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Warrants also allege Jenkins broke into motor vehicles with two other suspects.
Bond was set at $15,500.
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BERLIN, Md. (AP) -- The Coast Guard suspended the search Thursday for two men aboard a distressed fishing boat lost in rough seas.
The Coast Guard says one crew member was rescued after the 67-foot boat Seafarer became disabled 15 miles east of Assateague Island on Wednesday. A sister ship was towing the disabled boat but lost the tow in heavy seas.
A Coast Guard helicopter from Air Station Elizabeth City, NCfound the third man on a life raft and was able to rescue him. He was brought ashore at Chincoteague Memorial Park and taken to Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, MD for treatment.
WTCI-TV confirmed the missing fishermen are 80-year-old Captain Walter Tate and his nephew Stephen Tate. Morgan Small says that her husband Patrick Small was the third member of the crew and he was the fishermen the Coast Guard rescued from a life raft on Wednesday.
Petty Officer Brandyn Hill said the search had resumed at about 7 a.m. Thursday.
'We want to extend our most sincere condolences to the families of the missing crewmembers,' said Thomas Botzenhart, a search and rescue controller at the 5th Coast Guard District command center. 'We have expended multiple Coast Guard assets to search for their loved ones. We have searched over 560 square nautical miles of the Atlantic Ocean off the eastern shore of Virginia in an effort to locate and rescue their family members. It is with a great deal of sorrow that we have been unable to locate them at this point of time.'
Julia Respass of Belhaven said she's losing hoping that her brother and her nephew will be found.
Respass told The Daily Times says two other nephews were lost in 1987 while fishing off the coast of Maryland, another brother died crabbing in North Carolina, and her grandfather and uncle died in the 1920s in a boating accident. Respass says Walter Tate was also rescued after spending more than two days in a life raft with crew members in 1992.


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10 Tech Titans Leading the Charge on Immigration Reform
The Cause Uniting Silicon ValleyMark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of FacebookSteve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, and Laurene Powell JobsBill Gates, founder of MicrosoftFred Wilson, managing partner of Union Square VenturesJohn T. Chambers, Chairman and CEO of Cisco SystemsMarissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!Sergey Brin, co-founder of GoogleSteven Chen, co-founder of YouTubePaul Graham, co-founder of Y-CombinatorBrian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of Airbnb
Well before Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg launched FWD.us to organize Silicon Valley's efforts to push forth immigration reform, various industry leaders had been investing time and money campaigning on the issue.
Now as Congress is closer than ever to passing comprehensive immigration reform, the tech lobby is amping up its efforts.
Here are some of the leaders who are playing a role in the accelerating push for reform.
-- Jana Kasperkevic
Earlier this year, Zuckerberg launched FWD.us, a lobby organization with focus on immigration reform.
In the first six months of 2013, Facebook executive officers, including Zuckerberg and his wife, donated more than $200,000 to the Facebook PAC, which in turn donated $110,000 to members of Congress pushing for immigration reform.
However, Zuckerberg doesn't just want visas for high-skill STEM workers. At a screening of Documented on Monday, he said that visas for high-skilled and low-skilled workers should not be viewed as two separate issues, since children of immigrants often become the next generation of entrepreneurs.
In 2010, Jobs told President Obama "that Silicon Valley is mystified by a policy that instead educates foreigner engineers at top U.S. universities, then sends them home immediately," reports The Wall Street Journal. But Jobs became frustrated with the president, who told Jobs that immigration reform would have to wait.
Jobs' widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, continues his campaign for immigration reform.
Earlier this year, she launched TheDreamIsNow.org, an online petition supporting the Dream Act, which would grant a path to citizenship to undocumented youth.
"Demand for specialized technical skills has long exceeded the supply of native-born workers with advanced degrees, and scientists and engineers from other countries fill this gap," Gates wrote in a 2007 op-ed for The Washington Post.
In an interview with CNNMoney, Gates said that high talent immigration has been held hostage by illegal immigration problem and that, in order for immigration reform to be effective, both types of immigration would need to be addressed.
Gates is one of the founders of FWD.us. Furthermore, Microsoft, which Gates founded in 1975, set a company quarterly spending record--coming in just under $3 million--on its Washington lobby efforts in the past few months as the Senate voted on the 'Gang of Eight' immigration reform bill.
In a recent interview with Reuters, Wilson said he has been advocating for STEM and start-up visas for at least five years, but that he'd been told by public officials that reform can't be done piecemeal.
"The reason is, the stake holders on both sides of the issue have so much investment in the comprehensive reform that even though they both agree that STEM visa or a start-up visa makes all the sense in the world, they won't do it because it would take the pressure off," he said.
However, Wilson thinks that with the shifting winds on the Capitol Hill--especially thanks to Latino voters--the U.S. might see comprehensive reform be accomplished by the end of this year.
As co-chair of TechNet, a bipartisan network of tech CEOs, Chambers has become a public spokesperson for high-skilled immigration reform, which the organization has lobbied for with both President Obama and the Congress.
Cisco lobby efforts have also not gone unnoticed, coming in at $900,000 during the last quarter.
"Now--as the House of Representatives takes up the issue--Cisco will continue to work with our legislative leaders to ensure that the reforms help attract the best, the brightest and the most ambitious minds from around the world to our shores," Chambers said after praising the Senate on their passage of the immigration reform bill earlier this summer.
Besides being a FWD.us supporter and recently appointed member of TechNet's executive council, Mayer has been invited to the White House to meet with President Obama as he attempted to garner support for the comprehensive immigration reform.
However, while other tech companies are seeing money pour into their PACs, Yahoo's Y!PAC has only raised a fraction of the funds in comparison, reported allthingsd. To encourage donations, in July Mayer held a reception at her home for Yahoo employees who contributed more than $2,400 to Y!PAC.
