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Joined: 10 Mar 2007
Posts: 208
Posted: Tue 29 Jan 2008, 08:58
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pcPuppyOS RC3 Now Available - 29 Jan 2008 EDIT: 30 Jan
Subject description: Enhancements, bug fixes, better battery support, Epson Printer utilities...
Currently up on puppylinux.ca - will also post on pcpuppyos.com
thanks, Jeremy! jf http://www.pcpuppyos.com
md5 is
ab6011304ebd2d14a983f11bcefa6dbd pcpuppyos_3.01-rc3.iso
reverted xorgwizard/xwin to normal probing
added support in Conky's default configuration for more batteries (BAT0-BAT3)
set RFC_1122_COMPLIANT="no" to enable "stealth" mode
added rp_pppoe-3.8-patched1 from Dingo (somebody using pppoe still
needs to confirm that it works!)
added Epson printer utilities gui, courtisy of mikeb
added the gxine plugin to Firefox
Last edited by friedsonjm on Wed 30 Jan 2008, 07:42; edited 1 time in total
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Joined: 04 Oct 2007
Posts: 87
Location: Agoura Hills, California
Posted: Tue 29 Jan 2008, 14:47
Post subject: Strange...
I tried to download twice to my Desktop directory in Suse Linux, and both times got a message saying download failed, apparently because of insufficient disk space! And suggesting that I try downloading someplace else.
I've downloaded lots of stuff to my Desktop directory, and there are many gigs of free disk space. (like 30 or so)
But this is a beta version of Suse, so you never know.
Just thought I'd mention it in case it happens to someone else.
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Joined: 04 Oct 2007
Posts: 87
Location: Agoura Hills, California
Posted: Tue 29 Jan 2008, 15:47
Post subject: It works now
It turned out that though my system THOUGHT it couldn't complete the download, it DID complete the download. It added a .part extension to the iso name.
So I just renamed it so it had a .iso extension and it works fine.
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Joined: 22 Feb 2007
Posts: 209
Location: San Antonio, TX
Posted: Tue 29 Jan 2008, 16:42
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Took a while to download, I guess everyone was trying at the same time.
Worked on the tower, but all versions have so far. Only problem was having to auto dhcp several times.
Worked on laptop, xorg worked, Battery worked. Once more had to auto dhcp several times. Do not have WIFI here, will have to try when I get downtown in the near future.
On both Gzine still give me some problems as i reported in the thread I started on that, but that is a Gzine problem, not yours. Will try and download Mplayer later an try that. Running on laptop right now.
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Joined: 05 Jan 2006
Posts: 177
Location: Khon Kaen Thailand.....NOW back in the UK
Posted: Tue 29 Jan 2008, 20:49
Post subject: RC3
Subject description: PPPoE
Thank you gentlemen, I am pleased to say that the PPPoE works fine as i am writing this
using RC3. An anti-virus program has just told me it has updated my records.
I am limited to what i can test but will look later in the day.
thank you Michael.
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Joined: 22 Feb 2007
Posts: 209
Location: San Antonio, TX
Posted: Wed 30 Jan 2008, 10:59
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Is there a way to add support to conky for external UPS's that have a USB interface?
I have an APC Back-UPS XS-1500 on my tower that is detected in Win. I am willing to be a tester for this.
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Posts: 6266
Location: Knoxville, TN, USA
Posted: Wed 30 Jan 2008, 16:53
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I haven't the foggiest. I don't think it has that built in, so you'd have to get or write an external program to gather the relevant info, then use some of Conky's options to call that program or read it's output file.
As for the need to use dhcpc several times, I'm not sure why that might be. Is it pcPuppyOS specific, Puppy 3.xx specific, or generic? They all connect immediately on my wired network. When I was on wireless at my mom's over break I did have to try it a couple times now and then, but I assumed that was just a poor connection. Even so, I connected much easier there than I do with my grandma's and my campus's wireless networks. And those have trouble with all Puppies.
@eccentric: great, I wasn't sure if it would.
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Posts: 21
Posted: Wed 30 Jan 2008, 19:02
Post subject: pfix=noram doesn't appear to be effective
Subject description: pcpuppyos will not start on system with 256 MB RAM
Hey Pizza Guy---
I am trying to get pcpuppyos to boot from a usb key on a system with 256 MB RAM. I set pfix=noram in my syslinux.cfg append line. The directive seems to have no effect. The init routine always tries to copy pup_301.sfs to ram, then dies with a kernel panic, 'out of memory and no killable process'.
I know you want a single CD boot so that users can boot up and work even when they are not on the internet. That means the pfix=noram has to just plain work because the option of loading a small core followed by a suite of sfs files is unavailable.
I am also confused by these pfix options. I think that pfix=ram is how you start without a save file so pfix=noram will work OK.
I can send you my syslinux.cfg if that will help find the problem.
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Posted: Wed 30 Jan 2008, 19:49
Post subject:
The options
a little confusing. pfix=ram disables the pup_save.2fs file. pfix=noram disables loading pup_301.sfs to ram, and has no "dependencies". So you should be able to use it alone. Using them both at the same time (pfix=ram,noram) would result in not loading the pup_301.sfs file to ram and also not using the pup_save.2fs file.
I'm not sure why it isn't working for you. As far as I can tell, there's only one place in the init scripts where it will try copying pup_301.sfs to ram, and that's inside this if statment:
#if there's heaps of ram, copy pup_xxx.sfs to a tmpfs...
if [ $RAMSIZE -gt 655360 ] && [ ! "$NORAM" = "yes" ];then #640MB system. note, only checking physical ram.
(the ! means "not")
Check that your initrd.gz file is the correct one:
md5sum initrd.gz
Should return this:
a28aabe0846f798374c95defc316afdb initrd.gz
If that's correct, then post your syslinux.cfg file. Later tonight if I get the chance I'll do some testing on my end to make sure it still works. Also, I've never tested it with USB, mainly because I don't have a large enough drive. I'll have to see if my SD card in USB adapter is bootable. (I tried doing that over Christmas break, but was away from home and it turned out none of the machines I had access to could boot from USB in the first place, and forgot to test it after getting back).
Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. --Muad'Dib
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Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
Posted: Wed 30 Jan 2008, 19:57
Post subject:
I had patched initrd.gz because of this issue.
You can download it there.
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Posts: 345
Posted: Wed 30 Jan 2008, 20:04
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have you guys thought about releasing xdelta patches for new versions of pcPuppyOS, so people don't have download 600MB every time a release candidate with only a few relatively small changes comes out?
it's already happening with NOP (2MB xdelta vs. 90MB ISO) & Wobbly NOP (27MB xdelta vs 128MB ISO).
it would really save users who already have a previous ISO a lot of time, and save the Puppy hosts a truckload of bandwidth.
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Posts: 21
Posted: Wed 30 Jan 2008, 20:48
Post subject: usb boot of pcpuppyos
Subject description: requested data
The checksum doesn't look good, although it's the one from the iso I downloaded.
F:\pcpuppyos>md5sum *.gz
8124865d22380d845f9747650a0f7102 *initrd.gz
While we're at it let's check the iso
F:\pcpuppyos>md5sum *.iso
648a1229817dd737e5d2950cc9e4db2e *puppy-3.01-Firefox.iso
The checksum listed on the download link for the site for RC3 is
ab6011304ebd2d14a983f11bcefa6dbd pcpuppyos_3.01-rc3.iso
Aargghh! My fault, and I'm sorry to bother everyone with the problem before finishing my homework.
With that said, I really don't want to undertake a 600 MB download again. I will try downloading the correct initrd.gz that Pizzasgood sent and see if that cures my problem. I know that pcpuppyos comes up and runs on my laptop with 2GB of RAM, I've already tried it.
Just for reference, I am including my syslinux.cfg. I am wondering if having two puppies on the same key might be an evil influence, but let me get the checksums straightened out before we take this any further.
timeout 500
default pup301
display bootmsg.txt
menu Please select the operating system to boot
label pup301
menu label pup301 Boot Standard Puppy Linux 3.01
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=usbflash
label pcpuppyos
menu label pcpuppyos Boot pcPuppyOS (based on Puppy 3.01)
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.gz pfix=noram pmedia=usbflash psubdir=\pcpuppyos
prompt 1
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Location: Knoxville, TN, USA
Posted: Thu 31 Jan 2008, 00:07
Post subject:
I will try downloading the correct initrd.gz that Pizzasgood sent
I didn't send anything...
