MIDNIGHT RIDER FOR THE MORNING STAR: From the Life and Times of Francis Asbury, by Mark Alan Leslie, 2008, Francis Asbury Press, Wilmore, Ky., 257 pages, $14.95, paperback, available online at www.amazon.com. It was the painting of Francis Asbury, clutching an open Bible, astride a… Read More
The latest original series on TNT makes great use of a couple of old storytelling staples. “Leverage,” which debuts at 10 p.m. Sunday, features capers pulled off by a Robin Hood-type crew, but with a modern twist. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
Well, it’s one way to steam up the Bangor Auditorium on a cold November night. Pack it to the rafters with a small army of country music fans, give them three acts and three hours of solid performances and make them beg for more. All that for a… Read More
GOD STORIES: INSPIRING ENCOUNTERS WITH THE DIVINE, edited by Jennifer Skiff, 288 pages, Crown Publishing, New York, N.Y., $21.95, hardcover. Michele Croan and her mother were extremely close. Like sisters is how the Seal Harbor shop owner described their relationship. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
MY BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN, by L.A. Meyer, Harcourt, New York, 2008, hardcover, 436 pages, $17. Corea author L.A. Meyer has returned with the sixth chapter in his young-adult “Bloody Jack” series, featuring the misadventures of plucky orphan Jacky “Bloody Jack” Faber. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
Going to Grandma’s house was always a big adventure for me. Always delighted by my visits, she would help me cut out paper dolls from old catalogs or fetch the big box that contained old photographs of her five children. We would laugh together at the dresses and… Read More
How do you define a “God Story,” and how did you come to be interested in this topic? I define a God Story as something that happens to you that is so profound it confirms your belief in God or a Divine power. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
It’s only natural that Vermont mystery author Archer Mayor would bring his well-known creation, Joe Gunther, to Maine. “The old joke goes that all Vermonters vacation in Maine before they end up dying in Florida,” Mayor said in a phone interview from his home in Newfane, the seat… Read More
While it has been said that good servants often make good masters, it is a well-known fact that clever slaves with dim-witted owners make great comedy. That is the simple premise behind some of the world’s oldest laughs, including the ones that can be experienced this weekend at… Read More
The story of The Gingerbread Boy is one of those magnetic folk tales that uses suspense, magic and fatalism to teach a merciless truism about life. In it, an old woman makes a gingerbread cookie in the shape of a boy, but when she opens the oven, the… Read More
Sunday afternoon’s sold-out Bangor Symphony Orchestra concert was full of youthful energy, as three talented soloists performed a program of pieces all composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The star of the show, naturally, was Bangor High School alumna Ashley Emerson, who appeared on the Peakes… Read More
Steven Dietz’s Count Dracula doesn’t say, “I vant to drink your blood.” He is a minor character, seen far less frequently than he is talked about. Neither is the playwright’s Prince of Darkness a classmate of Buffy the Vampire Slayer who stops off at HBO’s… Read More
Back when the primary season was just beginning, it must have seemed like a great idea to stage the 1946 play “State of the Union” just before the nation was preparing to pick a new president. There’s no way Penobscot Theatre Company’s Producing Artistic Director… Read More
HOT MAHOGANY, by Stuart Woods, 2008, Putnam, New York, hardcover, 293 pages, $25.95. Stuart Woods’ most famous protagonist, New York cop-turned-lawyer Stone Barrington, returns for the 15th time in a real caper novel. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
Ten Bucks Theatre is attempting to stave off winter with a trio of one-acts directed by two of its younger members. Simon Ferland, a senior at the University of Maine, directed David Mamet’s “Duck Variations” and “The Attempted Murder of Ms. Peggy Sweetwater,” a spoof… Read More
With some dramatic lighting and a little smoke, Carrie Underwood appeared to rise from underneath the stage Tuesday night for her show in front of a packed house of screaming fans at the Cumberland County Civic Center. It’s not surprising that the 2005 “American Idol”… Read More
Every Sam Shepard play is chockfull of testosterone in the same way “Sex and the City” episodes ooze female hormones like lava spewing from an erupting volcano. “True West,” the American playwright’s 1983 story of brotherly love and hate, is the rule, not the exception… Read More
It has been 30 years since Arthur Fiedler brought the Boston Pops to Bangor. Six thousand people jammed the city’s auditorium on April 23, 1978, to watch the iconic 83-year-old conduct the symphony a year before his death. There was magic in the air, including a key to… Read More
One of the leading ladies of TV science fiction returns tonight in a new series. For 10 years on “Stargate SG-1” and one season on its spinoff, “Stargate: Atlantis,” Amanda Tapping played the brilliant Col. Samantha Carter. Now she’s back, out of uniform and in a new role. Read More