So far this year, Yahoo! has spend $1.43 million on its lobby efforts, reports OpenSecrets.
Having immigrated to the U.S. when he was six years old, Russian-born Brin is often held up as an example, especially by President Obama, who has highlighted Brin's success in various immigration reform speeches.
While Google advocates for other causes in Washington, like U.S. privacy controls and patent trolls, immigration has been one of its main lobby issues. The company spent a record $18.2 million on their lobby efforts in 2012. The spending did not stop after the election, with Google spending over $6.7 million on lobby efforts in 2013 so far, according to OpenSecrets.
Chen, who was born in Taiwan, is another notable immigrant entrepreneur. The YouTube co-founder recently signed on to join FWD.us as a financial backer.
"My story could only happen here [in the U.S.]--as both an immigrant and a proud member of the tech community, I'm proud to join FWD.us as a funder and supporter. I've seen firsthand the impact both of those communities can have on our economy and our country's ability to lead the world in innovation and am pleased to join the group as we work to pass comprehensive immigration reform," Chen wrote in May.
In 2009, Graham penned a blog post advocating for visas for start-up founders.
"Letting just 10,000 start-up founders into the country each year could have a visible effect on the economy. If we assume 4 people per start-up, which is probably an overestimate, that's 2500 new companies. Each year. They wouldn't all grow as big as Google, but out of 2500 some would come close," he wrote.
Most recently, the venture capitalist has been taking an active role in FWD.us. As one of the organization's major supporters and contributors, in June Graham hosted a panel on immigration reform featuring Congressman Mike Honda, Brian Chesky of Airbnb, Patrick Collison of Stripe, Drew Houston of Dropbox, and Pete Koomen of Optimizely.
When appearing at Y-Combinator's panel on immigration reform, Chesky, a major contributor of FWD.us, explained that after filing for an H1-B visa for an Airbnb employee, he knows first-hand how much time and effort these kind of things take.
"Recruiting is the most important thing our company does. Immigration is recruiting for the country," he told the audience.


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This week, we received pets at locations near the hardest hit areas, including the Rockaways and Coney Island on Monday and Tuesday and Staten Island and Red Hook later in the week. The facility has also welcomed pets who were being housed at evacuation centers or a Sean Casey Animal Rescue facility, as well as animals dropped off directly by their families.
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I don't watch many cooking shows because I really hate to cook, & they make it all look so easy, with all the background help they actually have, but Rachel Ray, you have a new viewer now! I will watch your show & spread the word. It's my Thank You for your generous donation to animals.
Suggestion: Maybe you could have a "I hate to cook" segment. There was a cookbook of that title many years ago that sold millions. There are a lot of us out there that know HOW to cook, just hate the chores of it. Super easy recipes would be so welcome - we DO want to feed our families good, nutritional food with minimal prep.
Thanks again for the donation!
Thank you on behalf of the many pet owners facing uncertain futures as they begin to piece their lives back together. We were victims of Hurricane Isabel--we stayed in our home until the last minute because we wouldn't leave our pets behind. We put the pets in the van and headed through waters that would have stalled a regular vehicle. We didn't have a plan but we were going to be together no matter what. Our home was devastated by flood water and severe winds which brought down massive trees on the home. Little did we know that was the easy part--the rebuilding took over a year and a half and we were forced to board our pets--being separated from our beloved pets was emotionally overwhelming. I am so glad Rachel understands the need and stepped up to help. God Bless you all and may you all be "home" soon--together for the holidays once again.
Aughhh, Rachel, I've always loved your food, your giggly personality and now this! You're a real jewel, Rachel, and I thank you so much for your generosity. Muwaaaaa!!
Simply put, Rachel, you are the BEST of the BEST!!!
Ms Rachel Ray your generous donation of $500,000 is a great example of the right thing to do. The first time I watched your cooking show I found in you a connectivity with the world around you. My intuition has been validated. Your actions truly define you as the caring involved person you are. I love animals, thank you
Thank you ASPCA for all you have done and continue to do......
Thank you ASPCA for all you have done and continue to do......
And let's Tell Anthony Bourdain to lay off our girl Rachel, and to kick in another half million of his own to the pet rescuers. He could afford it !
Rachel Ray, thank you so much! Other NY-based hosts should follow. How about it KELLY, MICHAEL, WHOOPI, JOY, SHERRI, ELISABETH??? Kelly, it would make up for all your whining about having to be stuck in a hotel room during the crisis.
All right Rachael Ray - you get my vote. Thank you for caring and for being willing and able to do something financially about it.


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When an employer group shifts from one health plan to another, why not allow them to take their claims data to the next health plan? That way, the new plan would gain immediate knowledge of the specific disease burden faced by its new members and be able to act accordingly vis-à-vis care management programs and other interventions. As it stands now, the new plan would have to wait many months and even then would lack the history that the earlier plan no longer needs. And when the new plan "finds out" about a member's condition, it might be due to a claim for an event that could have been prevented had the carrier had access to the earlier data.
Here's how the system would work. When a group signs up with a carrier, it could reserve the right to have its data transferred if it changes carriers. Obviously, it wouldn't be able to "see" its own patient-identified data any more than it does now, but the data would accompany the change of carriers.


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At every level of our organization, this mission is carried out with our core values of honesty, integrity, commitment, dedication, teamwork, compassion, and technical skill. In January 2012, we reorganized the command staff of the department to improve our leadership effectiveness. We value honesty in our approach to one another and the community and will demonstrate integrity in the performance of our duties. We value commitment towards always doing what is in the best interest of our citizens and dedicating ourselves to providing the highest level of customer service possible. We value teamwork in our approach towards remaining safe and restoring balance in the lives of others thereby presenting ourselves as industry professionals. Through empathy and compassion, we will serve all people equally and without prejudice making every responsible attempt towards reaching their level of expectation.
