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Cinema Strange
(transcribed by Brette Young)
Chain D.L.K.: Symbolism of band's name?
Cinema Strange: Not too deep. The idea was to do more silent movie soundtrack, then it turned into a post punk project.
Chain D.L.K.: Does it have anything in common with Emily Strange?
Cinema Strange: Never heard that one.
Chain D.L.K.: Being in the art genre, how do you feel about critics pigeon holing you?
Cinema Strange: The press tends to put us in the death rock category, especially in the last few years since it has become a bigger trend, but we fit more generally into an art-rock category, at least from our perspective. But the critics can say whatever they like, obviously. Bless them.
Chain D.L.K.: The press said that you are the essence of death rock.
Cinema Strange: Deathrock started in the 1980's, that's where they got the classification with all the music coming out in California. We started in the mid-nineties and we were not a revival of it but we built onto it, trying to evolve and create something new.
Chain D.L.K.: Do you feel that you are portraying a message to the mass?
Cinema Strange: We are trying to, we are presenting something with a bit of a dramatic curve. For example, it is fine to have some violence in a song whether it be vocal or musical, just not the whole thing. We like to capture some ups and downs, make it dynamic.
Chain D.L.K.: This circuit seems influenced, was there something when you were little that struck you or anything?
Cinema Strange: I picked up a guitar when I was little and then I just kept with it.
Chain D.L.K.: Have you ever had vocal training before?
Cinema Strange: My grandfather taught me when I was young, he taught me you should always be the loudest in church and embarrass the grandkids.
Chain D.L.K.: What's your longest show, seems like you guys can perform for a while.
Cinema Strange: I think the longest was 2 and a half hours, do not think that we have gone past 3 hours. It would be easy for us to play a long show but hard on the audience. Normally, people like to hear the hits, but we like to experiment a lot on stage with new stuff. So that is why the audience may have a hard time with a long show.
Chain D.L.K.: If you had to pick who's your favorite band, poet, and your hero?
Cinema Strange: The poetry, I do not have one. The band for us is unanimous. The hero would be my grandfather.
Chain D.L.K.: Have you ever worked for a drama group, a costume shop, or worked with crafts?
Cinema Strange: We've done a little with crafts. And our drama was normal grade school drama.
Chain D.L.K.: There's a misconception in Chicago that if you and Tragic Black were to do a show together, there would just be fighting because of all the similarities between you two, such as your manner of style and dress.
Cinema Strange: I do not see any connection between us two, musically or otherwise. I do not see any conflict with us. We certainly didn't dress alike at the show. They seem to be really nice guys.
Chain D.L.K.: What are some tips to bands just starting out in the scene musically?
Cinema Strange: Just make sure that you are doing what you are passionate with.
Visit Cinema Strange on the web at:
www.cinemastrange.de
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Lizzy Yarnold is appointed MBE by the Queen for her services to sport, after winning Great Britain's only gold medal at the Sochi Games.
Olympic gold medallist Lizzy Yarnold has received her MBE from the Queen for her services to sport.
The 26-year-old won Great Britain's only gold medal at the Winter Olympics in the women's skeleton.
"From the moment I got up this morning it has been the most amazing day," Yarnold wrote on her official website. "It was such an honour to learn I was being awarded an MBE – and now I'm here it still seems very surreal. Windsor Castle is stunning, I kept thinking of all the historic moments that have happened here.
"It was so special to receive the award from The Queen, she was very kind and so knowledgeable about skeleton racing and the Winter Olympics, which was lovely to chat about – it helped calm my nerves!"
Yarnold will fly to America tomorrow to begin the defence of her Skeleton World Cup title.


In a recent post, which has since been deleted on Instagram, Nina's publicist, Chinonso Onyenobi, accused Big Brother Naija 2018 housemate, Miracle, of betraying Nina's trust.
She said that Nina was humiliated by 'someone' she risked everything for, and that she has 'brought so much shame on herself' just to be with that person only to be betrayed by him, Punch reports.
The post was deleted after followers of the page disagreed with the statement made by the publicist who many believed to be Nina's sister.
Nina and Miracle's relationship went sour on Monday after Miracle expressed his displeasure with Nina refering to him as just a friend.
While she was speaking with fellow housemate, Tobi, Nina said she was done with Miracle and didn't want to have anything to do with him again.


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Biden will participate in next debate with 'necessary' safety precautions, campaign aide says
By Justine Coleman - 10/04/20 11:04 AM EDT
Democratic nominee Joe Biden Joe BidenWoman accused of trying to sell Pelosi laptop to Russians arrested Trump gets lowest job approval rating in final days as president Trump moves to lift coronavirus travel restrictions on Europe, Brazil MORE's deputy campaign manager said Sunday that the former vice president will participate in the next presidential debate with the "necessary" safety precautions in place.
Kate Bedingfield told ABC News's "This Week" that Biden will "be there" for the Oct. 15 debate as long as President Trump Donald TrumpGiuliani used provisional ballot to vote in 2020 election, same method he disparaged in fighting to overturn results Trump gets lowest job approval rating in final days as president Fox News' DC managing editor Bill Sammon to retire MORE is able to debate and the Commission on Presidential Debates implements safety measures.
"We hope that they're going to put in place every adjustment necessary to ensure that it's fully safe," Bedingfield said.
"And, obviously, we send President Trump our best," she added. "We hope that he is well and able to debate. If he is, Joe Biden will certainly be there."
Bedingfield said that Biden would participate in the debate "assuming that the commission puts in place the necessary requirements to ensure that everybody is safe, which is first and foremost the most important thing."
"Joe Biden certainly looks forward to the opportunity to debate Donald Trump, and we hope that he will be well and able to do that," she said.
Biden deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield says with "safety" precautions put in place, Biden will participate in next debate: "We send President Trump our best. We hope that he is well and able to debate. If he is, Joe Biden will certainly be there." https://t.co/lCW47doOHk pic.twitter.com/ptXgXxr10k
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) October 4, 2020
Bedingfield also said that the Biden campaign has "every expectation" that the Debate Commission will "take all necessary precautions to ensure that everybody who attends" the debates are "safe," adding that precautions should include social distancing and a mask requirement.
Biden campaign senior adviser Symone Sanders Symone Sanders7 surprise moments from a tumultuous year in politics The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Mastercard - Congress inches closer to virus relief deal Harris taps women of color for key senior staff positions MORE also told CNN's "State of the Union" that his campaign is "looking forward" to the upcoming presidential debate.
"We're hoping that President Trump can participate," she said. "We're hoping that he's medically able to participate and, you know, that's up to his doctors to clear him."
"But Joe Biden will be at that debate," she added.
Biden campaign senior adviser Symone Sanders says, "We are looking forward to the debate on October 15th in Miami. ... We are hoping that President Trump can participate ... but Joe Biden will be at that debate" #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/WGPIXfiPoL
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 4, 2020
Trump's positive test for coronavirus early Friday rocked his campaign, as the president was sent to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. later that day.
On Saturday, Trump's doctors reported he was "doing very well" and in "exceptionally good spirits." But later, a "source familiar with the president's health" told reporters Trump's vitals over the "last 24 hours were very concerning," adding that "the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care."
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Il Campionato mondiale Formula TT 1977 è la prima edizione del campionato mondiale Formula TT.

Prima edizione di una competizione motociclistica riservata a moto con propulsori derivati dalla serie disputatosi in prova unica durante la settimana di gare del Tourist Trophy dall'11 al 17 giugno 1977.

