![]() In addition to "Today," she also hosted the syndicated morning show "Not for Women Only." She began making on-air appearances with light, offbeat stories, for which she once wore bunny ears to report on the life of a Playboy bunny. Writing for male correspondents would become only one of many glass ceilings she would break. ![]() Trailblazing broadcaster Barbara Walters (September 25, 1929-December 30, 2022) forged a path for women in an industry that was dominated by men, so much so that, when she was hired as a writer for NBC's "Today" in 1961, she was only allowed to write for women. ![]() Barry O'Rourke /Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images Francis would say having Benedict at the Vatican was like having a "wise grandfather" living at home. The two lived as neighbors, an unprecedented arrangement, as Benedict wrote and lived a monastic life in the Vatican Gardens. There were also PR gaffes he was criticized for telling reporters, in 2009, that distributing condoms would increase, not decrease, the spread of AIDS.īut he was also forced to confront the fallout of the church's sex abuse scandal, and notably apologized to victims.īenedict's dramatic decision to retire, rather than to remain in office until his death, paved the way for the election of Pope Francis, a more progressive cleric. As a conservative, many of his actions (such as relaxing the restrictions on Latin mass) satisfied traditionalists, but were controversial among more progressive voices in the clergy. He reached out to other faiths, and became only the second pope in history to enter a synagogue. It seems as if everything would be just the same even without Him." On his first foreign trip as pope, at a 2005 World Youth Day gathering in Cologne, Germany, he told a million attendees, "In vast areas of the world today, there is a strange forgetfulness of God. He used his position to redirect the world's focus on faith in an era of secularization. The first German pope in a thousand years, Benedict – born Joseph Ratzinger – was a theologian and writer devoted to history and tradition, who was elected to succeed Pope John Paul II. The then-85-year-old thus became the first pope in 600 years to resign. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (April 16, 1927-December 31, 2022) stunned the world in 2013 when he announced, after eight years in office, that he lacked the strength to continue as head of the Catholic Church. The Associated Press contributed to this gallery. | Alessandra Benedetti/Corbis via Getty ImagesĪ look back at the esteemed personalities who left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.īy senior producer David Morgan. Pope Benedict XVI is greeted by the faithful in Les Combes in 2005.
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![]() The library holds genealogical records for over 110 countries, territories, and possessions, including over 2.4 million rolls of microfilmed genealogical records 742,000 microfiche 310,000 books, serials, and other formats and 4,500 periodicals. It also contains the catalog of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. These images can be searched along with a number of databases. The website offers access to digital images of genealogical records. The Family Tree section allows users to collaborate on a single, shared, worldwide family tree. Use of the historical record search and contributing to the Family Tree require a free registered account. In addition, FamilySearch offers personal assistance at more than 5,100 family history centers in 140 countries. It offers free access to its resources and service online at, one of the most heavily used genealogy sites on the Internet. FamilySearch gathers, preserves, and shares genealogical records worldwide. FamilySearch maintains a collection of records, resources, and services designed to help people learn more about their family history. Other aspects of FTB include automatic face detection technology, a maps module based on integration with Google Maps, and Smart Research - a technology to research the family trees individuals in key genealogy databases.įamilySearch is a genealogy organization operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogists can find other family historians who have common ancestors, and fill in holes in their family tree that other people have completed. This allows people to share their family trees and genealogy research with the entire MyHeritage community. The program checks the name, birth date, and parents of the entries in the database, and when it finds similar tree profiles, tells the user who created each tree, who may then confirm the match or not. Users can build their family tree either offline or online, and offline trees can be published to the family site.FTB has a Smart Matching feature, which searches the MyHeritage database looking for family tree profiles that match. The program can also create charts that show how two people are related. ![]() Users may add birth, death, and marriage dates notes about where their ancestors lived, their profession, hobbies and interests and picture of ancestors. Users may pay a fee to "unlock" the additional features in the Premium version. ![]() The free download version is distributed as freeware, with no restrictions, no registration is required to download the software. With 75 million registered users, 27 million family trees, 1.5 billion profiles and 5.2 billion historical records, MyHeritage is one of the largest sites in the social networking and genealogy field.For Windows is available Family Tree Builder (FTB), a Genealogy software to create family trees. It allows members to create their own family websites, share pictures and videos, organize family events,create family trees, and search for ancestors. MyHeritage is a family-oriented social network service and genealogy website. ![]() (If it does not explicitly say "Mac compatible", please check compatibility. Compatible with USB and Bluetooth Joysticks. ![]()
