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Putin: Allegations Russia meddled in US election are 'based on rumours'
Updated / Tuesday, 2 May 2017 16:42
Vladimir Putin was speaking at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that allegations that Russia had meddled in last year's US presidential election were based on rumours.
He also said that Moscow did not want foreign powers to interfere in Russian politics.
Mr Putin was speaking at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi and responding to a question about US allegations of Moscow's meddling and allegations that Russia might meddle in German elections on 24 September.
"We never interfere in the political life and the political processes of other countries and we don't want anybody interfering in our political life and foreign policy processes," Mr Putin said.
The Russian leader said foreign powers had tried to meddle in Russian politics many times in recent years however, including through non-governmental organisations.
The US allegations were the result of domestic US political battles, he said.
When asked about the threat of Russian interference during the German election campaign, Ms Merkel said she was not a fearful person and would counter unreliable information with facts.
She said: "I am not an anxious person, I will fight the election on the basis of my convictions," adding that Germans would deal decisively with any cases of wrong information.
"We know cyber criminality is an international challenge ... but we expect that the German election will go ahead unharmed and that we have enough different positions to tackle a range of topics," Ms Merkel said.


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Vito Aloisio LCDR Ret., flew PV-1 bombers in the Pacific War, seaplanes in Korea, helicopters in Vietnam, and airships for the Navy in a career spanning 21 years.
Donald Baechle Joined the Navy at 17 years old. Started with amphibians then was assigned to a mine sweeper. Did not see action and feels he was lucky about that. As the war ended was assigned alongside the occupation forces cleaning up the mine fields in Japan. From College Hill/Cincinnati.
William Barr a U. S. Navy pilot of PB4, PBM and PV in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Pacific from 1942 to 1945.
Gordon Beard a B-17 pilot with the 457th Bomb Group in the European Theater. Went on to serve in the U.S. Air Force for 40 years, 21 as a pilot and 19 as a civilian with Air Force Intelligence.
Albert Blair Master Sergeant, B-24 Crew Chief, 13th Air Force, 4th Photographic Reconnaissance and Mapping Group.
Ray Blankenship USS Hancock (CV-19) part of the 3rd and 5th fleets, off the coast of Japan. Entered Tokyo Bay just after the Peace treaty was signed. Entered the Navy on his 17th birthday, discharged March 1946 still a teenager. Trained in aircraft maintenance and anti-aircraft gunnery. Flew in training flights in SBD Dauntless and TBM Avenger dive bombers.
Don Brandt
A U.S. Navy pilot flying from the USS Hornet Don flew Hellcats and Corsairs. He was shot down off the coast of Guam and rescued by the submarine Swordfish by clinging to the periscope while being towed to safety.
Louis Breckenridge B-25 pilot in the European Theater with 68 missions along the German supply lines in the Brenner Pass between the border of Austria and Italy. 447th Squadron of the 321st Bomb Group. Primary flight training was in PT-17 Stearman, basic training was in the Vultee BT-13 and Advanced flight training was in the Curtiss AT-9. Shipped overseas July 1944 as a B-25 pilot flying co-pilot on combat missions with less than 5 hours in the airplane. Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with six Oak Leaf clussters, the Presidential Unit Citation with Oak Leaf Cluster and many more. Also was recalled to active duty during the Korean War and was assigned to Wright Patterson Air Base in Dayton, Ohio in the Air Technical Intelligence Center studying Soviet aircraft. Became Corporate Vice President, Central Regional Office for Northrop Aircraft in Dayton.
Bob Brinsmaid bio coming soon
Frank W. Buschmeier B-17 waist gunner in the 350th Squadron of the 100th Bomb Group ("The Bloody Hundredth") of the 8th Air Force. Based at Thorpe Abbotss, England. 34 missions until he was taken prisoner by the Germans after getting hit and bailing out of the heavily damaged B-17 "Randi Lou". Spent 9 months as a German POW, liberated in May 1945.
Leo Cavender A B-25 pilot with the island-hopping 41st Bomb Group (M) of the 7th Air Force in the South Pacific. His missions took him through the Gilbert, Marshall and Marianas Islands. While on Okinawa he was among the first "land based" B-25's to attack the Japanese mainland on Kyushu. He also witnessed the second atomic bomb over Nagasaki while returning from a bombing mission.
Bruce Cook bio coming soon
John Dennison a B-25 pilot with the 7th Air Force, 41st Group, 48th Squadron.
Cliff Dornette B-25 Pilot
Walter Downs top turret gunner, 10th AAF, 12th Bomb Group, 82nd Squadron. Stationed in India from November 1944 through September 1945. Flew 55 combat missions in a B-25 Bomber. Participated in the "fly-over" at the Victory Parade in Rangoon, Burma on June 15, 1945. Assigned to C-47 for "hump" flights in helping to move the 12th Bomb Group to China. Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal with two oak leaf clusters.
C. Don Fairbanks A tail gunner in a Consolidated B-24 Liberator with the "Carpetbaggers" in the 8th Air Force. All night missions dispatching supplies to the French and Belgium underground resistance, flew 30 missions. Author of the book Once Around the Patch, of Life. Don has over 33,000 flight hours in 335 makes and models of aircraft and is currently operating his helicopter flight training business since 1957.Tri-State Warbird Museum Contribution to Freedom Award recipient.
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Joe Fitzwater Joe Fitzwater was born June 11, 1924 in Terrace Park, Ohio. He entered military service March 1, 1943 into the world of photography at Lowry Field, Denver. Then went to Aerial Gunnery School in Brownsville, Texas training to become a top turret gunner on B-24s then advancing to Aerial Photo School at Will Rogers Field in Oklahoma. Joe was an aerial motion picture photographer with the 2nd Photo Recon Group in the Phillipine Islands in 1945 then at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida 1947-1950. Joe flew in many types of aircraft including the B-29, helicopters and jets logging over 3,000 hours. He was discharged at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho on March 15, 1953.
Dan Fulton WWII B-26 Martin Marauder medium bomber co-pilot with 23 missions over Germany. Served with the 375th Bomb Squadron, 391st Bomb Group. Entered service in 1943 and served until 1946
Theodore "Ted" "Taffy Three" Gardner enlisted as a gunnery officer then received a field commission becoming an Ensign on board ship in the Pacific Theater. Transferred to flight training. Ted is the Contribution to Freedom Award recipient for 2009.
Ken Glass U.S. Navy pilot flying from the USS Hornet ship with Torpedo Squadron Two. After the war he remained in the Naval Reserve as a pilot until 1972, retiring with the rank of Captain.
Charles L. Gribi
Based in England as the bombadier on the B-24 "Briney Martin". 31 missions from April through October 1944. On his 4th mission on May 27, 2944 Charlie survived a mid-air collisions with another B-24 in formation. The Briney Martin had extensive damage to the right wing but was able to land at the home base while the other B-24 and crew was lost. Crew 71, 755th Squadron, 458th Bombardment Group, 2nd Air Division. October 1944 went to Midland, Texas as an instructor at Bombadier School until the war's end. Charles Gribi website:
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Tom Griffin B-25 Navigator, one of the famous "Doolittle Raiders", flew with Lt. Col Jimmy Doolittle in the first mission against Japan in April 1942. Flew with Gen. Doolittle in the 12th Air Force in Africa from November 1942 until shot down and captured by the Germans on July 4, 1943. Tri-State Warbird Museum Contribution to Freedom Award recipient.
Alvin L. Hammond Enlisting in the Army in April 1942 Al Hammond was assigned to the 439th Signal Heavy Construction Battalion. October 1942 he sailed from England to North Africa. He worked as a lineman setting up vital communications for the 64th Air Force Fighter Wing. He was involved in combat in North Africa, Sicily Italy, Corsica, Southern France and Germany. On V-E Day May 8, 1945 Al was in Stuttgart, Germany. He was a member of the 64th Fighter Wing Battalion Championship Softball Team. He returned to the US October 1945.
Herbert Heilbrun B-17 Bomber Pilot with many missions over enemy territory, served in Italy and on one occasion returned to base with a badly damaged aircraft with members of his crew killed. He credits the Tuskegee Airmen with saving his life. A recipient of the Harvard Foundation Award for his efforts to educate the public on his experiences in the war, his appreciation for the role the Tuskegee Airmen played in the war and the unfairness of racism. Tri-State Warbird Museum Contribution to Freedom Award recipient.
Robert Hippert A navigator with the 11th Bomb Squadron of the 7th Bomb Group which became a squadron of the 341st Bomb Group serving in India and China. In July 1943 instructed with the Chinese-American Composite Wing at Malit, India.
Norbert Holtgrewe
Served in Japan with the Medical Detachment of the 4th Engineering Construction Group. Completed Surgical Technicians School in Denver, Colorado and Battle Creek, Michigan. Served as a Surgical Technician until September 1947. Norb is also one of the Tri-State Warbird Museum beloved volunteers! Thank you Norb!
