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On Tour
See our 2015 Tour dates below including dates at Butlins.
March 2015
Sunday 8th March 2015
Lancaster - Grand Theatre
Box office 01524 64695
On Line www.lancastergrand.co.uk/
Saturday 14th March 2015 Middlesbrough - Town Hall
Box office 01723 357869
On Line www.middlesbroughtownhallonline.co.uk/
Sunday 15th March 2015 Clive & Danny host
SMILE FOR A NIGHT at Newcastle - Tyne Theatre
Box office 0844 493 9999
On Line www.millvolvotynetheatre.co.uk/
Saturday 21st March 2015 Colne - Muni Theatre
Box office 01282 661234
On Line www.themuni.co.uk
April 2015
Wednesday 1st April 2015 Lytham St Annes - Lowther Pavilion
Box office 01253 794 221
On Line www.lowtherpavillion.co.uk
Box office 01253 794 221
On Line www.lowtherpavillion.co.uk
May 2015
Friday 1st May - Monday 4th May 2015 Great Yarmouth - Hippodrome
On Line www.hippodromecircus.co.uk
Friday 1st May - Monday 4th May 2015 Great Yarmouth - Hippodrome
On Line www.hippodromecircus.co.uk
June 2015
Sunday 7 June 2015 Wolverhampton Grand Theatre 1.30pm & 6.00pm
Box office 01902 429 212
On Line www.grandtheatre.co.uk
July 2015
To be announced
September 2015
October 2015
Saturday 31st October 2015 Cardiff New Theatre_________________________________________________________________________________________
Box office 02920 878889
On Line www.newtheatrecardiff.co.uk
November 2015
2015 Pantomime
CLIVE WEBB AND DANNY ADAMS' 11th YEAR SPECTACULAR! - TUES 25 NOV 2015 - SUN 18 JAN 2016
The Theatre Royal's pantomime is the unmissable Christmas show in the North East. Be sure to beat the rush and get the best seats to see Newcastle's comedy trio of Danny Adams, Clive Webb and Chris Hayward in Dick Whittington. Staged by the same team that has presented the Theatre Royal's last ten record-breaking and highly-acclaimed pantomimes, Dick Whittington will be another fun-filled, action-packed production full of comedy in abundance. Featuring plenty of glitz and glamour along with sensational musical numbers and fabulous sets and costumes, Dick Whittington will be a festive treat you won't want to miss. Booking now open!


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dusty paths lined with flickering orange lanterns led us to our final camp, a slice of dramatic Arabian luxury.
In the dusty corridors of power, Disraeli was an exotic orchid whose drag enlivened many a boring wet Monday.
As I sat on his dusty couch in a small, smoke-filled office, it suddenly felt like I was in another era: the black-and-white one.
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Two years ago, the man who swore he wanted government to be so small it could be "drowned in a bathtub" was the most powerful, formidable force to conservatives in Washington.
Today, he's being referred to by the Republican Speaker of the House as "some random person."
Asked if he believed that Grover Norquist, powerhouse GOP influencer and president of Americans for Tax Reform, was a "positive influence" on the House Republicans, John Boehner simply replied with a shrug.
"Listen, our focus here is on jobs," Boehner said at last. "We're doing everything we can to get our economy moving again and to get people back to work. It's not often I'm asked about some random person in America."
Asked whether he genuinely believed Norquist was a "random person" to members of his conference, Boehner replied, "Listen, our focus is on creating jobs, not talking about somebody's personality."
Of course, that "random person" is also the creator of the anti-tax pledge that a vast majority of those same House members signed in order to get into public office. In fact, only 6 Republican members in each chamber and one Republican presidential nominee (Jon Huntsman) haven't signed his anti-tax pledge.
In fact, both parties agree that Norquist isn't just "some random person" with no influence over the GOP. "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this week declared Norquist the GOP 'leader' and Republican lawmakers his puppets. Former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson told the so-called supercommittee this week that 'if Grover Norquist is now the most powerful man in America, he should run for president…. There's no question about his power. And let me tell you, he has people in thrall. That's a terrible phrase. Lincoln used it. It means your mind has been captured. You're in bondage with your soul.'"
But Norquist himself agrees that he's not that big of a deal. "'Reid is trying to make me important. I suppose it's sort of flattering but it's silly,' Mr. Norquist said. 'The pledge is between elected representatives and their constituents. Boehner's right and Reid is wrong.'"
I guess that settles that.
Read more: congress, grover norquist, tax cuts
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Norquist is a random person the same way the radical republicans are trying to create jobs! Not.
I can remember many photo's and film of Boner and Norquist sitting side by side and chuckling over their inside jokes. Does anyone else do that with 'random' people? Getting the economy moving? Jobs? So why in hell is he AGAINST all jobs bills put forth? No, the only job Boner cares about is HIS job! Same with Cantor and Mcconnell, (turtle-man) Just once, I would love to see the interviewer ask them, over and over until they get an actual, and factual answer..how are YOU creating jobs? Last time Boner said it wasn't the governments JOB to create jobs!!! And if things the repukes do, happen to cost jobs, well SO BE IT. God help us get Pelosi back into the speakers position. She was one of the few pushing for the betterment of all. They have excluded her from much of their meetings because they fear her. Right on Nancy!
