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Golly! Downton Abbey drew a stunning 10.2 million viewers for its season-four premiere on PBS last night, making it the most-watched drama series premiere in PBS history. It's also a big 22-percent leap from last January's season-three return, which attracted a then-record 7.9 million same-day viewers. And according to preliminary Nielsen data from PBS, it seems likely the strong Downton debut will allow PBS to tie CBS as Sunday's most-watched TV network from 9 to 11 p.m. It's logical that the same-day numbers would spike, given the cliff-hanger-y nature of last year's finale, which saw — spoiler alert if you haven't yet caught up — Matthew die a bloody death just moments after the birth of his new son. But if British viewers are any indication, Downton may have also just hit its high mark.
In the U.K., where Downton kicks off in the fall, the season four premiere averaged 9.6 million viewers on British network ITV. Just as it was here, the numbers represented the show's biggest-ever audience for a season opener. And in a hopeful sign for PBS, viewership built a bit over the next few weeks. But then viewers across the pond seemed to grow a bit chillier toward Downton. Ratings trended down and, overall, viewership for all regular season four episodes of Downton in the U.K. dropped to 9.5 million, compared to 9.7 million the year before. And this year's Christmas special — what we here in the States will see as the season finale — also declined from 2012 and lost to another period drama, Call the Midwife (as well as some U.K. comedies). None of these figures are awful, mind you. And once DVR data gets added in, the overall audience surges over 11 million British viewers. But at least in the U.K., Downton ended season four without any new influx of viewers.
Still, ITV and PBS have already ordered the fifth season of Downton, so the small declines are sort of academic. Of more concern: Creator-writer Julian Fellowes recently seemed to suggest that the end might be drawing near for the show. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, the scribe said he can't start working on his new NBC drama The Gilded Age until he finishes Downton and that season six is hardly assured. Given NBC's need to have new hit shows, the Peacock might not be willing to wait much longer.

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It was a weekend that made Hollywood stand back and marvel. "The Avengers," from Walt Disney's Marvel Studios, didn't just break the record for the best opening weekend in Hollywood history — the film smashed through it Hulk style, grabbing up big green fistfuls of money.
The Joss Whedon-directed movie, riding stellar reviews and a tsunami of Twitter love, piled up $200.3 million at theaters in the U.S. and Canada, according to an estimate from Disney. That total, which beat the $169.2-million record set during the opening weekend of 2011's "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 2," was turbocharged by pricier IMAX and 3-D tickets. About 52% of those who saw the movie opted to shell out a few extra bucks to watch it in 3-D. IMAX theaters even ran out of seats to sell to moviegoers.
The North American box office total added to an already unfolding global success story; playing in 52 international markets, the movie collected $151.5 million this weekend, raising its tally abroad to $441.5 million. That means that after just two weeks in release, "The Avengers" already has sold $641.8-million worth of tickets, jumping past "The Hunger Games" on the ranking of top-grossing 2012 releases worldwide.
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What has been the most memorable experience you have had while working for Heifer? I really enjoy the visitors who come to the Ranch. For some of them, I am the first llama they have ever seen. Some even think I am a donkey, until they get to know me.
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Galerie m invites guests to attend a talk between Elisabeth Vary and Beat Wismer (general director of the museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf) on 17 September that should provide some deeper insights into the artist's work.
Vary's mostly multi-part, sculptural paintings make reference to one another and repeatedly challenge our perceptual faculties – as we look we discover new things that school our senses and continually surprise us. Velvety and saturated or proliferating expressively, in cool monochrome tones or chaotic abundance, Vary's colors spread across irregular geometric shapes.
Her art explores the dialectical relationships between image, color, body, space and viewer. For Vary, paint is not merely a medium but above all a material with its own body and substance. She emphasizes each color's intrinsic value, bringing them to life and letting them perfuse the surfaces, yet without ceding control. The artist is the one setting the rhythm, "knowing how paints behave in a certain quantity when allowed to flow" (Elisabeth Vary). Every single plane is an expressive gesture by the artist made manifest.
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It takes more than one look to perceive these works in all their complexity. They invite the viewer to enter into a dialogue, one that is set into motion as he walks past. Each change in perspective reveals a new secret and unfurls further facets of these bodies in space.
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The Philippines, an archipelago, made up of 7,107 islands, between the Philippine Sea and the South China Sea, east of Vietnam occupies an area slightly larger than the U.S. state of Arizona.
The mostly mountainous, tropical island country holds natural resources of timber, petroleum, nickel, cobalt, silver, gold, salt, and copper and has an estimated population of more than 89,000,000 (July 2006). Natural hazards are uncontrolled deforestation in watershed areas, soil erosion, air and water pollution in major urban centers, coral reef degradation, and increasing pollution of coastal mangrove swamps that are important fish breeding grounds.
The Philippine Islands became a Spanish colony during the 16th century, ceded to the U.S. following the Spanish-American War in 1898, and became a self-governing commonwealth in 1935, in preparation for independence. During World War II, the islands fell under Japanese occupation (1942-45); on July 4, 1946, the Philippines attained independence. The Philippine government is comprised of the 24-seat Senado (Senate) and the 212-member Kapulungan Ng Mga Kinatawan (House of Representatives), led by a President elected for a single six-year term.
The majority of Philippine people are Malay, descendants of Indonesians and Malays who migrated to the islands long before the Christian era. The most significant ethnic minority group is the Chinese, who have played an important role in commerce since the ninth century. As a result of intermarriage, many Filipinos have some Chinese and Spanish ancestry. Americans and Spaniards constitute the next largest alien minorities in the country. About 87 native languages and dialects are spoken, all belonging to the Malay-Polynesian linguistic family. Of these, eight are the first languages of more than 85% of the population. The three principal indigenous languages are Cebuano, spoken in the Visayas; Tagalog, predominant in the area around Manila; and Ilocano, spoken in northern Luzon. The national language, Filipino, based on Tagalog, is taught in all schools and is gaining acceptance, particularly as a second language. The Philippines has one of the highest literacy rates in the East Asian and Pacific area.
The Philippines has a tropical marine climate dominated by a rainy season and a dry season. The summer monsoon brings heavy rains to most of the archipelago from May to October, whereas the winter monsoon brings cooler and drier air from December to February. Manila and most of the lowland areas are hot and dusty from March to May. Monsoon rains, although hard and drenching, are not normally associated with high winds and waves. But the Philippines does sit astride the typhoon belt, and it suffers an annual onslaught of dangerous tropical storms from July through October. These are especially hazardous for northern and eastern Luzon and the Bicol and Eastern Visayas regions, but Manila gets devastated periodically as well.
