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After his split decision victory vs. Logan Paul in the rematch of their YouTube boxing extravaganza last month, KSI stayed in Los Angeles for a few extra weeks. Presumably, he was looking to find ways to expand the scope of his influence, looking to continue transitioning from YouTuber to a mainstream star whod be recognized on the street instead of only on a laptop screen.
He might have been longing for his home in London, but theres always more work to be done when youre searching and climbing and rooting around for bigger and better opportunities.
KSI, whose real name is Olajide JJ Olatunji, couldnt keep the exhaustion at bay, though. After all the training and the fight and the acclaim and the long trip across the Atlantic, he was goddamn tired.
Im properly wrecked, he told the Daily Dot.
Its been a long two years for KSI. He in the first YouTube boxing match in February 2018. KSIwhich stands for Knowledge, Strength, and Integritywas always popular in the U.K., racking up about 17.5 million subscriptions before meeting Weller.
While he was known for gaming and for creating diss tracks with his YouTube group, the Sidemen, he was always a little too edgy. He made fun of Wellers mental health issues and hurled gay and misogynistic slurs at him. He was blastedin a video he made when he was 18. Like plenty of other YouTubers, KSI had to grow out of his immaturity in front of millions on YouTube.
But after his win vs. Weller, his worldwide stature grew. He called out American YouTube star Logan Paul for a boxing matchthe first of which was fought in front of 20,000 people in Manchester Arena and more than a million people who paid $10 to stream it on YouTube. Millions of more subscribers watched with his young brother Dejiin the aftermath. Then, he got his rematch with Paul in Los Angeles in November and won a narrow decision.
No matter how exhausted KSI has been from his journey, he felt like he didnt have a choice. He had to keep moving forward, he had to keep throwing punches. And he had to win.
It was literally about the legacy. I won the fight. Thats it, KSI said. There was a lot riding on it. We had the shit talk between both to us, and one of us had to lose. That was Logan. Simple as that. It wasnt about money. It wasnt about fame. I already had money. I already had fame. Winning was for my legacy. Thats all I cared about. I wasnt going to lose what I worked for all these years. It was very real. I dont know how you can fake it. I cant fake stuff, man.
That seemed obvious in the postmatch interviews. Paul was conciliatory, telling KSI how much he respected him and how all the trash-talking between the two had been for show and to hype up the match. KSIs body language told a different story. He clearly didnt want to tell Paul that he respected him, and he showed that, perhaps more than anything, he was ready to be done with Paul.
At the age of 26, KSI is different now than he was a few years ago. Hes certainly more mature. He certainly has more fans. And hes certainly looking to expand his global footprint. Winning bigliterally and figurativelyin America was an important part of that process.
Theres a huge audience in America, KSI said. Same with Asia and Africa. There are huge audiences there. Im just being smart with it. In Europe, Im at the top of the game. In the U.S., Ive got lots to conquer. Thats why Im venturing out there a lot more. Im trying to grow my brand and be successful there as well, so I can be properly Mr. Worldwide.
Much of that comes from his music. The day before the rematch, KSI released a new single called Down Like That that features Rick Ross and Lil Baby. When told about those plans a few days before they threw punches at each other, Paul expressed surprise to the Daily Dot that KSI would attempt that during fight week. I dont know about him, Paul said. I mean, Im not worried about dropping a single and trying to get streaming hits on it. But clearly, it worked. KSI won the fight and compelled 13 million people to watch the music video on YouTube.
His first EP, Keep Up, was released in 2016, and it reached No. 1 on the U.K. R&B Albums chart (it peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard R&B/Hip Hop chart in America). Last summer, he went on tour in the U.K.much like in 2018and played his music for thousands of adoring fans.
Through it all, KSI has been adaptable on YouTube, and thats kept him relevant even as former YouTube superstars have lost fandom and viewership or simply cut back on their vlogging time because of burnout.
KSI was a gamer when it was popular. He compiled prank videos when they were trending on YouTube. He did diss tracks, reaction videos, and music videos. He mostly followed the trends, and it paid off. But with YouTube boxing, he was the one setting the trend. He was the one making it vastly more visible just because he was involved.
You cant always do the same thing, KSI said. People will get bored. If you eat the same food every day, youre going to get tired of it. You always have to change it up.
For me, thats how I am. I take a little trend and I make it way bigger than it was. Joe Weller, he had a little boxing thing, and I took it to a different level. The same with music. Im constantly pushing the boundaries. I didnt want to get pigeon-holed early in my career. Thats why I wasnt afraid to try new things.
With boxing, it worked. In the rematch, he was paid a $900,000 purse and convinced 12,000 people to watch it live from Staples Center in L.A. and plenty more on the DAZN streaming service. It led to millions of more pageviews and hundreds of thousands of more subscribers and plenty of mainstream recognition. He also has plans to continue boxing, especially if he can lure other celebrities into the ring for big paydays (fighting unknown schlubs would be dangerous to his boxing career, because KSI very well could lose and because he wouldnt get paid enough to justify taking the risk. It would probably hurt his legacy).
While some YouTubers are stepping awayJake Paul has been critical of the platform, and earlier this year, Logan Paul said KSI continues to embrace his online home.
YouTube is not wack, KSI said. Thats disgraceful that he said that. YouTube helped them so much. For them to say its wack, its terrible. YouTube is so important for me. You never shoot the hand that feeds you. For me, YouTube is the hub. YouTube allowed me to do more things.
And hes not content with only traveling in one lane. Hes said in the pastthat he takes inspiration from Will Smith and Donald Glover because they dont just do one entertainment thing. In fact, one of the biggest moments of his life came as a teenager in the nosebleed seats inside Londons O2 Arena when he watched Kanye West and Jay-Z put on a 38-song musical masterpiece.
KSI looked at the crowd and he saw how the two rap legends could transform the crowd into waves of emotions. He recognized their legacies. Not just because of their music, but because of their entrepreneurship.
I was literally in the nosebleeds, and I thought to myself, Thats going to be me one day, KSI said. Everybody has different ways of getting to that point. But Ive been working toward that moment ever since.
KSI might be tired from the last two years. But hes not going to stop building a legacy. Hes not going to stop moving forward. Hes not going to stop gunning to be the next Mr. Worldwide. And hes not going to stop throwing punches.
Read more: https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/ksi-youtube-legacy/
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Dublin Library's First Thursdays programming continues with Nature Calls – Walking Your Local Parks. This program will identify the many beautiful parks and trails in the Tri-Valley area which provide opportunities to improve your physical and mental health while enjoying natural surroundings. We know that we need regular exercise to maintain our health, and some of us walk regularly from our house to work or to do some light shopping. But are we aware of the many city and regional parks and trails available to us?
Walking in a place removed from the rush of everyday life can help reduce stress and assist the healing process of recovery from the death of a loved one or another significant event.
Our presenter is Richard Guarienti, a long-time volunteer for the City of Dublin and the East Bay Regional Park District. He is the founder of the Tri-Valley Trail Trekkers hiking group and the Dublin Path Wanderers walking group.
Handout materials and some maps of the parks and trails covered in the program will be provided.
This free program will be presented on Thursday, June 2nd, 2016, from 2:00 – 3:00 Pm in the Dublin Library Program Room. For further details, call 925-803-7252.
Dublin Library's Second Thursday Book Discussion Group Is Looking for New Members!
Do you enjoy discussing fiction and non-fiction books? Dublin Library currently offers three book discussion groups for adults. All the book discussion groups read and discuss a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction books and discuss the same book titles at different times.
The Second Thursday Book Discussion Group meets on the second Thursday of every month from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM in the Dublin Library Program Room. On June 9th, 2016, Second Thursday Book Discussion Group will discuss the New York Times bestselling novel "City of Women" by David R. Gillham. The novel recounts the experiences of Sigrid Schröder, a German soldier's wife. On the surface, she is everything the régime wants a German woman to be: she works part-time for the patent office, manages to survive on rations, cares for her unpleasant mother-in-law, and ignores the horrific behavior of the government. Behind this façade, she dreams of her former Jewish lover, and finds herself almost accidentally helping people gone underground to escape capture and almost certain death at the hands of the Gestapo and SS.