Unrelated to the problem you posted:
For your append line, it needs to either say
, otherwise the bootsplash program will have errors. The former enables the framebuffer while the latter disables the bootsplash.
@MU: I did have it set to require 640MB of ram, but that's a good idea. Puppy 1.xx used to behave like that, except it demanded 50MB "extra" to give the user some legroom. So I set it up like that just now.
@klu9: No, I'd never heard of Xdelta. I'll check it out this weekend. Too bad that still won't save me from making 600MB uploads
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Posts: 345
Posted: Fri 01 Feb 2008, 00:08
Post subject:
Pizzasgood wrote:
@klu9: No, I'd never heard of Xdelta. I'll check it out this weekend. Too bad that still won't save me from making 600MB uploads
no cure for the uploading blues
but maybe you could just upload & release xdelta patches until you go gold (telling people to just upgrade previous ISOs).
then upload & release the final ISO & one last xdelta patch for those who've been testing.
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Posts: 21
Posted: Fri 01 Feb 2008, 01:50
Post subject: initrd.gz troubles - continued
Subject description: testing pcpuppyos usb boot
No, you didn't send anything.
I was thinking that you had posted a link along with MU but that's not so.
Since I do have a bootable USB drive which is known to bring up both standard puppy 3.01 and pcpuppyos (3.01 version) I will be happy to test usb booting for you.
The download of pcpuppyos that I have boots up and runs fine on my work machine (2GB RAM). It always tries to copy pup_301.sfs into RAM which of course is the original problem.
I was unclear about the file MU posted. Here's why. I know that initrd.gz is what determines which version of pup_xxx.sfs gets loaded into the ramdisk. Doesn't that mean that if MU patches the standard initrd.gz, his fix is only good for vanilla Puppy 3.01? To get a fix for pcpuppy os wouldn't I need to download an initrd.gz specific to pcpuppyos?
The questions are kind of moot, though, because if I'm going to test I need a known-good download of the whole iso so that we know what I'm testing.
I will keep trying the download until I get good checksums for both the whole iso and initrd.gz and then let you know the results.
Also, thanks for the tips on syslinux.cfg. I will edit them in before my next boot.
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A June super-moon hangs over the Las Vegas Strip as the futuristic ECO-Star helicopter cruises above the world's greatest neon canyon. On board are The Girls Next Door veteran Holly Madison, who once dated Hugh Hefner; superstar DJ Afrojack, who once dated Paris Hilton; best-selling author James Frey, who once embarrassed Oprah Winfrey; and electronic dance music's most powerful man, Pasquale Rotella.
The pilot wants to impress the boss en route to Rotella's annual Electric Daisy Carnival, a three-day, 115,000-attendee festival of lights and bass, so he asks if we should buzz the Stratosphere Hotel, the tallest observation tower in the United States. Soon we're floating by like the Jetsons, close enough to wave to the psychos trying out Stratosphere's vomit-inducing SkyJump ride. The pilot's next move is to take the chopper sideways, which produces a terrifying, weightless feeling, conjuring imaginary headlines of boldface names perishing. Maybe it's not a bad way to go: Rotella's hero, legendary stadium-rock promoter Bill Graham, perished in a postshow helicopter crash in 1991.
We survive this one, enjoying sublime Kaskade tracks in our headsets for the night's pièce de résistance: a low-flying, circular tour of the vast, 1,500-acre Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where EDC is about to peak for its third night.
Electric Daisy Carnival is the happiest place on Earth ... for adults. Below us are two Ferris wheels, a roller coaster, a mega slide, a Tilt-a-Whirl, Burning Man–style art gardens, clown-faced dance troupes on stilts, seven main music areas — including what organizers say is the largest festival stage in North America — and a lineup that includes more than 200 of the world's biggest DJs, including Avicii, Afrojack, Tiesto, Armin Van Buuren, Calvin Harris and Fatboy Slim. During EDC, the 20-minute drive from the Strip to the Speedway can take two hours. It's a massive, outdoor Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, a party dreamland come true.
Rotella's rise as rave master has been meteoric. Ten years ago, nearly half a dozen Southern California promoters were vying for the electronic dance music festival dollar, and Rotella's was just a face in that crowd. Today EDM is on an American high. Acts like Calvin Harris are getting radio play, Deadmau5 and Skrillex are performing at the Grammy Awards, and Avicii's "Levels" is heard in every other TV commercial.
And now there's just one EDM concert king from coast to coast: Rotella.
"If I had to pick one person at the top of the game, it would probably be him," says Gary Bongiovanni, president of concert-industry publication and data service Pollstar. "Pasquale really was a pioneer in helping to bring raves out of the warehouses."
But with Rotella's rise has come controversy.
The 39-year-old has been under indictment for more than a year, facing six counts of conspiracy, bribery and embezzlement. Together the charges could bring nearly 14 years behind bars, although a hearing to weigh arguments for dismissal is set for Sept. 18. Rotella remains free after posting bond, but he must ask for the court's permission to jet to his far-flung events.
Meanwhile, when a 15-year-old girl died after taking ecstasy at a 2010 event thrown by Rotella's company, Insomniac Events, some L.A. leaders seemed genuinely scandalized to learn that raves were happening on public property under their supervision. The combination of the death and the bribery accusations were enough to get EDC unceremoniously booted from its home at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
So what does a self-made man from a hardscrabble, Westside background do in circumstances like that?
He takes EDC to Nevada and, beginning in 2011, transforms his 160,000-person, two-day L.A. party into a three-day rave with twice as many clicks of the turnstiles at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
He fends off mainstream concerns over drug use at his parties to take on the most mainstream of corporate partners, Live Nation, which this summer reportedly bought a 50 percent stake in Insomniac for a whopping $50 million.
He fights the criminal charges — welcoming a reporter into his helicopter at a time when many criminal defendants would be ducking. Importantly, Rotella beats a civil suit brought by the Coliseum, which includes allegations similar to those still pending in the criminal case. Last month, the court dismissed all civil claims against both Rotella and Insomniac Events.
He travels to New York and London. He lives large, even as he maintains that he has stayed true to his roots. Of the criminal charges, Rotella told a reporter last spring, "I don't lose sleep over it because I didn't do anything."
Oh, and he gets the girl: He and Holly Madison welcomed a baby girl, Rainbow Aurora Rotella, into the world on March 5.
Take that, Los Angeles.
Pasquale Rotella was a comer even when he was a "16-year-old with a fake ID, just going out to the undergrounds," Tef Foo, one of L.A.'s veteran rave promoters, recalls. Rotella says he went to his first rave in 1990 and never looked back.
Growing up as a relatively poor kid in bucolic Pacific Palisades, he was attracted to street life. His Italian immigrant parents were serial entrepreneurs: Dad was a construction worker, which came in handy when the couple opened its first eatery in Eagle Rock. Soon they had a deli, La Rotella, in Venice.
But the family struggled. They even lived in a youth hostel near the beach for a spell while Irene and Vincent Rotella "worked to get us back into the Palisades," their son recalls. Young Pasquale bussed tables and cleaned up at the Venice deli, but for the most part, he says, he was "unsupervised on the Venice boardwalk," break-dancing as an eighth grader, showing other kids "what's up" on the cardboard mats of Ocean Front Walk. He also joined a tagging crew.
He was part of a lost generation of street-smart white kids — including Venice's "Z-Boys" skate team and surfing's Strider Wasilewski — who grew up on the Westside when it still had some grit.
"I used to wear Dickies pants and white T-shirts and Raiders' Starter jackets," Rotella says. "My mom would give me a meatball in tinfoil for lunch. I wasn't a bad kid at all, but I just couldn't pretend I had a white picket fence. ... I was an outcast in the Palisades. The kids' parents didn't let them come to my house."
But his success today is a real contrast to some of his wealthier peers: "The families there were afraid of me, but a lot of their kids ended up getting into heroin."