We continue to work within the limits of our budget in order to ensure the best response times possible in all areas of the growing city we serve. We have developed a fire station relocation plan due in part to city growth. We are also exploring an alternate response vehicle use. In tight budget times, we continue to offer the best in training and programs, thanks to our ambitious and successful efforts to earn grants.
We place great value on fire and injury prevention strategies through community education. When the worst happens, our first responders challenge themselves to deliver the level of service that over the past 100 years made the City of Lincoln Fire & Rescue Department a national leader.
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Opponents out in droves against proposed mini-dam
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Kainoa Marquis (left, in teal shirt) and Jeff Smith (in white shirt) talk with visitors to their property along the Skykomish River on Wednesday afternoon.
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Residents of the neighborhood adjacent a proposed PUD dam along the Skykomish River greeted visitors to the area with lemonade, windmill cookies, and "no dam cake" and "no dam cookies" during a visit from the PUD and a federal official from FERC Wednesday afternoon.
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Larry Wewel, who has been supporting the environment for 67 years, looks out at Sunset Falls on Wednesday afternoon.
Fred Slusser, who owns property along the Skykomish River, offers visitors to the area "no dam cookies" during a visit from the PUD and a federal official from FERC on Wednesday afternoon.
Residents of the adjacent property greeted visitors to the area with lemonade, windmill cookies, and "no dam cake" and "no dam cookies."
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Kim Moore (in black shirt) points out where the weir for a proposed PUD dam would cross the Skykomish River to Jeff Smith (left, in white), who owns adjacent property along the river and John Baummer (in plaid), a fisheries biologist with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, who was on site to check out the proposed project.
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Barbara Altier (left) talks about her opposition to a proposed PUD dam near Sunset Falls on Wednesday afternoon.
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Kim Moore (in black shirt) talks with John Baummer (in plaid), a fisheries biologist with FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, next to Sunset Falls on Wednesday afternoon.
Vocal public opinion, however, is not the sole deciding factor in the project moving forward.
A spillover crowd of more than 100 people jammed into the Index Fire House on Wednesday evening to register their opposition and hear more information about the Snohomish County PUD's plan.
Some said small dams may be appropriate in some locations, but not near Sunset Falls.
"I simply think this is the wrong place," former Index Mayor Kem Hunter said.
Earlier, dozens of people -- many holding signs -- lined rural gravel roads to get the attention of officials from the PUD and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, who were touring the area where the project would be built.
While public opinion will be considered, a FERC official said a host of environmental factors and other elements of the plan will have to be studied over the next five years before any final decision is made.
The agency has federal jurisdiction over hydroelectric power projects.
"Everything the public says should go on the record, so we can address their concerns," said John Baummer, a fish biologist with the federal agency. "Public opinion is important to us."
He wouldn't say how it weighs with other factors. The agency is taking written comments through July 19 for this stage of the project. Other comment periods likely will follow as more studies are done.
Baummer was one of four officials who flew out from Washington, D.C., to collect information. He wouldn't give away his impressions of the project.
The PUD's tour covered all aspects of the endeavor, projected by the utility to cost between $110 million and $170 million and supply power to an average of 10,000 homes.
The PUD buys about 90 percent of its power in the form of hydroelectric energy from the Bonneville Power Administration and is looking to diversify.
The plan involves diverting water from the pooled area behind the 7-foot weir, above Sunset Falls on the south fork of the Skykomish, through a 2,200-foot pipeline downstream to a powerhouse below the falls.
The weir would be inflated for about nine months out of the year, when the flow is highest, said Kim Moore, an assistant general manager for the PUD, who led the tour on Wednesday. It would be deflated during low-flow periods in the summer.
The PUD recently received a preliminary permit from FERC to continue to study the project. More studies will be done before the PUD applies to actually build the hydroelectric project, and no decision is likely for at least five years, Baummer said.
Concerns about the project include flooding above the dam and reduced water flow below it, including possible effect on fish; glare from lights; noise and traffic during construction, and effect on scenery.
According to the PUD's work so far, the dam won't cause flooding or dewatering on the river, and will be visually unobtrusive. Detailed fish studies remain to be done.
The area boasts dramatic views of Mount Index and other jagged, snowcapped peaks in the Cascade Mountains.
The caravan of officials on Wednesday stopped at the home of Jeff Smith, who lives just downstream from where the weir would be located.
"We're very protective of this place because of the natural scenic value it has," Smith told the group. "We think the most renewable form of energy is the human spirit."
Earlier, the group stopped at Sunset Falls, where they were greeted by more than 60 protesters. Among the signs were "The River Cannot Speak for Itself," "No Dam Has Ever Saved Wild Salmon," "River For Sale," and "Dams Are Not Green."
Jim Broz of Redmond belongs to the Overlake Fly Fishing Club and came to show his opposition.
"I want to see them build (the dam) and then tear it down like the Elwha," he said.
Later, the group planned to visit the possible site of the powerhouse, but an activist blocked the road with her SUV to divert the officials to a neighborhood where another 20 or so protesters were waiting.
They passed out cookies with icing spelling the word "DAM" and a circle and line drawn through it.
The tour later did stop at the powerhouse site just below the falls, next to a structure used to trap fish so they can be trucked upstream to prime spawning grounds.
That building is 55 years old and needs to be replaced, with the cost estimated at $1.5 million, said Daryl Williams, environmental liaison for the Tulalip Tribes. The state, which currently owns and operates the structure, has not committed to funding the replacement.
The PUD will pay for a new structure if the dam is approved, Moore said.
