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Sad Stories Told for Laughs: Andrew Osenga
By Jonathan Rogers • November 06, 2015
In my many conversations with artists, I have noticed that a disproportionate number of their anecdotes—and most of their best ones—involve public humiliation. "Sad Stories Told for Laughs" is an interview series in which I ask artists to share their best stories of mortification and humiliation for the edification of Rabbit Room readers. My first guest is Andrew Osenga. Andrew has been making music for a long time, with the Normals (named for his hometown of Normal, Illinois—go Ironmen and Lady Ironmen!), Caedmon's Call, and as a solo artist. He now has a nine-to-five job as a record executive in Nashville.
Welcome, Andy Osenga, to "Sad Stories Told for Laughs."
Glad to be here.
Well, let's get right to it. Have you ever experienced public humiliation?
So many times. As in, are we counting junior high or just professional career?
Let's leave junior high out of it for now.
Wise. Well, I signed a record deal a year after high school. Less than a year later I was on tour. My band, The Normals, was the first act on a three-band tour. We were just getting our feet wet. My parents, along with other Normal, Illinois, people, booked one of the shows in my hometown.
Hometown humiliation!
Oh, the best kind. They overshot the size of the audience a bit and rented out Illinois State University's auditorium—probably seated 3000 people or so. This is the room where I graduated high school a month after Springsteen played here on his Ghost of Tom Joad tour.
Remember, this college was across the street from my high school. Fifty people from my class went to college out of town, everybody else went here. So they're all in the room. This other band goes out there and plays their set and, because the room is so huge, there's like a twenty-foot area at the front of the stage, the orchestra pit, where there's nothing. Two-thousand people in attendance, twenty feet of dead stage, then the band. Their lead singer is getting into it and he runs out to the crowd with a water bottle. He's going to spray it on them but his mic chord only goes so far so he just sort of pours water on this empty stage
A few minutes later we get on. We are nineteen years old. I do not, at this point, actually know how to play guitar. But I have one.
Baby steps.
We're getting into our surely life-changing set of music and I decide to go out in front of the mic and "rock out" cause I'm cool. So I run out there, immediately slip on this dude's sixteen ounces of standing water and fall flat on my butt. I sort of pile-drived my spine.
The band is playing and I'm just sort of lying there, wet, with the breath knocked out of me in front of all the kids who used to make fun of me in 8th grade for being weird and obnoxious. So I proved them right.
I think people have this idea that if they get a record deal or a book deal, they'll feel that they've arrived, that everybody who thought they were a loser will be proven wrong. The truth is, you're just now getting to a place where you can be humiliated in earnest.
Especially if you're back in your hometown.
Right. With spotlights.
In that same show our guitar player, who was a pyro, had set up all of his homemade pyrotechnics all over the stage. Homemade as in, he bought giant fireworks, pulled the fuses out, stuck in bottle rocket launcher fuses wired to a pedal board, and he could step on pedals and, when it worked right, launch fireworks around the stage.
He did not tell us he had put them all around. Nor did he tell the venue, which had a strict "Don't set the place on fire" rule.
Venues can be such sticklers.
After I get up, wet, from my super cool fall I got back with the band. We started another song and as I went to the microphone he kicked his fireworks on. One was directly at the base of my microphone stand, I was using a straight stand at the time, so the flame was 6 inches from my face.
I just screamed into the microphone, but like not in a cool rock band way, in a cheerleader at a haunted house way. So there was that one.
I have not thought about this in years. I am dying over here.
Don't die yet. I want to get a few more stories out of you. Most performing artists seem to have "shady promoter" stories. Do you have any "shady promoter" stories?
My shady promoter story is unreal.
Why don't you tell it?
Caedmon's did this festival years ago that was some sort of money-laundering scam. There were three or four national bands there. Killer big stage. Tons of great gear, lights, food trucks and vendors, etc… Beautiful day. Probably 60 or so local church group volunteers in matching t-shirts.
The gates opened and no one was there.
What do you mean by "no one"?
No one. Not one single person bought a ticket. We're not sure if tickets were ever even sold.
But the contracts stated that we had to play at least 45 minutes, so we all did. One after the other. We just stood in this huge empty lawn and watched each other suffer.
Then our road manager, who was Kevin Mann at the time, went to go settle up with the promoter. Each band had its own trailer provided, which was nice, and the promoter had one as well. Kevin goes in there and the guy has like $5000 in cash just sitting there on the table. This is a lot but it's less than what we were owed and not enough to cover the expenses of a band and crew.
This dude has 5 grand, in cash, in a pile on the table in front of him, and next to it was a pistol. The guy said, "Sorry, we can't pay you the rest."
