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Morning all.
Here's your weekend thread.
Yesterday's thread was a bit 'bollocksey' really. It ended up being taken over by wishlisting, guesses over who we might try to sign next, player abilities and formation chat. Most of that shit belongs in the players threads, but we suffered it because of your fragile mental states.
But now it's time to get this thread back on track. So no wishlists, no we need a player who can do this or that and no formation chat. Just the ITK please. I have the keys.
Today's word of the day: Announcements


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Joe Jonas wasn't the center of attention for his groomsmen photos ahead of his wedding on Saturday (June 29) in France.
The 29-year-old singer's dog Porky Basquiat stole the show in a cute doggy tuxedo, front and center with all the groomsmen.
Joe's groomsmen consisted of his brothers Kevin, Nick and Frankie, his manager Phil McIntyre, brother in law Mikey Deleasa, close friend and Chasing Happiness director John Taylor, DNCE band mates Cole Whittle and Jack Lawless, and fashion designer Richard Chai.
Included in the family photo are Joe's parents Kevin Sr and Denise Jonas, Priyanka Chopra, and Kevin's wife Danielle.
Joe and Sophie Turner got married in a second ceremony later that day at the Château Le Martinet in France in front of a group of friends and family.


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There's the old marketing joke, "I used to be a salesman, but I got tired of receiving the same three orders: get out, stay out, and don't come back." For new professors, industry scientists and engineers, and government employees, marketing your research is a difficult, time-consuming, frustrating, and thankless exercise. Unless you work for a resource sponsor such as the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, or the National Institutes of Health, chances are good that you will have to market yourself. In addition, your success as a new professor or new industry/government employee may depend on the amount of research funding or product development funding that you secure. In most universities, tenure decisions are heavily weighted on publications and research funding. I have always thought that a required course in science and engineering curriculum should be how to market ideas and secure funding to pursue those ideas.
My own experience as a new professor was extremely frustrating because I worked hard at writing research proposals and yet secured very few (and they were for very small amounts of funding). My process was to comb the solicitations in the office of sponsored research (before Internet proliferation) and determine which call for proposals I would pursue. I would spend a few weeks writing a detailed research proposal with what I considered outstanding ideas. I would then send off the proposal by registered mail, ensuring that it reached the sponsoring agency prior to the deadline, so that I was certain that my proposal would be given serious consideration. More than nine out of ten proposals were returned with high marks (some of them with perfect marks) and a notice of "declined for funding."
In the years since, I have met new professors, postdoctorates, and new scientists and engineers who use the same approach that I did many years ago…. and I have some pointers for you. First, do not send off a proposal unless you have first met the program manager, shaken that program manager's hand, and made sure that program manager knows your name and who you are before you leave. In short, introduce yourself! I know that most scientists and engineers are introverts, but this simple action increases your chances to secure funding significantly. There is always a toss-up on research-proposal ratings (the good ones end up on top, but there is not enough funding to award them all) and funding someone you have met is easier than funding an unknown. Besides, if you are going to be a well-known scientist or engineer, then you need to get out and meet the resource sponsor players in your field anyway.
Second, understand your prospective sponsor's needs. If you make time to visit a resource sponsor and/or program manager, then it is worth asking what their program needs are and what they are interested in with respect to goals. And then, listen. All program managers want to have successful programs, and if you help them be successful, then there is a good chance that you will build a long-term relationship with that person. If you make them look good, they will reward you with further research funding.
Third, develop what many people call the "elevator talk." The elevator talk is three or so slides that present your concept, your approach, and what you will provide at the end of the effort. This proposal should be short enough that when you get in an elevator, you can convince the program manager to fund it before the door opens to get out. Many funded proposals start out this way because program managers are in high demand (everyone wants their money), so you can usually only get a little of their time and even less of their interest. If they are interested in your elevator talk, then they will make time for a more detailed proposal or presentation. You also need to emphasize why it is important (not just why it is important in general, but why is it important for this particular program manager). You are helping them solve their problems.
