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Month: May 2019 (Page 1 of 4)
The Eyes Have It, And Other Stuff
May 31, 2019 / Rudy Panucci / 0 Comments
After our long post about professional wrestling, which went live in the wee hours of this morning, your PopCulteer is pretty much exhausted. Add to that the fact that he has to write this ahead of time because Friday is the day of his annual dilated eye exam, and you'll just have to pardon me if today's column is just a tad skimpy.
The Teal Ribbon
June is Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month, and that means I trot out the teal ribbon and talk about my illness again. It starts tomorrow, folks.
Three years ago I was diagnosed with MG, and you can read all about it by going to the search window at the right of this text, and entering "Myasthenia Gravis." In short, it's an auto-immune disorder that makes my muscles unresponsive to the nerves signals which are meant to trigger them.
I am still doing very well managing my disease, and am very lucky to have an extremely mild case. Sometimes my fingers get weak, and sometimes my eyes get weak (and I get double vision). I had adjusted to having paralyzed hands and crossed eyes, so the real challenge has been adjusting to the meds to give me back the use of my fingers and lessen the double vision.
In fact, it was eighteen months of one of those medicines (Prednisone) that caused me to experience rapidly-growing cataracts, which is one big reason I have my eye exam today. Two years ago I had cataract surgery and toric implants, so my vision is better than it ever has been in my life.
It's just that my eyes don't point in the same direction all the time.
I have other fun things happen. Some of the meds aggravate my dyslexia, which is my excuse for all the typos you might find here in PopCult. They also make me require sleep, so it's much harder to get out and shoot video of local bands, or even attend late-night shows. I miss that, but having good health makes it a decent trade-off.
Aside from that, I'm doing great. Please make yourself aware of Myasthenia Gravis, and if you know somebody who does have MG, please treat them with kindness and respect.
Update on My Autopsy
I wrote about the local movie, My Autopsy, a couple of weeks ago. With just over ten days left, their Kickstarter campaign to help finish production on the film is still in need of contributions. Check out my original article HERE, and follow the widget below to find out more…
Today on The AIR
Check out what's on The AIR, as Friday sees new episodes of Radio Free Charleston International and Sydney's Big Electric Cat. You can listen at the website, or on this embedded radio player…
Friday mornings now kick off with a 7 AM replay of the week's new episode of Prognosis, followed by Word Association with Lee & Rudy at 9 AM and The BS Crazy Show at 9:30. This one-hour combo of Word Association and The BS Crazy Show will repeat at 9 PM, for those of you who don't want to listen to these NSFW programs at work.
At 10 AM The AIR will broadcast The Best of The Real with Mark Wolfe. At 11 AM we'll bring you a replay of this week's Beatles Blast, followed by an hour of The AIR Music Mix.
Then at 1 PM we will debut the week's new edition of Radio Free Charleston International. This week it's a mixtape presentation of what your PopCulteer has been listening to for the last few weeks. You think I'm kidding? Check out this playlist…
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Jon Anderson "Ramalama"
Adrian Belew "Take Five Deep Breaths"
Harry Nilsson "Coconut"
Chess At Breakfast "The Senate Needs A Nightcap"
Dizzy Mystics "Jaunter"
David Byrne "Lazy"
Norah Jones "It Was You"
Eveline's Dust "Rain Over Gentle Travellers"
Ringo Starr "Without Understanding"
Manfred Mann's Earth Band "Blinded By The Light"
Camel "Lady Fantasy"
John Wetton "Be Careful What You Wish For"
The Wrong Object "Mr. Green Genes/King Kong"
Claypool Lennon Delirium "Blood and Rockets"
Greenslade "Sundance"
The Beat "Dangerous"
Gryphon "Haddock's Eyes"
Fantasy "Widow"
Radio Free Charleston International is the show where I play whatever I want, and you can hear RFC International Friday at 1 PM, with replays Friday at 10 PM, Saturday afternoon, Sundat at 1 AM and 2 PM and Tuesday at 11 PM, exclusively on The AIR.
At 3 PM Sydney's Big Electric Cat presents a special salute to Duran Duran, with two solid hours of early music by the band, dating back to their New Wave Music roots. It's two full hours of some of the biggest hits of the MTV era. Just check the playlist:
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Duran Duran Special
"The Relfex"
"Is There Something I Should Know"
"Lonely In Your Nightmare"
"New Moon On Monday"
"Careless Memories"
"My Own Way"
"Cracks In The Pavement"
"Friends Of Mine"
"The Edge Of America"
"Hungry Like The Wolf"
"Night Boat"
"Union Of The Snake"
"New Religion"
"Last Chance On The Stairway"
"Vertigo (Do The Demolition)"
"Hold Back The Rain"
"Of Crime And Passion"
"Anyone Out There"
"Skin Trade"
"Shadows On Your Side"
"Save A Prayer"
Sydney's Big Electric Cat is produced at Haversham Recording Institute in London, and can be heard every Friday at 3 PM, with replays Saturday afternoon, Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM and Thursday at Noon, exclusively on The AIR. Every Monday at 3 PM, we bring you four classic episodes of Sydney's Big Electric Cat, just so you can be all New Wave-y when you get home from work.
That is it for this week's PopCulteer. Please check PopCult for all our regular features this weekend, as your humble correspondent spends a day or three in a dark room waiting for his irises to start working again.
The Changing Face Of Professional Wrestling
Last weekend there was a seismic shift on the professional wrestling landscape. Double or Nothing was the debut pay per view from All Elite Wrestling, a new company formed by a group of maverick wrestlers and financed by the billionaire Khan family, who also own the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars and London's Fulham Football Club.
For the first time since WWE purchased WCW, back in 2001, Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Entertainment has real competition. This can only be good for fans of professional wrestling.
McMahon has a reputation as a mad genius, who took a dying, regionalized industry and turned it into a huge pop culture phenomenon, making billions of dollars in the process. Starting the in 1980s McMahon systematically bought out all the smaller regional wrestling federations and took his company, which had been based in the Northeast, national. Along the way he created Wrestlemania and a large roster of colorful wrestlers who became household names, something which hadn't happened since the early days of television in the 1950s and early 1960s.
His success drew the attention of another mad genius, Ted Turner, who decided to buy one of McMahon's last surviving competitors, Jim Crockett Promotions, and rename it "World Championship Wrestling," after his long-running wrestling program on his Superstation, WTBS. McMahon launched Monday Night RAW in January, 1993 on the USA Network, bringing wrestling back to prime time for the first time in a long time, and within a couple of years, Turner, who had been hiring away McMahon's top stars with insanely lucrative contracts, decided to go head-to-head with RAW by programming WCW Nitro in the same timeslot on TNT.
Books have been written about the ensuing "Monday Night Wars," and more will be written in the future, but the gist is this: Nitro eventually surpassed RAW in the ratings, beating them for 83 consecutive weeks, before the tide turned and RAW became the dominant show behind new stars like Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, HHH, The Undertaker and the whole "Attitude Era." It's looked on as the golden age of RAW by many fans, and was reportedly the most successful period of the company in terms of ticket sales and merchandise. Truth be told, the battle between what was then the WWF and WCW got more people interested in wrestling than ever before.
At the end of the battle, WCW was undone by inept management, with its demise hastened by the merger of Ted Turner's Turner Communications with Time Warner. As Turner's power diminished in the new, larger corporation, the pride factor that drove Turner to take on McMahon became a non-issue. When Time Warner merged with AOL, bean counters started counting all the beans, and discovered that WCW was hemmoraging money due to those insanely lucrative contracts I mentioned earlier. Wrestlers were being paid tens of millions of dollars to sit at home, while Nitro was sinking in the ratings because none of their storylines made any sense, and the company was now being run by people who didn't understand the basics of professional wrestling.
Vince McMahon (right) won the Monday Night War, not because he was a mad genius, but because the other mad genius got tired, sold his business, and quit. WCW had unwittingly done McMahon the biggest favor in the world by hiring away his aging talents, and making the rest of their acquired roster look horrible with lousy booking. McMahon was forced to build up new stars and lucked into a run of really compelling storylines that attracted more fans than ever.
On May 10, 1999, RAW achieved it's highest-rating ever, as it drew close to ten milion viewers over the course of the show.
In 2001, Time Warner decided to cut their losses (which were over a hundred million dollars a year by that point) and cancelled the WCW programming on the Turner networks, and also sold WCW and it's tape library, some wrestlers contracts and intellectual property to Vince McMahon.
Almost immediately, the quality of WWE (then WWF, I'll get to that later) programming began to decline. Many of the talents in the ring and behind the scenes who contributed to WCW's downfall were brought in to work at WWE. Storylines stagnated, stopped making sense, and in far to many cases were simply dropped with no resolution. Vince McMahon was busy taking a victory lap, and the WWE shows fell into a formula, one that was providing diminishing returns.
It is to McMahon's credit that, during an eighteen-year period when ratings for his flagship show have posted year-to-year declines every single year, he managed to take his company public, make billions of dollars, and expand it even further with its own streaming service. The man and his family are wealthier than ever. This is the "genius" part of the "mad genius" on display.
For the "mad" part of that, we have plenty of evidence too. For instance, a completely unnecessary legal battle with the World Wildlife Fund ended badly as McMahon was forced to rebrand the "World Wrestling Federation" as "World Wrestling Entertainment," when he refused to share the initials and lost a court battle over them. Further evidence of McMahon's madness can be seen every week on RAW and Smackdown! Live, as the shows no longer make any sense.
WWE currently has the largest and most talented roster of wrestlers ever assembled in history, and they can't get people to keep watching their flagships shows because the storylines are stupid and nonsensical. A recent example is the lead-up to their Money In The Bank Pay Per View. This event happens every year. Six to eight talented wrestlers compete in a brutal ladder match for a chance to capture a briefcase that holds a contract which can be cashed in at any time in the following year for a shot at the main championship title.
Like I said, this show happens every year. They know this and have plenty of time to develop stories for the wrestlers involved. However this year they didn't even bother to hold any qualifying matches, which are a popular feature of the shows leading up to the match. They just named random wrestlers. Then in the weeks after naming them, they had two wrestlers face challenges for their spot. There was no logic to this. Making matters worse, at the actual match, one competitor was incapacitated beforehand, while the other seven wrestlers worked their asses off, and just as Ali, a young crowd favorite, was about to get the briefcase, Brock Lesnar, a crossover WWE/UFC star of some magnitude, runs in, knocks Ali off the ladder, and seizes the Money In The Bank contract.
He did that even though he wasn't in the match. Also, fans have been sick of Lesnar for two or three years, at least, and wish he would go away.
You can only do that Lucy Van Pelt booking thing so many times before people just lose interest and quit watching. And that's what has been happening. WWE is losing audience to videogames, Netflix, news programming, and ironically to their own WWE Network, a streaming service that gives viewers access to thousands of hours of classic wrestling programs, including the episodes of RAW and Nitro that, combined, originally drew five times as many viewers as RAW does now. I know people who, every Monday night, sit down with the WWE Network and watch the episode of RAW that aired twenty years earlier, instead of watching the new, live show.
It's not just fans who are frustrated with WWE's booking. The talent is getting fed up, and with AEW now in place, complete with a weekly TV show on TNT beginning this fall, WWE is not in a good place. When faced with competition from WCW, McMahon lost his top wrestlers like Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash and Lex Luger. This time he's not losing wrestlers who have already peaked. He losing guys who could sell out arenas for years to come.
Dean Ambrose (who is now using the name "Jon Moxley," which was the name he used when he wrestled locally for IWA East Coast), turned down a contract extension worth millions so that he could go elsewhere. His character had been so badly written for the past several years that he'd already decided not to renew his contract last July. As Deam Ambrose, Moxley was one of the top stars in WWE. A member of The Shield Faction, along with Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins (seen right), he was a top merchandise-seller for the company and was so popular with fans that they didn't respond when WWE tried to turn him into a bad guy. He was extremely unhappy, to the point of feeling sick and depressed when it was time to go to do the television shows.
He's detailed all this in an interview with former WWE Superstar and current AEW top dog, Chris Jericho on Jericho's podcast (which you can listen to below this paragraph). Moxley gives several examples of how he had to fight to not do or say stupid things on the air, and how he usually lost those battles. It became so bad that he had to walk away, despite the fact that his wife, Renee Young, is one of the lead announcers on RAW.
Moxley's story is typical of the frustration many WWE Superstars are facing, as they have to fight harder backstage to get to do good material, and usually wind up tapping out to Vince and getting stuck with drivel. Now when their contracts are up they can walk out the door, and then you get this…
There is a problem at the top in WWE. Vince McMahon, at the age of 73, remains convinced that he knows what his audience wants better than they do. The fact that RAW has lost more than six million viewers over the last 18 years should be enough to convince him that he might not be the arbitor of taste that he thinks he is, but he just looks at the billions of dollars that he's made over that time and convinces himself that it's all because he's smart, and not lucky. It's easy to make money when you own a monopoly.
WWE has people who can produce compelling, high-quality professional wrestling TV shows. The weekly hour of NXT, which is WWE's "third brand," is the most-watched show on WWE Network. 205 Live, which was unwatchably bad while McMahon was running the show, has been thriving under the creative direction of HHH (who also handles NXT), and is more entertaining that RAW or Smackdown now.
HHH (real name, Paul Levesque, seen right) is married to McMahon's daughter, Stephanie, and still wrestles on occasion, even though he's pushing 50. He was the top heel of the Attitude era, knows and respects the business, and most importantly, knows when something looks idiotic on TV. It's past the time to hand him the reigns of RAW and Smackdown and let Vince concentrate on his revival of the XFL.
It's not that McMahon is elderly or demented that makes it time for him to step aside. He's simply a spent creative force who's surrounded himself with far too many writers who try to stay on his good side rather than pitch sound ideas. If your job is to make the one billionaire who signs your checks happy, instead of making the most viewers happy, you're not going to produce quality work. That gets even worse if that billionaire is somebody who reportedly spends a good chunk of his day laughing at his own farts.
There is no reason why, with the talent they have assembled, WWE cannot produce the best wrestling shows in the world week-in-week-out.
Writing a weekly wrestling show is not unlike writing a daily soap opera (another fading art form). I watched Guiding Light on CBS for close to thirty years. I saw the ups and downs as the producers changed writing teams and the show hit new highs and creative low points. Many times the actors had a better grasp of their characters than the latest team of writers did. Sometimes they'd get so upset at the quality of the writing that they'd quit, rather than do material that didn't ring true.
Right now WWE is at a creative low point. The writers don't understand the characters that they're writing. They're cranking out five hours of television on a weekly basis with no off season and no reruns. 52 weeks a year they have to produce these TV shows. Many of the wrestlers are unhappy, and now with AEW, they have someplace to go where they have a chance to make just as much money doing what they love and still be on national television each week.
For me, as a fan who just started watching a bit more than twenty years ago, it's an interesting time. I still watch RAW and Smackdown each week. However, I find that the big attraction for me is that, at some point during the shows, I will be lulled into a deep, relaxing sleep. I'll usually dose off during the first hour, and wake up refreshed about sixty minutes later. Then I'll go online to read a recap and discover that I slept through something really, really dumb.
When I first started watching wrestling it was primarily so I'd know who the wrestlers were because I was writing a monthly action figure column for Toy Trader Magazine. I tuned in to Nitro one week and found it to be really bad, but the next week I watched RAW, and got hooked. The first episode I watched was when Mankind won the WWF Championship. I got so hooked that I started reading the "dirt sheets," which at the time were mainly two weekly newsletters, one published by Dave Meltzer and one by Wade Keller. I also went to the occasional live event, but found that I prefer watching WWE on TV, and watching local shows like IWA East Coast or ASW in person.
I have to say, watching WWE crash and burn is fascinating. I'm reading the websites for the dirt sheets again for the first time in more than ten years. What's happening backstage at WWE these days is so much more compelling than what they put on TV. Due to new television deals that start this fall, WWE is going to make more money over the next five years than they ever have before, but if they don't make a major change they won't be able to keep their gigantic TV deals in place when it comes time to renew those deals. While it's cool to read about the behind-the-scenes mess, I'd rather have cool shows to watch that keep me awake.
It may take the success of AEW to make WWE change their creative process.Sort of like the rivalry with WCW propelled MCMahon to new heights back in the 1990s
AEW is basically the Khan family's money bankrolling a group of former-WWE stars who teamed up with hot independent wrestlers. Last year, Cody Runnels (left), formerly known as "Cody Rhodes" in WWE, and the son of the legendary Dusty Rhodes, and brother of Goldust, teamed up with The Young Bucks, a tag team that was huge in Japan, and highly-sought-after by WWE, and produced an independent show in Chicago called "All In."
They sold out a 12,000-seat arena in record time and snagged a PPV deal. The success of that show proved that there were fans who were hungry for an alternative to WWE.
Tony Khan (right) is a longtime wrestling fan from a very weatlhy family, and teamed up with this crew to form the nucleus of All Elite Wrestling. Former WWE Superstar Chris Jericho was brought on board to lend the company instant credibility, and they hired longtime WWE announcer, Jim Ross, as a creative consultant and lead voice for their broadcasts.
Jim Ross was criminally underused in WWE in recent years, having been bumped off the main broadcasts and given a "Legends" contract. He's not the only very experienced backstage hire that AEW has scored at the expense of WWE. From agents like Billy Gunn and Dean Malenko to referee Earl Hebner, AEW is stacking the deck with people who know exactly what it takes to produced weekly wrestling shows on television.
Add to that AEW's stated goal of making their show more sports-like, where wins and losses matter, and not wasting time on stupid backstage skits, and AEW stands a good chance of recapturing some of the millions of viewers that McMahon has driven off over the last eighteen years of his "We beat WCW!" victory lap.
Best of all, with there being no chance of WWE being driven completely out of business any time soon, they'll be forced to react and improve their shows to retain a significant portion of their market share. They have had a virtual monopoly on Professional Wrestling for nearly two decades now, and finally having serious competition might finally force them to do their best, instead of just running on automatic.
It could turn out to be a "win-win" for fans of professional wrestling.
New Prognosis On The AIR Thursday!
Herman Linte returns with a new episode of our Progressive Rock showcase, Prognosis Thursday at 3 PM on The AIR. You can listen at the website, or on this embedded radio player…
Our Thursday morning line up sees this week's Psychedelic Shack replayed at 9 AM, followed by a replay of the previous week's edition of Sydney's Big Electric Cat at 10 AM and Radio Free Charleston International at Noon. Then at 2 PM we replay this week's new Radio Free Charleston, before kicking into a brand-new Prognosis at 3 PM.
This week Herman Linte presents two hours of great progressive rock on Prognosis at 3 PM, with a new show featuring a small number of very long songs from the likes of Gong, Big Big Train, David Gilmour, Alan Parsons Project, Jon Anderson and more. Then at 5 PM, starting this week, we follow that with a classic episode of Prognosis, giving you four solid hours of challenging and progressive music.
