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Sunday, March 22, 2015

Creamy Vegan Butternut Squash Dip

There are many ways to enjoy squash.  Whether it is roasted, in soup, fried, or in a delicious dip, it is sure to entice your taste buds.   Butternut squash makes an amazing dip or spread as the texture is naturally creamy and goes well on toast, or other whole-grain breads.  This recipe is spiced with garam masala and other Indian spices, but feel free to make other versions using herbs like rosemary, sage, thyme and tarragon for a more European flavor.

I discovered this recipe on the weekend.  My brother described it to me over the phone and I just so happened to have a butternut squash on hand.  I eagerly  created this dip and was blown away, not only by the color, but but the creaminess and intensity of flavor.  It's so good that you may even consider eating it with a spoon and skip the dipping all together!

If you are a fan of squash, and other roasted vegetables, this dip will be like heaven in your mouth.

  • 1 butternut squash
  • 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
  • 1/4 cup tahini
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 2 teaspoons garam masala
  • 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon freshly grated ginger
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 2 teaspoons black pepper

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
  2. Cut the squash in half - lengthwise.  Remove the seeds and brush with olive oil.
  3. Place the squash cut-side down on a baking sheet or roasting pan and cook for 45 minutes to one hour, or until the skin separates from the fruit.
  4. Allow to cool and then scoop the contents into a blender or food processor with the other ingredients.
  5. Blend or process for one minute, or until smooth.  Adjust seasonings to your liking.
  6. Serve with crackers, bread or freshly cut veggies.

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 Joseph and the Big Secret – The Victory Players

Joseph and the Big Secret (Dec 2005)

Review from the Mid-Sussex Times

Village panto in the true sense

LIKE all the best am-dram productions Joseph and the Big Secret by Balcombe’s Victory Players had to overcome adversity as well as stage fright and forgotten lines in order for the show to go on.

However, a broken arm, a lost voice and rain and wind as the cast ran repeatedly from one end of the Victory Hall to the other, via the car park, between scenes, were all dealt with in the true spirit of great British panto.

Charles Metcalfe, as the “dame” Widow Carpenter, had abandoned his microphone by the second of the four evening performances after his booming voice diminished to a rasp in rehearsal.

Jospeh and the Big Secret cast
The cast of Joseph and the Big Secret (click to enlarge)

And the limitations of the hall’s backstage area, which meant actors and dancers were forced to wait in the “front of house” WI room instead of in the wings, and paddle Singing in the Rain-style through puddles between the two, did nothing to dampen their ebullient spirits.

Joseph, written and directed by retired Cuckfield head master Jim Knight, was a wondrous mix of Christmas story and Jack and the Beanstalk panto with an ample dusting of fairy magic thanks to village shopkeeper, Anthea Bell, seen as never before in voluminous pink skirt and tiara.

The contrast from the Victory Players’ previous performances, particularly their moving portrayal of Oh, What a Lovely War, which hung heavy with pathos and bittersweet tragedy, was stark as they tackled the extreme demands of slapstick.

Their success varied from scene to scene and from evening to evening with Friday night benefiting from an audience that rose eagerly to the occasion and every joke, however laboured.

However, this was village pantomime in the true sense with a cast of 30, plus children from the village dance school, and several dozen others, front and back stage, involved in making sure the show went on.

It appeared no one who wanted to be in this show was excluded and the best stood shoulder to shoulder with the less good, and better for it the company was.

The voices of Charlotte Marshall’s Joseph and Miranda Murray’s Mary were crystal clear while giant John Randall’s booming tones and Charles Metcalfe’s flamboyant dame lifted the show to rib-tickling heights.

What a shame Balcombe’s beautiful Victory Hall cannot be extended, by even an innocuous few metres, to allow this cheerful company a little more space to change costumes and avoid the extremes of weather while they battle with the challenges of performance and their lines.

Carolyn Robertson

Review from St Mary's Church Parish Magazine, January 2006

First a confession. I have never, even as a child, enjoyed pantomimes, so this review comes from a somewhat jaundiced critic. I am writing, of course, about the Victory Players JOSEPH AND THE BIG SECRET.

Jospeh and the Big Secret poster
Poster for Joseph and the Big Secret

Before I enthuse about the virtues of this production, and there were many, I must just explain some of my misgivings. While having my own difficulties about certain aspects of the “Christmas story”, I am doubtful that the events in the gospels fit comfortably within the traditional structure of a pantomime, however tenuous the connection. I also found the script somewhat derivative, encompassing too much of the Two Ronnies and Christmas crackers. But people tell me that is the essential nature of a pantomime. And finally, I would have liked tougher editing, a shorter first Act, and a less casual ending, more of a climax, before all the performers came on for their final bows.

Now to the virtues. There was tremendous vitality between the whole team of performers who were clearly enjoying themselves. The two sets of young girl dancers were terrific and gave some lovely performances throughout. Anthea’s first entrance as a fairy was a tour de force, as was her performance throughout. But, how to mention the other stars of the show; there were so many of them. It took me a while to adjust to seeing Joseph (Charlotte Marshall) as an attractive young girl with a lovely singing voice, instead of the middle-aged man I believe Joseph actually was. Charles Metcalfe as Widow Carpenter had all the seductive guile of the traditional dame. Audrey Williams as Abigail, the naive dairy maid, charmed with her acting and singing, as did Mary (Miranda Murray). John Bunn, Chris Walker, Rodney Saunders and Mike Rayner (nice singing voice, too) gave strong performances. But so did all the others: sorry I have no space to mention you all.

Congratulations, too, for the excellence of the costumes (Manuela Warburton) and the Set design (Eileen Knight and John Randall) and to all the ensemble actors and singers and the production team. All-in-all a very considerable achievement, especially when the immense difficulties of putting on any production in the Victory Hall are taken into account.

Give me time and I might just get used to pantomimes. After all, I’ve got enough grandchildren to teach me, and those of them who came to this performance thought it was great fun. Although one of them did ask, innocently: “Is forgetting your words all part of the pantomime?”

