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When I first read that Linux kernel developer Valerie Aurora would be changing careers to work full-time on behalf of women in open source communities, I never imagined it would lead so far so fast. Today, The Ada Initiative is a non-profit organization with global reach, whose programs have helped create positive change for women in a wide range of communities beyond open source. Building on this foundation, imagine how much more they can do in the next four years! That's why I'm pledging my continuing support, and asking you to join me.
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Since about 1999, I had been working in open source communities like Debian and Ubuntu, where women are vastly underrepresented even compared to the professional software industry. Like other men in these communities, I had struggled to learn what I could do to change this. Such a severe imbalance can only be addressed by systemic change, and I hardly knew where to begin. I worked to raise awareness by writing and speaking, and joined groups like Debian Women, Ubuntu Women and Geek Feminism. I worked on my own bias and behavior to avoid being part of the problem myself. But it never felt like enough, and sometimes felt completely hopeless.
Perhaps worst of all, I saw too many women burning out from trying to change the system. It was often taxing just to participate as a woman in a male-dominated community, and the extra burden of activism seemed overwhelming. They were all volunteers, doing this work in evenings and weekends around work or study, and it took a lot of time, energy and emotional reserve to deal with the backlash they faced for speaking out about sexism. Valerie Aurora and Mary Gardiner helped me to see that an activist organization with full-time staff could be part of the solution. I joined the Ada Initiative advisory board in February 2011, and the board of directors in April.
Today, The Ada Initiative is making a difference not only in my community, but in my workplace as well. When I joined Heroku in 2012, none of the engineers were women, and we clearly had a lot of work to do to change that. In 2013, I attended AdaCamp SF along with my colleague Peter van Hardenberg, joining the first "allies track", open to participants of any gender, for people who wanted to learn the skills to support the women around them. We've gone on to host two ally skills workshops of our own for Heroku employees, one taught by Ada Initiative staff and another by a member of our team, security engineer Leigh Honeywell. These workshops taught interested employees simple, everyday ways to take positive action to challenge sexism and create a better workplace for women. The Ada Initiative also helped us establish a policy for conference sponsorship which supports our gender diversity efforts. Today, Heroku engineering includes about 10% women and growing. The Ada Initiative's programs are helping us to become the kind of company we want to be.
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Scaling Human Systems: Management
This is part 6 in a series on organizational design and growth.
"The change from a business that the owner-entrepreneur can run with "helpers" to a business that requires management is a sweeping change. […] One can compare the two kinds of business to two different kinds of organism: the insect, which is held together by a tough, hard skin, and the vertebrate animal, which has a skeleton. Land animals that are supported by a hard skin cannot grow beyond a few inches in size. To be larger, animals must have a skeleton. Yet the skeleton has not evolved out of the hard skin of the insect; for it is a different organ with different antecedents. Similarly, management becomes necessary when an organization reaches a certain size and complexity. But management, while it replaces the "hard-skin" structure of the owner-entrepreneur, is not its successor. It is, rather, its replacement."
Peter Drucker
What it means
Management is the art of enabling people to cooperate in achieving shared goals. I've written elsewhere about what management is not. Management is a multifaceted discipline which is centered on people and the environment in which they work.
Why it's important
In very small organizations, management can be comparatively easy, and happen somewhat automatically, especially between people who have worked together before. But as organizations grow, management becomes a first-class concern, requiring dedicated practice and a higher degree of skill. Without due attention to management, coordination becomes excessively difficult, working systems are outgrown and become strained, and much of the important work described in this series just won't happen. Management is part of the infrastructure of the organization, and specifically the part which enables it to adapt and change as it grows.
Old Status Quo
People generally "just do stuff", meaning there is little conscious understanding of the system in which people are working. If explicit managers exist, their jobs are poorly understood. Managers themselves may be confused or uncertain about what their purpose is, particularly if they are in such a role for the first time. The organization itself has probably developed more through accretion than deliberate design.
New Status Quo
People work within systems which help coordinate their work. These systems are consciously designed, explicitly communicated, and changed as often as necessary. Managers guide and coordinate the development and continuous improvement of these systems. The role of managers in the organization is broadly understood, and managers receive the training, support and coaching they need to be successful.
Behaviors that help
- It can be helpful to bring more experienced managers into the organization at this stage, especially if there isn't much management experience in house.
- Show everyone in the organization (including managers themselves) what managers do and why it matters.
- Consider very carefully whether someone should become a manager.
- If someone does take on a management role, treat this as a completely new job, which requires handing off their existing responsibilities and learning a new discipline. Don't treat it as just an extension of their work. Write a new job description and discuss it up front.
Obstacles that stand in our way
- Management misbeliefs
- Granting "promotions" to management roles as rewards for performance
- Many people, when they experience what management work is like, don't enjoy it and aren't motivated by it. It can be hard to predict when this will be the case, and people can feel "trapped" in a management role that they don't want. Make sure there are mechanisms to gracefully transition out of roles that don't fit for the people holding them.
Management: a rant
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. -Inigo Montoya
Having worked in full-time management positions for some years now, I am increasingly convinced that management is widely misunderstood as a role, as a discipline and as a field, and that this makes a lot of lives more difficult and stressful than necessary. It is the subject of much speculation and misbelief, and I've chosen a few of my favorite examples to deconstruct here.
Misbelief #1: management is what managers do
I've noticed a trend among a certain class of companies, whose employees will tell anyone who will listen that there is no "management" in their organization, they never plan to have any, and neither should you. I think these statements are respectively a lie, a naïve belief, and a piece of bad advice. Usually, these companies are just a few years old and relatively small, most of the people in the company have been there for less than a year, and the speaker is trying to persuade us what a unique and innovative company they work for because nobody there is a "manager". They invariably have not read The Tyranny of Structurelessness.
Management is the practice of enabling people to effectively cooperate. A manager is someone whose job is to do that. It's that simple. It usually involves tasks such as sharing information, agreeing on a course of action, dividing up work, and figuring out what to do when there's a problem. They're things that every team needs to do, whether anyone is designated a "manager" or not. Teams can function without managers, but they can't function properly without management. Someone (or everyone) has to do the work to make cooperation possible.
Modern management is a specialized discipline, which draws on a broad range of skills in communication, psychology, empathy, problem-solving, leadership, and more. These skills aren't unique to managers, but it often makes sense to designate certain people to do more of the management work, on behalf of the team. By devoting more of their time and attention to it, they free other members of the team to focus on other tasks. They can act as a coordinator to help the team stay in sync, and by focusing on this job, they may be able to do a better job of it, and acquire a higher level of skill through practice and study. But it remains an inherently collaborative practice.
Misbelief #2: management is about telling people what to do
There are many different varieties of management, each of which is oriented toward a particular type of team or organization. Factories are managed differently from design studios, large companies are managed differently from small companies, and every team has its own distinct management style which arises from the unique group of people involved. Some managers are specialists in a particular type of management, while others are more generalists.
The "telling people what to do" style of management is called "command and control". It's characterized by authority, hierarchy, and strict adherence to protocol. It's widely employed by military organizations, and by the managers we see in television and film. It has some advantages and disadvantages, which I won't discuss here. My point is that it is just one example, but this example is used to represent the general concept of management. Self-organization, where no one in particular is responsible for group decisions, is another, quite different, style of management.
Small, self-organizing teams are capable of amazing feats of productivity. They're less difficult to manage because they're comparatively simple, and so simple tools and techniques work well. Everyone can be fully aware of what everyone else is doing, and new information propagates quickly throughout the team. But as the team or organization grows, it will often outgrow this way of working, and needs to adapt. There is no single management approach which works universally well.