Contesto
Al fine di compensare la perdita da parte del dello status di gara del Mondiale velocità, le autorità sportive dell'Isola di Man, in collaborazione con l'"Auto-Cycle Union" (l'ente che governa lo sport motociclistico in Gran Bretagna, Isola di Man e Channel Islands) e con l'approvazione della FIM, istituirono il Campionato del Mondo "Formula TT". Il campionato era chiaramente ispirato alle gare americane per derivate di serie e prevedeva la massima libertà di elaborazione per motore e telaio (in pratica erano prototipi col motore derivato dalla serie). La competizione si svolse sul Mountain Circuit dell'Isola di Man, nel Regno Unito ed era suddivisa in tre classi, che gareggiavano separatamente.

La classe regina era la Formula 1, riservata a moto 4 tempi con cilindrata da 600 a 1000 cm³ oppure 2 tempi da 350 a 500 cc, e vide tra i suoi protagonisti molti degli stessi piloti fautori della protesta del 1972 e tra essi Phil Read che aveva giurato che non avrebbe più messo piede all'Isola di Man, ma che cambiò idea dopo aver firmato un contratto con l'importatore britannico della Honda. Il risultato della corsa fu macchiato dalle forti polemiche contro la direzione di gara, che interruppe la competizione dopo quattro dei cinque giri previsti per colpa delle condizioni meteorologiche in peggioramento, quando proprio Phil Read era passato al comando dopo che alla fine del terzo giro Roger Nicholls si era fermato ai box per rifornire di benzina la sua Ducati mentre aveva un vantaggio sullo stesso Read di ben 22 secondi.

A completare il trionfo della Honda vi furono le vittorie di Alan Jackson jr. in Formula 2 (moto a 4 tempi da 401 a 600 cc oppure a 2 tempi da 251 a 350 cc), che si involò verso la vittoria dopo che il rivale Bill Smith si era ritirato durante l'ultimo giro, e di John Kidson in Formula 3 (moto a 4 tempi da 201 a 400 cc oppure a 2 tempi da 126 a 250 cc). Queste due ultime gare si svolsero sulla distanza di quattro giri.

Risultati
La competizione si svolge sul circuito del Mountain, di ogni gara vengono riportati solo i primi dieci piloti classificati. Dove non indicata la nazionalità si intende pilota britannico.

TT-Formula 1
(4 giri = 242,8 km, gara interrotta per meteo avverso)

TT-Formula 2
(4 giri = 242,8 km, solo otto piloti hanno raggiunto il traguardo)

TT-Formula 3
(4 giri = 242,8 km)

Note

Collegamenti esterni

1987
Formula TT

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Tichonet-Alterman is a high school in Tel Aviv, Israel that opened its doors in 2012. The school is unique because it is paperless; all the content and class materials are saved in a cloud format, and only saved digitally. There are approximately 1400 students from grades seven through twelve, and 135 teachers and staff members
We aim to educate our students for life in an advanced urban environment, which strives to maintain rich communal life in several aspects: culturally, socially and civically. We believe there is a way in which we can preserve the sense of belonging and intimacy amongst residents of a major metropolitan area that may occasionally experience a sense of alienation and seclusion
The school has a research and development center whose goal is to provide an infrastructure and space for entrepreneurial activity for students. The school has a partnership with the teacher-training program at Lewinsky College, Kibbutzim College of Education and Tel-Aviv University
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is an international organization that was founded to inspire grade school and high school students to pursue a career in STEM. The organization offers robotics programs for different age groups where students work in teams to design, build, program and compete with their robot.