When early rave music hit Los Angeles at the dawn of the '90s, it was an epiphany for Rotella. The sound captured the urban grit of electro music (his break-dancing soundtrack), featured street art in its visuals and adopted the neon smiley-face fashion of England's acid-house scene. The 1960s psychedelia of Bill Graham's Grateful Dead concerts and Tom Wolfe's literary accompaniment, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, were updated with new sounds and new drugs. Acts like Prodigy, Altern-8 and 2 Bad Mice mixed tough-guy breakbeats with futuristic synth sounds.
Rotella was all over it.
"It was happy music," he says. "And it had some hip-hop culture behind it."
While Rotella is today a multimillionaire, he still brings the swagger in a T-shirt, backpack and stiff-billed Edmonton Oilers baseball cap — all black. He has the cold gaze of someone who has some street experience. Which he does: As a teenager he ran with some tough Eastside party crews, joining one called Latin Pride. His wasn't Bill Graham's street-hustling, foster-kid Bronx childhood, but you can see the roots of his egalitarian, for-the-people stance.
"The one thing people didn't appreciate about Bill, and the one thing Pasquale admires, is [that they] care about the audience experience," Pollstar's Bongiovanni says. "Having worked with Bill in the early days, I understood his passion to make sure the hot dogs were fresh and the restrooms were clean. He was concerned with the environment he was putting audiences in."
More often than not, a young Rotella would end up at an underground party near downtown called La Casa, a venue in the 18th Street gang territory.
"I remember getting patted on my head at La Casa one night," he says, "and someone said, 'Shouldn't you be home by now, kid?' I would wear top hats, giant overalls and Dr. Martens, fill my backpack with lollipops, and go to the events and dance like crazy. It was the best time of my life."
In 1992, as an 18-year-old, Rotella opened the doors to his own party, Unity Groove. Reza Gerami, whose Go Ventures would later become Insomniac's chief competition, remembers Rotella as a teenager "handing out fliers in his little orange jacket with his sideburns and baggy rave jeans." Promoter Foo recalls partnering up early on for a party with Rotella — and Rotella putting his older sister on the cash register at the door.
Rotella was getting his start even as the underground rave scene looked to be winding down. By 1992, rave culture was on the front page of the Los Angeles Times but not for good reasons: In March three young men were found dead in a parked pickup truck, victims of nitrous oxide. Rave fliers were found in the vehicle.
Party crews and Eastside gangsters were starting to infiltrate the scene and, in Rotella's words, turn things "dark." By the last day of that year, when promoter Gary Richards brought the culture to new heights by hosting a rave for more than 17,000 people at Knott's Berry Farm, the bubble seemed to burst. The party was legendary, sure, but people crashed the gates as police in riot gear tried to stop the madness. Knott's would never again host a rave.
"The scene died," Rotella says. "Rave became a bad word."
But even as the Orange County white kids who kept the underground afloat slunk home, Rotella decided to dive in, hosting weekly $5 events. He called them Insomniac, and when 500 people started showing up, he raised the price to $7. It was 1993.
His parties were a hit, and Rotella learned an important lesson he carries with him today: It's all about the venue. A contact who worked in real estate would give him the keys to unused spaces, allowing Rotella to move Insomniac from week to week.
"I did some break-ins," too, he recalls. "I was arrested twice."
Police raided his parties countless times. But Insomniac quickly became one of the only true, positive-vibe raves in town, drawing 1,200 people a week. At its one-year anniversary in 1994, Insomniac brought 4,000 people downtown to the old Shark Club.
Daniel Wherrett, better known as DJ Dan, met Rotella and started spinning for him about that time. He says the promoter immediately struck him as unusually passionate about the stages, lighting and theatrics at his parties. Rotella would ask to come by Dan's studio to talk party planning in the middle of the week.
"He never stopped thinking that the next one could be bigger than the last show," Wherrett says. "He is genuinely into it."
At other parties, methamphetamine was taking over. Gangsters were invading wholesale. An event called Grape Ape 3 at Orange County's Wild Rivers theme park concluded with fights, guns displayed and a van set on fire. In 1994 the weekly party known as Sketchpad in Rampart Village was so meth-crazed that people ended up strewn on the floor passed out as the sun came up. "That was a nightmare scene," Rotella says, "everything I was against."
He saw his own lows. Someone he trusted swiped $3,000 in profits he had saved up, he says, to help his mom and dad pay rent.
But Rotella had found something positive in his life — rave's mix of music, street art and huggy feelings — and he wasn't about to let go. In February 1995, he organized a party billed as "Insomniac Presents Nocturnal Wonderland" in East L.A. It sold out, becoming Insomniac's signature, annual event.
Slowly, he was bringing raving back into fashion. Rotella helped organize Organic '96 in the San Bernardino Mountains, a before-its-time mix of Coachella-style crowds and European dance-music massives, featuring the Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Orbital and The Orb. It was financially unsuccessful, he recalls, but still "sparked interest in people who thought EDM didn't exist anymore."
That same year he took Nocturnal Wonderland to a venue that would, in a few years' time, become the epicenter of American rock festivals — the Empire Polo Club in the Coachella Valley.
By 1997 artists like Moby and Prodigy were being billed as the Next Big Thing for a music industry looking to replace grunge. Raves from Rotella's Insomniac — as well as Go Ventures, B3 Cande and Fresh Produce — reached new heights by expanding to the National Orange Show fairgrounds in San Bernardino, the desert and the San Bernardino Mountains.
"I wasn't the only one doing raves anymore," Rotella says.
By the mid-aughts, electronic dance music wasn't just back, it was huge. Daft Punk's performance at Coachella in 2006 introduced a new generation of alt-minded hipsters to the edgier side of dance music, a side that would be reflected in the launch of the next year's HARD festival.
EDM fests were starting to take over the biggest venues the West Coast had to offer. Raving was now Bill Graham–level stadium rock.
That made Rotella a hot commodity.
He'd gotten his foot in the door almost a decade before at the Los Angeles Sports Arena. Both the arena and the L.A. Coliseum are essentially owned jointly by the city, county and state. The Coliseum — which hosted its last NFL game in 1994 — was eager to get in on its sister venue's action.
"The Sports Arena was making money," Rotella says, "so the guy who ran it was, like, 'Can you do more of these?' "
That guy was Coliseum events manager Todd DeStefano, he said. DeStefano was a well-paid football fan who came to the sister venues in 1998. He quickly saw raves' economic potential and worked closely with the promoters to make them happen, beginning in his first year on the job.
By 2005, DeStefano, realizing millions could be made, wanted to do the parties four times a year. He tapped Gerami, who muscled in on Rotella's longtime Fourth of July Electric Daisy Carnival weekend with an event of his own at the Coliseum, called Independance. It flopped.
So two years later, Rotella says, DeStefano invited him to bring EDC to the Coliseum instead. The party drew 29,000 people in 2007. By 2009 it was rocking 120,000. Raves now were bringing in 28 percent of the taxpayer-owned venues' revenue.
That following year, EDC at the Coliseum was the national rave champion, drawing 160,000 people over two days and featuring the cream of electronic dance music at the biggest DJ stage America had ever seen. Other festivals, including Ultra in Miami, Electric Zoo in New York, Movement in Detroit and Love Festival (renamed LovEvolution) also had gotten big, but Rotella's EDC was king.
Electric Daisy Carnival was so massive that Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am jokingly complained that he couldn't get a decent set time for his DJ performance in 2010. So massive that chaos broke out as ravers gate-crashed to get to a lower level. So massive that there were more than 60 arrests, mostly for drug-related allegations, and 200-plus "medical emergencies," officials said.
The idea of a government-owned venue hosting such huge parties, with all the attendant risk of drug abuse, was always awkward. More than a few ecstasy-overdose deaths have taken place following Insomniac and Go Ventures events over the years, including a 20-year-old who died after a rave at the Sports Arena in 2007.
But the age of Sasha Rodriguez — 15 — shocked L.A.'s political establishment. The 2010 EDC, held at the Coliseum, had been designated for those 16 and older, but ID checks reportedly were lax. After sneaking in, Rodriguez took ecstasy and fell into a coma.
