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In the majority of cases tree cutting should be left to a professional like Arlington tree service.
However if the tree you intend to cut is relatively small, in an open safe it may be possible to carry out this work yourself following the safety tips below:
The tools
• Kevlar leg coverings, steel toe boots, a hard hat, goggles and heavy duty gloves
• A sharp chainsaw with a full tank of gas
• Rope
• Ladder
• Wedges
• Ax
Tap the tree with your ax if it sounds hollow the tree may be dying or dead. If it sounds solid then it is live and so more difficult to take down. Tap different points on the tree to find a spot which is easier to cut.
Find a spot on the tree which is level just so that it does not bounce, roll or move unpredictably causing injuries.
Start by making a horizontal cut which should be above your hip but extend around one-third the thickness of the tree.
Add a wedge cut. This will be either on the top or the bottom of the first horizontal cut you made.
This cut will determine how the tree falls. The cut should be thick and around 1.5 inches on top of the horizontal cut. Introduce a wedge to prevent the tree from angling on the chainsaw.
Now that the cut is completed you will have an even holding wood or you will see the tree begin to fall.
When the tree is about to fall make sure to get out via your escape route.
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In 2006 Jack Dorsey set up his first twitter account after this demonstration Twitter has changed the way we inform ourselves and are being informed during the most recent 10 years, time for a recap.
Essential and unbelievable event that occured, for example, the Hudson River plane accident, #BlackLivesMatter and JeSuisCharlie and additionally Obamas renewed four term were being made public and spread instantly on twitter progressively for individuals to share and connect with and generally speaking being educated.
Being a vital turning point and evidence of the great idea Twitter is its well worth showing some key points about what has happened and where we stand. Lets take a peek at the difficulties ahead, some key crossroads in its history and development.
Advancement of Twitter
More than 320 million clients are utilizing the Twitter page, messaging, remarking and retweeting. You can locate the latest news, begin a debate or be in contact with your most loved performing artist, artist or fashion brand. The intriguing thing is that when Twitter was initially dispatched it was planned to be a SMS service no more and no less, to impart between individuals you know and stay in contact.
Today its a gigantic media stage permitting individuals to be educated, opinion and learn and be informed at all times and continuously.
Lets take a peek at a couple of reference points of the most important stages that changed such a large number of lives.
1. 2007: The first Hashtag could be posted on Twitter, which were at first not an option or thought to be used for Twitter but rather in 2007 proposed by previous Google creator Chris Messina, incredible thought Chris
2. 2009 Airplane Hudson River landing
The US Airways Flight 1549 landed unwillingly on the Hudson River, the Captain Chelsey Sullenberger amazingly figured out how to “park” the plane on the water in New York and nobody of the 155 individuals on the plane no one was extremely harmed. Janis Krum a twitter client shared a now exceptionally famous photo of the landing on twitter and the news broke around the world.
3. 2012: Barack Obama for his second term win to the Oval Office shared a minute of satisfaction on Twitter and after that reporting and tending to people in general about his second presidential win.
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The barriers between public and private space; the city is about points-of-view, about broken or enabled lines-of-sight, about privacy: the protection of territory (the surveillance camera), the invasion of territory; the opposition of private and public: It organizes Voyeurism. Behind a fence, it is not important what is behind it: It is important that you are barred from seeing it and you are tempted to see it.
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The “Equivalents” remain photography’s most radical demonstration of faith in the existence of a reality behind and beyond that offered by the world of appearances. They are intended to function evocatively, like music, and they express a desire to leave behind the physical world, a desire symbolized by the visual absence of horizon and scale clues within the frame. Emotion resides solely in form, they assert, not in the specifics of time and place.
— Andy Grundberg, 1983 on Alfred Stieglitz “Equivalents”
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فيلم جفت گيري گاو
جفتگيري اسب وخر
کانال جفت گيري حيوانات
جفت گيري اسب در خواب
جفت گيري میمون ها
جفت گيري گورخر
جفت گيري سگ با گربه
جفت گيري شتر
نحوه جفت گيري گاو
جفت گيري الاغها
فیلم جفت گيري خرها
جفت گيري حيوانات وحشي
مستند جفت گيري حيوانات وحشي
جفت گيري شامپانزه
جفت گيري ميمون اپارات
جفت گيري گوسفندان
جفت گيري گورخر اپارات
جفت گيري سگ با گرگ
جفت گيري حیوانات اهلی
جفت گيري شتر آپارات
جفت گيري خرها اپارات
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The ecological value of the term Nature is dangerously overrated, because Nature isn’t just a term – it’s something that happened to human-built space, demarcating human systems from Earth systems. Nature as such is a twelve-thousand-years old human product, geological as well as discursive. Its wavy elegance was eventually revealed as inherently contingent and violent, as when in a seizure one’s brain waves become smooth. Wash-rinse-repeat the agrilogistics and suddenly we reach a tipping point.
The Anthropocene doesn’t destroy Nature. The Anthropocene is Nature in its toxic nightmare form. Nature is the latent form of the Anthropocene waiting to emerge as a catastrophe.
–Timothy Morton, Dark Ecology
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The Lotos-eaters
BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
“Courage!” he said, and pointed toward the land,
“This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.”
In the afternoon they came unto a land
In which it seemed always afternoon.
All round the coast the languid air did swoon,
Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Full-faced above the valley stood the moon;
And like a downward smoke, the slender stream
Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem.
A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke,
Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go;
And some thro’ wavering lights and shadows broke,
Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below.
They saw the gleaming river seaward flow
From the inner land: far off, three mountain-tops,
Three silent pinnacles of aged snow,
Stood sunset-flush’d: and, dew’d with showery drops,
Up-clomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse.
The charmed sunset linger’d low adown
In the red West: thro’ mountain clefts the dale
Was seen far inland, and the yellow down
Border’d with palm, and many a winding vale
And meadow, set with slender galingale;
A land where all things always seem’d the same!
And round about the keel with faces pale,
Dark faces pale against that rosy flame,
The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters came.
Branches they bore of that enchanted stem,
Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave
To each, but whoso did receive of them,
And taste, to him the gushing of the wave
Far far away did seem to mourn and rave
On alien shores; and if his fellow spake,
His voice was thin, as voices from the grave;
And deep-asleep he seem’d, yet all awake,
And music in his ears his beating heart did make.
They sat them down upon the yellow sand,
Between the sun and moon upon the shore;
And sweet it was to dream of Fatherland,
Of child, and wife, and slave; but evermore
Most weary seem’d the sea, weary the oar,
Weary the wandering fields of barren foam.
Then some one said, “We will return no more”;
And all at once they sang, “Our island home
Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam.”
CHORIC SONG
I
There is sweet music here that softer falls
Than petals from blown roses on the grass,
Or night-dews on still waters between walls
Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass;
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,
Than tir’d eyelids upon tir’d eyes;
Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies.
Here are cool mosses deep,
And thro’ the moss the ivies creep,
And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep,
And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep.”
II
Why are we weigh’d upon with heaviness,
And utterly consumed with sharp distress,
While all things else have rest from weariness?
All things have rest: why should we toil alone,
We only toil, who are the first of things,
And make perpetual moan,
Still from one sorrow to another thrown:
Nor ever fold our wings,
And cease from wanderings,
Nor steep our brows in slumber’s holy balm;
Nor harken what the inner spirit sings,
“There is no joy but calm!”
Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of things?
III
Lo! in the middle of the wood,
The folded leaf is woo’d from out the bud
With winds upon the branch, and there
Grows green and broad, and takes no care,
Sun-steep’d at noon, and in the moon
Nightly dew-fed; and turning yellow
Falls, and floats adown the air.
