growing quick casual restaurants in the nation!
Quality Quick Casual restaurant now interviewing for position of Shift Managers, for our Oklahoma City area locations. We are a well established quick serve restaurant company with a reputation for great food and great service. We offer a quality restaurant and fresh, cook to order food for each of our guests.
Our successful operation offers a warm and friendly decor and restaurant style which guests love, and quality cook to order cooking style that is one of the many things our guests enjoy. This concept offers food to go and we have solid catering presence in the Okc market. We are searching for Shift Managers for our OKC restaurants. Prefer someone with at least 1 year or more of recent or current restaurant management experience.
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This Saturday night on WRCOs' Those Were The Days, I will chat with Don Brewer from Grand Funk Railroad. He was on with us a few years ago, and is always a great guest. Grand Funk will be appearing in the Baraboo/Dells area with the Guess Who on Saturday night June 14th. Don wrote and sang one of the best Classic Rock songs 'We're An American Band' back in 1973. It is still heard in movies, tv shows, and commercials after all of this time. I will be back in the studio to take requests and play trivia on Saturday night. I will have a few tales to tell after seeing the Monkees in concert this past weekend. What a show it was!
p.s. Grand Funks' 1974 hit The Locomotion was written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. You may need to know this to be a winner on Saturday nights Those Were The Days.
Phil Nee hosts WRCO FM's Those Were the Days every Saturday night from 6-12M. Phil is also heard weekday mornings on WRCO FM 100.9 in Richland Center, WI.


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Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River has called on warring communities in the state to ceasefire and embrace peace and dialogue while waiting for Government to settle the boundary issues amongst them.
Governor Ayade who stated this through the Chairman of the Administrative Panel on Insecurity in Odukpani Local Government Area, Mr. Victor Effiom, while on an interactive session with the warring communities of Mbiabo/Ediong/Obomita and Eki council wards warned that any community that goes against the directive will face the full wrath of the law.
He reasoned that there was no sense and meaning wasting lives and destroying property, stressing that instead of resorting physical confrontation, people/communities should learn to resolve their differences through dialogue and legal means.
The governor disclosed that the the essence of the Administrative Panel is to restore peace to the warring communities in Odukpani.
Earlier in his opening remarks, the Chairman of the Administrative Panel, and immediate past Special Adviser to Governor Ayade on NDDC Affairs, Mr. Victor Effiom, welcomed all to the session and commended them for honouring the invitation, and informed them that the governor is not happy that lives and property were being destroyed among warring communities of Odukpani.
The Chairman of the panel stated at the interaction session that Governor Ayade is committed to ensuring peace and order in odukpani and across the state. He emphasized that the governor is committed to the sustenance of peace amongst the warring communities.
“I wish to inform you that senator professor Ben Ayade the governor has been very worried about the communal crisis in our land and that is the reason why he set up this committee to mediate and bring a lasting peace to the area.
I also want to inform you that the National Boundary Commission (NBC) will be sending a team to the state by 8th of next month to meet with warring communities with the aim to addressing the boundary issues amongst the various communities.
In view of that therefore; I call on you all to be open in your discussions and be determined in order for us to put an end to the needles killings going on in our land. we must learn to tolerate one another and live peacefully together,” the Chairman concluded.
The Chairman and other members of the panel had earlier met with the Paramount ruler of Odukpani, HRM Etinyin Otu Asuquo Otu Meseme VI, where the Royal father assured the committee of his support and commended the governor for the initiative to restore peace.
He disclosed that he and members of the Traditional Rulers Council had in their capacity tried to resolve the crisis and expressed happiness on the intervention of the state government. .
After the interaction session with the warring communities, the administrative panel led by its chairman visited the warring communities to assess the level of destruction

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Rep. Linda Sanchez’s husband indicted on corruption charges
The husband of Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) was indicted by federal authorities on Thursday on charges related to the theft of public funds.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Connecticut announced that a grand jury returned two indictments against five people for misusing taxpayer funds in connection with the Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Corporation (CMEEC), an electric utilities co-op. One of those charged is James Sullivan, Sanchez’s husband.
Hours earlier, Sanchez, the vice chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, had withdrawn her bid to replace outgoing Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.) as chairman of the caucus next year. She cited “an unexpected family matter.”
Later in the day she issued a clarifying statement.
”Earlier today I learned that my husband is facing charges in Connecticut,” she said. “After careful consideration of the time and energy being in leadership demands, I have decided that my focus now needs to be on my son, my family, and my constituents in California.”
Sanchez’s withdrawal from the leadership contest leaves two candidates vying for the chairmanship: Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.).
The indictments include charges that Sullivan and the others spent $800,000 on costly trips, including excursions to the Kentucky Derby and a West Virginia golf resort, using excess CMEEC revenues that should have been returned to the Connecticut towns participating in the co-op.
“CMEEC has received millions of dollars in grants from the U.S. Department of Energy,” U.S. Attorney John Durham said in a statement.
“Instead of protecting these funds and returning excess revenue to member towns and ratepayers, these defendants are alleged to have used the CMEEC Margin Account as a secret slush fund to pay for lavish junkets for themselves and their family and friends, as well as for other inappropriate expenses.”
Sullivan, according to the Justice Department, chaired the CMEEC Board of Directors until late 2015.
The Hill has removed its comment section, as there are many other forums for readers to participate in the conversation. We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter.

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The Arizona Cardinals got a starter back at practice on Tuesday. Left guard Justin Pugh returned to the practice field, but his status is not known yet for the team’s third preseason game this Saturday on the road against the Minnesota Vikings.
Before practice began, head coach Kliff Kingsbury addressed the media and was asked about Pugh’s status.
“I’m not sure yet on Pugh,” he said. “We’re going to get him out there today and tomorrow and see how he moves around and how he feels.”
During the open part of practice, reporters saw Pugh practicing.
There is no injury report for the preseason, but surely if there were, Pugh would have been listed as limited.
If Pugh is unable to play this weekend, Mason Cole would once again start for him at left guard. It would also mean that Pugh would likely miss the entire preseason, as starters traditionally do not play in the preseason finale.
Kingsbury will not speak to the media again until Thursday so there will be no update about Pugh’s status until then.
Listen to the latest from Cards Wire’s Jess Root on his podcast, Rise Up, See Red. Subscribe on Apple podcasts or Stitcher Radio.


HPA, 8k, and Storage Throughput Records
Written by Erik Weaver
Published on March 3, 2020
The Hollywood Post Alliance (HPA) organization kicked off their annual retreat last week to a sold-out audience in the Southern California desert. Once again, some of the most respected thought leaders in the Media and Entertainment industry shared their suggestions and ideas about the latest innovations in content delivery.
The talk that especially caught my attention was “Tested Perceptual Difference Between 4K & 8K” with Michael Zink, Vice President of Technology at Warner Brothers and the President of the HDR10 Alliance. The talk was about testing the difference between 4K and 8K. The test used an LG 88″ OLED display as a playback format for 10 bit BT.2100 PQ 7680×4320 / 24p DPX files. Those files require a sustained read rate of at least 3,000 MB/s.
Think about that. We’re talking about 3,000 MB/sec at 10 bit! That is quite an eye-opening number. What is even more stunning is that this workflow is right around the corner because the 2020 Summer Olympics are coming up in July and will be broadcasted in 8K!
With that level of video streaming in mind, another thing that caught my attention was Stellus Technologies‘ booth at the HPA. Here is a company ready for these new workflows, and anyone involved in post-production and VFX needs to learn about them. If you didn’t get a chance to visit the Stellus booth at HPA, you might want to read the recently published press release, “Stellus Sets New Single-Client Data Storage Throughput Record at 33.2GB/s Sustained Writes.”