Well, naturally Mr. Norquist is going to minimize the extent of his influence. "Oh, I'm just some 'random person' who has succeeded in getting a potful of elected or wanna-be elected folks to pledge to essentially abdicate their responsibility to govern. That's the effect of the "No Tax Pledge" really. It's a statement that these people are going to fill jobs and then refuse to do what their job description says they are supposed to do. Just what "savings" did they come up with to pay for the "Bush Tax Cuts"? They didn't! They just paid for them by raising the deficit. Now, of course, they are trying to pin the tax tail on the president, when it was they who created the spiraling deficits in the first place. Hypocritical, lying, mendacious thugs is all they are. Their idea of controlling costs is to slash those programs that keep the poor from actually starving to death and suffering from untreated medical conditions in order to line the pockets of the super-wealthy. The super-wealthy reciprocate by funding their reelections. How cozy!
An Alternative to Capitalism (if the people knew about it, they would demand it)
Several decades ago, Margaret Thatcher claimed: "There is no alternative". She was referring to capitalism. Today, this negative attitude still persists.
I would like to offer an alternative to capitalism for the American people to consider. Please click on the following link. It will take you to an essay titled: "Home of the Brave?" which was published by the Athenaeum Library of Philosophy:
John Steinsvold
Perhaps in time the so-called dark ages will be thought of as including our own.
--Georg C. Lichtenberg
I want to know more about this man and who he really is. He has a lot of power but where did he get it??
Poor Boehner...He lost his mind now and can't remember
Yes the Gop is Bought and Paid For... They will do anything Money wants them to do.. That's why "BONER" (sic) doesn't know who Grover is .. He only knows his name is money Pockets..! The 99% is growing fast.. we have the people out there.. Now we need to get them organized and take Back the House and Senate by their Votes.. We can't storm the buildings and throw them out unless we want a Police State.. You would think the Rich would want the Police well paid... OH wait they have been buying expensive trained Guard Dogs by the thousands.. they don't need Police... LOL
Please ask John Boehner why he signed Norquist's pledge if he believed Norquist to be a 'random person'. Does Boehner randomly sign pledges of which he has no knowledge of the contents? Certainly that makes a good politician, Boehner's left doesn't know what his right is doing.
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Amazing videl, thank you for sharing
Marianne, and Trump to the list too. He dumps a wife the minute she gets a gray hair.
Great video of the amazing beaver. Thank you.


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Charles Guggenheim on Candidate Biography Films
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NEWSHOUR: Your memorial film for Robert Kennedy was almost instantly considered a masterpiece. Tell me how you really conceived of the film, and the circumstances that led up to it?
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: Well, probably, the film is different than other biographical films in that it was made after his death. It was a memorial film, really, though it was based on a biography film, which I'd done earlier of him. But it was made after his assassination, to be played at the Democratic National Convention. It wasn't clear whether the Democratic National Committee, nor the nominee would accept it being played there. It was questionable.
NEWSHOUR: Why did they question it so?
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: The country was divided and the convention was divided, and the insertion of this film into that event could have caused some political problems which the, the nominee had to be very sensitive about, a film about Robert Kennedy, who was against the war. Humphrey, who was part of the Johnson administration was considered to be, in a sense, a person who supported the ongoing conflict, which may or may not have been fair.
So to insert Robert Kennedy into this convention, in an emotional way, in a divided convention, could have caused a lot of problems, and they were very hesitant to play this film.
NEWSHOUR: It had an enormous impact, as it was shown.
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: Right.
NEWSHOUR: There was almost a "near riot" on the floor.
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: Right.
NEWSHOUR: Tell me about that and tell me about how those circumstances came about, largely, at the convention. What, what was it about the film that engendered that type of reaction among people?
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: Well, there was unhappiness. There wasn't a unanimity about [Hubert] Humphrey because he was [Lyndon] Johnson's Vice President, and Johnson, for the anti-war people, was the other side, was the enemy, so to speak, if–that's a harsh word, but–so when Robert Kennedy's image went up there, the remembrance of him went up on the screen, it took the people who were anti-war and pro-Kennedy, and felt they had been denied a leader who might have stopped the war, at least taken them where they wanted to go. It regenerated their fallen leader, and they began this uprising, so to speak.
NEWSHOUR: Did you think in those terms when you were putting the film together, about how you would portray him?
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: I didn't understand what would happen at the convention. When the film was finished, it was done only in nine weeks. I was tired. But–so was everybody else, and I was instructed by Steve Smith, who was the brother-in-law of the President, and brother-in-law of Robert Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, to take the film to Chicago, to see if I could get it played.
Well, in many ways, I was a strange person to be chosen to do that, but I felt very much like, as a person who's in the infantry, which I was, that you have a point man. You send the point man out in a squad and he draws the first fire, and then if he goes down, then you know what to do with the rest of the squad, and I think I was the point man in Chicago.
So I had to go there with this film, to see if I could get it played. And I sat there for two or three days, with no decision made.
NEWSHOUR: Who was making those decisions?
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: The Democratic National Committee was making the decisions up until the nomination of Humphrey, and then he was the leader of the party. But until he was nominated, in a sense, Johnson was leader of the party.
NEWSHOUR: What was it about the film that, that really worked? Watching it, it's just a striking film. What was–what were the images and the, and the process, that really made it work?
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: Well, I've been in film making long enough to know you, you need a lot of luck. But I had Robert Kennedy, and I had worked with him–or worked for him since 1964. I mean, I worked in his campaign for the Senate, and I had filmed him, and gone through thousands and thousands of feet of film about him. And I was drawn to him, like a lot of other people were.
And I felt very moved by, and upset by his death, like thousands of other people were, and I just–you just went in to see if you could capture everything you felt about him, and, and as a film maker, you drew upon all your resources to make that happen, and you didn't know, till the end, whether it was gonna happen. We had a lot of luck, in a certain extent. The networks gave us all the footage we wanted, immediately. That's how traumatized people were.