Explain the concept of discourse community and describe the discourse community of your academic discipline.
Please answer these essay questions: 1. Explain intertextuality, give an example, and discuss why this is important for readers and writers.
2. Explain the concept of discourse community and describe the discourse community of your academic discipline.
3. Explain what Graff means by the volleyball effect. Do you agree that this can be confusing to students? Briefly explain your position in response to Graff.
4. Explain what Graff means by the problem problem. Is this a convincing part of his argument in the book as a whole? Why or why not?
5. Explain what Graff calls the analysis culture. Why might this cause difficulty for students? Discuss how it relates to the problem problem and/or anti-intellectualism in our society.
6. Explain what Harris means by coming to terms.
7. Explain what Harris means by taking an approach.
– Explain what rhetoric is and how it relates to the goals of this course. Describe how we use rhetoric when writing academic essays that require the use of sources.
– Explain how writers understand audience and how this relates to the style (or voice) of their academic essays.
– Explain Graff's point about vernacular voice and academic voice. How effective is this? Can you think of any problems or limits?
– Graff explains the value of planting a naysayer in your text. Describe how we can use this move in academic essays that require the use of sources. Is this the same as countering?
– Explain how Graff contrasts street smarts and public argument. How does this contribute to his overall purpose in the book?
– Describe your understanding of the importance of writing the voices of others into our academic texts.
Graff, Gerald. Clueless in Academe: how schooling obscures the life of the mind. Yale University Press, 2003.
Harris, Joseph. Rewriting: how to do things with texts. Utah State University Press, 2006.
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NYJW Arts
NYC Jewish-y Events, February 1-11
By Orli Santo January 30, 2019 3:37 pm
Editor's Picks:
AN INTIMATE NIGHT WITH MATISYAHU
It's been a long, strange trip for the reggae-rap (and formerly Chabad) star Matisyahu. Along the way, the singer set a standard for blending charedi themes with hip-hop beat-boxing sounds. His latest recording, 2017's "Undercurrent," landed 13 years after his first release, and the names of the tunes give you a sense of where the shape-shifter has been: "Step Out into the Light," "Coming Up Empty," "Forest of Faith" and "Driftin'." The "Undercurrent" band features guitarist Aaron Dugan, Dub Trio bassist and percussionist Stu Brooks and Joe Tomino, and keyboardist Big Yuki. — Friday, Feb. 1, 8 p.m., City Winery, 155 Varick St., (212) 608-0555, citywinery.com.
NAKED LORE
"A soundtrack to the folktales your great-grandparents vowed to forget": That's how the website of the group Naked Lore Trio characterizes its approach. The group is led by trumpeter/composer Ben Holmes (Tarras Band, Klez Dispensers, Ben Holmes & Patrick Farrell Duo) and features Brad Shepik on guitar and Shane Shanahan on percussion. The music flows between sinuous klezmer-based melodies and improvisations inspired by everything from Balkan brass band music to "Olé Coltrane." This special duo performance features Holmes and Shepik. Part of the NY Klezmer Series, the concert will be preceded by an instrumental workshop and followed by a jam session. — Thursday, Feb. 7, 6:30-8 p.m. workshop, 8:30 p.m. concert, 9:45-11:45 p.m. jam session, Town & Village Synagogue, Social Hall, 334 E. 14th St., nyklezmer.com.
INTERNATIONAL LADINO DAY
Ladino was the mother tongue of Jews in the Ottoman Empire for 500 years, as well as the language of Sephardim worldwide in the early 20th century. Today, Ladino is only spoken by a small fraction of Sephardim but interest in it is resurging. The Second Annual International Ladino Day features a diverse group of authors and musicians, including composer Avi Amon and his musical fantasy, Salonika; the Alhambra Ensemble's Songs of Courtship, Love and Holidays; clarinetist Danny Elias; author Jane Mushabac; scholar Bryan Kirschen; Rabbi Nissim Elnecavé and more. — Sunday, 2 p.m., Feb. 10, Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th St., (212) 294-8301, cjh.org.
OUT OF THE DEPTHS
Based on the life of S. Ansky, this staged reading of Chaim Potok's play roams through various scenes in Ansky's life to show us how, against a backdrop of war and revolution, his masterpiece "The Dybbuk" has evolved. Directed by David Bassuk and introduced by Rena Potok, the late writer's daughter, the performance celebrates the publication of "The Collected Plays of Chaim Potok," edited by Rena Potok. A book signing follows the program. — Feb. 3, 2 p.m., Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th St., (800) 838-3006, potok.bpt.me.
Eve Wolf's "Maestro" brings to life the story of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini and his brave opposition to fascism. His refusal to perform in Italy and Germany, and his trips to Palestine to conduct an orchestra made up of Jewish refugees, made headlines around the world. John Noble stars as the maestro. A presentation of Ensemble for the Romantic Century. — The Duke on 42nd Street, 229 W. 42nd St., tickets.dukeon42.org. Through Feb. 9.
THE GOLEM
A tight-knit Jewish community is besieged by foreign invaders. Turning to Jewish mysticism, a member of the community conjures a dangerous creature to protect her and her people. However, her creation may be more evil than she ever imagined. Screening followed by Q&A with director Doron Paz and cast member. — Monday, Feb. 4, 9 p.m., Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave., (646) 505-4444, jccmanhattan.org.
TO DUST
Director Shawn Snyder's dark buddy comedy tracks an unlikely friendship between a biology teacher (Matthew Broderick) and a grieving chasidic widower (Geza Rohrig), as they explore the decomposition process of his late wife. — Tuesday, Feb. 5, 7 p.m., Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave., (646) 505-4444, jccmanhattan.org.
ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC AT CARNEGIE HALL
The Israel Phil returns to Carnegie Hall for a program led by Maestro Zubin Mehta, in his grand finale performance with this orchestra in New York City. Mehta has led the orchestra since 1969 and will step down as music director later this year. Violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman performs Beethoven, Kreisler, Pártos and John Williams with the orchestra on the first half of the program, which concludes with Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6. — Sunday, Feb. 3, 2 p.m., Carnegie Hall, 57th St.and Seventh Ave. carnegiehall.org.
ASAF YURIA SEXTET
After playing alongside Israeli jazz pioneers Omer Avital (bass) and Anat Cohen (saxophone-clarinet), Israeli-born saxophonist Yuria leads his own straight-ahead jazz quintet in a repertoire of familiar tunes from the swing and jazz traditions, alongside original works. — Wednesday, Feb. 6, 10:30 p.m., Smalls Live, 183 W. 10th St., (646) 476-4346, smallslive.com.
KADAWA
The members of the Kadawa trio — Tal Yahalom on guitar, Almog Sharvit on bass and Ben Silashi on drums — perform quirky tunes drawing from jazz, rock, cinema and literature. — Monday, Feb. 4, 9 p.m., Rockwood Music Hall, 196 Allen St., rockwoodmusichall.com
YOTAM BEN-OR QUARTET
Ben-Or, an Israeli-American harmonica player and composer, fronts a quartet that plays jazz informed by Israeli folk song. His compositions are highly melodic and often wistful, an emotion his harmonica is particularly well suited for. — Sunday, Feb. 10, 10 p.m., Rockwood Music Hall, 196 Allen St., (212) 477-4155, rockwoodmusichall.com.
TO CREATE A WORLD
Andrea Miller, inventive choreographer and artistic director of the Israeli dance troupe Gallim, presents the world premiere of "To Create a World." The movement language in the ambitious piece takes audiences from a pre-human past to a post-human future. — Tuesday, Feb. 12-Sunday, Feb. 17, The Joyce Theatre, 175 Eighth Ave., (212) 242-0800, joyce.org.
A CONVERSATION WITH BARI WEISS
Lincoln Square Synagogue and UJA-Federation host a conversation with New York Times op-ed editor and writer Bari Weiss. She'll share her nuanced take on Israel, anti-Semitism and the American political and cultural landscape. — Wednesday, Feb. 6, 6 p.m., Lincoln Square Synagogue, 180 Amsterdam Ave., (212) 874-6100, lss.org. $10 member/$18 non-member.
A LITERARY EVENING
Andre Aciman ("Call Me by Your Name," "Enigma Variations") and Debra Granik, director of Oscar-nominated "Winter's Bone," discuss the art of adapting literature to film. The evening will also include readings from the winners of the Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation 2018 Short Fiction Contest. — Thursday, Feb. 7, 7-9 p.m., Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave., jccmanhattan.org. $15.
BERNARD-HENRI LEVY
The provocative French intellectual BHL looks at the state of world politics today, in conversation with historian and author Simon Schama. — Wednesday, Feb. 13, 7 p.m., 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave., 92y.org. $40.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT AND ABIGAIL POGREBIN
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's new book, "Fascism: A Warning," looks at fascism's past and its resurgent present. She'll be interviewed by author Abigail Pogrebin. — Friday, Feb. 1, noon, Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave., (646) 505-4444, jccmanhattan.org.
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Richard Settersten and Barbara Ray examine the lengthening transition to adulthood over the past several decades, as well as the challenges the new schedule poses for young people, families, and society.
The authors begin with a brief history of becoming an adult, noting that the schedule that youth follow to arrive at adulthood changes to meet the social realities of each era. For youth to leave home at an early age during the 1950s, for example, was "normal" because opportunities for work were plentiful and social expectations of the time reinforced the need to do so. But the prosperity that made it possible for young adults of that era to move quickly into adult roles did not last. The economic and employment uncertainties that arose during the 1970s complicated enormously the decisions that young adults had to make about living arrangements, educational investments, and family formation.
The authors next take a closer look at changes in the core timing shifts in the new transition—the lengthening time it now takes youth to leave home, complete school, enter the workforce, marry, and have children. They stress that today's new schedule for attaining independence leaves many families overburdened as they support their children for an extended period. The continued need to rely on families for financial assistance, the authors say, exacerbates the plight of young people from a variety of vulnerable backgrounds. It also raises complex questions about who is responsible for the welfare of young people and whether the risks and costs newly associated with the early adult years should be absorbed by markets, by families, or by governments.
Settersten and Ray stress that the longer transition to adulthood strains not only families but also the institutions that have traditionally supported young Americans in making that transition—such as residential colleges and universities, community colleges, military service, and national service programs. They emphasize the need to strengthen existing social institutions and create new ones to reflect more accurately the realities of a longer and more complex passage into adult life.


The OHTAC in Ontario, Canada issued a new a new recommendation against public funding for robot-assisted prostatectomies has physician leaders warning this country could fall even further behind the rest of the developed world when it comes to offering cutting-edge medical procedures.
"In its first real ruling on a robotic surgery, the expert committee that advises Ontario on which new health technologies to pay for said there was no good evidence that robot-assisted radical prostatectomy is any better than conventional open surgery when it comes to controlling cancer or preserving urinary and sexual function.
The panel said the robot's other benefits – patients have smaller incisions, lose less blood, suffer less pain and leave the hospital sooner – were not significant enough to justify spending, on average, an extra $3,224 a case, a figure that does not include the millions that wealthy benefactors have spent buying the machines for Canadian hospitals.
OHTAC's recommendation, which is in the hands of Ontario's health ministry, has sparked an outcry.
Four urologists and one general surgeon who advised OHTAC during its research asked that their names be removed from the final recommendation paper, published last month, because they disagreed so strongly with its conclusions. Urologists and chiefs of surgery at major teaching hospitals wrote letters, begging the committee to reconsider.
"This is a harbinger of bad things to come," said James Rutka, chair of the surgical division at the University of Toronto's medical school.
The fight over public funding for robot-assisted prostate surgery in Canada's most populous province could have ripple effects in other provinces, and on other types of robotic surgery for which the benefits are more clear cut.
It could also sour top-flight surgical trainees on Canada, Dr. Rutka warned.
More profoundly, the fight raises a question: Should a public health-care system with little money to spare pay for a costly new technology when the old-fashioned approach might work just as well?"
Yet, not all medical centers share the concerns.