Richard Hunt Joined the Navy's V-5 Program after leaving the U.S. Army Reserve at age 19. After two years of intensive flight training became a Naval Aviator designated as an F4U Fighter Bomber Pilot. His last training event was carrier qualification completed on August 12, 1945, three days before "V-J Day". Dick has 158 hours in the Corsair.
Olaf Kahn Major in the US Air Force, retired. Called for active duty for the Korean War in 1950 after serving in the West Virginia Air National Guard. Returning to active duty in 1962 for the Cuban missile crisis and continued active duty until retiring in 1979. Flown: C-123, C-130(over 5,000 hours in the C-130), PA-18, T-6, T-28, T-33, F-84, P-51, C-119. Flew in the US, Phillippines, Japan, England, Viet Nam, Europe, the Middle East, the Far East, and Africa.
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Bill Lahke P-51 pilot with the 353rd Fighter Group
John Leahr P-51 pilot and member of the Tuskegee Airmen. John served in the European Theater and had over 100 missions. He escorted his second grade Cincinnati classmate Herb Heilbrun's B-17 Bomber in combat. Awarded the Tri-State Warbird Museum Contribution to Freedom Award.
Frank Lohr Frank Lohr was a Sergeant in the US Army Air Corps. He was drafted in 1942 while a machinist with the Cincinnati Milling Machine Company (Milacron). A train ride from Batavia, Ohio to Ft Thomas, Kentucky began his military career, then Basic Training in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He attended the Academy of Aeronautics (now Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology) in New Jersey, then trained at LaGuardia Airport and Roosevelt Field. Moving to Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio he was a crew chief on a B-25. "Every day on the B-25 was different". Lohr tested the B-25 in preparation for the Doolittle Raid and was a Flight Engineer on one of the early B-29's. He also flew on B-32's and C-97's and was involved in testing the gas consumption capacity of the B-29 between Guam and Japan. He received a Bronze Star for his involvement in the air offensive over Japan. Frank was discharged in 1945 returning home to his wife Helen Gant Lohr. They have been married 71 years and have 4 daughters, 6 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. Frank retired from Milicron after a 47 year career. He remains active by volunteering, maintaining his home and deer hunting.
Robert Lorenz Enlisted July 27, 1944 into the Navy. Basic training at Sampson, New York. Radio School at Bainbridge, Maryland then on to Newport, Rhode Island. Stationed on the USS Pocano, a command post communications flagship. Discharged out of the Navy June 14, 1946. Retired from the Cincinnati Fire Department after serving 28 years.
J. Arnold McCann Personal body guard and chauffeur to General Stace in Guam, Served Army Air Corps 1943-1946, 25th Air Depot Group, 20th Air Force.
Milford Austin Merrill U.S. Navy Commander Austin Merrill earned the Navy Cross flying the Douglas Dauntless SBD dive bomber in the Battle of Midway in June 1942 - (he was then Ensign Merrill). Merrill was involved in 9 naval battles including Wake Island and Marcus Island. He was assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga. He also landed on the USS Hornet immediately after Jimmy Doolittle took off from the flight deck in a B-25 as the infamous Doolittle Raiders flight.
Dan Meyer
Edward W. Mohr Coxan 3rd class served on the U.S.S. Myrmidon - ARL16 in the Pacific are 1944-1946
Fred Naeve P-51 pilot flying with the 363rd Group in the European Theater
Charles G. Nau Flight Officer Army Air Corps November 1942 - December 1945. Radar Observer B-29. 485th Replacement Bomb Group, Smokey Hill Air Force Base, Celina, Kansas.
Richard Nichols C-47 pilot until 1945 flying evacuation routes ferrying wounded out of Europe to Rome, Georgia, Denver, Colorado and Buffalo, New York. Was part of the 8th and 5th Air Force. In 1942 resigned a Field Artillery Commission while a Dentistry student at Ohio State University in order to join the Army Air Force. Flight training was at the new (then) Kearns Army Air Base, Salt Lake City. Richard recently attended the second Honor Flight from Ohio to Washington, DC and is currently a resident of the Ohio Veterans Home in Georgetown, Ohio.
Lincoln W. Pavey Sergeant in the US Army 1944-1946. 104th AAA (AW) Batallion in the Asia-Pacific Theater as Master-Gunner. Positioned 16 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns guarding around airbases, etc. Fought in NewGuinea, helped Douglas MacArthur return to the Phillipines and liberate Manilla, occupied Japan after Harry Truman ended the was by dropping the bombs.
Otto Pobanz Naval Aviator 1942 - 1946 with the Naval Aviation Navigation Squadron. Primary mission was pilot training - transitioned new pilots to multi engine andTransport category aircraft and advanced instrument flying. Stationed in Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. LCDR US Naval Reserves.
Dick Pandorf Photo-Gunner on B-25's flying with the 341st Bomb Group out of India and later out of China. Recipient of the Tri-State Warbird Museum Contribution to Freedom Award.
Walter Paranuk served in the submarine service on the Razorback from 1943 - 1946 in the South Pacific.
Bruce Richardson B-17 tail gunner on the "Reluctant Dragon" with the 100th Bomb Group (the "Bloody Hundredth")in the European Theater, 33 missions.
Howard Ricke Howard Ricke (pronounced "ricky") was the wartime pilot of the TSWM TBM Avenger #53420 as a member of the VT-36. He flew the Avenger on anti-submarine patrol as he and his squadron traveled to the Pacific Theater aboard the USS Siboney - before their arrival the Japanese had surrendered. In the immediate aftermath of the war he participated in the search for Rear Admiral Sample, commander of the USS Hornet who was lost after his reconnaissance plane went down. After the war Howard spent the rest of his life raising his family in Batesville, IN, about an hour drive from Cincinnati. His family discovered the wonderful Avenger connection to the Tri-State Warbird Museum while researching his history in late 2013. Howard passed away in 1973.
James Burt Rishel After attending the University of Nebraska and becoming a Second Lt. in the Army Field Artillery, Burt transferred to the Army Air Corps to become an engineer working in the Glider Branch of Aircraft Laboratory at Wright Field, Ohio in June 1942. He worked for Lew Stowe, the civilian chief of the branch and the principal designer for the CG-10A glider. The design of this glider eventually developed into the first Assault Cargo aircraft. In 1945 Burt was given the temporary rank of Captain and in 1946 he left the Air Corps and returned to Lincoln, Nebraska to finish his education becoming a Professional Engineer.
D. James Robinson Originally from Amelia, Ohio, was a student at Ohio State when enlisted into the Army becoming a member of the 3rd Platoon, A Company. Late 1944 moving from France into Belgium Jim's platoon was overrun by the Germans and was lucky to escape. Saw fighting in the Battle of the Bulge, transitioned to the M-18 tank destroyer as a gunner. As a part of the 83rd Infantry division he fought his way across Germany to cross the Elbe River. Also served 4 years in the reserves during the Korean War.
Lawrence Rogers Served as an armored artillery officer in Europe in support of General Patton's push to Germany.
Harry O. Rohde B-24 pilot with the 15th Air Force - 451st Bomb Group
John A. Ruthven Drafted into the US Navy at age 18 in 1942. Anti-sub missions for 2 years aboard the Destroyer Escort U.S.S. J.R.Y. Blakely, DE-140 in the North Atlantic theater. On the way to the Pacific to prepare for an invasion of Japan the atomic bomb was dropped and they spent V-J Day in Honolulu. After the war ended an additional year was spent removing Japanese troops from bypassed islands. Picture is of John - top left- and mates sitting on a wrecked Japanese Zero.
John Sawyer B-17 pilot with the 548th Squadron, 385th Bomb Group based in Great Ashfield, England flying the European Theater. Training included primary in Hobbs, New Mexico and advanced training in Douglas, Arizona and then B-17 transition training at McGill Field, Tampa Florida. Headed to England aboard the QE2, John flew one mission in England before the war ended.
George Schultz Infantry Rifleman, U.S. Army in the Italian Theater 1945 - 1946.
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Douglas Short B-25 pilot
Gerald Siddall Served in the Atlantic and the Caribbean as the Senior Fire Control assigned to the Destroyer USS Dianchenko APD123. Following the war years became an engineer with Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.
Earl Slanker Flew the B-26 Martin Maurader for 63 missions in the Army Air Corps.
S. Arthur Spiegel Marine Corps Officer, served as a Forward Observer for numerous island assaults in the Pacific. Later served as an airborne observer in Stinson L-5 and TBM Avenger.
Jean Springer Ferry pilot in the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) flying PT-19, AT-6, DC-3/C-47, B-24, B-25, B-17.