This week's sports this lovely playlist:
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Big Big Train "Ariel"
Gong "Forever Reoccuring"
Regal Worm "The Dreaded Lurg"
The Skys "Dead End"
Alan Parsons Project "Soiree Fantastique"
Jordan Rudess "Wired For Madness Part 1"
Inventions "Logica"
Dvid Gilmour "The Great Gig In The Sky (Live)"
World Trade "Wheels of Life"
Jon Anderson "1,000 Hands (Come Up)"
Prognosis can be heard every Thursday at 3 PM, with replays Friday at 7 AM, Saturday at 8 AM, Tuesday at 8 PM and Wednesday at 10 PM, exclusively on The AIR. Also tune in Monday at 11 PM for a weekly eight-hour marathon of the best of Prognosis.
Our Thursday evenings continues to let our listeners play catch-up with the week's new episodes of The Swing Shift, Curtain Call, Beatles Blast and Psychedelic Shack, beginning at 7 PM. At 11 PM we bring you an hour of comedy, then we kick into the all-night marathon of The Swing Shift.
New Beatles Blast and Curtain Call On The AIR Wednesday
Wednesday afternoon on The AIR, you can tune in to new episodes of Beatles Blast and Curtain Call. You can listen at the website, or on this embedded radio player…
At 2 PM on Beatles Blast, yours truly hosts the first of a ten-part look at rare and unreleased music by The Beatles. For most of the summer, Beatles Blast will follow this format and bring you The Lost Beatles Project. This will be a treat for the die-hard fans as we mine the best of the recently-released archive projects by the band, and mix in rare releases and wild remixes from their band and solo years. We won't be posting playlists for these shows because the whole point is that each of these programs will be a revelatory surprise.
Beatles Blast can be heard every Wednesday at 2 PM, with replays Thursday at 9 PM, Friday at 11 AM, Sunday at 5 PM and Tuesdays at 9 AM, exclusively on The AIR.
At 3 PM Mel Larch presents a new hour of great musical theater on Curtain Call. This week Mel goes for the offbeat and slightly weird as she presents some strange songs from strange musicals you may never have heard of before, plus some ancient classics and even a song from Kinky Boots, song in Swedish.
Check out the playlist:
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"Forever" From We Are The Tigers
"Yeah, Yeah (in Swedish)" from the Kinky Boots Swedish cast album
"Falling For The Boy" from Bubble Boy
"The Prophecy" from Fly By Night
"Talk Like A Pirate" from How I Became A Pirate
"Chin Up Ladies" from Milk and Honey
"Why Do I Love You" from Tell Me More
"These Charming People" from Tip Toes
"The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals" title song
"Spend Per Head" Ushers: The Front Of The House Musical
"Nothing" from A Chorus Line
"Two Nobodies From New York" from [title of show]
"Think Of Meryl Streep" from Fame
After the new hour of Curtain Call, stick around for two additional episodes from the Curtain Call archives. Curtain Call can be heard Wednesday at 3 PM, with replays Thursday at 8 AM and Saturday at 6 PM. An all-night marathon of Curtain Call episodes can be heard Wednesday nights, beginning at Midnight, and an additional marathon can be heard Sunday evenings from 6 PM to midnight..
New Music From The Heavy Editors, Kevin Scarbrough, Beneath and Beggars Clan on Radio Free Charleston, Plus More New Shows On The AIR
For the first time since early April, we have an all-new-programming Tuesday on The AIR as we deliver new episodes of Radio Free Charleston, Psychedelic Shack and The Swing Shift to our loyal listeners. Why don't you become one and tune in at the website, or on this embedded radio player…
It all kicks off at 10 AM (with a replay at 10 PM– all times EDT) with a brand-new edition of Radio Free Charleston. Now in its thirtieth year, RFC continues to bring you more local music than any other source. This week we open with new music from The Heavy Editors and Kevin Scarbrough, and you can read my reviews of their new albums, plus find info on how to get your own copies, HERE.
We also bring you our usual mix of new and classic local music, plus we take a deep dive into the RFC Archives for songs from The Laser Beams, Mother Nang, Jeff Ellis and Rasta Rafiki. Every episode of RFC this year will contain some goodies from our vaults as we celebrate 30 years of bringing local music to the masses.
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The Heavy Editors "The City At Night"
Kevin Scarbrough "Yellow To Brown (Fair Warning)"
Beneath "The Departure/Welcome Home (Speak, PtI & II)"
John Lancaster "When Shadows Grow Teeth"
Beggars Clan "Maiden Voyage"
Marcie Bullock "Can't Undo"
Qiet "I Want It All"
The Laser Beams "Eden By The Fire Escape"
Jeff Ellis "Something The Matter"
Rasta Fafiki "In The Dub"
Mother Nang "Fuggin"
Following the 10 AM debut of this episode, you can stick around and listen to three previously-aired shows, for a four-hour local music fix.
Radio Free Charleston can be heard Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM, with replays Thursday at 2 PM, Friday at 8 PM, Saturday at 11 AM and Midnight and Sunday at 1 PM, exclusively on The AIR.
At 2 PM on Psychedelic Shack Nigel Pye checks in from Haversham Recording Institute with a 60-minute mixtape of groovy Psychedelic Rock. This is the first new episode of Psychedelic Shack in almost two months, and Nigel's very happy to provide us with a playlist, which he had forgotten to do for some time. Groove on this line-up:
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Eyes of Blue "Merry Go Round"
The Doors "Been Down So Long"
Simon & Garfunkel "Cecilia"
The Who "Magic Bus"
The Head Shop "I Feel Love Comin' On"
Harry Nilsson "Jump Into The Fire"
The Rolling Stones "Sing This Song All Together"
The Monkees "Saturday's Child"
The Blues Magoos "Gloria"
The Beach Boys "Wild Honey"
The Turtles "Eleanore"
Barry McGuire "Eve of Destruction"
Psychedelic Shack can be heard Tuesday's at 2 PM, with replays Wednesday at 11 AM, Thursday at 5 PM and Saturday at 7 AM as well as the following Tuesday at 9 AM.
At 3 PM your PopCulteer returns to host a new hour of The Swing Shift as we continue to bring you the best Swing Music of the last century. This week we open up with a classic from Mr. Frank Sinatra, and keep the Swing machine running with a mix of music from the 1930s to this year. We even toss a Beatle into the mix this week.
Dig the running order, Clyde:
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Frank Sinatra "Without A Song"
Ringo Starr "Night At Day"
Susan Arioli "Lover Come Back To Me"
The Monkey Swngers "A Swing Lullaby"
Jack's Cats "When You're Bad You're Good"
Squirrel Nut Zippers "Axman Jazz (Don't Scare Me)"
Swing Ninjas "My Belle"
Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive "You Run Your Mouth (And I'll Run My Business)"
Swing Shift Big Band "Blue Five Jine"
Jennifer Wharton "Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise"
Lionel Hampton "China Stomp"
Lady J and her Bada Bing Band "Flying High"
Royal Crown Revue "Come Back To Sorrento"
Brian Setzer Orchestra "Rock This Town"
You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 7 AM, Thursday at 7 PM and Saturday at 9 AM, only on The AIR. You can also hear all-night marathons, seven hours each, starting at Midnight Thursday and Sunday evenings.
Remember, you can tune in to The AIR at all hours of the day and night for a variety and quality of programming that you will not find anywhere else. Check PopCult regularly for details on our new episodes.
Monday Morning Art: The Madding Crowd
After a couple of weeks of posting real physical artworks (at least partly) we find ourselves back in digital mode today with a digital painting inspired by the crowd waiting to hit up the TKIS booth in Times Square to see what Broadway shows they can get into cheap. The booth is right by Father Duffy's steps, and as you can see, even on a drizzly day, there's a whole bunch of people there.
This painting was inspired by a photo I took and posted to Facebook, but when painting the final image I made a lot of minor compositional changes, turning the heads of some figures, moving some around, changing the color balance and better defining the background buildings, along with a few other subtle touches.
You can do things like that when you're painting on a new layer over the original photo. You can see that original photo at right.
While this was digital work and not physical work, it took longer than my recent forays into "real" art to bring it to its finished stage. I hope you enjoy it. As always, click the images to see a bigger version.
Meanwhile, Monday on The AIR, this week we depart from what has become our norm to bring you 24 hours of Radio Free Charleston, mixed with Radio Free Charleston International. It starts at 7 AM Monday, and runs until 7 AM Tuesday.
You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on this embedded radio player…
Sunday Evening Video: Toys
I've always felt that one of the best ways to honor our fallen veterans is to do everything possible to avoid sending even more young people to their deaths. Our video tonight is an anti-war cartoon from the National Film Board of Canada that uses stop-motion animation and GI Joes to send an anti-war message. From 1966, Toys is a classic by animator Grant Munro that takes a dark look into the war toys often given to children at Christmas time. Starting off as harmless objects, the toys quickly take on the gestures of real soldiers, mimicking the actions and penalties of a real war. This critical commentary on war and glamorized violence creates a real and frightening battle.
Now, to be honest, it's not really the anti-war message or loose connection to Memorial Day that earned this film a spot in PopCult. It's the beautiful, pristine footage of so many terrific vintage toys. Of course, my ulterior motive in presenting this film is that it's really, really cool to see GI Joe animated so well. I'm a long-time GI Joe collector (even though I concentrate on the Adventure Team era rather than the military stuff), and this is just really cool to watch. There are toys being used and abused in this film that would be worth hundreds or thousands of dollars today. In addition to seeing almost the full range of GI Joe product available in Canada in 1966, we also get to see some other cool toy planes and tanks, and even some vintage Barbie and Ken dolls.
I mean, you could see this as an anti-war film, or you could see it as a cautionary tale about giving children bad LSD. Etither way, just look at those cool toys!
The RFC Flashback: Episode 186
This week we go back to June, 2013 for a show that was loaded with then-new music from two RFC veterans, QIET and Mother Nang, plus we took an animated look at the newly-erected East End Main Street Streetworks project street signs. The show kicks off with a look at the locally-written play, "The Princess of Rome, Ohio," which ran in June and July, 2013 at The Alban Arts Center in St. Albans.
This show featured two songs by QieT and one by Mother Nang, and included two guests running camera three on our music shoots, Steven Allen Adams and Flare Baroshi. Music mixes were by James Vernon Brown and Andrea Anderson, so we actually had three people who were musical guests on previous shows helping out behind the scenes. You can find the original production notes HERE.
Two Great Albums By Former West Virginians
This week your PopCulteer has two treats to share with you. We have reviews of two great new albums by expatriate local musicans. Both are offically released today, and we'll tell you how you can get copies below.
I played a track from Kevin Scarbrough's new album, Rock The Patriarch, on this week's episode of Radio Free Charleston, and next week we'll kick off the show with a track from the new album by The Heavy Editors, The City At Night. The Heavy Editors features singer/songwriter/guitarist Joe Vallina, who aging local scenesters may remember from the bands Blind Blue Leper Society and Feast of Stephen.
A quick note about my local music reviews: I will gladly review any new album or single release by any local musician. All I ask is that you get in touch with me in advance through the message button over at the Radio Free Charleston Facebook page, or leave a comment here on the blog and I'll get back to you via email. There have been so many great new CDs released this year, and I would be glad to review them, but past incidents have persuaded me to only review CDs by artists who want them reviewed.
So you gotta let me know, folks.
So let's jump into the reviews, shall we?
Kevin Scarbrough
Rock The Patriarch
Available frm Bandcamp
As I knew from Kevin's previous album, Birthright, he is one talented musician. On his new album, Kevin plays all the instruments, save for a guest stint by Aaron Fisher on drums on one song, and this new collection of songs is pretty amazing. Since we last heard from Kevin, he has left the area with his family, and is now living in Texas, but much of this album was recorded before he left, when he resided in Charleston.
Stylistically, Rock The Patriarch straddles the worlds of Classic Rock, Alternative Rock and 1970s Art Rock. More than anything it sounds like a lost album by a group like Crack The Sky or City Boy, and coming from me, that is high praise. Lyrically the songs are contemporary, exploring themes like social media, the water crisis, bullying, aging and writer's block. The songs are clever without being obnoxiously so, and my only gripe is that there's not a lyric sheet to make it easier to follow along.
The opening track, "Algorithm Rock" is a driving, almost New Wave, tune with killer guitar lines. "Yellow To Brown (Fair Warning)" is a slightly funky groove with Zappa-esque vocal arrangements and a hook that will stick with you. "Salamander Man" is another great rock tune that I believe is about a totally new mythological creature, and not the guy in the unitard from the Filthy Frank YouTube videos. It's a great track, and you'll hear it next week on RFC.
Kevin starts off with an almost Ramones-like tack with "Middle School," which is also a nice shot of nostalgia-wallowing, lyrically. The song becomes wonderfully complex with the middle eight, and ends with a killer hook. The next track, "Another One On The Egress," sounds like a collision between Crosby, Stills Nash and Young with Pink Floyd, only better.
The mood changes with "Unsatisfied Animal," which really sounds so much like Crack The Sky that I'd almost nominate Kevin to join the band. The production on this track is just perfect, from the vocal arrangement to the final mix. "White Paper, Black Pen," is a great slow groove about how hard it is to write a song. "Impetus Worm" is a great New Wave-ish tune with hints of DEVO in the chorus.
The final track, "End of the Day" sounds like classic Progressive Rock, with a complex arrangement and lush harmonies. "O for Operative" is a great lazid-back collection of conspiracy theories set to music. It wraps up the album on a high note.
While I have mentioned a lot of other artists in this review, I don't mean to suggest that Kevin is imitating anyone. He has developed his own style and has grown considerably as a writer and musician since Birthright, but as a reviewer, it's my job to suggest what his music reminds me of, and with the first-rate musicianship throughout, plus the tight harmonies on the vocals, Keven just happens to remind me of a lot of my favorite music.
Rock The Patriarch is impeccably-crafted, highly-intelligent rock music, and you should give it a listen. You can buy it at his Bandcamp page. Also of note to local folks, the album cover is by Chris Woodall, and the back cover features an illustration by Mark Wolfe, both of them bastians of the Charleston art scene.
The Heavy Editors
The City At Night
Available From Bandcamp
As I write this, The City At Night has just gone live on the band's Bandcamp page. The City At Night is pure power-pop gold. The Heavy Editors are my old buddy, Joe Vallina on guitar and vocals, along with Wally Bird on drums and John Rapoza playing bass.
Filled with crunchy guitar licks, clever lyrics and delicious backing harmonies, The City At Night is great modern rock for a post-rock world. This is the type of music you wish would take the world by storm and save us from the over-produced, artificially-created dreck that dominates the charts these days.
The album kicks off with "Meltdown," an upbeat New Wave-inlected tune about anxiety. This song would not be out of place on an album by the legendary cult band, The Shoes. Next up we have a new recording of "How The West Was Won," which was a standout track on their debut EP a couple of years ago. "Slaves" is a pean to being a cog in the labor machine.
The title track, "The City At Night," is a moody bit of musique-noir that paints a vivid musical picture without being too specific. It's a pretty deep tune. Following that up is the fun and bright, "To the Phonomatic," that is just perfect ear candy. "Faces on the Clock" has a bit of an Americana feel among its laid-back groove.
A song I recognize from one of Joe's solo releases, "On TV," is a fun, upbeat tune, presented in a more polished version here. "Alien Lover" is a great little rocker that was released as a single last year. It's another fun, short tune with a great hook. The next track, "Within Reach," slows things down a bit with a more reflective tone and a nice, relaxed groove.
The album ends with "Time," a great, poppy song that manages to remind me of The Monkees, XTC, Weezer and The Who, all at the same time.
The City At Night is a cool collection of short, punchy and excellently-crafted blasts of pure power pop, with a little punk thrown in for good measure. It's available now at The Heavy Editors' Bandcamp page.
And that is this week's PopCulteer. Feel free to check back for all our regular features and hopefully your guide to all-new musical programs next week on The AIR
SpongeBob Mania Runs Wild!
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It's hard to believe, but SpongeBob Squarepants has been around for twenty years. That's two decades, with over 250 half-hour shows (and counting) plus two movies (with a third on the way) and 86 issues of a comic book. Even with the passing of the show's creator, Steven Hillenburg, last year, the SpongeBob juggernaut continues.
Millions of fans tune in to enjoy the exploits of our fry cook hero, SpongeBob Squrepants, and the folks who live under the sea in the town of Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob Squarepants is a classic animated cartoon, created by cartoonists instead of "writers," just like the beloved Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons of the Golden age of animation.
Nickleodeon is celebrating the beloved sponge and his Bikini Bottom pals with a series of special programming events all summer long. We'll tell you more about those as their airdates approach. Nickelodeon has also teamed up with Alpha Products to produce some terrific collectibles and toys, and we're going to look at a few of those today, and a few more in the coming weeks.
First, we have the SpongeBob Squarepants Mini-plush. These are cute soft six-inch plush figues of SpongeBob and his friends. They're available at Target for under eight bucks (and at Hot Topic for a bit more) and they're great little souvenirs of the show. These are on-model representations, so they look as close as possible to the characters as shown on the cartoon. Just look at 'em.
The small size makes them appropriate as office decorations, and they're soft enough for kids to find them quite cuddly. You can find a couple of different versions of SpongeBob himself, plus his pals Sandy, Patrick, Squidward, and even the evil Plankton. These are cool, fun items, and they won't break your budget.
Next up is the incredibly fun and ridiculous SpongeHeads. These are inflatable headgear shaped like your favorite SpongeBob Squarepants characters. When inflated they measure over 20 inches, and then you put them on your head., like in the photo below.
You can become the human host for SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward or Plankton, and reenact your favorite scenes from the show. My suggestion is that you get these to wear to work, but when people ask you about them, act like you have no idea what they're talking about.
Made to fit most kid and adult heads, SpongeHeads can be found at Target and Amazon now, and should cost just under thirteen bucks. It's a small price to be for the absolute finest in inflatable cartoon haberdashery.
Our last entry today is a pretty spectacular series of collectibles. Masterpiece Memes are eight-inch tall collectible vinyl figures that depict some of the images from SpongeBob Squarepants that have gained notoriety and infamy on the internet.
Figures include Mocking SpongeBob (left), Imaginaaation SpongeBob, Surprised Patrick, Spongegar (below) and Handsome Squidward. The detail is amazing on these, with first-rate sculpting and paint detail that you don't usually see in the mass market.
These are terrific as office decor, home accents or just really cool vinyl toys to put on a shelf and admire. What makes these stand out among things like Funko Pops is that they are ON MODEL. That means they look exactly like the SpongeBob cartoon. Funko Pops are cute, but they don't really look great when they try to adapt animated cartoons into their house style of super-cuteness with no pupils. Those are making cartoons of cartoons, and they lose a lot of the charm of the original cartoons.
Masterpiece Memes don't fall into that trap. These figures not only look exactly like the cartoons, they're also more than twice as tall as most Funko Pops. They're much better for die-hard fans of the show. You can find them for just under twenty bucks at Target and Amazon.
That's not all of the SpongeBob goodies coming your way this year. In a couple of weeks PopCult will undertake our first unboxing video as we crack open some SpongeBob Slimeez Figures. These are cool three-inch blindbox figures that come in a plastic crate filled with Nickelodeon Slime. You'll get one of six figures (including a rare golden SpongeBob as seen at right), and you can load each one with slime that will ooze through them, popping out in all sorts of fun orifices. There are six different figures available now at Target stores, and seven more will be due out in the Fall.
For under seven bucks you'll get a collectible figure, 2 ounces of Nickelodeon Slime and a collectible cube. It's the ultimate blind package experience for fans of SpongeBob, and you'll get to see Mrs. PopCulteer, Mel Larch (who also happens to be our resident SpongeBob expert) open some of these sometime in the next week or two.
As Plankton might say, 2019 will be the year of TOTAL WORLD DOMINATION for SpongeBob Squarepants and his crew.