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Beabloo
Beabloo has been digitalizing brick-and-mortar stores for the past 10 years. With more than 400 clients and a presence in 20 countries, it stands out as a pioneering technological company developing omnichannel solutions combining digital signage, analytics and artificial intelligence. Its work has been acknowledged by companies such as Goldman Sachs (Stores of the Future Award), Diplocat (5th Catalan Business Diplomacy Award) and SoftBank (who invested 10 million in Beabloo to provide analytics to the retail sector in 2015).
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It's impressive. It's full of good value propositions; it's full of inspiring speakers too. And so far, interesting brands, interesting system integrators and partners that can help us bring even more value to our customers here and in other markets.
Interview with Augusto Modigliani
How the Digital Transformation Changed Retail
AM: My name is Augusto Modigliani and I'm chief marketing and product officer at Beabloo.
Interviewer: Can you explain us what's happening here, what are we doing here?
AM: So, we're in Beta Travel, a famous travel agency in Spain, and we implemented an immersive travel experience inside of this headquarter. What you can do here is you can come in and you have this magical screen connected with an expert in travel in different areas of the world. Let's give an example; let's say you want to take a trip to Japan, you can come in, and you will sit down in front of this beautiful screen, and the person in Japan will connect with you and answer all your questions and show you all the landscapes that you will visit in your trip, and create a sort of immersive experience that you will never get by ordering something online or getting a catalogue, because this is super immersive and you have the actual person from there telling you where you can go, what type of restaurant you can go to, which hotel, which side trip you can take…
I: Great and in which other stops is Beabloo present?
AM: We have two other stops; one is at the Cepsa gas station. We digitalized the gas station. We know that a lot of retail spaces are changing nowadays so even gas stations are not just gas stations anymore, you don't just fill up your car but you can buy products, experience different things inside the gas station, so we implemented a lot of digital screens and different things that you can do digitally inside the gas station to take it to the next level. It's like the gas station of the future; an example of what a gas station will be ten years from now. The other stop is at the IED (Istituto Europeo di Design), where we digitalized the full campus. We are also creating another type of experience there with artificial intelligence where we took the design from the master's degree final design of the year and we are using artificial intelligence to offer an award. So basically we physically design and design digital objects in the screen all over the place, so we have some in Madrid, some here in Barcelona, and by the view of people, and the feeling of people watching the design, artificial intelligence decides which is the most liked. At the end there will be an award on the 7th of June, and the three best designs will receive an award. I think it's the first time that artificial intelligence is applied to do this and it's an example to show that you can do it with products as well, because you can really understand which products are the most liked by the public just by applying artificial intelligence.
I: Great, and what do you think that a traditional trade show goes out of the box and takes people to do these kind of routes to see, in situ, these experiences?
AM: I think it's crucial. We live in a physical world, we don't live in a trade show, right? So I think a trade show is really important as a point of contact where everybody goes, and meets, and you know you have a congress but then there is the physical world, the real world, and you need to show people you know how things work in real life because it cannot just be a video, it cannot just be a replica inside of a booth. It makes perfect sense to join the two things. You need to have the booth and the congress, but you also need to take them to the real world and show them that there is a strong connection between the two things.
I: What can you tell us about your company?
AM: Well, it's a long and short story because it's a company that has been in the market for 10 years now and we started as a start-up, like any other company, then we evolved very fast. We started with digital signage, and then in time evolved and then went into the analytics part so we connect content to analytics and then we are in the third phase which is content, analytics and artificial intelligence, so everything is in a system where we have a site called Active Customer Intelligence, where we have the content, so we communicate, analyse and automatize. This is basically what the company does.
I: And what are you doing here today? I mean in this fair… What's your role in this fair?
AM: Well, it's really important for us to be here, not only because we are a company from Barcelona and of course it's important to be here because the fair is in Barcelona. But it's very important because we need to connect with other companies, and we need to connect with brands and retail.
One of our main vertical is retail, we work a lot with retailers and it makes sense for us to be here and the only other place where we see the same type of connection is NRF in the United States, where we go every year, where we do our business. And I think Barcelona deserves a similar type of congress because we do have the companies here and the businesses that can connect to each other.
I: What do you learn in these kinds of fairs?
AM: Well it's the first day so…
I: Yeah, I know, but what do you expect to learn? Which are your expectations?
AM: Right. No, I think learning will come from the connections we will make, and it's not something that we do not know. We know that for example Barcelona has a lot of start-ups, of course its not Sillicon Valley, but it has the same type of approach to innovation, so I think the biggest lesson is that we need to find a place where all of this connection gets together, it doesn't have to be only a connection between people from Barcelona, but from the rest of Europe and the world. And in Europe we need these types of places where you have a congress, speakers coming from outside of Barcelona, internationally recognized influencers that can validate what we are doing here.
I: So you would recommend people to come here, right?
AM: Absolutely, not only because it's a great city and it's really nice to be here but I recommend it because by looking around and talking with other people I understood very well that the level is really high. So being so high it's really profitable for anybody to come here as a viewer, as a guest or as an exhibitor. It's really good; it makes a lot of sense.
I: Have you already been to any conference?
AM: Not yet. But as Beabloo we will give a speech tomorrow morning and then we have a workshop as well on innovation and it's going to be really interesting because there will be people form the brand side, people from retail and then some other companies which for us is crucial as well, to talk with other companies.
I: Now let's talk about the current situation of retail. In what point are we?
AM: The retail industry?
I: Yeah.
AM: Well, it's a strange point. There's a lot of conversion right now, meaning: a lot of standard retail is changing at the moment but we're seeing something really particular happening because if you think about banks right now, they don't look like banks anymore, like some of our customers are banks but they're transforming themselves into stores, so you can go there and buy a telephone or an insurance. At the same time gas stations are doing the same thing, they are becoming convenient stores where you can buy all kind of products, so retail is evolving because the consumer is evolving and what we are doing in Beabloo, we understood this a long time ago: the customer has to be in the centre of everything, so we cannot force the customer to change, we need to change with the customer and with what they really feel like having, which to us right now retail is going more towards experience than the product, meaning that it's very important for people to experience by buying something, not necessarily what you're buying, it's the experience of buying something: the space where you are, the attention, and the fact that you can share with others what you're buying and so on.
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The house in committee of supply, Mr. Sanderson in the chair.
99. Departmental administration, $117,276.
Abraham Albert Heaps
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (C.C.F.)
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Mr. HEAPS:
I presume that on this item, Mr. Chairman, we may discuss matters of fundamental importance affecting the Department of Labour, with particular reference to the activities of the minister. With other hon. members I realize the vast amount of
hard work which the Minister of Labour has done since taking charge of the department, but we are now in the fourth and possibly the last session of this parliament, and after prorogation we may face dissolution. In the minds of a great many people, particularly those who have been looking to the Minister of Labour to do something to relieve unemployment, it may be disillusion rather than dissolution.
Hon. NORMAN McL. ROGERS (Minister of Labour): If my hon. friend will permit me, there is an item in the special supplementaries dealing with unemployment and grants in aid to the provinces, and I hope he will not mind my suggesting to him that that would be a more appropriate time to discuss unemployment than on the departmental estimates.
Topic: DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