Lo! sweeten’d with the summer light,
The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow,
Drops in a silent autumn night.
All its allotted length of days
The flower ripens in its place,
Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil,
Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.
IV
Hateful is the dark-blue sky,
Vaulted o’er the dark-blue sea.
Death is the end of life; ah, why
Should life all labour be?
Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast,
And in a little while our lips are dumb.
Let us alone. What is it that will last?
All things are taken from us, and become
Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.
Let us alone. What pleasure can we have
To war with evil? Is there any peace
In ever climbing up the climbing wave?
All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave
In silence; ripen, fall and cease:
Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.
V
How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream,
With half-shut eyes ever to seem
Falling asleep in a half-dream!
To dream and dream, like yonder amber light,
Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height;
To hear each other’s whisper’d speech;
Eating the Lotos day by day,
To watch the crisping ripples on the beach,
And tender curving lines of creamy spray;
To lend our hearts and spirits wholly
To the influence of mild-minded melancholy;
To muse and brood and live again in memory,
With those old faces of our infancy
Heap’d over with a mound of grass,
Two handfuls of white dust, shut in an urn of brass!
VI
Dear is the memory of our wedded lives,
And dear the last embraces of our wives
And their warm tears: but all hath suffer’d change:
For surely now our household hearths are cold,
Our sons inherit us: our looks are strange:
And we should come like ghosts to trouble joy.
Or else the island princes over-bold
Have eat our substance, and the minstrel sings
Before them of the ten years’ war in Troy,
And our great deeds, as half-forgotten things.
Is there confusion in the little isle?
Let what is broken so remain.
The Gods are hard to reconcile:
‘Tis hard to settle order once again.
There is confusion worse than death,
Trouble on trouble, pain on pain,
Long labour unto aged breath,
Sore task to hearts worn out by many wars
And eyes grown dim with gazing on the pilot-stars.
VII
But, propt on beds of amaranth and moly,
How sweet (while warm airs lull us, blowing lowly)
With half-dropt eyelid still,
Beneath a heaven dark and holy,
To watch the long bright river drawing slowly
His waters from the purple hill—
To hear the dewy echoes calling
From cave to cave thro’ the thick-twined vine—
To watch the emerald-colour’d water falling
Thro’ many a wov’n acanthus-wreath divine!
Only to hear and see the far-off sparkling brine,
Only to hear were sweet, stretch’d out beneath the pine.
VIII
The Lotos blooms below the barren peak:
The Lotos blows by every winding creek:
All day the wind breathes low with mellower tone:
Thro’ every hollow cave and alley lone
Round and round the spicy downs the yellow Lotos-dust is blown.
We have had enough of action, and of motion we,
Roll’d to starboard, roll’d to larboard, when the surge was seething free,
Where the wallowing monster spouted his foam-fountains in the sea.
Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind,
In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined
On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurl’d
Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl’d
Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world:
Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands,
Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands,
Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands.
But they smile, they find a music centred in a doleful song
Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient tale of wrong,
Like a tale of little meaning tho’ the words are strong;
Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil,
Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with enduring toil,
Storing yearly little dues of wheat, and wine and oil;
Till they perish and they suffer—some, ’tis whisper’d—down in hell
Suffer endless anguish, others in Elysian valleys dwell,
Resting weary limbs at last on beds of asphodel.
Surely, surely, slumber is more sweet than toil, the shore
Than labour in the deep mid-ocean, wind and wave and oar;
O, rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more.
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Dear reddit RDH’s,
I’m writing to you all as a wife, mom, and also as a fellow state board licensed professional as a registered nurse.
Last Spring my husband of 15 years had an affair with a dental hygienist at the dental practice we have been going to for 10 years in our small community, “we” is me, husband, daughter (now college grad), and teen son. We actually chose the practice as we me dentist at middle school activity- our daughters were both involved – not close friends, but continued familiar relationship throug HS graduation.
He went in for routine appointment, she routinely talks about bad marriage relationship (of 16 years) ‘he’s controlling, suspicious”, etc… My husband is police officer “ call me if I can help”- not in an innocent manner- clear boundary break. She leaves next day to “work on relationship with husband” on advice from pastor- to Mexico. Next day begin to text my husband flirty messages, then suggestive messages bikini pics, then half nude, then nudes. She’s gets home 1 week later and he is ready for divorce.
My marriage is not the concern of my post. I have had minimal contact with this woman in 9 months since I became aware of affair. I doubt my marriage is going to survive this affair, and I will continue to grieve this as time moves on. As a nurse, I would be horrified and quick to judge and point out to any of my coworker/friends how inappropriate and unprofessional this behavior was/is, and I am tempted to inform the dentist that she works with. I have struggled with my decision as I never wanted it to be made out of anger towards her because the responsibility is and always has been on my husband. However, she has also had contact with our 2 children for more than 10 years, and me- and her lack of judgement concerns me. I would never attend this practice again as long as she is still employed there, and would certainly never have my kids go there. I’m tempted to tell dentist this, and also that I will not hesitate to tell everyone we know in our small town the above story and recommend they take their dental concerns elsewhere. What do you all think?
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Dear reddit RDH’s,
I’m writing to you all as a wife, mom, and also as a fellow state board licensed professional as a registered nurse.
Last Spring my husband of 15 years had an affair with a dental hygienist at the dental practice we have been going to for 10 years in our small community, “we” is me, husband, daughter (now college grad), and teen son. We actually chose the practice as we me dentist at middle school activity- our daughters were both involved – not close friends, but continued familiar relationship throug HS graduation.
He went in for routine appointment, she routinely talks about bad marriage relationship (of 16 years) ‘he’s controlling, suspicious”, etc… My husband is police officer “ call me if I can help”- not in an innocent manner- clear boundary break. She leaves next day to “work on relationship with husband” on advice from pastor- to Mexico. Next day begin to text my husband flirty messages, then suggestive messages bikini pics, then half nude, then nudes. She’s gets home 1 week later and he is ready for divorce.
My marriage is not the concern of my post. I have had minimal contact with this woman in 9 months since I became aware of affair. I doubt my marriage is going to survive this affair, and I will continue to grieve this as time moves on. As a nurse, I would be horrified and quick to judge and point out to any of my coworker/friends how inappropriate and unprofessional this behavior was/is, and I am tempted to inform the dentist that she works with. I have struggled with my decision as I never wanted it to be made out of anger towards her because the responsibility is and always has been on my husband. However, she has also had contact with our 2 children for more than 10 years, and me- and her lack of judgement concerns me. I would never attend this practice again as long as she is still employed there, and would certainly never have my kids go there. I’m tempted to tell dentist this, and also that I will not hesitate to tell everyone we know in our small town the above story and recommend they take their dental concerns elsewhere. What do you all think?
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Another year, another round of updates for cars. The latest news about 2019 lineup changes from Mercedes-Benz.
For the upcoming year, Mercedes-Benz has a long list of changes coming to the new luxury cars. Because of this long list, the press release is dense with information and I want to break it down as easily as possible for you all. So here’s the breakdown, direct from Mercedes:
“Third-generation CLS debuts new coupe style plus in-line six-cylinder turbo powertrain with EQ Boost and 48V electric system
Full redesign of iconic G-Class SUV brings greater comfort, luxury, technology and safety, plus enhanced off-road capability
First-ever AMG GT 4-Door Coupe offered in three variants
E-Class Family adds E 450 and E 450 4MATIC models
New AMG CLS 53 and E 53 performance models with in-line six, 48V, EQ Boost and electric auxiliary supercharger
C-Class debuts more powerful 2.0L turbo engine and AMG- enhanced 3.0L V6 biturbo engine, design and safety updates
Most advanced Intelligent Drive safety features added to more model lines
All SUVs add new comfort and convenience features”
That’s quite the list. The most popular of these changes has to be the new G-Class design, as well as the new AMG GT 4-Door Coupe.