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The Most Incredible Costumes from New York Comic Con
Halloween may still be a few weeks away, but if you were anywhere in the vicinity of New York's Javits Convention Center this weekend, you'd be forgiven for thinking it came early. With the annual return of the New York Comic Con, midtown Manhattan's west side was swamped with comic book, sci-fi, and fantasy fans — over 100,000 of them over the course of the event's four-day run. Among those multitudes was a significant contingent proudly decked out in costume, representing characters from just about every genre, medium, and realm imaginable.
The amount of time and effort spent on outfits varied greatly, but there were many that stood out — whether it was for attention to detail, commitment to character, or just representing that perfect pop-cultural touchstone that we all wish we had thought of first. The best of the best earned themselves a place in our exclusive NYCC 2012 photo gallery. And hey, Halloween really is still a few weeks away, so if you're looking for inspiration, look no further.
It may not have been the most elaborate costume, but dressing up as the Greendale College Human Being from Community was a stroke of simple genius.
Mr. T is still angry after all these years. And from the looks of that rocket launcher, he's going after Tony Stark for some reason. Photo by Quasimario.
The makeup job on this guy dressed as one of the Engineers from Prometheus was just insane. He kind of scared the hell out of us. But from the looks of him, that would probably be the case without the makeup too.
It's the Avengers! And friends! And… Superman? Aren't you in the wrong universe, Clark?
Another amazing idea that's so simple, we wished we did it first. It's Wilfred, and his poor, abused buddy, Bear. (Elijah Wood was nowhere to be seen.)
Spy vs. Spy! But wait, aren't these guys supposed to be fighting each other? Photo by Quasimario.
It's a meetup of many multicolored Links! Or perhaps that should be a "Linkup"?
Is it just us, or does it look like there's something going on between Leela and Bender?
There are really no words for this one. Twin James T. Kirks, in both the original and the Mirror Universe versions.
That would be blue Jedi Aayla Secura and… well, we're not sure who her friend is supposed to be, but apparently he's killed somebody. Shouldn't Jedi Knights keep better company?
Doctors of the world, unite! (Guess who forgot her Sonic Screwdriver?)
This one was our personal favorite. It's DC Comics' supernatural superstar Deadman. Excellent attention to detail! (Except for the fact that no one is really supposed to be able to see him.) Photo by Quasimario.
Sure, we expected Mario and Luigi, but these guys made sure to get the whole package together. We wonder how they decided who had to be the mushroom?
The Two-Face makeup is one thing, but the suit, that's another. Kudos to you, sir, on your fine work.
Teen Titans! Go!
Okay, this one is just brilliant. Playing off Bane from The Dark Knight, we have the even more imposing Bain Capital, complete with a "Power Mitt" and "Job Destroyer" belt. Who says there's no room for political commentary at Comic Con? Photo by Quasimario.
And speaking of Bane, we shouldn't be surprised these two showed up. But you'd think they could at least stop fighting long enough to get their picture taken.
We'll be honest, we're dumbfounded by this pair. Can anyone enlighten us as to who they're dressed up as? Regardless of the low-recognition factor, the high-production values still won them a place in our gallery. Photo by Quasimario.
This was a downright Avatar flashmob. (No, not that Avatar. This one.) Also, a Ghostbusters photobomber.
We're not sure what's more amazing here: The Sonic the Hedgehog getup, or the t-shirt on the guy in the background. Call it a draw?
The Governator couldn't give Mr. Freeze the glory he deserved in the previous round of Batman flicks, but this guy's doing a good job temporarily making up for it. Photo by Quasimario.
We always thought part of the reason Pee-Wee was called "Pee-Wee" was because he was kind of small. Still, this guy pulls it off well enough that we'll give him a pass on his stature.
There were a ton of Final Fantasy costumes around the convention center, but this portrayal of Fang was the most spot-on we found. We decided not to actually test her battle skills, though.
Sinestro and the Black Cat. Yeah, we never would have called that one either. Love is a strange beast.
Apparently Green Lantern didn't realize the Olympics were already over.
Hulkamania will never die. At least, not as long as this guy's around.
Oh come on, you didn't really think we weren't going to post a Slave Leia picture, did you? It just wouldn't be Comic Con without it!
Freakazoid! Photo by Quasimario.
It looks like Dr. McCoy (aka Beast) has been on a diet lately. Dude has really slimmed down! We didn't recognize his ladyfriend, but she didn't seem very approachable.
We remember Luke Cage and Iron Fist being a little more imposing, but hey, looks can be deceiving. We bet these two can still kick some serious ass.
Worlds colliding! April O'Neil and Velma Dinkley are friends? Who knew? (Also, who knew Velma's last name was Dinkley?)
It's always good to end on a classic. The shark repellent/shark gag here is the kind of thing that makes our day. Let's just hope Adam West, who was also at the convention, got to see this for himself. Photo by Quasimario.

