By the time a "best practice" is best, it's mainstream ... common. A cold email best practice is most often a "worst practice" in the realm of sales outreach. Starting conversations with decision-makers using LinkedIn InMail, or standard email, requires breaking away from the usual cold email best practices.
Sending cold email messages, and follow-ups, using sequences or campaigns is working less-and-less. Mostly because of a widely-accepted best practice: adding value to cold email messages.
What?! I thought everyone knows—earning response means adding value to email messages when prospecting.
Today, I'll challenge this cold email best practice. I'm basing the challenge less on opinion, more on experience.
Offering value—without having earned the chance to provide it—is failing most sellers. Beware.
"Here's the problem with emails today, they lack value," says Jim Keenan of A Sales Guy Inc.
"If you don't think an email needs to offer value, then you are most likely one of the perpetrators of horrific emails. Emails have to offer value," he says.
However, our clients, our sales team and I myself are living proof: Cold emails not offering value do earn response.
Likewise when prospecting, most sales reps believe email messages need to be seen as credible by prospects. Not always true either. Trying to add value, and be seen as credible, can sabotage success.
That said, Keenan makes a compelling argument for what many believe is the No. 1, golden cold email best practice.
Your email, he says, must offer value, "Because you're asking for something." A meeting.
"I'm regularly bombarded with horrific emails, almost always asking for 15 or 30 minutes of my time, these emails offer nothing of value to me and just end up cluttering my inbox. I delete them as fast as I can," says Keenan.
But what if your cold email didn't strive to prove value—at all? What if you also skipped asking for a meeting?
Increasingly, clients are opening emails based on curiosity about what's inside the email—not anticipation of value they'll receive. Likewise, compelling a customer to take your meeting without having established a need to is an outdated cold email best practice.
Want a meeting with your decision-maker? Stop requesting them. Instead, start provoking discussions, piquing curiosity.
Stop trying to give-give-give, add value and clearly present offers. Start trying to quickly provoke. Be un-clear.
"The offer is what you are offering or giving the reader. Yes! I said giving. If you're not offering the reader anything, why should they open it, read it, respond or even agree to what you're asking for?" asks Keenan.
Because they're curious. They've been provoked. Not because you offered clear, compelling value. This is sales, not marketing.
My colleagues and students are earning more meetings by not asking for them; instead, provoking curiosity about an issue, idea or claim which may lead to (justify) customers' desire to meet.
Yet Keenan makes the argument we hear so often.
In a marketing context, yes. Sales is different.
When sales people try to earn meetings by providing value, and proving themselves credible, they often fail. My opinion? Sure. But this is also my experience.
In a cold email context customers aren't asking for your value. They're not sitting around waiting for value to arrive from a stranger. You can offer value on the first touch... and then again, and again in a follow-up sequence.
But you're just pushing value at people—hoping they'll find your words valuable enough to respond. Clients aren't triggered by sellers pushing "just enough" unsolicited value at them.
This helps your message stand out from the pack. It's unusual in how it breaks the typical cold email best practice (pushing value) pattern.
Adding value doesn't work anymore … logically and in our collective experiences. Instead, what if you could earn better response to cold email messages by not asking for a meeting?
What if your message contained no "asks." What if your email's goal was purely to provoke curiosity—rather than earn a meeting?
Make your cold email "smartphone short." Do homework on the prospect. Research them. Make it obvious this is not another templated piece of spam. Avoid persuading. Avoid posturing for credibility. Care a little less.
Increasingly, clients are opening emails based on curiosity about what's inside the email—not anticipation of value they'll receive. Likewise, prospects are replying to cold messages based on curiosity, not value received in the message, nor anticipating value in a meeting.


Wow, this is the life.
bought them and then planted them out alongside our Summer Jasmine.
I've added two more photography sites onto my side-bar as you'll see.
two to start up ... well worth the wait, I think.
as a mild deterrent to stop people pinching my pics for their sites.
Garamond Lucida Bright Italic as the font, by the way.
We spent last weekend in London, staying with L, J and Mini.
conserve fuel, but added 15 mins or so onto journey each way.
with some repair work (including a replacement ball joint).
year -- we'll scrap it in a year's time as it's rusting badly.
The car is an old Peugeot 306.
quite good for an old lady.
have not received an apology or a refund of our money.
Director, whose name I found on the internet.
all the clutter in this house?
as I'm allergic to rubber.
up like Batman).... or I'd be lathering on the skin creams afterwards.
always be a market for them, as there is for condoms and for coffins.
right hand glove at some stage when washing up, being right-handed.
thick material but flexible enough for ambidextrous use?
there is some logic behind my keeping all these gloves.
... yes, you've guessed it ... she's left handed.
I'll post just three more.
The first is a lovely view of the river, from Charles Bridge.
Old Square – very popular with tourists.
part in the assassination of the SS leader Reinhard Heydrich in 1942.
cleansing Europe of 11 million Jews and large numbers of dissidents.
sitting by himself, in tears.
a lovely song she wrote for the Faithless Outrospective album.
Here is a glimpse of the wonderful Faithless playing ... God is a DJ.
Zoe is my neice, by the way.
from the main city across the River Vltava along to the Castle.
Prague. He's the guy in the blue shirt.
around the old square in the centre of Prague.
Just walk on a bit further, and lots more lovely stuff to see.
I can find my rose-tinted glasses.
(click on any photo to see a larger version).
.... mmm ...this looks interesting, especially the comedy on this evening.
to dry out, before I paint over it.
have both gone outside for a bit of catty fun.
the house on my own.
been snacking rather than preparing and eating a proper meal for one.
(which I did at lunchtime).
suggesting we go out for a pint somewhere.
evening to meet up with other people. Sad, isn't it?
music. I've always been impressed with the quality of their playing.
*except for their brilliant conductor, Pavel.
indicates that it's safe to undo them?
we needed the exercise, as we were sitting around most of the day.
Leopoldinum Hall, and the Racławice Panorama, which is stunning.
lot of nationalist feeling and pride for the Poles.
they're used for the university's ceremonies and for concerts also.
Above: the magnificent interior of the Leopoldinum Hall..
Below: the old town hall in the city centre ..
.... there is a veggie restaurant very close to it.
the Czech Republic, with the symphony orchestra based in Leicester.
went to two of the orchestra's concerts.
their second concert, in Jablonec (near Prague).
Paris and Rome, I think.


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Chuck Liebrock played 11 years in the Canadian Football League in the 1960s and '70s, three with the Toronto Argonauts and the remainder with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Liebrock spent his entire career as an offensive right guard and occasionally played linebacker on the other side of the ball. At his peak, he was considered to be among the three best offensive guards in the CFL.
Liebrock was born on May 24, 1945 in Windsor, where he would later stand out as a high school football player. He attended Grade Nine at Forster Collegiate and his remaining years of high school at Patterson Collegiate. Under coach Al Newman, Liebrock stood out for the Patterson Panthers on both offence and defence. A punishing blocker, he was twice named First Team All-City and won the WSSAA Championship in 1962.
Liebrock attended St. Mary's University in Halifax, which he led to a second-place football finish in 1963. The following year, playing with the Windsor AKO Fratmen, he reached the Eastern Canadian Finals, losing eventually to Montreal Notre Dame.