Misbelief #3: management is a promotion
You know the story. When an employee is successful within their area of expertise, someone will eventually offer them a management role as a "reward" for their good work. This is utter nonsense. Management is not a promotion: it's a career change. It means starting over as a beginner in a new discipline and learning from the ground up. Domain expertise is important, as a manager needs to understand the work of the other people on their team, but it is no longer paramount. The team, the human system, becomes their focus.
When organizations fail to provide career advancement within a discipline, people may turn to management as "the only way to get promoted", only to discover that they are completely unprepared for this new field, and often their new job when they realize what they've gotten into.
If someone were "promoted" from a position as a financial analyst to a new job as a biochemist with no training or expertise, we would probably find this bizarre. But this is analogous to what happens to new managers all the time, and has become almost standard practice in many organizations and industries.
So what?
Management is misunderstood. So are science, engineering, and many other fields. What does it matter?
"People leave managers not companies…in the end, turnover is mostly a manager issue,"
– Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman, First, Break All the Rules
This mythology leads to massive organizational dysfunction, making it harder for everyone to do their jobs. It virtually guarantees incompetent management, which is a scourge on anyone who is exposed to it. It ruins days, weeks, jobs and careers. It leads talented people to leave companies, and it drives them out of their chosen professions.
I recommend that we stop denigrating and ignoring management, and start doing a better job of it.
Scaling Human Systems: Roles and Responsibilities
This is part 5 in a series on organizational design and growth.
What it means
Each of us has a job to do, probably more than one, and our teammates should know what they are.
Why it's important
Roles are a kind of standing commitment we make to each other. They're a way of dividing up work which is easy to understand and simple to apply. Utilizing this tool will make it easier for us to coordinate our day to day work, and manage the changes and growth we're going through.
Old Status Quo
Roles are vague or nonexistent. Management roles in particular are probably not well understood. Many people juggle multiple roles, all of which are implicit. Moving to a new team means learning from scratch what other people do. People take responsibility for tasks and decisions largely on a case-by-case basis, or based on implicit knowledge of what someone does (or doesn't do). In many cases, there is only one person in the company who knows how to perform a certain function. When someone leaves or goes on vacation, gaps are left behind.
New Status Quo
Each individual has a clear understanding of the scope of their job. We have a handful of well defined roles, which are used by multiple teams and have written definitions. People who are new or transfer between teams have a relatively easy time understanding what the people around them are doing. Many day to day responsibilities are defined by roles, and more than one person can fill that role. When someone leaves a team, another person can cover their critical roles.
Behaviors that help
Define project roles: when starting something new, make it explicit who will be working on it. Often this will be more than one person, often from different teams. For example, customer-facing product changes should have at least a product owner and an engineering owner. This makes it easy to tell if too many concurrent projects are dependent on a single person, which is a recipe for blockage.
Define team roles: Most recurring tasks should fall within a defined role. An owner of a technical service is an example of a role. An on-call engineer is an example of a time-limited role. There are many others which will depend on the team and its scope.
Define job roles: Have a conversation with your teammates and manager about what the scope of your job is, which responsibilities are shared with other members of the team and which are yours alone.
Obstacles that stand in our way
Getting hung up on titles as ego gratification. Roles are tools, not masters.
Fear that a role limits your options, locks you into doing one thing forever. Roles can be as flexible as we want them to be.
Scaling Human Systems: From individual achievement to teamwork
This is part 4 in a series on organizational design and growth.
What it means
Getting things done together, as a team, achieving more than the sum of our individual efforts.
Why it's important
Once a company reaches a certain size, perhaps with a substantial customer base and ambitious goals for the future, it takes a lot more momentum to move it forward. No one person can do it alone. From product delivery, to strategic decision making, to customer service, no single individual has all of the knowledge, skills or time necessary to perform these functions at the scale and velocity necessary to make real progress. Cooperation is not just a good idea: it's essential to success.
The most important system we're building is the company itself: a system of people working together to achieve common goals.
Old status quo
In a startup, everyone embodies the spirit of the pioneer: passion, fortitude, individualism, daring, and the willingness to do whatever it takes to reach the goal. Individuals wear many hats: engineering, product management, marketing, customer support. We often don't even think of them as distinct disciplines. Projects often depend on the resoluteness of a single Jill-of-all-trades to drive them to completion, and the culture may reward this kind of heroism. Thanks to the relatively small scale of the company and its customer base, one person working independently can effect significant change without much risk. If what was delivered wasn't good enough, it could be discarded with no great loss.
New status quo
In a growing company, we still need a variety of different disciplines in order to reach our goals, in fact more than ever. A successful product needs to be conceived, validated, designed, built, documented, adopted, supported, and we need to confirm that it satisfies customers over time.
These elements are all essential, and each requires deep knowledge, expertise and practice. Good engineering + mediocre product management + inept marketing = total failure. It's not realistic to expect one person to do all of these things and deliver consistently good results, but consistently good results are exactly what we need. The solution is to organize for individuals to do what they do best, and cooperate effectively together.
We also need to manage risk more carefully: our customers are depending on us. We have a lot more to lose now, and need to learn how to maintain forward progress while continuing to meet our customers' expectations. Delivering sub-par products would damage our reputation and erode their trust.
Most of all, we need to be getting better at all of this over time, faster than our competition.
Behaviors that help
- When embarking on a new project, recruit others to your cause instead of going it alone. In particular, consider which other teams you may need help from, and ask for their support from the beginning
- Make your work visible to others (for example through a shared work board like Trello). Push context out of your head and into a workspace where others can see it.
- When you run into trouble, make a point of asking for help early. Not only does this help build relationships, it also gets problems solved faster.
- Agree on explicit shared priorities with your immediate teammates, and stick to them until the team agrees to change. Make sure that you're working on things that matter to the people around you, and that they know that's important to you.
Obstacles that stand in our way
- Heroism. There is a place for heroism in growing organizations, but save it for responding to exceptional problems. Day-to-day work and objectives should not depend on one person's heroism
- Attributing too much credit to individuals. Feedback and praise are invaluable, but be careful not to excessively recognize and reward individuals for what are fundamentally team efforts. Few things will erode team spirit faster than rewarding someone for other people's work.
Scaling Human Systems: Making and keeping commitments
This is part 3 in a series on organizational design and growth.
What it means
Taking responsibility for action, and following through. Every time.
Why it's important
Commitments are a cornerstone of collaborative teamwork. Knowing what to expect from others makes it possible to plan beyond your own work. If you aren't sure whether a task will be completed, you carry that uncertainty as low-grade anxiety, which accumulates and creates cognitive load. You may even spend extra time checking back to make sure the need has been met.
Old status quo
Most work happens without an explicit commitment at all. Consistency is highly variable from one individual, team or circumstance to another. Tasks fall through the cracks, and we may not even realize it until much later.
New status quo
When something needs to get done, someone agrees to take responsibility for it. When this happens, everyone involved can trust that it will get done. When exceptions happen, we acknowledge them, and seek to understand what happened so that we can do better in the future.
Behaviors that help
Make commitments explicit: say "I will take care of that", and record that commitment somewhere, preferably in a shared work space where everyone concerned can see it. For example, meetings should generally result in decisions and commitments to act. Write them down, and check back on the commitments at the next meeting to confirm that they're done.
Hold yourself accountable: Follow through on your commitments visibly, e.g. reporting back the next time you see each other. If you're unable to deliver for some reason, apologize and explain.
Hold others accountable: Expect these same behaviors from others.
Celebrate success: Thank others for following through on their commitments.
Learn from failure: When commitments are broken, it should be treated as an exception. Something went wrong, and we should work to prevent it in the future.
Balance your workload: Doing fewer things at a time will help you complete them much faster and more consistently. If you don't have the bandwidth to take something on, say no. Make space for someone else to take it, or ask for help. If you are unsure about whether you can commit, you probably shouldn't.
Obstacles that stand in our way
Fatigue: It's hard to commit to something new if you already feel overwhelmed by the status quo.