The article reports on the testing and validation of the Stellus Data Platform, which is built around the industry’s first Key-Value over Fabrics implementation. The proven 33.2GB/s sustained writes offer capabilities that are beyond the new 8K workflows. This type of speed and architecture provides a massive step forward, not only for Media & Entertainment but also for Life Sciences and cognitive AI, where massive amounts of data are generated, analyzed, and stored.
There were two other things to take note of at HPA:
- The first was Joachim “JZ” Zell’s ambitious live production! To watch the piece come together from acquisition through post-production was quite a spectacle. I would like to do a shoot-off next year if you are up for it JZ!
- The second was a talk from Patrick Renner of Pomfort. Patrick talked about his ASC-MHL work. Check out his work on file integrity assurance over on GitHub.
Finally, I have to mention Annie Chang‘s talk, “HPA Tech Retreat: Universal Unveils New Production Workflow.” You can read the full summary on ETCentric and learn about this new platform for enabling rapid access to assets like 3D VFX models used in sequels, AR/VR experiences, and theme parks. Production 3.0 is a workflow designed for the new digitally native film production process. I am a big believer in this work. Go, Annie, Go!


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The reaction of the people in the town towards the appearance of an unknown creature with a bald skull, just a few teeth in his mouth and enormous and dirty wings resembling a rare angel, makes me think about how people are very intolerant to differences of other individuals.
In top of that, the terrible smell and the parasites coming from the wings of the angel contributed to diminish the dignity the angel was supposed to deserve but instead he became a sort of circus animal being subject of ridicule. This lack of respect from many of the people trying to provoke the angel is a clear example of intolerance the author emphasizes in this story.
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Okoboji is a coastal resort town along the shores of the Great Lakes Region in Dickinson County.
This town is nestled on the shores of West Okoboji Lake and is a favorite vacation destination in Iowa.
Throughout the town, you're greeted by charming inns and resorts that cater to thousands of tourists yearly.
The town serves as the centerpiece of West Lake Okoboji because of its scenic location and the availability of outdoor recreation for all seasons.
The town spans only 4.56 square kilometers, and surprisingly, only 772 people live in Okoboji.
The rest are tourists.
With all that in mind, it's a no-brainer that the top industry in this small town is tourism.
Still, Okoboji is home to a collection of thriving locally-owned small businesses.
Check out this post to learn about the small businesses in Okoboji, Iowa.
Vintage Block Inn
Vintage Block Inn is a bed and breakfast known for its superb amenities.
You can check out this place along Sanborn Avenue.
It takes pride as a three-star bed and breakfast that has welcomed countless Okoboji tourists for many years.
Staying at this place transports you to the yesteryears with its incredible 1950s retro-style interior and feel.
It has an outdoor swimming pool for those who want to cool down.
At the same time, it has cozy rooms equipped with air-conditioning units, a private bathroom, and a free Wi-Fi internet connection.
It also features exciting board games, free bike rides, and other activities for guests.
Its owners have spared no expense on the intricate details of their inn to make it stand out among other lodgings in Okoboji.
Check out Vintage Block Inn whenever you're searching for a cozy, fun, and convenient place to stay when vacationing in Okoboji.
Okoboji Store is one of the most famous restaurants in town.
This restaurant along U.S. Highway 71 is famous for its scenic waterfront patio that serves as its dining area.
At the same time, it's renowned for its grilled menu items and pub grub setting, attracting tourists throughout the town.
This locally-owned restaurant has operated since 2015.
It aims to provide tourists with the best atmosphere, food, and drinks while enjoying the West Okoboji Lake.
Whether you're searching for a spot in Okoboji for a mouthwatering lunch or a romantic dinner, something at this restaurant is waiting for you.
Its menu mainly focuses on fresh seafood, unique burgers, tacos, salads, premium meat cuts, and sandwiches.
Besides its delicious menu items, you can pair it with its wide selection of fine wines and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
Drop by the Okoboji Store for a satisfying dining experience.
Since Okoboji and its surrounding cities and towns are located on the shores of the Iowa Great Lakes, it's a no-brainer that one of its primary means of transportation is boats.
Regarding top-notch boats for sale and boat rentals, check out Parks Marina along State Out Road.
This locally-owned business, operating since 1983.
It takes pride as one of the top choices for many regarding excellent quality boats and other water vessels.
Its owner started his business by selling sporting goods and small fishing boats.
It eventually grew and became one of the go-to names in Okoboji's boating scene.
It has a display facility that lets you explore boats, jet skis, yachts, pontoons, and other water vessels.
Head to the Parks Marina for your boating needs in Okoboji.
Barefoot Bar is a watering hole/restaurant famous for its tiki-themed setting.
This bar situated along Stake Out Road offers bargoers a lively and fun place to hang out.
It has live music from bands and musicians serenading you and your friends while you enjoy drinks.
Okoboji, in general, is home to many bars and restaurants where you can have fun or unwind.
However, this one stands out.
Besides its excellent music and drinks, it serves delicious food, perfect for hungry bargoers.
With all these in mind, Barefoot Bar is a must-visit spot in Okoboji for its lively vibes, excellent drinks, and good company.
Outrigger Restaurant & Lounge
Outrigger Restaurant & Lounge is another noteworthy restaurant you mustn't miss visiting when you're in town.
Many consider this restaurant along U.S. Highway 71 a hidden gem because of its underrated delicious menu items and beautiful spot.
Many tourists stumble upon this charming restaurant while strolling through Okoboji's streets.
Its location, across a pocket strip mall, makes it a convenient place to enjoy a meal.
Most of the restaurant's specialty centers on seafood and cocktail drinks.
It serves fresh scallops, tuna, shrimp, calamari, lobster, and premium meat cuts.
It also serves dishes from freshly caught fish in West Okoboji Lake.
When craving seafood, head to Outrigger Restaurant & Lounge.
Patten Roofing of Iowa
Patten Roofing of Iowa is a roofing and home improvement contractor operating in Okoboji and neighboring areas.
You can visit its office along U.S. Highway 71.
This family-owned business specializes in roofing installations, repairs, and enhancements.
Whether you're looking for roof installers or repair contractors, this business strives to provide its clients with excellent output whenever needed.
True to its excellent work, this business has been operating since 1953 in Minnesota and eventually opened a branch in Okoboji.
Today, the Patten Roofing of Iowa remains an unparalleled name in roofing services for residential and commercial establishments.
Barn Swallow Gift Shop
Barn Swallow Gift Shop is a quirky and unique place to browse through a novelty of gift items.
You can visit this shop along U.S. Highway 71.
For those seeking beyond the usual, this is your go-to shop.
It has a vast cache of novelty items such as clothes, home décor, artwork, jewelry, collectibles, toys, and more.
This shop has been open for over 40 years, making it a local icon for gifts, souvenirs, apparel, and other unique items.
Have fun browsing its outstanding collection, especially if you're searching for souvenirs to take home after visiting Okoboji.
Whether you're only window shopping or looking for something unique, Barn Swallow Gift Shop has something exciting waiting for you.
Fare You Well
Fare You Well is a food truck that serves not your typical fried and comfort foods.
This food truck operates in Okoboji and other parts of Dickinson County.
It includes operating in Arnold's Park, West Okoboji, and Spirit Lake.
Unlike your typical food truck, this one is known to serve mouthwatering dishes infused with organic ingredients sourced locally.
Its owner-chefs aim to serve healthy comfort food without sacrificing flavor and quality.
They are known for their delicious hamburgers, hotdogs, and other quick-grab meals.
These are cooked and prepared using organic and healthy ingredients.
Look for the Fare You Well food truck to satisfy your cravings.
O'Farrell Sisters is a culinary institution in town.
This restaurant is situated along Lake Shore Drive, serving Okoboji locals and visitors since 1949.