The Tulalip Tribes have lent their tentative support to the mini-dam, said Williams, who was on Wednesday's tour. The tribes want to be sure that enough water will continue to flow over the dam and down the falls for juvenile fish migrating downstream, he said.
The PUD's offer to pay for a new trap-and-haul building was a factor in the tribes' support so far, Williams said.
"That caught our interest," he said.
The river is home to several varieties of salmon and trout, and 20 percent of all the salmon in the Skykomish- Snoqualmie-Snohomish river system are spawned above the dam site by fish trucked upstream, Williams said.
Historically, fish did not go above the falls but the habitat downstream once was better than it is today, he said.
Some fish headed downstream will pass over the weir and others will be diverted into a bypass system to aid their movement down the river, according to the PUD.
The PUD chose the site out of more than 140 it studied because the river is in a relatively undeveloped area while lying outside designated wilderness territory. The project also takes advantage of a sharp bend in the river to shorten the pipeline.
That pristine character is precisely the reason not to build in that location, opponents say.
The south fork of the Skykomish is part of the state's Scenic Rivers System. Under this designation, development is discouraged but not prohibited.
"This is our Walden Pond," said Arthur Petersen, whose family has a cabin right where the dam would be built.
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SHELBY --Shelby City Park will host the biggest tournament in its history this weekend, according to Jackie Sibley, director of travel and tourism for the Cleveland County Chamber.
The Tar Heel Leagues Inc. Girl's Fastpitch Softball State Championships begin Thursday with opening ceremonies at 12:30 p.m.
"This is absolutely the biggest tournament ever in the history of the city park held in this area," Sibley said. "We're super excited about it."
More than 600 players will compete in the tournament, which includes teams from across the state, said Charlie Holtzclaw, Shelby's director of parks and recreation.
"This year's tournament will be either 39 or 40 teams," Holtzclaw said. "Girls from 7 to 17 will be in five age brackets competing for state championships."
Holtzclaw said players and coaches were expected to arrive Wednesday night, from cities such as Wilkesboro, Siler City, Broadway and Angier, and from as far as the Outer Banks.
Sibley said that translates into a great economic boost for the area.
"Girls in sports traditionally travel with at least four people each. Multiply that (600) by four and that's the amount of people who will be here shopping, eating and doing stuff around town," Sibley said.
The projected economic impact locally will be $600,000, Sibley said.
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Since the tournament only has one stationary concession stand, people visiting for the tournament will be more likely to eat at restaurants around town, she said.
They will also be staying in hotels in the county. Sibley said the county has 639 rooms, and 600 of those have been reserved by people coming to the tournament.
"We know that we have a significant impact through hotels," she said.
Sibley said uptown Shelby will have multiple events going on this weekend for tourists to enjoy in the evenings.
"There's a lot going on around town while they're here," she said. "Wine Down Friday at Owl's Eye Vineyard, Street Scene in uptown, a free movie at the Don Gibson Theatre Thursday night."
She said she appreciates the work the city of Shelby and associations like the Uptown Shelby Association have done to create opportunities for entertainment in Shelby.
Shelby becoming tournament site?
The tournament will run from Thursday to Sunday, with championship games Sunday.
"We have multiple tournaments going on because of the age level," Sibley said. "We have everything from little girls up to high school-age kids here."
Last year, Shelby hosted a Tar Heel Little League tournament for boys.
"It was a boys sport, but this is the girls' fastpitch softball," said Sibley. "And it's the entire state tournament, where in the past we've just hosted part of a state tournament."
Sibley said sales and occupancy taxes also help Shelby taxpayers.
"It's a great partnership where the city reaps all the economic benefits," she said.
Although the tournament usually moves from city to city each year, Sibley said it's possible it could come to Shelby again next year.
"We're hoping that we are able to get it again. It'd be great if we could have another tournament at home," she said. "It'd be wonderful if we could make that a permanent fixture."
The Tar Heel Leagues Inc. 2013 Girls Fastpitch Softball State Championships
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- Five age brackets competing
- More than 600 players in town
- More than 2,000 total visitors expected
- Championship games held on Sunday
- Estimated local economic impact: $600,000
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(born ; 10 February 1898–14 August 1956) was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director. An influential theatre practitioner of the twentieth century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble—the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife and long-time collaborator, the actress Helene Weigel—with its internationally acclaimed productions.
From his late twenties Brecht remained a life-long committed Marxist who, in developing the combined theory and practice of his 'epic theatre', synthesized and extended the experiments of Erwin Piscator and Vsevolod Meyerhold to explore the theatre as a forum for political ideas and the creation of a critical aesthetics of dialectical materialism. Brecht's modernist concern with drama-as-a-medium led to his refinement of the 'epic form' of the drama. This dramatic form is related to similar modernist innovations in other arts, including the strategy of divergent chapters in James Joyce's novel Ulysses, Sergei Eisenstein's evolution of a constructivist 'montage' in the cinema, and Picasso's introduction of cubist 'collage' in the visual arts.
In contrast to many other avant-garde approaches, however, Brecht had no desire to destroy art as an institution; rather, he hoped to 're-function' the theatre to a new social use. In this regard he was a vital participant in the aesthetic debates of his era—particularly over the 'high art/popular culture' dichotomy—vying with the likes of Adorno, Lukács, Bloch, and developing a close friendship with Benjamin. Brechtian theatre articulated popular themes and forms with avant-garde formal experimentation to create a modernist realism that stood in sharp contrast both to its psychological and socialist varieties. "Brecht's work is the most important and original in European drama since Ibsen and Strindberg," Raymond Williams argues, while Peter Bürger dubs him "the most important materialist writer of our time.