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Farah to race at Great North Run.
Double Olympic and World champion Mo Farah will return to Tyneside to defend his Great North Run title on 11 September.
Double Olympic and World champion Mo Farah will be returning to Tyneside to defend his title at next month's Morrisons Great North Run.
Carol Vorderman's countdown to the Great North Run has begun.
Mo Farah is hoping to go one better at this year's Great North Run when he was beaten in a sprint finish by Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele.
Singer-songwriter, Sting, and entertainers Ant and Dec will join a stellar cast at the Great North Run Million opening ceremony on Thursday 4 September.


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Man-In-The-Middle: The Benefits of a Neutral Third Party
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Family law matters almost always include a set of conflicting interests and dissenting opinions. In some situations it is necessary to bring in a third party to sort through the wants and needs of the opposing parties and to help make progress with the issue. Mediation and arbitration are two possible third party arrangements that do not involve a judge, however, each approach is different.
Mediation is an increasingly popular form of family law conflict resolution because it is more flexible, and often simpler than courtroom litigation. Mediation describes the process in which divorcing spouses try to create a divorce agreement that is acceptable to both parties. The neutral third party, also known as the mediator, acts as a guide for discussions between the parties. Mediators gather information from both parties in an attempt to find common ground and options for a settlement. The ultimate goal in mediation is getting both parties to work together to find a solution that both parties can agree on. The mediator does not make any decisions or force either party to accept a settlement, but instead works with both sides to resolve the conflict.
In arbitration, the conflicting parties agree to give a neutral third party, or arbitrator, the power to make decisions for them. Both parties present evidence to the arbitrator, as they would to a judge. However, the information is usually presented less formally than in a courtroom setting. The arbitrator then determines the facts of the matter and applies the law to make a decision. Arbitrations can be binding or non-binding. In a binding arbitration, the outcome is turned into a court judgment for confirmation and requires both parties to submit to the terms of the decision. A non-binding arbitration can be disregarded by either or both parties but often brings the parties closer to a settlement.