Fourth, be persistent. If your proposal is not funded, move on to the next funding agency. And, if the opportunity arises, resubmit the proposal to the agency that previously rejected the proposal. Sometimes, it takes a program manager awhile to warm up to a particular idea or concept.
Finally, be excited about your proposal while you describe it. I have a close university friend who secures around 2.5 million dollars a year in research funding. His enthusiasm is endless and he is a hero at his university. The university cannot reward him with enough titles and salary dollars. A big key to his success is that his attitude is so positive that it is contagious. I have seen his sponsors become excited about his work because he talks about his proposals and his results like a kid in a candy store. We can all take a lesson from his success.
Any accomplished scientist or engineer, at some point, has to market his or her work. Invariably, there are many strategies to secure funding for research or product development, but meeting and developing relationships with program managers is a strategy that works. With some effort, you can overcome the "get out, stay out, and don't come back" response.
PS: What does securing funds for research or product development have to do with Optical Engineering? Most research papers begin with secured funding!


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Well, Summer is definitely over for another year.
I've desperately been trying to hold on to it — refusing to wear proper shoes in favour of my flip flops — but, try as I might, autumn is upon us once more.
The leaves are already beginning to change colour, the air smells fresher and I *might* (OK, I actually did) put the heating on the other night because I was so cold).
So autumn — let's not dwell on the onset of winter and cherish the here and now.
Let's think of things about autumn that we do like.
Crunchy leaves that just beg to be jumped in. Tick.
Wearing cosy socks and snuggling on the sofa under an emergency blanket (anyone else have one of those by the way?).
Colourful opaque tights and chunky knits? Lovely.
And Halloween.
Aaah Halloween. Anything that gives a valid excuse for a party is good for me. I'm there with bells on or — in this instance — a witches hat ;)
So to cheer myself up about the passing of summer, I've been busying myself and preparing for a Halloween party. Not 100% sure of the theme yet but I've had my head turned by Day Of The Dead themed decorations.
I love that it's a little bit glam — less gruesome, more pretty — and I'm especially loving the sugar skull designs that seem to be popping up everywhere.
I've found so many fabulous props online (from the same place I got all the boy's pirate party decorations from) but to add to the theme — even though it's a month away— I decided to get my baking hat on and have a go at making some Sugar Skull iced biscuits.
I found a biscuit recipe courtesy of The Biscuiteers (you can read the original recipe here) — super easy to make and they taste delicious.
How to make spiced Sugar Skull biscuits
You will need:
200g plain flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon ground ginger
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon mixed spice
50g dark muscovado sugar
100g salted butter softened and diced
50g black treacle
Preheat the oven to 170C/150C fan/gas 3 before you begin making your biscuits or when ready to cook. I made 14 skulls — plus a tester biscuit!
Sift the flour, baking powder and all the spices into a mixing bowl. Add the sugar and mix well.
Add the butter. Using just the tips of your fingers, rub the ingredients together until they resemble fine breadcrumbs.
When all the butter is evenly mixed in, make a well in the centre and add the treacle. Bring the mixture together to form a soft dough, combining lightly until it has an even colour with not too many streaks of treacle (I did this bit in the Kitchenaid to avoid handling it). Lightly form into a ball.
Divide into two and squash it into two even-sized flattish discs.
Place one disc of dough on a sheet of baking parchment. Begin by gently squashing the dough down with the rolling pin or your hands, cover with a second sheet of parchment then use the rolling pin to roll properly. If the top sheet crinkles, just peel it off, smooth it down gently and start rolling again. Gently roll the dough until it is 5mm thick all over.
Transfer the sheet of rolled dough, still sandwiched between its parchment, to a baking tray and place in the fridge to chill for at least 20-30 minutes before cutting. Repeat the process with the rest of the dough.