When the Kennedys called and asked the presidents of the networks, can you give us film on him? Usually, you wait months for it. We got it in three days–everything we wanted.
So that was luck, and then a piece of luck which I almost destroyed. I thought there should be an American narrator, because Bobby Kennedy was quintessential, an American, and the Kennedys wanted Richard Burton.
Well, I didn't think that probably a Welshman should narrate this film on Robert Kennedy, and you can't very well argue with the widow of the deceased. So I said okay. And it was the greatest piece of narration I ever had since I've been in my business. One take.
NEWSHOUR: Recently, the networks have stopped carrying these films during the conventions — or they'll cover them as they would a speaker from the back of the hall, calling them infotainment and that type of thing. Do you think that news organizations should be compelled to carry these films?
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: No.
NEWSHOUR: Why not?
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: Well, they're campaign films. They're commercials.
NEWSHOUR: Aren't the conventions themselves almost giant infotainment exercises? What makes the films different from the rest of the convention schedule?
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: Well, that's a very good question. I think they're a statement made by the producer. There's someone there who is manipulating, or controlling the image of the of the candidate.
I think they have an obligation to let the people see those who represent the candidate in person, or the candidate in person. They don't have a necessity, or an obligation to show what a producer has done to shape an image. I don't think they have an obligation; no. Our film was shown by all three networks, simultaneously, and that would have never happened, except for the circumstances that brought that film about.
NEWSHOUR: Would you have made a film, had Bobby Kennedy been alive, and had he been, odds are, the nominee at the convention?
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: I would have, yes.
NEWSHOUR: You would have?
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: Yes, and they did play these films. There have been films of other candidates, have been played on television, but in recent years, no. In past years, the networks have carried gavel to gavel coverage, and they don't now. But Humphrey had a film, a biography film, which also played at that convention. I think it played after ours.
NEWSHOUR: Have there been any films that you've seen, in recent years, that, that particularly strike you, like "The Man From Hope" in '92, or Reagan's films in, in the '80s?
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: Yeah; yeah. I think I could look at them and say they were terribly well-crafted pictures, you know, and from the political sense, effective. Yes. But the bottom line is we haven't had a Robert Kennedy. That's the truth.
NEWSHOUR: Do you think–how would you have fashioned a film, had he been alive? I mean, it's just–it's probably an impossible hypothetical but–
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: I did.
NEWSHOUR: And was that shaped for the '68 convention?
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: It was shaped not for the convention, but it was shaped for his political campaign for the Senate, and for the presidency.
NEWSHOUR: How was that similar or different from "Robert Kennedy Remembered"?
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: Let me answer your question in a less direct way. Someone said that 60 percent of a film's success if what people bring into the theater with them. People at that convention brought a lot with them. That wasn't just anybody on the screen up there, and those weren't just any events up there. They were events they had seen and, and lived through, and felt very deeply about. The fact that we may have done a tasteful job, and maybe insightful in some ways, was somewhat incidental to the fact that Robert Kennedy was on the screen, and his brother, too. And Robert Kennedy said you should be blessed that you live in interesting times. Well, these were tragic, but these were interesting times. They aren't now, in that respect.
NEWSHOUR: A lot of these films, these days, are heavy on what some might derisively call "fluff." They're sort of showing the softer side of the candidate. They don't delve into the issues that people deal with.
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: Sure.
NEWSHOUR: Your film dealt with Robert Kennedy's fight for civil rights, his opposition to the war in Vietnam, many other issues.
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: Uh-huh.
NEWSHOUR: Should the American citizenry demand more from these films? If they're being shown, these candidates, in their best possible light, should they demand more from these?
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: They should demand in every respect, not only just the films.
NEWSHOUR: I just saw that picture over there of you with Albert Gore, Sr.
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: Yeah.
NEWSHOUR: How would you work with his son — Vice President Gore — these days?
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: Well… at one time, I probably made as many political films as anybody. I was as busy making films as anybody. I don't make them now, and I haven't made them in 15 years.
NEWSHOUR: Uh-huh.
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: And I don't want to make them. But that's just what I want to do, and I made films, in most cases, for, for men who I liked, and I believed in, and it wasn't hard for me to make films for them. But I became very outdated because no one wants to see films that a producer feels strongly about. They want to make films that fit certain categories of the obligations of the polls. It's very scientific now, and very cruel, but, nonetheless, very effective, and I don't know how to operate in that game. I don't mean that I'm better than they are. I'm just no good at it.
NEWSHOUR: Is there something that drove you from making them?
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: Oh, sure.
NEWSHOUR: What was it?
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: Briefly. If you play a piano in a house of ill repute, it doesn't make any difference how well you play the piano. It doesn't make any difference. It's a lousy procedure, for me.
The process now calls for using tactics and for using methods that are demeaning. You're in the process of creating half-truths, and trying to trick people on behalf of a candidate who may be very good. But if you don't do that, you won't win for him.
The warfare has changed. The warfare has changed. Before the Second World War, civilians were not a factor in war. You didn't go around bombing civilians. But we learned in World War II that it's very effective to bomb civilians. So things change in warfare, and in political campaigns, things have changed. We're bombing civilians now, and I don't want to bomb civilians!
NEWSHOUR: Are the words in these films still important? We live in an age where the images seem to almost overpower people, but the words in your film, Burton's narration — those are the "glue" that hold together the pictures.
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: Right.
NEWSHOUR: Do you think the words still mean anything in present-day filmmaking?
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: Oh, yeah. Words are very important; if that's your question.