In 1965 and '66, Liebrock attended Hillsdale College in Michigan, where he started on both sides of the ball as an offensive guard and linebacker. After standing out in a game against Northern Illinois University, he was recommended by a member of the opposition's coaching staff to Knobby Wirkowski, General Manager of the Toronto Argonauts.
The Argos took Liebrock as their first Canadian pick in the 1967 Canadian Football League entry draft, beginning for him a professional football career that would last until '77.
Liebrock played for the Toronto during the 1967, '68, and '69 seasons before moving to Winnipeg, where he would play out the rest of his career.
Although Liebrock never reached the Grey Cup Game, he was an Eastern Conference finalist with Toronto and 1968 and '69, and he reached the Western finals with Winnipeg in '72.
Liebrock struggled with injuries for most of his career. In 1971, he missed nine games after suffering a broken leg. Due to chronic ankle problems, Liebrock needed to have his ankle frozen before every game between 1972 and '77.
Playing in the Western Conference, Liebrock competed against a litany of future CFL Hall of Fame players, including Edmonton's Dan Kepley and John Legrone, Calgary's Wayne Harris and John Helton, and Saskatchewan's Ed McQuarters. Playing on the right side of the offensive line, Liebrock was generally asked to block the opposing team's strongest defenders.
In 1968, Liebrock shared the Argonaut's Top Canadian Award with Dave Knetchel. He was Winnipeg's nominee for the Schenley Award, for the best Canadian player in the league, in 1972.
Following his career, Liebrock, who had always worked in sales, was a regional manager for various Winnipeg television stations. In 1985, he took a job as General Manager with Mid Canada Television (MCTV). The job saw him move to Sudbury. He still lives in the city, where he was worked as Business Manager, Northern Ontario for Petro Canada since 1990.

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This is a review of "British Daylight" recorded by British Daylight. The review was written by Jonny Mawson in 2011.
British Daylight are a relatively new band, but they are already playing headline shows at Eiger Studios, The Well and The Cockpit Room 3. Now they have a debut EP (which is up for free download at http://soundcloud.com/british-daylight/sets/british-daylight-ep/ ) and it's time to see if they live up to the hype surrounding them, well in a few words, yes, they do.
Right from the off you can tell this is a very heavily Libertines influenced affair, opening track 'Tedious' with 2 overlaying chirpy guitar lines, and simple but brilliantly fitting drumming, even quoting The Libertines "Our hero once said, don't look back into the sun." This would usually be a setup for a disastrously generic post 2004 we-wish-we-were-the-libertines band, but there is something about British Daylight that keeps you listening, and the rest of the EP makes you glad you did keep listening.
Next track 'Livin' Free' is like The Fratellis meets The Pigeon Detectives, with the energy of early Fratellis and a chord sequence reminiscent of Pigeons track 'Everybody Wants Me.' This is in my opinion the EP highlight, an incredibly catchy indie tune, nothing too complex, but that's because it doesn't need to be, it's a simple and honest little indie tune.
We then move onto 'Both Sides,' which is about as dark as this band gets. Rob Walker is another singer to carry his accent into his singing, to great effect, which makes me long for the vocals from the days of early Arctic Monkeys. The only criticism I would have for this song is that it goes on a bit too long in the same way, after the second verse it just feels quite repetitive, however there is a good indie solo which continues the Arctic Monkeys theme I mentioned from earlier.
Final track 'Stick To Your Guns' is the band's proper get up and go Dirty Pretty Things influenced track, whenever I hear this song I just want to dance, this should be played in indie discos up and down the land, and I hope that one day soon it will be.
All in all this is a very good first effort, it is clearly a raw, unpolished debut, but that is part of its charm, keep an eye out for these guys, I can see them going far.


A 3 piece suit of Prince of Wales check, a blended wool perfect for all seasons. The fabric is light brown with blue overlay of check. The jacket was half lined with khaki paisley lining and blue piping. A single breasted two button jacket with notched lapels, a single vent and slanted flapped pockets with three buttons on the cuff. Bill went for a five button waistcoat with a notched base and two pockets. The trousers were boot cut with hip adjusters, cross side pockets and single a right back pocket.
Bill Bradshaw is a local photographer based in Devon, not too far away from us in our Queen Square studio in Bristol. He came to us for his wedding suit as he wanted something that would show off his artistic side.
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We just wanted to say thank you Bill for sending us over these lovely pictures of your big day, photographed here by Ryan O'Toole.


South Whidbey Island has a number of small and quaint grocery stores as well as several medium sized grocery stores.
Full sized grocery stores such as Safeway, Haggen, and Walmart are located on the north end of the island in Oak Harbor.
Our nearest Costco on the mainland is brand new and located in Lynnwood across from the Alderwood Mall.
fun fashion, gifts, kitchen knick-knacks, and a kids' area upstairs!
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First American 'test-tube baby' celebrates 40th birthday
The first in-vitro fertilization baby born in the U.S. celebrated her 40th birthday on Tuesday.
Elizabeth Carr's first moments were caught on film by a PBS crew in the delivery room on Dec. 28, 1981 in Norfolk, Va.
"There was always media attention — so I knew I wasn't born like everyone else," Carr told the New York Post.
She said learned she was the first IVF baby when she was seven years old.
Her parents, Judith and Roger Carr, a teacher and engineer both in their 20s, were having no luck starting a family. Judy could get but not stay pregnant.
Back then, IVF had many ethical concerns and the Carr's doctor knew little about this fertility science.
They turned to married doctors Howard and Georgeanna Jones, who founded the first fertility clinic of its kind at the Eastern Virginia Medical School.
"My parents flew from Massachusetts, where IVF was illegal, to Virginia, in order to have me," Carr, who lives in Keene, N.H., said.
The East Virginia doctors combined the mother's egg with the father's sperm in a laboratory dish.
Carr says the young couple spent around $5,000 for hospital bills.
"They didn't have cycles back then. You went in and harvested whatever they could get and implanted one egg. And here I am — that was it," said Carr.
Since her birth an estimated eight million IVF babies have been born world-wide.
Within hours of Carr's birth, the National Enquirer offered her parents payment for exclusive rights to baby Elizabeth's story, along with a dozen roses.
She said they replied but only said thank you for the roses.
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Since the 1st restaurant opened its doors in 1992 Wagamama Restaurants have grown to more than 103 restaurants worldwide (70+ in the UK) serving around twelve tons of noodles each week.


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2023 Toyota Prius: How design became the priority over tech
by: John Voelcker - Green Car Reports
The 2023 Toyota Prius is the fifth generation of the world's best-known hybrid vehicle. Since it first went on sale in Japan in 1997, the Prius has epitomized high fuel efficiency and the advanced technology of hybrid-electric powertrains.
The current fourth-generation Prius arrived in 2016 and its styling and design were not well-received. But the introduction of a Prius Prime plug-in hybrid version in 2017 and an all-wheel-drive version in 2019 were seen as smart moves to broaden this efficiency icon's appeal.
The new Prius is due to arrive at dealers in January, yet Toyota's November launch of the 2023 Prius lineup omitted some key pieces of backstory on why the latest Prius ended up with such a radical exterior but evolutionary tech.