It's famous for its whole-day breakfast meals, lunchtime sandwiches, and giant cinnamon rolls.
It's a family-owned restaurant run by siblings who took over the business from its original owner, a former sheriff of Dickinson County.
Today, the second generation of the original owners runs the restaurant.
It has maintained its original recipes, ambiance, and quality of its food and service.
Some of its must-tries include its homemade pies, Hangover Helper, BLT Bene, and the Triple K.
Head to O'Farrell Sisters and enjoy its timeless food experience that everyone loves.
Monarch Art Café
Monarch Art Café is a coffee shop and restaurant with a twist.
You can visit this place along U.S. Highway 71.
Unlike your typical coffee shop, this one also serves as a contemporary art gallery and café, serving delicious coffee drinks, pastries, and food.
It's a favorite hangout for coffee lovers and artisans.
Its owner aims to create social connectivity through a café where like-minded people can exchange ideas while enjoying coffee and food.
Whether you're a coffee or art lover, Monarch Art Café has something fascinating waiting for you.
So, remember to grab your coffee and snacks at this one-of-a-kind place.
Okoboji Boat Works
Okoboji Boat Works is a one-stop shop for all your boating needs.
You can visit this place along Lake Shore Drive.
It's the go-to place for locals regarding seasonal boat slip rentals, watersports rentals, fishing licenses, fishing supplies, and on-water gas dock.
What makes it more convenient is that this shop operates 24/7.
Besides its usual services, it has a lakefront convenience store where you can grab a beer, snacks, coffee, and beachwear.
In addition, it has a restaurant called the Fish House, serving seafood dishes.
It also has a full bar with multiple television screens for everyone to enjoy.
Head to its marina to choose your preferred water vessel before exploring the town by boat.
Look no further than the Okoboji Boat Works for all your wants and needs.
Little Red Gift Gallery
The Little Red Gift Gallery is a fantastic place to learn about arts and other fascinating things relevant to it.
You can visit this place along U.S. Highway 71, particularly at the Pearson Lakes Art Center.
This place is a tribute to the Lake Art Center's "Little Red Building" in the 1960s.
It features artworks from local artists, a novelty of art-related products, and much more.
At the same time, visitors can enjoy various art-related workshops from paintings, sculpture making, and performing arts.
In addition, it has an art gallery and a coffee shop on its adjoining outdoor patio.
Overall, the Little Red Gift Gallery is something you mustn't miss checking out for beautiful artwork and the opportunity to hone your artistic skills.
Wyman's Spudnutz is a casual and welcoming coffee shop within a gas station known for its donuts and coffee drinks.
You can visit this place along U.S. Highway 71.
This shop opened in 2012 to serve coffee lovers throughout the Iowa Great Lakes.
You can stop by and enjoy excellent coffee that is best paired with its mouthwatering donuts.
It's an excellent place to stop by, especially if you're craving donuts and coffee.
Regarding delicious donuts and coffee, Wyman's Spudnutz is the best place to go.
Salon of Okoboji
Salon of Okoboji is your go-to place to fix your hair problems.
You can visit this salon along U.S. Highway 71 in Arrowwood Resort.
Pampering yourself should be one of your top priorities.
Visiting this salon is highly recommended; it's also one of Okoboji's go-to places for hairdressing, hairstyling, and other related services.
Besides the usual hair services, its hairdressers and stylists offer everyone hair colors, waxing, manicures, and pedicure services.
Head to the Salon of Okoboji when your hair needs a cut or an updated style.
Snook's of Okoboji
Snook's of Okoboji is a shop specializing in home improvement needs.
You can visit this place along Exchange Street.
This store originally opened as a retail store.
Still, it was converted into a shop after a transfer of ownership.
Today, it's a one-stop shop for all flooring, mattresses, furniture, décor, and dining needs.
It sells tiles, wood planks, and other choices.
At the same time, it has a wide array of window designs, mattresses, bedding, and furniture pieces for interior and outdoor living spaces.
Overall, Snook's of Okoboji is a recommended shop for home improvement.
Okoboji might be a small resort town home to less than a thousand residents.
However, they enjoy premium convenience because these small businesses serve the community with their top-notch products and services.
So, remember to support these small businesses in Okoboji, Iowa.

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In a passionate bid to promote the seriousness and importance of poetry, Joseph Brodsky in his opening remark as U. S. Poet Laureate, opined that what distinguishes humans from the rest of the animal kingdom is precisely the gift of speech.
For Brodsky, “poetry is not a form of entertainment and in a certain sense not even a form of art, but it is our anthropological genetic goal, our evolutionary, linguistic beacon.”
Brodsky noted that:
“In the works of the better poets, you get the sensation that they are not talking to people anymore, or to some seraphical creature. What they are doing is simply talking back to the language itself, as beauty, sensuality, wisdom, irony, those aspects of language of which the Poet is a clear mirror.”
It is perhaps on these premises that I have argued and stressed that the goal of poetry prizes or literary prizes if you may, must be to call attention to, throw more lights on and put in the spotlight, works that attempt genuinely to enhance language in ways only few minds can conceive.
THE NLNG DEBATE
When Ehi’zogie Iyeomoan took to Facebook to share excerpts of books which made the longlist for the NLNG PRIZE 2017, many had thought these were just the rantings of yet another attention seeker, but a closer look at some of the points raised, showed that this young man knew what exactly he was fighting for.
The argument was simple, the NLNG prize is highly revered and as such, one expects that the board must continue to strive towards excellence.
Due to the great height at which the prize had been placed, Ehi’zogie and a few others were of the opinion that the content of certain books, made the works fall below the standard of that which is befitting for the longlist of such a prestigious prize. It was further argued that there are some great collections that should not have been left out, and one wonders what the selection process entails.
GARRI FOR BREAKFAST AND THE FAILED ATTEMPT AT CREATING A NEW MODE
While I disagree with Ehi’zogie on a few points, still I cannot agree less with him when he states emphatically that the book ‘Garri for breakfast’ is not worthy of the NLNG longlist.
Let it be stressed that Ehi might have been careless with words when he used the term “beer parlour poetry”, but I tell you, he was correct when he pointed out that Seun Lari-William’s poems needed more work before they could make it to the coveted longlist.
I must emphasize that the works in Seun’s book, do not enhance language, neither do they succeed in the attempt at a new mode, as the critic Teniola Tonade would have us believe.
For me, a collection is as strong as its weakest poems, that said, below are excerpts which tell a lot about the book in question.
THIRTY DAYS HATH SEPTEMBER
“Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November… ”
I’ve used this rhyme forever
Without it, I just can’t remember.
This rhyme’s also a reminder
That our days on earth are numbered.
” Thirty days hath September”
How many have I? I wonder.
Witches are ajebutter,
Superstars in Harry Potter.
But winches are gangsters
We’re talking Ayamatangaa!
Now you see why there’s suffering
Despite all our resources
We can blame it on Buhari
But we all know the source – Winches.
A proper review perhaps, will show that neither the poems in English, nor the rhymes in pidgin bear in them the potentials to chart a new course in the genre, at this point I challenge those who sincerely think otherwise to go on and dissect Seun Lari-Williams’ work and feed us the proteins thereof.
ICONOGRAPHY – Casualty of oversight
As regards Peter Akinlabi’s beautiful panegyric, it is only sad that the Poet was denied a place at the top three, solely because his publisher was on the judging panel.
For those who had read the works in the longlist, one needs no spiritual insight to see that Akinlabi stood a great chance at clinching the prize. This then begs the question ‘why seat on the bench when a collection you published is to enter for the prize? Is it not a rule that those affiliated with judges cannot enter for the contest?
Maybe soon enough, we will get answers to these questions.
