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Do Preckwinkle and Rahm get along? Silence is deafening
BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter May 14, 2014 1:46PM
Updated: May 14, 2014 1:54PM
In this "My Chicago" video, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle talks about a recent meeting she's had with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Preckwinkle, of course, is often held up as Emanuel's biggest reelection threat, should she decide to make a run against him.
"It was a pretty policy-driven, pithy conversation," the Democratic board president says in this ride-along interview with Mark Bazer. Bazer hosts the new WTTW series, which holds a similar premise as Charlie Stone's "Morning Commute" where notables are interviewed — and filmed — from the inside of a car.
Preckwinkle was asked a pretty basic follow-up about whether she and Emanuel get along.
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Yesterday a Phoenix resident took to social media with a serious accusation against one of the Valley's most famous restaurants. Last night Pane Bianco responded on its Facebook page and today chef Chris Bianco spoke about the matter with Chow Bella. Jeffrey Peterson, a technology entrepreneur and ... More >>
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Hey, Phoenix Foursquare peeps, Phoenix New Times is getting its own Foursquare badge as part of our just-announced partnership with the social media company. Follow us on Foursquare here, and make sure to leave a comment when you've unlocked the special Phoenix New Times badge. To unlock the badge ... More >>
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The Fight: We see too much of each other's family, in the wrong ways, at the wrong times.
The Fundamental Disagreement: Honestly, this isn't a fight we have. We love each others families, have kind of lucked out on location, and feel like we dodged a bullet that a lot of our friends haven't. But I think, in those cases, it's never about not liking the partner's family; it's about not liking the way you spend time together. Some people are used to spending solid blocks of time with a family (think weekend away); other people have families that meet for dinner and then depart.
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Calif. couple sues over donations to Scientology
Two former members of the Church of Scientology claimed in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that the church and its affiliates deceived members into donating millions of dollars to misrepresented causes.
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Two former members of the Church of Scientology claimed in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that the church and its affiliates deceived members into donating millions of dollars to misrepresented causes.
Luis and Maria Garcia of Irvine, Calif., filed the complaint in federal court in Tampa, near the church's national headquarters in Clearwater. The couple claims they were duped into giving more than $420,000 for a building campaign, disaster relief efforts and other Scientology causes, only to find the bulk of the money went to inflate the church coffers and line the pockets of its leader, David Miscavige.
"The church, under the leadership of David Miscavige, has strayed from its founding principles," the lawsuit claims, "and morphed into a secular enterprise whose primary purpose is taking people's money."
In an emailed statement, Scientology spokeswoman Pat Harney said the church had not yet been served with the lawsuit, but challenged any contention that money was misappropriated.
"We understand from media inquiries this has something to do with fundraising and we can unequivocally state all funds solicited are used for the charitable and religious purposes for which they were donated," Harney said.
The Garcias were 28-year members of the church, rising to upper levels of Scientology. They left in November 2010 over their disenchantment with its direction under Miscavige, who has led the church since founder L. Ron Hubbard's death in 1986.
The lawsuit names various trusts and nonprofits linked to Scientology as defendants and says they collectively engage in fraud, unfair and deceptive trade practices and breach of contract in their fundraising.
Attorney Theodore Babbitt of West Palm Beach, who is among those handling the suit, said it would be followed by other similar claims from former Scientologists. He said the Garcias still believe in the precepts of Scientology and that the litigation is not a commentary on whether it is a true religion, a question that has dogged it across the world since it was founded in the 1950s. Babbitt said, ultimately, that question is irrelevant when considering its members' donations.
"Whether you're a church or not a church, you can't defraud people," he said.
Harney called the lawsuit "frivolous."
"The statements to the media made today about the church and its ecclesiastical leader by these bitter individuals are blatantly false," she said.
Among the accusations made in the lawsuit is that the Garcias and others were repeatedly approached with urgent requests for funding of Scientology work around the globe, such as disaster relief or campaigns for causes such as ending child pornography. Babbitt said high-ranking former Scientologists would testify that the church knowingly rerouted such collections for other spending, including financing a "lavish lifestyle" for Miscavige, stifling inquiries into church activities and finances, and intimidating members and ex-members.
A common tactic, Babbitt said, when a disaster unfolded somewhere in the world, would be to send a small group of Scientologists with a camera crew that would pay locals in the affected area to appear on camera. A scene would essentially be staged, he claims, in which people would be begging or appear to be starving, even if it weren't the case.
