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FI-CORE / BLOOMBERG ARTICLE / EVENTS
I. FI-CORE
II. MORE POTENTIAL PROBLEMS: BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK
Thinking of going FI-Core? Tired of looking over your shoulder
to see if Gordon Greyson is taking pictures or harassing members,..
or one of his minions?
If you do decide to go Fi-Core, this is a letter you might get:
Re: American Federation of Musicians, Local 47 – and – ———–
(Your Resignation letter of ++-++-20++
This letter responds to your letter of ++-++-20++ to my office.
First, this letter acknowledges receipt of your correspondence
and your request to resign you (misspelled in the letter) membership
in American Federation of Musicians, Local 47 ("Local 47") as well
as the American Federation of Musicians (the AFM). As of today's
date, Local 47's records reflect that you are no longer a member
in good standing of Local 47 and, instead, you have opted to pay
Local 47 a representation fee in accordance with the United States
Supreme Court decision in Communication Workers of America
vs. Beck and the opinion of the National Labor Relations Board
in California Saw and Knife.
Local 47 further understands that, in accordance with the Beck and
California Saw and Knife decisions, you are not objecting to the payment
of full Local 47 dues. Rather, you are merely resigning your membership
in Local 47 and, thereby, forfeiting all rights and membership therein.
We have also forwarding your resignation request to the AFM. You will
receive a separate correspondence from the AFM with regard to your
request to resign from the AFM as those matters are processed directly
by the AFM.
Next, enclosed you will find the following:
1. A written "Certification" of Local 47's Agency Fee Calculations, for
calendar year 20++, executed by Bernard Kotlin and Co., Local 47's
outside auditor. As you can see from the text of the Certification, the
current calculation for chargeable expenses, with respect to the
Agency Fee obligation, is currently set at 81.2% of Local 47's regular
membership dues and work dues.
2. A copy of Local 47's current Agency Fee policy, which (a) describes
the categories of expenses that Local 47 had deemed chargeable/non-
chargeable and (b) sets forth the manner and method by which those
persons wishing to do so may object to Local 47's calculations of chargeable
and non-chargeable expenses.
Should you have any further questions regarding the matters set forth in
the enclosures contained in this letter, please direct them to my office.
+++++++++++++++++
American Federation of Musicians, Local 47, AFL-CIO
In case you might not be aware, the whole purpose
of the initial lawsuit was because a member did not
want his dues going to a particular politician. He
wanted that portion of his membership dues back.
In 1968, the Communications Workers of America
(CWA) used union members' dues, in part, to support
Vice President Hubert Humphrey's campaign for President
of the United States[54] and Senator Joseph Tydings'
re-election campaign.[45] Harry Beck was a maintenance
worker with the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.
(C&PT) in Maryland and a CWA organizer.[54][55] Beck
protested the use of his union dues for a political cause
in which he did not believe and asked for a refund.[54]
The CWA refused, arguing that using union dues for
political expenditures was appropriate and legal.[45]
In the early 1970s, after disagreeing with national CWA
officials over a union organizing drive in suburban
Baltimore, Maryland, Beck resigned from the union
and began to pay the $10-a-month agency fee.[54][55]
Beck continued to protest the use of his agency fee for
political purposes, and asked the CWA to provide a
more accurate accounting of how much money it spent
on politics.[55] The union refused.[55]
In June 1976, Beck and 19 other non-union members
of the CWA's bargaining unit at C&PT sued the union
for a refund.[45][51][54][55][56] The National Right to
Work Legal Defense Foundation provided legal counsel
and support to Beck and the other 18 workers.[45][54][55]
Beck quit C&PT in 1979 and moved to Oregon, where he
worked at CWA-organized job at American Telephone &
Telegraph and continued to pay his agency fee.[55]
For more info and history please see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Workers_of_America_v._Beck#cite_note-33
The article below is from BloombergBusinesweek.
by Josh Eidelson
UNIONS ARE LOSING THEIR DECADES LONG 'RIght-to-Work'
Mandatory fees are endangered at the Supreme Court,
statehouses. and Congress.
Last year the total share of U.S. workers who belong to a union
fell to 10.7 percent, a record low. That number could go a lot
lower in the next few years. Following decades of declining
membership, unions face an existential crisis as right-to-work
laws being pushed at state and federal levels would ban
their ability to collect mandatory fees from the workers
they represent, a key source of revenue for organized labor.
Once largely confined to the conservative South, right-to-work
is encroaching on unions' longtime strongholds in the North
and Midwest and, pending a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, could
soon cover a majority of the unionized workforce in the U.S.
Following a 47-year lull, six states in five years have passed
right-to-work laws. "The South is clearly winning this particular
civil war," says University of California at Santa Barbara
historian Nelson Lichtenstein.
In their first weeks in office, the new Republican governors of
Kentucky and Missouri have already signed right-to-work laws,
making them the 27th and 28th states, respectively, to ban
mandatory union fees. By Feb. 16, New Hampshire's House
of Representatives will vote on a proposal, endorsed by the
state's Republican governor and already approved by its Senate,
to become the first right-to-work state in the Northeast. In Iowa,
where right-to-work is already the law, Republicans are looking
to further curb unions' power with a bill restricting public
employees' collective bargaining rights.
"Organized labor—it's really the man behind the curtain in
The Wizard of Oz," says Matt Patterson, who directs Americans
for Tax Reform's Center for Worker Freedom, an anti-union
nonprofit. "People aren't scared of them the way they used
to be." Right-to-work is now the law in almost every state
where Republicans control the governorship and the state
legislature. The only exception other than New Hampshire
is Ohio, where a sweeping anti-union law was successfully
overturned by a referendum in 2011.
The most expansive change is likely to come from the
Supreme Court, whose 5-4 conservative majority will be
restored if the Senate confirms Neil Gorsuch to fill Justice
Antonin Scalia's seat. Before Scalia's death last year, unions
were bracing for a likely defeat in Friedrichs v. California
Teachers Association, a case brought by teachers and
conservative groups who argued that mandatory union
fees violate government employees' constitutional rights.
Without Scalia, that case deadlocked at 4-4, but several
similar suits are pending in lower courts.
Labor leaders expect the issue could reach the Supreme
Court in time for a ruling this year, making right-to-work
the law of the land for the entire public sector, which
employs about half the 14.6 million U.S. union members.
"There's not a doubt in my mind that the clock is ticking
on that one," says Greg Junemann, president of the
International Federation of Professional & Technical
Engineers. Service Employees International Union President
Mary Kay Henry, who before Scalia's death said her
union was preemptively "preparing to become a voluntary
organization," sent staff a memo after Donald Trump's
election win announcing that the union would plan for a
30 percent cut in its budget, almost all of which comes
from dues and fees.
Unions have been trying to get ahead of the challenge. Since
2013 staff members and activists from the 1.6 million-strong
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
have conducted 600,000 one-on-one conversations with
workers covered by AFSCME contracts. AFSCME officials say
they reached a sobering conclusion in 2015 about how the
workers it represents might behave under right-to-work:
While roughly 35 percent would likely pay dues no matter
what, about half could be "on the fence." The remaining 15
percent or so would likely not pay dues under right-to-work.
"We've found that at times we were treating all of our 1.6
million members as if they were activists, and they aren't,"
says AFSCME President Lee Saunders. "We were taking some
things for granted."
AFSCME says it's overhauled how it communicates with
workers, including targeting its e-mails and Facebook
ads so those who are lukewarm on the union are more
likely to get information about obtaining a free associate's
degree through the union than to see a call to action
with an upraised fist.
The unionization rate in right-to-work states is
less than half the rest of the country's. Organizers
say letting workers decline to pay fees defunds unions,
diverts staff resources that could otherwise be devoted
to growth, and divides workers—just as Congress
intended when it passed the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act
allowing states to pass right-to-work laws. By 1964,
20 states had banned mandatory fees. After that the
map stayed nearly static for almost half a century,
with just three more states passing right-to-work and
one repealing it.
Then, after the 2010 midterm elections, unions' flagging
political clout and Republicans' newfound dominance
in state government ushered in a surge of right-to-work
laws, beginning in 2012 in Indiana and spreading to onetime
union bastions Michigan and Wisconsin. Each new law lets
conservatives in neighboring states claim they need to follow
suit to compete for business. And labor's failure to deliver
on promises to oust right-to-work backers has helped
embolden Republicans elsewhere.
Republicans in Congress have introduced a bill to make
the nation's entire private sector right-to-work. Although
it's unlikely to pass unless Republicans abolish the filibuster,
private-sector unions like the Communications Workers
of America say they're preparing for the potential loss of
mandatory fees. Mark Mix, president of the nonprofit
National Right to Work Committee, says he jokes with
his staff members about updating their résumés. Once
right-to-work is a nationwide policy, he says, the 62-y
ear-old organization will have completed its mission.
"As soon as we pass this bill," says Mix, "we're clearing
The bottom line: Right-to-work laws are encroaching
on unions' longtime strongholds in the North and Midwest.
Everyone who is a member of the AFM knows
how membership has atrophied over the last few
years, and NOT because of right-to-work. The
reason the AFM membership has been reduced
so drastically is because the AFM does not
represent ALL members, but only the Elites in
Recording and in Orchestras under a CBA.
In 1983, the Los Angeles local has in the area
of 13,000 members. Now? The membership
is little more than 6,000. Why? The Local
concentrates it's efforts on recording musicians
to the exclusion of everyone else. Work has left,
and the union knows full well what has to be
done to get it back, but rather kiss the ring
of the RMA, as the IEB does as well.
If you want to know who to blame for the
work loss, there are many reasons, but locally
look no further than the board of your AFM
Local, OR the fact that their hands are tied
by the control of the RMA over the AFM.
Let's be clear, the COMMITTEE fully supports
an honest union, a union that DESERVES the
support of the rank and file, which Local 47
does not.
If we didn't care, why would we still be here?
If we didn't care we'd have wiped are hands
of this corrupt local long ago.
DON'T MISS THE
NEWPORT BEACH JAZZ PARTY
February 23rd thru February 26th
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Friday, February 24th @ 2:30pm
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Info about upcoming programs through JUNE 2017
On Wednesday MARCH 1, 2017 at 12:10-12:40 pm
viola d'amore player Adriana Zoppo, flutist Sherril Woods
and cellist Alexa Haynes-Pilon performing Telemann and Quantz
Sanctuary of Glendale City Church,
ASMAC 'First WEDNESDAYS'
Legendary and Award-winning Recording Engineers
Al Schmitt, Joel Iwataki,
