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Central Europe: Zwikau/The End
On April 16, the Division was ordered to continue its advance and secure a bridgehead across the Zwick-Mulde River. Resistence stiffened on the right of the 353rd zone. but Greiz and Kuhdorf soon fell and after clearing three more towns, the 3rd Battalion crossed the Krebs River, and advanced through the Walhaus Forest against Gottesgrun. To the north, Werdau was captured.
The 2nd Battalion, 355th, crossed the river to capture Wilkau, then advanced along the autobahn. Outside of Ortmansdorf, Lt. William H Jones, the platoon leader of Company M, 354th, led a motorized patrol on reconnaissance of the town, which was displaying white flags. Advancing cautiously, he suddenly came under sniper fire. Although mortally wounded, he continued to direct his men in the attack. An enemy bullet killed Tec 4 Moroni Westbrook, a medic with the patrol, as he attempted to administer first aid.
The major action centered on Zwickau, the largest city taken by the 89th Doughboys in Germany. After surrender negotiations had failed on April 17, the 1st Battalion, 355th, advanced on the city. On the outskirts, the infantry met heavy small arms, automatic, Panzerfaust and bazooka fire, but pushed ahead towards the central district. A motorized element of three platoons was hastily formed. In a daring action, this unit guided by two British paratroopers who were among the prisoners liberated from a nearby PW camp, raced ahead of the infantry at fifty miles an hour and seized two bridges over the Zwick-Mulde River. Both had been wired for demolition, but this advanced force succeeded in cutting the wires and held off the Germans until the 1st Battalion fought through to the riverbank. The infantry then drove across the river, secured the crossings, and cleared the rest of the city shortly afterwards. During the artillery preparation, two hundred British PWs were freed.
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In stand-up comedy as opposed to traditional theater, differences occur not only in performance style and telling jokes, but in also what are different performance situations. Theater audiences in voyeur mode, sit in relative silence, while comedy club audiences can be a bit more engaging with the performers onstage. But a common notion that stand-up comics are spontaneous in their performances as opposed to actors who must closely follow a script might not quite be the case. Although many professional comics alter their acts on a regular basis, and often make jokes off the tops of their heads, a good portion of what makes up their show is tightly scripted.
The Catch-22 of getting paying comedy jobs is that in order to work you need to be good, but in order to be good you need to work. And since a club owner is always looking to fill seats every time the club opens its doors for a performance to justify the cost of an event, if not to make money overall, it certainly helps if the comic has a following which can be a matter of passing around a mailing list at club dates, using the media to generate press coverage, and/or networking and winning awards.
There are places you can perform in while you are developing your act, self-starting strategies to create work, and places to perform where you will get paid.
Places to Perform when Starting Out
When starting out, comics perform wherever they can. Places you can perform in while you are developing your act include amateur nights, where a great majority of stand-up comics begin their careers sometimes performing for weeks, months or even years.
In the beginning of your career you will most likely not be performing under conditions you have control over. In comedy clubs, the choice spots are usually reserved for the pros, and the up and coming are relegated to the graveyard shift. Often, you will be performing at 1:00 a.m. Under these circumstances, you have to make adjustments. Other performance venues can include:
Performing in parks and on sidewalks
fund raisers and benefit shows
comedy night at local hotel
creating your own events
Video as a Tool to Land Work
Get a video of yourself performing in front of an audience. The tape should be no longer than 20 minutes. Put your best jokes first , and stay away from filler, such as "Where are you from". Don’t edit the tape. The club owner wants to see exactly how you work with an audience without any special video effects.
The Right Pictures
You also need an 8 x 10 glossy black-and-white picture of yourself. A simple head shot on a white background will do. A club owner wants a face shot, because the newspapers are more likely to print that for publicity than an out-of-the-ordinary kind of picture.
Agents who Handle Comics
Admire Presentations, Inc.
170 West 76 Street, Suite 101
APA (Agency for the Performing Arts)
9000 Sunset Boulevard, 12 Fl.
Ambassador Artists
Arne Brav Associates
1143 Arno Road
Banner Artists International
Bernie Young Agency
6006 Greenbelt Road, Suite 285
Bill Feggan Attractions
Raton, NM 87740
The Blade Agency
Buddy Lee Attractions
38 Music Square East, Suite 300
Celebrity International
1020 16 Avenue South
Coconuts Comedy Productions
12016 Lagoon Lane
Comedy Connection
3004 Semmes Avenue
Comedy Line Productions
2378 Calvin Extension, #4
Comedy West
1206 Mill Creek Boulevard, C-201
CAA (Creative Artists Agency)
1888 Century Park East, Suite 1400
Creative Booking Service
5009 Monroe Road, Suite 103
Creative Talent Consultants
333 North Broadway, Suite 3011
Jericho, NY 11753
Lil Cumber Attractions
6515 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 300A
Dana Pennington Associates
DCA Productions
DMR Booking Agency
The Galleries of Syracuse, Suite 250
Eastcoast Entertainment (ATL)
1780 Century Circle
The Entertainment Connection
401 Pennsylvania Parkway, Suite 104
Entertainment United
64 Division Avenue
Fireball Entertainment
Fleming/Tamulevich and Associates
733-735 North Main Street
Funny Bone On Tour
734 Westport Plaza, Suite 275
Funny Business Agency (Canada)
Canada, M5R3LI
Funny Business Agency
G.G. Greg Agency
1288 East 168 Street
Gary Grant Talent Associates
Port Washington, NY 11050
Gersh Agency
The Gilchrist Agency
310 Madison Avenue, Suite 1003
Greater Talent Network
Hollander-Lustig Entertainment
321 North Lake Boulevard, Suite 103
ICM (International Creative Management)
40 West 57 Street
In-June Talent
1800 North Highland Avenue
Irvin Arthur Associates
Jackman & Taussig
1815 Butler Avenue, Suite 120
The Joey Edmonds Agency
2669 North Building
Just for Laughs Agency
22 Miller Avenue
Knapp Comedy Promotions
William Morris Agency
151 El Camino Drive
NY Entertainment
Omnipop
223 Jericho Turnpike, Suite 200
Mineola, NY 11501-1606
10700 Ventura Boulevard, Suite C
Prime Time Entertainment
2 Crow Canyon Court, Suite 210
Progressive Artists
Pyramid Entertainment Group
89 Fifth Avenue, 7 Fl.
QBO Entertainment
48 East 50 Street, 4 Fl.
Radioactive Talent
476 Elmont Road
Rick Morgan Entertainment
132 Norwalk Avenue
Roger Paul Agency
581 Ninth Avenue, Suite 3C
The Snikkers Agency
1905 Powers Ferry Road, Suite 240
Phone: 404-971-9292; 404-935-3633
Spencer-De Francis
Spotlite Enterprises, Ltd.
The Stephen Gingold Agency
Terry Lichtman Company
T.H.E. Agency
Tracy Hubley Entertainment
125 South Clark Drive, #3
Treehouse Comedy Productions
354 Connecticut Avenue
Triad Artists, Inc.
10100 Santa Monica Boulevard, 16 Fl.
TSM Artista Management
Turner Talent Network
8940 North Malibu Drive
Bayside, WI 53217
Yvette Bikoff Agency
9255 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 510
The Paying Gigs
Afterpiece. In eighteenth-century London theatres, a short comedy performed after a five-act tragedy, providing comic relief for the audience.
Billing. The size of an actor’s role such as starring or guest starring. Also, where the actor’s name will be placed in the credits and if the name will be shown on the screen alone or with others.
Booker. An agency employee who sets appointments for talent/models.
Double-take. An exaggerated facial response to another actor’s words or actions, usually used for comic effect.
Laugh Track. The laughter of a live audience of a situation comedy or other television show that actors are performing in front of, that is recorded to be played back when the show is aired..
Mimicry. An actor’s ability to sound and/or look like someone else, usually a famous person.
Self-Contained Artist. An artist who writes and performs his or her own material. Also refers to artists who require no production or personnel assistance from promoters.
For a full glossary listing click here
The best place to start a comedy career is at your local comedy club. In nearly every city there is a comedy club. Usually these clubs book three acts a week. In most clubs, the opener gets 10-20 minutes; the middle gets 20-30 minutes; and the closer gets 35-60 minutes. Most clubs have at least one night a week for newcomers, and very often the opening act is booked from these slots. After gathering at least 20 minutes of solid material on video, try to make a connection with the booker by phone or by letter before mailing your tape. It is not necessary to have been on television to get booked into a comedy club. But don’t expect a lot to happen, and tapes are not usually returned. Club owners on the average get a hundred calls a day and 60 tapes a week. Avoid performing at the top comedy clubs until you have really developed your act. Producers and directors are always in the audience in the major clubs in Los Angeles and/or New York, and first impressions are lasting. If you are from a small town, stay there until you are ready. Chicago, Denver, Dallas, Philadelphia are good comedy workshop towns where you hone your skills.
A comic who has 60 minutes of jokes that are clean material, and has an act that appeals to college students can earn decent dollars in the college market, even with no television exposure. College bookings are organized by the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA). Each year NACA sponsors 11 regional conventions and one national convention that is held in February. At these conventions, comics showcase 20 minutes of their act before a group of 400 to 2,000 students who are directly responsible for booking you. At the showcase, all performers’ prices are set and made available to the buyers before the convention. In the Exhibit Hall each agency maintains a booth with publicity, prices, and availability of the acts they represent.
The best way to participate in the college market is to submit a 20 minute video of your act to the NACA selection committee through a college agent. This videotape needs to show how good you are, what you can do, and how well you appeal to the college audience, and it needs to do all of this in three minutes, because that is they can be expected to view of each tape.
A comic can choose to be self-represented at a NACA conventions , but would have to contend with the expense involved in maintaining a presence there. Not only do you have the expense of airfare and hotel, but you have the added expense of developing quality promotional materials and maintaining a booth in the Exhibit Hall. According to NACA, acts that have representation have a much better success rate than that of self-represented acts. College agents usually charge 20 percent.
Most college agents will ask you to submit current press materials (8 x 10 glossies, resume, bio, clippings) and a video. The college market is good to approach when you have an hour of clean material that appeals to college students (material on cafeteria food, fraternities, teachers, dorms, etc.). If you do manage to get a gig before you are ready and you don’t deliver, it could mean a bad first impression. Also, know that there is a tremendous amount of travel involved.
Corporate enterprises will hire comics to entertain at their meetings or conventions, but they are known to be careful when making a selection. Most companies do not want to risk hiring anyone too controversial. A comic in this field needs to have 40-60 minutes of material that has good jokes with a broad appeal.
Certain agents book comics exclusively on cruise ships, although many ships prefer to book the comic directly. In order to be considered to work cruise ships, you need to have three different 20 minute sets of clean, non-controversial material. You need to have three different sets because on a ship the audience stays the same. Generally, a comic will only work a few nights a week on a ship. To apply, you send the cruise ship company a videotape with two totally different 25-minute sets.
Hotels, Casinos, Concerts
Most of the big rooms in hotels and casinos are reserved for comedy’s brighest stars. But it does happen that a newcomer opens for a headliner and ends up playing some of the bigger rooms.
At some point in their career, most comics will get at least one opportunity to be looked at by a TV show’s bookers. Naturally, to heighten your chances of landing the gig, you should have acquired a good amount of experience in the field before presenting your material at an audition. Doing your act on television can be a very different experience from the clubs. In most TV studios, the studio audience is far away from you, and sometimes there is no audience at all. In this case a comic needs to know how to relate to a TV camera - possibly leading to training for television acting.
TV’s Star Search is a talent showcase that will book a comic without an agent or union card. If you would like to be considered for Star Search, send in a tape that is over 5 minutes long, but less than 30. They will look at all tapes. Sometimes Star Search will book comics from audio tapes , sight unseen, as well as from auditions across the country, even in small town comedy clubs. They usually will take a club owner’s suggestions.
Getting Cast in TV and Film by Doing Stand-up
Casting directors and network casting executives all go to stand-up clubs to discover talent. But just because comics do well in stand-up doesn’t mean that they will know what to do when they walk into a casting director’s office and are handed a script to read. Rule of thumb guidelines that can aid a stand-up comic at a reading include the following:
Don’t do your act in an office, but invite the director to come down and see your show the next time you are performing. Stand-up belongs onstage, in front of an audience, not in front of a desk;
Take acting classes to enhance or amplify whatever it is about you that piques the interest of casting directors;
Send postcards/ecards to casting directors to notify them where and when you are playing. Casting directors want to find new talent. They always want to be the one who discovers a new talent and so they are very responsive. If the casting director cannot go, possibly someone from the office will be sent.
Relevant Associations & Organizations
Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities (APCA)
Sevierville TN 37862
The APCA is a national campus buyers organization that holds showcases and supplies entertainment information to campus talent buyers throughout the United States.
http://www.apca.com/
Association of Talent Agents (ATA)
9255 Sunset Blvd., Suite 930
Trade association composed of approximately 100 agency companies engaged in the talent agency business. The membership includes agencies of all sizes representing clients in the motion picture industry, stage, television, radio (including commercials) and literary work.
http://www.agentassociation.com/
The Bob Hope Hollywood USO at LAX
Los Angeles Inter. Airport Center
203 World Way West, Suite 200
Phone: 310-645-3716/202-610-5700
The USO (United Service Organizations) is chartered by the Congress as a non-profit charitable corporation, it is not a part of the United States Government. The USO mission is to provide morale, welfare and recreation-type services to uniformed military Personnel.
http://www.uso.org
National Association for Campus Activities (NACA)
13 Harbison Way
Columbia, South Carolina 29212
NACA has evolved into the nation’s largest collegiate organization for campus activities with nearly 1,200 member colleges and universities, and more than 600 associate member talent agencies, performers and product specialty firms working in the college market.
http://www.naca.org/
For a full listing of helpful associations and organizations click here
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The re treatment of metastatic bone disease
The re-treatment of metastatic bone disease causing recurrent pain after an initial course of EBRT was seen to be feasible with a reasonable rate of symptom relief [13–19]. In echoing the ACR findings, the task force noted that the available data was derived from studies where re-treatment was not the primary endpoint studied, and that many of the descriptions of re-treatment were based upon small numbers of patients. Additionally, the authors cautioned that re-treatment may only be considered when taking into account the normal tissue tolerance of structures included in the treated volumes. The spinal cord and cauda equina were specifically mentioned as structures whose tolerance to the combined dosing must be taken into account when delivering a second course of EBRT to the spine. Given significant interest in newer technologies amongst radiation oncologists and neurosurgeons, the ASTRO task force enthusiastically recognized the promise for improvements in care with highly conformal therapy which includes all technologies that can deliver higher doses to metastatic bone disease with a steep dose gradient to spare adjacent normal structures. The team focused their analysis on the potential benefits of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for metastases in spine bones, though they described that the available data for this intervention has to this point been accrued in single institutional studies with small numbers of patients whose responses have been measured with novel treatment outcomes. As such, the task force suggested that patients who receive SBRT should strongly be considered for the available treatment protocols to better accrue data about efficacy and toxicity measures. The theoretical advantage of SBRT for sparing spinal cord or cauda equina in the re-treatment of recurrent, painful spine lesions was documented in much greater detail than was true in the ACR Appropriateness Criteria [27–32]. In an attempt to clarify confusion regarding the use of radiotherapy with other available interventions for painful metastatic bone disease, the ASTRO task force clearly stated that EBRT is still necessary in situations where patients receive surgery for spinal cord pkc inhibitors or long bone stabilization, intravenous radiopharmaceuticals for widespread bone disease, osteoclast inhibitors, or kyphoplasty or vertebroplasty for lytic lesions causing spinal instability [33–36]. Surgery was only recommended for patients with spinal cord compression who have a favorable prognosis and sufficient performance status to warrant the surgical risks and post-operative rehabilitation required for that degree of intervention. Radiopharmaceuticals were deemed most appropriate in patients with widespread, painful osteoblastic metastases that are apparent on a technetium-99 bone scan. While the use of osteoclast inhibitors was seen as being a reasonable means by which to palliate bone pain and promote re-ossification, the task force pointed out that there are no data to suggest that the palliation of a single site of metastatic bone pain is superior with osteoclast inhibitors plus EBRT versus EBRT alone. Finally, the task force described the theoretical advantage of using kyphoplasty or vertebroplasty for spinal instability caused by lytic metastases, though they shared the belief that the data proving those assumptions was mostly derived from retrospective, single institutional studies. In its conclusions, the ASTRO group suggested that future bone metastases treatment trials should be made uniform by the measurement of consistent variables as defined by the International Consensus on Palliative Radiotherapy Endpoints while also assessing functional domains and quality of life with validated instruments such as the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer bone metastases quality-of-life questionnaire [24,37].