A cornerstone of church practice is personal counseling sessions, known as auditing, in which members disclose many facets of their personal lives. Babbitt says members' own financial status and the accounts they hold would be known from those sessions and then be used in tandem with footage from disaster sites in desperate and urgent pleas for money.
"There's an emergency, we need your money right now, we know that you have X dollars in the bank in Los Angeles," Babbitt said, offering a paraphrase of how a member might be approached.
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Building a More Dynamic Cincinnati
This post originally appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer on April 8, 2014.
Cincinnati arguably has the greatest collection of assets of any city its size in America. So why has the region been stagnant to slow-growing for so many decades?
When you look at the stunning collection of advantages and assets of Cincinnati – its geography; the amazing dense, historic architecture (great contemporary architecture, too); top-notch cultural institutions; a large corporate presence; and so many pieces of local culture and flavor of a type that has been homogenized away in most places – it's an embarrassment of riches.
Yet since 1970, while the U.S. has grown by nearly 52 percent in population, the Cincinnati region grew by 26 percent, only half as fast. Other than Dayton, the other surrounding metro areas have also grown about twice as fast or more than Cincinnati. Cincinnati has lagged on jobs, too.
How is this? How can Cincinnati have the best stuff, but be a growth laggard?
Part of it is that all the assets in the world don't help you if you don't take advantage of them. Most of these are located in Cincinnati's delightful urban core. But Cincinnati has to some extent abandoned that core in favor of low-grade sprawl.
The city of Cincinnati has lost a big chunk of population, and its regional share dropped from about 40 percent in 1950 to only 14 percent today. By contrast, New York City is still at 45 percent regional population share today. And while it's a slow-growing region, too, the city of New York is at an all-time high in population and is booming in many ways, such as its tech and real estate industries.
Even Hamilton County has lost population as a whole, dropping by about 120,000 since 1970. By comparison, Indianapolis's almost identically sized Marion County gained 135,000 during the same period – this in a place with far fewer obvious assets.
What's more, unlike its fabulous core, Cincinnati's sprawl isn't even that good for the most part. So Cincinnati has chosen to fight its battle where it has few marketplace advantages instead of leveraging its unique and compelling assets.
This has proven a demographically, economically and financially unimpressive strategy. Instead, urban Cincinnati and Hamilton County should align available financial resources to make the most out of the amazing urban environment and assets that exist there.
Meanwhile, the suburbs aren't going anywhere and will continue to grow, so they should seek to do so on a higher-quality pattern that will be financially sustainable long-term. The problem with sprawl is often less about the environmental impacts than the fact that as they age, older suburbs that weren't very high-income to begin with become financial albatrosses as they fill up with dead malls, aging and less market-attractive homes, legacy costs and similar issues. And unlike the high-quality classic architecture of the core, they've as yet proven less adaptable over the long term.
The wonderful collection of assets Cincinnati has may also have bred complacency. Another name for an asset is "the stuff we did yesterday." But what are we building for tomorrow? What is our generation's contribution to the pot?
Cities like Columbus that started out with much less understood in their gut that they needed to go out and create some things. They were hungrier. Cincinnati needs to recover some of that hunger and fire in the belly that motivates other places that are keenly aware of what they lack and are fighting every day to improve.
Cincinnati has also been plagued with deep and counterproductive community divisions. This includes the East Side-West Side split, city vs. suburb, three states, tea partiers vs. liberals, racial divisions, etc. This makes it harder to get things done than it should be because there's no civic consensus. The streetcar debate makes that very clear.
Cincinnati needs to find a way to heal these wounds and build a durable consensus while leaving room for appropriate debate.
A strategy that works with, not against, the unique qualities and competitive advantages of Cincinnati; a more aggressive, hungry civic attitude; and a way to bridge community divides are three of the things that will help Cincinnati to realize the sustainable growth and prosperity it should have in light of the fantastic place that it is and the incredible assets it has.
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74 Responses to "Building a More Dynamic Cincinnati"
Nicole says:
"I'm not comparing as much as contrasting them. The relationship is/ should be complementary with one city doing what the other can't."
I was referring to Mr. Renn's piece and the comparison often made between Cincinnati's comparative lack of success in population growth. I agree with you for the most part but Cincinnati as a region does need more growth.
Part of the problem is Cincinnati isn't as attractive to many living in the Midwest. Lets say someone from San Francisco and someone from Grandview Indiana both take a trip to Cincinnati and Indianapolis. The person from San Francisco will probably be more impressed with Cincinnati but will be unlikely to move there. The person from Grandview will probably prefer Indy and be more likely to move there.