Leslie Fairweather

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The Azerbaijan National Museum of Art is the largest art museum in Azerbaijan. Named after scenic designer and theatre artist Rustam Mustafayev, it currently comprises two conjoined buildings. Its collection includes over 15,000 artworks, of which more than 3,000 are permanently displayed in around 60 rooms, the earliest of which dates back to the 4th century BC. In 2001, the museum was declared to be of National and then of European Museum Standard (EMS), and was completely reconstructed in 2006. As the museum celebrates the 80th anniversary of its first exhibition this year, Neil Watson caught up with Professor Chingiz Farzaliyev, Director of the Azerbaijan National Museum of Art.

The Azerbaijan National Museum of Art staff view the first exhibition in 1937

VoA – What led to the establishment of the Azerbaijan National Museum of Art in 1936?

CF – Azerbaijanis have always been fond of art and culture and have a tradition of collecting beautiful artworks. During the first Azerbaijani oil boom at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the first Bakuvian oil millionaires were purchasing expensive artworks from across Europe and Russia for their personal collections. During the Soviet period, the pearls of these collections were transferred to the newly created Azerbaijani State Museum.

In addition to artworks, many items of ethnographic or historical interest were collected. This justified the need to establish a separate museum, solely devoted to culture and art. The Art Department was separated from the Azerbaijani State Museum. This was established as an independent art museum under a state decree, signed on 31 March 1936, with the first exhibition opening the following year. Even at this nascent stage, it already contained more than 500 sculptures, paintings and other pieces from the 19th and 20th centuries, brought from the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Russia and other countries.

From its inception, the museum received state support. Furthermore, the buildings in which our museum is currently located are significant examples of Bakuvian architecture. Following the passing of a State Decree in 1951, the Baroque-style De Bour mansion became the main location for the Azerbaijani National Museum of Art. In 1992, the museum was granted another neighbouring building, which was formerly the Mariinsky Gymnasium for Girls and later the headquarters of the Baku branch of the Azerbaijani Communist Party. In 2013, the two buildings were connected, thereby becoming one complex.

From where do the museum collections originate?

As previously mentioned, many items originated in the personal collections of Bakuvian oil millionaires during the early 20th century. Later, as part of a plan to further develop the museum collection, some exhibits were received as gifts from the Hermitage Museum and State Russian Museums in St Petersburg, the Tretyakov State Gallery in Moscow, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow and numerous other Eastern and Chinese museums. Simultaneously, pieces of Azerbaijani decorative applied and visual arts were added. During visits to various regions of Azerbaijan, experts further augmented the collection with additional artefacts, and continue to do so to this day. The works of Azerbaijani painters, and gifts from famous Azerbaijani and foreign artists, have further developed our collections.

Professor Chingiz Farzaliyev, Director, Azerbaijan National Museum of Art signs a protocol with Professor Dmitriy Stus, Director, Belarusian National Arts Museum

Which artworks by famous Azerbaijani painters are included in the collection?

The Azerbaijani National Museum of Art contains the richest and most varied collection of Azerbaijani art in the country, including works by the foremost Azerbaijani painters from across the centuries. I can proudly say that our museum is able to present the highest level of Azerbaijani art for local and international visitors.

The museum is currently undergoing extensive reconstruction work, and entrance to all our exhibitions, including those of Azerbaijani art, is now fully or partially restricted. I hope these works will soon be concluded, thereby enabling more complete collections to be presented to art lovers.

Numerous 19th century artists are represented in our collection, including Mir-Mohsun Navvab (1833–1918), who spent his entire life in Shusha, now located in Armenian-occupied Nagorno-Karabakh; Mirza Kadym Irevani (1825–75), the founder of Azerbaijani panel painting, who was also an ornamentalist and portraitist; and ornamentalist Usta Gambar Karabakhi (c.1830–1905), also from Shusha, who was responsible for the incredible interior of the Khan’s Palace in Sheki.

We also have collections of major 20th century Azerbaijani artists, including Sattar Bahlulzade (1909–74), founder of contemporary Azerbaijani landscape painting; Tahir Salahov (b.1928), one of the leading exponents of the ‘severe style;’ Togrul Narimanbekov (1930–2013), who combined the abstract and figurative with national symbols; and Maral Rahmanzadeh (1916–2008), one of the most evocative Azerbaijani graphic artists.

Memories of Paris by Togrul Narimanbekov, 1988. Photo: Tom Marsden

Does the collection still contain examples of socialist realism from the Soviet period?

As in all Soviet Republics, socialist realism was the official and predominant style in Azerbaijan from the 1930s until the end of the 1980s. It is evident in the work of almost all Azerbaijani painters of that period, and we have retained such works in our museum. It can be seen not only in paintings, but also in ceramics, carpets, architecture, and carving. The works are well-executed and of high-quality, including the impressionistic work of Mikayil Abdullayev (1921–2002) and Nadir Abdurahmanov (b.1925), who created his own colourful style and worked extensively outside of Azerbaijan, providing unique perspectives on Iraq, Afghanistan and North Korea, amongst other countries.

Does your collection include Azerbaijani carpets?

Nowadays, there are now around 500 carpets in our collection, including those designed by such great artists as Latif Karimov and Kamil Aliyev, portrait carpet maker. Our collection includes examples from all the Azerbaijani carpet schools, including Qazakh, Quba, Shirvan, Baku, Ganja, Karabakh and Tabriz. In 2015, Sotheby’s in the UK showcased 17 carpets from our museum.

Altogether, there are more than 17,000 items in your collections. To which period do they belong?

There are two primary collections in the museum – Azerbaijani art and international art. As would be expected, the collection of national art is more ancient and rich, the oldest pieces dating from the Neolithic period. The collection also includes items from the Bronze Age.

We have ceramic pieces found in Nakhchivan, Mingachevir, Fuzuli, Sheki and Goygol, decorated with archaic figures, including candlesticks from the Salcuglu period; 13th century pieces from Bayil Castle; 16th century Korans; Eastern miniatures from the 17th and 18th centuries; metalwork from the 18th–20th centuries; silk and wooden artworks; national costumes; carpets and jewellery.

