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Paths to prosperity from around the world
In this round-table discussion wrapping up our series, "Six Routes to Riches" with the BBC, you'll hear from Nkem Ifejika and Linda Yueh, who reported from Nigeria and China respectively, Krissy Clark, who reported from Germany, and Justin Rowlatt, in New Delhi. The four sit down with Marketplace's Lizzie O'Leary to discuss what they learned from their work on our collaboration, reporting stories about the global economy.
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Finding the beta version of Silicon Valley
There is probably a particular valley that springs to mind when you think of American innovation. It's the place where brilliant engineers and scrappy entrepreneurs with a hunch about a new way to solve a problem tinker late at night in their garages, until they come up with the perfect answer. And then they found start-ups that make them fabulously wealthy.
Forget about the valley you're probably thinking of for a moment, and know this: Before there was Silicon Valley, there was the Miami River Valley where Dayton, Ohio is located.
If Silicon Valley has a beta version, it's Dayton. By the early 20th century, Dayton had the most patents per capita of any American city. It was home to one of the world's greatest concentrations of scientists and technicians. One-sixth of all corporate executives had spent a portion of their careers in the city.
"You can hardly get through a day today in 2015 without having a connection to Dayton," says Alex Heckman, the Director of Education for Dayton's Carillon Historical Park.
Carillon Historical Park is full of exhibits paying homage to inventions from the area.
A short list: the airplane, the cash register, the pop top on can of soda, Freon and air conditioning, the electric wheel chair, the modern parachute, magnetic strip technology for credit cards, stealth technology for aircraft, bar-code scanners, batteries used on satellites and scratch-and-sniff stickers.
Then there's that whole trope about coming up with a world-changing product in your garage that Silicon Valley loves to celebrate. Well, before the garages that sheltered Hewlett and Packard or Jobs and Wozniak as they tinkered — there was Deeds Barn in Dayton.
The plaque on Deeds Barn on display at Carillon Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio.Krissy Clark/Marketplace
Deeds Barn is where, back in the 1910s, a couple of Ohio farm boys from modest means, Edward Deeds and Charles Kettering, tried to solve one of the biggest and most important problems facing the nascent auto industry: How to start a car without having to kneel down in the mud and turn an extremely heavy crank by hand — something only the strongest of men, and barely any women, had the upper body strength to do.
"They'd sometimes work for 36 hours in a row," Heckman says. "All night, all the next day. There's a story of Kettering literally falling asleep out of exhaustion underneath the car" as he tried to come up with a solution.
Finally, they perfected an electrical part that would make it possible for anyone to start a car. They called it the Delco self-starter.
The self-starter went on to make these two Ohio farm boys, Deeds and Kettering, a lot of money. They sold the company they started in Deeds' barn to General Motors. When Charles Kettering died in 1958, he was worth $350 million.
But "self-starter" is also a pretty good description for the spirit that was alive all over Dayton in its heyday of the early- to mid-20th century. It fit not just the inventors of Dayton, but also the hundreds of thousands of people who found jobs in the area mass producing all the new things being invented.
"It's a situation where success breeds success," says Heckman. "Someone could pull themselves up by their boot straps by going to work for a major manufacturing facility."
He compares the way people now flock to Silicon Valley to "make it" in the tech economy to the way people once flocked to Dayton to climb out of poverty and make it in to the middle class.
"Moving from some poor rural community in central Kentucky and landing a job at 'the Cash,'" Heckman says, referring to what Dayton locals called the National Cash Register factory that employed 20,000 people at its height. "You could have a life for yourself and your family. A nice home and the rest of it."
But of course — and you probably knew this was coming — Heckman says when he goes through his museum's exhibits, celebrating the local factories and Fortune 500 companies that grew out of Dayton innovations, he can't help but think to himself, "Gosh. These companies area all gone."
James Hudson, a big man with a white beard, used to work at one of the last General Motors plants in the Dayton area. He lost his job when GM shut down the factory on December 23, 2008.
"That was our Christmas present from General Motors," he says.
In the 17 years Hudson spent making trucks and SUVs on the line, he climbed in to the middle class. In the last years before he lost his job, he says he was making $49 per hour, including health and retirement benefits. Pretty good for a guy who never went to college, he says.
Those high wages were part of the reason GM pulled out of Dayton. They could find labor much cheaper in other parts of the world. But those high wages were also what kept James Hudson and his family, not to mention the Dayton economy and the broader American economy, running strong.
"We was living comfortable," Hudson says.
His son, Adam, elaborates: "We had vacation every summer. Like if we wanted to go out and do something — we could afford it. If we wanted to go to the movies? We could afford it. If we wanted to buy some new toys for Adam? We could afford it."
Since the plant shut down six years ago, life has been very different for the Hudson family. For a while the father, James, got unemployment benefits and a severance package. But when began to run out, he almost lost his house.
"It was a struggle, but I knew how to do all kinds of stuff, so, I made money on the side," he says. "Flea markets. Buying and selling and trading anything that I can get a hold of that I could make a dollar on. I worked to get what I got. If I lose it, it's my fault because there's too many other ways to make a dollar."
Eventually, James Hudson started training as an electrical line man, he now fixes power lines across the country. But he says he's still not making as much as he made at the GM factory.
Adam Hudson is now 22, with a son of his own. He has a big smile and a wiry frame and twin tattoos that he says represent will-power and rage. After his dad got laid off, Adam dropped out of high school and started working as much as he could, while his dad was struggling.
"I think I actually cried the day I dropped out," he says. "But I was trying to help him out as best as I could."
But with no high-school degree, the only jobs Adam can get don't pay much more than minimum wage. He has worked at Walmart, Target, and a string of fast-food restaurants —McDonald's, Steak and Shake, Bob Evans. He's worked third-shift job cleaning a movie theater. He's worked temp at a few of the remaining plants in Dayton, making siding for houses.
He says he has had trouble keeping a job because he doesn't have a reliable way to get to work. Public transit in the Dayton suburb he lives in is spotty. And ironically, the son of a man who used to make automobiles for a living cannot afford one.
"It's kind of downhill, gradually" he says.
Still, amazingly. Adam has undeniable optimism about his future. I visited him recently at his sister's house. He's been sleeping on her couch for the last few months. Before he headed out to work, his latest job is making dough at Little Caesars, we sat down for a few minutes to talk.
He offered me a lemonade and opened up a can of Mountain Dew, using that Dayton born pop-top technology. He wanted to show me something on his phone: a pep talk he wrote down for himself a couple months ago, when he was feeling especially horrible.
"You're the only one who can change your destiny — the only one who can find your purpose in this world. No one to hold your hand or pick you up. You must pick yourself up time after time and dust yourself off. Because you're the one who's going to do this. You're the one who's going to win this battle. You're the one who's going to make you happy and others may be there to help you but you're the one who has to do this, not them. So get up, get ready and show them how it's done because you CAN DO THIS."
And then he went outside, did a back flip, and headed off to work.
Click on the audio above to hear Marketplace's Lizzie O'Leary take a tour of the metro area with the highest rate of upward mobility in the country.
Economist Jagdish Bhagwati on where to make it big
Marketplace's Lizzie O'Leary speaks with Columbia University professor Jagdish Bhagwati about economies around the world. During our collaboration with the BBC, Six Routes to Riches, we've visited six countries. Our reporters found some common themes such as mobility, infrastructure and China's economy among them. For instance, if China stumbles, is the rest of the world tripped up?
"I don't think so, because I don't think any country has that kind of gravitas in the system," says Bhagwati. The economist also offers some advice about where, in his opinion, is the best place to make your fortune.
Listen to the full interview with Jagdish Bhagwati in the audio player above.
European eclipse sheds light on solar power challenges
For lots and lots of Europeans, the continent's biggest solar eclipse in many years meant excitement.
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But for a few Europeans — grid operators and utility workers — it meant distinct unease. Especially in places like Germany and Italy, where solar power has grown to be a significant part of the electricity supply.
Managing the grid when the sun suddenly went away was a serious concern. And it cast light on a big challenge as renewable energy grows: integrating it into the grid.
Of course, it does get dark every single night. But not all at once. Sunset and dusk add up to an hour or so, which gives power producers time to spin up other generators.
The lead time is important, because the big challenge for grid operators is balancing out supply and demand in real time.
"A fossil-fired generator is not like a stereo," says Anthony Paul, a fellow at the think tank Resources for the Future. "You can't just turn the volume from five to ten, in an instant."
Generators take time to ramp up. And down. What happens when the sun comes back, and you've still got all that power from your other sources?
Maybe an overload. In Europe, people worried about blackouts.
That didn't happen, but the episode shows why, even with just regular events — night falling, or clouds rolling in — solar means extra work for grid operators.
One big piece of work is accommodating what's called "distributed generation" like rooftop solar. The grid isn't really built for it.
"Traditionally, our grid has been a one-way street," says John Larsen, a director at the Rhodium Group. "You've got all these power generators, and they shove all the power through the transmission lines, down through the distribution network into your house."
Distributed generation like rooftop solar means changing that traffic flow. "You're turning it into a two-way street," Larsen says.
And the existing street may not be wide enough to handle traffic in both directions.