NEWSHOUR: But have they been over-powered by the imagery?
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: Well, that gets back into what film is all about, and you can put images on the screen with no sound, and they can be very strong. You can use a still picture and put wonderful words over it. You can be very strong. I hate to make a generalization.
NEWSHOUR: You were talking, briefly, before, about how everything, these days, was filled with "fluff." Is it all veneer? Is it all half-truths now? Are there any films, or any ads, or any presentations of candidates, that you've seen, that have struck you particularly true?
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: Well, maybe, maybe my expectations are too high; maybe my expectations are too high. And I don't want to sound critical of those who make these films. They're doing what they feel will be most effective. I personally don't think that's as effective as doing another kind of film, which is not being made now.
NEWSHOUR: Which is from the heart instead of the head?
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: Well, that's what Jefferson said–heart and the head. But I think–you see, the problem–this maybe sound like a person who is too old. I don't know. I would find it very difficult to make the kind of film I made for Robert Kennedy with any candidate today, or perhaps that I have seen run for the presidency, with few exceptions, for the last 40 years, and that's a matter of circumstance; it's a matter of history.
I have been asked to make movies on Presidents, contemporary Presidents, and I said I can't do it. It's not that they haven't been good Presidents and good men, and I didn't admire them.
Making film demands a lot of you. A good film does. It takes a year sometimes. It takes a lot out of you. You know, you only have so many in you, and to do a story about someone you don't feel is just tremendously significant, when there are so many significant people you can make movies about, it doesn't seem–for me–the way to spend your time.
NEWSHOUR: So do you think it's more of a profession, now, than it is a craft? I mean, are these people more "hired guns" and image-makers than they are artists?
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM: Well, those are terms; you know. Are they "hired guns"? I was a "hired gun." I worked in 75 campaigns. So I'm not saying I wasn't a "hired gun." Yes, they are hired to help a person win, and I don't mean they don't have a point where they say that's wrong. I won't go that far.
But I know a lot of people who have been in this business, who I respect a lot, who go far more distance than I think they would like to go, but they feel if they're gonna win, they better go that distance.


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Thread: Tablet PC's
May 23rd, 2006 #1
Tablet PC's
Im currently using a wacom intous and a Toshiba Satellite. The Satellite is approaching the end of its lifecycle. You see its a Pentium 4 as opposed to a Centrino, having just missed that chip revolution, and its constantly burning me, overheating, and otherwise threatening to catch on things on fire.
So Im thinking of updating to a tablet notebook. Ive pretty much got my heart set on it. I love my intous, but I want the added functionality of being able to draw directly on the image. Im tired of the disconnect between wacom and screen, and Im not really ready to plop down two grand for a cintiq when what I really need to do is replace my combustible laptop. I also think I can live with the drop in sensitivity. Ive all but convinced myself that my work doesnt need over a thousand levels. My simulations are pencils and watercolor or ink and watercolor, maybe some pastels. Ive never pushed painter to its limits. I also want the portability. My pyrotechnic laptop goes all over town with me, but the same cant be said for its big purple companion.
So whats a good tablet notebook? At or under two grand, and is there a specific add on wacom pen you recommend? Im interested in your user experiences, not just in the realm of artist usability, but also more practical things like dvd burning and ventilation. I dont want another laptop that comes with the warning label caution may burn. And seriously, that label is on this thing. Should have been a dead giveaway.
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From what I've heard, most tablet PCs aren't pressure sensitive. I'm probably mistaken, but definetly make sure you look into that.
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I'm also interesting in getting a tablet PC.
The Motion LE1600 looks pretty sweet to me at the moment, but I've got no experience using it so I'd love someone who uses one for art to give an opinion.
squirpy, I'm not 100%, but i was under the impression that alot of new tablets use wacom tech and have 512+ levels of sensitivity... it's hard to find info though as they don't seem to advertise this on the listed specs of the machine (something which i consider quite an important feature).
May 24th, 2006 #4
interesting. I wish they'd make it more obvious on the sites. I know my dad's didn't have pressure sensitivity, but his was one of the early tablet PCs.
But if they are sensitive, they would be so great for drawing. Now I'm intrigued.
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try contacting Mermuse
I think I remember that he uses a tablet pc almost exclusively.
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Toshiba Tecra M4 user...
I have a Toshiba Tecra M4, which you can get at under 2 grand if you don't want it to be too fancy. It's pretty nice, definetly a different experience than just a wacom tablet -- while you do draw directly onto the screen, having your hand and the pen in the way makes for some difficulty as opposed to having no obstructions as with the standard tablet. 'Takes much getting used to, for me. But I suppose it's the same way with the oh-so touted Cintiq
I just wear a thin wrist glove while drawing so I don't sweat all over the monitor. Another problem is that you can't use a keyboard and the tablet feature well at the same time really... so keyboard shortcuts are out.
And although they don't come pressure-sensitive, Wacom's a smartie and offers a *free* "Penabled Driver" download for most Tablet PCs (http://www.wacom.com/tabletpc/driver.cfm). Make sure the tablet PC you get is compatible with the driver -- I think I heard the HP Tablet PC isn't? Unsure! Of course, if you download the penabled driver, you can't also use a standard tablet with your PC, because it already has a tablet driver installed.
Also, some programs don't seem to work too well with the Tablet PC. Every time I try to use any version of Open Canvas, the pen is never fully synchronized, and it makes marks about an inch away from where I'm drawing, or on the other side of the canvas. Bleh! Photoshop of course, like a champ, syncs effing great.