In early December, Green Car Reports sat down with Satoki Oya, chief engineer for the fifth-generation Prius, during a San Diego media drive for the car. These six points below help flesh out some of the background of the 2023 Prius:
2023 Toyota Prius XLE
(1) Goals for the 2023 Prius took time to establish
The development of the fifth-generation Prius went "according to plan," Oya told us, "and the team was able to keep on target."
But, yes, there's more to it. Asked why the outgoing generation stayed on sale for a seventh model year, Oya acknowledged it had taken time to settle on the future role of the Prius for the 2020s and beyond.
"The role of the new model was not concrete" at first, he suggested. Such a radical design for this iconic vehicle, with its great importance to the company's technology image, took time to gain approval beyond the project team itself. The goals chosen were to offer both a striking design and performance worthy of that design.
The result gives the Prius even "more importance" in the lineup, Oya said. The new model is striking in its own right, not just because it's a Prius, plus it gives better performance with the same outstanding 57-mpg fuel efficiency.
(2) Turning the design sketches into a car was a heavy lift
Toyota engineers had never done a mass-production vehicle with a design quite this radical, Oya suggested. And they had to do it while simultaneously increasing performance, reducing overall weight, and complying with more stringent future crash-test requirements.
The overall platform is an evolution of the TNGA (Toyota New Global Architecture) component set first launched on the 2016 Prius. You can think of it as TNGA-2, Oya agreed. The challenge was to use a standard architecture, due to roll into the next generation of millions of Toyotas, while retaining the striking look created by the designers.
2023 Toyota Prius Limited
(3) The windshield angle was especially challenging
The shape of the 2023 Prius is as close to a pure wedge as any generation has gotten, and a large part of that comes from its steeply raked windshield. While the outgoing model had a rake of 26.3 degrees, the new one is laid back even further, to 21.6 degrees—just half a degree from the 21.1 degrees of the exclusive, high-end Lexus LFA halo sports car. The highest point of the roof is also moved further back on the body.
To make that possible, Oya said, Toyota did a large amount of computer simulation specifically for the structure inside the steep windshield pillar (known as the A-pillar) to enable it to be fabricated out of new, higher-strength steels that made it 1.3 times as strong as the previous structure. That allowed the company to forgo hot stamping for parts of that assembly, saving energy and reducing the carbon footprint associated with manufacturing.
The company also worked with its glass supplier to create a windshield panel longer than for any previous Prius generation. While it didn't extend into the roof, as a few electric vehicles have done, it was still "tough to manufacture," Oya suggested.
(4) Underpinnings had to be redesigned to make the car 2 inches lower
To get a roofline fully two inches lower than the previous generation, Oya noted, required some rethinking about the seating positions to maintain adequate headroom.
In particular, he highlighted the need to redesign the battery pack and the gasoline tank—both under the rear seat—to be shorter in height, allowing the rear seat cushion to sit lower with the same amount of space above it.
(5) The Prius now, finally, has a conventional instrument cluster
As well as their distinctive exterior designs, largely in the service of lowering aerodynamic drag, earlier Priuses were known for unusual interiors—and digital displays centered at the base of the windshield. That's all gone now.
The 2023 Prius has a relatively conventional, rectangular digital instrument cluster centered behind the steering wheel. It contains what you might expect: a digital speedometer inside a circular power gauge ("Chg", "Eco", and "Pwr"), odometer, time, external temperature, miles until empty, and a raft of various indicators and warning lights.
While Oya didn't explicitly address the reasoning, it's clear that the Prius now shares its information cluster and infotainment controls with the rest of the Toyota lineup—making it less distinctive but, perhaps, easier to understand at a glance for drivers new to the model.
(6) The powertrain is evolutionary—but a lot more powerful
This is probably the most predictable of the points we learned from Oya: As is Toyota's wont, every component was analyzed, refined, and redesigned for continuous incremental improvement. We can't think of a Prius generation in which that hasn't been the case.
Here, the inline 4-cylinder engine of the 2023 Prius has a larger displacement—2.0 liters against 1.8 liters—and a higher compression ratio, now 14:1, up from 13:1. Still, its maximum thermal efficiency of 41% is only incrementally higher than the 40% quoted for the 2016 Prius. Similarly, the pair of motor-generators in the hybrid system output more power. The engine is rated at 150 hp, with the combined powertrain at 194 or 196 hp (for front- and all-wheel-drive versions respectively), against 96 hp for the engine and a total powertrain output of 121 hp for last year's model. That's a 60% boost, more than any previous Prius iteration.
The lithium-ion cells are a new type, jointly developed with the battery supplier. Oya declined to name that supplier, widely presumed to be Panasonic. Battery capacity is down to 0.9 kwh, versus 1.3 kwh in the previous generation.
2023 Toyota Prius Prime (Euro spec)
A Prius Prime will be coming for 2024
Inevitably, we had to end our interview with a question about the future of the Prius Prime model. Toyota has already teased specs for it, including the idea that there will be a 50% boost in plug-in electric range versus the outgoing model.
But that, said Oya and other Toyota executives in various phrasings, is a topic we are not discussing today. Expect more details within a few months.
Toyota provided airfare, lodging, and meals to enable Green Car Reports to bring you this first-person drive report.
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Back to the Garden: the 40th Anniversary of Woodst...
The Late, Great Les Paul
Folk Singer Mike Seeger Passes On
The Devil's Business: The Murder of Sharon Tate
Back to the Garden: the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock Part One
It was forty years ago today that the single, most famous musical festival of all time began. The Woodstock Music & Art Fair, more simply known as "Woodstock," featured thirty two acts, performing everything from folk music (Joan Baez) to Hindustani classical music (Ravi Shankar) to power pop (The Who) to psychedelia (Jefferson Airplane). It would become not only the best known music festival of all time, but a seminal event in the Baby Boom generation and in the annals of rock 'n' roll as well.
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair originated with four young men, the oldest of whom was only 26 in 1969. John Roberts was an heir to the Block Drug fortune (the company that originally made Poli-Grip). Joel Rosenman was a young graduate from Yale. The two had met in 1966 and swiftly became friends. Sharing an apartment in New York City, they became business partners with the goal of becoming venture capitalists. It was in March 1968 that they took an ad out in the Wall Street Journal that read, "Young Men With Unlimited Capital looking for interesting, legitimate investment opportunities and business propositions." It was this ad that attracted the attention of another pair of young men: Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang.
Artie Kornfield had been signed to a recording contract when he was only 16, and had gone onto write such songs as "Dead Man's Curve" by Jan and Dean, "The Pied Piper" by The Changin' Times (of which Kornfield was a member--the song was later covered by Crispian St. Peters), and "The Rain, the Park and Other Things" by The Cowsills, among others. When he was only 21 he became the youngest vice president at Capitol Records. He met Michael Lang in 1968 when Lang was managing the band Train. Among his achievements, Lang had co-produced the Miami Pop Festival in 1968 with Mel Lawrence. Kornfield and Lang decided to establish a state of the art recording studio near the small town of Woodstock, New York, an area where such artists as Bob Dylan, The Band, Jimi Hendrix, and Van Morrison lived. There is some disagreement as to who actually developed the idea for a music festival. Roberts and Rosenman insist that Kornfield and Lang simply wanted a party as publicity for heir proposed studio. Lang and Kornfield insist Woodstock was always planned as a music festival. Either way, they eventually planned a rock concert for around 50,000 people. It was in March 1968 that they formed Woodstock Ventures, in which each held 25%.