John Steele, Sr. Naval Aviator serving in the Pacific. Pilot of the torpedo bomber TBM3 Avenger (same type airplane flown by President Bush '41). John had 270 carrier landings including 40 at night, and flew in 25 combat missions.
Charles Stix At age 17 enlisted in the Marine Corps, served with the First Marine Division, 3rd Armored Amphibian Tank Bn, in the landings on Peleliu and Okinawa. Also too part in the occupation of Japan. Was discharged at Great Lakes in 1946 as a corporal.
Daniel L. Wiot Army Air Corps 1943-1945. From Mt. Lookout, Cincinnati, Ohio. Flew 49 missions as an engineer gunner/bomber on a B-26 . Earned the Distinguished Flying Cross when he risked his life to get the stuck bomb bay doors to fully open before the bombs detonated still in the airplane. In the theaters: European, African, Middle Eastern. Was in the Battles: Ardennes, Rhineland, Central Europe, battle of the Bulge. Also earned the Air Medal with 8 bronze stars.
Russell B. Witte, Jr. B-25 Mitchell Bomber pilot with over 50 missions flying from North Africa over Sicily and Italy. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and 9 Air Medals. Later served as a test pilot at Eglin Field in Florida where he flew the camera planes during the filming of "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo".
Chris Wunnenberg, Jr. B-17 Bomber pilot assigned to the 96th Bomber Group flying from Snetterton Heath, England. The Wunnenberg crew completed 25 missions in 93 days on April 1, 1944, then an unofficial 8th Air Force record. That was also the day that the tour completion number was revised to 30 missions. The crew negotiated to fly 2 more. After 27 missions, Major Wunnenberg returned to the U.S. for B-17 instructor duties and later instructed in the B-29. He was ultimately transferred to a B-29 squadron which was alerted for duty in the Far East, but the war ended shortly before they were to deploy. Chris earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and multiple Air Medals.
Gordon W. Yuellig B-25 student officer instructor pilot at Enid Army Air Field until October 1945. Born in Cincinnati, Married Shirley Lance 1942, happily married for 62 years until she passed away February 2004. Currently boasts 8 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. Still fits into his uniform.
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Rafting on the Deerfield River
Charlemont, MA— May 6, 2011 — Several West County businesses have been selected as a "Best of New England/Editor's Choice" in Yankee Magazine's annual Travel Guide issue. "Best of new England" choices are made by special assignment editors who personally select travel activities in each New England state.
Zoar Outdoor's Deerfield River raft trips were selected as the "Best Rafting" under Massachusetts Adventures. Double Edge Theater in Ashfield was chosen as the "Best Farm Theater" under Local Secrets and The Green Emporium in Colrain received the "Best Church Supper" in the Food & Dining category.
Outdoor enthusiasts visiting western Massachusetts can tumble down two sections of the Deerfield River through family friendly rapids or exhilarating whitewater or zip through the trees on Zoar Outdoor's Canopy Tour. After a day of adventure, try a thin-crust custom pizza served in Colrain's former church on the common at the Green Emporium's Pizzeria. If the night is still young, there's time to catch the Summer Spectacle, a unique production of music, song, dance and story at Double Edge Theater nights during July or August. Lodging in the area can be easily arranged at one of the many rustic bed and breakfast locations in the valley.
"Our special travel issue includes page after page of secrets and whispers. It covers New England's unique landscape, its attractions, and the people who create the flavors, crafts, and lodgings that lend their richness to memorable travel," says Yankee editor Mel Allen. "It's about the secrets we whisper to family and friends when we come home from seeing new places. We think of our 'Bests' as secrets whispered to friends—in this case, the loyal readers of Yankee Magazine."
The 2011 Travel Guide features "Best of New England — Editors' Choice" selections, which include the best restaurants, lodgings, attractions, local secrets, and bargains in the region. For 34 years, Yankee Magazine's Travel Guide to New England has been the most widely distributed and best-selling guide to the six-state region, providing readers with a comprehensive vacation-planning tool and daily reference.


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John J Healey
28679, Private, 22nd Welsh Regiment
Died of drowning, 23 November 1915, aged 25
Buried at the Great Orme Cemetery
CWGC registered (Son of Edward and Margaret Jane Healey, of 3, Robinson St, Stalybridge, Cheshire)
John Healey is not commemorated on any local war memorials. However, he was interred in the Great Orme Cemetery in 1915. This would appear to be John Healey's only connection with Llandudno and this page is included for interest only.
John Healey was born on 22 September 1890 at Dukinfield, Cheshire. He was the son of a cotton spinner, Edward Healy, and his wife Margaret Jane (née Morris). The family lived in various addresses in Dukinfield and Stalybridge, John attending both St. John's Church of England Primary School, Dukinfield and St. Peter's School in Stalybridge. In 1911, the family was resident at 3 Robinson Street, Stalybridge; John was recorded as being employed as a cotton piecer, a precarious occupation under spinning mules often carried out by children which suggests that John Healey was of slight stature.
John Healey's service record no longer exists but it is recorded that he enlisted into the Welsh Regiment at Stalybridge with a regimental number of 28679. Judging from the record of a soldier with a consecutive service number, it is likely that John Healey joined up in May 1915 into the 18th (Service) Battalion of the Welsh Regiment. The 18th WR was a Bantam Battalion that had formed at Cardiff in January 1915 before moving to Prees Heath in Shropshire. At the end of August 1915, both the 17th and 18th WR left Prees Heath for Aldershot but without their respective depot companies (including John Healey). These two depot companies were amalgamated to form the 22nd (Reserve) Battalion which moved to the Morpha Camp at Conwy in October 1915.
On 23 November 1915, John Healey and a companion, John Holding, were on guard duty near the Deganwy Ferry. Both were cut off on a sandbank by the incoming tide and were drowned. The body of John Healey was found on the West Shore on 2 January 1916. John Holding was found two days later at Blackpool. Verdicts of accidental death were recorded.
Known memorials:
Stalybridge War Memorial


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Crisis at Jagdeep Bachher's University of California Investment Office
Illustrations by Rob Dobi
A famous investor faces serious charges of mismanagement.
By Leanna Orr
Niclas Winterstorm says he took a job from Jagdeep Bachher on a handshake deal, then quit when he realized "Jagdeep cheated me."
Eduard van Gelderen — now chief investment officer of a massive Canadian pension fund — spent a year at the University of California's investment office in Oakland working for Bachher. Van Gelderen says he was shocked at his first board meeting to see "one of the investment fellows literally carrying Jagdeep's suitcases." It was a trend. "Every single Friday a guy goes shopping at the farmer's market in downtown Oakland for Arthur" — Guimaraes, Bachher's righthand man — "and Jagdeep. It goes so far that when Arthur went on holiday, he ordered one of his guys to actually bring out the garbage [at his house]. They really didn't like to do it, but felt that they were forced into a position that they needed to do these things."
Van Gelderen quit his post as senior managing director in July — one year almost to the day since he'd joined the $118 billion investment office. The team lost three core members within weeks this summer, none of whom had successors in place or gave more than a few weeks' notice. Scott Chan — head of UC's $55 billion stock portfolio since 2015 — kicked things off in late June. Then, in early July, investment officer Tom Fischer announced on a Monday that his last day would be Friday. He told a reporter on his way out the door that "there has been a high number of departures, and I expect there will be more. I think the proof is in the pudding." Fischer was proven right less than two days later, when news broke of van Gelderen's exit.
Those three followed scores of others who've left since Bachher became UC's chief investment officer in the spring of 2014. By Bachher's own estimation, more than three quarters of the 46- or 47-person staff has turned over. Shake-ups and exits are expected when a new leader takes over. But if the first wave of turnover can be justified as the natural transition to a new administration, this second wave can't be.
Approximately half of the people Bachher's team hired are gone, including van Gelderen, Fischer, Chan, and Winterstorm; real estate director Lindsey Adams; senior advisers Ashby Monk, Brian Gibson, and Amy Meyers Jaffe; and support professionals Julie Lydon, JoAnne Yonemura, and Karla Campbell.
Some left amicably, as Bachher points out. Campbell hit her ten-year service threshold and retired to start her own business. ("Jagdeep has a vision," she said when contacted.)
Gibson and Bachher had previously worked together, and Gibson spent a year on contract advising on the public equities portfolio and who should lead it, Bachher says. "When we hired Scott Chan, Brian's term ended."
In other cases, Bachher's account conflicts with those of his former staff members. Of former senior adviser Monk, Bachher says, "He still works for us." But according to Monk, "I went off the payroll in October 2016 and have not been formally working there since."
Furthermore, Bachher says that when Winterstorm moved from Norway to the Bay Area in 2014, the understanding was always that he'd be a temporary consultant. "Nic Winterstorm was with us on a contractual term. When his contract expired, he left."
