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Special builds, secret techs, illegal moves...Posted August 28th 2006 by Dae
Some shit is going down with our file server. Downloads will continue to be wankered while I sort it out.
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Sporks?Posted August 18th 2006 by Dae
So, the festival has come to town. The blues guitarists have emerged sleepily from their respective sheds, the fire-eaters from their lives of pyromaniacal crime. While a five minute walk down the Royal Mile inspires near immediate festival fatigue - egged on no little by the rain forest or two's worth of ineptly conceived pamphlets - some notable acts, Peruvian panpipists and Jamaican chess allstars among them, seem to be cashing in on their ethnicity to lucrative effect.
The film festival kicked off only a few days ago, and oh yes, I was there (in the exquisitely decorated and absolutely heaving Cameo screen one, no less). Exchanging pleasantries with people I'm surprised to find I know, I might be forgiven for being fooled into feeling part of the industry. Thanks to Anna, friend and box-office gal some may be familiar with from the Sugar Puffs anecdote, I've taken in more than my non-existant finances would otherwise allow: last night found me face to face (thirty odd rows of audience excepted) with the man responsible for the infamous video to Benny Bennassi's Satisfaction. Leaving the auditorium, I could barely contain the desire to race naked into the streets, camera in hand and boombox on shoulder, awaiting the spontaneous revelry that would inevitably establish my career as music video director extraordinaire.
But I didn't come here to talk about any of that. On Friday the eighteenth of August, a more propitious day having never occurred, what in the world would, or should I be talking about but some especially motherfucking snakes on one particularly motherfucking plane? It was at three this afternoon that I heard the door open, saw Ian look deeply into my blinking eyes and speak those words that my heart had so been longing to hear: "Do you want to go and see Snakes on a Plane?" The slow clamber out of bed, the hastily donned coat and passage through the scathing rain - we four (Aidan and Murray included) were never so intrepid - and after all that, we were not for a second disappointed. The film knew it's business: the three elements we needed, the Snakes, the Plane, and Samuel L., were held like golden carrots before our slavering mouths throughout the monumentally dull opening, before appearing in a dizzying succession. The audience cheering that greeted Jackson's entrance remained frequent throughout any use of the words 'snakes' and 'plane' in the same sentence. The meat of the film left nothing to be desired, consisting as it did entirely of shots involving snakes, planes, or in a number of notable cases, both. The script was peppered with some truly memorable lines, most worthy of mention being Samuel's when, searching the cabin-crew cupboards for weaponry, he indignantly reflects on a package of plastic cutlery with the line "SPORKS?"
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Dae Buys New ShoesPosted July 24th 2006 by Dae
Tim Tam SlamPosted June 30th 2006 by PaPa
My absence from the front page of this website has been lengthy, and already I hear many of you crying out in the long dark of the Internet, asking me why. Why have I left you without one of my poorly written and factually derelict rants? Why have I left you in the clutches of Dae and his masturbatory linguaphilia? These questions, and more, shall all be answered, but not now, and not by me.
Rather, in a rarity for this site, my post will concern itself with the subject matter referred to in its title – the infamous Tim Tam Slam. For the exact technique of this manoeuvre you may wish to familiarise yourself with the bullet points in the above link, but I am not myself concerned with the cold, unfeeling methodology; my intention is instead to describe my personal experience with this awe-inspiring biscuit dunking procedure.
It begins, as so many things do, underwhelmingly. At first I was unable to discern any effect at all, and I may be forgiven at least partially for believing that I was doing it wrong. Such was not the case. This period of inactivity was merely the time that it took for the hot tea to travel the length of the biscuit, and when it reached my mouth it struck me almost physically, so unexpected was its appearance. After this first shock I was unable to continue for more than a couple of seconds before I realised that what I held was no longer a biscuit, but had become a hot, sodden mass. Quickly cramming it into my mouth, I became aware of the horrific damage done to the structure of the biscuit by the tea, its alteration from crunchy snack to amorphous piece of faerie flesh being complete and entire. I was rendered almost insensible by this effect – my only response when an enquiry was made after my success was to shout a barely coherent string of affirmatives.
With the Ill BehaviourPosted June 21st 2006 by Dae
It's bad enough having to go through the ritual humiliation of saying the words "I'll have a Jumbo Sausage and chips, please," without having the fruits of the trial spoilt by the visual excrement that is Channel Four's 'The Friday Night Project'. The only bit I get any pleasure out of is where they force that grinning fuck Alan Carr to run into the audience wearing a jacket made of fivers, being unceremoniously stampeded over by an audience clearly desperate to acquire some kind of compensation for the fake laughter that is so relentlessly demanded of them. While C4 have not yet commissioned my suggested replacement - a show consisting in the main of unsigned indie bands being ritualistically beaten with living snakes - they have at least got a good thing going with The Album Chart Show. Non-singles played live has to be a plus, however fawningly presented.
I spent my day wrestling with DVD Studio Pro, software clearly designed for the retards who believe that gratuitous flashing bollocks is suggestive of professionalism. Nonetheless, in the spirit of computer users everywhere I persevered and have managed to extract from the bowels of my G5 enough copies of Minor Details to redecorate a modest semi. Remember this though, Apple Macintosh, nemo me impune lacessit.
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The WIU School of Agriculture offers a pre-professional program designed to meet the requirements for admission to a school of veterinary medicine. Students who wish to pursue studies in pre-veterinary medicine should contact the academic adviser in the School of Agriculture. Due to intense competition for admission to schools of veterinary medicine, most students complete a four-year bachelor's degree program prior to admission. Those students considering a career in veterinary medicine should have a good foundation in biological sciences and chemistry, including biochemistry, as the minimum knowledge base for success in the curriculum. In addition, a course or courses concerning livestock production and animal ethology are highly desirable for all students. Those seeking a career in veterinary medicine related to agriculture should consider additional background in nutrition, livestock management, and the economics of production by working toward a degree in agriculture prior to admission to veterinary school. Students may also pursue other major fields of study. The 60-hour pre-veterinary requirement and the suggested WIU courses for admission to the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois are outlined below. Admission requirements for other schools of veterinary medicine are different but can be met with adviser consultation.
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The Big Sky Conference is going to review whether it should continue to hold its men's and women's basketball tournaments at the site of the regular-season champion or use some other model, including the possibility of a predetermined location.
Conference Commissioner Doug Fullerton says school administrators and conference staff will assess which format makes the most logistical and financial sense, taking into consideration travel costs, the time students are away from school and fan experience while also giving some advantage to teams that win regular-season titles.
"While our current format often leads to strong attendance and does a great job of protecting our top team, we also realize it has become problematic for many reasons," Fullerton said in a statement Wednesday.
Talking about changing the format or location of the tournament "is a major philosophical change for the conference, and there are many issues to study before we take a formal proposal back to the presidents," Fullerton said.
Any potential changes would not take effect until March 2016.
The league also expanded its women's soccer championship to six teams and split the volleyball teams into two six-team divisions for the regular season. Squads will play each team in their division twice and each team in the other division once, giving them 16 conference matches.
The North Division will include Eastern Washington, Idaho, North Dakota, Montana, Montana State and Northern Colorado. The members of the South Division are: Idaho State, Northern Arizona, Portland State, Sacramento State, Southern Utah, and Weber State.
The conference also announced it was sponsoring a men's golf championship beginning in the spring of 2015. Idaho, North Dakota, Northern Colorado, Southern Utah, Sacramento State and Weber State all have men's golf teams. All but Idaho had been members of the America Sky men's golf league. The Big Sky is adding two other former America Sky teams -- Hartford and Binghamton -- as qualifiers for the conference golf tournament. The agreement requires the tournament to always be held in the West.
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New York, April 11, 2012 --The NYSE Group, Inc. today reported short interest as of the close of business on the settlement date of March 30, 2012.
