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New J. Walter Thompson Co. Digital Database
May 18, 2018 Amy McDonald
Post contributed by Josh Larkin Rowley, Reference Archivist for the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
In 2016, a small group of researchers and project managers descended upon the Rubenstein Library reading room. They were from the company Adam Matthew Digital, a U.K.-based builder of primary source digital databases for use in teaching and research. Over six weeks and three trips, they were firmly ensconced in research in our reading room from when we opened at 9AM—pausing only for meals—until we closed.
They perused hundreds of boxes from the Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History's archives of the J. Walter Thompson Co., an advertising agency founded in New York City in 1864. Considered the most complete record of any existing advertising agency, the archives documents 150 years of the agency's work with hundreds of business clients, corporate culture, personnel, marketing research, and contributions to the advertising industry. The goal of Adam Matthew's research was to build a digital database that captured the essence of the agency and its contributions to American consumer culture.
Homepage for J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America research database featuring 1972 Kodak ad from the JWT Advertisements Collection.
Thanks to the work of Adam Matthew Digital, Backstage Library Works, our own Digital Collections & Curation Services, and several Duke student assistants, the database is now complete and available to institutions for purchase. Titled J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America, the database includes print advertisements, writings and speeches by JWT staff, company publications, account materials, company newsletters, market research and reports, meeting minutes and much, much more. Together, these materials not only document the story of one of America's oldest and most enduring advertising agencies, but they also reveal many aspects of 20th century history. Researchers interested in facets of business, social, economic, and cultural history are sure to find the database a rich resource.
"Browse by Collection" page for J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America research database.
If you are interested in purchasing the database for your own institution, inquiries can be sent to Adam Matthew Digital website here. The database is free to Duke students, faculty, and staff in the Libraries' collection of resource databases here.
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An Interview About a Duke University Pioneer
February 26, 2014 Amy McDonald	1 Comment
Nathaniel White, Jr was among the first five black students to attend Duke University in 1963. He was not, however, the first person in his family to attend college. His father, Nathaniel White, Sr., had attended Hampton Institute prior to founding his own printing business in Durham. In a newly-digitized interview, White, Sr. discusses his life, his memories, and his experience as a black man living in Virginia and North Carolina during the 20th century.
White's interview is part of the Behind the Veil digital project, which has just added over 300 new interviews with North Carolinians, including many from Durham. The interviews capture details of what life was like in the Jim Crow South for African Americans. In White's interview, he shares the story of his childhood, the black business community in Durham, and the influence of scouting on his life. Of particular interest to local researchers, he describes individuals and businesses in the Durham black community in the mid-20th century, providing deep insight into Durham's history.
Nathaniel White, Jr., center, was a native of Durham and one of the first three African-American students to graduate in 1967.
He also briefly discusses his son's pioneering role at Duke. He mentions that White, Jr., had considered Hampton Institute himself, but then had the opportunity to attend Duke. His father candidly remarks in the interview, "There's one thing about a situation like that, it's more like the real world than some other places that you might go and everything seems like it's alright but it's not training you for what you're going to meet when you get outside. It's a real struggle out there. The sooner you learn that, the better off you might be. . . . In other words, every day he had what it's like to be an African American citizen in this country. So he didn't have to learn that after he graduated. He learned it every day at Duke."
Learn more about the fascinating Behind the Veil project on Bitstreams, the blog of the digital collections department of Duke University Libraries.
Post contributed by Val Gillispie, Duke University Archivist.
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The 1960s, One Page at a Time
July 9, 2013 Amy McDonald	3 Comments
One of the most frequently used items in the Duke University Archives is The Chronicle, particularly the 1960s issues. Many students are interested in the decade—which was one of great change in the student body, the curriculum, and in social life—and alumni and other researchers use it to find out details about particular events. This year, as Duke commemorates 50 years of desegregation among the undergraduate class, The Chronicle is especially helpful as a source of information about desegregation and later student protests like the Vigil and the Allen Building Takeover.
Thanks to the work of the Duke University Libraries' Conservation Department, Digital Production Center, and Digital Projects Services, we now have eleven complete years (fall 1959-spring 1970) of The Chronicle digitized at http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/dukechronicle/. The issues are browsable by year and date and keyword searchable.
Although it will be extremely helpful for research on desegregation and student protest, it will also be helpful for researching topics ranging from the Duke-UNC rivalry to women on campus to ads for local restaurants. Through even small stories and announcements, we learn a lot about campus.
For example, on November 22, 1968, we read that a memorial mass was held to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the passing of John F. Kennedy, Jr.:
On March 1, 1963, we learn of the mysterious origins of the name of Towerview Road:
And on November 7, 1969, we find 1969 at Duke, perfectly preserved:
There are 868 issues of editorials, news stories, sports writing, advertisements, and much more. Let us know what you think, and how you will use the digitized decade of The Chronicle!
Post contributed by Valerie Gillispie, Duke University Archivist.
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Digitizing the LCRM Update #9: Remembering the Allen Building Takeover
March 26, 2013 Amy McDonald
This month's Digitizing the Long Civil Rights Movement update pauses to look back into Duke's own past struggles with racial equality. On February 13, 1969, students in the Afro-American Society occupied the Allen Building where the university's primary administration offices were (and still are) located. These students demanded that Duke take steps to enact racial equality on campus, including the founding of an African-American Studies department, the hiring of more African-American professors, and the establishment of an African-American cultural center on campus. Similar demands had been made before from members of the Black Studies Program, as featured in our fourth update in this blog series.
What distinguished the Allen Building Takeover from the previous efforts for reform was its forcefulness—on both sides of the debate. The Takeover marked the first such occupation by students in Duke's history. The administration's response also became notable for what some members of the student body perceived to be its brutality. Police officers dispatched to the scene used tear gas to disperse a crowd that had gathered around the building, leading to a "riot" on the main quad of West Campus.
Both photos from The Chronicle, February 16, 1969.
Allen Building Takeover Collection, Box 1, Folder 10: abtms01010035
In the wake of the Takeover, students rallied to enact the suggested agenda of the original occupiers. Eventually, most of the demands did become standard practice at Duke, but the change occurred more gradually than what the galvanized student body had wanted in February 1969. The items selected above are from a photo essay published by The Chronicle (Duke's independent student newspaper) that encapsulated the events of Takeover.
We are happy to announce that the Allen Building Takeover Collection and its wealth of primary documents and remembrances of the important event will soon become available online to researchers.
For more information on the Content, Context, and Capacity Project for Digitizing the LCRM, please visit our website or like us on Facebook.
The grant-funded CCC Project is designed to digitize selected manuscripts and photographs relating to the long civil rights movement. For more about Rubenstein Library materials being digitized through the CCC Project, check out previous progress updates posted here at The Devil's Tale!
Post contributed by Josh Hager, CCC Graduate Assistant.
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Digitizing the LCRM Update #7: A High-Caliber Holiday Photograph
December 7, 2012 Amy McDonald	1 Comment
As we approach the conclusion of 2012, the CCC Project at Duke is excited to announce that we have begun work with the last three manuscript collections that will undergo digitization for the grant. Collection reviews of the Black Student Alliance Records, the Charles N. Hunter Papers, and the Allen Building Takeover Collection are underway.
At the same time, we are working on the finishing touches of the Elna Spaulding Papers, the largest collection that Duke is contributing to the CCC Project. Look for more updates on these collections in upcoming blog posts on The Devil's Tale.
For this month, we wanted to highlight a photograph that conveys the holiday spirit. We recognize that it is the season for peace on Earth, good will toward all, and (toy) firearms.
Photograph taken by Jim Thornton for the Durham Herald-Sun, undated. Women-in-Action for the Prevention of Violence and Its Causes Records, Box 11, Folder 1: wiams11001036
If we were giving out year-end awards for the CCC Project, this photograph has to win the "Most Ironic" trophy. Normally, at this point, we would provide context that would explain exactly what this spokesman is trying to convey. Unfortunately, all that we know about this photograph is that it appeared in the Durham Herald-Sun and the photographer was Jim Thornton. The fact that this photograph appears in the Women-in-Action records indicates that the event was some sort of anti-violence demonstration that perhaps encouraged parents to avoid purchasing violent toys for Christmas. However, this explanation is at best an educated hypothesis.
No matter the explanation, this photograph and the rest of the CCC materials are quite thought-provoking. And our final thought for this update: Happy Holidays from the CCC Staff!