She died two days later.
The day after Rodriguez's death, L.A. County Supervisor and Coliseum Commission member Zev Yaroslavsky called for a "moratorium" on raves at the public venues. Then-Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa also questioned the wisdom of holding the parties there. The whole rave program was about to be wiped off the Coliseum's calendar.
Rotella could have moved the party somewhere else. But that wasn't his way; he was a fighter, and determined to keep the events in L.A. Instead, as part of its response, Insomniac vowed to strictly enforce an 18-and-older policy with ID scanners — which struck many critics as too little, too late.
But to understand Rotella is to know that his festivals are playgrounds for the faithful, and the faithful often are kids like he once was, backpacks, baseball caps and all.
"For decades there were no piles of money in this," he says. "That's why people abandoned ship. The only people who kept the scene alive was other kids. I love them. I love my people."
Rotella hired a lobbyist, contributed to Councilman Bernard Parks' re-election campaign, and soon found an ally in the former LAPD chief and Coliseum Commission member, who argued that the parties were no different from sporting events or Hollywood Bowl concerts. He was making some headway.
Then the bomb dropped.
At a closed-door session of the Coliseum Commission on Feb. 2, 2011, then-commissioner David Israel revealed what he'd recently learned: Rotella and rival promoter Gerami had allegedly paid more than $1.8 million to DeStefano outside their Coliseum rent and concessions deals.
The raves lost all support and were shut out of the venues that year. Even worse, in March 2012, Rotella, Gerami, Coliseum events manager DeStefano and Coliseum general manager Patrick Lynch were indicted as part of a case that alleged corruption, bribery and embezzlement.
The charges are still pending.
The case against Rotella relies on emails and a 2008 contract, apparently drafted by DeStefano but never signed, that called for the promoters to hand over 10 percent of event proceeds to him in exchange for his work to minimize their costs at the venue.
Payments then allegedly were made directly to side companies controlled by DeStefano.
A civil suit filed by the Coliseum against the promoters alleged that they had deprived the public venues, including the Sports Arena, of cash from 37 raves organized there since 1998. But the suit was dismissed last month, with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Terry Green saying, "I just don't see the elements of a conspiracy."
Deputy district attorney Max Huntsman, who is prosecuting the criminal case, admits the promoters "had some good results" when the lawsuit was thrown out. But, he says, "The facts and the law are very different in our case.
"We have a piece of paper," Huntsman says, referring to the unsigned contract, "where they agreed to rent the Coliseum from an employee. That to me seems outrageous."
He says DeStefano "clearly discussed that he was working on their behalf to get terms they wanted. That seems like bribery to me."
As for Gerami, he has a conspiracy theory of his own: He thinks the corruption case and lawsuit were about ridding the venues of moneymaking events so USC would have an easier time taking over the Coliseum and Sports Arena, which it has since done. He likens the USC takeover to a backroom deal, with the people's property being handed to a wealthy private university for nothing. Profitable raves would have pointed to more market value for the venues and a better deal for the public, Gerami says.
"They just handed it over for free," he says of the Coliseum Commission. "They used me and Pasquale as a smoke screen for why."
The promoters' attorneys have argued that any money paid to DeStefano was for his event-consulting work on his own time, and for his help with their events' expansion to state-run parking lots that didn't belong to the Coliseum.
Their best defense may well be one of timing. The payments to DeStefano allegedly were in place for years before 2010's EDC controversy. It doesn't make sense that the promoters would need to bribe DeStefano "to continue to hold the events," as prosecutors allege, at the Coliseum or the Sports Arena before the controversy erupted, particularly since they were clearly a cash cow for the venues.
Prosecutor Huntsman, however, notes that ravers had died before 2010, even if those deaths were more under-the-radar than Rodriguez's shocking overdose, and says Gerami and Rotella needed DeStefano's support to keep their events out of the political line of fire.
Indeed, the manager lobbied his bosses, the Coliseum Commission, to keep the raves at the Coliseum and Sports Arena even after the teen's death. In an email to the promoters, DeStefano said he was "working the politics big-time behind the scenes."
If the judge grants Rotella's motion to dismiss next week, he's home free. Otherwise, the criminal case against him could take a year to wind its way through the court system.
The tough kid from the Palisades doesn't seem to be too worried.
He just married girlfriend Madison this week at Disneyland. A reported $50 million richer as a result of selling 50 percent of his company to Live Nation, Rotella has plans to move Insomniac's modern, black-walled offices from the east end of Melrose Avenue to Beverly Hills.
The nation's largest concert promoter is facing competition for the lucrative and growing EDM festival market and, as such, has been staking out turf with its checkbook.
With EDC now part of the Live Nation family, Rotella is officially in bed with Gary Richards' HARD events, which was purchased last year by the concert giant. (In February Richards tweeted to Rotella, "Wonder twin powers activate.")
The buying spree pits Live Nation, the corporate grandchild of Bill Graham Presents, against Robert Sillerman's SFX Entertainment, which has snapped up rave company "Disco" Donnie Presents and European festival promoter ID&T. (L.A.'s AEG Live also is an EDM player, with one-off DJ concerts and a little thing called the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.)
Pollstar's Bongiovanni says living with a publicly traded company could prove to be a challenge for an up-from-the-streets promoter like Rotella. "There's always pressure to make money when you're working for a public company," he says. "Before, it was just his wallet. Now he has other people to answer to."
In the introduction to rock promoter Bill Graham's posthumous autobiography, Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out, co-author Robert Greenfield writes of Graham, "Rock was never a business. It was an ongoing war in which he did battle each and every day with not only egotistical rock stars and their self-centered managers, agents and lawyers but also Hell's Angels and any city official who dared stand in his way."
For Rotella, like his hero, music events can mean going to war. That's clear in his fight with the Coliseum — but also in his relationship with rival promoter (and fellow defendant in the Coliseum kickback case) Reza Gerami.
In 1998, when Rotella first got hard-earned access to the Sports Arena, he thought he was on top. But then the Coliseum events manager also offered a date at the venue to Gerami. Never mind that Gerami had known Rotella since he was a teen raver; the way Rotella tells it, Gerami elbowed Insomniac out of the Arena.
Rotella retreated to the Inland Empire, where Insomniac found a home at the National Orange Show fairgrounds.
"I ended up owning the Orange Show and he ended up being the Sports Arena guy," Rotella says.
Three years later, the two kissed and made up and double-teamed for one almighty New Year's Eve's party, aptly named Together As One. And after Gerami allegedly flubbed his shot at the Coliseum in 2005 with Independance, Rotella was in prime shape to take over that venue for EDC.
Then, in 2011 Rotella pulled out of the partnership with Gerami that was responsible for the annual Together As One. Soon, it seemed, Gerami's Go Ventures was shut out of the market: unable to book top DJs, unable to get decent venues, unable to cash in on the corporate gold rush.
By 2012 Gerami's parties were essentially finished in L.A.
"Reza's demise was his own doing," Rotella says. "He wasn't able to find venues after the Sports Arena."
For his part, Gerami says, "I don't think it's personal, where he elbowed me out. Business is business, and competition is competition."
In recent years, Rotella has embarked on a steady takeover of L.A.'s EDM club scene, wringing its neck like a boa constrictor. The expansion includes one-off DJ concerts at the Hollywood Palladium, a partnership with SBE Entertainment Group's new super-club Create, and regular weekend bookings at downtown club Exchange Los Angeles. One promoter, who asked not to be identified for fear of invoking the wrath of EDM's king, reports that the only way he can book big-name DJs is with Rotella's blessing.
Another promoter, who also declined to be identified, says that Rotella reached out to metaphorically slap his hand for handing out a competitor's fliers at one of Insomniac's SoCal parties this summer. A no-no in '92 is still a no-no in the corporate world of festivals today. And Rotella is not afraid to be a micromanager.
"I don't like when people attack me," Rotella says. "I can be fierce."
He adds, "I don't like confrontation. But I am never going to stop what I'm doing when my life is on the line. I do have business sense. It's because of my upbringing. I wasn't given toys. I grew up with parents who had nothing and wanted to start businesses. I'm very strategic. I want to protect what I do."