and Tommy Vicari
Moderated by: Renowned harpist Gayle Levant
Wednesday, March 1, 2017!–
Meet & Greet: 7 pm • Program: 7:30 pm
817 Vine Street, Hollywood, CA 90038
ASMAC is excited to present THREE world famous
recording and mix engineers as they discuss
their insight on working with arrangers,
composers and orchestrators.
Tips and tricks for arrangers, composers and orchestrators.
How a recording engineer can help you.
How you can help an recording engineer.
Preparing for a recording session.
Technology and acoustic recording.
Combining various orchestral and electronic elements.
When is instrument separation important –
when should it be avoided.
Working with virtual orchestras and sample libraries.
The final mix process and preparing stems.
Virtual plugins.
Much Much More !!!
in concert!
Our next concert, "Celebrating Spring" is quickly approaching!
Conductor: Charles Fernandez
Concert location:
Pasadena Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church,
310 N. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena 91103
Tickets are now available online at the usual location:
Concert program includes:
• Gounod – Petite Symphonie (1st movement only)
• Bloch – Prayer for a Jewish Life (David Shostac)
• Blavet – Concerto (1st movement, Debbie MacMurray)
• Mozart – Flute and Harp Concerto (David Shostac & Naomi Alter)
*** Intermission ***
• Vaughan Williams – Thomas Tallis Theme
• McIntosh, – Romance for Bassoon (Charles Fernandez)
• Alter – Introspective Blues (David Miller)
• Gluck – Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Frederick Staff)
• Fernandez – Quiet House and a Mouse
• Selden – When I Fall in Love (Fred Selden)
• Encore: Fernandez – Closer Walk with Thee
The Musicians at Play presents
Patrick Williams Big Band Live at the Moss
with special guests Arturo Sandoval and Peter Erskine
Saturday- March 25th, 2017 8:00PM
Click "Buy Tickets" to reserve your tickets up to 12:00 p.m. on the
day of the show (Remaining tickets will be available at door at show time.)
Award-winning composer Patrick Williams presents The Big Band Live!
featuring special guests Arturo Sandoval and Peter Erskine.
VIP – Doors 7:00 p.m. early entry – refreshments
General & Premium – Doors open 7:30 p.m.
Concert starts: 8:00 p.m. (there will be a brief intermission)*
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-Geoff Nudell and Parker Gaims (now a member
of the US Marine Corps Band) play Felix Mendelssohn's
virtuosic Two Concert Pieces.
Also on the program will be two works by the LA Winds'
resident composer,
– Charles Fernandez
• Sunday March 26, 2017
• 2:30 p.m.
Performing Arts Education Centers.
ASMAC MASTERCLASS / EVENTS
I. ASMAC MASTERCLASSES
II. EVENTS
…The one voice of reason in a sea of insanity – Nashville 'first call'
scoring musician
…Allows us to speak our minds without fear of reprisal – L.A. Symphonic musician
I. ASMAC MASTERCLASSES presents "Steve and Julie Bernstein"
on Music for Animation!
Join us Thursday evening, February 23rd
Valley College
5800 Fulton Ave., Valley Glen
A MASTER CLASS
Julie Bernstein and Steve Bernstein
Music for Animation
Pay in Advance or at the Door
to guarantee sufficient hand-out materials.
Join ASMAC THURSDAY EVENING – February 23rd- for an informative
Master Class with two Emmy Award winning composers of the hit
series Animaniacs, Pinky & the Brain, Freakazoid, Histeria! and
Baby Looney Tunes, to name a few. Discover what is involved in
writing music for animation, including effective spotting, thematic
development, musical vocabulary, song parodies and much more.
Four-time Emmy-award-winning composer JULIE BERNSTEIN has
worked in animation as a composer, orchestrator, arranger,
conductor, singer and producer. Animated series include Animaniacs,
Pinky and the Brain, Freakazoid, Histeria!, Tiny Toons, Baby Looney
Toons, Make Way for Noddy, the feature Wakko's Wish, theatrical
short "Carrotblanca" and CDs Yakko's World, Animaniacs and Tweety's
High-Flying Adventure. Her work has been played by the Cleveland
Youth Orchestra, the Kentucky Symphony and the COTA Symphony.
Julie has written numerous arrangements for string quartet and voice,
the most recent having just been recorded in Paris by Natalie Dessay
and members of the Paris Mozart Orchestra. Julie's arrangement of
"Little Green" by Joni Mitchell, written for the Turtle Island String
Quartet and Tierney Sutton, can be heard on Ms. Sutton's Grammy-
nominated album "After Blue".
Collaborations with her husband, composer Steve Bernstein, include:
Make Way for Noddy, Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars, Baby Looney
Tunes (for which they were Emmy-nominated), Disney's One Saturday
Morning, main title songs for Dig Into History and Steven Spielberg
Presents: Toonsylvania, a CD of songs commissioned by Kid Rhino
Records inspired by the feature Tweety's High-Flying Adventure, as
well as numerous independent films. Julie and Steve co-wrote "Snapshots"
for oboe, cello and soprano, commissioned by the Young Musicians
Foundation for YMF's "Living the Legacy" award. They recently wrote
the orchestrations for the very popular Animaniacs Live!, premiered
by the Colorado Symphony.
STEVEN BERNSTEIN is a five-time Emmy-winning composer whose
commercial music spans genres from horror to cartoons. His music
is heard in such hit television series as Animaniacs, Pinky and the
Brain, Freakazoid, and Tiny Toon Adventures, along with the
collaborations listed above with his wife Julie. Recent film scores
include the grisly horror films Pernicious andBlood Lake: Attack of
the Killer Lampreys. He is currently scoring the feature documentary
Mr. Fish: Cartooning From the Deep End.
As an accomplished conductor, orchestrator, arranger and producer,
Steve has worked on numerous motion pictures, TV productions,
popular video games and recordings. His orchestrations can be heard
in the films Skyfall, The Amazing Spiderman, The Spiderwick Chronicles,
Millions, Windtalkers, City by the Sea, How the Grinch Stole Christmas,
The Perfect Storm, Supernova and numerous others. He wrote the
arrangements and produced the album FOREVERMORE for singer-
songwriter Aron Celnick and co-produced the album Tweety's High-
Flying Adventure with Julie, performing and writing music and lyrics
for many of the tracks. As part of the resurgence of interest in cartoon
music, he has guest-conducted for the Cleveland Youth Orchestra,
the Colorado Symphony and the Kentucky Symphony, performing
several of his own scores live to picture.
Steven has written extensively for the concert hall, receiving several
commissions for large-scale works, both choral and orchestral, and
for various chamber ensembles. He has also been active in the
preservation of classic film scores, from such films as The Wizard of
Oz, Gone With the Wind and The Bride of Frankenstein; reconstructing
music which had been lost or destroyed,.
Don't Miss this very special opportunity to learn from the Bernsteins!
Valley College – Music Building
5800 Fulton Ave., Valley Glen, CA
Corner of Fulton & Oxnard
(Check-in & Refreshments – 6:30 pm )
Free parking in lot on corner of Fulton and Oxnard.
ASMAC Members and Students – $25
Non-Members – $40
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DEAN AND RICHARD
Elizabeth Farnum, soprano
Claudia Schaer, violin
Max Lifchitz, conductor
The North/South Chamber Orchestra
premieres by
Arthur Gottschalk, David Maves,
Winnie Yang , Margarita Zelenaia
Sunday, February 19 at 3 PM
Christ & St Stephen's Church
120 West 69th Street (bet Bway & Columbus)
Free Admission (no tickets necessary)
http://www.northsouthmusic.org/calendar.asp
The North/South Chamber Orchestra celebrates winter on
Sunday afternoon February 19 performing a free-admission
concert featuring four listener-friendly works by American
composers.
Soprano Elizabeth Farnum and violinist Claudia Schaer will
appear as soloists while the ensemble's founder Max Lifchitz
will conduct.
The program will introduce New York City audiences to recent
compositions by Arthur Gottschalk, David Maves, Lan-In Winnie
Yang and Margarita Zelenaia.
The event is part of the Composers Now Festival.
It will take place at the intimate and acoustically superior
auditorium of Christ & St Stephen's Church (120 West 69th
Street) on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The free-admission
event will start at 3 PM and end around 4:30 PM. The auditorium
is ADA accessible.
No tickets or reservations needed.
The composers will be in attendance and will introduce their
works to the audience. Composers and soloists are available
for interviews and media events. They may be contacted
through our office.
ABOUT THE COMPOSERS AND THEIR MUSIC
Arthur Gottschalk is active as composer and arranger for feature
films, television and commercials in the Houston area. A long-time
Rice University faculty member, his musical style has been described
by the international press as "rapturous, argumentative, prickly and
fascinatingly strange." A winner of the Charles Ives Prize of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters, Gottschalk's works have
received multiple performances in Europe and the US.
His Imagenes de Cuba (Cuban Images) was inspired by frequent
visits to the Caribbean island as well as by memories of his time
as a trombonist in salsa bands. The work is in three movements:
Manisero, a playful examination of an ancient peanut vendor's
cry heard to this day in the plazas of old Havana; Guajira, a
typically slow movement which deconstructs the unofficial national
anthem of Cuba and Timba, a boisterous colloquy between the
members of the ensemble displaying a panoply of salsa and
pachanga rhythms.
David Maves served as Composer-in-Residence for the College of
Charleston in South Carolina, for over 30 years. His catalogue
includes symphonies, concertos and an opera based on Federico
García Lorca's Bodas de Sangre (Blood Weddings).
Inspired by John Donne's poem Lovers' Infinitennes, Maves' song
cycle The Captive is music envisioned as "….the poet's lover
reading the poem aloud with wonder; in awe, deeply moved, and
yet perhaps a bit frustrated as conditions pile up as the poet
attempts to construct an imaginary but air-tight intellectual edifice
within which the lovers are inextricably bound to each other —
forever." Soprano Elizabeth Farnum will deliver the solo voice part.
Active as composer and pianist, Lan-In Winnie Yang has appeared
on concert stages throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States.
Trained at Oberlin, the Manhattan School and Stony Brook University,
Yang serves as Music Director for the Taiwan-NY Music Guild. Her
works have been performed by distinguished soloists and ensembles
including pianist Gilbert Kalish and violinist Philip Setzer. Her many
awards include first prizes from the Taiwan National Composition
and Piano Competitions.
Yang's Transfiguration is a single movement composition for solo
violin and string orchestra written especially for violinist Claudia
Schaer. Dramatic and powerful, the music is built around mutations
of the four-note gesture heard at the outset. The demanding
writing provides the soloist and ensemble with ample opportunity
for technical display.
Margarita Zelenaia has received grants from the Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council; the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance; and the
American Composers Forum. In her native Russia, her compositions
have been heard as part of the Moscow Autumn Festival; the Young
Peoples' Arts Festival; and the Moscow Spring Festival. Musical
commentators have observed that "without prejudices and stereotypes
in her writing, Zelenaia possesses a rare ability to infuse her music
with humor and lyrical tenderness, while also producing works of
tremendous depth and seriousness."
Her work I Believe "aims to convey my hope for world harmony and
peace. It is based on three prayers each representing a different
faith: Jewish, Russian and American gospel. Prayers have that
natural course of movement, where both the music and the text are
joined at a certain level of vibration."
Elizabeth Farnum has been praised for her "lovely soaring soprano,
great agility and beautiful tone." She has appeared at Lincoln Center,
the Library of Congress, London's Institute for Contemporary Art,
the American Academy at Rome and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Her various interests have led her to performances on Broadway, at