I have no objection to the course which the minister suggests, 'but I can assure him that if I make any comments now on the unemployment problem I shall not repeat them later. I have no desire to delay the proceedings, and intended to take only a few minutes to express my opinions with regard to the very serious unemployment situation. It was my purpose not to discuss the whole matter of unemployment on the departmental estimates, but rather to give a general summary of the unemployment situation.
Norman McLeod Rogers (Minister of Labour)
Mr. ROGERS:
My only thought was to have the discussion in proper sequence. If we have an unemployment debate on the main departmental estimates it might very well interrupt consideration of the specific items which are really before the committee.
When may we expect to reach that other item?
I intend to go progressively down the list of items in the main estimates and then take the special supplementaries.
I do not object to that procedure
I think it would be preferable, if my hon. friend would agree.
Item agreed to. 101. Combines Investigation Act, $48,060.
Robert John Deachman
Mr. DEACHMAN:
I suggest that the
house consider the possibility of giving to the commissioner who handles this work a more direct method of action, or that we put into effect a form of action which will bring more direct results. We had presented under date of March 14, 1939, a report on the investigation of a combine in paperboard shipping containers, and if ever there was a combine
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which was a combine this is one, according to the report of the commissioner. The report 6ays:
This system of control has been rigidly enforced. Deposits varying in amount from $500 to $10,000 were placed by the members with the management of the association as guarantees that prices would be maintained and that its other regulations would be observed. These deposits, in the ease of quota members, have been added to through a levy of one per cent on sales, until in 1938 the total accumulation amounted to over a quarter of a million dollars.
This is an accumulated fund, the financial backing for a combine. Further on the report says:
When these facts are considered, and when it is realized that the industry has operated until recently under a tariff protection which worked out to between forty and fifty per cent, it is apparent that price competition as a public safeguard in this industry has been all but completely suppressed by the operations of this association. Indeed it would be difficult to devise a more complete elimination of price competition in any industry than has been achieved through the operations of Container Materials, Limited, in connection with the manufacture and sale of shipping containers. Certainly nothing more complete in this respect has been the subject of investigation _ under the Combines Investigation Act since it was passed in 1923.
Then on page 86 I find this statement:
In the past five years four new corrugated box plants have been established in Ontario. The experience of one of these, O. and S. Corrugated Products Company, of Toronto, is related in section vi of this report.
Within a month of the establishment of the
O.	and S. Company the members of the combination induced its owners to agree to maintain the fixed prices, and secured this agreement by offering the company a sales allotment and a guarantee that even if the company produced nothing it would be compensated to the extent of $30,000 for its first nine months with the group. The sales of the O. and S. Company dropped sharply within a month of joining. Its sales for the entire nine months totalled only $19,355. Its receipts from the members of the combination for the same period amounted to $26,128.
In other words, this company was paid for its abstention from competition.
Arrangements on a similar basis continued, with the result that in the twenty-five months period ending April 30, 1938, payments received by this company from the group amounted to 84-5 per cent of its sales. In other words, under this arrangement, for every dollar of sales made by this company it received an addition of 84-5 cents from the other members of the combination. In this twenty-five months the O. and S. Company was paid a subsidy of $69,690, largely, if not altogether, as a return for its undertaking to refrain from any competition in price with the members of the combination. This amount was paid to this Ontario company in several instalments by all the members of Container Materials, Limited, including those whose plants are located in the maritime provinces, Manitoba and British Columbia.
Further with reference to this company, we have an illustration, from the evidence of how thoroughly it took advantage of the protection which had been given to it to exact the highest possible price which could be charged. In the evidence we find a statement from the Consumers' Glass Company, dated March 23, 1936, part of which reads as follows:
Despite the fact that we have approached the carton manufacturers in a friendly way in an endeavour to work out a cheaper carton to compete with American competition, it is now quite obvious to us that the carton companies are just toying -with our problems and intend to continue to take full advantage of the 50 per cent duty their industry enjoys. The exorbitant prices paid for cartons in Canada at this time is a very serious handicap to this industry and if satisfactory price arrangements cannot be arrived at between the two industries in a friendly way, we will have no other alternative but to take more drastic measures in the future.
One might go on and quote indefinitely from this document, but it all tends in the same direction. This was an admirable investigation; certainly the matter was thoroughly investigated. The report is, I think, a very able one and is a tribute to the able and conscientious administration of the Combines Investigation Act. But the difficulty lies in the fact that although this report is dated March 14, 1939, it seems impossible to do anything with .it so far, because of course in these matters we must go before the attorneys general of the different provinces. I am going to suggest later that there be a different method of approach.
A few days ago, on May 27, Mr. Shipman, a manufacturer of paper boxes who was outside the combine, wrote a letter to the commissioner of customs and sent me a copy. I desire to quote from his letter:
On October 1, 1938, the price of liner board, for instance, was $1.56 per thousand square feet, to-day it is $1.30 per M square feet, a reduction of 16| per cent. During this same period, the combine members who, as you know', also manufacture and control the price of paper board have reduced their prices of boxes as follows: October 1, 1938, 20 per cent; January, 1939, 3 per cent; February, 1939, 5 per cent; March, 1939, 10 per cent; making a total of 38 per cent. In addition to cutting the price of boxes 38 per cent the O. & 8. Corrugated Products Company openly offer all our customers to beat the above prices by 5 per cent and in some cases more than that, bearing the cost of same, we believe, from monies received from the combine members.
I do not know whether this gentleman is right or not, but it is a suggestion that the combine continues to exist, but that, in changed circumstances, desiring now to get rid of the only competitor that remains-one of the original disturbers of their combine- they propose to put him out of business, right
under the shadow of their combine, by means of continuing reductions in prices far below a level which might normally be expected.
Surely under these circumstances, where a combine still continues in sharp defiance of the report of the commissioner, or the report is deliberately ignored, it might be well for the House of Commons to consider another remedy and, I suggest, a potent one. It lies in section 15 of the Customs Tariff, which provides:
1.	Whenever the governor in council deems it to be in the public interest to inquire into any conspiracy, combination, agreement or arrangement alleged to exist among manufacturers or dealers in any article of commerce to unduly promote the advantage of the manufacturers or dealers in such article at the expense of the consumers, the governor in council may commission or empower any judge of the supreme court, or of the Exchequer Court of Canada, or of any superior court or county court in Canada, to hold an inquiry in a summary way and report to the governor in council whether such conspiracy, combination, agreement or arrangement exists.
In regard to this section of the Customs Tariff I should like to ask the minister if now, with a report such as this, we have not the definite suggestion that a combine does exist. We then come to the remedy:
2.. The judge may compel the attendance of witnesses and examine them under oath and require the production of books and papers, and shall have such other necessary powers as are conferred upon him by the governor in council for the purpose of such inquiry.
The information referred to has been already submitted.
3. If the judge reports that such conspiracy, combination, agreement or arrangement exists in respect of such article, the governor in council may admit the article free of duty, or so reduce the duty thereon as to give to the public the benefit of reasonable competition in the article, if it appears to the governor in council that such disadvantage to the consumer is facilitated by the duties of customs imposed on a like article.
I submit that the case is now proven, that a remedy exists within the Customs Tariff, and that, in order to make effective the work of the combines investigation officer, where a case has been proven against the combine, action may be taken under the clause of the Customs Act which I have cited. It is a far more powerful and forceful remedy than any other that can be had under the Combines Investigation Act. Before the Combines Investigation Act can be made really effective there must be some coordination between the administration of the Customs Tariff and the operation of the combines act so that when it is shown that this state of affairs exists and that these companies, coldbloodedly and remorselessly, have been
