SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2013 Migraine secret of Wagner’s opera epetitive migraines lie at the heart of Pain Centre in northern Germany, report in the “Siegfried,” the second part of Richard British Medical Journal (BMJ) on Thursday. RWagner’s “Ring” trilogy of operas, German They analyzed a pulsating piece of music in neurologists suggest. Both the action and the Act 1, scene 3 of “Siegfried,” when a character music of “Siegfried” reflect the rhythms and visual complains of “loathsome light... flaring and flash- disturbance from migraines that used to haunt ing, glittering and whirring.” Wagner scored this the composer, they say. Wagner, in his memoirs passage for string instruments to play at double- and private correspondence, confided he was fast time — 16 demisemiquavers per bar. “This almost crippled by migraines, suffering pounding corresponds to (a frequency) of 16 Herz at an headaches that were often accompanied by a assumed tempo of 120 beats per minute, close to shimmering, which doctors call an aura. the experimentally determined rate of flicker dur- “Wagner deeply interwove his migraine ing a migraine aura,” the letter says.-AFP attacks and auras into his music and libretti,” the trio, led by Carl Goebel of the Kiel Headache and ‘Sons of Anarchy’: The 6 most shocking moments from season 6 (Spoiler alert: Don’t read any further if you didn’t 4. Clay Morrow’s death. Yes, the demise of Ron see Tuesday night’s “Sons of Anarchy” season Perlman’s grizzled biker-club patriarch Clay finale and don’t want to know what happened.) Morrow wasn’t entirely shocking, in the Season 6 of “Sons of Anarchy” wrapped up with sense that it was a long time coming. But another shocking and brutal death, as the show- the execution-style killing - at the hands of down between Gemma and Tara ended in par- his successor Jax, no less - still gave viewers ticularly gruesome fashion. It was a fitting end a jolt when it finally went down. for a season that, even by “Sons of Anarchy” 5. The slaughter of the Chinese gang. Jax’s standards, was loaded with “Oh my God!” efforts to extract SAMCRO from the gun moments. trade took a particularly messy turn when Here are five jaw-droppers from “SoA” the Chinese gang was killed off wholesale in Season 6. an ambush and a blaze of gunfire that was 1. The school shooting. Season 6 signaled that as unexpected to the viewers as it was to it would be a brutal one early on. A young the gangsters. And the “Sons of Anarchy” boy of mysterious origin entered a school, body count takes a big leap forward. and a hail of gunfire erupted. It was a taboo- 6. Tara meets her end. Poor Tara. Just as she shattering moment for television, and par- reunited with her husband and appeared to ticularly jarring in the wake of the Newtown, be finally pulling herself and her sons from Conn., school shooting. the gang lifestyle, her mother-in-law/arch 2. Otto’s rape. The season premiere offered nemesis Gemma, working off of faulty infor- another shocker, early on in the episode, mation, extinguished any hope for a happy with a scene depicting the rape of tongue- ending. And she did it in especially brutally, less inmate Otto (played by series creator stabbing Tara in the head with a fork. We Kurt Sutter). The jarring sight was given an just might get over it by the time Season 7 added layer of menace when former US premieres. — Reuters marshal Lee Toric - whose sister, Pamela, was killed by Otto - entered the room and told Otto that the sexual assaults would continue in the future. Egypt’s Karim Amer is presented by Sheikh Mansour, son of Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed 3. Charlie Hunnam’s naked rear end. Even more bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, with the award of Muhr Arab Documentary award (Best film) for his shocking than the fact that Hunnam’s Jax film “ The Square “ during the Dubai International Film Festival in the Gulf emirate of Dubai Teller was seeking comfort in the arms of a yesterday. — AFP woman other than his wife was the sight of Hunnam’s bare backside bobbing in coital abandon as he did so. Probably unneces- sary, but hey - a little something for the ladies. ‘Golden Tweet’ is Twitter’s most echoed note in 2013 witter revealed Thursday that a message millions of Twitter users around the world. In acknowledging the death of “Glee” tele- 2013.” Tvision show star Cory Monteith was the A Twitter message announcing the death most reposted tweet on the globally popular of “The Fast and The Furious” film celebrity messaging platform this year. “Thank you all Paul Walker in a car crash was second, having for helping me through this time with your been retweeted 400,367 times, according to enormous love & support. Cory will forever be Stricker. “It’s with a heavy heart that we must in my heart,” read the tweet by co-star Lea confirm Paul Walker passed away today in a Michele (@msleamichele) about Monteith’s tragic car accident,” read the tweet from fatal drug overdose. @RealPaulWalker. The third most retweeted It was retweeted more than 408,000 times message was fired off by One Direction band by users from 133 countries, making it the member Niall Horan rejoicing in having just “Golden Tweet” of 2013, according to the San turned 20 years old. “Yesss ! I’m 20 ! Wohooo ! Francisco-based Internet company. “Among No more teens!” Horan chimed at the Twitter the millions of affecting Tweets this year, account @NiallOfficial.-AFP there is something we call The Golden Tweet,” Twitter spokesman Gabriel Stricker said in a blog post. “It’s the most-retweeted Tweet of the year-the one that resonated most with.