A truely apt photograph for this week's challenge.
Hard steel and soft blue sky. Nice post.
merci Bertrand – but thank you to you as well, Pierre, for following up on the suggestion.
Amazing colors. The image is just beautiful. Such an inspiration.
De belles couleurs et un coup magnifique.
A wonderful example of contrast, lovely post.
Gorgeous photo and a very creative entry Madman! I like the contrast between the narrow, solid bridge and the endless, vaporous sky.
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Women Have A Powerful Musical Statement Against Culture Of Abuse
September 20, 2020 September 20, 2020 Rod Washington
If the past few years have taught us anything, it's that women will no longer stay silent in the face of systematic abuse. Furthermore, they are tired of being pressured into acceptance while their male counterparts sit idly by, enjoying the benefit of safety their gender provides them. Now, a growing number of men are standing up and getting involved in the fight. One such man is Irish songwriter ONEMAC, real name Micheal MacMahon. He and musical partners James O'Connor and Los Angeles based Kim Diaz-Smith are stepping out of their comfort zones
Know My Name (Taken) – Single Cover
and into the ring with a confrontational new song that spotlights the chilling reality of abuse.
'Know My Name' takes aim at everyone and everything that enables powerful men to continue getting away with reprehensible behavior. Coincidentally, the song was written 8 months before Chanel Miller's book of the same name was published. ONEMAC describes the spectacle around the Brett Kavanaugh Senate Hearings as the moment of inspiration for 'Know My Name.' Kavanaugh's defiant, disrespectful attitude was in stark contrast to the heartfelt words of Christine Blasey Ford, and was the catalyst that inspired him to write the lyrics for 'Know My Name', before collaborating with O'Connor on the music.
"Professor Blasey Ford's testimony to the Senate was powerful and memorable," ONEMAC explains. "While Kavanaugh repeatedly told the world how he liked beer and still likes beer, Ford was recalling the terrors of the events that haunt her to this day. On the bridge of the song, Ford's words provide a disturbing reminder of the terrors she endured."
ONEMAC knew that an issue this complex can never be discussed without equal input from the female perspective. This led to him calling on frequent collaborator Kim Diaz Smith to lend her memorable voice.
"The original lyrics were written from a female perspective in support of the #MeToo movement. However, I liked the demo vocal James did so I re-wrote the lyrics so that there are versions from a female and male perspective." As a result, there are four different versions of the track, each offering its unique nuances.
While the downfall of the Harvey Weinsteins of the world has made women's rights a fashionable topic, 'Know My Name' is no mere attempt at good publicity. It is the sound of a man stepping away from his position of privilege and amplifying the voices of women everywhere. We've all come to understand that this fight requires unity and inclusion, two things that define the sound of this song, even in its darkest moments. One song isn't enough to undo generations of harm, but it is a step in the right direction from a group of artists who are committed to making systematic abuse a thing of the past.
'Know My Name' is available everywhere September 18, 2020
Listen at: https://onemac.hearnow.com/know-my-name-taken
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Hotel-restaurant complex "Churchill-Inn" is located at a distance of 1.5 km from the central street of Vinnytsia, 4 minutes drive from the Roshen fountain. There are 4 rooms of different categories. The comfortable, modern-style rooms are air-conditioned and offer free Wi-Fi. Each room has a minibar and a flat-screen TV. The bathroom is complete with a hairdryer and necessary bathroom amenities. In the hotel's cozy restaurant, guests can choose from European cuisine. There are parking spaces for cars. The hotel-restaurant complex "Churchill-Inn" is located at a distance of 2.4 km from the central bus station, 4.5 km from the railway station.
Description of the room: One-room double room in modern style.
Это было круто! Особенно понравилось то, что на завтраке кроме нас никого не было)))) Кафе замечательно стилизовано в английском стиле.
It is possible to provide additional space in the apartment. The service is chargeable, requires prior approval upon booking.
In the hotel's cozy restaurant, guests can choose from European cuisine. The room rate includes breakfast.
"Churchil-Inn" is located at a distance of 1.5 km from the central street of Vinnytsia, 4 minutes drive from the Roshen fountain. To the central bus station - 2.4 km, from the railway station - 4.5 km.
From the railway station - fixed-route taxi No. 3B.