National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) and bone metastases treatment recommendations The National Comprehensive Cancer Network is made up of experts from cancer centers of excellence around the United States who designate representatives to committees that evaluate data and provide treatment options for most common cancers [38]. While there is no specific NCCN group designated to evaluate the use of radiotherapy for bone metastases, the topic is dealt with to varying degrees in the publications which deal with primary diagnoses that are most likely to metastasize to bone. The NCCN Guidelines also include a wider variety of author specialty types for each clinical site than do the ACR and ASTRO guidelines. Furthermore, while radiation oncologists make up the majority of pa nel members on the ACR and ASTRO committees, radiation oncologists generally make up a distinct minority, or are a singular member, of the NCCN committees. As such, the NCCN guideline recommendations regarding radiotherapy for bone metastases are likely to result from less vigorous conversations and voting criteria than might be true for those offered by the ACR and ASTRO groups.
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Unknown Matthew Chase Killer- California- 1988 (SOLVED)
Unknown Matthew Chase Killer- California- 1988 (SOLVED) Jan 22, 2017 1:50:51 GMT -5
Post by Scumhunter on Jan 22, 2017 1:50:51 GMT -5
(Above photos: Top Left: Matthew Chase (victim) Top Middle: 1st composite of a possible suspect Bottom Left: 2nd composite of a possible suspect Photo Credits: Unsolved Mysteries website)
From Unsolved Mysteries Wikia:
Real Name: Matthew Chase
Nicknames: Matt
Details: Twenty-two-year-old Matthew Chase vanished shortly after he used an ATM in Los Angeles, California. A close-up analysis of it showed a person next to him. Police believed that he may have been withdrawn a large amount of cash in an attempt to alert someone in the bank for help. His car was found three weeks later. Several people claimed they met him at local homeless shelters shortly after his disappearance; this instilled hope in the hearts of his family and friends.
Unfortunately, his body was found three months later in nearby Pasadena. His killer and the man next to him in the ATM surveillance footage remain unknown, but it is presumably the same person.
Suspects: No suspects have been named in this case. Although a bandana found in Matthew's car suggests he may have fallen victim to gang members. Two composites have been made of the abductor.
Extra Notes: This case first aired on the December 21, 1988 episode. According to TV Guide, it was originally scheduled to air on the November 23, 1988 episode, but it was postponed.
Results: Unresolved. Matthew's killer has not been caught and his case remains unsolved.
unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Matthew_Chase
Official Unsolved Mysteries website link: unsolved.com/archives/matthew-chase
Thoughts? Matthew's still unsolved murder has never been aired on America's Most Wanted to the best of my knowledge but I am placing his case in the Unsolved on tv section since, as noted above, it has been aired on Unsolved Mysteries.
Admin Note #1: Based on crime location, our advice for anyone with information on this case would be to call Los Angeles Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS
Admin Note #2: If you have any news-related updates on this case, please contact us here: amwfans.com/thread/1662/website-contact-form
Last Edit: Oct 21, 2018 16:58:26 GMT -5 by Scumhunter
walshfan
Unknown Matthew Chase Killer- California- 1988 (SOLVED) May 12, 2017 16:38:51 GMT -5 Scumhunter and HeadMarshal like this
Post by walshfan on May 12, 2017 16:38:51 GMT -5
I'm doing lots of work on this case today. I have e-mailed the Pasadena police department and requested the bandana be sent in for DNA testing and the case re-opened. I have also messaged Ashleigh Banfield of HLN's PrimeTime Justice and requested she profile this case. Though I'm not sure if it's usually the kind of case her show covers, she might profile on the order that Matt was the best friend and roommate of a Teresa Dahl, who used to work for CNN. Ashleigh used to work for CNN, so the two may know each other.
The bandana is definitely the best clue in this case. The lettering on it was "ES PBS CLS", which would definitely seem to suggest it was the work of the Eastside Playboys, which seems to be a rather violent Mexican-American gang that operated in the area. With the surveillance camera footage of the perp and the bandana as clues, I feel this is a solvable case. Tough, but solvable.
Slight correction Scumhunter: Matthew did not own the car, it actually belonged to Teresa Dahl and he was borrowing it. The Unsolved Mysteries segment stated that Matt usually walked, so I'm not sure he possessed a car at the time.
This evil filth snuffed out a 22 year old life for a few hundred dollars. As John Walsh would say, we need to catch this guy now. RIGHT NOW.
Unknown Matthew Chase Killer- California- 1988 (SOLVED) May 12, 2017 23:29:47 GMT -5 via mobile
Post by Scumhunter on May 12, 2017 23:29:47 GMT -5
I copied and pasted the Unsolved Wiki summary but thank you for the correction nonetheless.
Even if Ashley Banfield didn't know her Theresa personally, perhaps the fact she was once a fellow CNN employee would inspire her to air Matthew's case.
Unknown Matthew Chase Killer- California- 1988 (SOLVED) May 16, 2017 7:16:23 GMT -5 Scumhunter and mschwartz like this
Post by walshfan on May 16, 2017 7:16:23 GMT -5
Everyone is invited to join my new facebook group for Matthew entitled "Justice for Matthew Marshall Chase". I opened the group this morning, added 10 of my friends as members, added a few photos and had some discussion. I hope the group greatly expands in terms of number of members, and there will be additional info presented and maybe even a new and rare pic. I also plan on having some pretty big revelations on this case soon. This case has been dormant for years, there's never been anything new on the internet about it in the decade I've been checking, and even Matt's friends and family seem to have forgotten him. But I'm about to shake things up.
Unknown Matthew Chase Killer- California- 1988 (SOLVED) May 16, 2017 12:18:33 GMT -5 HeadMarshal and mschwartz like this
I just got off the phone with Sgt. Gomez of the Pasadena Police Department. Per my request, they're taking another look at this case!
mschwartz
Unknown Matthew Chase Killer- California- 1988 (SOLVED) Dec 17, 2017 2:06:18 GMT -5 via mobile Scumhunter likes this
Post by mschwartz on Dec 17, 2017 2:06:18 GMT -5
PLEASE HELP US FIND MATTHEW'S KILLER(S)!!!!
www.facebook.com/groups/375856862809034/permalink/456425664752153/
Unknown Matthew Chase Killer- California- 1988 (SOLVED) Dec 17, 2017 2:11:40 GMT -5
Post by Scumhunter on Dec 17, 2017 2:11:40 GMT -5
Shared on the America's Most Wanted Fans and The Hunt with John Walsh Fans Facebook pages!
TheWebDetective
Unknown Matthew Chase Killer- California- 1988 (SOLVED) Oct 21, 2018 12:04:30 GMT -5 Scumhunter likes this
Post by TheWebDetective on Oct 21, 2018 12:04:30 GMT -5
It appears that the case has been updated according to my research, but take it for what it's worth if more needs to be known.
"In 2018, the LAPD cleared Matthew’s case. A member of Matthew’s family said that they feel confident that Matthew’s killer was David “Bear” Meza, who died the day after Matthew disappeared. Although there is still the possibility that Meza had accomplices, the family is grateful for some closure."
Unknown Matthew Chase Killer- California- 1988 (SOLVED) Oct 21, 2018 16:58:02 GMT -5 maddog34 likes this
Post by Scumhunter on Oct 21, 2018 16:58:02 GMT -5
Thank you, will move the case to the captures on tv since it is essentially solved as to main culprit. I never like using the word "closure"- since you never "close" getting over a loved one's murder- but I hope Matthew's family at least feels a sense of peace that they no longer have to suffer through the pain of not knowing- and a sense of justice that Matthew's believed killer (or main killer) no longer works the Earth.
maddog34
Unknown Matthew Chase Killer- California- 1988 (SOLVED) Oct 24, 2018 22:59:44 GMT -5 via mobile
Post by maddog34 on Oct 24, 2018 22:59:44 GMT -5
Good work by the LAPD. While Mesa cannot be brought to justice, it seems that his family takes comfort in knowing Mesa will never be able to harm another person again.
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A Petrified Fountain
Scott Jordan Harris’s entirely dispensable guide to the movies most worth watching
Detour (USA, 1945)
Some films seem able to embody an emotion or state of mind: with Singin’ In The Rain it’s joy, with The Shawshank Redemption it’s hope, and with Detour it’s fatalism. Time magazine, which included Detour on its (admittedly idiosyncratic) list of ‘The 100 Top Movies of All TIME’, said ‘no film is noirer’ – and certainly it’s impossible to think of one that is. An inescapable pessimism flows from the script and infects every aspect of a production that – shot in six days for a cost, depending on who you believe, of either five- or twenty-thousand dollars – is in budgetary terms a featherweight of film, but that punches like the heavyweight champion of the world.
Deadbeat piano player Al Roberts (Tom Neal) hopes to walk down the aisle – or rather ‘make with the ring and the licence’ – with his curvy, nightclub singer girlfriend, Sue Harvey (Claudia Drake). She isn’t so keen and, convinced she can make it in Hollywood, moves to California, leaving him to hitchhike after her. Eventually an amiable, if unlikely, character called Charles Haskell Jr. (Edmund MacDonald) gives Roberts a ride and, for a while, things are going well. Then, suddenly, Haskell dies and, in trying to revive him, Roberts accidentally lets Haskell’s head fall heavily against a rock. Sure that anyone to whom he tries to explain these events will think him a murderer, he swaps clothes with the corpse, and steals not only Haskell’s wallet and car, but also his identity. Once he gets far enough away, he reasons, he can dump the car and clothes and revert to being Al Roberts. And perhaps he could have, had he not picked up a shapely and sarcastic passenger named Vera (and played by Ann Savage). Unfortunately for Al, she had met the original Haskell and understandably smells a sewer rodent. Immediately, Roberts finds himself ‘tusslin’ with the most dangerous animal in the world – a woman’, and, naturally for a noir character caught in such a contest, plummeting into a personal Hell of blackmail, betrayal, crime and killing.
Although, as Roger Ebert wrote, Neal is ‘a man who can only pout’ and Savage ‘a woman who can only snarl’ their interaction is as riveting as that of any of the great onscreen couples. While many noirs allow their characters to face their fates with someone they love, or at least lust after, Detour’s spirit is far too malign for that: here the two main characters are locked together only by enmity. They scratch and stab at each other in a hate-fuelled perversion of the kind of words Bogart and Bacall characters use to flirt, and the scenes they share are as unforgettably electric as any between Lauren and Humphrey.
By including Detour in this selection of often faultless films, I don’t mean to imply that, as some low-budget classics do, it manages to be miraculously unlimited by its restrictive funding and shooting schedule, and emerges every bit as good as it would have been had it been given a blockbuster budget. A sub-student-film shonkiness is evident in every scene and there are a dozen jarring moments – my favourite of which comes when Roberts is shown ‘playing’ piano and the hands on the keys are so obviously not Neal’s they might as well be black and have an extra three fingers on each hand – that would have been lethally laughable in a lesser film. In Detour, though, the false-seeming sets and awkward acting enhance the eerie unreality of the story they showcase – and this is central to our understanding of the film.
The circumstances of the first death in which Al Roberts is involved – and from which he profits – are unlikely but believable; those of the second, however, are so improbable they are difficult to accept. Watching them we begin to wonder, if we have not already, if Al isn’t telling us porky pies. Crucially, because the film unfolds in flashbacks narrated by Roberts, we are not shown events as we are sure they occurred, but as he tells us they did – and, the more he talks, the more we wonder if Detour’s story isn’t so much a plot as an alibi. It is, more than any other aspect of the film, our doubts about the validity of what we have witnessed that explain why Detour survives in the memory much longer than many more famous and expensive efforts. Days after watching the film, you’ll likely catch yourself still puzzling over whether Al Roberts is a liar, or just the unluckiest lunk in hitchhiking history.
Even if you’re in search of a black and white classic, Detour is easy to overlook. Despite its cult status and critical acclaim, its name still has little of the cache of those of other standouts in its genre. But, runt of the film noir litter though it is, Edgar Ulmer’s brilliantly bleak 68-minute thriller deserves just as much attention as its more robust brothers like The Maltese Falcon or Double Indemnity. Crammed with the kind of cynical 1940s dialogue that must have tasted sour to say, Detour is a dark little gem and, as those idiosyncratic critics at Time pointed out, unquestionably the noirest of noirs.
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Fist of Fury (Hong Kong, 1972)
Bruce Lee is a legitimate legend, but the films he starred in – as distinct from his performances within them – are generally disappointing. Too often, the scripts are un-involving, the actors unconvincing and the direction uninspired. Fist of Fury is the exception – a high-impact martial arts masterpiece worthy of combat cinema’s greatest star, and of any audience’s attention.
Lee plays Chen Jeh, the standout student of Jing Mo, a patriotic but pacifistic Chinese martial arts academy in Japanese-controlled Shanghai. After Jing Mo’s master dies, representatives of a Japanese bushido school burst in and insult his memory. Although his superiors advocate non-violence, Chen soon retaliates, and his shin-smashing assault on the entire student body at the dojo downtown sparks a gang war that’s quickly intensified by his investigations into his beloved teacher’s mysterious demise. (And his habit of punching Japanese people until blood leaks out of their eyeballs.)
To enjoy the action in many martial arts movies, you’re required to forget all logic and suppress every twinge of disbelief. (Frankly, I question the effectiveness of the ninja death star when employed in the average pub brawl, and I’m not convinced that, faced with an army of exquisitely skilled sword-wielding assassins, even the most polished practitioner of Tiger Crane Kung Fu wouldn’t be better off just distracting them for a second and running away like a deadbeat babyfather.) The fights in Fist of Fury, however, require no such indulgence. Lee, and director Lo Wei, stage a succession of low-tech tear ups that are so spectacular, and so realistic, they make you duck and dodge in your seat – and, beyond that, Lee’s transcendent charisma and clearly genuine ability to beat up practically anyone in the world sweep away any lingering improbabilities.