Rotella denies any attempt to dominate the local market, saying he only does the local shows because they "just kind of fall into my lap." Underlings handle those bookings, Rotella says, while he focuses on EDC.
He describes his company's signature event as "fulfilling people's fantasies." To that end, he says the Live Nation deal won't change his events — he retains creative control. "I have some big things I want to accomplish. I'm not even close yet."
For Rotella, the party is the attraction. Always was. Forget the $250,000-per-gig superstar DJs and the same old lineups featuring Avicii, Afrojack and Tiesto on a permanent loop. At this year's EDC in Vegas, the stage was noticeably more concentrated, with DJs barely discernible inside the belly of Rotella's hallmark, a massive, "wide awake" night owl. (Insomniac's motto is "Wide Awake Since 1993," a nod to the drug-fueled, party-till-dawn raving of the early days.)
The ideal party for Rotella would be "10 percent music, 10 percent DJ names" — with a much bigger focus on the lighting, the costumed guests, the art. For him, it's about the whole experience, not just the names on the marquee: "I want to have the best theatrics and art and people coming for many reasons. The biggest thing is trying to get people to connect."
In Vegas for EDC, Rotella commands a motorcade of golf carts that shuttles his retinue from the helicopter landing area to his trailer next to the main stage. As the conga line reaches a gate, however, an assistant refuses security's command to slow down. One of the guards steps right in front of the first vehicle and is almost flattened.
"Do you know who we're with?" doesn't seem to cut it. The security guards, now aided by local police, grow suspicious and start searching people. James Frey's backpack gets a worse reaming than Oprah ever gave him, and even Madison's little clutch is not immune from the TSA treatment.
Rotella and Madison, who's dressed in a long, butterfly-print skirt, sit in back of the first cart, facing the rear. As the carts get the green light and begin to meander through the crowds, with a sweating bodyguard jogging on the ground behind the couple, ravers run up to say hi and take pictures. Rotella gets recognized 2-to-1 over Madison, the Playboy beauty, reality TV star and tabloid fave. The raver kids point and shout, "That's Pasquale!"
"That's the biggest success," Rotella says later. "I have the best, most loyal crowds in the world."
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Later that night, Rotella meets up with his mom at his row of VIP tables. She's wearing a sparkling black top hat and oversized, heart-shaped sunglasses. As a way of greeting, she slaps a reporter's cheeks as only an Italian grandmother could.
At Rotella's VIP corral above the main stage, vodka flows and childhood friends who have never left his side enjoy the fruits of a bro's labor.
Rotella is a true believer that raves are a force for good, presenting a great equalizer in the form of the dance floor, even if he now observes the festivities like royalty, from a couple stories above.
"There are people," he says, for whom "the rave scene was good. I'm one of them."


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Focus on Fayette's Native Son: A Descendant of Sterling Pioneers and Prominent
Community Leaders in Gorham Township, Fulton County, Ohio
Pamela Pattison Lash
author is a teacher at Gorham Fayette High School, a post which she has held for
almost 34 years. She is the President of the Williams County Genealogical
Society and enjoys historical and genealogical research.]
Ripped from the headlines of today's
events comes a story so emotionally touching and historically significant that
our nation, having just celebrated Veterans Day, is focusing attention on the
poignant tale of a World War II airman, found frozen in time within a
glacier-entombment on Mount Mendel in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Though some
78,000 Americans missing in action from this war were lost in crashes over
oceans, this discovery is special for many reasons. This story touches a local
chord; the discovery of this airman's identity may bring closure to the mystery
of what happened to Second Lieutenant William R. Gamber, Fayette's native son.
One of the first questions posed in this genealogical detailing is not so
much who was this man, as doubtless other accounts have and will be written, but
who were his ancestors who nurtured him and fostered his obvious patriotic
spirit which led this local man to serve his country.
John (b. 3 May 1785, son of John and
Susannah Miller Gamber) and Elizabeth Swarner Gamber, Jr., (b. 6 Sept 1786,
daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Swarner), natives of Berks now Schuylkill Co, PA
and Perry Co, PA, respectively, were married c1807 in Perry Co, PA, and were the
parents of at least seven children, Henry, Margaret Stahl, Elizabeth Shankweiler,
Sarah Ann Schaeffer, Mary Ann Kuney, John III, and George. John, Jr. died in
Fayette, Seneca Co, NY on 5 Mar 1825, and was buried in the Dutch Reformed
Church. His will specified that his beloved wife Elizabeth was to have the
"profits of my farm together with farming utensils as long as she remains
my widow." Elizabeth Gamber, enumerated in the 1830 Varick Twp, Seneca Co,
NY federal census as living alone, remarried c1832 to Henry Kuney, after his
first wife, Susan Brown Kuney died, and Elizabeth Swarner Gamber Kuney died in
Seneca Co, NY on 29 Dec 1850.
Contrary to Fulton County, Ohio
histories, such as Mikesell's History of Fulton County, 1905, p218-221,
which states that son John Gamber and several of his siblings settled in the
Gorham Twp area in 1852 or later, federal census records show that the Gambers
were here at least by the 1850 enumeration (Gorham Twp, Fulton Co, OH federal
census, p351).
John Gamber, III, b. 12 Feb 1819 in Seneca Co, NY, settled in Fulton Co
c1846 (Fulton County, Ohio Atlas, personal histories, p38) with a post office
address of Fayette, owning Lot No 1; furthermore, there is every reason to
believe that his westward bound siblings came with him or shortly thereafter.
The cemetery in Fayette, known as Pleasant View, was formed in 1852 from an
older section of family burial plots on land owned by John Gamber, with the
first burial speculated to have been as early as 1836. John Gamber was a
carpenter, farmer, businessman, real estate entrepreneur, street commissioner at
the time Fayette was incorporated, and village treasurer; however, this
genealogical detailing deals with older brother Henry whose great-great
grandson, William R. Gamber, has recently been the subject of nationwide media
Henry Gamber, b. 11 June 1808 in
Perry Co, PA, eventually settled in Fayette with his wife and children. Mikesell
(p 372-374) states that "he and his wife made the entire trip with a team,
a heavy wagon, and a one-horse buggy, being thirteen days enroute." Henry
had married Anna Maria "Polly" Hartrauft/Hartranft on 26 Jan 1832 in
Fayette, Seneca Co, NY ("Seneca Farmer and Seneca Falls Advertiser",
Jan 1832, p50). It is interesting to note that the Gambers left Fayette, Seneca
Co, NY and settled eventually in Fayette, Fulton Co, OH. Perhaps they held some
sway in naming this NW Ohio community.
Polly was also a Pennsylvania
native, b. 7 Aug 1809, the daughter of Jacob and Mary Geiger Hartrauft.
According to the 1860 Fayette, Gorham Twp, Fulton Co, OH federal census, p410B,
Polly was enumerated as the head of household along with children, John J.,
Elizabeth, Sarah, Lorenzo, and Susan plus her father Jacob who was 81 years old.
It would appear that Jacob Hartrauft/Hartranft moved to Ohio to be near his
widowed daughter and his grandchildren; whether he died here has not been proven
The Gambers were the parents of the
following seven children, six of whom were born in Seneca Co, NY: (1) William,
(1833 - aft 1870; m. bef 1848, Mary Jane Buck); (2) John J, (11 Sept 1835 - 18
Mar 1916; m. Elvira Sayles, 4 Mar 1861 in Lenawee Co, MI); (3) Maria, (1837 - ?;
m. *** Tuesly); (4) Sarah, (1841 - 1932; m. bef 1863, Myron Smith); (5) Lorenzo,
(1845 - 1928; m. Jane ***); (6) Susan, (3 Dec 1847 - 17 Jul 1937; m. Charles L.
Allen, a First Lieutenant and Adjutant of the 38th OVI, service
during the Civil War, in 1864, Gorham Twp, Fulton Co, OH); and (7) Francis
Christian, (c.16 Sept 1849 - 5 Oct 1855 @5Y 11M 19D).