Winterstorm flatly denies that this was the plan. His former co-workers agree. "He fooled me," says Winterstorm, who had worked at Norway's $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund for eight years and left a senior post there to join UC. During negotiations, he recalls, "Jagdeep asked me if it was okay to be a contract employee and we could adjust it later — that this was a smoother, faster way for me to get hired. I said, 'Yes, let's shake on it. And then we can revisit this in a year: both the salary and changing contract to being a staff employee.' I trusted him totally." But a year passed, and nothing changed. Winterstorm resigned when he felt that nothing ever would, and faults himself for taking Bachher at his word. Still, he says, "I felt screwed: no bonus, no salary increase, no permanency." (Bachher himself said in late 2014 that he'd created the role of operational risk management director specifically for Winterstorm, with no mention of a temporary contract. "I've known him for a while and thought, 'He can really add value,' " Bachher said at the time. "So let's create a job for him.")
This second wave of departures likely hasn't crested. At least three members of the senior investment staff are actively eyeing the door. "I am hanging by a thread," says one, who, like all current employees, spoke on the condition of anonymity owing to investment office policy and fear of retribution. Another says, "I of course am looking. The reason I haven't walked out the door yet is because I'm looking for the right opportunity." In the words of a third senior investor, "The only people who stay here are those who can't leave."
Before there was an exodus, there was an anonymous email.
From: <redacted>@gmail.com
Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 1:56 PM
To: leanna.orr@institutionalinvestor.com
Subject: UC REGENTS - ASK QUESTIONS
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN A GOOD STORY, THERE ARES A LOT OF INTERESTING STUFFS GOING ON AT UC REGENTS THAT IS NOT EXACTLY PROPER.
FIRST – PAUL WACHTER, WAS THE REGENT WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIRING JAGDEEP BACHHER (YOU SPOKES TO HIM FOR ANOTHER ARTICLE). UC REGENTS IS INVESTING $250 MN IN A FUND THAT WACHTER IS LAUNCHING. SEEM UNUSUAL? ASK QUESTIONS
SECOND – JAGDEEP BACHHER CREATED UC VENTURES TO INVEST IN BEST IDEAS EMERGING FROM THE UC PROFESSORS. HE HIRED VIVEK RANDIVE TO OVERSEES THE INVESTMENTS. THE PRESS RELEASE ANNOUNCING THIS WENT OUT BEFORE RANDIVE SIGNED THE DOCUMENTS. […]
THIRD – LOTS MORE CRAZY STUFF GOING ON IN DC PLAN AND ALSO WITH THE COO ARTHUR G (USING JUNIOR STAFF FOR PERSONAL ERRANDS AND STRANGE TRANSACTIONS); CALL STAFF AND SEE HOW UPSETS THEY ARE.. THEY WILL SPILL A LOT OF BEANS….LOTS OF QUESTIONABLE INVESTMENTS AND PROCESS. WILL MAKE FOR FUN READINGS.
At that point, all I knew of UC's investment office was its precipitous rise under Bachher, who had recruited arguably the most star-studded team of institutional investors on the planet. Performance has also been solid: The pension and endowment funds have outperformed their passive benchmarks over the past three years. The anonymous tipster refused to speak by phone — "SORRY – NO TALK" — but continued to pass tips and urge investigation.
Could it be an elaborate catfishing expedition? An attempt to suss out leakers or to trick II into publishing false information? Or, most likely, was it just a disgruntled low-level staffer trying to stick it to the boss who'd sidelined him or her?
Aiming to find out, on February 28 I replied, in part, "Why do you think the staff is mostly unhappy (if they are)? It's disheartening — I remember how excited everyone was to be part of that team."
HE HIRED TOP TALENTS AND CLAIMED HE WOULD GIVE THEM AUTHORITY, BUT HAS TRASHED THEM REALLY BADLY IN PUBLIC MEETINGS AND NOT DELEGATED ANY RESPONSIBILITY. CLAIMS HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO MAKES DECISIONS (!!!) BUT DOES NOT TAKE THEIR ADVICES. MADE ARBITRARY DECISIONS (AND THEN TRIES TO STUFF HIS DECISIONS IN THEIR PORTFOLIOS - LOOK AT WACHTER INVESTMENT...) SO THESE TOP GUNS ARE UPSET AS THERE IS NO PROCESS OR ACCOUNTABILITY. MAKES STUPID JOKES ABOUT THESE STAFFS IN FRONT OF OUTSIDERS. HE ONCE BOUGHT A CAKE FOR A STAFFS BIRTHDAY AND NO ONE ATE IT IN A FORM OF SILENT PROTEST.
Then, a few weeks later: "THE MESS GROWS…ASK ABOUT THE MANULIFE TRANSACTION."
I did, while casually chatting off-the-record with a member of UC's leadership team.
The question was met with stunned silence.
Then: "How do you know about Manulife?"
Whoever this pensions Deep Throat was, he or she knew about a highly confidential and closely held deal in the works. For months a small group of staffers has been working through a multibillion-dollar portfolio of assets that insurance firm Manulife is quietly looking to sell. Bachher, who used to work at Manulife, sourced the deal. "He came out very excited about it," says one of his senior employees. It had megatransaction potential, which the staff has winnowed down to a smaller pool of attractive assets. "It's a tough deal, but I think the outcome is very positive," the investor says. "Jagdeep is a great dealmaker. He has the communication skills, he has the mission, he has these moments of genius. But he's not an investor," notes the employee, who has a more positive relationship with the CIO than do most of his counterparts.
In his and others' view, the Manulife transaction represents the substantial value Bachher can bring to an investment organization. "He brings groups of people together and makes connections with whole firms, like Goldman. I believe if he was kept in constraints, he would be great. The Regents" — UC trustees on the investment committee — "are weak. They're terrible. They are all smart, successful people with no incentive to govern."
UC's governance model endows the chief investment officer with extraordinary power and provides scant oversight. There is no investment office CEO to serve as a check on the CIO, as is the case at many other funds of UC's size and complexity. As it is, Bachher's employee thinks "he shouldn't have this job." But what if UC had a proactive investment board of Regents, and they installed a CEO?
The employee pauses and takes a long gaze toward UC's office tower.
"No. No, the Regents should remove him."
Jagdeep Singh Bachher, now in his mid-40s, has been a darling of the institutional investment world since his mid-30s. Stewards of massive pools of capital — public pension funds, university endowments, sovereign wealth vehicles, and the like — tend to be staid, thoughtful types who've proven themselves over decades. They're well paid by public service standards but could earn much more on Wall Street and yet choose not to. In that way, institutional chief investment officers resemble district attorneys, eschewing private sector millions each year they spend working on behalf of the many. Bachher made the leap in 2009, leaving wealth management and corporate insurance investing for the prestigious Alberta Investment Management Corp., which runs provincial resource and pension assets.
Yet the CIO perch at the University of California is even more prestigious. To win it from Bachher's position in 2014 — responsible for a $500 million venture and innovation program at Aimco — was a feat. And he won it outright.
Contrary to some rumors, UC's selection committee got its No. 1 pick in Bachher, according to former investment chair and hiring chief Paul Wachter, who stepped down from the board in February 2016. Bachher was the only person to receive an offer. Some obvious targets such as Chris Ailman — the powerhouse veteran CIO of California's teachers' retirement system — declined to pursue the job, says someone involved in the search, but this is typical.
"We interviewed five or six people and narrowed it down to two finalists: Jagdeep and another guy, more of a hard-core public equities investor type," says Wachter, whose firm, Main Street Advisers, manages the personal fortunes of the celebrity elite, said to include LeBron James, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bono, and Jimmy Iovine. The committee took its time, Wachter says, and was pressured only to pick a successful CIO — not to name someone quickly or from UC's alumni pool.
"I felt from the beginning that you never know when you hire someone, but he had very strong credentials from Canada," Wachter remembers. "Clearly, Jagdeep was incredible on process; my concern was with the investing. So we interviewed a lot of people, and everybody said, 'No, he's a really good investor.' " UC's hiring committee checked his references, and they checked out. The fact that Aimco's leadership no longer desired a future with Bachher did not, apparently, come up.
Former Aimco CEO Leo de Bever oversaw both Bachher and Guimaraes throughout their formative years in Edmonton, from 2009 until they left for California in 2014. He praises Bachher's early work as then-COO through Aimco's chaotic stage, and his late-tenure management of the venture and innovation fund. "That was a really tough place to be, and he did a pretty decent job," says his former boss. The problems arose in the middle. When de Bever put his COO in charge of a critical systems upgrade, Bachher's "hierarchical" management style made true believers out of some people, Guimaraes included, and alienated others. "So I had to intervene toward the end and step in and make some quick shifts. That didn't go over very well," de Bever recalls.