Frequently, kung-fu films only come alive during the fight scenes – and, on top of that, many of those fights scenes often seem to have been included not to propel the story or illuminate the characters, but to satisfy some studio quota of punches per hour. Fury avoids both these drawbacks through the constantly increasingly tension created by the certainty that Chen’s revenge does not – as is almost always the case in action movies – somehow take place outside the law. Even as we are cheering him on, we’re aware that Chen’s actions are criminal; that, for however admirable a reason, he has made himself a murderer; and that he’ll be held accountable for it. Because of this, none of the fights he picks are unimportant – each is an encounter for which he, a young man of supreme potential, is prepared to sacrifice his freedom and future – and none of the quieter scenes are insignificant. There’s even a believable love interest, whose charming concern for Chen’s physical safety in the short-term, and for their shared aspirations in the long-, remind us that the events of this film aren’t being played out in one of those uncomplicated movieworlds where life-long happiness is the inevitable product of giving your enemies a righteous hiding in the final scene.
This certainly isn’t a perfect picture – the dialogue is often threadbare, the bad guys are all one-dimensional dastards, and, at one point, an iron bar-bending Russian mafia boss is flown in just to give Lee’s character an extra ass to kick – but its intelligence in maintaining a tight plot and its bravery in eschewing an all-is-well ending mark it out from the likes of Enter- and Way Of The Dragon. Of course, the whole production is just an excuse to display Lee at his lightning-limbed, bare-chested best, but it’s all executed with such panache and aplomb we don’t mind any more than we mind a Laurel and Hardy film being just an excuse for Stan and Ollie to lark about.
The mere presence of Lee makes Fist of Fury superior to virtually all other kung fu films; every moment he is onscreen provides an emphatic answer to the question – if you’ve ever felt the need to ask it – of why he is hero-worshipped with such unparalleled intensity even decades after his death. But that’s not enough to make this a great movie. What elevates Fury into a classic is that, for once, everyone else in a Bruce Lee film raises his or her efforts to something approaching his level. If you have even the weakest craving for a cinematic serving of sweaty machismo and undiluted adrenaline, Fist of Fury is the picture to see.
Labels: 1972, Bruce Lee, Fist of Fury, great films, great movies, greatest films, greatest movies, Kung fu film, martial arts
Wings of Desire (Germany, 1987)
The story is simple: angels are around us every day – listening to our thoughts, recording our actions, and puzzling over our idiosyncrasies – but we never know they are there. When one of them falls in love with an emotionally unfulfilled trapeze artist, he has to choose between his feelings for her and his life among the immortals. It seems like the sort of subject matter Hollywood would serve up as a confection – and it is. In 1998, Wings of Desire was not so much remade as diluted into City of Angels starring Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan. Whether or not you’ve seen that film, and whatever you thought about it, I’m convinced you’ll enjoy the original – because it’s practically impossible to imagine that anyone wouldn’t.
This is one of the world’s most life-affirming films. It’s festival of a life, an ode to the tragedies and triumphs that occur in every moment and across every lifetime. Filled with obvious but unobtrusive symbolism – the Berlin wall suggesting the division between the physical and the divine, history and ambition, life and death; the trapeze artist dangling, literally and figuratively, between Heaven and Earth – it finds sensual answers to spiritual questions, and is about both our biggest ideas and smallest experiences.
It’s also about Berlin, its architecture and atmosphere, its past and its prospects, as they were understood in the last years of the East-West divide. The city, still withered from the Second World War but somehow defiantly beautiful, is as much the star of picture as Bruno Ganz – who plays Damiel, an angel who longs to be human. His partner – around Berlin and throughout eternity – is Cassiel, another celestial overseer but one more resigned to the limits of his angelic existence. Together and apart, they eavesdrop on the interior monologues of troubled Berliners – a woman about to give birth; an OAP frustrated by man’s inability to properly embrace peace; and, most movingly, a young man about to kill himself – and, where they can, they impart a sudden and inexplicable feeling of consolation.
In an initially absurd sub-plot – which threatens to unbalance the picture but is integrated so smoothly it actually enhances it – Peter ‘Lieutenant Columbo’ Falk appears as himself, and eventually reveals he used to be an angel, but gave it up for the chance to live and love and say, ‘Just one more thing…’ in three thousand and thirty-six different ways whilst wearing a grubby raincoat. Like everyone else, Falk can feel an angel’s presence but, unlike everyone else, he understands the sensation. Recognising that Damiel is near one night, he encourages him to become human by eulogising the joys of mortal existence, praising not the life-changing thrills of falling in love or fathering a child, but the gentle delight of warming your hands on a cold day or deciding to smoke a cigarette. It’s enough to seduce Damiel, and he is soon no longer an angel.
The moment when he becomes a man – the film flicking from monochrome to colour – is cinematic magic. Suddenly, Damiel is free to taste hot coffee, tie a child’s shoelace, and buy a silly hat. He once was blind, but now he sees. Stopping a man on the street, he asks him to identify the colours in the graffitied faces on the Berlin Wall. ‘What’s this?’ he says, pointing to one of them.
‘Blue,’ says the man.
‘Blue!’ exclaims Damiel, as if he’d just recognised a long-lost loved one. His pleasure is exquisite, and his gratitude for being alive inexpressible. It’s a scene that could have come from It’s A Wonderful Life (had Frank Capra shot that movie in colour).
There are several such moments the film, and it’s because of Ganz that they all work as well as this one. None of us – except perhaps Peter Falk – has any idea what it feels like to wait from the beginning of time until the end of the 1980s just to smile and have someone smile back, and yet, when Ganz shows us the experience onscreen, it instantly rings true.
It’s misleading, though, to discuss this film purely in terms of its plot or performances. This is, for much of its running time, a mood piece unconcerned with story. It likes its characters to indulge in sensory delights for their own sake whilst pondering the great questions, and it likes its audience to do the same. That we go along with this, and never once want it to hurry up and cut to the bit where the erstwhile angel gets the girl, is predominantly due to its astonishing visual beauty.
When Wim Wenders wrote the script for Wings of Desire with the acclaimed Austrian playwright Peter Handke, he pulled off something special. When he filmed it with the equally acclaimed French cinematographer Henry Aleken, he pulled off a miracle. The idea of shooting in black and white everything we see from an angel’s-eye view, and in colour everything we see from a human’s perspective, is borrowed from A Matter of Life Death – but employed with a skill and confidence that’s totally original. If you’ve ever literally liked the look of a film, this one will mesmerize you.
This isn’t an archetypal date movie; it’s certainly not a romantic comedy, and it never makes the potential transition from eccentric celebration of human beings, and being human, to soupy love story. Even so, if your partner ever turns to you and suggests you spend an intimate evening watching City of Angels, turn to him or her and suggest you watch Wings of Desire instead.
Labels: 1987, Berlin, Bruno Ganz, City of Angels, Germany, Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire
Scott Jordan Harris
Scott Jordan Harris is a film critic from Great Britain. Formerly editor of The Spectator's arts blog and The Big Picture magazine, he is now a culture blogger for The Daily Telegraph; a contributor to BBC Radio 4's The Film Programme and Front Row and Roger Ebert's UK correspondent. He is the author of the book Rosebud Sleds and Horses' Heads: 50 of Film's Most Evocative Objects and the editor of the New York, New Orleans, Chicago and San Francisco volumes of the World Film Locations books series. His writing has been published by, among others, Sight & Sound, The Spectator, BBC online, The Guardian, Fangoria, The Huffington Post, The Australian Film Institute, movieScope and RogerEbert.com. He first went to a cinema to see Disney’s Pinocchio and the loud music, combined with the scary whale, made him cry. He was 22.
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He survived beatings, imprisonment even shipwrecks – but nothing could stop St Paul becoming the 10th Bible hero to walk the plank.
The "least of the apostles" was played by Rev. Katherine Ann ("Kit") Carlson, Associate Rector of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
"My New Testament professor wrote her dissertation and first book on Paul's letter to the Romans," she says. "When she hears about this, I am dead meat."
After spending her childhood in Michigan and her adolescence on the Gulf Coast of Florida, Kit studied for two years at Michigan State University before transferring to the University of Florida. She received a Bachelors of Science in Journalism from U of F in June 1980 – but she did not show up at graduation to collect her diploma, because she was getting married to Wendell Lynch.
Kit and Wendell make their home in Silver Spring, with children, Andrew and Katie Carlson-Lynch. Wendell is a software engineer and inventor for Arbitron, the radio ratings company. Mad Moxie, a rescued racing greyhound, completes the family. Katie gave her mother a little wooden Ark set to keep on her desk for the duration of the voyage - "I guess I'll be packing it up now."
"All the family think this is a lot of fun and have been very encouraging even when I was afraid of being planked," admits Kit. "This is big of them, as I am not a character in Unreal Tournament or Counterstrike – the only online games they think really count!"
In spite of her valiant efforts, Kit's children still hate Paul.
"It's the effect of too many youth group Bible studies that pull his verses out in dibs and dabs," she says. "I worked on changing their attitudes – by getting down with the apostle!"
Kit also set out to show how Paul was not the woman-hater everyone thought he was.
"He worked side-by-side in ministry with many women," she maintains, "that was why I never made a crude comment to Mary Magdalene, because I saw her as a partner in ministry. The business with Esther was all ³eros².
"Paul is quite smug in his letters about his celibacy and I wondered what he would be like if he was tested. The relationship with Jezebel was 'agape'. He really wanted to try to love her like Christ would. Boy, did she make that hard!"
In her professional life as a lay person, Kit was a freelance writer and editor, and is author of three books written for the Discovery Channel. The most recent is Working Dogs: Tales from the K9 to 5 World, which was published in April 2000. She also worked for Manor HealthCare Corp, as Director of Marketing Services, for Discovery Publishing as managing editor of its magazine, and for an au pair agency as a community co-ordinator.
"I have loved shipofoffols.com since it first launched," she says. "I would love to be a Mystery Worshiper, but I only worship at Ascension pretty much."
The most fun she had on The Ark was the day she and Simon Peter interrupted the romantic supper between Neb and Martha.
"I was really hoping John the Baptist would play along and we could have a good old-fashioned sit-in, but I had a blast with Simon," she recalls.
Will she able to use any of her experiences as sermon illustrations?
"If you can figure out how to get a sermon anecdote out of lusting after Esther in a wet pink dress, shooting tequila with Simon Peter, or cross-dressing as Juliet... let me know!"
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Tieleman hosts Nightline BC one more time for 2006 - from Legislature Raids to Coal Power tonight - December 28!
I am guest hosting Nightline BC on CKNW AM 980 and the Corus Radio Network again tonight - Thursday December 28 - from 7 to 9 p.m. for the vacationing Mike Smyth.
Tune in, call in, be heard.
Here's tonight's lineup:
7 p.m. DUFF CONACHER – COORDINATOR, DEMOCRACY WATCH
PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER AND THE ACCOUNTABILITY ACT – WHAT WAS PROMISED VS. WHAT WAS DELIVERED
7:30 p.m. GARY MASON – COLUMNIST, GLOBE AND MAIL
IT'S THE 3-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF BC LEGISLATURE RAIDS THAT LED TO CHARGES AGAINST DAVID BASI, BOB VIRK AND ANEAL BASI - GARY MASON RECENTLY INTERVIEWED DAVID BASI AND BOB VIRK
8 p.m. JOE FOY – CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR, WESTERN CANADA WILDLIFE COMMITTEE
COAL FIRED POWER PLANTS – DO WE NEED THEM IN BC? WHAT IMPACT WOULD THEY HAVE?
8:30 p.m. CLIVE ANSLEY – LEGAL COUNSEL REPRESENTING FALUN GONG PROTESTORS
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND PROTEST VS. ADHERENCE TO VANCOUVER CITY BY-LAWS
3 years ago today - December 28, 2003 - BC Legislature raided by police
Hard to believe it was December 28, 2003 when British Columbians learned their Legislature was being searched by police in a case alleged to involve organized crime at the highest levels, drugs and big money.
Three years later and we still await the beginning of the most important political scandal trial since 1958, when Robert Sommers - forests minister in the Social Credit provincial government of W.A.C. Bennett was found guilty of bribery for his dealings with big logging companies.
Jump forward to today - the long-awaited trial of former top BC Liberal government ministerial aides David Basi and Bob Virk for alleged breach of trust, and government communications officer Aneal Basi for alleged money laundering, will not likely start until March 2007.
They are charged in connection with the biggest privatization in BC history - the $1 billion sale of BC Rail by Premier Gordon Campbell - and the allegations include claims Basi and Virk provided confidential government information to OmniTRAX, one of the bidders.
Prominent lobbyists Erik Bornmann and Brian Kieran are slated to be key crown witnesses against Basi, Basi and Virk - and neither of them have been charged despite police allegations that they provided benefits and money to the accused.
And while we know more and more about this case - mostly from defence applications and statements - the public is still in the dark about what happened three years ago and why it has taken so long to come to court.
Basi and Virk have recently been interviewed in the Globe and Mail, where they proclaim their innocence. On a more human side, both men say their lives have been seriously damaged by the allegations that cannot be disproved until the trial concludes, leaving them jobless and dependent on family and friends to survive.
I have been following this case since the raids took place and had detailed Basi and Virk's strong connections to the federal Liberal Party and the Paul Martin leadership campaign in BC even before the search warrants were executed.
Here are some of the reports I have filed on this case since the raid. You can find many of these and more items on this blog as well.
On The Tyee website:
Martin’s B.C. soldiers back Dion November 30, 2006
Leg Raid Hearing Intrigue November 9, 2006
BC Leg Case Lurches to Life October 31, 2006
Leg Raid Case: New Charges, New Questions April 4, 2006
Spiderman in a Web of Intrigue May 10, 2005
24 hours newspaper columns and stories:
Erik Bornman drops bid to become lawyer - for now November 21, 2006
Erik Bornman's bid to become lawyer may not happen anytime soon November 17, 2006
More questions afoot on BC Legislature raid case October 17, 2006
There are still several columns online that I wrote for the Georgia Straight in past years on this case:
Basi Hirings, Firings Intrigue January 13, 2005
Warrants Raise Tough Questions for Libs September 16, 2004
Probe Throws Light on the Liberal Players March 17, 2004
Police Raids and BC Rail March 10, 2004
Raids Prompt Revelations of Martin-Campbell Connections January 7, 2004
And a blog website with various information on this case can be found at The Legislature Raids
Stay tuned in the new year for much, much more.
Year of Guccis and Guinness in B.C. - year end round up column in 24 hours newspaper
Year of Guccis and Guinness in B.C.
Last year we said, "Things can't go on like this," and they didn't; they got worse.
- Will Rogers
Here's what kind of a year in politics 2006 has been: No one wanted to be caught dead in federal Conservative International Trade Minister David Emerson's shoes - except maybe B.C. Liberal Finance Minister Carole Taylor.
That's because while Emerson entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the fastest political defection ever, Taylor caught heat for introducing the provincial budget in a $600 pair of Gucci pumps.
But one thing is clear - they both stepped in it!