the Metropolitan Opera, and to five continents on tour with diverse
ensembles, including early music groups Pomerium and the Waverly
Consort.
Canadian violinist Claudia Schaer trained at The Juilliard School
before earning a doctorate from Stony Brook University. Described
by the press as a "rock-solid performer" and praised for her
"outstanding musicianship," Schaer has appeared as soloist at the
Thy Chamber Festival in Denmark; the Berlin Philharmonic's Opera
Barga Festival in Italy; the Luzerne Festival in Switzerland; and China's
Nanning Festival.
Conductor Max Lifchitz was awarded first prize in the 1976
International Gaudeamus Competition for Performers of Twentieth
Century Music held in Holland. The San Francisco Chronicle described
him as "a composer of brilliant imagination and a stunning, ultra-
sensitive pianist." The New York Times praised him for "clean,
measured and sensitive performances."
For the complete Winter/Spring concert series schedule please visit
To stream, download and/or purchase the more than 60 compact discs
released on the North/South Recordings label
please go to
RESPONSE / COMMENT / EVENTS
I. RESPONSE TO THE LAST BLOG
I am perplexed why this blog hasn't generated ANY discussion. First,
the letter from Charles Fernandez warrants a discussion about the
ongoing persecution by the AFM of a select group of working musicians
here in Los Angeles. I say "select" because some people are being
brought up on charges while others are still getting away with playing
dark dates.
I'm sure most of us are aware of it happening, but I worry that many
people still feel that if they simply keep their heads down it won't
happen to them. Maybe that was true 10 years ago, but it is definitely
not true today. Why doesn't this make people mad??? I was one of
those people – until I was brought up on charges by AFM.
I too had to hire an attorney to help me navigate through the Answer
/Rebuttal/Surrebuttal process only to suffer the indignity of learning
that the IEB met behind closed doors, found me guilty and expelled me.
I was never granted a hearing nor did they ever answer my questions
or address my concerns!
That is not only a direct violation of the AFM By-laws, it is a violation
of my constitutional rights. Thankfully, I had already been granted
Fi-core status so I am free to perform both union and non-union work.
Things need to change here in LA if working musicians ever want to be
able to work freely without fear of repercussion. The answer is simple.
Until California becomes a "Right To Work" state, musicians need to
strongly consider declaring their Fi-core/Beck status in order to do
both union and non-union work out in the open.
The second letter in the blog should also get people's attention.
This letter was written in 2008 by a member of Local 802 accurately
describing and predicting the demise of the film music recording industry.
That was NINE years ago!
It is now 2017 and we have lost the majority of our recording contracts
to overseas orchestras. Why isn't this generating discussion? Why
doesn't this make people mad as hell and want to change the situation?
Los Angeles has a plethora of amazing musicians who are ready, willing
and able to play these sessions. What is it going to take to get enough
people to speak out so that change can begin to happen?
I am perplexed. I simply do not get it. I hope this will generate some
discussion. (Be careful what you wish for, right?)
I don't see how Local 47 can charge someone for conducting a non-union
date when conducting isn't listed in the bylaws as a position that must
be a union position. They have no grounds for this and if they did,
ALL CONDUCTORS of non-union sessions MUST be treated the same,
getting the same harassment and ridicule. It's a shame that Local 47
continues to be a bottomless pit for wasting musicians' money this way.
Wouldn't it be wiser if they invested those funds/time/energy on
bringing NEW WORK to LA?!
Charles Fernandez doesn't need a lawyer, he needs an ARMY!! Who
else has the cajones to join us? Unjust treatment and harassment
should not be condoned or dismissed. It's called aiding and abetting.
Doing nothing is just as bad as what the union is trying to do:
unlawfully attacking one of its own.
And commentary from Charles Fernandez on the comments above:
Is it that they (members) don't care?, Are fine as long as it's not them?,
Or are they scared to speak up, even as there is so little work left it's not
as though they'll lose work they don't have a chance in hell of getting
in any case? OR,… is it that they've long ago given up on this corrupt
group and are simply apathetic, expecting nothing better.
For any member to be summarily expelled without a chance to defend
themselves,… in effect guilty until proven innocent, is breaking labor
law and the spirit of our "innocent until proven guilty" history. These
folks have no shame, even as they expel other members for doing what
they themselves do.
Despicable, inexcusable and what you would expect from a dictator,
cult or mafia, not a union.
Now that the Local 47/Club has millions of dollars in
the bank….the BOD is planning to produce an "Awards
Show" along the lines of SAG-AFTA…Grammys, Golden
Globe. They were discussing a name for it…they should
just call it the RMA Awards. Sickening!
N.B. = Nota Bene
The graveyards are full of people who thought they
were indispensable! Can't blame the BOD for dancing
with the ones that " brung em".
(three hour min…check every Friday…)
Long Time Member in Good Standing
PALISADES SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conductor Joel B. Lish
Sunday, February 12, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Mendelssohn: "Hebrides" Overture
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto – Helen Goode-Castro, Clarinet Soloist
Schumann: Symphony No. 4
Admission is free; open seating
Palisades Lutheran Church
15905 Sunset Boulevard
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
LATIN LOVE – AMOR LATINO
Songs of Love and Longing from Spain and the Americas
Celia Castro, soprano
Anna Tonna, mezzo – soprano
Celeste Mann, alto
Max Lifchitz, piano
art songs by
Clotilde Arias, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Max Lifchitz,
Miquel Ortega, Claudio Santoro & Joaquín Turina
National Opera Center
330 Seventh Ave (7th FL)
Vocalists Celia Castro, Anna Tonna and Celeste Mann
join forces with pianist Max Lifchitz the afternoon of
February 12 for an afternoon recital featuring art songs
about love and longing by composers from Spain
and the Americas.
The intimate, one-off a kind program, will highlight
songs with texts in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian by
Brazilians Chiquinha Gonzaga and Claudio Santoro;
Peruvian Clotilde Arias; and Spaniard Joaquín Turina.
Of special interest, will be the premiere of a song cycle
especially written for the occasion by Barcelona-based
Miquel Ortega and one by Max Lifchitz inspired by the
poetry of Mexico's muse – the 17th century intellectual
and women's rights activist Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
The free-admission concert will start at 3 PM and will
be held at the National Opera Center's Marc A. Scorca
Hall located at 330 Seventh Ave (FL 7) in New York City.
It will be streamed live starting at 3 PM (EST) through
youtube.com/NatOperaCenterLive
The event is possible in part with public funds from the
NYS Council on the Arts and the NYC Department of
Cultural Affairs as well as grants from the Women's
Philharmonic Advocacy and the Zethus Fund.
Event part of the Composers Now Festival.
To stream, download and/or purchase the more than
60 compact discs released by the North/South Recordings
label please go to
North/South Recordings
streamed live at starting at 3 PM (EST) through
Wed. FEBRUARY 15, 2017 at 12:10-12:40 pm at the
Free Admission Glendale Noon Concerts:
The Music of Scott Joplin featuring
violinist Yvette Devereaux, with
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LETTER FROM CHARLES FERNANDEZ / 802-2008 / LETTER / COMMENT / EVENTS
Friday, February 3rd, 2017
I. LETTER FROM CHARLES FERNANDEZ
II. FROM THE 802 ARCHIVES – 2008
III. MEMBER LETTER
IV. COMMENTS
I. A LETTER FROM CHARLES FERNANDEZ
No doubt some will give each other high-5's that the local is using
all it's resources to financially damage a single member who has tried
to make the local more responsive, accountable and transparent for the
rank and file against it's will.
Here is a letter I have submitted to the Overture. In anticipation of
there refusal to publish it, I share it here.
If you would like to respond, please either respond directly to me,
[email protected] or through the responsible47.com site.
Pro or con is of course welcome, and all comments will be published
unless you request it not to be, your name will of course not be included.
As of this date, they still are not giving up on these bogus charges. Perhaps
if enough members call them out they will do the right thing.
I thank you in advance,
My name is Charles Fernandez. I've been a Local 47 member and Emmy/Annie nominated composer/orchestrator/conductor/bassoonist since 1983. I am being targeted for conducting on an educational demo for an English music university. They brought students to Los Angeles to record with Los Angeles musicians. I arranged a connection with a contractor and left it to them. I was at the session to help students in whatever way they needed as an employee of the company. A couple of them needed me to conduct.
Though I am being charged with conducting, conducting is NOT a union craft. The word "conducting' does not appear in the local's bylaws. The charges are baseless.
Two former employees informed me that they were told to include a conductor on a contract only IF they wanted to be. We all know why. If they had to enforce a non-existent rule about conducting they'd have to charge a former RMA President who has worked in London countless times. In fact, he'd have a stack of fines a foot high.
Members of the executive board, trial board, all committees, orchestrators, "a" list members and copyists work non-union. They have no choice. My targeting is selective enforcement and designed to hurt me financially.
The lawyer fees I have had to pay are above $10,000 at this point. The letters first came from Gordon Grayson, but now the letters are coming from Louis Levy's Law Firm.
That means the Local is paying the hourly fees of a professional law firm out of member's money to target, not a company, nor a studio, nor an orchestra, nor a band, but to target a single member.
A union member who actually played on the session was told they would be charged UNLESS they signed a letter stating they saw me specifically conduct. That is targeting.
While one of the duties of the AFM is to protect members from warrantless harassment and targeting, the AFM has slow walked the process as much as the Local. I cannot get a fair hearing at the local OR the national.
This is the type of conduct our local engages in if you dare speak up. They should be ashamed and are doing nothing but guaranteeing a counter suit for damages.
If you find this as unacceptable as I do, please contact the Local.
Charles Fernandez
Local 47 member since 1983
II. FROM LOCAL 802 ARCHIVE
{EC: Colleagues, Considering how bad things have gotten, this
letter from an 802 member from 2008 should let you how
bad it's was even 9 yeas ago….)
Archive: Volume CVIII No. 10 October, 2008
Readers Speak Out!
The Musicians' Voice: Recording at a Crossroads
The Musicians' Voice is an open forum for discussion about the state of union affairs. The letters published here do not necessarily express the views of Local
802. Letters must be 300 words or less.
RE: RECORDING AT A CROSSROADS
I'd like to ask my fellow musicians a few questions. How many union film sessions have you done in the last year? Of those sessions, how many do you realistically think will pay any back end? One more question: Who is recording all the low-budget, indie, made-for-cable and foreign film sessions? The bulk of that work, when it actually uses live musicians, is recorded nonunion.
We need to stop living in the good old days when every film was made in Hollywood and every session was with a major studio. Today's films are made all over the world and even in home studios. Many production companies are put-together operations that don't have full-time accountants to track secondary markets year after year.