Cincinnati hasn't done enough to attract people from places that would appreciate it and it is more difficult to get on the list of someone living on a coastal city. Of course Cincinnati also hasn't done enough to improve its cool urban neighborhoods but the effort is much improved lately.
I think we both agree.
Pittsburgh, which you mentioned as sort of a model is actually not growing as an overall region. What it is doing is growing at the core in a fairly reasonable way.
Nicole says:
Yes I mean take ideas from each other where each has found success. Pittsburgh is probably the most similar city to Cincinnati in the country and they have similar problems.
I think Cincinnati should market itself more to Detroit and Chicago to offset some of the advantages cities like Columbus, Indianapolis and Nashville have in attracting residents from small town and rural areas. Cincinnati has several neighborhoods that are as cool as anything in Chicago and are much cheaper but not as active. People from Detroit also seem to like Cincinnati.
DaveOfRichmond says:
I'm surprised that this: "…a large corporate presence…" seems to be accepted by everyone as an advantage. It's been argued that one of Detroit's problems was an economy dominated by large corporations – leads to local pols favoring those big guys over smaller challengers who may be a threat to their control over the workforce, plus big corp's tend to foster the kind of complacency that is mentioned in the post (i.e. non-entrepreneurial, non-risk taking). Have these things not been an issue in Cincy? What spinoffs has the region seen from P&G or Federated or Kroger?
Rod Stevens says:
Dave of Richmond:
I agree with you about the corporate presence. One of the things that always made me weary of Cincinnati was the big corporate presence, the domination of a package goods firm that stands for every that is main stream. I'm sure that lots of fine corporate jobs come out of that, but what air does it leave in the room for the "Tom's of Maine", the "Burt's Bees", and all the other alternative products that have been growing up since the mid 1980s, when Diane Keaton made a film about dropping out of the rat race and moving to Vermont to make healthy baby food. The U.S. as an economy has moved away from such giant "convener companies", for better or worse, towards a model of corporate partnerships in which small and mid-sized companies work as peers. There are research downsides to that, of course, but it does take us a lot closer to the German model of a rich, dense, diverse set of producers who have learned how to sell their expertise to a variety of customers, many of these in foreign markets. Has Cincinnati does that?
Nicole says:
The corporations of Cincinnati have not historically done much to try to improve the region. However, in the past decade and especially since the riots some of the biggest corporations in the city have made concerted efforts to improve the core. After the riots the business community decided that they wanted and needed a nicer inner city to attract YPs and they formed 3cdc which is behind the redevelopment of Over the Rhine and a lot of projects in the CBD. They have in the last five years or so started investing in the startup community with accelerators like the Brandery and Cintrifuse. A lot of big corporations feel that the creativity and innovation associated with startups is good for their business. Akebia, one of the region's most successful startups, is a Proctor and Gamble spinoff. Corporations will invest in a city if they see it as advantageous to them, which Cincy's corporations seem to be doing lately. We'll see what happens with their new found investment in the city and if it continues.
Matthew Hall says:
John. Visit Newport and Covington in Kentucky, Downtown, Over the Rhine, and Mt Adams (They border each other) Clifton, University Heights (They border each other), Hyde Park, East Walnut Hills, and Oakley (they border each other somewhat) in Ohio.
Matthew Hall says:
P & G, GE Aviation, Macy's, Krogers, and Children's Hospital have had a role in the creation of many companies in Cincinnati.
Aaron M. Renn says:
Things that stick out at me. Noticed it when I was in Cincy the last couple days and even in this comment thread. The way that Cincinnati the city is seen as distinct and separate from the rest of the region, as if it isn't even linked.
Also no mention of the elephant in the room on Cincinnati: the extreme social conservatism. It's probably changed somewhat and I'm sure the OTR hipsters don't share that view. Yet it's a huge overhang for the city. You can't just point at physical assets and neglect that aspect of reality. Columbus is known as a very gay friendly city, for example. Maybe the gay capital of Ohio.
That and the general location were the main reason It never was on my of possible places to move. I knew it would be beautiful & just felt it wasn't safe to fall in love with buildings alone.
Dan Wolf says:
Lot of good points made regarding city uniqueness and playing to their strengths. Again, I believe a recognition of this and a more cooperative super regional outlook would help the relatively closely situated cities of the eastern Midwest.