For instance, the amount of distributed generation power coming up from parts of Germany's grid is now six times as much as formerly went out to them, says Ben York, a research engineer at the Electric Power Research Institute.
He picks up Larsen's traffic-pattern analogy. "If you had originally two lanes lanes going one way," York says, "you've got to add six or seven lanes going back the other way."
He says Germany is looking at a $30 billion investment to create those lanes in the next few years.
Ryanair: We screwed up.
At our editorial meeting on Monday, we talked about some reports that the budget airline Ryanair — an airline so budget it once reportedly considered charging passengers to use the lavatory — wanted to expand outside of Europe, where it's based, to fly some transatlantic routes.
The company confirmed those expansion plans to several reporters.
Well, turns out, that's not going to happen.
The airline issued this one-sentence statement:
"The Board of Ryanair Holdings wishes to clarify that it has not considered or approved any transatlantic project and does not intend to do so."
According to the airline's CEO, there was a "miscommunication."
"We screwed up," he said.
Does net neutrality have a loophole?
The simple understanding of the FCC's recent net neutrality regulation is this: it makes it so cable companies can't charge the Netflixes of the world more for an Internet fast lane.
But net neutrality applies only to the "highway" of data that is the public Internet. The cable companies have three routes into your house: the public Internet, pay TV, and "specialized services." The Wall Street Journal reports HBO, Sony and Showtime are in talks with cable provider Comcast to bring their "Web TV" product to that "specialized services" highway, where fast lanes are allowed.
Susan Crawford, co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, says this could present an opportunity for cable companies to cap bandwidth on the public Internet, and then charge web TV providers for special treatment for products delivered through the "specialized services" pipe.
But Ian Olgeirson, an industry analyst at SNL Kagan, doesn't see, from the details we know now, how this would be a smart business proposition for the cable companies, since it would undermine their pay TV business.
"There's sort of a tradeoff for the operators," he says. "They're giving up a revenue stream — to gain another revenue stream."
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Small town hopes to rescue itself by selling pot
North Bonneville, Washington, is surrounded by forests on one side. On the other is the Columbia River.
"There is one gas station. There is one restaurant. There is a golf course. And there is the Bonneville Hot Springs Hotel," says John Spencer, the former city administrator. Now he's a consultant. And with some exceptions, he's just described most of the town's economy.
A few years ago, the town of about 1,000 people stopped watering parks and other public places to save money. And a few months ago, it started turning off streetlights to cut down on its electricity bill.
"The city is on its knees financially. They have run negative numbers in the general fund multiple months in a row because they have no retail sector here," Spencer says. "This store could very well make a town that is otherwise going to fail."
The store Spencer is talking about is The Cannabis Corner: the first recreational pot shop in the country run by a government.
It opened earlier this month. Technically, the city doesn't own it. Rather, it set up a public development authority to run it.
"In the headlines, everybody wants to say it's a city-owned pot shop, which, I guess, I leave for the lawyers," says North Bonneville Mayor Don Stevens, who embraces the title of "The Marijuana Mayor," right down to the personalized license plates he's ordered for his car that read "MJMAYOR."
"I guess technically, on some level, it is." Stevens says there was a strong likelihood of a pot shop opening in the town anyway. So the city decided to open its own store to have more control over how it's operated.
"Whereas if a private person came in and opened a store and it wasn't working out in the community's best interest, we'd have a really long, ugly path to try and straighten that situation out," Stevens says. He says all the profits from North Bonneville's pot shop will go back to the community, by partnering the shop with the city on projects.
"While it can't just deposit its profit directly into our general fund, (it) can as a separate corporation, help us defray costs with law-enforcement contracts, public health and safety programs, any number of things that ultimately will have a positive affect on our bottom line," he says.
Right now, the city's annual budget is $1.2 million. Officials think The Cannabis Corner could eventually bring in half a million dollars in profit every year.
That's big money here. After the timber industry collapsed in the 1990s, tourism became the county's main industry.
Casey Roeder, the executive director of the Skamania County Chamber of Commerce, says the town's pot shop adds another reason for people to visit.
"It's an amenity, in my mind, just as a winery or brewery," she says. "The cannabis store in North Bonneville just adds to that whole menu of options for folks to come and spend money."
And Roeder says if people come here and see the region's natural beauty and lifestyle, they just may want to move here and bring their business with them.
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'Match Day' is a rite of passage for young doctors
Friday was a big day for young doctors across the country. It's Match Day — the day medical students find out where they will spend their residencies.
It's a competitive process. This year, more 41,000 applicants are vying for about 30,000 spots.
Dr. Atul Grover, Chief Public Policy Officer with the Association for American Medical Colleges, says he remembers his 1998 Match Day well.
"It was really all about the envelopes," Grover says. "We went back to our groups of friends, family, sat down and everybody kind of opened their envelopes on the count of three. And I can just remember, myself, being personally elated of getting my first choice."
But not everyone is so lucky. Thousands will not be placed. A record number of young doctors applied for residencies this year, and while enrollment in medical schools is increasing, funding for residency positions has stayed about the the same, making the process more competitive.
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PODCAST: A grande race relations conversation
An announcement from Tesla in the I'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it category. More on that. Plus, Starbucks said this week it wanted to use its big retail footprint to foster a conversation on race in America. It hasn't gone as planned, as critics have panned the effort as ham-handed. We look at ways companies have had success in talking about diversity and inclusion. And women with limited education beyond high school, especially single working mothers, earn less than men. They're often shunted into minimum-wage unskilled jobs—in the Wendy's drive-through or behind the register at Rite-Aid. At the same time, the skilled trades are begging for new recruits: electricians, welders, machinists. There are initiatives to bring women into these traditionally male-dominated professions (by labor unions, community colleges, employer groups). But it's not an easy gig to work—with a bunch of men on a building site or a machine-shop floor.
Michelle Obama promotes girls' education in Asia
First lady Michelle Obama is traveling in Asia this week to promote a new initiative with the Peace Corps aimed at closing the education gap for girls. Around the world, an estimated 62 million girls between the ages of 6 and 15 are not in school. The Peace Corps plans to recruit and train at least 650 new volunteers to help remove the barriers to education in developing countries like Albania, Cambodia, Georgia, and Uganda.
The economic payoff can be significant, says Sarah Lynch, a senior director of the global charity Care, which will help train volunteers. "Investments in girls' education have proven to go further than any other spending in global development," she says.
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Tesla plans to launch 'autopilot' feature this summer
Tesla announced a few software updates it's planning for its electric vehicles on Thursday, including one where the car tracks its distance from charging stations to try to alleviate driver anxiety about running out of juice. CEO Elon Musk said that the company could push another update — autopilot — to its Model S fleet as soon as June.
While Musk said cars would be technically capable of getting from place to place without a driver having to do anything, initially this feature limited to use on highways, as neighborhoods pose safety issues given their many obstacles and variables. Eventually, drivers could also summon their cars or let the vehicles park themselves.
Mike Wall, an auto analyst at IHS, says this move echoes steps taken by other car companies and that driver-less technology is advancing faster than regulations that will govern its use.
Michelle Krebs, an analyst with AutoTrader, says driverless cars could be on the road tomorrow, but manufacturers are holding back because of regulatory concerns and questions about who's to blame if there's an accident. Tesla believes its autopilot feature meets current regulations.
Michelle Obama promotes girls' education in Asia
First lady Michelle Obama is traveling in Asia this week to promote a new initiative with the Peace Corps aimed at closing the education gap for girls. Around the world, an estimated 62 million girls between the ages of 6 and 15 are not in school. The Peace Corps plans to recruit and train at least 650 new volunteers to help remove the barriers to education in developing countries like Albania, Cambodia, Georgia, and Uganda.
The economic payoff can be significant, says Sarah Lynch, a senior director of the global charity Care, which will help train volunteers. "Investments in girls' education have proven to go further than any other spending in global development," she says.
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Silicon Tally: Where's my tax refund?
It's time for Silicon Tally! How well have you kept up with the week in tech news?
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Starbucks' race push irks some
Starbucks new #RaceTogether campaign has set off a storm of controversy. The coffee giant is hoping baristas and customers will have a more frank discussion about American race relations.
So what's the best way to bring up issues of diversity? Nicole Sanchez, CEO of Vaya Consulting, says Starbucks may have helped create controversy by trying to force this conversation when people are at their most vulnerable—that is to say, before they've had their morning coffee.
But Robert Raben, president of the Raben Group, says Starbucks may be onto something. Its coffee houses are so ubiquitous and integrated that they serve as de facto town halls and community centers for places all across the country.
Freight rail is king in U.S.
Railways carry more than 40 percent of the freight shipped between U.S. cities. The U.S. freight rail system is uniquely profitable, and it's been attracting international attention. Europe, Russia, Brazil and Australia have all sent representatives here.
"There have been dozens of delegations just over the last couple of years," says Patricia Reilly, senior vice president for communications at the Association of American Railroads, a trade group for freight rail companies.
Reilly has met with some of the international visitors. They want to know everything, down to what stone is used for rail beds. Some come with interpreters, but Reilly says they speak a common tongue.