For Ehi’zogie, the greatest proof that all his rantings were not mere stunts of a wannabe, is the fact that some of those who he(Ehi) said had potentials to clinch the prize, made it to the shortlist. The three who have made it thus far, have works that stand above many, and at this stage, we can only say may the best work win.
It is foolish to believe that those who raised their voices to say a thing or two about the longlist of the Nlng prize, did so only because their gods and mentors did not make the list.
It is okay to say that the social media criticism of the NLNG prize 2017, was somewhat harsh, but it can’t be said that it lacked truth and substance.
With the way its being talked about, I think the NLNG must understand that it is seen as highly valuable, not just for the money involved. Thus, in a critical attempt not to tarnish the reputation of the prize, and the conscious bid to maintain and improve on the standard of literary works in Nigeria, some of us have drunken the Ashes of our fathers and have found voice to speak out vehemently against the irregularities eroding the standards of the NLNG PRIZE.
Just a few days ago, I picked up Esiaba Irobi’s ‘Cemetery Road’, everyone who knew that drama year, would agree that the best work was selected for the prize – a work that raises the bar, one which can stand up to any other work anywhere in the world; these are the works we long to for.
Our nation is already known for mediocrity in different sectors, we them must continue to come up with productive evaluations to aid in the restoration of the evanescent glory of Nigerian Poetry, even as we also seek to return this nation to her rightful position amongst the comity of nations.
Let iron continue to sharpen itself by rubbing its belly on the tongue of the stone.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Sources say President-elect Barack Obama
intends to name Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan to be education
He's run the country's third-biggest school district since 2001,
pushing to boost teacher quality and to improve struggling schools
and closing those that fail. Student test scores have risen
significantly during Duncan's tenure.
Duncan's nomination will please reform advocates who wanted a
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Duncan has played pickup basketball with Obama since the 1990s.
He co-captained the Harvard basketball team and played
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The announcement is expected this morning at Dodge Renaissance
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NIMBY values are set to hurt Philly’s poorest again as an anti-bulletproof glass bill was passed Thursday by the city council’s Public Health and Human Services committee. The bill will ban some stores, including delis in the city’s most dangerous areas, from using the glass to protect its employees.
Somehow, removing a barrier against harm in high-crime areas is supposed to restore the “dignity” of dining in these establishments – or force them to close. Unlike the affluent areas represented by councilwoman Cindy Bass, who proposed this idiotic bill, the city’s poorer areas rely on such businesses for many services – stamp and SEPTA token purchases, bill pay, and purchasing basic goods in otherwise retail-starved areas – will be the ones paying the price. Hey, I guess it’s more dignified for a struggling area to lose the few businesses it already has and end up with compounded blight, as these less-than-chic establishments close up. We all know what dignity it brings us to deal with long-abandoned storefronts, and the ever-savory activities that occur within them after they are boarded up. Law of unintended consequences for the win!
Market Urbanism is the cross between free-market policies and urban issues. Market Urbanists believe that if cities were liberalized, they would provide cheaper housing, faster transportation, enhanced public services, and a better quality of life.


We left Owen John, the motoring diarist whose recollections we have been recalling, enthusing over a 1925 20/60 hp Sunbeam and pondering on the new road numbering that was then beginning to make an appearance on the sign-posts.
Another matter that was being aired by O.J. in 1925 was the comparatively small number of accidents considering the density of the traffic (even more than sixty years ago!) and this caught a feeling of sympathy from me, because I have long felt that too much criticism is made of driving abilities, when these are really of a universally quite high standard having regard to the vast volume of moving vehicles, anything from bicycle to monster-truck, on roads often scarcely adequate for such traffic; a little praise of drivers would not come amiss from official bodies and might even have an effect on reducing rather than increasing the accident rate. Back in the vintage days old O.J. confessed to a bump on the very narrow arterial road between Slough and Windsor when a young fellow rammed the back of his car, putting out its rear lamp. Twice other people’s poor brakes had done this to him, and split what he called the petrol container as well. With ABS braking gaining ground, come the winter there may well be a return of these mild bumps!
It’s interesting, in the accident context, that in the summer of 1925 he was advocating compulsory third-party insurance for road users. He insured with the Autocar Insurance Co., and as he had had but two very minor claims, in 1904 and 1912, he felt he was about £200 down at 1925 values by paying the premiums, but it was worth it, he said, for the immunity from worry that such insurance gave him. In 1923, for example, he had another claim, when a back tyre burst on a strange car he was driving, a nasty skid resulted, and they ended up on the pavement, knocking down a lady on the way. The insurance people paid up without any comment. Yet it was not until January 1931 that third-party cover became legally compulsory. I remember that when driving my Gwynne Eight coupé or my distinctly “secondhand” A7 Chummy, the new Mobile Police would stop one, not because the red rubber inner-tubes were to be seen through holes in the worn tyres, not because one’s brakes were almost non-existent, not to see whether the glass in the windscreen was really of safety type, but to ask for the Certificate of Insurance, so easily obtained at cut-price insurance brokers (it cost less than £4 to insure an old A7 for a year). Whereas today, with a long no-claims bonus, a clean licence, and driving experience going back some fifty years and more, there is endless “ho-ha” over covering a vintage-car for few hundred miles useage a year, with long inquisitions on one’s life-style, the car’s colour, and all manner of details that appear to have little bearing on how safely the thing is likely to be driven…
Anyway, the next car O.J. tried was the new 14 hp Morris Oxford, which he took on a Welsh tour. From his home near Newbury it was “over the jolly Cotswolds” from Oxford, down into Gloucester, on a hot day in June. Resisting the temptation to turn off to loaf in the delightful Cotswold villages, which are as pleasing now as they were then, even if O.J. warned of advertising doing its worst, in 1925 the Morris went on over “the empty white Cotswold roads”, on its way to Lydney and Newnharn at an ambling pace suited to the twistiness of the otherwise good road running through rural and orchard-studded countryside — after, that was, negotiation of Gloucester City where the pedestrians and drivers were “conscientiously suicidal”, but the streets in places some of the best-made— now, unless you have business in the town itself, Gloucester is well provided with ring-roads that are ever being added to.
The sight of Chepstow was saddened for O.J. because of much modern and ancient unused war material in an otherwise beautiful town, although the parking of many motorcoaches all sideways on in a big square appealed to O.J.’s sensed neatness. Coming to crowded Newport, Mon., O.J. touched on what’s now a topical note, when he said a new bridge over the Severn was being built at Lydney and reflected on how odd it was that for so long it had been necessary to drive all round by Gloucester to get to Wales from England, unless one cared to put one’s car on the train through the Severn tunnel. The time people had in those far-away days! Now we fret if there is single-lane traffic over the Severn Bridge and sanction has just been given for a second bridge into Wales, at a cost of £200,000,000. Just after WW2 I remember having to use the Aust Ferry if the long loop to Gloucester was to be avoided, the Citroën Big Fifteen haying difficulty getting a grip up the boat’s gangplank, with its front-wheel-drive; that was on a trip when we took the children to see “the poor Welsh miners” in their mining villages one Sunday morning, but instead of poverty and bare-footed children the men were out cleaning their new Ford Zephyrs and similar cars…!