Of course, holding a music festival meant also finding somewhere to hold it. As the name of the festival, the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, indicates, it was originally going to be held in the unincorporated village of Woodstock, New York. Despite a long history as an art colony and having been home to musicians ranging from jazz legend Thelonious Monk to Bob Dylan, Woodstock was heavily resistant to the idea of a music festival taking place there. Others sites were considered, with the 300 acre Mills Industrial Park in Walkill, New York being chosen. Its advantages were that it already had access to electricity and water. It was also zoned for concerts and cultural exhibitions, in addition to industry. The Walkill City Council gave their approval to holding a music festival there. Michael Lang was none too happy with the site, and continued to look elsewhere. There were also those in the Walkill City Council who were none too happy with the idea of 50,000 people descending upon their town.
In the meantime Woodstock Ventures set about publicising the music festival. They developed the slogan "Three Days of Peace and Music." Artist Arnold Skolnick developed the famous Woodstock image of a dove sitting on a guitar. By April 1968 ads were running in such publications as Rolling Stone and The Village Voice. By May ads were running in the more mainstream press, including The New York Times and The Times Herald-Record.
Central to Woodstock's success would be the performers. Woodstock Ventures then began seeking out the biggest performers in rock music. Many acts declined to play at Woodstock. The Doors cancelled at the last moment, perhaps due to Jim Morrison's dislike for performing big, outdoors concerts. Led Zeppelin declined, as their manager Peter Grant figured they would be viewed simply as another band on the bill. The Byrds declined as they thought that Woodstock would be no different from other music festivals (they later regretted their decision). Bob Dylan's son fell ill, so he was not able to perform. The Moody Blues decided to play in Paris instead.
Fortunately for Woodstock Ventures, they were finally able to attract big name performers, but only for what would then be considered large amounts of money. The first big act they signed was Jefferson Airplane, for the then unheard of amount of $12,000. The Who signed for $12,500. Credence Clearwater Revival signed for $11,500. In the end Woodstock Ventures spent $180,000 on performers.
While Woodstock Ventures now had several big acts lined up, it soon developed that they were in danger of losing their site for the music festival. After the ads for the festival had appeared in The New York Times and The Times Herald-Record, it became apparent to the residents of Wallkill that the Woodstock Music & Art Fair was going to be a very large, rock festival. This did not sit at all well with the small, rural town. To satisfy the locals, Woodstock Ventures had to hire Wes Pomeroy, formerly with the Department of Justice, to head security, as well as a minister, Reverand Donald Ganoung, to help with the townspeople.
Naturally, Woodstock Ventures wanted a movie made of the festival. They had some difficulty interesting the major studios in such a project. In 1968 the film Monterey Pop, made about the music festival of the same name, had bombed at the box office. Fortunately, Artie Kornfield was finally able to interest Warner Brothers executive Fred Weintraub, who gave Kornfield $100,000 to make the film. Michael Wadleigh, a cinematographer on indie films, was set to direct the documentary.
While Woodstock Ventures already had the performers in place, arrangements for the sound system made, and plans for the documentary film in place, the town of Wallkill became increasingly hostile to the idea of the festival. From the beginning, residents had complained about the festival to Howard Mills, owner of the Mills Industrial Park. Eventually, he began getting threatening calls (sadly, the culprits were never caught). It was on July, 15, 1969 that the Wallkill Zoning Board of Appeals put an end to Woodstock being held at the Mills Industrial Park. It seemed that two weeks earlier the Wallkill city council had passed a law forbidding any gathering of more than 5,000 people. The city denied that the ordnance was meant to kill the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
With only weeks to go before the Woodstock Music & Art Fair was scheduled, Woodstock Ventures had to find another site fast. Fortunately, they found one in the form of Max Yasgur's dairy farm near Bethel, New York. Max Yasgur was the last person many would expect to be associated with the counterculture. He was a hard working, honest man who was nearly fifty years old. It was perhaps because of his integrity that he saw what the people of Wallkill had done to Woodstock Ventures as an injustice. Although initially hesitant, he offered a cleared alfalfa field for the festival's use. He was paid $75,000 for the use of his field. Ultimately, Woodstock Ventures would have to pay another $25,000 for the use of land surrounding that of Yasgur.
As might be expected, there was resistance from the city of Bethel, despite Max Yasgur's reputation in the community. Many in Bethel shared the same fears that the people of Wallkill had. A petition circulated around the town against the festival received over 800 signatures. Allegedly, one prominent resident of Bethel even tried to solicit a bribe from Woodstock Ventures to see that the festival took place. It was at this point that Max Yasgur became more than the festival's landlord; he became its champion. Despite threats of boycotts of his milk products, Yasgur fought to insure the Woodstock Music & Art Fair would take place. He quieted the fears of those Bethel residents he could and ignored the rest. Eventually his respect for the people behind Woodstock became such that he appeared before the gathered festival goers himself with the opening words, "I am a farmer...," making his now famous speech in which he hailed the festival as a triumph. In the end, Max Yasgur, the hard working farmer from Sullivan County, had become a champion of the counterculture.
While there were those in Bethel, New York who were opposed to the festival, this was hardly true of the entire town. Then President of the Bethel Businessman's Association, Ken Van Loan thought the Woodstock Music & Art Fair could provide a much needed boost to the local economy. In fact, the Bethel Businessman's Association voted on July 28, 1969 to support the festival. While there were those who opposed the festival, it seems that the town of Bethel, New York was altogether much more receptive to the idea than Wallkill had been.
Regardless of how the town of Bethel, New York felt, by August the Woodstock Art & Music Fair had become inevitable. At that point even it seemed that even its promoters could not stop it. In fact, it seems likely that even the promoters were not prepared for what ultimately unfolded. While two weeks before the festival 180,000 tickets had already been sold, it seemed that many, many more people would be in attendance. Cars began arriving at the site of Woodstock as early as August 12. By Thursday afternoon, there were 25,000 people there. And more were coming. A full 24 hours before the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was set to begin, a traffic jam had developed on Route 17B leading to the site. At times the traffic jam extended as far as twenty miles. Many simply abandoned their cars. The traffic jam prevented a few people who had wanted to attend the festival from doing so. It also made it very difficult for anyone to get out of Bethel, New York.
The traffic jam was as much of a headache for Woodstock Ventures as it was the festival goers and the residents of Bethel. In order to get both artists and much needed supplies to the site, the festival's promoters had to rely on helicopters. In fact, the traffic jam would even force a change in the Woodstock Music & Art Fair's bill. Psychedelic band Sweetwater were the first artists set to perform at the festival. Unfortunately, the traffic jam caused them to be late. Very late. Folk guitarist Richie Havens went on first instead, playing for a full three hours.
