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No Limit necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 451 diseños de 80 diseñadores freelance.
No Limit Wheels
No Limit Wheels is a new company that is poised to take the ATV and UTV wheel market by storm. Never before have riders been able to customize their wheels to create a look that is an extension of their personal style. Current options are limited and ...boring. Now, with No Limit Wheels, ATV and UTV enthusiasts can customize their wheels and "pimp" their ride by selecting the color, different style options, and design components to build their dream wheel. Colors can be matched to any make/model so your new No Limit Wheels will be a perfect match to your red Polaris ATV.
We are the first and only company offering the ATV and UTV market the same elements of style that have been available to auto enthusiasts for years.
When you're thinking about buying custom after-market wheels for your ATV the options are limitless with No Limit Wheels.
Our target audience is predominantly (almost exclusively) male and between the ages of 18 and 45. The target audience tends to be middle class and upper middle class, and has a great appreciation for activities like outdoor trail riding, hunting and extreme sports.
There is also the possibility that we will expand to unrelated markets so, if possible, the logo should not limit the company to only the ATV market or only to wheels.
**** We want to convey quality, style, and choice as three key descriptors of our brand. ****
Overall requirements:
--- We are looking for both a logo and a brand icon. The logo should be horizontal and the icon more compact. The logo will go on the rim of the wheel which is very narrow. The icon will go in the center of the wheel which is circular. We would like to be able to combine the logo and the icon for advertising purposes and to use on apparel. However, both elements should be equally impactful when used seperately.
---Both the logo and the icon need to be relatively simple. Intriciate designs are not going to show up when we etch the logo/icon on the wheels.
---We are very attracted to stylistic elements that convey the mindest of living a life with no limits.
---We do not currently have any specific colors in mind, but obviously colors that convey masculinity or energy are the best place to start. While we do want to incorporate color, the logo needs to look good if it is all one color (as it will be on the wheel).
---"No Limit" Should be the focus of the logo and the word "wheels" should be secondary. We may expand to unrelated markets in the future so No Limit should be an image that is capable of standing on its own, but for this specific project, please include the word "Wheels".
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--- A photoshop or illustrator file would be the preferred file type.
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S-cores CEO necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 94 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
http://www.mdsforms.com created by MDS Solutions, Inc.
My name is Gloria Brent. I am a Registered Nurse and the CEO of 2 companies both dealing with Healthcare Reimbursement for Long Term Care and Rehab Facilities. My first company started is MDS Consultants. My goal was visit nursing homes and teach management staff how to be more efficient in making sure that they are getting reimbursed correctly for the services they provide to the residents/patients. Now the Federal form that I have been teaching is changing as a result of Medicare and Medicaid Reform I am faced with more challenges. All of the rules are changing, as well as, what is needed by facilities to capture the correct revenue. To go along with MDS Consultants, I have created MDS Solutions. MDS Solutions was created as a software corporation. I created a point-of-care software to assist in capturing the care given to the residents to ensure appropriate reimbursement. Now, I have realized that instead of facility staff taking countless hours to create forms for each facility, it only makes sense for me to create the forms and sell them to the facilities under the MDS Solutions Corporation. I have purchased a domain http://www.mdsforms.com and I need a logo that is a cross between my software logo and a new "forms" logo.
The Federal Government is changing a form for Medicare and Medicaid Reimbursement that has been around for almost a quarter of a century thus causing Skilled Nursing Facilities to change all of their current forms used for Resident documentation. To save facility staff time and money, I have created 18 forms that are compatible with the new MDS 3.0. Individuals that are my audience are Nursing Home Administrators/Owners, Directors of Nursing, Assistant Directors of Nursing, MDS Coordinators, and other members of a Skilled Nursing Facility Management team.
I will attach my S-cores software logo...it is the name of the software licensed by my corp...MDS Solutions. I want to keep the checkmark somewhere. I like the oval "wisp" around the title "S-cores" but it doesn't have to be exactly the same.
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- the fact that I am using this logo to sell forms
- the name of the forms is called "The MDS 3.0 Tool Kit"
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- The MDS 3.0 is a form completed for reimbursement
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In the ongoing fevered debate over gun control legislation, registration of firearms is a key flashpoint. "Progressives" insist that nothing could be more reasonable and benign than simply requiring every firearm and firearm owner to be registered with some government entity. Thus, they argue, bad guys could be screened out and guns used in crimes could be traced to help catch the criminals. They denounce as paranoid, delusional nonsense the concerns of gun owners that registration would lead to eventual confiscation.
In a "Fact Check" at Time.com intended to dismiss "The Gun Registry Red Herring," Michael Scherer notes that President Obama's "Now Is The Time" gun plan issued on January 16 does not call for a federal gun registry. However, the Time piece does acknowledge that in a 2001 interview Obama, then a state senator, stated: "I'll continue to be in favor of handgun law registration requirements and licensing requirements for training."
It is reasonable to believe that President Obama still holds to those views and is, at this point, taking a slower, more pragmatic, step-by-step approach to get momentum going in the direction of more expansive firearms restrictions.
Leaving that reasonable speculation aside, however, it is clear that gun rights advocates are far from delusional in suspecting that gun registration might be used to actually confiscate firearms that had previously been deemed legal. First of all, there is the historical record in one country after another. In the past century alone, fascist and communist regimes have used gun registration (oftentimes enacted by previous democratic governments) to identify gun owners and implement confiscation. In Canada, Australia, and many countries of Europe, gun registration has led to confiscation in recent years. It is happening here in the United States with state laws, as the recently passed legislation in New York State amply demonstrates.
Then, there is an abundance of statements from the militant gun control activists and the organizations they lead calling for outright bans and confiscation.
Nevertheless, disregarding this palpable evidence that the anti-gun lobby does indeed desire, and intend, to outlaw private firearm ownership (or make it so costly and onerous as to be impractical), the pundits and commentators of the liberal-left media would have us believe that only crazy yahoos would suspect that anyone seriously intends to infringe on the Second Amendment.
The anonymous Daily Kos blogger who goes by the moniker GrafZeppelin127 says in a January 25 posting entitled "Gun-Strokers' Self-Esteem Issues":
One of the things that makes what passes for "debate" on gun laws, gun policy, gun control, gun safety, whatever you want to call it, so difficult is that so many of those who proclaim their opposition to these things always frame it in a way that pits them against things that are not happening, that no one is proposing, that no real person actually wants and that have no real chance of actually happening....
This, I think, is what a lot of this hysterical freakout over "gun-grabbing" is about, when no one is actually grabbing or proposing to grab anyone's guns.
We get a torrid lambasting of the supposedly ignorant gun-toting Bubbas from Justin Gibson (a Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual activist, according to his linked Facebook profile) in his Tumblr blog entitled, "Guns are Just the Latest Symptom of the Right's Anti-Obama Delusion." Gibson writes:
The current outrage and unfathomably ignorant claims from gun-fanatics that President Obama is sending federal forces to confiscate their precious firearms is a microcosm of the past four years of teabagger claims their liberties and freedoms are being trampled asunder....
The delusional conservatives' real issue is they still cannot accept the results of the last two general elections, or the will of the people, so they fabricate imaginary sleights against the Constitution, their freedoms, and for the past month, belief the President is coming to seize their guns.
Well, President Obama may not be "coming to seize their guns" just yet, but plenty of other politicians are already going down that road. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo admitted during a December 17 radio interview that confiscation is "one option" under his state's new legislation.
In Iowa, Democratic State Rep. Dan Muhlbauer went on the radio to call for "radical changes" and said he favored a ban on semi-automatic guns — not just so-called "assault rifles," and said the government should "start taking them" from owners who refuse to surrender any of the newly prohibited firearms.
As reported in the local newspaper:
In an interview, a fiery Muhlbauer said it is time to act with "radical changes" on gun laws and other issues to protect schoolchildren from shooting sprees like the one last week in Newtown, Conn.