"They might not speak our language, but they love railroads," she says. "They love the sound of a whistle."
Garrick Francis loves the sound of a whistle, too. He's a lobbyist with the freight rail company CSX Transportation.
He's also met with the international delegations. He says they're curious about a huge difference between the U.S. and the rest of the world. The American freight rail system is run entirely by private companies. Francis says he gets lots of questions about investment.
"So how do we have private investors," he says. "How is this a business that attracts investment from major funds or major shareholders on Wall Street and in other places?"
But Francis gets harder questions, too, about rail congestion in places like Chicago. Freight trains have to share track with passenger trains, adding to the congestion.
The international delegations also want to know about new safety technology freight railways have developed. Freight rail's safety record has improved, with the accident rate down by 42 percent since 2000. Still, accidents do happen.
"Some of these accidents with the crude oil trains have been drastic reminders that there's still a long way to go," says Pasi Lautala, director of the rail transportation program at Michigan Technological University.
Lautala says, in some ways, freight rail in the U.S. is a victim of its own success, making money and growing enough to attract admirers from around the world — but still facing expensive challenges.


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An improved peripheral closure joint for sealing spherical shell segments to a supporting structure therefor is provided which comprises a generally frustoconical member having an annular groove on the smaller circumference thereof for receiving the peripheral edge of the shell segment and means on the outer periphery thereof for engaging the supporting structure without slippage, said means including a plurality of annular corrugations on the peripheral edge of said frustoconical member and mating corrugations on a supporting surface of said structure to allow said member limited rolling engagement with said surface as said member flexes under an applied load. The frustoconical member is preferably configured to transmit the applied load substantially perpendicular to said surface, and tangent to the spherical shell.
1. An edge attachment for supporting on an annular supporting surface a spherical shell segment, which comprises:
a. a generally frustoconical member having on its inner edge an annular groove for receiving the peripheral edge of said shell segment;
b. said member having a generally rounded peripheral edge including means for rolling engagement with said supporting surface, said means comprising a plurality of concentric annular corrugations on the peripheral edge of said member and a plurality of mating corrugations on said support surface.
2. The edge attachment as recited in claim 1 wherein said frustoconical member is substantially perpendicular to said support surface at their contacting surfaces.
3. The edge attachment as recited in claim 1 wherein the coefficient of friction between the surface defining said annular groove and the surface defining the peripherical edge of said shell segment is less than about 0.3.
The invention described herein may be manufactured and used by or for the Government of the United States for all governmental purposes without the payment of any royalty.
This invention relates to the field of structures supporting spherical enclosures and more particularly to improved load bearing edge attachments or peripheral closure joints for spherical shell segments.
Spherical shell segment closure structures finding substantial prior use in a wide range of applications include domed building structures, view ports for deep sea submergence vehicles, missile launch tube closures, and the like. Edge attachment configurations or devices heretofore known for sealing and supporting spherical shell segments subjected to substantial external pressure loading, may produce unacceptably high bending (radial shear) stresses in the shell near the supporting edge, rendering the shell segment susceptible to failure.
The novel spherical shell segment edge attachment of the present invention substantially reduces in critical importance the foregoing problems associated with spherical closures, particularly as applied to spherical closures for missile launch canisters. The present invention provides, near the periphery of the shell segment, means to substantially eliminate radial shear stresses and bending stresses normally existing under external loading at the peripheral joint of the shell segment with its supporting structure. In the preferred configuration as described herein, this is accomplished by providing a flexible, low friction circumferential bearing joint to support the shell segment, the geometric configuration of which converts the bearing forces existing at the periphery of the segment under load, to a substantially tangential resultant, thereby substantially eliminating radial stresses.
It is, therefore, an object of the present invention to provide an improved spherical shell segment edge attachment.
It is a further object of this invention to provide an improved spherical segment edge attachment to reduce radial shear stresses in the spherical segment edge.
It is yet another object of the present invention to provide an improved spherical shell segment closure for a missile launch canister.
These and other objects of the present invention will become apparent as the detailed description of certain embodiments thereof proceeds.
In accordance with the foregoing principles and objects of the present invention, an improved peripheral closure joint for sealing spherical shell segments to a supporting structure therefor is provided which comprises a generally frustoconical member having an annular groove on the smaller circumference thereof for receiving the peripheral edge of the shell segment, and means on the outer periphery thereof for engaging the supporting structure without slippage, said means including a plurality of annular corrugations on the peripheral edge of said frustoconical member and mating corrugations on a supporting surface of said structure to allow said member limited rolling engagement with said surface as said member flexes under an applied load. The frustoconical member is preferably configured to transmit the applied load substantially perpendicular to said surface, and tangent to the spherical shell.
The present invention will be more clearly understood from the following detailed description of specific embodiments thereof read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings wherein:
FIG. 1 is a side sectional view of a typical spherical shell section and support structure including the novel spherical segment edge attachment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an enlargement of a portion of FIG. 1 showing in greater detail a representative embodiment of the edge attachment of this invention.
Referring now to the drawings, FIG. 1 illustrates schematically in cross-section a dome-shaped spherical shell section supported on the periphery thereof by the novel edge attachment of this invention. The edge attachment is shown in more detail in the partial view of FIG. 2.
As shown in FIG. 1, the spherical shell segment 10 may comprise a closure or seal for a cylindrical cavity 11 defined by a tubular member or structure 12. As discussed above, typical applications of the segmented spherical shell 10 may include a protective cover for a missile launch canister or the like. Materials which shell segment 10 may comprise include glass, plastics, fiberglass, metals, ceramics, and the like, and are therefore not limiting of the invention herein. In order to be compatible with the edge attachment hereinafter described in detail, the spherical shell segment 10 has a suitable peripheral edge configuration such as shown in detail in FIG. 2 as rounded peripheral edge 13.
The novel edge attachment of the invention herein, as illustrated in one embodiment in FIG. 2, may comprise a frustoconical ring member 14 having around its inner edge an annular groove 15 to receive the rounded edge 13 of spherical shell segment 10, and to serve as a low friction bearing surface therefor. Certain materials herein contemplated for comprising shell segment 10, such as glass, may be supported in a manner resulting in significant bending stresses near the point of support. Therefore, in the novel edge attachment described herein, it is contemplated that the coefficient of friction at the interface of peripheral edge 13 with annular groove 15 shall be less than about 0.3 in order to substantially eliminate radial stresses at that joint. For the aforementioned materials contemplated for use, a coefficient of friction of or less than about 0.05 should be easily obtainable. Suitable material selection for ring 14 will both minimize friction at the interface of annular groove 15 with edge 13 of spherical shell segment 10, and provide a deflection under an applied load which is substantially identical with that experienced by shell segment 10. Ring member 14 may preferably be constructed to join shell segment 10 to provide a substantially continuous arcuate configuration, and, further, may be of any size consistent with the size of cavity 11 defined by structure 12 to be protected. Further, material selection for ring member 14 is not limiting hereof so long as it shall have sufficient strength to support spherical shell segment 10 as described.
Ring member 14 has on its peripheral edge means to engage structure 12 without slippage of ring member 14 on conical surface 16 of structure 12. As shown in FIG. 2, this means may include a plurality of concentric annular grooves, serrations or corrugations 17 on the peripheral edge of ring member 14 configured to mesh with a mating set of corrugations 18 on the surface 16 of structure 12. The corrugations 18 may be provided in surface 16 itself or in a plate (not shown) or the like which may be rigidly attachable conventionally to conical surface 16. The peripheral edge of frustoconical ring member 14 is preferably configured with a generally rounded contour having an outer edge radius (containing the annular grooves 17) to permit ring member 14 to exhibit a small degree of rolling engagement with surface 16 as it flexes axially under the force exerted by the weight of spherical shell segment 10 and any additional load placed thereon. This interaction of parts minimizes bearing stress deformation by maintaining as near as practicable a resultant force perpendicular to surface 16 as ring 14 flexes under the applied force. In the preferred configuration, conical surface 16 of structure 12 supporting corrugations 18 will be constructed to be substantially perpendicular to the ring member 14 near their intermeshing surfaces.
Pressure sealing of the respective annular joints between shell segment 10, ring member 14, and surface 16 may be effected conventionally by such as a pair of adherent flexible annular coverings 19 and 20, respectively covering the outer and inner surfaces of segment 10 and ring 14 with suitable sealing against structure 12. The material selection and configuration for coverings 19 and 20 will depend upon the applied pressure, medium, acceptable leakage, and other environmental factors to which the assembly is subjected.
The cross-sectional configuration of ring member 14 is such that applied pressure loading on the spherical segment 10 will overcome any friction at the interface of edge 13 and annular groove 15, allowing segment 10 to slip freely with respect to the ring member 14. This results in minimum shear stresses within segment 10 at or near its edge. Then, neglecting rolling friction between ring member 14 and surface 16, the resultant of symmetric loading on the spherical segment is therefore nearly tangent to the spherical segment. For non-symmetric loadings, ring 15 will deflect androll on surface 16 to a greater or lesser degree around the periphery of ring 15 depending on the distribution of the loading.
