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i would n't have come if i did n't feel the need to protect giselle . |
then again , maybe this wasnt a date . |
sometimes , she let herself think about how his lips might feel against hers . |
someone had to do it . |
`` just have him observe and deliver the usual . |
it 's a universal principle operating throughout the universe ; the entire universe is moving toward a final state of total , absolute kippleization . '' |
he lay in a broken heap where he landed . |
somewhere on earth ? '' |
eshe led him back to their bikes and got on her own , but glanced to bricker in question when he paused and peered back at the house with his head cocked . |
`` ladies and gentlemen . |
William Paul Barretta (born June 19, 1964) is an American puppeteer, actor, producer, writer and director, who is best known for providing the puppetry and voice of characters such as Pepe the King Prawn, Johnny Fiama, Big Mean Carl, and Bobo the Bear. He originated the role of Louie, Elmo's dad, on Sesame Street. Barretta also inherited the roles of Rowlf the Dog, The Swedish Chef, Mahna Mahna, and Dr. Teeth after the death of Muppet creator Jim Henson.
Early life
Barretta was born William Paul Barretta in Yardley, Pennsylvania on June 19, 1964. He is the younger brother of children's book author and illustrator Gene Barretta. The brothers attended St. Mary's Hall-Doane Academy in Burlington, New Jersey. Bill eventually became a carpenter. He met Brian Henson while they were working at Sesame Place.
Career
Barretta has been performing with The Muppets since 1991, when he puppeteered the body of Sinclair family patriarch, Earl Sinclair on Dinosaurs. He later developed several new characters on Muppets Tonight, including Pepe the King Prawn, Johnny Fiama, Big Mean Carl, and Bobo the Bear.
Barretta has taken over several of Jim Henson's roles, such as Dr. Teeth, Rowlf the Dog, Mahna Mahna, and Swedish Chef, and briefly took over Jerry Nelson's role of Lew Zealand. His film debut as a principal puppeteer was in 1996's Muppet Treasure Island as Clueless Morgan.
For Sesame Street, Bill Barretta originated the role of Elmo's dad, Louie, who was introduced in 2006. At first, Louie only appeared in a few direct-to-video specials, but he became a more regular character later on. Barretta based Louie's voice on Louis Prima's. In 2010, Tyler Bunch took over the role after talking with Barretta. In an interview, Barretta explained that he had to fly to New York for every appearance on Sesame Street, so once Louie started to appear more often, it was much more practical for a New York-based puppeteer to take over the role.
Barretta has produced two of the Muppets' television films, It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002) and The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005). Barretta also provided additional voices on Kim Possible. He performed in Muppets Most Wanted, where he also served as a co-producer. Barretta also served as an executive producer on the ABC series, The Muppets. In 2021, Barretta produced the special Muppets Haunted Mansion.
Filmography
Film
Television
Video games
Internet
Events
References
External links
MuppetZine Interview
Living people
People from Yardley, Pennsylvania
Muppet performers
Sesame Street Muppeteers
American male voice actors
American puppeteers
Doane Academy alumni
1964 births |
she laughed , gasping . |
nine a.m . |
it 's always bound , but he binds it again every halloween for the new year . '' |
but you did that to push people back . '' |
once again , an image buckled and shimmered like a celluloid frame paused before an overheated projector bulb-and then he knew where he was . |
but i really hope he tells them soon because secrets with me and ansel ? |
i rinse off , step out of the shower , and towel off . |
this was saying something considering colt told me amy had no real friends left when she died . |
im only going to ask you this once . |
why ? '' |
Stanley Ellis (18 February 1926 in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire – 31 October 2009 in Harrogate) was an English linguistics scholar and broadcaster, and an authority on English regional dialects.
Born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, he attended Grange Grammar School and obtained a scholarship to study at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His studies were interrupted by World War II, during which he was a navigator in the RAF. After national service, part of which was spent in India, he read English at Leeds University, with a master's thesis on the Lincolnshire dialect.
He worked as principal researcher under Harold Orton on the four volume Survey of English Dialects. Ellis performed much of the field work this entailed, and many of his recordings and interviews are housed in the Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture. He went on to be a lecturer and senior lecturer in the School of English at Leeds.