"We cannot have big guns out here as far as the big guns that are out here, the semi-automatics and all of them," Muhlbauer said. "We can't have those running around out here. Those are not hunting weapons."
He added, "We should ban those in Iowa."
Muhlbauer, who did not list the specific weapons he wants outlawed in The Daily Times Herald interview, said he would like to see the ban implemented in a retroactive fashion.
"Even if you have them, I think we need to start taking them," Muhlbauer said. "We can't have those out there. Because if they're out there they're just going to get circulated around to the wrong people. Those guns should not be in the public's hands. There are just too big of guns."
In California, State Senator Leland Yee, a Democrat from San Francisco, has reintroduced legislation (SB 47) that would criminalize ownership of many formerly legal firearms. Owners would have to either turn them in or have them confiscated. His similar bill, SB 249, failed last summer, but with political impetus from exploitation of the Sandy Hook shooting, he is hoping to push this one through. And that is just a start; other anti-gun bills are also pending in the Democrat-controlled legislature. Sen. Yee's chief-of-staff, Adam Keigwin, has stated that California should ban all guns, even bolt-action hunting rifles.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, perhaps the biggest gun in the anti-gun lobby, has often tipped its hand in the confiscation direction. In its annual scorecard for state gun control laws it grants "Extra Credit" points to states in which law enforcement uses firearms registration records to "disarm" categories of citizens that have been retroactively declared "Prohibited Handgun Possessors." Here is the Brady description from their 2011 State Scorecard:
Disarm Prohibited Handgun Possessors: State law enforcement matches firearm records with prohibited person records to identify, disarm, and prosecute illegal firearms possessors.
Admission: Registration Is the "First Step" to Confiscation
Most of the gun grabbers are politically astute enough to realize that any frontal attack on the Second Amendment is politically untenable, because it will immediately arouse concerted opposition and will result in political retribution at the polls. So, the strategy is to conceal the real endgame goals and attempt piecemeal "reasonable" concessions that will not seem too painful, or that will immediately affect only a fraction of gun owners.
A recent article for the Daily Kos, the news and opinion blog site considered to be the Bible by many "Progressives," provides one of the candid admissions by the Left that their real end goal is a total monopoly of gun ownership by the government. Entitled, "How to Ban Guns: A step by step, long term process," the December 21 column by Daily Kos writer "Sporks" says:
The only way we can truly be safe and prevent further gun violence is to ban civilian ownership of all guns. That means everything. No pistols, no revolvers, no semiautomatic or automatic rifles. No bolt action. No breaking actions or falling blocks. Nothing. This is the only thing that we can possibly do to keep our children safe from both mass murder and common street violence.
That's pretty all-inclusive. Sporks would like to see that happen immediately, but,
Unfortunately, right now we can't. The political will is there, but the institutions are not. Honestly, this is a good thing. If we passed a law tomorrow banning all firearms, we would have massive noncompliance. What we need to do is establish the regulatory and informational institutions first.
Sporks then lays out precisely the game plan that many in the anti-gun lobby are already pursuing. This is obviously aimed at counseling and consoling the frustrated anti-gun militants and convincing them to adopt a more patient, gradualist mindset, with the objective of attaining what now seems politically unattainable. First the gun-grabbers must identify where the guns are and who possesses them. Sporks writes:
This is how we do it:
The very first thing we need is national registry. We need to know where the guns are, and who has them. Canada has a national firearms registry. We need to copy their model. We need a law demanding all firearms be registered to a national database. We need to know who has them and where they are. We need to make this as easy as possible for gun owners. The federal government provides the money and technical expertise, and the State police carry it out. Like a funded mandate. Most firearms already have a serial number on them, so it would really be a matter of taking the information already on the ATF form 4473 and putting it in a national database. I think about 6 months should be enough time.
See how reasonable they are; they'll make it easy and convenient, and they'll even help pay for it (with your own tax dollars). Sporks continues:
Along with this, make private sales illegal. When a firearm is transferred, make it law that the registration must be updated. Again, make it super easy to do. Perhaps over the internet. Dealers can log in by their FFLs and update the registration. Additionally, new guns are to be registered by the manufacturer. The object here is to create a clear paper trail from factory to distributor to dealer to owner. We want to encourage as much voluntary compliance as possible.
"Now … we can do what we will"
For the impatient activists who want a total ban immediately, Sporks reinterates and expounds:
So registration is the first step. Now that the vast majority are registered, we can do what we will. One good first step would be to close the registry to new registrations. This would, in effect, prevent new guns from being made or imported. This would put the murder machine corporations out of business for good, and cut the money supply to the NRA/GOA [National Rifle Association/Gun Owners of America]. As money dries up, the political capital needed for new controls will be greatly reduced.
Yes, registration is just the first step to the ultimate goal, which, as Sporks said, is "to ban civilian ownership of all guns. That means everything." In the meantime, he has some additional interim measures:
There are a few other things I would suggest. I would suggest an immediate, national ban on concealed carry. A ban on internet sales of guns and ammunition is a no brainer. Microstamping would also be a very good thing. Even if the only thing it does is drive up costs, it could still lead to crimes being solved. I'm willing to try every advantage we can get.
Sporks accentuates the need to "drive up the costs," which has been used successfully in other countries in disarming the civilian populace. The government propaganda machine and its allies in the media will go into overdrive to demonize gun owners. And, Sporks says, hunting should also be targeted for increased vilification:
We must make guns expensive and unpopular, just like cigarettes. A nationwide, antigun campaign paid for by a per gun yearly tax paid by owners, dealers, and manufacturers would work well in this regard. We should also segway [sic] into an anti-hunting campaign, like those in the UK. By making hunting expensive and unpopular, we can make the transition to a gun free society much less of a headache for us.
So much for the anti-gun advocates who insist they have no intention of going after guns used for hunting. Gun rights champions realize that hunting is an ancillary right; America's Founders intended the 2nd Amendment as the ultimate check and balance against tyrannical government, protecting all other rights. The gun grabbers though, have sought to split hunters off from the Second Amendment stalwarts by offering false assurances that their guns are not being targeted. Sporks' admission, together with current legislative pushes, should cause hunters who have fallen for that line to take notice. Sporks concludes:
I know this seems harsh, but this is the only way we can be truly safe. I don't want my kids being shot at by a deranged NRA member. I'm sure you don't either. So lets stop looking for short term solutions and start looking long term. Registration is the first step.
Tell Pres. Obama and democrats in congress to demand mandatory, comprehensive gun registration. It's the only way we can ban guns with any effectiveness.
Those who are committed to the 2nd Amendment can thank Sporks for having inadvertently contributed a major service to the preservation of the right to keep and bear arms. With this column he has openly stated the real sinister agenda behind the more "reasonable" benign-sounding proposals of the anti-gun lobby. He has admitted to all of us "gun-toting Bubbas" that our paranoid "delusions" are firmly grounded in reality. And that should go a long way in steeling the resolve of all constitutionalists to redouble their efforts against these attacks on liberty and those elected office holders who support them.
Related articles:
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Gun Owners Refuse to Register Under New York Law
Senator Dianne Feinstein's Gun Bill: Disingenuous Overreaction


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50 Years on National Television: The Lawrence Welk Show
"50 Years on National Television: The Lawrence Welk Show." Lawrence Welk Show Musical Family News 1, no. 1: n.d., 1-5.
|The Lawrence Welk Band as it was
on July 2, 1955
Front Row: (L to R) Jimmy Roberts (singer), Myron Floren (accordionist), Lawrence Welk, Alice Lon (Champagne Lady), Rocky Rockwell (singer/band), and Dick Kesner (band). Second Row: (L to R) Dick Dale (singer/band), Curt Ramsey (singer/band/librarian), Larry Hooper (singer/band), Bill Page (band), and Johnny Klein (band). Third Row: (L to R) Jerry Burke (band), Orie Amodeo (band), Bob Lido (singer/band), and Buddy Merrill (band). Top Row: Barney Liddell (band), Aladdin (singer/band), Woody Guidry (band), Pete Lofthouse (band), Buddy Hayes (singer/band), Jack Martin (singer/band), George Aubry (band), and Norman Bailey, (band).
