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Fred Rogers
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Fred enrolled at Missouri Valley College in November of 1942 and lettered in basketball track during the 1942-43 season. Fred left alley to serve in the United States Navy during World War II, serving on the U.S.S. Manila Bay and playing for the ship's basketball team that won the Pacific Championship. Fred returned to Valley in 1945 lettering in basketball every year until graduation. Fred played on the 1948-49 basketball team that won the Conference Championship. Fred also played on the golf team, before graduating with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physical Education.
Following graduation Fred worked in sales for several companies and in 1975 became a manufacture's representative. In January of 1981 he formed the F.W. Rogers Company, Inc., which represents eight companies carrying some of the top lines on the dairy industry.
Fred is married to Fern Ritterbusch (former Marshall student) and resides in Kansas City, Missouri. Fred and his wife breed and show Kerry Blue Terriers, and since 1960 have had 65 champions, including three which were exported to West Germany.
Fred was born in Stamford, Connecticut and received his grade school and high school education in Harrison, New York.
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Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT) hosts the NanoBio Film Festival on June 29, 11 a.m. in Krieger 205. See the world premiere of three short videos made by members of INBT's course on science communications. Free for Hopkins community.
Videos featured in this film festival describe the current research of students working in INBT affiliated laboratories. Students in the course learn how to communicate their work in nontechnical terms for general audiences. They work in teams to write, direct, film and produce the videos within a two-week time frame. The producers will be on hand to describe their experience making the videos and to answer questions.
The INBT film festival is part of the institute's free professional development seminar series. Topics are geared toward undergraduate and graduate students.
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- July 13: Adam Steel, PhD, Director of Systems Engineering at Becton Dickinson, will discuss medical device development. Dr. Steel joined BD in 2005. Previously he was vice president of research and development at MetriGenix. He earned his PhD in analytical chemistry at the University of Maryland College Park and undergraduate degrees in chemistry and mathematics from Gettysburg College. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in medical device development at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology.
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I am going to be getting a sister!!!!
I met her on Sunday and she is wonderful. I even let her sniff my butt. She is part American Eskimo, part something else (Jack Russell, maybe?) and very full figured. Her name is Pennelle.
Mama told me that she was originally from a place called "West Virginia" and that she once lived with an elderly woman who had 85 other dogs. Wow!!!
Of course, this means I'll have to share my toys. Mama says we'll just have to get two of everything I have so that we will be equal. Pennelle also likes to have a crate, so we got her one this past weekend. I watched mama put it together, and we picked out a nice blanket to put in it. She folded it much better than I did.
Pennelle is getting spayed today, and having her teeth cleaned. We are nervous, but daddy says everything will be fine.
I'll keep you posted on her... we might be picking her up this weekend!
Daddy was home, and I went for a walk with him. After mama got home and we had dinner, we went for ice cream. We sat in the back of the truck and I got to try some Cherry Cheesecake Ice Cream (only two spoonfuls though, I wish I had my own).
Daddy went fishing this morning and I am waiting for him to come back. I didn't get to go today, even though I had my lifejacket ready. I always wear it on the boat. I fell off the boat twice on my first try, and I swam past someone else who was trying to rescue me into my daddy's arms. So now I always wear it, and I like it; I think every boat dog should have one, because you never know what could happen.
My lifejacket has a handle on top of it. Sometimes when we are out there and it is really hot, mama or daddy will pick me up by the handle and put my legs and belly in the water. I don't really like it but it always stops my panting.
I had my donut hole and now I'm lounging on my double decker dog bed in the entry way, waiting for my daddy. Sigh. I didn't even feel like walking. Mama had to coax me outside for my ride to the grocery store this morning. I hate the rain!
On the other hand, I have discovered air conditioning. Yes! I didn't care much for the noise at first, but boy I like it now!
All for now. Hope it is better elsewhere in the country!
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With a little reflection, we found that most of these candidates have similar values and almost identical hopes for the future of Missoula. They all want streets safe for cars, bikes and pedestrians. They all want a houses that their kids can afford. They all want clean air and good water.
Missoula is at a crossroads as the city government prepares to craft growth management, subdivision, sewer and water plans that will help the city handle its increasing population in a manner that conserves the quality of life here.