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Birthday: November 2 1966
At the hospital, Felix questions Liz about Robin's exit. He wonders if it has to do with her family moving on while she was gone, but Liz can't say for sure. Ric arrives, shocking Liz. Ric tells Liz she's as beautiful as ever and he tells her he's in town to see Molly – and her. He thinks about her all the time and asks her out to dinner. He hopes they can toss out the bad and rekindle what's good. Suddenly Felix preps for a gunshot victim and Liz is upset to see AJ. Felix won't let her in the room and tells her to notify the family. Liz calls Michael and tells him that AJ was shot. In the operating room, AJ crashes.
At home, Ava has her gun on AJ and tells him it's the end of the line. He wants to know why she killed Connie and she blames him for stumbling out of the office with the gun. It made her think Julian was in trouble and she called out for him. Connie realized the truth and Ava had to take her out. AJ begs for his life and Ava emotionally tells him she tried to keep him alive but he remembered the truth. He urges her to think of Michael and Kiki but she is more concerned about Sonny's retaliation if he finds out the truth. She says goodbye and pulls the trigger, but it jams. They start to physically fight and AJ gets his hand around her neck and up against the wall. Sonny walks in on the violent choking. He sees the gun on the ground, picks it up and demands AJ release Ava. AJ begs Sonny to listen, he didn't kill Connie, but Sonny fires anyway.
AJ shows up at Ava's door. He confronts her for killing Connie. She tries to shut the door on his face. He pushes his way in. They rehash. He yelps that he knows what happened. She thinks he's trying to shift the blame. AJ doesn't buy that and accuses her of protecting herself. Ava sips a martini and claims she can prove he's the killer. She reminds him his prints were on the gun, not hers. He accuses her of getting his prints while he was plastered and passed out. He's sure that Connie messed up her plans for ELQ. When he threatens to go to the cops, she pulls out a gun. He gulps.
Anna and Dante arrive at AJ's. He shouts that somebody wants him dead. The cops think it was a burglary but AJ insists it wasn't. Anna takes a call from Patrick. She takes off and AJ blames Sonny. They argue and AJ realizes someone else wants him dead. He asks Dante to question his father. Dante goes and AJ pounds back the booze and flashes to letting Connie live. He drops his glass. "I didn't shoot her! Connie was still alive when I left," he says. He realizes Ava killed Connie.
Carlos scares Ava at her place. She wants to know what went down while she was in New York. He tells her he made his move and was about to shoot 'him' when somebody hit him over the head. He ran off, leaving his gun behind. Ava looks uneasy and calls him unprofessional. He shrugs. He can take care of himself. She's only worried this can be traced back to her. He's sorry. She fixes him a drink and he asks if she still wants AJ dead. She denies that. She can't risk AJ remembering the night Connie died. She needs to come up with another alibi. She'll be in contact when the time is right. He goes and AJ arrives.
AJ puts his arms up as Carlos enters the Quartermaine estate, masked and armed. Carlos instructs AJ to get on his knees. AJ offers the safe, anything, but Carlos wants him on the ground. Tracy and Luke enter, smash Carlos with a vase and chase him off before he can get his gun. AJ tells them he seemed intent on killing him. Luke asks who wants him dead. AJ is sure it's Sonny. Luke doesn't think Sonny would go back on his word to Michael but AJ does. Luke leaves to talk to Sonny. Tracy asks AJ to think about anyone else who might want him dead.
Carlos calls Ava from outside the Quartermaine estate with AJ in his sights. Ava tells him to make it look like a robbery gone wrong. Carlos peeks inside and sees that Michael has joined AJ. Ava tells him to wait till Michael leaves, then kill AJ. Inside, Michael tells AJ that he and Kiki aren't living together. He thinks Morgan and Ava even know each other better than him and Kiki. AJ thinks they can work it out. Michael knows it has been tough on AJ since the trial. When he drinks he's not the person Michael knows. Instead, he's angry and destructive. The night Connie died Ava even had to help Michael get AJ on the couch. AJ is surprised to hear Ava was at the house. Michael leaves and Carlos gets ready outside.
AJ is getting drunk in the graveyard and yelling for Connie's ghost. She appears and reminds him that she is not real and doesn't have any answers. The hallucination points out that he must not be buying Ava's story if he keeps seeing her.
Ava meets with Carlos at a bar. He worries that he's walked into a trap. She assures him she has plans for him and explains that someone has been bankrolling Julian's operation. He's surprised to hear she is making a move against her brother. AJ stumbles in and begins demanding answers from Ava. Carlos walks away and Ava tells AJ he reeks. She repeats that she saw him with the gun and Connie on the floor. He's sure there is more to this. Ava reminds him that she protected him and he needs to let this go... or she will tell Michael what she knows. This upsets AJ. He starts yelping until Carlos drags him out. Carlos wonders why AJ was bugging her about Connie. "It's not like you killed her," he says. After seeing the look on her face, he wonders if she did.
At the Corinthos Coffee office, Ava confronts AJ about killing Connie. Sonny shows up and he's not thrilled that AJ is there. After some bickering, AJ leaves. Sonny asks Ava if she is really willing to stab her own brother in the back. She's doing it for Morgan. Besides, she's never had a real relationship with Julian. Ava explains the situation with Silas and how Julian used Morgan. Sonny understands that she loves his son but that's not enough. She asks for a chance to prove herself and offers to serve up her brother to him. "Do what you have to do. I'll believe it when I see it," he says. Before she leaves, she tells him AJ didn't sound remorseful when he was talking to her about Connie earlier. Ava saunters out.
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Once upon a time, before hapless couples tortured each other by frolicking with beautiful "singles," before a naked, ruthless corporate trainer won a million bucks for outscheming 15 opponents in the South China Sea, before "The Mole" and "Big Brother" and "Who Wants to Be," or "Marry," or barbecue, or whatever, "a Millionaire," before Oprah and Jerry and Maury and Ricki, even before we found out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real, there was "The Dating Game."
Quaint and gentle by today's standards, with its Herb Alpert theme music, giant daisy set decorations and double-entendre-laden interplay between bachelors and "bachelorettes," "The Dating Game" went on the air in December 1965 and was the first success of a producer named Chuck Barris, who had an idea whose simplicity belies its genius: People will do anything to get on TV, and other people will watch them.
Thirty-five years later, that idea dominates television. Chuck Barris, the King of Schlock, the Baron of Bad Taste, the Ayatollah of Trasherola, remembered now mostly as the loopy, squinty-eyed host of "The Gong Show," is the godfather of reality TV.
"Game shows have always operated on the premise that ordinary people are the stars of the show," says Steven Stark, author of "Glued to the Set: The 60 Television Shows That Made Us Who We Are Today," "but he raised it to an art form in the sense that you don't just show ordinary people in favorable circumstances — you may do badly on a quiz show but you still look OK anyway — but you can humiliate them and they'll still go on, for their 15 minutes of fame or whatever."
Barris didn't just introduce humiliation to daytime TV. "The Dating Game" and its 1966 companion, "The Newlywed Game," were among the first shows to acknowledge that people actually have sex. And they were game shows based on exploring human relationships, rather than simply answering general knowledge questions or solving puzzles. And the prizes were modest — a restaurant dinner, a new washer and dryer. The real prize wasn't a big cash payoff, it was being on TV in the first place. "There wasn't a need for big prizes," Barris wrote about "The Newlywed Game" in the first of his two autobiographies. "The possibility of being on coast-to-coast television was tempting enough to lure the newlyweds to our studios."
"Music changed when the Beatles arrived," David Schwartz, the editor of the Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows, told Entertainment Weekly in 1999, "and game shows changed when Chuck Barris' shows came on."
Barris also changed the industry behind the scenes — an accidental innovation that's had an even greater impact on television than his on-screen successes, and will continue to do so long after the reality craze fades, if it ever does. When one of his shows, "The Parent Game," was dropped from the NBC schedule before the first episode aired in 1972, Barris bought back the pilot and sold the show to local stations one at a time. Thus was born first-run syndication, a multibillion-dollar industry.
