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The Peter B. Lewis Interview
By Sean Kleefeld | Monday, September 06, 2010 5 comments
Still on the road, still pulling blog material from my archives. This is an interview I conducted with Peter B. Lewis back in 1999. Who is Peter B. Lewis, you ask? He was the producer the Marvel Comics Radio Series back in 1975! Yes, there was indeed a Marvel Comics radio show once upon a time! Read on, but be warned that this one is NOT censored like when I first published it and contains some harsh language...
Peter B. Lewis worked as a disc jockey for several west coast radio stations before moving to New York in 1964. While writing radio jingles, he stumbled into the idea of a Marvel Comics Radio Series. Before long, he was talking with Stan Lee about the project and in 1975, the Fantastic Four's adventures were being broadcast nationally five days a week. Due to a lack of proper funding, the show was cancelled after only a 13-week run, but it is fondly remembered by fans and Lewis himself. Lewis is currently investigating the possibility of re-releasing the stories for contemporary audiences.
S Kleefeld: When I first heard about the FF radio show, I was very surprised. I had never heard of it before obviously, and it really didn't strike me as something Marvel would really go for. As I understand it, the original idea came from Richard Clorfene and the two of you were able to take the idea to Stan Lee. Would you mind explaining what that meeting was like and how you pitched the idea? I've also heard that you were actually more interested in the Silver Surfer, but chose to start with the FF, thinking it would be a better introduction to a Marvel Radio Series. Was the decision to go with the FF made before you actually approached Marvel?
Peter B. Lewis: Wow, what a lot of great questions! It sent me off to the vault and I've heard several of the old shows for the first time in years. It was quite an experience.
As I recall, Richard Clorfene, fresh from being head creative writer/producer at Mel Blanc & Assoc. in LA where he created Super Fun, a brilliant series of radio comedies that was syndicated to many "pop" stations in the mid-late 60's I think it was. Anyway, Clorfene usually worked with my recording engineer mentor, Rich Petersen in NYC and when Clorfene moved from LA to NYC, he had too much work for Rich to do, so he came to me (and I begged him, too) with a radio drama pilot for a series called, "Tales of the Energy." We produced the coolest hour-long deal ever, really. It was great! Went nowhere. We played it for several radio advertising and programming people and it was exciting but eminently unfruitful. Never even got as far as being a "turntable hit" -- just a great tape that only probably 200 people ever heard! Incidentally, the Editor at Cream Magazine heard it at the studio one evening and laffed his ass off. He subsequently paid for several hour-long sessions to play it for his friends.
Richard was really into Silver Surfer and wanted to do it as a radio series. Experienced the SS cult in S. Calif. and knew it would be popular with them. We talked about it (and millions of other possibilities) through the production of the pilot.
In my day gig, I was a jingle engineer/mixer at a popular NYC studio, National Recording. Suddenly, through some light conversation and what you'd only call a Coincidence of God, I found myself talking with the wife of a song writer who was working as a jingle singer on a gig I was doing. The wife, Ann Robinson, was in charge of licenses at Marvel Comics Group. She (and her hubby, singer/songwriter Tommy West) had heard and loved the Tales of the Energy pilot, she really loved the idea of the Marvel Comics Radio Series and she could grant me necessary license. She could also deliver Stan Lee. And she did.
Another part of my day gig was working at 21st Century Communications, producers of the National Lampoon Radio Hour. Remember that? It's really the precursor to Saturday Night Live. I worked on some bits of the show, but mostly I worked on the other stuff they were developing, such as editing the Mary Travis Show, interviews with Bob Dylan, etc. I got to hang out with the cast and crew of the Lampoon, and got to know the guy who put together the group of stations on which Nat'l Lampoon Radio Hour as distributed, Bob Michaelson. Since the Lampoon show was kinda winding down, Bob thought the Marvel show would be a good product to cycle into his network of stations.
Clofene was nowhere to be found. After we finished Tales of the Energy, Richard went back to LA and I couldn't reach him as things started coming together. In fact, we've only spoken a couple times since, and now not in decades, I guess. He's in Israel, last I heard, a Rabbi. Religion was a very big deal to him when we did the pilot. He wrote an inspired book, "The Book of Hype." This was just before we did the pilot. There are 4000 copies of that book somewhere and I'd love to have one now. I was quite affected by the book's content and the whole experience of being around a person who is being inspired. He had no interest in doing the Fantastic Four and said he'd do the Silver Surfer when it came time. "Good luck, Peter," he said, and that was it.
I didn't know shit about nothing when it came to production management, business, funding, sponsorships, budgeting any of that stuff. Bob Michaelson was quite eager to have a show, thought Marvel was a good Idea. We both thought getting an advertiser would be easy with a demo, I wrote a demo. A dear friend of my family, a great and famous voice talent and (then) the boss of my girlfriend (now wife of 30 years) is Bob Maxwell. I called Bob up, told him the idea and what I needed, that I wanted to do this ensemble style, where we have the FF and a villain, five principles, able to do a couple voices each, at least, I considered having the villains played by "guest stars." He suggested Jerry Terheyden because he is so versatile. He (Jerry) is a great team player, too. I thought we only needed him for about half of the time but he was to every minute of every session, because it was such fun for him! Bob, who was actually acted in the golden days of radio (the Lone Ranger, in fact), really loved the notion of the Marvel Comics Radio Series and pretty much put the cast together for me!
I wanted to have a National Lampoon flavor to the sound. I actually didn't want it to sound too much like the Lampoon - we recorded in their studio at 21st Century, I used their offices to do the editing of the dialogue, I dubbed dozens of sounds from their effects library. I thought Bill Murray would do great as Johnny Storm, Bob Michaelson is the one who actually made the contact and signed him up. He was the most versatile of the Lampoon cast. He agreed to work for scale. More on this sessions later, I'm sure. Back to getting the ball rolling.
We needed a cast for the demo and Maxwell was the guy who knew who could do what. He knew Cynthia Adler, Terheyden and Pappas. Pappas had some experience, you saw him kinda doing himself in commercials. I was unsure until I heard him do the transformation from Ben Grimm to the Thing. He really understood how to make that change. A very tough thing to do live. He also has such a sweet sound as Ben and can maintain focus (mostly) for Rockman. We got some seed money. And I went to work,
Why we started with the FF: Really I guess it was my decision. I agreed with Richard (Clorfene) that SS would be great. In retrospect, we maybe should have done that... For me, I truly believed this would be successful from the get go. We would get on these stations with these innovative REAL RADIO radio programs of COMIC BOOKS! Get it. This was, I thought, a Fantastic way to make a decent living, doing what I love to do: audio, radio, sound things.
We would lay the same foundation Stan laid when he started out: characters with "Feet of Clay" and amazing powers. The foundation, our test-ground if you will, would be the FF. After 26 weeks we'd get on to the SS. It gave Richard time to recoup, get energized by the success of the project, and get to writing on the SS. We'd also have the much needed funding - we always thought we'd have a national advertiser. What a mistake.
Well anyway, I was basically on my own with the thing, Marvel was ready to grant a license, I had a cast, a studio, access to the Marvel library and Xerox copies of anything I wanted. For the demo, I picked the section in issue one where they take over the space ship and get hit by the cosmic rays crash and learn of their powers. It's good exposition and demonstrates the idea pretty well. It also ran about five minutes.