Kevin picked up the cash and said, "Ok," and left.
The gates to the fairground were locked and none of the bands could leave. One of the bands owned their own bus so all these busses lined up in a row, those guys plowed through the fence and then we all raced out.
Yall were like Smokey and the Bandit or something, busting through fences in your buses! Were you humiliated?
No, just scared, really. I was humiliated when Mark from the Normals, Sandra McCracken, and Derek Webb and I did a little acoustic tour in California. We were supposed to play at Point Loma Nazarene University, where the year before Sandra, the Normals, and Caedmon's had played a huge sold-out show.
We got a call that morning that they had accidentally booked us the same night as the junior-senior formal, so no students would be at our show. But we were welcome to go and play at the formal It was at the San Diego Children's Science Center.
They put us in a triangular room across from the buffet. No stage, no lights. Two speakers on stands, with four mics in a row, along the wall.
It's hard to compete with shrimp cocktail.
We had been traveling in a van and, with the exception of Sandra who is somehow always lovely and radiant, were just smelly and gross in t-shirts and jeans. The students got there in tuxes and formal dresses and they had to wait in line for dinner right in front of us. Like a foot away. They were whispering requests to us in between lyrics.
I don't like listening to music in a place where the performers can see me.
I get that.
Especially if I'm in line for my food.
Probably the MOST humiliating was a show right after I got married. Mark and I, again from the Normals, were doing a few acoustic shows right as the band was ending. We played at this church in South Carolina somewhere. We did a couple songs in their morning service. We did the morning service, then there was this huge BBQ picnic lunch. After that the people would stick around and we'd play them our angsty artsy songs from a flatbed trailer under the hot sun during naptime.
Obviously, everyone went home. Except for my brand-new in-laws, whose daughter I had just married two months before. There were probably five hundred empty chairs set up and my wife, her parents, and a sound guy out there.
So these in-laws have reason to doubt that their new son-in-law is going to be able to provide for their daughter.
They were literally the only people.
The essence of these artist humiliation stories, it seems to me, is that you are called upon to put everything out there, and the people for whom you're putting everything out there are under no obligation whatsoever.
Your in-laws, the sound guy—they feel some obligation, but for reasons that give you no reassurance as a performer. And I'm not suggesting that the audience should feel any obligation, necessarily.
No. I wouldn't. You just fed me free BBQ on a sunny Sunday afternoon during football season. Of course I'm going home to crash on my couch.
Now just imagine nobody comes to your show and you're wearing a spacesuit. Cause that's happened.
Yeah, I was just thinking about that Leonard show you did in Cincinnati, when only nine or ten people showed up. When you put on a spacesuit, you're putting a whole lot of yourself out there.
Yup. That was ROUGH.
A lot of my crazy stories involve Nick Flora. Nick promoted a show for me in Arkansas, back when he lived there. I was sleeping on his couch, April 1, 2006, and woke up to a text message of a pregnancy test. This is how I learned we were having Sadie. That night, no one came to the show.
It's the circle of life: a piece of you dies, a baby is born.
These are probably the only two shows I ever played for no one. And they were the first show my in-laws came to, and the day I learned I had to provide for a larger family.
I'd like to point out that while all of these shows happened I was, on paper, successful.
You mean these shows were sandwiched between sold out shows, and while you were selling records?
Sandwiched between shows that went well, yeah. I just mean, there was a system in place, in some sense, and there was some sort of following. These were part of a career.
This is what it looks like WHEN YOU'VE MADE IT.
When nobody shows up, I would think it's hard not to conclude, "I must suck, or people would be here." But obviously there's more to it than that.
Yeah, with record labels and managers and booking agents and the like.
There's so much that's out of your control. That's certainly how the book business runs. The part that's in my control is a pretty small part of the big picture.
YES. So small.
Even though I know all that, the book signings that nobody shows up for, the laughable royalty statements, they all comprise a self-loathing factory. You wonder if the promoter, the booking agent, the PR person feels anything like the self-loathing that the performer feels.
Oh no. I'm one of those guys now. I just say "oh man, that sucks" and do something else with my day.
That's right. You're a label executive now. There are advantages to being The Man. It had never occurred to me that being insulated from the humiliations of performing would be one of them.
All right, I've taken up enough of your time—or have you taken up enough of mine? In any case, do you have any parting words for our readers?
Follow your dreams, kids! One day you'll have your own stories of annoying strangers with your feelings for money!
Haw! Yes! Thanks for your time and your horrifying stories.