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The question: with games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero: World Tour on the market, is there room for singing-only experiences like SingStar and Lips? Yesterday Frank gave you his thoughts on Microsoft's take on karaoke with Lips and was pleasantly surprised, and today I'm going to tackle Singstar: ABBA.The answer is yes, the multiplayer component of these games and included videos and camera functionality make singing-only games a proper alternative to plastic instruments. But... ABBA?
Do you remember that scene in Dexter when the killer hung a Barbie head on the refrigerator, and Dexter knew that there was someone out there who knew his dark secret? That's how I felt when I opened my package from Sony to see SingStar: ABBA looking up at me. Who knew of my secret desire to sing "Mamma Mia?" Who had been reading my unicorn diary?
We ran into problems immediately, the Rock Band and Guitar Hero World Tour microphones don't work with SingStar; Sony had to ship me a set of microphones specifically for the SingStar line of games. That's something of a bummer, since there's no reason for these microphones not to be cross-compatible.
The microphones were interesting. The USB adapter allows two microphones to be plugged into one USB jack, and the game is designed for multiple players. You can sing with someone, do a score battle, or play with up to eight people by passing the microphone back and forth. The game also gets rid of the characters and backgrounds of games like Rock Band, as you'll be watching the video for each song as you play. Slightly grainy videos, sure, but it was the 70s. I don't think ABBA was ever filmed in high definition. It also seems slightly harder to keep track of your pitch with SingStar's system, I longed for the persistent indicator of where my voice was as I sang from Rock Band.
The PS3 version of the game is $40, and it comes with 25 songs. There's something so endearing about a game built around ABBA; the band has many secret fans, and dozens of bands would have been a more commercial choice... so why go with ABBA? The only answer seems to be "Why not?" and the more people I tell about the game, the more invitations I receive to bring over the PS3 and microphones. Every song fans will want to sing is included in the disc, as is the ability to shoot video and take pictures of yourself performing using the PlayStation Eye. This isn't for the faint of heart, and it takes a real man to sit through a wince-inducing slide show of pictures showing him singing "Dancing Queen."
The audience for this game may be a limited one: PS3 or PS2 owners who love ABBA and want to sing, and the microphone is proprietary, but the game itself has a ton of charm and appeal. This is a great piece of silliness to bring out at parties. The one problem I had was that the songs aren't available to be purchased online, which means owners of SingStar Vol. 2 will have to shell out for the entire new disc instead of being able to purchase the set song by song.
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40 Years Ago: King Crimson Release 'Starless and Bible Black'
Possibly the only thing more challenging, unpredictable, and even befuddling, at times, than King Crimson's otherworldly musical creations at the start of the '70s was their ever-shifting personnel. By the end of the band's first half-decade of existence, leader Robert Fripp had already gone through several lineups of musicians.
Thankfully, for Crimson's sixth long-player, 'Starless and Bible Black,' which was released on March 29, 1974, they had found some measure of stability around Fripp, bassist/vocalist John Wetton, drummer Bill Bruford, multi-instrumentalist (violin, viola, keyboards) David Cross, and lyricist Richard Palmer-James, whose unorthodox wordplay capably filled the role vacated by Fripp's longtime foil, Peter Sinfield.
Musically, though, King Crimson's restless experimenting continued thanks to a renewed focus on improvisation that saw all but two of the new album's songs recorded live in concert, then overdubbed and cleansed of crowd noise in the studio. Both of those studio-only creations kicked off 'Starless and Bible Black,' whose title was an allusion to Dylan Thomas' 'Under Milk Wood.' The first melded skittish tempos and drastic soft/hard dynamics with a beautifully ethereal interlude lasting mere seconds, while the second, by comparison, opened gently and plainly, sweetened by Cross' violin, but soon embarked towards darker realms on an ominous Wetton bass line.
Wetton's instrument also starred alongside subversive guitar interjections across the understated 'We'll Let You Know,' which then gave way to lusher, almost Spanish-flavored chords on 'The Night Watch,' a minimalist, virtually percussion-free instrumental (one of many) in 'Trio,' and finally static-encrusted lounge jazz for 'The Mincer.' And that was just side one.
The second half of 'Starless and Bible Black' bowed under the daunting weight of two epic instrumentals averaging ten minutes -- edited down from their concert originals -- of wanton improvisation. The title track slowly gained intensity around Fripp's distorted, dive-bombing guitar-strangling until finally locking into a steady groove five minutes in, and then gradually decomposing again. By Fripp's own admission, 'Fracture' challenged even his abilities with its complexity, and yet, the tight interplay between all involved throughout the song's protracted ebb and flow is on display.
And to think that this quasi-telepathic musical synchronization was already being undermined by a new occurrence of lineup uncertainty — namely involving Cross, whose violin was losing the battle for expression and sheer volume vs. his more assertive bandmates. This, in the kill-or-be-killed world of King Crimson, meant his inevitable ousting (by unanimous vote, no less) prior to the following year's excellent, 'Red,' which of course signaled another complete band collapse and a five-year hiatus.


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SEAL BEACH Paul Caouette walked on the sand with his family, checking out the beach site that might serve as a permanent memorial related to the mass shooting that took his father's life.
"I like it," Caouette said. "This brings back a lot of good memories."
Paul Wilson, whose wife Christy died in the Salon Meritage shooting, also recalled all the times his family had spent on the beach. It would be a nice spot to come back and remember her at a special memorial, Wilson said.
"It would be something that shows who Christy was — not just a victim of that day," Wilson said.
The beach at the northern end of the city, where First Street meets Ocean Avenue, is the latest site — and the preferred by a committee — for a memorial related to the shooting last Oct. 12 that killed eight people and wounded a ninth person.
Meanwhile, the city is working with a group of community leaders to organize a candlelight vigil on Oct. 11 by the pier.
The event will not be held on the one-year anniversary to allow family members of those who died the opportunity to spend that day in their own way, said Councilwoman Ellery Deaton.
Since the slaying, the community has supported in myriad ways the families of the hairdressers, customers and others who were killed.
The salon is undergoing a major renovation and will reopen later this year under the same name. Most of the hairdressers will return to Salon Meritage.
"The clients loved going there. And we're all looking at it as going home," hairdresser Jeffery Segall said Friday.
Segall was working on Oct. 12, but left only minutes before a man walked in and opened fire in the crowded salon. Scott Dekraai, the ex-husband of one of the hairdressers, is awaiting trial and has pleaded not guilty.
Within short walking distance of the salon off Fifth Street is the First Street beach site now favored for a memorial, on the sand near the parking lot and grassy area where windsurfers set up and put away their equipment.
The city can piggyback on recent improvements at the First Street beach by expanding concrete recently poured and creating a memorial, said Tim Kelsey, the city's recreation manager.
Committee members who met with a designer Wednesday night and again at the beach on Thursday, are looking at a memorial that could include benches with the names of the victims and something individual about each one, an American flag in the middle of granite or other stone and benches that overlook the ocean.