So I never met Stan until we did the first session. I never really pitched anyone. Ann Robinson, liked me, liked the idea, talked to Stan, he must have liked the idea - she got him to agree to be the Narrator! And Excelsior!!
I didn't know anything about Marvel, or Stan Lee, or the Comic book biz or any of that stuff. For example, I didn't know that the Comic book industry was beginning it's first decline since birth! Look at sales starting in the 60's and through the 80's just about 1975 - 76 the curve starts it's decline!
And to your first point, no, I don't think it is the kind of thing Marvel would do on their own. If we hadn't brought this to them, it never would have been considered.
And to the last in that first barrage(!), both options were discussed with Ann. She presented them to Stan who didn't seem to have an opinion. We got rights to about a dozen characters (including SS, of course), just to be on the safe side. In my grand vision of the future of the Marvel Comics Radio Series, I choose to lay the foundation and do the first 13 weeks on the FF and see what to do next (FF or SS or something else) after the series is released.
SK: Once the idea was given the go-ahead, how did you proceed to write scripts? They were adapted from the original Lee/Kirby comics, I know, but how did you go about translating those into a completely non-visual medium?
PBL: How did I translate the original Lee/Kirby scripts in to a non visual medium? What a great one!! Thank you!
To understand the process, we'll start with the setting. After I recorded the demo, an opportunity to move to Seattle came up. I had been researching the idea of getting out of NYC for some time and this opportunity came up. I was kinda torn because on one hand I knew I could do the Marvel series in either place and there hadn't been any previous Seattle opportunities (in 2 years of trying) - well, I took the Seattle deal. Cyndy and I moved to Seattle in December of '74 and starting in January of '75 I did the "translations" as I grew to call them. It took several weeks, I drank gallons of Starbucks coffee (really) and smoked a lot -- probably drank heavily too, but I can't remember! Kind of a Jack Karoak experience. I really knew about radio. The sound effects, word pictures, scene setting and changing, rhythm, alternating voices, continuity stuff like that. I had been working in NYC as a senior guy at the best recording studios commercial audio production with the best most creative minds in advertising and audio production and their clients. I had also just spent several months under the guidance of Clorfene and I kinda knew how it had to read.
I tried to follow the exact quotes from the books, then I added visual descriptions of the scene and the action. After I wrote it, I did heavy editing and my wife typed the final scripts. I think it was about 600 pages, many had to be done a few times. Listening back today, the images seem to work pretty well. The actors really brought a lot to the characters. Cynthia Adler as Ant-Man, Princess Perla, Alicia and Susan Storm in the same episode! Just great, and Bill Murray as the black news reporter, WOW - it's cool what the actors brought to it.
SK: Another thing I found surprising was the cast you were able to put together. Bob Maxwell was fairly well-known already and Bill Murray, while not the household name he is today, wasn't a complete unknown either. While Cythnia Adler and Jerry Terheyden were pretty experienced as well. Did that talent pool make recording the show easier, do you think, or did it become a case of "too many cooks"?
PBL: Did the talent pool make it easier or "too many cooks". The talent was just a great cast. They worked hard, put themselves into the characters, made suggestions, volunteered for roles, understood the medium very well. I have very fond and painful memories of the sessions - it took a week to record all sixty-five episodes. They were not done in sequence, they were done film style - in this case, at the convenience of the cast, rather than set-ups. We had champagne when I said, "Ok, this will be number 10K" It was Thursday! The script was 2 inches thick and we did 12,106 takes!
SK: Conversely, Jim Pappas and Stan Lee had virtually no broadcasting experience. Did either of them inadvertently hinder production because of that?
PBL: Stan was done completely separately. He and the cast never met. I did Stan in about three or four sessions. At the first session, he was concerned for his nasal quality. He brought some nasal sprays with him -- two or three different brands. He would read a while and then hit the nasal spray, then read some more. He did quite a lot of the nasal spray that first day... and we had to postpone the next session for several days. He really fucked up his sinus passages. It's probably what he remembers most about it! Later, I heard that he has (had) a deviated septum. He was very easy to work with, a real trooper, understood his role completely and clearly spent time preparing himself for the sessions. Usually nailed the first or second take. I never heard from him after the series was produced. I sent 'review copies' to Marvel and never heard from them either. It was like being in a vacuum after I left NYC.
So I had done the demo with the NYC actors and now I've got this big script and I live in Seattle and we don't have much money. Should I fly to NYC to do the cast or should I find a new cast in Seattle? Well, I puzzled over that one for weeks, really. I picked NYC because I felt so much more comfortable with the cast, and each of them individually wanted to do the project -- and they all wanted to do it with the other cast members.
Also, Stan was in NYC, so was Bob Michaelson, the Marvel home office, Ann Robinson and maybe, we thought, we could get an advertiser in NYC. Well, I got the cast recorded and edited back into proper sequence, edited by me and my pal Richie Becker (now Sr. Sound Designer for Fox TV Sports) and I got Stan recorded, but we didn't get no sponsor. We did get seed money, $25,000, from Ann Robinson's husband's music production company -- It was an awful experience. We needed $65K and we had $25K
After I came home to Seattle from the cast recordings, I got to work on building shows. Bob had lined up about 30 stations and we were to start broadcasting in September. It was June.
Why 5 minute shows daily rather than 30 minute weekly?
In Bob's view, after doing the Lampoon as a half hour, half hours were getting harder to place at the stations. They wanted shorter. We decided that the books are kinda broken into segments (or some of the ones I saw are!) and they run about half an hour. Five 5 minute shows made sense. They were also set you so the stations, with a little dicking around, could make them into a half-hour deal on the weekends. And many did.
Would it have been more viable as a half hour? Who knows - I don't think the five minute format was the problem.
SK: One of the things I found interesting is that, aside from the cast, you did much of the work yourself, truly making it your production. You wrote the scripts, found the voice talent, made the recordings, created the sound effects... It was very nearly a one-man operation from the sound of things. I'm curious to know if that was more due to a personal attachment to the project or simply a matter of budget constraints? Either way, I gather it's something you're very proud of to this day, which I have to assume is at least in part because of the amount of time and energy you put into it.
PBL: Sean, the show was a financial disaster. I did all the work because I'm good at it and because we couldn't afford anyone else. I hired a local fella, P. Craig Turner, and he taught himself how to program an ARP 2600 synthesizer. Sometimes we even used two of them. Many of the sounds were from that. He worked with me tirelessly, everyday for several months. The national advertisers never materialized and we ran out of money. Michaelson put in his life savings, I begged at the studio for time. We ran out of money again, so we got shut down by the studio (because we couldn't pay). I had no job and no credit standing in Seattle, so no bank would loan me money. We were just fucked. Somehow, we got all 65 episodes done and mastered on disc and sent to the stations. My wife and I were evicted from our nice rental house, we answered several threatening phone calls from bill collectors and we were generally devastated. Didja every play Monopoly and completely loooose? That's what this was for, my family and Bob Michaelson. Cyndy and I were on food stamps and Bob was driving a cab in Manhattan. A total bust. I drove the bus the best I possibly could all the way but we still crashed. And burned. Like the Phoenix, we all did recover and today we have nice houses in the burbs of Seattle (me) and San Francisco (Bob). Cyndy and I have daughters and grand-kids. We live like workaholics, trying to avoid that poverty deal. Bob lives outside San Francisco. Everybody is doing fine, kinda.