Jonathan Rogers is the author of The Terrible Speed of Mercy, one of the finest biographies of Flannery O'Connor we've ever read. His other books include the Wilderking Trilogy–The Bark of the Bog Owl, The Secret of the Swamp King, and The Way of the Wilderking–as well as The World According to Narnia and a biography of Saint Patrick. He has spent most of his adult life in Nashville, Tennessee, where he and his wife Lou Alice are raising a houseful of robustious children.
This is my new favorite feature ever.
P W
Yes, this is going to be fun. Thanks for the laughs.
Jonathan Aman
This exceeded my expectations. Bravo, Jonathan and Andy!
Kristen P.
These are wonderful. Thanks!
Sharon Frazier
I was one of the nine or ten people at the Leonard concert in Cincinnati. They played their hearts out anyway, and it was great!!
This is a great series. I can say from the times when I wear the hat of amateur promoter – yes I punch my time card for the self-loathing factory when a show is less than successful.
Andrew Mackay
This was amazing. Seriously great.
Jennifer Hildebrand
Is it awful how encouraging this piece is? Love this so much! Can't wait for the next installment.
Bethany Brown
Please do this feature all the time.
I am SO glad I read this today…
@pete November 6, 2015 at 2:42 pm
Not awful at all, Jennifer. Encouragement is part of the point of the "Sad Stories Told for Laughs" series. As I've been doing these interviews, one of the surprising things is that these mortifying stories aren't all (or even mostly) from early in people's careers. We all get this idea that if we were just a little more successful than we are–however we define success–we could be free of our insecurities. But it doesn't work that way at all.
The first time I heard "Leonard the Lonely Astronaut," I was so happy for Andy O: he had made something so beautiful and so true to who he was as an artist and a person. He had put this amazing record out into a world that really needed it. Still, when you've put on a spacesuit and stepped onto a stage and only nine people have shown up (thanks, Sharon, for being one of the few and the proud), it can be hard to see the big picture. But, as Sharon has pointed out, Andy and the rest of the band gave it all they had anyway. Sometimes it's the big picture that keeps you going (the world needs the work I do), and sometimes it's the little picture that keeps you going (tonight, my world is these nine people).
I love this! But it needs to be a video feature. You can make that happen, right Jonathan?
No, Stac, I'd have to book better-looking guests if we were to do it as a video.
Sarah Wolfe
This was wonderful. Needed a good dose of laughter this morning!
I have never, ever been a bigger fan. Thanks for making me smile and keeping it real.
Carrie Givens
This is so brilliant. Thank you.
I think someone should at least do a dramatic re-enactment of that first post-high school show. Great visuals.
Nancy Guthrie
I love this, Jonathan. Can't wait for the next installment.
Jenn Convey
Thanks so much – this was fun! I feel kinda bad for Andy that I'm saying that, but it's true!
More, please!
Oh my. It's all so painfully real. Thanks for sharing, it IS encouraging that even while "successful" these humiliating moments are still there. Makes my current humiliations easier to bear, somehow!
Good read, great idea. The "wind knocked out/fireworks" scene is quite cinematic in my imagination. Horrifyingly beautiful.
Keep doing this please!
So good. Thank you for this!
This might be a little serious for this series, but, here goes:
My wife have had similar experiences when performing (though be definitely haven't ever had "a following"). Sometimes, after being humbled by the near complete lack of an audience, we've been humbled a second time by how our little performance can touch someone's life. We've disappointedly played coffeehouses with literally two people listening, only to then have one of the two people come up to us after a song and tell us how much it meant to them. A tiny little coffeeshop performance may so happen to bring two lives together at just the right moment and have a profound impact for Christ.
Ack! Gasp! Ugh! Proofreading mistake! My own tiny public humiliation! Correction follows:
My wife have had similar experiences when performing (though WE definitely haven't ever had "a following"). Sometimes, after being humbled by the near complete lack of an audience, we've been humbled a second time by how our little performance can touch someone's life. We've disappointedly played coffeehouses with literally two people listening, only to then have one of the two people come up to us after a song and tell us how much it meant to them. A tiny little coffeeshop performance may so happen to bring two lives together at just the right moment and have a profound impact for Christ.
John Covil
This was hilarious and encouraging. So it sounds like you're on to something with this concept!
Kimberlee Conway Ireton
Bless you for this delightful interview. It's rainy and awful in Seattle (what else would I expect in November?) and I needed a good laugh. Plus it's frightfully cheering to know that my writing life will continue to suck the twin eggs of insecurity and self-loathing until I become a corporate executive for a major publisher.
I can't get the image of all these Christian musician buses lined up, gunning for it & escaping from the fairgrounds with their measles piles of cash. Bwahahahaha. Thank you. I really needed a laugh today!