Chuck Barris grew up in Philadelphia, where he was born in 1929 … or 1930 … or 1932. Although he's written two autobiographies, he hasn't gone into much detail about his childhood. Not that what he writes can be trusted anyway: He filled his first, "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: An Unauthorized Autobiography," in 1984, with tales of his adventures as a CIA assassin. In his second memoir, "The Game Show King: A Confession," in 1993, he made nary a mention of his CIA fantasy, or even of the first book. Some of the stories in the first book are repeated in the second, but with differing details. He once wrote a lovely essay for Sports Illustrated in which he described promising to marry his future wife if Jim Plunkett of the Oakland Raiders completed a touchdown pass in the football game they were listening to on the radio in Los Angeles. In "The Game Show King," the promise comes in a New York hospital as his would-be bride lies in agony with peritonitis. Though most sources cite his birth date as June 3, 1929, he wrote about his 50th birthday occurring in 1980 in "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," and once wrote another Sports Illustrated piece in which he recalled being an 18-year-old vendor in Shibe Park in 1950.
Here's the story according to Barris: He's the son of "a less than inspiring dentist." The family, which included a sister seven years younger than Chuck, was left with nothing when his father died of a stroke. Barris, who graduated from Drexel Institute of Technology in 1953, bounced around for a few years in various jobs, including TelePrompTer salesman (he says he never sold one), book salesman (never sold one) and fight promoter. He eventually moved to New York, married the former Lyn Levy, got a job as a page at NBC, conned his way into a prestigious management training program by forging letters of recommendation from members of the board of NBC's parent company, RCA — NBC executives never checked — then joined the daytime sales department and promptly got laid off in an efficiency cutback. (In typically untrustworthy Barris fashion, the parent company in his telling of this story is General Electric, which hadn't owned NBC since 1932, and wouldn't again until 1986.)
He pounded the pavement for a year, unable to land a job until an ABC executive asked him if he wanted a temporary gig: Barris was to take the train to Philadelphia every day, sit on the set of "American Bandstand" and keep an eye on Dick Clark, who was caught up in the payola scandal. He had a stake in publishing companies, record labels and even pressing plants whose records he promoted heavily on "American Bandstand." ABC forced him to divest himself of his music business interests and, Barris says, assigned Barris as his watchdog for a few weeks until he could go to Washington and testify before a House subcommittee. Barris would at least get a new suit out of the deal, because ABC thought a watchdog should dress the part.
But Clark didn't go to Washington for more than a year. In the meantime he gave Barris a desk and chair and made him feel welcome. With nothing to do, Barris wrote a long memo every day detailing the minutiae of the show, along with some jokes and philosophical observations. Barris claims that the sheer heft of his 500-page document helped Clark come out of the hearings unscathed, earning Barris a lifetime friend in Clark and a full-time job in ABC's daytime television department.
It didn't take Barris long to get in trouble with the ABC suits. Though not a musician (his no-volume electric guitar playing on "The Gong Show" notwithstanding), he managed to write the song "Palisades Park" and get it to Freddie "Boom Boom" Cannon — a good friend of Clark's: He appeared on "American Bandstand" more than any other artist, and recorded for Swan Records, formerly a Clark label. Cannon's 1962 record went to No. 3, and ABC, which didn't want another payola investigation, forbade him from writing more. Barris has claimed to have written subsequent hits pseudonymously, but Cannon told the Allentown (Pa.) Morning Call in 1999 that he called Barris after the song broke, looking for more hits. "It was a fluke. I guess the guy just had one great song in him."
After convincing the network to let him open an office in Los Angeles, Barris made a pilot for a game show called "People Poker." There were five people from each of three professions, plus a "wild card," and contestants had to correctly guess the professions to collect a poker hand. Three electricians and two mechanics, say, would beat a pair of each. On the pilot show, according to "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," the talent booker used five brain surgeons, five cops and five hookers, all female. The cops and hookers started fighting. The show never sold.
Meanwhile, Barris was bridling at ABC's conservatism and bureaucracy. When he got in trouble again, for replacing his cumbersome title (director of daytime television programs, American Broadcasting Company, West Coast Division) with a sleeker one — duke of daytime — he decided he'd had enough, and struck out on his own. His mother had remarried a wealthy man. Barris borrowed $20,000 from his stepfather, developed "The Dating Game" and sold it to ABC, which paid for a pilot, but didn't put the show on its schedule, effectively killing it.
Barris was devastated, but good news was on the way. Two of ABC's new game shows were tanking, and the network needed replacements fast. "The Dating Game" was back in business. The show's format was simple: A pretty young bachelorette would interview three prospective bachelors she couldn't see. She'd choose one to spend a night on the town with. The game was sometimes played in reverse, with a bachelor and three bachelorettes. The whole thing was presided over by Jim Lange, a low-key disc jockey from San Francisco.
But as the shows began taping, Barris ran into an unforeseen problem: The contestants were getting down and dirty!
Bachelorette: Bachelor No. 3, make up a poem for me.
Bachelor No. 3: Dollar for dollar and ounce for ounce, I'll give you pleasure 'cause I'm big where it counts.
Bachelorette: Bachelor No. 3, what's the funniest thing you were ever caught doing when you thought nobody was looking?
Bachelor No. 3: I was caught with a necktie around my dick.
Bachelorette: Bachelor No. 1, I play the trombone. If I blew you, what would you sound like?
Bachelorette: Bachelor No. 2, what does a rabbi do on his day off?
Bachelor No. 2: A rabbit?
Bachelorette: No, a rabbi.
Bachelor No. 2: How the fuck do I know?
And so on.
Unable to use the shows with the blue talk, Barris hired an actor to come to the set and play an FBI agent. The actor warned the contestants that it's a federal offense to curse or even hint at anything lewd on the air. The contestants, none of whom were legal scholars, bought it. Barris was able to deliver shows that ABC could air, and "The Dating Game" became a hit.
"The Newlywed Game" followed in the summer of 1966. This time, four newly married couples were quizzed on how their partners would answer personal (and winkingly intimate) questions. The prize for the winners was usually some household appliance, which they'd invariably go bananas over as the other three couples looked crestfallen. Barris later revealed the secret behind these reactions: He'd ask prospective clients what their dream gift would be, then match couples who answered similarly on the same show. The host was Bob Eubanks, a somewhat toothier version of Lange. Unable to use the word "sex" on the air, "The Newlywed Game" substituted "whoopee," as in "whoopee session." The word became a trademark of the show:
Eubanks: Where will your husband say your worst whoopee session usually takes place?
Wife: In the bathtub.
Eubanks: In the bathtub?
Wife: Yes, because the water always makes his peeny shrivel up.
Oh, the critics hated it all. Television has hit an all-time low, they wrote. Bad taste has taken hold of the airwaves. Barris is catering to the lowest common denominator. ("I don't even know what the lowest common denominator is," Barris would grumble to a newspaper reporter years later.) Lange was so upset by the vitriol that Barris says he had to talk him out of quitting "The Dating Game." He wrote in "The Game Show King" that he told Lange newspaper critics were originally movie and theater critics, and "free TV is beneath them."
"'In my opinion, a good game show review is the kiss of death,'" Barris recalls telling Lange. "'If for some strange reason the critic liked it, the public won't. A really bad review means the show will be on for years.'" And, at least in the case of his first two shows, he was right. In one form or another, "The Dating Game" and "The Newlywed Game" stayed on the air for decades.
In September 1966, ABC called again. It had a flaming stinker on its hands in "The Tammy Grimes Show." The sitcom was the first casualty of the new season, dead after four weeks. Could Barris turn "The Dating Game" into a prime-time show to replace it? At the time game shows were a daytime affair. ABC's programming chief suggested a more glamorous prize for the winner to spruce up the show. So rather than a night at one of Hollywood's finest restaurants, the nighttime winners would get a romantic vacation, chaperoned by a staffer from the production company. Barris would claim in "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" that these trips abroad served as cover for him on his CIA assignments. (Whenever Barris relates this story, however the details change, one thing stays constant: He said he could have "The Dating Game" on the air in six weeks, hung up the phone and threw up.)