SK: After the first 13 weeks' worth of shows, I understand that you planned to do only four or five more episodes before switching over to either Silver Surfer or Hulk stories. How far into those did you get before you found out the show would no longer be continued? For that matter, how did you find out the show was cancelled?
PBL: How did I find out the show was cancelled? I cancelled it myself. I hoped against hope that we could get funded somehow and start up again. It never happened and I couldn't proceed without OPM, so I just had to stop working on it and move on with my life.
SK: What happened after the show? I know you had worked as a DJ and jingle-writer prior to the series; did you return to either of those? What are you working on currently?
PBL: After we stopped production, Cyndy and I moved into a really cheap place (all we could afford), I helped Turner build a sound studio and together we did commercials, jingles and I produced several tracks for his band, EARS. We had a great time and did some wonderful stuff. We bought a Neumann mixing desk from Chess Records in Detroit. Turns out it was used to record all of Chuck Berry's hits, Rolling Stones and lots of other people. It had a great sound and we did that for a couple of years. Slowly we recovered.
Then in about 1979, I was offered a real job with real money and a real future. Senior Sound Engineer at the video facility in Seattle. I couldn't refuse. That was the end of the EARS studio. I started building a reputation as the guy for sound for radio and video. In 1989, I started my own "sound design firm" with two co-workers from the video house. We had several highly visible clients. In 1990, we were chosen as Sound Designers for the new NikeTown retail store. We went on to do sound design and creative audio production for a dozen NikeTowns.
The sound design firm is AUDISEE/Seattle, (www.AUDISEE.com) and today we produce soundtracks and design sound systems for large spaces, such as museums, retail stores like NikeTown and prime tradeshow exhibitors like Nintendo's 40,000-sq. mega-booth at the annual Electronic Entertainment Exhibition (E-3). Local ad agencies and others hire our Seattle recording facility for sound postproduction.
We also produce, CarToursTM(www.CarTours.com), a series of interpretive driving tours. These are timed audio programs for the most popular driving routes within our National Parks. This non-profit project is dedicated to inspiring environmental stewardship through education.
The whole experience was quite traumatic to all of us. Until the past few months, I haven't really been able to consider the project anything other than a big black evil-time in my life. Thanks to support from some great friends and the help of a couple psychotherapists, I now have a better handle on much of it. I can listen to the programs and actually enjoy them!
SK: Have you ever returned to Marvel to suggest starting a new show (radio, internet, or other)? Sort of a "Here's why it didn't work before; I can do it more successfully this time."
PBL: I've not considered re-connecting with Marvel until this recent time. After speaking with Bob Michaelson and others, and hearing back your interest, it seems like the thing to do is at least investigate the market potential to determine if such a re-issue would be viable.
SK: I know I, for one, would be very interested to see those old shows re-released and I hope that you'll be find a way to do so. Good luck and thank you for taking the time to answer my questions.
PBL: As I finish these answers to your questions, here in my office in Seattle on my 56th birthday, I'd like to express my gratitude to you Sean, for your interest. As you have read this you have seen me come to have a new relationship with the traumatic events of the late 70's. And now it's time to go onward... into the next century! Or, as Stan would say,
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Note for anyone in the Cleveland area who may experience a moment of confusion: this is apparently another Peter B. Lewis, i.e. not this guy. :-)
Jim T. said...
Terrific interview that does so much to reveal information about this series. They did a fine job with those 13 episodes. A couple of things, though: Jack Kerouac's name was spelled incorrectly here, and Chess Records was in Chicago, not Detroit.
Oh...the comment about "five days a week" broadcasts...does that mean some stations segmented each episode further? There were only 13 of them, so five days a week of full episodes would only (in theory) be like 3 weeks of shows.
11:24 PM, January 10, 2011
Each episode was divided into five minute segments, one segment airing each day. So 13 episodes = 65 segments.
tutru said...
I worked for Peter in Seattle for a few years in the early 80's. I have been a life long Marvel fan and never knew this about him. Very Cool!
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Lord Visnu can establish the yuga-dharma (religious process for the age). The Kali-yuga dharma (the religious process for this present age of quarrel and hypocrisy) is to preach nama-sankirtana, the chanting of the holy name of Krsna. I once explained at the celebration of Visvarupa Mahotsava that Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja did not come to this world only to preach nama-sankirtana. This can be established by Visnu-tattva and His followers. However, not everyone can give Krsna-prema, which was the main purpose of Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja's mission. Some of his disciples thought he had come only to preach nama-sankirtana; they could not understand my message. Nama-sankirtana yuga-dharma can be preached by Visnu-tattva, but only Krsna and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and Their followers can give Krsna-prema or Vraja-prema.
When Krsna descends to this world, all of His incarnations come in His body. He is avatari, which means that all incarnations, such as Nrsmha and Rama, are present within the body of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. These incarnations have established yuga-dharma.
The Yuga-dharma or religious principle of the Age establishes harinama and religious principles, but Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu came especially to give nama-prema. Prema is like a thread, and dasya, sakhya, vatsalya, and madhurya are like flowers which are connected by the thread of prema. Prema is the root; without thread no garland can be made. Therefore, Mahaprabhu distributed the holy name with prema – the prema of dasya, sakhya, vatsalya, and madhurya, and especially the mood of the gopis.
Raga-marga bhakti means raganuga bhakti. What is raganuga? First we must know what ragatmika [See Endnote 2] is, and then we must understand raganuga. Ragatmika-bhakti includes dasya (the service of Nanda-baba's servants and Krsna's cowherd servants); sakyha (the service of Krsna's cowherd boy friends like Sridhama, Subal, and Madhumangala); vatsalya (the service of Krsna's parents, like Nanda Baba and Mother Yasoda); and madhurya (the service of Krsna's beloveds, the gopis). They are ragatmika, not raganuga.
This verse refers to service in this world. In this world, if a sadhaka (devotional practitioner) has a perfect, qualified guru, and he follows that guru's instructions, he will automatically receive raga-marga, the path of spontaneous devotion that follows in the wake of the Lord's ragatmika associates of Vraja. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu gave this, and our guru-parampara also gives the same.
The primary internal reason for which Krsna came in the form of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was to taste Radhika's pranaya (great love). [*See Endnote 3:] What is the pranaya of Radha? It is a very elevated stage of her uttama-bhakti. Uttama-bhakti is free from all desires other than the desire to please Krsna. In order to properly understand Srimati Radhika's advanced stage of uttama-bhakti, we should begin by understanding bhakti from its first stages. The first stage of bhakti is sraddha (strong faith).
In the continued association of pure devotees, unsteady (anistitha) bhakti turns into steady (nisthita) bhakti as anarthas gradually disappear. After this, taste (ruci) comes, and when taste is matured, it is called attachment (asakti). Then, after asakti comes transcendental emotions (rati or bhava).