The committee's earlier recommendation to erect a memorial at the popular bluff park overlooking the pier and ocean would require California Coastal Commission permits, which could take up to two years to acquire, Kelsey said.
The First Street beach site is not as busy as the park by the pier and will offer a place "for quiet reflection," Kelsey said.
Paul Caouette, his mother, Paula, and his sister, Katie, said they approved of the area as a contemplative spot for the families of those who died that day. David Caouette was killed while sitting in his car outside the salon.
Katie's 4-year-old, Bodee, ran circles around the group, laughed under a beach shower and splashed in a water puddle.
When he spotted two committee members placing a rope on the sand to help envision where the memorial would be, Bodee asked: "What is that?"
Said his mom: "The shape of what the monument is going to be."
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A long-time reader writes to look back at last week's GOP debate in Charleston:
To date, the most decisive moment of the lengthy Republican presidential debating season occurred when Newt Gingrich launched his tirade against CNN's John King for raising the subject of Gingrich's second marriage. But in my view, that moment was theatre, and revealed little. For me, the most revealing moment occurred in the same debate when Rick Santorum described Gingrich as "grandiose" and Gingrich concurred.
With Gingrich's grandiosity undisputed, the question becomes whether this trait is a virtue in a national leader, as the former Speaker supposes, or a vice, as Santorum would have it.
The most grandiose president of my lifetime, with the possible exception of the current one, was Richard Nixon. I don't understand Nixon to have been personally grandiose. By most accounts he was, instead, personally awkward. Awkwardness can produce the appearance of grandiosity, but it is not the same thing.
But Nixon produced a grandiose presidency. It was he, after all, who wanted to dress the White House guards in hats and tunics in the style of 19th century Prussia.
More significantly, Nixon's presidency was intellectually grandiose, chock full of ambitious, outside-the-box policy ideas. The list includes wage-price controls, a negative income tax, racial quotas (the Philadelphia Plan), and outreach to Red China.
These policies had one thing in common – they came, more or less, from the playbook of Nixon's enemies, not his supporters. Indeed, Nixon's primary domestic policy adviser was a Democrat, Pat Moynihan, and his primary foreign policy adviser, Henry Kissinger, was considered a Rockefeller (i.e., liberal) Republican.
We can see the same tendency with Gingrich. In health care policy, he pushed the individual mandate. In environmental policy, he found common ground with Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry. His opposition to the surge in Iraq mirrored the nearly unanimous position of the left on this matter.
Adopting the ideas of one's political adversaries is not the only possible result of political grandiosity, but it is the most natural. The grandiose thinker is not constrained by the limits of his faction's ideology. Instead, he will want to break free of traditional ideology by synthesizing ideas across a broad spectrum. And the grandiose politician will dream of fundamentally transforming the political landscape by building a broad new coalition. This dream will likely lead to significant forays into the policy terrain of the opposition.
The alternative for a leader who wishes to be "transformative" is to influence, and lead, a pre-existing movement on the rise. Indeed, this is the path to true political transformation in a democracy, the one taken by Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. But the grandiose leader will be reluctant to become the instrument of an existing movement whose time is coming. He will find it far more tempting to try and create his own movement through the force of an intellect that identifies the value (and the error) in all existing ideological constructs.
Unfortunately, the "pick and choose" path, founded as it is on hubris and vanity, never seems to succeed. Certainly, it did not for Nixon.
Newt Gingrich would rather compare himself to Reagan than to Nixon. And Reagan was not immune to grandiose thinking. For example, he succumbed to it at Reykjavík with his proposal to eliminate all ballistic missiles within ten years.
But as a rule, Reagan stuck to the basics of the emerging conservative ideology of his day – low taxes, a less intrusive government, a strong national defense, and a foreign policy that sought to reward friends and punish enemies. Borrowing little from his adversaries, he accomplished grand things by keeping it simple, not grandiose.
Newt Gingrich seems temperamentally incapable of following such a course.


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In 1893 Kalamazoo's horse-drawn street railway system was converted to electric power. Looking to expand evening and weekend trade, the Citizens Street Railway Company extended its Asylum Avenue line two-and-one-half miles to the southwest along the old Asylum road (now Oakland Drive) and established a leisure resort on the shores of Woods Lake (then known as Wood's Lake after early settler, Smith Wood).
Opened as Wood's Lake Park on 28 June 1893 and shortly thereafter renamed Lake View, patrons enjoyed a variety of entertainments typical of the era, including band concerts, a merry-go-round, balloon ascensions, baseball games, boating, dancing and picnicking along the cool wooded shoreline.
By the turn of the twentieth century, summer theater had become a key attraction at Lake View Park, thanks largely to the shrewd management of the Mittenthal Brothers. The Lake View Casino, located at the east end of Woods Lake (where the city beach is today), was an open sided theater with professionally made stage scenery and permanent seats for more than a thousand on the hill directly behind, forming a natural amphitheater. Checkrooms and dressing rooms were provided, including a spot where fashionable bicycle-riding patrons could check their "wheels."
Shows at the Casino consistently received rave reviews and drew sizable crowds for each performance. Attendance of nearly a thousand or more was common, and Sam Mittenthal was often complimented for the quality of his shows and the manner in which he conducted affairs at the park.
Between 1904 and 1906, the park became known as Casino Park and was managed by two prominent local musicians, Ted Daken and Banks Baird. Vaudeville, light opera and burlesque dominated the bill, with occasional musical attractions (ragtime being all the rage), minstrel shows, and flickering films from Thomas Edison's new gadget called the Kinetoscope. Kalamazoo audiences saw many historic cinematic firsts at Casino Park, including films like Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery and scenes of the devastating San Francisco earthquake.
In 1906 the Michigan United Railways (MUR) conglomerate assumed ownership of Kalamazoo's street railway company (Michigan Traction Co.), and Casino Park was closed. In its place, a larger, more modern and versatile park was established at the opposite end of Woods Lake along the southwestern shore.
Oakwood Park was first opened to the public on Saturday, 29 June 1907, and featured a new dance hall, a new band stand, a nickelodeon theater and a boat house, along with its premiere attraction - the "Dizzy Figure-8" roller coaster. Balloon ascensions and band concerts were frequent attractions, with Chautauqua assemblies and specialty entertainment providing hours of summertime activity, usually for the mere cost of a trolley ride.
Oakwood Park's peak came during the 1911-1915 seasons when upwards of 15,000 patrons or more visited the resort each day. A new baseball field was constructed in the northwest portion of the park (Broadway & Lorraine area today) where local and regional teams waged bitter battles in defense of titles and reputations. A new bandshell was constructed in the southwest corner of the park (where Broadway Avenue meets Parkview today), which carried the sweet strains of Fischer's Exposition Orchestra, Chester Z. Bronson's Symphony Orchestra (a forerunner of today's KSO), and numerous others throughout the park during the warm summer days.