Ultimately, "he was not asked to leave, [but] I think he saw the writing on the wall. If you're alone and you're not interacting with the rest of the team, your opportunity for advancement is probably going to be limited." Still, de Bever says, "he did a tremendous job projecting an image in front of the board. The whole management team may have been in line with what I was trying to do" — consciously uncouple Aimco and Bachher — "but when he finally announced he was leaving, it caused me some grief. In other words, the notion was we should have kept him because he was a good guy. And I'm not saying he's not a good guy. He's a very bright guy in many, many ways. But when you run an organization of 350 people and you have the four or five senior managers on the technical and on the investment side, they all need to interact in a productive way, and that was very difficult."
De Bever is reluctant to air criticisms of his former charge. He goes on the record grudgingly, and only for fact-checking.
"No one is 100 percent pure," he says.
Flawlessly turned out in a royal-blue knit tie, a navy turban, and a slim suit, Jagdeep Bachher doesn't want to give himself too much credit.
"My job is just to explain what the opportunity set is, but ultimately, I can't make families move cities without them being compelled based on the opportunity and what it means for them," he says of the investment supergroup that's now splintering apart in downtown Oakland. "I wouldn't necessarily take it as my recruiting ability. I'm not the one with $120 billion, right?"
Van Gelderen had helped oversee $530 billion at APG Asset Management, and took a pay cut to work for Bachher. "I just bought the story," he admits. "That's basically what it was. I thought, Well, let's give it a try; it could be very interesting and a great experience. Turned out to be a very different experience."
The theory Bachher pitched so successfully gave each senior player three dimensions to his or her role: product, asset class, and region. For van Gelderen that meant owning the $67 billion pension fund, the $55 billion public equities portfolio, and all of Europe. Any deal or decision crossing one of these axes was his to work on — in theory.
"At the end of the day, it is basically Jagdeep who has full control and full responsibility of every position," van Gelderen explains. "We might have responsibilities on paper, but the reality is we don't have any responsibilities at all. You could argue that Jagdeep discussed different positions with his senior leadership team, but I never felt empowered to make any decisions. I don't think anyone in the senior leadership team felt differently. So what happens is everything moved up to Jagdeep, and he decided on everything."
The stakes of unilateral decision-making became unsettlingly obvious last year, according to four senior investors serving at the time. Bachher decided to invest about $250 million with Main Street Advisors, the wealth management outfit run by ex–investment chair and Bachher backer Wachter. The deals broke no UC rules and had approval from the Office of the General Counsel, as Bachher stresses when asked about it.
Yet four senior investment experts, all fiduciaries for the University of California, say they opposed the move. At Bachher's direction, UC channeled $20 million into a commingled fund and $220 million into a separate account focusing on real estate and private equity. Neither private equity head John Beil nor real estate chief Gloria Gil wanted Wachter's funds in their portfolios, according to two of their co-workers at the time. The investment ended up floating in a mixed bucket for a year, before "getting forced on John Beil." The problems, as per members of Bachher's UC team: Main Street Advisors has only high-net-worth investors, it was a first-time fund, and it charges fees on committed capital instead of deployed. In summary, as one person puts it, it's "run by a very successful investor and not an institutional product."
"I respect Paul Wachter. I don't want to malign him, and this isn't his fault," says a UC investor who was brought into the process late. "It was clear to me that it was not something we were interested in doing. We're not interested in Cleveland, Ohio–type properties that are LeBron James's friend or something. I know John Beil declined, even though I understand it's going to be put in private equity now. I think this is one of those instances where Jagdeep really sold his power. He likes the power of saying, 'We can invest with you.' " And they did.
Bachher contends that Gil and Beil never told him not to make the investments. But pressed to confirm that he had their buy-in, he declined to do so. "Look, ultimately, I am the chief investment officer, and on any investment we make it's not likely we have a unanimous decision to proceed," he explains.
Informed of the team members' opposition to his funds, Wachter admits "it upsets me. Because I really love the UC, and I spent 12 years busting my ass for them. I did everything possible to make this as right as I could [as far as institutional due diligence], and I never had any indication that there was anyone objecting to it," Wachter says. "I think that Jagdeep has a vision, which maybe his people don't share or haven't completely gotten around to yet. He really wants to expand the relationships at the UC beyond the traditional big private equity guys to, for example, working with family offices." Throughout an hourlong conversation, during which the celebrity investor had a "conference room of people waiting," Wachter circled back to the same belief. "I hope, in the end, we'll prove him right."
If hearing that his employees say he abuses power gave Bachher a moment's pause, it wasn't apparent during our interview.
Is it true, I asked, that staffer Bill Byrd personally grocery-shops for him and Arthur every Friday at Oakland's farmer's market on UC time, as six current and former team members assert? Does Arthur have data and analytics director Albert Yong ferry him and his family to and from the airport when they go on vacation and, on at least one occasion, take out the garbage at their house?
"Look, the farmers' market is right here," Bachher replies, unfazed and flexing that famous charm. "It's a Friday ritual at our office. I don't do groceries. I'm addicted to buying strawberries on Fridays, and I go religiously. Our companion is Bill Byrd. In fact, even if I forget — 99 percent of the time I'm in a meeting or doing something else — I'm usually dragged out, and he's saying, 'Hey, let's go to the market to get strawberries.' Look, when you have a family-type of organization and you're friends, this is part of the culture, right? I have never felt that by going to the market with my colleagues to have lunch or buy strawberries is asking them to do chores for us, in all sincerity."
What Bachher defends as familial culture, many of his employees past and present label a habitual abuse of power. These incidents also appear to violate UC's standards of ethical conduct, which prohibit use of system resources, including "effort of university personnel," for personal purposes, particularly if it conflicts with official duties, as witnesses say the errands do. As one former staffer says, "I remember I really needed some portfolio data, like now, and I'm trying to find the data guy" — Albert Yong — "then I'm told he's driving Arthur to the airport? What?"
"Albert Yong is extremely upset by the situation," says another ex-member of the senior leadership. Yong, a Canadian, worked at Aimco with Guimaraes and Bachher, and moved with his wife to California when they recruited him to UC. "He was forced to take over Arthur's lease, and when he said he couldn't afford it, Arthur reminded him of the 'great relocation package' he'd negotiated for Albert," the same investor recalls. (Yong did not respond to multiple attempts to reach him.) A co-worker observes that the data manager "spent a lot of time in and out of Jagdeep's office" around the time of Bachher's interview for this story, and suspects Yong was "interrogated" about leaking.
"A lot of things are asked of people against their will," says the senior investor. Most people say no sooner or later, according to half a dozen inside accounts. But Yong feels his green card application is being leveraged to coerce him, so he capitulates to acting as errand boy, as several people recount from firsthand conversations.
Bachher denies this. "I don't want to comment on Albert's case — but the punchline is that it's not up to me. We're not in the business of hiring people illegally. We cannot promise a visa, and we never will."
The same day Tom Fischer told the world he had quit and that co-workers would follow, Eduard van Gelderen got the phone call from Canada he'd been waiting for. An immigration lawyer for the C$153 billion Public Sector Pension Investment Board confirmed that he would be PSP's next investment chief, pending a trip to Canada to secure his visa. Bachher was overseas, so van Gelderen informed Guimaraes of his resignation and emailed Bachher the details regarding PSP.
Word of his impending exit reached me the next day, but van Gelderen refused to say where he was headed after UC. Until he had a visa, he didn't have a job.
Nevertheless, shortly before midnight July 12, Guimaraes emailed official comment for the story.
Eduard has informed us that PSP has offered him their CIO position and made all necessary work permit arrangements for him and his family to work and reside in Canada.
Eduard said "Given the job content, the organization and the positive side effects of being in Canada (Montreal) I have decided to accept their offer."
We are excited that our talent from the University of California Office of the Chief Investment Officer is attractive to large US and Canadian asset owners in leadership roles. Over the last 4 years as people have done innovative things, we have even had 4 individuals leave to take on CIO title positions at endowments, family offices and pension plans in US and now Canada.
We will not be replacing Eduard's role and his responsibilities will be assumed by internal teams.
We wish Eduard and his family the best and look forward to collaborate with him over the long term.
For a major institution to leak confidential information about another organization, and its own employee, is extraordinary. Van Gelderen's quote came from his resignation email to Bachher, implying van Gelderen had been party to the release. Within moments, Guimaraes pinned the statement on his boss, as van Gelderen frantically tried to keep Institutional Investor from publishing it. By midnight the immigration lawyer, the CEO of PSP, and the editor-in-chief of II had all been roused to handle the chaos. II declined to publish the leaked information.
Van Gelderen was livid with Bachher. "I assume there's a relationship of trust between an employer, Jagdeep, and an employee, myself," he says. "So if I share very confidential information with him, the very last thing I expect is that he is going to put it in some kind of press release without telling me. It was a total surprise. My very first reaction was 'Well, there is no trust between you and me anymore.' I was very upset." His new bosses at PSP were likewise shocked by the situation, he adds. PSP had meticulously managed the internal communications to inform the staff directly. "Suddenly they were confronted with this situation, where now our board members will actually read this in the papers. Not nice."