What is the transcendental mood of one situated in bhava-bhakti? Ragatmika-bhakti is situated in the heart of such associates as Subal, Sridam, Madhumangala, Nanda Baba, Mother Yasoda, and the gopis. If one remembers and follows their service to Krsna according to their relation with Him, their bhakti will then manifest in the heart of that qualified devotee.
By this process, prema will manifest. An important characteristic of prema is that even if there is a reason for it to be broken, instead of breaking, it increases more and more, and becomes unlimitedly more fresh and relishable. Such pure prema does not exist in this world. Our material body would not be able to tolerate it – the body would die. Such prema is only found in Vaikuntha and upper Goloka, in Vrndavana.
In such thick prema, no matter what the reason, prema cannot be broken. With this strong belief in the heart of that devotee, he then becomes 'crooked.' Such maan is perfectly exemplified by Srimati Radhika, and Her maan is one of the differences between Her and Candravali. Candravali cannot be 'crooked.' If something bad happens, a tear will come, and right away she will let her sulky mood leave; and she will submit. But with Radhika, if Krsna wants to touch Her, She says, "Don't touch me!" Her sakhis say, "Oh black person, go out from here!" This is really maan. Only Radhika, and Radhika's gopis like Lalita and Visakha, will display maan.
But prema does not stop here; it continues to develop and run forward. It develops from pranaya to raga, to anuraga, to bhava, mahabhava, ruddha, adiruddha, mohana, modana, and in the end, madana. All the symptoms and stages of prema are visible at the time of meeting between Radha and Krsna. These symptoms reside in their complete forms only in Radhika; not even in Lalita and Visakha, or even in Krsna. Krsna may have up to mahabhava. He is thinking, "I do not know what is that mood of madana. I have no realization of it. It is only in Radhika. Only She knows." This is radha-pranaya-mahima.
Try to keep this in your pockets when you leave here; don't go with empty pockets. Keep all these truths with you.
Candidasa (the writer of the song), or Radha, is telling this.
So Krsna's name is immeasurably sweet; Radhika Herself is saying this.
Krsna's name is cintamani, a wish fulfilling gem. Whatever you desire, Sri Krsna's names will fulfill that desire. If you want manjari-rasa, then, chanting always, giving up all anarthas, remaining in sadhu-sanga, that desire will be fulfilled by Krsna's names. His names are so powerful. Krsna has given all His power, all His mercy, and all His qualities to these names.
What is the nature of the form of Krsna? How sweet is His form? Its glory is found in the following song of the gopis.
When Krsna and Baladeva arrived in the arena of Kamsa, Kamsa ordered Canura and Mustika to wrestle with them. The wrestlers looked like Yamaraja, the Personality of Death; they were very black and very tall. They told Krsna, "You are not a mere boy. You have killed Aghasura, Bakasura, and numerous other demons; so you are not a mere child. Come!" They forcibly pulled Krsna and Baladeva into the arena. Krsna and Canura, and then Balarama and Mustika, locked themselves hand to hand, leg to leg, and each began to press against the other with a view to coming out victorious. They joined palm to palm, calf to calf, head to head, chest to chest, and began to strike each other.
"Krsna's form is so beautiful," the Mathura princesses say. "The gopis are so fortunate, and we are so unfortunate, because we are seeing Krsna and Balarama fighting with wrestlers who are like Himalaya mountains.
What austerities have the gopis performed that they are always seeing Krsna's sweet and beautiful form in Vraja-Mandala? They play with Krsna and control Him. Here, we are seeing the same Krsna, but now He is wrestling with Carana and Mustika.
Once, Radha and Krsna were sitting together in the same place, yet Srimati Radhika was weeping in a mood of separation. The pastime is as follows: Srimati Radhika was sitting on the lap of Krsna. A bumblebee was buzzing nearby and wanted to enter Her lotus feet. He was flying here and there, and Radhika became very fearful. Madhu-mangala then came with a stick and drove that bee very far away. Then he said, "Madhusudana will never come back." Thinking that the word 'madhusudana,' meaning 'bee,' was referring to Krsna, meaning 'taster of the honey of the gopis' love,' Srimati Radhika cried out, "Where is Krsna, where is Krsna?" and then She fainted.
This is the sweetness of Krsna's form.
Even though the demoness Putana came to kill Krsna, He gave her the position of nursemaid, not in Vrndavana, but in Goloka.
Those who are killed by the various incarnations of Krsna do not become liberated. Rama killed Ravana, but He did not liberate him. Rather, Ravana came again to this world as Sisupala; and Kumbakarna came as Dantavakra. Nrsmhadeva killed Hiranyaksipu but did not liberate Him. This quality of liberating the demons He kills belongs to Krsna alone.
We have discussed the glories of Krsna's name and form. What is the nature of Krsna's pastimes?
Dama-bandana-lila (the pastime of Mother Yasoda binding Krsna) is so sweet, And sweeter still are Brahma-mohana-lila (the pastimes of bewildering Lord Brahma), Kaliya-damana-lila (punishing the serpent Kaliya), and Nagapatni-lila (the prayers of Kaliya's wives). These are some of the sweet pastimes of Krsna.
Hearing these pastimes, Srimati Radhika becomes mad. She alone tastes them fully.
What kind of happiness does She realize?
I have explained the glory of Srimati Radhika's unprecedented love for Krsna (pranaya-mahima) and the nature of the sweetness She tastes in Krsna. Krsna thinks, "By tasting the madhurya (sweetness) of My form, qualities and pastimes, what kind of happiness does She feel? I cannot realize this. I want to realize these three things: the glory of Her love, the qualities in Me that She alone relishes, and the extent of Her happiness." This is the primary internal reason why Krsna came in the form of Sacinandana Gaurahari.
Tomorrow we will discuss the restlessness of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu during His boyhood, His accepting initiation from Sri Isvara Puripada, then Jagai and Madhai, and then His sannyasa. So you should all be ready for that.
Gaura Premanande. We are giving rest to hari-katha today.


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Advice to first time pregnant mamas-to-be: forget everything you've ever seen on TV or the movies about birth.
Most on-screen labours depicted are very far from reality and some look quite traumatizing.
It's rare the media ever shows birth as anything less than a dire emergency that could cause the death of baby or mother at any second.
What else would really keep the audience on the edge of their seats?
Most of the focus is on how quickly things can (and invariably do) go wrong, and how much pain there is, rather than the amazing miracle the mother's body is performing.
In most movies when a character goes into labour she is in a public place (usually a supermarket) and her membranes rupture in a tsunami of amniotic fluid. Mama-to-be tries to avoid attention while waddling out of the store, leaving behind a large puddle for the store to deal with.
Reality: Of the 10-15% of women who experience their waters breaking at the start of labour, most find this happens during the night or early in the morning (hint: put a waterproof cover on your bed). I'm not saying it can't happen, but the reality is, it's highly unlikely.
A large gush is very rare – most of the time the baby's head is well engaged and prevents more than a trickle being released.
On screen, once those waters break, mama-to-be is immediately having intense contractions. She is in the worst pain ever. Or so it seems, as we watch her doubled over clutching her belly and screaming. During the whole labour (which is often depicted in just 30 seconds) there's a lot of screaming.
Reality: First time labours generally start with a buildup called prelabour. This is the very early stage of labour, when the cervix is ripening. You might feel a few cramps or niggles, or even have a backache.
