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B U R E A U O F P U B L I C S E C R E T S
San Francisco Fifty Years Ago
(Kenneth Rexroth's complete columns from the San Francisco Examiner)
My Choice for Man of the Year
The French Crisis
Urban Deterioration
Some Excellent Plays in New York
The Bail System
Drawbacks of New York
Proposal for an Arts Council
Better Theater at Home
The Disoriented
This is the week a news weekly comes out with its Man of the Year on the cover. With few exceptions, this has always been a man of power, a politician, a general, somebody who, that year, "changed the course of history."
I don't know who they're doing this year, but I for one am tired of all these characters and I wish they'd get out of my hair. Week after week, 52 weeks a year, I read those cover stories about furious busybodies who have made it. They rise at 5:00 a.m., take a brisk canter through Rock Creek Park, dictate 30 letters on their way to the office, employ 12 secretaries, belong to the boards of a hundred corporations, are directors of another hundred charities, make another hundred international calls daily, and take home a briefcase full of homework at midnight.
Once a year one gets the annual full-dress treatment. I wish they'd all go away.
I nominate for Man of the Year and every year, John Doe.
Every morning he gets a chance, he sleeps in. He doesn't do any more work than just enough to keep the paycheck coming. Depending on his background he enjoys a good dish of corned beef and cabbage or a Poulet Neva with Johannisberg Schloss. In the evening he watches the rassles on television or relaxes at the opera. His wife has all the kitchen utilities she wants. His kids get decent grades in school. If he plays golf or skis he is not very good at it, but he has a good time. Every few weeks he and his wife entertain a few old friends. They talk about Jack Paar or the 49ers or the Theater of the Absurd or nuclear physics or whatever interests them, or they play bridge. Mostly they gossip. Most nights they go to bed early. They live unknown and die inconspicuously.
John and Mary Doe drive the social critics simply crazy. The Does think they are ambitious but they so obviously are not. They are, as they say, "interested only in security." If everybody acted as they do the newspapers would be in an awful fix. There is no news in security.
We forget that almost everything we read, history in books or in the daily papers as well as in novels, all this is about an infinitesimal proportion of the human race. Churchill or Adenauer, the Brothers Karamazov or Tommy Manville, how many people act like this in actual fact? Who wants to?
In due course, maybe a couple of thousand years, all the makers of history are forgotten by everybody except a few scholars.
Tell me, straight off, who was the Emperor Wu, Thutmose the Second, Catiline, Talleyrand?
John Doe goes on, killing saber-tooth tigers or punching IBM machines. History is people, not personages. John Doe is history, he doesn't have to make it.
He has my nomination, this year and every year.
[January 3, 1962]
NEW YORK. — Sometimes I get to thinking that Walter Lippmann is running down in middle age and then he says something that reveals again the old independence of thought that he brought with him from the New Republic so long ago. In a sort of state of the world speech, summing up the year, he made some remarks with which I agree so heartily that I want simply to repeat and amplify what he said.
Trouble has been piling up for our side all over the world the last few years.
After the war the Americans built up a system of power alignments and alliances not unlike Napoleon's "Continental System," which was designed to preserve and protect a French-dominated European continent against Great Britain. Like Napoleon's, the postwar "American System" has been collapsing due as much to its own internal contradictions and its anachronisms as to pressure from the Russians.
So far this collapse has not been accompanied with the disastrous consequences that met Napoleon. Scare propaganda to the contrary, no Waterloos loom on our horizons as yet.
In the public mind the hot spots in our troubled "Free World" are Berlin and Indochina. As a matter of fact I am inclined to think all the noise is due to the terrific propaganda buildup. This is a war of nerves which both sides have chosen pretty deliberately to enter. It is in many ways a contest or game in which, so far at least, certain elementary ground rules are being observed. Both sides know what they are doing.
Barring some disastrous accident or uncontrollable folly, brinkmanship will stop at the brink. Anyway — it is all out in the light of day and under control.
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, out of sight, out of control, in an atmosphere of intrigue, blackmail, assassination and torture, France is on the verge of falling to pieces. The political methods of Bolivia or Paraguay are installed in the heart of civilized Europe.
Just at the moment the most sensational news is that "plastiques" — homemade bombs — are exploding in theaters showing Brigitte Bardot's movies because she has refused to pay blackmail to the Secret Army Organization.
Translate this into American terms and it is easy to see how far the processes of social decay have gone. Imagine if some of those well-intentioned, misguided officers who have been in trouble recently for indoctrinating their troops with Birch Society propaganda were openly threatening the lives of Kim Novak and her fans — and, in addition, were of far higher rank and influence than in fact they are.
Whatever the merits of the position, Left, Right, or Center, this sort of activity is certainly symptomatic of a profound sickness of the body politic.
France, after all, is still one of the major European nations, even if she is no longer really a "Power." If France collapses, and it is all too obvious even from de Gaulle's year-end speech that the most optimistic prognosis is none too good, her collapse will create a kind of — not vacuum, but a whirlpool, a cyclone of chaos that might well involve all the world in a matter of hours.
The awful thing is that in France, in the heart of Europe, we are dealing with factors as uncontrollable and as unpredictable as those that are operating in the Congo. It would seem that the Russians and Americans by tacit agreement have isolated the Congo and are prepared to let the sickness work itself out. We can do this with the Congo, it is a long way away and the people involved aren't "us."
Paris, alas, is not on the banks of La Plata or the Congo. It is on the Seine, right in the midst of "us." And the French are, so to speak, "us" only more so.
No wonder the General is gloomy and ambiguous. Politicians by and large gain fame and power by avoiding problems. If he can solve the unsolvable problems of his tormented country he will certainly have earned that niche in history he so obviously desires so passionately. If he can't, I fear we are all going to find ourselves in a fix.
And now for a complete change of subject and a reminder of a happy event: Don't forget the special concert of new American music from KPFA's national radio awards competition Friday evening at the San Francisco Museum of Art.
NEW YORK. — Across the country to New York in four hours flat. And in New York, in Frank Lloyd Wright's famous words, it is easier to get somewhere crawling over the tops of the taxis than it is inside them.
One of America's most astute social critics, my old friend Paul Goodman, proposes that all private automobile traffic be forbidden in the island of Manhattan except on evenings, Sundays and holidays.
This not a utopian proposal — one of these days it will almost certainly come to pass. Even so, only one small aspect of the problem of living in this monstrously inefficient city will have been solved.
Fragmentation, congestion, disorder, decay — New York is like a giant dinosaur whose biological mandate from evolution has run out. As biologists say of a species — overspecialization, proliferation, gigantism — and the organism becomes extinct, devouring itself the while.
There is no consolation for us in the spectacle. New York is only one of a species, and not even the most deteriorated, and that species so obviously includes San Francisco. Every few months the engineers we pay around twelve to twenty thousand dollars a year each to make our community more livable come up with a new plan for making it more lethal.
The problem is not even American. Paris is a nightmare of smog, noise and herds of stampeded and stalled cars. It takes all day to drive across London on a Sunday. Worst of all are cities like Florence that were built for donkeys and pedestrians.
And the problem is not primarily one of coping with the automobile. It is something else, very simply the approaching total failure of man to live efficiently as a social animal.
It is all the same problem. The very experts we employ propose to turn Golden Gate Park into a freeway, except for a few small areas to be used for parking lots. Twenty percent of the adult inhabitants of the Sunset district — perambulator town, the sanctuary of the American Family — turn out to be grass widows living, except on alternate weekends, with their small children; we can't agree to stop playing with the 100-megaton matches we found in the pantry; in Los Angeles, irate mothers riot when the grammar school flies the UN flag; Southern "peace officers" beat up Negro ministers and Yankee news photographers indiscriminately and joyfully.
I don't doubt but that an epidemic, steadily increasing in magnitude, slowly rising in virulence, is sweeping over the world — an epidemic of irrational hostility. People are very simply ceasing to get along.
Maybe it's all chemical — maybe a cloud of imperceptible star dust has changed our metabolism.
Maybe — but certainly and for sure one aspect of our mass frustration and its resulting generalized hostility is the way in which we are permitting our physical environment to lapse into chaos.
And — never forget — we are entering upon irreversible processes. Pretty soon, as Grandma used to say when we made faces, we're going to freeze that way.
[See Paul Goodman's essay Banning Cars from Manhattan]
NEW YORK. — As a matter of fact, I am not much of a theatergoer in the conventional sense. At most Broadway plays I have an uneasy sense that my leg is being pulled. Even at its best, what Broadway does is done much better in the movies, and as you may have guessed from their absence in this column, I don't like movies. Once they started to talk, it was more than I could take.
Anyway, when you come back from New York people always say, "What plays did you see?" and I suppose I should earn my pay and satisfy my public's demand. So, to tell the truth, I saw a couple of really good Broadway plays and some off-Broadway ones that were even better.
Pinter's The Caretaker is a beautiful job. This is the best America has done by one of the most important postwar playwrights.
I am very fond of Tennessee Williams as a person, but his plays usually leave me a little queasy and their sure-fire formulas bore me. The Night of the Iguana may well be the best thing he has done since the plays that established his reputation. He is mellowing too — although The Iguana is a shocker, he does seem to be relaxing his virulent hatred of women.