The present invention, as hereinabove described, therefore provides an improved spherical segment edge attachment for supporting and sealing a spherical shell segment on a supporting tubular structure. It is understood that certain modifications to the invention and material substitutions may be made, as might occur to one with skill in the field of this invention, within the scope of the appended claims. Therefore, all embodiments contemplated hereunder have not been shown in complete detail. Other embodiments may be developed without departing from the spirit of this invention or from the scope of the appended claims.
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Teacher awards are nothing new to New Richmond High School, but that doesn't make them any less important. Now, the school can add a few more to its resume.
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Despite the lack of a hotel I managed to sneak away to Shuto Con in Lansing, MI last week. I saw lots of friends and great cosplay. My time there was short but it was not without catgirls. In fact it was not easy to pick this week's photo. I choose this catgirl Raven! It is not often you see a Teen Titans catgirl let alone one with a silver cat bell! You can see more cosplay photos from Shuto Con on my Flickr account.
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WIth the two stihls, and the red max, I found that my brand new toy built trimmer wasn't getting used. Seeing that I needed an edger for at least 1/2 of my yards, I picked up an edger attachment for the Troy-built. Installation was a breeze snd the unit sould hold up well with the limited time it will see. Any comments or suggetions?


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The artfully tousled locks of many a young man have adorned the cover of Rolling Stone, that most iconic of music magazines. But none of those men has been on trial for bombing a marathon. It was inevitable, then, that the magazine's decision to extend the symbolic, "you've arrived" kind of honour that rock stars have sung about in the past to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, prime accused in the Boston Marathon bombing, has touched a nerve. There has been outrage over putting Tsarnaev on the cover at all, and using the "glamour shot" for a story that paints him as another kid failed by the system. There have been calls for a boycott of the magazine and widespread criticism on social media.
Other people who have done despicable things have graced magazine covers for instance, Adolf Hitler in Time. News weeklies closer home have featured Veerappan. This very picture of Tsarnaev was published on the front page of The New York Times. Rolling Stone has pointed to its own record in defence it prides itself on being a publication that balances coverage of the arts with investigative journalism into current events. A magazine feature cost the then commander of the ISAF, General Stanley McChrystal, his job in 2010.
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Some features to look forward to:
1.) "PATRICK'S POP UP(DATES)" will feature stories from pop culture, music, theater, fashion, and the entertainment industry at large.
2.) "The Life of Riley" will also introduce a "take-a-look-at-your-life" section (READ: sort of an advice column), where I will help readers come up with their own questions and answers around what "ways of being" are working (or not working) to have them acheive their respective goals and live their best lives. This section is called "WHO YOU BE?".
3.) Additonally, there will be a free-flowing, organic section called "TESTIFY" from which I will pull from my own life's journey to share and hopefully inspire. Some of the fare may be new musings and experiences. Other times, I may pull from my journals and past sharings to shed light on some uncomfortable truths that I've experienced and that may perhaps play a role in healing someone else's wounds as the real-life experience did for me. From my experience of covering 9/11 as a freelance journalist to courageously coming out (as gay) to my family, "TESTIFY" promises to move those who choose to read it.
4.) And a section titled "PR" (like my initials, but also like "public relations") will include press clips from any coverage I get.
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This entry was to announce that ALL STAR KARAOKE is coming back at the end of APRIL 2015! Then, the QUEEN OF SOUL called and my lead is buried! But this is MISS ARETHA FRANKLIN, after all.. LOL!.... so let me interrupt this regularly scheduled programming for this ROYAL RE-CAP that deserves some R-E-S-P-E-C-T....
CHECK OUT THIS LATEST VIDEOs on NBCBLK - a viral that details MISS FRANKLIN's "openness" - shall we say - to do some EMPIRE - Season 2 - https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1553278574945680&set=vb.1508175089456029&type=2&theater.... and here is a RE-CAP of the MAGICAL NIGHT:
It's for NBCBLK – recurring client which dispatched me to do this LEE DANIELS interview last month: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/precious-butler-director-lee-daniels-building-empire-n290416. Over the years, MISS ARETHA FRANKLIN has invited LIFE OF RILEY to celebrate her birthday and other milestones. There was last year's birthday at the RITZ CARLTON. Denzel Washington stopped by: http://thelifeofriley.squarespace.com/rilys-blog/2014/3/23/another-night.html. In 2009, I was a guest at Miss Franklin's HOLLYWOOD BOWL show followed by a post-show set at the PENINSULA HOTEL. This was on the day that Michael Jackson died:http://thelifeofriley.squarespace.com/rilys-blog/2009/9/21/ive-waited-so-long-to-hear-you-say-that-to-me-say-it-again-s.html. The year prior to that, Miss Franklin's camp asked me to secure SECRET TROIS for her birthday set in Detroit and to accompany them. The QUEEN's wish was Anthony Harper's and my command: http://thelifeofriley.squarespace.com/rilys-blog/2009/3/26/people-say-im-the-life-of-the-party.html. And years ago, in 1992, when I started my career in TV, I got to interview Miss Franklin at then-CBS affiliate WXIA. We dished on "The Young & The Restless". Fast forward 23 years later to Miss Aretha Franklin's 73rd birthday celebration recently held at the Ritz Carlton, Central Park South; LIFE OF RILEY gets another ROYAL INVITE; NBCBLK asks if they can tag-along; and THE QUEEN OF SOUL and I do some catching up – on the SOAPS. But this time, we talked EMPIRE and Tyler Perry's THE HAVES AND THE HAVE NOTS. She's a fan of both. ALL HAIL THE QUEEN for whom some very special guests came out: Record industry legend Clive Davis, Empire creator Lee Daniels, Attorney General Eric Holder, singers Valerie Simpson and Freddie Jackson, LABELLE original Sarah Dash, CNN's Don Lemon, my fellow journalist buddy Jamie Foster Brown ("Sister 2 Sister"), choreographer George Faison, Sirius XM's Tracey J. Jordan, Lawrence O'Donnell, Tamron Hall from msnbc and NBC Today, Rev. Reverend Al Sharpton, Charlie Rangell, the Duke Ellington Jazz All Stars, philanthropist Adrienne Arsht, Avery*Sunshine, etc. Shout out to my friend, Detroit's own Greg Dunmore who emceed the festivities. Miss Franklin's actual birthday is March 25. FOR MORE INFO on LIFE OF RILEY, click here: http://thelifeofriley.squarespace.com/rilys-blog/2015/3/20/ask-patrick.html. I love that even at the Queen of Soul's 73rd birthday party, we're in an EMPIRE state of mind! LOL! #NBCBLK
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As brutal as winter was, I know we made a good decision to hibernate BILLIE'S BLACK PRESENTS ALL STAR KARAOKE WITH PATRICK L. RILEY during winter break. Well, as Spring awakens, I'm excited to announce that BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND, we are returning with our SPRING 2015 SERIES - STARTING Tuesday, April 28th! We'll go every Tuesday through Tuesday, July 14th from 7p-10p.
Highlights have included:
* Monifah singing - http://bit.ly/beatsbydre_monifah
* Keke Wyatt singing - http://bit.ly/beatsbydre_kekewyatt
* Patrick L. Riley singing with Keke Wyatt - http://bit.ly/beatsbydre_patricklriley
* Patrick L. Riley singing I AM CHANGING (and more on my YOU TUBE channel):
* Good Morning America's Mara Schiavocampo promoting her book THINSPIRED:
* Iconic vocalist Toni Seawright brought her son Qaasim Middleton to ALL STAR KARAOKE Spring 2014. Fast forward to this week: he is an "American Idol Top 10" finalist. Did you see that SAVE? LOL!
* My Spelman sister Kimberly Nichole has also performed on the Billie's Black stage as she is now perched on Team Christina Aguilera for the current season of "The Voice".
* After Broadway hit MOTOWN THE MUSICAL's marketing rep hired me to host its Opening Night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK1yncqPlOQ, the producers wanted to partner with ALL STAR KARAOKE for what we coined: #MOTOWNMAY - a month of participants singing songs from MOTOWN's legendary catalog; a handful competed each week inside a MOTOWN-RETURNS-TO-THE-APOLLO-style competition for a chance to sing with the show's DIANA ROSS on the Broadway stage for ONE NIGHT ONLY (Our winner: emerging vocalist Husain Mello Deas Williams). MOTOWN THE MUSICAL also provided lots of giveaways; discount codes for the show; and - as our GRAND FINALE judges - a handful of cast-members from MOTOWN THE MUSICAL - including Marva Hicks (Gladys Knight in the show) and Bryan Terrell Clark (Marvin Gaye in the show).
* TV One's R&B DIVAS' Monifah Carter & Keke Wyatt came by to karaoke; sing their songs; and promote their show/new music.
* Recording artists Alyson Williams; Shaliek; Gordon Chambers; Kenneth Carr; Kim Waters (who serenaded me HAPPY BIRTHDAY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Iwk4WLMuI); and Sweet Honey in the Rock.
* Broadway star Anthony Wayne ("Pippin'") took a night off from the Great White Way to join me on the All Star Karaoke stage to preview his smash hit "Mighty Sylvester".