In 1925 a fine new road took O.J. and the Morris Oxford quickly through Cardiff to Aberavan, although most of the traffic was turning off for Porthcawl, where O.J. stayed the night. I well recall, then or a little earlier, being taken, on holiday from London, to bathing-parties there, in the Chevrolet and Willys-Overland open tourers of the time, we children urging the driver to extend the car, our eyes on the ribbon-type speedometer, an indulgence that usually resulted in one or more burst tyres on the gritty roads of those days. O.J. found the sea at Porthcawl cleaner-looking than that on the Somerset shore (is it still?) and he enthused over the high white mountains of sand that take the place of the mud that is supposed to make Weston-super-Mare so bracing! Never mind, they once had speed trials at the latter place, although those on the Porthcawl sands were far better known; I suppose it was those sands that made a 50-mile run seem worthwhile in those 1920s touring-cars when our bathing parties were being organised…
O.J. likened Wales to Spain, a soup plate turned upside down, with a narrow edge of overcrowded shore and, on the plateau, fewer people than anywhere else in the British Isles, (except in the mining villages), apart from the Highlands of Scotland. Taking the Morris Oxford on to Swansea O.J. thought the bay looked as blue and as beautiful as the Bay of Naples, and he recalled that Llanelly was the place where the Stepney spare-wheel was invented. Kidwelly, where Christopher Jennings, the Editor of Motor, used to reside and play with his model paddle-steamers on his lake, marked the end of the mining area, and climbing over the hills to Carmarthen “was to come into old-fashioned peace”, where Welsh was still spoken — and still is. Up to that point hotels had not been good but O.J. was content with the “Ivy Bush” there.
There was a good road through Llandilo, Llandovery, Builth and Beulah. O.J, seems to have got these two in the wrong order, and he clearly did not know of the short cut to Newbridge-on-Wye used for the 1924 RAC Six-Day Small-Car Trials (which Chinery won in a Gwynne Eight) to Llandrindod Wells, from which town I have just returned. This road was in excellent condition in 1925 and “when the tar has dried up a bit can hardly be improved upon”, said O.J. — nothing really changes! O.J. stayed in Llandrindod Wells, calling on Tom Norton at his fine garage (still there) and praising the place as the nearest British approach to a Continental Spa, the golf delightful, the air wonderful, with just that feeling of spaciousness that a tired man requires — and so say I!
Next morning it was on by Cross Gates (now marked by a roundabout but then the sort of blind cross-roads where you braked, blew the bulb-horn, and looked right and left) and over the mountains to Newtown and back into England at Welshpool. Of the Morris Oxford, nothing happened to it, it went off at the first push (I hope O.J. meant on the dynamotor button!), climbed well, did not boil, had delightful brakes, its economy was a joy, and when in a hurry it rose to the occasion. So wrote O.J.; I wish l could get away with as brief a road-test report after such a long assessment…!


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The third chapter of our complete series sweeping the graphic evolution of book covers to the present day, through its most striking revolutions. If you missed episodes 1 and 2, we invite you to discover them before reading this one :
Chatper 1: 3rd century to 1860
"From Codex to colour printing"
Chapter 2: 1860 to 1935
"From printed fabric to colour jacket"
Chapter 3: 1935 to 1970
"From paperback to abstraction"
Chapter 4: from 1960 to the present day
"French paperback, contemporary graphic design and covers"
After the First World War, the book cover migrated from cloth to paper jacket. This response to a budgetary constraint leads to colossal changes which notably allow the paperback revolution. From Penguin Editions to the birth of graphic design, the cover is an open book on the social mores of a country and an era.
Here is the penultimate article in our series scanning the graphic evolution of book covers to the present day, through its most striking revolutions. We will first talk about the revolution launched by Penguin Editions, before we look at the american paperbacks of the fifties and the position of women, and then we will discuss the beginnings of the use of photography and abstraction. In this article, we will focus mainly on England and the USA, before looking at the French particularity in a future article.
Between the 2 wars, the technical revolutions helping (cf Chapter 2), the mentalities also evolve. Publishers have gone all paper, but each country is developing its own style.
The first paperback books were born, which took shape with, among others, the Penguin editions in 1935.
As in the days of Penny-Dreadful and Paperbacks, the book became accessible and available, even to the working classes. The cardboard cover disappears in favour of a simple soft paper cover. However, another important detail changes: the quality of the manuscripts proposed, and the balance between the price and the quality of the book. It's a real revolution.
One year earlier, Allen Lane Williams returns from a stay with Agatha Christie (the class) and realizes that he does not find any book worthy of the name to be put under the hand. He then thought of creating a type of famous literary books but in pocket format, in paper, sold at 6 pence (the price of a pack of cigarettes at the time) and distributed a little everywhere in town in frequented places.
Problem: for publishers, paperbacks are synonymous with low-level literature - the reputation of penny dreadfuls is quite well known. They also think that readers of this kind of literature will have no desire to read "real" books with more literary content.
But Allen is pursuing his idea. He has the logo designed by Edward Young - junior editor at Bodley Head -, who goes to the zoo to watch the penguins. The latter returns with a beautiful series of sketches and a remark: "What the hell, these birds stink!".
At the time, the professions of designer, artistic director and printer were not really separated as they are today. So it's Young who naturally takes things in hand, and sets up a cover divided into horizontal triptychs, with one color per theme: orange for fiction, green for crime, dark blue for biographies, cherry for travel & adventure, red for theater.
The Bodoni Ultra Bold and Gill Sans typos are used respectively for the publisher's name, (still Bodley Head at the time, before Penguin separated from it) for the title and the slice.
In order to sell his books, Allen innovates. It is getting closer to department stores and a myriad of new distributors to turn them into new points of sale. In July 1935, the first 10 Penguin books were published.
In the list are Hemingway, André Maurois or Agatha Christie: well-known names, and books that have already proved their worth. Bingo. In 10 months, one million books are published.
Two years later in 1937, Allen Lane launched the "Penguincubator", a Penguin pocket book vending machine, which he installed in a busy street in London. By inserting 6 pences you choose and receive your book, or better, several books, as the small text under the photo indicates: "Some ingenious people noticed that a clever manipulation of the buttons of the machine made it possible to receive a pretty quantity of books beyond the 6 pences inserted. Lane hopes further testing will create a thug resistant machine".
In 1937 Europe was in the middle of an arms race, just before the Second World War. Mussolini rages in Italy, fascism in Spain, Hitler in Germany... Penguin Editions decided to call on authors to explain the geopolitical situation or to propose cultural books to broaden their spectrum of paperback books.
Thus appeared the Pelican section, a special series of books for educational purposes. The first volume is entitled "Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism". The subjects were addressed to students and people interested in learning about science, history, archaeology and literature. In parallel, on more political, social and especially contemporary issues, the editions created A Penguin Special the same year.
You can find all the series of the first Penguin editions on this site.
Before turning the page of Penguin Editions, it should be known that Jan Tschichold took up the torch of graphic design in 1946 and gave a new lease of life to the cover and the logo to fix the graphic design that we know today..:
With the success we know, we can say it: they lived happily and had many penguins.
From 1930 and for over 20 years, glamour was king and illustration queen.
It is the time of Babar (1931) or Walt Disney (here Snow White, from 1934). Artists are used to decorate books or create movie posters and illustrations are all the rage in magazines and especially... in advertising. Extremely realistic at the time, the drawings depict modern life in all its splendour.
Below, for the pleasure and a little off topic, original boards of the first Babar and Snow White to see in big (attention spoiler, the hunter killed the mother) :
With the advent of the consumer society driven by industrialization, stars become products in their own right, which sell dreams. It must be said that since 1927 talking cinema has made its appearance. The masses want Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Radio, TV, cinema and illustrators put forward virile heroes and fatal women. So much for virtue! Jazz is all the rage and culture is popular.
Some cult books are adapted to the screen - like Mutiny on the Bounty in 1935 (see picture below) - and the covers gradually evolve following the same construction as film posters, especially in the United States in the 1950s.
On these posters and books, the heroes have the first role in both senses of the word. They are highlighted in close-ups like figureheads, with large necklines, firm handles and lustrous hair. It's Hollywood glamour. Its warm wind will blow as far as Europe where it will have a certain influence even on the pocket books.
