T.R.A.C.S at Timothy Plaza River Island
Friday, March 27, 2015
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Werewolves of London
"Werewolves of London
Zevon wrote this with guitarist Robert
"Waddy" Wachtel. When Zevon was working with The Everly Brothers, he
hired Wachtel to play in their backing band. At one point, Phil Everly asked
them to write a dance song for the Everly Brothers called "Werewolves Of
London." Wachtel and Zevon were good friends and were strumming guitars
together when someone asked what they were playing. Zevon replied,
"Werewolves Of London," and Wachtel started howling. Zevon came up
with the line "I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand," and
they traded lyrics back and forth until they had their song.
WEREWOLF
A werewolf, also
known as a lycanthrope (from the Greek λυκάνθρωπος lykánthropos: λύκος, lykos,
"wolf", and ἄνθρωπος, anthrōpos, "man"), is a mythological
or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or a
therianthropic hybrid wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being
placed under a curse or affliction (e.g. via a bite or scratch from another
werewolf). Early sources for belief in lycanthropy are Petronius and Gervase of
Tilbury.
The werewolf is a
widespread concept in European folklore, existing in many variants which are
related by a common development of a Christian interpretation of underlying
European folklore which developed during the medieval period. From the early
modern period, werewolf beliefs also spread to the New World with colonialism.
Belief in werewolf develops parallel to the belief in witches, in the course of
the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Like the witchcraft trials as
a whole, the trial of supposed werewolves emerges in what is now Switzerland in
the early 15th century and spreads throughout Europe in the 16th, peaking in
the 17th and subsiding by the 18th century. The persecution of werewolves and
the associated folklore is an integral part of the "witch-hunt"
phenomenon, albeit a marginal one, accusations of werewolfery being involved in
only a small fraction of witchcraft trials. During the early period,
accusations of lycanthropy (transformation into a wolf) were mixed with
accusations of wolf-riding or wolf-charming. The case of Peter Stumpp (died
1589. He was a Rhenish farmer, accused of being a serial killer and a cannibal,
also known as the "Werewolf of Bedburg"). led to a significant peak
in both interest in and persecution of supposed werewolves, primarily in
French-speaking and German-speaking Europe. The phenomenon persisted longest in
Bavaria and Austria, with persecution of wolf-charmers recorded until well
after 1650, the final cases taking place in the early 18th century in Carinthia
and Styria.
After the end of
the witch-trials, the werewolf became of interest in folklore studies and in
the emerging Gothic horror genre; werewolf fiction as a genre has pre-modern
precedents in medieval romances and develops in the 18th century out of the "semi-fictional"
chap book tradition. The trappings of horror literature in the 20th century
became part of the horror and fantasy genre of modern pop culture.
According to legend, a Werewolf is a man
who turns into a wolf when there is a full moon. The only way to kill one is to
shoot it through the heart with a silver bullet.
Name
A werewolf is person
believed to have been transformed into a wolf or to be capable of assuming the
form of a wolf. [Middle English,
from Old English werewulf : wer, man; + wulf, wolf;]
Word History: The
meaning wolf in werewolf is current English; the were is not. Werewulf,
"werewolf," occurs only once in Old English, about the year 1000, in
the laws of King Canute: "lest the madly ravenous werewolf too savagely
tear or devour too much from a godly flock." The wer- or were- in wer(e)wulf
means "man"; it is related to Latin vir with the same meaning, the
source of virile and virility. Both the Germanic and the Latin words derive
from Indo-European *wīro-, "man." Wer- also appears, though much
disguised, in the word world. World is first recorded (written wiaralde) in Old
English in a charter dated 832; the form worold occurs in Beowulf. The Old
English forms come from Germanic *wer-ald-, "were-eld" or
"man-age." The transfer of meaning from the age of humans to the
place where they live has a parallel in the Latin word saeculum, "age,
generation, lifetime," later "world."
To Become a
Werewolf
What many
people today think of as a "werewolf" is actually a
"shapeshifter". Some shapeshifters turn exclusively into wolves from
human form, but these are not actual werewolves. These shapeshifter-wolves have
become popularly known as "werewolves" because of the Twilight book
series.
Real
werewolfism is a curse. Those afflicted have little to no control over their
actions when in wolf form and little to no control over their transformations.
There are three
ways to become a werewolf
- Be born to parents with werewolf genetics
- Be bitten by a werewolf
- Be "cursed"
Monday, March 23, 2015
SPRING PARTY at T.R.A.C.S
“When spring came, even the false spring,
there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could
spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day
had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very
few that were as good as spring itself.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast ―
"Naked" Carl joined us and made a
great set of pictures. Please have a look at them on his blog: http://nakedcarl-carl.blogspot.nl/2015/03/tracs-spring-party.html
Here are my snapshots.
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Spring Affair
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"Spring
Affair" is a song by American singer and songwriter Donna Summer from her
1976 album Four Seasons of Love. The song (which represents the
"spring" phase of the concept album) tells of the beginning of a new
relationship. At the time of its release, Summer had already started to make
her name as the leading female disco singer by releasing frankly sexual songs
that were considerable in length. In its entirety "Spring Affair"
lasted over eight minutes, though it was edited down for its release as a
single.