Collective and collaborative working methods were inherent to Brecht's approach, as Fredric Jameson (among others) stresses. Jameson describes the creator of the work not as Brecht the individual, but rather as 'Brecht': a collective subject that "certainly seemed to have a distinctive style (the one we now call 'Brechtian') but was no longer personal in the bourgeois or individualistic sense." During the course of his career, Brecht sustained many long-lasting creative relationships with other writers, composers, scenographers, directors, dramaturgs and actors; the list includes: Elisabeth Hauptmann, Margarete Steffin, Ruth Berlau, Slatan Dudow, Kurt Weill, Hanns Eisler, Paul Dessau, Caspar Neher, Teo Otto, Karl von Appen, Ernst Busch, Lotte Lenya, Peter Lorre, Therese Giehse, Angelika Hurwicz, Carola Neher, and Helene Weigel herself. This is "theatre as collective experiment [...] as something radically different from theatre as expression or as experience."
There are few areas of modern theatrical culture that have not felt the impact or influence of Brecht's ideas and practices; dramatists and directors in whom one may trace a clear Brechtian legacy include: Dario Fo, Augusto Boal, Joan Littlewood, Peter Brook, Peter Weiss, Heiner Müller, Pina Bausch, Tony Kushner and Caryl Churchill. In addition to the theatre, Brechtian theories and techniques have exerted considerable sway over certain strands of film theory and cinematic practice; Brecht's influence may be detected in the films of Jean-Luc Godard, Lindsay Anderson, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Joseph Losey, Nagisa Oshima, Ritwik Ghatak, Lars von Trier, Jan Bucquoy and Hal Hartley.
At sixteen, the first World War broke out; initially enthusiastic, Brecht soon changed his mind on seeing his classmates "swallowed by the army". On his father's recommendation, Brecht sought a loophole by registering for an additional medical course at Munich University, where he enrolled in 1917. There he studied drama with Arthur Kutscher, who inspired in the young Brecht an admiration for the iconoclastic dramatist and cabaret-star Wedekind.
From July 1916, Brecht's newspaper articles began appearing under the new name "Bert Brecht" (his first theatre criticism for the Augsburger Volkswille appeared in October 1919). Brecht was drafted into military service in the autumn of 1918, only to be posted back to Augsburg as a medical orderly in a military VD clinic; the war ended a month later.
In July 1919, Brecht and Paula Banholzer (who had begun a relationship in 1917) had a son, Frank. In 1920 Brecht's mother died.
Some time in either 1920 or 1921, Brecht took a small part in the political cabaret of the Munich comedian Karl Valentin.. Brecht's diaries for the next few years record numerous visits to see Valentin perform. Brecht compared Valentin to Chaplin, for his "virtually complete rejection of mimicry and cheap psychology" Writing in his Messingkauf Dialogues years later, Brecht identified Valentin, along with Wedekind and Büchner, as his "chief influences" at that time:
Brecht's first full-length play, Baal (written 1918), arose in response to an argument in one of Kutscher's drama seminars, initiating a trend that persisted throughout his career of creative activity that was generated by a desire to counter another work (both others' and his own, as his many adaptations and re-writes attest). "Anyone can be creative," he quipped, "it's rewriting other people that's a challenge." Brecht completed his second major play, Drums in the Night, in February 1919.
In 1922 while still living in Munich, Brecht came to the attention of an influential Berlin critic, Herbert Ihering: "At 24 the writer Bert Brecht has changed Germany's literary complexion overnight"—he enthused in his review of Brecht's first play to be produced, Drums in the Night—"[he] has given our time a new tone, a new melody, a new vision. [...] It is a language you can feel on your tongue, in your gums, your ear, your spinal column. In November it was announced that Brecht had been awarded the prestigious Kleist Prize (intended for unestablished writers and probably Germany's most significant literary award, until it was abolished in 1932) for his first three plays (Baal, Drums in the Night, and In the Jungle, although at that point only Drums had been produced). The citation for the award insisted that:
In 1923, Brecht wrote a scenario for what was to become a short slapstick film, Mysteries of a Barbershop, directed by Erich Engel and starring Karl Valentin. Despite a lack of success at the time, its experimental inventiveness and the subsequent success of many of its contributors have meant that it is now considered one of the most important films in German film history. In May of that year, Brecht's In the Jungle premiered in Munich, also directed by Engel. Opening night proved to be a "scandal"—a phenomenon that would characterize many of his later productions during the Weimar Republic—in which Nazis blew whistles and threw stink bombs at the actors on the stage.
In 1924 Brecht worked with the novelist and playwright Lion Feuchtwanger (whom he had met in 1919) on an adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II that proved to be a milestone in Brecht's early theatrical and dramaturgical development. Brecht's Edward II constituted his first attempt at collaborative writing and was the first of many classic texts he was to adapt. As his first solo directorial début, he later credited it as the germ of his conception of 'epic theatre'. That September, a job as assistant dramaturg at Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater—at the time one of the leading three or four theatres in the world—brought him to Berlin.
In 1924 Brecht's marriage to Zoff began to break down (though they did not divorce until 1926). Brecht had become involved with both Elisabeth Hauptmann and Helene Weigel. Brecht and Weigel's son, Stefan, was born in October of 1924.
In his role as dramaturg, Brecht had much to stimulate him but little work of his own. Reinhardt staged Shaw's Saint Joan, Goldoni's Servant of Two Masters (with the improvisational approach of the commedia dell'arte in which the actors chatted with the prompter about their roles), and Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author in his group of Berlin theatres. A new version of Brecht's third play, now entitled Jungle: Decline of a Family, opened at the Deutsches Theater in October 1924, but was not a success.
|'In the asphalt city I'm at home. From the very start
|'Provided with every last sacrament:
|'With newspapers. And tobacco. And brandy
|'To the end mistrustful, lazy and content.
|Bertolt Brecht, "Of Poor BB".