Furthermore, our collections include sculptures, paintings, graphic works and decorative applied artworks from Russia, Asia, Africa and Western Europe. This includes those by some of the foremost European engravers, Dutch and Flemish painters and many exhibits from Russian artists, including Wassily Kandinsky. Our ceramics collection is also unique, comprising pieces from 16th–20th century Italy, France, Germany and Japan, of similar quality to those in some of the world’s leading museums. There are also bronze, marble, granite and wooden sculptures from Western Europe, alongside those from the Near- and Middle East.

Which exhibitions are being organised at the present time?

We frequently undertake exhibitions to commemorate famous painters or historical events and have established a tradition of organising exhibitions on a national and international level. Over the past five years, we have organised more than 20 international exhibitions and have hosted exhibitions from numerous international museums and organisations.

For example, we have accommodated exhibitions from the Tretyakov State Gallery in Moscow, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and many museums in Japan, China, Austria, and CIS countries. We aim to showcase works representing different periods, art movements, artists and their developments. In fact, such exhibitions serve to bind nations and people together, as real art has no borders and expresses an international language.

I would like to especially emphasise the successful exhibition of artworks, in 2012, lent by the Louvre Museum, Musée d’Orsay and the Pompidou Centre, amongst others, realised with the support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and TOTAL S.A., entitled French Pleasures – French Art and Culture from the Renaissance until today. Another joint event, organised in conjunction with the Yunus Emre Institute in 2013, was entitled Sultan of Sultans. In 2014, we organised the Saraku exhibition of modern Japanese painters, and in 2015 we hosted the Ways to Escape personal exhibition by the Iranian–Azerbaijani painter Akbar Behkalam.

We have also loaned our artworks to various international exhibitions and projects; in 2008, 2009 and 2016, some of our collection of works by Tahir Salahov were shown at the Belarusian National Arts Museum and the Tretyakov State Gallery in Moscow; our manuscripts from the Middle Ages were shown at the Vatican; and in 2015 we lent works to the Moscow-based exhibition We fight Nazism together, devoted to the 70th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War. We also loaned works to the Azerbaijan Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale with the support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation.

For the Sake of Mankind by Tahir Salahov, 1961. Photo: Tom Marsden

Did the presentation or selection of artworks change following the regaining of Azerbaijani independence in 1991?

Some changes have taken place, such as the presentation of approaches and art research in a less politically biased manner. We also specifically exhibited the artists whose work had fallen foul of the Soviet authorities, including Javad Mirjavadov (1923–92), Ashraf Murad (1925–79), Tofiq Javadov (1925–63), Kamal Ahmedov (1940–94) and others. Such artists have had an incredible impact on the history of Azerbaijani art. We also organised an exhibition entitled On the Crossroads of Centuries in 2011, which served to publicly present important works that had remained hidden in our museum archives. This included an exhibition devoted to Javad Mirjavadov, founder of the Azerbaijani avant-garde movement. Accompanied by dramatic lighting effects and soft national music, his works were exhibited in conjunction with ancient porcelain, weapons and metalwork.

Following the regaining of Azerbaijani independence, we started to further explore our historical and cultural heritage and present this in an easily accessible manner. The exhibition entitled Azerbaijan throughout the Millennium was inaugurated in 2013 and provides an invaluable chronological representation of Azerbaijani art, comprising many existing exhibits and new pieces. To organise this exhibition, museum experts visited all Azerbaijani regions to collect many interesting and valuable pieces. On 10 June 2011, the museum received National Museum status from the Azerbaijani government.

In the age of the internet and social media, how are you attracting the younger generation?

We have developed programmes for various age groups, designed to meet the interests of children. The main objective is to encourage children to visit museums, and to appreciate and understand the exhibits. We have been working on this for years and are trying to apply the experience of other museums across the world. We have already established a youth community, and encourage the exhibition of their works in the museum, to which they invite their classmates and parents. We also organise mobile exhibitions to some schools, and make visual presentations to engage more children.

Scene from the Azerbaijan collection space. Photo: Tom Marsden

Which events are being organised to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the museum?

This year, we are organising a number of international exhibitions, including exhibits drawn from our own collections. Exhibitions include those focusing on Flemish and French art, another exhibition being on the Sardar Castle of Bukan and its historic cultural environment, comprising pieces brought from the Georgian State Museum.

Naturally, exhibitions will form the core of the celebratory events, but we are also planning additional events. Throughout this 80th anniversary year, we are organising events, exhibitions, seminars, concerts, and publishing new books. All these serve to demonstrate the importance of our museum in the cultural and intellectual life of the Republic. Modern museums are not merely places where we keep ancient and valuable exhibits, but they serve to promote heritage, stimulate research and help Azerbaijanis and international visitors spend their free time in a worthwhile and educational manner.

Visit for more information on the Azerbaijani National Museum of Art.

About the author: Neil Watson is the chief editor of TEAS Magazine.


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A Renaissance of Thrones

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Quite often, during my guided tours in Mantua, I describe the Italian Renaissance as a real "Game of Thrones": powerful families, ruling different lands, quite often fighting each other. The Houses Stark, Targaryen, Lannister, Baratheon, Tyrell and so on, are not so different from the Gonzaga, Este, Sforza, Medici, Borgia and many of the other Renaissance dynasties.

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The months without an R in their name (from May to August) are the best to enjoy a good gelato: when the days get longer and the climate turns hotter, the "Gelato Season" is officially on. First of all, let’s make things clear: although the word "Gelato" is quite often used as the Italian translation for "Ice Cream", the two are not the same thing.

“GRAZIE” Say thanks like the Italians do.

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Working as a tour guide, I’ve noticed that there’s a word very difficult to be pronounced by the American clients: “grazie”, the Italian word for "thanks". The most of the time they pronounce it “grazi”, and sometimes, if they can speak Spanish, they try to go with “gracias”, or - in some rare occasions - I've even heard people gratefully saying "greasy", meaning "thanks". [...]

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As the world is getting excited for a new upcoming Royal Wedding, VISITMANTUA is going to launch a new royal promotion. In May 2018, VISITMANTUA will mark the occasion of the wedding of His Royal Highness Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle by offering a 50% discount to every couple of clients that includes a person named as the Prince or his fiancée (Harry/Henry or Meghan). [...]