Bachher insists it was an innocent mistake. "I figured the whole world knew. I'm sitting at a different part of the world here, right?" He says multiple people contacted him about the rumors and pointed out that van Gelderen had not marked his resignation email private and confidential. "If I would have known, of course, I wouldn't have done that."
Dutch-language trade publication Pensioen Pro eventually broke the PSP news the following week. Bachher "reported in his email to Pensioen Pro the new job of van Gelderen at the Canadian PSP," the author says. The news editor who assigned the story "100 percent" confirms his reporter got the emailed PSP scoop at least two days after Bachher leaked it the first time.
If Bachher didn't know it was confidential the first time around, he certainly did the second time.
Van Gelderen believes Bachher betrayed him for optics, to make UC's second resignation in two days appear less damaging. "Clearly, it helped if he could have used the PSP name. And he probably knew that if he had asked me, I would have said no."
Among the most common justifications for UC's rampant turnover is that people have left for stellar jobs. Indeed, the quality of institutions eager to snap up UC's talent attests to Bachher's preternatural recruiting ability. But even that's faltering.
As team members drop away, replacing them becomes more and more challenging. "It's hard to recruit when your heart is not there and you want to leave," says one senior staff member. "It's hard to look someone in the eye and lie to them — to say, 'You should come work here. It's a good place.' "
But the people empowered to resolve the crisis are also the ones unable or unwilling to see that it exists, according to many team members current and former. "The board has no idea. They love him. But the market knows" who Bachher is, his employee says. "We all have to wait for the Regents to realize it."
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Posted on January 17, 2019 January 17, 2019 by Fritzi Kramer
What's your most-wanted lost silent film?
This is a bit of a sad topic but every silent film fan has a wishlist of a few (or a lot) of movies that are missing and presumed lost. I want to hear about yours.
Me? I would absolutely love to see the 1926 Milton Sills vehicle Men of Steel. It's all about the steel industry but I am shallow. I love the ad campaign:
What's on your list? The original versions of The Great Gatsby or Gentlemen Prefer Blondes? Something more obscure? Something famous like the ever-elusive London After Midnight? (I covered that film extensively in my review of its direct remake, if you're interested.)
Which films would you save from the flames?
Share your title or your list and let's commiserate!
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50 Replies to "What's your most-wanted lost silent film?"
Stephen Persing says:
London After Midnight, even though I'm certain it will disappoint. Alternately, Der Januskopf or Life Without Soul.
Oh – or Harry Langdon's Heart Trouble.
I think there will be initial disappointment (can ANYTHING live up to that hype) but then a cooler reassessment once the novelty wears off and we'll probably agree it's pretty good. 😉
James Knuttel says:
"Wanderer of the Wasteland" (1924), directed by Irvin Willat, and starring Jack Holt and Billie Dove. A western based on a novel by Zane Grey and filmed entirely in two-color Technicolor. A few frames survive to gives as a sampling of an early color film. It looks fascinating.
Steven K. Hill says:
Hello Fritzi,
There are so many potentially great lost silent films that its hard to choose, but F.W. Murnau's 4 DEVILS tops the list for me. Wouldn't mind seeing his take on the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde story (DER JANUS-KOPF) with Conrad Veidt either.
Indrid Âû Em says:
I agree about Der Janus-Kopf!
Beyond a doubt, the complete version of Greed.
Cleopatra with Theda Bara.
The Miracle Man (1919).
bP says:
Theda Bara's "Cleopatra" and her version of "Salome", both were world wide hits. You'd think such films would have a print somewhere?!?! Besides that, the 1915 "The Golem" is another I would love to see. I know fragments are online and I have heard a rumor a print does exist in Eastern Europe but nothing concrete has come surfaced.
Oh, people are mentioning the ones I am thinking of already!
Greed (uncut) if it existed
4 Devils, what a shame it is lost.
Lon Chaney in The Miracle Man and Thunder.
Colleen Moore's Flaming Youth and We Moderns, the latter said to have an amazing ending.
Clara Bow's lost output from 1928 I think it was, when she was the top star in Hollywood.
Something by Theda Bara, certainly.
Whatever can be found of the Baby Peggy films as Diana Serra Cary is still with us at 100!
The Great Gatsby for sure. Bonus, that it features William Powell in his "silent bad guy" days!
I think we're going to see a lot of overlap with the big name lost films. They're sought after for a reason!
Kathie Wilson says:
You named two – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and The Great Gatsby. But I'd also love to see Daphne and the Pirates which starred Lillian Gish and Elliott Dexter. It sounds like a take on "Manon Lescault".
Movie Movie Blog Blog says:
Hats Off, the Holy Grail of Laurel & Hardy comedies.
Seconded!!!
Dwight Davis says:
Cleopatra with Theda Bara and all of Colleen Moore's lost films
Carol B says:
Would like to see more of the African American silent films, esp. from the Norman Studios. And Railroad Porter from 1912.
The original 'Dark Angel' with Ronald Colman, plus 'The Patriot,' 'Flaming Youth,' Bara's ' Cleopatra,' and many more too numerous to mention!
Barbara Ommerle says:
Would so love to see The Great Gatsby. The trailer provides exciting glimpses of performances, costumes, and sets.
mary mallory says:
I'd love to see HOLLYWOOD (1923) since virtually every major silent star has a cameo in it and the stills show that it was shot all over Hollywood. HUMAN WRECKAGE (1923) would also be great, because it probably be the first major addiction picture ever made, one offering solutions beyond "Just Say No." The stills also show that it concluded with at least one scene with real people (Dan O'Brien, SF Chief of Police, LA Police chief, Rufus Von Kleinsmid, President of USC, and others) discussing how to solve addiction.
Steven Higgins says:
The Sea Gull (aka A Woman of the Sea). 1926. Directed by Josef von Sternberg. Produced by Charles Chaplin. Starring Edna Purviance, Eve Sothern, Raymond Bloomer, Gayne Whitman, Charles French. After one private screening, Chaplin permanently shelved the film. It is presumed lost/destroyed.
Tourneur's A BLIND BARGAIN with Lon Chaney,and TREASURE ISLAND. Clara Bow movies THE RUNAWAY by William de Mille and ROUGH HOUSE ROSIE.
R.D. Stock says:
As an admirer of the novel, I'd love to see "The Great Gatsby." BUT: it's hard to argue against the complete version of "Greed."
Peyton James Ennis says:
I would love someone to find "Saved from the Titanic" (1912), the short film starring Dorothy Gibson, the actress who survived the disaster. It was even shot on the Olympic, Titanic's sister ship. Aagh. So interesting!
At least we have the German film "In Nacht und Eis" which came out the same year.
Stephen Robertson says:
Humor Risk (or Humorisk), the legendary lost Marx Brothers' short. Almost certainly a terrible film, but it would be fascinating to see them in 1921, and to see Groucho and Chico doing silent comedy.
Shane Brown says:
I'm still not sure what the fascination is with London After Midnight – it got pretty bad reviews. Presumably the hype derives from the part it played in a UK murder trial a year or two later, when the murderer said he had visions of Lon Chaney in his makeup. But the remake with Lugosi is only an average film, too. If we got London after Midnight, it's likely to be a huge disappointment. I think Thunder or Tower of Lies (reuniting him with Sjostrom) would be more interesting Chaney finds. Beyond those, it would be great to have some more films by people we have very few feature films of such as Theda Bara, or even some of the more interesting lost Clara Bow movies such as The Ancient Mariner. And who wouldn't want to see Wally Reid as Dorian Gray, or Bela Lugosi and Conrad Veidt in Der Januskopt by Murnau?
As discussed above, we may very well be disappointed but at least it will be from first-hand experience. However, it is impossible to discern the unique flavor of a film from stills, reconstructions or even remakes. (The Tod Browning who made The Mark of the Vampire was not the same Tod Browning of the 1920s, that's for sure.) Relative quality is really beside the point anyway.
UltraMatt says:
Oh man…so probably Hats Off! (I'm a big laurel and hardy fan and I'd love to see the source of The Music Box's gags). As much as the story is controversial, I'd love them to find both film versions of A Study in Scarlet (seriously..how did it happen that BOTH have gone missing!!). The Golem (the first film) would be a nice find as well.
Forgot to mention "Red Hair", 1928 Clara Bow flick. Really interested in how that color footage fits into the film.
Joe Thompson says:
I would like to see Lloyd Hamilton's short comedies for Educational in the 1920s. Nearly all of them were destroyed in a lab fire in 1937.