The sheer number of people attending Woodstock would also create another sort of problem. It was only on Friday morning that Michael Lang realised there were no ticket booths. While there were to be ticket booths in place, the traffic jam made it far too difficult to put them in position. Without the ticket booths in place, the Woodstock Music & Art Fair made no money whatsoever. In effect, it became the biggest free concert of all time. This was complicated by Abbie Hoffman and the Youth International Party (the "Yippies"), who had set up what they called "Movement City." There the Yippies and other left leaning groups could distribute literature and hold workshops. Among other things, Hoffman urged festival goers not to pay for tickets! Allegedly the anarchist collective Up Against the Wall Mother******* cut the fence at Woodstock to further encourage people to attend for free. As it was, the sheer number of people who attended Woodstock made it impossible for anyone to collect tickets. There were simply too many people.
Indeed, complaints about the large number of people gathered at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair even reached Governor Nelson Rockefeller. John Roberts and Joel Rosenman were even receptive to the site being declared a disaster area; such a declaration would limit the liability of Woodstock Ventures in lawsuits. In the end, it was decided that declaring Woodstock a disaster area would not be a good idea. It would mean bringing in the National Guard, opening up the possibility of armed confrontation, not something desirable only a year after the debacle of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Additional security was provided in the form of 20 Rockland County deputies mounted on horseback. Security was already being provided by Wavy Gravy and his fellow members of the Hog Farm Collective, as well as a few New York City police officers. The NYPD had warned officers that anyone taking part in the festival would be subject to censure. For that reason, nearly every NYPD officer who worked security at Woodstock did so under an assumed name.
The sheer numbers of people gathered at Woodstock would also give Sullivan County a chance to show what good people lived there. When residents of the county heard that there was not enough food at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, members of the Monticello Community Jewish Centre set to work making sandwiches, using 200 loaves of bread, 40 pounds of cold cuts, and two gallons of pickles. Not only food, but medical supplies and physicians were flown in by helicopter.
In the end, around 500,000 people would attend the Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Woodstock Ventures had only expected 200,000. With a half million people in attendance, in conditions that would be less than desirable, one would have expected catastrophic consequences. Amazingly enough, none came to pass. The Woodstock Music & Art Fair would unfold without any incidents of violence, let alone a riot.
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Les Paul, the virtuoso guitarist and technical innovator, died today at the age of 94. The cause was complications from pneumonia. Paul may have developed the first solid body, electric guitar (independently Leo Fender was working on his own solid body, electric guitar at the time).
Les Paul was born Lester William Polsfuss on June 9, 1915 in Waukesha, Wisconsin. As a child his piano teacher wrote to his mother that young Lester would never learn music. Defying his piano teacher's prediction, Paul had learned harmonica, guitar, and banjo by the time he was in his teens. In fact, Paul built his first electrically amplified guitar when he was only ten years old, by opening the back of an acoustic guitar and putting the pickup from a cannibalised Victrola inside.
He began his career playing professionally and semi-professionally as a country music guitarist at age 13. When he was 17 he was playing with Rube Tronson's Texas Cowboys. It was not long afterwards that he dropped out of school to pursue music as a career. He joined Wolverton's Radio Band on KMOX in St. Louis, before moving onto WLS and later WJJD, where he led the house band, in Chicago. It was in 1936 that Les Paul's first records released, one under his stage name of Rhubarb Red, the other as an accompanist for blues singer Georgia White. It was also in 1936 that he formed the Les Paul Trio and moved to New York City. He became a regular on Fred Waring's radio show from 1938 to 1941.
It was around 1940 or 1941 that Les Paul invented his electric guitar. It was that year that he created "The Log," a wooden board with a guitar neck, with strings and two pickups attached. It is believed to be the first solid body electric guitar, or at least one of the first solid body electric guitars. Because of its unusual appearance, Paul hid The Log within the body of a standard looking guitar.
Les Paul was draughted in 1941. He served in the Armed Forces Radio Service, where he played with such singers as Kate Smith and Rudy Vallee, among others. After leaving the service, Paul took a job at NBC Radio in Los Angeles as a staff musician. The Les Paul Trio toured with the Andrews Sisters, Nat King Cole, and Bing Crosby. It was Crosby who told Paul that he should build his own recording studio. Paul then built his own studio in his garage. It was there that Paul made some of his biggest innovations to recording. He learned that in changing the speed of a recording, he could alter the very nature of that recording. He also invented the recording technique of multi-tracking, through recording a track, then recording himself playing along with that track. He used his multi-tracking technique on the song "Lover (When You're Near Me)," on which Les Paul played every single instrument. It was the first time multi-tracking was used on a song. By the late Fifties, Paul would invent the first eight track, multitrack recorder. Les Paul also developed the technique of reverb, used to great effect by many rock artists over the years.
It was in 1947 that Les Paul partnered with Colleen Summers, a former singer with Gene Autry's band, re-naming her "Mary Ford (a name he simply got out of a phone book). The two would marry in 1949. It was in 1950 that Les Paul and Mary Ford would have their first hits, the biggest of which may have been "How High the Moon." "How High the Moon" took full advantage of Paul's multitracking techniques, with Ford's vocal double tracked so that she was essentially singing harmony with herself. It was also in 1950 that the radio show The Les Paul Show, debuted. It featured Les Paul himself, Mary Ford, and rhythm guitarist Eddie Stapleton. The radio show was recorded in the home of Les Paul and Mary Ford. A syndicated version of the show, Les Paul and Mary Ford at Home, which ran for seven years in the Fifties. It was also recorded in the home of Les Paul and Mary Ford. The two divorced in 1964.
It was in the early Fifties that Gibson Guitar Corporation asked Les Paul to design the Les Paul guitar. The first Les Paul guitars went on sale in 1952, and variants have been sold ever since. According to Gibson, the Les Paul Standard has not changed since 1958. Over the years the Les Paul guitar has been used by such artists as Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Joe Perry, and many others.
Les Paul continued to record albums throughout the years, including two albums with Chet Atkins and his final album, American Made, World Played (which included appearances by Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons, Joe Perry, Keith Richards, and Sting). He performed regularly at jazz festivals throughout the Eighties. In 1983 he started playing weekly at Fat Tuesday's, a jazz club in New York City. When Fat Tuesday's closed in 1995, he started playing weekly at Iridium. He made his last performance there in June.
An argument could be made that Les Paul was the most influential guitarist of all time. It is not simply that he was a guitar virtuoso, but that he perhaps innovated more recording techniques than any other human being in history. Besides the solid body, electric guitar, he also developed multitracking, overdubbing, multitrack tape recorders, and reverb. Because of this there is no recording artist alive who does not owe a debt of gratitude to Les Paul. That he was also an incredible guitar player made him that much more great.
Folk singer and music historian Mike Seeger passed on August 7 at the age of 75. He was the half brother of folk singer Pete Seeger. The cause was multiple myeloma.
Mike Seeger was born on August 15, 1933 in New York City. His parents were ethnomusicologist and composer Charles Seeger and his mother modernist composer Ruth Crawford Seeger. In 1936 the Seeger family moved to Washington D.C., after Charles Seeger took a position within Roosevelt's Work Progress Administration. As a child Mike Seeger was exposed to such personages as Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, John and Alan Lomax, and others. At age 18 Seeger started teaching himself various stringed instruments. At 20, like much of the Seeger family, Mike Seeger began recording songs by traditional musician on a tape recorder.