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Dozens of stories go around about that couple of foreign visitors lost in Firenze, desperately looking for “Florence”. It’s an old joke, known in many different variants: sometimes they are in Venezia, looking for “Venice” or in Napoli, searching “Naples”. [...]


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A Renaissance of Thrones

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Quite often, during my guided tours in Mantua, I describe the Italian Renaissance as a real "Game of Thrones": powerful families, ruling different lands, quite often fighting each other. The Houses Stark, Targaryen, Lannister, Baratheon, Tyrell and so on, are not so different from the Gonzaga, Este, Sforza, Medici, Borgia and many of the other Renaissance dynasties.

16th June: a date to be remembered

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"The most beautiful chamber in the world". These words were used by Zaccaria Saggi, a Renaissance courtier, to describe the chamber frescoed by Andrea Mantegna in the Mantua Castle, known today as "The Bridal Chamber", or, in Italian, "Camera degli Sposi".

June 12th, 2018|

The months without an R in their name (from May to August) are the best to enjoy a good gelato: when the days get longer and the climate turns hotter, the "Gelato Season" is officially on. First of all, let’s make things clear: although the word "Gelato" is quite often used as the Italian translation for "Ice Cream", the two are not the same thing.

“GRAZIE” Say thanks like the Italians do.

June 8th, 2018|

Working as a tour guide, I’ve noticed that there’s a word very difficult to be pronounced by the American clients: “grazie”, the Italian word for "thanks". The most of the time they pronounce it “grazi”, and sometimes, if they can speak Spanish, they try to go with “gracias”, or - in some rare occasions - I've even heard people gratefully saying "greasy", meaning "thanks". [...]

March 27th, 2018|

As the world is getting excited for a new upcoming Royal Wedding, VISITMANTUA is going to launch a new royal promotion. In May 2018, VISITMANTUA will mark the occasion of the wedding of His Royal Highness Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle by offering a 50% discount to every couple of clients that includes a person named as the Prince or his fiancée (Harry/Henry or Meghan). [...]


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If there is a plaque or trophy for the most supportive husband in the world, it will undoubtedly be awarded to Erwan Heussaff, Anne Curtis’ loving spouse.

Erwan’s name has been trending a lot lately because of his hilarious replies and unending show of support for his wife’s sexy drama film, Just a Stranger.

Just like Anne said in previous interviews, Erwan has been very supportive of her works. This particular project, Anne shared that he even encouraged her to do it as he thinks that it is a great material.

To show you guys how loving and funny Erwan is to his wife, here are some of his most funny comebacks and replies to Anne and Marco Gumabao’s daring posts on Instagram that has caught the attention of the netizens:

No wonder every girl right now wants to have their own Erwan Heussaff!

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From a Card Game

a writing by Linda Bates Terrell

Many years have passed since 1962. I have grown but still linger sometimes upon a memory or two...
Do you recall the card gave (Authors). It was first made known in the town of Salem about 1850. Then first published in 1861. It has been and still is a delightful game for children and adults.
There were names and pictures of the Author's faces, of the many authors; Oliver Twist, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, James Penimore Cooper, Robert Louis Steveson, Nathanial Hawthorne, Sir Walter Scott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Louisa May Alcott.
At age 8 I had not a clue who Romeo and Juliet, Jeckle and Hyde, or even the book Little Women was. I played the game memorizing the faces and words on the cards of each well known author of the past.
In the days past this card game sold for 19 cents but a game like this one published in the 1900's sells for has high as $200. to $300 on ebay. Far cry from 19 cents. My Authors game was at Christmas gift one year.
I first had the experience of some one telling me just exactly what an author was. Yet my yearning to know more about them was hidden for many years on the back burner of my mind. I still have not read all of their works but only some.
This is the most amazing card game for children to introduct the worlds first well known authors and the amazing world of literature...
The hours we spent as kids playing that game could never measure up to Pac Man, Mario Bro's, or even Grand Theft Auto. What will kids wonder about years from now about those games?
Competition is a great emotion and the desire to accomplish something (to be the winner) is only normal for kids. I reacall dancing around in the living room while Ed Sullivan played when I beat my mom at the game of Authors.
I did not ever think at that time I would years later, to let the stories out of me onto paper some day. I just recall the excitement it brought and the fun we had many times playing. Wehn ever I had company I got out that little pack of cards and knew the fun it would bring.
Later in years when we would study these Authors I knew just a little about them, thanks to the card game we as kids played.
For what I got out of the 19 cent pack of cards could never be measured in just fun. Look where and what I have chosen to do today. Reading and writing poetry and books? Yes, and I love it.
Though I am or maybe never will be as famous as the ones listed on the cards. In my heart I feel a closeness to some of the experiences they must have encountered through the years. Is it possible to extend my gratitude to deck of cards, (not likely) of the faces, names, and works I admired so long ago. I do not know who bought me those cards but little did they know they struck a yearning inside me to be a poet and Author too. That is where my gratidude should go. If I only knew.

Linda B Terrell

For those of you who see this listed in the section of poems as well as Document, please over look as I made single click and then it changed when I clicked again..
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Luisana Lopilato: Lopilato, who lists Andrea Del Boca among her career influences, made her television acting debut at the age of twelve, in 1999. She was chosen to play Luisana Maza in Chiquititas (known in English as Tiny Angels). She joined Chiquititas in its fifth season and stayed with the show until the very end, three years later. She also had a role in the movie of the aforementioned series.

She continued her acting career as Mia Colucci in Rebelde Way, and she began her career as a musician, in a group named Erreway. In 2002 Luisana Lopilato became a well-known teenage celebrity in Argentina thanks to her role in Rebelde Way. For three years she was one of the leads of Rebelde Way and core-member of Erreway. Erreway launched a CD that earned Lopilato a golden album award in Argentina. In 2004, she starred in Erreway: La Pelicula (4 Caminos).

During her time in Rebelde Way, she was featured in more than 50 magazine covers.

She received several subsequent acting offers and ended up signing with Pol-ka Productions, with which she did two telenovelas, Los Secretos de Papá and Los Pensionados. In 2005 she acted in Casados con Hijos, Argentine's version of Married with Children, playing Paola (in the original version her role was played by Christina Applegate), she starred alongside her real-life brother and two of Argentina's top-comedians Florencia de la Peña and Guillermo Franchella. In 2006 she worked with producer Cris Morena on her show Alma Pirata.