There is a lot of work out there that we don't have, and we will not get it unless we change the way we do business. I enjoy getting my special payments checks and I would push to strengthen those markets that are still healthy enough to support them. But we have our heads in the sand if we think that all of today's markets are the same and that one contract fits all.
I am totally pro union. But we must be realistic and not repeat mistakes
made by other unions in the past.
Globalization is a reality. Do you have any idea how little European orchestras
charge for recording? These are orchestras with world-class musicians.
I strongly disagree with those who think that digging in our heels is
the answer. The strength of our union will be in its ability to adapt
with changing technology and its many markets, not with stubbornly
holding on to old practices that don't work anymore.
III. MEMBER LETTER from Dr. Len Bergantino
Dear Local 47 Members,
I spoke with Don Vappie a few weeks ago about the selling of Local
47 buildings and properties. Don in my view is the best tenor banjo
player alive today. Wanton Marsalis calls him from New York to play
at the Lincoln Center for Dixieland Jazz.
As tradition would have it, Don's father played in the New Orleans
Local with Wynton's father as did their grandfathers!
Don is aware of the special nature of Local 47. I visited the New Orleans
Local. Don had the following to say:
They sold he New Orleans Local Building which was on Esplanade Street
for One Million Dollars. Everybody was pissed. I hear they sold three
other Locals (he rattled off 3 cities which I do not recall, although I think
Chicago was one of them.)
Don and I both lamented about the tradition of Los Angeles and New
Orleans Locals having g the finest musicians in the world go through
their doors. From Louis Armstrong to my second trumpet teacher's son,
the great lead trumpet player Conrad Gozzo whose picture was on the
wall of Local 47 doing the 16 years I was a member.
Dr. Len Bergantino
The union only controls half of the pension fund fiduciaries.
It seem that the only recourse we have to this terrible
performance is to put pressure on them to resign and ask
Ray Hair to replace them with members who have knowledge
of capital markets.
We don't have any control over the employer appointed
members, other than pressure as employees.
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The response on Twitter to George Zimmerman's acquittal in the killing of Trayvon Martin was almost equally divided between sharing news about the verdict and weighing in on it. And among those offering opinions about the outcome, their conclusion was very different from the jurors'.
According to a new Pew Research Center analysis of nearly 5 million tweets about the case in the first 26 hours after the verdict, 39% of the statements on Twitter shared news without any opinion. That demonstrates the degree to which the social media platform functions as a vehicle for disseminating breaking news by both citizens and news organizations. But of the 38% of the statements offering clear views about the result, those expressing anger or opposition to the verdict (31%) outnumbered those in support of the acquittal (7%) by more than 4:1.
For determining the tone of the conversation on Twitter, we employed methods that combine Pew Research's content analysis rules with computer coding software developed by Crimson Hexagon. Crimson Hexagon identifies statistical patterns in words used on Twitter and includes all public Twitter posts.
The sentiments decrying the verdict were often emotional and frequently evoked a racial subtext, according to an analysis of the Twitter response to the trial outcome from 10 p.m. July 13 to midnight on July 14. Among that group, the largest component (15% of the Twitter reaction ) was criticism of the criminal justice system, including charges that it is biased against African Americans. Another 14% accused Zimmerman of wrong-doing, such as deliberately profiling Martin. And 2% spoke of Trayvon Martin as an innocent victim.
The next highest level of attention (11%) was devoted to the media's role in the case—an issue highlighted by Zimmerman attorney Mark O'Mara's public condemnation of the press after the verdict. The level of Twitter engagement in the case spiked dramatically after the verdict. The nearly 5 million tweets (4.9 million) in the first 26 hours after the verdict virtually equaled the total volume of tweets (5.1 million) about the case posted during the entirety of the 33-day trial. By way of comparison, there were 4.7 million tweets alone on July 14 in contrast with an average of about 151,000 tweets each day during the trial.
The key themes to emerge on Twitter after the verdict reflect the sentiment tracked by Pew Research back in 2012 as news of the Martin shooting surfaced in the mainstream media. In the period from March 17-28, 2012, calls for justice for Martin, expressions of sympathy for him and his family and outrage toward Zimmerman represented the biggest component of the conversation, at 40%. By contrast, only 6% of the Twitter sentiment at the time involved a defense of Zimmerman's actions or skepticism and doubts about Martin.
Back in 2012, the role of race was an explicit theme in 8% of the statements on Twitter. In many of the tweets that voiced anger after the verdict, race was either manifest or lurking closely below the surface—with a new focus on the criminal justice system.
Miss Priss. tweeted: "Emit till, Sean bell, trayvon Martin, and Kendrick Johnson…. Who is next?" Till was a 14-year old African-American murdered in 1955 after supposedly flirting with a white woman. Johnson was an African-American teenager whose recent death in a high school gym has triggered charges that local law enforcement authorities have mishandled the case.
The tweets criticizing Zimmerman often focused on his role and actions as a neighborhood security watchdog. "Zimmerman HAD choices. He could have stayed in truck with door locks or drove away/waited for police #trayvonmartin," tweeted @TheFocuus.
A number of professional athletes received attention for their tweets in the aftermath of the verdict, including pro football player Roddy White, who wrote that the jurors should "kill themselves for letting a grown man get away with killing a kid," and later apologized for his "extreme" remarks.
The more infrequent tweets supporting the verdict stressed the idea that Zimmerman had acted to protect himself.
"Y'all were stupid to ever thank that man deserved to go to jail. It was self defense. Case closed. I'm glad he's free!," tweeted Heather Eller.
More than that, though, some social media users expressed the view that despite his freedom, Zimmerman would not and could not resume a normal life. "honestly Zimmerman might have been safer in jail at this point," tweeted Taylor Christie.
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Home » Articles » Emancipation and Magna Carta
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian, Sunday 31st July, 2016.
By Dr Hamid Ghany, University of the West Indies (Chair of Magna Carta 800th Caribbean Committee)
Click here to read the original article.
As several Commonwealth Caribbean countries celebrate Emancipation Day tomorrow, it is important to locate the significance of the emotions felt on such an occasion,best replica watches especially in relation to the issue of human rights.
In the British West Indies there was a fundamental dichotomy between the values espoused by the 1215 Magna Carta that was subsequently revised several times, and the construction of slave society. Magna Carta has been celebrated as the foundation stone of many constitutional systems and human rights matrices in a variety of countries. However, in the West Indies, it is apparent that the principles of Magna Carta were not prominent in the history of the region until the preparation of independence constitutions.
The fundamental challenge lay in the failure of British settlers in the British West Indies to apply the principles of Magna Carta to all people in the colonies that were settled, conquered or ceded in the name of the British Crown. Primarily, the laws that were devised to facilitate slavery and the slave trade in the British West Indies regarded African slaves as property and not as people thereby contravening the core principles of Magna Carta.
The attitude of the British imperial courts towards slaves demonstrated the diversion from Magna Carta in the West Indies.
The best example of the racial superiority factor in the approach of British colonial administrators is captured in the following excerpt from the Report by Major E F L Wood who toured the West Indies and British Guiana in 1921-22:
"The whole history of the African population of the West Indies inevitably drives them towards representative institutions fashioned after the British model. Transplanted by the slave trade or other circumstances to foreign soil, losing in the process their social system, language and traditions, and with the exception of some relics of obeah, whatever religion they may have had, they owe everything that they have now, and all that they are, to the British race that first enslaved them, and subsequently to its honour restored to them their freedom. Small wonder if they look for political growth to the only source and pattern that they know, and aspire to share in what has been the peculiarly British gift of representative institutions."
[Report by the Hon Major E F L Wood, MP (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Colonies) on his visit to the West Indies and British Guiana, December 1921-February 1922, Cmnd. 1679 (1922), p 6].
In framing colonial policy for the British West Indies, this quote from Major Wood (who later became Lord Halifax, the Second World War Foreign Secretary in Winston Churchill's War Cabinet) highlights the mindset of racial superiority as the basis for engagement.
There were two legal cases that held great significance for the way in which slaves were to be treated during the pre-emancipation period.
The first was the matter of Somerset v Stewart [(1772) 98 ER 499] which established that slavery could not be practiced in England, but left open the issue of whether it could be practiced in other parts of the British Empire by virtue of the ambiguity of the judgment of Lord Mansfield in this regard.
The second was the matter of Gregson v Gilbert [(1783) 3 Doug KB 232] otherwise known as the Zong massacre. In this case an insurance claim involving a slave ship called the Zong was admitted. The insurance claim was for recovery of losses by the shipowners for a loss of cargo when 132 slaves were thrown overboard in order to retain supplies of food and water for those on board. This horrific act was upheld by Lord Mansfield and the owners were later compensated for the loss of the slaves.
The philosophy of regarding African slaves as property and not as people was a core imperial legal philosophy of the pre-emancipation era as highlighted by these two cases.
Even though Emancipation Day would come on August 1, 1834, it is really the advent of human rights in the independence constitutions from 1962 onwards that secure equality and justice for all in the society. Both the Canadian Bill of Rights 1960, in the case of T&T, and the European Convention on Human Rights 1950, in the cases of the other eleven independent countries of the Commonwealth Caribbean, can trace influences from Magna Carta.
In T&T, our constitutional foundation was best captured by Dr Eric Williams at a public meeting on July 19, 1955, in Woodford Square, Port-of-Spain, before he had entered electoral politics, when he said:
"The Colonial Office does not need to examine its second hand colonial constitutions. It has a constitution at hand which it can apply immediately to Trinidad and Tobago. That is the British Constitution. Ladies and gentlemen, I suggest to you that the time has come when the British Constitution, suitably modified, can be applied to Trinidad and Tobago. After all, if the British Constitution is good enough for Great Britain, it should be good enough for Trinidad and Tobago."
It is within this model that our human rights provisions were subsequently included for the independence Constitution.