Slack is an essential component of any change. If we're 100% busy just keeping the lights on, we're not getting better at what we do, and that road leads to mediocrity
- Cynicism: If past commitments have been made but not kept, people can become cynical about setting goals and priorities.
- This needs to change. Setting and achieving goals needs to be normal, respected and valued behavior in the company.
Unclear roles and responsibilities: This makes it hard to tell who should take responsibility for getting things done


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Stan Freberg (born Stanley Friberg;[1] August 7, 1926) is an American author, recording artist, animation voice actor, comedian, radio personality, puppeteer and advertising creative director, whose career began in 1944. He is still active in the industry in his late 80s, more than 70 years after entering it.
Personal life[edit]
Freberg was born Stanley Friberg[1] in Pasadena, California, the son of Evelyn Dorothy (née Conner), a housewife, and Victor Richard Friberg (later Freberg), a Baptist minister. Stan is a Christian[2][3] and of Swedish and Irish descent.[4]
Freberg's work reflects both his gentle sensitivity (despite his liberal use of biting satire and parody) and his refusal to accept alcohol and tobacco manufacturers as sponsors—an impediment to his radio career when he took over for Jack Benny on CBS radio. As Freberg explained to Rusty Pipes:
After I replaced Jack Benny in 1957, they were unable to sell me with spot announcements in the show. That would mean that every three minutes I'd have to drop a commercial in. So I said, "Forget it. I want to be sponsored by one person", like Benny was, by American Tobacco or State Farm Insurance, except that I wouldn't let them sell me to American Tobacco. I refused to let them sell me to any cigarette company.[5]
Stan Freberg's first wife, Donna, died in 2000. He has two children from that marriage, Donna Jean and Donavan. He married Betty Hunter in 2001, and she adopted the personal and family names Hunter Freberg.
Freberg was employed as a voice actor in animation shortly after graduating from Alhambra High School. He began at Warner Brothers in 1944 by getting on a bus and asking the driver to let him off "in Hollywood". As he describes in his autobiography, It Only Hurts When I Laugh, he got off the bus and found a sign that said "talent agency". He walked in, and the agents there arranged for him to audition for Warner Brothers cartoons where he was promptly hired.[6]
His first cartoon voice work was in a Warner Brothers cartoon called For He's a Jolly Good Fala, which was recorded but never filmed (due to the death of Fala's owner, President Franklin D. Roosevelt), followed by Roughly Squeaking (1946) as Bertie; and in 1947, he was heard in It's a Grand Old Nag (Charlie Horse), produced and directed by Bob Clampett for Republic Pictures; The Goofy Gophers (Tosh), and One Meat Brawl (Grover Groundhog and Walter Winchell). He often found himself paired with Mel Blanc while at Warner Bros., where the two men performed such pairs as the mice Hubie and Bertie and Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier.[7] In 1950, he was the voice of Friz Freleng's "Dumb Dog" in "Foxy By Proxy", who meets up with a disguised Bugs Bunny wearing a fox suit. He was the voice of Pete Puma in the 1952 cartoon Rabbit's Kin, in which he did an impression of an early Frank Fontaine characterization (which later became Fontaine's "Crazy Guggenheim" character).
Freberg is often credited with voicing the character of Junyer Bear in Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears (1944), but that was actor Kent Rogers. After Rogers was killed during World War II, Freberg assumed the role of Junyer Bear in Chuck Jones' Looney Tunes cartoon What's Brewin', Bruin? (1948), featuring Jones' version of The Three Bears. He also succeeded Rogers as the voice of Beaky Buzzard.
Freberg was heard in many Warner Brothers cartoons, but his only screen credit on one was Three Little Bops (1957). His work as a voice actor for Walt Disney Productions included the role of Beaver in Lady and the Tramp (1955) and did voice work in Susie the Little Blue Coupe and Lambert the Sheepish Lion. Freberg also provided the voice of Sam, the orange cat paired with Sylvester in the Academy Award-nominated short Mouse and Garden (1960). He voiced Cage E. Coyote, the father of Wile E. Coyote, in the 2000 short Little Go Beep.
Freberg was cast to sing the part of the Jabberwock in the song "Beware the Jabberwock" for Disney's Alice in Wonderland, with the Rhythmaires and Daws Butler. Written by Don Raye and Gene de Paul, the song was a musical rendering of the poem "Jabberwocky" from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. The song was not included in the final film, but a demo recording was included in the 2004 and 2010 DVD releases of the movie.
Freberg made his movie debut as an on-screen actor in the comedy Callaway Went Thataway (1951), a satirical spoof on the marketing of Western stars (apparently inspired by the TV success of Hopalong Cassidy). Freberg costarred with Mala Powers in Geraldine (1953) as sobbing singer Billy Weber, enabling him to reprise his satire on vocalist Johnnie Ray (see below). In 1963's mega-comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Freberg appeared in a non-speaking part as the Deputy Sheriff and also voiced as a dispatcher.
Contrary to popular belief George Lucas called upon Freberg, not Mel Blanc, to audition for the voice of the character C-3PO for the 1977 film Star Wars. After he and many others auditioned for the part, Freberg suggested that Lucas use mime actor Anthony Daniels' own voice.[8]
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Freberg began making satirical recordings for Capitol Records, beginning with the February 10, 1951, release of "John and Marsha" (in both 45-rpm and 78-rpm formats), a soap opera parody that consisted of the title characters (both played by Freberg) doing nothing but repeating each other's names (with intonations to match the moods).[9][10] In a 1954 follow-up, he used pedal steel guitarist Speedy West to satirize the 1953 Ferlin Husky country hit, "A Dear John Letter", as "A Dear John and Marsha Letter" (Capitol 2677). A seasonal recording, "The Night Before Christmas/Nuttin' for Christmas", made in 1955, still remains a cult classic.
With Daws Butler and June Foray, he produced his 1951 Dragnet parody, "St. George and the Dragonet", a #1 hit for four weeks in October 1953.[11] On the record's B-side, "Little Blue Riding Hood" ('Only the color has been changed to avoid an investigation' ... 'But Grandma what a big subpoena you have in your pocket – All the better to serve you with, ma'am'), the title character is arrested for smuggling goodies.
Another hit to get the Freberg treatment was Johnnie Ray's weepy "Cry", which Freberg rendered as "Try ('You too can be unhappy… if you try')", exaggerating Ray's histrionic vocal style.[12] Ray was furious until he realized the success of Freberg's 1952 parody was helping sales and airplay of his own record.[13] Freberg reported getting more angry feedback for this than from his other parodies.[12]
After "I've Got You Under My Skin" (1951), he followed with more popular musical satires, including "Sh-Boom" (1954), a parody of the song recorded by The Chords. Freberg imitates Marlon Brando, who at the end yells "STELLA", based on "A Streetcar Named Desire", "The Yellow Rose of Texas" (1955),[10] where a "Yankee" Snare Drummer goes out of hand on the recording, "Rock Island Line" (1956), based on the Lonnie Donnegan Skiffle version with interruptions by Peter Leeds, and "The Great Pretender" (1956). He spoofed Elvis Presley in 1956 with his own version of Elvis' first gold record, "Heartbreak Hotel", in which the echo effect goes out of control. In Freberg's spoof, Elvis rips his jeans during his performance.[14] Also with Foray, he recorded "The Quest for Bridey Hammerschlaugen", a spoof of The Search for Bridey Murphy by Morey Bernstein, a 1956 book on hypnotic regression to a past life.