I remember that Glen Vilppu (http://www.vilppustudio.com/) swore by his tablet pc and using Alias Sketchbook with it, when he gave a private workshop here at SCAD. I didn't get a chance to ask which PC he had though, argh.
In general, I wish I lived in a bigger city so I could've visited stores with a range of Tablet PCs to try and see which one was best for me. I basically flew by the seat of my pants by a friend's advice and ordered the Tecra without ever using it. I *love* the M4, but have heard better things about Acer? As far as my experience goes, the Tecra only works with it's own stylus/stylii, no wacom pen will make a mark. Also, the thing is going to get hot as hell on your lap. Invest in a laptop cooling pad or something! Hope that helps?
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Noxismad used a Fujitsu Siemens Stylistic Tablet pc at the Prague workshop. As far as I remember it was moderately pressuee sensitive. Maybe simply ask the support at the firms - they should know.
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JONATHAN WEINZAPFEL: Big dreams of new arena paid off in a big way
Editor's note: The following is excerpted from a speech that former Evansville Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel gave at the Temple Adath B'Nai Israel in August. Weinzapfel titled the talk, "The Ford Center: an education in how to get things done in Evansville."
What I would like to do this evening is talk about the challenges we faced in planning and building a new arena, the community's ethos, and what is needed to make Evansville a more progressive community.
I would like to start by playing a game of MythBusters. Many of you have probably seen the show on TV. The general idea is that the show's hosts use elements of the scientific method to test the validity of rumors and myths. With hindsight being 20/20, I would like to take a look at the various aspersions cast on the arena project and debunk them one by one.
There were quite a few lines of attack made on the arena. It seemed that as one was beaten back and refuted another took its place. I will review my personal top ten.
Myth number 10
"There is nothing wrong with Roberts Stadium. We should just renovate it instead of building new downtown."
There is actually some validity to this myth up to a point. We could have done absolutely nothing. We could have ignored the problems inherent in the building and let someone else deal with it in the future. Maybe that is what a lot of people would have preferred. But, the fact was that sooner or later someone had to do something.
Roberts Stadium was 50 plus years old. Our consultants said that we'd have to spend up to $17 million over the next three to five years just to keep Roberts open. These costs are just part of an extensive list of deficiencies that would cost $40 million to correct. The concourses and aisles were too narrow and the seats were too small. The heating and air system was on its last leg. There weren't enough rest-rooms and they weren't up to code. Most importantly, Roberts was not in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Second, there were major structural problems that, along with the other deficiencies, would cost $90 million to fix. Many acts passed on playing at Roberts because the rigging isn't strong enough to support the weight of their equipment. And the floor at Roberts Stadium was not regulation size. It was too small for hockey, arena football and any other event that utilizes a standard floor size. Even if those acts could play Roberts, they'd have a hard time getting in there. The truck docks are too small.
Our consultant said it would cost us at least $90 million to try and renovate Roberts and make it lasting and competitive. In essence, we would have to build a new facility.
So, if you were going to build something new on the Roberts site or undertake extensive renovations, you would first have to figure out how to pay for it. You could have utilized gaming money for the project, but you could not use downtown TIF revenues and the County Council and the Indiana General Assembly would have to approve the use of food and beverage tax receipts. To replace the TIF funds alone in a financing plan for building on that site you would have to raise property taxes by about $60 million to build something similar to what was built downtown.
Second, all we would get for our investment in the Roberts Stadium area was a new arena. There would be no other economic development taking place in that area. None has occurred in the past 50 years.
So building downtown was the best choice. We could finance the arena without raising taxes and we would see economic development take place as people open new businesses and restaurants to take advantage of the dramatic increase in downtown traffic. We have seen that spinoff economic development happen. There are new restaurants and bars and a new vitality.
Myth number 9
"There is nowhere to park downtown."
Wrong. Although not all be in one big lot, there are nearly 5,300 parking spaces in and around the new arena, compared with only 3,000 at Roberts Stadium. All 5,300 spots are in public and private parking garages, in surface lots, or on the street and are within a 5-minute walk of the "front door" of the new arena.
Myth number 8
"You can't get in or out of downtown. Traffic will be a nightmare."
There are so many different access points in and out of downtown Evansville. You can use the Lloyd Expressway, Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Walnut Street, Lincoln Avenue, Bellemeade Avenue, Washington Avenue, Riverside Drive, Fulton Avenue, First Avenue, and North Main Street. In addition, we changed the one-way streets to two-way to make it even simpler to get around.
All traffic at Roberts had to funnel into and out of the parking lot at only two points — Lloyd Expressway at Vann Avenue and Boeke Road and E. Franklin Street. Getting in and out of downtown is much easier than Roberts.
Myth number 7
"There is too much crime downtown."
Crime has not been an issue. Since the opening of the Ford Center, there have been no reported thefts from vehicles, no reports of vandalism to cars, no reports of patrons robbed as they walked to and from parking spots, and no reports of anyone being harassed for money from panhandlers. In fact, there hasn't even been a minor traffic mishap related to the arrival or departure of event goers.
Myth number 6
"Financing the cost of this arena will require a property tax increase."
Wrong. Property taxes were not used to fund the construction of this arena. We used Downtown TIF funds, gaming receipts and the existing food and beverage tax to pledge enough revenue to provide $1.50 for every dollar of debt.
Myth number 5
"Financing this arena means we won't be able to give pay raises or finance other initiatives in local government."
Wrong again. TIF revenues, gaming receipts and the food and beverage tax cannot, by law, be used for City operating costs. So, the funding for this project did not and could not affect what the City was spending on public safety or any of its programs. We do use gaming revenue to pay for the City's capital expenses to the tune of about $5 million annually but that amount was set aside prior to determining what was available every year for arena debt service.