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Yes but ... in cryptocurrencies? If you had borrowed 100 bitcoins to finance your working capital needs a year ago, you'd have financed about $79,000 worth of working capital. If you had to pay back 112 bitcoins today, that would come to a bit over $2 million, a dollar interest rate of over 2,400 percent. (If you'd borrowed ether you'd be paying over 12,000 percent.) Unless your working capital was bitcoin, you will not be able to pay back that loan. The lesson here is: Probably don't borrow an asset caught in a massive speculative frenzy to fund your working capital needs.
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Under certain circumstances, a Fund may recognize gain from a constructive sale of an "appreciated financial position" it holds if it enters into a short sale, forward contract or other transaction that substantially reduces the risk of loss with respect to the appreciated position. In that event, the Fund would be treated as if it had sold and immediately repurchased the property and would be taxed on any gain (but would not recognize any loss) from the constructive sale. The character of gain from a constructive sale would depend upon each Fund's holding period in the property. Appropriate adjustments would be made in the amount of any gain or loss subsequently realized on the position to reflect the gain recognized on the constructive sale. Loss from a constructive sale would be recognized when the property was subsequently disposed of, and its character would depend on the Fund's holding period and the application of various loss deferral provisions of the Code. Constructive sale treatment does not generally apply to a transaction if such transaction is closed on or before the end of the 30th day after the close of the Fund's taxable year and the Fund holds the appreciated financial position throughout the 60-day period beginning with the day such transaction closed. The term "appreciated financial position" excludes any position that is "marked-to-market."
Assume there is 0 contracts open and 2 traders, and a new futures contract expiring in 7 days opens. You can "create" a contract by putting a limit sell order in the orderbook at a given price. If someone market buys that limit order, an open contract is created between you and the other trader. This is how you can go from a position of 0 to a negative exposure just by selling a contract.
Let's say Larry owns one bitcoin and the current price is $16,600, be believes the price is overdone to the upside for a short period of time. This is a fictional example, so don't beat me up on the outlook, you can criticize Larry, but he's made up too. Larry has a futures account and sees that he can sell short a January XBT Future at $17,600. He decides to do this and is now short 1 January XBT Future at $17,600.
As an example: if you have Quarterlies contracts that you made profits on over the weekend, then this profit needs to be withheld because of the risk of socialised losses. By Friday, however, this profit is available to be withdrawn and the positions are all rebalanced. Technically this is not a "settlement", because if you are holding an open Quarterlies contract when the weekly settlement occurs, your position will remain open, it will just experience a step-up in cost-basis and the unrealised Pnl is applied, so that socialised losses can be handled.
In general, dividends of net investment income received by corporate shareholders of a Fund may qualify for the 70% dividends-received deduction generally available to corporations to the extent of the amount of eligible dividends received by the Fund from domestic corporations for the taxable year. A dividend received by a Fund will not be treated as a dividend eligible for the dividends-received deduction (1) if it has been received with respect to any share of stock that the Fund has held for less than 46 days (91 days in the case of certain preferred stock) during the 91-day period beginning on the date which is 45 days before the date on which such share becomes ex-dividend with respect to such dividend (during the 181-day period beginning 90 days before such date in the case of certain preferred stock) or (2) to the extent that the Fund is under an obligation (pursuant to a short sale or otherwise) to make related payments with respect to positions in substantially similar or related property. Moreover, the dividends received deduction may otherwise be disallowed or reduced (1) if the corporate shareholder fails to satisfy the foregoing requirements with respect to its shares of the Fund or (2) by application of various provisions of the Code (for instance, the dividends-received deduction is reduced in the case of a dividend received on debt-financed portfolio stock (generally, stock acquired with borrowed funds)). The corporate alternative minimum tax may disallow the dividends received deduction in certain circumstances.
It is also possible that other digital currencies, typically referred to as "alt-coins", and trading systems could become more widely accepted and used than Bitcoin. In particular, the digital asset "ethereum" has acquired a substantial share of the cryptocurrency market in recent months, which may be in part due to perceived institutional backing and/or potentially advantageous features not incorporated into bitcoin. There are other cryptocurrencies gaining momentum as the price of the bitcoin continues to rise and investors see the cheaper cryptocurrencies as attractive alternatives. The continued rise of these alt-coins can lead to a reduction in demand for bitcoin, which could have an adverse effect on the price of bitcoin and may have an adverse impact on the performance of Bitcoin Instruments and the performance of the Funds.
The Fund may invest in stocks of small- and mid- cap companies. The risk of equity investing may be particularly acute for securities of issuers with smaller market capitalizations. Small- and mid-cap company stocks may trade at greater spreads or lower trading volumes, and may be less liquid than the stocks of larger companies. Small- and mid-cap companies may have limited product lines or resources, may be dependent upon a particular market niche and may have greater fluctuations in price than the stocks of larger companies. Further, stocks of small- and mid-sized companies could be more difficult to liquidate during market downturns compared to larger, more widely traded companies. In addition, small- and mid-cap companies may lack the financial and personnel resources to handle economic or industry-wide setbacks and, as a result, such setbacks could have a greater effect on small- and mid- cap security prices.
Commodity Swaps. Commodity swaps are used either as substitutes for owning a specific physical commodities or as a means of obtaining non-leveraged exposure in markets where a specific commodity is not available. Commodity swaps provide the Fund with the additional flexibility of gaining exposure to commodities by using the most cost-effective vehicle available.
Each Fund generally engages in closing or offsetting transactions before final settlement of a futures contract wherein a second identical futures contract is sold to offset a long position (or bought to offset a short position). In such cases, the obligation is to deliver (or take delivery of) cash equal to a specific dollar amount (the contract multiplier) multiplied by the difference between the price of the offsetting transaction and the price at which the original contract was entered into. If the original position entered into is a long position (futures contract purchased), there will be a gain (loss) if the offsetting sell transaction is carried out at a higher (lower) price, inclusive of commissions. If the original position entered into is a short position (futures contract sold) there will be a gain (loss) if the offsetting buy transaction is carried out at a lower (higher) price, inclusive of commissions.
and the FTSE Developed Europe Index (the "Indices") (ii) the figure at which an Index is said to stand at any particular time on any particular day or otherwise, or (iii) the suitability of the Index for the purpose to which it is being put in connection with the ProShares Ultra, Short and UltraShort FTSE China 50 and Ultra and UltraShort FTSE Developed Europe. None of the Licensor Parties have provided or will provide any financial or investment advice or recommendation in relation to the Index to ProShares or its clients. The Index is calculated by FTSE or its agent. None of the Licensor Parties shall be (a) liable (whether in negligence or otherwise) to any person for any error in the Index and (b) under any obligation to advise any person of any error therein.
pursuit of its investment strategies will potentially be limited by the Fund's intention to qualify for such treatment and could adversely affect the Fund's ability to so qualify. The Fund can make certain investments, the treatment of which for these purposes is unclear. If, in any year, the Fund were to fail to qualify for the special tax treatment accorded a RIC and its shareholders, and were ineligible to or were not to cure such failure, the Fund would be taxed in the same manner as an ordinary corporation subject to U.S. federal income tax on all its income at the fund level. The resulting taxes could substantially reduce the Fund's net assets and the amount of income available for distribution. In addition, in order to requalify for taxation as a RIC, the Fund could be required to recognize unrealized gains, pay substantial taxes and interest, and make certain distributions.
Other forms of swap agreements that the Funds may enter into include: interest rate caps, under which, in return for a premium, one party agrees to make payments to the other to the extent that interest rates exceed a specified rate, or "cap"; interest rate floors, under which, in return for a premium, one party agrees to make payments to the other to the extent that interest rates fall below a specified level, or "floor"; and interest rate collars, under which a party sells a cap and purchases a floor or vice versa in an attempt to protect itself against interest rate movements exceeding given minimum or maximum levels.
Transactions in options, futures, forward contracts, swaps and certain positions undertaken by the Funds may result in "straddles" for federal income tax purposes. The straddle rules may affect the character of gains (or losses) realized by a Fund, and losses realized by the Fund on positions that are part of a straddle may be deferred under the straddle rules, rather than being taken into account in calculating taxable income for the taxable year in which the losses are realized. In addition, certain carrying charges (including interest expense) associated with positions in a straddle may be required to be capitalized rather than deducted currently. Certain elections that a Fund may make with respect to its straddle positions may also affect the amount, character and timing of the recognition of gains or losses from the affected positions.