With a lot of cooperation and respect for one another, council members can accomplish what they need to do. With these thoughts in mind, we whole-heartedly recommend the following slate of candidates for your vote.
Kadas' history in the state legislature gave him many of the skills he needs to build bridges between different interest groups. And his reliance on creative devices -- such as his tendency to promote financial incentives over administrative caveat -- shows that the current mayor recognizes that within the political, social and legal landscape, Missoula must come up with solutions that encourage those in the private sector to figure out ways to make growth palatable to the citizenry.
One only need to look at last winter's snowstorms -- when the city contracted out to get the streets cleared -- to recognize that Kadas, under pressure, is a politician who acts deftly when confronted with a crisis. And, looking at the years ahead, there's no doubt that growth in Missoula is leading to a storm of different proportions. Still, Kadas remains optimistic and upbeat about the future and maintaining the quality of life that has made Missoula such a fine place to live lo these many years. Sorry Mr. Childers, we like Mike.
Dave Harmon, a New Party member, says he's walked the ward twice already and intends to do it again if he's elected. While New Party candidates sometimes have a disturbing tendency to parrot the party line, Harmon seems like someone who'll listen and make his own decisions.
In an interview with the Independent, Harmon said all the right things about alternative transportation and affordable housing; the city needs to take a more aggressive approach to growth management than his opponent advocates. Things like the Delineated Urban Services Area are worth consideration and cautious approval. But ultimately, it is Harmon's willingness to reach out to conservative groups like the Pachyderm Club that impressed us most.
Carolyn Overman, his opponent, strikes us as a reasonable person who might be a good representative for the ward, but her opposition to expanding alternative transportation, especially bike and pedestrian trails, makes it hard for us to support her. No matter which candidate wins, a willingness to bend from preconceived politics in response to the needs of the constituents will be the most important quality for Ward 1's representative.
Tracy is the sort of politico who gives "policy wonk" a good name. She'll talk with relish about the details of transportation plans, about the ways to go about replacing aging infrastructure. Tracy's positions are well-informed and thoughtful, but she never lets her own opinion get in the way of listening to others and incorporating their concerns into her policy making.
Carpenter shows none of Tracy's openness. We simply find no reason to give Carpenter our support over Missoula's most adept council member. A strong vote for Tracy.
Bob Luceno is also a mixed bag. As a council rep from 1989-91, he supported the pesticide notification ordinance. He also pushed for an unneeded anti-porn law. But he was the only conservative candidate we interviewed who indicated a willingness to compromise on the Delineated Urban Services Area -- a growth management tool that could serve Missoulians well.
Both Crowley and Luceno have much to offer as public servants, but whoever is elected needs to make sure he or she represents all the constituents living in Ward 3 -- not just those in his or her social circle.
While both Paula Hofmann and Myrt Charney are informed about the issues facing Missoula, Charney's solution-oriented approach and past political experience simply make him a better candidate in a race that otherwise would be a tough call. The fact that this self-described "fiscally conservative" Democrat has found support from long-standing Missoula politicos on both sides of the aisle -- and his narrow loss in the last election -- reflects the fact that he's in tune with an important local constituency.
On the other hand, while Hofmann's progressive stance is appealing -- she has spoken out in favor of alternative transportation, for instance -- she lacks a definitive sense of which way to go when it comes to controlling growth. And, seeing as how candidates one and all have expressed a sense that the city's in crisis, it makes more sense to vote for someone who has some hands-on experience and more concrete ideas about how to run the city.
That's why Charney, former mayor of the Borough of Juneau, Alaska, and state budget director of the last frontier from 1971-75, gets our vote.
In a brief talk with the Independent, Reidy said he hopes to act as a bridge builder on the new council; his small-c conservatism, which seems to spring from old-school Democratic values, leaves him in a good position to work with whichever factions rise to prominence.
At the same time, Sweet is more of a bridge-burner than a consensus-builder. As council president, he refuses to recognize the backlash he and others have created by being what many have called "obstructionist." The level of civility and quality of discourse at this crucial stage in Missoula's life are nearly as important as the conclusions reached. Sweet has not shown the leadership it takes to be council president, and if re-elected, he should graciously step aside from that post.
Sweet's opponent, Tracey Turek, had few solutions to Missoula's growth problems other than her opposition to the Delineated Urban Services Area. With time, she might make a fine representative. But there's no point in gambling when Ward 6 residents have a solid choice in Sweet.