After January's minority Conservative election victory, Liberal Vancouver-Kingsway Member of Parliament Emerson took all of 48 hours to become a card-carrying Tory.
And Emerson, who swore to voters he would be Stephen Harper's "worst nightmare," instead sucker punched his constituents and joined the Conservative cabinet. De-elect Emerson signs will last longer than Rona "Clean Air Act" Ambrose will as environment minister.
Meanwhile, in February Taylor took the tradition of finance ministers wearing a new pair of shoes on budget day to unheard-of extremes. The $600-Guccis, plus $84 in tax, cost far more than a month's worth of social assistance for the poor. Marie Antoinette, eat your heart out!
If such political cynicism makes you sick, go to a medical clinic - a private one. 2006 was year of the for-profit physician, with controversial private healthcare booster Dr. Brian Day becoming the president-elect of the Canadian Medical Association and B.C. doctors Mark Godley and Don Copeman opening new private facilities.
Day, who actually said before his election that Medicare was a "health monopoly that Bozo the Clown could run" and that a "Berlin Wall" stops patients from getting medical treatment, will become the voice of all Canadian doctors.
Now let's remove that lump from the area around your wallet!
Day has the ear of B.C. Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell, who made him the very first speaker at the government's "Conversation on Health" - an invitation-only consultation on Medicare.
From conversations to conversions on the road to Damascus - that's what happened to Campbell on First Nations. In opposition, Campbell actually tried to stop the Nisga'a Treaty with a lawsuit and then held a divisive and insulting referendum on native rights in 2002.
But now Campbell is aboriginal people's best friend, fighting Harper for money and signing treaties himself.
Lastly, Dec. 28 marks the third anniversary of the police raid on the B.C. Legislature.
While former B.C. Liberal ministerial aides David Basi and Bob Virk still await trial, Erik Bornman, who is alleged to have bribed them, is now trying to become a lawyer.
Whoever said the wheels of justice turn slowly must have come from B.C.
Tieleman back in the Nightline BC saddle tonight - Wednesday December 27 - on CKNW & Corus Radio Network
Hope everyone had a great and safe Christmas and Boxing Day!
I'm back filling in for Michael Smyth as guest host at Nightline BC tonight [and Thursday night too] from 7 to 9 p.m. on CKNW AM 980 in the Lower Mainland/Vancouver Island and on Corus Radio Network stations throughout BC, as well as online at www.cknw.com
Here's tonight's lineup of guests and issues:
7 p.m. - Crawford Kilian - noted writer and educator talks about the third edition of his book Writing For The Web, as well as recent developments in the Blogosphere.
7:30 p.m. - Joan Craven - author of What Can I Do Today on parenting strategies to keep kids busy and also - perfect for radio hosts - how to deal with difficult people!
8 p.m. - Murray Mollard - Executive Director of the BC Civil Liberties Association - on the good, bad and the ugly from 2006 in the field of civil liberties and human rights.
8:30 p.m. - Charles Burton - Professor of Political Science at Brock University and former Canadian diplomat in China on what dramatically increasing trade with China would really mean for BC and Canada in the wake of a provincial report suggesting 500,000 jobs could be created through Asia Pacific trade.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night - for a few days!
Merry Christmas to all - I will be enjoying Christmas and Boxing Day with my family and friends and wish you all the best for a safe and happy holiday.
I'm back guest hosting Nightline BC at CKNW AM 980 on Wednesday December 27 and Thursday December 28 from 7 to 9 p.m., filling in for Michael Smyth.
And I'll be guest commenting on The World Today with Philip Till at 7:10 a.m. on Wednesday December 27, Thursday December 28 and Friday December 29, filling in for Vaughn Palmer.
And to all a good night from Bill Tieleman and West Star Communications!
Tieleman hosting again tonight - Friday - on Nightline BC on CKNW AM 980 & Corus Radio Network
He's baaaaack!
I am once again filling in as guest host tonight - Friday - from 7 til 9 p.m. on AM 980 or http://www.cknw.com/ online and on the Corus Radio Network throughout BC.
7 p.m - Tis the season to stay sober - Linda Bell of Bellwood Health Services talks about how to deal with alcohol during the holidays, especially for those with addictions and their family and friends.
7:30 p.m. - Special needs assistants - Patti Bacchus of the Vancouver School Board's Special Education Advisory Committee and parent of a student with special needs talks about the recent decision not to cut 13 special needs assistants and related issues.
8 p.m. - Downtown Eastside Women's Shelter - Cynthia Low from the Shelter talks about additional funding of $80,000 it has received and what the needs are.
8:15 p.m. - Stanley Park Smackdown - Vancouver Park Commissioner Spencer Herbert on the aftermath of the disastrous storm and what areas of the park are now open to the public.
8:30 p.m. - Aboriginal hunting at night - Lawyer Ardith Walkem - legal counsel to Ivan Morris and Karl Olsen, two Tsartlip First Nations hunters who were acquitted in the Supreme Court of Canada of using lights to hunt deer at night, explains the case and their position.
Tune in - call in!
Tieleman guest hosts tonight - Thursday - on Nightline BC on CKNW AM 980 & Corus Radio Network
I'll be filling in for Michael Smyth tonight and Friday night from 7 til 9 p.m. on AM 980 or www.cknw.com online and on the Corus Radio Network throughout BC
Here's tonight's lineup - do tune in and call in!
7 p.m. Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan - talking about his support for the BC Federation of Labour's call for a $10 minimum wage. We'll also talk about the Gateway project.
7:30 p.m. Fiona Gow - the mother of Neil Fahlman, a developmentally challenged young man who was denied government support until the BC Court of Appeal ruled otherwise.
8 p.m. Endangered Reindeer in BC? We talk to environmentalists trying to save Santa's loyal helpers.
8:30 p.m. Wining for Christmas - What to drink this holiday season with your turkey or tofu but hopefully not reindeer! John Clerides, owner of Marquis Wines, joins us to give advice and answer your questions.
Vancouver School Board Trustee Sharon Gregson is one straight shooter I support - Solicitor General John Les and Mayor Sam Sullivan are not
The recent media and political furor over Vancouver School Board Trustee Sharon Gregson giving her views on handgun ownership and self-defence have brought out the worst in some politicians.
BC Liberal Solicitor-General John Les is appalled and says Gregson is "irresponsible."
NPA Mayor Sam Sullivan is shocked.
Don't either one of them have more important things to do? How about dealing with homelessness, property crime, drug dealing, or even criminals smuggling handguns across the Canadian border?
Instead they have nothing better to do than take political cheap shots - pardon the pun - against someone who has done nothing illegal for speaking her mind.
And because she is a Coalition of Progressive Electors trustee and an NDP supporter, Les and Sullivan are trying to tar and feather her.
I have used a .45 calibre pistol for target shooting myself - I enjoyed it immensely and it was both legal and safe. No, I don't own a gun, thanks for asking.
I worry about drug dealing scumbags who have illegal weapons - like the folks who have killed several young Vancouver people in the past few years.
But I don't stay up night worrying about legal gun owners who shoot competitively in very restrictive conditions with licensed weapons.
I do not agree with Sharon Gregson that Canadians should have the right to carry and conceal handguns for self-defence. All the evidence shows that our American neighbours have a far more dangerous and violent society despite letting citizens arm and defend themselves.
But Sharon Gregson has every right to argue her case in public without a witch hunt by political opportunists.
It's up to citizens to decide if changing our gun laws is a good idea.
Meanwhile, let's not attack one of the only politicians who speaks her mind freely and is willing to open a democratic debate.
We need more frankness and honesty in politics, not less.
Bruce Allen said it well on his CKNW Reality Check today:
"With Sharon Gregson, you know what you are getting and who can't deal with that?"
Who indeed.
Tieleman on real cause of homelessness and poverty in BC - unequal distribution of wealth
Bill Tieleman’s 24 Hours Column - News, Views & Attitude
Plenty of room for improvement
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood,
And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
- William Wordsworth, Salisbury Plain, 1794
Outside my Kitsilano apartment, in the recycling area off the lane, a homeless man sleeps among the blue boxes of newspapers, bottles and cans.
Driving along West Broadway, I see more homeless begging on the streets.
Close to my office a bundled man sleeps under the 7th and Fir viaduct, possessions in a battered shopping cart. The temperature is freezing.
But along Burrard Street I see a gleaming row of 20 brand-new Lotus Elise sports cars, available in many colours for just $60,000 each. Nearby is MCL Motor Cars, where the thrifty can buy a used 2005 Bentley Continental for just $209,000.
Welcome to Vancouver, land of the homeless and hopelessly wealthy.
Recently much attention has been paid to the poverty problem, with some hoping to help people in need while others just want to make them go away.
Many causes are mentioned and solutions proposed and yet homelessness has gotten significantly worse year over year, despite a strong economy and low unemployment.
But the most important cause gets ignored - because it can't be fixed by charitable donations or personal efforts, as worthy and needed as those are.
It's the large and growing gap between rich and poor, here and around the world.
A study this month by the World Institute for Development Economics Research found that the richest one per cent of adults own 40 per cent of global assets, while the bottom 50 per cent own barely one per cent of the world's wealth.
A more equitable distribution of wealth from rich to poor depends on government action.
But when the B.C. Liberal government cuts social programs to pay for big tax cuts for corporations and the rich, drastically reduces eligibility for welfare, fails to provide enough drug treatment programs, doesn't create adequate low- income housing and increases costs for medical services, the results are crystal clear.
And those results sleep and beg on our streets and in our alleys today.
B.C. has Canada's worst child poverty rate according to Statistics Canada at 23.5 per cent - one in four kids. And in 2005 the Lookout Emergency Aid Society had to turn away people needing shelter a shocking 5,000 times because all beds were full.
One last personal story. As I came out of a store the same evening a ragged man was begging for change.
As I gave him some money he simply said: "I'm so hungry." And he was.
Best wishes for the year ahead to all readers but especially those without homes this Christmas. We can do so much better than this.
Bill Tieleman will be guest hosting Nightline BC on CKNW AM 980 from 7 to 9 p.m. on Dec. 18, 21, 22, 27 & 28.
Email: weststar@telus.net
FOI request reveals BC Hydro spent $2 million on self-promoting ad campaign
Big bucks for Hydro ad campaign
By BILL TIELEMAN, 24 HOURS
As BC Hydro struggles to restore electricity to thousands of customers without power for up to a week, 24 hours has learned the Crown corporation has spent almost $2 million on a self-promoting television, radio, print and Internet advertising campaign this year.
A Freedom Of Information request filed by 24 hours shows BC Hydro is spending $1,864,481 on a campaign titled "Planning For Generations."
That includes production costs alone of $199,800 for one 30-second TV ad in several languages, $81,500 for creation of one newspaper print ad and $30,570 to produce three radio ads.
The costly campaign tells customers what a great job is being done - not just by BC Hydro but by the provincial government.
"B.C.'s economy is growing. And so is our need for energy ... That's why the province is acting to make B.C. electricity self sufficient within the next decade," part of the 66-word ad reads. "By planning now we will have enough made-in-B.C. power to meet our needs today. And for generations to come."
In addition to production costs, BC Hydro spent $726,183 buying television time to run its ad, an additional $617,060 on print advertising space, another $133,210 for radio air time and $57,000 on Internet web ads.
BC Hydro's Scott Macdonald, in a response to the FOI request, wrote that the costs are "existing estimates" with final costs not yet available.
The ad says B.C. needs more energy but doesn't mention that provincial policy is to buy electricity only from private suppliers at costs significantly higher than from publicly-owned BC Hydro hydroelectric dams. Nor does it mention new contracts with two coal-fired generating plants.
Government advertising has always been controversial in B.C.
B.C. Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell strongly opposed government advertising when in opposition. In a November 2000 interview, he said: "I can tell you this, we are going to end government feel-good advertising."
But last year Finance Minister Carole Taylor revealed the government spent $13.9 million on its B.C.: The Best Place on Earth ad campaign.
Customers can see if the ad is worth it at: wwe5.bchydro.com
The Vancouver office of DDB Canada produced the campaign.
Total Campaign costs: $1,864,481.33
- TV ad production - $199,800 (30 second spot)
Media buy - $726,183
- Print ad production - $81,500.83
- Radio ad production - $30,570
- Web ad media buy - $57,000
Tieleman guest hosting on CKNW AM 980 - Nightline BC Monday December 18 and more
Hi all - I will be guest host on Nightline BC on CKNW AM 980 and the Corus Radio Network in BC tonight - Monday December 18 from 7 to 9 p.m. I'm filling in for the vacationing Mike Smyth.
You can tune in on the Lower Mainland at AM 980 or online at www.cknw.com
I will also be guest host on Thursday December 21, Friday December 22 and the following week on Wednesday December 27 and Thursday December 28.
Tune in, call in!
Alex Tsakumis on Mayor Sam Sullivan and the NPA criminalizing those who have nothing
In today's 24 hours newspaper Alex Tsakumis has written a powerful column on how Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan and the Non-Partisan Association majority on City Council have decided to criminalize those who have nothing rather than effectively deal with homelessness, poverty and drug addiction.
With Tsakumis' permission, I'm pleased to offer a copy of his column here.
Citizen Sam misses the point
By Alex Tsakumis
In Citizen Sam, the biopic about our beleaguered Mayor, the viewer is dealt a veritable cornucopia of snippets of Sam the man and his notable life.
It’s tough not to be moved by the story of an otherwise happy go lucky young man from a good family, who breaks his back skiing, dives into the depths of depression and suicide contemplation, only to remerge phoenix-like from the ashes of his then torn world, to lead Canada’s third largest city in charity, business and politics. His rise to the coveted throne of Vancouver’s political elite, then, is that much more remarkable.
And it’s for the potential lift of every one of those seemingly superhuman qualities, too, that Sam Sullivan, the Mayor, is such a surprising disappointment as being, at least, guardian of the shattered on the Downtown Eastside—the chief promise he’d made repeatedly during the civic campaign.
You’d expect someone who has stood at the precipice separating life and death to understand what it would be like for the downtrodden in this city, who we can all agree, peer longingly, even playfully, over life’s edge every day.
If the Mayor really wanted his “Civil City” plan to charge against ‘the problem’ and not ‘the symptoms’, rather than locking up garbage bins, and going quixotically hard against those with the absence of anything but a gently wafting pillow of crack smoke, he should have started with an innovative, truly compassionate approach that would have parked him and a multi-partisan lobby group at the doorsteps of the Legislature and Parliament—with a strategy.
Instead, the Mayor and his apparatchiks have decided to criminalize those who have nothing else in life but to miserably revel in the symptoms that are a blight on this City. Throwing up a weak, disjointed plan of competing philosophies that rings hollow in its prognosis, does absolutely nothing.
I worked on the DTES for many years. One of the businesses I was responsible for bordered what is known in the patois of that street as “Shooter’s Alley”. There, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, are life’s wounded, filling their veins with the perpetually uneasy warmth of hell.
The first few times I watched someone shoot up, I wasn’t as much shocked as I was taken aback by their purposeful gait straight into the black of existence. There I was standing behind a barred, heavily fortified gate, briefcase at my feet and there they were, all of them, flailing about in their own cesspool, only to drown one day: used condoms, dirty needles, blood soaked foam and dead rats.