Myth number 4
"The Mayor is shoving this project down our throats. Why can't we vote on it?"
I confess, I was the champion of this project. Nothing meaningful or difficult gets done without someone leading the charge. But to say that the Mayor alone could make this happen is incorrect.
About six years elapsed between the initial identification of the problems at Roberts and the actual completion of the Ford Center. During that time, we conducted numerous public meetings, more than 30 in all. We tried to educate folks about the decision we had to make about whether to build new or renovate, and, if we were going to build new, where. We formed a citizen advisory committee that represented various perspectives from the community including both Republicans and Democrats. After the advisory committee unanimously decided to move forward on the project, the City Council voted 8 to 1 to build it. The City Council, the County Council, and the County Commissioners then voted unanimously for a resolution supporting legislation to use the existing local food and beverage tax revenues for this project. The change in law passed the Indiana General Assembly and was signed into law by Gov. Mitch Daniels. Then, pursuant to state law, the County Council unanimously approved the dedication of the food and beverage tax money for the project. And, of course, the City Council then approved all the financing.
State law clearly prohibits local government from placing a question on the ballot without express authorization in state statute.
Myth number 3
"Folks will never be able to afford to go to this arena, so it will lose money and never break even."
In its first two months, we projected that the Ford Center would have an initial operating loss of $104,000. Instead the Ford Center recorded a profit of $280,000. Through the end of June of this year more than 320,000 people attended events at the Ford Center generating total revenue of almost $5 million and net income of almost $1,143,000 as compared to forecast net income of $686,000. At Roberts, we were lucky to break even in any one year.
Myth number 2
"You can't build this arena during a recession."
Economists, financial advisers and construction industry representatives all agreed that this was precisely the time to invest because with the economy in recession there would be tremendous competition for the work which would further drive down construction costs. Material costs had leveled off or decreased because private sector construction had ground to a halt, capital was cheap because fewer people were borrowing money, the federal government had implemented tax and investment incentives to reduce costs, and, most importantly, local people needed the work.
This was predominantly a local project. About 1,600 laborers worked on the project with almost 1,300 of them members of local trade unions. Sixty-four percent of all the contracts, worth $55.3 million, was awarded to local firms.
Waiting to proceed would mean that any benefits such as hundreds of new jobs and tens of millions of dollars being pumped into our local economy would be delayed when our community needed exactly this kind of stimulus at that time.
Myth number 1
"Mayor, is it true that you will be receiving a $5 million finder's fee for building the new arena?"
A woman at a public forum asked me that question in front of dozens of people. I was stunned. This woman had just publicly accused me of accepting a bribe for making the decision to build a new arena. Thankfully, in good humor, a city council member in the audience saved me by asking publicly "if that is so, where is my share?" That got a few laughs from the public and ended that line of questioning.
More than any other project that comes to mind, the process to build the new Ford Center is a great example of how difficult it is to get something done here in Evansville. It illustrates the larger problems facing our community … a resistance to change and the difficulty of building consensus.
It is appropriate and healthy for the people of Evansville to question the proposal to build a new arena and to challenge their elected officials. That is an important part of checks and balances essential if our democracy is going to succeed.
The issue is what people do with the information. It seemed that a culture of opposing change is what dominated the public discourse about this project, not a yearning to make sure it made sense.
We can't be successful as a community if we are going to operate with blinders on or oppose anything that comes down the pike. Change is inevitable, change is necessary to keep us competitive in a global economy, change means we will grow as a community. It can be very uncomfortable. But if a community is not moving forward, it is falling behind. Doing nothing is no longer an option.
We can't be interested in change for change sake or change that takes us back in time. What we should be interested in is change that moves us forward as a community. We must ensure that community leaders are willing to sponsor a healthy, constructive dialogue to ensure that any change being proposed conforms to the community's vision for the future.
We need people who can lead. We need good people to step up and run for office, champion initiatives, and chair committees. Then, we need good people who are willing to be part of the team, support the leader and work to ensure success.
We need leaders who have spent a portion of their lives outside of our city. People who have seen a little bit of the world outside of Evansville have a much better appreciation of our community. They instinctively know that Evansville is a great place to live, work and raise a family. They appreciate the low crime rate, low taxes, affordable housing and the plethora of cultural and professional opportunities that exist. These same people have also had the chance to witness successful initiatives in other communities. Whether it is a citywide WiFi system, youth focused sports facilities, or consolidated government, they have seen other communities innovate and are willing to ask "why can't we aspire to that?"
We also need leaders who are intellectually curious, people who are willing to listen to both sides of an issue and do their own research before staking out a position. Here in Evansville, it seems that many of our elected officials simply side with whoever is yelling the loudest. For these folks, it isn't a question of right or wrong, or of what is best for the community, it is more a question of which side they think will win. Typically the people who yell the loudest are the ones who are against any new idea or initiative. Sometimes, these folks may be right, the proposal may be a dud, but the duty of an elected official is to get all the facts first instead of reflexively siding with the naysayers.
Lastly, we need leaders who are courageous. As a political leader, you can't take on every single battle. If you do, you won't win any of them. A good leader must go into a project knowing that there will be push back, but if experience and research shows that a project is a good one, then it is imperative that the leader muster up the courage and stand up for the project. How do you do that? You roll up your sleeves, find like-minded allies, compromise if need be, and get things done. That is the approach that we took with the Ford Center. We knew a state of the art arena in our community was important, we found seemingly disparate allies, like business and labor folks, to help push it, made adjustments to the plan so that we could keep it within budget and on schedule, then made sure it got finished. In this community, being a courageous leader means that you have to stick your neck out and take some risks every once in a while. The status quo is ensured by folks who play it safe.