Then, in the words of former park manager Ed Esterman, "The War changed everything." Soldiers returned from the First World War with new dreams and great expectations. Americans began to discover broader horizons via the automobile and interest in small resorts such as Oakwood Park began to decline.
Yet Oakwood's dance hall flourished during the Roaring Twenties with nightly dances before capacity crowds during much of the warm-weather season. In 1922, Oakwood Park made history by giving the Kalamazoo community its first introduction to the miracle of radio when a concert by Fischer's Orchestra was broadcast from Milwaukee and played to a delighted audience at an Oakwood Park "Radio Dance." During cool weather, the Oakwood pavilion became a Mecca for roller skaters and ice skaters.
Owing to declining patronage and following a disastrous 1924 balloon exhibition which resulted in the death of the feature performer, the park was permanently closed to the public on the 3rd of May, 1925. The park property was subsequently sold and subdivided into a residential neighborhood known thereafter as Parkdale. Parkdale plats first went on sale in September 1927, although nearly twenty years would pass before large-scale development took place. Residential homes in the Winchell Neighborhood now occupy most of what was once Kalamazoo's "Coney Island."
Although virtually no trace of either Lake View Park or Casino Park can be found at the east end of Woods Lake, several items along its southern and western shores lend valuable clues about Oakwood Park's location and activities. Though the auditorium building itself was razed in 1927, its foundation remains intact beneath the home at 2336 Crest Drive. Lumber from the roller coaster and station house is known to have been used in the construction of several homes in the nearby Oakwood Neighborhood, and the tongue-and-groove flooring from the auditorium's popular dance floor has been traced to a hayloft in a barn on 'D' Avenue in northern Kalamazoo County.
In addition, recent construction projects in the park area have yielded numerous artifacts, including soda bottles, bricks, bullet casings and broken china (from the shooting gallery), a roller skate wheel, a woman's hair comb, and more. Similarly, the streetcar tracks in front of the park entrance were briefly exposed during recent road work on Parkview Avenue. Interestingly enough, various sources have reported seeing debris from the park (perhaps including parts of the famous roller coaster) while scuba diving in the murky depths of Woods Lake, although no firm documentation of such yet exists. In 2010, Kalamazoo's Red Sea Pedestrians recorded a song called "Dust on the Carnival Bells," which spins a tale about the old Oakwood Ferris wheel, and ponders whether it might still be in operation at the bottom of the lake.
Nonetheless, the various parks at Woods Lake provide stunning examples of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century "trolley parks," where tens of thousands of visitors enjoyed a refreshing break from the dirt and toil of urban living. In addition, these parks provide us with a fascinating and insightful overview of the development of American popular entertainment, as seen from a local perspective, beginning during the height of the Victorian era and continuing until the dawn of the Great Depression.


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Nintendo is showing signs that it is considering bringing its famous favourites such as Super Mario and Zelda to Apple's iOS devices.
A Nintendo-owned firm has launched its first paid iOS app, a mobile version of the existing 3DS Pokdex. It's currently available to download from iTunes in Japan.
Nintendo-owned developers and the co-creators of the Pokemon games series, Creatures Inc has included the details of 650 Pokmon characters in the informative app for gamers, and while this not seem like a major addition to the App Store, The Next Web hints that it could be "the sign of a more significant trend."
"While this isn't exactly Nintendo itself launching an iOS title and it is aimed at Japanese audiences, the move can be seen as a step closer to Nintendo titles gracing the App Store," says TNW. "Nintendo isn't so obstinate as to fail to acknowledge the benefits of Apple's content ecosystem."
Games such as Super Mario have been absent from the App Store, much to many iPad, iPhone and iPod owners' dismay, but is this the first sign that the famous characters could be gracing our touchscreens in the near future at last?
One forum user over at TNW said: "Think of the money they would make if they released Mario series, Smash Bros and Pokemon for iOS. It would put Nintendo back in the minds of the general public and that can only be a good thing."
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There may never be a more unique and enduring British band than The Kinks. The Davies' brothers steered their way through the peaks and troughs of more than 30 years of blazing successes, abysmal failures, lurching stylistic changes, hero worship, self-indulgence and drug-fuelled violence before splitting after Dave Davies' 50th birthday party held at the pub in which they had staged their first ever gig. Throughout the distinct eras of the Londoners' rollercoaster history one overriding facet has been the risen feature of their existence: the unparalleled songwriting prowess of Ray Davies.
At the tail end of the band's 'golden age' came Muswell Hillbillies, here re-issued with an entire disc of demos, live recordings and previously unreleased material. Ray had already written the likes of 'Waterloo Sunset', 'Days', 'Autumn Almanac', and 'Lola' at this juncture and would soon throw in the towel on working class lament to unleash his long subjugated urge to turn the band into a sort of travelling music hall troupe; ahead would also lie the more languid excellence of 'Celluloid Heroes', 'Rock n Roll Fantasy', 'Come Dancing' and 1991's underrated 'Scattered'.
Here though the focus was not on crafting individual hits – Hillbillies would have none – but on voicing the frustration felt by the working class of Britain as the country slid further into poverty and attachments to a perceived halcyon age of London (in Davies' eyes - the world) were severed by a rise in building developments that separated established communities. The album itself is, as the title suggests, a journey through very English themes delivered through the medium of Americana; conversely a dream of an imagined America through the tight-clenched eyes of a battered, grimy Britain.
How incredibly well-trained Davies' focus here is - it's one of the aspects that makes this such a remarkable record. It's dystopian outlook is relentless, precise and explored from many aspects, through the eyes of many characters; most importantly it's depicted through a set of songs of intuitive melody and addictive tunefulness that sink and settle in the mind as deeply as any of the band's iconic hits.
There are straight out stunning songs here like the frantic anti-establishment plea of opener '20th Century Man'. "Got no privacy/Got no liberty" Davies wails – yet you get the sense our protagonist has no real hope of escape. The best that can be done is to document the times. It's a similar story on it's partner piece 'Here Come The People In Grey', a twelve bar blues that musically foreshadows 'Apeman', in which Davies' hero wishes to fight "a one man revolution" but of course "Here come the people in grey to take me away". There's no chance of a happy ending for the individual in this landscape.
More chilling is the lilting, delicious 'Holiday', sung in a variety of tones and exaggerated voices by Ray emphasising the hideousness of the titular trip that on one hand he praises with "Oh what a lovely day today", on the other listing the results of his vacation – "…my back burned rare / The salt gets in my blisters and the sand gets in my hair / And the sea's an open sewer / But really I couldn't care…". It may appear to be about pollution but it describes the crumbling illusion of Albion almost perfectly – this is a world where even what would appear to be a moment of respite can turn into a banal form of torture.