They were clearly medicating. “Who in their right mind would want to live like this”, I once muttered to myself.
And then it occurred to me: it wasn’t that they were merely homeless or drug-addicted. It was clear that they were mentally ill. The social workers I befriended and that have worked that beat since time immemorial confirm(ed) it: attack the mental health issue head-on.
And, that, is the real story of the DTES as is stands.
Yes Sam, garbage from homelessness and drug-addiction makes mental-illness issues worse. But so does ignorance from bad governments and ineffective leaders.
Did Sam Sullivan supporters commission mystery polling to prove Mayor still electable?
The mystery polling on Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan may not be a mystery anymore....
My colleague Sean Holman at 24 hours and proprietor of the must-read www.publiceyeonline.com has posted a report of a major meeting of Sam Sullivan's supporters.
The Mayor's men and women got together at the Opus Hotel Wednesday night before attending a special screening of the controversial documentary Citizen Sam - a blunt look at Sam Sullivan and his Non-Partisan Association 2005 election campaign.
Would those be some of the same people who commissioned a mystery poll by Justason Market Intelligence about Sam Sullivan, his potential opponents and his policies?
More than likely.
That secret polling - reported exclusively in 24 hours - sparked widespread rumours among city politics players and observers as to who was responsible.
But as of Wednesday you could scratch all of the following off the list of suspects, who have contacted me since the story broke:
Christy Clark - ex-Deputy Premier who challenged Sullivan for the NPA mayoralty nomination.
Marty Zlotnick - NPA Park Board commissioner and backroom guy who backed Clark
Tim Louis - ex-Coalition of Progressive Electors councilor
David Cadman - COPE councilor
Peter Ladner - NPA councilor
Suzanne Anton - NPA councilor
The NPA
Vision Vancouver
That tends to lead to one obvious conclusion - Sullivan's backers, feeling the heat over the Mayor's failing performance, commissioned a poll to show he is still viable and could win an election over either Vision Vancouver's Raymond Louie, COPE's Cadman or Louis or former opponent Jim Green of Vision.
The question now is whether the poll results were so good that they will soon appear in media outlets to back up Sullivan or whether they were so bad that we will never seen them.
Unless they get leaked!
To Stop Tories, Vote Grit or NDP? Once more with feeling: Glavin versus Tieleman.
To Stop Tories, Vote Grit or NDP?
Once more with feeling: Glavin versus Tieleman.
View full article and comments here http://thetyee.ca/Views/2006/12/13/Round2/
By Terry Glavin and Bill Tieleman
TheTyee.ca
[Editor's note: Last Tuesday, The Tyee published Terry Glavin's explanation of why, with Dion as Liberal leader, "Voting NDP Just Got Harder." Bill Tieleman responded with his "Ten Reasons to Vote NDP" in the next federal election. When the smoke had cleared, Glavin and Tieleman both wanted to add some more points, presented here.]
TERRY GLAVIN, ROUND 2:
In Monday's Tyee, Bill Tieleman was allowed an opinion essay to defend the New Democratic Party in response to the question I put in my Dissent column last week: "Why are we supposed to vote NDP again?"
After reading that I'd already offered my "strong endorsement" to both Liberal contenders Michael Ignatieff and Stephane Dion, it took me a while to stop laughing. Besides, what I wrote in my column was, "I'm not saying that progressives in Canada shouldn't vote NDP. I'm not saying I'm not going to vote NDP."
But then it occurred to me that if this is the best that a high-profile, full-time NDP pundit can offer by way of answering my question, then the NDP must be in worse shape than I'd thought.
Glossing over my question's context ("the implications of vote-splitting to the point that Stephen Harper could return at a troop strength sufficient to form a clear majority") Bill's essay offers what he calls 10 reasons to vote NDP. The problem is, Bill's ten "reasons" don't add up to a single really good one.
Guilt by association?
Bill begins with some grasping attempts to hang Stephane Dion by association (The Trilateral Commission! David Orchard! That guy who likes Dion who might be connected to David Basi and Bob Virk!) but it's a bit late for that.
This isn't about Dion. Dion was indeed elected Liberal leader, but even NDP leader Jack Layton called Dion "a man of principle and conviction...and therefore almost certain not to be elected leader of the Liberal party."
This doesn't deter our Bill, who makes a lame attempt to smear Dion with the Chrétien-era Adscam imbroglio, and then gets himself in a complete muddle about the Kyoto Accord. Canada signed it eight years ago, not 13 years ago, and Canada didn't ratify the deal until 2002. And Dion wasn't environment minister until 2004, anyway.
One of Bill's "reasons" to vote NDP could just as easily be offered as a reason to vote for the Conservatives, since they voted with the NDP for the "anti-scab" Bill 263. And as for the bit about former prime minister Paul Martin not doing anything progressive except when the NDP made him...that's over the top. Even if it were true, it would be equally useful as an argument in favour of the NDP backing another Liberal minority government.
Bill then trots out the old "Ignatieff-backs-torture" canard, then reminds us that Ontario's labour unions hated Bob Rae, and you know Bill's at the bottom of the barrel when we get this: election-finance reform means every NDP vote will earn the party $1.75! And a tautology: don't vote for the Liberals, because...they're Liberals.
Then we're treated to references to Pierre Trudeau's arrogance, NAFTA (the NDP wants out now?) APEC (?) and the most hilarious: "Canadian troops in Afghanistan." Which the NDP supported. Then opposed. Then supported, so long as our soldiers didn't do any fighting. Or something. All because of the ridiculous assumption that there is something "progressive" about thumbing our noses at the United Nations and surrendering our Afghan comrades to the savagery of the Taliban.
Best way to vote
But there is an observation that Tieleman makes, or at least it's a point he alludes to, that I am perhaps as guilty as Bill of not treating with sufficient seriousness. That's the question of "strategic" voting.
Bill raises the spectre of "stampeding nervous NDP voters into the Liberal camp," as though NDP voters were as dumb as cows. But when I raised it, it was mainly in the context of the NDP's brutish excommunication of Canadian Auto Workers president Buzz Hargrove for suggesting that maybe it wouldn't be so evil to vote Liberal in those ridings where a Liberal vote could keep a Conservative out of office.
Since neither Bill nor I addressed this matter adequately, here's my modest proposal, to meet Bill half way, in counsel to both Liberals and New Democrats: Don't get stampeded by anyone.
Vote with your heart and your head.
Just be sure to vote for whichever candidate is likely to keep the Conservative at bay.
BILL TIELEMAN, ROUND 2:
"A hit, a very palpable hit." - Hamlet, William Shakespeare
Judging from the wild roundhouse swings, it looks like I've landed a political blow to Terry Glavin.
Glavin's attempts to dismiss the arguments I raised are flimsy at best.
For example, Terry says I'm in a "complete muddle" over Kyoto and wrongly blamed Stephane Dion for the Liberal record of failure.
Read what I said again.
Fact: Canada during the Liberals' 13 years in power increased greenhouse gases by 30 per cent.
Fact: Under Kyoto, Canada promised to reduce them by 20 per cent.
Fact: Canada under the Liberals did a worse job than George W. Bush.
If Terry wants to give Dion a passing grade when he was a Liberal MP the whole time and a cabinet minister most of it just because he was only environment minister for a year, well think again.
Thumb twiddlers
Dion's party, with Dion an MP and cabinet minister, twiddled their collective thumbs while the Arctic melted.
Same thing with the anti-scab law. Only a handful of Conservative MPs voted in 2005 to ban replacement workers -- but Terry makes it seem the whole caucus voted with the NDP -- if they had, it would be law today! Dion joined the likes of Stockwell Day to shoot it down.
And Michael Ignatieff's documented statement on the use of torture is a "canard"? More like Glavin is ducking.
I share Terry's concern that the federal NDP needs to better communicate its ideas. But that's not my job -- I just gave my top of mind personal reasons.
And I agree people should vote with their hearts and heads -- but neither my heart nor head would ever let me vote for a Liberal like Hedy Fry or Joe Volpe.
Lastly, I am neither a "full time" nor an "NDP pundit." I have a day job, and while I generally but critically support the NDP, they don't financially support me, as that statement seems to imply.
Related Tyee stories:
Voting NDP Just Got Harder
Ten Reasons to Vote NDP
Has Harper Really 'Evolved'?
Tieleman guest hosts again tonight - Tuesday - on Nightline BC on CKNW AM 980
I am guest hosting again tonight - Tuesday - on Nightline BC on CKNW AM 980 and the Corus Radio Network in BC, filling in for host Mike Smyth.
7:00 – Guy Giorno on the Accountability Act. Formerly Chief of Staff and counsel to Ontario Conservative Premier Mike Harris , lawyer Giorno is among the country's few experts in Canadian lobbying legislation, and co-author of the book Lobbying in Canada.
7:30 – Phil Rankin, BC lawyer, on the 2nd part of the Maher Arar report. Justice Dennis O'Connor has called for a new watchdog to independently monitor and review all RCMP activities
8:00 – Adrian Dix, NDP MLA and health critic, on a proposed new private mental health facility and a Port Alberni hospice
8:30 – Shauna Paull, chairperson of Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women Canada, on trafficked women and how they are dealt with when arrested
Turn on, tune in, don't drop out - drop me a line or call!
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Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan in a jam with continuing mystery on polling
Sam in a jam
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan is in serious trouble.
That's the only conclusion one can draw after 24 hours last week uncovered a mystery public opinion poll about the mayor, his policies and potential opponents in the 2008 election.
We still don't know who conducted the poll by Justason Market Intelligence in late November.
But we do know the questions are designed to find out what Vancouver voters think of the increasingly beleaguered mayor and if they would prefer to replace him in the next election.
We also know it wasn't conducted by Sullivan's ruling Non-Partisan Association or the two opposition parties Vision Vancouver and the Coalition of Progressive Electors. Nor is the mayor's office responsible.
Since 24 hours broke this story Friday the mystery has deepened. Did a Sullivan supporter poll to find out how unpopular the mayor is? Could it be an attempt to block any effort within the NPA to get rid of Sullivan by showing he can still beat the opposition?
NPA councillors Peter Ladner and Suzanne Anton both say they are not involved, as does Marty Zlotnick, the NPA backroom powerhouse and Park Board Commissioner who called Sullivan's $800,000 "eco-density" study a "waste of money".
"Not only is it not me but I haven't the faintest idea who did it," Anton said in an interview.
The polling questions, given to 24 hours by two readers who were phoned at home, include:
Describe Sullivan's first year as mayor in three words;
Would you vote for Sullivan or potential mayoralty contenders Vision Vancouver councilor Raymond Louie or former councillor Jim Green, who lost to Sullivan in 2005; David Cadman, lone councilor for COPE; or Tim Louis, a COPE councillor defeated last election;
Would you support prescribing drugs for addicts, presumably heroin, which Sullivan has already asked city staff to investigate;
What percentage of addicts do you believe stay off drugs after completing treatment programs;
Would you support Sullivan's "eco-density" proposal of smaller housing units and greater urban density in your neighbourhood?
What party do you prefer - NPA, Vision or COPE? Briefly describe that party.
Rumours abound in Vancouver political circles about who could have sponsored the poll, including independent Park Board commissioner Allan De Genova, who quit the NPA in November after a fight with Sullivan, and Christy Clark, the former B.C. Liberal deputy premier who lost the NPA mayoralty nomination to Sullivan in 2005.
Messages left for De Genova and Clark had not been returned at press time.
Or was the poll done by a supporter of a potential Sullivan opponent for Vision or COPE in 2008?
So the mystery continues - as do Sullivan's troubles.
Tieleman guest hosts on CKNW AM 980 Nightline BC tonight - Monday December 11
I will be guest hosting Nightline BC on CKNW AM 980 and the Corus Radio Network tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. filling in for host Michael Smyth.
On tonight's show:
7 p.m. Anne Guthrie Warman of the Vancouver Secondary Teachers Association comes on Nightline to talk about overcrowded secondary school classrooms
7:30 p.m. Shannon Rupp from www.thethetyee.ca online magazine tells us why: "Christianity Is So Gay" in her view - should be fascinating this time of year.
8 p.m. Should BC give the Tsawwassen First Nation viable agricultural farm land and allow it to pull that land out of the Agricultural Land Reserve as part of its recent treaty settlement with the province?
Joe Foy of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee has some deep concerns, as do I, and we talk about that and also about more troubles in Clayoquot Sound with logging.
8:30 p.m. The Better Business Bureau of the Lower Mainland will give you fair warning of the 10 Scams of Christmas, so you can avoid being ripped off. Sheila Charnerski joins us.
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Tieleman takes on Terry Glavin on voting NDP versus Liberal!
Why Dion is no reason for New Dems to switch sides.
View full article and comments here http://thetyee.ca/Views/2006/12/11/NDP/
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My good friend Terry Glavin has put forward the question: "Why are we supposed to vote NDP again?" in response to the new Liberal Party leadership of Stephane Dion.
It's a perfectly legitimate question, though given Glavin's previous strong endorsement of Michael Ignatieff and now Dion, I have to wonder if it's really "apostasy" for him, or ecstasy.
And I very much disagree with his contention that the NDP has to admit it "actually doesn't possess any greater claim to the mantle of progressive politics in Canada than the Liberal party does."
Wow -- what a revisionist history of our country that is!
Nevertheless, let's simplify things and give Terry 10 good reasons why voting NDP is still a lot easier than voting Liberal, particularly Stephane Dion Liberal.
1. Kyoto. Stephane Dion leads a party, and was a cabinet minister in a Liberal government for most of 13 years when Canada increased greenhouse gases by 30 per cent instead of keeping a Kyoto promise to cut them by 20 per cent, a worse record than even the U.S. under George W. Bush.
2. B.C. Backers. Dion's endorsers in British Columbia include key supporters and participants in the right-wing, not progressive, Gordon Campbell B.C. Liberal government, including ex-B.C. Liberal "environment" minister Joyce Murray; ex-B.C. Liberal MLAs Karn Manhas and Doug Symons; Dion's national campaign director, Mark Marissen; provincial lobbyist Jamie Elmhirst; and Bruce Clark, whose home was searched by police at the same time as the B.C. legislature raid that ended with breach of trust charges against ex-BC Liberal ministerial aides David Basi and Bob Virk.
3. National backers. Other national endorsers of Dion include Roy MacLaren, the pro-free trading former federal Liberal cabinet minister and now member of that progressive group called the Trilateral Commission; David Orchard, the controversial anti-free trading former Conservative leadership candidate; and former federal Liberal cabinet minister Doug Young, who was thrown out of the party for joining the Canadian Alliance to support the leadership campaign of Tom Long, a key staffer for the Mike Harris Ontario Conservative government.
4. Workers rights. Stephane Dion's vote helped defeat anti-scab legislation in 2005 as a Liberal cabinet minister, and he was not in Parliament when a second private members' bill vote in favour of banning replacement workers was passed.
5. Sponsorgate's shadow. Stephane Dion was intergovernmental affairs minister throughout much of the Sponsorgate or Adscam scandal under prime minister Jean Chrétien, and while his integrity has not been questioned, his party's certainly has.