Henry, a Democrat and member of the
Lutheran Church, owned 80 acres of land on each side of Fayette. He died on 29
May 1854 @45Y 9M 8D in Fayette and was buried in the Pleasant View Cemetery; his
wife Polly died @75Y in Fayette on 1 Aug 1884; she was buried beside her husband
and youngest son in the Third Circle at the center of that cemetery. Subsequent
direct ancestors of William R. Gamber were also interred in that cemetery.
Henry and Polly's second son, John
J. Gamber, lived on the northeast side of Fayette. J.J.'s wife, Elvira (1843 -
Sept 1898) was the daughter of another Fulton County pioneer, George W. Sayles
(1807 Oneida Co, OH - aft 1880) and his wife Sarah Mace (1811 NY - aft 1880),
who settled in Gorham Twp in 1838. Sarah's parents, Wendell and Mary Mace, were
early settlers by 1858 in Sec 18, Gorham Twp, Fulton Co, OH and were buried in
the Snow Cemetery as WA Mace (1777 NY - 16 July 1851) and wife Mary (1784 NY -
31 Dec 1863). JJ Gamber was enumerated in both the 1900 and 1910 Fayette, Gorham
Twp, Fulton Co, OH federal censuses as a widower, living alone until his death
in 1916.
The Gambers were the parents of one
son, Leighrichmond D. Gamber (16 June 1862-1938). On 14 Oct 1886 in Fulton Co
(Marriages, V5 p76) Leighrichmond married Clara M. Coffin (7 Mar 1865-17 Nov
1951). Clara's grandparents, Freeman and Hannah Whitmarsh Coffin, natives of
Edgartown, Duke Co, MA and Cummington, MA, respectively, had married in
Williamsburg, MA on 1 Jan 1828. Freeman, b. 4 Oct 1786, was the son of Captain
Eddy and Sarah Vincent Coffin; Eddy was a Revolutionary War soldier and his
descendants would be eligible for membership in the DAR and the SAR.
Within a span of 17 days the Freeman
Coffins left Williamsburg, MA in March 1835, traveling by stage to Albany, NY;
then Freeman and his family sailed through the Erie Canal to Buffalo and Lake
Erie to Monroe, MI where they caught a stagecoach to Adrian, MI. They made a
further journey to Woodsworth Corners, west of Morenci, MI, by oxen-led wagon,
often cutting a road for their wagon as they progressed.
Freeman initially purchased 40 acres
in Section 22 of Gorham Twp on 18 Mar 1837. Later on 10 Dec 1853 he bought
another 80-acre parcel in Section 16. Clara's parents were George Williams and
Emily Hill Coffin, who married in Fayette, OH on 1 Jan 1856. Freeman Coffin died
on 3 July 1854 and his will was probated in Fulton Co, OH on 5 Aug 1854 leaving
wife Hannah one-third of his real estate as long as she remained a widow and
bequeathing son George W. the remaining two-thirds of the real estate. Hannah
Whitmarsh Coffin (29 Sept 1798 - 23 May 1880) was buried in the Pleasant View
Cemetery along with her son and daughter-in-law, George W. Coffin (5 Oct 1829-1
Dec 1914) and Emily Sofia Hill Coffin (8 Sept 1832-30 Dec 1913).
Leighrichmond and Clara's family
included an unknown son, deceased by the 1900 federal census, John Howard (4
July 1889 - 21 Feb 1970, Morenci, Lenawee Co, MI) and Virginia Louise (19 Feb
1897 - 24 Sept 1962, Dayton, OH; m. 18 Oct 1921, Fulton Co, OH to Raymond Andrew
Christian). Clara Gamber's obituary ("Fayette Review", 25 Feb 1970,
p5) stated that she was a member of the Methodist Church, a charter member of
the WSCS, the Good Cheer Sunday School Class, and the Fayette Women's Club.
John Howard Gamber married Nellie A.
McGowan (17 Aug 1889, Franklin, Fulton Co, OH - 23 Apr 1974, Dayton, Montgomery
Co, OH) in Fulton Co on 4 July 1912 (Marriages, V10 p221). Nellie was the
youngest daughter of William McGowan (Dec 1843 MI-1925 Fayette, OH) and his wife
Altha Marandi Salsbury (15 Feb 1854 Dekalb Co, IN-3 Jan 1922 DeKalb Co, IN). The
couple was married in MI on 27 Dec 1874. William McGowan's father, John Magowin,
was born 1797 in Dumfries, Scotland and his mother, Lydia Celia, born c1820, was
a native of Vermont. John and Lydia Magowin were enumerated in the 1840 Medina,
Lenawee Co, MI federal census. Land records show a John Magowin had purchased
land there as early as 1835. It appears through subsequent census records for
that area that John, a cabinetmaker by trade, had at least four children,
Charles, William, John, and Emma. John died sometime after the 1870 census for
that Michigan community, and Lydia resided with her children, John and Emma, as
listed in the 1880 Franklin Twp, Fulton Co, OH federal census.
Altha's parents were Daniel and
Fanny Isbell Salsbury; they were married in Noble Co, IN c1840. Daniel Salsbury
(13 Oct 1816, Conneaut Twp, Erie Co, PA - 7 July 1892, Kendallville, IN) was the
son of Daniel and Elizabeth Seeley Salsbury, both natives of Rutland, Vermont.
Fanny Isbell (26 Sept 1824, Wooster, Wayne Co, OH - 15/18 Oct 1898,
Kendallville, Noble Co, IN) was the daughter of Charles and Adah Tryan Isebell,
both natives of NY. According to Daniel's obituary he moved to Adrian, MI with
his parents in 1830. Daniel and Fanny were buried in the Lake View Cemetery in
Kendallville, Noble Co, IN.
The John Howard Gambers in turn were
the parents of Millicent (c1913), William R. (1919 - Nov 1942), Elvira Ralston
(c1922-2004), and Raymond Dick (1924-1925). Millicent, 92Y, of Van Wert, OH is
the only surviving sibling of her airman brother, who was a graduate of Gorham
Fayette High School, Class of 1937; Millicent married W. Paul Ewing on 7 June
1942 in Fulton Co (Marriages, V20 p166), making her a new bride at the time of
her brother's demise.
William R. Gamber's parents were
extremely active in the Fayette community and were an intregal part of the
Eastern Star; in fact history records Nellie Gamber as "Mrs. Eastern
Star" for her commitment to Eastern Star, Fayette #77, to which she served
in various capacities including president and past matron. Nellie and John
Howard, a local barber for 46 years, toured around Ohio and surrounding states
to fulfill her duties to this organization; despite the duties elsewhere, their
home was always described as warm and welcoming to everyone. For several years
as part of August birthdays, Nellie would host a potluck for other Fayette
residents who also had August birthdays; she served cake, punch, and warm
hospitality to her honored guests.
John Howard's activities included
the United Methodist Church, the Lions Club, the Wauseon Elks Club, the Wauseon
Sportsmen's Club, the Fayette Chapter OES, Masonic Lodge, Wauseon Chapter and
Council, and Montpelier Commandery; John was also a 32nd degree Mason
and an avid sportsman. Taking his civic duties seriously he helped to develop
the Fayette Memorial Park. ("Fayette Review", 25 Feb 1970, p1). Such
was the legacy of a family, deeply committed to friends, neighbors, and the
Fayette community at large.
There is a long-standing tradition
at Gorham Fayette High School where a photo composite of each graduating class
lines the second floor walls. As visitors stroll through that hall, they often
stop and reminisce about the whereabouts and doings of their classmates, close
friends, and relatives. Such is the case in small towns. If those walls could
talk, they could surely tell some interesting tales. As a student at Gorham
Fayette High School, William R. Gamber participated in the following
extra-curricular activities: track, basketball, baseball, band, orchestra,
Student Council, school plays, the yearbook, and the school newspaper. The Class
of '37 now has another story to relate, one that has the entire country poised
to hear.
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Long-time readers of my reviews -- going back to the days when this blog was a bare-bones enterprise housed in the "Baratcave" -- may recall the warm praise that I gave to this wonderful, David Gerstein-edited collection of the Disney GOOD HOUSEKEEPING pages of the 30s and 40s.