Usually I go to Tennessee's plays to see Jerry Paige, one of my favorite women, and just try to pay as little attention to the play as possible. She is not in this one. Margaret Leighton takes the role usually given to her and projects it perfectly — frail, frightened, faded and love lost. Bette Davis, who has played almost as many bitches in the past as Lon Chaney ever played monsters, comes up this time with one of her most convincing and most human ones.
Gave a reading New Year's evening at the Living Theater and next day went to a production of William Carlos Williams's Many Loves. Everybody connected with this thing from Bill Williams to the electricians I look on as a personal friend.
Julian Beck and Judith Malina are modern saints. For 12 years they have run, without a penny of subsidy or foundation aid, the only theater in America that consistently offers, not the latest craze from Paris, France, but the work of American modern playwrights.
Nonetheless, I'm afraid this play won't do. The separate episodes, originally one-acters, are excellent, and Judith does a superb job as an alcoholic housewife in one of them, but the continuity that strings them together is sentimental tosh — all about the Poet being above morals, responsibilities and the common decencies of humanity.
This is simply false. And at this point in history, backed into the moral corner we are backed into, it is frivolous and malicious. Malicious mischief is the legal term.
Luccile Lortel, wife of my friend Louis Schweitzer, has opened a new off-Broadway theater, the Theater de Lys, with a curiously moving vaudeville — Brecht on Brecht. This is a selection of Bert Brecht's poems, prose, speeches, testimony before Senator McCarthy, songs, episodes from several plays — all delivered concert style by six actors and actresses, who when not performing, sit on high stools on the bare stage.
It's got Lotte Lenya singing the Black Ship song from The Three Penny Opera, one of the major theatrical sensations of the 20th century.
Best of all it's got an absolutely hair-raising performance of the Jewish wife episode from The Private Life of the Master Race by Viveca Lindfors. Mostly monologue, this is an extremely difficult piece to put across. When she is through, you feel as if you'd been dropped down an elevator shaft into a refrigerator.
The group from the Second City have closed as a show and opened as a club on Fourth and Mercer Sts., just back of NYU. We went direct from the Brecht show to the Second City and I fear these young American social satirists seemed a bit thin after Brecht's deep, searching compassion.
Still, nobody is better at this sort of thing — now becoming a kind of craze in highbrow clubs all over the country. And Severn Darden is, for sure, the most extraordinary actor to come up in the American theater in his generation. Barring acts of God, this young fellow is going to go to the top and stay there a long, long time.
I wish the Actor's Workshop would use some of that Ford gold to bring him out here. Maybe it's just as well. As of now, he is developing entirely on his own terms. Almost no actors ever manage this, and it is an indication of the sheer power of his personality.
NEW YORK. — Some day I should write a book about my friend Louis Schweitzer. This is the man who gets in the news for giving taxi drivers their cabs, who made KPFA a present of the New York station WBAI and who generously goes about using a moderate fortune to do good hot off the griddle without the interference of intermediaries.
A while ago an attorney friend mentioned to him that the New York jails were full of people, some languishing there for long periods, because they were unable to raise bail. Instantly he started doing something about it, in characteristic direct-action style.
Whatever the merits of more liberal parole of convicted prisoners, and other programs of judicial and prison reform — it is certainly obvious to anybody that the bail system discriminates against the poor and against them only. Except in grave cases of manifest danger to society, a person has the right to freedom until he is proven guilty.
Yet many people are held for long periods under the worst possible conditions, lose their jobs, are unable to consult attorneys in a normal fashion, cannot round up witnesses and evidence for their defense, and so on and on — the injustice is all too obvious. Besides, they cost the city or state a lot of money and a vast deal of trouble.
Schweitzer set up a little program, called the Vera Foundation after his mother. A group of final-year law students interview the prisoners waiting in the tank at the magistrates' courts to have their bail set. They ask them a list of questions designed to find out if they are comparatively stable and likely to show up for trial. These are quickly checked by phone and if necessary personally, and then recommendations are made to the magistrate.
In many cases the prisoner is paroled, as they call it in New York, released on his own recognizance as it is called in San Francisco. Prisoners' lingo calls it "sprung on your OR."
Contrary to what you might think, this program has met with the enthusiastic cooperation of judges, district attorneys, police, and even bail bond brokers. So far it is operating as an experimental project with a control group, chosen by lot, who are equally processed but who do not get recommendation. The results have been astonishing. There have been practically no "no shows" as the airlines call them.
There is an article in the January issue of Crime and Delinquency which those in the law and in police work might read with profit. It's such a beautifully simple solution to an age-old, nagging, recalcitrant social problem. I see no reason why it shouldn't work in San Francisco even better than in New York.
Not the least merit of the project is the way it involves the highest quality of young law students in criminal work on a direct-contact, internship basis.
Nobody can deny that things would be a lot better if the straight A students who disdain criminal practice and go into corporation law were to be lured into at least some criminal work, and particularly into the defense of the "indigent accused."
Sometimes I feel, visiting friends in big old houses in the countryside in Connecticut or New York's Putnam County, that I am very foolish indeed to be living in San Francisco. I just want to go back East and spend my latter days in gracious living in a Stately Home.
The people I grew up with have all made it in Mad Alley or on Broadway or in some other nasty place and finally escaped out the top. There's no denying they have it better than the badminton set in Belvedere.
They bought their Klees or Bonnards when they were cheap, personally, in some little gallery on a side street. No decorator has ever entered their homes. A half century of American literature in presentation copies lines their shelves. It's sure civilized.
What am I doing out here in this half-weaned mining camp, in a state full of high-priced rural slums, hideous highways, nouveaux riches and no climate?
And then I think of the cost. The ones I know are the survivors. Where are the others? I am pretty sure I could never have taken it. I would be one of the others, not one of the survivors. And what does it cost now? You can get a nice apartment on Golden Gate Park for under $200. Not as nice a one on Central Park costs $750 a month.
It would cost me $40,000 a year to live in New York the only way I would want to live there. I hardly clear a sixth of that. But, as Mark Twain said, "I haven't done a lick of work since I left the river boats — it's all been play."
And then I realize, that old mining camp is civilized in a way New York certainly is not. A famous liberal editor once said to me, "You know, Rexroth, we couldn't use that column of yours. We've got a Line. It's all right as long as you are following the conventions of what you call Liberal-Labor Orthodoxy, but nobody can tell when you are going to go off on a tangent and take a swipe at some Liberal Sacred Cow. There's nobody harder to handle than an unorthodox liberal. San Francisco must be a funny place." Well, the boss prints it and the people read it.
Driving down through Connecticut we stopped for lunch at Stonehenge. This is an excellent country inn, near Danbury on Route 7, near Salisbury as you might imagine from the name. We had a perfect lunch, fillet of sole bonne femme, lettuce with oil and vinegar, rye bread, a good Rhine wine — a Rüdesheimer, as I remember. It was perfect — low winter sunlight, skaters on the pond, deep snow under the sparse trees.
It is really worth stopping there if you can afford it. The bill was approximately what I used to earn when I came West and went to work as a cow outfit cookie and horse wrangler — for a month's work. Of course, I got food, a horse, tack, and blue jeans. If they gave you all those with the lunch I missed out on all but the food.
Back here in San Francisco everything's jumping, but especially chamber music. I've got it coming out my ears, but I love it. The KPFA Chamber Music Contest was jam packed. I mean the standing room was packed. I found the music excessively academic. It was hard to believe that all three judges had participated in the choices. It seemed to me to be a perfect reflection of Roger Sessions's taste.
William Sydeman may be getting famous, but it sounded like a composition-class job to me, although Nathan Rubin on the viola was something to hear. Best of all was Pauline Oliveros's Variations for Sextet. You felt she'd heard it as she wrote it. It wasn't paper music. In fact, she sat near me listening and the music really sent her. She was a pleasure to watch, digging herself with enthusiasm.
Jennie Tourel singing on the Berkeley campus. What is there to say? This woman, who has been around all my time, sings with absolutely perfect taste and with a voice untouched by time. As always with Jennie, the program was a stunner. About three times the work of any opera, all delivered with complete ease, relaxation, dramatic good humor.
More chamber music at State College, more chamber music at the S.F. Museum, but best of all was the San Francisco Woodwind Ensemble in the monthly concert series at the Hall of Flowers in the park. This was another flawless evening, listening to five people who simply loved what they were doing and did it superlatively. The audience is getting at ease with itself, too, and generates that feeling of friendliness so many churches wish they could produce in their congregations.
San Francisco's Burning at the Playhouse. Let me add my bit of praise to the universal chorus. This is the best musical show I have ever seen or hope to see written and produced by the nonprofessional or little or whatever you want to call it, theater. More next week, when I will write at length about this show and Mark Harris's play at the Workshop.
Now that the paper has come forward with an estimable and thoroughgoing program for the city, I'd like to contribute a little notion of my own. I'm far from being so bold as to think I can be programmatic about it single-handed, but perhaps I can start some discussion.
I would like to see set up in San Francisco a nonofficial coordinating and planning organization which would take for its province the entire cultural life of the city, but which would concern itself directly and actively primarily with the arts. I don't think of it as having any vested power beyond that of its collective opinion. Its job would be to give advice, but if it were properly constituted, that should be powerful advice.