Now the question is: when can you get these cars? Thankfully, Mercedes also included a full timeline of what’s to come, with dates subject to change.
“CLS 450 / CLS 450 4MATIC (all-new) Fall 2018
E 450 4MATIC Sedan (new engine) Fall 2018
E 450 4MATIC Wagon (new engine) Fall 2018
E 450 / E 450 4MATIC Coupe (new engine) Fall 2018
E 450 / E 450 4MATIC Cabriolet (new engine) Fall 2018
AMG E 53 Sedan (all-new) Late 2018
G 550 / AMG G 63 (facelift) Late 2018
C 300/C 300 4MATIC/AMG C 43, C 63 & C 63 S Sedan (facelift) Late 2018
C 300/C 300 4MATIC/AMG C 43, C 63 & C 63 S Coupe (facelift) Late 2018
C 300/C 300 4MATIC/AMG C 43, C 63 & C 63 S Cabriolet (facelift) Late 2018 AMG E 53
Coupe (all-new) Late 2018
AMG E 53 Cabriolet (all-new) Late 2018
AMG CLS 53 (all-new) Late 2018
AMG GT 4-door Coupe: GT 53, GT 63, GT 63 S (all-new) Early 2019 S 560e Sedan (new variant) Mid-2019″
Below, you can find the the highlighted updates for each model in greater detail. Just click/tap on the plus button to see it all.
All 2019 Mercedes-Benz Updates
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Highlights for 2019
Introduction of Denim Blue exterior paint AMG Updates
Additional Standard Equipment/Packages:
Premium Package
Convenience Package
19” AMG Multi-Spoke Wheels
C-Class Sedan
Facelifted for 2019
The C-Class family is fully refreshed for MY19 with enhancements to performance, technology and styling across the lineup, as well as valuable additions to standard equipment.
Highlights for 2019
The C 300 Sedan, Coupe and Cabriolet receive a new 2.0L inline-4 turbo engine producing 255 hp and 273 lb-ft of torque
Addition of advanced technology including the newest generation of Driver Assistance featuring Active Lane Change Assist, Route-Based Speed Adaptation, etc.
Refreshed headlamps, taillamps, front and rear fascias
LED headlamps and Smartphone Integration (Apple CarPlay and Android Auto) are now standard on all C-Class models
Interior highlights include: new-generation steering wheel with Touch Control Buttons and integrated cruise control buttons, optional 10.25″ high-resolution center display, optional 12.3″ Digital Instrument Cluster and optional 64-color ambient lighting
New individualization options including new paints, upholsteries, trims and wheels
AMG Updates
10.25″ center display is standard across all AMG C-Class models
New rear apron and diffusor, as well as new tailpipe designs
Addition of “Slippery” mode to AMG DYNAMIC SELECT
New SmartKey in black with AMG lettering and AMG crest
New AMG Performance Steering Wheel options in various materials
AMG Performance Seats now available with seat heating and ventilation
AMG C 43
AMG SPEEDSHIFT® TCT 9-speed transmission
Increase of 23 hp for a total output of 385 hp
New grille with twin louver design
New AMG Performance Steering Wheel
AMG C 63 / C 63 S
New AMG SPEEDSHIFT® MCT 9-speed transmission
AMG-Specific Grille
Electronic limited-slip differential now standard on C 63
AMG DRIVE UNIT now optional for increased steering wheel functionality
C-Class Coupe
Facelifted for 2019
The C-Class Coupe receives facelift enhancements like the C-Class Sedan, with the addition of the 10.25″ high-resolution center display as standard equipment.
AMG Updates
AMG Performance Studio Package available with new package content
Wood trim now standard
C-Class Cabriolet
Facelifted for 2019
The C-Class Cabriolet receives facelift enhancements like the C-Class Sedan, with the addition of the 10.25″ high-resolution center display as standard equipment.
AMG Updates
AMG Performance Studio Package available with new package content
Premium Package and wood trim now standard
AMG Performance Seats now available with seat heating and ventilation and AIRSCARF®
E-Class Sedan
Introducing new variants for 2019: E 450 4MATIC & all-new AMG E 53 Sedan
New engine, 48V electrical system, fully variable all-wheel drive, larger brakes and more equipment features: the Mercedes-AMG E 53 Sedan. The centerpiece of the new E 53 Sedan is the electrified AMG-enhanced 3.0L in-line 6 Turbo Engine with EQ Boost featuring an electric auxiliary compressor. The in-line 6-cylinder engine generates an output of 429 hp and delivers a peak torque of 384 lb-ft which is supplemented with an electric EQ Boost starter generator. Other technical highlights include the AMG SPEEDSHIFT TCT 9G transmission and the fully variable all-wheel drive system
AMG Performance 4MATIC+.
Highlights for 2019
Power increase as the E 400 4MATIC becomes the E 450 4MATIC (362 hp and 369 lb-ft)
New-generation steering wheel with Touch Control Buttons
Enhanced safety systems within the Driver Assistance Package (Route-Based Speed Adaptation)
12.3″ Digital Instrument Cluster and Head-Up Display now available as Stand- Alone Option
Power rear-window sunshade now available as Stand-Alone Option
Introduction of new 19″ AMG Twin 5-Spoke wheel in Night Package
Introduction of matching center console with Brown Ash & Burl Walnut wood trimAMG Updates
Introduction of a Mercedes-AMG E 53 Sedan, featuring an AMG-enhanced 3.0L inline-6 turbo engine with EQ Boost (429 hp, 384 lb-ft torque)
AMG Performance 4MATIC+ fully-variable all-wheel drive
New exhaust tailpipe design with round tips
Hood with double powerdomes
AMG Performance Seats now available
New-generation AMG Performance steering wheels now available
Brown Ash wood trim with matching center console now available
Optionally available Parking Assistance Package with Active Parking Assist and Surround View System (E 53 only; standard on E 63 S)
Surround View System as standard (E 63 S only)
AMG Illuminated Door Sills as a Stand-Alone Option (E 53 only)
E-Class Coupe & Cabriolet
Introducing new model designation for 2019: E 450 & E 450 4MATIC Coupe & Cabriolet and all-new AMG E 53 Coupe & Cabriolet
The new E 53 Coupe & Cabriolet models combine powerful performance with sporty style and high efficiency. At their heart lies a new, electrified 3.0-liter engine featuring an exhaust gas turbocharger and an electric auxiliary compressor. The cylinder in-line engine generates 429 hp and delivers maximum torque of 384 lb- ft. Its EQ Boost starter-alternator momentarily provides an additional 21 hp of output plus 184 lb-ft of torque and furthermore feeds the 48 V on-board electrical system. Other technical highlights include the AMG SPEEDSHIFT TCT 9G transmission and the fully variable all-wheel drive system AMG Performance 4MATIC+.