In 2007, she was host of Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica, Latin MTV Awards. Argentine magazine Gente (Argentine People) named Luisana for "the face of the year". She also played in theatre play Arlequin, earning nomination for ACE Award.

Currently, Luisana is working on new soap opera, named 4x4, with Gabriel Goity, Rodrigo Guirao, Elías Viñoles, Camila Bordonaba, Felipe Colombo and her brother Dario.

Music career
During she filmed "Rebel's Way", Lopilato became a member of bend Erreway. With them, she recorded three studio albums, "Señales", "Tiempo" and "Memoria. Officially, Lopilato left Erreway in 2005. She was not on the Spain tour 2005, because she had to film "Casado con Hijos". Now, she is not the member of the Erreway anymore. Camila Bordonaba sings Luisana's parts in songs. Lopilato is planning her own music career.

Lopilato is preparing her own solo career. Her first CD should be in melodic style, but Lopilato mostly likes jazz. Now, when she doesn't work on TV or in theater, she teaches playing saxofon and singing. After break-trough, she plans to record a jazz CD. On her first CD, she decided to work with Universal studio. Also, she told to publicity that she will have new image - something like Hilary Duff and Ashlee Simpson.[citation needed]
Personal life
Luisana Loreley Lopilato is a native Buenos Aires. She is third daughter of Eduardo and Betty Lopilato. She has brother Dario, who is also actor, and sister Daniela, who helps Luisana to write songs for first solo CD.

Lopilato had three great relationship. First was with Felipe Colombo, who acted with Lopilato in Chiquititas and Rebel's Way. They said that they broke-up before Rebel's Way, but one video proved that they are still in relationship. Jorge Rial, host of the TV show Intrusos en la noche, called Luisana "Lolita", humilitating this couple during whole TV show. It shows Lopilato and Colombo in love. Lopilato's lawyers called Rial on judge. The first question was: is that a crime, because Lopilato was still a child (16 years old)? Rial didn't think he is guilty. Luisana Lopilato got three million dollars for this scandal. After that, Lopilato said: "That video destroyed my relationship". Luisana and Felipe broke-up.

After that, she was fiancee of actor Mariano Martinez, who acted with her in Alma Pirata. Love broke in Decembre 2006. After that, Luisana Lopilato started new relationship, with tennis player Juan Monaco. She hopes she will become his wife.

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The simulation platform SHINE

Introduction to SHINE

The simulation platform for heterogeneous interworking networks (SHINE) has been developed within several projects to investigate single wireless communication networks in realistic scenarios as well as interoperating networks. Its development started more than 10 years ago, ant it still continues to fulfill the needs of the research group [A][B][C][D].

SHINE is an event driven dynamic simulator written in C++, which allows to jointly take into account all aspects of the wireless networks related to the various layers of the protocol stack. SHINE has been designed to simulate heterogeneous wireless networks, according to a client-server structure; it is constituted by one server simulator (upper layers simulator, ULS) and one or more client simulators (lower layers simulators, LLSs), communicating, using primitives, through sockets [A]. The ULS is independent from the simulated technology; it takes care of all information related to users mobility and of the end-to-end aspects of each connection, such as the generation of the application level traffic and the transport protocols (TCP, UDP, etc.) dynamics. Each LLS is instead specific for the considered access technology; it manages all aspects related to the specific aspects, hence mostly related to the link and physical layers.

SHINE has been used both for the investigation of various protocols in specific technologies and for the design of efficient multi radio resource management (MRRM) strategies. It enables the investigation of the performance in scenarios (mobility, traffic, topology) given as input as well as the evaluation of several metrics and parameters affecting the QoS at different layers, thus allowing the assessment of proper statistics.

The timeline describing the development of SHINE follows (example references are also reported).

  • 2003-today: implementation of the ULS [A];
  • 2004-2005: implementation of the UMTS TD-SCDMA LLS (e.g., [E]);
  • 2004-2007: implementation of the IEEE 802.11a/g/e LLS (e.g., [F]);
  • 2006-2007: implementation of the MC-CDMA LLS (e.g., [G]);
  • 2006-2009: implementation of the WiMax IEEE 802.16e LLS (e.g., [J]);
  • 2006-2010: implementation of the UMTS-FDD LLS, with attention to RACH (e.g., [L]) and MBMS (e.g., [I]);
  • 2010-2012: use of VISSIM for a realistic simulation of vehicular mobility [B];
  • 2010-today: implementation of the vehicular LLS with IEEE 802.11p (e.g., [M][N][Q]), an OFDMA based protocol (OBV) (e.g., [P]), and visible light communications (e.g., [O][R]).

Heterogeneous networks example references are [H][K].

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Although the simulator is not open source, the executable and settings are available for download to repeat the simulations shown in the following articles.

A. Bazzi, A. Zanella, "Position Based Routing in Crowd Sensing Vehicular Networks", Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks (details in the pubs list). Find the simulator and settings for the shown results here.

A. Bazzi, B. M. Masini, A. Zanella, A. Calisti, "Visible Light Communications as a Complementary Technology for the Internet of Vehicles", Elsevier Computer Communications (details in the pubs list). Find the simulator and settings for the shown results here.

Most of our works on vehicular scenarios are based on three realistic traffic traces created using the traffic simulator VISSIM. Two of them are obtained in the city scenario of Bologna, covering a region of 1.6 x 1.8 km2, with either fluent traffic (Bologna A, with 455 vehicles on average) or congested traffic (Bologna B, with 670 vehicles on average). The third scenario (interurban, with 1995 vehicles on average) is a 16 km highway segment, with 3 lanes per direction and busy traffic.

The traffic traces are available for download hereafter, where each line includes four numbers: the time instant (in seconds), the vehicle ID, the position on the X axis (in meters), and the position on the Y axis (in meters).

Download the Bologna A traffic trace here (fluent traffic).

Download the Bologna B traffic trace here (congested traffic).

Download the Interurban traffic trace here .

Feel free to download and use the traffic traces, citing for example [R] or [N].