To learn more about the CCC Project, please visit CCC on Facebook.
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Digitizing the LCRM: Duke's Dept. of African & African-American Studies
August 22, 2012 Amy McDonald	3 Comments
In this month's update of the CCC Project at Duke University, we are happy to announce the publication online of the records of Duke's Department of African and African-American Studies. The items included in this collection document the beginnings of the department, the research and teaching of its faculty members, and the various social and cultural movements occurring within the African-American community during the 1970s and later. We encourage researchers to peruse the digitized documents, accessible from the collection inventory, to find a host of items sure to add to the scholarship of the long civil rights movement.
Our document spotlight for the month highlights the struggles that the African and African-American Studies Department, then known as the Black Studies Program, experienced in its earliest days. From its inception in 1969, the Black Studies Program had been offering several courses through adjunct faculty. Still, the Program lacked a director and its course slate remained minimal, although the Program did offer a major.
In addition, members of the African-American community at Duke contended that the university's administration did not implement programs to encourage "black cultural representation." The document shown below is a draft petition from late 1979 written by members of the African-American community at Duke asking the administration to ameliorate both the academic and cultural issues that hampered the growth of the African-American community at the university.
Draft Petition to Duke Administration Regarding Cultural Representation of the Black Community. Department of African and African-American Studies Records, Box 1, folder 30 (File ID daams01030169)
Although we do not have a completed petition in the Department's records, the goals of the document did eventually become Duke's policy. University administration would create new standards to recruit more African-American faculty members. In addition, the Program would soon become a fully-staffed Department. In terms of cultural engagement, the establishment of the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture in 1983 helped to fulfill the demands listed in the petition. Researchers will now have the opportunity to learn even more about the beginnings of African-American Studies at Duke and how struggles for recognition led to a strong academic and cultural presence on campus.
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Digitizing the LCRM: Update #2
June 22, 2012 Amy McDonald	2 Comments
We're going to start our second update on Duke's participation in the CCC Project with exciting news: the first three CCC-digitized collections are now available online! You can now find digitized content directly through each collection's finding aid. Take a minute and check out the digitized portions of the Basil Lee Whitener Papers, the Rencher Nicholas Harris Papers, and the Women-in-Action for the Prevention of Violence and Its Causes Records.
This month, we feature an item from the Basil Lee Whitener Papers. Whitener was a Democratic Congressman representing Mecklenburg County (N.C.) from 1957 through 1968. Like many other Democrats from the South (who collectively became known as "Dixiecrats"), Whitener was a vehement opponent of integration and any federal action intended to address civil rights issues.
His papers contain a great deal of correspondence, speeches, bills, and other materials that reflect both the views of constituents regarding civil rights and how he acted in the House of Representatives to try to derail reform-minded legislation.
Whitener's opposition was firm, but such groups as the NAACP and the North Carolina Baptist Student Union sent telegrams and letters to the Congressman arguing for strong civil rights legislation. Knowing that these efforts fell on deaf ears, who then actually lobbied against civil rights legislation? The answer is the NRA . . . but not that NRA. The organization in question is the National Restaurant Association; the letter that their representative Ira Nunn sent to Whitener in opposition to what would become the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is presented below.
Letter, Ira H. Nunn of the National Restaurant Association to Basil Lee Whitener, November 1, 1963. From the Basil Lee Whitener Papers. (Click to enlarge.)
The given reason for the NRA's opposition to H.R. 7152 was that its proposals "can only result in the diminution of free enterprise and of the rights and freedoms of all citizens." Decode this political jargon and you will see that the NRA disapproved of the proposed ability of the federal government to mandate the integration of all public dining spaces.
Instead, the NRA offered the solution of voluntary integration. In his letter, Nunn claimed that voluntary integration had been a "widespread success." While Nunn's claim was literally true insofar as a certain percentage of restaurant owners had chosen to integrate their establishments voluntarily, the spirit of the argument is false. Restaurateurs were not en masse choosing to integrate their establishments, especially in the South. For example, only forty percent of businesses in Greensboro were integrated by the end of 1963. Nationally, out of a possible 60,000 districts where mandated integration could have existed, only 1,000 had integrated facilities. It is understandable that Nunn would like to present his industry as reform-minded while preserving laissez-faire standards, but the historical reality does not corroborate his argument.
Why would Nunn and restaurateurs more broadly oppose civil rights reform? While a culture of segregation may have contributed to the NRA's opposition, it is much more likely that members of the NRA feared the potential loss of business that forced integration would entail, especially in the South. Therefore, at its core, the NRA's argument against integration was primarily economic rather than cultural or social, making it stand out from most anti-integration documentation from the early 1960s. Furthermore, in an ironic twist given Whitener's role as a representative of North Carolina, it is probable that the NRA's economic argument was in part inspired by the events of the 1960 Greensboro Sit-In and subsequent protests across the South. In fact, such protests provided strong evidence of the social role of restaurants and the necessity for integrating their dining counters, even if the members NRA could only see the possibility of losing customers and profit.
The grant-funded CCC Project is designed to digitize selected manuscripts and photographs relating to the long civil rights movement. For more information on this project, including updates on the progress of digitization, please check out the CCC website. As part of the outreach efforts of the CCC Project, monthly blog posts to The Devil's Tale will provide updates on the latest Rubenstein Library collections to be digitized for the project. Stay tuned!
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Rencher Nicholas Harris was Durham's first African-American city councilman as well as a member of the Board of Education and the Secretary for the Board of Directors of Lincoln Hospital. His papers, collected at the Rubenstein Library and now digitized, cover the scope of his civic efforts from public health to transit planning. For example, the document shown below is a budgetary analysis of Durham school cafeterias in 1959—and a prime example of how civic documents demonstrate racial realities.
At first glance, the document lists the budgets of all of the public school cafeterias in Durham, separated into white and "negro" categories. Examine the figures more closely and the depth of racism in the school segregation policy becomes clear. Compare, for example, the operation expenses of white Durham High and African-American Hillside High ($68,475.27 to $39,346.22, respectively). In addition, the white schools show a net income of $6,205.02 versus the net monetary loss of the African-American schools of $4,638.23. It is up to researchers to determine the full explanation and significance of these figures.
Fortunately, this document, along with a host of other records containing information on historic impetuses and efforts for civil equality in North Carolina, will soon become available online. Duke University Libraries' Digital Production Center is currently participating in the Content, Context, and Capacity Project led by the Triangle Research Libraries Network (Duke, NC State, UNC, and NC Central).
This grant-funded initiative is designed to digitize selected manuscripts and photographs relating to the long civil rights movement. For more information on this project, including updates on the progress of digitization, please check out the CCC website. As part of the outreach efforts of the CCC Project, monthly blog posts to The Devil's Tale will provide updates on the latest Rubenstein Library collections to be digitized for the project. Stay tuned!
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Books by Mindie Burgoyne – the Travel Hag
Mindie Burgoyne has published six books – all focusing on historic small towns in Maryland.
Released in July of 2015
The Haunted Mid-Shore: Spirits of Caroline, Dorchester and Talbot Counties is the second book in a series of haunted tales about the Eastern Shore of Maryland (Book 1 is Haunted Ocean City and Berlin). This book holds 25 stories set in Cambridge, Denton, Oxford, St. Michaels, Easton and the remote reaches of lower Dorchester County. Stories include The Town Dog-killer, Bloody Henny at Spring Valley, the LeCompte Curse, Marguerite the Murdered Actress, Spirits of Navy Point and The Death Chant at Bachelors Point. This book has many stories in it that are also featured on the Cambridge, Easton, St. Michaels and Denton Ghost Walks.
Released in October of 2014, Haunted Ocean City & Berlin is the first is a three-book series of haunted tales of Maryland's Eastern Shore. This book focuses on Maryland's seaboard side and features twenty stories about ghosts, hauntings and tales of the dead. The stories in this book follow the stories shared on the Ocean City and Berlin ghost walks that Mindie Burgoyne crafted including stories on the Atlantic Hotel, Trimper's Menagerie Carousel, Dolle's Candyland, the Berlin Healing Tree, Rackliffe House and the Assateague Indian. These two ghost walks are part of a 10-walk series that include ten of the Eastern Shore's most popular towns (including Easton and Snow Hill which are focuses of books shown below).