"Spring
Affair" was sampled extensively on "Super Disco" by Alex Gopher
and Étienne de Crécy from Super Discount (1996).
SPRING (season)
Spring is one of the four conventional
temperate seasons, following winter and preceding summer. There are various
technical definitions of spring, but local usage of the term varies according
to local climate, cultures and customs. When it is spring in the Northern
Hemisphere, it will be autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. At the spring
equinox, days are approximately 12 hours long with day length increasing as the
season progresses. Spring and "springtime" refer to the season, and
also to ideas of rebirth, rejuvenation, renewal, resurrection and regrowth.
Subtropical and tropical areas have climates better described in terms of other
seasons, e.g. dry or wet, monsoonal or cyclonic. Often the cultures have
locally defined names for seasons which have little equivalence to the terms
originating in
Natural events
During spring,
the axis of the Earth is increasing its tilt relative to the Sun, and the
length of daylight rapidly increases for the relevant hemisphere. The
hemisphere begins to warm significantly causing new plant growth to
"spring forth," giving the season its name. Snow, if a normal part of
winter, begins to melt, and streams swell with runoff. Frosts, if a normal part
of winter, become less severe. In climates that have no snow and rare frosts,
the air and ground temperatures increase more rapidly. Many flowering plants
bloom this time of year, in a long succession sometimes beginning when snow is
still on the ground, continuing into early summer. In normally snowless areas
"spring" may begin as early as February (Northern Hemisphere)
heralded by the blooming of deciduous magnolias, cherries and quince, or August
(Southern Hemisphere) in the same way. Many temperate areas have a dry spring,
and wet autumn (fall), which brings about flowering in this season more
consistent with the need for water as well as warmth. Subarctic areas may not
experience "spring" at all until May or even June.
While spring is a
result of the warmth caused by the changing orientation of the Earth's axis
relative to the Sun, the weather in many parts of the world is overlain by
events which appear very erratic taken on a year-to-year basis. The rainfall in
spring (or any season) follows trends more related to longer cycles or events
created by ocean currents and ocean temperatures. Good and well-researched
examples are the El Niño effect and the Southern Oscillation Index.
Unstable weather
may more often occur during spring, when warm air begins on occasions to invade
from lower latitudes, while cold air is still pushing on occasions from the
Polar regions. Flooding is also most common in and near mountainous areas
during this time of year because of snowmelt, accelerated by warm rains. In the
United States, Tornado Alley is most active this time of year, especially since
the Rocky Mountains prevent the surging hot and cold air masses from spreading
eastward and instead force them into direct conflict. Besides tornadoes,
supercell thunderstorms can also produce dangerously large hail and very high winds,
for which a severe thunderstorm warning or tornado warning is usually issued.
Even more so than in winter, the jet streams play an important role in unstable
and severe weather in the springtime in the Northern Hemisphere.
In recent decades
season creep has been observed, which means that many phenological signs of
spring are occurring earlier in many regions by a couple of days per decade.
Spring is seen as
a time of growth, renewal, of new life (both plant and animal) being born. The
term is also used more generally as a metaphor for the start of better times,
as in the Prague Spring.
Spring in the
Southern Hemisphere is different in several significant ways to that of the
Northern Hemisphere for several reasons: there is no land bridge between Southern
Hemisphere countries and the Antarctic zone capable of bringing in cold air
without the temperature-mitigating effects of extensive tracts of water; the
vastly greater amount of ocean in the Southern Hemisphere at all latitudes; at
this time in Earth's geologic history the Earth has an orbit which brings it in
closer to the Southern Hemisphere for its warmer seasons; there is a
circumpolar flow of air (the roaring 40s and 50s) uninterrupted by large land
masses; no equivalent jet streams; and the peculiarities of the reversing ocean
currents in the Pacific.
Beginning of spring in the Netherlands
Spring begins in the northern hemisphere
(mostly) on 20 March and ends (mostly) on 21 June. The beginning of spring (20
or 21 March) has been determined on the basis of an agreement.
Astronomical spring starts as the day and
night are of equal length. During the spring the days are getting longer. The spring
evening occurs around 20 March in the northern hemisphere. The Sun then passes
through the vernal equinox and the day and night are approximately the same
length. Spring ends with the summer solstice (around June 21). That is the
moment that the Sun is the highest in the sky.
In 2015 the starting of the astronomical
spring in Netherlands 23:
45
During spring in the more northerly regions
of the northern hemisphere trees become much greener and many plants bloom;
gradually, it is warmer and the chance of Frost is smaller.
The Dutch word lente is an old derivation
of the Dutch word "lang" (long) and covers "lengen van de dagen"
For practical reasons, but also climatic
meteorological spring begins on March 1 and lasts until 1 June.
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
COMIC PARTY at T.R.A.C.S
DJ "Catwoman" Corvus entertained
us with the best comic tunes.
Corvus had some problems and crashed a few
times but she solved it and we could listen to her great themed music set. There were
a lot of new guests and Tim got a lot of messages that kept him busy.
Here is my
set of snapshots.
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