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CANON U.S.A. OPENS ADVANCED CINEMA INDUSTRY RESOURCE FACILITY FOR STUDIOS AND POST
New Professional Service & Support Center in Burbank, Calif., Becomes Dedicated Location for Studios, Post-Production Facilities, Suppliers and Professional Organizations
Continuing its support of professional clients in the filmmaking and still imaging communities, Canon this week officially opened its doors to its newest Professional Technology & Support Center in Burbank, California. Evolving from what began at Canon's original Hollywood facility, the new state-of-the-art Canon Burbank facility provides its customers with enhanced technical environments and accessible service and support.
Ryan Salazar and I were on-hand to see the unveiling. Canon's spokespersons at the press conference, which was held in the lobby of the showroom, stated that Canon Burbank is poised to support Canon's clients' productivity through a dynamic mix of product evaluation and testing, product & workflow training, industry events and expedited repairs.
"Since our 2011 launch of Cinema EOS, Canon has been steadfastly committed to exceeding the high expectations of our professional clients in the production community,"said Eliott Peck, executive vice president and general manager of the Imaging Technologies & Communications Group, Canon U.S.A., Inc. "Our new Burbank location represents the culmination of our commitment to listen to our clients, understand their needs and provide them with what they need to bring their artistic and passion projects to life. As Canon continues on its journey to support the production community and evolve with changes in this industry, our mission is now clearer than ever, to be a resource and a beacon for industry professionals."
Every aspect of the new facility's design and operation was made in consideration of improving customers' experience with Canon products from input to output, and in improving access to the highly trained Canon service and support team.
Here are some more facility highlights and pictures of the new center that adds to the previous post by Ryan:
Enhanced on-site repair capabilities
Industry standard 4K projection and DI capabilities
Workflow Lab for software training and NLE workflows
Image lab for in-depth camera & lens testing, demonstration and troubleshooting
Fully equipped multipurpose room for training, events, demonstration and shooting
Immersive product showroom
Canon Lens Calibration Lab
Canon Showroom
Canon Lighting Stage
Canon Show Room
Check-in Center
Canon Service Center
Canon Prep Bay
Canon Multi-Purpose Room
Canon Body Calibration
Canon Cafe
Canon Coloring Suite
Canon also noted that its customers may now take advantage of walk-in service Monday through Friday, with plenty of convenient parking. The location will feature a steady calendar of educational offerings from top professionals on the latest equipment and filmmaking techniques, the ability to color correct and screen content, and a lab for testing Canon cameras and lenses. The facility's multipurpose room is also configurable for industry gatherings and special events.
"The new Burbank location is yet another extension of Canon Professional Services' (CPS) powerful support network for the region's professional photographers, filmmakers, and videographers," concluded Peck.
CPS members are invited to visit Canon Burbank for all of their service needs, Canon Live Learning sessions, and professional training tailored to their needs.
For a virtual tour and more information on the Burbank facility – go to usa.canon.com/CanonBurbank
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His agencies' services, for over a quarter century, have helped garner early stage and growth companies significant brand exposure, resulting in either acquisition or IPO, with a total valuation of over $2.5 Billion.
Mr. Chan is a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, author, mentor and angel investor. He played key executive roles early on in helping to pioneer and usher in both professional digital audio and digital video technologies for the recording, broadcast, cinematic and post production industries. He also played key executive roles in helping to develop and market data storage technologies. His expansive background spans four decades in ever increasing executive roles in operations, business development, engineering and sales/marketing in the information technology, media & entertainment, storage and networking, and other related high technology industries.
He is an active mentor and senior advisor to many established and VC backed start-up companies and incubators, a market/technology analyst, and has over three decades of experience in brand development, management consulting, company turnarounds, creative advertising and public relations.
A graduate of California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo; Mr. Chan recently ended his 14th year as Vice President for the Fullerton College Foundation; 22nd year as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence and mentor for the Small Business Institute at California State University Fullerton and incubators. Additionally, he is a volunteer member of DECA (Delta Epsilon Chi and Distributive Education Clubs of America); an advisor to the College of Engineering's Global Waste Research Institute, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and a member of the President's Green and Gold Society; and advisory council member to Pepperdine University's Most Fundable Companies program. Passionate about hospice care, he was the past Board President for the Healing Hearts Association; and is a regularly featured speaker at many MBA and Doctorate level lectures around the country. He has presented and published over 30 papers worldwide, is a book co-author, an Editorial Board Member for the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, past Senior Editor for Broadcast Beat and AV Beat Magazines, Computer Technology Review, and is a regularly featured Contributing Editor to many US and international trade publications for over 35 years.
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Sean A. Moore (April 20, 1964 – February 23, 1998) was an American fantasy and science fiction writer, and computer programmer. His primary significance as a writer is for his three pastiche novels featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan and for his work on the screenplay of the movie Kull the Conqueror, and novelization of the same film.