Using your cutter — I bought mine from here plus some disposable piping bags for icing — cut out the biscuits as close together as possible, lifting each one on to a parchment-covered baking tray and making sure that they are not too close together, as the dough will spread a little on baking.
Evenly space the trays in the oven and cook for 12-16 minutes, depending on your oven. Keep a close eye on the first couple of batches you cook until you get used to the recipes and your oven*.
This was good advice for me — mine cooked in just 10 minutes in our AGA. In fact, a couple of the edges were a little charred — have already made a note for next time!
As Bertie is allergic to egg, I made royal icing using Aquafaba.
This is basically the water than you get in a can of chickpeas or butterbeans. It has the same consistency as egg white and worked an absolute treat!
How to make egg free Royal Icing
You will need:
8 tbsp of canned legume water (the water drained from a can of butterbeans/chickpeas/cannelloni beans — choose the unsalted variety)
500g of sifted icing sugar
Beat the water (I used butterbean) with an electric whisk or mixer until it goes frothy.
Then add the icing sugar spoon by spoon, on a high speed until you have the desired consistency.
I added my black food colouring paste at this stage and gave it another good mixing.
Over the past few years, I've watched SO many YouTube videos on how to line and flood iced biscuits but, up until now, have never had a go.
Needless to say, I think all the hours of watching other people may have rubbed off a little bit! I was a bit wobbly — certainly not up to the standard of the amazing YouTubers — but I really, really enjoyed it.
I think I may have found a new favourite hobby ;)
*husband runs away and hides*
Following lots of differing advice from the experts, I made my lining icing the consistency of toothpaste. The above icing recipe was perfect for this.
I piped a line around the edge of the biscuit first — then left it to dry for 10 minutes — then to flood the background of the biscuits, I watered the icing down a little, using a couple of teaspoonfuls of the Aquafaba. This made it much easier to work with as it was much looser — almost like the consistency of single cream.
When the backgrounds were dry (leave these overnight if you have time) you can start piping the patterns on the top.
I loved this bit.
Put as many squiggles and patterns on each skull as you dare! I didn't follow any particular template but have been pinning sugar skulls to my Halloween party Pinterest board like a crazy woman, so most of the inspiration came from there!
Ta-daah! Sugar Skull Biscuits — done.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 22, 2015 – This week's episode, "Try," will have you "screaming" at your TV, or so we are promised. To help you join the fun, I have placed in quotations some of the more popular sayings emerging from "The Walking Dead" this season.
Not sure about you, but Noah's gruesome departure left this Walker-Watcher feeling a bit beat up. Last week's show "Spend" was a tough one, and it set us up for this week starting with that "Crazy Padre" Father Gabriel's crazed warning to Deanna.
Doesn't he realize that without the Survivors, as I have come to call them, he would be one of the walkers? Of course he doesn't. God would have protected him.
But with the padre's warning comes a healthy dose of Deanna's grief for her son, Aidan, who became zombie lunch. Will she believe that Glenn, who had that run-in with Aidan in episode 513, tried to save him, or will she believe that "Rat Bastard" Nicholas' liar version of events that we know is coming?
This next episode may, in some way, belongs to Abraham and Eugene.
They have some unfinished business as a result of Eugene's admitting he is just a guy, not THE guy. Glenn's story of Noah's death, Eugene's courage in saving Tara and his refusal to leave despite the coward Nicholas' threatening him may open the door to reconciliation.
Tara was badly injured in the zombie attack following Aidan's bombing disaster; however, this sneak peek has Rosita, now on the medical detail, letting us know that she is probably going to be OK.
Michonne wants Alexandria to work, and there is a surprise or two waiting as Rick confronts "Porch Dick Pete," who has been abusing his wife, Jessie, and son.
And then we also have Carl and Enid, last left in the romantic rotting tree.