Main references

Design principles

[A] A. Bazzi, G. Pasolini, C. Gambetti, “SHINE: Simulation platform for Heterogeneous Interworking Networks”, IEEE ICC 2006, Istanbul (Turkey), 11-15 June 2006. DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2006.255543.

[B] A. Bazzi, G. Pasolini, “On the accuracy of physical layer modelling within wireless network simulators”, (Elsevier Journal on) Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Volume 22, March 2012, PP 47-60. DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2011.11.004.

[C] L. Zuliani, A. Zanella, A. Marazzi, R. Moretti, E. Agrati, R. Verdone, O. Andrisano,  “A Simulation Tool for Performance Assessment of Realistic Mobile Radio Networks”, IEEE PIMRC 2004, Barcelona (Spain).

[D] A. Toppan, A. Bazzi, B. M. Masini, P. Toppan, O. Andrisano, “Architecture of a Simulation Platform for the Smart Navigation Service Investigation”, First International Workshop on Vehicular COmmunications and Networking (VECON 2010), IEEE WiMob 2010, Niagara Falls, Canada, 11-13 October 2010. DOI: 10.1109/WIMOB.2010.5645014.

Selected papers presenting results from SHINE

[R] A. Bazzi, B. M. Masini, A. Zanella, A. Calisti, "Visible Light Communications as a Complementary Technology for the Internet of Vehicles", Elsevier Computer Communications, Special issue on Multi-radio, Multi-technology, Multi-system Vehicular Communications, DOI:10.1016/j.comcom.2016.07.004.

[Q] A. Bazzi, A. Zanella, "Position Based Routing in Crowd Sensing Vehicular Networks", Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, DOI:10.1016/j.adhoc.2015.06.005.

[P] A. Bazzi, A. Zanella, B. M. Masini, "An OFDMA Based MAC Protocol for Next Generation VANETs", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol.64, No.9, October 2015, PP.4088-4100, DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2014.2361392.

[O] A. Bazzi, B. M. Masini, A. Zanella, A. Calisti, "Visible Light Communications in Vehicular Networks for Cellular Offloading", presented at the IEEE ICC 2015, First Workshop on Visible Light Communications and Networking (VLCN), London (England), June 2015.

[N] A. Bazzi, B. M. Masini, A. Zanella, G. Pasolini, "IEEE 802.11p for Cellular Offloading in Vehicular Sensor Networks", Computer Communications, Volume 60, 1 April 2015, Pages 97-108, DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2015.01.012.

[M] A. Bazzi, B. M. Masini, A. Zanella, C. De Castro, C. Raffaelli, O. Andrisano, "Cellular Aided  Vehicular Named Data Networking", presented at IEEE ICCVE 2014, Vienna, Austria, November 2014.

[L] A. Bazzi, B. M. Masini, O. Andrisano, “On the Frequent Acquisition of Small Data through RACH in UMTS for ITS Applications”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol.60, No.7, September 2011, PP.2914-2926. DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2011.2160211

[K] A. Bazzi, “WLAN hot spots to increase UMTS capacity”, IEEE PIMRC 2010, Istanbul (Turkey), 26-30 September 2010. DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC.2010.5671741.

[J] A. Bazzi, G. Leonardi, G. Pasolini, O. Andrisano, “IEEE802.16e Simulation Issues”, IEEE Mobile WIMAX Symposium 2009, Napa Valley (California, USA), July 2009. DOI: 10.1109/MWS.2009.20.

[I] A. Bazzi, B.M. Masini, A. Conti, O. Andrisano, "Infomobility Provision through MBMS/UMTS in Realistic Scenarios", IEEE ITSC 2008, Beijing (China), October 2008. DOI: 10.1109/ITSC.2008.4732570.

[H] A. Bazzi, G. Pasolini, O. Andrisano, "Multi Radio Resource Management: Parallel Transmission for Higher Throughput?", EURASIP JASP, special issue entitled "Wireless Cooperative Networks", June 2008. DOI: 10.1155/2008/763264.

[G] B. M. Masini, G. Leonardi, A. Conti, G. Pasolini, A. Bazzi, D. Dardari, O. Andrisano, "How Equalization Techniques Affect the TCP Performance of MC-CDMA Systems in Correlated Fading Channels", EURASIP JWCN, special issue entitled "Multicarrier Systems", January 2008. DOI: 10.1155/2008/286351.

[F] A. Bazzi, M. Diolaiti, G.Pasolini, “Measurement Based Call Admission Control Strategies in Infrastructured IEEE802.11 WLANs”, IEEE Pers. Indoor Mob. Radio Comm. 2005 (PIMRC 2005), Berlin (Germany), 11 – 14 September, 2005. DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC.2005.1651808.

[E] C.Gambetti, A.Zanella, R.Verdone, O.Andrisano, “Performance of a TD- SCDMA cellular system in the presence of circuit and packet switched services”, IEEE VTC 2004 spring, Milan, May 2004.