"The Great Pretender" and "Banana Boat Song"[edit]
Freberg used a beatnik musician theme in his 1956 parody of "The Great Pretender", the hit by The Platters—who, like Ray (see above) and Belafonte and Welk (see both below), were not pleased. At that time, when it was still hoped that musical standards might be preserved, it was quite permissible to ridicule the ludicrous, as Freberg had obviously thought when he parodied Presley. The pianist in Freberg's parody, a devotee of Erroll Garner and George Shearing, rebels against playing a single-chord accompaniment, retorting, "I'm not playing that 'clink-clink-clink jazz'!" But Freberg is adamant about the pianist's sticking to The Platters' style: "You play that 'clink-clink-clink jazz', or you won't get paid tonight!" The pianist relents—sort of.[15] The pianist even quotes the first six notes from Shearing's classic piece "Lullaby of Birdland", before returning to the song.[16] The song concludes with the piano accompaniment, despite the histrionic singer's pleas, becoming uncontrollably fast, and the singer having to escape the studio.
Freberg's "Banana Boat (Day-O)" (1957) satirized Harry Belafonte's popular recording of "Banana Boat Song". In Freberg's version, the lead singer is forced to run down the hall and close the door after him to muffle the sound of his "Day-O!" because the beatnik bongo drummer, voiced by Leeds, complains, "It's too shrill, man. It's too piercing!" When he gets to the lyric about "A beautiful buncha ripe banana/Hide the deadly black tarantula," the drummer protests, "I don't dig spiders, man!"[17] The flip is "Tele-Vee-Shun", an anti-TV song about what television has done to his family, sung in a heavy faux-Trinidadian accent and set to a Calypso tune. The song also lampoons Presley in one verse: "I turn on Elvis Presley and my daughter scream. I fear she have a nervous breakdown cos of heem. I wonder he wiggle-waggle to de beat. As a boy he must have had a loose bicycle seat."
Freberg's musical parodies were a by-product of his collaborations with Billy May, a veteran big band musician and jazz arranger, and his Capitol Records producer, Ken Nelson. Two weeks after Johnny Mathis' "Wonderful! Wonderful!" fell off the Billboard Top 100, "Wun'erful, Wun'erful! (Sides uh-one & uh-two)", Freberg's 1957 spoof of TV "champagne music" master Lawrence Welk, debuted. To replicate Welk's sound, May and some of Hollywood's finest studio musicians and vocalists worked to clone Welk's live on-air style, carefully incorporating bad notes and mistimed cues. Billy Liebert, a first-rate accordionist, copied Welk's accordion playing. In the parody, the orchestra is overwhelmed by the malfunctioning bubble machine and the entire Aragon Ballroom eventually floats out to sea. Welk denied he had ever said "Wunnerful, Wunnerful!",[citation needed] though it became the title of Welk's autobiography (Prentice Hall, 1971). Some of the regulars on Welk's show got lampooned as well; Alice Lon became "Alice Lean," Larry Hooper became "Larry Looper," and the Lennon Sisters became the "Lemon Sisters."
Political satire[edit]
Freberg also tackled political issues of the day. On his radio show, an extended sketch parallelled the Cold War brinkmanship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union by portraying an ever-escalating public relations battle between the El Sodom and the Rancho Gomorrah, two casinos in the city of Los Voraces (Spanish for "The Greedy Ones"—a thinly disguised Las Vegas). The sketch ends with the ultimate tourist attraction, the Hydrogen Bomb, which turns Los Voraces into a vast, barren wasteland. Network pressure forced Freberg to remove the reference to the hydrogen bomb and had the two cities being destroyed by an earthquake instead.[6] The version of "Incident at Los Voraces", released later on Capitol Records, contains the original ending.[18]
Freberg had poked fun at McCarthyism in passing in "Little Blue Riding Hood" with the line, "Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation." Later, he blatantly parodied Senator Joseph McCarthy with "Point of Order" (taken from his frequent objection), about which Capitol's legal department was very nervous. Freberg describes being called in for a chat about this and being asked whether he had ever belonged to any "disloyal" group. "Well," he replied, "I have been for many years a card-carrying member of... "—the executive went pale—"... the Mickey Mouse Fan Club." "Dammit, Freberg," the executive angrily retorted, "this isn't a game." A watered-down version of the parody was eventually aired, and Freberg never found himself "in front of a committee".
On two occasions, Capitol refused to release Freberg's creations.[19] "That's Right, Arthur" was a barbed parody of controversial 1950s radio/TV personality Arthur Godfrey, who expected his stable of performers—known as "little Godfreys"—to endlessly toady to him. The dialogue included Freberg's "Godfrey" monologue, punctuated by Butler imitating Godfrey announcer Tony Marvin, repeatedly interjecting, "That's right, Arthur!" between Godfrey's comments.[20] Capitol feared Godfrey might take legal action and sent a tape of the sketch to his legal department for permission, which was denied. Capitol also rejected the equally acerbic "Most of the Town", a spoof of Ed Sullivan's "The Toast of the Town", under the same circumstances. Both recordings eventually surfaced on a box-set Freberg retrospective issued by Rhino Records.
Freberg continued to skewer the advertising industry after the demise of his show, producing and recording "Green Chri$tma$" in 1958, a scathing indictment of the over-commercialization of the holiday, in which Butler soberly hoped instead that we'd remember "whose birthday we're celebrating". Released originally on 45-rpm discs, the satire ended abruptly with a rendition of "Jingle Bells" punctuated by cash register sounds when reissued by Capitol on LP and CD. The original version was somewhat longer, but Capitol did not reissue the full recording. Freberg also revisited the "Dragnet" theme, with "Yulenet", also known as "Christmas Dragnet", in which the strait-laced detective convinces a character named "Grudge" that Santa Claus really exists (and Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and the Easter Bunny, but Grudge still hadn't made up his mind yet about Toledo). Butler does several voices on that record.
Oregon! Oregon![edit]
In 1958, the Oregon Centennial Commission, under the sponsorship of Blitz-Weinhard Brewing Company, hired Freberg to create a musical to celebrate Oregon's one-hundredth birthday.[21][22] The result was Oregon! Oregon! A Centennial Fable in Three Acts. Recorded at Capitol in Hollywood, it was released during the Oregon Centennial in 1959 as a 12″ vinyl LP album. Side one featured two versions of an introduction by Freberg (billed as "Stan Freberg, Matinee Idol"), with the second version including a few words from the president of Blitz-Weinhard Co. This was followed by the show itself, which runs for 21 minutes. Side two includes separate individual versions of each of the featured songs, including several variations on the title piece, Oregon! Oregon!
Fifty years later, as Oregon approached its Sesquicentennial, an updated version was prepared by Freberg and the Portland band Pink Martini as part of a signature series of performances throughout the state.[21][22] Pink Martini toured the state and performed four regional performances in the northern, southern and central areas of Oregon in August and September 2009. This was made possible by a grant from the Kinsman Foundation for a $40,000 launch of Pink Martini's Oregon! Oregon! 2009 with Freberg.
1960s and since[edit]
In 1960, in the light of the payola scandal, Freberg made a two-sided single entitled "The Old Payola Roll Blues", which tells the story of a corrupt recording studio promoter (voiced by Jesse White)[23] who gets a teenager who cannot sing to record a song called "High School OO OO", as well as the flip side, "I Was on My Way to High School". The promoter then tries to bribe a disc jockey at a jazz station to play the song on the air, which he flatly refuses, suspecting that the promoter was never in the music business in the first place. Afterward, a song in the big band style heralds the end of rock and roll and a resurgence of swing and jazz. Freberg's record was on the Hot 100 only the week of Leap Day 1960, at #99, about three and a half months after Tommy Facenda's multi-versioned "High School U.S.A." peaked at #28. Alan Freed, whose career fell prey to charges of payola, reportedly laughed at Freberg's interpretation of the scandal.
Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America, Volume One: The Early Years (1961) combined dialogue and song in a musical theatre format. The original album musical, released on Capitol, parodies the history of the United States from 1492 until the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783. In it, Freberg parodied both large and small aspects of history. For instance, in the Colonial era, it was common to use the long s, which resembles a lowercase f, in the middle of words; thus, as Ben Franklin is reading the Declaration of Independence, he questions the passage, "Life, liberty, and the purfuit of happineff?!?" Most of that particular sketch is a satire of McCarthyism. For example, Franklin remarks, "You...sign a harmless petition, and forget all about it. Ten years later, you get hauled up before a committee."