Adult book discussion groups at Dublin Library are limited to a maximum of 10 participants per group. The Second Thursday Book Discussion Group welcomes new members. If you'd like to participate, come to the Adult Information Desk and pick up a copy of the book to read and come ready to have a lively and thought-provoking discussion with group members on June 9th, 2016.
The Third Thursday Book Discussion Group and the Wednesday Evening Adult Book Discussion Group are not looking for new members at this time.
Happy birthday, Golden Gate Bridge!
On Friday, we will celebrate the 79th anniversary of the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge. Completed on May 27, 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge has long been an important symbol of San Francisco and an unmistakable sight with its iconic "international orange" color.
Constructed over the course of four years, building the bridge was a massive team effort. It was by no means an easy task; the people who dedicated these years to the project risked high wind, fog, and of course treacherous heights every day. Some even lost their lives. Though the Golden Gate Bridge is used by thousands of cars and pedestrians every day as a commute path or a tourist destination, it is important to think about its history and remember the people who brought it to life.
Above and below are some books at our library that are about or take place in San Francisco. Click the images for availability!
Robert is very proud of his dad, who is a high-iron man building the "impossible bridge." He learns an important lesson while watching his dad work.
Nate the Great and his partner Sludge arrive in San Francisco to solve a case involving a morose young man, pancakes, and a lost book.
Two young strangers struggle to survive the terror of crumbling buildings, fire, looting, and chaos of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Ever wonder how the Golden Gate Bridge got its iconic look?
Do you need to improve your resume to attract more job interviews? Are you considering a new career? Come to free One-on-One Job Seeker Counseling Sessions at Dublin Library!
One-on-One Resume Critique, Tuesday, May 17, 1:00 – 3:00 PM.
In the Resume Critique session you will have a 20-minutes with a job search specialist who will read your resume, and give you sound advice on how to make it more attractive and appealing to prospective employers.
One-on-One Job Counseling, Tuesday, May 24, 1:00 – 3:00 PM.
In the Job Counseling session you will have a 20-minutes with a job search specialist who will read your resume, ask about your interests and education, and give you sound advice on other suitable job career options for you.
You must call Dublin Library at 925-803-7252 or come to the Information Desk in person to sign up for a 20-minute session.
Staff from the Alameda County Registrar of Voters will manage a table in the lobby of Dublin Library on Saturday, May 14th from 10:30 AM to 2:30 PM to register people to vote.
If you have already registered to vote, you do not need to re-register unless you change your name, home address, mailing address or if you want to change or select a political party.
You can register to vote online at RegisterToVote.ca.gov. Or call the Secretary of State's free Voter Hotline at (800) 345-VOTE (8683) to get a form mailed to you. May 23, 2016 is the last day to register to vote.
Voter registration forms can be found at most post offices, libraries, city and county government offices, county elections offices, and the California Secretary of State's Office. Voter registration forms are available in the Dublin Library on the counter to the right of the Adult Information Desk.
Voting for President depends on the party you are registered with.
If you are registered with a political party, you can vote for a candidate running for President in that party.
You can select the party ballot at your polling place. If you vote-by-mail, you were sent a postcard to select a party ballot.
You must re-register to vote with that party by May 23, 2016.
The California Presidential Election Primary will be held on Tuesday, June 7th, 2016. Polls will be open from 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM.
Learn how to create great photo stories in this Narrating Events with Pictures class. You will discover how to capture events in photographs and present them in a logical manner. Subjects covered will be family events, vacations, sports, social occasions and ordinary activities.
This free program will be held on Saturday, May 14, 2016, in the Dublin Library Program Room, 200 Civic Plaza, Dublin, CA 94568, from 2:00 – 4:00 PM. For more information, call Eugene at 510-608-1117 or email emarangoni@aclibrary.org .
Instructor Gerry Mooney is a professional photographer who taught at Ohlone College for 25 years.
There is a maximum of 36 adult students. Registration is required. Go to the Information Desk or call 925-803-7252 to register.
Last month we read and thoroughly enjoyed Miss Peggy's and Miss Rebecca's favorite children's books. Now we're going to feature a similar list from the children's library assistant, Miss Katie!
It'd be awkward if I wrote this in the third person perspective, so let me introduce myself by saying that I work with the children's librarians to make our programs and collections great. If you've ever participated in our S.M.A.R.T. program, you've probably seen me take your tickets before entering the room. Of course, I also bring you these blog posts that feature different parts of our children's collection. I hope you're enjoying them!
After careful deliberation, I've chosen my favorite children's books. Some of them have been published more recently or are ongoing series, and some are older because they'll never stop being awesome books. Just like Miss Peggy's and Miss Rebecca's entries, I've picked my top three in five different categories: picture book, Early Reader, Moving Up, fiction, and non-fiction. Click the images above and below for availability!
Adam really doesn't like his stuffed koala and tries his best to get rid of it. Will he ever learn to love Koala?
A touching story about a tree's unconditional love for a child that never changes, even when that boy becomes an old man.
Jonas is shocked to learn that he's going to be the next Receiver…but what does that mean? This has been my favorite book for many years.
You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Cell Phones!
Do you remember when cell phones weren't a thing yet? I sure do.


Some iPhone pictures taken in Pontcanna Fields, Bute Park and around Cardiff centre today. I also had my 550D with me, but those are going to take a bit longer to process. Any good ones will appear on Flickr later.
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Data visualization is pretty cool; we've had good luck in that space.
As a player in the cloud storage space whose technology platform is built to support world-class online backup but easily extend to overflow storage, de-duplication, secure sharing, and more, we couldn't agree with you more.
Backup is the perfect way to get people into the cloud, and – if you've architected an extensible, service-oriented solution – it is the first step towards getting regular people comfortable with virtualized data. While the companies you've referenced offer very credible backup programs, they don't appear to have the capability of supporting these other features.
Sounds like you've thought a lot about the space. We'd love to talk more.
I currently am using Amazons S3 service for online backup. I have my documents and photos on there, and am only paying about $5 a month for 30+ GB and transferring (done bi-weekly) using a programs called jungle disk. I agree that some services could be useful, but Amazon will probably dominate the space on price alone.
Yes it certainly seems like a good trojan horse. However scale really matters here, because of cost and trust. So I wonder how room there is for startups when you already have eg Amazon S3 (as the other commenter noted).
I use my own backup software ( white labeled with http://www.secobackup.com ) for my clients. The primary issue I see with building more value with the data is the encryption and trust. With my product, I manage backups of over 100GBs of data online on Amazon S3, but this data is encrypted. So even if I wanted to offer enterprise wide data sharing OR social networking, it would be hard to do.
But I completely agree with the deduplication and VM comments. In fact, the tool I use has been used successfully for enterprise wide deduplication (less revenue for me but that is OK since my revenue is tied to storage at S3).
You are correct – with data storage as a commodity (Mozy, Carbonite, Amazon) you have to look at opportunities to provides services that build upon just storing data for backup/recovery. Especially when dealing with the average, non-techie consumer.
My partners and I started working on the concept of creating a service charging data owners for the ability to both allow their set of pre-approved, trusted agents the ability to access specific data under their control and/or have the data owner move data between trusted agents, instead of the agents (e.g., banks, utilities, hospitals, etc.) controling the data.


We have left the snow and ice behind in Virginia and arrived in St. Augustine early this evening. The weather is balmy and rainy. Linda and I shared the driving and Qavah was such a good little traveler. We are looking forward to tomorrow when we will see the attractions that make St. Augustine such an interesting city.
I want to thank my husband for getting up extra early this morning to scrape the ice off of my car windows and for getting me packed and prepared for the trip. Kathryn also bought a little Netbook computer and with her blessing I will be using it to write while I'm here. I am grateful for the support of my family. They have been generous to let me take off for this adventure.


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4 Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman Attorneys Earn 2021 Rising Stars Recognition
We are proud to share the news that four of our attorneys here at the national law firm of Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman have obtained Super Lawyers® Rising Stars recognition for another consecutive year. This is a major accomplishment, as no more than 2.5% of all practicing attorneys in the United States earn this recognition, annually.