Then we have "W" carved in the foreheads of walkers (remember CDN chatter Soul Train's prediction that the rovers terrorizing survivors are actually from Alexandria). Sasha has slipped and was spending a lot of time in the watchtower before disappearing.
Daryl's alliance with Aaron and Eric needs to play out, and we know Daryl is once again mobile with a new bike (see how that came about below).
Tonight is the last episode before the season 5 finale on March 29, when we can expect an expanded show – 90 minutes long. Michael Cudlitz, who plays our favorite ginger, Abraham, says that finale will piss us fans off … leading to plenty of shouts of 'Mother D–K."
But for now we have episode 515 – Try to join us at 8 pm for a repeat of episode 514-Spend and keep on watching and chatting right through The Talking Dead – with special guest Chandler Rigg, on his first Talking Dead appearance, along with Emmy Award-winning sci-fi producer Gale Anne Hurd and actress, and huge TWD fan, Yvette Nicole Brown.


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Selling the Golden Geese
Roll up, Roll up, Round two of the Great Howard Fire Sale is here!
We're under New Management, so let's have a look at what we have on the block today.
We've got Medibank, ACS, AGS (don't worry about acronyms, we'll get to them later), Australia Post, Australian Rail and state power companies. Get your bargains here!
The Liberals and Nationals have wasted no time setting up shop again in the temple. Apparently not satisfied with the billions of public assets sold under the Howard/Costello stewardship, the new government is looking at selling off anything that even appears to compete with private businesses, regardless of any contribution to the public good or the public purse.
Sales of public assets are often touted as solutions to a debt crisis. The reality is they are a sugar hit for politicians to improve their numbers, and corporations to receive handouts from the public purse.
One thing always missing from the conversations about debt and privatisation is the public interest. For example, was it truly in the public interest to sell Telstra's copper infrastructure, our major airports, or most of our gold reserves?
Public assets are historically undervalued, and when sold often undergo massive downsizing and service retractions. In the brave new world of asset stripping and collateralized debt obligations the Australian public needs to take a closer look at what Public Corporations are, what services they provide, what they represent, and what impact their sale would have on the current shareholder… the Australian public.
ACS pty ltd
Formerly known as the Australian Submarine Corporation, this is the primary naval defence contractor for the nation, responsible for the ongoing maintenance of the Collins class submarine fleet, and is currently building our next generation Air Warfare Destroyers.
The company engages thousands of people and businesses, mainly in South & Western Australia, and took many years and billions of tax-payer investment to build it to its current capability.
A quick look at the annual report for 2013 shows that in addition to maintain and building our defence capabilities it made a reasonable return and now holds over $619 million in assets:
Return on equity 4.2%
Dividend $8.9 Million
Paid taxes worth $3.2 Million
This company is a monopoly. It is the only company in the nation capable of building military class naval vessels and the only one who can service our submarines. This means any changes of ownership will have a direct impact on our national security.
No other company will ever be able to compete with ACS due to the massive infrastructure investment required. How can a government put a sale price on that kind of leverage?
If the sale does go ahead, how convenient that ex-Indi rep Sophie Mirabella has been given a golden parachute to corporate boardship. One wonders which of the large foreign defence contractors would end up owning our naval fleet capabilities, and what Mirabella's position would be on national security versus company profits.
The Australian Government Solicitor provides legal advice to the government; it was established at Federation and set up explicitly to act in the national interest.
This is a legal practice wholly owned by the commonwealth, which has access to some of the deepest policy secrets of the government.
The AGS website proudly proclaims that it beats private firms due to its knowledge and experience of government work. The sale of the firm would be a wholesale delivery of a huge amount of expertise and knowledge into private hands. How can there be a meaningful price tag attached to the information bank, integrity & goodwill belonging to this firm?
The high potential for conflict of interest or corruption gives pause enough. And given that the beneficiaries would only be lawyers able to charge the tax-payer higher rates for their services; how would it be in the public interest to sell?