There has been a good deal of talk hereabouts for some time about the need for such a body. Most of those who have been talking about it have called it an Arts Council. This seems to me to be a good enough term.
Also, there exists a considerable agreement as to how it should be organized and how it should function. It should not be an elective body, least of all a membership organization. Essentially it should be an ex-officio steering committee. Its members should be there by virtue of the role they already play in the city's cultural life.
The ideal arrangement, it seems to me, would be to have a fairly large group — committee is a misleading word — meeting once a month, of the people who are actually in charge of things. This would include, amongst others, the Museum directors, the directors of the Opera and Symphony, similar people from the Ballet, the Actor's Workshop, the S.F. Art Institute and the Conservatory, possibly also the colleges, the City Librarian, possibly the educational radio and television stations, and perhaps a selection of other people coopted because of their importance in the cultural life of the city. This latter category might include representatives of another theater or two — other dance groups, private galleries, the editors of the newspapers, architects, city planners, even an actual artist or writer or two.
It is pretty obvious what such a group could accomplish. In the first place, these people could get to know each other, which, believe it or not, many of them do not do now. The greatest evil of modern city life is its ever-increasing fragmentation. Nobody knows what anybody else is doing, and this includes the people who are supposed to be running things.
Hideous public buildings, freeways, eyesores and nuisances proliferate without control. Major cultural activities of the community get into all sorts of difficulties due to lack of coordination or inexpert planning. Nobody knows anybody else's needs. Nobody knows how to use the people and possibilities of any but his own department.
In Russia they handle things like this with a Commissariat of Fine Arts. It has unlimited power, unlimited funds, unlimited lack of imagination.
From the White House down to the poorest artists' organization there are rumors of impending governmental support for the arts. Possibly a body without power, with little funds, but with plenty of imagination could start now to circumvent some of the evil effects of government interference with the arts. For surely this is coming.
Now it's the hotel tax to be distributed; later it will be federal monies. Those that pay the piper call the tune, unless the piper is very sure about what he wants to play.
Catching up on the local plays, one thing for sure, they are a lot better performed and staged than the off-Broadway theater. Last season the contrast between the amateurish high-school-like production of Hamlet at the Phoenix Theater in New York and our own Lear was laughable. Yet from all over "Megalopolis" — the New York area — they ran school buses to see a job they could just as well have done at home in East Orange, New Jersey. Did the folks in Selma charter a bus to take in Lear? If they did, I didn't hear tell.
Beckett. Yes and no. There is something common about Anouilh's mind. It's all scaled down and cheapened from the levels reached by T.S. Eliot's play on the same subject.
However, Malachi Throne as the king and Tom Rosqui as Beckett were a great pleasure to watch. The play is really about the king. It is a kind of tribute to the vanishing "moyen sensuel" — the 19th-century Frenchman of rich appetites and common sense. He seemed horrible to poor self-dramatizing Emma Bovary, but today we could do with a lot of him over there in that unhappy country — and a few less ideology-crazed cannibals.
Another thing, the Workshop, hitherto weak on women — except for a few leading actresses — has come up with a whole rout of very pretty ones. And they are a great pleasure to watch, too. I say, what good is costume drama, including Shakespeare and Racine, if it doesn't manifest a lot of pretty girls?
Stock companies provide a curious kind of social and dramatic criticism automatically. Malachi Throne as the fouled up brother in The Three Sisters and as a Plantagenet king the next month gives you to think. They are really the same character, it is not just that he plays them the same way. One, lost and wasted in a sterile provincial town, the other at the helm of history. "There but for the grace of God —" indeed.
Friedman and Son. No and yes. The first two acts transmit something of the light, ironic snap of dialogue of the Yiddish theater at its best. Not the highbrow Yiddish theater, but a few steps up from Yiddle and His Fiddle — the common garden variety of Yiddish theater.
Wolfe Barzell as Schimmel made me feel terribly homesick for midnight suppers at the Cafe Royal or Rappaport's on Second Avenue, with long excited post mortems on the night's show. But the last act goes to pieces in disorganized corn. I am all for moving statements of the order of "America is promises," but it requires more skill and depth to bring them off than are apparent in this embarrassing third act. Incidentally — Donald Buka can't act — or if he can, he acts too much like an actor. But that Wolfe Barzell! What a pleasure!
One footnote: Will some specialist in ecclesiastical millinery please, please take after the local costumers and stay with it until he gets results? Medieval bishops and archbishops and choirboys did not dress like they did in the first quarter of the 20th century in the United States. If people looked absurd running around in lace cottas in Boris Godunov, they look no less so in medieval England.
Whatever the faults of San Francisco's Burning, it is a play by a local writer, and what's more, a local poet, of a thoroughly unconventional character. Putting it on at all required courage and imagination — a sense of adventure and a sense of humor. There is no question but what the Playhouse is just a whole lot braver than the Actor's Workshop.
The music is monotonous. It needs modulation and dramatic shaping, both in the melodic line of the songs and in the continuity of recitative and song. As it is, numbers which could well end up as popular songs are lost. Tiny as the stage is, I think the actors could move around more. Like the music, the choreography needs pointing up — sharpening. Usually they are geniuses at the Playhouse at making that vest-pocket stage look like the marble halls of Rome or Jerusalem.
Fresh from New York and back at the Workshop and the Playhouse, my main reaction, if you must know, is, "What a lot of lovely women we've got in comparison with the highbrow theater back East!" I never saw anybody like Audrey Robinson, who plays the Countess of Barth Malone at the Playhouse, off-Broadway, or on it either for a' that and a' that.
Lastly, a correction. Due to my ambiguous proofreading a "not" fell out of last week's copy. The Connecticut inn, "Stonehenge," is NOT near Salisbury. In fact it's half way across the state. It's near Ridgefield and Danbury. I do hope I don't make trouble for anybody.
After a lifetime in and around "the media" I have long since come to believe the PR man's first commandment — "There's no such thing as bad publicity." Likewise I know that the minute you exhibit a public villain you start manufacturing enthusiastic imitators.
After all, I belong to the generation that used to frighten the girls in sixth grade with imitations of Erich von Stroheim. So I have kept still about the Radical Right.
Let's hope the recently assembled headshrinkers and rat racers managed to give this social problem the only kind of airing that won't run the danger of spreading the craze. I realize that mental patients, at least at the beginning, tend to be pretty resistive to those who set up to diagnose and treat them.
And of course, the argument — "Those people are mostly sociologists. All sociologists are Socialists. All Socialists are really Communists. All these people are really Communists" — is an absolutely convincing series of iron-clad syllogisms from the point of view of the lunatic Right. Lack of insight, lack of contact with reality — it is not easy to get past such mental barriers with reason. But reasonable exposure may help others.
Right, Left and Center — these terms of personal orientation have little to do with the matter. That is precisely what we are dealing with — disoriented people with only the feeblest hold on any realization of themselves as persons. Frustration, life tedium, alienation, inability to communicate vitally with others — out of these crippling inadequacies that beset modern life arise the sicknesses of the heart that are the special curse of modern man.
We tend to think of the morbid political movements of our time as social forces, bigger than individuals and operating in spite of them, rolling over them like the forces of geology or astronomy. Indeed they are not. They are simply the arithmetic totals of the acts of single individuals.
A Nazi had to take a Jew and stick him in a gas oven at a certain place at a certain time. A Russian youth had to denounce his father as a Trotskyite to a GPU office at a certain place, at a certain time. One Nazi, one Jew, one Komsomol, one Old Bolshevik. Added up, they become historical phenomena, but the first occurrence is in the single lonely human heart.
All over the world today there is rising a vast tide of inchoate hostility. It has nothing to do with capitalism or Communism; it has nothing to do with Imperialism or Nationalism. It lies over, against and in opposition to such phenomena. It's in Jakarta or Calcutta or Moscow as well as in New York and Paris. It's in the dreary Beat pads of North Beach and Greenwich Village and in the even drearier illimitable suburban slums of Los Angeles.
It is always there, always growing. When it falls into the hands of the demagogues and the Elmer Gantrys, the con men who are specialists in exploiting socially acceptable paranoia, the ever-narrowing community of sane society is once more endangered.
Somehow, it always does. Somewhere there is a reservoir of rascals, almost as big as the bottomless reservoir of misery they know so well how to exploit.
"San Francisco Fifty Years Ago" is an ongoing project of posting all of Kenneth Rexroth's columns for the San Francisco Examiner (1960-1967). Each of the columns is being posted on the 50th anniversary of its original appearance. Copyright 1960-1967 Kenneth Rexroth. Reproduced here by permission of the Kenneth Rexroth Trust.
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Is the President Healing, or Intensifying, the Pain?
Barack Obama faces uncomfortable questions about his role in the government shut-down and the far more serious debt ceiling crisis.
Did the president use his exalted position to soothe partisan fevers that have paralyzed Washington, or did he intensify divisions for partisan advantage? Did he do whatever he could to limit the shutdown's pain and inconvenience or did he maximize that discomfort to discredit his adversaries?
The ridiculous barriers sealing off public monuments and national parks offer powerful images answering those questions. No wonder a Gallup Poll showed those who felt more negatively about Obama because of the shutdown outnumbering those who turned more positive by two-to-one—similar to the margin of disapproval for Congress.
The president can hardly emerge as a winner from this fiasco because he's still the head of an increasingly discredited government.