The man, who left during the war, has been back since 1945. The woman who had rolled up her sleeves and managed on her own to participate in the common effort finds herself facing the male.
This kind of harmless face-to-face radically changes the position of women and puts them back in a secondary role: they no longer exist for what they are but only in relation to men. From then on, the woman will be submissive or fatal. She becomes a consumer and once again assumes her "perfect role" in society, that of a housewife: "show her it's a man's world" as the ad says.
We can see this evolution of the status of women on these posters during and after the war... :
In the anguish of a possible new nuclear catastrophe, there is a frenzy among American buyers. It takes more, better, more beautiful, faster, and "keep up with the Joneses" (impress the neighbours). Photography is not yet in use, and illustrators can still be found on advertisements, posters or book covers.
In parallel, and as a support to this noble cause, we see the birth of the great women's magazines full of recipes and tricks to be the perfect woman, like "Marie-Claire" in France or "Glamour of Hollywood", in 1939.
Long live the refrigerator and the appliances that finally free the woman!
With advertising, illustrators now have their own role and a message to convey. From 1945, graphic design became a profession in its own right. This is the beginning of modern graphic design, we play with characters and layout. The Alliance Graphique Internationale was founded in Basel in 1950. In France, it is Massin who freely shapes the profession of artistic director, but we will discuss this in the next article.
On the other side of the Atlantic, in the United States, pocket editions have been available since the 1940s. With this frenzy linked to access to consumption and leisure, publishers consider adventure novels as something to sell. So we apply the recipes that work: screaming colours, close-up portraits, pulpy women and virile men, as on cinema posters and advertising.
The covers are then all more or less similar, as Massin notes when he creates Folio 20 years later. "In the United States, (...) each publisher had a paperback book, it was the one who would shout the loudest and, even within each series, the authors would quote each other; the titles were overbidding and the images were so colourful and so full of meaning that one would end up seeing nothing at all".
Snakes, half-naked women, murder and violence populate the covers of the american paperbacks of the fifties. It's too grumpy. The good people fear that the mores will be disturbed and that this will disturb the virtue of the people.
All the more so as the new position of women in society feeds a fantasy that appears on the covers.
On this series of american paperback covers from the 1950s, can you guess if the woman is:
Come on, we'll give you a hand.
You want some more? Check over here.
Fortunately, women are sometimes neither fatal, submissive nor vulnerable, as in this example:
Ha no, in time for me, on this only counter-example found the woman is "tomboy", therefore to be classified in the category of men. Damn it doesn't count.
In 1942 in the United States Dell Publishing launched its small format paper collection to compete with the Pocket Books created 3 years earlier. To stand out from the crowd, Dell invented a back cover map system that takes the places and characters from the book. These cards quickly become popular and are called "mapback".
Dell's distinctive logo - an eye in a lock - and vibrant airbrush colors set the collection apart from other pockets.
To go further, the surrealistic and imaginative illustrations have nothing to do with the ultra-realistic style of the time, and already announce the birth of abstraction. This is the case of these novels by Agatha Christie, published between 1946 and 48.
It was only around 1960 with the advent of photography, which now illustrates magazines and advertisements, that illustrators venture into the field of abstraction. Photographic and abstract covers rub shoulders in bookshelves. Colours, layout and typography are an integral part of image communication.
In France, books do not really have the same look, but we will dedicate a special parenthesis at the end of the article.
Illustrators must therefore stand out to continue to exist, and ultra-realism leaves room for the imagination.
Under the jackets, the books are sober, but we can already clearly see the designer's trace, as on the first edition of On the Road de Kerouac in 1957 (jacket at the bottom left in black, and book below).
The 1960s brought their share of upheavals with the desire to free themselves from the conformism that had taken root since the Second World War. This is a breeding ground for the advent of science fiction and fantastic adventures, new literary genres devoted to abstraction, which are of course on the front cover (to be seen in grand).
Ten years later, book covers are the medium for graphic experiments with typos, colors and abstraction, far from the trends of the mass market that remains mired (in the United States) in paperback covers. The 70s bring their share of psychedelia, flashy colors, art, and a form of freedom of thought that is transcribed in a graphics freed from the constraints of the last century.
Speaking of art: small zoom on the influence of abstract artists on the covers of the 60s and 70s with the superb Fontana Modern Masters collection. Inspired by Vasarely's plastic alphabet and optical art, the artistic director of Fontana Publishing -John Constable- has the brilliant idea of asking an artist to design covers following a repetitive pattern.
Together, they form a giant optical work of art: the book cover then rises to the rank of art, to hang on the wall!
Of course, we had fun playing with it:
In parallel in France, the history of book covers has not taken the same graphic turn... see the next chapter to learn more!
Text: Tiphaine Guillermou
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Friday, March 23, 2012
Spokane-based Ecova released massive amounts of data on changing energy habits.
Ecova employs nearly 100 people in Portland.
This week, with the release of a whitepaper and an infographic, Ecova dug into that data to start to pull out the trends the company sees in the nearly 1 billion electronic transactions that flow through its system every day.
In its data Ecova found that electricity consumption intensity — measured by killowatt hours consumed per square foot — decreased by 8 percent between 2009 and 2011.
Read more at Sustainable Business Oregon.


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These holiday shortbread thimble cookies made with nuts and jam or jelly are a delicious Christmas treat that everyone loves.
Prep Time 15minutes
Cook Time 15minutes
Total Time 30minutes
1cupsifted all-purpose flour
1 1/2cupsChopped nutsI use walnuts, or pecans
Jelly or JamI like a red jelly, like red currant, but you can also use a green jelly like mint. Make sure it's not too runny or it won't stay on the cookie.
Tools and Utensils
1mixer and mixing bowl
Beat the butter until it is fluffy.
Then add the sugar gradually and beat until it is dissolved in the butter.
Separate the egg. I use an egg separator for this, but you can also do it by passing the egg yolk back and forth between the egg shell halves until all of the egg white has dripped off.
Beat the egg yolk well.
Add the egg yolk, vanilla flavoring and flour and mix by hand. This will make a stiff batter. Do not mix this part with a mixer or the mixture will end up being too crumbly.
Break off pieces of dough and shape into balls by gently rolling between your palms. You should end up with balls about the size of a walnut.
Dip each ball in slightly beaten egg white, then roll in chopped walnuts, almonds or shredded coconut.
Place on a parchment lined baking sheet.
Make a dent in the center of each ball with a thimble, the back of a small measuring spoon or your finger.
Bake at 325 degrees F. for 15 minutes, or until the bottoms of the cookies are slightly browned.
Remove from the oven and use the thimble (small measuring spoon or your finger) to make the dents deeper. Make sure to do this right after the cookies come out of the oven so they are still soft.
Fill the dents with a small scoop of jelly while the cookies are still hot. I use a 1/4 teaspoon to scoop out the jelly.
Cool on the pan for 10 minutes then remove to wire rack until completely cold.
Store in an air tight container for up to a week, or in the freezer for up to a month.
Sifting the flour before you measure it is very important to making shortbread that is fluffy and light.Similarly, make sure you beat the butter and sugar well before adding other ingredients. The butter should be fluffy and the sugar should be dissolved into it. This is much easier to do if the buffer is room temperature when you start. If you forget to take it out of the refrigerator, microwave it for a few seconds to soften it.Mixing the flour in by hand is another important step to prevent the cookies from being too tough.Use a jam or jelly that isn't too runny, otherwise you will have trouble keeping it on the cookie.