In 1925 in Mannheim the artistic exhibition Neue Sachlichkeit ('new objectivity') had given its name to the new post-Expressionist movement in the German arts. With little to do at the Deutsches Theater, Brecht began to develop his Man Equals Man project, which was to become the first product of "the 'Brecht collective'—that shifting group of friends and collaborators on whom he henceforward depended. This collaborative approach to artistic production, together with aspects of Brecht's writing and style of theatrical production, mark Brecht's work from this period as part of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement. The collective's work "mirrored the artistic climate of the middle 1920s," Willett and Manheim argue:
with their attitude of 'Neue Sachlichkeit' (or New Matter-of-Factness), their stressing of the collectivity and downplaying of the individual, and their new cult of Anglo-Saxon imagery and sport. Together the 'collective' would go to fights, not only absorbing their terminology and ethos (which permeates Man Equals Man) but also drawing those conclusions for the theatre as a whole which Brecht set down in his theoretical essay 'Emphasis on Sport' and tried to realise by means of the harsh lighting, the boxing-ring stage and other anti-illusionistic devices that henceforward appeared in his own productions.
In 1925, Brecht also saw two films that had a significant influence on him: Chaplin's The Gold Rush and Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin. Brecht had compared Valentin to Chaplin, and the two of them provided models for Galy Gay in Man Equals Man. Brecht later wrote that Chaplin "would in many ways come closer to the epic than to the dramatic theatre's requirements. They met several times during Brecht's time in the United States, and discussed Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux project, which it is possible Brecht influenced.
In 1926 a series of short stories was published under Brecht's name, though Hauptmann was closely associated with writing them. Following the production of Man Equals Man in Darmstadt that year, Brecht began studying Marxism and socialism in earnest, under the supervision of Hauptmann. "When I read Marx's Capital", a note by Brecht reveals, "I understood my plays." Marx was, it continues, "the only spectator for my plays I'd ever come across.
|'For us, man portrayed on the stage is significant as a social function. It is not his relationship to himself, nor his relationship to God, but his relationship to society which is central. Whenever he appears, his class or social stratum appears with him. His moral, spiritual or sexual conflicts are conflicts with society.
|Erwin Piscator, 1929.
The emphasis on Reason and didacticism, the sense that the new subject matter demanded a new dramatic form, the use of songs to interrupt and comment: all these are found in his notes and essays of the 1920s, and he bolstered them by citing such Piscatorial examples as the step-by-step narrative technique of Schweik and the oil interests handled in Konjunktur ('Petroleum resists the five-act form').Brecht was struggling at the time with the question of how to dramatize the complex economic relationships of modern capitalism in his unfinished project Joe P. Fleischhacker (which Piscator's theatre announced in its programme for the 1927-28 season). It wasn't until his Saint Joan of the Stockyards (written between 1929-1931) that Brecht solved it. In 1928 he discussed with Piscator plans to stage Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Brecht's own Drums in the Night, but the productions did not materialize.
1927 also saw the first collaboration between Brecht and the young composer Kurt Weill. Together they began to develop Brecht's Mahagonny project, along thematic lines of the biblical Cities of the Plain but rendered in terms of the Neue Sachlichkeit's Amerikanismus, which had informed Brecht's previous work. They produced The Little Mahagonny for a music festival in July, as what Weill called a "stylistic exercise" in preparation for the large-scale piece. From that point on Caspar Neher became an integral part of the collaborative effort, with words, music and visuals conceived in relation to one another from the start. The model for their mutual articulation lay in Brecht's newly-formulated principle of the 'separation of the elements', which he first outlined in "The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre" (1930). The principle, a variety of montage, proposed by-passing the "great struggle for supremacy between words, music and production" as Brecht put it, by showing each as self-contained, independent works of art that adopt attitudes towards one another.
In 1930 Brecht married Weigel; their daughter Barbara Brecht was born soon after the wedding. She also became an actress and currently holds the copyrights to all of Brecht's work.
Brecht formed a writing collective which became prolific and very influential. Elisabeth Hauptmann, Margarete Steffin, Emil Burri, Ruth Berlau and others worked with Brecht and produced the multiple teaching plays, which attempted to create a new dramaturgy for participants rather than passive audiences. These addressed themselves to the massive worker arts organisation that existed in Germany and Austria in the 1920s. So did Brecht's first great play, Saint Joan of the Stockyards, which attempted to portray the drama in financial transactions.
This collective adapted John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, with Brecht's songs set to music by Kurt Weill. Retitled The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) it was the biggest hit in Berlin of the 1920s and a renewing influence on the musical worldwide. One of its most famous lines underscored the hypocrisy of conventional morality imposed by the Church, working in conjunction with the established order, in the face of working-class hunger and deprivation:
The success of The Threepenny Opera was followed by the quickly thrown together Happy End. It was a personal and a commercial failure. At the time the book was purported to be by the mysterious Dorothy Lane (now known to be Elisabeth Hauptmann, Brecht's secretary and close collaborator). Brecht only claimed authorship of the song texts. Brecht would later use elements of Happy End as the germ for his Saint Joan of the Stockyards, a play that would never see the stage in Brecht's lifetime. Happy End's score by Weill produced many Brecht/Weill hits like "Der Bilbao-Song" and "Surabaya-Jonny".
The masterpiece of the Brecht/Weill collaborations, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny), caused an uproar when it premiered in 1930 in Leipzig, with Nazis in the audience protesting. The Mahagonny opera would premier later in Berlin in 1931 as a triumphant sensation.