* We never know who will pop in - including ALL STAR KARAOKE supporter Bevy Smith (BRAVO's FASHION QUEENS HOST); Mica Hughes (BRAVO's BLOOD, SWEAT, & HEELS); Artie Thompson (BRAVO's CHEF ROBLE); Mara Schiavocampo (GOOD MORNING AMERICA correspondent/best-selling author: THINSPIRED); Shiba Russell (NBC4 Anchor); Xosha Roquemore (Actress, FOX's "The Mindy Project"); and Laurie Anne Gibson(Choreographer/Recording Artist - clients including Lady Gaga and more).
* Before we did ALL STAR KARAOKE at Billie's Black, NATIVE Restaurant hosted it. Some of those CELEB sing-bys included: Tichina Arnold (Actress, "Martin", "Everybody Hates Chris", etc.); Kevin Mambo (Actor, "FELA" on Broadway); TONEX (Recording Artist); Brenda Braxton (Broadway legend, "Chicago"); Napiera Groves (Actress, "As The World Turns"); David Nathan (Author, "Soulful Divas"); Greg Dunmore (Host, PULSEBEAT); Jamie Foster Brown (Publisher, SISTER 2 SISTER); etc.
* Though most are in the house to enjoy ALL STAR KARAOKE and the food and drink BILLIE'S BLACK provides, the room is also a networking room. You could be dining or singing alongside any of the entertainment and media industry's best - from all domains - including CELEBRITY HAIRSTYLISTS Carla Bone (clients including: Kerry Washington, Jada Pinkett Smith, and more); Brian Badie (clients including: Ice T, Coco, "Power"); BLACK OPAL Creative Director Merrell Hollis (celeb make-up artist including Wendy Williams; Diddy; Usher; Cynthia Bailey; Jessica White; etc.); celebrity publicist Gwendolyn Quinn (clients including: Keke Wyatt [who she brought]; Aretha Franklin; Deborah Cox, etc.); President of the New York Association of Black Journalists Mike Feeney; legal analyst/journalist Lisa Bonner, Esq.; BLISS President Mike Indurksy; "Blackbird"/"The Skinny"/"Noah's Arc" Director Patrik-Ian Polk; producer/director Nathan Hale Williams; NAACP Image Award winning producer Sidra Smith; actor/writer/director Stanley Bennett Clay; "Drums Along The Hudson" producer Carl Nelson; Tony-award-winning choreographer/Faison Firehouse's own George Faison; New York Times writer Nikita Stewart-Henderson; etc.
* Industry players use our ALL STAR KARAOKE experience as a BUILT-IN BIRTHDAY PARTY. We've toasted many - including: Kevin Anthony (international performer/recording artist); Rowena Husbands (celebrity photographer); Penwah (singer/casting director/producer [STEPS: An Eddie Harris Film]; Anthony C. Harper (my partner and - at the time - producer, The Wendy Williams Show); and me.
* MANY SPONSORS have appreciated the excitement of our night; the folks in the room; and the on-line social media buzz we get during and after that they have reached out to partner with ALL STAR KARAOKE - including our main FALL 2015 SPONSOR "Miss Jessie's" who donated giveaways for all of our ALL STAR KARAOKE guests. Plus, Co-Founder Miko Branch ensured TWO big weekly prizes for two on-stage participants to hopefully win at the end of the night. ALL STAR KARAOKE is excited to help promote MISS JESSIE'S: Creating a Successful Business from Scratch - Naturally (Amistad; Hardcover; On Sale: April 14, 2015; $24.99). #IAMMISSJESSIES
* HENDRICK's GIN provided a month of ONE-HOUR TASTINGS along with signature cocktails at a discounted price to quench the thirst of our ALL STAR KARAOKE regulars. Dear friend Sidra Smith brought that integration to ALL STAR KARAOKE. She is an NAACP Image Award winning producer for documentary "Free Angela", Sidra Smith, is a dear friend (and also the identical twin of Hollywood actress Tasha Smith - known for her current role as Cookie's sister in EMPIRE and her starring role in Tyler Perry's "For Better or Worse" on OWN).
* RAFFLES: We also do $2 raffles (and sometimes $5 raffles for BIG GIVEAWAYS). Our RAFFLE SPONSOR for SPRING 2014 and FALL 2014 was RILEY/LAND GOURMET PANTRY - providing a number of high-end gourmet samples.
A. BRING YOUR CLIENTS: Already, we're receiving word from CELEB family members; publicists; and crew-members that some of their clients want to come by. So, PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD to any of your CLIENTS or PEEPS that BILLIE'S BLACK PRESENTS ALL STAR KARAOKE WITH PATRICK L. RILEY is a good room to DRIVE-BY on TUESDAY NIGHT!
B. LIFE OF RILEY FRIENDS & CLIENTS: As an independent personality, producer, and writer, you folks know LIFE OF RILEY is all over the place: http://thelifeofriley.squarespace.com/rilys-blog/. As such, I LOVE when I'm working on a special project with recurring client BET and I see my BET FAM at ALL STAR KARAOKE! So, to all of MY RECURRING CLIENTS & FRIENDS, here's a SHOUT OUT for you to CONSIDER a TUESDAY NIGHT (s) to come out and decompress or celebrate APRIL/MAY/JUNE/JULY birthday(s). That includes: my peeps at ARISE ENTERTAINMENT 360; OWN TV; NBCBLK; NBCU's "The More You Know" team; NYABJ (New York Association of Black Journalists); LIVE OUT LOUD (LGBTQ Mentoring Organization); NABJ Arts & Entertainment Task Force; NABJ LGBTQ Task Force; "The Wendy Williams Show"; etc.
* SAGE Harlem provides services and advocacy for GLBT Elders. SAGE Harlem program manager (and friend) Christopher Jones asked me to perform for the group's holiday party after he'd attended Billie's Black Presents All Star Karaoke FALL 2014 SERIES. WAS FUN to sing my ALL STAR KARAOKEstaples for this enthusiastic audience: "Reasons" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vxU3In7zl4; "This Woman's Work" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phNQU3hWfAE; and "Endless Love" - https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152858343658737&set=vb.662073736&type=3&theater. Learn more at: http://www.sageusa.org/sageharlem.
* BILLIE'S BLACK PRESENTS ALL STAR KARAOKE WITH PATRICK L. RILEY was also able to offer support to MISS JESSIE's (talent and food) in the wake of MISS JESSIE's co-founder Titi Branch's passing at a MEMORIAL TRIBUTE - celebrating her life: http://youtu.be/KDlVBgqBH0U.
* After AMERICAN IDOL finalist Qaasim Middleton's mom Toni Seawright graced our ALL STAR KARAOKE stage several times with her AMAZING TALENTS, I was too excited when she asked me to host her 50th Birthday Honoring the Music and Legacy of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Her family and friends all gathered in Brooklyn, New York at the 5 Spot. I sang "Got to Be There" with the HOT BAND! Shout out to them for rehearsing with me a couple of days prior to ensure I could hit those CHAKA notes. I even rehearsed at our closing night of ALL STAR KARAOKE:https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152301811918737&set=vb.662073736&type=3&theater.
* We are currently in talks with varied sponsors and organizers regarding an ALL STAR KARAOKE TOUR for later this year or next year. Stay tuned as we've received word from several entities that they would love ALL STAR KARAOKE. Some of the information in the attached POWERPOINT underscores some of the current outreaches. Nothing is firm as the TOUR goes - so if an announcement, you'll hear it first from me. ENDLESS LOVE for #ALLSTARKARAOKE #BILLIESBLACK AND ALL OF YOU!
Great to gather and celebrate Mairie Ame Raxy at Isola on Columbus where I just had to break out in a HAPPY BIRTHDAY serenade for our BDAY GIRL - looking to celebrate another birthday this summer: she, her husband Eric, and big sister Raixy's new addition: a baby boy! CONGRATS on everything, Mairie! We LOVE YOU! Remember when Ern and I had the chance to attend their beautiful wedding last year in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Ant and I enjoyed catching up with Miss Angelique Miles. She's so FAB! Please check out her method to living a balanced, healthy, fit, social life at 45+. It's The Miles Method – a content portal that allows you to read and see many of her fitness/lifestyle escapades. Good tid-bits… and you might as well listen: Ain't she FINE! LOL! Please like her page, The Miles Method, and invite your friends to like it too!: https://www.facebook.com/Amilesmethod.