KENOSHA, Wis. — Heading into Thursday's game against Wisconsin Parkside, the Northern Michigan University men's basketball team was on a three-game winning streak and a win over the Rangers would put the Wildcats in a tie with them for second place in the GLIAC North standings.
However, despite having three players finish in double-figures, NMU came up short, falling 71-65 in overtime. Isaiah Johnson led the Wildcats with 21 points, while Naba Echols had 18 points and Troy Summers had 12.
Tied 56-56 to start the extra session, the Rangers opened it up with six straight points, but a Johnson layup with 2:20 left got the Wildcats (11-8, 6-6 GLIAC) within three of Parkside at 63-60. Echols knocked down a triple with 1:01 left to keep NMU alive in the game, but the Rangers hit their free throws down the stretch to close out the win.
The Wildcats opened up the game strong and an Echols trey gave them an 8-2 with 16:53 left in the first half. Parkside got within one point of NMU on a layup by Chavares Flannigan, but Northern started to build up a lead again. Myles Howard put in a layup with 7:45 left to put the Wildcats up 20-14, but the Rangers got their deficit down to one with 6:43 remaining and took the lead at 22-20 shortly after that on a 3-pointer by D'Aaron Owens. After Parkside got a triple from Jonathan Morrobel, NMU started to fight its way back. A trey from Johnson and a jumper from Howard got the Wildcats within one of the Rangers and then a triple from Echols with 44 seconds left gave Northern a 30-28 lead at the half.
Parkside started the second half hot, building up a decent lead, but the Wildcats rallied to tie the game at 41-41 on a 3-pointer by Sam Taylor with 9:58 left. The game went back and forth for the rest of the half before four free throws from Johnson helped NMU got up by five at 56-51 with 2:11 left. However, the Rangers got a trey from Adam Bonk and then a jumper from Flanigan to tie the game and send it to overtime.
NMU will try to bounce back when it heads to Purdue Northwest Saturday.


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John Arthur Day
Never heard of it? John Arthur was married to Jim Obergefell, the plaintiff in the Ohio lawsuit that is one of four joined cases that will be argued tomorrow before the Supreme Court to decide whether or not same-sex marriage bans and refusals to recognize same-sex marriages legally performed in other states violate the Constitution. By the luck of the draw, Mr. Obergefell's case was named first on the Supreme Court's grant of certiorari and, therefore, for good or for ill, his name will be what the Supreme Court's decision will forever be known by.
The story of Obergefell and Arthur is easily the most poignant of all the plaintiffs', though all are compelling. They had lived together for two decades in what was in every way, except legal definition, a marriage. Arthur was dying of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) and, in a last ditch effort, they arranged for a a medical charter jet to fly them to Maryland, where they were married on the tarmac of the airport. They then returned to Ohio, where Arthur died. All that Obergefell requested was that Arthur's death certificate state that he was married to Obergefell at the time of his death. The State of Ohio refused.
The interesting thing is that John Arthur Day, also tomorrow, April 28th, was declared by the the city council of … wait for it … Cincinnati! The same city of Cincinnati that brought the first criminal trial of an art museum, the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, on a charge of obscenity for displaying the photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe. That's one of Mr. Mapplethorpe's self portraits above right. It is the same Cincinnati that, in 2004, at the height of the 'ban same-sex marriage' frenzy (engineered in no small part by Karl Rove to assist the re-election campaign of George W. Bush) was the only American city to have expressly barred ordinances related to gay rights in its Charter and was called "the most anti-gay city in America."
Now, Cincinnati has a domestic partner registry and city employees have "transgender inclusive" health benefits, including hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery upon a doctor's determination that it is medically necessary. While the city is technically a defendant in the Obergefell suit, its attorneys refuse to defend Ohio's ban.
What happened? As Sheryl Gay Stolberg documents in the New York Times article "Gay Marriage Case Caps Cincinnati's Shift From Conservative Past" there were a number of factors. The demographics of the city changed, as older, more religious and conservative people moved from the city to the suburbs. At the same time gentrification brought younger gay professionals into the city. Procter & Gamble, headquartered in the city, as is the case with most large corporations, saw that an anti-gay attitude was bad for business. The local coverage of the plight of Obergefell and Arthur and the suicide of Leelah Alcorn provoked an outpouring of sympathy for LGBT people. And, of course, like everywhere else in the country, attitudes are changing as more and more people find out that people they know and are related to are gay.
Predictably, our old friend Al Mohler is not pleased. He told Ms. Stolberg:
R. Albert Mohler Jr., the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, who came here this month for a forum on same-sex marriage, said in an interview that Cincinnati had long stood as "a firewall" against the kind of moral degradation that, he argues, will come if gay people can wed.
"If this kind of moral change can happen in Cincinnati," he warned, "it can happen anywhere."
From his lips …
On Mohler's podcast (there's no transcript provided yet), he keeps repeating that 'if it can happen in Cincinnati, it can happen anywhere' line but seems to attribute it to Christians who aren't Christian enough and moral enough.
Somewhere in the Bible that I am unaware of, Christ apparently said "you can't be bigoted enough!"
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By Paul Gallagher on August 1, 2020
1930s 1940s Famous Faces London Movies photographs 1931 Bela Lugosi Bram Stoker Broadway Bud Abbott California Christopher Lee cities Count Dracula francis ford coppola Gary Oldman Hollywood horror movies Hungary Los Angeles Lou Costello movie posters New York Nicolas Cage posters Raymond Huntley Tod Browning Transylvania UK Universal USA vampire West End
Dead! Undead!: The Many Posters of Bela Lugosi's 'Dracula' 1931
The appeal of Browning's Dracula rests with Bela Lugosi's performance. He was the first to portray the Count on screen. Lugosi's Dracula is the one against which all other Counts must be judged.
In 2009, Nicolas Cage was in hock to the tax man. He sold off a few of his properties and a lot of his belongings to pay the money owed. Among the precious objects sold was a poster for Tod Browning's classic horror movie Dracula starring Bela Lugosi. Cage's original "Style F" one sheet poster (see above) sold for $310,700.
In 2017, a "Style A" Dracula poster (see below)–one of only two known existing copies–was sold for a record-breaking $525,000–making it the most expensive film poster ever sold at auction.
The appeal of Browning's Dracula rests with Bela Lugosi's performance. He was the first to portray the Count on screen. Lugosi's Dracula is the one against which all other Counts must be judged.
Christopher Lee who made his name as Count Dracula in Hammer Horror films thought Lugosi's interpretation poor and too affected, and his accent wrong. Lee seems to have forgotten Lugosi was Hungarian and Transylvania was in Hungary when Bram Stoker wrote his novel, and not Romania, as he claimed.
Gary Oldman, who starred in as the Count in Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, thought Lugosi the best and used some of the actor's mannerisms and pronunciations in his own iconic interpretation.
Lugosi certainly fixed the image of Dracula in the public imagination as an evening-suited, cloak wearing ghoul, whose aristocratic charm never quite hid his lower, baser instincts. Though Lugosi made the role his most memorable, he was not the first choice to play the Count. Paul Muni (the original Scarface) was offered the role as was Raymond Huntley who had first starred as the Count in the theatrical production (written by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston in 1924) which formed the basis for Browning's film.
Huntley's Dracula had been a smash-hit in London's West End and on Broadway. Now better remembered for his performances in British comedies, thrillers and TV series as men from the ministry, or slightly pompous judges, or serious businessmen confused by the world, Huntley was the first to present Dracula in evening dress and cloak with red silk lining. His make-up stuck closely to the description in Stoker's book:
A tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache. His face was a strong, a very strong, aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils, with lofty domed forehead. His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion. The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking… For the rest, his ears were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed. The chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin. The blue eyes transformed with fury.
Huntley tired of playing Dracula on Broadway and returned to England. He was replaced by a young actor called Bela Lugosi, who had achieved considerable success and some controversy as the Sheik in Arabesque. Women in the audience reputedly fainted at Lugosi's unbridled sex appeal.
What also makes Lugosi's performance exceptional is the manner in which the film was shot. Browning had mainly directed silent movies. He followed a similar approach–long scenes with little or no dialogue, the use of titles or newspapers to develop the story, and a focussing on Lugosi's mesmeric performance.
However, it should be noted that Browning was absent for a considerable amount of the filming. He relied on camera operator Karl Freund to direct in his absence.
Lugosi was concerned during production that Dracula would be a curse, a role that would possess him all his life. He stated he would never be tempted to play the part again. Dracula was hugely successful. It was rereleased several times right-up to the mid-1960s. Lugosi played Dracula once again in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), and as a vampire twice in Mark of the Vampire (1935) and Return of the Vampire (1944).
Poster for the 1938 reissue of 'Dracula.
The poster for the 1947 reissue of 'Dracula'.
1951 reissue poster.
One sheet poster for the 1960's reissue of 'Dracula'.
Buy gorgeous fine-art prints of these great posters here.
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Story Time: HELICOPTER MAN POUNDS BILLIONAIRE DINOSAUR ASS Chapter 2
Posted on April 20, 2016 April 20, 2016 by annakalingauthor
Chapter 1 here: Story Time: Helicopter Man Pounds Billionaire Dinosaur Ass
At work I was sent a link to this book:
Naturally, when my colleagues saw it on my screen they all wanted to read it. We agreed to have Story Time at 3pm three days a week (one of us is part time) and enjoy Mr Tingle's book.
Yesterday we finished Chapter 2.
John goes to work at Buttcorp, a government research company experimenting with nanotechnology. When I read out 'Buttcorp' I can't help doing it in a kind of explosive run of hard consonants reminiscent of a "why me?" speech after a dodgy curry.
BUTTCORP's latest project is to give humans the ability to turn into handsome helicopters.
It's called Project Handsome Helicopter. A+ for discretion, highly-secretive governmant lab!
Unfortunately, John can't get into work and to his Very Important Meeting. His security card no longer works and he didn't receive the email with new security instructions. I feel his pain–I like getting all-staff emails because somebody inevitably replies to all 110 of us to say something like "ok" and then there's 25 replies ripping the shit out of him or her for the next three days.
But Donald got the BUTTCORP email. Donald is handsomer than John, more successful, and isn't seen as as a loser because he isn't averse to fucking billionaire dinosaurs. Like their boss, T-rex Dr Cobbler.
We don't like Donald.
After arriving late for the meeting and being scolded by hottie Dr Cobbler, John is sent to Lab Seventeen for a new keycard. He spends the journey helpfully lecturing the reader about nanotechnology. The science is highly inaccurate.
When he arrives at Lab Seventeen John realises it's way above his security clearance and Dr Cobbler meant Lab Seven. If anyone catches him here, his job at BUTTCORP is on the line. But it's too late: he hears someone coming!!!!! *tense music*
John hides. The approaching people turn out to be two maintenance guys installing new security hardware. They have a discussion about the awful effects of Project Handsome Helicopter–it's being tested on mice, and the poor mice have been contorted into awful shapes before dying. As a Helicopter (?) one of the maintenance men is very upset and the other is angry at him for crying while they're supposed to be working.
The discussion includes the line "It's my ass on the line." and I can't help but read out "It's my ass on the line and I do not want a cock up." even though the book didn't actually say that. Sorry, author Chris Tingle.
The maintenance men leave.
John accidentally kicks something when coming out from his hiding place. He's trapped in a metal box and the room lights up and starts making noises.
We think we know what's about to happen.
John is about to become a handsome helicopter.
Our reactions today:
Lola: "When do we get to the good stuff? The dinosaur porn?"
Henry: "I wasn't really listening."
Ivor: "I didn't see that twist coming!"
David: "Uh… I don't know… I'm exasperated."
John: "We're getting in deep now."
Mysha: "It's getting more interesting."
Me: "This makes it worth coming to work."
Stay tuned for Chapter 3. We had a sneak peek ahead (mostly for Lola who is very eager for the sex scene) and it looks like it's not only a twist that's coming. Look forward to that.
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Many script loaders exist in the real world and I'm in no way trying be the "next big thing", as I believe the likes of [RequireJS](https://github.com/jrburke/requirejs) are adequate enough for daily use. I simply created this as a way to further improve my knowledge of JavaScript and experiment with features that I necessarily wouldn't mess around with.