Highlights for 2019
Power increase as the E 400 becomes the E 450 (362 hp and 369 lb-ft)
New-generation steering wheel with Touch Control Buttons
Enhanced safety systems within the Driver Assistance Package (Route-Based Speed Adaptation)
Introduction of ENERGIZING Comfort Package
12.3″ Digital Instrument Cluster, Head-Up Display, and power rear-window sunshade now available as stand-alone options
Enhanced ambient lighting with illuminated air vents (64 colors)
Introduction of Night Package with 19″ AMG wheels
New AMG floor mats in matching upholstery color (AMG Line)
Matching center console with Light Brown Sen & Brown Ash wood trim
Introduction of wood/leather steering wheel with Light Brown Sen wood trim
New Rubellite Red metallic paint
AMG Updates
Introduction of a new Mercedes-AMG E 53 model, featuring an AMG-enhanced with EQ Boost
AMG SPEEDSHIFT TCT 9-speed transmission
AMG Performance 4MATIC+ fully-variable all-wheel drive
New exhaust tailpipe design with round tips
Hood with double powerdomes
Standard AMG Sport Suspension based on AIR BODY CONTROL
Standard AMG DYNAMIC SELECT
Standard 12.3″ Digital Instrument Cluster
Standard Burmester® Surround Sound System
Optional AMG Exterior Carbon Fiber Package and AMG Night Package
Optional AMG Performance Exhaust System
Standard AMG Nappa Leather Performance steering wheel; optionally available AMG Nappa/DINAMICA Performance steering wheel and AMG Nappa/Black Piano Lacquer Performance steering wheel
Standard AIRCAP®, AIRSCARF® and Fabric Acoustic Soft Top (Cabriolet only)
E-Class Wagon
Introducing new model designation for 2019: E 450 4MATIC Wagon
Highlights for 2019
The E-Class Wagon receives model year updates & enhancements like the E- Class Sedan
Power increase as the E 400 4MATIC becomes the E 450 4MATIC (362 hp and 369 lb-ft)
115V AC power outlet standardAMG Updates
New-generation AMG Performance steering wheels now available
Brown Ash wood trim with matching center console now available
Surround View System equipped as standard
CLS
All-new model for 2019
With the launch of the first-generation CLS in 2004, a new segment was born. Combining the emotional charisma of a Coupe with the comfort and functionality of a Sedan, the four-door CLS was a true design icon. Today, the third-generation CLS continues to be the forerunner of a refined Mercedes-Benz design language. The CLS is also among the first vehicles in the Mercedes-Benz and Mercedes-AMG lineup with 48-volt technology offering increased performance.
Highlights for MY19
New 3.0L inline-6 turbo engine with EQ Boost, producing 362 and 369 lb-ft of torque mated to the superb 9G-TRONIC 9-speed automatic transmission
EQ Boost pairs an Integrated Starter-Generator with a 48V battery to supply up to an additional 21 hp and 184 lb-ft of torque at predetermined RPM ranges
Standard AMG body styling and 19″ MB wheels (20″ AMG wheels optional)
New upholstery designs and colors, and new trims with matching center consoles
For the first time, the CLS is a give-seater (three seat capacity in the rear)
New-generation steering wheel with Touch Control Buttons and integrated cruise control
Standard: COMAND® NTG 5.5 headunit with 12.3″ center display, Smartphone Integration (Apple CarPlay and Android Auto) & 64-color ambient lighting
Newest generation of Driver Assistance featuring PRE-SAFE® Impulse Side, Evasive Steering Assist, Active Lane Change Assist, and Route-Based Speed Adaptation
Standard: PRE-SAFE® Sound, Car-to-X Communication, Active Brake Assist, DYNAMIC SELECT and KEYLESS START
AMG Updates
Introduction of a new Mercedes-AMG CLS 53, featuring an AMG-enhanced 3.0L inline-6 turbo engine with EQ Boost
EQ Boost pairs an Integrated Starter-Generator with a 48V battery to supply up to an additional 21 hp and 184 lb-ft of torque at predetermined RPM ranges
AMG enhancements include an electric auxiliary compressor and a larger turbocharger
AMG SPEEDSHIFT® TCT 9-speed transmission
AMG Performance 4MATIC+ fully-variable all-wheel drive
Standard AMG Sport Suspension based on AIR BODY CONTROL
Standard AMG DYNAMIC SELECT
Standard 12.3″ Digital Instrument Cluster
Standard Burmester® Surround Sound System
Optional AMG Performance Exhaust System
Standard AMG Nappa Leather Performance Steering Wheel; optionally available AMG Nappa/DINAMICA Performance Steering Wheel and AMG Nappa/Black Piano Lacquer Performance Steering Wheel
Edition 1 Package available, which includes edition-specific content: 20″ AMG Black Twin 5-Spoke Wheels, Black Nappa Leather with Copper Stitching, AMG Carbon Fiber Trim with Copper Accents, IWC Analog Clock with Copper Accents, AMG Performance Steering Wheel with Edition Lettering, AMG Floormats with Copper Accents
S-Class Sedan
Introducing new variant for 2019: S 560e Sedan
The latest addition to the S-Class family is a new-generation plug-in hybrid with an on-board 7.2-kW charger that allows for fast charging of the battery.
AMG Updates
Two new steering wheels available:
AMG Carbon Fiber/DINAMICA Performance steering wheel
AMG Wood/Leather steering wheel
S-Class Coupe & Cabriolet
Highlights for 2019
The newly-facelifted S-Class Coupe & Cabriolet return for MY19 with no equipment changes.
AMG Updates
Two new steering wheels available:
AMG Carbon Fiber/DINAMICA Performance steering wheel
AMG Wood/Leather steering wheel
Mercedes-Maybach
Highlights for 2019
The esteemed Mercedes-Maybach Sedan receives a new, Maybach Vision-6- inspired grille design for 2019.
The Maybach S 560 and S 650 will also be available with two-tone paint combinations, double-clear-coat for dark-colored paints, new Exclusive Nappa Leather interior colors and new contrast stitching colors.
G-Class
Facelifted for 2019
The most significant redesign in the 40 year history of the G-Class.
Highlights for 2019
Larger vehicle dimensions but 375 lbs lighter
All-new, modern interior design
Traditional G-Class off-road performance
Ladder frame
Low-range gear box
Locking differentials
Improved off-road capability
Better on-road performance
Independent front suspension
Electromechanical power steering
Updated safety and assistance systems including Active Distance Assist DISTRONIC® and Active Steering Assist
Standard safety equipment upgraded as well
Exterior Updates
Two, new 19″ & 20″ wheel choices
Offered with 24 exterior paint choices
Bullbar as standard equipment
Now offered in black design with optional Night Package
9G-TRONIC 9-speed automatic transmission
LED Intelligent Light System with integrated Daytime Running Lamps
Interior Updates
Enhanced legroom for driver and all passengers
Exclusive Nappa Leather with diamond-pattern stitching now available on G 550
All new interior upholstery colors and trims
3-Zone climate control
64-color ambient lightning
Burmester® Surround Sound System
Power tilt/sliding sunroof
COMAND® Navigation is standard equipment
Including Touchpad and 12.3″ Central Display
Standard Smartphone Integration (Apple CarPlay & Android Auto)
Other Standard equipment:
Heated front seats
KEYLESS-Start
DYNAMIC SELECT
New-generation steering wheel with Touch Control Buttons
Split-folding rear seats (60/40)
AMG Updates
Handcrafted-AMG 4.0L V8 biturbo engine producing 577 hp and 627 lb-ft torque
AMG SPEEDSHIFT TCT 9-speed transmission
AMG RIDE CONTROL Sport Suspension with adaptive, adjustable damping
AMG DYNAMIC SELECT with three new off-road modes
AMG-Specific Grille
Flared wheel arches
AMG Performance Exhaust System with side pipes
AMG Performance steering wheels
Wheels up to 22″ in diameter
Optional AMG Driver”s Package
GLA
Highlights for 2019
Introduction of Iridium Silver & Denim Blue exterior paints
AMG Updates
Additional standard equipment:
Premium Package
Convenience Package
20″ AMG Multi-Spoke Wheels
GLC SUV & Coupe
Highlights for 2019
Heated Front Seats and 115V Power Outlet are now standard
Addition of 3-Zone Climate Control
Addition of Off-Road Engineering Package (available for 4MATIC® only)
EQ Power (Plug-in Hybrid) Updates (SUV only)
New 20″ 5-Spoke Wheels with Black Accents
20″ AMG Multi-Spoke Wheels now available
AMG Updates
AMG SPEEDSHIFT TCT 9-speed transmission
AMG Performance Seats and AMG Nappa/DINAMICA Performance steering wheel now available
New designo packages available in conjunction with AMG Performance Seats
AMG Performance Studio Package includes new AMG Optics Package
GLE & GLE Coupe
Highlights for 2019
The GLE and GLE Coupe return for MY19 with no equipment changes.