Australian Rail Track Corporation Ltd
Responsible for over 8 thousand kilometres of interstate rail, the ARTC was established as a single entity for business to contact to arrange freight by rail throughout Australia. Such was the importance placed on the rail that carries our mining and farming products to port, that both state and federal governments agreed to establish the integrated body.
Privatisation of rail has failed in the UK, with service cuts, fare hikes, and under-investment in infrastructure. A situation many in Australian urban centres would be familiar with.
Similar stories of sales or deregulation of freight & mass transit exist all over the world. In the USA the iconic Greyhound bus service now completely gutted thanks to deregulation and forced to cut services to thousands of rural towns. The cities fare no better, with large cuts to bus & rail that disproportionally impact on low-pay workers.
Land and agricultural resources are vital to the Australian economy, this puts rail infrastructure into the 'national security' category. To sell the ARTC, most likely to a foreign multinational, is to put our future prosperity up for ransom.
Medibank Private
The sale of Medibank is apparently justified by the fact that it is competing with private businesses. The same argument could be made that Police are competing with private security firms, so should we be selling the police as well?
Medibank covers 29% of the Australian market, or approximately 3.8 Million people. There are few health insurers who would not want a piece of that pie. The annual report is positively glowing:
Return on equity 15.4%
Dividend $450 Million
Paid taxes worth $82 Million
As part of servicing a public need Medibank launched AHM, the only insurance that actually spells out (literally in black & white) what cover you need to avoid the Medicare levy, and to stop the Lifetime Health Cover age tax.
Medibank is not a drain on the public purse; it is a leader and award winner in promoting community health; and a leader in the insurance community for high standards.
Finally, it is paying millions of dollars every year in dividends into the public purse. Given the constant cat-calls for government to be run like a business, it is surprising that there should be opposition to a government property that is making money… for the government. The only argument for selling Medibank is ideological, as there is no benefit to the public interest.
Australia Post
On the one hand the Liberals and Nationals want the local postie to process your Centrelink forms, on the other they want to sell it.
Given that the coalition wants to shut down the Clean Energy Finance Corp, which is currently earning the tax-payer $200 million per year. It is perhaps unsurprising that they also want ape their UK Tory counterparts who forced a partial privatization of the Royal Mail in the UK in spite of increasing profits.
Some articles are already inserting misinformation about Australia Post having an "ailing bottom line", the same tactic used by the UK Tories. The reality is Aus Post paid a massive 18.5% return on equity last year, all "during a period when addressed letters are declining".
Compare this to the struggles of U.S. Mail. Some have been arguing that the problems at U.S. Mail are due to unions and no lay-off clauses. The reality is that the organisation has been reliant on low-skill, low-pay workers to keep overheads down and failed to automate or innovate. In addition U.S. Mail has to contend with government laws that prevent managers making sensible business decisions to restructure or diversify their business base.
This is the success of the Australia Post Corporation; it continues to deliver it's regulated community service obligations while turning a profit. It has shaken off the assumption that it was an out-of-date institution and built itself into a truly modern business that is making serious money for the tax-payer:
Return on equity 18.5%
Dividend $243.7 Million
Paid taxes worth $447.3 Million
Australia Post is another huge monopoly, with massive infrastructure and service commitments. Regional Australia and many urban communities rely heavily on their post office for far more that buying stamp or sending parcels.
When you read current CEO Ahmed Fahour commenting that community service obligations are 'stifling' business, it is easy realise that after privatisation regional and 'unprofitable' services would be the first items to be stripped bare.
As illustrated above, ideologically driven arguments for privatisation do not balance when weighed against the Public Good. Interest rates for government loans are at historical lows so debt hysteria is completely invalid. And why sell money-making enterprises that will assist in paying back the debt? Why sell the golden geese?
An interesting attribute that is common across all of these commonwealth companies is that they are flagships in their arenas. This is because they serve a public need and are capable of having long-term goals beyond mere money making. These public bodies create new markets and build new products & innovations that private enterprise does not have the courage or resources to accomplish.