In addition to his 2021 Rising Stars award, Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman vice president and senior shareholder R. Brent Wisner was selected for the cover of the Southern California Rising Stars magazine, and is featured in the story "The 2 Billion Dollar Man – How R. Brent Wisner landed one of the largest product-defect jury awards in history"
What Is Super Lawyers® Rising Stars?
Super Lawyers® is a legal rating service that features accomplished attorneys from all corners of the country and over 70 areas of legal practice. All listees must pass two rigorous reviews as part of the patented multiphase selection process. The Super Lawyers® research department conducts the first independent review, evaluating candidates on "12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement." This includes past settlements and verdicts, special licenses, bar and professional activity, pro bono and community work, and more. Then, the highest-scoring Super Lawyers® candidates thus far sit on a Blue Ribbon Panel to reevaluate other candidates within their respective fields.
Please note: Attorneys cannot nominate themselves for consideration. A third party must nominate them or the Super Lawyers® research department must identify them as an eligible candidate.
Rising Stars is the Super Lawyers® register for attorneys no older than age 40 or who have been in practice for no more than 10 years. These early career attorneys are held up to the same high standards as mid and late-career attorneys featured in the annual Super Lawyers® register.
Both Super Lawyers® and Rising Stars are distributed to attorneys and law school libraries accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA). The registers are available to the public online, as well as a special section in various magazines throughout the U.S.
Baum Hedlund's Super Lawyers Rising Stars Attorneys 2021
In the 2021 edition of Super Lawyers® Rising Stars, four Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman attorneys were recognized for their work in Los Angeles, CA as follows:
R. Brent Wisner (2016-2021)
Pedram Esfandiary (2019-2021)
W. Crawford Appleby IV (2020-2021)
Adam M. Foster (2020-2021)
Our legal team congratulates these attorneys on their continuing Rising Stars recognition! We are very honored to work with these attorneys who, though being considered early career attorneys, have already achieved groundbreaking results in complex litigation. They have each exemplified premier legal skills and a deep passion for advocating for the injured, which has helped our firm win over $4 billion for our clients.
Attorney Wisner Makes Cover of Southern California Rising Stars Magazine
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Attorney R. Brent Wisner is featured on the cover of Southern California Rising Stars magazine for leading the charge in the Monsanto Roundup litigation. In 2019, Attorney Wisner served as co-lead trial counsel in Alva and Alberta Pilliod v. Monsanto Co.(Case No. RG17862702, JCCP No. 4953). He was instrumental in winning a $2 billion verdict for the plaintiffs of this case.
This was the very first Roundup non-Hodgkin lymphoma lawsuit to go to trial from the California Roundup Judicial Council Coordination Proceedings (JCCP). As a result of this record-setting verdict, Attorney Wisner became the youngest lawyer in history to win a multibillion-dollar jury verdict. According to Super Lawyers, the verdict was the eighth largest for any product-defect claim in U.S. history. While the jury verdict was reduced to $87 million, the case remains on appeal.
The court victories paved the way for Wisner to help negotiate Roundup cancer settlements worth $10.9 billion from Bayer AG, which acquired Monsanto in 2018. Wisner told Southern California Super Lawyers magazine:
"The cases showed people that we can win, and consistently win, and win as often as we could get cases to trial. So the first thing we did was we pushed every case to trial as fast as we could...The trials combined with pretty intense negotiations and the trial dates we had set up put an incredible amount of pressure on them and ultimately led to the announcement last year of $11 billion in settlements."
Colleague Jennifer Moore, who worked with Wisner in the case of Edwin Hardeman v. Monsanto Company, agreed that Wisner's trial work was a catalyst for the settlements:
"There's no doubt when you have a litigation like Roundup … and have successful verdicts, that it is going to spark settlement. His work, along with others, was the genesis of bringing justice for thousands of people."
The agreements effectively settled tens of thousands of cases in favor of those injured. As he told The San Francisco Chronicle, the settlement represented "a huge first step in correcting 40 years of glyphosate harm."
In 2021, Attorney Wisner also made the Up-and-Coming 100: Southern California Rising Stars list for a fourth consecutive time. The Top Lists showcase the attorneys who scored the highest in the multiphase selection process. Super Lawyers® considers these attorneys to be the "best of the best," per its website.
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Matt Helm audio books coming in August
Matt Helm cover image that debuted with 1963's The Ambushers novel
Audio book versions of Donald Hamilton's first five Matt Helm novels are coming starting in August.
Death of a Citizen, The Wrecking Crew, The Removers, The Silencers and Murderers' Row will make their audio book debut, You can CLICK HERE for ordering information. UPDATE Sept. 8: See comment below which has updated pricing information.
The five novels were published 1960 to 1962. They were part of a 27-book series, with the last published in 1993. Titan Books returned the Helm series to print in 2011.
For a detailed description of the first five novels, you can check out The Matt Helm Dossier's descriptions of Death of a Citizen, The Wrecking Crew, The Removers, The Silencers and Murderers' Row.
You can CLICK HERE for the website's list of all of the Helm books.
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Red 2 utilizes a familiar meme
Posted on July 21, 2013 by Bill Koenig
Luciana Paluzzi and Sean Connery on the set of Thunderball
This weekend's release of Red 2 includes one of the most dependable memes of spy fiction: the hero and the femme fatale who have been more than friendly.
In the new movie, Catherine Zeta-Jones's Katja is described as "Kryptonite" for Bruce Willis's Frank Moses. Often the femme fatales are enemies but at times reach an uneasy alliance with the hero — at least until she starts trying to kill him again.
James Bond-Fiona Volpe (Thunderball): In Goldfinger, Sean Connery's James Bond "recruited" Honor Blackman's Pussy Galore to the side of right. In Thunderball, Connery's Bond tries it again, albeit unsuccessfully, with Fiona Volpe (Luciana Volpe), the chief executioner for SPECTRE. "What a blow it must have been — you having a failure," Fiona says. "Well, you can't win them all," Bond replies.
Fiona doesn't survive long after that. But Paluzzi made such an impact that in the next 007 film, You Only Live Twice, Karin Dor's Helga seems to be a knockoff of Fiona.
Napoleon Solo/Angela-Angelique-Serena Luciana Paluzzi had a dry run before her Thunderball role. When The Man From U.N.C.L.E. pilot was in production, producer Norman Felton had additional footage shot for a movie version for international audiences. Paluzzi's Angela lures an U.N.C.L.E. agent to his death and tries to do the same with Robert Vaughn's Napoleon Solo. The extra footage for the movie version as used, yet again, in a first-season episode of the series called The Four-Steps Affair.
Other Thrush femme fatale operatives showed up in Man's first season, Serena (Senta Berger) and Angelique (Janine Gray). Solo has had a history with both but the viewer isn't provided many details. Serena helps abduct Solo for a double can take his place. But at the story's climax (the TV version was called The Double Affair, the movie version The Spy With My Face), Serena ends up shooting the double.
Matt Helm/Vadya: In the third Matt Helm novel by Donald Hamilton, The Removers, Helm goes to the "recognition room" to review dossiers of Soviet-bloc assassins. One of the dossiers concerns the mysterious "Vadya." Helm readers don't meet Vadya until Hamilton's sixth Helm novel, The Ambushers. The encounter ends in a draw. Helm meets Vadya twice more in the novels The Devastators and The Menacers. She's killed off early in The Menacers, but her death is a key part of the novel's plot.
Meanwhile, the 1967 adaption of The Ambushers, starring Dean Martin, includes Vadya (Senta Berger again), except the character has been renamed. The character is killed before the end of the movie.
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Matt Helm prequel available
Death Of a Citizen, the original Matt Helm novel.
A prequel novel to Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm series of novels is out.
Matt Helm: the War Years is AVAILABLE ON KINDLE. The author, Keith Wease, says he has permission of the Hamilton family. Here's how he described it on Amazon.com:
Although a cold-blooded killer, Matt Helm has a superb sense of humor, a sharp opinion on just about everything, and is quite capable of falling in love (or lust) during his missions. This book is about his WWII experiences, from his initial recruitment into the agency, his training, and his missions during the war. Matt Helm fans will know the ending, but it would be a "spoiler" to mention it here.