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The shadowy world of film noir, those stark black-and-white, often low-budget films with single-word titles—Possessed, Pursued, Trapped, Tension, Decoy, Detour, Breakdown, Blackmail—produced in Hollywood from roughly the early 1940s to the late 1950s, were populated with smoldering femmes fatale, hard-boiled detectives, corrupt cops, cynicism, intrigue and suspense
A lot of the female characters had a distinctive style of forgotten two-syllable names like Veda, Velma, Verna, Meta, Mida and Nita, while the tough guys who weren't named Nick or Tony or Barney were occasionally given some wildly eccentric monikers.
Here, from both classics of the genre like The Maltese Falcon to barely remembered B-movies, some of the more interesting examples:
- Althea – The Unsuspected
- Angel – Guilty Bystander
- Barby – The Fallen Sparrow, Sleep, My Love
- Brandy – Two of a Kind
- Brigid – The Maltese Falcon
- Candy – Pickup on South Street, Breakdown
- Carmen—The Big Sleep
- Cecily – The Two Mrs Carrolls
- Celia – The Secret Behind the Door
- Cora –The Postman Always Rings Twice, Brute Force
- Dell – Shadow on the Wall
- Della — The Burglar
- Eden – Murder is My Beat
- Edwina/Eddie – Fingers at the Window
- Effie – The Maltese Falcon
- Evangeline – T-Men
- Fay – The Killing
- Frennessey – World for Ransom
- Fritzie – The Big Bluff
We've looked at some of the trends in movie character names of Hollywood's Golden Age – the widespread use of nickname names and boys' names for girls and place names. Now, here are some of the more unusual character names (and the sometimes surprising actors who portrayed them) thought up by the screenwriters—or novelists or playwrights who originally created them) of that era , as well as some that haven't been heard of for some time and might be worth reviving.
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Bring 6 quarts of water to a boil in a large pot and add 3 tablespoons kosher salt.
Meanwhile, heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add the garlic and sauté until lightly golden, 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from the heat.
Drop the pasta into the boiling water and cook until just al dente. Drain, reserving 1/4 cup of the pasta water.
Add the glass eels to the garlic oil and heat over medium-high heat, stirring, until they are opaque. Add the pasta, tossing and stirring to mix well (add a splash of the reserved pasta water if necessary to loosen the sauce). Serve immediately.
Note: Glass eels are in season for a few weeks in the spring, when you should be able to find them in a local Chinatown.
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Rory Magill can't hide his excitement, as he prepares for the biggest and most impressive concert he's organized in a decade.
On Sunday, January 22, Magill and the seven other instrumentalists in the Rakestar Arkestra will join the 35-voice Tone Cluster choir and vocalist Christine Duncan to create "Sung Ra: The Songs of Sun Ra". They'll fill the Church of the Ascension in Ottawa East with costumes, fancy hats, dancing – and entertaining, full-bodied jazz which can jump from melodic to awe-inspiring
View photos from the January 8 rehearsal with Rakestar, Tone Cluster, and Christine Duncan
The concert is a tribute to the unique jazz composer and bandleader Sun Ra, who in the decades between the 50s and 80s created "cosmic jazz" with his own mythology. To his jazz roots he added elements of avant-garde classical music; he was a pioneer in using electronic keyboards; and he believed in the power of spectacle, with his Arkestra usually dressed in bright, flamboyant costumes, and occasionally including dancers or jugglers or stilt-walkers. That's the spirit Magill wants the January 22 show to have.
"Sun Ra's concerts were always festooned with amazing costumes and ornaments and so on, and this is theatrics as he would do it. It's full-dress this time."
It's a concert which Magill has wanted to present for years. He's been working intensely on it since last year – writing grant proposals, composing music, and inviting other musicians to participate. He received a Canada Council grant for the project last summer – "a huge morale boost" – along with support from the City of Ottawa and the Juno 2017 committee.
Read more: Sung Ra spectacle adds voices, costumes, and dancing to the Rakestar Arkestra
There was a big smile on Jumpin' Jimmy Leroux's face on January 12. Leroux coordinates the music on Thursday nights at the Brass Monkey, a brightly-lit basement pool hall and performance space on Greenbank Road in Ottawa's suburban west end.