Her most popular book, Haunted Eastern Shore, Ghostly Tales from East of the Chesapeake was published by The History Press in 2010 and is now in its fifth printing selling over 7000 copies. Big Lizz, Wish Sheppard and the Denton jail, Snow Hill Inn and Cosden Murder Farm are just some of the 23 sites features in this book. Sites in this book are featured on ghost tours provided year round by Chesapeake Ghost Walks.
Easton: Then and Now focuses on the historic Town of Easton which was once the Eastern Capital of Maryland. Photo images of Easton in the nineteenth century with captioned details are printed adjacent to a current image of the site with details about how the site has or hasn't changed over the decades. Published by Arcadia Publishing in 2007.
Snow Hill: Images of America focuses on the small Town of Snow Hill in Worcester County, Maryland which was once a significant port town at the headwaters of the Pocomoke River. Today it's population is small and the town has become a emerged as a destination for eco-tourism, while keeping its historic charm. Over 100 historic images of the town are included in the book. Published by Arcadia Publishing in 2006.
Linda Lee Herdering
November 3, 2012 at 1:54 pm · Reply
Cool! I didn't realize you wrote the book on Snow Hill! I bought that a few years back for Mom– we visited Snow Hill several times from her Ocean Pines home. Man–spent a lot of days around those towns… Cool! ~~Linda
Mindie Burgoyne
November 4, 2012 at 8:39 am · Reply
That was my first book, Linda. I worked for the Town of Snow Hill doing business development when I first moved to the Eastern Shore. Fell in love with that place. I still love to go back there. Such a pretty little waterfront town.
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Cool L.A. Label NSF Clothing Is Popping Up on This On-the-Rise Shopping Stretch
Hollywood, Pop-Ups, Style
Just steps from Just One Eye and Tartine.
Photos: Courtesy of Eunji Paula Kim/NSF
NSF founder Nick Friedberg and creative director Jamie Haller.
Edgy-luxe retailer Just One Eye isn't the only one giving the burgeoning Sycamore District a stylish spruce-up. Just steps from JOE and few doors from foodie favorite Tartine, L.A. label NSF Clothing is popping up on the up-and-coming shopping stretch in Hollywood now through Tuesday, Dec. 31, marking its first standalone brick-and-mortar boutique and workshop.
The 3,000-square-foot warehouse-like space stocks NSF founder Nick Friedberg and creative director Jamie Haller's full womenswear line ($110 to $550), including casual-luxe staples like effortless vintage-wash tees, relaxed utilitarian-inspired jumpsuits, quilted bomber jackets, distressed denim, and more items usually found on the racks of Nordstrom, Revolve, and soon-to-shutter Barneys New York.
And to fête the 10-year anniversary of its women's line, the brand is also offering exclusive archival and one-of-a-kind pieces as part of its winter 2020 collections, including best-sellers from NSF's debut line such as the Adams jacket, the Beck boyfriend straight slouch jean, the Lisse sweatshirt hoodie, and the Maddox footballer sweatpant, to name a few.
The throwback pieces will be stocked in the back workshop, where the brand will also host community events, industry panels, hands-on classes (such as distressing and garment dyeing), and more happenings.
As far as the decor, Haller (who's also a home renovator in her spare time) sourced vintage furnishings from the Rose Bowl and made a custom eight-foot live oak bench and modular blonde wooden display cubes, among other fixtures.
NSF was originally founded in 2005 by Friedberg as a men's line. He and Haller joined forces in 2012, and the GQ-approved design duo are also behind the decidedly more feminine label, Icons.
Scroll through the gallery above to see more inside the shop, and see below for the address and hours.
NSF Clothing pop-up shop, 937 North Sycamore Ave., L.A., 90038; Monday to Friday to 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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However, VA officials have announced plans they hope will speed up the process of disability claims and appeals. A new standardized set of forms from the VA aims to make it easier for veterans and their families to get the benefits they so desperately need.
VA Secretary Robert McDonald said in a press release that it is his department's goal to do everything they can to ensure veterans receive an accurate decision on their claim.
"Our veterans and survivors will know, at the outset of the claims process, what is needed, which removes subjective interpretation from the process," McDonald said. "We want to eliminate any barriers that make it difficult for our veterans or survivors to receive benefits to which they are entitled."
These new regulations are set to be in place by March 2015, according to VA. However, it is important to remember that we have heard claims that the process will improve before. There have been years of work on a system to eliminate backlog, which peaked in early 2013 at more than 611,000. The backlog still sits at more than 300,000 veterans.
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Biden leads Trump in Florida, tied in Arizona amid rising COVID-19 fear
Candice JaimungalSocial Media Contributor
July 12, 2020, 4:00 PM GMT+0
The coronavirus outbreak is having strong impacts on the 2020 US presidential race, specifically in the Sun Belt states of Florida, Arizona, and Texas. In these states, registered voters are more likely to vote for Biden over Trump, depending on their COVID-19 concerns, according to the latest CBS News/YouGov Poll.
Three in four voters say COVID-19 is a very serious problem in their state. Almost seven in 10 (69%) of registered voters in Arizona say the efforts to contain coronavirus in their state are going badly, compared to 65 percent in Florida, and 62 percent in Texas.
Two in three (68%) Floridians say the state opened too quickly because of pressure from the Trump administration, compared to 32 percent who say Florida reopened too quickly because the state thought it was right.
Biden support increases with concern about COVID-19. In Arizona, 72 percent of those voting for Biden say they are very concerned about COVID-19. 67 percent of Biden supporters in Florida and 68 percent of Biden supporters in Texas say they are very concerned. Nine in 10 Biden voters say COVID-19 is a major factor in their vote. Trump voters are more likely (90%) to say the major factor in their vote is the economy – specifically, in Arizona.
In Texas, voters (53%) say the President is the candidate that cares more about the US economic situation, compared to Biden (51%). Texas voters (58%) see Joe Biden as the candidate that cares more about COVID-19, compared to President Trump (46%).
In the state of Florida, Joe Biden has a six-point lead on Trump (48% vs. 42%). President Trump holds the lead in Texas (46% vs. 45%). Arizona voters are split (46% vs. 46%) on their choice for president.
Biden leads among women voters in all three states of Arizona (50% vs. 42%), Florida (50% vs. 37%), and Texas (47% vs. 42%). Additionally, Biden is gaining voters with voters over the age of 65 – specifically in Florida. President Trump's support with Florida seniors has dropped slightly from 57 percent in 2016.
In the states of Arizona, Florida, and Texas, Trump 2020 supporters express more enthusiasm over voting than Biden supporters. Additionally, a stark difference emerges in the reason why supporters plan to vote for each candidate. In Florida, 67 percent of Trump supporters say the main reason they support him is because they like Donald Trump. Biden supports (49%) in the Sunshine State say their main reason for supporting him is to oppose Donald Trump.
In Arizona, 94 percent of Biden supporters and 95 percent of Trump supporters say they probably won't change their mind – leaving little room for change.
In all three states, voters would like to see voting by mail made easier. 59 percent of Biden voters, and a quarter (25%) of Trump voters in Florida, say they prefer to vote by mail in 2020. Trump supporters in Texas are less likely to prefer vote by mail (9%), compared to the states Biden supporters (45%).
Methodology: These surveys were conducted on behalf of CBS News by YouGov between July 7-10, 2020. They are based on representative samples of 1,099 registered voters in Arizona, 1,229 in Florida and 1,212 in Texas. Margins of error for registered voters: Arizona +/- 3.8 points, Florida +/- 3.5 points, Texas +/- 3.3 points.
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Where is the Outrage for Conyers?
Jermanator Senior MemberPosts: 16,131 Senior Member
His wife got sent to Club Fed a few years back when she was a Detroit city councilperson. Back in the day, Conyers did quite a bit for civil rights, but he has been needing to go out to pasture for a long time. He has been thoroughly corrupted and needs to go. Now. (and that was before this sexual stuff).
I hope he is toast.
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/30/567436833/conyers-hospitalized-for-stress-as-5th-franken-accuser-comes-forward
Turd. I got more to say later.
He's got a lot of defenders reaching for an ear on NPR. I can't understand why?:uhm:
Almost seems like these guys resent getting caught. Everyone else got away with it, so should I.
It's all along time over due. I hope it sticks.
This is from way back in 2010.
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2010/12/the_fabulous_online_life_of_jo.html
At 61, John Conyers married his 25 year old campaign worker... Monica.
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Where is the Outrage for Conyers?.