Brecht spent his last years in the Weimar-era Berlin (1930-1933) working with his 'collective' on the Lehrstücke. These were a group of plays driven by morals, music and Brecht's budding Epic Theatre. The Lehrstücke often aimed at educating workers on Socialist issues. The Measures Taken (Die Massnahme) was scored by Hanns Eisler. In addition, Brecht worked on a script for a semi-documentary feature film about the human impact of mass unemployment, Kuhle Wampe (1932), which was directed by Slatan Dudow. This striking film is notable for its subversive humour, outstanding cinematography by Günther Krampf, and Hanns Eisler's dynamic musical contribution. It still provides a vivid insight into Berlin during the last years of the Weimar Republic.
By February 1933, Brecht's work was eclipsed by the rise of Nazi rule in Germany. (Brecht would also have his work challenged again in later life by the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), which believed he was under the influence of communism.)
During the war years, Brecht expressed his opposition to the National Socialist and Fascist movements in his most famous plays: Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Good Person of Sezuan, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, and many others.
During the war, Brecht's poetry continued to garner attention. Though he derived no real success or pleasure in this, he worked on a few screenplays for Hollywood, including Hangmen Also Die.
In the years of the Cold War and "red scare", the House Un-American Activities Committee called Brecht to account for his communist allegiances, and he was soon blacklisted by movie studio bosses. Brecht, along with about 41 other Hollywood writers, directors, actors and producers, was subpoenaed to appear before the HUAC in September 1947.
Initially, Brecht was one of 19 witnesses who declared that they would refuse to testify about their political affiliations. Eleven members of this group were actually questioned on this point but, as Brecht later explained, he did not want to delay a planned trip to Europe, so he followed the advice of attorneys and broke with his earlier avowal. On 30 October 1947, he appeared before the committee and testified that he had never actually held party membership.
During his appearance before the committee, Brecht wore overalls and smoked an acrid cigar that made some of the committee members feel slightly ill. He made wry jokes throughout the proceedings, punctuating his inability to speak English well with continuous references to the translators present, who transformed his German statements into English ones unintelligible to himself.
Brecht's decision to testify led to criticism, including accusations of betrayal. The remaining witnesses, the so called Hollywood Ten, refused to testify and were cited for contempt. HUAC Vice Chairman Karl Mundt thanked Brecht for cooperating. The day after his testimony, on 31 October, Brecht flew to Europe.
In Switzerland, Brecht composed an adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone, which was performed at Chur. It was based on the translation by Hölderlin, but was considerably modified. It was published under the title Antigonemodell 1948, accompanied by an essay on the importance of creating a 'non-Aristotelian' form of theatre. He was subsequently invited to return to Berlin by the Communist regime in East Germany. Horrified at the reinstatement of former Nazis into West Germany's government, Brecht accepted the offer and made East Berlin his home in 1949. He was enticed by the offer of his own theatre (completed in 1954) and theatre company (the Berliner Ensemble). He retained his Austrian nationality (granted in 1950), however, and overseas bank accounts from which he received valuable hard currency remittances. The copyrights on his writings were held by a Swiss company. He used to drive around East Berlin in a pre-war DKW car—a rare luxury in the austere divided capital.
While Brecht's communist sympathies were a bane in the United States, East German officials sought to make him their hero. Though he had not been a member of the Communist Party, he had been deeply schooled in Marxism by the dissident communist Karl Korsch, and his communist allegiances were sincere. He claimed communism appeared to be the only reliable antidote to militarist fascism and spoke out against the remilitarization of the West and the division of Germany. Brecht used Korsch's version of the Marxist dialectic in both his aesthetic theory and practice in a central way when presenting his plays.
Brecht wrote very few plays in his last years in East Berlin, none of them as famous as his previous works. Instead, he dedicated himself to directing plays and developing the talents of the next generation of young directors and dramaturges, such as Manfred Wekwerth, Benno Besson and Carl Weber. Some of his most famous poems, however, including the "Buckower Elegies", came from this era. One of the poems in the "Buckower Elegies," Die Lösung (The Solution) was Brecht's later commentary on the uprising of 17 June 1953 in East Germany:
Brecht had previously supported the measures taken by the East German government to crush the uprising, including the use of Soviet military force; he even wrote a letter on the day of the uprising (17 June) to SED First Secretary Walter Ulbricht stating that, "History will pay its respects to the revolutionary impatience of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. The great discussion [exchange] with the masses about the speed of socialist construction will lead to a viewing and safeguarding of the socialist achievements. At this moment I must assure you of my allegiance to the Socialist Unity Party of Germany".
In Augsburg, a simple plaque, written by an unknown worker is displayed on the house where Brecht lived and worked. It reads:
Where is Augsburg? The city which is silent about its great son.
His son, Stefan Brecht, became a poet and theatre critic interested in New York's avant-garde theatre.
Brecht has been a controversial figure in Germany, and in his native city of Augsburg there were objections to creating a birthplace museum. However, by the 1970s, Brecht's plays had surpassed Shakespeare in the number of annual performances in Germany.
Brecht's influence can be seen in the cinema. Such filmmakers as Lars Von Trier, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Nagisa Oshima, Ritwik Ghatak and Jean-Luc Godard were influenced by Brecht and his theory of the Verfremdungseffekt. Often mis-translated as the 'Alienation effect', it is a process of emotionally distancing the audience from the on-stage action. Ghatak first translated Brecht into Bengali, before then making use of some of his key theories in the later films Cloud-Capped Star and Subarna-Rekha.
Above all things that theatre was and what he wanted theatre to be, Brecht believed that the theatre's broadest function was to educate. "It is the noblest function that we have found for 'theatre'".
Brecht wanted the answer to Lenin's question 'Wie und was soll man lernen?' ('How and what should one learn?'). He created an influential theory of theatre, the epic theatre, wherein a play should not cause the spectator to emotionally identify with the action before him or her, but should instead provoke rational self-reflection and a critical view of the actions on the stage. He believed that the experience of a climactic catharsis of emotion left an audience complacent. Instead, he wanted his audiences to use this critical perspective to identify social ills at work in the world and be moved to go forth from the theatre and effect change.
