Отправлено: 28.10.05 18:11. Заголовок: Вести с PAULей

В данной теме предлагаю размещать новости о Поле ну, и, собссно, их же и обсуждать [img src=/gif/sm/sm10.gif]

 Отправлено: 28.10.05 18:12. Заголовок: Re:

McCartney Mania
Des Moines, October 27, 2005 - Nearly 16,000 people packed into the Wells Fargo Arena last night to watch a legend in concert. Many of them paid up to $200 for a ticket to see former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney play to a sold out crowd.

The line to get in started forming late Thursday afternoon. All of the entrances to the arena were open last night, and this time, everyone made it to their seats on time. Everyone we talked to said the pricey tickets were worth the experience. People got their money's worth the show lasted for more than two-and-a-half hours.

 Отправлено: 28.10.05 18:13. Заголовок: Re:

Ща переведу, подождите чуть-чуть

 Отправлено: 28.10.05 18:42. Заголовок: Re:

МакКартини Мания
Des Moines, 27 октября 2005г. Почти 16 000 людей впихнулось вчера вечером в Wells Fargo Arena, дабы воочию лицезреть концерт легенды. Многие из них заплатили свыше 200 $, чтобы увидеть как один из битлов - Сэр Пол МакКартни будет играть заплатившей ему толпе ( немного непонятен смысл этого предложения, я заранее извиняюсь)
Очередь начала расти еще в четверг днем. Все входы в стадион были открыты вчера вечером, и на этот раз, все заняли свои места во время . Каждый кого мы спрашивали говорил, что дорогие билеты окупили это событие . Ведь вместо своих денег они получили больше, чем двухчасовое шоу

 Отправлено: 28.10.05 18:47. Заголовок: Re:

Так что есть еще порох-то в пороховницах , так держать, Пол!

 Отправлено: 28.10.05 18:49. Заголовок: Re:

Пасиб, Маш! Хорошая тема :)))))

 Отправлено: 28.10.05 18:53. Заголовок: Re:

BeatloManьka

Да не за что , вот только мне много переводить придется . Что ж, буду практиковаться - образование обязывает

 Отправлено: 28.10.05 20:02. Заголовок: Re:

Expectations 'High' for McCartney book



Expectations 'High' for McCartney book

Friday, October 28, 2005
By Karen MacPherson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Writing stories for children is a new role for Paul McCartney, and he's thrilled with it.
"It's always nice to try projects like this," the former Beatle said in a recent telephone interview from Minneapolis, one of 37 stops on his nationwide tour promoting his acclaimed new CD, "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.''
"It's a nice change and a stretch for me and for my fans. It's nice to spread myself out a bit."
McCartney's children's book, "High in the Clouds" (Dutton, $19.99), has just been released, with a first run of 500,000 copies. Illustrated in a glossy animation style by Geoff Dunbar, the 98-page book tells the story of Wirral the Squirrel, whose woodland home is destroyed by money-hungry developers.
Wirral, joined by his friend Froggo and a lovely squirrel named Wilhamina, set out through the nightmarish landscape of Megatropolis to find a new home in Animalia, a tropical island sanctuary for animals.
But finding Animalia isn't enough. Wirral and his friends must convince the island's peace-loving inhabitants to fight the evil Gretsch, who is seeking to destroy Animalia and force all of its inhabitants to become slaves in her pollution-belching factories. Can Wirral and company find a way to save Animalia?
McCartney's fast-paced story crackles with energy. Sure, some
of the characters are stock types, and the story sometimes gets a bit too busy. And some of Dunbar's illustrations seem small and dark.
But the book overall is superior to children's books recently churned out by celebrities like Madonna, Katie Couric and Jay Leno, and there are a couple of good reasons for this.
McCartney knew that, although he is one of the best known and most popular singer/songwriters in the word, he's a beginner when it comes to writing books for children. So he decided to hire a veteran author, Philip Ardagh, author of books like the best-selling "Eddie Dickens'' trilogy, to polish his story.
"I did OK on the story line and characters, and artist Geoff was great with illustrations. But we needed someone to help bring some elegance to the prose," McCartney.
"I'm happy to own up to that," he added. "Some people told me, 'Just put your name on it.' But [Ardagh] gives it a style that we couldn't have brought to it."
Perhaps even more important to the success of the book over the usual celebrity tomes is the fact that McCartney didn't set out to bring a "message'' to his young readers.
McCartney, like seasoned children's book authors, focused on telling a rollicking tale. And if readers understand the "kindness to animals" message implicit in the story, so much the better:
"I would like readers first of all to just enjoy the story and illustrations. If they enjoy the stories and sympathize with the characters, then they would be educating themselves about the underlying theme of kindness to animals," McCartney said. "But we really wanted it to be a good read."
He got the idea for "High in the Clouds" years ago, when he and Dunbar worked on the animated film "Tropic Island Hum." The two have collaborated on a number of animation shorts, including the award-winning "Rupert and the Frog Song" in 1985.