GLS
Highlights for 2019
Grand Edition available for GLS 450 & GLS 550
Luxurious interior featuring designo Porcelain/Espresso Brown Nappa Leather (with Budapest stitching)
designo Natural Grain Linden wood trim with stripes
GLS 450 features a unique 20″ 10-Spoke Wheel with Black Accents
Grand Edition badging
SL
Highlights for 2019
The timeless SL returns for MY19 with no equipment changes.
SLC
Highlights for 2019
New Stand-Alone Options: Blind Spot Assist, harman/kardon LOGIC7® Sound System, Dashtop Analog Clock, Ambient Lighting & PARKTRONIC
AMG Updates
Increased power from 362 to 385 hp
Dual-zone climate control becomes standard
Active LED Headlamps and Adaptive Highbeam Assist become standard
Graphite Grey exterior paint newly available
AMG GT
Highlights for 2019
GT C Coupe now receives standard Heated and Ventilated Front Seats
AMG GT 4-door Coupe
Introducing all-new GT 4-door Coupe family (AMG GT 53, GT 63 & GT 63 S)
The third vehicle developed fully developed by Mercedes-AMG, the AMG GT 4-Door Coupe combines unique design, high comfort and outstanding sports car engineering with an athletic, four-door fastback layout.
Highlights for 2019
AMG SPEEDSHIFT® TCT 9-speed transmission for the AMG 53 variant and AMG SPEEDSHIFT® MCT 9-speed transmission for the V8 variants
AMG Performance 4MATIC+ fully-variable all-wheel-drive system is equipped on all variants and includes standard “Drift Mode” on the GT 63 S
designo Brilliant Blue Magno paint available
GT 53
GT 53 features an AMG-enhanced 3.0L inline-6 turbo engine producing 429 hp and 384 lb-ft of torque
The additional EQ Boost (Integrated Starter-Generator) is able to produce up to 21 hp and 184 lb-ft of torque
Standard AMG Ride Control Sport Suspension
GT 63 / GT 63 S
GT 63 and 63 S feature a handcrafted-AMG 4.0L V8 biturbo engine producing 577 hp/553 lb-ft of torque and 630 hp/627 lb-ft of torque respectively
AMG Ride Control+ Air Suspension
Standard rear-axle steering system
Electronic Rear Limited-Slip Differential
Standard AMG Dynamic Plus Package on GT 63 S; available as an option on GT 63
AMG Aerodynamics Package available
GT 63 S to receive Edition 1 package, featuring edition exclusive content: designo Graphite Grey Magno paint, AMG Stripes on the hood/roof/decklid and along the side sills, 21″ AMG Forged Cross- Spoke Wheels with Black Accents, AMG Matte Carbon Fiber Trim, AMG Magma Grey/Black Exclusive Nappa Leather with Yellow Stitching, AMG Floormats with Yellow Stitching and Lettering, AMG DINAMICA Performance Steering Wheel with Yellow 12 o’clock marking and edition badging, and yellow seatbelts
smart EQ
Highlights for 2019
The smart EQ fortwo and the smart EQ fortwo cabrio return for MY19 with no changes to standard equipment or packaging.
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The time has finally come to find out more about Charlie. Here are her recent Wisdom Panel test results, and what it was like to do a dog DNA test!
Full disclosure: I was going to talk more about my plans for the guest bedroom today. But Charlie had an injury over the weekend*, and she’s been farting up a stinky storm today, so she’s more than a little on my mind. So, just for the heck of it, I decided to move this post up and share the results of her DNA testing.
*The Charlie Injury Story: Charlie hates her nails being trimmed. As in, FLIPS OUT if they are touched and therefore has a red flag on her file so vets/groomers won’t touch her. So, to help keep her nails in check, I have to use alternative natural ways, such as her nightly walks on asphalt in the neighborhood, letting her dig, and running around on a hard surface at doggie day camp. Unfortunately, Charlie still gets herself into trouble every now and then (like trying to climb my backyard fence) and split one of her nails on Saturday. Poor baby. It’s been treated and she’s on antibiotics and she’s back to her old self, so don’t worry! I’ve got a watchful eye on her until it’s fully healed.
Why Charlie Was Tested
It all started last fall, when I swabbed her gums using a kit one night. I was sorting through stuff to donate to Goodwill after the guest bedroom clean-out, and K brought the kit down in one of the boxes. In truth, I’d never really planned on getting her tested. At least, not with my own money; I thought it was kind of a waste. As long as she’s happy and healthy, why bother, right?
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She is such a unique-looking animal that people seemed to love guessing at her breed. And since the actual truth made no difference to any of those things, I never considered it important.
But, a few Christmases ago, my sister Emily (the owner of 3 mutts herself) decided my reasoning was stupid and bought me (Charlie? us?) a DNA testing kit by Wisdom Panel.
I forgot about it for a few years, which is how it popped back up on my radar as I was sorting through things from guest bedroom storage. So, basically, I finally buckled. I swabbed her cheek and gums (much to her reluctance, but it was a simple-step process to complete) and sent off the kit. A few weeks ago, I got back her results.
Charlie’s DNA Results
Charlie is…
drumroll please…
a…
MUTT!
I know… you’re shocked, right?
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Here’s the actual breakdown of Charlie’s ancestry chart, which I honestly DID find interesting:
Overall Thoughts on Her Results
I always suspected she might be a Boxer mix, especially because she’s so solid/muscular, loves to “box” people (gets on her hind legs and sort of paws/punches at you, right about crotch level), and “kidney beans” (shakes her tail from side to side that causes her whole body to twist like a kidney bean), all characteristics I’ve seen in other Boxer mixes in the past.
Related: Charlie in the snow
The White Swiss Shepherd and Cattle Dog makes sense with her crazy ears. It also explains her high energy level (even though K’s dog, Stella, is around the same age, Charlie seems way more like a puppy in comparison). And the Chow part explains her tongue’s black splotches! As for the rest? Even the DNA company was like “shit if we know… your guess is as good as ours!” Roughly 37% of her test results came back inconclusive enough that there’s no one breed it points to.
Related: Charlie’s first trip to the beach
So, there you have it! My precious girl has a little more known about her. Of course, I still think it really doesn’t make any difference, especially since I enjoy letting people speculate (and those of you who have emailed me photos of your own pups thinking they are the same breed or similar, I still welcome you to do so; I never get tired of puppy pics!). Mom and Em were happy to know the results, too. Were her results what you thought it would be??? Have you ever had your pup tested? What did you think?
P.S. Just so there’s no confusion, this was not sponsored.