It also sounds like the work of someone on the verge, perhaps, of mental collapse so entrenched is it's paranoia, and this rears up further on the savage 'Complicated Life' which veers from the white-collar panic attack of the first verse ("You gott slow down your life or you're gonna be dead") to the dilemmas facing the man who now "can't go to work 'cos I can't get a job". Davies delivers one of his bleakest lines here in his jauntiest cowboy voice – "Life is overrated, life is complicated". All set to a steel pedal drenched, organ driven slowdance that could have fallen from the grooves of 'Songs From The Big Pink'.
The madness is made most explicit on 'Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues', a shambling circus waddle that grinningly echoes Dylan ("The woman next door is undercover for the KGB / And the man from the Social Security is invading my privacy"). Yet it seems that maybe this disease is no disease at all – simply a normal reaction to the trials of modern life. "I can't make decisions / I don't know which way I'm gonna turn" goes the eternal existential cry backed with an improper piano jingle and an anthemic chorus. Despite the horror, Ray's grin still glints.
Perhaps the most wonderfully realised twin moments of the record are when it diverges from the English lyrics/American music concept and allows the two streams to truly intermingle. 'Oklahoma USA', recently resurrected on Davies solo tours, is the kind of piano ballad Wilco would chance upon thirty years later (indeed there's a case to be made for Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, along with OK Computer and the rather more obvious Modern Life Is Rubbish being direct descendents of this album), a tale of a woman's desire to escape to the America of her imagination, one she's never visited, one, it implies, she never will. Two and a half minutes of glancing beauty, it contains another of Davies' finest, most thought provoking lines "All life we work but work is a bore / If life's for living what's living for?"
It's companion serves as the climax of the record, 'Muswell Hillbilly' in which Davies himself, rather than some character or cipher, is finally present pleading "Take me back to the black hills / That I ain't never seen", then resolutely, confusedly crying "They can clear the slums as part of their solution / But they're never gonna kill my cockney pride / 'Cos I'm a Muswell Hillbilly boy". It's a statement that ties up the threads of the album effectively despite seeming contradictory. In fact it's contrariness would seem to perfectly depict Davies' complex feelings toward national identity at this time – the hilarious, knowing mockery of 'Have a Cuppa Tea' would only seem to reinforce this.
The additions to this deluxe double disc package are well worth investigation and indeed, several of the tracks stand up to closer scrutiny. 'Lavender Lane' a very close cousin to 'Waterloo Sunset' which has only ever appeared on the quickly deleted 'Great Lost Kinks Album' in '73 is a great little tune and unlike the 'lost songs' so often dug up to justify reissues (I'm looking at you Nirvana) it actually has substance.
As does the glorious 'Nobody's Fool' a rare Dave Davies lead vocal originally released under the band name Cold Turkey as the theme song for seventies show 'Budgie', baring similarites to his self-penned 2010 single 'Flowers In The Rain' it's fragile, lachrymose, it's wonderful.
Elswhere on disc 2 are a selection of Peel Session live tracks (including a version of 'Holiday' where Ray seems to be trying to channel the voice of Marilyn Monroe), some raw studio takes that overflow with character and the odd bit of filler. Perhaps the real highlights are the proto T-Rex glory of a live take on 'Skin and Bone' and a song named 'Kentucky Moon' which in retrospect seems a baffling choice to leave off the tracklisting of the record proper so tied in is it with the album's concerns.
Ultimately what's on offer here is a one of the truly great albums in rock n' roll history – nuanced, intelligent, loaded with thought and meaning, ripe with almost effortless musical excellence – backed with an extra disc that will delight fans and, if you're using the album as a gateway drug, your interest perhaps sparked by recent reunion rumours, will eventually serve as compelling context for newcomers. It's always been down to Davies' songwriting, that's for absolutely sure, but away from the hits and to one side of the anthems lay albums like this one – approaching perfection even when dealing solely with the idea of a world that, for Davies, was lurching far away from the idyll he held in his mind's eye.
"Liberals dream of equal rights / Conservatives live in a world gone by / Socialists preach of a promised land / But old Uncle Son was an ordinary man" he sings of his Uncle Son in the song of the same name. Davies' frustration and discontent with the world in 1971 seem depressingly relevant in 2013, a further reason to value this record so highly.
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Senate has approved a bill that would allow a lottery and multi-state games such as Powerball in the state.
The Senate on Friday passed the bill on a 18-10 vote. But before approving it, the chamber amended it to specify that proceeds will go to support the state school system, which is already among the best funded in the nation.
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When I went to Kemmerer in 1902, I had no idea that (in 1921) we would have 313 stores...but that didn't prevent me from doing my best and working with all my might. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. --James Cash Penney
James Cash Penney was born September 16, 1875, to Mary Paxton and James Cash Penney, Sr., on a farm near Hamilton, Missouri. Shortly after his son's birth, the elder Penney, who combined occupations of stock farmer, Primitive Baptist preacher, and politician, moved his family to town so that his children could attend school. Although Penney's father was a figure of some consequence in the community, he was constantly short of cash. When Jim, as he was called, was eight, his father told him he would be responsible for purchasing his own clothing. Over the next few years, young Penney worked on surrounding farms, raising pigs, trading horses, and growing watermelons.
In 1895, two years after his high school graduation, Penney discovered what would prove to be his life's calling when he began working part-time as a sales clerk at a general store in Hamilton. He worked extremely hard and proved himself so adept at merchandising that he advanced rapidly. Although his first year's salary was only $25, by 1897, he was making $300 a year, and his future appeared bright. Then he was given shattering news; his family doctor diagnosed Penney's recurring health problems as the early stages of tuberculosis, and said that unless he moved to a dryer climate, he would likely die.
In June 1897, Penney went west in search of health and fortune. After working briefly in Denver as a dry goods clerk, he moved to Longmont, Colorado, where he bought a butcher shop. That business failed, however, reportedly because Penney refused to furnish free liquor to the chef of the local hotel, his largest client. Penney decided to return to the dry goods business, taking temporary employment as a clerk in Callahan and Johnson's store in Longmont. Early in 1899, the owners offered Penney a permanent clerkship in their Evanston, Wyoming, store at a monthly salary of $50. He readily accepted. He did so well that a few years later, when he was 26, the owners offered to make him a partner in a new store they planned to open in 1902. Although they had intended to locate the store in Ogden, Utah, Penney objected on the grounds that Ogden was too large. He proposed that a smaller town like Kemmerer, Wyoming, would be better. Kemmerer was a mining town with about 1,000 residents and a company store that operated on credit. Penney opened the Kemmerer store on April 14, 1902. He used his $500 savings and borrowed the rest of the $2000 necessary to become a one-third partner in the venture.