LADIES & GENTLEMEN!!! MISS Mara Schiavocampo AKA Good Morning America CORRESPONDENT AKA COVER GIRL on Woman's World AKA MY AMAZING GRACE AKA MY INTERNET WIFE AKA "MAKES ME SO PROUD"!!!! GO MARA, GO! #THINspiredbook
#FBF Paula MadisonN is one of my (NABJ) National Association of Black Journalists MENTORS! At a time in my career when I needed to "attract" skill-set work in entertainment and pop culture, she - at the helm of News 4 New York - quickly and deliberately stepped in and up and presented me a handful of opportunities to SHINE via the local news division's special projects unit. The year was 1997 and - to that moment - I became a "working", full-time, independent producer, personality, and writer. And the melody lingers on. By way of that one chance she took on me, I continue to know ENDLESSLY that I can make it - even when the fiscal snapshot isn't cute. She remains supportive and kind. And she continues to lead by example - having experienced many chapters inside the book of her own amazing life since we worked together in the late '90s - including leading diversity efforts in network TV and Hollywood; owning sports teams and networks; and - wait for it - dancing with Prince on his "Musicology" tour. Her latest flourish is an actual book that she's written (alongside a companion documentary she produced) about her search to connect with her Chinese relatives. And she will be in NYC April 12-15 for the launch of Finding Samuel Lowe: www.findingsamuellowe.com. Hit up my sister friend publicist Lauren Tobin with PANTHER PR, if you want to consider booking our beloved Paula and/or knowing where she's signing and speaking. Book launch at B&N on 82nd and B'way, 7P Tuesday 4/14!!! Please come on out to show your friendly face. Paula says she will be signing books until they close!!! AND PAULA? If you make it back Harlem-way between Tuesday, April 28th and Tuesday, July 14th, please stop by Billie's Black Gourmet Soul for Billie's Black PRESENTS ALL STAR KARAOKE WITH Patrick L. Riley... and sing a tune with me as we hip my folks to FINDING SAMUEL LOWE! LOVE YOU! #findingsamuellowe #nabj40 #billiesblack #allstarkaraoke
LOVE when my LEGENDS are still high-kicking and singing for the gods! lOL! One of my heroes from the land of TRIPLE THREAT: Ben Vereen recently did a stint at #54Below: http://54below.com/artist/ben-vereen/. WAS TOO EXCITED to interview Ben Vereen a month or so ago at ARISE ENTERTAINMENT 360: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a12El8-zU_k. Watch Daily On Time Warner, Verizon Fios, Centric and On Demand... www.YouTube.com/AriseENT360 + you can watch it streaming live on www.arise.tv at 3p/eastern. As always, THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT! #ARISE360#hiphopchangedus #devotion #endlesslove #popcultureandpossibilities #billiesblack #allstarkaraoke#CentricTV
CLICK HERE: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153273324868287 - LAWD! Blair Younger - one of my work BFFs - formerly from Harpo Productions /Oprah Winfrey Show and currently via recurring client BET - is always YAPPING about her FAMILY - primarily her sister, professional musician Brandee Younger AKA Brandee A. Younger (as well as her FIERCE mother Linda Mcnease-Younger)! Well, NO SURPRISE these two AMAZING WOMEN are MEDIA DARLINGS this week - BRANDEE inside a feature on FOX 5 / MyFoxNY.com c/o Chrystal Young: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153273324868287 & MOM was featured in one of Anthony Harper's The Wendy Williams Show contributions - dating back to his former employer's sneak-peek: It was CELEBRITY FAN OUT... and Miss Linda was inside the segment with not one, but TWO pix with two of the FINE BROTHERS in Empire: Bryshere Gray and Jussie Smollett! HOW YOU DOIN'? LOL! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS6XDg86o-c. #empire #harp
john edward
Remember CROSSING OVER? Too cool to interview John Edward (and co-host Kat Jenus at Evolve) recently for recurring client OWN. Catch up with John and more on March 29th on Oprah: Where Are They Now? WHAT AN ICON HE IS! My DL Hughley is coming up in that episode as well. For more on Oprah: Where Are They Now, visit: www.Oprah.com/WhereAreTheyNow To join the conversation on social, use: #WhereAreTheyNow @OWNtv
iconic inclusion
tony bennett
Last week in the LIFE OF RILEY should have had me stay in the house for the rest of week after I met: THE Tony Bennett!!! YEP! Shout out to Lincoln Center's Dwayne Ashley for making sure I could meet him and a whole bunch more – including Nancy Sinatra – in the house for the opening of the exhibition: SINATRA: AN AMERICAN ICON – www.nypl.org/sinatra. Friend since and for forever, Carl Nelson, accompanied! FUN EVENING! AWESOME EXHIBIT – a MUST SEE that will remain on view in the Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery through September 4, 2015. #lincolncenter #sinatra
inclusion show
Hi folks! As always, THANKS for your support of LIFE OF RILEY! Check this link out: http://youtu.be/tZ1EGcqbb90. Was great being a guest on The Inclusion Show with Wallace Ford – as produced by Ideal Development, Inc. http://www.idealdevelopment.net/ and the awesome production team at the Cliffside Park, NJ studio – led by Carlos Rosa. The episode in which I'm featured is now on YOU TUBE… and will aired this past weekend: http://www.theinclusionshow.com/ as well as on the Soul of the South Television Network. I met host Wallace Ford - (http://www.theinclusionshow.com/about-the-host - a couple of weeks ago as we were both guests on Arise News' ARISE AMERICA with Debbye Turner Bell: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152816022788737. For more on Inclusion The Show Show, click here: http://www.theinclusionshow.com/about-the-show/. It is a televised, short-format, weekly commentary and conversation program which takes on the contemporary topics that matter today. Thx! XO #theinclusionshow #soulofthesouth #ARISETV360 #ARISENews #EMPIRE #FOXTV
sage harlem, sing!
After SAGE Harlem program manager (and friend) Christopher Jones stopped by Billie's Black Gourmet Soul this past December for our FALL 2014 SERIES of Billie's Black PRESENTS ALL STAR KARAOKE with Patrick L. Riley, he asked if I'd sing for the SAGE Harlem Pride holiday party at the Dempsey Theater. AWESOME event and cause: SAGE Harlem provides a safe space for LGBT older adults in Harlem and The Bronx. SAGE Harlem is a program of SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders). Fun to sing favorites: "Reasons" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vxU3In7zl4; "This Woman's Work" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phNQU3hWfAE; and "Endless Love" – (LINK TO COME). Learn more at: http://www.sageusa.org/sageharlem. #SAGEUSA #SAGEHARLEM
honeymoon in vegas
Great times at Honeymoon in Vegas - www.honeymoonbroadway.com - starring Tony Danza! Getting in the latest BROADWAY and OFF BROADWAY shows to share with you in the coming month on Arise Entertainment 360 where I have been guest co-hosting as well! We had a fun pre-show mixer atBar Catalonia: https://twitter.com/honeymoonbway - #honeymoonbway#tonydanza #ARISETV360 #lifeofriley #HONEYMOONBWAY
rupaul legends
HERE'S OUR LEGENDS BALL SELFIE C/O Chuckie Amos! It's ALWAYS LEGENDARY when we gather at the home of Merrell Hollis for FRIED CHICKEN WINGS c/o MAKEUP by MERRELL and the PREMIERE of RuPaul's Drag Race! WE GATHER EVERY CYCLE! LOL! Hey Memsor Kamarake! Ian Adrian! Derrick Hemphill! ETC!!!!!!!!! FUN TIMES! https://instagram.com/p/zwEeIjoRSp #wespeakyourname #rupaulsdragrace
wendell pierce
THIS JUST IN from my friend Derrick Hemphill: his NBCBLK debut onWendell Pierce! http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/brothers-bottom-n317726. You know Derrick's writings from UPTOWN Magazine! His online & pre-and-post-production content is often used in my blog LIFE OF RILEY and our ALL STAR KARAOKE franchise at Billie's Black Gourmet Soul. And a time or two on Oprah: Where Are They Now? and THE Keke Palmer Show - a behind-the-scenes with 5th Harmony! GO DERRICK! Glad more and more of my folks are contributing to NBC News' latest African American vertical to which I got to contribute my debut last month: Lee Daniels on Empire: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/precious-butler-director-lee-daniels-building-empire-n290416. #Billie's Black #ALLSTARKARAOKE #brothersfromthebottom #wendellpierce #NOLA#NewOrleans #SELMA50 #SELMA
idol voice
TOP 16, LOOK OUT! Qaasim Middleton continues to do his thing on AMERICAN IDOL! AMERICA AND THE JUDGES LOVE THEM SOME QAASIM! Keith Urban said "watching [Qaasim] Middleton is what it's all about, noting he explodes on stage in front of an audience"...Harry Connick, Jr. said [Qaasim] "that's what we're looking for"...And Jennifer Lopez said "It's so crazy how funky you are. You own that stage." YAZZZZZZ! THIS IS WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT! PROUD OF YOU, QAASIM! AND IT LOOKS LIKE WE KNOW SOMEONE ON THE VOICE AS WELL: MISS Kimberly Nichole, my Spelman "little" sister! LOL! Congrats to a diva we've been following around NYC for years and now the world will know the name and the endless talent of KimberlyNichole! Check her blind audition out the other night on THE VOICE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2KXhn0YFl0#t=96. Glad they both have popped by ALL STAR KARAOKE - from Native Restaurant to Billie's Black Gourmet Soul! #allstarkaraoke #billiesblack #motownmay #Idolonfox #americanidol
CHECK THIS OUT: https://www.facebook.com/etiquettewithshances and on all platforms: #ETIQUETTEWITHSHANCES #SHANCES #ETIQUETTECHANCES – My friend Sharon Frances' new lifestyle resource: ETIQUETTE FOR EVERYONE AND ANY OCCASION! ETIQUETTE for the person you want to be!
empire recap
EMPIRE is on everybody's minds these days! THE LIFE OF RILEY is no exception. Not only am I talking about the antics of Cookie, Luscious, and the Lyons "dynasty"… but when I wear my guest co-host hat and/or my pop culture analyst hat, it's EMPIRE and its creator Lee Daniels all day:
Last week, Lee Daniels stopped by to dish on EMPIRE and its over-the-top SUCCESS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXw5_p5fpBI!