In his Bangor Daily News interview last week, Jonathan Biss said he felt that Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 was one of the most thrilling pieces for a pianist to perform with a symphony orchestra. When he played it Sunday afternoon in the Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s season-opening concert… Read More
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Aussie actor Simon Baker has landed a flashy showcase as the title character in the new drama “The Mentalist,” debuting at 9 tonight on CBS. Baker earned a Golden Globe nomination for playing sympathetic legal children’s advocate Nick Fallin in “The Guardian,” which aired on… Read More
A film is always the same. The images are burned into celluloid or locked onto a computer disc forever unchanged. A play is never the same even when the playwright’s words are recited to the letter. In small ways, a production changes from performance to… Read More
J.J. Abrams has struck again. Abrams, along with co-creators Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, are renowned for such works as “Lost,” “Alias” and the much-anticipated reboot of the “Star Trek” movie franchise. Their latest effort is “Fringe,” debuting at 9 tonight on Fox. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
HBO keeps coming back to its tried-and-true creators, with uneven results. David Simon went from the criminally underappreciated “The Wire” to the generally positive reviews of “Generation Kill.” David Milch moved from the acclaimed Western “Deadwood” to the bizarre mysticism of “John From Cincinnati.” googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
Now rolls in the next gritty FX drama following in the tracks of such acclaimed series as “The Shield” and “Rescue Me.” “Sons of Anarchy,” debuting at 10 tonight, is a heartwarming family drama about … a motorcycle club. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
Based on pedigree alone, TNT’s new legal series “Raising the Bar,” debuting at 10 tonight, ought to be a winner. After all, it’s created by Steven Bochco, who has won 10 Emmys through the years for such groundbreaking programming as “Hill Street Blues,” “L.A. Law”… Read More
STONINGTON – The highlight of any Maine theatergoer’s summer is the production of one of Shakespeare’s masterpieces at the Stonington Opera House. The company of New York actors takes risks with the Bard few companies in Maine dare try, and pushes the technical limits of the more than… Read More
Lovers of musical theater should hurry down to Northport Music Theater and soak up “Closer Than Ever,” a musical revue about life and love and aging. Not only is the show, directed by Scott R.C. Levy, the producing artistic director of the Penobscot Theatre Company,… Read More
Two out of three ain’t bad. The Shangri-La Music and Arts Festival, held last weekend at the Blue Hill Fairgrounds, had one of its three days cut short by torrential downpours Sunday afternoon. Lightning and 5 inches of rain meant that organizer Joel Raymond had… Read More
Given the similarities between Maine and Minnesota, it’s a wonder Kevin Kling’s “The Ice Fishing Play” hasn’t become a staple of theater companies in the Pine Tree State. After all, many a Mainer has retreated in the dead of winter to a customized shack on one of the… Read More
What makes William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” a problem play is not the plot, the dialogue or the story structure. It’s the fact that society has changed in the 400-some years since the Bard wrote it. Directors, in various attempts to make the play relevant to modern… Read More
The key to “Twelfth Night” is the pacing. It must start off at a trot, quickly switch to a canter and be moving at a gallop by intermission so that theatergoers barely have time to catch their breaths before they are astride again rushing headlong for the curtain… Read More
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Summer, especially summer in Maine, is for laughter. In offering up “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” the New Surry Theatre not only recognizes but also honors this notion in its production that opened Friday and runs weekends through Aug. 16. Read More
STONINGTON – Arlene Hutton’s play “As It Is In Heaven” lovingly brings to life a sliver of history from a Shaker community of the 19th century. That, however, is only what appears on the surface of this onionlike production to be performed tonight at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker… Read More
During this watershed presidential campaign comes a timely documentary on “P.O.V.,” airing at 10 tonight on Maine Public Television. “Election Day,” co-produced by Monroe native Dallas Brennan Rexler, takes viewers inside the events of Nov. 2, 2004, which capped the first presidential campaign since the… Read More
WRITING ON STONE: SCENES FROM A MAINE ISLAND LIFE, written by Christina Marsden Gillis, photographs by Peter Ralston, Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, and Island Institute, Rockland, 2008. $24.95. Does Maine’s slogan, “The Way Life Should Be,” extend to offshore locales such as… Read More