6. Martin's lesson. The only reason former prime minister Paul Martin took any progressive measures during his minority term in office was to stay in office with NDP and Bloc Québécois support while trying to steal social democratic votes. This is the same Paul Martin who viciously cut social program transfers to the provinces as finance minister, among other regressive measures.
7. Bad "dream." Dion's "dream team" pals Michael Ignatieff and Bob Rae are in fact a pair of failed progressives. Ignatieff backed George W. Bush's disastrous invasion of Iraq and countenances torture in the defence of democracy. Rae's grim five-year tenure as Ontario NDP premier alienated both labour and business as he racked up massive deficits, then imposed unpaid "Rae Days" off on public sector workers.
8. Money. Canadians should feel free to vote for the party that most closely represents their values and ideals, regardless of the "strategic" value of their ballot. And with federal financing reforms now in place, each party gets annual funding of $1.75 per vote it gains in an election -- that means even the Green party, with no MPs elected, now has a $1 million budget.
9. Strategy. Stampeding nervous NDP voters into the Liberal camp in previous elections has actually resulted in Conservative victories in ridings where the NDP has had the best chance of winning.
10. He's a Liberal. It's still the Liberal Party of Canada for god's sake! The breathlessly arrogant party of Jean Chrétien and Pierre Trudeau, of the Gomery Inquiry, Shawinigate, APEC, wage and price controls, Canadian troops in Afghanistan, Maher Arar sent to Syrian torture, NAFTA implementation, the nearly lost 1995 Quebec separation referendum, the broken GST promise and so much more good stuff!
So, go ahead and consider voting for the newly "progressive" Liberal Party of Canada, but don't say you weren't warned!
Who is polling about Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan if it's not the NPA, Vision Vancouver or COPE?
Sullivan at centre of mystery poll
By BILL TIELEMAN , 24 HOURS
Who wants to know what you think of Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan? And why?
That's the question after a Vancouver polling firm declined to identify who its client is in a survey of city residents that asks their opinion of Sullivan's performance, who his best political opponent would be and what they think of his policies.
The ruling Non-Partisan Association flatly denies any involvement in the poll, as does Sullivan's office. And the NPA's competition, Vision Vancouver and the Coalition of Progress Electors, also say it's not their poll.
But the questions being asked about Sullivan's leadership, possible opponents in the 2008 municipal election and reaction to key Sullivan policy initiatives make it sound like the poll could be an effort to see if Sullivan should be replaced as the NPA's candidate before then.
Could it be the work of someone like independent park board commissioner Allan De Genova, who recently quit the NPA in a dispute with Sullivan?
NPA President Mathew Taylor says the party is not responsible.
"It's definitely not a party poll - I can tell you that," Taylor told 24 hours. "I know the NPA hasn't commissioned it."
The polling questions, provided by two 24 hours readers who were phoned at home in late November for the survey, include:
- Would respondents vote for Sullivan or potential mayoralty contenders Vision Vancouver councilor Raymond Louie or former councilor Jim Green, who lost to Sullivan in 2005; David Cadman, lone councillor for COPE; or Tim Louis, a COPE councillor defeated last election?
- What party do respondents prefer - NPA, Vision or COPE and how would they briefly describe that party?
- What are the biggest issues facing Vancouver?
Barb Justason of Justason Market Intelligence confirmed Wednesday her firm is currently conducting polling in Vancouver but refused to identify the client.
"It's really not something that's mine to discuss. We're not done yet," Justason told 24 hours.
Gordon Campbell and the BC Liberals - your union friendly, progressive political party?
The leopard can't change its spots but can the Gordon Campbell BC Liberal Party?
That's the obvious question if you are a BC Liberal member or supporter who got a fundraising email today.
No union bashing as in days of old - er - the first term. Forgot those imposed contracts! We're your friends now.
No teacher bashing as in days of old - er - the first term. Forget ripping up your contract! We're all on the same side.
Oh, and by the way, send money!
Here is the full text of the email:
Reaching Higher for BC, Support our Progress!
Dear Friend:
Thank you for all the support that you have shown the BC Liberal Party over this past year. This has truly been an exciting year for British Columbia as we've moved forward on a number of new initiatives to continue improving on B.C.'s reputation as the best
place on Earth.
We've seen our economy continue to grow with B.C. creating over 320,000 new jobs since December 2001, over 90% of which are full time - the strongest job creation rate in the country.
We're investing more in health care and education than ever before in the history of our province.We successfully negotiated fair and affordable agreements in 2006 covering more than 300,000 public sector employees, including a 5-year agreement with the BC Teachers' Federation.
We've launched the Conversation on Health, an unprecedented, province-wide consultation with British Columbians on their health care to lay the groundwork for improvements to the principles of the Canada Health Act that will be presented in Fall 2007.
As we go forward, we're looking at the new goals and challenges that lie ahead such as...
Providing greater tax relief for B.C. families within this mandate, to build on British Columbia's current competitive advantage as having the lowest average provincial personal income taxes in Canada on the first $80,000 of income earned.
Providing additional rental assistance to 15,000 lower-income families in British Columbia and building nearly 11,000 new units of affordable housing.
Creating 2,500 new graduate spaces for master's and doctorate degrees, creating 7,000 more apprenticeship spaces by 2010, and spearheading an aggressive marketing initiative across Canada and the United States - all to help address the skilled worker shortage created by our strong economy.
But to make it happen, we need your support. As this year draws to a close,
please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the BC Liberal Party to ensure the progress of Premier Gordon Campbell and our entire team can continue.
You can show your support for the BC Liberal Party through a one-time donation through our online web site, or by becoming a valued member of our Club 300 program with a
year-round contribution.
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To qualify for a 2006 tax receipt, online donations must be received by midnight on December 31, 2006 and mailed or faxed donations must be received by noon on December 29, 2006.
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Thank you again for your continued support.
Together, we will continue reaching higher for British Columbia in 2007 and beyond!
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Mark Marissen denies Justin Trudeau in Vancouver-Kingsway rumour
Mark Marissen, Stephane Dion's leadership campaign manager, has just contacted me to deny rumours posted here this morning that Justin Trudeau, eldest son of the late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, was being recruited to run for the Liberals in Vancouver-Kingsway.
In an email sent from his Blackberry, Marissen says in response to my question whether there is any truth to the rumours he is trying to recruit Trudeau:
"No truth. We have a candidate in Vancouver Kingsway," Marissen wrote.
That candidate, of course, is Stephane Dion supporter Wendy Yuan, who was nominated in July amid some controversy. Bob Rae supporter Mason Loh lost that nomination and also an appeal to Liberal Party HQ based on the meeting being held on short notice. Yuan will face turncoat Liberal, now Conservative cabinet minister, David Emerson.
Dion said in August when Yuan endorsed his leadership that: “Wendy is an outstanding leader in the community, a successful entrepreneur, and a tireless worker for the party. I am glad she joins my campaign for a more prosperous, more just and greener Canada.”
Fair enough. But imagine what he'd say about Justin Trudeau.
Justin Trudeau shocker - will Pierre Trudeau's son run for federal Liberals against David Emerson in Vancouver-Kingsway?
Could federal Liberal heart-throb Justin Trudeau run in Vancouver-Kingsway in next election?
That's the delicious rumour just making the rounds today with some Liberal sources, who say Stephane Dion's Vancouver-based leadership campaign manager Mark Marissen is working overtime to convince the eldest son of Pierre Trudeau to take the plunge into politics in the next election.
If it comes to pass Justin Trudeau could be facing off against former Liberal David Emerson, who jumped to the Stephen Harper Conservatives and a cabinet job just hours after the Paul Martin Liberals lost the election in January 2006.
It's hard to believe either Emerson or the New Democratic Party, which once held the riding, could beat the star-power and media frenzy that a Trudeau candidacy would bring.
While the idea of Justin Trudeau running in Vancouver-Kingsway may seem far-fetched on first blush, it shouldn't be dismissed.
Justin Trudeau has lots of BC and Vancouver connections. His mother Margaret Trudeau grew up in Vancouver, the daughter of legendary Liberal cabinet minister Jimmy Sinclair.
Justin obtained his B.Ed. at the University of BC and taught at Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School in Vancouver.
Justin jumped to public prominence with his eulogy for father Pierre at his October 3, 2000 funeral. Since then he has toyed with Liberals about running and in the federal leadership contest was a strong and prominent supporter of Gerard Kennedy, moving with Kennedy to back Dion when Kennedy dropped out.
Trudeau currently lives in Montreal with his wife, TV personality Sophie Gregoire. He is chair of Katimavik, the national youth service program, and is involved with environmental groups such as the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society and the Nature Conservancy of Canada, as well as Harvest Montreal, the largest food bank in the region.
Justin will be 35 on Christmas day - and what a present his candidacy would be for the Liberals!
I have sent an email to Marissen asking for comment. More if he replies.
Can Stephane Dion pull second rabbit from hat against Stephen Harper?
Tuesday December 5, 2006
Dion's uphill climb
The Liberals are the party of government; the Conservatives are like the mumps, you get them once in your life.
- Jack Pickersgill, former Liberal cabinet minister, 1961
The Liberal Party of Canada rolled the dice on Saturday, giving its leadership to Stephane Dion, the fourth choice of Liberal members in an initial nation-wide vote and a candidate who failed to gain the endorsement of a single former cabinet colleague currently in Parliament.
For a party that has been rarely out of government, a party where practically every leader has become prime minister, it was a risky roll for the chance at a bigger prize.
But the true winner of that dice roll may turn out to be not Dion but Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who can be expected to force an early election, or Bloc Quebecois leader Giles Duceppe, who may also want a quick vote to maximize his Quebec seats.
Dion should not be underestimated, having just pulled off a surprising upset over three men who finished ahead of him in pre-convention membership voting - Michael Ignatieff, Bob Rae and Gerard Kennedy.
But Dion's weaknesses - his English is as fractured as his reputation in Quebec and he seriously lacks charisma - will encourage Harper and Duceppe to exploit the situation.
Watch also for New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton and new Green Party leader Elizabeth May to roast Dion on environmental issues.
Dion may have named his family dog "Kyoto" but he was also a cabinet minister in the Liberal government that increased greenhouse gases by 30 per cent over 13 years in power instead of keeping a Kyoto promise to cut them by 20 per cent. Talk about hot air.
The new leader didn't pick up the backing of any of his former cabinet colleagues until the fourth and final ballot. Not a convincing show of confidence by those who have seen Dion at work in government.
But with strong help from the former British Columbia Paul Martin campaign team that helped push Jean Chretien out as Prime Minister, Dion became everyone's least objectionable choice.
Mark Marissen, Dion's National Campaign Director and Martin's former top B.C. lieutenant, deserves much credit for running a tough up-the-middle campaign much like that of two other compromise leadership candidates: former federal Conservative leader Joe Clark and former B.C. NDP leader Bob Skelly, who both came from far behind to win.
The analogy, unfortunately for Dion, is one primarily of failure in the larger electoral battle, not success. Clark was prime minister for nine brief months before being defeated and subsequently deposed, while Skelly lost the election that followed and resigned soon afterwards.
Dion has won the Liberal leadership against considerable odds. Beating Harper is an even longer shot.
Tieleman and Spector dissect Stephane Dion Liberal leadership win Monday at 10 a.m. on CKNW's Bill Good Show
Norman Spector and I will join Bill Good on CKNW AM 980 from 10 to 11 a.m. to discuss and dissect the Liberal leadership vote, as well as the also surprising Alberta leadership tally and the controversial private clinic emergency room situation.
Join us, call us, also on the Corus Radio Network throughout BC.
Stephane Dion wins Liberal leadership with prominent BC backing
Former environment minister Stephane Dion has triumphed in the fourth and final ballot of the Liberal leadership contest over MP Michael Ignatieff with 54.7% of the votes.
And Dion's win was dependent on support from some key BC Liberals formerly associated with the Paul Martin team that pushed Jean Chretien out of the Prime Minister's office in 2003.
Most prominent among them is Mark Marissen, who was Dion's National Campaign Director and an early backer of the candidate who was discounted by many and came in fourth place in the initial vote of Liberal members, behind Ignatieff, Rae and Gerard Kennedy.
Marissen deserves part of the credit for a winning strategy that included convincing Kennedy to do a deal with Dion where whoever fell behind would support the other candidate. Dion edged ahead of Kennedy on the first ballot and Kennedy dropped out in favour of Dion after the second vote.
Dion's win with 2,521 votes over Ignatieff's 2,084 was a convincing one that showed Liberals were ultimately unwilling to go to an outsider to leader their party, first dispatching former Ontario NDP premier Bob Rae, then saying no thanks to Ignatieff, the academic who had spent 30 years teaching in the U.S. and Britain.
Now Dion's challenge is to improve his fractured English and work quickly to unite the party in preparation for a possible spring election against the Stephen Harper Conservatives, who have dropped in popular support due to issues like Afghanistan, same-sex marriage, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and rejection of the Kyoto climate change agreement.
Stephane Dion poised to beat Michael Ignatieff in close race on 4th ballot
It looks like front-runner Michael Ignatieff has run out of gas going into the fourth and final vote of the federal Liberal leadership contest.
Stephane Dion only has a 2.5% advantage over Ignatieff, so anything could still happen, but Dion's momentum and what appears to be more endorsements coming from the defeated Bob Rae camp should give him enough to win.
Ignatieff needed a Rae endorsement, even if only a personal one, to have a decent chance but Rae has studiously rejected supporting either of the remaining two candidates.
More after the final ballot......
Liberals and Labour - Which Leadership Candidate is the Most Pro-Labour? The Vote On Anti-Scab Tells A Tale
Who will help the working man?
The Tyee Election Central Desk
While much attention has been spent on which federal Liberal leadership candidate is most attractive to party delegates or to Canadian voters, what about workers?
Which of the eight Liberals who aspire to become prime minister would also be a leader for the labour movement. Who is the most likely to introduce progressive legislation to meet the needs of working people?
Tough question.
None of the candidates has been outspoken on labour issues or attracted significant union movement support.
And while the NDP is the traditional and often organizational choice of organized labour in Canada, the Liberals have moved to the left since being turfed from power.
As one labour insider told The Tyee: “In opposition, the Liberals are trying to out-NDP the NDP!”
Some observers might automatically assume Brother Bob Rae, the former New Democratic Party premier of Ontario, is the obvious pro-labour choice.
But they would be wrong.
Bob Rae is still widely despised in the Ontario labour movement, particularly but not exclusively, among public sector unionists who have never forgiven him for imposing umpaid days off in an attempt to reduce burgeoning deficits.
Rae was widely condemned by the Ontario labour movement at the time and those hard feelings persist.
The former NDP premier was also faulted by others in labour for reneging on his party’s promise to introduce public auto insurance, a feature of other social democratic provinces like B.C., Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
The Buzz on Bob
But, Rae does know the labour movement and none other than Buzz Hargrove, president of the Canadian Auto Workers, has reportedly picked him as the best choice for the Liberals.
But given that even Hargrove’s public embrace of Paul Martin in a CAW bomber jacket didn’t save the political hide of the former Liberal prime minister, don’t count on Rae enjoying overwhelming labour support.
Anti-Scab Counts
Talk is cheap. When the chips are down, what matters is who voted in favour of a labour priority – anti-scab legislation.
The answer is simple – and then not so simple.