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Fancy some lively discussion on a book list voted by members? Show up at 6:30 p.m. on the second Wednesday of every month at Abacus in Camana Bay for Bookends Book Club.
April's selection is "Frankenstein (1818 Edition]" by Mary Shelley. For May, it's "Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine" by Gail Honeyman. The full list through January 2020 is posted on Facebook.
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Pery oder Péry ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 André Péry (1921–2008), Schweizer Pfarrer und Schriftsteller
 Antonius Pery (1644–1683), Schweizer Steinmetzmeister und Bildhauer
 Johannes Pery (1670–1705), österreichischer Steinmetzmeister und Bildhauer

Siehe auch:
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 Péry, Gemeinde im Kanton Bern

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The Army Officer Candidate Program, also known as Army OCS, has a long and proud history that dates back to 1941.
The purpose of the Army's Officer Candidate School is to produce newly commissioned Second Lieutenants.
During OCS, candidates receive a wide variety of instruction to include military leadership, Warrior Tasks, Infantry Battle Drills, Land Navigation, Drill and Ceremony, Marksmanship, Physical Fitness, and much more.
In fact, a total of 71 tasks are taught and tested during Army OCS.
All classes are designed to help develop the Officer Candidate into a competent Army Officer.
During OCS, candidates must be prepared to experience mental and emotional stress.
In some ways, OCS is similar to Basic Training where the instructors "break you down" and mold you into a new person (i.e. Soldier/Officer).
Instead of having a Drill Sergeant, you will have TAC Officers who will shout at you, encourage you, motivate you, teach you and train you.
They will be your best friend and worst enemy!
The environment is fast paced and high stress.
Each day is highly structured.
You will wake up early; before the sun comes up; and you will work long hours.
You will have to operate on little sleep.
You will experience stress and you will be out of your comfort zone.
OCS is designed to break you and see what you are made of.
Ultimately, your instructors are evaluating you in a high stress environment to see if you are officer material.
Simply put, Army OCS is tough.
It is designed to weed out the weak and develop new, competent leaders capable of leading Soldiers on the battlefield.
What I find fascinating about Army OCS is that it enables enlisted Soldiers the opportunity to earn their commission quickly.
From my 15 years of experience in the military, I've found some of the best Officers I ever served with were commissioned through Army OCS.
On Active Duty, all OCS candidates attend the full-time OCS program either at an Active Duty installation or at a Regional Training Institute in the Army National Guard.
In the Army National Guard, Army OCS is offered in two different formats.
Phase 0: This phase consists of two drill weekends and is designed to prepare OCS candidates for the Army OCS program.
This phase gives candidates a taste of what the OCS program is like and weeds out many of the candidates who truly aren't all that interested in completing the program.
Phase 1: This phase of the Army OCS program is a 15-day annual training, usually held in June.
Phase 2: This phase is a one-weekend-per-month phase for a period of 13-months.
Phase 3: This is a final 15-day Annual Training period, culminating with graduation and commissioning.
The Army National Guard also offers an accelerated Army OCS program for interested OCS candidates.
This phase is an 8-week, full-time program.
Upon successful completion of this 8-week training period, OCS candidates are commissioned as Second Lieutenants.
As a stipulation, these Officer Candidates must complete all phases of the Basic Officer Leaders Course within 12 months after graduating the course.
In addition, officers who are commissioned from this Army OCS program receive the same type of federally recognized commission as officers who graduate from the Active-Duty Army OCS program.
In my opinion, there are many reasons to attend the OCS program and become a Commissioned Officer.
Do Previously Enlisted Soldiers Make Better Leaders As Officers?
1. To Serve Your Country: Serving as a commissioned officer is a great way to serve your country.
You get to lead troops, defend the Constitution and protect Americans.
You will participate in wars and conflicts when needed.
2. To Become a Leader: Officers are leaders.
If you are looking to develop your skills and become a better leader, you will learn these skills in the OCS Program, and in future job assignments.
3. The Challenge Yourself: OCS is a challenging program.
It's not for the weak or indecisive. Serving as an officer is also a huge challenge.
4. Personal Development: The Army OCS Program will definitely challenge you.
You will develop your skills and become a better person and leader.
You will grow and mature and become a fine leader and manager.
You will end up doing things you never even thought you were capable of doing.
5. Have a Fulfilling Career: If you plan on making the military a career, why not be an O=officer?
You will get some really tough jobs that stretch you out of your comfort zone.
6. Earn More Money: Money isn't everything.
But why not earn more money while you serve?
This will improve your lifestyle and standard of living.
It will also lead to a larger pension when you retire.
7. Lead Soldiers: Leading Soldiers, especially in combat, is a great experience.
In fact, I can't think of a higher honor than leading Soldiers in battle.
8. Enjoy a Better Lifestyle: As an Army Officer, you will enjoy a better lifestyle.
You will get special privileges that many enlisted Soldiers do not get.
9. Be Part of a Proud Tradition: When you serve as an Army Officer (in any capacity), you will become part of a proud tradition, dating back hundreds of years.
10. The Responsibility: If you like responsibility, you will enjoy serving as an officer.
You will supervise lots of Soldiers and be personally responsible for millions of dollars worth of equipment.
These are my top ten reasons to attend the Army OCS Program and join the Officer ranks.
Listed below, I want to share seven tips on how to survive Army OCS.
Whether you are going through the accelerated program or the traditional one weekend a month OCS program, I have a few good pointers to help you out.
My first tip to survive Army OCS is to get in shape.
Get in shape before you start OCS.
The program is physically demanding and it would be a shame to fail out of OCS because you can't pass the APFT.
While you are there, keep working on your PT.
If you are struggling in one particular event with your APFT, work extra hard to improve it.
Being in shape will give you the added endurance you need to succeed.
Land Navigation is one of the biggest challenges for people in Army OCS.
Sure, some Soldiers are naturally good in this event, but most Soldiers struggle with it.
Study Land Navigation before you get to OCS.
Get out in the woods and practice as much as you can.
Have someone from your parent unit help you out.
Get with an experienced NCO and have them teach you the ropes.
This tip is similar to what I tell Soldiers about to go to Basic Training.
Don't volunteer for anything in OCS, unless it is a leadership opportunity.
Other than that, keep your head high and be a good candidate, but don't try to be a hero!
Getting through Army OCS is 90% mental.
Your instructors and TAC Officers are trying to break you down and reshape you into an Army Officer.
Please realize that you will get yelled at a lot.
Keep your emotions in check and don't let anyone get the best of you.
If you see a buddy struggling with something, help them out!
Don't think that the only way for you to look good is for you to make others look bad.
Do what you can to help your buddy whenever possible.
You are a team and you need to work together.
You will take several tests throughout your time in Army OCS, so make sure you study for each test.
Normally, you get study time before the tests so make sure you use that time wisely.
Review your materials, ask your instructors any questions you might have and be prepared.
You won't get much sleep in Army OCS, so whenever you get the chance to sleep, take advantage of it.
If you get a chance to "rack out" for 10 minutes, take advantage of it.
When it's lights out at night time, get some sleep.
Your body and mind needs the rest.
Learn more about the ARNG Accelerated OCS Program!
If you're struggling in one particular area, ask for help!
Your instructors and TAC Officers want you to succeed, so leverage their expertise.
In conclusion, the Army OCS Program is a great way to earn your commission and become an Army Officer.
It's not easy and not always fun, but it will stretch you out of your comfort zone and prepare you to be a leader.
Many of the Army's most competent officers first served as enlisted Soldiers.
Their experience as a Soldier first gives them a unique perspective that most officers don't have.
If you are currently enlisted, but are considering transitioning to the Army officer ranks, OCS is your best bet!
If you attended OCS, I would love to hear about your experience.
Leave a comment below to tell us what you learned, what you liked and what you disliked.
Don't know if this is still being looked at or not, but I have a question anyway haha.
I'm graduating college next year with a Business Administration degree, and was wondering if you had to be either enlisted, or in an ROTC program to becoming an officer in the Army National Guard.
I assumed you could apply when you finished your Bachelor's, but I've been looking at conflicting information.
John, there are other ways to become an Officer. You can apply and be sent to Officer Candidate School. It does help to have ROTC under your belt, but since you will have a college degree, you will have a good chance of being accepted. I suggest you speak with a recruiter. Good luck, and if you have any more questions, just come back and ask, and you can also subscribe to the PT Commander Facebook page.
I appreciate the swift reply!
and 3. Direct commissions as the primary way to actually become an officer.
I am glad we could help. If you run across any more questions, feel free to just ask. I wish you the best.
Do College Ops with no prior service have to attend BCT prior to OCS?
OCS is an excellent opportunity for top notch enlisted personnel to become officers. I've personally seen around ten people in my unit go from the enlisted ranks to become officers. One of them recently made major. Also, my first commander was former enlisted and had gone via OCS.
Also, very good information on how the program actually runs, I must admit I wasn't familiar with the details of the program.
That's cool that you got to see some of your peers make it through the program and become officers. Not everyone makes it. But, many of the ones that do graduate from OCS turn out to be pretty good officers.
I have always believed the best leaders start at the bottom and work up the ladder. That is what this is all about. Someone that starts as a regular soldier, and then has the ambition to attend OCS to attain an officer rank will most likely be a great leader. I see many who are handed leadership without having to work for it and in many cases they are terrible leaders. OCS is a great program and thank you for explaining it to us.
This is so true. When you start at the bottom and work your way up you have perspective. I think that good leaders can relate to the people that they lead because at some point or another, they were in the same position as their followers. This added perspective really helps out, especially when making tough decisions.
In contrast, my buddy did the traditional OCS. He said it sucked and the only reason he did it was because he was finishing college and other family reasons that needed him to be nearby. He said it was more work to do this version of OCS because you had to spend a lot of time prepping for each drill, instead of just rolling with it like at AOCS.
Personally, I couldn't imagine trying to do it over a 16 month period. That seems crazy to me. I would much rather do the 8 week OCS and be done with it!
OCS was an awesome course. I chose to do the 8 week course, which is more condensed than federal OCS, even. I am glad I did it that way, because I had just gotten home from Iraq and didn't want to spread out my training. I just wanted to knock it out and be done with it. It's not for everyone, but it worked best for me.
Glad it worked out well for you, Candace.
I have a couple of questions. My boyfriend just left for phase I of OCS training about three days ago. First question, will he be able to communicate with me at all during the 15 days (phone, text, computer)? Secondly, what is the best way for me to support him during this time, especially when he gets back? Do I ask questions on how it went or let him bring up the conversation? Any advice or suggestions are welcome.
I was there when he was in Afghanistan for one year, it feels a bit like that in regard to the communication part. Just want to know if for the entire 15 days to expect no contact.
My guess is that he won't be able to contact you during the 15 days. If he doesn't, please don't think that he doesn't love your or isn't thinking about you. OCS is very busy and very structured and I know he will not have his cell phone and will probably not get access to it until he finishes the training. As far as the computer goes, I doubt he'll have access to email either.
To support him, you could write him a letter or two, or a postcard and mail it to him.
When he gets back you can ask him about it. If he is willing to talk about it (he should) just listen and be supportive. If he doesn't want to talk about it, just let it go.
You sound like a really supportive girlfriend. I wish the two of you a long and happy relationship.
My cousin graduated from Army OCS and he told me that it was the hardest thing he ever did. He said it was mentally and physically challenging. I couldn't imagine having people standing there shouting at you all the time and getting so little hours of sleep at night.
OCS is not for the weak minded!
I attended Army OCS with the Army Reserves in 1998. It was a tough and challenging experience, one of the hardest things I've ever had to do in my life.
Thank you for providing an over view of the Army OCS and identifying ten reasons to attend Army OCS. While money isn't everything, there is nothing wrong with having more in your check – that's for sure. The opportunity for personal development is important and will carry into the non-military aspects of your life and help you succeed.
The added money and personal development are two great reasons to attend OCS and become an Officer. There is nothing wrong with wanting more out of life.