Showtime has paired up a couple of successful if shady female entrepreneurs on its Monday night lineup. Following suburban pot dealer Nancy Botwin on “Weeds” at 10 p.m. will be a woman who sells the world’s oldest commodity. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
As summer approaches, a new genre of character – the female social misfit in a position of authority – continues to grow with “In Plain Sight,” debuting at 10 p.m. Sunday on USA. “In Plain Sight” is a star vehicle for Mary McCormack (“The West… Read More
The Penobscot Theatre Company has not been kind to Tennessee Williams. Most often it has been a poorly cast lead from New York or Boston who has arrived with a preconceived vision for both his character and the show that nobody else shared or understood,… Read More
ADAM THE KING, by Jeffrey Lewis, Other Press, New York, 2008, 224 pages, hardcover, $21.95. If you were to ask me what I’ve been reading recently, I might tell you that it’s a book about guilt and redemption, about love and fate, about the past’s… Read More
Viewed together, the separate pieces in the Robinson Ballet’s spring show seem to be telling one story – a child’s flight from the nest followed by a triumphant return home. In another sense, from its first classical ballet piece, “Laren’s Waltz,” the story-telling of “Tennis… Read More
Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 is generally accepted to be one of the most difficult pieces in the violin repertoire. Apparently, when the Russian composer premiered it in Vienna in 1879, the violin virtuoso picked to perform it backed out, saying it was unplayable. Read More
OLD TOWN – Many of us, for better or worse, will have the opportunity at least once in our lives to provide personal care and emotional support to someone we love who is ill. The experience is complex, demanding and, potentially, deeply rewarding. Often, though,… Read More
“The Loveliest Woman in America” is a beguiling title. It’s also a fascinating memoir written by Bibi Gaston as she attempts to exhume the life of her grandmother Rosamond Pinchot Gaston, who ended her own life at age 33 in 1938. Bibi Gaston knew little… Read More
THE STORY OF SUGARLOAF, by John Christie, 2007, Down East Books, Camden, Maine, hardcover, $50. For Sugarloafers, it’s a great read, but for all Maine skiers, it is a must-read. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var… Read More
One of Britain’s sharpest exports returns this Sunday in the form of Tracey Ullman. Now a naturalized U.S. citizen, multiple Emmy winner Ullman celebrates the many quirks of this country in her new Showtime limited series “Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union,” debuting at 10… Read More
Penobscot Theatre Company’s latest production ends with a dire warning for the world – “Beware of the plants. They are coming to get you.” “Little Shop of Horrors” isn’t really a “message” show, but it is the most solid production the company, based at the… Read More
Rarely is the audience of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra drawn to its feet for a standing ovation. Even more rarely is it so captivated by a soloist that it demands an encore. Sunday afternoon’s concert at Peakes Auditorium, however, accomplished both those feats, in a riveting performance of… Read More
Since leaving her award-winning role as nurse Carole Hathaway on “ER” in 2000, Julianna Margulies hasn’t quite found as memorable a role on TV. Well, at least until now. Margulies has found a good one in Elizabeth Canterbury, a defense attorney willing to bend the… Read More
BEVERLY HILLS DEAD, by Stuart Woods, 2008, Putnam, New York, hardcover, 291 pages, $25.95. Part-time Mount Desert Island resident Woods takes readers into the past for the latest novel in his newest series featuring cop-turned-movie executive Rick Barron. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
It’s a natural pairing. Start with the Farrelly brothers, creators of such rude and crude comedies as “Something About Mary” and “Dumb and Dumber.” googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i… Read More
When it comes to sensitive TV dramas, two names come readily to mind: Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. Through the 1980s and ’90s, the pair created such revered shows as “thirtysomething,” “My So-Called Life” and “Once and Again.” As the latter two series proved, subtle… Read More
Twelve years in the making: That’s what the University of Maine School of Performing Arts’ production of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” has been – a long, difficult journey for director Tom Mikotowicz stretching back to those scary years in the late ’90s and early 2000s when there… Read More
AUGUSTA – The seeds held during the quarterfinal round of the Western Maine Class D boys basketball tourney Saturday at the Augusta Civic Center as No. 1 Richmond, No. 2 Valley of Bingham, No. 3 Forest Hills of Jackman and No. 4 Rangeley all posted victories. Read More
Neil Simon wrote one perfect act for “Last of the Red Hot Lovers.” Unfortunately, it’s stuck in the middle of two others that, at least in the Penobscot Theatre Company’s current production, just don’t live up to the faultless hilarity of the one in the middle. Read More