I have been a Donald Hamilton fan since the 1960s and, when he died, decided to write the prequel. Having read the Matt Helm series several times, I researched everything Donald Hamilton wrote about Matt Helm's wartime experiences and his pre-war life. Incorporating direct quotes from the books, and my own imagination, I filled in many of his mission details (including, of course, the one featuring Tina, who shows up in the first Matt Helm novel, Death of a Citizen) and added several of my own, trying to keep the narrative authentic to Donald Hamilton's style.
The book was approved by Donald Hamilton's son (who is CEO of the company holding the rights), who told me that I had "captured Don's voice quite successfully" and that it was "All in all, a quite good read!"
Hamilton wrote 27 Helm novels, starting with 1960's Death Of a Citizen, through 1993. Hamilton also wrote an unpublished 28th novel that the family is holding onto in case a new Matt Helm movie develops. Hamilton died in 2006.
Titan Books has also republished the first four Helm novels: Death Of a Citzen, The Wrecking Crew, The Removers and The Silencers.
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A few early Matt Helm novel highlights
With the news that Titan Books plans on bringing Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm novels back into print in 2013, those unfamiliar with the stories might wonder what the fuss is all about. So we thought we'd present a Helm sampler.
Helm isn't so much a spy, as a counter assassin — he goes after enemy targets, with the intention of making a "touch" before those targets can harm U.S. interests. He had done during this World War II, then spent 15 peaceful years before his past caught up with him. A few quick highlights of some of the early books:
Death Of a Citizen (1960): Family man Helm is at a party in Santa Fe, New Mexico, when in comes "the girl we called Tina during the war." Helm, back when his code name was Eric (possibly a reference to his Scandinavian heritage), he and Tina had performed an assignment during World War II.
She drags Helm back into the business, but things aren't what they seem. We're introduced to his old boss, Mac, with his "gray and cold" eyes who is still in business. Eventually, Helm is blackmailed, with one of his children as hostage. Helm is not somebody to be trifled with but Mrs. Helm also discovers the truth. As the book ends, "I wondered how soon Mac would get in touch with me again…I sat there and wondered how I'd answer him, when he came. The terrible thing was, I didn't really know…"
Death Of a Citizen was done as a one-off. An editor at Fawcett Gold Medal called up author Donald Hamilton, suggesting a name change from George Helm and killing off the wife would result in a series. Hamilton renamed the character Matt. Mrs. Helm survived but the marriage would not.
The Wrecking Crew (1960): At the start of the second novel, Helm has had a refresher training course and is sent to Sweden to go after a Soviet agent called Caselius. Once more, things aren't what they seem. Eventually, Caselius has a hostage and tells Helm to give up his weapon. "I let him hear me laugh. He was running that gag into the ground. He must really have been watching American TV, the corny ideas he kept kicking around."
Shortly thereafter, Caselius attempts to surrender. "Like I say, he must have been watching TV." Helm makes the "touch." Hamilton reportedly took an unfinished story he was dissatisfied with, rewrote it to insert the Helm character.
The Removers (1961): It's a year after Helm separated from his wife. He travels to the Reno area to visit his ex- and his kids. The former Mrs. Helm, however, seems to have a weakness for men with a secret past. She's now married to a former mob enforcer, who's being pressured by his former associates.
Meanwhile, the trip isn't entirely personal. Helm's quarry is Martell, a Soviet operative who has been embedded with the mob. This was Hamilton's first story where he knew from the start it was part of a series. There's also a scene where Helm goes to the "recognition room" to study up on adversaries. Among the dossiers he studies, "There were Dickman, Holz, Rosloff, Martell and a deadly female we only knew as Vadya, all with the highest priority." Thus, Hamilton lays the groundwork for future adventures.
As for the title, Mac does the honors in a flashback scene where he addresses some trainees. "If you were working for a criminal organization, you'd be known as enforcers. Since you're working for a sovereign nation, you can call yourselves…well, removers is a very good word."
The Silencers (1962): The early part of the story includes seedy settings, including a strip club in Mexico across the border from El Paso. It ends up getting into Ian Fleming territory where a Soviet operative has smuggled into the U.S. an electronic device that will seize control of a U.S. missile to kill some VIPs. Hamilton's smooth writing sucks you right in. The novel also introduces Gail Hendricks, a woman who has gotten involved in the middle of all this. Helm falls in love with her, but again Hamilton's smooth prose doesn't make it sound outlandish at all.
Murderers' Row (1962): Helm is behind the eight ball right from the start. His assignment is to beat up a fellow woman agent; that agent is supposed to be interested in defecting and the beating is to make it all look good. Also, she is to get a cast, as a way to have a hidden weapon.
"I wasn't halfway through the scientifically brutal roughing up program Dr. Perry had laid out for me when she died…she'd trusted me to know what I was doing, and it's no fun to find yourself holding a corpse and wondering what the hell went wrong." Things go downhill from there. Helm makes a number of wrong guesses and assumptions but works his way out of it.
"You lucked out, didn't you?" Mac asks near the novel's end. Helm has to admit he did and attempts to resign. But he relents when he finds out he didn't kill the woman agent.
The Mister 8 Web site a couple of years ago did a more detailed analysis of DEATH OF A CITIZEN and THE WRECKING CREW.
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U.K. Matt Helm paperback covers
Posted on April 4, 2009 by The Spy Commander
A reader responded to a post we did about the evolution of Matt Helm paperback novels in the U.S. It turns out the U.K. versions were quite diiferent, many of them relying on photographs rather than illustrations.
For example, to view a U.K. cover for the third Helm novel, The Removers, click RIGHT HERE. To see a U.K. cover for The Silencers, click HERE. Or to view a U.K. cover for The Intimidators, the 15th novel, just click HERE.
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The fight for 5050 and fair politics for everyone
Ann Henderson is the STUC Assistant Secretary and supporter of Women 5050.
As the arguments over women's representation in public and political life are rehearsed again during the parliamentary scrutiny of the Scotland Bill, it may be appropriate to reflect on the wider political context. When looking back to the early days of the campaign for the Scottish Assembly, subsequently Scottish Parliament, we should remember how women's voices played a key role in shaping that new institution in 1999.
The Scottish Constitutional Convention of the 1980s had a Women's Issues sub group, convened by Maria Fyfe MP, with trade union and civic organisation representation. Yvonne Strachan Transport and General Workers Union, and STUC Women's Committee, brought a strong voice for trade union women and wider working class involvement. Submissions to the Women's Issues Group contained a range of ideas for changing the face of Scottish political representation, and the Reports from the Scottish Constitutional Convention in 1989, in 1990, and in 1995, all made clear that the working structures and patterns of a Scottish Parliament should positively encourage the involvement of women, ethnic and other minority groups.
The STUC Women's Committee triggered a wide discussion with its very straightforward proposal that 50% of the elected representatives should be men and 50% should be women. This was tied to the idea that the new parliament would have two representatives for each constituency, a proposal which had emanated from the Kilbrandon Commission. The STUC Women's Committee took this, and specified one male and one female, drawn from two lists in each constituency.
As the campaign around 50/50 grew, the trade unions also took their proposal to the political parties, and in 1990 the Scottish Labour Party adopted support for the 50/50 approach. The arguments at that time included the preferred format of the Parliament and the voting system to be used, whether First past the Post or some form of proportional representation. This had been resolved by 1997, when the UK General Election returned a Labour Government, and the Scotland Act was subsequently passed, to set up the Scottish Parliament. As we know, the suggestion on two member constituencies was not adopted, although the combination of first past the post and the list system does give every citizen in Scotland more than one representative, and some of the political parties continue to try to devise ways of using the electoral system to increase women's representation.
The STUC Women's Committee, and all those campaigning for women's voices to be heard, shaped those early days of the Scottish Parliament, and the legacy is still here today.