Seems to be right here in the headlines of your first link
Pelosi, Ryan Call on Conyers To Step Down;
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates, Rule #37: There is no "overkill". There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload".
shootbrownelk Senior Member Posts: 2,035 Senior Member
Time for Conyers to slither away and take Franken along with him. Both of those bottom feeders have done enough damage to our beloved United States of America.
knitepoet wrote: »
Pelosi has changed her tune over the week, at first doubting if the allegations are true.
She has not extended that line of thought to her opponents.
Last night Fox News and other news outlets were reporting that Pelosi wanted Conyers to resign, and has made public statements to that effect. Maybe she had forgot that she is a champion of women's causes.
Fisheadgib Senior Member Posts: 5,797 Senior Member
JerryBobCo wrote: »
Ten days ago Pelosi stated "John Conyers is an icon in our country and has done a great deal to protect women." I guess she assumed that we would have forgotten that by now.
snake284 wrote: »
For my point of view, cpj is a lot like me
Fisheadgib wrote: »
If he wanted to protect women he'd have put a padlock on his zipper.
Back in 2010, Conyers was taped reading through a nudie magazine on an airplane. Class act!
http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/21/flashback-john-conyers-was-filmed-reading-playboy-on-a-plane-in-2010-video/
Varmintmist Senior Member Posts: 7,434 Senior Member
Nothing to see here.... Didnt you hear about Roy Moore?
It's boring, and your lack of creativity knows no bounds.
He must have unfulfilled back room obligations, the way his constituents are throwing a fit.
early wrote: »
Conyers has been screwing his constituents since the day he was first elected to Congress. This mess is just an extension of that behavior.
This just in. Conyers won't seek re-election.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/conyers-won%E2%80%99t-seek-re-election-in-wake-of-harassment-claims-relative-says/ar-BBGfd5Q?OCID=ansmsnnews11
If the swamp won't drain, maybe it can be skimmed.
Awesome. Now Franken needs to do the honorable thing.
bullsi1911 Moderator Posts: 11,244 Senior Member
Seppuku?
To make something simple is a thousand times more difficult than to make something complex.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
That would work as well. I am glad that at least Conyers has been held (somewhat) accountable for his actions. If he was a conservative it would have been blown off, the victims called liars, and "fake news".
Conyers now says he's stepping down on Tuesday, Dec. 5.
Wait, today's Tuesday, Dec. 5.
And he is suggesting his son as his successor.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/05/politics/john-conyers-out-retires/index.html?adkey=bn
He has been a man of low character from the first day he took office. He has gotten away with everything. He is disgraced now in a way that even his supporters have to admit. Had he been young enough and smart enough to continue lying his way out of everything, they would still pretend to believe him, and still be supporting him. If he had enough brain cells left to reflect on his career, he would be laughing his ass off that he got away with everything for so long. If he is stupid enough to actually believe that he has been mistreated, that's the best punishment I could have wished for him.
Now, I want him to disappear and make way for whoever the DNC chooses to replace him, which I have no doubt will also be a worthless human being.
.......................Now, I want him to disappear and make way for whoever the DNC chooses to replace him, which I have no doubt will also be a worthless human being.
ALL of those commies are worthless human beings!
104RFAST Senior Member Posts: 1,281 Senior Member
I know of an X Quarterback that would be perfect as his replacement


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Video: Volvo Ocean Race yacht grounded
5 December 2014 by Laura Nineham
The nine-strong crew of Team Vestas Wind are safely on their way back to civilisation after spending two days sheltering on a remote Indian Ocean island after hitting a reef during the Volvo Ocean Race.
The yacht hit the sandbar at 19 knots on Saturday, according to the Volvo Ocean Race. The team stayed on board, waiting for daylight.
Fortunately no one was injured when Team Vestas Wind's boat hit the reef.
These images show the team returning to boat to retrieve everything they can.
The crew were picked up by a coastguard RIB and taken to nearby Íle du Sud, a near-deserted speck in the ocean with no communication with the outside world.
Once on the islet, the crew were air-dropped food packages by the Mauritius coastguard, including cans of Coke, chocolate and cookies.
Neil Cox, Team Vestas Wind's shore crew chief, told the VOR on Tuesday: "We've had nine guys sitting on a sand pit in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
"You'd think it's a bad movie. You sit there and talk to the coast guard and they're telling us about everything we're dealing with on the technical side, then they're asking me to warn the guys that the reef is riddled full of sharks and barracuda and God knows what else."
Watch the dramatic moment the yacht hits the reef at 19 knots:
On Tuesday, the crew were picked up by a 20-metre fishing vessel and it's understood they are now safely in Mauritius. They are due to fly to Abu Dhabi at the end of the week.
Team Vestas Wind were on the second leg of the nine-month round-the-world race, which is due to finish in June 2015 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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SEIKO Launches Spring Drive,
the Only Watch in the World to Represent the True Motion of Time.
Spring Drive is the most important new movement created by SEIKO since the quartz Astron in 1969. It is based on the foundation of all mechanical watch technology, a mainspring, but uses an entirely new system for time regulation that delivers the equivalent to 1 second per day accuracy, and, uniquely, glide-motion hands that represent the continuous, even motion of time. Spring Drive. The quiet revolution.
28 years in the making. Three key innovations
The idea of Spring Drive was conceived in 1977 by an engineer at SEIKO EPSON's Suwa plant in Japan. The technical challenges required to realize the dream were immense and have taken 28 years to overcome. Spring Drive required the invention of new technologies in all areas of the craftsman's art.
The Mainspring. While SEIKO has made its own mainsprings in-house since 1959, none of the existing springs were considered strong enough to deliver the industry-leading performance dreamed of by the engineering team. An entirely new spring was created using a new high-elasticity material called Spron 510(*) to create more power. The result is a mainspring that delivers more power, more smoothly and for longer. Spring Drive has a power reserve of 72 hours.
The 'Magic Lever'. The new 'Magic Lever' system allows for more efficient transmission of the rotor's power to the mainspring. It is fitted directly to the shaft of the rotor and thus creates more efficient winding of the spring. This new system is 30% more efficient than traditional winding systems.
Tri-synchro regulator. This new device replaces the escapement and thus eliminates the weakest and most vulnerable part of the traditional watch mechanism. It regulates the three kinds of energy used in the Spring Drive mechanism, the mechanical power of the mainspring, the electrical energy, created from this mechanical power which activates a crystal oscillator, and the electro-magnetic energy that turns the glide wheel precisely 8 times per second.
( * Spron 510 is the registered trademark of Seiko Instruments Inc.)
One-way circular motion
Spring Drive is unique because, while it has nearly all the characteristics of a classical mechanical watch, it does not require an escapement. The escapement uses the back and forth motion of a balance wheel to regulate the speed at which the spring drives the hands and it is this high-friction motion that makes the traditional mechanical watch vulnerable to inaccuracy and damage. The genius of Spring Drive is that all the motion in the movement is in one direction, so that the friction is all but eliminated. It is also this one-way motion that allows the hands to move with the unique glide-motion that reflects the real nature of time. Spring Drive is a natural revolution in timekeeping.
State-of-the-art watchmaking
To realize the Spring Drive dream, all SEIKO's skills in the mechatronics of timekeeping have been utilized in both the traditional and electronic arenas.
The mainspring power supply, the gear train, the power reserve system and the Magic Lever are classical, mechanical watch components. Of the 276 components in each Spring Drive watch, 80% are those incorporated in mechanical watches. Like the highest grade mechanical watches, Spring Drive has 30 jewels to ensure low friction and high accuracy, and each watch is assembled by hand by SEIKO's most skilled craftsmen and women.
The electronic components of Spring Drive are state-of-the-art. While other companies have attempted to develop a mechanical watch with an electronic time regulation system, only SEIKO has succeeded in realizing this dream. It required new advances in electro-magnetics to develop the braking system within the regulator and new advances in power generation and IC to convert part of the mainspring's mechanical power to an electrical signal; just 25 nanowatts are all that is required to power the circuit and the crystal oscillator. This is 50% of the power needed in any conventional watch circuit.
It is SEIKO's unique combination of skills in both mechanical and electronic micro-engineering that has made Spring Drive possible.
Unique designs for a unique technology
Spring Drive is offered in a design that is as unique as its technology. The inspiration for the design is in the circular motion that is at the heart of the engineering triumph.