The album also featured the following exchange, where Freberg's Christopher Columbus is "discovered on beach here" by a Native American played by Marvin Miller. Skeptical of the Natives' diet of corn and "other organically grown vegetables", Columbus wants to open "America's first Italian restaurant" and needs to cash a check to get started:
Native: "You out of luck, today. Banks closed."
Columbus: [archly, knowing what the response will be] "Oh? Why?"
Native: "Columbus Day!"
Columbus: [pregnant pause] "We going out on that joke?"
Native: "No, we do reprise of song. That help ..."
Columbus and Native together: "But not much, no!"
Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America, Volume Two was planned for release during America's Bicentennial in 1976, but it did not emerge until 1996.[24]
Freberg's early parodies revealed his obvious love of jazz. His portrayals of jazz musicians were usually stereotypical "beatnik" types, but jazz was always portrayed as preferable to pop, calypso, and particularly the then-new form of music, rock and roll. He whopped doo-wop in his version of "Sh-Boom" and lampooned Elvis Presley with an echo/reverb rendition of "Heartbreak Hotel".[14] The United States of America includes a sketch involving the musicians in the painting The Spirit of '76. The terribly hip fife player ("Bix", played by Freberg) and the younger drummer (played by Walter Tetley) argue with the older, impossibly square drummer ("Doodle", also voiced by Freberg) over how Yankee Doodle should be performed.
The popularity of Freberg's recordings landed him his own program, the situation comedy That's Rich. Freberg portrayed bumbling but cynical Richard E. Wilk, a resident of Hope Springs, where he worked for B.B. Hackett's Consolidated Paper Products Company. Freberg suggested the addition of dream sequences, which made it possible for him to perform his more popular Capitol Records satires before a live studio audience. The CBS series aired from January 8 to September 23, 1954.
The Stan Freberg Show was a 1957 replacement for Jack Benny on CBS radio. The satirical show, which featured elaborate production, included most of the team he used on his Capitol recordings, including Foray, Leeds, and Butler. Billy May arranged and conducted the music. The Jud Conlon Singers, who had also appeared on Freberg recordings, were regulars, as was singer Peggy Taylor, who had participated in his "Wun'erful, Wun'erful!" record. The show was produced by Pete Barnum.
The show failed to attract a sponsor after Freberg decided he did not want to be associated with the tobacco companies that had sponsored Benny. In lieu of actual commercials, Freberg mocked advertising by touting such products as "Puffed Grass" ("It's good for Bossie, it's good for me and you!"), "Food" ("Put some food in your tummy-tum-tum!"), and himself ("Stan Freberg—the foaming comedian! Bobba-bobba-bom-bom-bom"), a parody of the well-known Ajax cleanser commercial.
The lack of sponsorship was not the only issue. Freberg frequently complained of radio network interference. Another sketch from the CBS show, "Elderly Man River", anticipated the political correctness movement by decades. Butler plays "Mr. Tweedly", a representative of a fictional citizens' radio review board, who constantly interrupts Freberg with a loud buzzer as Freberg attempts to sing "Old Man River". Tweedly objects first to the word "old", "which some of our more elderly citizens find distasteful". As a result, the song's lyrics are progressively and painfully distorted as Freberg struggles to turn the classic song into a form that Tweedly will find acceptable "to the tiny tots" listening at home: "He don't, er, doesn't plant 'taters, er, potatoes… he doesn't plant cotton, er, cotting… and them-these-those that plants them are soon forgotting", a lyric of which Freberg is particularly proud. Even when the censor finds Freberg's machinations acceptable, the constant interruption ultimately brings the song to a grinding halt (just before Freberg would have had to edit the line "You gets a little drunk and you lands in jail"), saying, "Take your finger off the button, Mr. Tweedly—we know when we're licked", furnishing the moral and the punch line of the sketch at once. But all of these factors forced the cancellation of the show after a run of only 15 episodes.
In 1966, he recorded an album, Freberg Underground, in a format similar to his radio show, using the same cast and orchestra. He called it "pay radio", in a parallel to the phrase pay TV (the nickname at the time for subscription-based cable and broadcast television) "…because you have to go into the record store and buy it". This album is notable for giving Dr. Edward Teller the Father of the Year award for being "father of the hydrogen bomb" ("Use it in good health!"); for a combined satire of the Batman television series and the 1966 California Governor's race between Edmund G. "Pat" Brown and Ronald Reagan; and probably most famous for a bit in which, through the magic of sound effects, Freberg drained Lake Michigan and refilled it with hot chocolate and a mountain of whipped cream while a giant maraschino cherry was dropped like a bomb by the Royal Canadian Air Force to the cheers of 25,000 extras viewing from the shoreline.[25] Freberg concluded with, "Let's see them do that on television!" That bit became a commercial for advertising on radio.
Beginning in 1949, Freberg and Butler provided voices and were the puppeteers for Bob Clampett's puppet series, Time for Beany, a triple Emmy Award winner (1950, 1951, 1953). Broadcast nationwide from KTLA in Los Angeles, the pioneering children's TV show garnered considerable acclaim. Among its fans was Albert Einstein, who once reportedly interrupted a high-level conference by announcing, "You will have to excuse me, gentlemen. It is time for Beany."[6]
Freberg made television guest appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show and other TV variety shows, usually with Orville the Moon Man, his puppet from outer space. He reached through the bottom of Orville's flying saucer to control the puppet's movements and turned away from the camera when he delivered Orville's lines. Freberg had his own ABC special, Stan Freberg Presents the Chun King Chow Mein Hour: Salute to the Chinese New Year (February 4, 1962), but he garnered more laughs when he was a guest on late night talk shows.
A piece from Stan's show was used frequently on Offshore Radio in the UK in the 60's: "You may not find us on your TV". Other on-screen television roles included The Monkees (1966) and The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1967). In 1996, he portrayed the continuing character of Mr. Parkin on Roseanne, and both Freberg and his son had roles in the short-lived Weird Al Show in 1997.
When Freberg introduced satire to the field of advertising, he revolutionized the industry, influencing staid ad agencies to imitate Freberg by injecting humor into their previously dead-serious commercials. Freberg's long list of successful ad campaigns includes:
- Butternut coffee: A nine-minute musical, "Omaha!",[26] which actually found success outside advertising as a musical production in the city of Omaha. It tells the story of a young man who was stolen by Gypsies at an early age who, as an adult, returns to his own city, finding the residents singing and raising their arms in the air. He frees them by saying his last name backwards, but soon after, he orders them to raise their hands back up again, taking everything the citizens have for granted.
- Contadina tomato paste: "Who put eight great tomatoes in that little bitty can?"
- Jeno's pizza rolls: A parody of the Lark cigarettes commercial that used the William Tell Overture and a pick-up truck with a sign in the bed saying "Show us your Lark pack", here ending with a confrontation between a cigarette smoker, portrayed by Barney Phillips (supposedly representing the Lark commercial's announcer) and Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger over the use of the music. Jay Silverheels also appears as Tonto, filling his possibles bag with pizza rolls, after asking "Have a Pizza Roll, kemo sabe?"[27] It was regarded as one of the most brilliantly conceived and executed TV ads of the period; after one showing on The Tonight Show, Johnny Carson remarked that it was the first commercial he had ever seen to receive spontaneous applause from the studio audience.
- Jeno's pizza, in a parody of Scope mouthwash commercials. "You know why nobody likes your parties, Mary? You have bad pizza—bad pizza!"