He was the first person to provide expert evidence for speaker identification in an English court, and in June 1979, he correctly identified that a tape released by police that purported to be from the Yorkshire Ripper was by a hoaxer (nicknamed Wearside Jack by the press), as the accent was that of someone from an area a significant distance from the crime scene. However, the police disregarded his warning. The hoaxer was finally identified in 2006, and shown to have lived his life in the region Ellis had identified. His colleague on the case and in university, Jack Windsor Lewis, said in November 2012 that Ellis had located the speaker to the Wearside area by comparing his speech with that of a recording made whilst studying the dialect of Washington, but dismissed the reports that Ellis located him as precisely as Castletown.
After taking early retirement from his university post, Ellis continued to provide linguistic expertise as an expert witness in court cases.
From the 1980s, he presented a series of programmes on dialect for BBC Radio 4, entitled "Take a Place Like ..." and "Talk of the Town, Talk of the Country", and later was a host of radio phone-ins, discussing dialect and origins of names and placenames with callers, as well as contributing to programmes such as The Routes of English.
In Talking for Britain: A Journey Through the Nation's Dialects (2005), Simon Elmes paid tribute to Ellis: 'Stanley's deep linguistic wisdom and his love of the British landscape – the people who live in it and who describe it in their talk – inspired me to pursue my own long fascination' (p. x).
He was awarded honorary life membership of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics in 2004.
References
External links
Stanley Ellis – Daily Telegraph obituary
1926 births
2009 deaths
Academics of the University of Leeds
Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Alumni of the University of Leeds
British radio presenters
English broadcasters
Linguists from England
Writers from Bradford
Royal Air Force personnel of World War II |
i did n't know what was wrong with me lately . |
his mouth opened , and he made that odd gurgling noise that happened so often when he tried to say something but could n't because of the spell . |
i knew the admissions office had opened their doors to more graduates , and i knew sarah had applied . |
`` oh , i sucked at all the science subjects . '' |
you 've got remote codes . |
the bartender turned his back to us . |
of course peter comes too , but jamie does n't know that . |
no offense , but this investigation needs more than just a private detective in charge of it . '' |
`` your lectures and bright smile are the highlight of my days here at thornking-ash , if you do n't mind me saying so . '' |
i wiggled my jaw , trying to disperse some of the anger that wanted to come out . |
whoa , whoa , wait , the policeman said . |
walking into the kitchenette , i poured myself some cereal before collapsing in a chair in the living area . |
he grimaced . |
i managed not to add , like a normal person . |
it was yet another sign of how far i 'd advanced - or regressed , by alchemist standards . |
he had the most startling blue eyes , and while he looked like he was so over this routine , there seemed to be some level of compassion to his stare . |
he hasnt said a word . |
he hurdled the barrier , ran a further twenty yards down the street , ducked through a crumbling gateway and into one of the damaged buildings . |
dennis turned the computer to face him , and sat back expectantly as bobo read through the page . |
`` this is pretty slick , glint . |
he didnt pass the documents to me . |
it did n't help that i included dad 's mischievous footnote about the curious similarity between the form of certain truff rituals and the acts depicted in the chapter . } |
i flinched , unable to suppress the natural response . |
we 're going to get her back and politely ask how they knew all this was coming down . |
this stone has great power : it brings only good luck . |
`` we warned you not to return , '' he whispered . |
well . |
cam was watching the door . |
`` i did n't even see that in your thoughts . '' |
`` is that how it was in your house ? '' |
he asked . |
my eyes go to a streak of dark red staining his hand . |
*** chapter two judith brushed out her long chestnut curls slowly . |
`` there were a couple of murgos following us , '' hettar replied as if that explained everything . |
`` why ? '' |
his mordant wit and savage criticism were tolerated because of his expertise . |
i whispered to jamie , suddenly afraid . |
he 'd had a brief course in it once . |
you like it out here . |
water from that same spring also ran through his land , but he left that part out . |
dalinar frowned . |
`` i also do n't need it to see something big happened . |
no ironing . |
he turned and stared out the window . |
az took the bag from her and tossed it to mateo . |
the bedrooms have all been prepared . |
they were likely each going crazy , making all kinds of mental leaps to deal with the reality of the situation . |
`` you may offer your thanks now . '' |
and harley would go to jail . |
*** i still had no clue if this scroll was a prophecy or a contract . |
who do you think you are ? '' |
that knocked the smile off his face . |
i think my horse was as shocked as i was . |
`` i know , '' i said , and i saw mamie again . |
bonnie tried to make herself small in the backseat . |
Oscar Normann Sand (11 August 1921 – 14 August 1974) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Akershus during the term 1965–1969.