If there were any justice, then MICKEY AND THE GANG would forever remain the definitive collection of the HOUSEKEEPING features. An interloper appears to have arrived on the scene, however, judging by the most recent issue of PREVIEWS magazine.
The publisher -- either Universe or Rizzoli (what, no Isles?), depending upon what source you're reading -- credits Walt Disney (!) as the "author" of this book, which will feature "50 of the funniest and most fascinating features" from the HOUSEKEEPING years. Rizzoli is apparently connected in some manner with the Italian edition of the Gottfredson Library, so this probably isn't some fly-by-night project, but still... are these people aware that MICKEY AND THE GANG even exists? And if so, then what's the point?
Comics, book, and DVD reviews (and occasional eruptions of other kinds)
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Haven't We Seen These Tales Before?
Posted by Chris Barat at 9:06 PM
2 comments:
- Debbie Anne said...
Looking at the date on your article, the Gemstone book was printed in 2005, and Gemstone is no longer publishing Disney books, so it makes sense that another publisher would reprint these pages seven years later. This new book doesn't kook like it will be as exhaustive as the Gemstone volume, but may be a good opportunity to put these pages back in the public consciousness.
- December 4, 2012 at 10:51 PM
- Chris Barat said...
Your theory does make sense. The Gemstone book did the job so thoroughly, though, that I hope that Rizzoli will at least consult it before putting together its version.
- December 6, 2012 at 4:00 PM
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|System: PC, PS3*, Xbox 360
|Dev: EA Sports Canada
|Pub: EA Sports
|Release: September 25, 2012
|Players: Offline 1-7, Online 2-22
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
Returning for this iteration of FIFA is the EA Sports Football Club, where players will be able to support their favorite team, complete challenges, and brag about their accomplishments on Facebook. New to the EAS FC this year is a marketplace of sorts where players will be able to purchase a variety of items to customize the appearance of their avatar, purchase new traits such as goal celebrations, and earn new abilities. And if you prefer to play through career mode as a manager you can even purchase a "Win," redeemable for three points if you find yourself in a tight spot during a tournament. While you play the game you earn points that can be used here, which creates an incentive to keep playing.
Visually, FIFA 13 is a cut above FIFA 12, but I can't put my finger on why exactly. The lighting looks just a touch more vibrant, player models are the same in most cases but don't look as "dead" as they previously did. Even the stadiums look better. The pregame festivities do well to create a proper game day atmosphere. Sadly, quite a few animations were reused, complete with bugs and wonky movements. It's a shame too, because changing the camera placement for things like replays can make a big difference. Real interaction between teammates during post-goal bragging would have gone a long way to maintain the illusion as well.
Alan Smith, Martin Tyler, and the rest have also recorded a few new lines, and their commentary is always lively. The crowds seemed to have a sharper, more in-tune response to the events on the field too, heightening the stress of already tense moments.
All things considered, FIFA 13 is a good football game. It's much better than FIFA 12. It feels more fluid, and in turn a bit more like an actual match. Whether it's on par with PES 2013 remains to be seen (review incoming), but if FIFA's your cup of tea you'd be doing yourself a disservice if you skip this version. EA is on the road toward making this a better football sim.
Patriel Manning
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Date: September 28, 2012
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Herbert Word is surrounded by history — history of the generations of family that preceded him as farmers on the picturesque rolling hills and bottom land he and his son, Herbert III (Trey), now farm in Monroe County, Miss., near Okolona.
With a raw north wind whipping through aged, fern-encrusted oak trees that frame a bottomland vista where cows graze in the distance, he points to the "home place" where his grandparents' house once stood and where he grew up.
Back up the road a ways is the Word family cemetery, monuments stark against leaden not-quite-spring skies. Over yonder is where his father was among the first in the area with poultry houses, integrated hog parlors, and later a custom feed operation, complete with a snazzy mobile mixer truck. And in almost every direction are the homes and land of family members and relatives.
Everywhere in the landscape — in his shop building, in his storage sheds, and dotting the surrounding field and woods — is the accumulation of his own life in farming (and an admitted addiction to auctions): early era vehicles and a multitude of farm equipment from decades past, tools of every imaginable kind, spare parts galore, bins of nuts and bolts rivaling a hardware store, belts and hoses dangling from the ceiling, and on a table in the midst of it all, an incubator holding a couple dozen eggs from his free range hens that he's hatching.
"I'm something of a hoarder," he laughs. "When I moved on this hilltop years ago, there was nothing here but two old vehicles, and now, after 35 years of buying and trading, just look at all the stuff. Many times, I've asked myself, 'Why did I do that?' But, I just never get rid of anything — you never know when you may need it. I bought a combine identical to the one I use just so I could have it for parts."
His "Old Country" ancestor, John Word, came to the U.S. from Wales in the 1600s, and his great-great grandfather, Samuel Word, settled here in Monroe County in 1839, coming from Virginia, with stop-offs in the Carolinas and north Alabama. His great-grandfather, William Word, fought as a captain in the Civil War, was shot in the head, lost pieces of his skull and parts of his brain — but miraculously survived the primitive surgery to extract the musket ball from inside his head, and lived into his 90s.
"My grandfather, Thomas Lawler Word, had beef cattle, but also raised hogs and milk cows, and grew everything that was needed for food for his family. He raised chickens and turkeys to sell — he'd haul live turkeys to Memphis and Birmingham for the holidays. He helped my father and uncle get started in dairying, beef cattle, and row cropping. He was also the one who named this place, Oakland Stock Farms, and we've kept the name.
"My uncle looked after the dairy and row crops and my father was one of the pioneers of poultry houses in this area and later had an integrated hog parlor operation. But he suffered from asthma, which was aggravated by the dust and dirt of farming, and he worked for years as the vocational rehabilitation director for Monroe County.
"Both my father and uncle went to Mississippi State University and later, when I began farming, I could look back and see how they had used the knowledge they acquired in school to make their farming operations more efficient."
Football scholarship at Mississippi State
Herbert also went to Mississippi State on a football scholarship and got a degree in education, with a minor in science.
"I was thinking in terms of an agribusiness career, but figured if it came to it I could teach and coach. I always knew, though, deep down, what I wanted to do, where I wanted to be: I wanted to farm, to be right here on this land. Even while I was in school, I'd drive back to the farm every week to help out.
"When I got my degree, there were no teaching/coaching positions in this area, and the top salary for those jobs was only $6,500 a year, so I quickly decided that wasn't for me.
"By that time, my uncle was sick and later died, and my father had only beef cows. I drove gravel trucks and did other jobs to earn money, and after my uncle died, I farmed his land for a year, then was able to buy it. I later bought out my father and bought the home place that was my grandfather's. I've been farming on my own since 1976."
That was about the time, he says, that Delta farmers were transitioning from four-row to six-row equipment, and farmers here in the hills could go there and buy used equipment at reasonable prices.
"Sledge Taylor, now a farmer/ginner at Como, Miss., and I share a common Word ancestor 'way back. When his father, Bill, was changing out his equipment, I went over and bought just about everything I needed from him — cultivator, planter, do-all. I also bought an International 806 tractor at Planters Equipment Co. at Belzoni. They laughed and told me it was all worn out. I'm still using it today to haul hay.
"I got a chisel plow and disk at an auction. Somewhere along the way, I got hooked on auctions. Since 1980 I've been a licensed professional auctioneer, and I do quite a bit of that work during the winter months."
"Farming in the '70s was good and I expanded. In the '80s and '90s, I was farming a lot of acres, but then I started losing rented land because landlords decided to put their land in the Conservation Reserve Program, or they died and their heirs didn't want to continue renting the land for cropping.
"At one time, I had more than 30 landlords to deal with and farms scattered for seven miles up and down the road from here. The logistics of it and the management just got to the point that we were faced with getting bigger, borrowing a lot of money, and hiring labor, or downsizing to what the two of us could handle ourselves.
"We decided we didn't want to take on a lot of debt and a lot of headaches, so we converted all but 10 acres of our owned land to pasture and hay, and kept soybeans on the rented land."