That evening was an experiment, the hall's first jazz night instead of the local rock bands Leroux usually programs for his new talent showcase. And to his delight, it attracted about 35 interested listeners to hear three Ottawa-area jazz groups, filling almost all the seats available. They enthusiastically applauded the music, and even Leroux's between-set jokes.
"It's a cold Canadian night," Leroux told the audience, "and the easiest thing is to stay home on your couch. But here you came out to support music. Thanks!"
Up first on stage was Easy Living, a quartet providing smooth and easy-going versions of jazz standards including "But Not For Me" and "Summertime". Vocalist Fiona George provided a flowing and clear version of "My Little Boat", with guitarist Jim Mattson, bassist Len Leclair, and drummer Dan Quinlan warming the place with bright samba rhythms.
Read more: First Jazz Night at The Brass Monkey presents three bands to an appreciative audience
OttawaJazzScene.ca donors received full advance details of these shows and more than a hundred other jazz performances this month as a token of our appreciation for helping us shine a spotlight on the scene. Become a donor!
2017, Canada's 150th birthday, is a year to celebrate our own culture, including Canadian jazz. And this month will give you many opportunities to do that in Ottawa-Gatineau.
Local and Canadian jazz groups predominate in January – and several are taking interesting chances. The Rakestar Arkestra has a major concert planned with vocalist Christine Duncan and the Tone Cluster choir. Vocalist Betty Ann Bryanton is trying out a new repertoire of strictly Canadian jazz music with her trio. Record Runner Rehearsal Studios is presenting its second concert featuring a pianist not heard before in Ottawa in duo with an Ottawa native.
These January, 2017 jazz highlights are brought to you by OttawaJazzScene.ca readers Peter Liu, Karen Oxorn, Jesse Stewart, and Gaby Warren. We thank them for their support that makes this article possible.
It's also been a month that's continue to evolve and become more crowded even after the New Year's fireworks. As we've been compiling this update,notifications of new shows and line-up changes have been popping up frequently.
On Sunday, January 8, Florquestra will play a rare late-afternoon show at the Black Sheep Inn in Wakefield. The group combines an encyclopedic knowledge of Brazilian rhythms with a French melodic sensibility, in an always-exciting presentation.
Read more: Ottawa-Gatineau celebrates Canadian jazz in January for 2017
Miguel de Armas Septet – New Year's Eve
Options Jazz Lounge, Brookstreet Hotel
Saturday, December 31, 2016
View photos by Brett Delmage of this performance
If you were looking for a hopeful, happy way to kick 2016 out the door and look forward to 2017, you couldn't have done better than listening to the upbeat music from Miguel de Armas and his bandmates on New Year's Eve at Brookstreet.
The Cuban-Canadian pianist is ferociously energetic, and he surrounded himself with equally dynamic Latin musicians for this show. Most were from his Sabor de Cuba band, but he also brought in bassist Roberto Riveron – a fellow Cuban who has lived in Toronto since 2007 and has performed with Cuban bands Cubanismo and Klimax, and with Toronto jazz musicians Luis Mario Ochoa, Eddie Bullen, Jane Bunnett, and Hilario Durán.
By the time the music started at 8:25 p.m. – a few minutes early – there was a full house, with all the tables in the main part of the lounge filled. de Armas opened with a lively and flowing standard, supported by Riveron on six-string electric bass and Arien Villegas on congas. Drummer Frank Martinez joined in on the second song, and they remained a quartet for the first hour-long set.
Read more: Miguel de Armas brings in 2017 with a bright Latin beat
Saorsa (Patrick Smith, Dan Pitt, Harrison Vetro)
Keagan Eskritt and Roddy Ellias
Wednesday, December 21, 2016 – 9 p.m.
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View photos by Brett Delmage of the Saorsa performance
Two up-and-coming Ottawa musicians demonstrated another growth spurt in their music in a eye-opening, two-part performance at Pressed in December.
Saxophonist Patrick Smith and drummer Keagan Eskritt grew up here in Ottawa, played in local student bands, participated in the jazzfest's Jazz-Ed program taught by master guitarist Roddy Ellias, and won scholarships and awards. For the past few years, both have been studying jazz performance at the University of Toronto – but over the holidays they came back, and performed for a home-city crowd.