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DAVE RADLAUER'S MUSICAL GENEROSITIES
The somber-looking fellow here might not be known to you, but he is the most generous of excavators, finding rare jazz treasures and making them available for free to anyone with a computer and many free hours. His name is Dave Radlauer, and his site is called JAZZ RHYTHM.
As is often the case in this century, Dave and I have never met in person, but know each other well through our shared fascinations. But first a word about JAZZ RHYTHM. When you go to the site's home page, you'll see a left-hand column with famous names from Louis Armstrong to Lester Young, as well as many lesser-known musicians. Click on one to hear a Radlauer radio presentation, with facts and music and anecdotage nicely stirred together. The long list of names testify to Dave's wide-ranging interest in swinging jazz.
But here comes the beautiful part. Click on "Bagatelle jazz club," for instance, and you will be taken back in time to a rare and beautiful place where delicious music was played. Possibly you might not know Dick Oxtot, Ted Butterman, Frank Goudie, Bill Bardin, Pete Allen well, but their music is captivating — and a window into a time and place most of us would not have encountered: clubs in and around San Francisco and Berkeley, California, in the Fifties and Sixties.
Dave has been an indefatigable researcher and archivist, and has had the opportunity to delve into the tape collections of musicians Bob Mielke, Wayne Jones, Earl Scheelar, Oxtot, and others. And the results are delightful sociology as well as musically: how else would I have learned about clubs called The Honeybucket or Burp Hollow? And there are mountains of rare photographs, newspaper clippings, even business cards.
When I visit Dave's site, I always feel a mild pleasurable vertigo, as if I could tumble into his treasures and never emerge into daylight or the daily obligations that have to be honored (think: ablutions, laundry, bill paying, seeing other humans who know nothing of P.T. Stanton) but today I want to point JAZZ LIVES' readers in several directions, where curiosity will be repaid with hours of life-enhancing music.
One is Dave's rapidly-expanding tribute to cornet / piano genius Jim Goodwin — legendary as musician and singular individualist.
And this treasure box, brimful, is devoted to the musical life of Frank Chace — seen here as momentarily imprisoned by the band uniform.
On Dave's site, you can learn more about Barbara Dane and Janis Joplin, James Dapogny and Don Ewell . . . all presented with the open-handed generosity of a man who wants everyone to hear the good sounds.
Dave has begun to issue some of these treasures on beautifully-annotated CDs, which are well worth your consideration.
I'm told that the music is also available digitally via iTunes, but here is the link to Amazon.com for those of us who treasure the physical CD, the photographs, and liner notes.
A postscript. Until the middle Eighties, my jazz education was seriously slanted towards the East Coast. But when the jazz scholar and sometime clarinetist John L. Fell befriended me, I began to hear wonderful musicians I'd known nothing of: Berkeley Rhythm, Goodwin, Skjelbred, Byron Berry, Vince Cattolica, and others. So if the names in this piece and on Dave's site are new to you, be not afeared. They made wonderful music, and Dave is busily sharing it.
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ON ALL FOURS IN BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA (July 6, 2012)
My pose wasn't illicit, erotic, illegal, canine, or a return to some pre-evolutionary state. And it was indoors, should you wonder. I was down on the floor inside the Berkeley, California branch of Amoeba Music looking through their jazz long-playing records.
Even though I don't suffer from a paucity of music to listen to, a highlight of our trips west has been my visits to the Down Home Music Store in El Cerrito (where a week ago I walked away with three records: a compendium of the Barney Bigard-Joe Thomas-Art Tatum sides recorded for Black and White 1944-45; the Xanadu session of Roy Eldridge at Jerry Newman's, 1940; the French CBS volume of Louis with Lillie Delk Christian and Chippie Hill). Nineteen dollars.
Not bad, you might say, but it was just a warmup for today's treasure hunt.
The records listed below ranged from one dollar to five, so the total was slightly over thirty-eight dollars. Some of them I once had; some I knew of and coveted; others were total surprises. Most of them I found while standing, but the dollar ones required that I become a small human coffee table. I was in my element, and no one stepped on me. (Thirty years ago, New York City had stores like this, but — except for one gem on Bleecker Street — they seem to have vanished.)
In random order:
MAX KAMINSKY: AMBASSADOR OF JAZZ (Westminster, 2.99), which has no listed personnel, but sounds like an octet — I hear Bill Stegmeyer, Cutty Cutshall, and Dick Cary — and has a wide range of material, beginning with HENDERSON STOMP and THE PREACHER.
TURK MURPHY: NEW ORLEANS SHUFFLE (Columbia, 1.99), which features my friend Birchall Smith and my hero Don Ewell as well as Bob Helm.
an anthology on the Jazum label (3.99), which features two extraordinary West Coast jams — circa 1945 — which bring together Vic Dickenson, Sidney Catlett, Willie Smith, Les Paul, Eddie Heywood, and possibly Oscar Pettiford. A present for a jazz friend.
KNOCKY PARKER: OLD RAGS (Audiophile, 2.99) which I bought in honor of one of my New York friends who had Professor Parker in college but has never heard him play the piano.
Three volumes in the French RCA series of 1973-74 recordings produced by Albert McCarthy (in Hank O'Neal's studio) — under the SWING TODAY banner, with recordings by Vic Dickenson, Herman Autrey, Buddy Tate, Earle Warren, Zoot Sims, Jane Harvey, Bucky Pizzarelli, Budd Johnson, Red Richards, Taft Jordan, Bill Dillard, Eddie Barefield, Eddie Durham, Jackie Williams, Major Holley, Eddie Locke, Doc Cheatham, John Bunch, Tommy Potter, Chuck Folds.
BUDDY TATE AND HIS CELEBRITY CLUB ORCHESTRA VOL. 2 (Black and Blue, 2. 99), 1968 recordings featuring Dicky Wells, Dud Bascomb, and Johnny Williams.
THE LEGENDARY EVA TAYLOR WITH MAGGIE'S BLUE FIVE (Kenneth, 1.99), a recording I have been wanting for years — with Bent Persson and Tomas Ornberg.
SWEET AND HOT (Ambiance, 1.99), a half-speed disc — it plays at 45 — recorded in 1977 and featuring Vince Cattolica and Ernie Figueroa in an octet.
THE GOLDEN STATE JAZZ BAND: ALIVE AND AT BAY (Stomp Off, 1.99) late-Seventies sessions featuring Ev Farey, Bob Mielke, Bill Napier, Carl Lunsford, Mike Duffy, and Hal Smith.
RALPH SUTTON: BACKROOM PIANO (Verve, 1.00): well-played but any Sutton collection that begins with CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS is something to have. I remember Ed Beach played tracks from this record on his Sutton shows.
LIVE AND IN CHOLER: THE WORLD FAMOUS DESOLATION JAZZ ENSEMBLE AND MESS KIT REPAIR BATTALION, VOL. 2 (Clambake, 1.00): I nearly passed this one by because of the "humorous" title . . . but when I saw it has Dave Caparone on trombone, I was not about to be deterred by some goofy liner notes.
BREAD, BUTTER & JAM IN HI-FI (RCA, 1.00), a compilation of tracks that didn't fit on the original issues — but what tracks! Lee Wiley, Henry "Red" Allen, Bud Freeman, Ruby Braff, Jack Teagarden, Billy Butterfield, Pee Wee Russell, Coleman Hawkins, 1956-58.
Worth getting into such an undignified position, I'd say. Now I will indulge myself by listening to Miss Eva with Bent and Tomas!
May your happiness increase.
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Tagged Albert McCarthy, Amoeba Music, Art Tatum, Barney Bigard, Bent Persson, Bill Stegmeyer, Birchall Smith, Bob Helm, Bob Mileke, Bucky Pizzarelli, Bud Freeman, Buddy Tate, Chippie Hill, Chuck Folds, Cutty Cutshall, Dave Caparone, Dick Cary, Dicky Wells, Doc Cheatham, Don Ewell, Ernie Figueroa, Ev Farey, Eva Taylor, Hal Smith, Jack Teagarden, Jane Harvey, Jerry Newman, Joe Thomas, Knocky Parker, Les Paul, Lillie Delk Christian, Louis Armstrong, Max Kaminsky, Oscar Pettiford, ragtime, Ralph Sutton, record collecting, Roy Eldridge, Ruby Braff, Sidney Catlett, Turk Murphy, Vic Dickenson, Vince Cattolica, Willie Smith
"JAZZ LIVES" GOES SHOPPING at AMOEBA MUSIC
More rewarding than going to the mall in search of the nonexistent record store (now replaced by a kiosk selling baseball caps you can have embroidered with your name, perhaps?). More personal than bidding and clicking online, it's my return to AMOEBA MUSIC in San Francisco!
It should say something about the impression this store (and its Berkeley branch) made on me this last summer that I can summon up "1855 Haight Street" without having to think about it. And the flimsy yellow plastic bag I brought back to my apartment has not been used for any ordinary purpose. Inside the store the view is awe-inspiring and not a little intimidating for those who (unlike me) collect broadly across the musical spectrum:
I knew where I was going and my path had only two main oases — leaving aside the cash register at the end. One delicious spot is sequestered in a corner: several bookshelves filled with albums of 10″ 78 rpm records. You'd have to be a collector of older music or someone of a certain age to be familiar with this display in its unaltered state. It still thrills me but it has the odd flavor of a museum exhibit — although I know of no museum where you can purchase the exhibits and take them home. See if this photograph doesn't provoke some of the same emotions:
And what do these albums contain? I'll skip over the dollar 1941-2 OKeh Count Basie discs, the odd Dave Brubeck 78, the remarkable Mercer Records PERDIDO by Oscar Pettiford on cello, the Artie Shaw Bluebirds . . . for a few that struck particular chords with me:
That one's to inspire my pal Ricky Riccardi on to his next book!
One of the finest front lines imaginable — a pairing that only happened once.
The right Stuff . . . for Anthony Barnett.
Milt Gabler made good records!
In honor of Maggie Condon, Stan and Stephen Hester . . . and I didn't arrange the records for this shot. When was the last time you entered a record store with its own Eddie Condon section?
It would have been disrespectful to confine myself to taking pictures and not buying anything (also, enterprises like this need some support to stay in business), so I did my part.
The reverse of a Johnny Guarnieri tribute to Fats Waller, autographed to "Ed," whom I assume played a little piano.
The NOB HILL GANG might look like another San Francisco "Dixieland" band, but any group with Ernie Figueroa on trumpet and Vince Cattolica on clarinet demands serious consideration.
But wait! There's more!
A Roy Eldridge collection on Phontastic (source: Jerry Valburn) of Gene Krupa 1941-2 airshots plus the 1940 Fred Rich date with Benny Carter;
ONE WORLD JAZZ — a 1959 Columbia stereo attempt at internationalism through overdubbing, featuring a home unit of Americans: Clark Terry, Ben Webster, J. J. Johnson, Hank Jones, Kenny Burrell, George Duvivier, and Jo Jones — with overdubbed contributions from Bob Garcia, Martial Solal, Stephane Grappelly, Ake Persson, Roger Guerin, Roy East, Ronnie Ross, and George Chisholm;
Marty Grosz and his Honoris Causa Jazz Band on Ristic / Collector's Items — featuring unissued material and rehearsals from the HOORAY FOR BIX! sessions — featuring Frank Chace;
a double-CD set on the Retrieval label of the Rhythmic Eight, in honor of Mauro Porro, whose set at the 2011 Whitley Bay paying homage to this band was memorable;
a Leo Watson compilation CD on Indigo — just because I couldn't leave it there;
the Billy Strayhorn LUSH LIFE compilation on Doctor Jazz, with a fine small group whose horns are Clark Terry and Bob Wilber.
The end result at the cash register? Forty-three dollars and some cents. Worth a trip from just about anywhere.
Posted in "Thanks A Million", Ideal Places, Irreplaceable, Jazz Titans, Pay Attention!, Swing You Cats!, The Real Thing, The Things We Love
Tagged Ake Persson, Amoeba Music, Anthony Barnett, Ben Webster, Benny Carter, Bill Harris, Billy Strayhorn, BIXIELAND, Bob Garcia, Bob Wilber, Clark terry, Count Basie, Eddie Condon, Ernie Figueroa, Fats Waller, Frank Chace, Fred Rich, Gene Krupa, George Chisholm, George Duvivier, Hank Jones, Hooray for Bix!, J.J. Johnson, Jazz Lives, Jo Jones, JoeBushkin, Johnny Guarneri, Kenny Burrell, Leo Watson, Lester Young, Martial Solal, Marty Grosz, Mauro Porro, Michael Steinman, Milt Gabler, Nob Hill Gang, Oscar Pettiford, record collecting, record stores, Ricky Riccardi, Roger Guerin, Ronnie Ross, Roy East, Roy Eldridge, San Francisco, Slim Gaillard, SlimGaillard, Stan Hester, Stephane Grappelly, Stephen Hester, Stuff Smith, The Rhythmic Eight, Vic Dickenson, Vince Cattolica