"The Newlywed Game" went to prime time three months later, but with no upgrade in the prizes. Barris wouldn't allow it. A wife might playfully whack her husband over the head with her cardboard answer card for getting an easy one wrong with a toaster at stake, "but put a yacht up there and you've got an entirely new show," Barris said. "The fun will turn to violence. What you'll have is 'The Death Game.'"
With two hit shows, Barris was hot. "Produce a hit television show and the Network Biggies will listen very carefully to what you have to say," he wrote. "Produce two hit television shows, one after the other, and the NBs will take almost anything you have to offer, sight unseen."
And that's what happened. Barris sold three more shows: "The Family Game," a "Newlywed Game" variant with parents and kids replacing married couples as contestants; "Dream Girl of 1968," a yearlong beauty pageant that foreshadowed the far spoofier "$1.98 Beauty Show" a decade later; and "How's Your Mother-in-Law?" a game with a courtroom setting that put the proverbial family nightmare on the hot seat, thus violating — unsuccessfully, as it turned out — the TV rule that you can't attack Mom.
Counting the nighttime versions of "The Dating Game" and "The Newlywed Game," Chuck Barris Productions was putting 27 half-hours on network television every week. The freewheeling flower-power style that Barris had used to run the company in its early years — company meetings kicked off with folk music jam sessions, and employees could wear whatever they wanted — gave way to a more corporate operation. Barris went public in 1968 as Barris Industries.
Other shows followed: There was "The Game Game," which was kind of complicated — a contestant and three celebrities trying to figure out what a panel of psychologists would say was the best solution to a problem — and not successful, validating Barris' theory that the simpler the show, the greater the chance of success. There was also a one-hour Mama Cass special, and "Operation: Entertainment," a variety show inspired by Bob Hope's Christmas shows. It was taped at domestic military bases.
By 1974, Barris' shows had dropped off the network schedules, one by one, with "The Newlywed Game" ending its first run in December. So that year Barris wrote a bestselling novel. He may have been the King of Schlock, but his heroes were F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Tom Stoppard. Upon reading "Love Story" he decided he could write a better book, so he spent six months writing "You and Me, Babe," the fictionalized story of his since-ended marriage to Levy, which sold 750,000 copies thanks to heavy promotion. He dedicated it to his 12-year-old daughter, Della, who would soon make occasional appearances on her father's new show.
It was 1976 and Barris had yet another game in production. But the host, John Barbour, wasn't working out. He just didn't click with the show's concept. NBC gave Barris an ultimatum that no game show producer had ever heard before: You host the show, or no sale. And that's how "The Gong Show" got its lunatic of a host, and that's how Chuck Barris became a star.
"The Gong Show" was a spoof of TV's old amateur talent shows. A panel of three B-list celebrities (Jaye P. Morgan, Jamie Farr, Arte Johnson, Rex Reed, Pat Harrington, Phyllis Diller, Scatman Crothers, etc.) judged the acts as they sang, or did the hula, or (in the case of a pre-Pee-wee Herman Paul Reubens) impersonated a dripping faucet, or whatever. Barris booked the occasional decent act to make the bad acts look worse. After 45 seconds, the panelists could ring a huge gong to make the act stop. Any act that survived the full 90 seconds would get a score of 1 to 10 from each of the three judges, with 30 being the top score. The winner on each show would receive a prize of $516.32 and a gong-shaped trophy.
In the '60s, Barris would explain to his staff that a lot of people eat while they watch TV. "If you can make something happen on the program that will stop their forks halfway between their plates and their mouths at least once each half-hour, you'll have a hit television show," he'd say.
Anyone brave enough to eat while watching "The Gong Show" likely had a fork permanently suspended in midair.
And at the center of the madness was Barris. He squinted at the camera, sometimes from under a hat that he pulled down over his eyes. He clapped incessantly, sometimes stopping just short to fool the audience, which clapped along with him. "Back with more stuff," he'd say, "right after these messages." He strummed an electric guitar (unmiked, because he was a lousy player), danced, made fun of the acts. Whenever there was a dog act, he'd smear Alpo on his crotch beforehand, the better to create onstage embarrassment. For 10 years he'd been telling his hosts to keep it low-key. The repetition of a daily show seems boring to the cast and crew, he'd tell them, but not to the audience. They like you the way you are, steady and calm. Resist the temptation to jazz it up. "Then I go ahead and perform about as low key as a whirling dervish, busting every one of my rules," he wrote. "I just got crazier and crazier," he said years later.
The show created stars: The Unknown Comic, a comedian so awful he wore a brown paper bag over his head ("Is my fly open?" he'd ask Barris, who'd say no. "Well it should be. I'm peein'!"); Gene Gene the Dancing Machine, a chunky stagehand who danced frenetically; Father Ed, another stagehand who dressed as a priest and spewed pseudo-biblical advice. ("When a man asketh you for $5,000, giveth him $500. He wilst not bother you anymore and you wilst be $4,500 ahead.") A prime-time version followed, with a more glamorous first prize: $712.05.
But the biggest star was Barris himself. He liked getting the good tables and parking spaces and never having to stand in line for anything, but for the most part he had a hard time with the loss of privacy that comes with fame, with the loss of that barrier between himself and strangers. "On an airplane, traveling from New York to Los Angeles," he wrote, "a dignified businessman knelt down by my aisle seat and did his lizard imitation, licking my cheek with his tongue." He recalls a woman yelling to her husband at a crowded bookstore, "Look, Morris, the moron can read!" And a woman waiting at a red light asked him to roll down his window and said, "My girlfriend and I just want you to know we can't stand you." Barris, noting the endless congeniality of his friend Dick Clark, wrote, "I behaved exactly the opposite. I never fully understood why I acted the way I did."
The critics were no kinder than the man and woman on the street. Oh, they hated it all again. Merciless! Humiliating! Stupid! Lowest common denominator! Mike Wallace grilled him on "60 Minutes" about demeaning people. "The contestants on our shows come because they have a good time," Barris protested. "These people don't take participating on a game show as seriously as you think they do, Mike. It's not a big sociological thing. They just want to have some fun."
Newsweek dispatched its entertainment editor, Maureen Orth, to report on "The Gong Show" in 1977. Barris disarmed her by asking what talent she had. She said she could do her old high school pompom routine and he booked her on the show. By the end of her report, she's dancing the Charleston with a midget as the closing credits roll, having scored a second-place 26 with her "Gimme a G! … O! … N! … G!" routine to "On Wisconsin!"
In 1978 Barris produced and hosted "The Chuck Barris Rah Rah Show," a "Gong Show"-inspired variety hour that featured an odd mix of old-timers (like Cab Calloway), '50s rock stars (like Chuck Berry), then-current variety show staples (like Jose Feliciano) and amateur acts. It lasted six weeks. That fall, "The $1.98 Beauty Show" sicced the "Gong Show" ethic on beauty pageants. The winner, after enduring abuse by confetti-tossing host Rip Taylor, would be awarded the titular check and a bouquet of rotting carrots. The critics weren't crazy about that one either, but Barris called it one of his favorites.
Also in 1978, the Popsicle Twins appeared on "The Gong Show." Barris used to keep the NBC censors off the show's back by throwing sacrifices at them — acts he knew the censors wouldn't approve, but that would distract them from the acts he wanted on the air. The Popsicle Twins were one of the stooges, but the censors didn't get the dirty joke, so the Twins made it onto the show.
The act was officially called "Have You Got a Nickel?" Two barefoot teenage girls (who weren't twins) walked onstage, giggling abashedly, wearing shorts and T-shirts. Each of them sat down cross-legged and, to the tune of "I'm in the Mood for Love," proceeded to fellate an orange popsicle. Phyllis Diller gave them a 0. Jamie Farr gave them a 2. Jaye P. Morgan (who would later be fired for flashing her breasts on camera) said, "That's how I got my start," and gave them a 10. She was rewarded with one of their popsicles.