It had been a very long and difficult road for Lawrence Welk, the ambitious son of immigrant farmers in North Dakota. He had left the farm at age 21, a non-English-speaking, self-taught musician and dreamer, determined to have a career in show business. Within a few years, he had started his own small band and had begun to make a name for himself in the mid-west, traveling from town to town, doing one night stands, learning how to please every kind of crowd.
Through the 1930s and '40s, Lawrence Welk rode the crest of the Big Band Era, playing in ballrooms and nightclubs all across the country, including a high-profile appearance in New York City. His band was constantly in demand and they appeared regularly at the best hotels in Chicago and other major cities.
By the end of the forties, the future of the Big Bands looked grim. Television had severely cut into the crowds who went dancing on weekends and one by one, legendary bands began to fold. But Lawrence Welk was not a quitter and he looked for ways to keep his band together.
California Calls
The future was looking grim for the Aragon Ballroom on Lick Pier in Santa Monica, too.
Charlie Lick asked his dance hall manager, Pops Sadrup, to check the records for the band that had done the best for them and the Welk Band was at the top of the list. Pops arranged for Lawrence to play an engagement in May, 1951 and the hands of fate were now steadily moving Lawrence Welk toward his destiny.
It wasn't long before the Welk Band was invited to be on KTLA, the local television station in Los Angeles. Lawrence and his manager, Sam Lutz, decided to try something new, in addition to gambling the $200 shooting expenses they had to pay the station!
Right from the beginning, it was a winning situation for everyone involved: the Aragon Ballroom began to get the large crowds it needed; KTLA had a popular television program and even began to pay the band for their services; and Lawrence Welk and his band were on their way to becoming famous statewide, playing to bigger crowds than they had ever imagined, and learning the television business at the same time.
Dodge Comes On Board
Within a few years, the Welk Show was popular enough to attract good sponsors on their own. An enthusiastic advertising executive named Jack Minor had been assigned the task of finding a show for the Southern California Dodge Dealers to sponsor and his search turned up three program choices: Connie Haines, Xavier Cugat and Lawrence Welk. The dealers unanimously chose Welk.
In his book, Wunnerful, Wunnerful, Lawrence wrote : "We were jubilant! We had a local television show with a nationally known sponsor and a nightly appearance at the Aragon Ballroom which seemed to get more successful all the time."
It took a few years to accomplish but the end result was inevitable: The Lawrence Welk Show would be on coast-to-coast television, with Dodge as the sponsor. With the help of Jack Minor, Dodge executive Bert Carter and the up-and-coming producer, Don Fedderson, Lawrence Welk was offered a 13-week run as a summer replacement show. There were no guarantees for their future on national television but Lawrence and his band were willing to give it their best shot!
Ready, Willing & Able
Lawrence was excited and very nervous. He repeatedly offered just to lead the band and leave the talking to professional announcers but Don and Jack wouldn't hear of it. Dodge had approved the Welk Show and that included the bandleader with the charming foreign accent. About six weeks before the show, there was a high level discussion about adding dancing girls and a big name comedian but Lawrence said "no" to those changes and held his ground. His show would be their own tried-and-true formula.
In Mr. Welk's Words
"The great day began coming closer and closer. I planned and re-planned the opening show a dozen times. Alice Lon switched ideas for her costume daily. All of us were eager, anxious, thrilled at the chance, impatient, literally counting the days till we could begin.
"July 2, 1955, I walked into the ABC studios to find an air of barely controlled panic on the rehearsal stage. Everyone was on edge, but determined to do his best. It was boiling hot and since there was no air conditioning, the stagehands had dragged in heavy tubs of ice to and set up huge wind fans to blow across them to counteract the tremendous heat from the television lights.
"We were scheduled to go on air at five thirty Pacific Daylight Savings Time, and by four o'clock Alice was fully dressed and ready. She must have checked her makeup a hundred times, posing and pirouetting in front of the mirrors.
"We took turns sitting down at a battered old wooden table topped with a mirror and light bulbs and waited while the harried makeup men slapped some dark brown pancake powder on us. Then we changed into blue dress shirts – at that stage of the television game, shirts had to be blue in order to photograph white – and all of us wore Kleenex tucked around our collars so the makeup wouldn't run and we looked like a bunch of penguins.
Musical selection #11 featured Lawrence and Myron Floren playing their favorite accordion duet, "12th Street Rag." Myron played with the Welk Band from 1950 to 1982.
"It was time. Our producer, Ed Sobel was in the production booth with his eyes glued to the clock and his hand up. I stood watching him, clutching my baton tightly, almost frozen with fear, wondering how I had ever gotten into this spot and wondering how I could get out of it. Suddenly, his hand came down and I gave the downbeat to the boys. The strains of our theme song filled the air and flowed right through me. My terrible nervousness left me. As always, once the music began, I came fully to life and I was swept along through the rest of the program. It remains one of the high spots of my life!"
The Players
The cast, as seen on the front cover of this newsletter, included 21 people and Lawrence Welk. Happily, there are six of those musicians still with us today (Myron Floren, Dick Dale, Buddy Merrill, Rocky Rockwell, Woody Guidy, and Bill Page). They, and some of the behind-the-scenes people, have shared their memories of that momentous evening.
|The first show ended vocally with "Goodnight Ladies" sung by Larry Hooper, Jimmy Roberts, Alice Lon, Aladdin and Bob Lido. Alice was the Champagne Lady from 1953-57; Aladdin was with the show from 1953-67; Larry was with the band from 1948-82; Bob, from 1953-82; and Jim, from 1954 to 1982. The theme song, "Bubbles in the Wine," began and ended the show.
The other musicians and singers were with the Welk Band for many years and deserve a special word of gratitude for their outstanding talent and charismatic presence on camera. Lawrence always chose the best and the brightest, and for many of them, it was only illness that ended their years on the Welk Show.
People such as Myron Floren, Larry Hooper, Barney Liddell, Jimmy Roberts, Dick Dale, Bob Lido, and Jim Hobson were with the television show from the beginning until 1982, when it transitioned out of syndication and onto public television. Their long careers with Lawrence Welk are a testament to the way they felt about him and his unique philosophy of musical entertainment.
Jim Hobson
"When I was contacted by Sam Lutz to work on the show, I was a young guy directing shows on KLAC, Channel 13, including the 'Liberace Show.' I have to admit that I had never seen The Lawrence Welk Show on KTLA! I was up-to-my ears in work and didn't have much free time to watch TV. In spite of Lawrence telling me I combed my hair too close to my head, I decided to accept the challenge of directing a brand new, untested show, with a big band and singers.
"ABC decided that we would shoot the show in Studio E, which was an old barn of a place and pretty much rundown-at-the-hells. It was originally the old Warner Brothers Studio where they had made Phantom of the Opera, and had been hastily reconverted into a makeshift television studio for use in the forties and early fifties. It could seat about 350 people.
"All the lights necessary for a TV production hung from newly installed beams which fit in beneath the catwalks crisscrossing the cavernously high ceilings, several feet below the roof top. The place was so old that there were holes in the roof, and the sun shone through all the crevices, lighting up spots that shouldn't have been lighted up. It was going to be more of a challenge than I thought.
"We rehearsed at the Aragon Ballroom for a couple weeks and I sat in front of the bandstand, watching the musical numbers, writing down the vocals, trying to get to know the cast and planning how to shoot them. I would have three cameras and my Associate Director would hand-write all the notes for each man on 3 x 5 cards with holes punched in them so they could hang on the cameras. There were about 1,500 shots per show. We had a 12-ton Chapman crane camera that the cameraman literally had to drive.
"When we finally got into the studio, I walked around with the lighting guy and tried to tell him what we needed. I had about 10 minutes to stage each musical number, at least it seemed that way. There must have been a crew of about 60 men, including carpenters, stagehands, prop guys and engineers. We were all learning what to do on the show at the same time, under the same pressure.