The markets were weaker overnight but the trade was awfully quiet, corn traded in a range of just 1.5c while soybeans trade in a 6.75c range – most of that lower. Not a lot of action. The weekly export sales report was out this morning, corn sales were a tad disappointing while soybean sales were above the range of guesses – a tad supportive.
China has returned from holiday and the Shanghai Composite (equity markets) jumped higher to follow suit with what the rest of the world had done while they were on break. US soybean exporters will be watching to see if China steps in with any export sales now that they are back. Overall -- with tomorrow's supply and demand report right around the corner… the markets could be choppy/mixed for most of the day today as everyone attempts to bring their positions closer to even.


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Home > Properties
Training Centre, Kingsholm Business Park, St Catherine Street, Gloucester
The property is a detached single storey building of part brick, part rendered block elevations under a pitched clad roof.
There is an extension with rendered block elevations under a pitched tiled roof. The front elevation has 3 large aluminium double-glazed windows and the main access provided by automatic doors.
There is a secondary pedestrian door to the rear.
The accommodation comprises the main training area with ancillary storage, offices, and kitchen and WC facilities. The training room has a suspended ceiling with inset lighting, painted plastered walls and carpet. The property benefits from all mains services.
Externally, there is allocated parking directly outside the property.
Kingsholm Business Park is situated approximately 1/4 mile north of the City Centre and is accessed via St Oswald's Road (A417) and Priory Road/Gouda Way or Bruton Way (A430). The site has 2 accesses from St Catherine Street via Worcester Street (A430) or Skinner Street. The site lies approximately 1 mile from the Gloucester Ring Road.
Gloucester is well connected to the motorway network, being served by three junctions of the M5; junction 11 provides access via the A40 (3 miles), junction12 to the south (5 miles) and junction 11a (3 miles) connects to the Brockworth Bypass, Cirencester/Swindon and the M4 motorway at junction 15 (34 miles).
Approximate gross internal area.
250.92 sq m (2,701 sq ft)
The property will need to be reassessed for rating purposes. Prospective occupiers should check with the Local Authority to establish any transitional relief that may be applicable.
The property has been used as a Training Centre which falls within Class D1 of the Use Classes Order 1987. It may suit alternative uses subject to the necessary consents being obtained.
The property is offered by way of a new lease for a term to be agreed.
The property is elected for VAT.
Service charges:
A charge will be levied by the Estate Landlord to cover the costs to maintain the communal areas. Further information available from the agents upon request.
Each party to bear their own legal costs incurred in the transaction.
Ash & Co
Simon McKeag: 07737 691453
Harry Pontifex: 01242 255242
154 High Street, Tewkesbury
The property dates from the late 15th century and comprises a Grade II* Listed Building currently in use as a sandwich retailer with upper floors in storage and staff usage.
45 Winchcombe Street, Cheltenham
This Grade II listed retail unit is suitable for a variety of uses (STP) with accommodation at ground and basement level, with the added benefit of an external terrace at the rear. Close to the new John Lewis department store.
Units 1 and 2 Alstone Business Centre, Alstone Lane, Cheltenham
Units 1 and 2 Alstone Business Centre comprise a single storey building fronting Alstone Lane.
Unit 1 Shannon Point, Oakfield Close, Tewkesbury Business Park
Unit 1 comprises a modern end terrace steel portal frame unit with part brickwork elevations.


Last night was the Astro Battleground 2008 Final live from Euphoria by Ministry of Sound disco in Sunway Logoon Resort. The finalist was Ultimaxx, Twister Genius and ECX, my vote is for ECX as their performance was really awesome as their choreographers and move was superb. ECX team consist of 5 person, all the movement was move at the same time without any of the member was slow or fast.
This is the group that I admire most and every time they show us a lot of creativity on their moves with popping, locking, jazz, hip hop and krumping . Last night show was extreme as I really get excited on their moves, it really get you moving and can't wait for the surprise moves. If I was there watching live, for sure I'll scream like no mother business and it was a really good show.
Below is some of the previous video from the competition, enjoy the show guys.
Can you support Urban Dance Festival 2009 and ECX. just post up a blogpost and link us.