For 15 years, Word says, they've had no hired labor. "We do it all ourselves. We buy only used equipment, and 80 percent of the maintenance and repair work we do ourselves. If there's something we can't handle, we'll swap out work with family and friends. And (he laughs) I've got all those spare parts lying around everywhere."
Over the years, for their cow-calf operation, he says they have bought two Hereford herds from farmers exiting the business and bought his grandfather's Angus herd.
"Then we started mixing in Brangus and Simmentals and now Trey and I have a mix of breeds. We save our own heifers. I've never bought a cow at auction; we've either raised our own, or bought out other herds.
Sells calves at 400 to 500 lbs.
"We run about 200 mama cows, and we try to sell the calves at 450 to 500 lbs. As high-priced as grain is now, we don't want to feed them any longer than we have to. We sell mostly through local area sale barns.
"We try to get as many calves as we can out of our cows. Unlike most people who get rid of older cows, we keep them on, and they will often produce additional calves. We have six bulls: four Angus, a Charolais, and a Charolais/Angus mix. Beef prices are very good now, and we're making up for some of the not-so-good years."
For hay, they grow johnsongrass — "I know that sounds crazy to row crop farmers who hate the stuff," he says — and some bermudagrass and dallasgrass. They usually put up over 600 rolls of hay for the winter, and some years plant ryegrass and wheat in the bottoms for winter pasture.
In years past, Word says, they have used mineral tubs and blocks for supplements and worming medications, but this past winter, in two pastures, they've been trying Purina Sup-R-Lix, a molasses-based protein supplement that provides a balance of all essential nutrients — energy, protein, vitamins, and minerals
"This has been a particularly severe winter from a feeding standpoint, he says. "We had to start feeding earlier than normal. But, I believe feed utilization has been better in the pastures where the cows had the Purina Sup-R-Lix, and I probably will use it in all the pastures next winter."
Despite the adverse weather, he says "we only lost three cows this winter; last winter we lost 22 grown cows, and a loss like that hurts.
"We haven't had any problem with coyotes or roaming dogs; our biggest problem is with buzzards, which will attack just-born calves and mother cows that are weakened from giving birth. I've seen as many as 50 or 60 at a time attacking a calf or cow."
Their soybeans last year were Asgrow 5605 Roundup Ready.
"We plant Group Vs, because we just can't get into our bottomland fields until May. The Roundup Ready system works well, but we've had a problem with teaweed, so we apply Valor behind the planter and it does a good job of control. This year we'll probably use some Dual or Prowl at planting, too, to hold the grasses until we can get in and apply postemerge Roundup.
"We're usually the last ones to get planted and the last ones to finish harvesting. We'll start out cutting 40 bushel beans, but that starts dropping as the weather gets bad and brings our yield average down. Last year, we had problems getting the beans to dry down for harvest, and we ended up having to cut every field twice. In 2009, when it rained so much, we harvested just enough that the crop insurance wouldn't pay."
They take their beans to Tom Sawyer Grain near West Point, Miss., about 20 miles away. Most of their farms are share-rent, Word says, and it just isn't financially feasible to build on-farm storage.
Area farming changing
The face of farming in the area continues to change, he says.
"In the '70s, all the land around here was in crops or pastures, but over the years a lot has gone into CRP, and more and more people are building houses. The hills have gone back to pastures or hay, and the row crops that are left are in the bottomlands.
"When I was a kid, there were 60 or 70 dairies in this county, and there were five Grade A dairies and five Grade C dairies in this immediate area; now there is one lone dairy in the entire county. From the 1970s to the 1990s, there were seven or eight different people who farmed and lived in this immediate area; now Trey and I are the only farmers who live here."
In addition to his farming and other interests, Word is president of Monroe County Farm Bureau and active in the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation, just recently having participated in a legislative trip to Washington. He is treasurer of Wren Presbyterian Church and sings in the choir, and is president of Wren Volunteer Fire Department.
A favorite ongoing project is an old house, decorated with all manner of signs outside and mounted deer and elk heads and bric-a-brac of the years inside, that is used for family reunions and gatherings throughout the year. He has a brick pit outside, on which he can roast a whole hog, and inside there's a commercial range for large scale cooking.
"We'll have 100 to 150 people show up for our Fourth of July barbecue," he says.
"I've always enjoyed cooking and grilling, and I spent quite a bit of time a few years ago as grill master for 2Brothers BBQ Sauce, which was founded by two members of the Bryan meat packing family at nearby West Point, Miss.
"We did grilling demos all over and on the NASCAR circuit. That led to my working with celebrity TV chef Mario Batali on a NASCAR cookbook, Mario Tailgates NASCAR Style — there's a full page color photo of me in the book.
"But that took a lot of time away from the farm, with Trey taking up the slack, so I eased out of that and came back to farming."
His wife, Joanie, who recently retired from after a 28-year teaching career, "has been my helpmate," he says, "and I couldn't have made it without her all these years, or without all the time and work that Trey now puts into the operation, in addition to his off-farm jobs."
In working auctions for a lot of farmers who were selling out, Word says, "I had the opportunity to pick the brains of a lot of FHA people and bankers, and that has worked to my advantage in dealing with them over the years. I hung in there and finally got out from under FHA, and for the last 10 years I haven't borrowed a dime of operating money.
"One of the lessons that was drilled into us in Mississippi State football was that to win, you give it all you've got, you stick with it, and you don't quit. And that has pretty much worked for me in farming.
"Long after I'm gone, I hope my grandchildren and great-grandchildren will still be on this land."


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|Penal Ties!
|Billy Bob Bean
|Mobile RV Park, Residential District, Anywhere City
Penal Ties!, also known as Alma Mater Return!, is a mission in Grand Theft Auto 2 given to protagonist Claude Speed by Redneck boss Billy Bob Bean. The mission is the second job available from the red Redneck phone in the Mobile RV Park of the Residential District.
Billy Bob Bean wants revenge on the guards at Alma Mater Prison for his past experiences. Claude is arrested to get inside the facility, then locates Billy Bob's contact, The Hump, who hands him a keycard to the Guard Room. Claude gets a uniform and weapon from there before killing the prison's guards and starting a riot. He then destroys the front gates, escapes with a Special Agent Car and returns to the Mobile RV Park.
Billy Bob Bean: "Hey, Rooster, it's Billy Bob. I had me some bad times with the Alma Mater Prison Guards some years ago and now it's time for payback. Only first we gotta get you inside..."
Billy Bob Bean: "You want to get inside Alma Mater, boy, you need to get arrested. The Cops have to think you are sellin' Beany Liquor."
Billy Bob Bean: "Meet our Liquor-Man outside the Strip Club and the Cops will soon find you. We will make contact inside Alma Mater."
(Claude drives to Billy Bob's contact and gets in his car)
Liquor-Man: "I heard you got some Beany Liquor for me?"
(4 squad cars suddenly converge on the car and arrest Claude)
Billy Bob Bean: "Not bad, son, you made it inside. Now locate The Hump - he's got your instructions."
(Claude locates The Hump and talks to him)
The Hump: "You made it! Hot DAMN! Take this here Emergency Keycard and get a uniform and a S-Uzi Machine Gun from the Guard Room."
(Claude finds the Guard Room and enters it)
Billy Bob Bean: "The Prisoners will start riotin' when you start shootin'. When the riot starts you kill all the guards."
(Claude fights his way through the prisoners and kills all 8 guards)
Billy Bob Bean: "Super shootin', Rooster. You need to use the Emergency Keycard on the locking mechanisms to blow open the prison gates."
(Claude finds both locking mechanisms and blows them up)
Billy Bob Bean: "Hey, Rooster, the gates are open! Hot DAMN - the bridge is still up! You are gonna have to use a vehicle to cross that there gap."
(Claude jacks a Special Agent Car and uses it to jump the bridge out of the prison)
Billy Bob Bean: "The Cops are lookin' for you now, Rooster. Get over to Disgracelands and change clothes."
(Claude evades the police, escapes to the Mobile RV Park and changes clothes in the garage)
Billy Bob Bean: "Yee-ha! Them butt-slappin', shit-suckin' guards are face down for the last time. Rooster, you really are a trouble-maker extraordinaire! Here - you take this $70,000."
Completing the mission will give you $70,000.