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Wellington Chamber Music 2014 presents
Ludwig Treviranus (piano)
PAUL SCHRAMM – Nine Preludes
MAURICE RAVEL – Miroirs (Reflections)
SERGE PROKOFIEV – Three Pieces from “Romeo and Juliet”
MODEST MUSORGSKY – Pictures at an Exhibition
Wellington Chamber Music Concerts 2014
St Andrew’s-on-the-Terrace, Wellington
Sunday 28th September
Midway through pianist Ludwig Treviranus’s recent St.Andrew’s recital I was ready to tell anybody who would listen that this was shaping up to be a concert in a thousand – the Paul Schramm Preludes represented for me a major pianistic discovery, and I’d never heard parts of Ravel’s Miroirs played better by anybody, in concert or on record.
Of course, I needed at that stage to bear in mind one of the exchanges in Carl Sandburg’s anecdotal poem The People, Yes – the one where the city slicker asks the farmer, “Lived here all your life?” and the farmer replies “Not yit!” – that there was, at the half-way point, still a lot of musical water still to pass under the pianistic bridge, and that I had better, like Carl Sandburg’s farmer, remain circumspect until all had run its course.
As it turned out, I thought the young pianist wasn’t able to recapture the “first fine careless rapture” of those first-half items after the interval – in contrast to the elegance, finely-wrought detailing, deep evocation and well-tempered exuberance of the Schramm and Ravel items, neither the Prokofiev “Romeo and Juliet” pieces nor Musorgsky’s epic traversal of an intense friendship, “Pictures at an Exhibition” seemed to my ears sufficiently “owned” by Treviranus, despite some wonderful moments in each of the works.
So, I thought it was very much a “concert of two halves”, with the pianist seeming to give his all right from the start, and then, faced with the complexities of the programme’s second half, perhaps running out of steam a little. It appeared also as though the post-interval items were here prepared less thoroughly and meticulously than were the Schramm and Ravel works. The Musorgsky in particular lacked surety in places – not only were there a number of finger-slips and lapses of memory but some of the sequences weren’t focused, weren’t “held” with enough through-line to fully transport us into the world of the particular impressions of time, place and the composer wanted to convey.
I was somewhat surprised that “Pictures” didn’t have the whole of the second half to itself, as it’s of reasonably “stand-alone” length and has a wide range of expression, needing nothing to act as either filler or foil. Generous though Treviranus was in giving us the scenes from Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet, I thought their back-to-back positioning with “Pictures” actually detracted from our concentration and focus upon the latter. It’s a work that, I think, cries out for “stand-alone” placement in any concert, especially as it’s really a kind of ritual, with an inevitability of advancement shared by all great works of art. Part tragedy, part celebration, it’s a unique amalgam of descriptions and emotions, gathered together by the circumstance of one individual’s painful and debilitating loss of a friend.
Enough! – various pianists of my acquaintance have testified as to their own love of excess when young, armed with energy to burn, with generosity of nature, and with oceanfuls of delectable, mouth-watering repertoire to play and enjoy. As the conductor Sir John Barbirolli once said, referring to ‘cellist Jacqueline du Pre’s whole-hearted, super-charged music-making – which he loved, but which some critics found too fulsomely expressed: “When you’re young you should have an excess of everything!” Sir John adding, “you have to have something which you can pare off and refine as you grow older….”
So – there we were at St.Andrew’s Church, in the company of the personable Ludwig Treviranus, smilingly welcoming us to the recital and telling us his thoughts about each group of pieces he was about to play. This was all very much of a piece with his music-making, delivered as if it were the most natural thing in the world to do. Particularly interesting to hear about was his discovery and advocacy of the Paul Schramm Preludes, a project derived from his involvement with a collection of New Zealand piano pieces in a volume “Living Echoes – The First 150 Years of Piano Music from New Zealand”, researched and edited by Wellington teacher Gillian Bibby.
Paul Schramm, along with his wife, Diny, arrived in New Zealand in the late 1930s as refugee émigrés from Germany. Making their home in the capital, they brought considerable musical skills to Wellington, Paul as a performer and Diny as a teacher – activities which the war years all but curtailed, treated as they were like aliens by the establishment for the duration. Paul left New Zealand for Australia after the war, where he died in 1953; but Diny remained in Wellington and continued to teach here for many years afterwards.
Schramm’s Nine Preludes reflected his own musical tastes, influenced as the writing was by Prokofiev, Debussy, Ravel, Bartok, and Scriabin. It seems the pieces were conceived as a set of nine, or perhaps even ten, though “Number One” was missing when the original discovery of the music was made in the Alexander Turnbull archives. A later search turned up another Prelude – perhaps the missing one, perhaps another altogether – so that today we got the original number of pieces, whatever the origins of the first of the set.
Though derivative in style and content, each of the pieces, with Ludwig Treviranus’s vividly-projected and sharply-focused advocacy, sparkled with the glint of rediscovery and impinged their essences upon the memory. Analysis of each piece and its performance would fill a book, so I’ll content myself with remarking on a couple of the pieces and their juxtapositionings. First came the the imposing and impressively-wrought “Biblical rhetoric” of the writing in the opening Prelude “On the Death of a Great Man: FD Roosevelt 12th April 1945”, complete with echoes of “The Star-Spangled Banner”. It was a piece whose direct appeal to the emotions contrasted immediately with the following “Satyr’s Dance”, a mischievous, spikily-harmonised part-waltz-part-scherzo, the pianist making the most of the interplay between massive, Prokofiev-like momentums and Ravelian delicacies.
I particularly liked the “Ritual Dance of a Javanese Warrior”, a dark-hearted waltz flecked with glinting colours, cruel in its “snapping” figurations and remorseless harmonies, its effect made all the greater in retrospect through being followed by “Hommage a Scriabine”, with its shimmering textures and insinuating modulations. Perhaps along with the Debussy-like “Glittering Thirds” it’s the most unashamedly imitative, as Schramm’s titles, of course, do readily suggest. I admit I did wonder about Treviranus’s performance of the Seventh Prelude, “Distortion of a Viennese Waltz”, though, as Schramm’s original subtitle for the piece (quoted in the programme) was “arrogantly performed by a German General Staff Officer”. As played here, I thought the pianist largely ignored this directive – the performance was far too musically sympathetic and lilting in manner to evoke any kind of arrogance or brutality!
From these marvellous pieces we went on to Ravel’s “Miroirs”, where more pianistic riches awaited our ears! – Treviranus brought out almost everything one could wish for in the music – the opening of “Noctuelles” (Night Moths) all impulse and feathery excitement, the textures wrought of magic, and the subsequent evocations of night sublimely realised, the darkness suggestive rather than sinister. “Oiseaux tristes” featured a different kind of ambience, the pianist able to tellingly “place” the birds’ calls in the silences, stressing the solitariness of the listener’s experience.
But I thought the performance’s most sublime moments were in the following “Une barque sur l’ocean” (A boat on the ocean) – Treviranus conjured from his piano some of the most beguiling keyboard sounds imaginable, the playing suggesting as readily the oceanic depths as the surface play of light and air on the waves, everything – even the glissando – gorgeously “touched in”. He brought out Ravel’s utterly seductive interplay of melody and figuration in a finely-activated liquid flow, and with almost lump-in-throat delicacy as the ship passed by, leaving only impressions on the memory.
That same delicacy of utterance and feeling for atmosphere was evident in the final piece of the set as well – “La Valée des cloches” (Valley of the Bells). Pianist Robert Casadesus was quoted in the programme notes as having been told by Ravel that “the piece was inspired by midday bells in Paris”. However, the music has never seemed that way to my ears – nor, I think to those of Ludwig Treviranus, judging by the almost crepuscular ambience he wove with and around the sounds. These bells were more nostalgic and dreamlike than real, middle-of-the-day angelus-bells, activated by deft stroke-making on the part of the pianist, the oscillations continuing to enchant the imagination’s ear long after the actual sounds had ceased. I thought it simply lovely playing.