"About 45 minutes from airtime, I looked around and there was no audience! I couldn't believe it. I had seen the crowd outside. After a few frantic minutes, I discovered that they had been seated in the wrong studio and I had them moved into Studio E.
"I directed the show from a control room on the second floor, seeing only what the cameras were shooting. My great stage manager kept things under control as best he could. The show was seen LIVE on the east coast and the kinescope was shown a few hours later on the west coast.
"After all my work pulling the crew together, I thought the next week would be a lot easier. Well, ABC took almost my entire team to the brand new and much heralded Disneyland, to shoot the opening festivities. They are 50 years old this year, too. I had to do the whole thing all over again with a crew borrowed from NBC!"
Lou Sanman
"I was the First Unit Manager at ABC and it was my job to convince Mr. Welk that Studio E would work just fine for his show. His biggest concern was that he would be close to the audience and have good eye contact with them. He wanted a dance floor, too, so I told him we would remove the first 3 or 4 rows of seats.
"After about an hour, I finally won him over and in comes Al Jarvis, a local disc jockey, who said, 'Don't do it, Lawrence. This studio's no good!' It was the only studio we had available so I had to start all over again to get him to agree to using it, and it took another hour! I worked with the Welk Show for two years and then I got a promotion and had to leave the show."
Myron Floren
"We were considered something of a curiosity by the other people at the ABC studio, but I felt that we were destined to be an even bigger hit on the network than we were on local television in Los Angeles. Jack Minor came to see the final rehearsal and Ok'd all the numbers. My solo was 'Tico Tico,' still one of my favorites.
"The show was panned pretty badly by the critics but the public response was very encouraging. Once again, we all heard Lawrence say, 'Let them print what they want as long as they spell your names correctly.'
"Jack Minor (our great supporter) felt that we could use a boost in the ratings so he arranged a musical tour of the country to promote the show. We would appear in conjunction with the local Dodge dealers in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Philadelphia on our first tour. Everywhere we went, the crowds were tremendous and the dealers were wild with enthusiasm. They met us at the airport in each city and drove us to our show location in a police-escorted motorcade of Dodge cars with our names printed on the sides. Our ratings improved steadily after each tour. At the end of the summer, Dodge decided that they would continue to sponsor us through the winter and then would decide if the arrangement would become permanent. Well, you know what happened! The rest is history!"
Rocky Rockwell
"In those days, I just couldn't wait to get in front of the camera! I was completely free and easy in front of it. Lawrence used to say, 'With Rocky, when the red light comes on, you never know what's going to happen!'
|The exuberant Rocky Rockwell charmed the audience with his signature song, "I Love Girls," #7 on the program. Near the end of the number, two girls dressed in cardigan sweaters and circle skirts, ran over to give him a hug. Rocky was with the Lawrence Welk Band from 1951 to 1962.
50th Anniversary
"When we found out we were going to be on national television, we were really excited. Lawrence kept saying, 'Be on your toes boys' and sometimes his 'B' sounded like a 'P' and we always had a good laugh about that and so did he!
"I was actually about to bust my pants, I was so excited. I had the pleasure of singing my favorite song, 'I Love Girls,' on the first show and it kind of became my signature number. Later that summer, when we would go out on tour and be riding in a parade in a Dodge convertible, office girls would lean out of their windows and shout our names. They'd say, 'Hey Rocky, do you like girls!' I just loved it.
"It was a real beautiful time! Here I am, 82 years old, and people still recognize this silly face of mine."
Bill Page
|Bill Page, who played with the band from 1951 to 1965, was featured in Song #17, "Unchained Melody." The bandstands were painted with the Dodge winged insignia used on the front of the cars, with the initials "LW" in the center. There were only four commercials in the one hour time period.
"Being on television in the early days was really something. Even when we were just on local TV, we had fan clubs. There was the big Lawrence Welk fan club run by Mary Lee Schaefer and mine was called 'The Goldenbergs' because it was founded by Eileen Goldenberg. It really got large after we went on ABC.
"We were pretty excited during that first show on a major network. We felt like it was our Big Break and we would do anything to help it go. I remember we went down to Texas to try to improve our ratings. Dodge had some big event at the Cotton Bowl and we all went out there and each one of us picked up a brand new white convertible with our name printed on a big sings hanging on each side. We drove downtown in a big parade and we felt like a million bucks in those Dodges. We had to give them back, of course, but it was fun while it lasted. Later on, we each got a new car every year and that was the best!
"My specialty was playing multiple instruments in a single song, sometimes as many as 10 or 12. My favorite memory is playing two clarinets at the same time, while water skiing down in Florida, with Myron Floren driving the boat!
"After I left the Welk Show in 1965, I got a lot of great jobs because Lawrence introduced me to everybody. I worked for Judy Garland, Barry Manilow for 5 years, Frank Gorshin, Ted Mack, Name That Tune, and appeared on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show a lot. I've worked all these years and I'm just now thinking about retiring. Just thinking..."
Dick Dale
"You are asking me to remember the first show? I can barely remember last week, but I'll do my best!"
"There was a lot of excitement to say the least! To do a show from a real studio, after doing them from the stage of the Aragon Ballroom really seemed like a movie into 'The Big Time.'
"All of the spouses were invited to make sure we had a good audience"
"We thought that it was great to be going coast to coast and everyone called all of their relatives to make sure, if they didn't have a TV set of their own, to get to someone's house that had one."
"Tension was pretty high with all the band and especially with Lawrence. As great as he was with a live audience, I don't think he ever relaxed on that show. Some of his tempos were a little faster than usual.
|Dick Dale took off his jacket and put a leather bag on his shoulder to portray a mailman in his wartime-era duet with Alice Lon, "No Letter Today." song #12. He was also part of the male octet that sang "The Whiffenpoof Song," #20. Dick played on all the musical numbers and stayed with the Welk Band from 1951 to 1982.
"Who would have thought that the thirteen week summer replacement show would still be going 50 years later. We just got off a month-long tour and the reception we got in every city was just tremendous. Standing ovations at every show and everyone saying, 'I grew up watching you' or 'My folks or grandparents made me watch the show every Saturday night.'
"Even I get a kick out of watching those old shows on public television. Every once in a while I say, 'I don't remember doing that song,' but after that many years and that many songs I guess I'm entitled to a few senior moments.
"I have never gotten over the excitement of doing a show, from the first TV show in local station, KTLA, live from the Aragon ballroom, to the last show that we did at the Sundome in Pheonix on March 26th, this year. I have to thank Lawrence Welk for so many great years and I thank God that I'm still able to get out there on stage and do it."
Woody Guidry
"I was almost the last section man hired before we went on national television. Buddy Hayes replaced Bob Pilot in the rhythm section after I came on and then young Buddy Merrill joined the band.
"We were doing shows for KTLA, the local television station, and then we got the news that the Dodge Motor Company wants us to be a summer replacement show for 13 weeks. Man, everyone involved was really excited about the contract! Then we got the word that Klaus Landsburg, the manager of KTLA, wouldn't release us from our local contract. Lawrence and the rest of the guys really had to do some fast-talking to get us on the air.
"It was just a very short time that we had to do two TV shows a week, one local and one national. In the end, our KTLA contract was easily broken, and we could settle down at ABC for a good long run."
Buddy Merrill
"I was just 18 years old when I joined the Welk Band. I had won the All America Music Competition and Lawrence called me after that and said, 'I'm kinda looking for a guitar player.' He had his eye on Spade Cooley, he said, and I'm sure happy he chose me instead. One of the songs I played for that competition was 'Mr. Sandman' and I played it on our first national broadcast.
|Buddy Merrill was just 18 years old in 1955 but was already a featured player in the Welk Band, with his virtuosity on the electric guitar. He accompanied Alice Lon on "Love Me or Leave Me," song #2, and his own solo was "Mr. Sandman," song #10. Buddy played with the Welk Band from 1955 to 1974.