Second, we need a constructive community dialogue.
One of the more disturbing moments during the whole discussion about whether to build a new arena or not was when I began receiving death threats. Patricia and I had to try and explain to our kids why there was a police car sitting outside our house 24/7. It was easily the most stressful experience during my time as Mayor.
Now, of course, this example is the extreme, but it does highlight the fact that there appears to be little civil discourse in today's society. Just look at the attacks made on both candidates for President, the debates in Congress, or even our own community's discussions about consolidation … the fact is that a number of people who show up for a community discussion show little respect for the views of others when those views differ from their own.
We shouldn't tolerate this in Evansville. When someone at a public meeting makes a personal attack or fails to be constructive in their criticism, people should speak up and put such a person in their place. We must insist upon civility in our public discourse. In Chattanooga, Tenn., the community demands that anytime someone wants to stand up and speak in a public meeting they have to either "be helpful or be hopeful." We actually have our own tradition here. Way back in the 1920s, Mayor Benjamin Bosse exclaimed "when everybody boosts, everybody wins." When people are positive and work together to improve a proposal or initiative, good things can happen. We will not always agree, but maybe we can all agree that if you can't say anything nice, or at least "nicely", don't say it.
And, as we engage in this constructive dialogue, we need to make more of an effort to seek out facts, and understand that within the discussion, there is some "truth."
The news media could help bolster its credibility by reasserting itself as the arbiter of true community discourse. One way to do that would be to ensure that the posting of opinions after their online stories are devoid of personal attacks, innuendo and false information. This can be accomplished by taking the simple step of removing the cloak of anonymity and forcing people to publicly stand by the statements they make.
These online forums can be a great way to foster community debate about any issue or proposal. However, it must be constructive to have any value. What we read now on the blogs is anything but constructive. In fact it is a real disservice to our community.
Lastly, this community needs a shared vision.
While I was Mayor, we worked to implement a comprehensive vision of what Evansville should be. We wanted to administer government services efficiently and effectively. We wanted a vibrant and dynamic downtown. We wanted to make sure that every city resident had access to basic city services and that city infrastructure kept people and their property safe. We wanted to ensure that we had an abundance of recreational and cultural amenities. We wanted to revitalize long-neglected neighborhoods. And, we worked hard to make sure that we helped companies grow here in Evansville to provide new investment and new job opportunities.
These goals formed the big picture. Individual projects helped realize the dream. The Ford Center not only serves as a tremendous community amenity, but it also helps improve our downtown. The expansion of the Greenway, the relocation of the children's museum to the downtown, the luring of the LST to our riverfront, and the construction of the African-American Museum all helped add to the cultural amenities our community offers and in some cases helped bolster neighborhood or downtown development. Investing tens of millions of dollars into eliminating combined sewer overflows and expanding sewer and water lines to all parts of the city helped ensure that every resident had the opportunity to experience a basic quality of life. The Arts District helped turn around the Haynie's Corner area. The expansion of American General and Berry Plastics not only created new jobs and investment, but also helped improve downtown. And, the list goes on.
But, now it is time to set a new, updated vision for our community. Maybe, that vision will retain many of the same elements that I worked toward. Or, maybe we can claim victory and move on to other goals.
I applaud Mayor Lloyd Winnecke's efforts to help shape a vision for the community through his Evansville VOICE program. It is important to collect the various perspectives of people throughout this community so that those views can be incorporated into a plan for the future. However, we must be careful to not to let the process become the vision. Ultimately, the question to answer is very simple … what do we want our community to be? We need to dream a little. We need to ask ourselves … why not this, why not us, why not now? And we need to be bold when we craft the answers to these questions. In the end, we need to not only accept change, we need to welcome it … and in fact, plan for it and work for it.
If we look back on the past 8 years, and specifically on the arena project, we can learn some lessons about leadership, constructive, truthful dialogue and the importance of vision. But the biggest thing we learn, when we reflect, is that we can do it, we can dream boldly and achieve great things.
There is no limit to what we can get done.
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"You can't call the president a fascist," he added later. "We're not trying to do that, this week, anyway."
Jackson is no slouch, though, and he managed to bring the crowd of 500 to their feet with a laundry list of famous liberals and conservatives.
"Herod was a conservative," Jackson thundered. "Jesus was a liberal. The slave master was a conservative. The abolitionist was a liberal. Those who denied women the right to vote were conservatives. Those who gave them that right were liberals."
But Jackson was not done, and the further he waded into the fever swamps of conspiracy theories, the louder the crowd shouted. "Preach!" they shouted when he claimed the election was stolen. "Give it to em' Rev.!" they brayed when he claimed the election process in America was as corrupt as in Afghanistan and Iraq. "The truth!" they strained in chorus when he told them Dick Cheney might have a plan to cancel the election and seize power.
And then he hushed the crowd to let them know that he was about to drop the big one.
"What if they do have bin Laden locked up...and are planning to bring him out right around Halloween time," Jackson posited. "Absurd? I am not convinced. I am supposed to believe the best military with all that sophisticated technology cannot find several men with food and medical supplies? I am not convinced."
"Absurd?" he asked the crowd.
"No!" they thundered back.
I saw Jackson six times over the last four days, always accompanied by an enormous security detail, but the first time I observed people actually excited to see him was at the "shadow convention." Here he was treated as a demigod, though it wasn't readily apparent as to why.