"I'm fairly certain that's when I first thought of chucking it all and moving to the south of France," Barris would later write.
By 1980, "The Gong Show" was losing steam. Several times Barris has told the story of saying, "There must be more to life than game shows" to the makeup woman during a break in "Gong Show" taping, and the woman whispering back, "There is." He decided to make "The Gong Show Movie," with his friend Robert Downey Sr. writing and directing. Midway through the production, Barris decided he wanted to direct it himself, which he did with Downey's blessing. Barris turned Downey's slapstick comedy into an attempt at seriousness, with disastrous results. The picture bombed.
"Life is cruel enough without Chuck Barris around," read the Albuquerque Tribune's review, and soon, he wouldn't be. For the next half-decade, he scaled down Barris Industries, wrote his first autobiography and contemplated that move to France. In 1986, with his girlfriend and future wife, Robin "Red" Altman, he went.
The Barrises lived in Saint-Tropez for several years, with Chuck occasionally returning briefly and unsuccessfully to the game show wars. They split up in 1999. He published his second autobiography in 1993 and made a cameo appearance in Downey's oddball movie "Hugo Pool" in 1997. And while he was splashing around the Mediterranean in his boat and trying to become an ace at boule, a form of lawn bowling, American culture caught up with him.
A wave of real people had begun showing up on TV, most notably on the show "Real People" (host: "Gong Show" washout John Barbour) in 1979. The wave never let up: "The People's Court," which debuted in 1981, brought back the old '50s format of the real-life courtroom drama, but where shows such as "They Stand Accused" had used ad-libbing actors, "The People's Court" used actual folks, who agreed to have their actual small-claims court cases adjudicated on the show. People magazine called the show "the 'Gong Show' of U.S. jurisprudence" and its retired judge, Joe Wapner, a serious version of Barris. The American Bar Association Review made the same comparison. The real people in court format is still going strong, with Judge Jerry Sheindlin in Wapner's old chair, and competition from his wife, "Judge Judy," as well as "Judge Joe Brown," "Judge Mills Lane" — and even "Judge Wapner's Animal Court."
The daytime talk show format, once the province of celebrity chat and caring, sharing Phil Donahue, turned itself into a voyeuristic festival of real people and their real problems in the '80s, with Sally and Geraldo and, to a lesser extent, Oprah, and a full-fledged freak show in the '90s, with Jerry and Jenny and Maury and Rolanda and Ricki and Montel and does anybody remember "The Tempestt Bledsoe Show"? The producers of these programs would sometimes admit they had no idea why people came on and made such fools of themselves. Chuck Barris knew. As an exasperated Warren Beatty said about Madonna in her narcissistic 1991 documentary, "Madonna: Truth or Dare": "Why do anything if it's not on camera?"
The '90s brought "America's Funniest Home Videos" and MTV's "The Real World," both of which spawned endless imitations, all of them proving over and over that people will do anything to get on TV, and people will watch them. And then came the Internet, with its voyeur cams and bedroom cams, and the current wave of reality game shows that leave audiences agog at the things people will do to get on TV — audiences that keep tuning in.
It's not just Barris' ethic that survives. His methods are all over the airwaves as well. The chaos and noise of "The Gong Show" live on in almost all youth-oriented TV. The show's talentless performers became the "Stupid Human Tricks" contestants on David Letterman — the same David Letterman who used to be a panelist on "The Gong Show," where he no doubt learned the trick of using stagehands as entertainers. Barris' addled master of ceremonies character can be seen in Conan O'Brien, Tom Green and squinty-eyed Adam Carolla of "The Man Show."
The time may be ripe for a Barris revival, or at least an image upgrade, but it's going to have to wait a little. Charlie Kaufman, the hottest screenwriter in Hollywood after "Being John Malkovich," has adapted "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," and Johnny Depp signed to play Barris early this year. George Clooney was reportedly on board to play Barris' CIA recruiter, but financing fell through in February because the deal couldn't get done in time to guarantee that filming would be completed before this summer's anticipated writers and directors strikes — strikes that would mean even more reality shows flooding the TV schedule.
Where can reality TV go that it hasn't gone before? Barris has plenty of unused ideas. One that he used to talk about a lot was "How Low Will You Go?" or simply "Greed" (a title his pal Clark used for a "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" clone). Contestants would try to underbid each other for such jobs as kicking an old man's crutches out from under him or shooting a little boy's dog. Reality shows have barely scratched the surface of Barris' tongue-in-cheek vision. "The ultimate game show," he has said, "would be one where the losing contestant was killed."
Which almost happened on a Barris show. In "The Game Show King," Barris relates the story of Ivy Flotsam, a contestant on a Barris revival of the '50s game "Treasure Hunt." In the show, host Geoff Edwards gave contestants a choice between cash, which he'd count into their palm, or the prize hidden in one of 25 boxes onstage, which ranged from huge cash bundles to worthless crap. Edwards was a master at milking the suspense to the point of sadism.
Ivy Flotsam didn't appear to be in the best of health even before Edwards began torturing her. "You have just won … twenty … five … thousand … coffee beans!" he said, building her up and deflating her. But there was also something to put them in: "A brand new … automatic … coffee grinder!" Up she went, and back down. By the time he told her that she'd also won "your very own … picnic basket!" Flotsam wasn't falling for it anymore. Dejected, she accepted the beans, grinder and basket from Edwards and began to walk back to her seat, but Edwards stopped her one more time, looked into the box and told the exasperated Flotsam to hang on, he had something for her to put her heavy bundle in. "Why don't you try putting it down … in the back of your … 1960 classic Rolls-Royce!" At which point Ivy Flotsam fainted dead away, one eye open, staring.
The crew was sure she'd died. The cameramen whirled their cameras around the studios, searching for something to focus on and settling on the audience's shoes.
"Me?" wrote Barris, "I had a million questions. Was a death on the show good for the ratings, or bad?"
He wouldn't get his answer. Ivy Flotsam survived to tell her tale on "60 Minutes," where Mike Wallace asked her if her experience on "Treasure Hunt" was a happy one.
"Are you kidding, Mike?" she said. "I had the time of my life that night."
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The pattern stamp tool can be a useful design element to create interesting textures and background in your images. Familiarize yourself with the tool and experiment on your own photos!See Transcript
Transcript:Photoshop Pattern Stamp Tool
Today, I'm going to show you how to use the Pattern Stamp Tool in Photoshop CS6.
What is the Pattern Stamp Tool?
The pattern stamp tool can be a useful design element. You can use it to create interesting textures and background in your images. You can make your own pattern stamps. Photoshop also comes with a few options.
Begin to Experiment
To get started, select the Pattern Stamp Tool from the Tools Panel on the left side. It's located underneath the Clone Stamp Tool. Now, go to menu above the image and select the pattern you would like to work with. There are a couple here that came with Photoshop and I created a couple myself.
I am going to select one and now apply the tool like a brush to my image. You can see the pattern start to emerge. If I return to the top menu, I can adjust the brush size. I will make it smaller.
Now, I'm going to make it larger. I can also adjust the hardness of the brush. I will decrease the hardness and as you can see this gives my brush a softer edge. Now, I can choose from various types of brushes, again I can select one with a hard or soft edge. You can also select different modes. I will switch from normal to dissolve and you can see the effect it has on the tool.
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There are lots of options for you to experiment with. Now, I am going to undo that and show you a few more ways to modify this tool. You can change the opacity of the tool. I will lower and you can see the pattern is now translucent. I'm going to go ahead and return the opacity to 100%. Now, I am going to undo that.
If we go back to the brush panel, we will have a whole new series of options to play with. If I select the scattering option from this menu, it will create a very interesting abstraction of my pattern. It has very little effect unless I go over to the menu and increase the amount of scatter.
Now, you can see the interesting effect. I suggest trying out a few of the options from this menu. They can help you achieve really interesting textures and variations on your pattern.
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Partitioning external HDs
I have a 500 GB external that currently has a lot of pictures and videos saved on it because they wouldn't fit on my internal.