So many mentions of 'London After Midnight,' but at least we have a complete stills reconstruction of that. There are so many lost treasures that we can't even get a glimpse of. I yearn for the 48 missing films of my adored Corinne Griffith.
mercurie80 says:
As a fan of the novel, it would be the silent version of The Great Gatsby for me.
richardsd3 says:
A complete "The River", directed by Frank Borzage and starring Charles Farrell and Mary Duncan, is at the top of my list, since the available truncated version, missing the first and last reels, is absolutely fascinating! Of course, it's possible that the set-up and ending reels would only detract from the mysterious core of the film.
Mim says:
Gatsby is definitely mine. Though also on my list is something not lost but rarely shown: the PG Wodehouse golf story films in the BFI's collection. Like Gatsby and Gentlemen Prefer blondes, the original stories are so very 1920s I'd love to see how people in the 20s actually imagined them, free from any sort of nostalgia.
Lost Silents (A Dream Quest)…… I'm in a second-hand shop and buy a huge old upright clothes trunk. The trunk has no keys to unlock it, so price is dirt cheap. I take it home, fiddle the locks with a screwdriver and an awl, it suddenly pops open and inside are (perfectly preserved, of course):
The Brute, The House Behind The Cedars, The Miracle Man, Human Wreckage, The Haunted Bedroom, Fuss and Feathers, The Serpent, Heart and Soul, Cleopatra, and every one of Milton Sills' lost films!!!
hisfamestilllives says:
Despite not finding favour with the critics, and many fans, A Sainted Devil (1924), is one I'd personally like to see found and restored.
There's a lost version of Jack London's "The Sea Wolf" starring Hobart Bosworth, and with Jack London himself playing a sailor.
Also, I second all of the above!
I would love to have the opportunity to even be disappointed by London after Midnight 🙂
detour1945 says:
Lots of great choices have already been listed, I just want to add:
More Theda Bara films!
Conrad Veidt's "Anders als die Andern", of which only sparse fragments have been found.
I would love to see Xie Caizhen's 'An Orphan's Cry' and the missing reels of Marion E. Wong's 'The Curse of the Quon Gwon'.
Scott Lueck says:
Not a specific film, per se, but I'd love it if someone found a treasure trove of Harold Lloyd's early Lonesome Luke shorts.
debi akin says:
Rough House Rosie & Red Hair are tops on my list!!
Alexsandro Lopes Vieira says:
I'd like to add a complete version of Victor Sjöström's The Divine Woman.
Those Who Dance (1924) with Bessie Love, Blanche Sweet and Warner Baxter. I can't resist a crime drama with such a great cast.
More Florence La Badie movies would be welcome too.
Glenn Miller says:
I agree with many of these great comments! Here are a few of my own that were not mentioned: The Battle Of Gettysburg – 1913 – Directed by Thomas Ince , The Jungle – 1914 – First Adaptation Of Upton Sinclair's Controversial Novel The Life Of General Villa – 1914 – A Graphic Look At Pancho Villa's Army A Daughter Of The Gods- 1916 – Annette Kellerman Starring Vehicle, With An Infamous Nude Scene, And The Miracle Man – 1919 – A Movie Serial Starring Ex-Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J Corbett. I'm a big pre-1920 film fan!
silentroom49 says:
Surprising no one, my #1 choice would be MARION DAVIES in THE YOUNG DIANA (1922), a film that has Davies age into spinsterhood only to be rejuvenated by a mad scientist. Newly young, she seeks her long lost love (whom she thought had married) only to received a big surprise. The film was a box-office hit and earned wide praise for Joseph Urban's "Metropolis"-like sets ,,, 5 years prior to that film.
Keith S. says:
A local cinema advertised "Hollywood" as being, in effect, worth going on a £100 trip to the eponymous city, as it featured thirty stars and twenty major players.
The publicity for "A Study in Scarlet" at the same venue was nothing short of hate-crime.
I would love to see "Four Devils" and "Cleopatra" (Theda Bara,of course), though many others would be gladly appreciated.
Clate says:
I can think of many with better-known stars, but I'd be happy to see just ONE of the sixteen western features that Art Acord made for Universal from 1925-27. None is complete, and only a twenty-minute sequence of one exists. ONE of the sixteen two reelers that he made from 1921-22 exists, but his only other extant starring films are some low-budget oaters from 1928-29. He is undeservedly neglected amongst that decade's cowboy stars.
Close second: one of the two (I think?) films that Bebe Daniels and Richard Dix made together at Paramount circa 1924-25. I think they would have been great together; would love to test that hypothesis if one of their films were actually extant! Don't get me started as to why they didn't make an early talkie together when they were both at Radio in 1929-30. Grrr…
Vonbunn says:
Dracula's Death. The few remaining frames look so haunting. The Head Of Janus also seems interesting.
Ulvrik Kraft says:
There are so many… But I'd pick Der Januskopff, with honorable mentions to 4 Devils and The Patriot.
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are you a carpenter? we need you.
Beautiful Tuesday. What a great day to climb up a ladder, look at building plans and mark some wall layouts.
David, James and Bruce – marking lines in the sunshine.
Soon that gap between the building and the playground will be gone. The piles of dirt are getting smaller. Maybe in the spring we'll replace some of this muck with grass.
Yesterday was beautiful. Today? Not so much.
Still… there's beauty if you look for it. Check in the puddles. The trees reflected there on our roofless chapel floor are the very essence of a poem which I won't write for you.
If this place starts getting cluttered up with sappy abstract poetry, no self-respecting builder will keep reading long enough to find out that we need carpenters!
During the next two weeks we want to get the walls and the rafters up, and put the decking on the roof. We could use lots of pairs of hands. Or if you don't have a full pair, just bring what you've got!
Monday morning we had a bunch of lumber delivered – you can see some of it in the last photo – and gravel to start filling in around the building. If you want to be physically involved in this building project, we're ready for you! Just give us a call.
Black and white drawing of the future building. This is the view you'll be faced with as you drive into camp. We're excited about the covered porch that runs the length of the building – with an outdoor fireplace. (I'm really hoping we can use some of the stone from the old building for the hearth. But I'm not the stone mason… we'll see what works out.) We love for kids to be outside. This will allow opportunity for small group meetings outside even on rainy days.
Artist's rendition of the finished product. Just try to picture southeastern Kentucky in the background. And I can't imagine us planting pointy shrubbery. And if we were, we'd stick it on a hillside somewhere; not in precious parking area. The colors are all wrong too. We haven't ordered the stone and siding yet, but we're leaning towards a grey color scheme.
Chapel and rec hall floor plan – upstairs. The entry on the left side of this picture will open onto the playground. The recreation area will be smaller than our old rec hall, so some of the games will be outside on the porch. There's no snack shop in this new building. We'll be building a new little Snack Shack somewhere, probably on the hill beside the "old" gazebo; campers will be able to access it from the playground.
Kitchen, dining hall and meeting room – downstairs. I'm excited about having not only a walk-in cooler, but a walk-in freezer too! That will have to be more convenient than storing our frozen food in 5 different freezers in the basement of Sunbeam Hall… right? Actually, I'm super excited about the whole layout of the kitchen and dining room. i don't know if we'll know what to do with a kitchen designed just for us. We're so used to storing things on odd sized shelves and anywhere we can find the space.
Don't take this picture too seriously. It's an idea of the size and layout of the new chapel interior. Picture wooden paneling on the lower half of the walls. (If I understand correctly, that's part of what's being logged off of camp property right now.) The ceiling will also be done with wood; the floor will be nicely finished concrete; and I can almost promise you that there won't be an American flag in the front of the Bethel Camp chapel. I don't think we've decided yet what kind of benches or chairs we want to use. I find myself wondering… Who will be the first couple to get married in the camp chapel?
We're starting to get a taste of how frustrating construction can be. If we were building a house, the walls would probably be up by now. But since it's commercial… they had to dig out. And dig out. And dig out some more. And in some spots the dirt still wasn't solid enough to satisfy the inspector, so… we got to pour a bunch of money into this hole in the ground.
Seriously. If this was a video instead of a photo, you'd hear the sound of money being dumped in the ground to be buried forever. I won't tell you the amount because it's completely depressing. Here at camp we've always been on a fairly tight budget, so we're used to being creative, doing things ourselves, making do, cutting corners where we can, doing without once in a while. We're not used to spending money like it's water. But, like somebody once said… "On this rock I will build my church." Sounds like a plan to me.
Four inches above the top of that horizontal board will be floor level. How many loads of gravel do you think will be hauled up this road? And do you think that by the end of it, the county will come out and replace our sad little bridge?
A group of guys came down from Logan, OH today to start putting up our walls. Unfortunately we've fallen behind our optimistic schedule, so the footers weren't poured yet, and they couldn't start on the project they'd planned on doing. But we're so glad they came anyway! Here they're cutting boards to make forms for the footers. I guess that's what you call it?