Regarding the city/suburb divergent perspectives; the greater common interests of the region I think is understood. It was pointed out that all folks want to feel that their neighborhood is getting a fair share of benefits for their share of taxes paid. Many of the corporate HQ managers probably live in the suburbs, I know so. I don't think this "divide" is as big as Aaron and a few others may think. I grew up in the suburbs and didn't have this perspective; nor did my parents, aunts, uncles, etc. So many favorable efforts are under way that I believe everyone will be able to see that Cincy isn't as divided as some suggest.
Aaron, I appreciate Cincinnati's social conservatism. I don't think it is "extreme". It may be one of the few major city/regions in the country where the moral values of the early 1960s and before still prevail. I prefer that. Those who prefer otherwise can join another city/region. Is that Fair? In a great big country people have cultural choices as to where they wish to live. Regarding Columbus, I grew up there for seven years. Nice city and all, but I don't wish to live in the "gay capital" of anywhere. Isn't it alright to hold my Christian values and live where I find the culture more to my liking? I would like to be respected for my values as well, without recriminations from anyone. Where is all that "diversity and tolerance" storehouse?
Cincy is great in many ways as has been noted by many in this blog, including our host Aaron. Cincinnati's conservative culture produced many of its great legacy assets, including the many corporate HQs. Let Cincinnati be itself and market itself to whomever and where ever it wishes. As noted, many innovations are occurring here.
I thought new urbanism included the ideas that each city/region has its own personality and characteristics due to the values of the peoples who built the metropolis. That is distinctive. Would anyone here expect Charleston S.C. to have the personality of say Newark or Phoenix?
I think the business leaders and many others are working well together in downtown Cincy. They no doubt live in different areas of the city and suburbs. A vibrant and grand city is more on display every day. Cincinnati is attracting a lot of positive attention.
Nicole says:
I think many of the most passionate defenders of the city (defenders of the urban areas only) did not grow up in the urban areas of the region. Many who love the inner city are well aware of the conservatism of the area because they grew up with it, myself included. (I don't live in inner city Cincy but I am rooting for those who are trying to make it a better place. A better place meaning somewhere with beautiful surroundings that is a more liberal and open society and has controlled crime. This is obviously a fantasy utopia but we can't help but dream of something better in our hometown.)
The urban areas of the region are seen as more open and liberal, and a place where you can rebel against what you hear on things like 700 WLW, the local AM talk radio station. Many of those "OTR hipsters" you refer to have family with much more conservative views living in the burbs. The city is viewed as "theirs" in a way that the suburbs are not.
Likewise, those crazy kids trying to gentrify the inner city are living in an area that seems foreign to people outside the city because the middle and upper classes have not lived in some of these areas for over fifty years and rarely ventured there. There are still many in the suburbs who associate the city with crime and danger and fear the lower income African Americans who live there. Some of the angst about city gentrification is also that lower income African Americans are being pushed their way. Many of the liberals in the inner city won't admit it but they also wouldn't mind lower income African Americans being priced out of places like Over the Rhine if it means that crime drops. These are significant tensions and in this respect race relations haven't improved much.
EJ says:
There are significant economic tradeoffs that come with maintaining an exclusionary culture, which is at the core of the social conservatism that Cincy is legendary/notorious for, which is what I think Aaron is getting at.
Cincinnati has a wealth of cultural and physical assets (built and natural) unmatched by any other city in the surrounding tri-state region, yet in terms of growth it has become a real laggard, while the satellite cities that once looked up to it and regarded it as a regional capital have in many respects caught up to and surpassed it, or are on a trajectory to do so. Columbus, Indianapolis, Louisville, and Lexington have each grown significantly to become fairly respectable cities in their own right, but each would burn itself to the ground if doing so meant that it could be reborn and reconstructed possessing even a mere third of Cincy's assets.
Put another way, if Columbus held Cincy's cultural and physical assets, in addition to its open and welcoming attitude towards diversity, it would truly be the Midwestern equivalent of San Francisco and perhaps even compete with Chicago for the limelight. But Columbus just has the culture. It will never have the natural and built physical and cultural assets that Cincy does.
Cincy on the other hand does have the assets, but not the culture. Unlike Columbus, it can work on its problem areas. Cincy can work on addressing its culture, but hasn't done so meaningfully up to this point. That it has not done so appears to be what has held it back economically and growth-wise while also allowing its regional capital status to be thrown into dispute.