An October 25, 2006 second reading vote on a private members bill – Bill C 257 – to introduce anti-scab or anti-replacement worker legislation was passed in the minority Parliament.
Among those members of all parties who voted in favour: Liberal leadership candidates Michael Ignatieff and Joe Volpe.
But fellow MPs and contenders Stephane Dion, Ken Dryden and Scott Brison did not vote on the motion.
[Gerard Kennedy, Bob Rae and Martha Hall Findlay don’t hold seats.]
And in an earlier vote on anti-scab legislation in April 2005, when the Paul Martin Liberals were in power, the entire cabinet voted against Bill 263, which was narrowly defeated by a count of 143 against versus 131 in favour.
Martin himself was absent for the vote but Dion, Dryden, Brison and Volpe all helped defeat anti-scab.
As the old saying about the Liberals goes, they govern from the right and run from the left.
Labour Supporters?
There is a shortage of prominent labour leaders or former leaders supporting any of the Liberal contenders.
Unsurprisingly, given that he has twice run unsuccessfully as a federal Liberal candidate, former IWA-Canada president Dave Haggard isn’t shy about boosting Bob Rae.
Other supporters with union ties include labour consultant and former Hospital Employees Union leader Jack Gerow, who has hosted an event for Rae, and Rob Mingay, a former press secretary to then-NDP leader Ed Broadbent.
But a quick glance through the endorsement pages of other Liberal leadership candidates doesn’t readily turn up any prominent labour officials throwing their support behind a potential PM.
So all in all, labour will likely wait and see who wins the convention vote on Saturday and then attempt to make inroads on policy issues it deems important.
Because unlike an NDP convention, most of the labour support you will find at this weekend’s Liberal gathering will come from the workers employed by the convention centre.
Battling Pundits - Tieleman versus Tsakumis On Who Will Win Liberal Leadership!
In today's 24 hours newspaper I take on right-wing political commentator and former Non-Partisan Association backroomer Alex Tsakumis over who will win the federal Liberal leadership contest this Saturday.
My column is followed by Alex's piece - you be the judge - and you can throw in your fearless predictions!
Bettin' man puts dough on Iggy
The odds always favour the frontrunner in any leadership campaign no matter how much my friend on the right side of the political fence may disagree.
And that means if you foolishly insist on betting who will be the next Liberal leader - a risky proposition - put your money on MP Michael Ignatieff. But realize that Iggy is far from a sure thing.
Ignatieff has run a poor campaign since finishing first in the initial vote of Liberal members - making a series of rookie mistakes.
But he still has to be considered the favourite despite a pack of pundits claiming either former NDP Ontario Premier Bob Rae is the sure thing or that Stephane Dion can't lose.
Political observer Will McMartin analyzed 27 recent federal and B.C. contested leadership battles and found that in 22 of them the front runner on the first ballot won - that's an impressive 81 per cent success rate.
At this convention Ignatieff has 29 per cent of the first ballot support locked up, plus more than anyone else of about 870 "ex-officio" votes - MPs, Senators and party officials who make up another 15 per cent of delegates - which should put him in the mid 30 per cent range. His closest rival, Rae, has 20 per cent, while Gerard Kennedy at 17.5 per cent and Dion at 16 per cent trail.
So Ignatieff has the easiest route to win, while Kennedy Dion and Rae all need to put together complicated combinations of second, third and fourth choice votes.
Remember too that Iggy has more Liberal MPs and senators behind him - and that influences delegates. If Kennedy is smart - and he is - and ambitiously ruthless - which I'm not sure about - he could go to Ignatieff after the first ballot, along with Brison, and make Ignatieff the leader.
That would give Kennedy kingmaker and second-in-command status. But only the reckless are making big bets on this fascinating competition.
Crap shoot for Liberal top dog
On the left side of this page, my friend Comrade Tieleman will attempt to regale you with his knowledge of a Michael Ignatieff win come this weekend's Liberal leadership convention.
But Emperor Iggy ain't happening.
Here's why. By Sunday morning Kennedy, Dion, Rae or Ignatieff will be leader of the hapless Libranos.
Iggy has the least capacity for last ballot growth, and the largest number of delegates who will never vote for him, besting by the slimmest of margins the justifiably dreaded Bob Rae.
It was easy for Iggy to garner the first 30%, but it will be almost impossible for him, the way the delegate landscape sits, to lift the last 20%.
Most glaringly, Iggy single-handedly raised the constitutional idiocy that has gripped us, with his 'Quebec as a nation' comment and now he's going to pay for it - big time.
Look for the gap between Kennedy and Dion powerhouses after the first ballot. If Kennedy is too far ahead, Dion will move all his delegates to him, except for his Quebec delegation, which may scatter.
And the reverse will hold true if Dion is too far ahead, although Kennedy's principled stance this week against the sophomoric 'Nation of Quebec' motion, will surely provide him with a bump in support.
Rae, ultimately feared by the common-sense Liberals as leader and by Canadians as Prime Minister, presents a different scenario altogether, and a much more likely chance of winning for only one reason: the ideologues in the Sliperal left wing, having downed multiple tubs of their own bathwater, think that as part of providing a grand mea culpa during a general election, Rae's unmatched ability to shovel the fertilizer will lull hinterland and young urban Ontarian dimwits back to sleep.
Unfortunately, they're right. If Rae is on the last ballot though, it will be his opponent who will win, because even the Liberals can't be that nuts.
Or can they?
Gary Collins shocker - Ex-BC Finance Minister quits as CEO of Harmony Airways!
Former BC Liberal finance minister Gary Collins has dropped a bombshell this afternoon by quitting as President and CEO of Harmony Airways!
Harmony owner and major BC Liberal donor David Ho must be in shock, since Collins has been there for less than two years. Collins quit his job as Premier Gordon Campbell's finance minister on December 14, 2004 to move to Harmony and a reputed $300,000 annual salary running an airline that currently has just four aircraft.
Collins has told media that he will be pursuing one of several employment opportunities but has not given any details.
Collins' former ministerial assistant, David Basi, faces trial on breach of trust charges that will be heard in the new year. In a defence application for disclosure of evidence in November it was disclosed that police had put Collins under surveillance when he met with an executive from OmniTRAX, one of the companies bidding in the $1 billion BC Rail privatization.
The defence application also disclosed that a conversation between Premier Gordon Campbell and Collins was captured on a police wiretap on Basi's cell phone.
You can see an interview by Public Eye Online's Sean Holman with Collins this afternoon and Sean also reprinted Collins resignation news release.
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Dana White Exploring Potential Crossover Fight Involving Floyd Mayweather in 2020
By Tristen Critchfield Dec 31, 2019
The brief partnership between the UFC and Floyd Mayweather proved to quite lucrative for both sides, which is why Dana White is exploring the possibility of another crossover fight with the undefeated boxer.
During a recent interview with ESPN, the UFC president elaborated on his recent talks with Mayweather. White was clear that the intention is for “Money” to fight, not a business relationship. Whether that’s in the UFC or in boxing is currently unknown.
“The money is in Floyd competing,” White said.
White and Mayweather crossed paths at a Los Angeles Clippers basketball game in November, and the two men seemed quite cordial.
“We both started talking. The easiest way to explain it to you is Floyd and I both feel that we add value to each other, and we're going to figure something out,” White said. “Some things have to play out, and then I'm going to start talking to [Mayweather's promoter Al] Haymon maybe this summer and then I'll have something for Floyd in the fall.”
The UFC notably helped co-promote the boxing match between Mayweather and former two-division champion Conor McGregor in August 2017. Mayweather won the contest via technical knockout in the 10th round, but the fight itself reportedly did 4.3 million pay-per-view buys, making it the second-largest grossing pay-per-view event ever behind Mayweather’s showdown with Manny Pacquiao.
White said that working with Mayweather and his team was a positive experience overall, even if he admittedly is not a big fan of crossover fights.
“We can do some crossover stuff here or we can do something in boxing,” White said. “Our last experience, Floyd was actually pretty easy to deal with. Haymon is incredible to deal with. Floyd and I got a handshake deal at the basketball game, and we'll get the rest figured out.”
According to White, the UFC will delve into the crossover realm again if the demand is comparable to what it was for the Mayweather-McGregor bout.
“The biggest pay-per-view ever, in pay-per-view history,” White said. “It will be interesting to see if we start to see that kind of demand again with any kind of crossover fight.”
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Walk #651: Malvern to Ledbury
P20052264408 The view from from the summit of North Hill. P20052264421 Looking back to North Hill and Table Hill from Sugar Loaf Hill.
Date Walked 26/02/2005
County Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire
Start Location Malvern Link station
End Location Ledbury station
Start time 09.14
End time 15.47
Description This was a hard but exhilarating walk, taking in the full length of the Malvern Hills before a low-level stroll into Ledbury.
Pack Today I carried my 30-litre Karrimor rucksack, filled with my usual set of detritus and kit.
Condition I am fairly tired after this walk, but I suffered no significant problems and after a little rest I could easily have walked further.
Weather Today's weather was quite mixed; it started off with a mixture of sunshine and cloud, and as the day went on the cloud became thicker. Early on there was a short snow flurry, although this did not last long and was not repeated. It was a reasonably warm day, although when I was at a high level and exposed to the wind it was relatively chilly.
OS map Landranger number 150 (Worcester & The Malverns, Evesham & Tewkesbury) and Landranger number 149 (Hereford & Leominster, Bromyard & Ledbury)
P20052264441 Looking towards Summer Hill. P20052264451 The view from Jubilee Hill.
P20052264453 Heading south towards Black Hill. P20052264466 British Camp Hill.
Map of the walk
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Maps courtesy of Google Maps. Route for indicative purposes only, and may have been plotted after the walk. Please let me have comments on what you think of this new format. For a detailed table of timings for this walk, please see the table file.
P20052264480 Gullet Quarry. P20052264501 Heading south from Chase End Hill.
It had been my intention to do a three-day walk along the North Down's Way over an extended weekend, but as this week went on it became clear that I would have to cancel my holiday on Monday. This left me with a decision about what to do, and I soon settled on doing this walk over the Malvern Hills, which I have wanted to do for years. I therefore set off at a little past six thirty this morning for the long drive to Malvern. The journey was very good on clear roads, and just before nine I pulled up in the car park at Malvern Link railway station. As I had been sitting in the car for so long I walked around a little and stretched my leg muscles, before putting my rucksack on and heading off down the road.
It was a joy to see that the very top of the hills were covered in snow, and I was in a good mood as I headed down the A449 road towards the centre of Malvern. There were a couple of interesting features that I saw as I walked; an unusually shaped post box and a water fountain standing alone on the other side of the road. I soon found myself leaving the A449 and heading uphill along the B4232 until I reached a car park on the left beside a lovely brick tower. From here a steep ascent followed to the north along a muddy path that soon had me panting for breath. Some steps took me higher before the path headed up a deep gully; as soon as I could I left this, and climbed up to join a path that headed into a little saddle between North Hill and Table Hill. In the process I entered the snowline, and I left the track to head up through some fairly virgin snow to the top of North Hill. The views from here were superb, with the Cotswold Hills clearly visible through the haze to the southeast.
The wind was making the summit quite a chilly spot, so I carefully started making my way back down the path towards the col. I loved listening to my boots crunching through the snow, and I soon found myself at the summit of Sugar Loaf Hill, from where the next summit of Worcestershire Beacon was clearly visible. There were many paths that I could take to get there, and I tried to stick as much as possible to the ridgeline. The rocks around the summit viewpoint were covered with icicles and hoar frost, and was also surrounded by many people so that I was dissuaded from looking at it. Instead I settled on heading to the adjacent trig pillar, which was also covered in icicles. There were too many people around for me to want to spend too long there, so I followed a broad track that headed southwards. The going was exceptionally easy and I soon found myself climbing up to the little summit of Summer Hill before passing a car park and reaching the main road at the Wyche Cutting.
An easy walk took me up to the summit of Perseverance Hill and back into patches of snow, and then onto the higher Jubilee Hill and finally Pinnacle Hill. The views were superb, and I was very aware of how prominent the Malvern Hill range is amongst the surrounding low-lying land. By this stage I was really enjoying the walk, and the paths underfoot meant that my legs were not complaining too much about the continual climbing and falling. Black Hill led down to a long descent to the main road at British Camp Pass, and I was pleasantly surprised to find a refreshment stall near to the hotel. I studied the various wares on display and eventually settled on a bacon bap, and when it was ready I scoffed it as I walked uphill towards the summit of British Camp Hill, which is also known as Herefordshire Beacon. This hillside is ringed by a series of earthworks that were quite fascinating to study as I walked past, and they left me wondering if they had defended a settlement or whether this windy, exposed location was only used in times of crisis; I could easily imagine that the plains below were a much easier place to live and farm.
The path continued on and was easy to follow as it headed south over Millennium Hill and Hangman's Hill before reaching Silurian Pass. A last climb up Swinyard Hill followed, before the descent down to the pass at The Gullet. Here I took an incorrect route; when the well-worn path jinked to the right I took a path that continued straight on. This path met the fence guarding the very top of The Gullet Quarry, before descending down on an easterly course to meet a track that led me to a car park. This meant that I was slightly east of where I had wanted to be, so I followed a track that headed past the quarry, the bottom of which was filled with water that almost shone with a glorious green tint. This belied the great depth of the water, and it left me wondering exactly when the quarry had closed.
My next target was to climb up towards the summit of Midsummer Hill. Unlike the hills further north the paths over these southern Malvern Hill are less clear, and at the western end of the lake I turn left to climb up a rough path, churned up by horses, that led up the hill. This was a steep climb and I consequently took it slowly, and I was relieved when I reached a track that ran along the top of the hill. I was disappointed, however, to find that this path soon curved round to head northeastwards downhill back towards The Gullet; I wanted to continue straight on southwards, and as an obvious path headed in this direction I decided to follow this. This turned out to be a mistake, as the path soon ended and I was left descending an extremely steep slope through an area populated with small trees. To my right was a fence guarding the quarry face, and I moved a little way away from this for safety. Underfoot the ground was a mixture of loose branches and scree, and on the slope this made the going very difficult. I took my time and used my poles and eventually I could see the tops of cars travelling along the A438 below me. I soon reached the road, and was annoyed to see that there was a four-foot high wall that I had to jump down to get onto the road. This was difficult as there was no verge on the road and if I slipped I would fall straight onto the carriageway, so I sat down on the top of the wall, checked both ways, jumped down and ran across the road to the pavement on the other side.
Here I met a gentleman who was doing some gardening, and as we chatted he said that many people made the same mistake when coming off the hill. It turned out that for the last part of the descent I had headed through his orchard, and I apologised for this and he gave me an alternative route to get to Ledbury. After thanking him I headed off along the road, and I soon headed off along another rough path that headed around the western side of Raggedstone Hill. I did not get to see the summit of this hill, and the path was quite muddy in places, and for this reason I was quite relieved when I reached the road at White Leaved Oak Pass. My next target was the summit of the southern hill of the Malvern range, Chase End Hill, on which there is a trig pillar. An obvious path headed through some woodland, and on the map it skirted the summit. I cold see the trig pllar standing on the hill above, and I was just wondering how I could get up to it when the path diverted to the left and headed steeply uphill to the pillar.