I don't know a thing about construction, so it cracks me up that I'm the one describing this process to the rest of the world. I appreciate the guys in charge of this project – James Fyffe, Jim Byler, Bruce Boley, even Roger – they always answer all my questions and explain things to me without making me feel like a moron or a silly girl.
Two buckeye trees – one down, one to go. When Roger first came here, there was a rope spiderweb strung up between these two trees that we used as part of our group-building time with the staff. It caused some scarring on the tree trunks (which caused Roger mild distress.) He's babied those trees since then, and they've been looking good. But… every beginning comes from another beginning's end, right?
It feels like they're cutting down trees left and right, but this one's staying. They damaged it a little, but it's sticking around. And I didn't even have to do anything drastic or controversial to save it.
I wish you could stand around with me and watch these machines work. It's a fantastic way to waste a day.
And look who drove up into the middle of this earth-moving madness. Gotta keep our hungry volunteers fed!
Standing here taking this picture I realized that our playground is going to feel much more secluded than it used to. The new chapel is going to be a lot wider than the old one.
We were all relieved and happy to see the excellent quality of this dirt. Okay, not gonna lie – it just looked like dirt to me. But I learned that seeing a solid-colored bank is better than seeing stripes of different colors. They didn't know for sure if it was going to be fill dirt or original dirt until they dug into it. But they all seem to be happy about it and that's good enough for me.
Look at the width of that hole. It's huge! They actually dug about 4 feet extra on the left, so some of that will get filled back in. There will be a road through there to access the playground.
View from the bottom of the old road – with fewer trees and a lot more dirt.
If you'd drive in to camp right now, this is what you'd see.
First picture of the day. A huge pile of rubble and a few standing walls.
Just in case anyone thought Roger Voth was just going to sit around and supervise.
Random light bulb that survived the fall of the building.
It lived a good, long life.
They found a couple of balls underneath the chapel. Not surprising.
"Hey, don't burn the chair!" So maybe the seat is broken out of it… it's an antique; we can fix it!
Apparently the corner of the new building will be sitting right about here.
I admit it – I cried when I saw this tree down.
Egg baskets. These were tucked away in a room underneath the chapel, left from the early days when the Mennonites converted a gym into a 2-story chicken house.
The little window opening into the old egg room under the chapel. Once or twice that room was used as the jail during a game of Persecution.
The remains of the chapel entrance.
Oh wait. It doesn't look quite so dramatic from this angle. But it's still an impressive fire!
Now there's a job! Lots of boards to take apart still, and lots of junk to haul away.
Roofing – waiting to be flattened out and taken away.
The entire landscape is starting to change.
Talk about buried treasure! Look what the excavator uncovered. I have a feeling this will be a new piece of Bethel Camp scenery. Any ideas where we should put it?
Hmmm… there's a whole lotta potential stacked inside that box hockey game.
Wow. I appreciate the hard work this group is putting into salvaging these boards. Roger asked them at lunch if they were tired of pulling nails, and believe it or not, they said no.
Crunch. Crunch. Cleaning up the rubble.
Treasures from the old building. These will probably be in high demand. I wouldn't be surprised if one or two of them show up for sale at the camp auction in a couple of weeks.
Looking down the new road.
Can you handle any more photos of mass destruction?
Once again… someone forgot to check the toilet paper in the chapel bathroom!!!
Malin Voth – Taking one final bow from the chapel stage.


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How to override the behavior of the volume buttons in an Android application?
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Celebrate summer with red white and blue food! These Fourth of July recipes include ideas for everything from desserts to savory snacks! Great for Labor Day and Memorial Day, too.
Nothing says summer like all things red, white, and blue! This 4th of July serve up a buffet full of red, white and blue food!
Make this festive Red, White and Blue Vanilla Fudge Recipe because fudge isn't just for Christmas!
Start the day off with these fun Red, White, and Blue Star Pancakes or a Strawberry Blueberry Cream Smoothies. This Red, White, and Blue Clafoutis uses coffee creamer for a delicious morning treat.
Red, White and Blue Homemade Ice Cream Recipe is an easy 3 ingredient, no churn ice cream recipe! Top with Red, White and Blue Chocolate Covered Cherries!
Firecracker Cake is a quick and easy Bundt cake from a box mix decorated with red white and blue frosting. Or try a Patriotic Poke Cake.
Red, White, and Blue Layer Cake is a three layer cake that's red, white and blue when sliced.
Make cupcakes with Independence Day Cupcakes and Red, White and Berry Cupcakes.
Mix up these fun Red, White, and Blue Shooters for the adults!
Love summer berries? Try Patriotic Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries, Berries with Marscapone Cream and Red, White, and Blue Strawberries. Make American Flag Kebabs with berries and whipped cream.
Throw berries in a bowl with a Patriotic Trifle Bowl.
Keep the kids refreshed with this "Kid" Red, White and Blue Sangria Recipe.
If pie is your thing check out Sweet and Salty Summer Pie and Mini Strawberry and Blueberry Ice Cream Pies.
The kids will love to help make Red, White, and Blue Pudding Pops! Or go for ice cream with Red, White, and Sweet Blue Ice Cream.
Stay cool all day long with Double Berry and Coconut Pops (No Added Sugar).
Make some snacks Chocolate Cookie Candy Pretzel Bark and Red, White and Blue Bite Sized Party Bark or Patriotic Popcorn Crunch.
These Patriotic Pretzels and Very Vanilla Cookie Bars would fabulous treats for all day snacking.
Firecracker Pizza Brownie and Festive Red, White, and Blue Cookies are great for the younger crowd!
Love parfaits? Try Red, White, and Blue Jell-O Parfaits and Fruit and Yogurt Parfaits. Or try a tart with a Red, White, and Blue Fruit Tart.
Make salads festive with Red, White and Blue Salad Ideas and Watermelon, Blueberry, and Feta Salad or Red, White and Blue Dinner Salad.
This Blueberry, Strawberry and Jicama Salad looks refreshing for a hot summer day.
Serve the salads on the side with Red, White and Blue Spaghetti.
Bake up some Fourth of July cupcakes with Superhero Cupcakes and Patriotic Hi-Hat Cupcakes.
Classic sugar cookies get dressed up for summer in these Sugar Cookies with Red, White, and Blue Royal Icing. Skip the frosting and make Patriotic Pinwheel Cookies.
Set out appetizers with a Patriotic Dip and Watermelon Appetizer or even a Red, White and Blue Potato Salad.
Patriotic Watermelon and Feta Flag and a Flag Veggie Pizza would both make great apps as well.
Dessert is made festive with a Triple Berry Punch Bowl Cake.
Red, White and Blue Shortbread Cookies are great with coffee.
Make cheescake without warming up the oven with this USA No Bake Cheesecake!
What a great post! So many wonderful ideas for the upcoming holidays! Thanks for sharing my cupcakes!
Thank you Marion! And you are most welcome!
Wow! So many great recipes! Thank you for sharing my fudge. Pinning!
You're welcome!I loved the colors!
Woohoo! Such a great ideas! Thanks for including our red, white and blue pancakes!


When everyone likes it, you have to share!
We recently celebrated my boyfriend's birthday. It's doubly thanks to him that this recipe came into the world, first because I wanted to make him a birthday cake, and then because he encouraged me to transcribe and share my culinary inspiration.
Having just picked a lot of black raspberries in a beautiful organic orchard, I baked him this cake with what we had on hand, and it turned out well. So well that I repeated the feat three times, from pure greed, but also to please him and to perfect and record my recipe (I hadn't taken notes the first two times). It remained a sheer delight each time, and gifted me in addition with a recipe to share.
Organic, vegan, made with whole kamut flour, sweetened only with fruit, containing no cholesterol or trans fat, and low in sodium, this cake is suitable for diabetics and probably everyone else except for the gluten intolerant, for whom you can swap in gluten-free flour.
So with no further ado, here's the recipe for one of the best vegan sugarless cakes I've tasted in my life!
Oil and sprinkle with a little flour a medium-size cake pan.
Whizz the liquid ingredients, including ground flax seeds, in a blender until they have a smooth and silky texture. Reserve. No need to wash the mixer, because it will be reused for the glaze.
Combine the liquid ingredients and the dry ingredients. Mix well, but lightly.
Stir the magic ingredients in quickly.
Bake for about 50 minutes. If you cover the cake for the first half hour, it will have a softer texture and surface.
Mix glaze ingredients in blender. If it's cool (below 20°C), prewarming the coconut oil in a double boiler will make mixing easier. Or you can use warm water and wait until the coconut oil melts. Adjust quantities to taste.
When the cake has cooled, pour glaze over it slowly. Serve with all the raspberries you want. The berries shown in the photo are frosted because they were still frozen. We had to wait a few minutes after the shooting to taste the cake!
Ginger by some other strong spice, clove for example. Ditto for the orange peel powder.