- Sunsweet pitted prunes: Depicted as the "food of the future" in a futuristic setting, until science fiction icon Ray Bradbury, a friend of Freberg's (shown on a wall-to-wall television screen reminiscent of Fahrenheit 451) butts in: "I never mentioned prunes in any of my stories." "You didn't?" "No, never. I'm sorry to be so candid." "No, they're not candied" (rim shot).[28] Bradbury reportedly refused to consider doing a commercial until Freberg told him, "I'm calling it Brave New Prune", prompting Bradbury to ask, "When do we start?" Prune sales increased 400 percent the year following the campaign.[29]
- Another Sunsweet commercial features Ronald Long as a picky eater: "They're still rather badly wrinkled, you know", and ends with the famous line, "Today, the pits; tomorrow, the wrinkles. Sunsweet marches on!"
- Heinz Great American soups: Ann Miller is a housewife who turns her kitchen into a gigantic production number, singing such lyrics as "Let's face the chicken gumbo and dance!" After watching his wife's flashy tap dancing, her husband, played by veteran character actor Dave Willock, asks, "Why do you always have to make such a big production out of everything?" At the time (1970), this was the most expensive commercial ever made.[30]
- Jacobsen Mowers: Sheep slowly munch on a front lawn. On camera reporter/announcer (voice of William Woodson): "Jacobsen mowers. Faster... than sheep!"
- Encyclopædia Britannica: The boy in these commercials is Freberg's son Donavan. Freberg talks to him from off screen.
- Chun King Chinese Food: Magazine ad, featuring a line-up of nine smiling Chinese men and one frowning white man, all dressed in scrub suits and white lab coats, with the caption, "Nine out of ten doctors recommend Chun King Chow Mein!" The frowning white doctor is Freberg.
- Kaiser Aluminum produced foil, to rival Reynolds Wrap. Freberg created a sales campaign based on Kaiser's difficulties in getting grocers to stock their product, featuring the "Kaiser Foil Salesman". Despite the company's initial hesitation, the campaign did increase sales.[31]
Today, these advertisements are considered classics by many critics. Though Bob & Ray had pioneered intentionally comic advertisements (stemming from a hugely successful campaign for Piels beer), Stan Freberg is usually credited as being the first person to introduce humor into television advertising with memorable campaigns. He felt a truly funny commercial would cause consumers to request a product, as was the case with his elaborate ad campaign that prompted stores to stock Salada tea. The owner of Jeno's Pizza Rolls had to pay off a bet over the success of a Freberg ad campaign by pulling Freberg in a rickshaw on Hollywood's La Cienega Boulevard. Freberg won 21 Clio awards for his commercials.[32] Many of those spots were included in the Freberg four-CD box set Tip of the Freberg.
Later work[edit]
Following his success in comedy records and television, Freberg was often invited to appear as a featured guest at various events. Each time has been memorable, such as his skit at the 1979 Science Fiction Awards, again playing straight man to Orville in his UFO. He innocently asks why there is a hole in the end of the spacecraft, only to be told, "That's where the swamp gas comes out."
In his autobiography, It Only Hurts When I Laugh, Freberg recounts much of his life and early career, including his encounters with such show business legends as Milton Berle, Frank Sinatra and Ed Sullivan, and the struggles he endured to get his material on the air.
He had brief sketches on KNX (AM) radio in the mid-1990s, beginning each with "Freberg here!" In one sketch, Freberg mentioned that the band played "Inhale to the Chief" at Bill Clinton's inauguration.
He guest starred multiple times on Garfield and Friends, and as the studio chairman on an episode of Taz-Mania.
Freberg was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1995. From 1995 until October 6, 2006, Freberg hosted When Radio Was, a syndicated anthology of vintage radio shows. The release of the 1996 Rhino CD The United States of America Volume 1 (the Early Years) and Volume 2 (the Middle Years) suggests a possible third volume. This set includes some parts written but cut because they would not fit on a record album.
He appeared on "Weird Al" Yankovic's The Weird Al Show, playing both the J.B. Toppersmith character and the voice of the puppet Papa Boolie. Yankovic has many times acknowledged Freberg as his greatest influence.[33] Freberg is among the commentators in the special features on the multiple-volume DVD sets of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection and narrates the documentary "Irreverent Imagination" on Volume 1.
Freberg was the announcer for the boat race in the movie version of Stuart Little, and, in 2008, he guest starred as Sherlock Holmes in two episodes of The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd.[34]
Since 2008, Freberg has been doing the voices of numerous characters, including Doctor Whipple and Fluffykins on The Garfield Show.
In popular culture[edit]
In film[edit]
- In 1961's The Parent Trap, the characters during the animated opening title sequence refer to each other as "John" and "Marsha".
In recordings[edit]
- In 2007, comedian the great Luke Ski recorded a ten-minute homage called MC Freberg, a parody illustrating what a Freberg-type satire of rap music would have sounded like. Originally recorded for The FuMP, the track also appears on Ski's album BACONspiracy.
In television[edit]
- Freberg's Dragnet parodies are generally credited with popularizing the catch phrase "Just the facts, ma'am".
- On the fourth season premiere of the TV series Mad Men, Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss) and Joey Baird (Matt Long) act out the "John and Marsha" comedy soap opera parody and repeatedly call each other "John" and "Marsha".[35]
- Warner Brothers cartoons (in which Freberg appeared, uncredited, as a voice artist) often had cameo appearances by couples named "John" and "Marsha". In one case, the woman was an alien, making the couple "John" and "Martian".
- Benny Hill did a video version of Freberg's "John and Marsha" on his November 24, 1971 special, in the form of an art film parody entitled "The Lovers", with Benny as John, Jenny Lee-Wright as Marsha, and Henry McGee as a third character, George; the distinguishing visual factor being that the actors were photographed from the neck down. This sketch was featured within the original 1979 US half-hour syndicated package, but left off when the package was revamped in 1987; it would be featured in A&E Home Video's Region 1 DVD set Benny Hill: Complete & Unadulterated – Vol. 1 and Network's Region 2 set The Benny Hill Annual: 1971. The music from Freberg's original would later be used as the opening music for some Hill sketches in later years.
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- ^ a b "Show 1 – Play A Simple Melody: American pop music in the early fifties. [Part 1] : UNT Digital Library". Digital.library.unt.edu. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
- ^ "Number-one hits of 1953 (United States)". Retrieved June 2, 2010.
- ^ a b Gilliland, John (1969). "Show 2 – Play A Simple Melody: American pop music in the early fifties. [Part 2]: UNT Digital Library" (audio). Pop Chronicles. Digital.library.unt.edu.
- ^ "Notes about Try by Stan Freberg (note {3})". Retrieved January 3, 2012.
- ^ a b Gilliland, John (1969). "Show 7 – The All American Boy: Enter Elvis and the rock-a-billies. [Part 1]" (audio). Pop Chronicles. Digital.library.unt.edu.
- ^ "Show 5 – Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll: The rock revolution gets underway. [Part 1] : UNT Digital Library". Digital.library.unt.edu. March 9, 1969. Retrieved May 13, 2012.
- ^ The parody was itself partly parodied when Mitchel Torok recorded "All Over Again, Again" for Columbia Records in mid-March 1959, but billed it as "The Great Pretender", as a spoof on the recent Sun Records recordings of Johnny Cash. Cash had only recently been signed to Columbia. The annoying pianist on the Freberg record was replaced by an equally annoying banjo player and a showboating guitarist on the Columbia release, a song written by Torok's wife who was then billed as "R. Redd" (Ramona Redd).
- ^ "Show 18 – Blowin' in the Wind: Pop discovers folk music. [Part 1] : UNT Digital Library". Pop Chronicles. Digital.library.unt.edu. May 25, 1969. Retrieved September 24, 2010.
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- ^ Freberg, op. cit., chapter 11
- ^ "Bob Claster's Funny Stuff". Retrieved February 8, 2009.