The views from the pillar were lovely, and although not as superb as the views from the higher northern hills they are still quite expansive. I stood by the pillar for a few minutes studying the views before the wind chill started to get to me and I jogged down the hill until I reached a road. This I followed for a while until it reached the hamlet of Bromesberrow, which is only a short distance away from the M50 motorway. Another road then led me onwards to Clencher's Mill, from where I took a path that headed through some woodland. This path followed a track that was exceptionally muddy underfoot, and I soon realised that it was curving north too early. Instead of heading back to see where the proper path had gone I decided to avoid he mud and follow the side of a fenced area to reach the path. This led me across a field towards a farm, and I then joined a road that led me out to the A417 road at Parkway. There was a pavement beside the A417, and this allowed me to stride northwards along the road and make good time.
I soon found myself entering Ledbury, and although the initial scenes of industrial buildings were not salubrious as I entered the town centre the quality of the buildings became much better. There were many fantastic timbered buildings about, including a couple of hotels, and there was a small market below the superbly preserved raised market hall. The whole area was bustling on this Sunday morning, and this added to the atmosphere of the town centre. I was really enchanted and I would have stayed around for longer to explore except for the fact that I knew that the next train to Malvern was expected shortly. I strode down to the railway station, and as I had a little over a quarter of an hour to spare I went into a shelter to book some accommodation in Ledbury for the night. This proved no problem, and I soon found myself boarding the train for the journey back to Malvern Link. This proved to be very cheap as no ticket collector came down the train, the first time this had happened to me for some time. It had been a highly enjoyable day's walk, and one that I can definitely see myself repeating in some form at another time.
Considering that today's walk involved 4,400 feet of climbing (essentially the same height as Ben Nevis) I feel remarkably good after this walk, which is a very good sign for the TGO Challenge walk that I am doing in a couple of months. I have come away from today's walk with no blisters and no other significant problems, and although I did not carry as much weight as I will be doing on the Challenge I am feeling much more positive than I was before today's walk.
This walk starts off at the car park of Malvern Link railway station. Leave the station by the small gap that leads onto the A449 road and start following this as it heads southwestwards. When the road curves to the left turn right to start heading uphill along the B4219 road, passing a church on the left. This road meets the B4232 road; continue straight on along the latter until a car park and a brick tower is reached on the left. Walk a few yards past the entrance road to the car park before turning left up a footpath. This soon climbs a series of steps to ascend the hillside between two quarries before entering a little gully. Continue along the footpath up this gully as it heads between North Hill and Table Hill; when a track is met continue on up to the col between the two hills. At the col you can turn left to climb up to the top of North Hill, from where there are some substantial views. Head back down to the col, from where a network of paths fan out towards Worcestershire Beacon.
I chose to take an obvious but less well-walked path that took me south to the summit of Sugar Loaf Hill before descending and then climbing up to a viewpoint and trig pillar. A clear path leads south from here, and this soon becomes a surfaced track as it heads down past Summer Hill and a car park before reaching a road and some public toilets at The Wyche. Cross the road and take a footpath that heads uphill to the left of the public toilets. The path is obvious as it reaches the summits of Perseverance Hill, Jubilee Hill and Pinnacle Hill, before descending down to Black Hill. The path eventually diverts to the right to reach the B4232 road; turn left along this for a hundred yards until it reaches the A449 road beside a hotel at British Camp Pass.
Cross the A449 road and take a footpath that heads uphill to the right of the car park. As soon as possible leave the obvious surfaced path and turn right to climb up some steps that lead to the top of British Camp Hill, otherwise known as Herefordshire Beacon. A clear path then leads down across the hill, leading to Millenium Hill and Hangman's Hill. The path descends down to Silurian Pass before climbing up towards the top of Swinyard Hill. At the top of the hill the path forks; the main path to the right heads down to the west of The Gullet quarry, whilst the one I took headed along the summit for another hundred yards before following the fence guarding the quarry westwards, descending downhill before joining a track that ends at a road beside a car park.
Once on the A438 road turn right and walk westwards along the road through Hollybush. Pass a car park on the right and then turn left down a path that skirts the western side of Raggedstone Hill. The path does not climb up to the summit, but instead keeps relatively low on the hillside, heading through a wooded area before suddenly emerging onto a road at White Leaved Oak. Head down the short road until it ends after a few yards at a road junction, and then turn right and almost immediately to the left to start following a narrow path southwards over Chase End Hill. The path climbs uphill through woodland until a clearing is reached by the trig pillar at the top of the hill. Leave the pillar and head south along an obvious path; this descends downhill before reaching a road.
Turn to the left and follow this road as it heads in a rough westerly direction for a kilometre before curving to the left to head southwards to end at a road junction near the village cross in Bromesberrow. Turn right to start heading slightly north of westwards along a road that leads for a little over a mile to Clencher's Mill. The road crosses a ford over a stream and then turns sharply to the right to head uphill. After a few yards turn left along a muddy track that enters some woodland, following a broad track through the tress that slowly curves to the right to head northwards before ending at a road beside a farm. Join this road and follow it as it heads westwards for about half a mile until it ends at the A417 road at Parkway.
Turn right and start following the A417 northwards; when a roundabout is reached after a kilometre continue straight on as the road enters Ledbury and heads northwards through the centre of the town. As the road approaches the northern outskirts of the town it curves sharply to the left; immediately before the bend turn right up the station approach road that ends at Ledbury railway station, where this walk ends.
Distance (m)
Ascent (ft)
Descent (ft)
Malvern Link station British Camp Hill 6.0 2215 1473
British Camp Hill Bromesberrow 5.9 1220 2041
Bromesberrow Ledbury station 4.5 410 351
This makes a total distance of 16.4 miles, with 3845 feet of ascent and 3865 feet of descent.
For more information on profiles, ascents and descents, see this page
There are regular train services between Ledbury and Malvern Link, calling at Colwall Stone and Malvern on the way. I do not know how much the train costs as the ticket office at Ledbury was closed and no ticket collector came down the train. Please see the National Rail Enquiries website for more details.
I spent the night at The Elms B&B, 52 Guarlford Road, Malvern, Worcestershire WR14 3QP, telephone 01684 573466. This was a nice B&B where I was made to feel very welcome; the Bluebell Inn is a short stagger down the road. AS twin room cost me thirty pounds for night as a single occupant.
Please note that I take no responsibility for anything that may happen when following these directions. If you intend to follow this route, then please use the relevant maps and check the route out before you go out. As always when walking, use common sense and you should be fine.
If you find any information on any of these routes that is inaccurate, or you wish to add anything, then please email me.
All images on this site are © of the author. Any reproduction, retransmissions, or republication of all or part of any document found on this site is expressly prohibited, unless the author has explicitly granted its prior written consent to so reproduce, retransmit, or republish the material. All other rights reserved.
Although this site includes links providing convenient direct access to other Internet sites, I do not endorse, approve, certify or make warranties or representations as to the accuracy of the information on these sites.
And finally, enjoy your walking!
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Nokia and Windows Phone: What Could Still Go Wrong
The much ballyhooed release of Nokia’s first Windows Phone handsets finally took place Wednesday at the Nokia World event in London. There had been a lot of anticipation building up to this “reveal,” and it is genuinely a watershed moment for the Windows Phone platform. That’s because Nokia’s adoption of Windows Phone brings several firsts:
For the first time, a major mobile phone player has standardized on Windows Phone as its exclusive smartphone platform.
For the first time (apparently) an OEM will be working actively with carriers to see to it that Windows Phone will be well-promoted and featured prominently at retail points of sale
For the first time, a Windows Phone OEM has within its comfort zone the ability to push products out to numerous global markets (not just North America, Asia and Western Europe) and to manufacture handsets at price points that can work in those markets
For the first time, a major mobile hardware company has a self-interest, if not its self-preservation, at stake in the success of Windows Phone.
Now that the first two Nokia Windows Phone handsets, the Lumia 800 and 710, have come out, Windows Phone can stop waiting. But it also has to stop merely hoping, and start actually achieving. This is a big deal, but this is not finish line. And make no mistake, the odds are still stacked in against Windows Phone. The challenges are not insurmountable, but they are numerous and they are formidable. Among them:
Windows Phone needs to be an express stop for apps developers; right now it’s local station open during limited hours. Although there are now over 35,000 apps for Windows Phone – a very impressive number for a phone that’s a bit less than 1 year old – there are numerous major or important apps that aren’t on the platform. Even apps that are on Windows Phone have more token representation than on iOS or Android. Compare the lone ESPN Score Center on Windows Phone to ESPN’s app presence on the iTunes App Store, or try searching for “ESPN” on the Android Market and see what comes up. Likewise, Windows Phone has Angry Birds, but only one version of it, as opposed to the three versions on the other two major smartphone platforms. Will this situation improve? Will Windows Phone become a mandatory chennel for apps developers? Or will we keep looking forward better app availability tomorrow?
Windows Phone doesn’t have a carrier champion. Apple may not have needed one, given its own retail network, but it had one nonetheless in AT&T. (An)droid had a champion in Verizon. An OEM champion is good, but carriers may be even more important worldwide, and they definitely are in the United States. Will Nokia make this better, especially in the US, where it has so little influence?
The Smartphone landscape is no longer a green field, and even in “the Enterprise,” preferences and prejudices are in evidence. IT may have a disincentive in deploying Windows Phone handsets to employees, because those employees may have a strong preference for something else. That was not true for Blackberry/RIM in the last decade, and it’s not true for iOS in this one. It may or may not be true for Android. Microsoft has an uphill battle even in allegedly friendly territory. It has no home field advantage. Anywhere.
Windows Phone hardware has been lackluster. What we’ve seen so far is mostly repurposed Android chasses with three haptic buttons on the bottom instead of four. What Nokia showed today is better, at least stylistically in the case of the Lumia 800 (pun intended), but features are still inferior with no front-facing camera and limited on-board memory. Today was a good start. Will the next phones be even better, or will the momentum slow?
Marketing of Windows Phone by Microsoft has been weak, and inconsistent. There was a media blast last year, when the phones were launched, and then things petered out. AT&T stores had a Windows Phone section early on, but that seems to have been withdrawn too. Without strong, sustained marketing, Windows Phone needs to rely on grass roots popularity and word of mouth for growth. I’m skeptical that such viral popularity will spontaneously appear and build. Will Nokia fill the void? I think so, at least in Europe, but will that build momentum for the Windows Phone platform overall?
Windows Phone has many hurdles ahead. It would be easy for any one of them to foil Microsoft (and Nokia) in the smartphone market. But I (a Windows Phone user) am not sure that it would be so hard climb these hurdles and even transcend them, either. Microsoft and Nokia can seed the Marketplace with more major, high-quality apps. Nokia can come out with a second wave of handsets that could kick some butt, in looks and in technology. Microsoft can now (finally) integrate Skype into the Windows Phone OS to create consumer appeal and help “bring your own device” Enterprise employees save on their calling plan minutes. Microsoft could decide tomorrow to market and advertise Windows Phone aggressively, and hire the right agency to do this in a hip way, and hopefully in coordination with Nokia. And with that combination of positive changes, a carrier could finally become interested. For example, Verizon (rumored to have had employees on site in London today), and its 45% London-based owner, Vodafone.
Would such a turnaround take perfect alignment of the stars to pull off? Maybe. But determination to win would make this outcome most likely
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Way too many cliches in that piece of writing. B for contents, F for style.
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This reality was the same for last week when the Bengals played the Seahawks. Some of the standout performers from that game made our list of five players to watch for against the 49ers.
Fun fact: the 49ers are the only team in the NFL that have never given up an Andy Dalton touchdown. The last time Dalton played the 49ers was in 2011; his third career game and also the team’s home opener for that season, which sparked the renaissance of the Marvin Lewis era.
He threw for 157 yards and two interceptions on 17-32 passing in what ended up being a 13-8 loss. Nearly eight calendar years later and Dalton has thrown a touchdown in 98 of his next 119 regular season games, 67 of them being wins.
The Bengals’ veteran quarterback is a topic of discussion this week because he broke the 400 passing yardage mark for the first time in his career last Sunday in a one-point loss. Despite the box score numbers, Dalton had a fairly average performance when looking at Expected Points and Expected Completion %, so there’s even more room for improvement for No. 14.
--> X-axis: how many passes they completed relative to expected given target depth (similar to Next Gen Stats completion +/-)
--> Y-axis: EPA per play pic.twitter.com/LPkVy1Ed6x
— new-age analytical (@benbbaldwin) September 10, 2019
Against the 49ers, who pose an offensive threat with more potential than the Seahawks, Dalton’s consistency for all four quarters will be crucial. His poise against pressure will also be counted on against a front-four that’s as dangerous as any he’ll see all year.
Giovani Bernard
The good news is that Joe Mixon was participating in the Bengals’ walkthrough on Friday, which indicates that he’ll be active for Sunday’s game. But how much will he actually play?
Bernard is one of the two current offensive starters (the other being Andre Smith) that started against the 49ers when they last played each other in 2015. When Mixon has missed time or has been limited over the last two seasons, Bernard has seen an obvious increase in workload. If Mixon is 100% ready to go, then don’t expect very many touches for Bernard. But, against a potent pass-rushing unit, Bernard should get more reps as a pass protector on third down.
There are storylines all over this Bengals’ offensive line: Andre Smith playing for Cordy Glenn, rookie Michael Jordan starting at left guard, Trey Hopkins earning the job at center, and Bobby Hart still somehow starting at right tackle.
Miller has almost been the forgotten man in this unit.
Against the Seahawks, Miller was Pro Football Focus’ lowest-graded player along Cincinnati’s offensive line, primarily because of his lackluster run blocking. Despite Hopkins’ best efforts, second-level blocking was lacking, mostly due to Miller. This is the area the offense needs to improve upon the most this week, and it starts with improvement from Miller.
Sam Hubbard
A player who needs to show no improvement from last week is Hubbard, for obvious reasons. The question is: can he dominate in back-to-back weeks?
It’s tough to create pressure against the 49ers’ offensive line. At left tackle, you have an elite veteran in Joe Staley who, quite simply, has never had a bad season in his now 13-year career. He’s a borderline Hall of Famer if he played for a predominantly winning team. On the opposite side of the line is the much younger and more spry Mike McGlinchey, who is pretty damn polished for being a second-year player.
This game will be a great barometer for where Hubbard is. Not only will his competition be much better than last week, the quarterback he’s trying to sack will get the ball out quicker as well.
While Hubbard and the the defensive line headlined the defensive effort last week, Brown quietly had a solid first game of 2019. Brown and Nick Vigil were essentially the only two linebackers to play in the game, and both played fairly well in the new scheme. For Brown, who acts as the MIKE linebacker, his role for this week will be crucial.
49ers head coach and play caller Kyle Shanahan loves using running backs in the passing game, but he doesn’t force it if the matchup favors another angle. His offense primarily runs through their stud tight end George Kittle, and the Bengals can either *try to* stop him, or limit running backs eating up yards after the catch. They probably won’t be able to do both.
It will fall on Brown to matchup with running back Matt Breida in the passing game when he releases to the flat off of play action. Those kinds of plays will work whether or not the running game has been “established”, so Brown has to be light on his feet for this one.
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