The cases combine three circles, prominently visible in their side profile and the circle motif is also reflected in the engraved crown. Similarly, the dials express the circle concept, with the round sub-dials harmonizing with the overall case shapes. The circular motion itself is visible through the case back where the rotor and the glide wheel are clearly visible, moving evenly and smoothly.
Spring Drive is available in two versions. The first, with a steel bracelet is for the lover of modernity; its tough, almost sporty, execution highlights the 'state of the art' nature of the movement. The second, with straps of crocodile skin, expresses the tradition of classical watchmaking of which Spring Drive is emblematic.
Spring Drive: The Launch
Spring Drive is unveiled at the 2005 Baselworld Exhibition. As the focal point for luxury watches, Baselworld provides the perfect platform for the launch of Spring Drive and the whole SEIKO stand at Baselworld has been re-designed to showcase it.
Spring Drive will be launched to the public at the Seiko Center in Paris in September, and will thereafter be available in exclusive retail stores in the USA, Europe and elsewhere.
Spring Drive in numbers
Spring Drive is an important milestone in the history of watchmaking, and will take its place alongside other developments like the creation of the escapement, the invention of the mainspring and the harnessing of quartz, as defining moments in the story of time. The launch of Spring Drive is a breakthrough moment for the science of timekeeping. Its technological advances are many and varied, as its numerical statistics reveal:
0.025 mm. The thickness of each layer of alloy in the coil block.
1 second a day accuracy, 10 times better than the chronometer mechanical standard.
3 types of energy are controlled by the Tri-synchro regulator: mechanical, electrical and electro-magnetic.
5 craftsmen and women. Only Seiko's 5 most skilled craftsmen and women are entrusted with the assembly of Spring Drive.
8 times per second. The precise speed at which the glide wheel turns within the electro-magnetic braking system.
13 generations of prototype were built in the development phases.
15 microns . The width of the wire in the Tri-synchro regulator's coil.
18 layers of amorphous alloy in the coil block.
25 nanowatts. The minute amount of power needed to activate the regulator, less than half that needed in all other watch circuits.
28 years of research and development invested in the project.
30 percent improvement in winding efficiency achieved through the improved Magic Lever system.
30 jewels in the movement. 32 in the small second hand version.
72 hours of power reserve.
92 years since Seiko built its first wristwatch.
124 years of Seiko's expertise in time keeping.
230 patents have been applied for in Japan, USA and the EU.
276 components in the movement. 280 in the small second hand version.
600 actual prototypes were built between 1997 and 2004.
25,000. The number of times the coil is wound, for maximum energy efficiency.
28,800. The number of times the glide wheel turns per hour.


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Connacht woe for Joe's!
Written by Dan Dooner on December 2, 2021
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St. Patrick's 4-17 St. Joseph's 0-3
St. Joseph's' first Connacht adventure since 2003 was ended rather abruptly by an ice-cold St. Patrick's outfit in the chilly environs of Markievicz Park on Saturday last as the Sligo side romped home to a 26-point win to book their place in the Connacht final.
St. Joseph's captain Johnny Mannion, however, was philosophical at the full-time whistle.
"I think the gap from when we got knocked out was just too long and we never got going. They were on their third week on the bounce and they were fitter and stronger, they outplayed us all over the field," he said.
"We were trying to keep the mood up in camp, thinking that we had a chance, but it's always in the back of your mind that these guys have won Sligo, they played intermediate football very recently, and we got knocked out in a semi-final. You always come hoping that you'll get a victory, but it wasn't to be".
The hope and optimism of the first ten minutes, which saw Mickey Joe Egan give Joseph's an early lead while St. Patrick's toiled at the other end, quickly vanished before the first-half water break as the Sligo side finally found their range with five unanswered points. Unfortunately for the 'Joe's' they were just getting started too.
Goals from the often unplayable Padraic Clarke and Jim Davis, and points from Cathal Finneran, Pierce Kearins, David Giblin and Conor Kevaney followed by half-time. At that stage, St. Joseph's were already staring down the barrel of a comprehensive defeat, trailing 2-9 to 0-2.
Things didn't get any easier for the Kilteevan side in the second period as Pierce Kearins raised a green flag within a minute of the restart. Half-time substitute James Clarke then got in on the act when he breezed through for goal number four just three minutes later as the Joseph's' resistance wilted under constant pressure.
Bryan Dolan's point ten minutes into the second half did offer brief respite but that's where the scores dried up for the Roscommon club. Meanwhile, Patrick's were in merciless mood, picking off points and developing a 4-14 to 0-3 lead by the second water break.
Three more St. Patrick's scores from Padraic Clarke (a free), substitute Niall Connolly and Pierce Kearins polished off an impressive performance, and brought a shuddering halt to a St. Joseph's' campaign.
"It was one of the best years I've ever had with the club. It was our first time to get to a semi-final since 2003," Johnny Mannion said.
"People forget that we haven't an underage set-up or anything and what we do is driven by the players; we're the ones who get the managers and coaches in.
"Although we were well beaten, it's still a great day out for our club. To see all those people out there cheering us on, it's great to see".
As for the way forward, the St. Joseph's skipper believes more competitive football would help.
"I always thought myself that there should be a championship alongside junior championship, that could be played during the league when the Roscommon county team is out.
"If you had a championship with Kilglass, St. Michael's, St. Ronan's, St. Barry's and ourselves, and the winner of that goes on to Connacht, they know then that that's where they're going," he said.
"We won the quarter-final and we got through on that, but if you knew beforehand, you'd be more prepared I think.
"Then you'd play your normal championship against the 'B teams' of Brigid's and Pearses to keep the standard up, because you're not going to improve if you're just playing at your own level, you need to play better teams".
There's no doubt St. Joseph's encountered one of those 'better teams' last Saturday afternoon, but while the final score wasn't pretty, the Kilteevan side can rightly be proud of their efforts in 2021.


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Any moron can drive from Tucson to Phoenix in less than two hours, but the guys in Mötley Crüe are not just any morons. They're rock stars with the current Number Two album and a new, customized Lear jet, and they want to travel between these first two gigs of their Girls, Girls, Girls tour by plane. Besides, explains the trollish guitarist Mick Mars, flying is less painful than driving when hung over – a state that most of the Crüe are proudly familiar with.
Unfortunately, the jet's not ready: the CD player shorted out its electrical system, its black leather upholstery hasn't been installed, and its nose has yet to be tattooed with the new Mötley insignia – a bentover blond stripper in garters. So after driving for an hour (in the opposite direction) to the Tucson airport, the Crüe – singer Vince Neil, 26, bassist Nikki Sixx, 28, drummer Tommy Lee, 24, and Mars, allegedly 31 – amble from their limos to a cramped, suffocatingly hot five-seat chartered plane. It sits on the runway for twenty minutes before the twenty-minute flight. Thus the band saves a grand total of about twenty minutes.
Once airborne, the band wolfs down some BLTs, and the ever-chipper, ultraskinny Lee uses the butt of his lighter to open a few bottles of Corona beer. During the trip the Crüe admires the many swimming pools speckling the landscape below. Sixx, who as chief songwriter is the acknowledged brains of the outfit, announces, "I want a pool the shape of a pussy!"
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Bleached-blond Neil, toying absently with his hefty gold bracelet, looks out the window toward Phoenix and asks, "Is that smog?" Lee checks it out and replies, "It could be dust – it's the desert."
A loud beeping sound from the cockpit reminds the Crüe of flying high jinks from the band's six-year past – like the time Neil took the pilot's controls and nearly crashed into another plane, or the time the group's plane lost power and the wheels had to be manually cranked down. "We were all going, 'Oh, my fucking God, our career's over,"' Sixx says.
But Mötley Crüe doesn't die easily. Instead, in the spirit of living up to their intentionally misspelled, calculatingly umlauted name, the four highschool dropouts have continued to indulge in every conceivable rock & roll vice. Despite Sixx's addiction to heroin, Lee's marriage to Dynasty star Heather Locklear, various sexual round robins and altercations with the law, including Neil's felony conviction for killing someone while driving drunk, their career has never seemed healthier.
This summer millions of kids will buy the Band's fourth paean to the wild life, Girls, Girls, Girls ("Our three favorite pastimes," says Sixx). The Crüe's first three albums (1982's Too Fast for Love, 1983's Shout at the Devil and 1985's Theatre of Pain) have sold in the millions, simply because of the sheer force of the band's barnstorming, Vegas-like live extravaganzas. When its debut album (an independent release recorded in three days for under $20,000) was remixed and released by Elektra, only seven radio stations in the country would play it. Theatre of Pain did yield MTV hits with the ballad "Home Sweet Home" and the band's lame version of "Smokin' in the Boys Room," but the true Crüe sound remained unmined.