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The story revolves around a Basque Roman Catholic priest dedicated to committing as many sins as possible (Angulo), a death metal salesman from Carabanchel (Segura), and the Italian host of a TV show on the occult (De Razza). These go on a literal "trip" through Christmas-time Madrid to hunt for and prevent the reincarnation of the Antichrist.
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A group of 7 youngsters-4 guys and 3 girls decide to spend a night at a reportedly haunted hotel to celebrate the farewell of one of them leaving for the USA. Despite people's warnings and other "signs" trying to ward them off from there, they enter the hotel, and then the truth dawns on them. Seven friends - Sam alias Samrat, Magesh, Achint, Neel, Neena, Sonia and Magi reunite after several years apart to celebrate the farewell of one of their friends, who is going abroad in order to pursue his career and fulfill his goals. The group soon learns about an abandoned hotel with strange stories around it. Much against warnings, they decide to spend a night at the hotel, and soon realize the mistake of their lives
The pit has spoken. Dawai, the potter of a backwoods community, has crafted a face on a ceramic jug of the person that the pit wants sacrificed. Ada, pregnant with her brothers child, has seen her face on the jug and hides it in the woods, determined to save the life of her unborn. If she does not sacrifice herself however, the creature from the pit will kill everyone in the village until she does.
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
Long ago in the Iron Age a shadow loomed over a lonely village. For generations the village youths are stolen from their families and delivered as sacrifice to a mythical beast - the Minotaur, that dwells beneath a great palace. Theo, haunted by the loss of his love in an earlier sacrifice is convinced that the beast isn't real and that his girl still lives as a slave within the palace. His father Cyrnan, the village leader, tries to reason with Theo not to go but Theo is driven by blind rage. He devises a plan and is taken with the other youths who are dragged screaming from their families.
God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals. The stories of the people in question are told in a trio of very strange vignettes. One involves an insane anylum with some very interesting treatment plans. Another involves a 'death club'. The final story shows us the adventures of a server of Satan.
500 years after they were blinded and executed for committing human sacrifices, a band of Templar knights returns from the grave to terrorize a rural Portuguese village during it's centennial celebration. Being blind, the Templars find their victims through sound, usually the screams of their victims. Taking refuge in a deserted cathedral, a small group of people must find a way to escape from the creatures.
In Italy, a woman becomes involved in a series of unauthorized exorcisms during her mission to discover what happened to her mother, who allegedly murdered three people during her own exorcism.
Fifteen-year-old Emma Evans is like any other teenage girl; she thinks that her parents don´t understand her. She longs for independence and a life free of family ties and responsibilities and she is prepared to do anything to achieve it. But one day she will be forced to face up to the consequences of her actions.Life seems to be carrying on as normal, until one day Emma starts experiencing frightening fits. Her parents are convinced that her problems are either medical or psychological, but when doctors´ tests are unable to draw any conclusions, the family is forced to look elsewhere for answers.It all started off as a bit of fun, Emma never really believed it, but the truth is there is something dark and sinister within her, and it won´t take long to surface.
Hitting an off-the-charts level of subversive allegory, Zulawskis second feature is a blood-splattered rampage through a war-charred 1790s Poland that turns the historical epic inside out, and dances on its carcass. Immediately banned in the directors Communist Poland for over a decade and a half, The Devil writhes with nonstop demonic energy as it follows an nobleman who, after escaping from prison, swandives into insanity and mass murder. Returning home to his once-rich family  one now reduced to savages  and manipulated by a black-cloaked Satanic stranger at the center of a web of political treachery, the nobleman eventually enacts a Hamlet-like pyrrhic revenge on just about everyone in sight. But The Devils most spectacularly intense violence is all emotional, with near-constant outbursts of grief, and desperation of a seizure-like intensity that is downright mesmerizing.  The Cinefamily
Delving into our collective nightmares, this horror-documentary investigates the origins of our most terrifying urban legends and the true stories that may have inspired them.
Belated sequel to the '84 film. 8 years after the first, authorities discover the mutilated bodies of adults in the secluded town of Gatlin, Nebraska and children hiding in the corn. Enter John Garrett and son Danny, who head for Gatlin on a story and get caught up in this mess when an orphan named Micah is possessed by "He Who Walks Behind The Rows".
The puppets return, this time they hunt some Paranormal Researchers to take their brain fluid for the dead/living puppet master, Andre Toulon
Isabel is a dead vampire and witch whose body is hanging in a basement while the owner tries to kidnap virgins for a sacrifice that could mean Isabels resurrection. But doing this wont be easy as the women arent gonna give in very easily.
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum, and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.
Jack and Melissa are frightened by their son's bizarre and violent behavior; they soon learn that he is the gateway to the Apocalypse, and it will happen on his birthday, 11-11-11.
A veteran hostage negotiator's next call leads him to an overrun insane asylum. He soon finds that dark forces are pushing the patients to commit atrocities, and he may be the only one that can stop them.
A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
Paul Naschy has a duel role as Amenhotep/Assad Bey, an ancient egyptian mummified Pharaoh, and the high priest who brought him back to life. In order For Amenhotep to achieve immortality, Assad Bey has to kidnap nubile young virgins in Victorian London for blood sacrifices.
A vicious Ogre rules over a town that has been stuck in time since the 1800's.
Dr Tremayne is an enigmatic Psychiatrist running an asylum housing four very special cases. Visited by colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each of the four patients went mad...cue four distinct tales each with a different set of characters.
With a pocketful of drugs, Nick West takes out his girlfriend Sammy, for a shag and a good time. When they explore an abandoned asylum, the discovery of a bizarre device - a cross between an electric chair and sadistic fetish machine - transforms drugged-out bliss into agony and despair
Capturing the sadistic serial killer "The Wolf" was just the beginning for rookie cop Johnny Morgan. As he escorts the monster to his new home in the dark underground halls of Parker's Asylum, bedlam ensues and Johnny along with a handful of civilians become players in a night of survival against the world's most terrifying inmates.
An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.
In Medieval France a warlock is be-headed and his wife tortured and executed. Hundreds of years later an isolated group of people discover his head buried on their property. Soon it comes back to life, possessing people and using them to commit sacrifices and to search for the rest of his body.
Nell Bowen, the spirited protege of rich Lord Mortimer, becomes interested in the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). Nell attempts to bring support to reforming Bedlam, but the cruel Master Sims who runs it has her committed there instead.
A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. Running for his life, he uncovers Imboca's secret..they worship Dagon, a monstrous god of the sea...and Dagon's unholy offspring are on the loose...
A demented coroner uses autopsy equipment to kill off the teenagers who trespass on the long-abandoned asylum he inhabits. Filmed on location in an actual abandoned asylum.
Three college students, Phil, Ed, and Henry take a road trip into Mexico for a week of drinking and carefree fun only to have Phil find himself a captive of a group of satanic Mexican drug smugglers who kill tourists and whom are looking for a group of new ones to prepare for a sacrifice.
A group of cooks at an asylum for the criminally insane get locked in with the inmates during a massive thunderstorm
A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.
The Keeper of Underwood Asylum has the mental patients of the wealthiest families in British Columbia. The rest of the family members have been dying under mysterious circumstances, so Biggs hires private investigator Richard Driver, who puts his assistant, Maybelline, in the asylum pretending she is his cousin and that they came from a family where the parents were all first cousins to each other and they decided to keep their love platonic for genetic reasons. Then he tries to get Inspector Clarke to check him in as a narcoleptic who didn't wake up with his body. They all know what the keeper has been doing, but it is a matter of proving it, and avoiding the hypnotized Biggs twins and Danny, who he is able to keep catatonic with his machine. Inspector Clarke gives driver a lot of trouble, and the kid giving shoe shines looks down on everybody, knowing more.
Loosely based on two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe and inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade. In 19th century France a young man is plagued by nightmares in which he is dragged off to a madhouse. On the journey back from his mothers funeral he is invited by a Marquis he meets at lunch to spend the night in his castle. There he witnesses a blasphemous orgy and a therapeutic funeral. He tries to flee but is taken to a lunatic asylum where the patients have complete freedom and the staff are locked up behind bars.
With their women having been enslaved by a pack of lesbian vampires, the remaining menfolk of a rural town send two hapless young lads out onto the moors as a sacrifice.
After a former mental asylum is converted into a haunted house attraction, a former inmate returns and starts murdering patrons.
In an abandoned asylum, a series of secret experiments on the nature of brainwashing is being conducted - a project code-named 'Limes' (a term describing a borderline between the civilized and barbaric world).
Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wrecks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.
A remake of the 1959 film of the same name. A millionaire offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.
The movie begins in 15th century Sweden, where Hope, the beautiful daughter of Matthias, a skilled mercenary who is in actuality a demon, is accused of being the devil's consort. Sentenced by the town priest to be burned at the stake, Matthias, through his proxy, the jester Pagan, offers her life if she surrenders herself to him and join him in Hell.
Joe Slaader is a mysterious mountain man being held in the Ulster County Asylum after the brutal murder of his family. Edward Eischel, a young intern, sees something more than just an inbred monster in this new inmate, however. Instead, he sees him as the harbinger of some greater and much darker force. With bodies piling up, his job in jeopardy, and his sanity hanging in the balance he gives in to his obsession with tapping into Joe's hidden power, risking all that he has along the way.
A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-workers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.
Just before Halloween, three young brothers alone in a big house are menaced by three escaped mental patients who have murdered some traveling circus clowns and taken their identities.

