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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A nationwide strike against plans to rewrite the constitution shut down much of Venezuelan's capital Thursday before erupting into sporadic violence that left at least two young men dead.
CAVE CREEK, Ariz. (AP) — Maria Raya-Garcia almost didn't get the weekend off to celebrate her birthday beside a popular swimming hole in Arizona.
The bosses at El Encanto Mexican restaurant in Cave Creek, a touristy Wild West-style town outside Phoenix, didn't want the popular prep cook to be gone during their busiest days, but they finally relented.
MADRID (AP) — A judge denied bail for the Spanish football federation president, his son and a federation vice president arrested in an anti-corruption probe after taking their testimony on Thursday.
According to a court statement, National Court judge Santiago Pedraz made the decision to keep federation president Angel Maria Villar, son Gorka Villar, and federation vice president of economic affairs Juan Padron behind bars while the investigation continues.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malasia (AP) — Malasia prohibió la canción "Despacito" en la televisión y la radio estatal, aunque podría resultar difícil poner freno al éxito del tema.
La prohibición sólo afecta a los medios estatales, no a las emisoras privadas ni a servicios de música a través de internet o plataformas globales de entretenimiento como YouTube.
AP Explains: What are Trump's options in Venezuela?
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Trump administration is threatening to take "strong and swift economic actions" if Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro proceeds with his plan to rewrite the nation's constitution and consolidate power over the few remaining institutions outside the control of the ruling party. A senior administration official said Tuesday that "all options are being discussed and debated," implying that Trump could use Venezuela's dependence on oil exports to the U.S. as a means of pressuring Maduro to halt the July 30 constitutional assembly.
SANTA MONICA, California (AP) — "Despacito" has become the most streamed track of all time with more than 4.6 billion plays across streaming platforms.
MADRID (AP) — The executive who oversaw Spain's rise to dominate world soccer in recent years was arrested Tuesday in an anti-corruption investigation, dealing yet another blow to the sport's already-tarnished image.
Angel Maria Villar, his son, Gorka Villar, and two other soccer officials were detained while raids were conducted at the federation headquarters and other properties, the state prosecutor and Spanish police said.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's opposition called Monday for a 24-hour nationwide strike to pressure President Nicolas Maduro to drop plans to rewrite the constitution while the United States threatened "strong and swift economic actions" against his socialist administration if it ignores the will of voters in a referendum.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana senator railed against Carrier Corp. for moving manufacturing jobs to Mexico last year, even as he profited from a family business that relies on Mexican labor to produce dye for ink pads, according to records reviewed by The Associated Press.
SINAKARA VALLEY, Peru (AP) — One by one, Associated Press photographer Rodrigo Abd positioned the traditional dancers, musicians and vendors in front of an old-fashioned box camera in Peru's Sinakara Valley as a colorful Andean festival exploded all around them.
EL ALTO, Bolivia (AP) — The Transformers have been transformed yet again.
Already featured as toys and video games, comic books, television series and movies, they've now been reconfigured as exuberantly colorful multistory buildings that loom unexpectedly over the hardscrabble streets of El Alto, the world's highest big city.
A fan of the series, Santos Churata, designs the facades and interiors of lurid colors, jutting angles and plenty of gleaming metal.
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NEW YORK (AP) — There were balloons, flowers and tears of happiness. Mexican parents were reunited Wednesday with sons and daughters they hadn't seen in decades because their children have been living in the United States.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man from El Salvador in the U.S. illegally who sued San Francisco after police turned him over to immigration authorities in violation of the city's sanctuary law is set to be awarded $190,000, his attorney said Thursday.
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's renegade chief prosecutor charged the former head of the country's national guard Thursday with systemically violating human rights during three months of anti-government protests that have left nearly 80 people dead.
Luisa Ortega Diaz's office announced the charges against Antonio Benavides Torres a day after the nation's Supreme Court declared it was barring her from leaving Venezuela and ordering her bank accounts frozen.
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HOW DID THE UNREST BEGIN?
In late March, the government-stacked Supreme Court issued a ruling stripping the opposition-controlled National Assembly of its last powers. The decision was later reversed amid a widespread international criticism, but it launched near protests in which at least 75 people have died.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Nicolas Maduro said a stolen police helicopter fired on Venezuela's Supreme Court Tuesday in what he called a thwarted "terrorist attack" aimed at ousting him from power.
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Demonstrators threw stones, and some protesters were injured.
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CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Foreign ministers from throughout the Americas failed yet again Wednesday at reaching an agreement on mediating in Venezuela's intractable political crisis.
The United States strongly pushed the idea of creating a "group of friends" like the one that mediated in the Central American civil wars of the 1980s. The U.S. viewed that as the least the OAS could do after a stronger resolution on Venezuela failed to pass on Monday.
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MIAMI (AP) — Pressing "pause" on a historic detente, President Donald Trump thrust the U.S. and Cuba back on a path toward open hostility Friday with a blistering denunciation of the island's communist government. He clamped down on some commerce and travel but left intact many new avenues President Barack Obama had opened.
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Passed and Present: Me-anderings You-beentheres
The Stud: Decade by Decade
The Stud's DJ and owner Larry LaRue, diminutive in statue but influential as all get-out, during a Gay Parade in the '80s
from the original 1994 article by Mark Freeman, updated 2016 & 2020
THE '60s: Birth Pangs
The Stud's beginnings can be traced back to Beirut, Lebanon. That's where George Matson, who was working as a pantomime entertainer met up with former acquaintance Richard Conroy and the two made plans to open a cafe in Las Vegas. The location later changed to San Francisco and the idea evolved into a bar— a place with a beer and wine license opened up on Folsom Street whose owner had to unload because he'd been busted for selling to minors. It had previously catered to a motorcycle club, the Gypsy Jokers. "We had chains to hang your jacket on and tried to do everything as cheaply as possible," is how retired founder George Matson recalls it in a 1994 interview he sat for in his quiet farmhouse in Sonoma County.
The Stud opened on May 27, 1966. "I was becoming a hippie, I guess, when I came back from Europe. I put up psychedelic posters in our place and people came in and seemed outraged to see this guy with long hair behind the bar. A year later, though, they'd come in with own hair long. We ran it as a bar for people, not just pretty bodies," is how George puts it, "and coincidentally, a lot of love affairs started there. A lot of women also came, and said it was the first gay men's bar that they felt comfortable in."
Among the innovations that made The Stud different from other bars was the type of music played. Its jukebox played 'French rock 'n roll and some sappy tearjerkers, so I substituted comedy records without changing the old listings." People thought they were getting rock, but out would come "Caro Nome" from Rigoleto or Beatrice Lillie singing "There Are Fairies at the Bottom of My Garden" or a Gracie Fields song. Then, they removed the jukebox entirely, "which almost caused riots, since it was a meeting tool" and began to program tapes, an innovation even without the last-call piece, Vaughn-Williams' "The Lark Ascending", "that sent patrons home with a quiet smile."
But George never really liked the bar business and sold his half to his partner in the early '70s. "Richard is still alive, but under different circumstances; she is now Alexis. She sold the bar to the owner of Hamburger Mary's and left to live in a 35-room mansion in Mexico."
What about The Stud does George miss? "Maybe the Saturnalias. Since Christmas stole a lot of its glory from the pagans, we decided to celebrate Saturnalia. We'd close early and completely redecorate the bar. The first year it was psychedelic and the second year it was all country—we brought in trees and live birds and made the rear exit the entrance. Then we stayed up all night putting it back together the way it had been. No photos allowed. So it existed only in the memories of those who were there."
Original location of Stud Bar on Folsom Street, later the Holy Cow
THE '70S: In With the Out Crowd
The Stud has occupied a remarkable place in this city's gay history. There were always bigger and better places to dance, it's true. At one point that honor would have gone to the Mineshaft on Market St. (once picketed for carding only minorities and women) before it became Alfie's. For a while, Oil Can Harry's filled the need for excellent Black music and a racially mixed clientele. When the Midnight Sun moved around the corner from Castro Street it stopped being home base for "genderfuck queens" and became the first video bar. The Alley Cat in the Tenderloin had a few too many fights involving dykes and/or drag queens and finally closed, as did Union Square's Rendezvous, catering to a Sweater Queen clientele, and which used to keep go-go boys in sailor suits dancing in cages. The I-Beam became the new "in" place (particularly its Sunday tea dances). And there were the Trocadero and Dreamland, and then Boy Parties, in a Larkin Street venue that is now an evangelical church. Later venues included fun, surreal Klubstitute, run by the Popstitutes, and the Underworld underwear affairs, world beat Fridays called N'Zinga at El Rio, hip-hop Thursdays at Page Hodel's The Box (it was a real sweatbox), and a handful of lesbian dance party clubs that began with Club Q.
But from the golden days, The Stud was often the first and favorite mixed gay bar for all the children. There was never a line to get into the old Stud in the '70s—nor a door charge. All it took was a walk through the neon glow from Hamburger Mary' s across the street, through a heavy door, and then past two big, seemingly always stoned bouncers who sat against the wall.
Here were seen the first of the NY-style hip chicks in tiny black dresses and high black boots, as well as drag queens who didn't even try to pass for female, and all genders in between. The regular patrons were known as Studettes.
In the old days the Studettes crowded the place on any night of the week with all that '70s San Francisco could offer. Down a long carnal tunnel the crème of deshabille nightlife rubbed shoulders (and torsos, did I say it was crowded?) with: random tourists in button-down collars and even some clones in Izod-wear; bearded or longhaired and fringed hippies and 'fro-topped pool sharks like Ric Mavrick; Sal Mineo lookalike Eddie Rodriguez before he became known as Jamal, who belly danced as part of Al Fellahin at Hibernia Beach–the area in front of the bank at 18th Street and Castro)– and then started filling short orders at Hamburger Mary's. (Full disclosure: I was love with him.)
Eddie Rodriguez was one of the mostly Latino belly dancers and snake handlers of Al Fellahin in the Castro
And the sexual atmosphere of the place was not to be denied. This was no stand and drink with your friends only kind of place. In the back were men, boys and women in hippie garb or tank tops dancing freeform to music that was always far out, or at least ahead of its time. And making out. There was even the occasional slow drag for couples dancing.
Behind this tiny "ballroom" area– a dance floor made of uneven wooden planks– was a coat-check boy who shared space with a urinal open to public view and two semi-private toilet booths, which were almost exclusively used for making drug deals. The "stage" was maybe 4 feet by 4 feet. Camp paraphernalia hung from the ceiling and, eclectic artwork adorned the walls. An extensive collection of Art Deco lighting globes was featured.
The circuit from the back went around the far side of the central bar, through another narrow passageway filled with friends, or posing artwankers, past the pool table– an elite corner of trash and trade—and came to an end at the pinball niche that guarded the office. Always this same great circle route; I never knew anyone to do it counter-clockwise.
Larry Holloway, or LaRue, as he was always known to Studettes, began work at the bar as a janitor a short while after George had sold it to Richard (Alexis), who sold out to Jerry "Trixie" Jones along with Heidi Steffan (a RG) and Jan Hill. Trixie, along with a man named Pooh and Toulouse (Lips) Mulvey, also owned Hamburger Mary's across the street. The Stud was later bought out by Jim (aka Edie) in October, 1974.
Larry and Jim were together for 15 years and friends for three more. "He'd been a deejay at Hamburger Mary's while I was a janitor at The Stud," as LaRue tells it, "and he used to come over and play pinball. Then we'd challenge each other at pool. One day the prize was my bootie. And the rest is history."
The first deejay hired was Chrysler Shelton (in drag tradition, known as Borora Borealis), who bucked the then current disco craze by playing lots of funk. Music at The Stud continued to be eclectic; favorites were The Pointer Sisters, Al Green, Eddie Kendricks, Suzie Quatro, David Bowie and songs like Lou Reed's Rock 'n Roll Animal. Then one night, as LaRue puts it, "I replaced another deejay who wrote an article about punk rockers and how rude they were." And so Larry played punk music.
THE '80S: First To Go Punk
"We weren't just the first gay bar to play New Wave music—we were the first bar of any kind in San Francisco to do that. It was almost demanded of me," said DJ LaRue. Punksters who made the art scene and lived South of Market used to find their way to The Stud every Sunday afternoon for the free (if you bought a drink) spaghetti feed. "They were my friends and they started bringing in new records—like Patti Smith—and insisting I play them."
"Mondays became Punk Nights and they were always exciting, some even more than others. White Night [the riot at City Hall after Dan White got minimal sentencing for shooting Mayor Moscone and Harvey Milk] was one of the most memorable because they all came to party after the riot at City Hall, and it just happened to be on a Monday. I don't recall anybody bleeding, but there was a lot of slam dancing. I played all the revolutionary music—you know, the Stones' ["Street Fighting Man"], the Sex Pistols."