The next big “Sex and the City” wannabe arrives tonight. Last month was the debut of Darren Star’s “Cashmere Mafia” on ABC. Now comes “Lipstick Jungle,” based on the Candace Bushnell novel, at 10 p.m. on NBC. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
Listening to Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7, arguably the Czech composer’s most famous piece, is like watching a hurricane roll in. Just hard rain, at first, followed by a burst of thunder and lightning and wind, threatening to uproot trees and blow down houses. Then the eye passes… Read More
SEARSPORT – Matt Boyle scored eight of his 21 points in the third quarter, when the Sumner outscored Searsport 19-6, to propel the Tigers of East Sullivan to a 63-56 schoolboy basketball victory on Saturday. Denton Johnson and Justin Brenton each added 13 points for… Read More
MILO – Sabrina Sherrill connected for a game-high 20 points Saturday to propel Foxcroft Academy to a 53-41 girls basketball victory over Penquis. Vanessa Lougee chipped in 12 points for the Ponies. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
MARGARET CHASE SMITH: A WOMAN FOR PRESIDENT, by Lynn Plourde; color illustrations by David McPhail. Ages 8-11. 32 pages. $16.95 hardbound; $7.95 paperback. Hillary Rodham Clinton is not the first woman from a major political party to run for president. That distinction goes to Maine… Read More
Monday night on CBS has long meant comedy. That continues this winter, despite the writers strike. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i < slot_sizes.length; i++) { if… Read More
Good news! It’s midseason, when the networks normally would begin replacing underperforming series with those that weren’t ready (or weren’t good enough) in the fall. Well, this season, instead of replacing series they’ve interrupted, network executives are replacing shows that have been truncated by the… Read More
Outside the Bangor Auditorium Thursday, die-hard country music fans braved the year’s coldest night huddled in their pickups with their stereos cranked up. A favorite track seemed to be “I Got My Game On,” Trace Adkins’ testosterone-driven tale about one man on a mission in a nightclub. Read More
ORONO – Thursday night’s Class C basketball matchup between Orono and Penobscot Valley of Howland featured more drama than a Broadway play. When it came time for the final act, the Red Riots’ cast simply had more answers, turning up its defensive pressure and sinking… Read More
WICKED GOOD WINTER CHALLENGE Participating Teams: Hurricane Swim Club- Bangor-HSC; Canoe City Swim Club- Old Town/Orono YMCA- CCSC; Bangor Y-BYB; Mount Desert YMCA-MDIY; Mid-Maine Dolphins- Waterville Boys/Girls Club-MMD; Seacoast Swim Club- Cumberland – SSC; Wiscasset Unsinkables-Wiscasset Rec.-WCCU; Kennebec Valley YMCA-KVY; googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
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There must still be many fans jonesing for more “Sex and the City.” Sanitized versions of the beloved HBO series, which wrapped up in 2004, run daily on TBS, and a movie based on it comes out this spring. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
Phase Two of the schoolboy basketball season kicks off tonight with the next week bringing many teams to the midpoint of their 18-game schedules. And while no one’s playoff hopes will be quashed during that time span, several matchups may set the tone for the… Read More
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TOTE ROADS AND MEMORIES: THE STORY OF A REAL MAINE WOODSMAN, paperback, St. John Valley Times, Madawaska, September 2007, $14.95. FORT KENT – John Sinclair was a giant of a man, a woodsman who became an icon in the Maine logging business, and an administrator… Read More
The Penobscot Theatre Company’s invitation to visit Neverland should not be turned down. Its layered and lavish production of J.M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan” at the Bangor Opera House is a refreshing substitute for “A Christmas Carol.” The show captures all the excitement children experience during… Read More
David Valdes Greenwood’s account of his years growing up in central Maine is chronicled in his book “A Little Fruitcake: A Childhood in Holidays.” It’s easy to underestimate this book because the title implies that it is seasonal, but this is a book for all seasons. It is… Read More
For theatergoers who just can’t get into the holiday spirit without the Charles Dickens’ classic but may have grown weary of the play, the Wayside Theatre in Dexter has a scrumptious solution – “Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol.” This is a one-man tour de force told… Read More
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It’s a long way from Bangkok to Bangor, but when your motto is “Bringing the world together,” a warm spirit and an open heart can bridge the distance. That seemed to be the message left behind by the 67-member cast of Up With People, who wrapped up a… Read More
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While waiting in line at the restroom during intermission at the Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s “Spirit of Bangor” holiday extravaganza last Saturday afternoon, I had a very diverse group of people surrounding me. I was behind a 12-year-old girl from the Bangor Area Children’s Choir, in front of a… Read More