The show opened with a 45-minute duo performance by Eskritt and Ellias, followed by an hour-long set by Saorsa, an improvising jazz fusion group which Smith has formed with two fellow U of T students, guitarist Dan Pitt and drummer Harrison Vetro.
Ellias is one of Eskritt's mentors and they've played together several times before. They opened the show with a lyrical set of guitar and drums, very much in the jazz tradition but with strong original voices of their own.
Three very different Christmas shows were presented by Ottawa's jazz and improvising musicians this month.
On December 14, Ottawa's Latin big band, Los Gringos, performed their Gringos-style adaptations of holiday favourites, with lots of horns, in their annual Christmas show. On December 16, Ottawa jazz aficionado and vocalist Gaby Warren hosted the JazzWorks Christmas jam for the 16th consecutive year, together with his friends – an accomplished group of Ottawa musicians. And on December 18, radio host, composer, and saxophonist Bernard Stepien and his orchestra presented the 10th annual rendition of A Very Ayler Christmas, a mixture of free jazz and carols, presented by the Improvising Musicians of Ottawa-Outaouais (IMOO).
We recorded one Christmas-themed song from each show, and present the videos below.
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Renée Landry Wishes You A Swinging Christmas
Live! on Elgin
Saturday, December 17, 2016 – 8:30 p.m.
View photos by Brett Delmage of this performance
Back in 1960, Ella Fitzgerald released an album called Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas. It quickly became a classic, because of Fitzgerald's joyful and clear vocal interpretations and Frank de Vol's well-chosen and swinging orchestral jazz arrangements. It was an album which celebrated the season and the well-known holiday songs – without being arch or ironic. Instead, it let you enjoy the songs for the well-crafted gems that they are.
Ottawa vocalist Renée Landry reinvoked the magic of that compilation on Saturday, with her second annual "Swinging Christmas" concert. Backed by a sextet of Ottawa musicians who understand classic jazz well, she sang the songs from the Ella album plus three of her own – keeping the joy and avoided the cutesy.
It's a project which she said she and the musicians had been working on since October, with arrangements by saxophonist Richard Page and Landry. The 90-minute show was by no means a copy of the album – for one thing, there weren't any strings in these arrangements – but Page retained De Vol's strong jazz vitality. And the songs were presented in almost the identical order as on Ella's album, with one of the CD's bonus tracks added and one song moved to the encore.
Read more: Renée Landry adds swing and originals to holiday songs
Rémy Bélanger de Beauport
Improvising Musicians of Ottawa-Outaouais (IMOO) #151
House of Common, Ottawa
Sunday, December 18, 2016 – 7 p.m.
View photos by Brett Delmage of this performance
The cello is, in essence, a wooden resonating box with a neck and strings played by a bow or fingers. The tradition is to use it to produce beautiful, elevating sounds that unroll like ribbons and sigh like lovers.
Judging by his Ottawa concert on Sunday, Rémy Bélanger de Beauport does not follow this tradition.
The Quebec City cellist astonished and delighted his listeners at the last IMOO concert of 2016 with a short but very intense set of free improv. In the course of 15 minutes, he actively undercut everything they might expect from cello music, even in an improvised jazz context.
Melody was absent. The very first notes he played were jagged and raw, produced by very fast bowing, with some of his strings muted by a metal clip. de Beauport let his dissonant sounds echo around the room, soft and loud, sounding like buzzing bees and then attenuating down to barely audible vibrations.
His bow lightly rubbed the cello strings, and then pressed in again, creating at first atonal cries and then sounds like a foghorn and then high dissonant harmonics. He added occasional plucked notes to the bowing – and then increased the speed again before finally letting the last notes ring out into the space.
The audience asked for a second piece, and de Beauport obliged with harsh machine-like screeches, created by pressing a metal tuning fork within the strings. Then he threaded one bow through the strings and used a second bow to bow the first, creating a hard, crackling sound. As he sped up this two-bow performance, it almost sounded like not-quite-distinct conversation. He pressed his fingers along the strings as he continued bowing to continuously change the pitch, and then finally let the sounds fade out.
Read more: Rémy Bélanger de Beauport takes the cello to wild and lonely places
For earlier in December, see More jazz than Jingle Bells in the second week of December
Even as we get closer to Christmas, there's lots of opportunities to clear your musical palate with jazz.