"Wayland Flowers used to come in with his ventriloquist doll Madame all dressed up as a punkette on Monday nights, and Siouxsie Sioux comes in when she's in town and plays pool."
"It was on another Punk Night that Dianne Feinstein came in. She was campaigning, shaking hands before the election the next day—it was brave of her to show up on a Monday. And all the girls yelled, 'Hi Diane, love your hair.' But when I put on the most popular dance song of the day—the Ramones' hit 'I Want to Be Sedated"—a cheer went up, and poor Di thought it was for her!"
LaRue was the bar's best-known disc jockey through the '80. He also made cassette tapes for a number of other bars in the Castro and South of Market, and eventually became a nationally influential reviewer whose Top Ten list appeared in Billboard. "I often put gay groups on top of my list and tried to push Third World [artists of color] sounds, like Ziggy Marley. I put the B-52s as the top this week. Richie, their 4-string guitarist died a few years ago and the group almost broke up over it. Now they do a video with [ancient British queen] Quentin Crisp!"
And there were always celebrities. "One night after Gay Day there was a concert with Two Tons of Fun and Sylvester. On our tiny stage they did a show that sent shivers down your spine—this was before Sylvester got real big," tells LaRue. "Once when Etta James played here—on a whole bottle of Remy Martin and who knows what else—she wouldn't get up onstage until her coiffeur was perfect. We had a hairdresser just for her who had to do it over and over."
Etta James belting it out in her salad days
The bar moved to Harrison Street in 1987. Ushering in the '90s with "fierce queer fun" was Junk, with DJs Zanne and Jennifer "Junkyard" Morris (also co-director of Frameline Film Festival during its heyday), playing everything from Dolly Parton to Motorhead. Once they even had a klezmer music mosh pit! The old venue had a sign on the door proclaiming "All Welcome." Junk reaffirmed the tradition of The Stud bar as an inclusive venue.
During the years at the height of the AIDS pandemic, for the ten years from 1985 until the "HIV cocktail" arrived in 1995, clubs and gay businesses and allies in San Francisco provided a sense of community and real support for the DIY San Francisco model of fighting back, in the face of the federal government's criminal inaction at the rapidly rising death rate.
THE '90s: Death, Can We Just Dance Around It?
For many, the clubs became "church." Deep House music and a new sound system arrived with the Saturday Club Sugar, featuring DJ Ellen Ferrato and brought by hosts Kevin and Kevin.
It would be nusual for a Stud club to use palm cards. This isn't one. It was for a mega event Suga held at 550 Barneveld on a Sunday. Heklina and Pippi hosted.
But it was Trannyshack on Tuesday nights that most epitomized San Francisco as a phoenix rising. Hosted by Icelandic queen Heklina presenting local genius drag performers who worked for peanuts, plus special guests Ana Matronic and RuPaul before they became international names, and Charo long after she had.
In Deena Davenport (founder of Glamarama Salon) and Sean Muller's amazing documentary about Trannyshack, "Filthy Gorgeous" a quiet Heklina recalls 1995 as the height of deaths of her friends, "Trannyshack rose out of the ashes of all that grief." And anger at the Do Nothing And Maybe They'll All Just Die policy of President Ronald Reagan. The film opens with a performance by Dear, and yes, it's the one that involved a full-sized American flag slowly being pulled out of her anal cavity.
"We were one of the few bars I know that got paid vacations and health insurance. Some of the bars were known to fire people if they got sick with AIDS," reported LaRue. Few of the old Stud employees were still around by the mid-'90s, though Sherrie Beth Reese, their first female bartender, was known to still be driving Rainbow II, her second VW bug convertible (disclosure: I sold her the first). Bartender Brian Egg—his real name—hadn't been heard of for some time. [Until his headless body was found in an aquarium in his apartment in 2018, a murder still unsolved.]
Jimmie Even and Paul "Gidget" Sinclair, who made the Stud collector buttons, both passed away in the '90s, as did the popular Black bartender Walter. A lot of the thrift store finds on the walls like the Art Deco lamps came from his collecting. Trixie, then owner of The Stud and Hamburger Mary's, also passed away.
In the spring of 1994, The Stud staff held a memorial service in the bar for owner Jim "Edie" Fleckenstein, who died after "falling" off his Potrero Hill balcony. "Nobody witnessed it," his surviving ex-spouse LaRue tells. "Or if they did, they're not talking." LaRue and longtime accountant Ben "Fiesta" Guiborg inherited the bar from Edie. Later, Fiesta became partners with new owner Michael McElheney, who finally built a real stage to replace the makeshift beer cases, and on occasion even performed with his own dance company on the new Stud's much larger dance floor.
LaRue also recalled one death that actually took place at the bar. "It was on an Oldies Night and he was a heavy drug abuser with a heart condition. He was using poppers and had a heart attack right on the dance floor. A doctor happened to be there and pronounced him dead at the scene. But you're not supposed to move the body 'til the ambulance arrives. Eventually people just danced around him."
"I I don't really care for the Yuppie thing that gay young people have been going through. Gay people have always been leaders, not followers. All this materialism…. Yuppier, closeted Stud goers coming from parties, even Society people mixing with people who only have enough money for for a couple of drinks—if that! We don't see as many [industrial South of Market] arty types anymore. Of course, we're selling a lot more Calistoga Water these days, which is good, instead of raising another generation of alcoholics like we were."
LaRue considered himself co-dependent with drug and alcohol use. "A strange thing happened when I turned 30, getting old and working at the Stud where everyone is young. And I asked myself: Can I be an old disc jockey? And then I asked: Can I be an old drunk disc jockey? The answer to the first was yes, but not the second. Being old is OK, being a mess isn't."
Larry "Larue" Holloway passed away of AIDS a few years after this article's publication in the Bay Area Reporter of June 16, 1994. Sylvester was already gone by then, as was Eddie Rodriguez the Hibernia Beach belly dancer.
THE 2000s: What Can You Say?
By now The Stud had a national reputation as many peoples' Most Fun Gay Bar. With barely an announcement, Bjork would show up with her then boyfriend Matthew Barney, to DJ a set for the few hundred who had managed to hear about it, along with her backup group Matmos, made up of locals Drew Daniels and Martin Schmidt.
Bjork DJing along with Matmos to an adoring crowd
But more regularly, to the opening theme song from The Muppets, Tuesdays continued to be ruled by Trannyshack, which had a different title each week. There was "Weapons of Ass Destruction Night," a "Serial Killers Night" and "When Nellies Attack." Among the classic Trannyshack queens that provided acts to fit the theme are:
Kielbasia Fudgie Frottage Jordan L'Moore Squeeky Blonde Johnny Katt Cricket Bardot Portia 666 Peaches Christ Electro Rusty Hips Pippi Lovestockings Suppositori Spelling Nikki Starr Timmy Spence Lou Reed The Steve Lady Leigh Crow Laurie Bushman Putanesca Precious Moments Jenny B Steven LeMay David Hawkins Jazizi Cappuccino Foxy Flynn deMarco Adriana Roberts Wendy Plains Renttecca Princess Kennedy Rusty Hips Mx Justin Vivian Bond Fauxnique Holly Woodlawn Birdy Bob Watt Miz Ana Matronic Dear Peggy L'eggs Ana Conda D'Arcy Drollinger DJ Pinkyring Juanita More Mr. David/Glamamore Doris Fish Eric "ShutterSlut" Stein Mutha Chucka Javi En Rose Dean Disaster & finally, the lovely and inimitable Phatima Rude
Many considered Phatima Rude unique, but all were floored when she got featured in Vogue's "Legends of San Francisco Drag Scene. http://www.Vogue.com
In the midst of a kerfuffle over terminology— when the term "tranny" came to be seen not just as an affectionate term among queens, but also a real red light for violence against transgender women— Heklina finally ended the 'Shack at The Stud in 2008. But when one door closes, another orifice opens up, no? She went on to start "Mother" at Oasis, a new and highly successful nightclub and cabaret at Folsom and 11th Streets that she opened with Geoffrey and Jason and D'Arcy Drolinger in 2014.
Meanwhile, the House of More continues the theme drag night tradition at The Stud. On Fridays, Some Thing benefits from the mentorship of Glamamore (couturier Mr. David) and Mica "VivvyAnne ForeverMORE" Sigourney, with frequent hosts Rahni Nevermore, Mutha Chucka, Dulce de Leche and a whole new slew of outrageous drag stars.
Mica Sigourney, conceptual artist and drag diva in one of her iconic looks as VivvyAnne ForeverMORE
Meow Mix, a sit-down cabaret, now anchors Tuesdays, and Sing Til It Hurts is on Thursdays. Monthlies includes Frolic, a full furry party, the slippery Polesexual, and the '80s/goth Club Bodice. Then two weekend monthlies bring The Stud back full-circle to its beginnings. Every last Saturday Dark Room blasts electro, punk & post-punk. And at Go Bang on each first Sunday DJs Sergio Fedasz, Joe Prince Wolfe and Steve Fabus (ex of the Trocadero) soulfully bring back classic disco and EDM.
Current employees behind the bar include Charlie Triano, who started in the mid-'80s (but has been a Studette since 1974!), Kristo Valle who began in 1990, and the ever-energetic Bernadette F, who started working at the bar in 2005. Holding his own at the bar once a week is Brian Feagins who has worked at The Stud for 27 years.
After Orlando, the value of clubs to our community's very existence is clearer than ever. Celebrate The Stud's fifty years of sound service to San Francisco by adding your memories of a First/ Best Time at The Stud below. And please do your part, whatever that may be to Save Our Stud!
David More, dress designer name Mr. David, drag eminence noir Glamamore, mother and grandmother to The House of More
updated 2016 by Mark Freeman from his Pride Month historical feature "The Stud: A Dreamspace for Queer Angels", Bay Area Reporter, June 16, 1994
following is a re-update in Summer of 2020 for Queer4Decades.com:
The 20-Teens: "Bless the children. They abide, and they endure."
Facing difficult times, the Stud Bar was bought and run by a heroic collective of 17 new co-owners starting in 2017. But inevitably the Stud had to lock its door due to the citywide pandemic closure in mid-March of 2020. With monthly rent of $16,000, online activity could not stop the economic hemorrhaging, and the collective sadly had to request that their lease expire on May 31. A virtual drag funeral was hosted by two of the Stud's co-owners– Honey Mahogany (also founder of the Tenderloin Transgender Historic District) and VivvyAnne ForeverMORE, along with Jillian Gnarling . Go to www.studsf.com to follow the virtual clubs, podcasts and news of the collective's plans for a new venue.
When Harrison Street ended, the closing bar staff included John Cartwright (worker-owner), Hollywood Texas, Jasmine Johnson, Ben McGrath, Chloe Miller (the Chloe who re-did Gidget's collector Stud buttons) and Chloe Lor— whose dad Suki Lor used to DJ at the old Stud on Folsom and ran the hippest hair salon back then, Architects & Heroes. And of course Bernadette "Bernie" F. (a worker-owner) and Brian Feigin who had both been behind the bar forever. The newest bartenders are Maritza Haller-Galeano and Elio Ervin. "Mr. Charlie" Triano died in 2019; he hadn't worked at the bar since its transition to a collective.
Security staff during the last years included Lambert Moss (also a great cabaret artist and jazz singer who channels Blossom Dearie and Peggy Lee, among other styles), Tastycakes, Saye and sometimes her partner Kia, plus Stud co-owner David Schnur when he was needed to step in. The in-house Stud DJs were Marke B. (collective member and publisher of http://www.48hills.com), Oscar Pineda, John Cartwright and Siobhan Aluvalot (worker/owner).
Along with "VivvyAnne" Mica Sigourney (the night manager) and Terra Haywood (day manager) the collective's co-owners not otherwise mentioned are Rachel Ryan (President), political consultant Nate Albee, Jerry Lee Abram (he also did tech and lighting). Houston Gilbert, Paul Dillinger, Logan Thomas, Neven Raja Samara (their in-house graphic designer) and Maria David who also owns andirons the clever St. Mary's Pub, which is next to St. Mary's Circle in the Outer Mission.
Vivvy and Jillian Gnarling hosted Drag Alive (and still do virtually at StudSF.com), which succeeded the slyly named VivvyAnne's Grand Opening. There was a Latin-themed night Macho Macho with God's Lil Princess. The monthly live punk band party Desperate Living was run by Seth Schulib aka Verruca Bathsalts and always lived up to its John Waters-inspired name. The equally strange party Awooga was hosted by Cary Escovedo aka Katrina Rude (one of Phatima Rude's two drag children). One night it featured the 6'6″-in-heels queen Abominatrix nude in a coffin of glass, but you had to part a sheer white filmy curtain to see that. Stereo Argento was a much anticipated quarterly horror- themed party brought by the ubiquitous Jillian Gnarling and Meredeath. Another club called itself Other Stranger and played only experimental sound art; it was not really for dancing. A trans-inclusive QPOC party Hoe Is Life was hosted by Nikki Jizz.
Known for her impeccable drag, club coat check maven Snow White has worked in clubs since 1985 and has quite a few stories to tell. Though she will NOT be photographed, she offered this poster of her jewelry coat check tags. I believe she deserves the last words here.
SW: I think my favorite night was Frolic, a furry party that had giant stuffed animals as decor, and everyone in realistic full-body fake fur with lifelike heads– you know those cost at least seven or eight thousand dollars apiece, don't you?
MF: I knew they were a major commitment. And just like online avatars they can hold unknown quantities of gender expression.
SW: I loved that it was not only gender experimentation, it was cross-species as well! But it got so hot in those fur-suits that they'd go out to the alley to cool off. The poor security guard at that new building next door would have to chase a frolicsome coyote or a giant giraffe off the bucket-lifter or whatever heavy equipment. And then there were the kids who weren't of age yet to get inside. I'd talk to them through the side door. One of my favorites said he couldn't wait until he was old enough to get legally admitted. Then one day he turned 21 and bounced in and said hi to me in front of the coat check booth, he was so delighted! "I know who I am now, I know who I am! I'm a goat!"
SW: I saw it as part of my role in coat check to welcome and sometimes orient baby clubbers. And though I am a cisgender straight woman, by pure chance I happened to be at the very first Gay Parade in New York in 1970. We were always marching against the Vietnam War, for Women's rights, for Civil Rights. Me and my brother were living in Greenwich Village and we heard some chanting down on the street, so we went down to see what it was about. Though we had never heard of the Stonewall Uprising that was the year before, as we marched with the group they told us the story of what had happened at the Stonewall Inn. It took a few years more before we really recognized the significance of it. You just never know when you are participating in history.
photo credit Derek Boyle, frequent DJ at The Stud