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Anyway, I think I will restart my work with the Illustrated Botanical Dictionary. I am going to capture subjects in daylight with color photography; I will compile them into the Illustrated Botanical Dictionary. For that, they must be color photographs. This is because I would like to completely cast off any trace of the hand that remains with the darkroom process of black-and-white photography. The hands themselves have made the art. The hands are the others within oneself. But of course the hands are the self. Manipulation and a thing manipulated by the hands are still an extension of the hands. The world is manipulated by the hands. My Illustrated Botanical Dictionary will come to exist by cleanly severing all ties with hand-manipulation. In that sense, the color photograph is already in the other world. Release the shutter once, and everything comes to an end
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Sound Tribe Sector 9, more commonly known as STS9, began in Atlanta in 1996 in the midst of the rise of the mid-1990s “jam band” scene, but since their inception, there hasn’t been a category that fully encapsulated just what the band was about. And even though mixing a live band sound with electronic elements has become increasingly common on the festival scene, there still isn’t a band that is quite like STS9. When meeting up with the band I asked them about how they felt about the rise in having more live elements being introduced into EDM and if they felt like they were a big part of inspiring this wave.
“It seems as such.” replies a laughing Zach. “We feel grateful. A lot of our contemporaries from Pretty Lights, Bassnectar, The Glitch Mob and I think the list kind of goes on [have spoken about the inspiration STS9 had on their sound]. There’s a new artist every day saying kind of ’We do this because our first kind of gateway into this kind of world was STS9.’ So you know we feel very grateful and blessed to be a part of a movement.”
Movement, collection, tribe. These are the words that are used to describe the band. Throughout our interview they often refer to themselves as being a smaller part of a larger picture. The vision of STS9 and the way they see themselves and speak about their place in the world around them is very humble. Part of what has made this band almost impossible to categorize and definitely impossible to replicate is the band’s core belief of never categorizing themselves. While preparing for my interview, I came across the very first STS9 interview published. The interview (also with Zach and Jeffrey) was conducted by Bob Wiely after a show on Feb 26, 2000 and published by Surrender To The Flow magazine.
Bob Wiely: How do you feel about the term “Organic Techno” being used to describe your music?
Zach: I don’t think anything should really be labeled. I think it’s a good term in the fact that its not what we set out to do… but its kinda what has cosmically happened just through playing music and listening to the connection of it. I guess kinda organic techno, but I don’t know if I would use techno.
Jeffrey: It’s not bad, it doesn’t hurt me. It’s so much more then that… that’s just an element of it.
Bob Wiely: What would you label it?
Jeffrey: That’s hard, it’s different every night. Its true fusion I guess, without too many tags. It’s just whatever comes.
Zach: I have a hard time describing it. How would you describe it? It’s almost like classical music in the fact that we have songs that are 35 minutes long, like a lot of other “jam bands” and the fact that they are not so much jams but movements, understand? For example tonight we opened up with the second part of the last song. Everything is really interchangeable, like our song frequency. Labeling just turns me off. We read articles and people say just that “fusion, techno, blah blah blah¦” and we’ve not yet come up with what it is and can be instead of using other genres not that we are creating our own it’s like you have to go see it instead of just reading about it. We’re still working on our label I guess.
During our interview, as we began speaking about how their sound has been perceived and labeled over the years. Zach shared what he felt was the best description of their music ever told to him in an interview, “We still use this one to this day, if we’re talking retro. One of my favorite quotes from an interview was when an interviewer tried to explain [our sound] ‘Going to see STS9 is like driving down the road at a hundred miles an hour with your hair caught on fire.’ I can get that.”
And even though electronic music fans (perhaps more than fans of any other style of music) take pride in categorizing the music they are listening too and forming their own communities based on which of the genres they listen too, STS9 seems to be the exception to the rule.
Music isn’t the only medium in which STS9 has pushed the use of the available technology as it has evolved over the years. When it comes to the internet, the concept of social media and using technology to interact with their fans and help build connections amongst them STS9 was also way ahead of their time. Way before artist began using Facebook groups to create interactive fan clubs and even before MySpace was founded in 2003, STS9 used their website as a primitive social media platform. As early as 2000, STS9 fans could go to the band’s official webpage to connect with the tribe in a forum-like section of the webpage called: the Lowdown.
During my interview with Zach and Jeffrey, I set the intention of really reminding the band about the early days, get an idea of how they have changed throughout the years, and try to get a sneak-peak into how they may evolve in the future. Looking at the early editions of their website to now, one of the biggest changes seems to have come in the way the band presents itself to the world. As ahead of their time the band was, first glance of STS9’s website presents a lot of information and ideas that are fascinating and interesting, but ultimately distracting from the site’s role in promoting the band’s music.
Early on in the band’s career, STS9 was steadfast in presenting themselves as an artistic collective at the forefront of musical experimentation. The Mayan culture played a heavy part in the creation of this atmosphere. According to early editions of STS9’s website, the ancient Mayans thrived in the ninth sector of 13 in the middle of the Central American rain forest. While Europe was in the Dark Ages, the Mayan culture mapped the stars and calibrated harmonic frequencies to converge the Earth toward resonance. And it was this idea of harmonic frequencies that inspired Sound Tribe Sector 9.
A visit to the band’s official site today is a very different experience than it was in 2000. There are no references to the Mayan culture and perhaps more sadly, the Lowdown has been removed as well. When I asked Zach and Jeffrey about the links on their old site and if the Mayan’s still had a presence in their life and music, Zach and Jeffrey were both quick to jump in on the somewhat touchy subject with Zach saying “I mean yeah,” as Jeffrey simultaneously said “In its own way.” Zach and Jeffrey both took turns sharing their thoughts on the real influence the Mayan philosophy had on the band, and why it has taken a smaller role as time has passed. Jeffrey said, “I think it became less cultural and more planetary. [In the beginning] it was kind of our gateway into just trying to understand [our place in the world]. That influence was a part of our youth, and expression, and is still part of us. Just not as overt.”
Zach adds, “Yeah, I think it [the Mayan influences to their site and music] kind of originated because of the lunar calendar. The concept, not even really a concept, but the feeling [of the Mayan culture] was that idea of being more harmonious with planet Earth. And just to expand on what Jeffrey was saying, at that time in our youth we were kind of bombarded with ‘time is money.’ From management to record labels, [Every conversation was] ‘money, money, money.’ And the concept of harmonious ‘time is art’ and ‘use your time just to make art, be creative, and be authentic in that way.’ I think that that was the biggest takeaway and some of the resonance that we had with that whole thing.”
Jeffrey continuing his thought adds, “And being introduced to Jose Arguelles [founder of Planet Art Network and the Foundation for the Law of Time], getting to know him, and to have his samples in Artifact. So to have that connection was great … Honest answer, it [the Mayan influences] became such a big thing about what people are talking about. I think for us it became ‘Time is Art’ and that was the big takeaway. We spend our time creating. And [while that] was a big inspiration, to be so labeled and with a cultural thing… I think we just kind of took that to a more personal level. We want people talking about the music, and when you’re an original authentic band it’s hard for people to understand.” In order to clarify things, the band has made a concerted effort to make sure the music is the main focus: of the official website, the live shows, and even the conversation. “We promote the Tribe as art – that’s the vision,” Zach says. “We’re more inspired than we’ve ever been. It’s like a river, and when it flow’s it really flows. And right now we’re flowing.”
One thing hasn’t changed over the band’s 20 years of making and performing music, and that is the emphasis on not only creating art but creating art as a family. As a tribe. The band held their first ever festival, Wave Spell Live, in the small northern California town of Belden last August. During a solo DJ session, Zach brought a very special surprise guest artist to the stage. His daughter, Isis.