I would like to use the free space on that external to do a carbon copy of my internal.
Is it possible to partition a certain amount of space on the external to do this without erasing the existing data on it?
Personally, I wouldn't even try it unless you care nothing about any of those pics and videos. For $60-70, you can get another 500GB drive to create the clone and backup those pics/videos which you currently do not have backed up.
Better yet, for $100 or less you can get a 1 - 1.5 TB drive.
Edit: this just boils down to the same advice - don't play with partitionng a drive that contains data until that drive is backed up. Stuff happens.
The problem with ordering a new hard drive is right now I'm not 100% sure we have the extra money to get one right now because I have to renew my license plates this month (**** DMV!), and even if I can go ahead and buy them I'd have to wait for it to be delivered. Oh well...such is the life of a computer owner.
I was hoping you could safely partition a used hard drive...but I was anticipating the answer you gave.
Disk Utility is suppose to be able to safely re-size partitions without data loss, but I've never done it.
However, all of those other utilities that can do the same which I have used time and again without issue, I've seen them on the rare occasion of 'something' happening to cause data loss.
Don't know if DU will only re-size HFS partitions or any format - a google would probably answer that.
If your external is formatted as HFS, and you feel the internal is about to die, I'd probably try a Time Machine back up instead of resizing and doing a clone. A TM backup can be written to a drive with other data on it - but it has to be HFS.
1. Does time machine back up software? I have Adobe CS3 installed on my computer, but I don't have the installation disk. I don't want to lose this program!
2. Will time machine create a bootable copy of my hard drive?
The advantage to CCC is that if I DO have to replace the hard drive, I will have an exact copy of it on the external that I could then copy onto the new internal (whenever I get one). I'm hoping time machine will do the same.
1. Yes, it backs up everything. I have seen folks say they have restored everything without issue, and I've heard you may need your discs to reinstall some apps - like MS Office and the CS suite - so I'm not sure. Maybe someone else can chime in here.
2. Nope - TM backup is not bootable - it requires you to reinstall the OS and import from the backup. (I use SuperDuper! instead of CCC.)
(Guess maybe I should do a TM restore myself to experiment sometime.)
Not that I'm recommending it...but I did exactly what the OP was inquiring...partition with data already on the drive and was successful...I partitioned using Mac HFS - Journaled and did a clone with CCC...worked for me...but I was ok with potential data loss...at the time. ( To clarify, I re-partitioned an existing drive...perhaps not the exact same..)
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Unlocking the Key to Deep Sleep
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On a recent autumn day, Burgoon pulls his wife's white Ford Explorer up to the grassy lot where the apartment once stood. The city razed the building years ago, but in Burgoon's mind, it's still there, taunting him even now.
Eight years after he left homicide, and nearly a year since retiring from the force at the age of 65, he still can't shake the memory of Jane Doe. Not a week goes by, he says, that he doesn't think of her.
Described by a former colleague as "almost too nice for this dirty business," Burgoon, with his quiet demeanor and nearly photographic memory, landed hundreds of violent criminals in prison during his 27 years on the force, earning him the nickname "Father Homicide." Something about those flickering green eyes, the fidgety way he makes small talk, that embarrassed look on his face when he lights up a Carlton, won Burgoon the empathy of victims' families and suspects alike. He's the kind of guy people want to help.
But with Jane Doe, there was never any family or suspect to coax. Burgoon couldn't work his good-cop magic.
Mary Case, the city's medical examiner at the time of the murder, says the case affected Burgoon more than any other detective. During those months the girl lay in the morgue, the two were in constant contact, investigating any leads that might reveal her identity.
"I'll always associate him with Jane Doe," says Case. "Whenever I see him, it's the first thing I think of, and it's always the first thing we'll discuss."
At six-foot-two and 230 pounds, Captain Leroy Adkins casts an imposing presence. He doesn't scare easily, but for a decade following the ghoulish crime, he was plagued by nightmares. He says he'd awaken in a cold sweat, the investigation spinning wildly in his mind.
"I wonder: Did we miss something? Is there something we should have done but didn't do? Something we missed at the scene? For the life of me, I can't think of anything."
The first African-American head of homicide, Adkins, now 71, was a year on the job at the time of Jane Doe's murder. Wanting to dispel the belief among many of the city's black residents that the police department cared more about white victims than black ones, Adkins immersed himself in the case. He organized meetings in the black community, urging residents to help. He wrote letters to the St. Louis American, Ebony and Jet magazines.
Adkins' tired eyes reflect the frustration and resignation that come from this infuriating case. The nightmares are gone, but harrowing memories linger. Jane Doe, he says, enters his mind when he's reading the paper, watching television, in the quiet-time moments before sleep.
His wife, Glenda, knows the case nearly as well as her husband. For years she's been the sounding board for her husband's unanswered questions.
"There's just so much wonderment in this story," she says. "You wonder how no one can be missing a child of that age. Where is the family? What about her schoolmates? Her friends? How could no one report her as missing?"
Right up until his death in 1996, detective Herb Riley kept his promise to never stop his search for the killer. Given the moniker Herb "Seek and Find" Riley by local crime tabloid The Evening Whirl, the hard-nosed cop was the yin to Burgoon's yang. Playing the part of bad cop, Riley was well known for his ruthless interrogations and his daily four-pack habit of Lucky Strikes. Of the more than 2,000 homicides he worked, Jane Doe was one of only two cases he never cracked.
After retiring in 1986, Riley brought home boxes of his notes and kept in regular contact with Joe Burgoon and other detectives.
"He was constantly talking about it," recalls his son, Jeff Riley. "I remember visiting him at the hospital and asking him if he was happy with his life and what he'd done. He replied that he was, but said he wished he solved the Jane Doe case. He said when he died he would finally know who did it. He believed the afterlife would reveal all life's mysteries."
Hours after finding the girl's mutilated body, Burgoon and Riley sent out all-points bulletins nationwide. When the dispatches yielded nothing, they began checking school attendance records, looking for students no longer on the rolls. Only the St. Louis Public Schools kept computerized attendance records at the time, but even those lists gave no indication as to where a student went after leaving school.
For the most part it was guesswork, with detectives calling as many as a half-dozen school districts before locating a child. For each child eliminated, hundreds more remained to be checked. So mind-numbingly frustrating was the task that detective Wayne Bender was hospitalized for migraines.
Finally, some seven months after the murder, the detectives accounted for every eight- to eleven-year-old black female enrolled in St. Louis city schools and the neighboring districts of University City, Wellston, Ferguson-Florissant and Normandy.
Who was she?
Desperate for something, anything, police have tracked down a score of false leads over the years, some more preposterous than others.
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This is the fourth diary about the upcoming NATO Summit in Chicago. The other diaries are:
Why I Am Protesting at the NATO Summit
Preparing for NATO in Chicago: The World as NATO Sees It
Preparing for NATO in Chicago: NATO's 2012 Agenda
Although slowly devolving to its member nations and partners as a result of constraints on the US budget, NATO is still fundamentally a US-dominated alliance. The US is the most powerful member and provides the most funding. The US insists on exceptional control of what NATO does. The US is the only nation ever to invoke Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which states that an attack on one is an attack on all; the US did this in response to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
After 65 Years, the Consequences
The effect of the US being in the NATO alliance was to magnify the processes that were transforming the US into a national security state whose foreign policy was dominated by the commercial interests of a now trans-national military and intelligence industrial complex. It provided the first instance of US permanent forward deployment in other countries. It gradually created interchangeability of weapons and interoperability of forces across the NATO alliance and, in some instances, to NATO partners. This enlarged the commercial opportunities for arms sales and defense contracting. It diverted resources into military spending, now to over $1 trillion a year within the alliance. For the US, it placed large sections of the federal budget off limits to public review or Congressional scrutiny. It put large tracts of land off limits and destroyed the environment in them through bomb tests or bombing and gunnery practice. It placed large numbers of people beyond the accountability of the laws of any country. It formalized the doctrine of state secrets. It denied justice through classifying as state secrets non-secret materials to avoid lawsuits. It eventually created the environment in which allies assisted in secret renditions and torturing of captured "enemy combatants" on the instructions of the US CIA. It now is morphing into a state that has claimed the power to indefinitely detain anyone of the administration's choosing (as long as a story can be created about their support of al Qaeda or other terrorist organizations) and the power to assassinate anyone, including US citizens, under a similar story without due process or real judicial review.