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To transfer the shape, simply print out the template and shade over the whole of the back of the paper using the side of the pencil (2B).
Then, place the template on the watercolour paper and trace over the outlines of the pattern using a sharp pencil (HB). Shade in the mandala in your favourite colours using the watercolour crayons.
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"There is an application which is actually a lighting application, a torch application. When you download the application, it asks for your contacts, camera and all of your peripherals. Why? For making your mobile phone a torch, why should it require access (to) all this?" Trai Chairman R S Sharma said at the India Mobile Congress here while expressing concern over data misuse by online players.
He said people accept terms and conditions of online platforms without reading, which puts their privacy at risk.
"If you have read agreements that many tech companies ask you to sign terms and conditions before you subscribe to their service... if you carefully read them, they are essentially saying that they will be able to do pretty much everything that they like to do with your data. Essentially, you have given away your privacy by subscribing to those platforms, unfortunately," Sharma said.
Sharma, who played a key role in setting up of Aadhaar, said that the government's unique ID project had privacy protection built in by design since its inception and the same was acknowledged by the Supreme Court in its recent judgement.
"Aadhaar is number. By looking at Aadhaar, you can't determine gender, age...In public things you must ensure security, huge amount of encryption and privacy of data by design. In private, you must also protect individuals and customers from unnecessary and misuse of data," Sharma said.
At the session, Telecommunication and Postal Services CEO at Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) Johannes Gungl said that he too has downloaded a lot of applications because services are extremely beneficial.
"This is already time of monetisation. The services are always for free but there are no free lunches. We are the product. We get benefit and we give away data. This is reason we had to introduce privacy law in new form," Gungl said, referring to European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
He said that European companies and all firms that are operating within EU are taking GDPR very seriously.
"What GDPR is trying to achieve is give back control of data to people," Gungl said.