"I remember that the lights were very hot and I had trouble keeping my guitar in tune. But Lawrence was very cool during the show. He had all the notes for his introductions on numbered 3 x 5 cards and he would pull them out of his pocket, study one, and then go out and say it. He used cue cards later but for the first few years, he had his file cards.
"We rehearsed really long hours before our first ABC show, maybe 9 in the morning until 9 at night. I think the unions got involved eventually but we wanted to do what needed to be done.
"When it was almost time to start, I remember it got very quiet and that was pretty unusual for us. Jack Minor and Ed Sobel were as nervous as we were but Mr. Welk was never nervous. He just did what he always did and we sailed through the show.
"Looking back, I remember thinking that the band sounded really good that night. I was proud to be in it. Those years were just great and I was with the Welk Band for the biggest part of my life."
Larry Welk
"I don't have a real clear memory of the first national show but I know I was there. My sisters weren't there. Shirley, who had just been married, was in Washington, D.C. and Donna, who had just graduated from high school, was in our home-town of Chicago, visiting friends. I was 15 years old and in high school. I sort of looked at working with the band as my 'summer job' and those nights were all the same to me.
"I was the 'Band Boy' and that meant that I would go and get the guys coffee, sweet rolls and sandwiches or do whatever errands they gave me. I would keep track of the break time and try to get them all back on the set before Dad started looking around. It was great being with the band because they were all pretty funny guys and I learned a lot about the 'world of musicians' which has served me well in my career in the recording industry.
"They used to call me 'Cookie the Bookie' because I was in charge of all the sports' pools, baseball was the big one. I hate to admit it but I also kept track of the card games in the dressing room, making sure the table stayed 'as is' until the next break. If the game was really intense, it was hard getting the guys back to work!
"I think after the show on July 2nd, Dad probably hung around a little bit longer than usual but on other show nights, he and his secretary, Lois Lamont, would be out of the studio in 15 minutes. They would drive to the Ontra Cafeteria on Wilshire Boulevard on the Miracle Mile and have a quick bite of supper. Dad was a very light eater – rice pudding was a favorite dish. He'd drop her off at home and drive over to the Aragon Ballroom to start the live show at 8:00 PM. His band would play until 11:00 and then he'd drive home to be with my Mom, who was usually just getting ready for bed.
"I'm so proud of my Dad and what he accomplished. He created a television series that has lasted 50 years on national television, from the ABC network, to syndication, to almost 240 public television stations. His audience has been faithful to him and to his family of stars for over five decades and I have been privileged to be able to help in sustaining his work. There are new generations of viewers that love my Dad, too, and he is definitely one of the legendary pioneers of American television."
"We always watched and danced to the Lawrence Welk local show on KTLA at our home in Venice, California. Janet and I, while listening to his program one night, showed mom and dad how we had 'made up' a dance. We went whirling around our tiny living room and were so proud of what we had taught each other. Then mom and dad said, 'That's the polka!' We continued to dance and laugh and whirl, but we felt a little deflated.
"As a family, we all watched the show every week and would talk about it. Our Aunt Jeanette would tell our mom and dad, 'Your girls are going to sing on that show one day, I just know it!' Then DeeDee met Larry Welk at high school, and our aunt's prophesy actually came true! We never would have guessed that by Christmas 1955, we would make our debut on the Welk Show and be a part of it for 13 years!
"We're celebrating our 50th year of singing professionally this year, too. I can hardly believe how quickly those years have flown by. We'll be at the Welk Resort this fall with the Gatlin Brothers, doing a special anniversary show that will take our audiences down 'Memory Lane,' from the Lawrence Welk Show in Hollywood to today in Branson, Missouri."
Kathie Sullivan
|"Discovered" by Larry
Welk when he was in high school, The Lennon Sisters auditioned
for Mr. Welk at his home and immediately won his heart.
They appeared on the show in December, 1955, singing "He,"
arranged by their father, Bill Lennon. This rehearsal picture
was taken the first year they were on the show. (L to R)
Mr. Welk, DeeDee, Janet, Kathy, and Peggy.
"I was only 3 years old in 1955, and I was not on the show, of course, but I do remember watching it every Saturday night. After our weekly bath in the basement tub, (can you believe not having a shower every day?) my mother would roll my hair in brown rubber curlers for church on Sunday as we watched the Lawrence Welk Show.
"I loved all the beautiful sets and costumes and imagined myself as one of the Lennon Sisters, especially Janet, who was just a few years older than me. I'll never forget when I was in Junior High and had just taken up playing the cello. At the time, Charlotte Harris was the only woman in the band and my father said to me, 'Now, Kathie, if you really practice hard, maybe someday you'll be on the Lawrence Welk Show!' I must have been 12 or 13 at the time and never dreamed his wish for me might come true!
"It almost did too! When Charlotte left the band in 1978, I was already working on the show and it was just before we were going to Lake Tahoe for our usual summer engagement at Harrah's. Lawrence asked if I would fill in for Charlotte and I practiced up a Storm! Luckily, Ernie Erhardt came in for an audition in the nick of time and I was off the hook! But, guess what? My youngest Elizabeth, has taken up the cello and is far exceeding, in just one year, what I accomplished in many years. She is playing my cello beautifully, which is now her own."
The Legend Continues
This year, there was a new fundraising special on public television, Lawrence Welk Precious Memories, the 13th brand new program since 1987. Each of the new specials has been extremely successful for the stations, and they count on the Welk fans to help them year after year. The weekly series continues on 240 stations, with newly produced host segments that keep fans up-to-date on their favorite Welk stars.
Lawrence Welk has been inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame and is considered one of the icons of the Golden Age of Television.
Song List – July 2, 1955
Say It With Music- Instrumental
Love Me or Leave Me- Alice Lon & Buddy Merrill
Tico Tico- Myron Floren
I- Jim Roberts
Ballin' The Jack- Instrumental
Whatever Lola Wants- Instrumental
I Love Girls- Rocky Rockwell
Tres Jolie- Instrumental
Learnin' The Blues
Mr. Sandman- Buddy Merrill
12th Street Rag- Myron & Lawrence
No Letter Today- Dick Dale & Alice Lon
Somebody Stole My Gal- Buddy Hayes
Silver Moon- Dick Kesner/Instrumental
Clarinet Polka- Instrumental
Alabamy Bound- Jack Martin
Unchained Melody- Instrumental/Jerry Burke
Oh Happy Day- Larry Hooper
Cielito Lindo- Aladdin (W/Jim & Bob)
Whiffenpoof Song- Jim & Octet
South Rampart St. Parade- Instrumental
Goodnight Ladies- Alice, Jim, Aladdin, Bob, Larry


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Moving to Manhattan
On-Campus Housing
More than 5,000 students call the K-State campus home, a number that continues to grow every year. K-State's Housing and Dining Services offers three dining centers, nine residence halls and three apartment neighborhoods that provide many opportunities to meet new friends and be part of a dynamic and supportive community
Contracts are issued to students upon receipt of a an application and a $30 non-refundable housing application fee.
Connect with K-State's Housing and Dining Services to learn more about on-campus living.
Off-Campus Housing
You can find apartments around town to suit your living needs. Rent College Pads and ApartmentList.com are great off campus housing resources that are specifically geared towards college housing in the Manhattan area.
Also, check out ads in the Manhattan Mercury and the Kansas State Collegian.
Consumer and Tenant Affairs maintains a bulletin board that lists available rental units and other housing options. You may also check with this office for a list of larger apartment complexes, property management companies, and real estate companies that have rental properties.
Off-campus apartments range from one-room studio apartments to four-bedroom apartments. Houses and mobile homes also vary in size and number of rooms. Individual rooms may also be rented.
Some apartments and houses are unfurnished, and others are furnished. Some may offer either option with a price differential.