exploiting the people months after the investigation has taken place, the government can step in. The hand which can stop them, which has power to take away the monopoly which the same hand gave, should be reached out so strongly and forcefully that the first time action is taken it will be a lesson to other corporations that there are limits to human greed. Let it be a lesson to all such corporations that within the Customs Tariff we have the power to impose a further restraint upon their activities.
The Combines Investigation Act itself provides three types of remedy. There is first of all the remedy of publicity, which in certain cases in the past has been effective, and has brought about a correction of the situation complained of within a given industry. In addition to that there are penalties, consisting of fines of $10,000 and $25,000 against individuals and corporations respectively, with a further provision for imprisonment. Finally the act provides for the alternative remedy to which the hon. member has referred, namely, the removal or reduction of the customs duty which apparently has permitted the combine to carry on its illegal operations. This provision is found not only in the Customs Tariff but in the combines act itself. It is actually incorporated in that statute. In the particular investigation under discussion, into the manufacture and sale of paperboard shipping containers and related products-
Henry Herbert Stevens
Conservative (1867-1942)
Mr. STEVENS:
The second remedy to which the minister refers can be applied only after further action in the courts-
*-by the attorney general, and after conviction has been obtained.
Yes. I was going to explain that the report in this case was made by the commissioner on March 14 of this year. On March 31, after printing, it was transmitted to the attorneys general of the six provinces in which the combine was found to be carrying on its operations. This practice is laid down definitely in the terms of the Combines Investigation Act and it has been followed from the beginning, from the time the original legislation was adopted in 1923; and only once where the report and evidence have been transmitted to the attorney general of a province has prosecution failed to follow. The other remedy to which the hon. member refers is available to be exercised at discretion by the governor in council, but I submit that in order to carry out the purpose of the act it is certainly desirable in the first instance
to follow the normal procedure of transmitting the report and the evidence to the attorney general who has charge of the administration of justice in the province in which the combine has been found to exist.
During the past year another report was made, in connection with the distribution of tobacco products in Alberta and elsewhere in Canada. The same procedure was followed there, namely, the transmission of the report and the evidence to the attorney general of the province of Alberta. In pursuance of that, the attorney general of Alberta has commenced proceedings against this alleged tobacco combine and those proceedings are now in progress. Any other action such as that suggested by my hon. friend would certainly be collateral to the normal procedure and it would be for the governor in council in each case to determine whether upon the merits it was desirable to apply this further remedy, the reduction or removal of the tariff on the commodity in question.
Arising out of the minister's remarks are one or two questions which I should like him to answer. In the first place, does he regard publicity as an adequate punishment for a business record such as is revealed in the combine recently investigated, the paperboard shipping container matter? Secondly, how many times has the fine of $10,000 been imposed in Canada within recent years? And while the Combines Investigation Act contains a clause in regard to the reduction of duties, has that provision ever -been enforced? If so, who has enforced it? Have we ever had an application of the section of the Customs Tariff under which the duty was reduced in order to check the operations of a combine? I would suggest that the offence which these men have committed is not merely that of charging a higher price, because the tariff gives them permission, but it is the fact that they have brought about a combine which is effective in preventing competition and preventing others from lowering the price. Finally I submit that their offence, because it affects the national life of Canada, is a national matter and that action should properly be taken by the federal government. It is a crime against the consumers and the industry of the nation and therefore differs from other offences on which court action might be taken.
As to the fines which have been imposed and collected under the act since its inception, the total from 1923 to 1939 amounted to $316,400.
How much within the last five years?
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The 13-year-old Jackson Middle School eighth-grader was selected to play for the 95 Selects in the Nike Bauer World Class Hockey Challenge from Aug. 5 through 14 in Moscow.
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Jussie Smollett update: City sues 'Empire' actor for cost of investigating alleged staged attack
CHICAGO -- The city of Chicago has filed a lawsuit against actor Jussie Smollett for the cost of the overtime Chicago police spent investigating an attack they say Smollett staged.
The City of Chicago's Law Department filed the suit after Smollett failed to meet a city-demanded deadline to pay more than $130,000 into that allegedly staged attack.
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City attorneys write in the suit, "Defendant knew his attackers and orchestrated the purported attack himself. Later, when police confronted him with evidence, he still refused to disclose his involvement."
ABC7 Legal Analyst Gil Soffer discusses Chicago's lawsuit against Jussie Smollett.
The lawsuit was filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County and seeks money "included, but not limited to $130,105.15." The suit also asks Smollett be found liable to the city for $1,000 "for each false statement he made to the city, in addition to three times the amount of the damages that the city sustained, as well as litigation and collection costs, and attorneys' fees."
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"They've got a case on the face of it," said ABC7 Legal Analyst Gil Soffer. "Whether they win is a different story, but they've got a case."
Soffer said through the process called discovery the public could see a lot.
"Lawyers for the city will get evidence that exists," Soffer explained. "They'll get tape recordings. They'll get video surveillance, they'll get phone records and they'll take depositions. And transcripts will be made of those depositions. And then if it goes through to a trial we'll see all of this come out in the open. You'll see Jussie Smollett take the stand and testify."
The city previously said it intended to file the suit, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel offered his suggestion for how Smollett should pay the city back.
"Given that he doesn't feel any sense of contrition and remorse, my recommendation is that when he writes the check, in the memo section, he can put the words, 'I'm accountable for the hoax,'" Mayor Rahm Emanuel said two weeks ago.
Emanuel said he believes Smollett not only cost the city financially, but also damaged Chicago's reputation of being a place that welcomes people of all walks of life.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the city is calculating how much it cost to investigate Jussie Smollett's case and will be sending the actor the bill.
ABC7 spoke with Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot about the case. Lightfoot wouldn't say exactly how she would handle the city's involvement with the Smollett, case moving forward.
"We've got a lot of things on our plate, a lot of pressing issues that are truly affecting people's lives," Lightfoot said. "This doesn't rank as a matter of any importance to me."
Lightfoot was at McCormick Place Friday morning to cut the ribbon on the start of the Black Women's Expo. She would not commit to what she will do once she takes office in May.
"I'm not gonna comment about any pending litigation," Lightfoot said. "Obviously, this is a decision that was made by the current mayor Rahm Emanuel. If this issue is still pending, we'll evaluate it at that time after I'm sworn in."
Smollett had been charged with 16 counts of felony disorderly conduct for allegedly lying to police about a January attack in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood, which police say Smollett staged on himself because he was unhappy with his "Empire" salary. All charges against him were dropped in exchange for community service and forfeiture of his $10,000 bond payment.
Smollett's attorney Mark Geragos responded last week to the city's threat to file suit, saying if the city sues he will depose Mayor Emanuel and Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, and will demand the "entire investigation file."
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A member of Smollett's team responded to the suit, saying simply, "No comment."
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I wanted to share some photos of this wacky house as it is coming along. These first photos show it in the very early stages. I was quite surprised when I saw it because it was closed off on the sides and did not match the plans. Lots was wrong with it.
I pointed out all the problems and then left them alone for a while. Nothing like a crazed doll house lady and her house ideas!
I visited the house again last weekend and it is now coming along in the right direction.
I want to do different flourishes on the front balcony as in the plans, and of course none of the finishing elements are there yet. I'd love to use actual stone for the bottom portion, too. Certainly a ways to go, but it's been a fun ride so far! I'll be sure to post additional updates and photos when I can. Maybe next time I'll bring some furniture for a test drive.
I'd love to hear your advice, feedback, and comments! Also, please let me know if you have ever seen a completed house, or if you know any more about the plans, the company, etc. I've done lots of web searching and have not turned up much.