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Generally eaten twice a day with another (usually spicy but sometime bitter or sour) dish called tarkari which can be either vegetarian (vegetable tarkari) or non-vegetarian, usually depending on whether the day is a celebration of some kind.
The recipes vary by locality, ethnic group, family, as well as the season. Dal generally contains lentils (different types are used according to taste), tomatoes, onion, chili and ginger along with herbs and spices such as coriander, garam masala and turmeric.
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Cook rice from cold water. Pour dhal over the top of rice and serve.


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Oklahoma State Cowboys vs. Oklahoma Sooners Preview and Pick
No. 12 Oklahoma State Cowboys (9-2 5-4-1 ATS) vs. Oklahoma Sooners (6-5 3-6-1 ATS) Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, Norman OK, 12:30 PM EST Saturday November 28, 2009
by Jason Green at Predictem.com
Point Spread: Cowboys +9.5 / Sooners -9.5
Over/Under: 48.5
This Saturday afternoon in the Bedlam rivalry the Oklahoma Sooners host the 12th ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys. To say the Sooners' season has been a disappointment is a major understatement, as they were though to challenge for the National Championship, but Heisman trophy winner Sam Bradford is out for the season and if they lose this game they will finish the season at .500.
The Cowboys are 9-2 and even though they lost to Texas and will not play in the Big 12 championship game they still have an outside shot to play in a BCS game, but they have to win this game and may have to do it in a convincing manner. The Cowboys have won 3 games in a row and that is without star WR Dez Bryant, who has been suspended for the season.
The Bedlam rivalry is huge for both teams, as if the Cowboys lose their BCS hopes are dashed and if the Sooners lose they will get a decent bowl game at best.
The Sooners do have 5 losses, but they have only lost one game at home this season.
Last week the Cowboys narrowly beat the Colorado Buffalos 31-28 while the Sooners were absolutely crushed losing to the Texas Tech Red Raiders 41-13.
Even though the Buffalos had more passing yards in their loss to OSU the Cowboys dominated the running game out-rushing Colorado 232 yards to 13 yards. OSU played a sloppy game committing 4 turnovers and they had to score 2 TD's in the 4th quarter to win the game. The Cowboys' defense came up big late in the game, as they held the Buffalos scoreless for the last 8 minutes of the 4th quarter. The Cowboys were favored by 18 points so they did not cover the spread and the posted total for the game was 48, which was surpassed.
In their loss to Texas Tech the Sooners had fewer passing yards and allowed the Red Raiders to run for 161 yards while they only had 48. Tech only had a 17-6 lead at halftime, but in the 2nd half the Sooners' D let them down allowing the Red Raiders to score 24 points. It also did not help that the Sooners had 2 turnovers in the game. The Sooners were favorites by 6.5 points so they were nowhere near covering and the posted total of 52 points was surpassed.
OSU has lost this Bedlam rivalry game 6 years in a row.
OSU Zac Robinson is banged up with a bruised shoulder and a minor head injury, but he will play in this game.
The Sooners allowed Texas Tech to rush for 161 yards last week and this week they will face a tougher test in Cowboys' RB Keith Toston (1,130 yds 11 TD). If Toston has a big game the Sooners will be in big trouble.
The Sooners must contain Toston and make Robinson, who leads the Cowboys' 94th ranked passing offense, beat them with his arm. That will be a tough task for OSU since the Sooners rank 5th in the nation with 35 sacks this season.
The Sooners have a legit defense ranked 11th in the nation, but they gave up 41 points in their last game.
Oklahoma has to get back to playing good defense against a Cowboys team that has the nation's 21st ranked scoring offense.
Since Bradford was lost for the season freshman QB Landry Jones has been decent leading the Sooners and their 18th ranked passing offense. Since the Sooners only have the nation's 67th ranked rushing offense Jones may have to move the chains in the air.
OSU has the nation's 31st ranked defense and they will have to keep Jones from having a big game.
The Cowboys are 4-2 ATS in their last 6 games and are 8-3-1 ATS in their last 12 road games. The Sooners are 2-5-1 ATS in their last 8 games and the total has gone Under in 7 of their last 9 games.
Jason's Pick: Even though not much has gone right for the Sooners this season they can go out on a high note with a win in the Bedlam rivalry. However, this season the Cowboys may be a better squad and they will score the upset in this game and because of it may be rewarded with a BCS bowl berth. Take the Cowboys and the points in this game.