The most common restrictions are: no pets, no smoking, no water beds, and a maximum number of occupants per unit. Some complexes do not allow subleasing.
Leases are almost always for 12 months, though a few are written for 10 or 11. Common contract periods are June 1 to May 31, and August 1 to July 31.
Leases should be in writing. If the owner/manager offers you an oral lease, pick up a sample lease and modify it to meet your needs and those of the owner/manager. Once you have modified a lease, the signatures of the owner/manager and all renters are necessary for the lease to be valid.
You should carefully check the rental unit and its contents. Do an inventory with the owner/manager within five days after moving in. Make needed repairs a part of the lease.
Find out about the owner/manager's track record for prompt repairs and fair deposit return. Ask present or former renters, K-State's Consumer and Tenant Affairs, or the Manhattan Department of Human Resources.
The amount of the deposit cannot be more than 1, 1½, or 2 months rent. The amount is usually dependent on whether the apartment or house is unfurnished or furnished, and whether pets are allowed.
The following University and city offices provide information such as sample leases, sample roommate agreements, inventory checklists and tenant's rights handbooks. Staff in these offices may interpret leases, mediate landlord/tenant or roommate disputes, interpret the Kansas Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, and inspect for code violations.
Code Inspection Officer
City Hall
11th and Poyntz
Consumer and Tenant Affairs
Office of Student Activities and Services
K-State Union
Department of Human Resources
City Hall
11th and Poyntz
Student Legal Services
Office of Student Activities and Services
K-State Union
For more housing information contact:
Consumer and Tenant Affairs
Office of Student Activities and Services
Kansas State University
809 K-State Union
Manhattan, KS 66506-2800
Department of Housing and Dining Services
Residence Halls
Kansas State University
104 Pittman Building
Manhattan, KS 66506-4601
(785) 532-6453
Department of Housing and Dining Services
Family Housing - Jardine
Kansas State University
Frith Community Center
600 Jardine Terrace
Manhattan, KS 66502
(785) 539-2097
A helpful publication, Tenant's Handbook of Rights and Responsibilities, is available in the K-State Union Copy Center.
Additional Information
Travel to Manhattan
Kansas City International Airport (MCI) is approximately 130 miles east of Manhattan. US Air Express provides daily service from MCI to Manhattan Municipal Airport, which is approximately 10 miles from Kansas State University. For fare information, contact US Air Express, 1-800-428-4322.
KCI Roadrunner Express provides daily ground transportation from MCI to Manhattan. For fare and reservation information call KCI Roadrunner at 1-800-826-8294.
Transportation to Manhattan
Neither Kansas State University nor the city of Manhattan has public bus service. Riley County offers ATA bus service. Local taxi service is available.
Weather and clothing
Be prepared for both hot and cold weather. In the summer the average daytime temperature ranges from 85°F to 95°F. Winter temperatures usually stay below freezing. Snow and ice is expected from November through March.
Students dress casually for classes. Bring clothing appropriate for the seasons.
Money and banking
There are several banks near the K-State campus. Consumer and Tenant Affairs has available a list of local banks and the different checking and/or savings accounts they offer. If you plan on opening an account for immediate use, please remember that bank checks or bank drafts usually take 10 days to clear. Travelers checks can provide immediate funds.
Health services and insurance
A student health fee is included in every on-campus student's tuition charge. This provides basic health care at Lafene Health Center.
Please note that your student health fee does NOT cover the cost of surgery or hospitalization. It is therefore strongly recommended that you make arrangements to cover such emergencies should they occur for you and your family.
All Kansas State University students may elect to have access to health care at Lafene Health Center provided for their non-student spouse. Non-student spouses are eligible for care at Lafene to include available services, with exception of University Counseling Services, simply by paying the Spouse Health Fee each semester. Lafene Health Center provides services only to students and their fee-paid spouse; children cannot be seen in this facility. Contact Lafene Health Center (785-532-7759) for more information.
Books and supplies
Books and supplies can be purchased at local book stores in Manhattan.


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Free telecom industry from old regs
After an exceptionally divisive election season, and amid neverending battles over taxes and spending, many observers question America's ability to remain globally competitive, upwardly mobile and innovative. Perhaps our best days are behind us, they lament. Perhaps our children face a bleaker future than their parents.
We disagree with the skeptics. We approach the future with excitement for the possibilities and optimism that our policymakers can unleash Americans' unique entrepreneurial spirit and creative talents. Our nation's past is the story of continual reinvention and renewal — from steamships to automobiles, assembly lines to personal computers — a rising, innovation-driven tide has consistently lifted all boats. No sector of our economy provides a stronger example than telecommunications.
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Thirty years ago, there was one telephone company. No cellphones, no smartphones, no apps. Telecom was important, but hardly the essential engine driving productivity, employment or new business formation. Through an elaborate structure of regulations and cross-subsidies, policymakers ensured this slow-moving monopoly accomplished desired social outcomes, such as universal service and affordable pricing for consumers. That world of plain old telephone service is long gone.
In its place, today's telecom consumers enjoy incredible innovation and furious cross-platform competition. For example, nine out of 10 wireless consumers have the choice of five or more providers, and at least three times as many digital devices. Beyond mobile carriers, robust voice, video and data packages are offered by cable companies, satellite companies and today's telephone companies. The era of the monopoly is over … yet monopoly-era regulations persist.
One of the most egregious monopoly-era regulations still on the books is the requirement that legacy carriers continue maintaining legacy copper networks and leasing them to their competitors at below-market rates. While these rules made sense at the dawn of the Internet era when little, if any, competition existed and telephone networks had been built via government-guaranteed rate-of-return exclusivity, they have long been overtaken by events. Today these regulations from the past century result in a misallocation of resources. And they perpetuate free-rider business models that diminish investment in networks and hinder innovation in telecom services.


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Jury selection for ex-officer in Katrina shooting continues Tuesday
A federal judge in New Orleans says he expects to seat a jury Tuesday to hear the Justice Department's retrial of a former New Orleans police officer who shot and killed a man outside a strip mall after Hurricane Katrina.
It's the second trial for David Warren, who was guarding a police substation when he shot 31-year-old Henry Glover in 2005. Warren is charged with violating Glover's civil rights and with using a weapon in a violent crime. Warren was in prison when a federal appeals court overturned a manslaughter conviction from 2010.
The federal panel said jurors saw and heard prejudicial evidence because Warren was tried along with officers accused of a cover-up that included burning Glover's body in a car.
U.S. District Judge Lance Africk is presiding.
Retrial begins for former officer in Glover case
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How to Think About the New Middle East
What the Obama administration gets wrong about the world's most volatile region.
Secretary of State John Kerry's efforts to produce a cease-fire may not have succeeded in bringing the current conflict in Gaza to an end, but they have generated plenty of commentary. Kerry has been lacerated in the Israeli press, even in ostensibly sympathic outlets like the left-wing Haaretz, which headlined a scathing article on his diplomatic endeavors "What was he thinking?" For understandable reasons, the secretary sought to bring the killing to an end, reflecting not only a humanitarian impulse but also President Obama's instructions, which required him "to push for an immediate cessation of hostilities based on a return to the November 2012 cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas."
While perhaps logical, the president's guidance failed to take account of several new realities. First, the 2012 agreement had done nothing to prevent Hamas from building up an elaborate network of tunnels to launch rockets and infiltrate Israel—and Israel is not about to live with tunnels that penetrate the country and constitute, in the words of one Israeli, "a loaded gun at our heads." Second, this is a different Egypt today, under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and it views Hamas as a threat rather than a potential ally. It has no interest in saving Hamas or allowing it to gain from the current conflict. Third, the Saudis, Emiratis and Jordanians see the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group from which Hamas sprang, as just as threatening as Iran. Like Egypt, these moderate Arab states want to see Hamas lose and not win.