No, I hadn’t forgotten the jester and his morning song (Alborada del gracioso)! – we got some exciting playing from Treviranus, just missing, I thought, the last ounce of rhythmic “swagger” through a shade too quick a tempo, but still capturing plenty of thrust and volatility of the opening, and enabling a great flourish at the end of the first section. But the expressif en recit of the middle section was where I would have liked a more marked contrast with the livelier outer sequences, a freer, deeper, canto-jondo-like feeling of a singer caught and held by some deep emotion, interrupted by the physicalities which come back at the piece’s end. But I realise that I’m quibbling, here – it really was marvellous playing!
Still, after these stellar feats of re-creation, I sensed that the pianist had begun to tire, and his focus lose its edge. Prokofiev’s famous “Montagues and Capulets” sequence from the “Romeo and Juliet” ballet certainly strutted its stuff with real menace, arrogance and swagger, and the ghostly ambience of the trio section was well-caught, as the disguised Romeo and his friends sneaked into the Capulets’ Ball. But the impish fun of “The Young Juliet” needed a lighter touch throughout to REALLY scintillate, and the opening “Folk Dance” had some untidy figurations in-between the episodes of young-braves’-bravado from both of the warring families.
Following this came Musorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” – and there were moments from Treviranus of brilliance and rapt insight into a unique world of contrasted expression. These were flung, teased and dragged across the surface of a creative canvas with great panache – the opening picture, Gnomus, for one, gave off a gorgeously volatile and unashamedly malicious aspect, one whose acerbities set “The Old Castle” into rich, darkly-lit relief. I also thought “Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle” a pair of vividly characterized gentlemen, one assertive and overbearing, the other wheedling and pathetic. And, as a double-whammy kind of crowning conclusion to the work, the witch Baba Yaga’s wild rides were savagely and outlandishly celebrated, her music spectacularly disintegrating against the bulwarks of “The Great Gate at Kiev” with its pomp, splendor and introspective moments of ritualistic piety.
However, it was, I thought, for the pianist, still a work in progress – a number of uncertainties inhibited the kind of breathtaking identification with the music that had characterized Treviranus’s earlier playing of “Miroirs” and the Schramm pieces. Just to take one example – I’m certain he will, in time, delve more deeply into and relish the stillness that marks the transition from those stark, remorseless structures of “Catacombs” to the mystical revelations of “Cum mortuis in lingua mortua” – the place where the composer was, for a few moments, reunited in quiet ecstasy with the spirit of his dead friend, Victor Hartmann, the artist of the “Pictures”.
Of course, Musorgsky’s tragedy was that, even while celebrating his friend’s memory he was on a downward path to an alcohol-soaked oblivion which put a premature end to his own life and creative career – sobering (sic) thoughts indeed, and especially with which to conclude this celebration of a major pianistic talent here in Wellington.


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Become the change you desire
What was the last thing you tried to change in your life? How well did it work? Did it have a lasting effect?
Did you say, “I want to lose ten pounds. I must go on a diet.”
Or, “I want to be productive. I better start working hard.”
Or, “I want to be rich. I need to a better job and to start saving.”
These three have something in common: they require you to force yourself to change behaviors to achieve your goal. They reinforce that you are not what you desire:
- you are overweight (or why would you need a diet?)
- you are unproductive (or why demand the extra effort?)
- you are lacking money (or why would you need more?)
Attempts to change behaviors usually fail. Why? Because they aren’t in line with your belief systems about who you are.
Instead, become the change you desire. Imagine it. Start acting like it. Your behaviors will naturally reflect yourself and bring you goal to you effortlessly.
Effortlessly does not mean without work or action. It means you stop forcing yourself to be something you are not.


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Pasta Night! includes more than 101 varied pasta dishes-- from 3 Cheese Mac N' Cheese to Spaghetti and Meatballs, Asian Noodle Casserole to Chicken Noodle Soup-- with sides and salads too. With all the great recipes available in this cookbook, there's no need to use your noodle to figure out what's for dinner. There's over 85 tempting color photos! Plus, a trio of clever tip boxes and vibrant icons give readers even more value by making recipes easier, faster, and super fun to make.
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Limerick vice-captain Iain Corbett
LIMERICK ended a 26 year wait when reaching the 1991 Munster SFC final.
There have been four final appearances since, yet almost 30 years later, Limerick have won two Munster SFC games in the same season just three times – 2003, ‘04 and ‘09.
That’s the quest on Saturday when Limerick face Tipperary in the provincial semi final in the LIT Gaelic Grounds at 1.15pm – a game live on RTE television’s News Now channel.
“Winning is a lot more enjoyable than losing,” said Limerick vice-captain Iain Corbett of their 2020 season which has nine wins from 11 outings.
“We have a great group and there is a real close bond there and we all get along with each other.”
He explains: “It’s something that we have been building under Billy. The age profile of the panel is good - the Declan Brouder U21 teams are now the core of the team - a good age profile”.
Victory sends Limerick into a November 22 provincial decider but Corbett isn’t having talk of Munster finals.
”It happened last year when playing were saying Cork were on a bit of a slide and we ended up with plenty egg on our face,” he stressed.
“We will be underdogs and will just go out and try perform to our best and see where that takes us.”
But Corbett is content Limerick football is moving in the right direction.
”We expected to get promoted this year - that was the target. Now we are onto championship and we wanted to win tonight and we will want to win next week because we are focused on trying to get up the leagues and performing at a higher level more consistently,” he said after defeating Waterford.
The Newcastle West has started the last two games in the half forward line before reverted to centre back for the second half.
Is he is a back or a forward?
”I’m not sure! That will depend on Billy,” smiles Corbett.
In general, Limerick have proven themselves to be adaptable to change.
”A lot of the forwards would be comfortable playing out around the middle eight and with half backs and half forwards they are like-for-like these days. It keeps the opposition guessing when we are coming up against them if they are not exactly sure how we are going to line out - it gives us an advantage in that sense,” he outlined.
The 11-point win over Waterford came with 10 different players on the scoresheet.
”There are plenty good footballers there and once we get the ball into the right zone I have confidence in any of the lads to take a shot when it is on - there is no out and out marksman so everyone is an option and the more fellas that are scoring, the more scores you are going to get.”
The Waterford win ensured Limerick won Munster SFC games in successive years for the first time since 2009-10.
“We had a job to do and we came down and did it. We started well and had what wind was there and got the good start and held them at arms length. They put a lot of pressure on us at the start of the second half but they probably didn’t take the chances and went up the other end to get a few scores to keep the gap.”
He continued: “We are winning games and it’s great. Last week (Sligo) the last 10-minutes were very nervy and we came out the right side of that and it gave us confidence going into this week.”
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An unmanned NASA spacecraft, Messenger, has crashed on the surface of the planet Mercury, after it ran out of fuel following a successful 11-year mission, the US space agency said Thursday.
The Messenger was the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, and issued a final farewell on Twitter shortly before its demise at 3:26 pm (1926 GMT).
Well I guess it is time to say goodbye to all my friends, family, support team. I will be making my final impact very soon.
— MESSENGER (@MESSENGER2011) April 30, 2015
“A NASA planetary exploration mission came to a planned, but nonetheless dramatic, end Thursday when it slammed into Mercury’s surface at about 8,750 miles per hour (3.91 kilometers per second) and created a new crater on the planet’s surface,” the agency said in a statement.
The spacecraft itself was just about three meters long.
The crater it would cause was expected to be 16 meters (52 feet) in diameter, NASA said.
The mission, which launched in 2004, had achieved “unprecedented success,” with its top discovery being that Mercury had lots of frozen water and other volatile materials in its permanently shadowed polar craters on the planet closest to the Sun, the US space agency said.