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Peter Voss, der Millionendieb ist ein deutscher Spielfilm von Karl Anton. Der Film der Produktionsfirma Tobis entstand von September 1943 bis März 1944 und wurde nach Kriegsende von der DEFA fertiggestellt. Die Uraufführung fand am 27. September 1946 statt. Der Film basiert auf dem gleichnamigen Roman von Ewald Gerhard Seeliger.

Handlung
Polly Petterson ist Großkundin des Bankhauses Van Geldern, das ihr Vermögen in Höhe von einer Million verwaltet. Als sie den gesamten Betrag abheben will, droht die Bank, die sich verspekuliert hat, bankrottzugehen. Der Angestellte Peter Voss stiehlt daraufhin zum Schein die Million und flieht. Nach Absprache soll er sich so lange verstecken, bis der Preis für Kupfer, in das investiert wurde, wieder steigt. Polly verpflichtet den Detektiv Bobby Dodd und folgt dem scheinbaren Bankräuber nach Portugal, Brasilien, in den Wilden Westen und nach Hawaii. Dort kann Peter Voss die reiche Polly von seinen guten Absichten überzeugen – und als das Bankhaus gerettet ist, findet sogar eine Hochzeit statt.

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Andere Verfilmungen
 1921: Der Mann ohne Namen (6 Teile) – Regie: Georg Jacoby
 1932: Peter Voß, der Millionendieb – Regie: E. A. Dupont
 1958: Peter Voss, der Millionendieb – Regie: Wolfgang Becker

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We can't begin to describe the hours we wasted as whipper-snappers desperately squeezing those tint plastic controllers, hoping that our Scalextric cars wouldn't fly off the track on the next corner. Scalextric was great, but lets be honest, it was less than realistic, and storing all that bulky track was a pain in the bum. Back then we dreamed of a racing game that was quick to set up, realistic in all the details, and that didn't require a corner of the shed all to it self. Fast forward 20 years, and our dreams have become reality. We review RealFX Racing.
Here are your headlines: this is a physical racing game involving actual toy cars and RC controllers. You set up the track, the cars go on, then you race around. Sounds simple enough, and not that much different to the aforementioned Scalextric. But... these cars are completely wireless, as are the controllers, and the track is made from super-thin plastic and completely slot-less. Yes, the cars can drive anywhere on the track.
So, how isn't this just a simple case of small radio-controlled cars? Well, the cars, and the controllers, are exceptionally smart. Instead of just dropping the cars onto the track and hitting the accelerator, you get to pick what kind of race you would like. Should you wish to race in the tradition of the hallowed Scalextric, you can simply pull on the trigger and let the car guide itself around the track, with you worrying only about speed. The sensors in the car can 'see' the track, and know when a bend is coming. This was a great way to get acquainted with the set-up (and also a remarkable thing to see the cars steer themselves about!).
The virtual fun to be had with Real FX Racing goes beyond keeping to the track. Should you wish, it is possible to set hazards during a race (such as an oil spill), which can be used either as random occurrences, or as weapons against your opponents. You can also decide to include mandatory pit stops, where your car will be forced to pull into the special pit section of track.
Real FX Racing is so much fun its hard to fully describe. The winning formula here is the wealth of features and modes of the racing set, making it several different games in one. The track slots together in minutes and (crucially) can be flat-packed away, taking up no more space than a coffee table book. We also loved that, even with all the extra features switched off and the track put away, Real FX Racing includes two very good wireless-controlled cars which, when in RC mode, are great to drive around freestyle.
After finally playing with Real FX Racing it is easy to see why the Kickstarter campaign was so successful. This is a great toy for kids of all ages and is sure to be a big winner come Christmas.