Life
Moore was a resident of Boulder, Colorado, where he worked in the field of computer programming in a number of different capacities, including programmer, systems operations specialist, and writer of computer games. He was employed as a programmer by Aspen Systems, Inc. He was also a designer of board games. His hobbies included playing computer games and fencing.

Moore died in a car crash in Boulder. He was survived by his wife. Services were held five days after his death in Denver.

Writing career
Moore was active as both a fan and a professional writer in the community of Colorado fantasy and science fiction enthusiasts. Initially writing part-time, he had become a full-time writer at the time of his death, primarily for Tor Books. His last work was an unfinished science fiction horror novel, provisionally titled Diggers. He was a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

Works
Among Moore's works are three Conan novels and the novelization of the film Kull the Conqueror, all published by Tor Books. He also contributed in an uncredited capacity to the screenplay of the film, and wrote the novelette "10585," published in the anthology It Came from the Drive-In (DAW Books, 1996).

Reception
Moore has been both praised for his "strengths ... in crafting a clever, dense plot with immense, epic scope, and populating it with an imaginative flood of action and monsters," and criticized for "overwrit[ing] to an incredible degree" and "choppy ... start-and-stop structure."

Bibliography

Conan novels
Conan the Hunter (1994)
Conan and the Shaman's Curse (1996)
Conan and the Grim Grey God (1996)

Other novels
Kull the Conqueror (1997)
Diggers (unfinished and unpublished)

Short fiction
"10585" (1996)

See also
 Conan the Barbarian

References

External links
 Social Security Death Index
 SFWA obituary for Moore

 Fantastic Fiction entry on Moore

American fantasy writers
1964 births
1998 deaths
Road incident deaths in Colorado
20th-century American novelists
American male novelists
Conan the Barbarian novelists
20th-century American male writers

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Commissioned by the Denver Art Museum and inaugurated on June 30, 2017 on the esplanade opposite the museum (DAM), La Musidora® is a colorful and interactive 90 foot long installation designed by Héctor Esrawe and Ignacio Cadena from ESRAWE + CADENA Studio, which seeks to continue the successful path of its predecessor pieces: Mi Casa, Your Casa® and Los Trompos®.
La Musidora was born from the fusion of two words that give meaning to its function: music and rocking chair. The initial inspiration that detonateed the conceptual development of the installation was a public piece of urban furniture located in the city of Mérida, Yucatán: the chair Tú y Yo or "confidente", made up of two chairs encountered face to face and designed for a couple to look at each other as they talk.
Subsequently and as a second design axis, the intention is to have a dynamic woven piece that explores the idea of swinging with two clear objectives: first, relaxation, and second, the possibility of an encounter between two people through movement who dialog to establish a rhythm in common agreement.
The third conceptual axis is sound. The linear piece of almost 30 meters long is the metaphor of a great "marimba" or xylophone. Each of the modules formed by pairs is equipped with a percussion mechanism that activates a system of bells that, when rocking, generates musical notes that go from high to low following the longitudinal direction of the installation.
The 20 people who are able to experience the piece at the same time can produce sounds in their individuality and, in turn, belong to a collective melody that reminds us that we are authentic beings that express in an individual way but also that belong to a diverse social system which moves in a communal system, all in order to activate a collective consciousness that makes us participate in something far greater.