However, looking outwards at the wider political agenda, we should remember we do not campaign in a political vacuum. The Conservative Government today seeks to significantly limit the role of trade unions both in the workplace and in wider civic society. The Trade Union Bill currently being rushed through the Westminster Parliament, will restrict the most basic rights to organise collectively, and will inhibit much of the progress made through workplace representation, on equality, on health and safety, and on pay, terms and conditions.
This should be of concern to us all, and it is not simply an attack on trade unions. The restrictions proposed on the Political Funds of trade unions will mean it is increasingly difficult for trade unions and their members to campaign in the political arena, be that on wages and decent work, or on women's representation such as the 50:50 campaign. The basis for this has already been laid in the Transparency of Lobbying Act, Non Party Campaigning, and Trade Union Administration 2014,
which requires additional registration procedures for third party organisations when campaigning in the run up to Elections.
The media may portray this as being concerned with trade union links with the Labour Party, but make no mistake, it is about far more than that. Without those legitimate union political funds, trade union women and men will lose their voice on social and economic policy – and the 50/50 campaign all those years ago, led so effectively by the trade unions, would not have been possible.
So, please add your voice now to the growing opposition to the Trade Union Bill at Westminster, as it will do nothing to strengthen women's voices in the workplace or in wider society, in fact, quite the opposite.
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Skoda celebrates 120 years of production
Czech Republic – The company has grown from its origins as a small-scale bicycle manufacturer in the 19th century to become a vehicle-maker which is active in more than 100 markets worldwide.
In 1895, Václav Laurin and Václav Klement started designing and manufacturing bicycles under the name Slavia. Four years later, they moved on to producing motorcycles, rebranding the company as Laurin & Klement. Motorcycle manufacturing was gradually replaced with passenger-car production from 1905, beginning with the Voiturette Type A. Subsequent expansion and a merger with the engineering company Pizen Skodova led to the emergence of the Skoda brand.
The two World Wars twice put a stop to the company's car production amid political and economic turmoil, while the difficult trading conditions of the 1970s and 1980s forced the development of models on limited budgets. However, achievements during this period include the launch of the 1934 Popular, which introduced the mass production of tubular technology, and post-war models such as the 1101 and Octavia, which according to Skoda "helped the country back on the road to prosperity".
Following the Velvet Revolution of 1989, Skoda looked for a suitable partner, and in 1991 announced its merger with the Volkswagen Group. The associated financial security enabled "a design and engineering renaissance that continues to this day", says Skoda, which lists its landmark models as the 1996 Octavia, the 2000 Fabia, the Yeti and the Superb. The OEM now has a seven-model line-up and last year achieved global sales of 1,037,200 – the first time it has breached the 1m mark.
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The 2021 Grammy Awards have been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event was originally set for Jan. 31 at Los Angeles' Staples Center, but California, and particularly Los Angeles County, is currently experiencing a devastating outbreak of the virus. The county is so short on crucial medical supplies that ambulance crews have been instructed not to transport patients with little chance of survival.
According to Rolling Stone and Variety, Grammy organizers are planning to move the ceremony to this March. After the CMAs drew fire for going ahead with their televised ceremony on Nov. 11, postponing seems like the right move for the Grammys. Although the CMAs did not have an audience and only allowed cast, crew and performers (a similar setup to what the Grammys were planning), country legend Charley Pride passed away shortly after performing at last year's ceremony. The CMAs have defended their protocols and denied any connections between his passing and their event.
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Mac's Radio Service Shop: Safety in Servicing
January 1954 Radio & Television News Article
January 1954 Radio & TV News
Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Radio & Television News, published 1919-1959. All copyrights hereby acknowledged.
It's time to gather 'round for another story about fictional radio service shop owner Mac McGregor and his trusted sidekick technician, Barney. In this episode, an errantly wired bypass capacitor on a chassis from one of the old AC/DC radio sets caused Mac to get a 300-volt wakeup call when his hand brushed against it. After explaining the situation to Barney and apprising him of the danger it poses to an owner who unwittingly sticks his/her hand into the back of the cabinet, Mac lists a few other common dangers to watch for. Radios that ran on either AC or DC power were very common back in the early days because there were homes and businesses that had both type systems wired in to the premises - in part due to the famous battle between Thomas Edison's preferred DC electrical distribution system and Nikola Tesla's preferred AC electrical distribution system. Another reason for DC compatibility was that prior to the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, many homes not located in cities and nearby suburbs had no electric service at all. Farm homes often ran on DC power supplied by banks of lead-acid storage batteries, with wind- or water-powered generators providing the charging current. Radios, aka 'wireless sets,' were powered by those batteries. In order to accommodate both AC and DC supplies, radio designers conjured up power supply circuits that would work on either system, but unfortunately the way it was implemented often caused the metal chassis to have a few hundred volts of potential on them. That meant the metal shafts to volume and tuning controls carried a deadly potential that was isolated only by plastic or other insulative material. Even the external antenna connection could carry the voltage. After many electrocutions, the industry finally standardized a design strategy that provided adequate isolation and safety.
By John T. Frye
Mac was aligning a receiver in which his assistant, Barney, had just installed new filter condensers. Suddenly he grunted heavily and jumped back from the chassis. Then, as Barney watched guiltily, he pulled the line plug from the socket and gingerly turned the chassis over.
"Now there," he said as he jabbed an accusing finger at the wiring beneath the chassis, "is something I never want to see you do again."
"What's wrong with that?" Barney asked. "That old can-type condenser has been cut out of the circuit. See, here's where the lead from the insulated case has been cut loose. The positive terminal has been left wired in merely as a convenient tie-point for the new cartridge-type electrolytic."
"And so what happens?" Mac demanded. "The shorted condenser element inside the can conducts the full voltage from the positive lead right to the floating case. To make matters worse, while looking to see what size condenser you would need for replacement, you removed the cardboard covering that was slipped over the can of the electrolytic and failed to replace it. That is why I got a full 300-volt jolt a few minutes ago when my hand brushed against the case of that old electrolytic. The same thing could have happened to a housewife dusting out the chassis when the receiver was turned on; or a little child might have put his hand on the condenser can and received a fatal shock. If this had been a TV chassis, I might have jerked when I was shocked and hit the picture tube with a tool in my hand, causing it to implode. In the future, I want both leads of an electrolytic that sticks above the chassis cut loose, unless the can itself is grounded.
"And while we are talking about such matters, it probably will not hurt to touch on two or three other points. For example, the other day I noticed that you used a new 'outboard' one-megohm resistor to replace one that had gone bad inside the socket of a magic-eye tube. You failed to tape the exposed leads of the resistor, although one of those leads was a full 250 volts d.c. above the chassis. Fortunately I noticed this and taped them up before the set got out of the shop. A good general rule to follow is that no on-top-of-the-chassis point should be left exposed to touch if it carries more than ten volts potential."
"I saw a dandy along that line the other day," Barney remarked. "Someone had replaced the output transformer mounted on the speaker and through thoughtlessness or neglect the 'B-plus' and output-tube-plate lead junctions were left exposed where even a crawling child could easily reach them. That was dangerous."
"Speaking of crawling children, you can't be too careful of line cords," Mac went on. "Quite often these cords will look all right except for a short space just back of the plug, right where the fingers would likely be when the plug is being inserted or removed. The reason, of course, is that the cord at this point takes quite a beating from sweepers, dust mops, and little children. I always try to take a quick gander at the line cord when the customer brings a set in or when I pick it up; and if the line cord looks the least bit suspicious, I suggest right then and there that it be replaced. Few people will turn the suggestion down."
"While we're gabbing about safety, maybe we ought not squander all our solicitude on the customer," Barney suggested. "How's about mentioning a few things that may help the service technician reach a mellow age."
"At least one technician I know shows promise of becoming mellow, very mellow, long before he becomes ripe," Mac observed, "but your idea has merit. I think we have touched on most shop-safety points at various times in the past, but if these ideas are to do any good, you have to keep harping on them. Anyone who has ever studied how accidents happen knows there is a great difference between knowing that a danger exists and being constantly aware that the danger is present. It is this constant awareness that keeps you from having an accident."