If you're unaware of just what a script loader is, read the links below.

## How to use

```html
    <!--Use the minified version for better performance-->
    <script src="dist/loady_es5.min.js"></script>

    <script>
        // An array of strings or a single string can be passed as the first argument.
        // It returns an ES2015 promise which in turn passes the scripts that were either successfully loaded or not
        loady.load(['myScript1.js', 'myScript2.js', 'myScript3'])
        .then(function success(scripts) {
            console.log('Success, the following scripts were loaded into the current document { %o }', scripts);
        })
        .catch(function failed() {
            console.log('An error occurred, though the following scripts were loaded into the current document { %o }', scripts);
        });
    </script>
```

## ES2015

The module is written using ES2015, but is transpiled using [babel](https://babeljs.io) to ES5. The reason for using [babel](https://babeljs.io), is not all browsers currently support the ES2015 specification, though will likely change very soon. The transpiled files are located in the `dist` directory.

## Contribute

To contribute to the project, you will first need to install [node](https://nodejs.org) globally on your system. Once installation has completed, change the working directory to the module's location and run the following command:

```shell
    npm install
```

After installation of the local modules, you're ready to start contributing to the project. Before you submit your PR, please don't forget to call `gulp`, which will run against [ESlint](http://eslint.org) for any errors, but will also minify the module and transpile using [babel](https://babeljs.io).

##### Watch
Call the following command to start 'watching' for any changes to the main JavaScript file(s). This will automatically invoke ESLint and Uglify.
```shell
    gulp watch
```

##### ESLint
Call the following command to invoke ESLint and check that the changes meet the requirements set in .eslintrc.
```shell
    gulp eslint
```

##### Uglify
Call the following command to invoke Uglify, which will minify the main JavaScript file(s) and output to a .min.js file respectively.
```shell
    gulp uglify
```

##### Build
Call the following command to invoke babel, ESLint and Uglify.
```shell
    gulp
```

## Sources

The following sources were used to aid in creating an efficient and readable script loader.

- http://mawaha.com/deferring-script-loading-javascript/
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3248384/document-createelementscript-synchronously
- http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/speed/script-loading/
- http://zcourts.com/2011/10/06/dynamically-requireinclude-a-javascript-file-into-a-page-and-be-notified-when-its-loaded/
- https://css-tricks.com/snippets/javascript/async-script-loader-with-callback/
- https://github.com/addyosmani/basket.js/blob/gh-pages/lib/basket.js
- https://github.com/jrburke/requirejs/blob/master/require.js
- https://varvy.com/pagespeed/defer-loading-javascript.html

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This is your initial invitation to take part and represent the SW Region in the Inaugural National U14 JuVoTo Festival on May 5th at the Walsall Campus of Wolverhampton University.
This event is to partly replace the U14 (4v4) event that was part of the Inter Region Championships until 2017.
Truly National Festival for Boys and Girls playing 4 v 4 on badminton courts.
Open to Schools and Clubs alike. Celebrating our sport, a spectacle that all will enjoy.
With 12 courts available we intend to maximise play and embrace a range of abilities.
Pool play in leagues of 5, 6 or more with timed sets.
A Major outcome will be to develop young officials and coaches.
Whilst competition is fundamental the philosophy is developmental.
2. Continuous substitution by rotation.
3. Under arm serve only.
4. Server rotates after 3 successful serves.
As this is the first year there are a number of unknowns, it's a one day event but a hotel the night before may be useful. Shared mini busses and accommodation may work, the SWVA can provide equipment and cover the required entry fees, happy to look at support for transport and accommodation if required.
To proceed we need to have received your expression on interest by the 1st Jan 2019 (entry forms Feb and closing entry date Mar).
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Q: JavaScript: function not working without alert() Possible solution
Hello, fellow programmers!
I am writing to you in order to request some help with an issue I recently experienced. The very issue is as follows:
1) I have an ajax request, implemented with jQuery.
2) After returning a successful response, the script should reload the page with the respective changes and if there are any validation errors, insert them after a hidden field, used to store non-critical miscellaneous data. If there are any validation errors, the changes are not saved and the page is just reloaded with the validation error messages. The validation itself is taken care of by a servlet.
3) I noticed that everything works fine, when any kind of alert() is presented before the actual appending of the error messages, but I do not want to have such an alert.
Here is the JavaScript code:
$('#randomFormElement').submit(function() {
        $(this).ajaxSubmit({
            success: function (data, status) {
                randomFunctionToReloadThePage(arg1, arg2, arg3);
                var errors = $(data).find('.classNameOfTheErrors').xml();
                //alert(something);
                $(errors).insertAfter('#idOfTheHiddenField');
            },
            error: function (jqXHR, textStatus, thrownError) {
            //Error handling if the ajax response fails.
            }
         });
});

So, the main question is: what's the deal with alert() making it work?
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On Chrome, it doesn't work either way.
On FF, it does work only when some alert() is present.
Thanks in advance!

A: The alert() function blocks the code execution and delays the processing of the javascript code on bottom of it. This could give time to the ajax request to complete.

A: This is not an answer but a debugging tip (can't do proper code formatting in a comment).
Add these two calls after the alert():
console.log( "errors:", errors );
console.log( "hidden:", $('#idOfTheHiddenField')[0] );

Leave the alert commented out and run it. What does it show in the developer console?
Then for comparison, uncomment the alert, so it runs before those two calls, and run it in Firefox. Now what is in the console?

A: Thanks to everyone's answers, and gvee's answer in particular, I managed to get it work. Obviously, there was indeed something asynchronous going on in the randomFunctionToReloadThePage(), and I managed to fix it using the .ajaxStop() method.
Edit: a second bug was found while using ajaxStop(). The solution I found to be working properly is as follows:
1) Add an extra parameter to the randomFunctionToReloadThePage
2) Invoke the function with that extra parameter in the respective page.

A: try to add: cache: false
$('#randomFormElement').submit(function() {
    $(this).ajaxSubmit({
        cache: false,
        success: function (data, status) {
            randomFunctionToReloadThePage(arg1, arg2, arg3);
            var errors = $(data).find('.classNameOfTheErrors').xml();
            //alert(something);
            $(errors).insertAfter('#idOfTheHiddenField');
        },
        error: function (jqXHR, textStatus, thrownError) {
        //Error handling if the ajax response fails.
        }
     });

});

A: It happened for me too. We cannot have an alert in our code.  Settimeout function solved my problem. Replace the "alert" with "setTimeOut" function and add the rest of the code inside it.
setTimeout(function(){ //your code here }, 300);

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Evart to start snowshoeing program
Published 3:05 pm EST, Monday, December 24, 2012
NEW GEAR: The Evart Parks and Recreation Department recently won seven pair of snowshoes from Atlas Shoeshoe company after receiving more than 500 votes in a Facebook competition. The department plans to start a snowshoeing program with the new gear. (Courtesy photo) less
NEW GEAR: The Evart Parks and Recreation Department recently won seven pair of snowshoes from Atlas Shoeshoe company after receiving more than 500 votes in a Facebook competition. The department plans to start ... more
Recreation department won seven pair of snowshoes to kick-start group
EVART — Winter-weather lovers in Evart soon will have the chance to take a step into a new snowy pastime after the Evart Parks and Recreation department won seven pair of snowshoes. In the spirit of the giving season, Atlas Snow-shoe Company donated the snowshoes to the department after they garnered more than 500 votes in three days in a Facebook competition. "It took a whole lot of marketing," said Evart Parks and Recreation Director Mark Wilson. "It was just networking it out to large groups of people that I know. It was a pretty remarkable feat for three days." The company set up the competition to give seven pair of snowshoes — including a variety of child and adult sizes — to a nonprofit organization that could make good use of them. To enter the competition, organizations could add themselves to the poll on the Atlas Facebook page and had to receive the most votes by noon on Dec. 13. As an avid snowshoer, Wilson was considering starting a program for the city but needed more gear for community members. "This contest certainly stirred up a lot of interest within the community. It should be a good start to our snoeshoeing program," Wilson said. "I have 12 people who are firmly committed to the group, and I had 18 to 20 who said if we had some loaner shoes they would participate." Wilson plans to begin the snowshoe program with treks for beginners around the parks in Evart soon, depending on snow fall. He also plans to schedule outings for snowshoers with more experience on more challenging trails in Evart. "It really doesn't take a whole lot of skill," Wilson said. "It's a skill that anybody can pick up." For updates on the group, check the Evart Parks and Recreation Facebook page.