Even when contractions start becoming regular, there's space between them. More intense contractions are likely to occur later on when active labour is well established. By this time, you have plenty of endorphins working for you. Endorphins are nature's pain killers, which help you cope with contractions and to zone out between contractions.
Here are 8 fantastic tips for a low stress early labour at home.
#3. Scene: Quick The Baby Is Coming!
Now that our onscreen pregnant mama is in labour, it's time for the urgent rush to hospital. Friends, family or her partner act as though the baby will fall out any second from the first few contractions. Cue running red lights and police lights flashing in the rearview mirror, while mama is being raced at top speed to the hospital.
Reality: As previously mentioned, labour is rarely an emergency event from the outset. Oxytocin, the hormone responsible for contractions, is released in increasing levels over time. Contractions can be anything from an hour to 30 minutes apart at the start of active labour.
Even then, most hospitals advise not to come in until contractions are less than 5 minutes apart. Why? Moving into a new space during labour can promote adrenaline production, which slows down labour – meaning you can be sent home again until contractions pick up again. The racing to the hospital scenario (as soon as labour begins) in the movies is more likely to stop labour than speed it up.
Once in hospital, our on-screen mama gets to lie down on a bed or sit semi reclined with her legs in stirrups. Even in the movies where a labouring woman is in a jungle or on a train, we usually see her lying flat on her back.
Reality: Lying down while in labour was introduced in the 17th century and was purely for the convenience of doctors. The practice continued in the hospital maternity system until the mid 1900s, but has since been shown to be detrimental to labour progress. You can read about other birth practices from the past which are harmful or shocking, here.
Well-known natural birth advocates encouraged women to move around in labour and birth, in whatever position felt most comfortable. Upright positions allow a woman's pelvis more room to open to allow the baby to pass through.
Find out more about active birth and why it's so good for mothers and babies.
Most onscreen labours start with a bang, showing one or two first stage contractions, then once the race to hospital is complete it's straight to pushing. The focus is then on mama's contorted purple face as she is instructed to push with all her might, while sitting or lying with her legs held wide open.
Reality: The fact that our onscreen mama has only been in labour for about 15 minutes would indicate she's not dilated yet! First time mothers average 10-12 hours of first stage labour, which is when the cervix slowly ripens and opens.
Pushing on average takes 1-2 hours for first time mothers. We now know that sitting or lying down is a counter productive position to be in during labour, especially pushing. The mother is pushing against gravity; the baby is trying to navigate a space that is decreased by up to 30% in this position. Coached or directed pushing is likely to increase the risk of tearing or fetal distress.
Most of the time, the woman's partner gets the rough end of the deal. Mama-to-be is screaming about how much pain she is in and how it's all his fault. She's probably yelling for drugs and saying all sorts of crazy stuff.
At this point the partner is probably terrified and has no idea what to do, if anything. Often the staff take over the role of 'support' and the partner is merely a recipient of the woman's abuse.
Reality: Today women are far more proactive about ensuring they have enough support during labour. In order to achieve a positive birth experience, there are many options for being empowered to avoid interventions.
Women and their partners have lots of choice when it comes to independent birth education, ranging from birth preparation to hypnotherapy sessions. Doulas are also increasingly a must have in the birth suite, to support couples to have a positive birth experience.
In many onscreen births, the last moments as the baby is being born or immediately after are fraught with tension. The baby is usually stuck and the mama-to-be has to push until her eyes pop out of her head trying to get the baby out.
Often a doctor will come rushing in and while we won't actually see what is being done, we know implements are being used and there will be stitches required. Once the baby is (finally) born, it's rushed over to the other side of the room to be checked and cleaned before being returned to mama.
Reality: Birth in the last few moments is usually tense because everyone is waiting to meet the baby! If there are any problems, the midwives and doctor usually try a number of techniques to help baby be born without too much trauma, although if it's a medical emergency there may be a need for urgent assistance.
These days most women are aware of the importance of early skin to skin and an undisturbed first hour after birth. With a solid birth plan and great birth support, there should be no need for your baby to leave your side until you are ready.
The myth of birth as a medical emergency is constantly reinforced by shows such as One Born Every Minute and labour scenes in popular movies like Knocked Up.
Labour and birth in the media is usually sensationalised to increase the drama so viewers are caught up in the story. While many people may write off the way birth is portrayed in the media as make believe, how birth is portrayed has an impact on our idea of what labour is really like.
Recommended Reading: Natural Birth – 10 Tips To Help You Achieve One.


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Found in the More menu, your new inbox makes all updates and messages easily accessible from within the app. To see if you have a new message, look for a red dot on the More tab at the bottom of the screen.
Alexa on Sonos now available in Canada.
Voice control with Amazon Alexa is now available on Sonos One in Canada (English only.) Set Alexa up by going to the More tab in your app and tapping Voice Services. You can also wirelessly connect your Amazon Echo or Dot to your Sonos system. (In beta.) To get started, enable the Sonos skill in your Alexa app.


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El Salvador journalists reportedly targeted by Pegasus spyware
A cyber watchdog report found the phones of at least 35 journalists and activists in the Latin American country were infected with the controversial Pegasus spyware.
A photojournalist wears a surgical mask during a press conference in San Salvador on April 21, 2020. - YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty Images
The cell phones of dozens of El Salvador-based journalists and activists were targeted with the Israeli-made Pegasus spyware, according to a new digital forensic investigation that adds to the slew of scandals plaguing the NSO Group.
Researchers from the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab and the cyber watchdog Access Now said Wednesday they had identified 35 cases of journalists and civil society members whose phones were infected with Pegasus between July 2020 and November 2021.
NSO Group is best known for its Pegasus software, which cyber experts say can be used to remotely access a phone's contents, camera and microphone. The Israeli firm has pushed back on reports that its hacking technologies have been used to commit human rights abuses and says it licenses Pegasus to governments that are fighting terrorism and other crime.
The hacks occurred when Salvadoran news organizations were covering sensitive issues involving President Nayib Bukele's administration, including an alleged secret pact made between the government and the MS-13 gang to cut down on violence.
The researchers did not find evidence to conclude El Salvador's government was behind the hacking but said, "The strong country-specific focus of the infections suggests that this is very likely."
"The government of El Salvador is in no way related to Pegasus and is not a client of the NSO Group," Bukele's communications director, Sofia Medina, said in a statement, adding that the government is investigating the possible use of Pegasus.
Reporters Without Borders ranked El Salvador 82nd in its 2021 World Press Freedom Index, citing harassment of journalists who investigate corruption and government finances, as well as Bukele's rhetoric that the media is an enemy of the people.
Amnesty International, which independently verified Citizen Lab's findings, called on San Salvador to conduct a thorough investigation into the hacking.
"The use of Pegasus for the surveillance of communications in El Salvador reveals a new threat to human rights in the country," said Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty's Americas director. "This investigation shows that yet again, the Pegasus spyware continues to be abused in the world to unlawfully surveil journalists on a massive scale."
The El Salvador probe is the latest scandal to embroil NSO, which was thrust into the spotlight in July when an investigation revealed that the company's military-grade spyware had been used to successfully hack the smartphones of journalists, politicians, activists, heads of state and business leaders around the world.