These days the Crüe and many of its rude and loud heavy-metal colleagues have fully invaded MTV, radio and the Billboard charts. Even new bands like Poison and Cinderella can slap on some makeup, squeeze into some studded leather, spritz their hair, bang out some fistpumping choruses and go platinum. So a previously established, well-marketed band like the Crüe, with a radio-friendly album, can easily rise to the top of the sleazy heap.
When heavy metal's practitioners discuss the appeal of their music, the phrase "the kids" is invoked almost constantly. "We play and write for the kids," Sixx says. "We've never had peer acceptance. They couldn't see past the costumes. . . . Kids don't buy Whitney Houston. People that buy one record a year buy that. In the golden age of rock it was all kids playing for kids. Now it's that again."
Though heads bang all around the world, heavy metal, in many ways, seems a peculiarly middle-American-youth phenomenon. In England the punk rebellion was fueled by lower-class anger and social unrest, but in America the average middle-class Joe can afford some form of the good life. So instead of roaming the streets, alienated youths cruise the malls, more bored than angry.
And heavy metal has caught on as a sort of Lite punk: it smells and tastes like rebellion but without that political aftertaste. Its main selling points are that adults find it unlistenable, preachers call it blasphemous, and Tipper Gore blushes reading the lyrics. Fans at Crüe concerts say they like the group because the music is hard and fast, but they also like the band's reckless hedonism, which they read about in the metal fanzines.
Steve Boles, 18, saved up his graduation money and flew with his mother and sister from Pendleton, Indiana (population 2000), all the way to Tucson just to see the first show of the Girls tour. A levelheaded, college-bound kid, he's an anomaly among Crüe fans, but he sits in the parking lot for hours just to get Tommy Lee to sign his shirt. Boles says he likes the Crüe because "they do what they want" but admits the band's image is probably just image. "I think a lot of it is showbiz. They have to act that way to make money . . . whatever it takes to be popular."
For all the anthemic raunch, horror-show makeup and well-planted whispers of Satanism, heavy metal's only discernible message is "Party hearty." The music stirs the kids up only to dump them back in the malls, as exhausted and aimless as ever.
Back in 1981, Frank Carlton Serafino Ferranno, who had begun calling himself Nikki Sixx, dropped out of the L.A. group London to start a new band called Christmas. He recruited drummer Tommy Lee (bass) from Suite 19, another area band. Soon after, they came across an ad announcing, Loud, Rude, Aggressive Guitarist Available. Thus they found Bob Deal, then hit it off immediately upon discovering that they used the same blue-black Nice'N Easy hair dye. "We didn't even have to hear him play," says Lee in the band's biography. "We went, 'This is the guy – he's disgusting."' Deal changed his name to Mick Mars and suggested the group's inspired moniker. After dismissing the first lead vocalist, they lured Vince Neil (Wharton) away from a Cheap Trick cover group called Rock Candy. No matter that Neil didn't have the greatest voice in the world – he had all the right moves. Since then, the band has consumed more than 750 bottles of Jack Daniel's in its quest for musical excellence.
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In 1983, Sixx told a reporter, "We could just fall apart tomorrow or go straight to the top, because we're such extremists as personalities. It's like riding a roller coaster twenty-four hours a day. Every time you turn around, somebody's in jail or 100,000 kids are buying our album."
True enough. For instance, last summer Vince Neil, after being allowed to finish the Theatre of Pain tour, spent twenty days in the clink for vehicular manslaughter for a December 1984 DUI accident that killed Nicholas Dingley, the drummer for the group Hanoi Rocks, and severely injured two others. Neil has paid $2.6 million in settlement to the injured parties, played benefit concerts and served 200 hours of community service. He is still on probation; the liner notes on the last Mötley album warned fans, "If and/or when you drink – don't take the wheel. Live and learn – so we can all fuckin' rock our asses off together for a long, long time to come."
Asked what their new album is about, Neil says, "We don't write songs to be messages . . . When I was younger, even now, I don't listen to the words. If I like the melody, I like the song." Sixx says, "I don't understand U2's music. It's too serious. They bum me out. I think music's an escape . . . I'm not a parent. I don't want to tell kids what to do."
Occasionally, the Crüe does make a suggestion: the liner notes on Theatre of Pain asked fans to send in pictures – "you know what kind we like" – and the band received 4000 Polaroids of young body parts.
"I've always thought of us as the psychiatrists of rock & roll," says Sixx, "because the kids come to see us, get all this anxiety and pent-up aggression out. That hour and a half is theirs. No one can take it away. No parent can tell them to turn it down."
To fully appreciate what goes into that cathartic ninety minutes, just stand next to Paul Dexter at the back of the floor during a Mötley show. His leg thumping with the beat, the blond, bleary-eyed Dexter calls cues through a headset while he and two assistants finger computerized controls for 1600 lights, which are mounted on mobile grids, and smoke, fire and sparklers during the sixteensong set.
The playlist never varies – the $1.5 million production is too technically complex to allow for improvisation. Everything is planned, right down to Neil's introductory raps, which Sixx has written in Magic Marker on sheets of legal paper taped to the stage. (For the song "Red Hot," the rap goes like this: "You know, there's nothing like a nice, cold . . . blonde! Or brunette! But what I really like are redheads . . .")
When the Crüe was starting out at L.A. clubs like the Starwood, the members would light their pants on fire and chain-saw the heads off mannequins. But Sixx, like his audience, has a TV-bred attention span; last tour, after reading something somewhere about commedia dell'arte, he concocted a stage set that resembled a theater, and the band wore heavy makeup and glittery silks. This time out, the makeup is gone, and the high concept is concert hall as strip club. (The Top Twenty title song and its slick video depict the boys cruising on their Harleys from club to club, ogling and groping at the hot dancers.)
The Girls show kicks off with old stripper music. Ceiling-high red curtains drop to the floor like garments, revealing a bare, smoky red stage. Pneumatic lifts raise first one, then two, then three levels of amps. Lee begins his stick-shattering pounding as his drum set emerges out of the ground in a forklifted cage. Originally, the rest of the band had planned to emerge from between a giant woman's legs. Instead, they hit the stage running. Neil grabs his cordless mike, mike stand and all, and tears around screeching "All in the Name of . . .," which, like most Crüe tunes, has a catchy riff and a much-repeated refrain:
She's only fifteen – she's the reason, the reason I can't sleep
You say illegal – I say legal's never been my scene
I try like hell but I'm out of control
All in the name of rock'n' roll –
for sex and sex I'd sell my soul.
Most of Mötley Crüe's lyrics deal with the band, its milieu, desires and exploits. For Neil, the Girls album "is all based on going out with your buddies and having a good time, going to strip clubs and stuff."
During each song in the concert, the dazzling light array swivels and shifts like Spielberg's grandest special effects; flash pots explode in sync with the music, and lithe, blond Emi Canyn and Donna McDaniel (the Nasty Habits) rise out of the ground to shimmy and sing backup.
But the set's truly awe-inspiring peak comes when Lee's drum-set cage rises high above the stage. In the midst of a solo he stops and announces, "I had a fucking dream. I wanted to play the fucking drums upside down." Then, while he plays, the cage tilts forty-five degrees to the left, then to the right, then face down ninety degrees, and finally it flips him head over heels in two complete circles. "See?" the barechested, strapped-in Lee cries when it finally rights itself. "Dreams do come true."
"We try to go overboard with the stage show," says Vince Neil, tanning by the pool at the Sheraton El Conquistador, near Tucson, "so the kids get their money's worth. I'd be bummed if I went to a concert and they just stood there and played. That's not my idea of show business." Just to make sure his voice won't give out, Neil gets a steroid shot before performances. One-fourth Mexican, he was born in Hollywood, California, and cut high school in suburban Covina to go surfing. He still calls everyone "dude" and skateboards backstage.
Of all the Crüe, he's the one most caught up with living the image of a rock star. In the band's home video Uncensored, released last year, he's seen cruising L.A. in a tub in the back of a limo, drinking champagne with a set of breast-flashing women, explaining, "This is why I'm in this business." Before every concert he kisses dressing-room posters of models like Paulina Porizkova and Carol Alt for good luck.