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      version='0.0',
      description="Statistical Energy Analysis module for FreeCAD.",
      long_description=open('README.txt').read(),
      author='Frederik Rietdijk',
      author_email='fridh@fridh.nl',
      license='LICENSE.txt',
      packages=['Sea', 'Sea.model', 'Sea.adapter', 'Sea.actions', 'gui', 'gui.analysis', 'gui.addItem'],
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Attracting new patients (how do they do this from our site)?
Signposting & contact information for existing patients?
Online booking (PMS, Toothpick etc)?
Treatment specific offers and promotions?
Ongong updates - how do we manage these?
What is a typical development process?


Immediately following the Governor's visit to Harding University on Monday, the White County Alliance kicked off with a lunch at Harding. In addition to the 18 alliance members, many Representatives from the governors office, Arkansas Community Corrections, the Division of Children and Family Services, and Senator Jonathan Dismang were present.
Restore Hope Executive Director, Paul Chapman, kicked off the lunch with an introduction and welcome, followed by White County co-project managers, Andrew Baker and Heath Carpenter with updates and a plan for the coming months.


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Les set meravelles naturals de Romania (en ) són les set meravelles naturals de Romania, que van ser escollides en el concurs que porta el mateix nom i fou celebrat el juliol de 2008. Va ser la segona etapa del programa de les set meravelles de Romania iniciat el 2007. La votació va constar de dues parts: els experts en Romania van votar pels seus set millors llocs i els usuaris d'internet van votar pels seus set llocs favorits al lloc web oficial.

La votació per internet dels 16 possibles candidats es va obrir l'1 de juliol de 2008 al lloc web del programa. Un total de prop de 60.000 internautes van votar a la campanya. La votació es va tancar el 24 de juliol de 2008 i els resultats es van anunciar oficialment dos dies després el 26 de juliol. Tota la campanya va ser iniciada el 2008 pel diari Evenimentul Zilei amb l'objectiu d'ensenyar als romanesos sobre la bellesa de l'entorn natural del seu país. El mateix diari va realitzar el 2007 una campanya nacional similar per votar les Set Meravelles de Romania que eren exclusivament artificials.

Un fet interessant és la taula final de la campanya, ja que el guanyador, el Delta del Danubi, va rebre l'11,34% del total dels vots. Inicialment, només hi havia catorze meravelles naturals a la llista, comptant les naturals i les no naturals, però a demanda del públic s'hi van afegir dues més: la Cetățile Ponorului i el Barranc d'Olt.

Nominacions
Tres dels ítems de la llista de nominacions van necessitar una nominació especial:

 Els volcans de fang Berca, els únics d'aquest tipus a Romania
 Les Portes de Ferro, una de les gorgues més grans de Romania
 El Parc Natural Vânători-Neamț.

Guanyadors

Vegeu també
 Set meravelles de Romania
 Set meravelles del món

Referències

Enllaços externs

Llistes de cultura
Edat antiga
Cultura de Romania


So yesterday I was searching for something inside a cupboard and in a corner I saw a hardcover book. I thought it might be an old used diary but when I thought of giving it a try, I pulled it out and when I saw the cover I thought it's crap but when I turned the cover over, I saw an old photo. A photo of my grandpa holding me in his arms. Well, he's no more but is still with me because of the photo.
Does it mean I've never been hurt?
Dies it mean nothing really happened?
It's been 15 days since you left us and no matter how much we've accepted your death, we Twitteraties feel a sense of emptiness without you!
You have left us leaving behind your beautiful words, your colorful timeline and your radiant pictures!
I pray for you every day,I hope you are happy now atleast.This poem is not meant to make you feel sad or to second guess your decision, so take it as a token of love wherever you are!


These are my notes from Idit Caperton's closing keynote at NECC 2008, "The Transformational Power of Social Media Technology in Learning: Inspiring Stories from the Classroom and Beyond!" MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. THIS WAS A FANTASTIC KEYNOTE AND ONE OF THE BEST I'VE EVER SEEN AT NECC. INSPIRATIONAL, CHALLENGING, RESEARCH-BASED, KID AND LEARNING FOCUSED. SUPERB. GREAT KEYNOTE SELECTION, ISTE NECC BOARD!
Social Networks, Wikis and Blogs are changing the informational, social, political, and educational landscapes. Wikipedia has become the information resource of choice. There are more than 160 million users on MySpace. YouTube is hosting 80 million videos and managing 3 million user accounts. Hundreds of millions of people are gathering daily on the Web to explore, express and exchange media projects and ideas through online social networks. A large portion of them are children and youth.
Dr. Idit Harel Caperton predicted these phenomena after a decade at the MIT Media Lab, and left to start MaMaMedia.com in 1995. As the originator of the term "Clickerati" (the generation born after the mid-90s who cannot imagine life without the Internet), she invented the first Internet media company with special services for Clickerati kids, envisioning their near-addiction to digital learning through creation of rather than consumption of media. To this end, she gave them hundreds of dynamic activities for creating, collaborating, and socializing online. She taught many online networks (AOL-KidsOnly, ATT-WorldNet, Earthlink, Disney-Go, WebTV) and advertisers (General Mills, Nintendo, Disney) how to engage the young and harness business potential within digitally-connected communities of kids.
One of the first graduates of the MIT Media Lab and a student and colleague of learning-technology guru, Professor Seymour Papert, Harel-Caperton has been studying the ways in which learners are empowered with programmable technology since the early 80s.
To close NECC 2008, she will present her recent invention in 1:1 computing—the Globaloria Networks (www.globaloria.org)—complete with cases of how today's social media technology is creating opportunities for student collaboration and global exchange never before possible. Included will be a synthesis of specific examples hand-picked from content presented at NECC 2008.
Her fast-paced, multi-dimensional tapestry of stories is sure to stimulate and inspire your thinking about contemporary learning ideas in education, and where we are heading. See how the work you and your peers are doing is transforming education!
what do we need to do to help grow a mindset that catalyzes change: in children, in parents and in policy makers?
THIS IS A GREAT QUESTION. I AM SO GLAD TO HEAR HER ADDRESSING THIS!
WOW! I AM SO GLAD TO HEAR ABOUT THIS PROJECT AND FIND THIS LINK. YES! SUPER! THIS IS WHAT WE ARE DOING WITH CELEBRATE OKLAHOMA VOICES ON A SMALLER SCALE. IT WILL BE GREAT TO CONNECT WITH TELLINGSTORIES.ORG AND LEARN FROM THEM!
THAT WAS A GREAT SERIES OF VIDEOS, MANY OF THESE WERE FROM THE NECC POSTER SESSIONS. SUPER STUFF. GREAT IDEAS! SO WONDERFUL FOR IDIT TO SHARE AND AMPLIFY THESE PROJECTS AND VOICES IN HER KEYNOTE! YEAH IDIT!
can we invent and promote learning activities that cultivate the development of each of these new abilities in learners?
My Global Life (MyGLife.org) is a worldwide network of educational, programmable websites and related wikis designed to empower youth in developing countries and emerging markets to learn, create and collaborate online. The goal of this non-profit project is to help the world's youth experience and master technology tools and methods for democracy and globalization. Site users are mentored to learn Internet technology skills (including wiki development, graphic design and Flash programming skills), build global awareness, and at the same time, experience positive communication with other communities.
FOR SOME REASON THE WEBSITE MyGLife.org IS NOT RESOLVING FOR ME NOW / NOT ACCESSIBLE.
4- is there an exhibtion hall? open source spirit?
what will NECC be in 10 years?


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Q: What's the alternative for using multiple generic type parameters in object-oriented design? I am automating a collection of widgets written in Javascript. However, I am using C# and .NET for the automation.
These widgets have several ways of configuring them, so they can be used in multiple ways. Each of these ways that they can be used in, we call as templates. There are now three stages where they can be configured : Either in the base widget directory, or at the template level, or at the UI level where they will be consumed.
Now, the issue I have is, because Javascript is dynamically typed, the type of the template for some widgets gets identified at run time at the UI level. Until then, I have no way of knowing what template form the widget is going to take. And there are widgets, that contain other such configurable widgets within them.
The way, I am currently handling this in C# is, by adding Interface and implementation for each template of the widget. However, when I have to instantiate a widget, I need to specify what template type I would be using. So, I am forced to using multiple generic type parameters, since a single widget's properties can include other configurable widgets with different types.
I don't think this is the best way to do it, so I have been trying to look for any design patterns that might save me from doing it this disastrous way.
Here's an example of a widget template Interface and its class in C# :
public interface IWidget1Template1<T,U>
{
    IWidget2<T> Heading { get; }

    IWidget3<U> Paragraph { get; }
}

 public class Widget1Template1<T,U> : Widget1 , IWidget1Template1<T,U>
 {

  public Widget1Template1(Resources)
  {}

  public IWidget2<T> Heading
  {
      if(typeof(T) == typeof(w2t1))
      {
        return (IWidget2<T>) new w2t1();
      }
      else
        return (IWidget2<T>)new w2t2();
  }

  public IWidget3<U> Paragraph
  {
      if(typeof(U) == typeof(w3t2))
      {
        return (IWidget3<U>) new w3t2();
      }
      else
        return (IWidget3<U>)new w3t1();
  }

The subsequent UI call will specify what template types would be used, while creating an object of the class Widget1Template1 like,
   public Widget1Template1 MidSection
   {
       return new Widget1Template1<w2t1, w3t1>(Resources);
   }