That booking came a couple of weeks after my NBCBLK interview - my debut contribution to that new, African American vertical for NBC News: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/precious-butler-director-lee-daniels-building-empire-n290416.
And ARISE AMERICA had me on with Debbye Turner Bell who – like me – is a FAN! GREAT CHAT with Debbye: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152816022788737.
I've been talking about the careers of the EMPIRE cast for years. I've met Taraji. Terrence has been really cool throughout the years - dressy or casul! LOL! I attended the "Precious" premiere in Hollywood and met Gabourey. She, Lee, and I would be in the same screening room to see one of his first sharings of "Lee Daniels' "The Butler". And on and on, I could go about the AWESOME cast. Also: From two day-playing roles on another FOX TV hit from the mid-'90s, "New York Undercover", I first got to know EMPIRE co-star Malik Yoba. Have attended his live shows over the years. Happened to be producing BET reality show "Monica: Still Standing" while Malik and the cast of Tyler Perry's "Why Did I Get Married Too?" were filming. We all stayed at the TWELVE Atlantic Station. But par for the course in the LIFE OF RILEY, I'll also be sharing some NAMES behind the STARS and the BRAND of EMPIRE who will be popping up! I want to make sure you are in the KNOW! Shout out to my college BFF Audrey Irvine – CNN's own – for sending some EMPIRE tea my way. On THIS WEDNESDAY's episode (March 3, 2015), the vision and cutting edge style of designer Lorra Rivers 'Nikita' clutch will make its debut on Empire!! A homegrown DC talent, Lorra Rivers is a professsionally trained interior designer who received her interior design degree with a minor in architecture from Taraji's alma mater Howard University. With over 27 years' experience, Lorra has served as a contributing writer for Ebony, Homes of Color and Upscale magazines. She was a featured designer in the coffee table book, Spectacular Homes of Greater Washington, DC where her custom furniture designs were on display. In a little over 5 years, Lorra has transitioned her design experience towards another passion, the fashion industry. In creating the 'LorraRivers' brand, her purse designs reflect a cutting edge style for the fashionista with flair. The signature collection 'Nikita' clutch will be featured on this week's Empire. Which character will hold the 'Nikita'? Lorra describes the 'Lorra Rivers Woman' as one who possesses awe inspiring sensuality, a playfully shines from within and commands strength tempered with refinement. Stay tuned this Wednesday at 9p on FOX. And let LORRA RIVERS – and LIFE OF RILEY –know your thoughts on the purse AND the episode.
Contact information
IG: lorrarivers
Twitter: @lorrarivers1
Facebook: Lorra Rivers bag
I have also been seeing Kehinde Wiley's work in EMPIRE – since Episode 1. Was happy to support my friend Lamar Johnson's film project KEHINDE WILEY: AN ECONOMY OF GRACE which he Executive Produced in partnership with PBS: TRAILER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46wgtP3eiEF. It was on a short list of documentaries being considered for the final ballot at this year's Academy Awards. Look to hear more from Lamar very soon; meanwhile, so good to see Kehinde on EMPIRE!
You see the one on the right with the sunglasses and the pink shirt? I used to call him "Tandi's little brother". She and I were closer in age as we matriculated through Savannah's social teen scene. But I must give him a GROWN MAN shout out to my Savannah homeboy; fellow Windsor Forest High School KNIGHT; and Morehouse brother Nsilo Reddick – business partner and producer to Grammy-winning MC Chamillionaire: http://allhiphop.com/2015/02/24/chamillionaire-start-up-companies/. The two moguls and their team are stellar exemplars of making the most of THE BUSINESS in SHOW BUSINESS as they aim to encourage "our people" to learn more about finance, investing, the tech industry, etc...and to put some of that floss less into bottle service and more into making power moves - for example - at a venture capital firm. And the proof is in the pudding as Chamillionaire announces that he - and Nsilo - are now an entrepreneurs-in-residence for Upfront Ventures, an investment firm. EXCERPT from the article above: "In a letter written by Upfront Ventures' investment partner Mark Suster, he detailed how his relationship with Chamillionaire began and how the "Hip Hop Police" rapper is flourishing into quite the entrepreneur. The Houston spitter caught Suster's eye after a 2009 speech about social media engagement in the music industry. A few years back he started many mini investments in tech firms with Suster, which led to Cham wanting to becoming more involved with the tech start up world. "A while back Chamillionaire started telling me he wanted to immerse himself even more in the tech world – learning to build products, studying different business models and committing himself to being a true tech entrepreneur," Suster wrote. "Chamillionaire has a way more refined sense of what customer behavior is like than most ivy league graduates with nice Powerpoint slides that I meet." Now as an entrepreneur-in-residence for the next several months, Chamillionaire is soaking up knowledge about start ups and is also advising Upfront Ventures along with his business partner and producer Nsilo Reddick." LOVE IT! LEAD BY EXAMPLE, MY BROTHERS!
Hi folks! YOU can watch me (from time to time) on ARISE - now on Time Warner, Verizon Fios, and On Demand... www.YouTube.com/AriseENT360. THIS WEEK, I'm filling in for my friend Shannon Lanier who is on Oscar duty. I'm working alongside Sharon Carpenter who is filling in for our beloved Lola Ogunnaike. Earlier this week, Lee Daniels stopped by to dish on EMPIRE and its over-the-top SUCCESS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXw5_p5fpBI! This comes a couple of weeks after my NBCBLK interview with one of Hollywood's finest directors:http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/precious-butler-director-lee-daniels-building-empire-n290416. And ARISE AMERICA had me on with Debbye Turner Bell who – like me – is a FAN! GREAT CHAT with Debbye:https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152816022788737. THIS WEEK on Arise Entertainment 360, we talked OSCARS and interviewed actress Regina Taylor (star of USA Network's DIG on USA) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m8mfdjNa8Q; Anthony Harper's and my friends, Miss Robbie Montgomery and her son Tim Norman – stars of recurring client OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network's Welcome to Sweetie Pie's -
Claire Gilman on why Tomi Ungerer is the first illustrator to be shown at The Drawing Center in its over 30 year history -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT9uzh1U0Gk; Scheana Marie fromVanderpump Rules on Bravo -
Crystal Mccrary (Director, "Little Ballers") -
plastic surgeon Dr. Randal Haworth -
Thelonious Monk III -
Jason Hervey (EP, "Outlaw Country"/Child star, "Wonder Years"):
; fashion designer Kimberly Goldson (Season 9 FINALIST on "Project Runway") -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl2koRMa7Og; and – from MINIBAR (delivery apps) - Lindsey Andrews:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk3H3S-d8Kg. PRIMARILY I do Broadway/pop culture segments and guest co-host on ARISE ENTERTAINMENT 360:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYghWCBasyo&list=PL1TUj2SKo8ntR2D6QVDcQLwdykzvhtzbK. As always, THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!#arise360#ariseTV360 #sweetiepie
SHOUT OUT to Toni Seawright for sharing her son Qaasim Middleton (and his AWESOME brother Khalil) with us during the SPRING 2014 SERIES of Billie's Black Presents All Star Karaoke with Patrick L. Riley (At the end of June, I also got to share a stage with them as I hosted their mom's 50TH BDAY PARTY – a tribute to Michael Jackson!).
WELL, NOW WE NEED THE VILLAGE TO LIFT HIM UP as he is TOP 24 on this season of AMERICAN IDOL! TOMORROW night on Fox!!! This week, AMERICA VOTES!!! AND WE MUST GET HIM TO THE TOP 12! So please spread the word and vote for Brooklyn's BADD Boy, New York and Mississippi's Finest in Entertainment!!! And also join his Fan page on Facebook… and hit him up and follow him on:
His Twitter is @QaasimOfficial
His Instagram is @QaasimOfficial#billiesblack#allstarkaraoke #motownmay#AmericanIdol #LetsBegin#SypheEntertainment#MCMI #MCMIReport#RebellionEvent#idolauditions
Selma – Cochran Firm
During this last week of February, The Cochran Firm is giving high school students from selected metropolitan area schools the opportunity to see Selma Movie. Through the efforts of regional offices of The Cochran Firm, students aged 12 – 19 are seeing the movie, Selma, and are participants in a social media campaign highlighting their thoughts on current social justice issues. For the New York City screening at Magic Johnson Theater in Harlem, organizer of this effort/my NABJ sister friend Yolanda Young – an attorney and journalist – asked me to present the film; The Cochran Firm rep for NYC: Tracey L Brown; and the winnings from the student social media contest to three NYC students: Brian Brown Jr.; Zydasia Ramos; and Joshua Glover. As part of this event, students from across the country posted their original artwork, photos, poems, memes and essays - expressing their views on today's social justice issues and what they would like to do to peacefully implement change. Winners for their work received a $50 Visa gift card, and the school with the most participation, shares, and entries will win $500. Platforms to follow these works are Twitter (@CochranNational), Instagram (CochranFirm) and Facebook (The Cochran Firm). THANKS COCHRAN FIRM! And SHOUT OUT to YOLANDA YOUNG, who last booked me a year or so ago to host "Lawyers of Color" HOT LIST ROLL CALL reception at esteemed law firm Sullivan & Cromwell!