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How to Increase Stamina & Endurance?
Endurance and stamina are quite different from the pure strength. Endurance is defined as the capability to tolerate hardships and exercise for quite a long period of time. While stamina is defined by the level of energy the body requires, the blood circulation of the body and others. Both of them are quite different from the definition of strength.
It helps to make the muscles strong.
The ideal way to achieve all these is by increasing the physical activities daily on a gradual basis. Here is a list of some of the steps, which help to increase stamina and endurance to a superb level.
Cardio exercises improve the efficiency of the cardio vascular system of the body. It improves the pumping capacity of the heart. Carrying out the strength exercises along with these cardio workouts helps to build the stamina and increase the level of endurance in the individuals. Both of them build strong muscles, provide proper amount of oxygen to each and every cells of the body and improves body's overall power significantly.
Humans have the tendency to take a rest period of approximately 90 seconds between the two sets of exercises. This is known as the recovery time. But, if you want to increase your endurance and stamina, it is essential to leave behind the recovery time. Carry out three sets of exercises back to back and then take rest for a very minimum period of time.
Always try to prevent isolation. Instead, try to carry out those movements, which require the involvement of joints more than one. This helps to build up the level of endurance more that that done by exercises in isolation. Though, isolated exercises build up the stamina of your body, compound movements helps to increase the endurance considerably.
This helps to boost up the process of metabolism. But, if endurance training is carried out for extensive hours only, this results in eating away the muscles and the tissues. This slows down the metabolic rate of the individuals. However, when one uses high intensity training and that too at a rapid pace, this helps to increase the endurance level and improve the strength and stamina of the individuals. It is one of the best ways to increase endurance and stamina.
Routine is the major obstacles to building the stamina and endurance. It is always advised to go for changes. Muscles should be moved, joints should be rotated in various different ways. The same procedures should not be repeated over and over again. This overuse of the muscles tends to deteriorate them leading to unnecessary wear and tear. So, frequently change your routine and bring modifications in your daily regimen regularly.
Instead of carrying out one single exercise at a time, if you can combine several exercises together, it is called hybrid exercises. These bring an overall development of various parts of the body. Combining more and more muscles together helps in improving the functionality of the heart, its pumping action and the efficiency of the cardio vascular system. These altogether, build the stamina and endurance of the body.
The explosive movements, which make use of a lot of energy provides challenge to the stamina, level of endurance and strength of the individuals. It is always advised to include these movements in the regular routine workout. These improve in maintaining a good metabolic rate of the body and remain fit and healthy.
So, if you are in quest of improving your efficiency and build stamina, follow the above procedures. These ensure a healthy and fit life.
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Judith of Bavaria, Duchess of Swabia (19 May 1100 – 27 Aug 1130) was a duchess of Swabia by marriage to Frederick II, Duke of Swabia. She was the mother of Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, known to history as "Barbarossa".