I suspect Cincinnati will always be notably conservative to some degree, but it need not be so in such a way and to such an extent that it stifles its own ability to thrive and prosper in the 21st century. In an increasingly global world, no city of any relevance can afford to keep itself socially and culturally isolated.
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Dan, certainly it seems that many people are like you in that they want to live in a place where their attitudes and beliefs are shared by many or most people. But others of us favor a live and let live culture.
No one is suggesting that you can't believe and act as you wish, but it is an American axiom that your rights don't extend to dictating others' choices and beliefs; the conservative Christian movement seems to expend an awful lot of time and money trying to enshrine their reading of the Bible in law. Frankly, that repels moderates, who decide elections.
I would suggest that longing for an idealized bygone era is not productive for people or for urban areas.
Kerry says:
I am amazed at the boilerplate stereotype comments by many commenters regarding the "extreme" conservatism of Cincinnati. This may be true if you are comparing Cincinnati to NY, LA, Chicago but definitely not when compared to Indy, Columbus, Louisville, Lexington, etc. I have lived in Cincy as well as Indy, Louisville and Columbus when I worked for a medical device manufacturer. The people I met in Cincy were overall less conservative than Indy and Louisville and about the same as Columbus. The stereotype of ultra-conservative Cincinnati was probably true decades ago but certainly not now. The most extremely conservative people I have interacted with in business over the last 15 years are all in Indianapolis, Louisville and Lexington. The Columbus metro area is no mecca of liberal thought and lifestyle acceptance as well. They are the beneficiaries of some strong tolerant ideals by political leaders but certainly not the overall population. The "lifestyle acceptance" is concentrated in a small area of the metro area. Beyond that area it is conservatism in the extreme. If you doubt this just take a look at the last decade of presidential elections in Cincinnati vs Columbus. Columbus went with John McCain and Mitt Romney the last 2 elections. Cincinnati went with Obama both times. From my experience in the downtown areas and reaching into the suburbs of each city, the stereotype of Cincinnati ultra-conservatism doesn't hold up.
Does seem somewhat unlikely that the majority of city residents are extreme social conservatives.
Southwestern Ohio usually is seen as a social conservative stronghold in a swing state- just like the Cleveland area is seen as a "corrupt" union stronghold.
My guess is if Cincinnati was a conservative city in a majority (social) conservative state- it wouldn't be as noticed. The perception- is certainly a big issue for Cincinnati.
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I hope this is taken in the right spirit: the problem is not that the conservative class is too conservative, but the the criminal underclass is too criminal.
wkg in bham says:
To expand upon my previous comment a little bit. It doesn't get any more conservative that Birmingham. I love my neighbors. They're neat, polite, friendly, look after their kids, helpful to a fault. What more could you want? Yep, there are certain things we just don't talk about. Birmingham is pretty much a live-and-let-live kind of place. We have a very substantial gay community that as far as I know, gets along without any problems at all. Does "roll-tide-roll" take up way more importance than it should? Of course. NASCAR? Absolutely. I think Cincinnati is probably sort of the same way. It's Ohio for God's sake. Get over it.
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Marion County Indiana went twice for Obama. We are represented in Congress by Andre Carson, a Democrat who is an African American Muslim, though outlying edges of the county are represented by suburban Republicans. This hardly describes a very conservative place; since the county is only about 27% African American, the congressman relies on Caucasian voters for reelection.
If one uses Pittsburgh as a model, one should remember the region as whole is not yet growing.
What it has done is stabilize and shift growth towards the core. Aside from the North Hills/Cranberry area, there are few growing suburbs.
The end result is of this painful process is a city better positioned for a new kind of growth based on tech, education, research & specialty manufacturing with a lower overhang of fixed infrastructure to maintain. Watching great old places and buildings fade for lack of love is still a big reality here.
I guess what I'm saying is a real dynamic city doesn't try to grow everywhere, or save everything. The great investor is defined by how rapidly they dump bad choices and shift into good ones.
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@Kerry "From my experience in the downtown areas and reaching into the suburbs of each city, the stereotype of Cincinnati ultra-conservatism doesn't hold up." Yes. Even within the city itself there can be a great deal of variation from neighborhood to neighborhood.
Even at the personal level. A person can have beliefs on some things that would be called "conservative" and others that usually called "liberal".
I've never been anywhere that was monolithic that a person couldn't find kindred spirits.