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Marc Verter is a pianist, song accompanist and concert producer. A passionate song performer, he dedicates much of his time to performing with singers in the UK and abroad. Mr Verter was the Artistic Director for over five years at the Chelsea Schubert Festival. Alongside his performing work Mr Verter is a highly sought after vocal coach and repetiteur. Previous opera engagements have included the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the Opera på Skeret programme in Sweden and the Dartington Festival in the UK. He is currently on the staff of the Vocal Department at the Guildhall School of Music, The Royal College of Music and Drama and West London University. He has performed at music festivals in Israel, North America and Europe and has played for such internationally renowned singers as Yvonne Kenny, Jonathan Lemalu, Nelly Miricioiu, Kate Royal, Sarah Walker and Chen Reiss. Through his doctoral studies Mr Verter has examined the musical settings of the poetry of Charles Baudelaire and he leads workshops with college students on the performance of French song. Mr Verter has developed and curated a salon concert series where a cast of musicians and actors recreates the glamour of 19th century Parisian musical soirees.
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Temple dedicates scroll with music, dance
By Special to NJJN December 31, 2012, 12:00 am Edit
Black fire on white fire. That's a talmudic description of the Torah. It's far from the physical reality of a sefer Torah — a parchment made from the skin of a kosher animal, sewn together with sinew, the text written painstakingly in black ink on the parchment according to rules that govern its placement precisely.
The Torah, in other words, is an object that embodies the paradox that is Judaism: rigidity and passion combined in a form that manages to be both ancient and constantly recreated.
Which brings me to Temple Emanu-El in Edison, which dedicated a new Torah scroll on Saturday, Dec. 1. The service was the climax of months of preparation to welcome the scroll, donated by Joan and Barry Ellen of Metuchen in memory of Joan's parents, Doris and Warren Elias. The Ellens, who have been Emanu-El members since 1974, also dedicated Shemot (Book of Exodus) in memory of Barry's parents, Betty and Samuel Ellen.
I was there because my son-in-law, David Vaisberg, is the shul's new rabbi. Just a few weeks earlier, he had been welcomed to Emanu-El officially under the same heavy, quilted, poleless huppa that many strong-armed congregants now held over the new scroll.
Services that morning began with the electricity of anticipation. The sanctuary was almost full, and the light came through the many colors of the stained glass behind the bima and rainbowed on the floor.
We went through the service as usual; after Shaharit, Dave gave a short drash. Then he went to his office, where the new scroll had been lying under a tallit, and carried it to its new home. The Torah service began, then came the Torah processional — and then we danced.
There usually is live music at Emanu-El. Cantor Jacqueline Marx has a gorgeous voice; both she and Dave, who also sings beautifully, play guitar during part of the service. There is often at least one musician on hand as well.
That Shabbat, there were three musicians — a pianist, a woodwind player, and a drummer. They played simha music as we all rose from the pews, held hands, and moved around the sanctuary and back into the social hall.
Yes, it was awkward at first. Dancing on Shabbat morning isn't exactly a staple of suburban Reform Jewish life. But the music was infectious and the joy pervasive, and it worked. We snaked, we made new circles inside old ones, we broke off into dizzying whirling pairs. The emotion was real.
After the dancing ended, and we returned panting to our seats, the new scroll was opened and the reading began.
"We had gotten a refurbished Torah about seven years ago," Joan Ellen said, "and it seemed to be constantly in need of repair." So, when she and her husband realized that they wanted to give a significant gift to the congregation, they discussed it with Rabbi Deborah Bravo, Dave's predecessor, and Dara Winston, the temple's office manager, who made the suggestion. It made perfect sense to the Ellens, so they donated both the scroll and the colorful mantle that covers it.
"A Torah is something that is passed from generation to generation and touches every Jewish life," Joan Ellen said.
It is also a mitzva for a Jew to take part in the writing of a Torah at least once in a lifetime. That mitzva can be fulfilled in many ways, including financially. Community members were able to pay for letters, crowns, psukim, parshiot, and books, so although it was the Ellens' gift, it also was a gift to the shul from its members.
This Torah scroll was made by a sofer, Rabbi Moshe Eisenbach of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He is Orthodox, which means that he will allow women to touch neither the scroll nor him. That issue was finessed — he came to Emanu-El twice to give people a sense of collaboration as he filled in some of the final words. During one visit, Dave put his hand on Eisenbach's arm as the scribe wrote, and then a community member put his or her hand on Dave's arm. There was no direct contact between the scribe and any woman, fulfilling the scribe's requirement; there was no difference in the way men and women were treated, fulfilling the temple's.
Education was very much part of the Ellens' vision. "Not only did we want the temple to have the Torah, we wanted Rabbi Eisenbach to come and teach Torah," Barry Ellen said. "That was part of the commitment."
The scroll is notably legible; its letters are large and crisp. It is big, so the letters do not have to be crimped. And it is beautiful — and aesthetics matter. Now that the shul boasts a sefer Torah that is novice-friendly, "We are going to encourage more people to learn to read it," Dave said. "This scroll is perfect for us, and it is supposed to last us for a very, very long time. We will be able to honor Torah in the way it should be honored."
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Alison from CA Asked "
My whole family is staying at the Polynesian Resort and I would like to join them but there are no rooms left. What would be the most convenient hotel for me to stay at? One that is close by, or perhaps has a bus connection? Thanks!"
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I'm so happy to know that you're planning to join your whole family on a magical March 2022 vacation to Walt Disney World Resort. How practically perfect in every way!
It's my pleasure to assist you by recommending Disney Resorts Collection hotels that are close by to Disney's Polynesian Village Resort. "The Poly" is one of my most favourite of the Disney Resorts and is conveniently situated on the Walt Disney World Resort Monorail, so perhaps you may wish to try to seek accommodation at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa or at Disney's Contemporary Resort as they both are also connected to the Walt Disney World Monorail Transportation service.
Alternative Disney Resorts Collection hotels within the Magic Kingdom area that are slightly further out from Disney's Polynesian Village Resort are Disney's Wilderness Lodge or even The Cabins at Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground. Guests staying at these Resorts would be able utilise the Ferry Boats on the Walt Disney World Water Transportation service as a way to get to Disney's Polynesian Village Resort.
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Torre di Santa Maria (La Tur in dialetto valtellinese, "La Tor" in dialetto locale) è un comune italiano di 745 abitanti della provincia di Sondrio in Lombardia. Nel territorio del comune è compresa la cima del Monte Disgrazia (3.678 m). È situato presso la confluenza del Torreggio nel Mallero. La parrocchiale ospita un quadro di Fermo Stella.

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Lo stemma comunale e il gonfalone sono stati concessi con decreto del presidente della Repubblica del 25 giugno 1953.

Il gonfalone è un drappo partito di azzurro e di rosso.

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 Torre di Sante Maria in paesidivaltellina.it/torresmaria/