Using a leaked list of more than 50,000 phone numbers, journalists at 17 media outlets identified over 1,000 people across more than 50 countries who were selected as potential targets by NSO Group's clients. The phone numbers of the ruler of Dubai's daughter and his ex-wife, French President Emmanuel Macron and the fiancee of slain Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi were reportedly included in the list.
In November, the US Department of Commerce added the Israeli spyware firm to its economic blacklist. The next month, reports emerged that the phones of at least nine State Department employees based in Uganda or whose work focused on the East African country were hacked with NSO's software.


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WKU School of Kinesiology, Recreation and Sport student, Gabrielle Ringenberg, has been selected as a 2016 recipient of the William N. Wasson Student Leadership and Academic Award from the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA).
The Western Kentucky University Dental Hygiene Program recently participated in the Kentucky Dental Hygienist's Association Annual meeting, earning awards for their presentations.
Jennifer Ottersbach, a Recreation Administration major in the Western Kentucky University School of Kinesiology, Recreation and Sport (KRS) was recently awarded a Jane Jacobs Fellowship.
Western Kentucky University graduate student, Christopher Joffrion, was recently awarded a Legislative Research Commission (LRC) fellowship through the 2017-2018 Graduate Fellows Program in Frankfort, KY.
Students from the Western Kentucky University Department of Social Work participated in Social Work Lobby Day on Friday, March 3rd in Frankfort, KY.
Western Kentucky University (WKU) graduate student, Regis Pearson, recently received an Integrated Programs in Biomedical Science (IPIBS) Fellowship to study for the Ph.D. of Physiology and Biophysics degree at the University of Louisville.


As one of the clubs annual projects, the Hamburg Sunrise Rotary club purchased two permanent bike racks for the new Hamburg Community Playground that was built during the spring of 2017. The bike racks were installed on May 24th near both the Highland and Prospect Ave entrances. The club raised money for the new bike racks through its various fundraisers over the course of the year.


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Q: Скрипт отправки данных на e-mail не работает на хостингах Здравствуйте, есть готовый скрипт отправки формы на e-mail, проблема в том, что на одном платном хостинге net.ru с php и mysql он не работает(или работает, но сообщения приходят в спам через час), а на другом платном хостинге agava он работает как надо, сообщение приходит мнгновенно во входящие, в чем может быть проблема, для отправки сообщений используется ф-ия mail

A: Если на одном хостинге работает, а на другом - нет, то проблема, однозначно, в хостинге.
Во-первых, функция отправки почты может быть банально выключена. А может быть не просто выключена, а хитро - MTA берёт почту от скрипта и выкидывает её в /dev/null. Ошибок нет, но и почты нет.
Во-вторых, при наличии большого числа клиентов на хостинге он весь, либо некоторая часть его IP-адресов может попасть в чёрный список из-за спама. Тогда возможен и "отброс" почты принимающей стороной, и попадание в спам.
В третьих, возможно, хостер не прописал Reverse DNS или криво настроил MTA. В таких случаях принимающая строна может сказать отправителю "повтори отправку через час". Легитимные почтовики честно повторят отправку, в то время как спамеры не станут заморачиваться и просто пройдут мимо. Это объясняет задержку на час.

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Best data structure for representing English verb forms
I need to come up with a data structure to keep information about English verb forms. In most cases a verb can be in one of 4 forms: base, present participle, past participle and past simple, for example:
It's seemingly easy to define 4 types for each form and be over with it. However there are few exceptions that ruin this simple idea.
Present single third person form, which is in our example would be "takes".
Copular verb "to be" has multiple irregular forms in the present tense: "am", "is", "are" and "was" and "were" in the past tense
Verbs like "may" that don't inflect in the present single third person form: "she may".
What data structure would be efficient, accurate yet unambiguous for representing such information (with exceptional cases) given the following requirements have to be met:
for an arbitrary form answer the question what conjugations the form represents
for an arbitrary conjugation and a form answer the question whether the form represents the given conjugation or not?
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You need to consider the uses to which your data will be put. For example, if you want to do real-time deep semantic analysis of English texts or if you are trying to do machine translation of linguistic texts you will probably want to have an entry for each conjugated form that a verb can take in the language(s) of interest.
You can consider the infinitive form of a verb to be the base form and the base form should have links to all variant forms, so from the infinitive you can enumerate and access all the grammatical uses associated with the verb. Similarly, the variant forms should link back to the infinitive form.
Data structures of this type will minimize the computational load required to identify the possible grammatical uses of each verb form that you can encounter in natural language text.
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sounds like you're describing a tree structure with a set of indexes for each type of verb to speed up access. – Rudolf Olah Jul 22 '13 at 19:26
An map/association of sets/enums?
Each key is the verb form. Base/infinitive can be a special case, outside the map. Each value is a set of what conjugations it represents.
for an arbitrary form answer the question what conjugations the form represents.
That's a lookup of the key, returns the set of conjugations.
That's the same lookup, and a lookup of the conjugation in the resulting set.
What data structure would be efficient, accurate yet unambiguous [...]
Efficient in time or space? Depending on the implementation, a map/hash/assoc and set lookup can be very efficient.
For space, there'll be overhead on every entry, and redundancy in storing similar strings can be further taken out (something like ropes, maybe).
Accurate Yes.
Unambiguous Ambiguity may arise only when introducing data.
This seems like the simple thing to do, but it won't be as efficient in other use cases, such as: - answering what form a verb takes in a particular conjugation (that's a search on possibly all keys and set elements) - answering all forms for a particular time OR person, disregarding the other (t
fede s.fede s.
In the case where there are a lot of exceptions to the rules of how your data can be organized, you will have to relate them in a light and shallow way. In this case, you can use a "tag"-like system.
Your objects could store two things: the base form (as a string), as well as a map of "tags." This map would hold an enum value as its key and a word string as its value. The enum would list all the types of forms that are possible.
Using this method, your object is required to have a base form, but can then have either 0 or 1 of each of the other types of forms. If it doesn't have a certain form associated with it, you simply don't include it, and it would be your language's equivalent of null.
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You might model the base forms and then add any number of exceptions by coding the conjugation (an enumeration) and the form (a string).
verb_t *verb;
char    *base;
char    *pres_part;
char    *past_part;
char    *past_simple;
EXCEPT  **exception; // NULL-terminated
and the exception would be
typedef struct tag_exception {
conj_t  conjugation;           // Enum: CONJ_3S for third person singular
char    *form;                 // "is"
Then you should model some "rules" for the other cases. For example, say that our "rule" is that third person singular is made by adding a -s. Then not having an exception for take, 3S means that it is takes. A verb such as be would have an exception, is.
To answer the first question, you scan the base forms, scan the exceptions if any, and generate the remaining "rule" forms.
To answer the second question, you basically do the same, except that you check if the form ID matches.
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Official website of Polish Rotary
O Rotary
Dystrykt i kluby
The Rotary Foundation
Młodzi w Rotary
Dystrykt 2230
Rotary-Friendship-Exchange
Flota Giżycko
Opis wymiany
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Lublin - a city located in the Middle East Polish river Bystrica. It has 350 000 inhabitants, is 2 in Galicia, and 9 cities in the country. Lublin is one of the oldest Polish cities. This allows you to find in it many monuments from the Middle Ages, through the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, to the baroque, classicism and modernism. Archaeologists have discovered a cemetery of monumental tombs of pre-5000 years. The beginnings of settlement in the city date back to the sixth century on the hill stands the church Thursday św.Mikołaja, probably built in the tenth century with the foundation of Mieszko I, the site of a former pagan temple.