The entire premise of establishing a public corporation is to allow essential services like remote mail services, or secure rail transport, to be funded by the profits from the corporation's unregulated activities. Australia Post is a classic example; in 2013 regulated services lost money, other services covered the loss and made a profit overall. The original NBN Co was another; it planned to use profits from urban areas to subsidise connectivity in Regional Australia.
Far from being a two-step process toward privatisation, public corporations need to be maintained as fiscally responsible ways for government to provide for the needs of the nation and spurring innovation, while giving private businesses the opportunity to benefit from new markets and reliable delivery infrastructure.
The corporations and political enablers that prey on these public assets do not care about the base-line services that they provide, only in the short-term profits that they can cleave.
Before Australia sells off its hard-bought Tax-Payer assets, perhaps we should take a closer look and see why private corporations are so eager to get their hands on them.


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Ten Australian projects selected for the Asian Animation Summit
Ten Australian television animation projects will be presented at the inaugural Asian Animation Summit (AAS) in Kuala Lumpur.
The AAS, which will be held December 10-11, is aimed at promoting the co-production and co-financing of children's animation across Asia.
The 10 successful Australian projects are: Babyccino (Mememe Productions), Bottersnikes and Gumbles (Ambience Entertainment), Evie & Tom's Mad Hair Day (Lemonade Digital Productions), Fantastic Forest (Chocolate Liberation Front), Herb and Ray's Yum (Sticky Pictures), Prisoner Zero (Planet 55 Studios), Ramiro (Liquid Animation), Skyrunners (Beyond Screen Productions), Super Mega Hyper Pets (Flying Bark Productions), The Eggsperts (RE Productions).
A total of 36 projects will be on show at the AAS. Each producer will have 45 minutes to pitch their show to an audience of potential co-producers, broadcasters and distributors. Eight of the successful Australian projects were selected by Screen Australia and supported by ABC TV.
The AAS was initiated by the director of ABC Television, Kim Dalton, and ABC's controller of children's TV, Tim Brooke-Hunt, and is supported by the government screen agencies of Malaysia (MDeC), South Korea (KOCCA), Singapore (MDA) and Australia (Screen Australia).
Broadcasters attending the conference include Malaysia's MediaPrima; Astro; TV3; RTM and Al-Hijrah TV; Korea's KBS, EBS and Tooniverse; and Singapore's Mediacorp.


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Calvin Christian School student, James Tyers has been announced as the 2018 National Young Historian after winning the National Historian Challenge Competition in Canberra on Monday, December 3.
James' winning submission was a nine minute video about the 1966 decimalisation of the Australian Currency.
He was able to demonstrate this change was a political, economic and social turning point, thus weaving this year's History Challenge theme through his work.
The judges were impressed with the seamless production and the comprehensive use of primary and secondary sources.
At the State Award Ceremony, hosted by the Premier Will Hodgman on November 8, James was presented with the State Young Historian Award and entered as finalist for the National Historian of the Year.
A group of Year 6 Calvin students were also announced as National winners in the Year 5/6 category.
Calvin Principal Iain Belot said, "This was a work of exceptional scholarship," adding that their achievements are an accurate reflection of the Calvin be your best ethos.
Calvin history teacher Sue Newitt hailed it as a fantastic result.
This is the first time Calvin students have entered the competition.
Also a winner in the national competition was Taroona High School student, Albert Edgell-Taylor who received the Museum Exhibit award.
Pictured: Calvin Chrisitian School Year 10 student, James Tyers was announced as the 2018 National Young Historian during an awards ceremony in Canberra on Monday, December 3. (PS)


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A four-year-old girl in Indiana shot herself in the face and her mother in the head when she accidentally fired the gun on her parents' bedside table, police said.