It was in 1958 that Mike Seeger founded the New Lost City Ramblers with John Cohen, and Tom Paley. The New Lost City Ramblers would be pivotal in the revival of old-time music in the United States. Alongside fellow folk group The Kingston Trio, they are also the longest running music group which still performed. Over the years they would release nearly thirty albums. Mike Seeger also recorded separately from The New Lost City Ramblers, releasing several albums on his own.
Mike Seeger was also discovered various folk musicians. Among them were Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten (best known for the song "Freight Train") and bluegrass performer Hazel Dickens, . He also persuaded old time music performer Lesley Riddle to come out of retirement in 1965. It was also in the same decade that he reunited the McGee Brothers.
Through both performing and recording the songs of traditional musicians, Mike Seeger was pivotal in the folk music revival of the late Fifties and early Sixties. He could play a number of different instruments, including guitar, fiddle, banjo, harmonica, dulcimer, mandolin, and mouth harp. He influenced several musicians, including Bob Dylan.
The summer of 1969 is a pivotal one in my childhood. It is from that summer, when I was only six years old, from which I have my first clear memories of celebrities dying. The first was Judy Garland, with whom I was familiar from The Wizard of Oz (in fact, I thought she was still only 16 years old). She died on June 22, 1969. The second was Sharon Tate.
My memories of Sharon Tate's death are much less clear than those of Judy Garland's death. In fact, I only remember that most of the adults around me were discussing the murder of an actress and several others by some cult in California. This is not to say that I was not aware of who Sharon Tate was. I was much too young to have seen any of her movies, but I did know her as secretary Janet Trego on The Beverly Hillbillies. In fact, as Janet Trego, Sharon Tate numbered among the crushes of my early childhood.
As I grew older the details of that horrible night on August 9, 1969 became clearer to me. The murders were the work of one Charles Manson and members of his commune/cult of personality known as The Family. I also learned that Sharon Tate was much more than Miss Trego on The Beverly Hillbillies, as I actually saw many of her films. When in my teens I read the book Helter Skelter, about the murders and the ensuing trial, by Vincent Bugliosi, the man who prosecuted Manson and his Family, and writer Curt Gentry. It was the most horrifying book I have ever read. Much of its imagery would haunt me for years. This was not simply due to the sheer gruesomeness of the crimes, but the fact that one of my childhood crushes, Sharon Tate, had been one of the victims.
Sadly, it is as a victim of Charles Manson for which Sharon Tate is best remembered and not her career as an actress. In 1969, while pregnant with her first child (with husband Roman Polanski), her career was only beginning. She had already appeared in major parts in films such as The Fearless Vampire Killers, Valley of the Dolls, and The Wrecking Crew. She was very much an actress whose star was on the rise.
Sharon Tate was born on January 24, 1943 in Dallas, Texas. Her father was a military officer, so her family moved frequently. By the time she was sixteen she had already lived in several different cities. While young she had an interest in psychiatry, but destiny would lead her elsewhere. It was while her father was stationed in Italy that Tate would be drawn into acting. The movie Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man was being filmed in Verona. Sharon Tate was hired as an extra on the film, on which she met actor Richard Beymer. It was Beymer who advised her to go into acting. She would also appear as an extra in the movie Barrabas.
It was in 1962 that Sharon Tate moved to Los Angeles with the intent of pursuing a career in film. She got in touch with Hal Gefsky, the agent to actor Richard Beymer. Gefsky managed to find her work in television commercials, such as those for Chevrolet and Santa Fe cigarettes. She also continued modelling, appearing in print ads. Eventually Tate was cast in the role of Billie Jo Bradley on Petticoat Junction, although she would never play the part. Martin Ransohoff, the founder and head of Filmways, Inc. (the company which not only produced Petticoat Junction, but the hit The Beverly Hillbillies as well) thought that bigger things were in Tate's future than being a regular on a sitcom. Sharon Tate was signed to a seven year contract with the company and Ransohoff started grooming her for stardom. She was given training in acting, speech, and dancing. She was also given the recurring role of Janet Trego on The Beverly Hillbillies.
While still playing Miss Trego, Sharon Tate made guest appearances on both Mr. Ed and The Man From U.N.C.L.E.. Ransohoff proceeded with Tate's career slowly, not wanting to launch her as a star until she was ready. Tate herself wanted bigger roles than her recurring role on The Beverly Hillbillies and guest appearances on television shows. Ransohoff then sought out the proper vehicle with which to begin Tate's rise to stardom. She was cast in the part of Christian Rudd in The Cincinnati Kid (1965), but was replaced after only a few days by Tuesday Weld. She tried out for the role of Liesl in The Sound of Music, but did not get it as it was thought she looked too old for the part. At last she was cast in a small but significant part in the horror movie Eye of the Devil, released in 1966.
It was in 1966 that Martin Ransohoff was producing a horror movie spoof to be directed by Roman Polanski, fresh from his success with Repulsion. For the role of Sarah, Polanski had wanted to cast Jill St. John, but Ransohoff insisted he should cast Sharon Tate instead. Polanski agreed only after Tate made a screen test, in which she wore a red haired wig. While Polanski would become frustrated with the then inexperienced Sharon Tate, the two eventually grew closer as the film progressed. A romance bloomed between the two. The Fearless Vampire Killers (AKA Dance of the Vampires) would become Tate's first major film role.
Sharon Tate's role in the sex comedy Don't Make Waves would be even more important. She played one of the women romanced by Tony Curtis's character in the film. Tate also became important in the promotion of the film. Several publicity photos for Don't Make Waves featured Tate. In association with the promotion of the film, she was also featured in ads for Coppertone sun tan lotion. Despite all the publicity, Tate was not particularly happy with how Martin Ransohoff was handling her career. She feared that if she did not get better parts, she might well be typecast in the role of blonde bombshell, playing characters not unlike the one she played in Don't Make Waves. She sometimes regarded her beauty as a detriment to her career rather than an asset.
Tate's next movie would not particularly assuage her fears. She was cast in the role of Jennifer North in the movie adaptation of Valley of the Dolls. Valley of the Dolls was a runaway best seller by author Jacqueline Susann--in fact, it was the fastest selling novel of all time for many years. That having been said, Tate not only thought the novel was trashy, but that the movie was as well. The movie itself would be a hit at the box office, but it was also pummelled by critics. In the end it would be regarded as a prime example of Sixties camp. Tate's fears about the film appear to have been well grounded.
Regardless, by the end of 1967 Sharon Tate had four films (Eye of the Devil, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Don't Make Waves, and Valley of the Dolls) to her credit. It was in March of that year that Playboy said of 1967, "This is the year that Sharon Tate happens..." Indeed, while Valley of the Dolls was ravaged by critics, Tate actually received some good notices from critics. What is more the public had at last taken notice of her. It was just as her star was ready to rise that Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski were married on January 20, 1968.