Penney called his store the "Golden Rule," because his idea was "to make money and build business through serving the community with fair and honest value."1 Many in Kemmerer thought Penney's business would fail. The local bank cashier strongly advised Penney against opening a "cash only" store because three other merchants had failed to compete successfully with the stores of the mining companies, which offered credit. Convinced that hard work could bring success, however, Penney and his partners decided to go ahead with the Kemmerer store.
Business was brisk on opening day, and Penney brought in an impressive $466.59. By the end of the year, he had sold $28,898.11 worth of goods and showed a substantial profit. His store carried men's, women's and children's clothing, shoes, notions, and fabric for sewing. Penney increased his profits each year. In 1907 he bought out Callahan and Johnson and became sole owner of the Kemmerer store. In the same year he purchased two additional stores in Rock Springs and Cumberland, Wyoming.
Several things made Penney's success possible. His stores were all located in inexpensive locations in small communities. He did not pay for elaborate fixtures and displays. He conducted business on a cash-only basis and treated his employees well. Perhaps most importantly, he carried merchandise that his customers wanted, ensuring a rapid inventory turnover. When one of his store managers had saved enough money, Penney would help him open a new store as part owner. The manager was responsible for investing one-third the amount necessary and Penney provided the remaining two-thirds. The manager agreed to train someone to take his place at the existing store. In turn, the new manager would train others until they started up their own stores as one-third partners. This arrangement allowed for rapid expansion in the early years of the business.
By 1909, Penney moved away from Kemmerer, leaving the store there to an associate. He went to Salt Lake City, Utah, approximately 125 miles southwest of Kemmerer, where he established the headquarters for the growing chain and consolidated his buying and accounting operations. Over the next three years he established 28 new stores in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Colorado. In 1913, Penney and his many partners incorporated the firm in Utah as J. C. Penney and Company, Inc. He had decided to abandon the name "Golden Rule," which had been adopted by some of his less scrupulous competitors. Not long after the business was incorporated, Penney moved the firm's headquarters to New York City where he would be closer to his major suppliers of merchandise.
Expansion became a regular program for Penney. Between 1920 and 1930, more than 1,250 new stores opened, most of them on Main Streets in small towns across America. Even the Great Depression did little to halt the Penney expansion program. By 1932, the number of stores had increased to 1,473. Although seven stores had to be closed in 1933, the company's total profits were almost double those of 1932. Penney himself was not so fortunate. Through bad investments in Florida real estate and banking, he lost almost his entire fortune of $40 million. He met that crisis by going back to work full time for the company, and eventually he recouped most of his losses. When the day of modern shopping centers arrived in the late 1950s, Penney's chain was so strong financially that it succeeded in suburbia too. By the 1960s, the company abandoned its cash-only policy by adopting its own credit cards and updating its merchandise (much of it manufactured under the Penney label). The company also opened its own catalog business.
Penney served the company as chairman of the board until 1958 and as a director until his death in New York City on February 12, 1971. When the business celebrated its 90th anniversary in Kemmerer in 1992, 21 years after Penney's death, it had become a firm surpassing $15 billion in sales, and employing approximately 190,000 associates with more than l,300 stores scattered throughout the U. S. and Puerto Rico. This large national retail business continues to reflect the hard work and vision of James Cash Penney.
Questions for Reading 2
1. What experiences did Penney have in his early life that helped him to become a successful businessman?
2. Why did Penney choose to open a store in Kemmerer, Wyoming?
3. Why do you think Penney's first store was so successful?
4. How was Penney able to rapidly expand his chain of stores?
5. How did the company change to meet competitive challenges that arose in the 1950s and 1960s?
Reading 2 was adapted from Ralph J. Christian, "J. C. Penney Historic District" (Lincoln County, Wyoming) National Historic Landmark Nomination Form, U. S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1977; and information from the J.C. Penney Archives in Dallas, Texas.
¹J.C. Penney, Fifty Years with the Golden Rule (New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1950) 55.


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Unlikely Composers
What did Leo Tolstoy's Waltz sound like? Did Friedrich Nietzsche compose as well as he philosophised? Find out here as we explore unexpected amateur composers…
Leo Tolstoy
The Russian novelist's musical legacy was short (about a minute in total!) but very charming – in 1906 he played a little waltz in F that he'd composed in his youth to musicologist Alelksandr Gol'denveizer, who wrote it down for posterity. Click on the play button on the audio player to hear pianist Lera Auerbach's recording (BIS CD 1502).
Sir Patrick Moore
The Sky at Night presenter has written quite a large number of pieces. Alongside Joplinesque piano rags and a tone poem called Phaethon's Ride, three operas, Perseus, Theseus and Galileo, take pride of place. Here's an extract from his song When I was a boy.
William Herschel
When not peering through his telescope, the Bath-based astronomer, who famously discovered Uranus in 1781, directed his gaze music-wards. An impressive 24 symphonies form the bulk of his musical CV, and you can hear the opening of No. 8 in C minor performed by the London Mozart Players by pressing the play button below (Chandos CHSA 5005).
Friedrich Nietzsche
The 19th-century philsopher appears to have had as much difficulty in composing a masterpiece as some of us do in fathoming his philosophies. Wagner had to leave the room when Cosima Wagner and Hans Richter played Nietzsche's The New Year's Echoes piano duet; conductor Hans von Bülow wrote on receiving the score for Manfred Meditation 'Have you no better way to kill time?' Here is his 1862 piano work Heldenklage.
Charlie Chaplin
Chaplin couldn't read music but nearly all of his films are enhanced by his own scores and, in 1973, he deservedly won the Best Film Score Oscar for Limelight.
To find out more, take a look at '15 Unlikely Composers' in the October issue of BBC Music Magazine
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Will Ad-Skipping Win Hearts for Apple TV?
Jul 17, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Apple reportedly is planning to set up a premium version of a service on Apple TV that would let subscribers skip ads, according to former Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Lessin.
The company apparently plans to compensate content providers for lost ad revenue; it's not clear whether it would do so out of its own pocket or by passing on the cost to subscribers.
If the report is correct, this might further complicate Apple's long-drawn-out negotiations with content providers.
"I'm not sure what the business sense of this is at all," Michael McGuire, a vice president of research at Gartner, told MacNewsWorld. "How does that help offset your operating costs and the cost of the service? I'm confused."
On the other hand, the idea might help Apple to stand out from the competition.
"I couldn't quite understand the value proposition for what Apple could do that would significantly differentiate what it was doing from anyone else, and this could be that thing," suggested Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT Research.
However, "most people have fast-forward buttons on their remote controls, and I can't remember the last time I willingly sat all the way through an advertisement on TV," King remarked.
Cupertino's Bulging Muscles
Apple has one thing going for it: It has 45 percent of all audio and video streaming on home networks in North America, according to Sandvine's Global Internet Phenomena Report 1H2013.