Many Americans believe vote fraud is a problem endemic only to third-world nations. In reality, the United States, with its computerized voting systems, has more potential for fraud than many less-advanced nations. Jim Condit has been fighting vote fraud in the U.S. for over 20 years. He started Citizens for a Fair Vote Count, the nation's oldest organization attempting to ensure fair and honest elections in the United States. WorldNetDaily writer and talk show host Geoff Metcalf recently interviewed Condit about Tuesday's election and the ways fraud can easily creep into the electoral process.
Question: You and I have talked about this in the past, and neither one of us believes the entire election system is rigged, but the entire system doesn't have to be rigged to affect the outcome, does it?
Answer: Right. There are only a very few cases where we actually have the evidence of absolute vote fraud. Our objection to the system is that no one can know whether it has been rigged or not. This isn't something people have to take on faith just because I'm saying it. If they call their county -- as long as they live outside the state of New Hampshire -- if they call their county board of elections and say, "We would like to know what the legal procedure is by which citizens can go to their neighborhood precincts as the polls close and count or double check the ballots, just to make sure that the computers are programmed properly," they are going to find out that the answer everywhere but in New Hampshire is that you cannot do that.
Q: And the obvious question is: Why?
A: There's a fellow named Chuck Geshlider running for Town Board in Pahrump, Nev. Chuck has really got them on the run because there are only 5,000 votes, and he's running on one issue. His slogan is "I want clean elections." He is using a kitchen analogy: Everybody was eating at a restaurant, and everybody started to feel sick. One of the people is from the board of health, and he says, "Hey, we'd like to go in and look at your kitchen because everybody is getting sick here." And the owner says, "No way. No one is ever allowed to look at our kitchen." What would you think? That's the situation we have in our elections. The boards of elections in about 3,075 counties, except some counties in New Hampshire, say you can never see our kitchen.
Q: I think it was a couple of years ago in San Francisco, more people voted than were registered to vote.
A: Yes. And there has been another blatant case like that in Texas. It wasn't a very big town, but they had 222 people vote and they only had 190 people registered to vote in the county.
Q: When something like that happens, what, if any, are the negative consequences?
A: There are generally none. The only negative consequences that I've seen since I began investigating in the last 21 years, is that occasionally they will find some small-town candidate who goes around and makes up fake registrations or votes from people who are dead or votes from people that are sick by absentee ballot. He then gets caught and eventually has to confess.
But this is petty, petty thievery compared to what we're worried about -- based on some of the systems that are now being set up where a centralized computer or satellite could actually question the machines during the election to see what's going on and then change the vote count without the citizens who are manning that voting place that day having any idea of what went on.
I just talked with a reporter from Riverside, Calif., from the daily paper, and she is doing a story on the system they are just putting in there in which there is no paper trail. It's just a bunch of computers and people punch pads where the heat from their finger registers it -- like in a fast-food restaurant where they push the food item buttons. That's what they're doing in Riverside and in Las Vegas and in Columbus. At the end of the day, they push a little button and it spits out a grocery story type receipt. There is no paper trail.
People say, "At least they are free-standing machines with little computers at each precinct." But the problem is that with satellite technology, those machines can now be accessed and questioned or queried from satellite technology. And, by the way, they all have two-way modems in them -- that's been verified by Dr. Philip O'Halloran.
I think everyone has seen the commercials lately that are hitting a lot of the cable news networks talking about the wireless Internet. The technology exists. That is the possibility that we want to guard against -- that the satellite could use those two-way modems on those free-standing computers to alter the vote.
Q: Especially with what we are being told about this being a close election.
A: That's right. I don't know how anybody else feels, but we put out a hard and fast prediction on our website on Aug. 2 -- and we repeated it last week -- the powers that be want George W. Bush. They do not want Al Gore, so Bush will win.
Q: I predicted a couple of weeks ago that Bush will win with at least 350 electoral votes.
A: Then we're on the same page on that. What most people should realize -- at least this is what I believe -- is that the two major parties are both supporting NAFTA, GATT and WTO, are in favor of strengthening the U.N., and support turning over some military functions to the United Nations, although at first they will be very mild. That's Bush and Gore. I always tell people I'm for truth in advertising, that I'm a Pat Buchannan / Howard Phillips conservative, but we also work with Vickie Collier, the daughter of Jim Collier who wrote "Vote Scam."
Q: Jim Collier is the one who first introduced me to this issue years ago.
A: Unfortunately, Jim passed away of cancer in 1998 but his daughter, who is 26 years old, continues the fight with us. She's a Nader supporter, or worse. She may even be to the left of Nader, but on the fair elections issue, we are united.
Q: Before we get into the potential for solutions to this problem, I'd like you to explain to our readers what the Voter News Service is?
A: This is a critical piece of the puzzle. I won't name the reporter because she is a very sincere person trying to get into what is going on and what the dangers are of this new system they installed in Riverside. She is a reporter for a major newspaper in Riverside, a daily, and she had never heard of Voter News Service. I told her: Don't feel bad because even though this organization has been around for 25 years and has used this name for at least the last seven or eight, their existence is basically covered up by the five major TV networks.
Q: Who all sit on the board.
A: Yes. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox and AP all sit on the board. Let me explain what Voter News Service is. They do all the exit polls for these networks. So, for the last 25 years when you and I have sat around on election night and, as an example, we may hear Dan Rather say, "CBS News can now project on the basis of exit polls that George Bush is the winner in Florida." When someone hears that, you might assume, gee, they must have five guys with computers and pencils and they're sweating trying to get all the figures crunched from their own network exit polls to beat ABC and NBC onto the air. Now we know that the implied election night competition is a hoax and the media know it is a hoax.
Q: One of the reasons this beast came about is because you had conflicting reports from the networks and, frankly, they were embarrassed by it.
A: That was back in ... I believe it was 1968. They said, this is bad; we can never have this happen again. I think one of the networks might have called Humphrey the probable winner and then Nixon actually won. So, they formed this cartel. If someone wants to check this out, get into the Washington Post archive from about three weeks ago. They carried an article on Voter News Service that was very sympathetic in which they said this organization in New York City does all the exit polls for all the networks. In the middle of the article, they put in parentheses, "The Washington Post is also a client of the Voter News Service."
Q: Do we have any idea how many of these exit polls are actually conducted?
A: No, we don't. One of the points we always make is: Americans are now held hostage by three black boxes when it comes to elections -- the establishment, or the ruling elite, or the powerful coalitions running the media say you can't look into any one of them.
Q: What are the three black boxes holding us hostage?
A: The first one is the public opinion polls, which they push at us incessantly. Nobody knows how these polls are really done, who's called, if they use all the calls that they talk to or if they just take a cross section. Nobody knows a thing about how they are done and nobody ever asks. Where is the scientific paper telling us how they can call 1,200 Americans and reflect within 1.8 or 3 percent what 250 million Americans think? And they are claiming to do this day after day after day.
Even the networks and the pollsters have been commenting profusely on how wildly these polls have swung without anything really serious having happened in the campaign in many cases. So, that's the first black box, the public opinion poll.
Q: Let's say 1,000 people are polled. There are 50 states, so let's say that means 20 per state. But they are going to go heavier in some of the more populous states like California, New York and Texas. So that means there will be less than 20 people polled in places like Montana and Utah and South Dakota. How can they statistically reach that level of presumed accuracy?
A: I've never thought of it from that angle, but that right there makes you think it is almost impossible. And whom are they calling? Are they calling conservatives, liberals, rich people, poor people? Middle class, black, white, Asian, Chicano, Jewish, Irish?
There is a book out endorsed by David Broder of the Washington Post called "Superpollsters: How they measure and manipulate public opinion." This is from a guy who I believe worked for the Harris organization for 20 years by the name of David C. Moore. It's a fairly sympathetic book to the polling industry, but he also criticizes them for what he says is warping the polls by the way they ask the questions, the way they select who is going to respond. He says at the end that we should not let the future of the republic depend on these public opinion polls because they can only more or less gauge public opinion at the time they are taken.
Q: What is the second black box?
A: The exit polls. We have no idea how many exit polls are taken. None of the networks or Voter News Service will say. There are some exit polls, because in the last 20 years, we have caught up with two of them. We filmed one up in New Hampshire during the 1996 primary.