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In the Eastern Zhou Dynasty B. Imperial German naval officials observed and reported on this activity during a formal survey of Jiaozhou Bay in May Subsequently, German troops seized and occupied the fortification.
Qingdao was its administrative center. Having sold their property, they resettled their homes and fields in the villages further east.
Identified by the German authorities as a strategically important port, Qingdao was administered by the Imperial Department of the Navy Reichsmarineamt rather than the Imperial Colonial Office Reichskolonialamt.
The growing Imperial German Navy based their Far East Squadron there, allowing the warships to conduct operations throughout the western Pacific.
However, Japan maintained its economic dominance of the railway and the province as a whole. The development of the Tsingtao urban space during the German-occupation — originated from the port.
Mass urban construction began in with the relocation of Chinese dwellers along the coast. The former urban area was extended for four times highlighted by the emphasis on the development of commerce and trade.
Sun Yat-sen — , leader of the Chinese Revolution of and subsequent first president of the Republic of China , visited the Tsingtau area and stated in , "I am impressed.
The development of Tsingtao urban space during the first Japan-occupation period — In , Tsingtao was taken over by Japanese and served as a base for the exploitation of natural resources of Shandong and northern China.
With the development of industry and commerce, a "New City District" was established to furnish the Japanese colonists with commercial sections and living quarters, which suggested a striking contrast to the shabby houses in the local Chinese zones Li , p.
The development of Tsingtao urban space during the ROC-ruled period — This period saw the substantial progress of the urban development of Tsingtao.
The government engaged itself in mass construction that gave birth to villa districts at the beach and bank groups in CBD. Plenty of public buildings and facilities for the purpose of entertainment and sports were completed.
By the year of , the urban population numbered , Lu , p. Tsingtao consequently distinguished itself as a prominent holiday resort and summer retreat.
The development of Tsingtao urban space during the second Japan-occupied period — Japan staged a comeback to Tsingtao in and started to strive for the construction of the Greater Tsingtao in the following June.
Accordingly, they worked out the City Planning of the Greater Tsingtao and the City Planning of the Mother Town Tsingtao City Proper , even though they had not had the opportunity to realise them respectively.
The period in question did not witness much urban progress except for the logical construction of No. An early example of the open-door policy occurred on 5 November , when three United States Naval vessels visited Qingdao.
This was the first US port call in more than 37 years to China. Northern Qingdao, particularly Shibei , Licang , and Chengyang districts, are now major manufacturing centers.
The city has recently experienced a strong growth period, with a new central business district created to the east of the older business district.
Outside of the center of the city, there is a large industrial zone, which includes chemical processing, rubber and heavy manufacturing, in addition to a growing high-tech area.
The decomposing algae release large amounts of hydrogen sulfide gas, which gives off the odour of rotten eggs. The blooms of sea lettuce , which are partially caused by seaweed farming in Jiangsu Province, led local officials to declare a "large-scale algae disaster" in By the end of , Qingdao was estimated to be the home of about 8 million inhabitants, of which around 3 million reside in the Qingdao urban area.
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So the time has come to sit down quietly on the Sunday afternoon after the conference and write down some summarising words about the following days.
I had a fair number of insightful moments, either during presentations or subsequent discussions with participants. So much so that I will write about my day 2 lightning talk in a separate post.
Once again there was a great blend of the deeply technical (in this case lots on multi-threading) and the philosophical. This is what I love about this conference because it grounds the philosophical and enlightens the deeply technical. Wonderful.
There was also a great quote from Olve Maudal's presentation on the history of C and C++ saying that enums in these languages are troublesome because Dennis Ritchie hated them and hacked them in as quickly as possible! A classic point that highlights the relationship between the quality of software and whether a programmer is externally or internally motivated.
Phil Nash's presentation on seeking simplicity was a great presentation about differentiating the Simple/Complex axis from the Easy/Hard axis. It was also interesting for its reference to Cynefin, which was found in other talks too. His references are at http://www.levelofindirection.com/storage/simplerefs.html.
In the bar (thanks to Bloomberg for the free beer) there was a fun music mashup machine which I had a play with. It consisted of a camera below a translucent panel with blocks which had QR codes on them for the 4 sound types of bass, percussion, melody and voice banks. So intriguing that I actually took a photo of Olve and Jon playing with it.
David Sackstein's presentation on Coroutines was given to a packed audience. Although it was fascinating for its content, I found it more so for its effect on the audience. The coroutine idea is not new, as anyone who used to use setjmp and longjmp will know.
When David explained that a coroutine handed off control to another context (or stack) while the initiating one was held, there were the inevitable cries of – but that means things are not being done in a multi-threaded way! The noise of hearing the pennies drop was almost deafening as he explained: "But that is what the operating system is doing for you anyway in a multi-threading environment! It simplifies your code to be more explicit about the handover points.".
Classic! Yeah I know we have multiple cores but if you don't grok how schedulers work on a single processor you are asking for trouble before you get anywhere near parallel processing.
The great thing here is that there are great simplifying techniques to make the scheduling far more explicit in people's heads – which is wonderful for educating folk about multi-threading. In this case coroutines simplify the thinking needed to cope with processing in two different contexts, which means I may be able to simplify all my ugly callback code.
This thread (pun intended) during the conference was repeated in other presentations, so it seems like the community is getting its head around asynchronous programming. Maybe I will get more people who survive my interviews when we reach the multi-threading questions! I can hope.
There was also a great, and courageous, talk by Peter Hilton about how to name things. A great reference here was to George Orwell's essay, Politics and the English Language.
On the final day I really enjoyed Roger Orr's talk on Coding without Words questioning when we should name things rather than make use of C++ features such as lambdas and auto. This talk helped me realise that using names instead of implicit language constructs is important if the name actually denotes an important piece of knowledge in the application domain or surrounding code segment context. For me this presentation epitomised the link between technology and philosophy really well.
Roger's talk also allowed me to unbend my mind after listening to Jonathan Wakely talk about the importance of Application Binary Interfaces (or ABIs). Really interesting, really important and really good – but Ouch! Oh yeah – for the programmers out there – in his lightning talk he said PLEASE do NOT use leading underscores on your #ifdef names for header file include guards – as a library writer that is HIS namespace you are encroaching on! Good one.
The final keynote by Chandler Carruth of Google was an exposition of the set of tools, or "ecosystem", around the clang compiler.
All in all a great conference. Now all I need to do is go and get my head back into normal mode again – whatever that is!
So it is rather late at the moment. Just had a great evening at a local Tango class with some great live music. Absolutely & totally sublime and completely different to the Nerdfest!
However I did retire to the bar on getting back from the dancing – it is important to network – to find that it was still buzzing. Had a great chat with a guy who works in CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), even though it was midnight! Amazing how you can talk about multi-processing late at night after a beer. Or have I been doing this job too long?
The 4 levels of Maslow Competence Hierarchy (not the needs one): Unconscious Incompetence (Dangerous!), Conscious Incompetence, Unconscious Competence & Conscious Competence.
Dunning Kruger Effect and the cognitive bias of experts under-estimating their ability while novices over-estimate theirs.
Of course there was also the obligatory mention of the Dreyfus model of Skill Acquisition which has a good breakdown of the learning levels as well as mentioning that it takes 10000 hours (about 10 years) to become an expert in something.
Next up I went to a talk by Seb Rose, a TDD advocate, on "Less is More" making the case for adjusting the progression of test changes to make them have less 'fidelity' to your final test intentions during development to allow you to converge faster to the final implementation. This one left me wondering about this whole stepwise approach to knowledge generation implicit in TDD. Sometimes it does not happen in this left-brain way of small steps. Sometimes there are massive jumps as we tear down old structures and remake them. Also whatever happened to the differentiation between growth & development? Subsequent conversation with other participants showed that I was not alone in thinking about this although, of course, TDD does have its place.
One great point that Seb raised was the importance of saying "I don't know", which can be a difficult thing for anyone who is supposed to be considered competent. We need to assume we are initially ignorant and be happy in accepting it.
He cast aspersions on Planning Poker saying that in his experience it has always been wildly inaccurate. For light relief he showed an image of these cards from LunarLogic.
The main point I took away from this talk was just how much software development is a knowledge generation process (i.e. epistemic) and how we need to be clear about the next smallest question we need answering.
After lunch I split my attendance between a talk called "Talking to the Suits" and a more techie C++ one about the issues in converting the Total War game from Windows to OS/X which was mainly about the differences between the Microsoft and Clang C++ compilers (the Microsoft compiler is much more accepting – which might not help since it wont detect errors in template code if the template is not instantiated).
I will only mention the "Suits" talk because there should be a video of the Windows to OS/X one.
I came away from the "Suits" talk with some great cliches, e.g. Quality is not job number 1; Business loves legacy. The basic point here is that we have to be more explicit about the quantitative costs/gains when making a case for any technical work. We cannot assume that business leaders will be able to understand the ins and outs of things like IDEs, Technical Debt, etc. A good call to make sure we communicate more effectively about such things. A good idea here was the "Problem : Solution : Results" guideline when presenting information. For example: Problem: "Even simple changes take a lot (quantify) of time"; Solution: "If we improve the design of this part of the system"; Results: "we will save weeks of effort (quantify) when we add new workflows".
That is probably enough for now since I really need my beauty(!) sleep. I have also put my name forward to give a Lightning Talk on "My Thinking is NOT for Sale". Oh dear. I need to sort out the slides for that now!
Well, another ACCU conference is here and I have just arrived at the hotel today and am settling in, meeting some friends and listening to a talk by one of them, Michael Feathers of ObjectMentor.
I am not presenting this year because I do not have my thoughts straight about some of my latest thinking – namely "My Thinking is NOT for Sale" – especially how I can even get our current business culture to start thinking about knowledge work in such a way. Although there are some signs.
One of the interesting things about these conferences is hearing some of the more vocal and opinionated people hold forth. Initially I start off feeling fairly intimidated, but then inevitably I find something to comment about and we end up having great conversations. In truth there is a nice balance between the more vocal folk and the timid ones. But here good logical thinking always get respect regardless of how quiet or noisy you are – unless of course the participants have stayed too long and late in the bar! Although thinking about it, John Lakos IS a force to be reckoned with!