Meanwhile, sales of Apple TV units are picking up. About half of the more than 13 million Apple TVs sold so far were purchased in the last year, according to CEO Tim Cook.
Further, Apple recently added HBO Go and WatchESPN to its lineup of content for AppleTV. Other streaming video content includes Hulu Plus, Vimeo, Wall Street Journal Live, MLB.tv, NHL GameCenter and NBA League Pass.
Competitors such as Roku offer more content, however.
Where Angels Fear to Tread
If the rumors about Apple's planned service are true, the company will be charging headlong into a legal morass.
Back in the 1990s, Japanese VCR makers introduced a similar ad-skipping capability into their products but stopped using it after facing strong opposition from the broadcast industry there and in the United States.
In 2011, ABC, CBS and NBC filed suit against ReplayTV, which made a digital recorder similar to TiVo but let consumers skip ads and transmit recorded programs to others over the Web.
Currently, Dish Network is locked in a lawsuit with Fox Broadcasting over its AutoHop ad-skipping service. U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles handed down a sealed ruling in November that let both sides claim victory, but Fox is now appealing the case in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
"Perhaps Apple think they're so well padded with cash that they can take on multiple lawsuits," Pund-IT's King told MacNewsWorld. "This legal issue has come up before, and it has consistently been settled in favor of the content providers."
Possible Solutions
One possible option would be for Apple to swap out traditional commercials for advertisements more closely targeted to the audience, McGuire suggested.
"You and I might be watching the same program through our Apple TVs at the same time -- live -- but we'd see ads targeted to our particular interests," he said, "and that would make a lot more sense than a run-of-the-mill ad skipping capability."


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text: > I am building a dual Xeon 4-node cluster; My understanding of > hyperthreading leaves me to conclusion that it depends largely on the > code to benefit from it. I think that's an ambiguous way to put it. yes, the benefit depends very much on what your code does. but no, you code doesn't have to do anything special: HT simply turns one cpu into a pair of "virtual" cpus which compete for the same fixed set of resources. so you don't necessarily have to use threads to see HT benefit, since the virtualization is not visible at the programmer level. but you will certainly not see any HT benefit if your program somehow manages to keep every functional unit (including cache and ram) busy all the time. > Otherwise in many cases the performance can > become worse than before using a hyperthreaded Xeon processors. My well, first, you don't have to turn on HT at all, so a prestonia can be expected to behave like a northwood. but I would expect most system resources to deteriorate linearly, except for cache, which is highly nonlinear when working set size is near cache size. so if you run two threads/procs on an HT chip, and a small working set (both seeing high cache hit rates) they should get along just fine, with half the speed each. or very large working sets (where cache is basically irrelevant). hmm, maybe that's too verbose to be clear. in short: 1. if you normally have some idle resources, HT may let you achieve higher efficiency through interleaving. 2. some physical resources will deteriorate fairly linearly, so two procs see half the throughput. 3. several resources can behave nonlinearly, so two procs could interfere badly when interleaved. 4. most of these issues are the same for traditional timesliced multiprocessing, except that HT interleaves much finer. > If not what other way can i find the > performance of Xeon processors in a clustered env. I don't know why clustering would change anything.


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Instagram: Mraz's acrylic nail HAS to be in this one!
Best thing ever! I grew up watching Bob Ross and remember the year that he died, July 1995. I was at SAIC for a summer program in Painting, no less! I am sharing this. Thanks!
Grateful for the soaking we got in my region last night, although I would have appreciated it if HE had gone about it more quietly. (HE knows I'm kidding.)
Listened to "Anything you want" to commemorate.
Fun! Reminds me of Garden of your Mind by Mr. Rogers! This is awesome!!!! http://youtu.be/OFzXaFbxDcM
Happy Little Trees (and clouds). I believe.
Very nice! Happy little me
Inspiring mix..
I knew that Bob Ross, watching him work is therapeutic to some..
Now listening to his message.. he's truly inspired!
Keep sharing this video!
Good ol Bob Ross!!!! That man could paint!!!!
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You will live long and prosper. Your seed will populate the earth, i.e., you will live vicariously through trees. (Actually, they're not seeds at all. They're saplings!)
Or maybe you're practicing your next cover: Stop in the name of LOVE…
What about Happy Tree Friends?
Hi Jason!
I heard about you're planting three's in city's around the world.
Do you need a space to plant a three in Holland in November?
I don't life close to Amsterdam, but we are part of a gardening club, we have our own little piece of land with vegetables.
I want to offer you to plant a three there.
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Much love
Lol. In 6th grade I was home from school, sick with fevers, for two weeks straight.
Bob Ross was the only thing I remember watching between naps. I even painted some "happy little trees"
as a result. Too funny!
thanks. i needed that today.
Thanks for cheering me up! For once I need to rely on others to provide me with inspiration contrary to how it usually is in my life. Oh and rest assured that even though you have a similar hairdo , you look better than Bob.
Thanks for the video of Happy trees. Loved it! I used to watch him paint on PBS all the time! Have a Super happy day!! Love ya!
P.S. I will be replaying the "Happy Trees song in my head all morning. : )
Instagram: That cat is probably like my friend's neighbor's cat:
"Hi kitty. What a pretty kitty.
Damn cat."
What a FRO!!!
happy peonies poneys believe a cute video and wow painting skills! Gotta Believe <3 thank you for the cheer <3
lol! so awesome! i wanna see it when i'm high… now i love it but then i will adore it!
In my mind, Bob Ross was one of the greatest rockstars of creativity and happiness. I grew up watching him every Wednesday on PBS. Thanks for reminding me to believe…anything is possible.
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Private Equity's China Share Sales a Buy Signal?
By Isabella Steger and Robert Li
When private-equity firms sell, is that a cue to buy? Recent share sales by private equity firms of Chinese companies have led to investors buying in, likely because the overhang of a potential exit by the firms is removed.
Carlyle Group LP, which exited a lucrative investment in China Pacific Insurance (Group) Co. Monday, is just the latest of a slew of buyout firms which have sold stakes in Chinese companies in recent weeks. These firms have taken advantage of a rally in Hong Kong-listed mainland stocks to dispose of their stakes.


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Chiltern Railways this afternoon finally won permission from the Government to create a £130m railway route between Oxford and London, via Bicester.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has approved a Transport and Works Act order allowing the project to proceed after accepting proposed measures to protect bats which use Wolvercote Tunnel in Oxford as a roost.
The line will be the first new Rail link between London and a major British city for 100 years, with the first trains running between Oxford and London Marylebone in 2015, via a new connecting curve from Bicester Town station to the Chiltern main line.
The project includes a new railway station next to the Water Eaton park-and-ride centre, south of Kidlington, and a new Bicester Town station.
Graham Cross, business development director of Chiltern Railways said: "We're pleased to have been granted the power to proceed with this significant railway investment, which will benefit thousands of commuters and businesses in Oxfordshire."