Comuni della provincia di Sondrio


The shares of EMC , the world's largest data-storage company, have risen nearly 10% recently, overcoming their funk of recent years. The catalyst: Hedge-fund firm Elliott Management has taken close to a 2% stake in EMC, and wants it to spin off VMware , the tech giant's faster-growing, smaller unit specializing in data-center software for servers and other hardware.
EMC owns 80% of VMware (ticker: VMW), whose $43 billion stock-market capitalization is moving closer to EMC's $60 billion.
"Elliott could be the straw that broke the camel's back. Investor frustration has been boiling up," says Daniel Ives, an analyst at FBR who rates the stock (EMC) Outperform, with a $33 price target, 13% above the recent price of $29.30.
Hampered by slowing sales growth in its core storage business and emerging threats from newer technologies, like cloud storage offered by companies such as Amazon.com (AMZN) and Google (GOOG), EMC has disappointed investors. The stock has gained a puny 12% in the past three years, even with its hefty stake in VMware—far behind the S&P 500's 50% advance.
The good news is that investors can win either way: If VMware is spun off, they would get shares of that faster-growing company, and it could unlock value in the unloved storage business. "That business is not being valued at nearly what it should be," says Angelo Zino, a Standard & Poor's analyst. But if VMware keeps its structure intact with its "federation" model, in which its units work independently, its stock is still likely to climb, especially if corporate information-technology spending picks up.
"A SPINOUT COULD certainly pop the stock to around $32," says David Rolfe, portfolio manager of the RiverPark/Wedgewood Retail fund (RWGFX). "But we think it gets there on its own in the not-too-distant future. And management could lever up and buy back a few more billion in stock." EMC's strong balance sheet would let it do that. The company has about $9 billion in net cash, a substantial free cash flow that's being deployed for acquisitions, a 46-cents-a-share annual dividend (initiated last year) and an expected $3 billion in stock buybacks this year alone.
EMC bulls see 10% to 20% upside, depending on the scenario.
Launched in 1979 and based in Hopkinton, Mass., EMC is led by Joe Tucci, the widely respected CEO who has been in charge since 2001. Adding to the intrigue surrounding the Elliott activist stake is that Tucci has said he plans to step aside as CEO early next year. The company didn't respond to Barron's interview requests for this story.
EMC has made big inroads in the enterprise market—data-storage products, particularly higher-end ones, sold to companies. Its global share of enterprise storage exceeds 30%, well ahead of second-place NetApp (NTAP), which commands only about half that percentage. In the past, EMC peddled hardware with disk drives, along with integrated software and processors for things like servers, a high-margin business. Now, however, "the software is not tied to any piece of hardware," notes Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein. Software virtualization, as it is known, lets users consolidate and automate hardware, and employ it more efficiently. Instead of having a bank of servers, each devoted to a different application, virtualization allows each server to perform several functions. VMware has done this very successfully.
One of the biggest investor gripes about EMC is its faltering top-line growth, particularly in storage, which accounts for about 70% of sales. In 2011, that business had $14.7 billion in revenue, 16% above the year-earlier total. Last year, it came in at $16.1 billion, a 5% gain from the prior year's level. And in the second quarter, information infrastructure, which includes businesses like data security and analytics, eked out a 1% year-over-year revenue gain, to $4.4 billion.
EMC HAS BEEN HIT hard by slower overall IT spending, which has been rising about at a 2% to 3% annual clip, with more money going to the cloud. What's more, "Nobody knows what the data center will look like in three or four years, and, as a result, you see a lot of enterprises putting off making any major changes to their storage architecture," says Tim Daubenspeck, an analyst at ClearBridge Investments.
The days of the so-called client-server model—a company had its in-house data center—has given way to a world in which mobile devices dominate, and huge pools of data are moving to the cloud. However, the demise of the more traditional storage business isn't imminent.
Sarah Ketterer, CEO of Causeway Capital Management, which has held EMC stock since late last year, points out that many companies are "moving some applications to the cloud, but they also need traditional storage." And she adds: "We talk to chief information officers and the one area they don't want to skimp on is storage."
While trying to bolster its own cloud business, EMC is selling more products to cloud-service operators. It's also launched Pivotal, a unit in which it has a majority stake and that also draws on VMware, to develop cloud-related projects. Its second-quarter revenue was $54 million, much less than EMC's other divisions, but up nearly 30%, year over year.
VMware is a proven success. Acquired for about $625 million in 2004 and subsequently spun off, with EMC retaining an 80% stake, it's the company's crown jewel, accounting for roughly one-quarter of its revenue. VMware's second-quarter sales totaled nearly $1.5 billion, up 17%, year over year, and it's more profitable than the storage segment.
VMware plays a big role in the activist case of Paul Singer, Elliott Management's boss. "EMC has a highly unusual structure that is highly inefficient," says a person familiar with Elliott's thinking. One of the flaws of the federation structure, this person says, is that EMC and VMware compete against each other in areas such as storage.
During the company's second-quarter conference call on July 23, Tucci suggested that spinning off VMware didn't make sense. "Spinning out one of your most strategic assets—I don't know of another tech company that has done that and been successful," said Tucci, while still contending that he is open to hearing Elliott's ideas.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF a VMware spinoff could quickly boost EMC's stock. If EMC resists that move, a lengthy proxy battle could ensue.
Kulbinder Garcha, an analyst at Credit Suisse, says that if VMware is soon spun off, EMC could fetch up to $38 a share, depending on how much stock it buys back and how much debt it issues. Garcha maintains that EMC's storage business on its own would fetch a higher multiple, probably at least 10 times forward earnings, because it "has more opportunity for share gains within its main businesses and superior free-cash-flow generation, compared to peers."
Under a conservative scenario, in which EMC bought back $5 billion of its stock, the numbers would work this way: 10 times the $1.65 core EMC is expected to earn next year, or a price of $16.47; and 21 times the 75 cents VMware is likely to make next year, for a price of $15.72. Add those together and factoring in the lower share count, the stock is worth more than $33. In a more aggressive scenario, in which the company repurchases more shares, the stock could be worth $38.
EMC, recently below $30, could jump to $38 if it boosts its stock buybacks and spins off its VMware virtualization unit.
Even if VMware isn't spun off—and there's a good chance that it won't be, at least in the short term—EMC should do fine with its federation structure, though it could take longer for the stock to move.
As for the core storage business' slow growth, it has "more to do with the IT spending landscape," says S&P's Zino. "That business could start to improve once secular head winds start to subside a bit." What's more, EMC is upgrading some key products, including its high-end VMAX storage line, and that could help sales later this year.
In addition, Bernstein's Sacconaghi says Elliott's involvement likely puts a floor under the stock price: "When an activist gets involved, companies get focused on shareholder value."
So, regardless of what course EMC chooses, its stock should come out from under the cloud that's been hovering over it.
The shares of EMC, the world's largest data-storage company, have risen nearly 10% recently, overcoming their funk of recent years.


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Typhoid fever is a particularly nasty infection caused by the bacteria Salmonella typhi. The infection causes malaise, abdominal pain, a rash, diarrhoea or constipation, and in severe cases can result in intestinal bleeding and death. Although there are still millions of cases each year, the majority of these occur in areas where there are poor sanitation and hygiene, and typhoid is now treatable with antibiotics and preventable with vaccines.
A somewhat unusual aspect of typhoid fever is that not everyone infected with it develops symptoms. Certain people that contract it remain entirely asymptomatic, but although unaffected themselves, they can still transmit the disease to others. No name is more synonymous with the disease than that of Mary Mallon, better known as 'Typhoid Mary', the first identified typhoid carrier in the United States.
'Typhoid Mary' in a 1909 illustration that appeared in The New York American
The early life and career of Mary Mallon
Mary Mallon was born on September 23rd, 1869 in Cookstown, Ireland. Little is known about her early life, but she is known to have emigrated to the United States in either 1883 or 1884. Like the majority of Irish immigrants at that time she initially found work as a domestic servant. With time it became apparent that she had a talent for cooking, and around 1900 Mallon started to work as a cook for affluent families in the New York area.
Between 1900 and 1907 she worked for several families and a strange pattern developed that wherever Mary worked people within the household would develop typhoid fever. This was unusual as in the early 1900s in the United States, typhoid fever mainly affected poor urban communities, but these households were affluent, and doctors practising in the area at the time were surprised by the demographics of these cases.
In 1906 Mallon took a position in Oyster Bay, Long Island, working for a wealthy banker called Charles Warren. On August 27th, 1906, one of Warren's daughters fell ill with typhoid fever, and within a few weeks, 6 out of the 11 people residing in the household had fallen ill with typhoid fever.
The investigation of George Soper
The Warrens had hired the home in Oyster Bay from George Thompson and his wife. The Thompsons were shocked by this outbreak and became anxious that their water supply might be contaminated. Concerned that they would not be able to rent the property again without first discovering the source of the typhoid outbreak, they hired a local sanitation engineer called George Soper, who had experience investigating similar cases.
Soper initially hypothesised that freshwater clams were responsible and methodically interviewed the affected members of the household to see if they had eaten them. He soon discovered that this was not the case though, as not everyone stricken had eaten them. His suspicion quickly shifted to the household's cook Mallon, and he began to track her movements and investigate her. Soper discovered that Mallon had worked for eight other families in the New York area as a cook and that seven of these eight families had experienced cases of typhoid. A total of 22 people in these households had contracted the illness, including a young girl that had died. Soper decided that this was far more than a coincidence and decided to attempt to obtain blood, urine, and faeces samples from her.
In the spring of 1907, Mallon was in the employment of the Bowen family and Soper approached her there to get the samples he needed to prove his hypothesis. Soper later described this fiery encounter as follows:
"I had my first talk with Mary in the kitchen of this house. I was as diplomatic as possible, but I had to say I suspected her of making people sick and that I wanted specimens of her urine, faeces and blood. It did not take Mary long to react to this suggestion. She seized a carving fork and advanced in my direction. I passed rapidly down the long narrow hall, through the tall iron gate, and so to the sidewalk. I felt rather lucky to escape."
Soper tried on one further occasion to persuade Mallon to cooperate and provide samples but was once again greeted by a violent outburst. He then decided to hand over his research and notes to the New York City Health Department, and the doctor appointed to the case, Dr. Sara Josephine Baker, eventually managed to forcibly take Mallon to the Willard Parker Hospital in New York to be examined. Baker later described the dramatic events of the day:
"Mary was on the lookout and peered out, a long kitchen fork in her hand like a rapier. As she lunged at me with the fork, I stepped back, recoiled on the policeman and so confused matters that, by the time we got through the door, Mary had disappeared. 'Disappear' is too matter-of-fact a word; she had completely vanished."
After searching the house Dr. Baker and the Police quickly realised Mallon had fled to the house of a neighbour, and they tracked her to a closet there, where she was hiding:
"She came out fighting and swearing, both of which she could do with appalling efficiency and vigor. I made another effort to talk to her sensibly and asked her again to let me have the specimens, but it was of no use. By that time she was convinced that the law was wantonly persecuting her, when she had done nothing wrong. She knew she had never had typhoid fever; she was maniacal in her integrity. There was nothing I could do but take her with us. The policemen lifted her into the ambulance and I literally sat on her all the way to the hospital; it was like being in a cage with an angry lion."
Samples were taken later at the Willard Parker Hospital, and Salmonella typhi was found to be present in her stool. The first asymptomatic carrier of typhoid had been discovered. In 1907 over 3000 people in the New York area had contracted typhoid fever, and it is believed that Mallon was the main reason for the outbreak.
Dr. Sara Josephine Baker, pictured in 1922
Quarantine and the later life of Mary Mallon
Following this discovery, Mallon was taken to the Riverside Hospital on North Brother Island, where she was placed under quarantine. Throughout her period of quarantine, Mallon would persistently declare her innocence, declaring that she had never suffered from typhoid and could therefore not have been responsible for the outbreak. After two years at the Riverside Hospital, she decided to sue the New York Health Department.
Mary Mallon at the Riverside Hospital during her first period of quarantine.
The judge appointed to the case ruled in favour of the health department, and Mallon was returned to Riverside until 1910 when a new health commissioner decided to allow Mallon to go free on the condition that she would never work as a cook again. Mallon was released from her first period of quarantine on February 19th, 1910.
Initially, Mallon worked as a laundress, but she increasingly found it difficult to find work and support herself. After a couple of years, she changed her name to Mary Brown and began to work in kitchens again. Soper began to track her movements again and wherever she worked there were cases of typhoid, but she frequently changed jobs and moved, and he was unable to track her down.
In January 1915, a major outbreak of typhoid occurred at the Sloane Maternity Hospital in Manhattan. Mallon, still posing as Mary Brown, was working as a cook at the hospital during the outbreak. Twenty-five people contracted typhoid in this outbreak, and two died. She fled once again, but this time was quickly tracked down by the Police and arrested. Following her arrest, she was returned to Riverside and would remain quarantined there until she died of pneumonia, aged 69, on November 11th, 1938.
An autopsy performed following her death discovered evidence of the Salmonella typhi bacteria living in her gallbladder; she had remained a carrier until the day she died.
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Nekomataya est le pseudonyme d'un mangaka japonais spécialisé dans le hentai. L'auteur est édité dans différents magazines tels que Comic kairakuten Beast (COMIC快楽天BEAST), COMIC Megastore (コミックメガストア), Futanari Excellent (ふたなりエクセレント) et Futanarikko Lovers (ふたなりっ娘らばーず).