Officers from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department responded to the shooting Sunday morning, and said that the daughter is in stable condition and the mother is undergoing surgery, police said in a statement. The father told officers the gun had been on the nightstand next to his bed and that his son was also in the room at the time, a police spokesperson told IndyStar.
"When officers arrived, they came into contact with the father of the 4-year-old who stated that he and his fiancé were asleep when he was awakened by the sound of the gunshot," police said. "He stated that his daughter shot herself in the face, and it is believed that same bullet struck his fiancé in the back of the head."
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'Awards Chatter' Podcast — Marc Maron ('GLOW')
"To be a non-self-conscious asshole — God, I've wanted to do that all my life," cracks Marc Maron as we sit down at the offices of The Hollywood Reporter to record an episode of THR's Awards Chatter podcast and begin discussing his Netflix comedy series GLOW. He's describing the character he plays — it recently earned him Critics' Choice and SAG award nominations, with an Emmy nomination likely to follow. Maron, 54, is best known as a standup comedian who was a central figure in the early days of the "alternative comedy" movement, and as the host of the groundbreaking podcast WTF, for which a sitting president, Barack Obama, trekked to Maron's Highland Park garage to chat with him. Acting is something that has always intrigued Maron, but it wasn't until GLOW, in which he plays a washed-up Hollywood director hired to turn a ragtag group of actresses into professional-level wrestlers for a TV show, that he really stretched himself. "I had no expectations," he says of the accolades that have come his way. "I was thrilled. I couldn't believe it."
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Maron was born to a middle-class doctor and homemaker, and was raised for most of his childhood in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Much of his personality and interests were shaped during his early years: a complicated relationship with his parents left him with hard-to-escape neuroses and insecurities, and a close relationship with his grandparents left him with a love of comedy and conversation. A "smart-ass" kid with "behavioral problems" who was kicked out of one school he attended, Maron didn't take academics seriously until just before graduating from high school, when he was inspired to go to college by a witty and intellectual bookstore owner whom he idolized. He ultimately wound up at Boston University, majoring in English lit, minoring in film criticism, acting in plays, writing for the college newspaper, editing the literary journal and, for the first time, dabbling in comedy.
After graduating, Maron was, he admits, "very ill-equipped to deal with almost anything" in the real world. He had already become a regular cocaine user. He had little motivation or direction. And he ultimately decided to move, with a friend, to Hollywood to try to make it as a screenwriter. He spent a number of years in and around The Comedy Store, where he worked as head doorman and occasional performer, all while living — and getting further into drugs — with fellow comics. "I don't know how we survived," he confesses, "but I eventually lost my mind... got cleaned up [back in New Mexico]... and started my comedy pursuit in earnest." He moved to New York in 1989, where, over the next few years, he began making a name for himself as part of a swell of young comics who practiced confessional, improvisational comedy at Luna Lounge — others included Louis C.K., Sarah Silverman, Jon Stewart and Janeane Garofolo — at the vanguard of what came to be called the "alternative comedy" scene.
But promise soon turned to darkness. In 1995, Maron landed an audition for Saturday Night Live, the top of the mountain for most comics, but, as anyone who has ever listened to WTF knows, he didn't land the job and was haunted by his "odd" encounter with Lorne Michaels for more than two decades, until Michaels came on WTF and assured Maron that he had done nothing wrong — the time was just not right. Not long after the SNL audition, Maron moved back to L.A. and, despite landing frequent guest spots on David Letterman and Conan O'Brien's late night shows, began a downward spiral. His substance abuse damaged his personal and professional relationships; he was engaged to perform comedy at only minor venues; and his future prospects seemed bleak. As he puts it, "Nothing was really taking."