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@ Aaron M. Renn I haven't noticed extreme social conservatives as an elephant. It's been 25 years since the Mapplethorpe case, the new County Sherriff is a Democrat, and the current City Council is majority Dem as well as the Mayor. There is also a very well-known gay pride parade through Northside on the 4th of July. There is a conservative political group called COAST, but it's really just a few attorneys that sue the city to cover their fees. One of their most prominent members was kicked out of his law firm and moved to the next county after the streetcar debate was settled.
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@ EJ I strongly disagree with the statement that Cincy has the assets and Columbus has the culture. The physical environment of Columbus is a reflection of the people that live there. The arena district is a great new development done much better than The Banks, but Covington or OTR dwarf German Village and then all you're left with is a sleepy downtown and Short North and some outer villages. Nothing is stopping the people of Columbus from making their downtown just as urban, but they haven't yet.
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|"Lili Marleen"
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|"Mond von Mexico"
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|Schlager music
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"Lili Marleen" (also known as "Lili Marlene", "Lily Marlene", "Lili Marlène" and similar variants) is a German love song which became popular during World War II with soldiers of both sides.
Written in 1915, during World War I, it was published as a poem under the title "Das Lied eines jungen Soldaten auf der Wacht" (German for "The Song of a Young Soldier on Watch") in 1937 and was first recorded by Lale Andersen in 1939 under the title "Das Mädchen unter der Laterne" ("The Girl under the Lantern").
Following the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941, Radio Belgrade became Soldatensender Belgrad and played the song frequently to entertain the German armed forces within its reach. It became popular throughout Europe and the Mediterranean among both Axis and Allied troops.
The words were written in 1915 during World War I by Hans Leip (1893–1983), a school teacher from Hamburg who had been conscripted into the Imperial German Army.[1] Leip reportedly combined the names of his girlfriend and another female friend. The poem was later published as "Das Lied eines jungen Soldaten auf der Wacht" ("The Song of a Young Soldier on Watch") in 1937, now with the two last (of five) verses added. It was set to music by Norbert Schultze in 1938. Tommie Connor later wrote English lyrics. It was recorded by Lale Andersen in 1939.
After the occupation of Belgrade in 1941, Radio Belgrade became the German forces' radio station under the name of Soldatensender Belgrad (Soldiers' Radio Belgrade), with transmissions heard throughout Europe and the Mediterranean.
While on leave in Vienna, a lieutenant working at the station was asked to collect some records for broadcast. Amongst the pile of second-hand records from the Reich radio station[2] was the little known two-year-old song "Lili Marleen" sung by Lale Andersen, which up till then had barely sold around 700 copies. For lack of other recordings, Radio Belgrade played the song frequently.
At one point the Nazi government's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, ordered broadcasting of the song to stop. Radio Belgrade received many letters from Axis soldiers all over Europe asking them to play "Lili Marleen" again. Goebbels reluctantly changed his mind, and from then on the tune was used to sign-off the broadcast at 9:55 PM.
Its popularity quickly grew. Soldiers stationed around the Mediterranean, including both German Afrika Korps and British Eighth Army troops, regularly tuned in to hear it. In fact it was published in South Africa, in a wartime leaflet, with an anonymous English translation of the text, as "Lili Marleen: The Theme Song of the Eighth Army and the 6th Armoured Division".[3] Erwin Rommel, commander of the Afrika Korps, admired the song and asked Radio Belgrade to incorporate it into their broadcasts, which they did.
Lale Andersen was awarded a gold disc for over one million sales of "Lili Marleen" [HMV - EG 6993].[4] It is thought that she was awarded her copy after hostilities ended. HMV's copy was discarded during renovations to their flagship store on Oxford Street, London, in the 1960s where, hitherto, it had been on display. The disc was recovered and is now in a private collection.