Despite being married to a critically acclaimed director, Sharon Tate wanted to achieve stardom on her own merit. It was because of this that she asked Martin Ransohoff to release her from her contract to Filmways Inc. Ransonoff only agreed on the basis that he receive 25% of her earnings for the next four years. Although the terms were less than desirable, Tate accepted them as it would give her control over her career. Her first film after ending her contract with Martin Ransohoff would be The Wrecking Crew, the fourth and last film featuring Dean Martin as superspy Matt Helm. It was Tate's first comedic role. The Wrecking Crew received uniformly bad reviews upon its release, although Tate received some good remarks from critics on her role. In his review in The New York Times, the only good thing Vincent Canby had to say about the movie was about Tate, "the only nice thing..." in the film. The Hollywood Reporter also gave Tate good marks for her performance.
While many of her films had received bad notices, by 1968 Sharon Tate was believed by many to be Hollywood's next big star. In The Motion Picture Herald's annual poll, Tate came in second only to Lynn Redgrave as the "Star of Tomorrow." She was also nominated for the Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer - Female for her role in Valley of the Dolls (she lost to to Katharine Ross for The Graduate) and nominated for the Laurel Award for Female New Face. With her role ready to take off, she took a part in the film 12 + 1 (based on the Russian novel The Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov. It was at this point she learned she was pregnant. It was because of this that she and Roman Polanski sought a larger home, finding it at 10050 Cielo Drive, the former residence of music producer and son of Doris Day, Terry Melcher. Although pregnant and sick much of the time, Tate proceeded with filming 12 + 1 in Europe. She returned to the United States late in the summer of 1969.
It was on the evening of August 8, 1969 that Sharon Tate entertained her friends, Folgers Coffee heir Abigail Folger, actor/writer Wojciech Frykowski, and hair stylist Jay Sebring. Unfortunately, it was also that night that Charles Mason ordered members of his Family to go to "...that house where Melcher used to live..." and to kill everyone there. Charles Manson had met music producer Terry Melcher through Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys. An aspiring musician, Charles Manson had even auditioned for Melcher, who then refused to sign him to a contract. When Manson's violent tendencies became all too clear, both Dennis Wilson and Terry Melcher severed ties with him.
By the time Manson's followers had arrived at 10050 Cielo Drive, it was midnight and the date was August 9, 1969. As the slaughter commenced, when confronted by Frykowski, Manson's right hand man, Tex Watson, simply replied, "I am the devil, and I'm here to do the devil's business." The murders were among the most horrific that the city of Los Angeles had ever seen. Sharon Tate herself, only two weeks from giving birth, was stabbed sixteen times. She was only 26. The murders would dominate the news for weeks to come. The following night Manson's followers murdered Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, although at the time the media made no connection between the two crimes.
In the wake of Sharon Tate's murder, both Valley of the Dolls and The Fearless Vampire Killers were re-released and did quite well at the box office. Strangely enough, some elements of the media would actually attack the character of Sharon Tate and her guests. The tabloids would even go so far as to make false claims about orgies taking place at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's residence. Those who knew her (actresses Mia Farrow and Patty Duke among them) were swift to come to Tate's defence. At a press conference Roman Polanski would rail against reporters for their treatment of Sharon Tate following her death.
The Los Angeles Police Department was initially baffled by the murders. In fact, as of August 12, 1969, they had ruled out any links between the murders of Tate and her guest and the murders of the LaBiancas. It was not until December that members of Manson's Family would be arrested for the murders of Sharon Tate and her guests. It would be later that month that the link with the LaBianca murders would be established.
It was on October 7, 1970 that Sharon Tate's final film, 12 + 1, made its debut in Italy. The film was released in the United States on May 1, 1970. Although the film received only a lukewarm review from Variety, Sharon Tate received good marks for her performance.
The trial of Charles Manson and his followers involved in the Tate and LaBianca murders began on June 15, 1970. On January 25, 1971 Manson and his followers were found guilty. It was on April 19, 1971 that they were sentenced to death. It would be in February 1972 that this would be reduced to life in prison when the California Supreme Court temporarily abolished the death penalty. While the death penalty would eventually be re-established in California, that decision did not affect Manson or his cohorts.
Unfortunately, Charles Manson is now more famous than his most famous victim, Sharon Tate. In fact, with the exception of Jack the Ripper, no other murderer has ever had the impact on pop culture which Manson has. Short of Adolph Hitler he may well be the most notorious man of the 20th century. The murders which Manson orchestrated were so grisly, his plot so horrific, that they could not help but become a part of the collective unconscious. Helter Skelter would become the best selling true crime book of all time. There would be films, ranging from documentaries to movies about Manson and the murders. Sickeningly, even some of Charles Manson's songs have been recorded. In effect Charles Manson has become the symbol of evil for our era.
It is then a sad fact that Sharon Tate is perhaps better known as a victim of Charles Manson and his Family than she is for her career as an actress. This certainly should not be the case. While Sharon Tate never really received a chance to fully display her talent, it was readily apparent that she had plenty of it. Even when the films in which she appeared (Valley of the Dolls, The Wrecking Crew, and so on) were less than stellar. Sharon Tate would shine. In her role of Jennifer North in Valley of the Dolls, Sharon Tate was the only actress in that film to come out looking good. Had it not been for her performance as Freya Carlson in The Wrecking Crew, that film may well have been unbearable. Sharon Tate clearly had talent. If not yet a star, Sharon Tate was certainly poised to become one.
It should be noted that not only was Sharon Tate a talented actress, but from all reports she was one of the sweetest, kindest people ever to work in acting. Her friend Sheila Wells once said of Tate, "In the six years that I knew her, she never said an unkind word about anyone." Her co-star on Valley of the Dolls said of Sharon Tate and her role in that film, "Everybody was competitive with everybody on the set. The only one that I felt was above it was Sharon Tate, the sweetest, purest, most open spirit." Tate was active in charities, such as fund raisers for the Los Angeles Theatre of the Deaf.
Sharon Tate would have her own impact on pop culture and even beyond, quite separate from her grisly death. The Fearless Vampire Killers would become a popular cult film. Although critically savaged on its release, Valley of the Dolls would become a camp classic. Although Mattel has never issued an official statement, rumours have persisted over the years that Malibu Barbie was inspired by Sharon Tate's part as Malibu in Don't Make Waves. Curiously, when the doll first came out in 1971, her swimsuit was the same colour as the one Tate had worn in the movie. Her character from The Wrecking Crew, Freya Carlson, inspired the character of Felicity Shagwell in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Currently there is a campaign for Sharon Tate to posthumously receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
When most people think of Sharon Tate today, it is often her gruesome death that comes to mind. She is perhaps better known as a victim of Charles Manson than she is as an actress. To me this is a grave miscarriage of justice. As for myself, when I think of Sharon Tate, I think of her as Janet Trego, the prettiest secretary at the Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills, or as secret agent Freya Carlson in The Wrecking Crew. The simple fact is that Sharon Tate was so much more than the most famous victim of Charles Manson. She was a kind, gentle person with considerable talent who could well have been a major star had she not been murdered. While it is impossible that her name will ever be separated from that of the man who orchestrated her murder, I hope that one day she will be remembered for the talented actress she actually was.
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Q: How much influence does duration of exposure have in thermodynamics? Say you put something that is insulated in constant 150˚F water for 45 minutes, the center part won't be 150˚F for sure. Maybe only 110˚F.