 Отправлено: 28.10.05 20:03. Заголовок: Re:

"In discovering those characters ... we started to have the idea to do something more full-length with them." Dunbar and McCartney took a mock-up to a book editor, who gave "High in the Clouds" the green light.
McCartney said the book is meant to appeal to "any age, if you're just looking at the pictures. The pictures are beautiful. He told the St. Paul Pioneer Press that his 2-year-old daughter, Beatrice, enjoys the illustrations.
"But, as for reading it, it's a sophisticated tale, a story that's more for children over 8 years old, who are used to that kind of emotional depth. I'd say the story is for anyone from 8 to 80."
Adult readers may question how children will be affected by the death of Wirral's mother, which occurs early in the story. Wirral's grief is highlighted, both in the story and in Dunbar's illustrations.
McCartney said he understands that the death adds a somber note to the story, but points to other popular tales like "Bambi" that also feature a parent's death.
"If I were reading it to a little kid, I'd skip that part," McCartney said. "But I think that, for older kids, often something significant like this happens; it's an emotional thrust of the story that's very important.
"Yes, it is dark, but I think that a lot of good books have things like this to engage your emotions, to draw you in and make you care. And look at Grimms' fairy tales -- now, they're really dark!"
McCartney, a lifelong Disney fan, said he decided on a squirrel for the main character because he wanted an animal, and the other obvious choices already were taken. "It couldn't be a bear because that's been done -- Winnie the Pooh. And it couldn't be a mouse -- we know who that would be."
Wirral, whose full name is actually William the squirrel, is named for "the place where my dad used to live, outside Liverpool," McCartney said. Gretsch started out as Gretchen, but then morphed into the "funky shorthand" of Gretsch, which also happens to be a kind of guitar.
"There are all kinds of little cross-references like that in the book."
Now that he has published one children's book, McCartney said he'd think about doing another. "But I'd really like to see how this experience goes. If this goes well, it would be tempting to do another."
Asked what he thinks he does best -- make music or write children's books -- McCartney laughed and said: "I'll probably stick to my day job."

Бли-и-ии-ин , я просто в ужасе!!!Целый час сидела переводила статью, писала, начала отправлять, выплывает сообщение, что ваше послание должно содержть столько-то знаков, а у вас столько-то, после этого форум виснет, и вместе с ним и весь компьютер!! Я расстроилась ужасно, целый час коту под хвост, а у меня так здорово получилось.......................................................................................................

 Отправлено: 28.10.05 20:20. Заголовок: Re:

А эти фотки как раз с того концерта в Des Moines, который прошел вчера, о котором я писала выше

 Отправлено: 28.10.05 20:35. Заголовок: Re:

McCashka

Есть такая вещь, как ведение дневника, у меня например, все, что я набираю на клаве и все, что я копирую в буфер обмена, сохраняется, поэтому мне любые глюки нипочем. Советую. Кстати, от резвых соседей (которых у тебя нет) её можно запаролить.
Некоторые, правда, делают проще: все набирают в Word, но мне мой вариант больше нравится.

 Отправлено: 28.10.05 20:45. Заголовок: Re:

Twilight

Да я давно уже поняла что все обязательно надо копировать в Word, а тут замечталась, блин, и совсем забыла сохранить А что за дневник? Я тоже так хочу

 Отправлено: 28.10.05 20:58. Заголовок: Re:

McCashka

Прога называется Punto Switcher, вообще она предназначена для автоматического переключения раскладок клавиатуры, но заодно она и ведет днекник)) Она кстати тем лучше ворда, что она защищает от глюков все время...а если ты будешь сохранять в ворде - то только от глюков в момент отправки.