Arthur Godfrey satire
- ^ a b Scott Simon (February 14, 2009). "Oregon's 150th Calls for a New Act". Weekend Edition Saturday. National Public Radio (NPR). Retrieved February 14, 2009.
- ^ a b "Oregon! Oregon! A Centennial Fable in Three Acts". Wolverine Antique Music Society. Retrieved February 14, 2009.
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- ^ "Stan Freberg Discography". Warren Debenham, Norm Katuna. February 2008. Retrieved February 8, 2009.
- ^ "The Tip of the Freberg: The Stan Freberg Collection 1951–1998: Stretching the Imagination". Retrieved August 21, 2008.
[audio excerpt from Stretching the Imagination]
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- ^ "YouTube – Jeno's Pizza Rolls Commercial". Youtube.com. June 17, 2006. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
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- ^ "Foiled Again! More Kaiser Aluminum Spots by Stan Freberg". Retrieved October 3, 2014.
- ^ "2006 Los Angeles Area Governors Award Honor to Television Pioneer Stan Freberg". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. June 22, 2006. Retrieved February 8, 2009.
- ^ Ankeny, Jason (October 23, 1959). "Yahoo! Music: Weird Al Yankovic Biography". New.music.yahoo.com. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
- ^ "The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd". The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd. October 12, 2008. Retrieved February 8, 2009.
Stan Freberg To Star on the Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd Podcast
- ^ Don Aucoin, Globe Staff (July 31, 2010). "Mad about 'John & Marsha'". The Boston Globe.
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Her children, a three-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl, were taken to a hospital to be treated for malnourishment, ringworm, and serious physical injuries.
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text: Justice Department lawsuit challenges Florida voter purgeFrom Terry Frieden, CNNUpdated 5:42 PM ET, Tue June 12, 2012Story highlightsAttorney General Holder says Florida is violating federal voter registration lawsFlorida Gov. Scott says the goal is to prevent illegal aliens from votingScott says "almost 100" non-citizens who registered to vote have been identifiedCritics say the program uses outdated information and intimidates minority votersThe Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Tuesday that seeks to stop the state of Florida from purging voters from registration rolls.Attorney General Eric Holder said the Florida program clearly violated voter registration laws."We have done all that we can to try and reason with the people in Florida," Holder told a Senate committee at a hearing Tuesday in explaining why the lawsuit would be filed.Florida's Republican governor, Rick Scott, argued earlier Tuesday that removing non-U.S. citizens from lists of registered voters was a legal necessity.Appearing on CNN's "Starting Point," Scott said the state had identified "almost 100 individuals" who had registered to vote but weren't U.S. citizens."Over 50 of them have voted in our elections," Scott said. "I have an obligation to enforce the laws of our land. You don't get to vote in Florida if you're a non-U.S. citizen."The lawsuit comes after the department began questioning the legality of the state's so-called voter purge program, which would remove names from Florida's voter rolls months before the 2012 presidential election.Florida is considered a key battleground state in the race between President Barack Obama and certain Republican challenger Mitt Romney.Using information from Florida's Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, the state identified more than 100,000 names of non-eligible voters that could potentially be on the lists illegally.The Justice Department contends the Florida program improperly uses the information collected from old driver's license applications, saying the data could be outdated."A number of persons will subsequently have become citizens and lawfully registered to vote," the department said in a letter Monday.Critics say the plan unfairly targets minorities and paint it as an attempt to dissuade typically Democratic voters from going to the polls.Scott said Tuesday that claim was bogus."This is not a partisan issue," he said on CNN. "This is not Republican or Democrat or independent issue. This is an issue that I want, all of us want, everyone wants every U.S. citizen to go and register to vote. Participate in elections. But non-U.S. citizens shouldn't be doing that."Florida, which itself is suing the Department of Homeland Security for access to a citizenship database, was within its legal rights in moving ahead with the purge, Scott said.In 2008, Obama won Florida with 51% of the vote, and the state is classified as a "toss up" on CNN's Electoral Map in 2012. There are 29 electoral votes at stake.More from politicsSchumer on Clinton emails: 'All that stuff isn't gonna matter.'Schumer on Clinton emails: 'All that stuff isn't gonna matter.'Selma 50 years later: John Lewis's memories of the marchPowered by Livefyre


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Second, we need to increase exposure to the arts for our adults as well. Expose someone to live music a few times and soon they'll realize just how much fun it is. We can't be satisfied by only having bands in clubs; we need music on the streets, wherever people are. Why is there no free music on Lincoln Road on Friday and Saturday nights? Why do we not have tailgating concerts for the fans before Dolphins or Marlins or Heat games? Lunchtime street art galleries downtown? Street theater on Washington Avenue for all the people in line at crobar? Exposure to art and music and theater will breed desire for that art. (As a very wise man once sang: "One good thing about music is that when it hits, you feel no pain.")
Third, we need better exposure for local artists and musicians. New Times (and that other weekly Str**t) does some good writing about locals, but how about some coverage in the Miami Herald? On the news? And how about more comprehensive listings -- maybe a column every few weeks listing all local acts and their upcoming shows? (I know the Spam Allstars have regular gigs, but I only know when Roberto Poveda or Humbert are playing or what shows Mad Cat has upcoming if I stumble across a notice somewhere. I have no regular spot to go to for comprehensive information.)
Finally, and most important, we need to get off our collective fat asses. Yeah, you get home from work and you're tired. You don't wanna go out and hear a band. You want to go to a club and look for hotties to go home with. Whatever your excuse, I guarantee you will have fun if you make the little extra effort to expand your horizons. Not everything you see will be great, or even good. Not every band will hit a groove, some actor may miss his or her lines, you won't always get a masterpiece by midnight, but more often than not, you will see the face of God, you will lose yourself in the music, you will hear a new tale told well. And, hey, there are plenty of hotties at these things as well.
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REVIEW: Waid and Samnee's "Daredevil" #13 is "Dependably Great"
Mark Waid and Chris Samnee's "Daredevil" #13 "is the sort of superhero comic that makes you wish that all within the genre were as well-crafted."
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CBR has the first interview with J.G. Jones & Mark Waid on exploring the culture and racism of 1927's American South in "Strange Fruit."
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Joseph Illidge compare BOOM! Studios's new "Strange Fruit" series to other Black Superman stories in comics.
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Mark Waid and Ronilson Freire will team for a new series starring pulp hero the Avenger, scheduled to debut from Dynamite in June.
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Mark Waid announces some changes for his comics shop -- and talks about lessons he's learned in both the direct market and the digital realm.
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Mark Waid and Barry Kitson's villainos saga moves forward in print this April while the cynical superheroes of "Insufferable" arrive in May.
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In his first in-depth interview on the "Archie" revamp, Mark Waid talks collaborating with Fiona Staples and crafting a more "sophisticated" tone.
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The opening issue of Mark Waid and Carlos Pacheco's new series is "fun and memorable," even if it's a little too Agent Coulson-centric,
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Mark Waid & Carlos Pacheco bring Coulson and his team into Marvel Comics conflicts and team them up with superheroes in a brand new ongoing series.
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The cartoonist will put the Fox through the wringer, letting loose a bevy of supervillains on the Dark Circle hero's family.
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The first pages from Mark Waid and Terry Dodson's "Princess Leia" #1 have arrived, with an homage to "A New Hope's" final scene.
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Archie Comics' flagship series will relaunch with a new #1 in 2015, from the high-profile creative team of Mark Waid and Fiona Staples.
Waid Performs Death Defying Stunts in "Daredevil"
Mark Waid spoke with CBR about Matt Murdock's ongoing battle with depression and an upcoming clash with a new, reckless and dangerous Stunt-Master.
REVIEW: Waid & Samnee's "Daredevil" #10
Mark Waid & Chris Samnee's "Daredevil" #10 is a sound single issue that's "about far more than just fighting bad guys."