To be interviewed, he has to be pried from chatting up two leggy models who are staying in the room next door. He marvels that even though the models had spent the entire previous night hanging out in his room, they didn't tear off his clothes. "It's okay," he says with a gleeful laugh. "Laying the foundation before you build the skyscraper!"
Neil, who says he's currently dating a "beach bunny," divorced his wife around the time he went to jail last year. The marriage had never been publicly acknowledged because Sixx had wanted the band to appear to have no attachments. In other words, to maintain their image, the members of the Crüe have the opposite of Gary Hart's problem. "I think Hart would've made a great president," Neil says. "I mean, we could've played at the White House!" But he adds that Hart "lied." "A president, to me, is Abe Lincoln, George Washington – not some guy who's boning some chick."
Neil has had problems of his own since his Ford Pantera rammed into a Volkswagen on the way home from a beer run. "After the accident, I wouldn't even leave the house. I was afraid to." He entered a hospital and underwent therapy for a month. The terms of his probation include speaking to community groups and staying off booze. Neil does his best, asking for Evian when his cohorts chug Jack Daniel's. But it's obviously a strain, especially when, every show, he brings a bottle of Jack onstage so Sixx can take a chug. Neil still drinks beer and margaritas without too much peer pressure. A counselor will be popping in on various tour stops to help him.
"I fucked up," Neil says of the accident. "I've always wanted to go out and have a good time, loved fast cars, loved to get drunk. I just fucked up. So ever since, I've tried to say, 'Learn by my mistake. Don't make the same mistake yourself."' He claims that he doesn't feel a twinge when belting out, "Have a drink on the boys, we'll entertain you in style," in the song "Bad Boy Boogie." "I used to, but not anymore. You can't dwell on things the rest of your life." (Still, the band no longer performs "Knock 'Em Dead, Kid.")
If the Crüe hadn't happened, Neil says, "I would be one of those guys in Hawaii that rents you jet skis." When sixty, "I want to be like Jerry Buss, the guy that owns the Lakers. That guy's happening. He's like sixty-five, and he's always got a beautiful nineteen-year-old on his arm. He sits in his mansion, has a good time."
A kid comes up to Neil and asks him, "Will you sign an autograph for my friend Daniel?"
"Sure," Neil says good-naturedly, taking the pen. "How do you spell Daniel?"
"Three, come in three, is seven up yet?" security chief Fred Saunders says into his walkie-talkie.
"That's a suppository, over," comes the reply.
Three is Mötley's cheerful tour manager, Rich Fisher; Seven, Mick Mars. This is the tenor of the nearly constant walkie-talkie chatter of the Crüe's road crew. Saunders (Four), who used to hang with Hell's Angels, devised the number system partly so outsiders couldn't eavesdrop and partly because it sounds cool.
Forty-one is the dressing room; 129, the gig location; 268, the bus; 101, the hotel; 100, "krell" (cocaine); 714, a bimbo; and 747, a "pig with lipstick" (fat girl). Saunders can also perfectly duplicate each Crüe member's signature and often signs their eight-by-ten glossies. "I don't like doing them, but there's such a demand," the muscular, bearded Saunders says apologetically. "At least they're not hand stamped."
It's midday in the blazing Arizona heat, and Seven is nursing a hangover ("My brains are oatmeal," he confesses) in his room, curtains drawn, watching an episode of Kung Fu on TV. Mick Mars, the least social of the Crüe, looks like Paul Williams wearing an Addams Family wig. Born in Indiana, the son of a factory foreman, Mick moved to California when he was eight. He changed his name, he says, because "the initials were B.A.D., and it was bad luck for me." Twice divorced, he says he's "real picky" about girls. "There's too much disease going around."
Mars is the band's cutup, the one most likely to scream unexpectedly or talk about muffs and woodies. He calls Jack Daniel's "mouthwash." But he admits he drinks for confidence: "It's weird to get out onstage and be real animated. I feel awkward."
His hobbies are "fucking around" in his Corvette and dabbling in his eight-track home studio. Though he can quote extensively from Penthouse's "Forum," he admits, "I'm not too big on reading."
Does he picture still being Mötley ten years from now? "Yeah, at least putting out albums, getting together, goofing around, if only for – what's that word? – nostalgia's sake."
It's the afternoon before the first concert of the new tour, and Tommy Lee is taping public-service announcements for a local Tucson TV station. He seems uptight; whenever the camera's off, he lights up another cigarette. He glances at a script for a drinking and driving spot. "I got a good one for this," Lee says. "Can I mention that I've had a couple of 502s?" He's told that Arizonans won't know what that means.
"DUI," he explains helpfully. On one take, he says, "Do me and yourself a favor, man. If you're going to drink and drive . . . oh, shit."
Lee later says he didn't "dig" doing the P.S.A.: "I didn't have an accident, and I didn't check into a hospital. I know when to say, 'No, that's enough.' I guess it's a good thing for kids who are in trouble all the time, but if they don't listen to their parents and friends, they're gonna listen to me? I'm not a preacher, man. I just play drums."
Tommy "T-Bone" Lee is the youngest, most gungho and instantly likable Crüe member. Born in Athens, Greece (his mother is Greek, and his father was in the armed services), he soon moved to California, where he went to Neil's high school but only attended three classes: music, coed volleyball and graphic arts, in which he'd print up Aerosmith T-shirts. Since both parents worked, he'd go back home and whack his drums until three o'clock, then leave before his mother arrived and return as if he'd just got home from school. "The first president of the United States really didn't matter to me. I don't give a shit. I wasn't around then. I don't need that upstairs." He was only seventeen when the band formed.
Lee has the most "tats" (tattoos) of anyone in the band – no small accomplishment – including a phoenix over his entire right thigh and a rose with the name Heather on his left forearm. He met Dynasty star Heather Locklear at an REO Speedwagon concert. He took her hand and said, "Hi, I'm Tommy, nice to touch you." He got her phone number from his accountant's brother, a dentist who knew Locklear's dentist. But the first time he called her up, he almost blew it. He told her, "Hey, check it out, you're on channel 2." A minute later she was back saying that the person on channel 2 was Heather Thomas of The Fall Guy. "I was confused," Tommy says, "as to which Heather I'd actually be going out with." That obstacle was soon overcome, and they married May 10th, 1986.
Marriage is "great, it's very cool," says the man who admits he used to "fuck anything with a pulse." "If I wasn't married, I'd probably be dead, the partying and stuff."
Even now that he's a family man, Lee has no problems with the image of women that the band projects. "It never enters my mind. I really don't think about anything, I just do it."
No one in Mötley Crüe is wearing underpants, so before sliding into his leather stage pants for a photo shoot, Nikki Sixx wipes his rear with a towel, which he then tosses at his band mates, who flee in all directions. "We're on tour again!" cries Vince Neil.
The band members take turns pumping a twenty-pound barbell before doing a bare-armed pose. Sixx, who has been working out regularly, throws a minitantrum when he sees how chubby his arm photographs in the preliminary Polaroids. He sits while having ice packs applied to hide bags under his eyes and regards the bare-chested, six-foot-four-inch Lee and his pancake-flat tummy. "If I could just lose this shit here," he says, tugging at his midriff. "I want to go onstage without a shirt on. I want to be in top form. When I'm thirty, I want to be like Jagger, at my peak. I don't want to fade. I want to be getting better, like that Clairol commercial. Is that corny?"
Sixx, the most reflective member of the band, was born in San Jose, California. His mother left his Sicilian father for a musician in Frank Sinatra's band, with which she sang backup, and young Sixx grew up, mostly with his grandparents, in Idaho, New Mexico and Seattle. A loner who read adventure books and dreamed of being a gunslinger, he stole car radios and listened to Deep Purple and T. Rex. He got his first guitar by bringing an empty case to a music store, asking for a job application and sticking a guitar in when the manager's back was turned.
His grandmother's death last July inspired the ninety-second orchestrated snippet on Girls, Girls, Girls called "Nona," which repeats one line over and over: "I'm outta my head without you." Her death, a source says, also helped snatch him from a severe heroin addiction that had started after the Theatre of Pain tour (which ended in March 1986). Sixx had grown so reclusive and dependent that he couldn't bring himself to go to her funeral.
"I was strung out bad for over a year," he says quietly. "I'd just bought a new house, and it turned into the Hollywood rock & roll headquarters. It was like 'Here, snort this. Here, shoot this. Here, drink this. Hey, fuck her.'