The recently announced East West Rail project, to link Oxford and Bicester with Milton Keynes and Bedford, will also benefit from Chiltern's project, with both routes using the line between Oxford and Bicester.
Today's decision to approve Chiltern's scheme follows a public inquiry into the project held in Oxford in 2010-11. It was reopened earlier this year to hear further evidence on measures to protect the bats and other wildlife near the line.


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Hundreds of people who work in and support Wilmington's film community turned out Saturday.
Neat black letters on white posterboard summed up the sentiments of film supporters gathered Saturday at Riverfront Park.
"Keep Film in N.C. Keep Jobs in N.C. Keep $$$ in N.C.," the sign read. "Don't You Like N.C.?"
Hundreds of people who work in and support Wilmington's film community held a rally Saturday to fight a bill proposed by two local lawmakers that would eliminate the refundable portion of North Carolina's film tax credit.
Under current state law, film production companies can claim up to $20 million in tax credits on productions spending more than $250,000 in qualifying expenses. House bill 994, introduced Wednesday, would eliminate that credit and waive any tax liability the company accrues over the next five years up to an equivalent amount.
The bill immediately attracted backlash from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers with ties to Wilmington. By Friday, the bill had been referred to the Committee on Rules, Calendar and Operations of the House – a place where many bills get hung up in parliamentary procedure and eventually die.
In front of a noisily enthusiastic crowd Saturday, local and state lawmakers promised to keep fighting the bill so film jobs could stay in Southeastern North Carolina.
"There is no way that you're not going to see the biggest hell-raising on the part of these elected officials to keep the film tax credit, to keep it alive," said Republican Sen. Thom Goolsby, one of at least eight elected officials who attended Saturday's rally.
If passed, the proposed legislation would affect future filming. But it would also include a piece that would make film-incentive credits non-refundable retroactively to Jan. 1. That would impact productions currently filming in Wilmington, including the CBS series "Under the Dome," and ones scheduled to shoot here, like feature film "Tammy," which will start filming May 6.
It would also harm productions filming across the state, said Sean Whalen, who's worked in the film industry since 1996. Whalen, holding a "Republicans and Democrats for Jobs" sign at Saturday's rally, is currently working on "Banshee," an HBO series that's filming in Charlotte.
That production came to North Carolina largely because of the tax breaks, Whalen said. If the House bill passed, Whalen said, it would "destroy" that show. It would also force him to leave the area in order to find work, he said.
Local Republican Reps. Rick Catlin and Chris Millis are two primary sponsors of the bill, which was drafted by Rep. Paul Luebke, a Durham Democrat. Catlin, Millis and other conservative state lawmakers have argued that an overhaul of the state tax code would be more effective than targeted incentives for specific industries, such as film.
But other local lawmakers, including Goolsby, Rep. Ted Davis and Democratic Rep. Susi Hamilton, have said they'll fight to keep the incentives intact.
At Saturday's rally, Davis – a former commissioner of the N.C. Film Council – said he wanted to make the state more job-friendly through tax reform – "but not at the cost of the film industry," he said, garnering big cheers from the crowd.
To Tim Bourne, an executive producer for several movies who's based in Wilmington, stopping the bill was about reminding lawmakers why the film industry was important.
"The guys who started this thing – it's not their fault. They just don't know," he said. "We've got to educate them."
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After searching for the past year or so for a buyer of its KDAY/Redondo Beach and KDEY/Ontario (simulcast on 93.5 FM), Magic Broadcasting has agreed to sell the stations to Meruelo Media, owner of KWHY Channel 22 in Los Angeles.
Meruelo took over control of the stations on Jan. 1 through what is called a local marketing agreement and will run the stations as the sale progresses through regulatory and financial processes. According to the company, the classic hip-hop format is safe.
"Los Angeles has saved KDAY," according to Meruelo CEO Alex Meruelo in a prepared statement. "I've been a longtime fan of KDAY and I'm excited to have the opportunity to re-energize such a beloved Southern California cultural institution. KDAY is L.A."
The original KDAY at 1580 AM was the station that did the groundwork for the format that eventually landed on 95.5 FM, known at one time as KFOX. The original 1580/KDAY had great success in the late 1970s and early 1980s playing hip-hop and rap music that previously had never made it to commercial radio stations anywhere else. It truly was a trendsetter. That KDAY featured a staff of some phenomenal DJs that included one of my all-time favorites, J.J. Johnson, and "King News," aka legendary newsman (and current voice of Tony the Tiger in commercials) Lee Marshall.
The problem with KDAY today is the limited signal. Of course that may be a good thing, since a general mass-appeal format would have a tough time competing, while a specialized format will attract an audience that is fiercely loyal.
As long as Meruelo makes money, the hip-hop on KDAY is safe.
Q: Do you have any idea if there are any audio clips of the late Jim Healy, who used to do a brief, comic-type spoof of sports news back in, I believe, the '80s or early '90s prior to his death? I thought it was a blast listening to his broadcasts. He would interject the Tommy Lasorda cussing tirade from way back when with all the bleeps. It was hilarious! I can not find any clips/shows on the Internet and thought I'd run the question past you.
— Alan Kaliff, Lancaster
A: Healy was one of a kind; his drop-ins of the various swearing and other elements are legendary. I did find a few on YouTube of all places. One can be found at http://tinyurl.com/KMPCH, and with that link you can find quite a few more.
Q: With all the radio stations in the Los Angeles area, you spend an inordinate amount of time talking about a mere few, and for the last few columns, all you have talked about is Rush Limbaugh and the obvious bromance you have for John Phillips, both of whom I consider the worst things to happen to radio and this country. All this shows me is where your bias leanings are.
How can you have a radio column in this city, with its large Hispanic population, and not give a mention to any of the many stations and their hosts that cater to that population other than the ratings?
— Paul M.
A: There are a few things at work here. First is that in reality, over the past 26 years, I have covered Limbaugh, and political talk radio in general, very little. The past few weeks' coverage are due to the fact that his move to KTLK (1150 AM) — and the station's format change itself — is big news. Second, I don't speak any foreign languages and thus it is difficult to cover foreign-language stations. On the other hand, I would not expect a foreign-language newspaper to cover English-language radio often either.
I cover radio from my perspective, what I like and don't, from the viewpoint of someone who loves "good" radio, as defined by me. I cover stations regardless of audience demographics. Ironically, I actually try to avoid much on political talk formats partly because I get accused of being either a right-wing wacko or a left-wing fanatic, from the same column!
As always, if you want something covered, just send me a note. I do my best to answer all mail, electronic or not, though I admit to being awful in replying to standard U.S. Mail.
Richard Wagoner is a San Pedro freelance writer covering radio in Southern California. Send him email at firstname.lastname@example.com.