But back to Michael's talk, which was called "Organizational Machinery around Software". He was arguing for making the code architecture primary and structuring teams around that architecture. Basically saying to flip Conway's Law and use it as a lever to get better results rather than having it inadvertently mess up your design because you did not structure your teams in the right way. The basic concept is simple. The implementation and convincing of management may be another thing entirely but it is an interesting view of basing your team structure architecturally rather than perhaps by market segment, or in some other way.
I am looking forward to tomorrow, although I shall be breaking away from the conference in the evening to partake of some Argentinian Tango at some local classes! I might see if I can get some of the techies to come along – could be interesting… This will of course mean that any blog post may be delayed.
Being too conservative with code mods will cause a very fast deterioration of the codebase. ie. not refactoring.
Interface cruft. Easier to change code either side of an API, rather than mature the API.
We should be able to visualise a system architecture for ANYONE in the organisation to understand. Not just the techies.
Its 2 o'clock in the morning and I am finding I cannot sleep. A thought that is so off the wall has been gripping my mind for a while now and I am finding it more and more relevant to what I have seen happen during my career as a programmer.
If you pay for software you will not get what you need. In fact you CANNOT buy software because it is not a finished product. The current economic model we have just does not fit and I believe this is why there is so much trouble in this area.
What is important about good software development?
Over my 30 odd years of work the primary creative and energizing point has been the interaction between the developer and the actual user as a system has come into being. The best of it has been the conversation between the two as they navigate the area of the user's needs. If the developer is skilled, both technically and personally, they help facilitate both parties in mapping an unknown area, probably only vaguely expressed in the "wants" that the user can currently identify.
This is a conversation of human discovery in thinking.
It is a Free process. Capital F.
It is NOT a product.
It only makes sense if the effort is freely given by the developer. The inner costs of doing this are so high that it requires a high level of motivation that can ONLY be internal. To try and shoehorn it into our current ways of thinking about money devalues the process and I think this is what is underlying the problems I have seen happen many times.
The kicker here is that it is likely that it can only be funded by gift money. That means that there can be NO LINK between the funding and the final "product". I use quotes because that word is a misnomer of what is actually going on.
Just go and read a book called Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson and you will see how the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study was funded by donation. This was where John von Neumann worked and developed the architecture that underlies modern computers.
The picture of how the whole current edifice of modern computing was birthed from gift money just blows me away. I find my thinking so bound up in the capitalist model that to separate the resource – i.e. the money to give time for people to think – from the product of that thinking in such a way shows up the illusion of the current funding models for such work.
Is that enough to allow you to see it? Truly?
Or maybe this is all just a dream and I shall be sensible when I wake up.
My thinking has been working overtime since I attended and presented at the ACCU2014 conference in Bristol.
One experience that really got me thinking was a pre-conference talk by Bob Martin reflecting on the path the Agile software development movement has taken since its beginnings. He mentioned an early quote from Kent Beck that Agile was meant to "heal the split between programmers and management", and that one of the important guiding principles was transparency about the technical process.
But then there was a move to introduce a certification for what are called 'SCRUM Masters', key personnel – though not project managers – in an Agile software development approach. The problem is that it is just too simplistic to think that getting a 'certified' person involved to 'manage' things will sort everything out. This is never how things happen in practice and despite early successes Bob observed that subsequently Agile has not lived up its original expectations.
The transparency that the Agile founders were after has once again been lost. I consider that this happened because the crutch of certification has fostered inappropriately simplistic thinking for a domain that is inherently complex.
My inner response to this was: Well what do you expect?
I very much appreciate and value the principles of Agile, but there is a personal dimension here that we cannot get away from. If the individuals concerned do not change their ideas, and hence their behaviour, then how can we expect collective practices to improve? As I experienced when giving my recent workshop, it is so easy to fall prey to the fascination of the technological details and the seeming certainty of defined processes and certified qualifications.
How do we move any technical discipline forward and encourage personal development in sync with technical competence?
This was another insight as to why I enjoy ACCU conferences so much. There is always the possibility of attending workshops about the technical details of software development and new language features on the one hand, along with other workshops that focus on the more 'fluffy' human side of the domain.
When programming I need to be thoroughly grounded and critically attend to detail.
I am also drawn to the philosophy (can't you tell?) and the processes of our inner life.
Perhaps the latter is to be expected after 30 years of seeing gadgets come and go and the same old messes happen. This perspective gives me a more timeless way of looking at the domain. Today's gadget becomes tomorrow's dinosaur – I have some of them in my garage – and you can start to see the ephemeral nature of our technology.
This is what is behind the ancient observation that the external world is Maya. For me the true reality is the path we tread as humans developing ourselves.
Also we need to embrace BOTH worlds, the inner and the outer, in order to keep balance. Indeed Balance is a watchword of mine, but I see it as being a dynamic thing. Life means movement. We cannot fall into the stasis of staying at one point between the worlds, we need to move between them and then they will cross-fertilise in a way that takes you from the parts to the whole.
In our current culture technical work is primarily seen in terms of managing details and staying grounded. But as any of my writings will testify, there is devilry lurking in those details that cannot be handled by a purely technical approach.
Another epiphany that I experienced at the conference was a deeper insight into the popular misconception that teachers are not competent practitioners. There is the saying that "Those that can – Do. Those that can't – Teach". So there I was in a workshop wondering if that meant that because I was teaching programming, was I automatically not as good at the programming? But then a participant highlighted the fact that this was not so in traditional martial arts disciplines.
Indeed – teaching was seen as a step on the path to becoming a master.
We – hopefully – develop competence which over time tends to become implicit knowledge, but to develop further we need to start teaching. This will force us to make our knowledge explicit and give us many more connections of insight, indeed helping us to see the essential aspects of what we already know. There may be a transitional time where our competence might suffer – a well known phase in learning to teach gliding – as well as being a normal learning process whenever we take our learning to a higher level.
Those that can Do. Those that are masters – Teach.
If you have seen my earlier post you will know that I am concerned about our lack of awareness of the subtle effects of computer technology on our lives. My deepest concern is about the effects on young children so in this post I am going to talk about the boundaries my wife and I imposed on computer (and TV) use within the home and some of our experiences.
I have been a computer professional since before the early days of the "Personal Computer" boom when we could hardly contemplate that everyone would have their own computer! Many certainly did not even dream of the phenomenal proliferation of "microprocessors" that would take place. That was the word that was used a lot: microprocessor – which highlighted the fact that it was just a super-chip for the electronic nerds like myself. You hardly hear the word mentioned nowadays, but they are still there, usually called just "processors" although thousands of times faster and more powerful and with more fancy names like Core i7 or Phenom.
I also remember sitting at a screen (which was not integral to the computer) typing in commands well into to the late hours at work. But at that time of day I was using an early computer game called "Adventure", and if you really got into a pickle you would just keep getting the response: "You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.", regardless of the command you typed. Such things used to happen at work since that was the only place where you had enough tech to run the games program. Remember no Personal Computer – or PC – yet!
Rule 1: No computers/mobile phones/electronic games AT ALL until the children were 12 or 13.
Eventually we would watch DVDs once the children were 10 or so, but NO TV. And no DVD watching in the bedroom. In fact this was when we got the first family computer in the house to watch the films. If we wanted to watch a film we would congregate around it and have our evening sandwiches watching the film as a family. Why only films? Mainly to place a boundary around our viewing – with TV it is too easy to keep on watching just the next programme, and the next, and the next, and so on… We still have no TV despite me working in the business, and my wife and I are quite happy with that state of affairs.
So what about our experiences with this regime?
As I said above, the games issue was not a problem, possibly because (a) I was so sure it was a bad idea and was very firm about it, or (b) they really enjoyed their own games that they would make up themselves. They both have wonderful imaginations and we have many happy photos of them playing without a computer in sight.
The "No TV" was more difficult especially as we would go to their grandparents and they would be allowed to watch TV or a video. This was why we introduced watching family films at around 10 years, although with such great imaginations we had to be careful about the content, even though they were age-appropriate films and seemed innocuous to an adult, the children could get quite scared by some scenes. I think adults too easily assume that the consciousness of children is very similar to their own.
One day a friend of the children came around to play and had a shock when he could not find the TV! He was quite bewildered. Meanwhile our children got stuck in and started putting the wooden train set together. He just sat and quietly watched what they were doing, initially without taking part, until my son and daughter pulled him in and started showing him how to play. I was amazed and later found out that at home he was allowed unlimited access to the video player and would keep rewinding and replaying his favourite scenes over and over again. This boy had partially lost the "knowledge" of how to play! In the past this would have been considered a pathological problem, and I am convinced this is becoming more of an issue for the children of today.
If we fast-forward to the present day, both kids are now at university, both have their own laptops, both have them in their own bedrooms, both watch DVDs in their bedrooms. It is now a different phase of their life and they need to be part of the current culture for it is to be their culture. We will see how it develops.
Boundaries must be placed around our use of such gadgetry and in writing this post I have come to see that it is all related to Attention.
The Boundary Problem is giving rise to The Attention Problem.
Our social human communications should not take second place to our electronically mediated communications. You can see an earlier post where I talked about some of the problems inherent with the latter.
Attention is a special thing that we give to the world. Currently we are giving too much attention to our machines, when we need to give more of it to our fellow humans.


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 Pschyrembel – Klinisches Wörterbuch. 259., neu bearbeitete Auflage. De Gruyter, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-11-017213-5, S. 407 und 1598.
 Horst Kremling: Zur Entwicklung der klinischen Diagnostik. In: Würzburger medizinhistorische Mitteilungen. Band 23, 2004, S. 233–261, hier: S. 255–257.

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