The first mention of Lublin from 1198. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the city flourished through the trade route from the Black Sea to western Europe. In 1569 in Lublin, Lublin concluded union. July 19, 1569 at the Diet of Lublin Prince Frederick of Prussia Albrecht Hohenzollern paid homage to Sigismund II August, which present the Jan Kochanowski wrote a song Prussian Homage. In the mid-seventeenth century, Lublin was destroyed by wars (Cossack raids, the Swedish army). In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was the main center of the Reformation. And he was one of the major municipalities of the Polish Brethren and Calvinist church. After she emigrated in 1650 from the city, most European merchants. In 1655, Lublin plundered Russian-Cossack army, and in 1656 the Swedes plundered the city, completing the act of building and destruction of Lublin decimating the population. April 12, 1656 after the city was liberated by troops commanded by John Paul Hetman Sapieha. In 1686 started to play bugle Lublin.
July 27, 1918 Catholic University was founded - the first university in Lublin. In 1930, Rabbi Meir Shapira founded the Yeshiva Chachmej Lublin (Lublin School of the Elders). This was the largest Talmudic school in the world. In the building housed a synagogue, a library with a very rich collection of books, which had a 22 thousand. items of books, mainly rabbinic literature, and 10 thousand. magazines. The basement housed the most kosher with kosher mikvah in the world.
During the occupation the Germans established in Lublin, Majdanek concentration camp and ghetto for the Jews, destroyed in 6 weeks in the spring of 1942. During the Holocaust, as part of Aktion Reinhard, killed about 40 thousand. Lublin Jews, which prior to 1939 one third of the population of the city. Also disappeared so long. Jewish Town and almost the entire district Wieniawa, inhabited mostly by Jews, and Jewish cemeteries.
In 1944 was Maria Curie-Sklodowska University (now 30 thousand. Students). Lublin is the largest academic center on the right side of the river, and one of the biggest in Poland (100 thousand. Students). In Lublin, there are interesting collections of museums, culture and cinema theaters. Monuments are mainly Lublin Old Town area, Lublin Castle, historic buildings, religious buildings represent the periods from Gothic to Baroque. In 2007, the historic architecture and urban planning team Lublin was declared a historical monument. It runs through here many hiking trails including Via Regia, Jagiellonian Trail or Chassidic Route. Lublin since 1990 is the only city in Poland and one of the few in Europe which preserved traditional city klikona function, which has documented the power of the voice of more than 80 decibels and is a member of the British Guild of Ancient and Honour City boosters. Bugle call is played from Lublin 1686, with breaks in between 1939-1994. Since 1994 is played daily at 12:00, actually from the balcony of the New Town Hall.
In July 2009, marked the 440 anniversary of the Union of Lublin. The main celebrations in Lublin came to the presidents of three countries: Polish, Lithuanian and Ukraine.
The city is also a member of the Union of Polish Metropolises. Lublin is a rapidly growing, leading center on the right side of the river, a city with a large economic opportunities (with revitalizing the automotive industry), educational and cultural. It invests thanks to the European Union in infrastructure, science and education. Lublin has one of the three active trolleybus network in Poland, near Tychy and Gdynia, and the city put on the development of cleaner and more economical trolleybus traction. From 2008 on a former industrial airport in Swidnik arises Airport Lublin-Swidnik. The airport is to be communicated from the railway station Szynobus Lublin.
In recent years, Lublin regains its former glory. Renovation of historic buildings reveals the true treasures of architecture. Climate old town and a wonderful panorama stretching from the hillside town on the long passed into memory. Lublin is the historical capital of the region, so that already in ancient times, attracted representatives of different nationalities and cultures living in areas of the Republic. The unique building is still a this testimony. Nearby Lublin are lies Zamosc, a city founded by the will of one man - Chancellor Jan Zamoyski. Zamosc was built in the middle of nowhere, according to Italian models of the ideal city, according to urban planning and architectural plan Bernardo Morando of Padua. Today Zamosc delights preserved to this day the sixteenth-century old town. Survived numerous fortifications and buildings of the style of the Renaissance, of which most catches the eye fanning stairs of townHall and high clock tower. Old town of Zamosc was entered into the UNESCO register of monuments.
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Last night during the live Ink Master Finale, a fan-favorite, Kelly Doty was not saved by America through Twitter voting and was eliminated from competition before showing off her 24-hour master canvas chest piece. Inked editors were in the studio during the live broadcast and in case it didn't come through your television screens, after Kelly was sent to the sidelines the crowd, disgusted with America's vote, chanted Kelly's name leading her to cry tears of thanks on her stool. Minutes ago she revealed her chest piece through her Instagram.
Doty wrote: "Spoilers! Well that was all quite a ride. This is my 24-hour master canvas that I did for last nights @spikeinkmaster#inklive finale. I'm really proud of it and my only regret is that I didn't get the chance to show everyone. But I want to thank Caleb, my master canvas, for sitting through a grueling 24 hours and letting me do this on him! And I want to thank the AMAZING and rowdy crowd last night for being so supportive! I've never experienced anything like that before, and as kind of a weirdo, it meant everything to me. The amount of support from my friends and heroes and family (which are often one and the same) has been beyond amazing and I really don't have the words for it. I just don't. And to@ryanashleymalarkey and @giankarle, there's no one more deserving to be up there. You're both some of the hardest working most genuine people I've gotten to meet and you have earned everything good that comes from this. I'm so happy for both of you, and very excited for@ryanashleymalarkey and the incredible accomplishment she's achieved! Final note: I appreciate everyone's support more than you know but please remember we don't need to tear others down to build ourselves up. Thank you all again. And thank you so much to@spikeinkmaster and @davenavarro@oliverpecker and my captain@chrisnunezhandcrafted for this surreal opportunity! #inkmaster#inkmasterseason8."
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2022 FloodFlash: Yearly round-up
Kirsty Hume
The FloodFlash behavioural science series: Herd Behaviour
Introducing the FloodFlash Climate Change series
It's been a busy year at FloodFlash! We've grown our GWP and team, moved into a new office, and broken our claims records. We've also sold our first policies in the U.S., the largest flood insurance market in the world. If you're reading this, you've almost certainly played a part in these successes, so thanks for supporting us as we continue to grow. Read on for the full 2022 FloodFlash round up.
January is a time to try new things and set goals for the year. With significant growth planned, we wanted to set core FloodFlash values. We settled on the following: own the outcome, use evidence, be helpful, and be brave. Since January, our values have been incorporated into our interview process. We ask every candidate how they've showcased our values in their previous experiences.
We rolled our values out internally and made a video to share these with our new potential hires.
Like the sound of our values? We're hiring – check out more details here.
With our values ready and growth plans in place, we announced our Series A raise in February. The $15m raise was led by Buoyant Ventures, alongside Munich Re Ventures, Sony Financial Ventures/Global Brain, MS&AD Ventures and PropTech1 all participating in the round. Pentech, Local Globe and Insurtech Gateway also continued their role as investors.