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Jerry Thornbery

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Jerry Thornbery
Residing In: Baltimore, MD USA
Spouse/Partner? Tell us how long: Carrie, for over four decades
Occupation: High School History Teacher, Gilman School
Children/Grandchildren? If so, birth year and location: Meredith, Baltimore
Reece, Chicago
Yes! Attending Reunion

What did you do right after high school?

1962-66 BA Ripon College
1966-67 MAT Emory University
1967-70 High School Teacher, East Atlanta High School
1970-77 Ph.D. University of Maryland, U.S. History
1979- High School Teacher, Gilman School

Have you had different careers?

Professional Student, 1970s
Awarded the Carrie Thornbery Scholarship throughout that decade

Fun or interesting "adventures" or one of the high points of your life.

One High Point: Doing a presentation with Julian Bond back in the 1990s when he welcomed the audience to the Julian and Jerry Show. I no longer tell that story to young teachers at Gilman for some of them have no clue as to who he is.

What do you do with your spare time? What are you passionate about?

Interests: Film, Recent American History, American Politics, and the Music of the 1950s and Early 1960s

Passions: Movie Theaters and Book Stores and Carrie Thornbery

I used to be passionate about dachshunds but Bodie (our fourth standard) has been a challenge.

Have you lived one of your dreams?

Yes. Running a ninth grade study hall for over thirty years.

Publications or recordings? Ex: books, articles, films, music.

Three articles--two from my dissertation about Black Atlanta after the Civil War and one about teaching history by using the Booker T. Washington Papers.

Assuming good health, I plan to teach for a few more years at Gilman School. My email address should continue to be

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Aug 13, 2017 at 12:33 PM

The thoughtful eulogy by Dave Stearns (and the full obituary I assume that he provided) made me think of incidents that occurred over fifty years ago.  Unlike others who have contributed to this page, I was not a close classmate of Bob's, at best a friendly acquaintance, but even for someone like me, Bob Race left fond memories.  Three stand out.

I first met Bob in Jack Nagle's ninth-grade English class.  Sometime that winter Bob began to wear boots that somehow flew under the radar screen of the WFB dress-code enforcers.  "Where did you get those boots, Bob?" I asked.  "From Roy Rogers?"  Although I called him Roy Rogers Race for about a month, Bob never got angry.  In fact, somewhere in my very small collection of WFB mementoes is a post card that reads: "To Jerry. Best Wishes, Roy Rogers Race." Bob was a classmate who was exceptionally good natured and who never took himself too seriously.

A second memory is of one Friday night in my junior year (I think) when Bob rang our door bell.  My Dad answered.  There was Bob with a cigarette, waving it as if it were a firery sixth appendage to his hand.  "Oh, oh," I thought, "this is trouble."  But Bob had plenty of charm, and he charmed my Dad just as he did a lot of people he met.  As we were almost out the door my Dad called out, "Nice talking with you, Bob."

Dave Stearns writes about Bob and his interest in folk music.  I am sorry that I missed their performance at the senior talent show.  The few discussions I had with Bob about music, however, centered on country and bluegrass.  In his senior year he sometimes sat out in the family car, listening to some clear channel station out of Cincinnati or Wheeling, West Virginia.  Bob did mention to me that sometimes it got a little chilly, and sometimes he had to wrap himself up in a blanket, but he could only get that station and that kind of music in the driveway of his home.  Definitely Bob was into country before country became cool.

After high school, most of what I knew about Bob Race came from another '62 friend, Bob Wolf, who like Race, joined the Air Force and served as a fireman.  The two Bobs were into hunting and fishing and I would occasionally hear about their treks into the wilderness.  It was through Bob Wolf and I learned of Bob's fatal illness.

When we think back about our high school days we (or at least I do) sometimes romanticize the past and sometimes get lost in the fog of memory.  Nevertheless, one thing is crystal clear.  Bob Race was one of the good guys.  Kris Krabbe succinctly stated that on this site.  And in my book, that is high praise indeed.

                                                                                Jerry Thornbery, August 12, 2017