"No one can pull me out of anything once I start, I do what I want. I was probably trying to see how close I could get. 'Is Nikki Sixx human? Can I die?"' He spent seven days in a drug-rehabilitation clinic, alongside other sports and entertainment figures, and eventually quit. The same counselor checking up on Neil also keeps an eye on Sixx.
"Heroin is the most dangerous drug," says Sixx. "It's like heaven, you know? People wouldn't do it if it weren't. And quitting hurts. But I opted for pain and to have success as a songwriter – to achieve these goals, rather than being a drugged-out rock star. Half the kids in L.A. are on junk. It's so fashionable, it scares the fuck out of me."
Suddenly, he backs off. "I don't want to sound like a parent." One result of his addiction is the new album's song "Dancing on Glass," which declares, "I've been thru hell/And I'm never goin' back/To Dancing on Glass."
"I'm not mellowing out," he says. "I'm just street smart about it." Mellowing out would kill the Mötley image, but how long can it continue? Sixx now lives surrounded by antiques in a spotless house ("There's something warm about old things"), and his impending marriage to Vanity seems to have dampened his self-destruct fuse. "We've kind of tamed each other," says the sultry singer-actress backstage at the Tucson show. "At home, Nikki's such a farm boy! He wears granny glasses. He doesn't drink Jack at home at all. Just some wine. You don't need booze and drugs when you're in love."
To prove her point, she grabs him from behind and grinds against him. "This is his favorite thing in the world," she chirps.
Nikki had a crush on Vanity for four years and finally contacted her through her management. She fell for him in seven hours and asked him to marry her in three weeks. Why? "The way he looked at me. He looked like he'd been adoring me forever." They plan to marry in December. Interestingly, Vanity's name will then be Vanity Sixx, a misspelling of her former group's name.
But Nikki's not worried that marriage will end his sex appeal. "I have more to offer than being a bachelor. I'm a writer." He has dreams of directing videos, writing screenplays and publishing a book of rock-lyric-like poetry. He wants to call it Shades, because he feels each of his songs expresses a certain color. He sees the new album as "golds, silvers, reds, greens, twinkling lights." He hopes that by grouping together his more sensitive writings and labeling them with specific colors, "kids can get into it, it won't be wimpy."
Nobody could accuse him of wimpiness on his new song, "You're All I Need," written from the point of view of a kid who has just killed his girlfriend to keep her from dating anyone else. It's the closest thing he's ever written to a love song, and he defends it as simply "mirroring" society. It seems time to ask what he thinks of that society, the society that rewards Mötley Crüe's vices while exiling Gary Hart for his. Sixx seems puzzled by the question. "Who's Gary Hart?"
It's 5:00 P.M. the day before the show in Phoenix, and Sixx is poolside, drinking a Bloody Mary and eating a platter of shrimp. A proud mother brings over her four-year-old son, Tommy, to meet him. "He knows all your music," she says.
"Hi, Tommy!" says Nikki, shaking his tiny hand. "What do you wanna be when you grow up?" Tommy, shied into muteness, shrugs. "A rock star?" He nods.
Sixx is ecstatic. "You don't want to be a fireman or the president?" Tommy shakes his head no. "Why's that, so you can get all the girls?" Tommy Grins.
"You can do whatever you want," says Sixx, clearly happy to be preaching his main message to such a ready convert. "Go jump in the pool with all your clothes on!"
Tommy hesitates, frowning slightly. He looks at the pool, then at his mother, then at Sixx. "Go for it!" Sixx urges.
Tommy's mother's smile tightens. "That's too deep for you," she says and grabs his arm, leading him off.
"I love kids," Sixx says fondly, as he watches them walk away.
This story is from the August 13th, 1987 issue of Rolling Stone.
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The Wilkinson House in Orinda was built for the family in 1955 and for the first time ever, it is now on the market! This is an AIA award-winning stunner, designed by local architectural wunderkind Roger Lee, contemporary to Eichler architects like Anshen & Allen and Claude Oakland.
Roger Lee was a native Californian of Chinese decent born in Oakland in 1920 who died in Hawaii at the age of 61, where he also served during World War II as an assistant engineer with the US Engineers office in Honolulu. A graduate of Cal Berkeley, Lee opened his firm in 1949 and quickly became one of the leading modern architects of his time along with other iconic figures such as Neutra and Wurster. Lee designed just over 100 custom homes, mostly in Northern California and was known as an architect who "designed high style for the middle class". Lee's homes were critically acclaimed immediately by his peers and he received the Award of Merit by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1949 for his own residence in Berkeley, and honored again in 1956 by the AIA's "Homes for Better Living Program" for 440 Camino Sobrante in Orinda, aka The Wilkinson House.
Irene Wilkinson with Roger Lee and his wife
Lee was very hands on with his creations and paid incredible attention to detail in not only the design but the location of the property in order for his homes to work harmoniously with nature to bring the outdoors in. Roger Lee and his wife were personal friends of the Wilkinsons and met Irene and Bill while attending Cal and remained in contact until Lee's passing in 1981. Roger Lee was personally involved and worked together with the Wilkinsons on every aspect of the property, which is why his homes are some of the most unique, and coveted mid-century modern properties available.
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Sam Ward, director of commissioned services for Royal Voluntary Service, said: "With results showing two-fifths of patients may not see a visitor during their hospital stay, it is clear that more is needed to be done to support them.
"Volunteers offer a professional support service, encouraging mental stimulation, physical activity, and can play a significant role in both mental and physical recovery.
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"It is vital that hospitals work together with volunteer service providers to make sure that patients across the country are able to access this support."
Susan Webster, a senior charge nurse at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, said: "Volunteers make a real difference to the ward and we are lucky to have such a dedicated volunteer team.
"They provide company for the patients, some of whom don't get any visitors and can be left feeling isolated.
"You can't put a price on the value of that social interaction, especially for our older patients."
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It's STILL Elementary examines the incredible impact of the groundbreaking original documentary, It's Elementary - Talking About Gay Issues in School. It's a great case study of how documentary filmmaking coupled with a robust...
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Bono has weighed into the filesharing debate on the side of the major labels, in an editorial marking the beginning of a new decade in the New York Times. The musician lists 10 things he'd like to see in the 2010s, including a desire for the internet to be more heavily policed for copyright infringement.
The Irish rocker said: "A decade's worth of music file-sharing and swiping has made clear that the people it hurts are the creators — in this case, the young, fledgling songwriters who can't live off ticket and T-shirt sales like the least sympathetic among us".
As with Lars Ulrich of Metallica and Lily Allen's similar outbursts, fans have reacted angrily. One fan on the U2 Interference forums said: "what Bono and (U2 Manager, Patrick) McGuinness are calling for feels more like a desperate attempt by the record labels to preserve their old and dying business model rather than coming up with a new model to fit the current climate".
In Britain, plans for monitoring systems will see £25 added to every broadband bill in the country - something which is vigorously opposed by many sectors of industry, including ISPs, musicians, and even MI5.
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A touching tribute to an Attleboro High School student who died on vacation with his family last week. The community coming together at tonight's football game.
What would normally be an exciting night at Attleboro High School, the first football game of the year, was somber as the community remembered Nick Vero, the senior who died last week.
The football stadium falling silent as hundreds take a moment to remember Vero. The principal paying tribute before kickoff.
"He embodied the idea of one Attleboro as he made friends easily with people of all endeavors," says Principal Bill Runey.
Displayed on the field tonight, a sign reading "always in our hearts." Vero, on everyone's minds.
"He was a hard worker, dedicated to anything he did. It's been tough but at the same time I know he would want us to be tough as a community and as a school," says Chris Reynolds, a senior at AHS.
Vero was set to start his senior year this week but died tragically on a family vacation in North Carolina while swimming in rough surf.
"Typically the first full week of school, first football game there's a lot of excitement, a lot of enthusiasm and understandably Nick was such a big loss for us that it's been somber. It's been supportive but its been a somber environment," says Runey.
Vero's family among the crowd, the community support helping them as they grieve.
"It really shows how strong the community is and how supportive they've been for us in the circumstance. It has been great, it's taken our mind off of it because otherwise we'd be at home curled up in a ball," says Alicia Cabral, Vero's aunt.
Counselors have been available for students this week. One of Vero's track teammates made black, white and blue ribbons for students to wear in his honor.
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