#SELMA #selma2015 #SelmaStudentSocialMediaContest #FDA2 #LifeofRiley #LOR #PatrickLRiley #PatrickRiley
standing next to goddess
miss watley is everything
MISS Jody Watley made it a "Night to Remember" for 'Life of Riley' (and childhood friend Ernest Maynor's BDAY + NJ BFF TATA met her "DIVA" in person). B.B. King Blues Club's was the place to be as MISS Watley sang from her Shalamar AND solo repertoire. She was in AWESOME VOICE and her performance gave everything her loyal fans (and the sold-out audience) hunger to experience: the HITS; the MOVES; the DRAG; the DRAMA; and the DIVA! I was on my feet through most of the highly-charged set... and on my knees -BOWING DOWN - for the rest! LOL! SO WAS THE REST OF HER LOYAL FOLLOWING! She did 'Most' of the material but not 'everything'! BACKSTORY: So, I have loved MISS Jody Watley since she was a teenager – dancing on Soul Train before she joined the group Shalamar – at which time I was a footloose and fancy-free Air Force Brat of six-years old in San Bernadino, CA on Norton Air Force Base --- with a blow-out of dusty dark brown and the inevitable bell bottoms! LOL! Well, fast forward through many years in which she brought me only the FIERCEST brand of JOY - from the balance of her SHALAMAR years through to the launch and lift-off of her SOLO career... and stop for a moment on July 1995. Philadelphia. And MISS Jody Watley was headlining a concert for the National Association of Black Journalists' annual convention. She called me on stage to dance with her. Talk about A NIGHT TO REMEMBER! Though I'd seen her fabulous solo show a couple of years ago at B.B. KINGS, I got another opportunity to be an audience with MISS Jody Watley (album) back in September 2013. Her publicist Juanita Stephens is a mutual friend and led MISS JODY WATLEY to my blog A DAY IN THE LIFE OF RILEY as a vehicle to – via phone and an on-line Q&A - update folks on her latest release "PARADISE" – quite the global dance senastion: iTunes Digitally (as well as other select digital outlets) –
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/paradise/id901587446?uo=4 [EXCLUSIVE CD, includes 'Everlasting' not available digital: http://jodywatley.bigcartel.com/]. What a GREAT PHONE CHAT:
http://thelifeofriley.squarespace.com/rilys-blog/2013/9/10/a-nightlife-to-remember.html. SO LAST NIGHT: MISS JODY WATLEY was back at B.B. King Blues Club accompanied by her new and reloaded Shalamar… and we ENJOYED THE SHOW; CELEBRATED BFF (since 7th grade), Ernest Maynor's birthday; and – afterwards – got some LIFE OF RILEY & JODY WATLEY time and - FINALLY - my posed photo op (though LOVE NABJ bestie and Morehouse brother Michael K. Watts captured MISS WATLEY and me on stage in Philly). Was great to catch with MISS JODY WATLEY on all she's got going: her upcoming shows - including one in NYC this summer (TBA; Stay tuned...); how she came to re-incorporate the SHALAMAR legacy into her SOLO shows - now that she OWNS THE NAME & BRAND! YOU GO, MISS JODY!; and – because #itsinthemusic – she shared that her upcoming music release plans, which include forthcoming single "DANCER": https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/paradise/id901587446?uo=4. AND we're excited to hear some of what we didn't hear this go around THE NEXT TIME - including: "Most of All"; "Everything"; "All Begins With You" (MY REQUEST FOR NEXT! LOL!); "When A Man Loves A Woman"; "Off The Hook"; and WHAT ELSE? Shalamar's "I Don't Wanna Be The Last" and the MOTOWN REVUE song! LOL! OH, WE JUST LOVE YOU, JODY WATLEY! And could listen to you and DANCE WITH YOU ALL NIGHT LONG! SHOUT OUT to MR. WALLACE who works with JODY... and Editor in Chief of UPTOWN MAGAZINE, my brother friend Isoul Harris! XOXOXOXO #JodyWatley#itsinthemusic #dancer #paradise #nightlife#lifeofriley#allstarkaraoke #billiesblack #motownmay#ARISETV360 #NBCBLK#COZITV #OWNTV #TVONE#CENTRICTV #BET
more arise
In the wake of doing a freelance interview with Lee Daniels for recurring client NBCBLK:
Author of "The Work" Wes Moore!
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghEXbewLspY
The Authors of "Single Man Married Man!"
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hbvDBYlCJs
Author of "MelloYello" Walker Smith!
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHd0HBPTpQ4
T.S. MONK (Thelonious Monk III)
BRIAN WATKINS (jeweler)
Zaraah Abrahams (from Spike Lee's "Da Sweet Blood of Jesus")
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOIm5qqeIdE
#arise360 #ariseTV360 #allstarkaraoke #billiesblack #wesmoore #thework #singlemanmarriedman #pervistaylor #melloyello #jacktherapper #walkersmith #brianwatkins #ritani #theloniousmonkIII
vivica a. fox
Shout out to my friends from SavvyMarketing Entertainment Group LLc for inviting us out to the Unsung HOLLYWOOD premiere of Vivica A. Fox which is airing on TV One! IT'S GOOD!!!!!! And was good to see my peeps Savoy Walker; Mark A Forrest; Cynna Gorham; Tasha Lynch; Jamar Dunn; Deborah Gregory; and MISS Vivica A Fox herself!
3 the hard way comedy
Shout out to my BET colleague and sister in CREATIVITY, Thembisa Mshaka, for hipping me to some work she's doing with an amazing comic named Jabari Baraka Davis, whose definitely on the rise in standup. He produces an event called 3 The Hard Way Comedy--the goal being to diversify comedy in NYC with talented women and people of color taking the often segregated stages of Manhattan. He considers himself a product of both philosophy and hip hop, and his comedy reflects this in unexpected ways. He's also a former substitute teacher, so the jokes are smart and street.The BHM edition has 3 Black comedians: Seaton C. Smith and Janelle James join Jabari Davis on 2/24 at 8pm at Stand Up NY LabsY. There will also be shows March 6 and 31 - so look for my updated accordingly and know that I'll likely be at one of the shows. SO, PLEASE SAY HI, if you come. Here's a link to Jabari's bio: http://jabaridavis.site.socxs.com/home CONGRATS!
get focused on reading
Shout out to my brother friend Goldin Martinez, Founder of Get Focused - www.getfocused.org - introducing its newest initiative called Get Focused On Reading, which will be the focus of an event on Saturday, March 21st, 2015 at Inwood Academy to commemorate National Reading Month. They want to increase their impact with Get Focused On Reading… and to give you a chance to help:
1. Organize a book collection with your network. They accept all books from poetry, biographies, children books, and more, and can arrange a pick-up. This will help us reach our goal of 1,000 books.2. Make a personal monetary donation to our cause. This will help us with transportation, storage, t-shirts, marketing material, etc. Our goal is to raise $2,000 to help pay for expenses.
Go to www.getfocused.org for more information.
standing next to God
He's much like a nephew! Mr. Myles and his mom Tracey Moore are producing his documentary "Standing Next to God" about his recovery from traumatic brain injury. Please make a Love Donation and share this link in your network. Thank you! This is the fundraising campaign for Standing Next to God -Myles Marable: http://de.gofund.me/StandingNextToGod #StandingNextToGod
precious queen
MY LATE, GREAT MOM QUEEN ELIZABETH BELLINGER RILEY - a social media SENSATION! LOL! With all the controversy over Beyonce and Ledisi and "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" and the Grammys, I'd been having an internal dialogue with myself about MY LATE, GREAT MOM QUEEN ELIZABETH BELLINGER RILEY. My self-chat goes something like this: "Thank you, Thomas Dorsey for the song! Thank you, Mahalia for sharing it with the world! Thank you, Ledisi for your recording on SELMA! Thank you, Beyonce for your performance on the THE GRAMMYS! But NO ONE SANG "TAKE MY HAND, PRECIOUS LORD" LIKE MY MOTHER!!!!!!!!"
Well, I'd told many of you my mother could sing and did often in The House of Prayer (our family church) as well as in all our travels - from Germany to Japan to California to Valdosta, GA, etc. I've even compared her to Mahalia Jackson with a little Tamala Mann to boot! LOL! Well, via FACEBOOK, it seems we're not the only ones thinking this. A FACEBOOK note from my sister's childhood friend from our mid-to-late-'70s days in San Bernadino, Califonia on Norton Air Force Base underscored what we always knew (How'd she remember, after all these years?):
February 10 at 7:05am · Edited ·
Janice, I don't care what anyone says "Queen" is still my winner when it comes to singing "Take my hand". Everytime I hear it I remember her singing it at Norton! — feeling blessed.


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