For example, at one point Jackson promised to explain from whence progressive power emanated. After a long pause, he began: Progressive power without diversity, he said, was, "the arrow without, uh, the feathers, and the um...What's that long stick called?"
"The shaft!" someone yelled.
"You're right," Jackson said, as if it had been a quiz. Isn't this the kind of stuff these folks are always making fun of Bush over? On my way into the convention I was handed a calendar published by the American Prospect that collects the clumsy verbiage of George. W. Bush. But it was genius when Jackson said, "Some progressives have the arrowhead, but no shaft. No power. No THRUST!"
And though Jackson claims his liberalism flows from to his dedication to Jesus Christ, he must have missed those Sunday school classes that dealt with humility. After spending 15 minutes talking about how integral his 1984 presidential run was to bringing diversity into American politics, Jackson actually took credit for inspiring Barack Obama to run for office. The Rev. seems to believe he is the wellspring from which all useful black American things arise. And he clearly wants his worshippers to follow his lead.
"If John Kerry came out tonight with no voice and no front teeth, but said he'd appoint a civilized Supreme Court, that's enough for me," Jackson said. "I'll vote for him."
With that he barreled off the stage, and the moderator of the next panel began to speak. But Jackson appeared again in the middle of the crowd, spotlight shining down on him.
"Y'all probably wondering why I'm out here," Jackson said. "I wanted everyone to see how much weight I've lost. I have not been working out. I'm on the South Beach Diet. Low carb is the way to go, my friends."
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Before the Environment Votes 2004 rally yesterday morning, I ran into a group of folks calling themselves United Shrubs of America. They were selling small bushes and passing out postcards with messages from the plants that read: "There are millions of us, and every one is a patriotic, law-abiding resident of this great land. Normally we're quite easygoing houseplants. But this year we just can't sit around in our pots and be silent. The guy you didn't actually elect as president, who likes to call himself a BUSH, well, he's really bad for a plant's health."
I stood there for a couple minutes before I realized I was standing next to Janet Reno. Apparently the former Attorney General was as taken in by these shrubs as I was. There was no word on how shrubs fared in that ill-fated raid in Texas a few years back.
The speaker who drew the loudest applause was director Rob "Meathead" Reiner, who started off by explaining how his movie The American President influenced Bill Clinton's environmental policy.
"Clinton loved that film," Reiner bragged. "His staff didn't want him to watch it when he was campaigning because he'd get too revved up."
Reiner also patted himself on the back for his performance four years ago in a debate with our own Ben Stein. Reiner told the crowd that he had advocated "intellectual curiosity" as an admirable presidential trait, while Stein had pushed something along the lines of, "Who cares if Bush is stupid if he has good advisers?"
After comparing environmental decay to terrorism, Reiner paused before getting all mushy on the crowd: "The two things I care most about are the environment and young children. In the end that is all we have. If we don't have those two things, then all these issues we wrestle with don't really matter."
The logic is there. Without a public there can be no public policy. But is any candidate for office arguing for the destruction of "young children"? I mean, besides the pro-abortion party he's stumping for?
The true lunatic of the proceedings -- who jumps to the head of a queue that includes former EPA head Carol Browner, Rep. Mark Udall, and New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer -- was clearly Bobby Kennedy Jr., who started off by calling George W. Bush "the biggest threat to the environment," putting him above global warming and acid rain. Bobby also said that Bush looked at the environment as a "business in liquidation," which constitutes "a kind of treason."
"If even a fraction of this administration's proposals get through, one year from now there will be effectively no federal environmental law in this country," he said. "This is not exaggeration. This is not hyperbole. This is fact." All of this amounted to a "science fiction nightmare" about to spring to life.
Kennedy flailed, repeated himself, lost his voice twice, and showed absolutely none of the poise and charm that are the hallmarks of his family. There he was bang, bang, banging on the podium, looking wild-eyed out into the crowd, which incidentally was giving every other line a standing ovation, so happy to take the worst possible forecast for the future of mankind at face value.
The Stupid Party
"What's the convention really like?" readers keep asking me.
Let me put it this way: Whatever you're doing right now is likely ten times as interesting, if you're an accountant. Imagine 400 three minute speeches, all covering the same few topics. Healthcare: A right not a privilege; Bush squandered goodwill after 9/11; Clinton surpluses are now Bush deficits; We need allies to respect us; John Kerry went to Vietnam; Vietnam; Vietnam.
My brain is literally numb. I wonder what these speakers are thinking about when they're up there. I wonder how the guy who goes on at 4p.m. on Thursday and repeats the same lines everyone else has already beaten into the ground all week can do it.
There is no sign of embarrassment or lack of energy. Each speaker throws herself into the Kerry-approved litany of bland, general complaints without any real teeth. They've got to win over Middle America, you know.
Everyone out there in TV land wonders why Al Sharpton was so well received. Here's the secret: He's the only guy who got off script during this entire ordeal.
So, folks, here's the answer to your question: The 2004 Democratic Convention is an endurance test for people who have any capacity for boredom. In fact, I'm filing late Thursday before the primetime programming gets underway. I think I'll skip John Kerry's speech tonight and go watch the anarchists burn something instead.
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A child's future may even be damaged by the irretrievable paper trail created by standardized testing, Bowen said.
Information that was once protected in a confidential file held by the school now is stored in the state's database and used at the state's discretion, not the parents'.
"Less data on them is always better than more," Bowen said. "The state of Texas made no claims that it will be made private. They can do whatever they want to do with it."
Texas began its standardized testing in 1980.
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