"The voltages we constantly deal with are one of our greatest dangers, aren't they?" Barney asked.
"That's right, and the dangerous part is that familiarity breeds contempt. We are constantly working on receivers having potentials all the way from 100 volts up to fifteen kilovolts or so. Every now and then we get nipped a little without being seriously hurt, and each time this happens we lose a little more respect for the potentially lethal power that lurks in even a lowly a.c.-d.c. set. In fact, there are some pumpkin-headed technicians I know who boast about how they take no precautions against being shocked because they 'can take it.' Their undertaker will be doing the taking one of these days.
"A simple precaution that should be standard procedure in any shop is to plug all sets, both a.c.-d.c. and transformer type, into isolation transformers while they are being serviced. Most technicians realize the danger present when working on hot-chassis a.c.-d.c. receivers; but they overlook the fact that quite often lightning will cause the condenser that goes from one side of the line to the chassis of a transformer set to become shorted. Such a set can be a real death-trap, because you do not expect the chassis to be hot.
"Another point I had vividly demonstrated one time is that you should never try to pick up a heavy chassis and move it while the cord is plugged in. I saw a person pick up such a chassis and start to slide it into the cabinet. Suddenly he began to shake all over and to make a peculiar noise. I jerked the cord from the wall socket, and he dropped the chassis to the floor and tottered to a chair. A strong odor of burned flesh was in the room. His fingers, curling beneath the edge of the chassis, had come into contact with the tie-points for the 117-volt line cord. The current froze him so that he could not let go and made his contracting muscles force his fingers tighter and tighter against the searing wires. Grooves were burned into those fingers that took months to heal."
"Now look, let's not try to win Oscar with this safety talk," Barney said with a grin. "You're waxing pretty dramatic, you know. I suppose we ought to mention, too, that you should use an insulated rod instead of your fingers for probing around the wiring of a live set."
"That's right," Mac agreed. "On the whole, though, I imagine that a service technician would be likely to be more aware of the danger of electrical shock than he would of other possible sources of injury. For example, we know how important it is to avoid breathing the fumes of carbon tetra-chloride or of getting the stuff into your eyes or a break in the skin; yet I still see a lot of fellows handling the solvent as carelessly as though it were water. They ought to read some of the articles that have appeared in radio magazines telling how familiar carbon tet can cause serious illness or even death if mishandled.
"In the same way the average technician has been pretty well impressed with the fact that he should handle a TV picture tube with extreme caution to avoid an explosion, but he does not hesitate to grab hold of a receiving tube with his bare hand and yank with all his might in an attempt pull it from a stubborn loctal socket. If one of these tubes breaks and cuts a quarter-inch-deep gash in his thumb, as it did in mine, he will not need be reminded after that to use a tube-puller, leather glove, or some other means of protection when taking out ordinary receiving tubes."
"Even if the tube does not break, you can often get a nasty burn from trying to handle a too-hot tube," Barney remarked.
"Right again," Mac applauded, "and a burn is always dangerous because affords a good place for infection to start. This is one reason we should be careful not to be burned with a hot soldering iron or hot solder. Parts being soldered should always be held in place with pliers instead of the fingers. Even though the part can be gripped in such a manner that heat from the joint cannot be conducted to the fingers there is always the danger that the point of the iron will slip off the joint and dab against them or that a blow of excess solder will' roll from the joint or the iron on to the fingers and burn a blister before you can say 'ouch'!
"What really chills me, though. Mac continued, "is the sight of a guy pulling on a wire with all his might while he softens the solder joint with a hot iron. When the wire finally does break loose, it invariably throws a spray of melted solder, usually directly toward the person pulling on it. A particle of hot solder striking the eye ball could easily cause permanent blindness. Never, never do that. Use a soldering tool to free the end of the wire and work it loose while the iron keeps the joint hot; but never pull on the wire while you are doing this so that it becomes a slingshot for throwing molten solder into your face."
"You keep on," Barney warned, "and you're going to convince me that a radio or TV chassis is nothing but a booby-trap. I'll be afraid to touch one of the things."
"You'll be safe enough unless you really are a booby," Mac said with a grin. "I'm not saying, however, that even a careful person can always avoid a minor scratch or burn; but such a person will take care of the minor injury promptly and so insure that it remains just that. Whenever you break the skin, even with the smallest scratch, I want you to go to the first-aid cabinet at once and apply an antiseptic. The quicker you do this the less likelihood will there be that germs can enter the bloodstream through the cut. Burns should be treated just as promptly. Remember, too, that the baking soda in the cabinet is for neutralizing battery acid that may happen to splash on the skin.
"Finally, you know how strongly I feel about every technician being an expert at administering artificial respiration. Probably this is the best weapon we have against unnecessary death from electrical shock, and I think it is near-criminal for anyone who works with electricity to be ignorant of this life-saving process. To work with electricity and not be able to administer artificial respiration is like a professional snake hunter plying his trade without a vial of snake-bite serum in his pocket."
"That would definitely be un-good," Barney agreed. "Perhaps I'd better do a little brushing up on my first aid techniques!"
Mac's Radio Service Shop Episodes on RF Cafe
This series of instructive stories was the brainchild of none other than John T. Frye, creator of the Carl and Jerry series that ran in Popular Electronics for many years. Mac's Radio Service Shop began life in Radio & Television News magazine (which itself started as simply Radio News), and then changed its name to Mac's Service Shop after the magazine became Electronics World. "Mac" is electronics repair shop owner Mac McGregor, and Barney Jameson his his eager, if not somewhat naive, technician assistant. "Lessons" are taught in story format with dialogs between Mac and Barney.
Barney Has a Birthday - June 1948 Radio News
Open Wire Lines -July 1952 Radio & Television News
Salesmen and Service Technicians - June 1952 Radio & Television News
Time and Temper Savers - September 1960 Electronics World
Handling Complaints - September 1954 Radio & Television News
Openers, Anyone? - August 1962 Electronics World
Mac's "System" - May 1950 Radio & Television News
Dog Day Discussions - August 1952
Tape Recorders - March 1954 Radio & Television News
Service Shop Advertising - June 1954 Radio & Television News
The TVI Sleuth - August 1954 Radio & Television News Article
Discount Houses - November 1954 Radio & Television News
Customer Cussedness - July 1951 Radio & Television News
The Technician and Progress - October 1955 Radio & Television News
Soldering - October 1956 Radio & Television News
A Sound Conversion - November 1951 Radio & Television News
Servicing "Too-New" Sets - April 1957 Radio & TV News
Chisel Blunters - September 1958 Radio & TV News
Not Always Right - March 1956 Radio & Television News
Television DX - September 1951 Radio & Television News
Magnetic Shielding - December 1955 Radio & Television News
Tape Recorder Tips - July 1958 Radio & TV News
A Typical Day in the Shop - July 1955 Radio & Television News
Barney Turns Inventor - February 1950 Radio & Television News
Thoughts on Test Equipment - July 1954 Radio & Television News
Mac's Radio Service Shop: Portable Patter - April 1950 Radio & Television News
Mac's Service Shop: Buying and Using a Pocket Calculator - May 1974 Popular Electronics
Electrostatics at Work - February 1973 Popular Electronics
Telephone Pickups and Other Subjects - April 1954 Radio & Television News
Mac's Service Shop: Not Always Right - March 1956 Radio & TV News
Barney's Dog Show - May 1954 Radio & TV News
Zenith's 1973 Color Line - March 1973 Popular Electronics
Always Something New - February 1958 Radio & TV News
The Time Is Now - March 1958 Radio News Article
Was Ist Los? - May 1958 Radio & TV News News
A Little Dog and SSB Tuning - November 1958 Radio & TV News
New Breed of Test Equipment - September 1972 Popular Electronics
Barney is Promoted - May 1948 Radio News
Motorola's 1974 Color TV Receivers - November 1973 Popular Electronics
New Uses - June 1958 Radio & TV News
Satisfied Customer Insurance - May 1952 Radio & Television News