Life
Judith was born 19 May 1100, the eldest daughter of Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria and Wulfhilde of Saxony, daughter of Magnus, Duke of Saxony and Sophia of Hungary, and thereby a member of the powerful German House of Welf. She had three brothers, Henry, Conrad and Welf; and three sisters, Sophia, Matilda and Wulfhild. The Historia Welforum names in order Iuditham, Mahtildem, Sophium and Wulfildem as the four daughters of Henricus dux ex Wulfilde. This is evidence that Judith was the eldest daughter. She had, in addition to her seven legitimate siblings, one half-brother, Adalbert, born of her father's relationship with an unnamed mistress.

Duchess of Swabia
On an unknown date between 1119 and 1121, she married as his first wife, Frederick II, Duke of Swabia (1090 – 6 April 1147); this dynastic marriage united the House of Welf and the House of Hohenstaufen, the two most powerful and influential families in Germany. The Historia Welforum specified that Judith married Friderico Suevorum duci, but did not mention the date.

In 1125, her father initially supported the candidacy of her husband to succeed Emperor Henry V as King of Germany; however, he eventually switched his support to Lothar III, Holy Roman Emperor. The defection of Judith's father created an enmity between the Welfs and the Swabians that would have far-reaching consequences in Germany which would last throughout the 12th century. It is not known how this affected relations between Judith and her husband. It is curious to note that no further children were born to the couple after the birth of their daughter Bertha in 1123.

She died on 27 August 1130 and was buried at Waldburg in Heiligen Forst, Alsace. Shortly after Judith's death Frederick married, as his second wife, Agnes of Saarbrücken.

Issue
She had two children:
 Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor (1122 – 10 June 1190), married on 9 June 1156 Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy, by whom he had 12 children.
 Bertha (also called Judith) of Swabia (1123 – 18 October 1194/25 March 1195), married in 1138 Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine, by whom she had seven children.

Ancestry

References

 Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Bavaria, Dukes

1100 births
1131 deaths
Women of medieval Bavaria
House of Welf
Duchesses of Swabia
Bavarian princesses
12th-century German nobility
12th-century German women
Daughters of monarchs

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Готель «Велика Британія» — одна з найстаріших  будівель в Донецьку. Будівлю готелю було побудовано в 1883 році. Спочатку воно було двоповерховим, але в 1891 році надбудували третій поверх, після чого готель став одним з найвищих будівель у місті. Також довгий час будівля була єдиним готелем в місті.

Історія будівлі

Готелем «Велика Британія» володів Соболєв. До готелю примикав кінотеатр із залом на 350 чоловік — «ілюзіон Соболєва» .

У готелі зупинялися письменники  Олександр Купрін (приїздив до Юзівки як кореспондент київських газет),  Олександр Серафимович (від газети «Приазовський край»),  Костянтин Паустовський (який приїхав на Юзівський завод як приймальник снарядів),  Володимир Маяковський та інженери І. П. Бардін, М. А. Павлов.

У « Повісті про життя» Паустовського увійшла однойменна голова з описом готелю. Паустовський описував готель так:

Під час німецької окупації Донецька в роки  Другої Світової Війни в готелі був бордель для німецьких офіцерів .

На сьогоднішній день «Велика Британія» — найстаріша будівля в місті. І вона, виконує ті функції, для яких була призначена — в будівлі знаходиться 2 зірковий готель з такою ж назвою, що й раніше.

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Посилання

 Старий будинок мій давно зсутулився ...
 Будівля готелю «Велика Британія»
 Костянтин Паустовський Книга про життя. Неспокійна юність. Готель «Велика Британія»
 «Велика Британія»

Готелі Донецька
Споруди, збудовані 1883
Двозіркові готелі України
Ворошиловський район (Донецьк)
Споруди Донецька
Засновані в Україні 1883


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Q: Finding a changing sub-string within a string in Python I looking for a way to extract two substrings from a string in Python.
My string can be one of the following 4 examples:
"CRISTART 101 STATUS MODE joint POSJOINTCURRENT 3.19 3.01"
"CRISTART 101 STATUS MODE joint POSJOINTCURRENT -2.03 3.04"
"CRISTART 101 STATUS MODE joint POSJOINTCURRENT 3.06 -8.57"
"CRISTART 101 STATUS MODE joint POSJOINTCURRENT -5.26 -4.25"

For information (and this is important) those strings are actually not as simple as the simplified example provided above (for clarity), in reality one string is more like this:
"CRISTART 111 STATUS MODE joint POSJOINTSETPOINT 3.19 3.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 POSJOINTCURRENT 3.19 3.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 POSCARTROBOT 3.2 3.0 0.0 0.00 -0.00 0.00 POSCARTPLATTFORM 0.0 0.0 0.0 OVERRIDE 15.0 DIN 0 DOUT 0 ESTOP 3 SUPPLY 0 CURRENTALL 0 CURRENTJOINTS 4116 4116 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ERROR _MNE_LAG 20 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 KINSTATE 0 CRIEND\n"

I am interested in extracting the two values right after "POSJOINTCURRENT", which are "3.19" and "3.01" in the first string example provided above, "-2.03" and "3.04" in the second one, "3.06" and "8.57" in the third string, and "-5.26" and "-4.25" in the last string (note the possibility of negative values preceded by a "-" sign, which is the reason of my current struggle achieving what I want).
To extract these numbers from such string, I am currently using this code:
XStart = myString.find("POSJOINTCURRENT") + 16
XEnd = myString.find("POSJOINTCURRENT") + 20
Xcoord = mystring[XStart:XEnd]

YStart = myString.find("POSJOINTCURRENT") + 21
YEnd = myString.find("POSJOINTCURRENT") + 25
Ycoord = mystring[YStart:YEnd]

However, because of the "-" sign that can occur, my code isn't working as I wish to correctly extract those numbers when they are negative (because I wish the potential "-" sign, as well as the 3 digits (and the "." in between them) to all be extracted.
Any ideas on how to achieve this are welcome. Thank you in advance for your help