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These new realities also help to explain why Hamas launched this round of fighting: It was isolated and in desperate shape financially. Egypt had cut off the smuggling tunnels from Sinai into Gaza, which accounted for most of Hamas' revenues. Hamas' other main source of funding, the Iranians, has dried up given differences over the Syrian conflict and Iran's other priorities. Hamas expected that its reconciliation agreement with the Palestinian Authority would lead to the PA picking up Hamas' financial obligations. But the PA would not do so, and Hamas could not pay salaries. With little to lose, Hamas launched this round of fighting, hoping that by being the focal point of resistance, winning sympathy because of large Palestinian civilian casualties, and imposing at least some losses on Israel, it could re-emerge as a player that must be dealt with and satisfied.
That cynical strategy, at a minimum, requires that Hamas gain something out of the conflict, and its only advocates are Turkey and Qatar. But this is a different Middle East than it was in 2012, when Egypt was ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamists seemed to be marching across the region. Today, Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Jordan share the common goal of weakening Hamas. The Palestinian Authority shares this objective, but as Palestinian casualties increase in Gaza, its leader, Mahmoud Abbas, finds himself in an impossible position: He, too, is desperate to have the fighting stop but can ill afford for Hamas to emerge as the symbolic victor.
No doubt, the Obama administration recognized what was happening to Abbas and saw the rising tensions on the West Bank and the terrible civilian toll in Gaza, and hoped it could bring the conflict to an end. Once Hamas rejected Egypt's first cease-fire proposal, and Egypt was largely passive, the Obama team seems to have believed that Turkey and Qatar might be able to use their respective influence with Hamas to produce a cease-fire.


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Proms 52 & 54: Russian masters
Valery Gergiev's Cinderella, and Vasily Petrenko's Shostakovich 10
Valery Gergiev has started something of a Proms fixture of performing complete ballets during the season. Last year it was Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, which provoked muttering from some critics for using an adulterated Mariinsky edition rather than Tchaikovsky's original scoring.
There was no question, though, that this time, in performing Cinderella, Gergiev used a composer-approved version of the score, full of some of Prokofiev's most delicate orchestral effects, superbly realised by the London Symphony Orchestra. That said, there are still one or two dances rather gratuitously punctuated (by the composer) with bass drum thuds, recalling Prokofiev's outburst against his dancers who complained about the inaudibility of his music: 'You want drums, not music!'
Though a poorish relation to his much more celebrated ballet Romeo and Juliet, Prokofiev's Cinderella contains some of his most beautiful music – not least the velvety-rich string scoring given to the final apotheosis of its heroine's theme. Prokofiev's stated aim in composing the ballet was to present Cinderella as a flesh-and-blood character rather than a cardboard fairy-tale character. It does not follow from this, though, that he felt obliged to compose a work of a symphonic-cohesion or even purposefulness such as one finds with Romeo and Juliet; in Act I in particular there are several longueurs where the music is meant to complement comic stage business involving the ugly sisters.
Act II was the undoubted highlight with its series of dances, and in this performance there was a genuine coup de théâtre when the extra brass band, which in the ballet appears on-stage, sounded in the Albert Hall from high up in the gallery: the result was a well-coordinated but striking antiphony, adding an unexpected and enriching aural perspective to Prokofiev's score.
I was rather hoping a similar effect would be presented the following evening with the London premiere of Peter Maxwell Davies's Symphony No. 9, written for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (RLPO) in honour of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee: reading reviews of its 9 June premiere by the RLPO in Liverpool, I came across The Guardian's description of a 'conflict between the main orchestra and a brass sextet placed above it on the platform'.
In the Albert Hall, there was indeed a brass sextet complemented by a further seven brass players on the opposite side of the platform; but they were not placed in the gallery but simply higher up the rake of the main performing stage, in line with the percussion. Maxwell Davies's programme note, condemning 'our disastrous interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan' and describing the horrors of the 1941 blitz he witnessed as a young child, turned out to be rather more stirring than the music itself which, a number of 'strident military-style marches' apart, seemed lost in a vaguely harmonic cloud too murky to be evocative or particularly compelling.
Delius's Violin Concerto, played by Tasmin Little (who has made this work something of a signature piece, having made two very fine recordings of it), offered contrast and relief. Its sighing chromatics may fleetingly recall Chausson's Poème, but Delius here is trading not in poignancy but in hedonistic delight, the Concerto casting its spell most potently in the hushed, semi-accompanied cadenza that is at its heart. Tasmin Little, dressed in a striking burnt orange gown, played the work with evident love and immaculate technique.
The real highlight, though, came after the interval with Petrenko and the RLPO's performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10. Their recording of this was shortlisted for the 2011 BBC Music Magazine Awards, and their superbly disciplined performance did not disappoint: in fact hearing it live revealed a huge range of dynamic contrasts, from the very hushed opening of the work to the ferocious brass at full throttle in the short, angry scherzo of the second movement.
Perhaps most touching, though, was the third movement's odd little dance between Shostakovich's musical monogram, D-S-C-H, and the horn fanfare figure based on his beloved's E-L-Mi-R-A (Elmira being a composition pupil for whom Shostakovich conceived an unrequited love). After the blistering excitement of the finale came an explosive roar of applause for what had been surely one of the greatest performances of one of Shostakovich's most consummate works.
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A Senior Google executive offered attendees an intriguing glimpse into the secrets of the multinational internet company's workplace culture.
"I will tell you we're weird," Mohammad Gawdat, Vice President of Emerging SEEMEA at Google, told the audience in his keynote speech at the Media Summit.
There are nine key rules that Google applies in its bid to ensure that its employees remain innovative, creative and contented.
"The reality of the matter is that everybody is born innovative. We just suppress the hell out of them and they end up being unhappy about it," Gawdat declared before taking the audience on the Nine Step programme that keeps Google healthy.
Innovation, Gawdat insisted, has nothing to with money. It's about "passion and ideas."
The work environment at Google is friendly and relaxed. However, the rules are adhered to strictly.
The first Google rule is "Start With A Vision." Google's mission – as it trumpets at every opportunity – is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."
"Whenever you meet a Googler, ask them what is the Google mission. If you ever meet one who doesn't know it, send me an email. I guarantee you will not find one who doesn't," Gawdat said.
The second rule is "Hire The Best." That might mean you end up with some strange and difficult personalities. They may be a challenge to handle, they may not be well rounded personalities, but they'll also ensure that creativity levels never flag.
"By the way, the best are normally not the most expensive…but the idea is that the best are always the most difficult to manage," Gawdat said, encouraging his audience to "hire people that shock you."
The third Google rule is that "Ideas Come From Everywhere." There is no monopoly on creativity. The bright sparks fly from every direction. "Everybody has a right to contribute an idea and most of the time those ideas are quite odd."
Google rule number four is "Share!!" For ideas to flourish, everybody needs to know about them. There's no point in keeping them to yourself. "Almost anybody at Google can have a look at our product pipeline – what we are going to develop." Everybody in the Google ark communicates and there are extraordinarily high levels of trust. "We believe we hired the best and because they are so passionate about the mission, they keep it inside. Surprisingly, in a company of this size, we have very few leaks." Sharing ideas makes the staff more "capable and productive."
Rule number five is "Morph Ideas, Don't Kill Them." The work at Google is ever more complex. Failure (or at least relative failure) is inevitable some of the time. The thinking here is don't throw the idea away just because it doesn't succeed immediately. Refine it and work on it.
Rule number six from the Google commandments is "Speed Matters." Meetings are sometimes scheduled to last only seven or eight minutes. There is a constant emphasis on keeping the ship moving. There are more than 4.4 billion queries coming to Google every day. That means there is no time to dawdle.
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"If the yen starts to fall, which it has done, and people in Japan realize that it's liable to continue and want to put their money abroad, then the fall may become like an avalanche," Soros said in an interview on CNBC.
The currency will have to depreciate "much more" for BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda to reach his inflation target of 2 percent, Gross said.
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Soros and Gross chimed in after Kuroda announced plans to double the BOJ's monthly bond purchases to about 7.5 trillion yen ($77.8 billion) as it seeks to achieve 2 percent annual inflation in 2 years. Japan's currency fell 18 percent in the past six months on speculation policy makers were planning to pump more money into the economy.