When asked if she would be joining them in the future Zach gave the enthusiastic answer, “Absolutely! Yeah. We have a lot of plans. A lot of plans. A lot of fun things. My daughter is fierce. It was actually her idea. I’m just the vessel for her right. To support her in her aspirations. It’s insane. She’s six. And the reason she didn’t come down [for the Los Angeles show] is she’s auditioning for Alice in Wonderland. She has a voice lesson two times a week, and then she’s in this program called All About Theater and she wants to be the Queen of Hearts. That’s her goal. She’s fierce. We’re trying to raise a strong child.”
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In spite of the exciting prospects on bringing his little girl into the STS9 fold, Zach isn’t unaware of the influence festival culture has and foresees a time when her presence in the scene probably won’t always be as innocent as jumping onstage and jamming with her father’s band. During the interview, Zach was laughing and began to cover his eyes with his hands as if to block out a future mental image when saying “She’s gonna be the 18-year-old at the festivals. Naked, hula hooping and someone’s going to be saying ‘she has a father’. And I’ll have to say ‘that’s me.’” And while Zach may not be looking forward to that particular scenario, the main thing I took away from the anecdote was that STS9 plans to stick around, creating art, and sharing the vision of the tribe for many years to come.
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CBS The First 50 Years (1998)
01 – See it Now with Edward R. Murrow – Edward R. Murrow (2:55)
02 – I Love Lucy – E. Daniel & H. Adamson (1:00)
03 – The Jackie Gleason Show – Jackie Gleason (2:01)
04 – The Ed Sullivan Show – Robert Arthur, Raymond A. Bloch & Minna Lewis (0:53)
05 – The Red Skelton Show – David Rose & Sammy Gallop (0:55)
06 – Captain Kangaroo – Edward White (0:50)
07 – Rex Koury & Glenn Spencer – Gunsmoke (1:36)
08 – Rawhide – Frankie Laine – D. Tiomkin & N. Washington (0:51)
09 – Wild Wild West – Richard Markowitz (1:25)
10 – Alfred Hitchcock Presents – A. Gounod (0:58)
11 – Perry Mason – Fred Steiner (1:10)
12 – Route 66 – Nelson Riddle (1:10)
13 – The Twilight Zone – Marius Constant (0:29)
14 – Leave it to Beaver – David Kahn, Melvyn Leonard & Mort Greene (1:23)
15 – The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis – Max Shulman & Lionel Newman (1:16)
16 – The Andy Griffith Show – Earle Hagen (0:54)
17 – The Dick Van Dyke Show – Earle Hagen (0:41)
18 – First Half-Hour News Broadcast – Walter Cronkite (0:54)
19 – The Beverly Hillbillies – Earle Hagen (1:33)
20 – Gilligan’s Island – Sherward Schwartz & George Wyle (1:34)
21 – Green Acres – Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor – Green Acres (1:06)
22 – Hogan’s Heroes – Jerry Fielding (0:44)
23 – Frank DeVol – My Three Sons (1:02)
24 – Lost In Space – John Williams (0:58)
25 – Mission Impossible – Lalo Schifrin (0:53)
26 – Mannix – Lalo Schifrin (1:27)
27 – Hawaii Five-O – Mort Stevens (0:58)
28 – Barnaby Jones – Jerry Goldsmith (0:55)
29 – The First 60 Minues – 60 Minutes (0:17)
30 – Apollo 11 Coverage – Walter Cronkite (1:31)
31 – The Waltons – Jerry Goldsmith (1:04)
32 – The Carol Burnett Show – Joe Hamilton (0:49)
33 – Dan Rather in Vietnam – Dan Rather (0:34)
34 – Walter Cronkite Editorial on Vietnam – Walter Cronkite (3:20)
35 – MASH – Johnny Mandel (0:55)
36 – All in the Family – Carroll O’Connor & Jean Stapleton – Lee Adams & Charles Strous (1:24)
37 – The Mary Tyler Moore Show – Sonny Curtis (0:57)
38 – The Bob Newhart Show – Lorenzo Music & Henrietta Music (1:05)
39 – Good Times – Dave Grusin, Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman (0:50)
40 – The Jeffersons – Jeff Barry & Janet Dubois (1:10)
41 – One Day at a Time – Jeff Barry & Nancy Barry (0:53)
42 – WKRP in Cincinnati – Tom Wells & Hugh Wilson (0:44)
43 – Alice – Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman & David Shire (1:01)
44 – The Dukes of Hazzard – Waylon Jennings (1:02)
45 – Dallas – Jerrold Immel (1:15)
46 – Knots Landing – Jerrold Immel (1:36)
47 – Walter Cronite’s Final Broadcast – Walter Cronkite (1:08)
48 – Cagney & Lacey – Bill Conti (1:17)
49 – Murder, She Wrote – John Addison (0:48)
50 – Murphy Brown – Stephen Dorff (0:28)
51 – Northern Exposure – David Schwartz (0:46)
52 – Chicago Hope – Mark Isham (0:52)
53 – Promised Land – Marc Lichtman (0:44)
54 – Walker, Texas Ranger – Stuart Wilder III & Chuck Norris (0:43)
55 – Everybody Loves Raymond – Rick Marotta & Terry Trotter (0:44)
56 – Cosby – William H. Cosby & Terry Trotter (0:42)
57 – Late Show with David Letterman – Paul Schaffer (1:23)
58 – William Paley Speaks About His Enthusiasm – William Paley (0:58)
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Dulquer Salmaan to debut in Bollywood with Irrfan Khan and Mithila Palkar
While he played the quintessential chocolate boy in OK Kanmani, the original version of the Aditya Roy Kapur, Shraddha Kapoor’s romantic drama Ok Jaanu, Dulquer Salmaan is now gearing up for Bollywood. Born to Malayalam superstar Mammootty, the South actor is all set to play the lead in Ronnie Screwvala’s upcoming production.
The yet to be titled film will also see Mithila Palkar who gained fame with the TV show ‘Girl In The City’ and also web series, playing the female lead. She was earlier seen in the Nikhil Advani film Katti Batti. Besides the duo, it will star Irrfan Khan, although the character details of all of them are currently kept under wraps. The said film also marks the directorial debut of Akarsh Khurana with it being scripted by Hussain Dalal.
Reportedly, Dulquer Salmaan wasn’t the first choice for the role. Abhishek Bachchan was initially approached to play the part but it seems that the actor couldn’t allot dates because the schedule was clashing with his other film, JP Dutta’s Paltan which has already gone on floors.
As for the story of this untitled film, we hear that it is about a road trip of Dulquer Salmaan and Irrfan Khan who play friends. According to recent reports, the film is scheduled to go on floor by the end of August and it will extensively be shot in Kerala.
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Wolfenfiiiiiiiine
Game: Wolfenstein 2: The New ColossusDeveloper: Machine GamesPublisher: Bethesda SoftworksReviewed on: PS4 (Review copy provided)
Captain ‘BJ’ Blazkowicz, star of Wolfenstein’s newest reboot, is not a great protagonist on paper. He has an annoyingly square head, like a child’s drawing of Superman, and consistently speaks so gruffly as to be borderline unintelligible, as if words just get tangled up in all his testosterone. It’s like Solid Snake and Christian Bale’s Batman had a really phlegmy child. He’s nothing new. Big, handsome white guys with guns and difficulty conveying emotions are not original in the world of videogames.
Ol’ BJ has one redeeming feature though. He properly hates Nazis, like an X-rated Captain American pre-heel turn. I don’t mean ‘nazi’ in the way your mate Karen from Twitter uses it to describe everyone who disagrees with her because she once followed a vegan account for a week and thinks she’s basically a communist for voting Labour. I don’t even mean a pejorative term for people who point out you can’t use basic English so you try to cover up for it by comparing your corrector to the literal third reich. No, I mean proper Nazis.