Hans Eisler has noted that these plays resemble political seminars. Brecht described them as "a collective political meeting" in which the audience is to participate actively. One sees in this model a rejection of the concept of the bureaucratic elite party where the politicians are to issue directives and control the behaviour of the masses.
For this purpose, Brecht employed the use of techniques that remind the spectator that the play is a representation of reality and not reality itself, which he called the Verfremdungseffekt (translated as distancing effect, estrangement effect, or alienation effect). Such techniques included the direct address by actors to the audience, transposition of text to third person or past tense, speaking the stage direction out loud, exaggerated, unnatural stage lighting, the use of song, and explanatory placards. By highlighting the constructed nature of the theatrical event, Brecht hoped to communicate that the audience's reality was, in fact a construction and, as such, was changeable.
Another technique that Brecht employed to achieve his Verfremdungseffekt was the principle of historicisation. The content of many of his plays dealt with fictional tellings of historical figures or events. His idea was that if one were to tell a story from a time that is contemporary to an audience, they may not be able to maintain the critical perspective he hoped to achieve. Instead, he focused on historical stories that had parallel themes to the social ills he was hoping to illuminate in his own time. He hoped that, in viewing these historical stories from a critical perspective, the contemporary issues Brecht was addressing would be illuminated to the audience.
In one of his first productions, Brecht famously put up signs that said "Glotzt nicht so romantisch!" ("Don't stare so romantically!"). His manner of stagecraft has proven both fruitful and confusing to those who try to produce his works or works in his style. His theory of theatre has heavily influenced modern theatre. Some of his innovations have become so common that they've entered the theatrical canon.
Although Brecht's work and ideas about theatre are generally thought of as belonging to modernism, there is recent thought that he is the forerunner of contemporary postmodern theatre practice. This is particularly so because he questioned and dissolved many of the accepted practices of the theatre of his time and created a political theatre that involved the audience in understanding its meaning. Moreover, he was one of the first theatre practitioners to incorporate multimedia into the semiotics of theatre.
The birth of Brecht's theories, centering around his writing of Baal and In the Jungle of Cities, was the core of the plot of the play The Concrete Girl by Bertolt Brecht written by Josh Morrall and Simon Farid. Set in 1921, when Brecht was 23, the short play featured an actor portraying Brecht on stage as a tortured, young, famine stricken writer, recently arrived in Berlin. In order to inspire himself to finish a play he is writing (the fictitious, supposedly 'lost' play The Concrete Girl) Brecht summons Frank Wedekind from his grave. Brecht hopes Wedekind will aid him in the writing of the play, but is ultimately left feeling discouraged, and burns the work, setting the tone for his early theory and later works.


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"That's what she said."----Michael Scott
I can see them just fine so it could be your computer Marcus.
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"That's what she said."----Michael Scott
Marcus, you have a 35 point lead over Mike O and an 89 point lead over me. After that, Tracy Crabtree is 344 out.
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Michael Owen was listed as finishing 9th at Buffalo Trace but that was incorrect. The change has been made to show his actual finish of 4th place.
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MISENHEIMER, NC – On a warm and sunny afternoon, the Pfeiffer softball team (14-17) dominated Johnson C Smith (9-15) and swept the Golden Bulls by a combined score of 17-0 in their doubleheader. In the opener, Celia Dew went 3-for-3 to extend an impressive hit streak where she recorded hits in nine consecutive at bats. In the second game, Sydney Poole tossed six shutout innings and allowed only one hit as the freshman extended her consecutive scoreless innings streak to 15.
Against Winston-Salem St. on Tuesday, Dew went 6-for-6 with four RBI and two runs scored. She continued her hot streak in the first game with a third straight 3-for-3 performance. Dew finished the game with two runs and two RBI's as Pfeiffer cruised to a 9-0 victory in five innings.
Seven different Pfeiffer batters recorded a hit in the opener, led by Dew and Sadie Saine. Saine went 2-for-2 with 2 RBI's and a walk and Jaclyn Boever added two RBI's in the victory.
Kaitlin Macmillian improved to 2-1 on the season with five shutout innings. Macmillan allowed four hits and struck out five batters.
Poole dominated the second game, retiring the first 11 batters she faced. Johnson C Smith's Jocelyn Hernandez's weakly hit ground ball found the hole between third base and shortstop for the team's only hit of the afternoon. Poole didn't allow another base runner and struck out 10 batters, while not allowing a runner past first base all game.
Dew's consecutive hit streak ended at nine as her first at bat of the second game resulted in an error by the Golden Bulls' shortstop. However, Dew was credited with an RBI on the play as Pfeiffer took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning.
Pfeiffer added two more in their next at bat as Jessica Jackson had an RBI single to left center and Dew added another RBI with a sacrifice fly to left field.
Johnson C Smith went to the bullpen to start the top of the fourth but couldn't slow Pfeiffer's offense. Ally Mills started the inning with a walk and later scored on an error by the third basemen. Lindsay Russell followed with an RBI single to center field as Pfeiffer's lead grew to 5-0.
Hannah Jackson singled to lead off the bottom of the sixth and then stole second base. After a ground out, Jessica Jackson crushed a triple over the center fielders head. The younger Jackson would score on Russell's double down the left field line as Pfeiffer was one run away from ending the contest. Corinne Auger sent the Golden Bulls home with a double to center field that scored Russell and ended the game.
Russell finished with a 3-for-3 game and scored twice while knocking in two more. Jessica Jackson went 2-for-4 with a run scored and three RBI's.
Poole improved to 6-7 on the mound.
Pfeiffer returns to action this Sunday afternoon as they makeup last weekend's doubleheader with Barton. The game was rained out and first pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m.