Real solutions are needed to address flood risk in the communities on the front lines of climate change. We are thrilled to lead this first-class syndicate of investors and believe strongly that the FloodFlash team is well positioned for global expansion and success."
Amy Francetic, Partner at Buoyant Ventures
February also gave us a chance to showcase our award-winning rapid claims. We pay most of our claims in under 48 hours. During Storm Franklin we paid out one claim in just 5 hours and 36 minutes, breaking our own catastrophic flood claim payment record.
In March, we launched our annual Commercial Risk Report. This year was our biggest yet. Through the report, we aim to raise awareness of the flood risk facing 26% of commercial properties in Britain. Take a look at the five key statistics you should know here.
FloodFlash and the 2022 Commercial Risk Report received praise from both the main parliamentary parties, including from Matt Eastwood MP and Emma Hardy MP.
The FloodFlash Risk Report is welcome and needed. Businesses need a detailed and up-to-date picture of the risks they face from flooding, so that their understanding of the risks from flooding matches their perceptions.
Emma Hardy MP
CEO Adam Rimmer with Matt Eastwood MP and Emma Hardy MP.
March also saw another broken record. This time, it was monthly GWP – a record we later broke in September, and then again in November. Finally, we picked up Best Insurtech and Best Customer Experience in a Crisis at the UK Customer Service Excellence Awards 2022. We were particularly proud of the latter following our surge of February claims.
April involved crossing the Atlantic to attend RIMS in San Francisco. The U.S. is home to the biggest flood underinsurance problem worldwide. With the U.S. planned as the first site of international expansion, RIMS offered the first opportunity to meet some of the 400 companies and 10,000 attendees present.
We also unveiled the first part of our latest product feature – smart quote. For clients who haven't flooded before, setting trigger depths and payouts can be difficult. We created smart quote to help these clients and their brokers, by helping them understand the right cover for them.
Smart quote is a paradigm shift in mass market parametric insurance.
Adam Rimmer, CEO
Part one involved a change to our quote form, including a few more questions about the client's property. These included asking if the client had resilience measures, and what the property was built from. With the answers to these questions, brokers could understand their client's property in more detail, meaning they were better equipped to talk them through their trigger depths and payout amounts.
In May, the broker success and marketing teams headed up to Manchester for BIBA. After the event was cancelled in 2020 and online in 2021, it was destined to be a large event. It did not disappoint. With over 5000 brokers and more than 200 exhibitors, reunions were made and new connections forged.
FloodFlash, as described by brokers – new and old.
In June, we launched the second part of our new product feature, smart quote. While part one aimed to help brokers understand their client's property in more detail, part two aimed to use that information to provide an initial tailored quote for the client. It also involved showing insights specific to the client's property, to ensure the client is as informed as possible when choosing their trigger depths and payouts. Check out our article here that explains it all. Product, development, analytics, broker success and comms all contributed to this new feature – set to change how people interact with parametric insurance.
June also welcomed a smart change of scenery, as we moved offices to cope with the increasing numbers at FloodFlash HQ. With the help of our wonderful Office and People Manager Zara (and some willing volunteers embodying our 'be helpful' value!) the move went smoothly. You can now find us at 18 East Tenter Street, near Aldgate station.
Our new home – it wouldn't be a FloodFlash office without our very own sensor!
July brought warmer weather and several awards. We were named in the Fintech50, and Broker Success Manager Ola was named as one of Insurance Business UK's Rising Stars. We were also honoured to be awarded a 5-Star Diversity, Equity and Inclusion award.
In general, diversity and inclusion in the UK insurance sector is aesthetic and without any real action. It's really necessary to encourage the emergence of diverse young champions who are not afraid to push for change.
Ola Jacob, Broker Success Manager
In August, we saw record temperatures of over 40°C in parts of the UK, followed by flash flooding. August also saw the FloodFlash summer party – a chance for the team to let our hair down and get competitive in a range of sports day-style games.
The FloodFlash summer party featured games, prizes, and (unsurprisingly) rain.
September saw the launch of our first ever Autumn Digest, with articles written by several members of the team. The Digest covered how FloodFlash can help with the rising premiums and excesses many brokers and their clients are seeing.
The team travelled far and wide in September. Co-founders Adam and Ian travelled to Las Vegas for InsurTech Connect, while Catastrophe Risk Analyst Henry (and the sensor) ventured to Paris for the Weather Risk Management Association Conference.
From Las Vegas to Paris: the FloodFlash team went international in September.
Finally, September saw the analytics team putting the final tweaks together for the US pricing methodology. As well as being much larger than the U.K., the U.S. data availability is more sparse, making harder to model. The pricing methodology is what defines how we price quotes, meaning it's critical for our expansion to the U.S. We map out every single property in both the U.K. and U.S., making quote submission a lot easier for brokers and their clients. This also means our pricing more accurately reflects the risk at an individual property.
October marked our last hire of the year. 2022 saw 12 hires across almost all departments, marking a huge growth in the team. Mano, Matt, and Kamran all joined our analytics and pricing team in the first quarter of 2022, while Tom, Mital and Jen joined the product team. Gabriel brought experience to the development team as Senior Backend Developer, Kirsty joined the marketing team while Justine and Joel both joined as Broker Success Executives. Finally, Tim joined as our Head of Finance, and Mark became our first hire in the U.S. as CEO, North America.
2022 new joiners: (top row L to R) Mano, Tom, Mital, Matt, Kamran and Kirsty, (bottom row L to R) Jen, Justine, Tim, Joel, Mark, and Gabriel.
With Mark signalling our expansion to the U.S., October also saw the dev team finalise some key changes to make FloodFlash ready for the U.S. The dev team are responsible for a lot of work behind the scenes, including the significant updates to the portal so it can handle inches as well as metres, and dollars as well as pounds.
Finally in October, Business Cloud announced their InsurTech 50. The list names the 50 most innovative UK insurance tech firms, and we were thrilled be #2.
Remember back in February when we broke our record for fastest-claim? That wasn't the end of the story. In November, we paid a claim in 3 hours and 50 minutes. That's 4 hours between water hitting the client's trigger depth to their full payout being in their bank.
Our mission is to help more people recover from catastrophe. A fast payout is critical to helping businesses recover and rebuild after a flood. But don't just take our word for it. Take a look at what some of our Storm Franklin claimants had to say earlier in the year about the impact of a fast claim.
We pay most of claims within 48 hours, which makes a significant difference for businesses who have flooded.
We've delved into many of our achievements during this round-up, but sometimes it pays to look at the bigger picture. 40% of businesses close after a catastrophic flood. We're proud that all of the businesses we've paid have recovered, often within days of their flood. Our rapid payouts are a huge part of this.
Finally, this year's round-up wouldn't be complete without a mention of our 15-foot Christmas tree. Straight from co-founder Ian's family Christmas tree farm, the tree involved our values 'own the outcome' and 'be helpful' when it came to getting it inside our office.
(L) The tree committee; (R) the finished product!
What a year – thanks to everyone involved in 2022. We've got no plans on slowing down in 2023. Make sure to follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter to stay up to date, and sign up here for our newsletter.
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