 Отправлено: 29.10.05 11:26. Заголовок: Re:

For the love of Paul: Fans endure long lines, high prices to see McCartney
By ERIN CRAWFORD
REGISTER STAFF WRITER
October 28, 2005
Hundred-dollar-plus tickets, hours of driving and thousand-person-long lines to see former Beatle and still "The Cute One" Paul McCartney didn't bring down the more than 15,500 fans at Wells Fargo Arena on Thursday night.
"I absolutely love it," said Tiffany Cleghorn, 26, of Des Moines, 20 minutes into the concert. "I've always wanted to meet a Beatle, but being in the same room is close enough."
"Greetings, Des Moines! We've traveled many miles to rock you, and rock you we will!" Paul announced to a cheering crowd that seemed determined to be rocked. So much that they ven lip-synced in the hallways while getting snacks.
"He's going to play 'I Will,' and I've never heard that in concert," said Dave Peterson, 51, of West Des Moines, who was playing air guitar to "The Long and Winding Road" while waiting at the merchandise stand.
Even before McCartney kicked off his magical mystery tour, fans kept a stiff upper lip while waiting in the chilly fall air.
"At least it's not raining," said Margaret Ellis, 51, of Newton, who came to the concert with two friends. One of them, Diane Karsten, 57, of Newton, reasoned she saved so much seeing the Beatles for $3.50 in 1965 in Minneapolis that she could afford the $100 ticket this time around.
The two lines to enter the arena peaked in size about 6:15 p.m., when each became more than two blocks long and merged in a chaotic jumble at Third and Center streets. Then, doors opened 15 minutes ahead of schedule, and by 7 p.m., lines were declining and soon down to a few minutes' wait.
Caught in the crowd at its largest was one woman in a wheelchair, who got to what seemed to be the end of the line and was instructed by a police officer to navigate down the crowded sidewalk another block to get in a different line. Handicapped concertgoers had no special access, so they navigated the same block-long lines as other concertgoers.
Jim Bandstra of Monroe, who uses a wheelchair, said handicapped parking was far off.
Getting tickets wasn't any easier, said his wife, Kyla Bandstra.
"(The arena) didn't know if they had seats," she said.
Ticket prices weren't so hard on baby boomers' kids like Grinnell College student Lindsey Martin, 20, whose mom, Jan Martin, 48, of Monmouth, Ill., was happy to pay for the $89.50-apiece tickets when her daughter suggested they go.
Prices were tougher on Star Cron, 22, of Mount Vernon, Mo., and Kira Pfeifle, 21, of Carthage, Mo., who had to save $178 to buy two tickets, and then saved for the five-hour trip to Des Moines.
At least Pfeifle already had appropriate attire: She wore a sweat shirt printed with "Vegan." She thought she'd stand out by appealing to McCartney's animal rights work rather than his work with the Beatles.
Uberfans like Rob Kuhm, 36, of Des Moines voluntarily waited extra hours. Kuhm came early to his sixth McCartney concert to watch the star's caravan pull into the venue.
Because of his fan club membership, Kuhm knew months before the formal announcement that McCartney would be in town, knew what the set list would be, and knew McCartney had taken a bike ride that morning in a Twin Cities park.
Inside the arena, after all that waiting, there was even more waiting. The longest lines inside the arena were for the merchandise. Sheila Whyte, 43, of Des Moines stood with her sister Michelle, 35, at the back of the group.
They weren't waiting to buy merchandise, just to see what it was. Sheila attempted to steady two $5 glasses of beer, which her sister advised her to buy so they wouldn't have to stand in line again.
"We're trying trying to decide whether to sit down or wait to see," she said. She was wary of their floor seats.
"I've heard the floor is freezing. It's just (something) covering ice."
But despite the setbacks that come with visiting an arena at the same time as thousands of other people, the majority of fans sat down before opening act DJ Freelance Hellraiser started his set.
And they clapped when he wanted them to and cheered to please Paul like he pleased them.
today's headlines

 Отправлено: 29.10.05 11:26. Заголовок: Re:

Ради любви к Полу: фаны вынесли длинные очереди
, высокие цены, чтобы увидеть МакКартни.
И еще кое-какие подробности( вкратце ) с позавчерашнего концерта Пола в Des Moines.
Впервые на своем концерте, Пол исполнил песню "I will"
Охранниками была поймана женщина на инвалидном кресле, которой захотелось посмотреть и испытать, что значит быть в конце очереди Но офицер полиции успешно провел ее вниз по переполненому переходу, чтобы она встала в другую очередь. Неполноценная слушательница не нашла специального прохода к концерту, который должен быть оборудован, для таких как она, поэтому она встала в обычную очередь, как и остальные слушатели. Jim Bandstra of Monroe, которая использует инвалидное кресло, сказала, что парковка для инвалидов была очень далеко.
А это фотография фанов Пола, бывших на концерте.

 Отправлено: 29.10.05 19:08. Заголовок: Re:

Спасибо, Маша!!! Продолжай в том же духе!!!=)