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John Donne had an outstanding poetic mind coupled with fierce and undeniable passion. His rhythms had the spring of real speech, prompting Ben Jonson, an admirer, to write, "Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging." It is hard to find a poet with more imaginative use of metaphor I suppose. Hard to find a thinker whose philosophical reflections are so condensed and so dramatically charged.
He was one of the first love poets to write with his love interest listening to the poem. In His poem "The Flea" the woman even picks up the source of his metaphor and crushes it under her nail. But John Donne rolls with this and manages to press his case for love in the final stanza. 'If we are no weaker after our mingled blood has been crushed in the flea, then why fear sharing yourself with me?' He is often considered the greatest love poet in English, thus departed from the flea/me rhyme seen above. He is also a very talented religious poet, and was the most famous preacher in England for a time, despite the fact that he resisted that calling until the age of 42, pressured by King James.
Here is a really nice bio on Donne in the Encyclopedia Brittanica. This is the first part of an eight part series on Donne as a religious poet in the Guardian which you may enjoy. The Holy Sonnet, "Batter my heart, three-person'd God" can be read here.


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Q: Proof involving limits of functions and their derivatives I'm working on another analysis problem: Let $f$ be a differentiable function on an interval of the form $(a,+\infty)$. Prove
that if there is a number $r > 0$ such that $\lim_{x\to\infty}(rf′(x)+f(x))=L$
is finite, then $\lim_{x\to\infty}f′(x)=0$ and $\lim_{x\to\infty}f(x)=L$.
I figured out the proof in the case where $r>0$ and $\lim_{x\to\infty}f(x)$ exists and is nonzero and the case where $r<0$ and $\lim_{x\to\infty}f(x)$ exists and is finite (it's a pretty simple application of L'Hôpital's Rule, once you establish it applies). However, I can't seem to be able to show that $\lim_{x\to\infty}f(x)$ must exist. I also don't know where to go with the zero case for $r>0$ and the infinite case for $r<0$.
If it helps, this is in the section on L'Hôpital's Rule in the chapter on derivatives in Joseph L Taylor's Foundations of Analysis. Any help will be well appreciated.

A: There is a simpler answer that comes from a well-documented trick. See that \begin{align*} \lim_{x\to \infty} f(x) &= \lim_{x\to \infty} \frac{e^{x/r}f(x)}{e^{x/r}} \\ &= \lim_{x\to \infty} \frac{e^{x/r}(f'(x)+f(x)/r)}{e^{x/r}/r}\text{ (l'Hôpital)} \\ &= \lim_{x\to \infty} \frac{e^{x/r}(rf'(x)+f(x))}{e^{x/r}} \\ &= \lim_{x\to \infty} [rf'(x)+f(x)] \end{align*} This trick also works in the solution that uses differential equations, but it is done implicitly here. There is a chart here that justifies the use of l'Hôpital.

To solve this problem using differential equations theory, write $$rf'(x)+f(x) = L+\epsilon(x)$$ where $\lvert \epsilon(x)\rvert$ is vanishingly small as $x\to \infty$. The solution to this ODE with initial condition $f(x_0) = c$ is $$f(x) = e^{-x/r}\left(ce^{x_0/r}+\int_{x_0}^x \frac{L+\epsilon(\xi)}{r}e^{\xi/r}\,\mathrm{d}\xi\right)$$ Then, l'Hôpital and the fundamental theorem of calculus give us $$\lim_{x\to \infty} f(x) = \lim_{x\to \infty} \frac{ce^{x_0/r}+\int_{x_0}^x \frac{L+\epsilon(\xi)}{r}e^{\xi/r}\,\mathrm{d}\xi}{e^{x/r}} = \lim_{x\to \infty} \frac{\frac{L+\epsilon(x)}{r}e^{x/r}}{e^{x/r}/r} = \lim_{x\to \infty} [L+\epsilon(x)] = L$$ From this, we can conclude that $\lim_{x\to \infty} f'(x) = 0$.


A deserving student will benefit from an Anglican Priest's major milestone. An Endowment Fund is to be established at the University of The Bahamas in honour of Canon Warren Rolle's Golden Jubilee.
The announcement was made by Saint Agnes Anglican Church by Henry Dean, Chairperson of the Endowment Fund Committee. According to Mr. Dean, the awardee can study any discipline. However he or she must take Divinity Courses also. He said that the Endowment is not limited to students from New Providence, as family islands students need much assistance with furthering their education. The Endowment will begin in September 2019, for the Fall Semester.
Also present at the Press Conference were Archdeacon Keith Cartwright representing the Anglican Diocese of the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands, Father James Moultrie and Ms. Janice Munnings, a representative of the Canon Rolle Endowment Fund Committee and also a representative of the University of The University of the Bahamas.
They all spoke highly about Canon Rolle, who was a teacher at St. John's College who taught Fr. Cartwright Religious Knowledge.
A Mass will be held on April 28that 5 pm to celebrate and commemorate the occasion of Canon Rolle being in the priesthood for 50 years.
A grateful Canon Rolle said he was pleased to help University of the Bahamas students and he admonished everyone who can, to contribute to the cause.


As you may know, I often opt for natural treatments and supplements as a first line of defense for brain disorders, such as anxiety and depression, rather than prescribing medication. Two supplements that I commonly recommend to my patients with anxiety and/or depression are St. John's wort and kava kava. I have even used kava kava myself.
Several years ago I went through a painful time of grief. For the first time in my life, I experienced panic attacks and had trouble sleeping. Of all the supplements I tried, kava kava helped me the most. Kava kava is recommended by some alternative medicine practitioners to promote healthy sleep, calm anxiety, and reduce the physical and emotional effects of stress.
Kava kava is thought to work by enhancing the production of GABA in the brain. It comes from the root of a South Pacific pepper tree and is widely used as a social and ceremonial drink in the Pacific Islands. The herb is so widely used that it is thought to be, in part, responsible for the laidback island lifestyle.
St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) is a plant located in the subtropical regions of North America, Europe, Asia, India, and China and has been used for centuries in the treatment of mood disorders and depression. The biologically active ingredient in St. John's wort is hypericin, which functions to inhibit the reuptake of various neurotransmittersincluding serotonin, dopamine, GABA, and glutamate. The mechanism of action for St. John's wort is similar to that found in popular antidepressants, including Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft. These drugs and the herb work to maintain elevated levels of serotonin, which has a mood-enhancing effect.
Stress depletes the brain of serotonin. St. John's wort combats that and may actually be the most potent of all the supplements at increasing serotonin availability in the brain. I have seen dramatic improvement for many of my patients on St. John's wort and Dr. Amen of New Port Beach, California has SPECT scan studies of patients before and after treatment with St. John's wort that document its effectiveness.
St. John's wort decreases anterior cingulate gyrus hyperactivity (which can make you rigid and stressed out when things don't go your way) for many patients and decreases moodiness.


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[Omidbaigi, R., F. Sefldkon, and F. Kazemi. "Roman chamomile oil: Comparison between hydro-distillation and supercritical fluid extraction." Journal of Essential Oil Bearing Plants 6.3 (2003): 191-194] [Omidbaigi, R., F. Sefldkon, and F. Kazemi. "Roman chamomile oil: Comparison between hydro-distillation and supercritical fluid extraction." Journal of Essential Oil Bearing Plants 6.3 (2003): 191-194]
- "The flowers of Roman chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile L. All. var. flora plena) cultivated in Iran were dried by three different drying methods of sun-drying, shade-drying and oven-drying at 40 °C. The essential oils of every treatment were obtained by hydrodistillation of the flowers, and were analysed by GC and GC–MS. The oil content of the shade-dried flowers was the largest (1.9% w/w) compared to sun-drying (0.4% w/w) and oven-drying at 40 °C (0.9% w/w). Drying methods had no effect on the number of chemical components of the essential oil, as 14 components were identified in the oil of every drying method. The major components were isobutyl angelate, 2-methyl butyl angelate, propyl tiglate, isoamyl angelate and 3-methylbutyl isobutyrate." \\ + "The flowers of Roman chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile L. All. var. flora plena) cultivated in Iran were dried by three different drying methods of sun-drying, shade-drying and oven-drying at 40 °C. The essential oils of every treatment were obtained by hydrodistillation of the flowers, and were analysed by GC and GC-MS. The oil content of the shade-dried flowers was the largest (1.9% w/w) compared to sun-drying (0.4% w/w) and oven-drying at 40 °C (0.9% w/w). Drying methods had no effect on the number of chemical components of the essential oil, as 14 components were identified in the oil of every drying method. The major components were isobutyl angelate, 2-methyl butyl angelate, propyl tiglate, isoamyl angelate and 3-methylbutyl isobutyrate." \\
[Omidbaigi, R., F. Sefidkon, and F. Kazemi. "Influence of drying methods on the essential oil content and composition of Roman chamomile." Flavour and fragrance journal 19.3 (2004): 196-198] [Omidbaigi, R., F. Sefidkon, and F. Kazemi. "Influence of drying methods on the essential oil content and composition of Roman chamomile." Flavour and fragrance journal 19.3 (2004): 196-198]
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