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… only if it’s non-buyable, non-gathering, and non-combat.Our community knows the value of skills – they allow us to expand on content and create new reasons for you all to log in each day.īut when we ask ‘How would you feel about a brand new skill, including new items, a new race to 99, and the prospect of unlocking new content across the game?’ your answer might be: In our annual survey, a whopping 78% of respondents supported the addition of a new skill – an increase of 3% since we asked the same question last year. ![]() Since then, our community has grown beyond our wildest expectations, and your expectations are pretty clear. They’re what set Old School RuneScape apart, a core feature of the game – and yet we haven’t added a new one since Old School RuneScape was released nearly 10 whole years ago. ‘Main game content’ could mean new quests, bosses, or minigames – and as you know, skills are the foundation of each and every one of those things. You’ve told us that you want more dev time allocated to updates that will affect the main game, instead of temporary game modes. Now is the perfect time to re-open the conversation about new skills in Old School RuneScape. We’ve seen our wonderful community (that’s you!) passionately discuss the prospect of a new skill for years – and you’ve even put forward designs of your own, like Bard or Exploration. They touch every single piece of content, and our surveys have shown that building skills is one of the biggest player motivations. There’s a poll live right now where you’ll be able to tell us your thoughts, but before you run off to vote, have a read through what we’re proposing and why we think a new skill is the right choice for Old School RuneScape. ![]() We want to know what YOU think about adding a new skill to Old School RuneScape! That’s exactly what we’re proposing with this blog. You can fish, cook, craft, chop wood, and slay all day - and that's just the beginning! But what if there was another skill that you could learn? ![]() In Old School RuneScape, there are a lot of skills to master. However, no payment method gives money back all the time. These companies usually offer the option to get your money back in case the merchant does not deliver or the product has been broken during transportation. This webshop is offering payment methods that can be considered reasonably safe such as credit card and Paypal. Most professional and large scale websites hardly ever do this. This website is using an iframe or other technology to include content and functionalities located on another website. Checking a website for other scam signals remains essential. Scammers nowadays also buy old and existing websites to start their malpractice. Websites of scammers are usually very new. We discovered that the domain of this website has been registered several years ago. We advise using VPNs and exercising extreme caution when browsing pornographic websites. 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What we didn’t realize was that it was going to be a runaway train.” Please subscribe if you like what you hear. But we knew pretty early on that we were on this train that seemed to be taking off. Another video with guitar maestro Brett Ratner doing his instumental version of 'Overkill' by Men at Work. We just didn’t know how well it would do. We were always ambitious and thought it would do well. It was a perfect storm of things that conspired to create the success we had.”ĭid you have any idea how special that album would be? Whilst transposition down a semitone or two has recently become a necessity of touring, in 2016, Hay performed his 80s anthem, 'Overkill', on the Tonight Show, in the original key, impressively belting his way up to C5. ![]() It was the right time we had the right songs and a producer who really knew what he was doing. Everything that happened with that record was synchronistic and monumental. Colin Hay - Overkill (Acoustic in E) Colin Hay has played this song in at least three different ways, not counting the Men At Work version (s). A great record to be involved with and a great band to be in. When you look back on that time with so much perspective, what thoughts come to mind? This year marks the 40th anniversary of Men At Work’s debut album, “Business of Usual”. chart-toppers “Who Can It Be Now?” and “Down Under.” There’s a little bit of that in the lyrical content of the darkness that it creates in your mind.”Īustralian new wave band Men At Work are perhaps best known for U.S. I was starting to struggle with addiction and realizing I probably had a drinking issue. I started diving into the unknown but kept thinking, ‘Well, this is what you wanted.’ It was one of those be careful what you wish for situations. It was becoming impossible to be anonymous and walk down the street and do what I’d always done. I wrote ‘Overkill’ when we were starting to become very successful and well known. “Shortly after our first album, I realized that things would not be the same. ![]() Even though I’ve played for a long time I still feel like a novice.”Ĭan you give me the origin of the Men At Work song, “Overkill?” I still try to learn things and take lessons. Sometimes there’s just a phrase and other times an entire song just pops out. Usually, it will be a chordal idea or a rhythm or groove. Inevitably, ideas will pop into my head and I’ll follow them. “What I’ve done lately is to sit around in my studio and play a little guitar. 4 3 His parents owned a small music shop his father, a piano tuner, had been a stage singer and dancer in Glasgow. Hay got the gig after the show's star, Zach Braff, heard him perform at. The episode, which was called 'My Overkill,' finds Colin Hay performing this song are various points throughout, acting as a sort of muse (although by the end, he is a corpse). 3 In 1967, when he was 14, the Hays emigrated to Melbourne in Australia. This song played a big part in the season 2 opener of the TV series Scrubs, which aired in 2002. I love the choices and the way they hang together. Colin James Hay was born on 29 June 1953 in Saltcoats, a town on the west coast of North Ayrshire, Scotland to James and Isabela Hay. These are songs I loved growing up and formed me or inspired me in some way. He orchestrated it and sent it back and said, ‘Ok, send me another.’ So, I just kept going until we had 10. I decided to record it and sent it to my friend and producer, Chad Fischer. Watch Colin Hay perform an acoustic version of 'Overkill' live at SiriusXM.Hear more from 80s on 8 on our app Click here for your trial. Gerry Marsden (Gerry And The Pacemakers) had recently died and I was playing ‘Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying’ in my studio. ![]() “I had already finished recording an album of new songs that will be released early in the new year and wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to go out on the road. ![]() The game was widely critically acclaimed, both at the time, and since its remaster: it originally received a Golden Joystick Award for ‘Best Adventure’ (Cecil 2016), and is currently found on countless ‘Best Adventure Games’ lists, like Richard Cobbett’s “29 Essential, Must-Play Adventure Games”, under the “Essential Games: The Classics” category. Directed by Charles Cecil, the game also famously features the art of Dave Gibbons, comic book artist of Watchmen ( 1986–1987), and the design, dialogue, and music of Dave Cummins. Footnote 1 This article aims to begin filling these gaps and drawing some clear connections between class, music, and video games, by looking at Revolution Software’s 1994 Beneath a Steel Sky ( 1994).īeneath a Steel Sky is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure game developed by the UK Company Revolution Software in 1994. Moreover, the relationship between video game music and socio-cultural aspects of video game studies is also rarely examined beyond issues of race, ethnicity, and cultural appropriation, with some notable exceptions. These elements of subversion can, of course, be found throughout video games, both as emergent gameplay, where players take it upon themselves to critique society by taking advantage of game affordances, but also as embedded narrative and procedural elements.ĭiscussions of social classes and power relations are often implied within these broader conversations, but rarely find themselves at the centre of them. An example of this is the analysis of Grant Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) offered by Dyer-Whiteford and de Peuter, in which they note that “Vice City’s lead, Tommy Vercetti, is neoliberal theory incarnate: if the most famous line of the eighties film Wall Street is Gordon Gekko’s ‘greed is good,’ then the equivalent for Vice City’s eighties parody is Tommy Vercetti’s statement ‘I work for money.’” (Dyer-Whiteford and de Peuter 2009) Vice City, however, with its satirical tone, acts as both an agent of the hegemony, and its subverter. While most of these critiques have focused specifically on how these relations are reproduced in MMORPGs, where practices like gold farming quite explicitly mirrored real-life power relations, some have also focused on single-player games, particularly their neoliberal affinities. Virtual economies and virtual worlds have been seen to reproduce both real world economic systems and real-world ideologies (Castronova 2005 Rettberg 2008) and subsequently reproducing social strata and power relations. The representation of class, however, remains underexplored, even amongst critiques of video games as agents of capitalism. 