What's Right with the Service Business - May 1955 Radio & Television News
Summer Seminar - June 1956 Radio & Television News
Simple Things First - January 1960 Electronics World
Pride and Prejudice - April 1955 Radio & Television News
Unusual New Equipment - June 1955 Radio & TV News
Insurance Jobs - May 1956 Radio & TV News
Radio Interference - January 1972 Popular Electronics
How Good Are We? - April 1960 Electronics World
The Not-So-Simple Sets - October 1963 Electronics World
Changer Chatter - May 1959 Electronics World
Servicing Amateur Equipment - July 1959 Electronics World
How It Started - February 1960 Electronics World
Two for One - March 1960 Electronics World
Grasshoppers & Compatibility - December 1959 Electronics World
Safety in Medical Electronics - July 1969 Electronics World
Getting the Most from Your Service Dollars - February 1972 Popular Electronics
Electronics and Psychology - May 1969 Electronics World
Biological Effects of Electrical Shock - May 1973 Popular Electronics
Keeping Abreast of Your Field - April 1969 Electronics World
Servicing Without Service Data - February 1974 Popular Electronics
Modules and the Technician - January 1973 Popular Electronics
Salvaging Dunked Radios - July 1972 Popular Electronics
A Versatile Pocket Calculator - May 1972 Popular Electronics
Cost of Color TV Service - February 1969 Electronics World
Leakage Current Testing and Using Square Waves - April 1973 Popular Electronics
Medical Electronics Servicing - October 1969 Electronics World
Philosophy of a Kit Manufacturer - November 1972 Popular Electronics
Fix It or Junk It? - September 1969 Electronics World
Electronics in Automobiles - September 1973 Popular Electronics
Being an Amateur Pays Off - August 1973 Popular Electronics
Electric Shock - August 1969 Electronics World
A New TV Antenna - December 1972 Popular Electronics
Single Sideband for the CB'er - June 1970 Popular Electronics
Meter Accuracy Specifications - April 1972 Popular Electronics
How to Be a Good Customer - January 1969 Electronics World
Shelf Life of Capacitors & Batteries - August 1972 Popular Electronics
Skeeter G's and Test Patterns - June 1951 Radio & Television News
Designing a Receiver for Cable TV - June 1969 Electronics World
Electronics and the Energy Crisis - April 1974 Popular Electronics
Bill Gets the Full Treatment - December 1949 Radio & Television News
Looking Forward and Backward - March 1951 Radio & Television News
Taming Transients - July 1963 Electronics World
Case of the Bad Bypass - December 1963 Electronics World
Advertising for Dessert - July 1949 Radio & Television News
A.C.-D.C. Bread and Butter - October 1952 Radio & Television News
Worth of His Hire - May 1961 Electronics World
TV and the Little Guy - April 1951 Radio & Television News
A Breathing Spell - February 1955 Radio & Television News
Spring Fancies - April 1952 Radio & Television News
Service Bench Chatter - October 1951 Radio & Television News
Carbon-Tet Can Kill - February 1952 Radio & Television News
Something Borrowed - January 1952 Radio & Television News
Barney, Beauty, and BCI - October 1948 Radio & Television News
Automation and the Technician - July 1961 Electronics World
A Windy Subject - March 1953 Radio & Television News
All Work and No Play - March 1952 Radio & Television News
Safety in Servicing - January 1954 Radio & Television News
Mac and Free Estimates - January 1950 Radio & Television News
Intermittents Still Pursue - February 1949 Radio & Television News
Barney Is a Big Boy Now - January 1949 Radio & Television News
A Little Lightning - July 1948 Radio News
Mac Quotes Benjamin Franklin - October 1949 Radio & Television News
Barney Talks A.C.-D.C. - September 1949 Radio & Television News
Barney Takes on Color - February 1955 Radio & Television News
Barney Plays "Twenty Questions" - November 1948 Radio & Television News


96.3 Star Country welcomes Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers with special guest Chris Stapleton to Milwaukee!
Special pre-sales for Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' Highway Companions Club members will begin next week in advance of the general public on-sale. For more information on the Highway Companions Club and the club's brand new offer for 2017, visit www.tompetty.com/become-member.com. Premium Ticket Packages will also be available through the ticketing websites for most locations.
Released in May 2015 on Mercury Records Nashville, Traveller initially debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Country Albums chart with more than 27,000 albums sold, making it one of the best-selling first weeks by a debut country artist in 2015. It's also currently the top selling country album of 2016 and second best across all genres (only surpassed by Adele). Moreover, the album continues to receive extensive critical acclaim and has landed Stapleton bookings on multiple national TV shows including recent appearances on Saturday Night Live and CBS News Sunday Morning.
Chris Stapleton won "Male Vocalist of the Year" and "Music Video of the Year" ("Fire Away") at The 50th Annual CMA Awards. This marks Stapleton's second consecutive Male Vocalist win and his first for Music Video. The two new awards cap off a series of breakthrough years for Stapleton since the release of his now certified RIAA double platinum solo debut album, Traveller. The breakthrough album has gone on to receive multiple Grammy, CMA and ACM awards and continues to consistently top the Billboard Country Albums chart—over a year since its May 2015 release on Mercury Records Nashville.


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The Batman Lands Its First Trailer with a Vengeance
By Matthew Razak August 23, 2020
With only part of the film completed due to COVID-19 shooting delays, director Matt Reeves took the virtual stage at DC FanDome and released the first trailer for his upcoming film, The Batman. In it we get our first good look at Robert Pattinson as Batman and at the tone of the film itself. Both can be described in one word: dark.
It's a bit striking as we watch Batman beat a street punk into a pulp in the movie, also giving us our first listen to Pattinson's "Batman voice" (somewhere between Christian Bale's gravel chewing and George Clooney's George-Clooney-in-a-bat-mask voice). Reeves' take on the Dark Knight, which is not part of the DCEU and features a less experienced Batman, is clearly one that is going to get twisted. The trailer definitely leans towards a grittier thriller style that hints at the likes of David Fincher or Bong Joon-ho crime films. Yet, there are hints of the Gothic flavor that Burton brought to his Batman films as well scattered in there with the sets and staging. It all makes the movie even more intriguing.
Pattinson isn't the only one we get a good look at in the trailer. We hear and see Paul Dano's disturbing Riddler, devoid of a green leotard and funny gags. We're also given a look at Zoe Kravitz's Catwoman, though only for a few fleeting, dark shots. There's plenty of relatively well-lit Commissioner Gordon (Jeffrey Wright), however, along with the voice of Andy Serkis as Alfred. Colin Farrell also looks completely unrecognizable as the Penguin, which means there are some impressive prosthetics.
This isn't the only Batman we'll be getting in the coming year, though. DC has recently announced that both Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck will be returning to the role in The Flash, as they begin to set up a multiverse of films and TV shows.
The Batman releases in theaters on Oct. 1, 2021 — though those question marks at the end of the trailer are one hell of a cruel COVID-19 joke.
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Comptroller to hold free open records training
By Jan Runions
Published 10:32 am Saturday, August 15, 2020
Claiborne county residents have had several opportunities of late to get involved with local politics. The recent defeat of the referendum to enact the Home Rule Charter government is just one of several examples of interest to John Q. Public.
The Office of Tennessee Comptroller Justin P. Wilson is in the process of placing the finishing touches on a training program that is open to anyone interested in learning more about the state's public records and open meetings laws.
The Office of Open Records will be conducting three 2-hour virtual training seminars in October. The sessions are open not only to government employees and elected officials, but also to the various media outlets and the public.
Open Records counsel Lee Pope and assistant general counsel Rachel Buckley will lead each class through a variety of topics that will include public records laws and procedures, open meetings requirements and exceptions to the Tennessee Public Records Act.
Although geared for anyone interested in the topic, the classes will also provide qualifying training credits to utility commissioners and municipal or county finance officers.
The two-hour seminars will be held on Oct. 8, Oct. 16 and Oct. 20 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. eastern time.
To RSVP, send an email to: open.records@cot.tn.gov for access information.
For additional information about the Office of Open Records Counsel and other related resources, visit: www.comptroller.tn.gov/openrecords.