How did we start down this slippery slope? The institutions were put into place between 1947 and 1950.
The National Security Act of 1947
The North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 was the result of a process of US politics and international relations that began after World War II and took shape beginning in 1947 with the National Security Act of 1947. That legislation centralized the War Department and Navy Department in a Department of Defense, created the Air Force as a service independent of the Army, created the Central Intelligence Agency, established a National Security Council in the White House, and formed the uniformed military Joint Chiefs of Staff to advise the President and the Secretary of Defense. With some tweaks here and there over the past 65 years, this is still the national security institutions that we have. The major change came in 2002 with the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
The Berlin Blockade and the US-European Response
The Berlin Blockade by the Soviets in 1948 caused the first forward deployment of US military equipment since World War II. To reinforce the appearance that the US was determined, at all costs, to ensure the success of the airlift, Gen. Curtis Lemay deployed B-29s to Europe.
Also in response, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, and the United Kingdom concluded the Treaty of Brussels, a collective defense treaty. This created the Western European Union's defense organization in September 1948. To counter the Soviet response to the Berlin Airlift, the European countries sought to include the US and so negotiated the North Atlantic Treaty that established NATO. The Korean War raised (in Western circles) the worst-case scenario that all of the Communist countries were working together. NATO, as a result, began creating military plans in expectation of real conflict. The NATO countries began standardizing military terminology, operational procedures, and technology. By 1952, NATO was conducting joint military exercises, and the US was opening military bases in NATO countries.
In March 1948, President Truman addressed Congress on the Communist threat to Greece and Turkey. That speech contained the following line, which became US policy known as the Truman Doctrine: "…the policy of the United States to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." The Truman Doctrine has been the justification used for intervention in the internal affairs of other countries ever since.
In April 1948, the Marshall Plan was signed into law. It began economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (especially Germany) that prevented a repetition of the experience of post-World War I punishment of Germany. It was also a direct challenge to the Soviet Union that military competition would include economic competition. It also had the benefit of creating markets for US production.
Israeli Independence and the Partition of Palestine
The United Nations in 1947 adopted Resolution 181, which partitioned Palestine into independent Jewish and Palestinian states. The geographical lines of the partition were guarantees of conflict, which started almost immediately. In May 1948, the State of Israel declared its independence. Conflict continued until an armistice agreement in 1949. Both the US and the Soviet Union supported Israel, which sought to remain non-aligned. In 1952, an anti-Semitic trial in the Soviet Union caused Israel to align away from the Soviet Union and failure of Israel to be included in the Bandung Conference separated Israel from the non-aligned movement. France became Israel's main arms supplier. Lyndon Johnson shifted US policy towards Israel, but not without question. It was not until 1981, when Secretary of Defense Weinberger and Israeli Secretary of Defense Ariel Sharon signed the Strategic Cooperation Agreement that America's "special relationship" with Israel was established. And although not a member of NATO, Israel was important to the security of the Mediterranean. Through the US, NATO and Israeli interests became entangled.
The Central Intelligence Act of 1949
In May 1949, the Congress passed the Central Intelligence Act of 1949. The act allowed military and civilian federal employees to be detailed to the CIA. The Act contains this section:
In the interests of the security of the foreign intelligence activities of the United States and in order further to implement section 403–1 (i) of this title that the Director of National Intelligence shall be responsible for protecting intelligence sources and methods from unauthorized disclosure, the Agency shall be exempted from the provisions of sections 1 and 2 of the Act of August 28, 1935 (49 Stat. 956, 957; 5 U.S.C. 654), and the provisions of any other law which require the publication or disclosure of the organization, functions, names, official titles, salaries, or numbers of personnel employed by the Agency: Provided, That in furtherance of this section, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall make no reports to the Congress in connection with the Agency under section 607 of the Act of June 30, 1945, as amended (5 U.S.C. 947(b)).
That became the template for all "black budgets" in the US national security establishment.
But the bill itself (and presumably the law as codified) contains secret provisions. That means that most members of Congress voted on it without knowing the totality of the bill. In his opposition to the bill, Rep. Vito Marcantonio of New York said:
[In the following excerpt from a lengthy argument against the Central Intelligence Agency Bill, Congressman Marcantonio stressed the unprecedented nature of the Committee report recommending the bill. The committee report said: "The report does not contain a full and detailed explanation of all of the provisions of the proposed legislation in view of the fact that much information is of a highly confidential nature. However, the Committee on the Armed Services received a complete explanation of all features of the proposed measure. The committee is satisfied that all sections of the proposed legislation are fully justified."]
We have gone through two world wars; we have gone through a civil war; and the Congress has never been asked to vote for any legislation without explanation of all the provisions of the bill, and that is what this report asks the members of this House to do.
There has never been, and there can never be, any justification at anytime for the representatives of the people, who are elected to Congress, to abdicate their function of legislating with full knowledge on the matters which come before them. This bill suspends that function and says, "You must not have knowledge of all of the provisions of the bill." It says, "You must vote blindly and must take the word of a committee." No one challenges the good faith of the committee members, but the fact is that with 435 members from 435 different districts, we are all entitled to have our own viewpoint on legislation, based on at least a full explanation of all of the sections of a bill. For that reason, at all times in the history of the Congress of the United States the membership has been given full explanation in a report which is intended to explain the bill. Never has Congress been told in a report accompanying a bill, as this one does, that Congress cannot have a full explanation of all provisions in the bill. This is the first time that Members of the House are told "You cannot have any full explanation of this legislation. It is highly confidential. It deals with espionage."
As a result of the hysteria under which this bill is being passed I suppose a majority of the House will vote for this bill, even though in doing so you are suspending your legislative prerogatives and evading your duty to the people of this Nation.
Now, without having been given explanation of all of the provisions, I have been trying to find out something about this bill by reading the bill, as well as the report. Here are a few things that the Members of the House ought to know. 1 deal with section 4, on page 3:
"Sec. 4 (a) Any officer or employee of the Agency may be assigned or detailed for special instruction, research, or training, at or with domestic or foreign public or private institutions; trade, labor, agricultural, or scientific associations; courses or training programs under the National Military Establishment; or commercial firms."
What does this mean? With all of the vast powers that are given this agency under the guise of research and study, you are subjecting labor unions and business firms to the will of the military. You are opening the door for the placing of these intelligence agents, supposed to deal with security pertaining to foreign as well as internal affairs, in the midst of labor organizations.
You are opening the doors for the entrance of intelligence agents into labor organizations; yes, to spy on labor and carry out anti-labor activities. I am sure if it were not for the cold war hysteria, very few Members of the Congress would vote for that provision. Certainly the majority would not vote to suspend the rules so that you must take this bill as it is without any opportunity for amendment, despite its serious implications against the security of the liberties of the American people.
Given the interoperability within NATO, what does this mean for the citizens within NATO countries? What does that mean for foreign nationals employed by US military or intelligence contractors?
United States v. Reynolds
In October 1947, a B-29 crashed into the Okefenokee Swamp. The flight was a test mission of avionics equipment and there were vendor personnel on board. After the crash, the Air Force established a security perimeter and handled the rescue and recovery. The widows filed a suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act, alleging that the Air Force was negligent in the events leading to the crash. The attorney representing them sought documents, such as accident reports, during discovery in hopes that the documents would satisfy the widows that there had been no negligence involved. The Air Force refused discovery claiming the executive privilege. There was no mention of national security. When the widows went to court, the judge found no existence in the law for the privilege the Air Force was claiming and ordered the Air Force to turn over the documents; the Air Force refused. In the next court session, the Air Force presented affidavits from the Secretary of the Air Force claiming "state secrets." The judge demanded to review the documents in camera. The Air Force refused, asserting that the findings of the head of the department were binding and not subject to judicial review. The judge ruled in favor of the widows. On appeal, the Third Circuit upheld the judge's decision. The Supreme Court overturned the decision with Justice Vinson asserting that extraordinary times justify extraordinary powers.