Only the Malawian and Venezuelan currencies performed worse, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The yen was little changed against the dollar today at 96.32 as of 8:51 a.m. in London. It earlier weakened to 97.19, a level not seen since August 2009.
The BOJ is ready to do more if needed, Kuroda told reporters in Tokyo.
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In 1992, Soros and his then chief strategist Stan Druckenmiller made a $10 billion wager the Bank of England would be forced to devalue the pound, a trade that netted $1 billion.
Kuroda may have difficulty achieving his inflation goal, Gross said. Group of Seven nations may press Japan to control the pace of the yen's decline to temper gains in their own currencies, he said. A stronger currency makes a nation's goods more expensive to overseas buyers.
"It seems not unachievable, but it's certainly a high target to reach," Gross said yesterday on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart" with Adam Johnson and Sara Eisen. "They've got to depreciate the yen. To our way of thinking, much more depreciation of the yen has to take place in order to get even close to 2 percent" inflation, he said.
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Sometimes the smartest thing you can do is quit what you're doing and free yourself up to opportunities you never imagined would ever come your way.
I have attended my fair share of commencements, and I've learned from many of the speeches to which I've either listened or endured. At my high school graduation, the speaker was Jimmy Breslin, the legendary New York Daily News and Newsday columnist. While I do not remember all of which he spoke, I remember vividly one particularly resonant point.
He said that, in the course of life, if you choose to simply help other people, you will be a success. Such a simple, motivating thought: if someone who needs help reaches out to you, go out of your way to help them.
Years later, I was invited to give the commencement address at my high school. So I thought to myself, "I really don't know what I'm doing. And I really could use some help. I think I'll call Mr. Breslin. I'm sure he'll help me." So I got his direct line and left him a voicemail message asking for help with my speech.
He never returned my call.
Then there was the 2001 commencement speaker at my college alma mater. In his speech, he said – and I quote – "As you go forward in life … you will be confronted with questions every day that test your morals. The questions will get tougher and the consequences will become more severe. Think carefully, and for your sake, do the right thing, not the easy thing."
Ten days later, that speaker, Dennis Kozlowski, was indicted and later convicted in one of the most publicized corporate fraud trials in American history.
Then there was my younger sister's graduation from Providence College where the then-Mayor of Providence Buddy Cianci gave a rousing, inspirational talk. Eight years later, Cianci began a five-year prison sentence for racketeering, corruption and mail fraud. Suffice it to say, I have lived long enough and experienced enough in those years to begin my remarks this morning with a somewhat obvious point: Commencement speakers are, by and large, full of crap.
I will try to be the exception to that rule. But don't count on it.
It's easy to get up here and speak with young people about their future by sharing personal life and career experiences that appear so well thought out, so well planned. They seem that way because by a certain age, one has the benefit of hindsight, which we all know is crystal clear. I can easily make it seem like anything I've achieved, which by any objective measure is greatly eclipsed by the success of my fellow honorary degree recipients, was all part of a master plan that I had when I was your age and which I never, ever gave up on.
Because, as many commencement speakers will tell you, follow your dreams and never quit, because quitters never win. Well, I think just the opposite is true. Sometimes the smartest thing you can do is quit what you're doing and free yourself up to opportunities you never imagined would ever come your way.
When I was a boy, my dream was to play first base for the Red Sox. I gave up on that dream when I made six errors in one Babe Ruth League baseball game. In one inning.
When I was sitting where you are in 1982, my dream was to be a high school English teacher and a basketball coach, to be married by the time I was 25 and be a father by the time I was 28. 0 for 4. In fact, I lived at home with my mother and father until I was 28. I know what you're thinking, parents, "Mike, stop...right...there." I got married when I was 39. I know what you're thinking, parents of Irish descent, "Wow, that's very young to get married. Why did you rush it?" And I became a father first at the age of 45 and then again at 48.
I know what you're thinking, graduates. "The cost of college is insane, how will you ever pay for it?" For that, I have a simple answer. Life insurance.
I began my career as a newspaper reporter, and a year or two into it, the head of a small advertising agency asked me if I wanted to try copywriting instead. I had no idea what it was, but I figured, "why not?" So I quit being a reporter and started working for the agency. I liked what I did, and eventually, I got better at it. Not because I was particularly talented, but rather because I enjoyed what I was doing, so working hard never seemed like hard work. Every two or three years, I'd get a bit bored with what I was doing, and I'd quit. Every time I closed a door, another door opened. And with each new opportunity, I got the chance to work in a new medium like radio or television and with bigger and better clients.
By taking one day at a time, working hard and enjoying what I did and the people with whom I worked, I became the chief creative officer and eventually the president and CEO of one of the finest advertising agencies in the country. And after doing that for 10 years – 10 years to the day – I quit. Make no mistake, I enjoyed what I did. But I had done it. What if there was something else out there that I might like to do? Something I had never thought of? How would I ever know if I didn't close that door behind me?
A funny thing happened a few months later. I received a blind e-mail from John Henry, whom I had never met. He asked me if I wanted to meet for breakfast. Finally. FINALLY. My dream job had found me. John Henry was going to ask me to play first base for the Red Sox!
Just kidding. He wanted me to play goal for Liverpool!
What he really wanted was my help running the Boston Globe, which he had recently purchased. How could I ever say no? I started my career as a reporter and I paid my way through college working in the Globe library. I saw the Lion King. I know all about the Circle of Life.
But more importantly, I don't think there's an institution in any community with more noble a mission than that of its leading newspaper – serving a free society that is both informed and engaged. Helping to lead the Globe during a very critical time was an open door I had to walk through. But one that never would have come to me had I not closed the previous door behind me.
Today, the class of 2014 will walk through the biggest, openest door of your life. Don't worry about what's on the other side of that door. Walk through it with confidence, with faith, with excitement and with a wide open mind. You could not be more ready for what's ahead. Even though you may have no idea what that is. That's okay.
With all due respect to commencement speakers across America who implore you to "follow your dreams," I offer a few bits of perhaps counter-intuitive advice.
First of all, don't always listen to so-called experts like me. Yesterday, I read a great piece in a great newspaper about Johnny Joseph. Johnny, where are you? Johnny's lifelong dream is to be a dentist, and next fall he'll start at UConn dental school. Johnny, you follow that dream. Because in a few years, my dentist will be retiring and I want to be your first patient. Be gentle, Johnny!
Second, just work hard. And produce something of value every single day. Do what you enjoy doing, not what others, including your parents, expect you to do. Then, you'll never work a day in your life. Because it'll be fun.
Surround yourself with nice, smart people. You only get one name and one reputation in life. Be vigilant in how you protect them. Always – always – treat others with respect and with dignity, as you would want to be treated. If you have children some day, love them the way your parents have loved you.
As a graduate of Saint Anselm and someone whose transcript says he passed theology and philosophy, I would be remiss if I didn't have at least one quote from a famous 20th century philosopher. You may have heard of him, Kenneth Ray Rogers. I quote: You've got to know when to hold 'em. Know when to fold 'em. Know when to walk away. Know when to run. And with that, I run.
Mike Sheehan a resident of Norwell and CEO of The Boston Globe was guest speaker at the Stonehill College, Easton graduation. He's a former Patriot Ledger reporter.


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Some folks have the gift of hiding their flaws. Then there are the rest of us.
Mitt Romney. So fresh and so clean. Such a good speaker. Smooth to the max. He's as politician as politicians come: smarmy, creepy and full of s***.
How is Lindsay Lohan still getting work again?
And of course, in baseball, it doesn't get any more pathetic then Mario Mendoza. Not only is his career .215 BA and dismal .507 OPS a benchmark for awful, but just look at the guy. Awkward. Awkward. And more awkward.
I don't know this for a fact, but I would also be willing to bet Mendoza is a mouth-breather.
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