The lady there told us -- as they told us at the other place and we witnessed at both venues -- they start at 10 in the morning. They miss the rush hour. They close down about 5 in the afternoon, and they go in and call in their results. So, they miss both rush hours. They also admit that only about one in 15 people will talk to them during the day. That makes sense because people are busy. They drop the kids off and rush home to get supper.
Q: Or they tell them it's none of their bloody business whom they voted for.
A: Exactly! Especially since there are a lot of people who feel they shouldn't be telling anybody whom they voted for. The key thing is, we don't know how many they do. We know there are very few of them because, whenever I'm on a radio show, I ask people if anybody out there has ever seen an exit poll.
Q: I've been talking about this for over 10 years and I have yet to have anyone say they were exit polled.
A: Not only that, no one seems to know anyone who was exit polled.
Q: There is an easy solution to the potential dangers of vote fraud. There are a whole bunch of countries with huge populations and heavy voter turnouts, much higher than we have, and they don't have this problem. Why don't they have this problem?
A: Because they count the votes by paper ballots, hand counted by people in the precinct. India is one of them. They have over a few hundred million voters, I think, much more than we do. Israel is one of them. Canada -- although Canada does have a major push for computerized elections there now. There's one city, Berry, Ontario, that has adopted it, and there are powerful forces pushing to get them on the computer nationwide. Paper ballots are the solution.
Q: What are you doing with your websites?
A: We've moved our main research onto votefraud.org, -- although a lot of it is still on networkamerica.org. Network America is being turned into a venue to catalog what is going on in each county, which system is being used in each county and how the battle is going in each county to get honest elections. There are a number of citizen groups in Arizona, North Carolina, Nevada and elsewhere who are really putting up a very intelligent legal fight now to restore honest elections.
Q: Not enough people know how potentially dangerous this problem is. Hopefully, with a close election like this current one, maybe people might pay a little more attention to the danger. The frustration is, it could be so easy and simple if they just went back to paper ballots. What do they lose if they go paper ballots?
A: They probably lose a lot of money. They are paying the computer companies $700,000 a year to come in and run their elections for them. In New Hampshire, when we filmed this thing in 1996, they had election results by 8:40 p.m. So, in certain areas, you would lose a little bit of time. But the people have never demanded instant election results. The networks are now saying they are not going to be able to announce the winners of some races, maybe even the presidency, until the next morning -- which I believe is a contrived event they are cooking up, but that's another story.
Q: What is it you believe should happen at each election?
A: We believe that when the polls close -- you usually have some older citizens, age 65 to 80, who are there running the polls all day -- they should be allowed to go home. There should be a pool of people that should be invited, and it should be by public service announcements. Everybody who is a registered voter could go to your precinct, and if you are chosen out of the hat, you will be paid $75 or a $100 to count the ballots for two or three hours. That would make it attractive to the average housewife, the average working guy.
We don't want the government counting the votes. As Howard Phillips says, part of the reason for elections is to have the chance to throw the incumbents out. So, we want the average citizen in each place counting them. You need about eight people per precinct. There are about 500 registered voters in an average precinct. They would be paid well for those two or three hours. They would not be government employees. Collier even suggested you have college students and high school seniors who are registered to put their names in the hat for one of the positions, so the next generation would see how votes are counted.
They count the paper ballots right there. The paper ballots have been kept in sight all day in a plastic box at each place. It should be mandated by law. They count the votes. They post the results on the precinct. They call them unofficially into the board of elections on a cell phone, and most of the results would be in before 10 or 11 o'clock that night. It would be about the same as it is now.
Q: There is really no mystery to this.
A: Like I said, it is done in Israel, India, Great Britain, New Hampshire. We did it for 180 years. This is not anti-technology. Even the guy who built the first PC, Adam Osborn, who still apparently works at McGraw Hill I'm told, wrote a book in the '70s called "Running Wild," which is still available. In it, he said there are three areas we should never trust totally to computers. One of them is voting. So, even then, he realized the dangers. With paper ballots, you would know you did not have a centrally-rigged election.
Q: The potential for fraud would still exist.
A: Sure, if everybody in a precinct were Democrat or everybody were Republican, or if everybody in a county were crooked and wanted the same results -- you could never stop that. But this would go as far as humanly possible to preventing our elections from being rigged.
Over a million of our ancestors have fought, bled and died to ensure your right -- and your children's right -- to determine our future. It's our nation's future we're talking about, to determine our future through honest and verifiable elections, and that is what we are fighting for.
Q: I've been talking about this for over 10 years. Initially, people look at you like this is so far outside the mainstream it belongs on Art Bell or something. However, it seems as if the issue is now starting to get some traction and momentum. What kind of impact are you making, or are folks just ignoring you in the hope that you will go away?
A: No. I find there is an increasing awareness. I hardly ever get a negative call on talk radio -- and I have done over a 110 shows since 1996 on over 1,000 outlets. Rarely do I ever get hostile calls. We find that the people, when they think about it, would rather have verifiable elections, even if it took a little longer. It's the media that clamored for [computerized elections], pretending the people were clamoring for it in the '70s.
Right now, you have the Washington Post running an apology for Voter News Service, trying to explain what they are, and you have Ted Koppel in '96 after the Arizona primary for the first time addressing what Voter News Service was and explaining that the networks still compete.
Q: How do they compete?
A: They don't. We got this thing on tape, and we showed it at our recent Citizens for a Fair Vote Count convention we had in Cincinnati. Their explanation was ridiculous. They tried to say there was competition. They tried to say once they get the numbers from Voter News Service, they still have to "interpret them" somehow, but they never explained how. We have Dan Guttenkoff in Phoenix, Ariz. -- probably the foremost legal researcher on this subject -- he goes into how the county boards of elections and the secretaries of state are actually breaking the law once citizens ask to see the count. They have an obligation to make that public because the vote count is a public record.
Q: Sunlight is still the best disinfectant. Paper ballots and clear boxes aren't anything innovative or whiz bang. It works in Israel. It works in India. And frankly, they get more people showing up to vote than we do.
A: Exactly. Do you know why? Because I think they sense that their elections mean something. There is a pervading despair in America that we can't make a difference. There is a lot in favor of the incumbents, but I believe the people would begin to elect 10 to 20 percent of the challengers if you had hand-counted elections.
Q: Do you think the people actually had any real hand in establishing the issue, or is the agenda media-driven?
A: I don't believe the young people did anything to make Social Security the main issue. I think the five big TV networks decided that would be the issue and they are limiting national discussion to prescription drugs and Social Security, like in 1996, all you heard about was soccer moms, soccer moms, soccer moms. I think this is a virtual conspiracy of the five networks coordinating their news everyday, putting on the same dang stories from the same angle on the same night. That just can't happen by accident in my opinion.
Q: One thing we will keep a close eye on is what we recently reported about KGTV in San Diego, an ABC affiliate that reported the election results. We have the numbers right here, and we will compare those numbers Wednesday morning to see what the actual final results are. We didn't finish your black box litany.
A: It's hard to find anybody who has ever seen an exit poll. Public opinion polls -- we don't know how they do them. Then your third black box is the computer count on election night. We're taking that as a total act of faith in 49 states. We had previously talked about ABC News and how somebody had thrown up the real results 12 hours before the 1998 midterm election and how accurate they were. They were 87.1 percent accurate. They predicted the Senate would stay the same, 55 Republicans to 45 Democrats, which was better than any other pundit did. I don't think any other pundit or any other source did that.
All these things raise the issue when these "test" results hit the Internet early -- as happened in California the other day and as happened in Pennsylvania in another county recently -- of whether the public opinion polls and the exit polls aren't just preparing the public mind for a predetermined computer result.


Sunday 3/18 Corona Pro: Check out this left Cory got in the round of 16, so sick. He got thru this heat and then lost to Brian Toth in the quarters. The surf was really good until the quarters when a SW wind tore it up. Super cool to see the pros surf the local break. Cory at 40 is shredding harder than ever, like Kelly showing that you can still get better, surf smarter and shred harder in your 40's.
1st wave in the round of 16.
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