On Aug. 9, 1999, with the help of his second wife, he got sober, if not exactly "successful." Soon thereafter, he wrote and starred in a one-man off- Broadway show that he then adapted into a book — but, he says, it never made back its money. He landed a small part in Cameron Crowe's high-profile 2000 film Almost Famous — but says it didn't lead to other acting jobs. And he began working at Air America, the left's answer to conservative talk radio, in 2004 — but each of the three shows he anchored over the next five years ended up canceled. With his second marriage culminating in an acrimonious divorce at the same time his professional options were looking bleakest, Maron and his Air America producer Brendan McDonald decided to take a gamble. Several comedians had recently started podcasts, so they decided to start one, too — initially by covertly using Air America's offices and equipment after hours — with the goal of putting out episodes featuring conversations with fellow comedians twice a week.
Maron soon moved back to L.A. but continued to churn out episodes from his Highland Park garage. "It was a very dark time," he recalls, noting that he was single, broke and without professional representation, having fired his longtime manager after the manager questioned the wisdom of doing a podcast and then pushed him off onto a junior manager. "I was very depressed," Maron continues. "I didn't know how it was going to go. Either I was going to kill myself in that garage or things were going to turn around." He smiles, "Once I started doing the podcast and talking to people, I started to feel better — I started to laugh again and enjoy other people's company. I think if you really listen to the first 100 or so podcasts, it's me inviting celebrities [eventually noncomedians, too] over to talk about my problems, and that's sort of how I developed whatever style I have."
Maron's candid and confessional style motivated his guests (more than 900 and counting) to open up about their own lives — Robin Williams talked about his suicidal thoughts, Terry Gross opened up about her personal life and Obama vented about the frustrations of being president — and that, in turn, made listeners feel as if they had an intimate relationship with the host. Maron's two-hour 2010 episode with C.K., which Slate later deemed the greatest podcast episode of all time, exemplified this — they sorted through their strained friendship in a way that revealed new things about each of them to listeners. (Maron says that the conversation buoyed their relationship at the time, but that they since have fallen out of touch again. "Obviously, there was a transgression that he did that is undeniable, and he's certainly paying a price for that," he says in reference to recent allegations of sexual misconduct by C.K. to which C.K. has owned up. "We're not really in touch, which saddens me.... He's got other issues. I don't know what's going on. I've reached out a couple of times. I don't know who he's talking to at this point or what. You've got to let him live his life. I can't imagine what he's going through, what his victims went through and the state of that public a fall.") The Obama episode, in June 2015, was a game-changer, not only for Maron and WTF, but for podcasts overall. It drew large numbers of people who had never listened to a podcast, and some who didn't even know what one was. (For the record, Maron says WTF would welcome Donald Trump to the garage — a new one, since the Highland Park property is up for sale: "My producer said, 'If he agrees to the same terms [as Obama]: not vetting questions and we get final edit.' I'd just like to tool around the insane narcissism.")
In 2013, Maron, like C.K. before him, also wound up creating and starring on a TV comedy series loosely based on his life, IFC's half-hour single-camera comedy series Maron. The show, which ran through 2016, wasn't particularly acclaimed or widely seen, but it taught Maron a lot, and he quickly followed it with something that resonated far more with TV consumers. "I get done with Maron," he explains, "and yeah, I wanted to do an acting job where I'm not myself. But I wasn't pursuing anything. I was ready to take a little time off, really. And then I get sent the script for GLOW — the sides — from my manager, and I read it. The writing was so good. And I'm like, 'This guy — I know this guy, I can be this guy!'" 'This guy' is a drug-addicted failed artist who lands a gig about which he's not particularly passionate, but then decides to try to make the most of it. Maron taped himself as the character, sent in his audition and, thanks to the confidence of executive producer Jenji Kohan (Orange Is the New Black), landed the part. He loves the process of making the show alongside Alison Brie and some dozen other young actresses. And he was truly surprised to receive the Critics' Choice and SAG noms. He bought a suit for the first time in decades to wear to those awards shows, and felt proud to be there. "I was there as a peer, not as 'the guy from the garage,'" he says with a smile, "so it was great."
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