2016), and, to a lesser degree, LGBTQ issues (Consalvo 2003 Ruberg and Shaw 2017), and race (Burgess et al. Issues of representation in video games have been important to video game studies for over two decades, largely focussing on gender (Cassell and Jenkins 1998 Dietz 1998 Kafai et al. Here, music plays an important role in terms of environmental storytelling, both as semiotic shorthand, and as a reflection of the affordances available to the inhabitants of the city. This article draws connections between these two underexplored areas and analyses the musical characterisation of class in the 1994 cyberpunk adventure game, which takes places largely in a literally stratified metropolis where the three levels of the city act as representations of the three social classes. ![]() Furthermore, the relationship between video game music and socio-cultural aspects of video game studies is also rarely examined beyond issues of race, ethnicity, and cultural appropriation. ![]() While other issues of representation have been studied extensively within game studies (gender representation in particular), the representation of class remains an underexplored area. ![]() This article proposes Revolution Software’s Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) as a starting point for the analysis of the relationship between music and social class in video games. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Illinois Institute of Technology, U.S. Major employers in these categories include the Chicago Police Department (with its headquarters located in Bronzeville), Chicago Public Schools, and social service providers. 3īronzeville’s current economic base relies heavily on public sector, institutional, and nonprofit employers. While Bronzeville has a significant low-income population, the area has seen a steady increase in middle-income households likely drawn to the area due to its proximity to downtown and Lake Michigan. Approximately 43 percent of these residents live in low-income households earning less than $25,000 a year (compared to a rate of 23 percent in Cook County overall). ![]() 2įrom a peak of over 75,000 in 1950, Bronzeville’s population now sits at 42,696. In 1999, the Chicago Housing Authority’s “Plan for Transformation” began a large-scale demolition process that promised to replace the worst of the high-rise public housing units with mixed-income communities. Ultimately, the city gave up on its high-rise public housing experiment. Wells Homes-became synonymous with urban blight. However, poor maintenance, disinvestment, and neglectful bureaucracy reduced many of these structures into magnets for crime, and their names-the Robert Taylor Homes, Stateway Gardens, the Ida B. In addition to the stable housing they offered, these units facilitated a kind of intentional community building, providing public spaces for congregating, playgrounds for children, and greenspace for residents to enjoy. Initially, these new buildings were beacons of hope to Bronzeville’s low-income population. In the 1950s and 1960s, 7,000 units of public housing were built to accommodate the neighborhood’s growing population. In 1962, the Dan Ryan Expressway opened on Bronzeville’s western border, physically and economically isolating the community from other neighborhoods and perpetuating a cycle of disinvestment, decline, and urban renewal efforts to combat those trends that in many ways continue to this day. Easing segregation policies in the 1950s and 1960s also allowed middle and upper-class black residents to move from the overpopulated area, leaving behind a disproportionately low-income community with high unemployment and high crime rates. Large swathes of Bronzeville’s housing stock were demolished, replaced with dense clusters of public housing. Post-World War II housing policies further weakened its economic base. The Great Depression brought wide-scale unemployment to the neighborhood and the closure of many black-run businesses and financial institutions. However, Bronzeville’s status as a thriving economically diverse community was dealt a blow beginning in the 1930s. Many of the most important cultural figures of the 20th century lived in Bronzeville or frequented its storied venues and community spaces, including Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington, Nat King Cole, Richard Wright, Ida B. Bronzeville was also an epicenter of entertainment and intellectualism. The Chicago Defender and Chicago Bee were Bronzeville-based daily newspapers that had widespread influence and distribution, helping to establish the neighborhood as a national center for black journalism. The nation’s first black-owned bank, the Binga State Bank, opened there in 1921. These residents, confined to the area by restrictive covenants that aimed to prevent African-Americans from purchasing homes in other parts of the city, created a flourishing city within a city. Most of these newcomers settled in and around Bronzeville and it came to be known as one of America’s great black metropolises. During the early to mid-20th century, the Great Migration brought hundreds of thousands of African-Americans north to Chicago in search of economic opportunity and relief from racial violence and oppression. History and contextīronzeville has been the heart of Chicago’s black community for over a century. This profile looks at Chicago’s Bronzeville area, a dynamic and culturally rich community well positioned for growth, which continues to be challenged by the lasting effects of disinvestment, population loss, and policies that stymie economic opportunity. 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