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 Aimai Bitter Sweet - 曖昧ビタースイート
 Aoi Hitomi no Koneko-chan - 青い瞳の小猫ちゃん
 Aya Sakura Emaki - 彩桜絵巻
 Az U like - Az U like
 Butaiura no Nemuri-hime - 舞台裏の眠り姫
 Fude Asobi - ふであそび
 Fude to Boin - フデとボイン
 Hana Temari - はなてまり
 Icha Icha Unbalance - イチャイチャアンバランス
 Innyanko - 淫にゃん娘。
 Iyashikei Idol Himitsu no Aibiki - 癒し系アイドル秘密の逢引
 Juicy Pillow Talk - Juicy Pillow Talk
 Kamen no Shita no Mitsujou - 仮面の下の密情
 Kan hi Sakura - 寒緋桜
 Kasshoku no Niizuma - 褐色の新妻
 Misa Note - Misa Note
 Nakisuna no Yoru - 鳴砂の夜
 Ore no Yome A to Z - オレの嫁 A to Z
 Ryouboumochi - 両棒餅
 SAKURA-AN - 桜餡
 Seifuku no Ero Terrorist - 制服のエロテロリスト
 Shidare Sakura - シダレザクラ
 Taka no Tsume - タカノツメ
 Tetsu no Otome - 鉄の乙女
 Toshiue no Hito - 年上のひと
 Totsugeki Mama Tank - 突撃ママタンク
 Tsubuyaki Unbalance - つぶやきアンバランス

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Solutions 2 Go, the exclusive distributor for ARK: Survival Evolved, has revealed new box art for the game's physical release.
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For this week I tried to use all the free pins of the tiny 44 microcontroller and added a switch and 3 LED.
My initial intention was to make traffic light with green yellow and red LED one on top of the other.
I put a lot of effort in arranging the traces so that the LED will have this certain configuration.
Eventually, I couldn't find a yellow LED so I put a red one instead.
I put the switch in a opposing side of the LED so the thumb pressing the LED will not block the LED as it lit.
This is the Eagle tracing of the board. I used a zero Ω resistor to solve the traces "puzzle" with the configuration I wanted.
I programmed the MC using C language based on the Hello FDTI example and the help from Brian.


Texas Traveler has written a bit about The Sam Houston National Forest (SHNF) but not yet has she devoted an entire trip to exploring the 160,000 acres of cool shady woodlands 50 miles north of Houston.
SHNF is so large that you can get to it pretty much by heading north on any of the three major north-south highways that go through Houston. Interstate 59 marks the eastern boundary of the forest and I-45 goes right through the middle of it (between New Waverly and Huntsville). If you take 290, be sure to exit Highway 6 I Hempstead going east, then take either 105 towards Montgomery (south of the forest) or Hwy 90 into the western arm of the park. Texas Traveler only suggests this route because it is much more scenic that straight-n-flat 45, and also to point out the forest's size, spanning three counties.
Texas Traveler found herself in Sam Houston in order to partake in a training run for the Houston Marathon along roughly 12 miles of the 128-mile Lone Star Hiking Trail. She can tell you this: 12 miles on flat ground feel like 12 long miles. Twelve miles on root-covered hilly primitive forest trails feel like 1200 miles. Happily, our trail ended on the shores of Lake Conroe, where we were able to take a cooling swim in surprisingly clean water.
One of the best ways for a newbie to explore the forest is with the help of the Lone Star Hiking Club, an organization formed 14 years ago for the express purpose of enjoying and preserving the Lone Star Hiking Trail. The group sets out every other Saturday for hikes than can be as long as 8 miles. Membership in the group is $15 a year which goes towards trail maintenance, surveying and group events like campouts.
A 27-mile section of the trail, winding from FM 945 to Winters Bayou, is recognized as a National Recreation Trail. The LSHT is footpath only, meaning no bikes or motorized vehicles are allowed.
However, there are 85 miles of multi-use trails which are popular with both dirt bikers and mountain bikers. On her next trip, Texas Traveler is going to brave the trails on horseback.
Along some parts of the trail, primitive camping is allowed (unless it's hunting season). But there are plenty of dedicated campgrounds, some fancy, some free. Texas Traveler stayed at Kelly's Pond, which though it's described as primitive has toilets, picnic tables and very close access to one of the Lone Star trail heads. The Stubblefield Lake Campground has more accommodations, including running water and a sheltered pavilion. Cost there is $10 per night.
Early fall is possibly the best time to visit the forest. The weather has cooled and the trails are less muggy. Rifle hunting season begins November 7, after which the trails and campsites become more crowded.