Many Allied soldiers made a point of listening to it at the end of the day. For example, in his memoir Eastern Approaches, Fitzroy Maclean describes the song's effect in the spring of 1942 during the Western Desert Campaign: "Husky, sensuous, nostalgic, sugar-sweet, her voice seemed to reach out to you, as she lingered over the catchy tune, the sickly sentimental words. Belgrade... The continent of Europe seemed a long way away. I wondered when I would see it again and what it would be like by the time we got there." [5] The next year, parachuted into the Yugoslav guerrilla war, Maclean wrote: "Sometimes at night, before going to sleep, we would turn on our receiving set and listen to Radio Belgrade. For months now, the flower of the Afrika Korps had been languishing behind the barbed wire of Allied prison camps. But still, punctually at ten o'clock, came Lale Andersen singing their special song, with the same unvarying, heart-rending sweetness that we knew so well from the desert. [...] Belgrade was still remote. But, now that we ourselves were in Yugoslavia, it had acquired a new significance for us. It had become our ultimate goal, which Lili Marlene and her nostalgic little tune seemed somehow to symbolise. 'When we get to Belgrade...' we would say. And then we would switch off the wireless a little guiltily, for the Partisans, we knew, were shocked at the strange pleasure we got from listening to the singing of the German woman who was queening it in their capital."[6] In the autumn of 1944, the liberation of Belgrade seemed not far away. "Then, at ten o'clock, loud and clear, Radio Belgrade; Lili Marlene, sweet, insidious, melancholy. 'Not much longer now,' we would say, as we switched it off. It was a stock joke but one that at last began to look like coming true."[7] As the Red Army was advancing on Belgrade, he reflected again on the song. "At Valjevo, as at so many other places, in the desert, in Bosnia, in Italy, Dalmatia, and Serbia, we would tune our wireless sets in the evening to Radio Belgrade, and night after night, always at the same time, would come, throbbing lingeringly over the ether, the cheap, sugary and almost painfully nostalgic melody, the sex-laden, intimate, heart-rending accents of Lili Marlene. 'Not gone yet,' we would say to each other. 'I wonder if we'll find her when we get there.' Then one evening at the accustomed time there was silence. 'Gone away,' we said."[8]
Allied soldiers in Italy later adapted the tune to their own lyrics, creating the D-Day Dodgers song. A cartoon by Bill Mauldin in the American army newspaper Stars and Stripes shows two soldiers in a foxhole, one playing a harmonica, while the other comments, "The krauts ain't following ya too good on 'Lili Marlene' tonight, Joe. Think somethin' happened to their tenor?"
In 1944, the Morale Operations Branch of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) initiated the Musac Project,[9] musical propaganda broadcasts designed to demoralize enemy soldiers. Marlene Dietrich, the only performer who was made aware that her recordings would be for OSS use, recorded a number of songs in German for the project, including Lili Marleen.[10]
|"Lili Marleen"
|Single by Connie Francis
|"Mond von Mexico"
|7" single
|Schlager music
|MGM Records (61 053)
|Gerhard Mendelsohn
|Connie Francis
German singles chronology
Lili Marleen was released by American entertainer Connie Francis in 1962 as her seventh German single and peaked at No. 9 in the German charts.[11] Francis also recorded the song in Italian and French.
|"Lili Marleen"
|Single by Amanda Lear
|from the album Never Trust a Pretty Face
|"Dreamer (South Pacific)"
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|Ariola Records
|Anthony Monn
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French singer and euro disco queen Amanda Lear recorded a German-English language version of the song for her 1979 album Never Trust a Pretty Face. French editions of the album included a German-French version of the track. "Lili Marleen" was released as a promotional single only in Argentina, although earlier it became the B-side of the single "Gold".[12] The singer performed the song in the 1978 film Zio Adolfo in arte Führer.
Lear has made "Lili Marleen" part of her standard performance repertoire. She re-recorded the song for her albums Cadavrexquis (1993) and Heart (2001).
|Chart (1979)
The specialty label Bear Family has released a 7-CD box set featuring 195 different versions of the song.