BANGOR – There were some mild but pleasant surprises from several award recipients after Sunday afternoon’s Maine Soccer Coaches banquet at the Spectacular Event Center. “I’m still kind of shocked,” Caribou senior forward Kyle Corrigan said a few minutes after he was named an All-New… Read More
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It takes nerve to update a children’s classic loved by millions. Writers Stephen Long Mitchell and Craig W. Van Sickle have that daring in spades, creating “Tin Man,” the miniseries that updates “The Wizard of Oz” for a new millennium. The six-hour event debuts at… Read More
Regardless of how far the Lee Academy Postgraduate basketball team gets this season, it’s sure to get there quickly. With a veteran point guard, several shooters, and an abundance of fleet-footed players, Lee’s Postgrads have already cranked up the offensive tempo and jumped out to… Read More
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BREWER – The third time was certainly the charm for Jeff Sprague. After coming up empty in his first two attempts at winning the Brewer Turkey Trot 5K, the 25-year-old from Wiscasset struck gold on a new course, and earned himself a Thanksgiving turkey in… Read More
PORTLAND – The mottoes are many for any high school athletic team. But the reality of Bonny Eagle’s barely decade-old football program was spelled out in a single word on a poster held up by the Scots after their 34-14 victory over Lawrence of Fairfield… Read More
All right, so she didn’t dance, but who was complaining? Country singer Sara Evans bumped and bounced across the Bangor Auditorium stage Friday night, and managed to squeeze 17 songs into her 70-minute set. Evans even changed into an elegant black outfit for a two-song… Read More
A forest – or rather 1,000 seedling trees – is inadvertently left outside of a suburban Connecticut home. This multitude of seedlings just happens to arrive at the time when the home’s owner, Horace Woodruff, an attorney at a local hospital, has been laid off. One door closes;… Read More
Forget complicated, celebrity-endorsed exercise plans, specialized diets and quick-start weight-loss programs. Bob Lehnhard says it all boils down to balancing the energy we take in against the energy we put out. An associate professor of exercise physiology and biomechanics at the University of Maine, Lehnhard,… Read More
The bassoon. Such a strange instrument – it looks like a piece of plumbing equipment, and it’s got more keys than a janitor. And yet, in the hands of soloists Wren Saunders and Stevi Caulfield at the Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s concert on Sunday afternoon, it sounded playful, lively… Read More
The theater department at the University of Maine is celebrating 100 years of productions at the state’s flagship school of higher learning. How fitting that Sandra Hardy, an associate professor who teaches acting and dramatic literature, chose one of Henrik Ibsen’s more than 100-year-old works to mark the… Read More
BANGOR – When your opponent runs 82 plays, rolls up 438 yards of total offense and has the ball for 32 of the game’s 48 minutes, it’s not usually a good sign. Those impressive numbers put up by Lewiston High don’t even begin to tell… Read More
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Sex. Drugs (well, if Claritin counts). Name-dropping. Literature. Philosophy. Marital malaise. Money. And, yes, bathroom humor. It’s all in a play’s work for the cast of Penobscot Theatre Company’s “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife,” an adult comedy that runs through Nov. 4 at the… Read More
BELFAST – At some point, coach Amie Dubois figured she’d give her Waterville field hockey team free reign to call their own penalty corners. After six tries in the post-overtime session of Wednesday afternoon’s Eastern Maine Class B final, Dubois’ players made the right call. Read More
Lindsay Blackstone netted two goals, including the game-winner with 12 minutes left in the second half, to lift the No. 3 Washburn Beavers to a 2-1 girls soccer victory over the No. 6 Fort Fairfield Tigers in an Eastern Maine Class D quarterfinal Saturday in Washburn. Read More
All was well in the world Sunday night as the sun set over Bangor. The New England Patriots had routed the Miami Dolphins, the Boston Red Sox were clinching another American League title, and two giants of the music industry – Charlie Daniels and Earl Scruggs – were… Read More
Defending state champion Lawrence of Fairfield will take the No. 1 seed into the Eastern Maine Class A football playoffs that begin last weekend. Lawrence, 8-0 this season and winner of 19 straight games overall, will host No. 8 Mt. Blue of Farmington (3-5) in… Read More
1955. Bill Haley & His Comets had driven teenagers into hysterical frenzies with “Rock Around the Clock.” Little Richard had a hit with “Tutti Frutti.” And Chuck Berry reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts with “Maybellene.” Slowly, over airwaves and through the mail, rock ‘n’ roll made… Read More
Earlier this year, Joe Hill exploded onto the publishing scene with his debut novel, “Heart-Shaped Box,” about a merciless ghost and an aging rock musician. The novel itself, an instant best-seller, has plenty of suspense for many readers. But another mystery soon was solved shortly… Read More