According to the website, there is no central repository for public records in Tennessee. The Office of Open Records Counsel is not a clearinghouse.
A public record request must be submitted to the specific governmental entity or entities believed to be the records custodian. Each entity subject to the Tennessee Public Records Act is required to have its own policy in place for handling requests for a public record.
Depending on the office, you may be required to submit your request in writing or on a specific form. You could be required to present a government- issued identification as well.
The Act grants all state citizens the right to access state, county or municipal public records.
According to T.C.A. 10-7-503 (a)(1)(A)(i), these public records are defined as "all documents, papers, letters, maps, books, photographs, microfilms, electronic data processing files and output, films, sound recordings or other material regardless of physical form or characteristics made or received according to law or ordinance or in connection with the transaction of official business by any governmental entity."
According to statute, requests and retrieval of records can be done either in person or by mail.
According to T.C.A. 8-44-105, governmental entities that have been found to have violated the Tennessee Open Meetings Act must include the court's findings with the meeting minutes. The entity is also required to file semi-annual reports for one year while under the court's jurisdiction.
The Act requires notices be made public for every meeting. However, it does not specifically require notice of the meeting agenda. Specially called meetings may require more content in the notice depending on the importance of the subject matter.
The Tennessee Open Meetings Act does not specifically define adequate public notice. State courts have determined, however, that adequate public notice is sufficient notice under the circumstances that would fairly inform the public of the meeting, as set in the court case Memphis Publishing Co. v. City of Memphis (1974).
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Guys what you are getting ready to read is by far so heartwarming in my eyes. I love how God works, and what he is doing with the amazing people I am meeting and the things that they are doing to help impact others' lives. With that said, I had the pleasure of asking one of my very first followers of HowiSingleMomit some questions on her single parenting journey. A year ago when I first started my IG and blog, this phenomenal beautiful, kind hearted, hardworking, consistent, persistent lovable grounded woman was one of my first followers when I came onto the scene. She has seen my transition from TX back to NY. She has added a great deal to my life with her #singlemomsspeak group, her encouragement and how she shares a piece of her world with her daughter on IG. Through these questions, you will see why she is unique in her own way, and can sincerely feel, that she does everything with her heart and great intentions behind it. Head on over to howisinglemomit.com (link in bio) it would be an honor for you to read what this astonishing well-grounded woman has to say!
What made you start your blog /social media pages?
When I had my daughter I looked online for a community I could share my fears, joys, concerns and desires with. I couldn't find a single parent community to meet my needs. All I found was bitterness and anger. That wasn't my truth. I then decided I needed to create the community I needed. It started with a Facebook group called SuperMoms Unite. It still exists but didn't fill what I was missing. I turned to Instagram and started the account SuperParentsUnite. I would share parenting quotes, hacks, etc. Somewhere along the line I started sharing myself and my daughter on that page. I started connecting with people and realized I needed to let them see me. JustaBXmom was born. Once my captions continued getting longer I moved to a WordPress blog and later to my own domain. I want single and married parents to see that single moms (only moms, independent moms – whatever label fits you) are no different than any other mom. We all have super mom days as well as super fail days. We can have just as much fun as every other mom. Sometimes it just takes a little more planning and budgeting on our side. I want single moms to know its okay to struggle and its okay to shine.
Do you feel you have found your purpose (I know we have more than one) if so what is it and how will it serve others?
I have. I know that God has directed me to where I stand today. Only He knows the plan He has for me but I see signs all around that I am exactly where I'm supposed to be. I've always been the type to help others figure their needs out even when I couldn't define my own. Now I do my best to support all parents in their parenting journey by #transparentparenting I'm not afraid of my mom fails. I'm not afraid to admit I don't always have it together because the reality is none of us do. There are too many people pretending their world is perfect on social media. I can't add to the phoniness. And if I can make one parent feel less alone in their highs or lows than that is a victory for me. I'm also in love with my #singlemomsspeak baby. Knowing that I help to bring together some amazing women to build a maternal community of strength and power is such a blessing. I can't wait to see it grow!
What is one thing that you do to unwind?
Unwind? What's that??? Seriously though, I snuggle with my baby girl. No matter how stressed or anxious I feel just holding her in my arms grounds me and reminds me that above all else my true purpose on this earth is to be her mommy and guide her to become the woman she is meant to be.
I'm also learning to take some time at least once a month to see friends for some mommy me time.
Name two fun activities that you do with your daughter that you feel can benefit other mothers.
We sing and dance about everything. And let me explain that this is HUGE because I can neither sing nor dance! Yet for her I can and will move mountains. One of our favorite things to do when we get into an elevator is to sing "our elevator" while dancing around until doors open then pretend we were just standing there.
Other than that we take thousands of selfies, read books, and have snuggle time and so much more.
Where do you see yourself in 6 months?
Celebrating JustaBXgirl's 5th birthday in Florida and celebrating #SingleMomsSpeak turning 1. By God's grace my blog will continue to be growing and I might have started giving some webinars.
Please be sure to follow her now!


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Cash-short City College plans garage sale
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S.F. CITY COLLEGE
Nanette Asimov, Chronicle Staff Writer
City College of San Francisco - which is short about $18 million this year - is doing what everyone does when they need more cash.
They're holding a garage sale.
"I look at this as a way to publicize that classes are being cut and talk generally about underfunding," said City College board President Milton Marks III, who persuaded all but one of the trustees at Thursday's board meeting to approve the rental of campus parking spots to vendors for the big sale Oct. 24.
Rental proceeds will be used to restore some of the 800 classes the college at 50 Phelan Ave. is cutting this school year, according to the approved resolution. Each class costs $6,000.
The college is also soliciting donated goods to be sold by volunteers who would give the money collected to the school.
So how much money might the sale raise?
Marks wasn't sure, but said the faculty member who came up with the idea "was throwing around the figure of $25,000," based on the possibility that valuable items - from art to autos - would be donated.
Trustee John Rizzo, the lone vote against the idea, predicted profits would be closer to $324.
Rizzo, who writes "For Dummies" computer books, said he did a simple cost-benefit analysis.
According to the resolution, the garage sale goes forward if at least 12 stalls are rented to vendors, at $30 to $75 each. But because the college charges students $3 a day to park there, Rizzo said the loss of parking fees had to be considered.
Suppose 12 stalls are rented for $30 each, he said. That brings in $360. Subtract $36 in lost parking revenue for 12 spots, and you have $324.
"If we're talking about an effort to raise a substantial amount of money, that's great," he said. "But that's not what they were talking about."
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Marks sees it differently.
His resolution says the sale will try to mimic the success of a monthly flea market to benefit De Anza College in Cupertino - which draws more than 15,000 customers when the weather's good. It says there will be plenty of customers, despite being in the fog belt.
"There are a hundred thousand students at City College, and all those people have connections," Marks said. "I would just hope that anybody in San Francisco who's interested in supporting City College - who understands its value and doesn't want classes to be cut - would participate."
Information about participating in the citywide garage sale to benefit City College of San Francisco can visit www.ccsf.edu/News/Citywide_Garage_Sale/
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Nanette covers California's public universities - the University of California and California State University - as well as community colleges and private universities. She's written about sexual misconduct at UC and Stanford, the precarious state of accreditation at City College of San Francisco, and what happens when the UC Berkeley student government discovers a gay rights opponent in its midst. She has exposed a private art college where students rack up massive levels of debt (one student's topped $400k), and covered audits peering into UC finances, education lawsuits and countless student protests.
But writing about higher education also means getting a look at the brainy creations of students and faculty: Robotic suits that help paralyzed people walk. Online collections of folk songs going back hundreds of years. And innovations touching on everything from virtual reality to baseball.
Nanette is also covering the COVID-19 pandemic and served as health editor during the first six months of the crisis, which quickly ended her brief tenure as interim investigations editor.
Previously, Nanette covered K-12 education. Her stories led to changes in charter school laws, prompted a ban on Scientology in California public schools, and exposed cheating and censorship in testing.
A past president of the Society of Professional Journalists' Northern California chapter, Nanette has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. in sociology from Queens College. She speaks English and Spanish.
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