While the Italian version, translated by lyricist Nino Rastelli and recorded in 1942 by Lina Termini, was probably the first to be released, the earliest English language recording of the song was probably Anne Shelton's, but a number of cover versions followed. A version called "The D-Day Dodgers" was sung by the Canadian Army remaining in Italy once the Normandy invasion had begun in 1944. A recording was made by Perry Como on 27 June 1944 and issued by RCA Victor Records as a 78rpm record (catalog number 20-1592-A) with the flip side "First Class Private Mary Brown". This recording was later re-issued as catalog number 20-2824-A with flip side "I Love You Truly". The song reached chart position #13 on the United States charts. The song was recorded during the musicians' strike and consequently has a backing chorus instead of an orchestral backup. A version with French words by Henri Lemarchand was recorded by Suzy Solidor in 1941.[14]
Other artists who recorded the song included Hildegarde (on Decca), Martha Tilton (on Coral), and Vaughn Monroe (on V-Disc). Al Martino revived the song for Capitol Records in 1968. Another version was recorded in the 1960s by country music legend Hank Snow. Another French singer, Patricia Kaas used "Lili Marlene" as an intro for her song "D'Allemagne" and sang the entire song during concerts in the 1990s. Matia Bazar (Italy) recorded an uptempo beat song called Lili Marleen on her 1982 album Berlino, Parigi, Londra. The song is a "spoken words" very early 1980s dance track. Spanish group Olé Olé, led by Marta Sánchez, released an electro-pop version of the song in 1985.[15] It became one of the best-selling singles in Spain of the 1980s, and paved way for the singer to have a successful career. The song was eventually included in the also best-selling album 'Bailando Sin Salir de Casa' in 1986. German blackmetal band Eisregen recorded a version of "Lili Marlene" on their album Hexenhaus. The German Gothic metal/Industrial metal band Atrocity released the song in both languages (English & German) on Gemini: on the blue edition was the German version, and on the red edition was the English version.[16] Kid Creole and the Coconuts included an uptempo, disco-influenced version of "Lili Marlene", with German lyrics sung by Coconut Adriana Kaegi, on their 1980 debut LP release "Off The Coast Of Me". Carly Simon recorded the song as the third track on her 1997 Arista CD Film Noir. It has also been translated into Hawaiian by Kiope Raymond, and recorded by Raymond and Pearl Rose on Rose's 2000 album Homecoming. Most recently it was recorded by Neil Hannon of the Irish pop group The Divine Comedy as a B-side to the 2006 single "A Lady Of A Certain Age". A haunting, slow-tempo instrumental version can be found on the compilation LP Vienna: City of Dreams by Austrian zither master Anton Karas. "Lili Marlene" has been adopted as the regimental slow march by the Special Air Service, Special Air Service Regiment and Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.
Humphrey Jennings directed The True Story of Lili Marlene in 1944 about the song.[17]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder directed the 1980 film Lili Marleen, the story of Lale Andersen and her version of the song.[18]
Estonian punk rock band Vennaskond released an Estonian version of the song on their album Usk. Lootus. Armastus. in 1993.[19]
The film Bad day to go fishing, directed by Alvaro Brechner, showed an uncontrollable titan of impressive dimensions (Jouko Ahola) who could only be appeased by the melody of "Lili Marlene."[20]
Dutch folk band Omnia recorded a version of the song on their 2011 album Musick and Poëtree.
One of the best-known tracks by Spanish punk rock band Interterror is titled Adiós Lili Marleen. It appeared as a single in 1983.
British singer/songwriter Katy Carr featured this song in English on her album Coquette (2009).


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Faced with capital upkeep needs that far outstrip revenue, Metra CEO Don Orseno Friday would not rule out the possibility of fare hikes next year.
No decision has been made yet on a fare hike, Orseno emphasized, but "there's nothing off the table. We're looking at a lot of different things."
Riders should know Metra's intentions by next month, when Metra unveils its proposed budget for next fiscal year.
Orseno's comments to reporters followed a presentation at Metra's board meeting, at which board members were told that Metra's average monthly fare of $175 is far lower than four of five comparable transit systems, whose average fares, similarly calculated, ranged from $277 to $313.
Only Southeast Pennsylvania's commuter rail monthly average was lower, at $162.
After that presentation, board members were told Metra expects to need $320 million to keep its system in a "state of good repair'' next fiscal year, but anticipates getting only $210 million in revenue to cover those costs.
In addition, Metra estimated that to address a backlog of capital needs, it will need another $6.6 billion over the next 10 years.
Board member John Plante expressed frustration with Congress' inability to approve a long-term transportation bill. He seemed to hint at the unspoken fare-hike elephant in the room when he said during Friday's board meeting: "We're having to make Hobson's choices here. We may have to take the bit in our teeth.''


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That's the deadly, dreadlocked, vagina mouthed alien from that first great Arnold movie? And then that second, ok-ish Danny Glover movie and finally two horrible, horrible Alien movies? Remember? Of course you do, you're did your best Arnold impression reading the title of this piece.
At the moment, all we know about the mode is what you see in this short Instagram video posted on the official Call of Duty channel. I know it's not much, but that's definitely Predator.
If you don't believe me watch it again, that's not a cloaked human soldier, that's The Predator. To make sure you're well aware of that fact, Infinity Ward posted the message "If it bleeds..." along with the video, referencing Arnie's famous line from the movie.
Unless you can finish that sentence without my help, we can't be friends.
Also note the telltale clicking sound it makes, as well as the obviously huge, cloaked warrior that rushes in at the end.
How any of this will work is anyone's guess, but it certainly has me interested in CoD for the first time in years. At least just so I can make more references.
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