But if you leave the item for 10 hours, with constant 150˚F water, wouldn't the center part eventually reach something like 145˚F?
What about 150˚F (same temperature as water)?

A: That's transient heat transfer.  You could solve the heat equation for conduction, and is somewhat complicated in one dimension, with the equation $$ \frac {\partial u}{\partial t} = \frac k{c_p \rho}\left( \frac {\partial ^2 u}{\partial x^2} \right)$$
where $u$ is temperature, $t$ is time, and $\frac k{c_p \rho}$ is the thermal diffusitivity.  This is a parabolic partial differential equation.  Generally you just solve it with computers, and that's if we know more about the problem.
The real three dimensional equation is even more complicated.  If we wanted to consider thinking of the water as able to actually move temperature around (and not just be $150° F$ on the surface all the time) then we would need to also involve fluid dynamics.
What's also interesting, it will only ever get closer and closer to the final temperature of $150 °F$ without ever reaching it.

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I hadn't heard of Cafe Gia until we started working on our book, Baltimore Chef's Table. After studying their web site, however, I knew I wanted to go there badly. Ornately painted both inside and out, Cafe Gia looks like a romanticized rendering of an Italian cafe. It's bright, colorful, warm, and inviting. The food also provides the warm, comforting feeling that one desires from Italian cooking.
On our recent visit, I started with a glass of Gia's Sangria, heavy on the wine but cool and refreshing. Since the Minx has been avoiding alcohol, the bartender recommended San Pellegrino grapefruit soda, which she seemed quite pleased with.
We decided to split a pair of appetizers. Our first appetizer was the orchard salad. The sweetness of the fruit paired well with the slightly bitter and peppery greens. The dressing was perfectly balanced, and the toasted walnuts added a new dimension of crunch and savoriness.
We were both eager to try the octopus, and we were not disappointed. Most octopus I've had is either like rubber bands when it's bad or mostly tender when it's good. It appeared that this octopus was grilled after braising, judging by the crispy suction cups. The result was a slightly chewy outside with soft and tender meat inside. This combination of textures worked quite well and reminded me of the texture of some shaped pastas when they are cooked properly.
Speaking of pasta, for my entree, I chose the fettuccine bolognese. The bolognese had a deep, beefy flavor that indicated long hours of slow cooking. Some restaurants cheat by adding heavy cream, but Cafe Gia offers an honest version that allows the beef to take center stage. The fettuccine was perfectly al dente.
The Minx chose the made-to-order eggplant parmigiana with a side of linguine. The marinara sauce was bright with fresh tomato flavor. The thinly sliced eggplant was layered and smothered with mozzarella cheese before baking, and the meaty texture could fool someone into thinking that this wasn't a vegetarian dish. It also had no trace of the bitter quality that turns me off to eggplant.
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Once the general sales management guidelines are set up to follow your overall strategies, you need a set of explicit and strict sales rules to control the sales force's actions and focus. This type of sales operational tool is a necessity and can not be taken lightly. You need to be clear and strict on the following of these rules or else your salesforce will take your organization apart. A strong and organized sales force is like a well oiled army marching onto the battlefield leading your country to victory. If you can not control your army completely, chaos will follow.
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If you can effectively balance this method of highly rewarding your strong sales and effectively disciplining the weaker ones, you will create a competitive and effective sales force while weeding out the ineffective and lazy ones. This method seems harsh, but actually in my 14 years of managing sales we had rarely needed to terminate a salesman because of not meeting their quota. Usually, sales executives and managers are aware of the sales situations like if the sales cycle takes longer or the deal will close but the time is extended in which the sales rules states that the termination can be waived. Usually, these types of rules keeps weaker or lazy sales from joining your organization and bad sales people in your organization will usually resign if they know they cannot achieve their targets because of their lack of ability.
Now, going on to the more detailed aspects of the sales rules like, pricing models, discount approval levels, booking credits, commission structures, maintenance structures, and sales terms & conditions.
Pricing Models are extremely important to your organization and will mean the success or failure of your business revenue goals if you do not set a strategic and clear pricing scheme. This pricing model once set, needs to be communicated to the sales force in a straight-forward and clear manner. It should be simple and easy to follow, where there will be no room for misunderstanding or manipulations. It needs to be stated very clearly to the sales force that no other pricing models are allowed and that the company will not honor any non-discipline-conforming deals.
Once the sales have been closed and the deal is being processed as booking, there needs to be distinct guidelines as to how this booking will be credited. It is imperative to create a structure in which the credit will be assigned and distributed to prevent any arguments and misunderstandings in the sales organization. Here are some possible guidelines used as booking credit scenarios for reference.
No accepted-POs (booking or revenue) can ever be canceled by any employee of the organization; Violation will result in job termination!
Commission structures are the most important aspect of sales rules to the salesforce and are also the most sensitive, since it is dealing with their livelihood. Commissions need to be generous enough to lure and keep great sales people but not too easily attained where it allows for people to get fat and lazy. So remember, don't be too stingy on the commission structures and if you give a great deal, demand a great deal back. Great sales people are resourceful and resilient; they can be pushed very far to achieve great things as long as they are well compensated.
When a junior sales rep is assigned to a senior sales rep for the same territory, the senior one will receive an additional 1% of commission from the junior one's sales results.
No sales executives, manager, or reps are allowed to sign-off any sales contract or license agreement on behalf of the Company. Only the authorized personnel from the Sales Legal can sign-off the document, and then the booking can be accepted by Booking Management. No sales contracts are allowed to be distributed outside of the company.


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A former teacher at a Batley madrassah has been jailed after a judge said his behaviour suggested "sexual interest" in a schoolboy.
Ismail Sacha sent a number of messages via Facebook to his former pupil and on one occasion tried to get the boy to join him in the mosque's toilets.
He then made a bungled attempt to cover his tracks by pretending to be a pupil – but his fingerprints were found on the anonymous letter sent to the head teacher.
Judge Rodney Jameson QC said nothing untoward happened while he taught the boy but it was obvious Sacha was "attracted" to the youngster.
Leeds Crown Court heard Sacha sent messages to the boy but got no response.
He ran into the boy – then aged about 12 – at the mosque in 2013 and asked him to go with him to the toilets.
Once there, he made similar comments to those sent on Facebook and asked whether the boy had reached puberty.
He offered to look at the boy's private parts to check, but the boy refused and later made a complaint.
Sacha was suspended by the Islamiyah Madrasah while an inquiry took place, but wrote a fake letter from an anonymous pupil saying they had sent the Facebook messages. His fingerprints were found on the letter, but he still denied writing it for a brief time.
Sacha, 29, of Purwell Crescent, Batley, was found guilty at trial of arranging to meet a child following sexual grooming.
David Bradshaw, mitigating, said he still maintained he was "an innocent man" and suggested it was unnecessary to immediately jail him.
He added that Sacha had lost "almost everything" and is "paying a high price" as the result of his conviction.
Jailing him for nine months, Judge Jameson QC said he was satisfied Sacha was behind the messages, which were "worrying" and an abuse of trust, and the letter was an aggravating feature.


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