Mark Waid Brings "Insufferable" Back for a Final Round at Thrillbent
Thrillbent co-founder Mark Waid tells CBR about the final volume of his superhero series "Insufferable," which returned to Thrillbent last week.
REVIEW: Waid & Samnee's "Daredevil" #9
Mark Waid and Chris Samnee's "Daredevil" #9 continues "one of the best examples of how to do a superhero comic."
Comics A.M. - Bestselling "One Piece" Spawns a Spinoff Series
Manga will focus on Luffy and Straw Hat Pirates! Mark Waid discusses Thrillbent's strategy! Interviews with Jason Aaron, Trevor McCarthy and Simon Hanselmann!
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Marvel's "SHIELD" #1 isn't scheduled to arrive until New Year's Eve, but here's a CBR exclusive look at artist Carlos Pacheco's pencils.
REVIEW: Waid & Samnee's "Daredevil" #8
Mark Waid and Chris Samnee's "Daredevil" #8 is "a fully-realized, imaginative book with a living, breathing setting."
BCC: "Marvel Universe" Panel Addresses Wolverine's "Definitive" Death, "Elektra" Status
Charles Soule, Mark Waid and Tom Brevoort talk "Death of Wolverine," the future of "Elektra" and what may be in store for Howard the Duck.
BCC: BOOM! Announces Waid/Jones Collaboration, New Cho Project
BOOM! Studios made it official that Mark Waid and JG Jones are working together, along with the announcement of new material from Frank Cho.
Comics A.M. - A Look at the Diversity of the Batman Family
The diverse characters of Gotham! Waid on "Everstar" and supporting comics for young readers! Davis talks "How to Be Happy"! Dalrymple on "The Wrenchies"!
EXCL. PREVIEW: The Purple Children Menace "Daredevil" #8
Matt Murdock will take on a strange new threat he has no idea how to fight in Marvel Comics' "Daredevil" #8, by Mark Waid and Chris Samnee.
SDCC: Comic Creators Offer Varied Thoughts on The Switch to Digital
Mark Waid hosted a vast array of creators at the Switch to Digital panel during Comic-Con, discussing the benefits and new challenges of digital.
CBR TV: Waid on 15-Second Pitches, "Princess Leia" & the Agents of "SHIELD"
Acclaimed writer Mark Waid tells CBR TV about opening Thrillbent's doors, his new "Star Wars" book from Marvel and what drew him to "SHIELD."
Axel-In-Charge - 8/1/2014
Marvel EIC Axel Alonso spoke with CBR TV in San Diego to explain why Avengers NOW! is writer-driven, the plan for "Star Wars" and much more!
SDCC: Waid Sends the Agents of "SHIELD" on Marvel Universe Missions
Mark Waid talks writing a "full-on, in-continuity Marvel Universe version" of Agent Phil Coulson and crew in the newly announced "S.H.I.E.L.D." ongoing series.
SDCC: Marvel Comics' 75th and Daredevil's 50th
Mark Waid, Dan Slott and Joe Quesada discuss the 75th anniversary of Marvel and the 50th anniversary of Daredevil on Sunday at Comic-Con.
SDCC: Marvel: Next Big Thing; "S.H.I.E.L.D." Series and More Announced
Mark Waid will write a TV-inspired "S.H.I.E.L.D." series, Charles Soule will explore "The Weapon X Program," plus more from Sunday at Comic-Con.
SDCC: Mark Waid Sees Infinite Potential in "Star Wars: Princess Leia"
With "Star Wars" back at Marvel, Mark Waid talks working with Terry Dodson on a solo "Princess Leia" miniseries, set directly after Episode IV.
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With the "Spider-Verse" event bringing untold legions of Spider-Men together in November, writers Dan Slott and Mark Waid take to the stage at Comic-Con International to discuss the series.
EXCL. PREVIEWS: Original Sins Revealed in "Amazing Spider-Man" #4, "Daredevil" #6
"Original Sin" crashes into our exclusive Marvel previews for July 23 - Slott & Ramos' "Amazing Spider-Man" #4 and Waid & Rodriguez's "Daredevil" #6!
Archie's Dark Circle Announces "The Shield," "The Black Hood" & "The Fox"
Archie's new Dark Circle Comics has revealed its first three titles: "The Black Hood," "The Shield" and a second volume of "The Fox."
5-STAR REVIEW: Waid & Samnee's "Daredevil" #5
Mark Waid and Chris Samnee share storyteller co-credits in "Daredevil" #5, featuring the entire creative team "at the peak of their craft."
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Oxy Acetylene Brazing instruction at a workshop hosted by Worldbike and Bikes not Bombs in Boston. Workshop instructed international workers on how to construct extended wheelbase cargo bikes.
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There is additional brazing info at http://www.carbideprocessors.com/brazing.htm
Especially good at identifying failure causes.
Also a great brazing video.
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An ominous darkness invades a seemingly serene sunflower farm in North Dakota, and the Solomon family is torn apart by suspicion, mayhem and murder.
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Rotten: Sadly, the movie just doesn't deliver chills.
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Rotten: Patchwork filmmaking designed by a corporate mentality devoted only to the defense of the lowest common denominator. The viewer is assumed to be stupid and easily duped.
- Brian Holcomb, CinemaBlend.com, Thursday, June 24, 2010
Rotten: A film so filled with clichs of the genre and plot points so dumb that even a novice would end up laughing.
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The Messengers is a horror film that has received a bad rep. I don't know why. I found the film to be entertaining, and unlike every Hollywood film that has come out, it's not a remake. It's an original story written by the Pang Brothers, who directed the original version of The Eye. The film is a pretty good one, not the best. But still pretty good. I am a die-hard horror fan, I love the legendary horror films, I am a big John Carpenter and Dario Argento fan and just to show you, I do recommend this film to people who want to watch a fairly decent Horror film. I found it to quite in intriguing and relied on atmosphere and suspense. It won't be considered a classic, but it sure will satisfy anyone who likes original horror films. Entertaining, suspenseful and with a good enough story to keep you interested, this is a film worthy to check out. Considering I love films by legendary Horror directors such as Argento and Carpenter, that just should say something that I enjoy a half decent horror film at times. This is what The Messengers is, a fairly decent horror yarn, that uses suspense=, and thrills to create horror, and it works kinda. The Messengers is a much better film than what the critics have said it to be. After all, some critics praise really bad remakes, so who are the judges. This film is an original story, but I guess that because Kristen Stewart of Twilight fame stars in it, than people have it's boring and uninspired. Well As a diehard fan of legendary horror gems, I can say without a doubt that this is a passable entry in the horror genre. There are far worse horror films out there than this one. So give this one a shot, you may be surprised at how good it really is.
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Zenga Houndstooth Plaid Wool - 52R
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Definitely one of my more interesting finds ever, Lad Musician Fleece (I think?) Sport coat - going to be messaging a guy over on the SWD side of things about this one- he's a big lad fan and might have more info for me. Sz L fits very slim - Probably like a small
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To those who know would know - i.e Spoo, Brian, et al - this was a good cop right?
Jean Paul Gaultier Homme Pour Gibo Red Flat Front Trousers - 52
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Nudie Organic Cotton Denim- I think it's their slim jim model? 32
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Definitely one of the better days I've had in a long time.


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AK Studio
AK Studio is run by a Russian composer born in St. Petersburg and currently living in Toronto Canada. He received his undergraduate education at Glinka?s School for The Musically Gifted (piano and conducting), before studying composition and conducting at The St. Petersburg State Conservatory. For the last 15 years in Canada Alex been successfully working in the film and television industry of North America. The list of his clients includes: CBS, CBC, CTV, Lions Gate Films, Artisan, Alliance/Atlantis, Muse Entertainment, CINAR, Dufferin Gate, Legacy Film Works?
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