On the local level, Sand was mayor of Oppegård municipality from 1956 to 1960.
References
1921 births
1974 deaths
Deputy members of the Storting
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
Mayors of places in Akershus
People from Oppegård |
where 'd he go ? '' |
overcome by impulse , i crossed over to him in two steps and wrapped my arms around his neck . |
i nodded and led the way to litwell 's door , finding that it had been ripped from the hinge and lay on the hallway floor . |
terri clutched her throat as fear gripped her . |
her gaze traveled slowly toward the prince . |
we did n't know anything about her gift or what it took from her `` are you okay ? '' |
it could come back . |
`` i wo n't ! '' |
Maoricrypta costata, or the ribbed slipper shell, is a species of intertidal medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Calyptraeidae. This species occurs along the east coast of the North Island, New Zealand.
References
Calyptraeidae
Gastropods of New Zealand
Gastropods described in 1824 |
matt grouses . |
The Watab River, also known as Watab Creek, is a tributary of the Mississippi River in Stearns County in central Minnesota in the United States. It rises north of St. Joseph at the confluence of its North and South Forks, and flows northeast through Watab Lake, then east into the Mississippi River at Sartell.
The North Fork Watab River, long, rises in Island Lake, a small creek feeds Pflueger Lake, flows northeasterly to Stumpf Lake, then southeasterly near Collegeville, merging with the South Fork near St. Joseph.
The South Fork Watab River, long, flows southeast from Big Watab Lake to Little Watab Lake, and through a pond before flowing northeast and into North Fork Watab River.
History
The word watab comes from the Ojibwe language wadab-ziibi (Lit. "Spruce-Root River") due to the many spruce trees whose exposed roots were once commonly found along its banks. The name Watab comes from the word watap, as the cordage used for sewing together the birch-bark panels on the Ojibwe canoes was often made from spruce tree roots.
In 1825 the Watab River formed the first part of the border on the west side of the Mississippi between the Ojibwe people migrating from the north and the Dakota people to the south, and 20 years later the southern boundary for the Winnebago Reservation based in Long Prairie, Minnesota and lasting for less than ten years' duration. What is now the ghost town of Watab was located across the Mississippi River from the mouth of the Watab River.
Writing in 1915, journalist and local historian William Bell Mitchell recalled that as of 1850, "The Winnebagoes then had one of their main villages on the West bank of the Mississippi River, opposite Watab, and instead of remaining at home, were roaming around looking for a chance to play poker or some other gambling game, at which many of them were experts, or to obtain whiskey, for which they would give their last blanket. Sauk Rapids was then about two miles above the present village, where the fur company had their headquarters under the charge of Jeremiah Russell. Near the southwest corner of Stager's addition to Sauk Rapids was Calvin Potter's place, the primary attraction of which was a bar, and here were encounters between the Indians and White men, which resulted in the loss of life on both sides. One of these affairs in 1850 resulted in the sending of a party of government soldiers on the Governor Ramsey [steamboat] to Sauk Rapids, where a number of the Indians were arrested and taken to Watab, but afterwards released."
The Ho-Chunk stayed less than five years, moving again in 1853 50 miles south. Three years later they sold their grist and saw mills at the Watab River's mouth and moved south of Mankato. A 100-yard section of the old "Indian Trail" still remains just north of the creek's mouth albeit overgrown. The site of the village was still called "Winnebago" at the time of the 1866 ribbon map of the Mississippi River.
During the early years of pioneer settlement by Stearns County Germans, the valley made by the North Fork of the Watab River was named (), meaning "Beautiful Valley." According to local historian Coleman J. Barry, the beauty of the Watab Valley has also inspired many works of locally composed German poetry.
See also
List of rivers of Minnesota
References
Rivers of Minnesota
Tributaries of the Mississippi River
Rivers of Stearns County, Minnesota
German language in the United States
Ho-Chunk |
she continued down the corridor , and called dianas name into her communicator again . |
i have a ballpark figure . |
yet , that quickly , i came to another realization . |
perfectly painless . |
the trance-like state was to be triggered by the phrase `` blue crystal reader '' and rome was taught that phrase by minimcom when they were in the hut in hawaii . |
`` i 'm staying here until the job is done , '' she said . |
`` no , as in coughing , '' audrey said , rolling her eyes . |
someone unlike any type you 've come across . '' |
he questioned suddenly changing his backwards direction to move across the alley instead of backing out of it . |
`` yes , '' said ruth . |
`` i did n't know . |