It used to always be that Nazis were a pretty stock villain. You knew where you were with a Nazi. Even Britain, a country that can’t make a single decision that doesn’t send us further down shit creek at the moment, used to be united behind one thing; Nazis are shit, mate. Recently things got a bit muddied, though. Nazis got twitter and tiki torches and started acting like they were real people who should be listened to. Some people got confused by this; are Nazis human after all? Should we hear them out?
But Nazis aren’t for listening to, lads. Nazis are for punching.
Enter Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus. Much of the build-up to this has been Bethesda happily trolling alt-right mouth-breathers online through their promo materials and trailers, so much so that these stings may have even stolen some attention away from the game itself. The rebooted Wolfenstein series is not only here to remind everyone what Nazis are for, though. I fully expected predecessor The New Order to be a by-numbers FPS, like CoD: Steampunk Edition. What I found instead was a game full of fun ideas and set-pieces with a strong identity, trying it’s best to do something with a fairly tired genre. Picking up directly after this, The New Colossus sees our man BJ not feeling exactly 100%. He’s frail, literally in a wheelchair at one point, and having quite a serious think about death and that.
I want to start with the less enjoyable parts of the game. This is because Wolfy 2 is indeed (spoiler alert) a great experience worthy of attention; a single player game (something that’s practically on the endangered species list these days) that isn’t demanding any money from you during the gameplay, and with a strong story and excellent characters.
First of all… the game is hard. Some of this is undoubtedly intentional; Blazkowicz believes he is on his way out from the off, and he’s a weaker soldier for it for a significant part of the game. Find yourself in a room full of Nazis and it’s easy to come a cropper unless you’re super careful with cover, which is at odds with the game constantly urging you on to be gung-ho and batter every Nazi as soon as they appear. The aforementioned wheelchair section, in which your turning speed is reduced and you’re not able to hold a gun ready at all times, is the FIRST SECTION. At least give us a warm-up here, guys. Without ruining things, he does regain some of his old strength in later parts, but by then the enemies have gotten a little stronger as well.
Some of those enemies are far tougher than they have any right to be, too. Despite wearing minimal armour, some standard-issue assailants can take a serious amount of bullets before they take a nap, while some of the bigger behemoths are total bullet sponges. Add into that the airborne drones that dart around unpredictably during every mass brawl and things can get frustrating quite quickly, even on a lower difficulty setting. To confuse things further, the game decides not to opt for the mechanic most of it’s cousins use these days; slowing down time while you choose your next gun on the weapon wheel selector. That said, you can now use the weapon wheel to dual-wield whatever you’re carrying, which is a nice touch, but a few seconds grace to navigate the sometimes sticky gun selector would have been quite nice, thanks.
What’s great about those enemies, though, is how you can just completely avoid some of them. On occasion, you’ll be confronted by a huge, Nazi behemoth robot, only to realise you can run away from it easily because they’re big and slow. I really liked having the choice that most people would probably make when confronted with a 20ft right-wing robot; to get out of there and leave it to whatever it was doing before you turned up.
The stealth doesn’t quite add up, either. On occasion while sneaking up behind a grunt they’d turn at the very last second, and spot me for all of a millisecond before I busted them up with my hatchet, which is an animation triggered by a single button press. Yet in that wordless moment they would somehow be able to raise an alarm that summons Nazis faster than a woman having an opinion online. It didn’t really wash, and seems quite unforgiving in what was already quite a tricky experience. Despite it’s protestations, Wolfy 2 is definitely a shooter; the stealth is there, but it may as well not be.
Finally, there is BJ’s vocal cords. He’s so low and gruff it’s unintentionally comical; mid-action quips and lines may as well just be fucking gargled for all the sense they make, particularly when fighting for decibels against the game’s improbably loud techno soundtrack. When the scenes arise in which the mother of his unborn children says she can’t understand him, I think she means emotionally, but she may well be talking about his appalling annunciation. Stop mumbling, you square-headed prick.
But that is the negative done with. I promise. It’s all downhill from here, or uphill depending on how you read that analogy. Because the characters and casting (even BJ with his RIDICULOUS voice) are wonderful. Following on from my time in The New Order, I chose the Fergus timeline, and was thrilled to have the hardest yet most nonchalant Scotsman (quite the achievement) in all of videogames back in my life. All of the main cast are voiced and acted beautifully, and the culmination of every caustic first meeting is a solid group of personalities you’ll miss once the credits roll.
Frau Engel takes the role of main target this time. Right from the first encounter she’s established as a completely hateful psychopath, and this is where the new Wolfy’s have always done brilliantly. They’re more than adept at eliciting the perfect emotional response; rather than being presented with cookie-cutter villains who you have to kill because the developers say so, you *really* want to take these people down, and that’s the difference between being propelled through a game rather than being dragged through it. This is built upon even further with flashbacks to BJ’s childhood, one of which was distressing in a way only cruelty to animals can be. These flashback sections are surprisingly good; rather than being poorly-aimed schmaltz they’re well acted and often funny insights into what made BJ the world’s premiere Nazi killer. Indeed, there’s even delightful new characters being introduced 4/5 of the way through, a particular favourite introduction of mine involving a fist-fight and a sniping session to the sounds of jazz clarinet.
And even beyond the characters themselves, the game oozes personality all over the gaffe. Set in an alternative reality where Hitler and his gang of pricks won the second world war, forcing the USA to surrender by way of an atom bomb, it’s a little steam-punk in places, the mesh of an old world with as-yet unknown technology. Feeling somewhat under the weather, Blazkowicz can only get around by the aid of a suit of armour that looks like something from Silent Hill in 2049. There are big, far-right robots that resemble Warhammer’s Ultramarines to contend with on a regular basis. The game is also bizarrely crude and humorous at points, something much needed in amongst all the dying and reflections on mortality. Fairly happy to have you wading through hoards of genocidal maniacs one minute and make obscene references the next, it’s a jarring sense of humour that is too rarely seen in the often po-faced world of FPS. The diaries and passing dialogue you find amongst the environments is often hilarious and most importantly brief; nobody wants to read a four page extract from a journal during a shoot-em-up, but a brief excerpt here and there to build the world is largely welcome.
The problem with the world of Wolfenstein 2 is that the good bits make the bad bits far more apparent. For example, an area many of you may have seen is the Roswell town setting. Y’know, it’s the bit from the footage where everything looks like a perfect 50’s sitcom town, all Cadillacs and ice cream parlours. But in amongst that facade, there are Nazis and KKK members rolling around, sewn in amongst everything like shit in a flan. It’s an area I;d have loved to have spent more time in, but alas, immediately from this part you’re sent packing off to yet more tunnels and grey corridors, and that’s a running theme throughout; corridors and murky, dull areas. The locales do indeed ‘go places’ and by the time the finale rolls around you’ll have laid out Nazis in quite a surprising range of places, but more often than not these are a bit standard-looking. Nevertheless, MachineWorks produces a couple of surprising ways to navigate these environments at least. Rather than showing its hand right at the start, it’s over halfway through the game before you’re suddenly thrown something of a curve ball which results in BJ’s skills expanding.
VERDICT
What we have here, then, is a game contrary to the developing trend. Whereas for other big developers, the main focus is on perfecting open world environments, online communities and loot boxes *vomits*, Wolfenstein flies in the face of that. It’s a contained single-player game that’s real strength is story and personality, but also has solid and satisfying gun-feel and cathartic shooting. There are numerous set-pieces to bring a smile to your face that show real invention, all of which adds up to mean this is well worth checking out, particularly if you want to fuck up some Nazis.
And if you don’t? Well, you definitely wouldn’t want to be on the wrong side of Captain Blazkowicz…
9/10
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