In 2000, the daughter of one of the widows, curious about the fate of her dad, searched for information about the accident. She got a hit on accident report.com and sent for the accident report, which by then had been declassified. The accident report contained overwhelming evidence of negligence and no secrets. She sought unsuccessfully to reopen the case. The lawyer filed a writ of coram nobis; the Supreme Court clerk who took the petition claimed that no such writ could be filed. A more senior clerk suggested that the attorney file a motion to file; the motion to file was denied by the Supreme Court in 2003 after Solicitor General Ted Olson argued that the law favors finality and asserting once again that the particular accident reports or witness statements in the case contained military secrets.
Undoing the Legislative Authority and Judicial Precedent
The legislative authority for the national security state has been created by panicked Congresses in response to executive branch appointees seeking authority and avoiding accountability. The judicial precedents have been enshrined by the accident of lazy thinking of a judge or justice in responding to what seemed to be an insignificant case. (Compare the origin of "state secrets" with that of corporations as persons.)
The result has grown the size of the national security functions through trying to solve turf battles through centralization, which in turn spawns the next turf battles. This process costs the American taxpayers somewhere in the neighborhood of $1 trillion a year, has created 16 known intelligence agencies in the newly centralized "intelligence community," duplication in purchases of hardware, gold-plating in contracts even as the use of contractors expands to hide total government activity head counts.
And with each year, and each crisis, the institution grows.
Sixty-five years is enough. At some point the public will demand the legislative action to undo this monstrosity.


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Mr. Mook Sorry but there are gangs in Phillipsburg- archive some articles recently about the Burg...The theft, assaults, and armed robbey around the town are committed by active GANG members, they are real! AND I love that the PPD is on it, they know who they are. Book them Dan-o
He never was a good thief! Stealing isnt your thing- get a new hobby or different job. 15 years of this is enough-go back to your roots and read the bible
Sorry old man, I believe in the Death Penalty for your kind of people (baby rapist)!!!!! And I hope you go to jail until your painful death- because at 83 yrs old...this is the only one you got caught for---how many other incidents went unreported--the thought to molest/rape a child didnt just come at 83-bet we'll have more victims to come forward
Silentmajority- You are soo Wrong. Ask the Police if crime and Gang acivities are on the rise...Answer YES. or Take a lok around the signs are all there - get out of that bubble.
Joanne- sounds like you have a lot of information- are you the "replacemet" mom that allows her flock to deal drugs and gang bang?- --ANd or every action there is a reaction- you cant tell me this was "FOR NO REASON"---really 2 guys just randomly picked him- then beat the sh#t out of him--doesnt add up...drugs & crimes that does.
And to EricJones- I'm really sorry to hear that your relative got sucked in with the wrong elements, sounds like a family of thugs and husslers and Kyle go caught up in it...love does cazy things to young people. Hopefully this will open his eyes. my prayers are with him regardless of what happened-- no one deserves that.
Hopegfully she didnt cry wolf, and this new baby and her current child stay healthy --This person should be ashamed of herslef--this is just low!!!!
Thank you to whomever came forward!!! This horrible incident has shaken the whole community, it has taken a man's life, and punished his family, it's simply a shame. I'm so glad that the people in question where not from Phillipsburg!! Now, the victim, his family and friends and the community can rest knowing that these HORRIBLE people were Arrested, and I hope they find a place to stay for a long long long long long time!
WoooHOO, One of our finest!!! Guess she's gonna find out the hard way- what Jail is all about!!
Phillipsburg Residents...You know these people, it might even be your brothers or your sons, If AnyONE Knows anything or suspects they think they do, COME FORWARD!! This is your Town!! It is being taken away from you...TAKE IT BACK- Do not Tollerate this- The Crime is Knocking on your front door-Send it Away!!! People ho do bad things need to be punished......You know who these people are- Report it...You never know who they'll chose to do it to next...might be you or your children....
Mark Miller you are a ROCK Star! Hey why has he had so many jobs previous to this one? Why did he leave Knowlton?? Same reason? Huh maybe sooo- People should look into more things this currupt SOB did
Sarah- I guess the point I was making- is that appparently they didnt do a good job with the so called background check they did...just saying
It's a shame that no one did a background check ---it's like letting a fat kid in a candy store for these perverts!! Shame on Interfaith, and what kind of people are they letting stay at these churches- I'm surpirised they dont burn down all the sins that are apparently being committed in the house of the Lord. That poor child was taken advantage of - Which SHOULD have been Prevented!!! Hey Dinger- take responsibility for this- what this type of thing never happens??? What are you CRAZY!! Wake Up- Check these people out before you allow them around other children- and the holy wine or the offering basket....DUHHHHHH
I find Ron's behaviors and outburst embaressing!He is a disgrace and I hope not to see him in hte future!! Happy New Year
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I read the article- and I think you are his "fiance" b/c no other person in their right mind would defend him. And please go back on your medication.
Bubbaj- Shut up, you are way too involved with the family- makes me think you are one of them- You are a sick individual- dont put people down- they didn't set the fire, and this woman could not have done anything worth having her apartment burned down by some mental health- no med taking psycho!!!!
Bubbaj- the article right above states that he allegedly set fire to his mother's vehicle. Are you his girlfriend-? I was suprised that he had one too!Maybe she's as hot as him and as derranged.
I dont care about the BS posted on her about what department was called, I'm glad all who responded were there to help those in need!! we need more people to give their hearts and their time to the community- Prayers and best wishes to those displaced and thank you to the responders- Glad you are there , ya never know when it could happen to you
My heart goes out to you who are displaced....I hope the county's Emergency Assistance programs help you as well as your community members-prayers and good wishes to all
Again, the names are NOT the reason thesse children were removed!!!!! The parents are NUT- UNSTABLE- Abusers!!! There is no Conspiracy to hide anything!!! If you interacted with these two individuals ever- you would understand immediately!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Earlier this week, Sam Weinman, editor of GolfDigest.com, noted that should Tiger Woods return at the British Open, "Oddsmakers will insult players who have played well all season by giving Woods a better chance of winning."
It has already happened, even before we know whether Woods will returns or not. A mere hint that Tiger might be ready to play the British Open caused Jeff Sherman, the assistant sports book manager at the Las Vegas Hotel, to move odds on him from 20/1 to 15/1, he said.
Sherman, who has been setting golf odds for 20 years, said that were Woods to announce that he intended to play the British Open, action on him would increase substantially and that odds would likely move even lower. "When we saw that it was a possibility, we lowered him from 20 to 1 to 15 to 1," he said.
Of course, oddsmakers are not intentionally insulting other players with odds that make him a favorite. Money flows towards Tiger at any price, but at 20/1, whatever his form or health, it would invite even greater numbers of bets on him. Bookmakers are in business to make money and prefer limiting their exposure by lowering odds, hence Tiger's favorite status in any tournament in which he plays. Or might play.
"We see action regardless of whether he plays or not," Sherman said. "In the U.S. Open, he got as high as 25 to 1. We saw considerable action to get him down to 20 to 1."
He did not play, negating bets on him. The same would apply for the British Open should he not play.
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Woods has not played since the WGC-Cadillac Championship in early March, the result of surgery on his back. He has been hitting full shots, though he has provided no indication on when he might return to competition.
Nonetheless, Irish bookmaker Paddy Power has him at 10 to 1 (Rory McIlroy is a 9/1 favorite), and elsewhere Woods already is the betting favorite. The online gambling site Bovada, for instance, has Woods a 7/1 favorite. McIlroy is next at 10/1.