A: Use slice method to get last two digits, like this:
data = "CRISTART 101 STATUS MODE joint POSJOINTCURRENT 3.19 3.01"
result = data.split()[-2:] #Last two values
print(result)

Output:
['3.19', '3.01']

Or use regex based method to extract all of points from multiline strings like this:
data = '''
"CRISTART 101 STATUS MODE joint POSJOINTCURRENT 3.19 3.01"
"CRISTART 101 STATUS MODE joint POSJOINTCURRENT -2.03 3.04"
"CRISTART 101 STATUS MODE joint POSJOINTCURRENT 3.06 -8.57"
"CRISTART 101 STATUS MODE joint POSJOINTCURRENT -5.26 -4.25"
'''

import re
result = re.findall(r"(?<=POSJOINTCURRENT )(-?\d+.\d+)\s+(-?\d+.\d+)", data)
print(result)

Output:
[('3.19', '3.01'), ('-2.03', '3.04'), ('3.06', '-8.57'), ('-5.26', '-4.25')]

Result is a list of tuple (tuple of two coordinates)

A: You can use regex: (-?[\d.]+) will match only numbers with optional "-". Then get only last 2 numbers.
Example:
import re
string = "CRISTART 101 STATUS MODE joint POSJOINTCURRENT -5.26 -4.25"
print(re.findall('(-?[\d.]+)', string)[-2:])

Output:
['5.26', '-4.25']

A: In a more basic form
string_1 = "CRISTART 101 STATUS MODE joint POSJOINTCURRENT 3.19 3.01"
string_2 = "CRISTART 101 STATUS MODE joint POSJOINTCURRENT -2.03 3.04"
string_3 = "CRISTART 101 STATUS MODE joint POSJOINTCURRENT 3.06 -8.57"
string_4 = "CRISTART 101 STATUS MODE joint POSJOINTCURRENT -5.26 -4.25"

strings = [string_1, string_2, string_3, string_4]
coords = []
for s in strings:
     splits = s.split(' ')
     x, y = splits[-2:]
     coords.append((x, y))

print(coords)

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By Jim Hodges
Jennie Simms was succinct in assessing her first half Friday night. Also candid.
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She did quickly, driving to the basket to make her first two third-quarter shots and feeding Destinee Young for more in Old Dominion's 65-54 win over Norfolk State (1-2) in the Lady Monarchs' season opener.
Simms scored 15 of her 19 points in the second half and added a game-high 14 rebounds, which tied a personal best. Young led all scorers with 20 points, including 12 in a second half in which she made six of her nine shots after going 3 for 9 in the first 20 minutes.
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The Spartans finished the first half on a 10-2 run to close a nine-point deficit to 26-25. They took momentum into intermission, and coach Larry Vickers told them the best way to keep it.
"(ODU) coach (Karen) Barefoot probably gave them the same speech that I gave us," Vickers said. "Punch 'em in the face first. We wanted them to be looking at us with wide eyes. We wanted to create that coming out of halftime."
Instead, Simms drove to the basket for two quick scores, fed Young for one, then added two free throws when fouled on a drive. After a first half in which she threw up shots from the vicinity of Hampton Boulevard, Simms gained control of her game.
And Old Dominion gained control with a 16-0 third-quarter run before Norfolk State's Jordan Strode made a line-drive 3-pointer. Simms and Young scored 14 of the 16 points.
"They had the ball first and they punched us first," Vickers added. "Simms was able to get through some gaps we were hoping to close and made some tough layups."
Actually, Barefoot said she was not talking about punching anybody in the face. More to the point, it was a case of looking in the mirror.
"I just said 'let the faces go,' " she said of ODU looks of frustration. "Body language, getting frustrated on missed shots. … We were playing individual basketball, and we need to get back to playing team basketball."
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ODU did that in the second half with
Simms going to the basket and Young getting passes from her in positions to make good shots. The Monarchs' second-half defense also held Norfolk State to 1-for-14 shooting over the first eight minutes of the third quarter.
"We played harder," Barefoot said of the defense . "We got too much down on ourselves, and we stopped moving our feet as much. "
Vickers hoped for a better result in the first meeting of the schools since 2008. Norfolk State was coming off a 99-59 win over St. Augustine on Tuesday.
"We're continuing to get better," he insisted. "Even though there are only six new players, we have three new starters. … I'm excited about where we're going in the future – and by future, I mean this year."
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Nick Schulman Chip Leader of EPT Monte Carlo After Day 2
Day 2 of the EPT Monte Carlo main event has now drawn to a close, with Nick Schulman finishing the day as the tournament chip leader.
The event, which ended up with a total of 848 entrants, has a total prize pool of nearly 8.5 million EUR (or about $11.2 million USD). The eventual winner of the EPT Monte Carlo will take home 1.7 million EUR, while the runner-up will receive an even one million EUR.
The money bubble burst shortly before the end of Day 2. There are currently 116 players left in the event, with the top 128 spots paying, meaning that all of the remaining players in the tournament are guaranteed at least 15,000 EUR for making it this far.
Here are the top five chip stacks heading into Day 3:
Nick Schulman - 742,000
David Sesso - 642,500
Jean Francois Talbot - 635,000
Matt Perrins - 568,000
Sami "LarsLuzak" Kelopuro - 552,000
Some of the notable names who are still alive in the event include:
Chris Moneymaker - 457,000
Victoria Cohen - 236,500
Lex Veldhuis - 194,000
Owen Crowe - 145,000
Alex Gomes - 141,500
Mel Judah - 112,500
Kevin MacPhee - 76,000
Wednesday should be another long day of play, as the remaining 116 entrants play down to the final 24 players. Day 3 will get under way at 12:00 local time on Wednesday afternoon.
It's pretty early to start talking about such things, but Nick Schulman would have an EPT title, WPT title and World Series of Poker bracelet to his name if he were to take down this event.
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Viktor Zoller, né le  à Ravensbourg et mort le  à Landsberg, était un soldat SS au camp d'Auschwitz, et adjudant du commandant, SS-Obersturmbannführer.