A: Since all your interfaces have similar signature i propose you to keep only one interface IWidget and treat everything else as data, e.g. WidgetType and TemplateType could be strings, enums or classes but not Clr Types.
some code just to illustrate the idea:
interface IPage
{
    string Name { get; }
    IReadOnlyList<IWidget> Sections { get; }
}

interface IWidget
{
    string Name { get; }
    ITemplate Template { get; set; }
    IReadOnlyList<IWidget> Widgets { get; }
}

interface ITemplate
{
    string Name { get; }
    IReadOnlyList<IElement> Elements { get; }
}

interface IElement
{
    string Name { get; }
    IList<Assestion> Assetions { get; }
}

class Assestion
{
    public AssetionSubject Subject { get; set; }
    public AssetionPredicate Predicate { get; set; }
    public object Value { get; set; }
}

enum AssetionSubject { InnerText, OuterHtml, etc }
enum AssetionPredicate { eq, neq, gt, lt, etc }

and the test code:
void AddTest(IPage page)
{
    var listElement = page.Sections.First(s => s.Name == "ResultsSection")
        .Widgets.First(w => w.Template.Name == "BannerTemplate")
        .Template.Elements.First(e => e.Name == "List");

    listElement.Assetions.Add(new Assestion
    {
        Subject = AssetionSubject.InnerText,
        Predicate = AssetionPredicate.eq,
        Value = "Some banner"
    });
}

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As Swift matures, it has become increasingly stable. Thankfully, the task of migrating between major releases of the language has gotten easier. Anyone who has worked with Swift since the beginning will shudder when remembering the migration from Swift 2 to 3.
Swift 5 is notable becase it marks the first release with ABI stability. This will lead to smaller application sizes – the Swift libraries will not need to be bundled in every application.
Moving a codebase to Swift 5 is relatively painless and I have only encountered a few issues in my codebase.
The Swift standard library has now added a lastIndex(of:) method to find the last occurance of an element in a collection, thus index(of:) has been renamed to firstIndex(of:).
Finally, results of calls to try? will still return an optional, but they will no longer be nested optionals. I welcome this change, this simplifies code that was confusing and means no longer having to use a double if-let to get the required value.
I'm launching Aura Talk, it's available here. What is it? It's a community site, built on Discourse (which is awesome software, check it out if you need a forum). I've found that as Aura grows in users and complexity that I need something better to co-ordinate everything.
In an attempt to make it effortless to login, there's no need to create an account. All authentication is done through your Google account, full details here but the TLDR is that you only need to have used Aura before, and the trial will do.
Head over to check it out, it's going to get busier over there soon.
I'm delighted to release Aura 4. This release represents many thousands of changes that make this a faster, more powerful and useful app. For the sake of brevity, here are just three of the main ones.
The search bar has become much more powerful. A fuzzy, quick search matches thousands of items from your accounts and lets you jump to anything instantly. Contacts, inboxes, categories, labels or types of mail.
Improvements all round to how Aura interacts with Gmail. All of Gmail's smart categories are accessible. The synchronization has been improved along with better sleep/wake behavior.
Mojave added support for a system dark mode, and Aura fully supports it. You'll even notice the theme colors used throughout.
A more complete run down of all the bug fixes and smaller improvements will be published soon is published here on Aura Talk.
Finally, stricter requirements for access to Gmail data were published at the beginning of the year. Aura has always treated your email data securely and already met all of the requirements. But users of older versions of Aura will need to migrate to Aura 4 as API keys for versions 1 - 3 are going to expire. Aura 4 is a free upgrade for all customers and I will be contacting you soon if you haven't yet upgraded.


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Подростковая ситуационная комедия или подростковый ситком () — жанр комедийных телесериалов, в центре повествования которых — жизнь персонажей-подростков или людей, едва вышедших из этого возраста. Основной сюжет каждой серии часто включает главного героя, на котором сосредоточена программа, в то время как второстепенные сюжетные линии часто сосредоточены на родителях персонажей, братьях и сёстрах (тех, кто не играет главных ролей, если таковые имеются) или друзьях, хотя второстепенные персонажи иногда также могут быть вовлечены в основной сюжет эпизода.

Наиболее распространённые эпизодические сюжетные линии, используемые в подростковых ситкомах, включают главного героя, имеющего дело с семьёй и друзьями, в конечном итоге оказываются в сложной ситуации (например, родители главного героя, не разрешающие им попробовать себя в школьной спортивной команде из-за своего пола), которую персонажи должны решить к концу эпизода алкоголизм и, возможно, даже злоупотребление психоактивными веществами) также могут быть представлены в том, что иногда называют «очень особенными эпизодами».

Хотя подростки являются основной аудитории этих программ, эти программы также популярны среди молодёжи. Пожилые люди могут наслаждаться ими в ностальгических целях. Как и подростковые драмы, этот жанр также, как правило, отсутствовал в течение первых 30 лет телевидения.

История

1940—1980-е годы
Когда ситкомы достигли своего пика в 1950-х и 1960-х годах, эти программы должны были быть ориентированы на семью. Ситкомы 1950-х и 1960-х годов, такие как «Оставь это Бобру», «Отец знает лучше», «Приключения Оззи и Харриет» и «Шоу Донны Рид», были популярны среди подростков, а также среди всей семьи. Жанр подросткового кино был популярен в 1960-х годах и проложил путь к жанру подросткового ситкома.

Самым ранним предком подросткового ситкома был «Познакомьтесь с Корлисс Арчер», телевизионная адаптация популярного радиошоу о девочке-подростке, которое ненадолго транслировалось в синдикации в 1954 году. Первым подростковым ситкомом в крупной сети был «Много любви Доби Гиллиса», ситком канала CBS 1959—1963 годов, основанный на студенческих рассказах юмориста Макса Шульмана. Доби Гиллис следил за приключениями мальчика-подростка и его друзей через среднюю школу, армию и колледж и был первой телевизионной программой США, в которой были представлены подростки (роль исполняют Дуэйн Хикман и Боб Денвер, актёры в возрасте двадцати лет) в качестве главных героев.

В середине 1960-х годов создание ситкомов, таких как «The Monkees» и «Гиджет», было в первую очередь ориентировано на подростковую аудиторию. Ситком канала ABC 1969—1974 годов «Семейка Брейди» был очень популярен среди молодой аудитории, особенно среди подростков и молодых подростков, как и его конкурент «Семья Партриджей», премьера которого состоялась в 1970 году. В 1970-х годах также были представлены подростковые ситкомы, такие как «Что происходит!!», «Счастливые дни (телесериал)» и «Добро пожаловать назад, Коттер».

В 1980-е годы такие телесериалы, как «Факты жизни», «Серебряные ложки», «Квадратные колышки», «Семейные узы», «Семья Хоган», «Кто здесь босс?», «Растущие боли», «The New Leave It To Beaver», «Два моих пап» и «Доброе утро, Мисс Блисс», были чрезвычайно популярны, особенно среди молодёжи.

1990-е годы
Ситкомы, ориентированные на подростков, стали более популярными с 1990-х годов; в течение этого десятилетия такие программы постепенно стали довольно распространёнными как в вещательных, так и в кабельных сетях. Хотя соответствующие социальные проблемы, связанные с демографией, были показаны в предыдущих сериалах, сериал «Блоссом» регулярно фокусировался на таких вопросах, а эпизоды касались таких тем, как употребление наркотиков, оружие и секс подростков.

Другие примеры

ABC
 Шаг за шагом (телесериал, США)
 Парень познаёт мир
 Дела семейные
 Сестра, сестра
 Бестолковые
 Сабрина — маленькая ведьма
 Кларисса

NBC
 Спасённые звонком
 Калифорнийские мечты
 Время зависания
 Городские парни
 Один мир

Fox, The WB и UPN
 Шоу 70-х
 Малкольм в центре внимания
 Женаты… с детьми
 Паркер Льюис не может проиграть
 Несчастливы вместе
 За что тебя люблю
 Один на один
 Все ненавидят Криса

MTV
 Дарья
 Трудные времена RJ Berger
 Неуклюжая

Nickelodeon
 Эй чувак
 Приветствуйте свои шорты
 Добро пожаловать, первокурсники
 Раундхаус
 Колдовская история
 Приключения Пита и Пита
 Тайный мир Алекс Мак
 Мой брат и Я
 Тру Джексон
 Опасный Генри

Disney Channel
 Лиззи Магуайер
 That's So Raven
 Волшебники из Вэйверли Плэйс
 Ханна Монтана
 Всё тип-топ, или Жизнь Зака и Коди
 Всё тип-топ, или Жизнь на борту
 Джесси
 Танцевальная лихорадка!
 Собака точка ком
 В ударе

Примечания

Терминология телевидения
Телевизионные жанры


ABSTRACT: Successful college media programs, when judged against their peers, are located in academic departments with faculty-level advisors (Terracina-Hartman and Nulph 2013; Kopenhaver 2015). This study aims to examine communication practices and messages of universities and academic departments that promote these top college media outlets using social media tools. Which is preferred: Facebook or Instagram for celebrating an award? Does a university tag a student newspaper? Or does the department take the lead in announcing? Or does a college newspaper post its good news, tag its home institution, and then academic departments and colleges like, share, retweet, repost and tag? Perhaps the institution, department, and/or student media outlet chooses none of these, making them virtually invisible? The posts – whether celebratory, recruiting, spotlighting an alum, or introducing editors – enhance not only visibility for the college media program, but also produce a level of association between student media and their home institutions.