Biographie

En , il devient membre du NSDAP (membre   et de la SS (membre  ). En 1941, il devient Hauptsturmführer dans la Waffen-SS. Du  au , il est adjoint du commandant du camp Franz Ziereis au camp de concentration de Mauthausen. Il est impliqué dans le transport de prisonnier au centre de Schloss Hartheim.

D' à , il est membre de la Waffen-SS sur le front de l'Est. Du  au , il est adjoint du commandant de camp Arthur Liebehenschel dans le camp principal d'Auschwitz. Selon des témoins, il a été à plusieurs reprises présent lors de sélections à la rampe. Il est nommé commandant d'un sous-camp du camp de concentration de Mauthausen à partir de fin  jusqu'au .

Après la guerre, il est mis en examen devant un tribunal militaire américain dans le cadre des procès de Dachau lors du procès du camp de Mauthausen et est condamné le , à mort par pendaison. La sentence est exécutée le  dans la prison de Landsberg.

Bibliographie

 Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich – Wer war was vor und nach 1945, Frankfurt am Main, 2. Auflage: Juni 2007, S. 698.
 Florian Freund: Der Dachauer Mauthausenprozess, in: Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes. Jahrbuch 2001, Wien 2001, S. 35–66

Notes et références

Personnel du camp de concentration d'Auschwitz
Membre de la Waffen-SS
Naissance en juin 1912
Naissance à Ravensbourg
Naissance dans le royaume de Wurtemberg
Décès en mai 1947
Décès à Landsberg am Lech
Décès à 34 ans
Condamné à mort exécuté par pendaison


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Police seeking gold, four-door sedan believed to be linked to Thelma Krull disappearance
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Updated: July 11, 2019 5:06 PM MDT
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Thelma Krull was reported missing on July 11, 2015. Handout photo
On the day that marks the four-year anniversary since her disappearance, Winnipeg police are once again asking the public's help in finding her killer.
Police say a tip from the community has led them to a description of a vehicle they are now honing in on.
Const. Jay Murray told reporters at police headquarters on Thursday they are seeking a person in a gold-coloured, four-door sedan — an import in good condition and one that may have been a Toyota, Honda or Hyundai — that could unlock valuable information in Krull's homicide.
"This person, who was in a position to observe Thelma, may not yet realize that they saw or heard something of value and for that reason, we want to speak with them," Murray said. "We certainly feel that this vehicle may have been related to that area, or may have been in that area, but we need to keep an open mind."
Details on the person are vague, with police unsure if the person lived in the area around Civic Park, where Krull was last seen on the morning of July 11, 2015, or if they lived in Winnipeg at all.
Krull had been missing since she vanished after departing for a walk that morning in the Valley Gardens neighbourhood.
She was headed to an area known as Civic Park near Kildonan-East Collegiate and police say they believe she arrived there around 8 a.m. that morning.
Where she went from there is what has puzzled investigators ever since.
Police have recovered several items of Krull's, including her glasses and cellphone. Police said Krull was wearing a reddish-orange t-shirt, three-quarter length black Capri style pants, a black fanny pack and tan/brown hiking style boots/shoes.
Last October, RCMP recovered the remains of Krull after a hunter stumbled upon a skull in a wooded area near Municipal Road No. 52 and Chemin Perrin Road, east of Highway 12 and north of Highway 1.
"We are not done," Winnipeg police Sgt. Wes Rommel said at the time. "We still need the public's assistance. With the recovery of Thelma, we now have a second location we believe will be a critical piece in connecting the suspect to the investigation."
Police, meanwhile, don't believe the man in a composite sketch they released in 2017 is related to the vehicle and urged the public not to zero in the on the sketch but rather the vehicle information released Thursday.
Homicide investigators are looking for a person of interest in the slaying of Thelma Krull. A sketch of a man was released in 2017 with this description: Indigenous male in his 40s, 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-8 with a heavy build, weighing about 270 pounds with a large stomach and a chubby face, dark hair with a bowl-style cut going straight across the forehead, or possibly wearing a dark coloured skull-cap or beanie on his head.
Murray said Thursday that the Krull's case continues to be an active investigation, with officers working around the clock to close a case that's largely gone cold.
"We will leave no stone unturned," he said.
Police say they are receiving valuable tips.
"The answer is still out there and we're confident that somebody in the community can come forward and provide us with information to help us close this investigation," Murray said.
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