It's now become a 16-year tradition: Ottawa vocalist and jazz aficionado Gaby Warren hosts the JazzWorks Christmas jazz jam. Warren has an encyclopedic knowledge of jazz – and not just his specialty, Afro-Cuban jazz – and can amaze you by recounting the musicians whom he's heard in person. Each year he brings this experience to picking his song list – mostly jazz classics with just a touch of seasonal music – and then performs them with a group of fine jazz musicians.
His group's 45-minute set starts at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, December 16, at the Georgetown Pub in Ottawa South – don't be late! After that, the stage is open for jamming.
On Saturday, December 17, you can celebrate the season with two high-profile concerts. At Live! on Elgin, vocalist Renée Landry pays tribute to Ella Fitzgerald's famous 1960 album, Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas, backed by six experienced musicians from Ottawa's younger jazz crowd. At the show, she's also releasing an EP, A Christmas Night, with her music and lyrics, produced by pianist Clayton Connell and with arrangements by Richard Page. The show is currently sold out.Watch for your opportunity to win a copy of this CD from us.
GigSpace, Ottawa's intimate jazz venue, is marking its fifth anniversary with two "Jazzin' the Holidays" fundraisers on December 17 with Toronto-area vocalist and pianist Micah Barnes. Barnes is best-known for the years he spent singing in The Nylons; more recently, he has recorded a series of critically acclaimed solo jazz recordings. This spring, he released New York Stories, which evokes "the rich musical history of the Big Apple with songs that describe a long distance romance using the rhythms of the Cotton Club, the Brill Building, The Apollo Theatre and classic Broadway".
Read more: Jazz mashed with Christmas carols (and more!) at the end of December
The Record Centre
Sunday, December 11, 2016 – 4 to 5 p.m.
View photos by Brett Delmage of this performance
Every note was Canadian when 45north played the Record Centre Sunday afternoon.
The Ottawa jazz sextet specializes in music by fellow Canucks – both straight jazz and jazz fusion interpretations of pop and rock songs. So Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" was followed by Mike Murley's "Stanstill", and David Braid's "Cowboy Bebop" by the Powder Blues Band's "Doin' It Right".
The combination – lively and upbeat, with horns – was a good antidote to the looming dark and frigid weather outside. The band played to customers who came and went and a varied group of listeners who stayed and clapped enthusiastically – adding to the beat during some songs as well as afterwards. Near the end of the show, a youngster in a blue snowsuit (and a 'Canada' toque) peered through the outer door from the sidewalk in fascination for almost 10 minutes, but couldn't be coaxed inside to hear the band directly.
Read more: 45north plays all-Canadian jazz with enthusiasm and flair
The Ottawa Jazz Festival made a sliver of a surplus in 2016 after cutting its payments to musicians by more than a third, while staff and contract costs remained stable.
At the festival's annual general meeting on November 28, festival treasurer Lee Tessmer reported that "after two challenging years, we're back in the black". The festival had a net income of $3,449 this year, after losses of $123K in 2015 and $141K in 2014.
But the tiny surplus did not come from greater ticket sales, which were down by almost 10% in 2016 from the previous year. (The weather during this year's festival was primarily warm and sunny, with rain on only two days with ticketed concerts.) Similarly, grants were down 29% and corporate sponsorship down 24%, and advertising revenue was zero.
Instead, the festival cut costs – and particularly for musicians' fees. In 2016, it spent $954,671 on programming, compared to $1,459,246 in 2015 and $1,496,535 in 2014. This was despite 2016 being the festival's 35th anniversary.
The festival spent marginally more on non-musician wages and contract services, from $493K in 2015 to $497K in 2016. In 2015, according to the most recent Canadian Revenue Agency filings, the festival had three employees earning from $40,000 to $79,999, and one employee earning from $80,000 to $119,999.
Read more: Ottawa Jazz Festival balances books in 2016 by cutting musician budget by one-third
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Horace gives an update on his EVW electric car project, listener-contributed battery technology information and listener questions in this extended episode.
Source: The Critical Path #185
Horace gives an update on his EVW electric car project, listener-contributed battery technology information and listener questions in this extended episode.
Source: The Critical Path #185
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Berkshire Hathaway, led by Warren Buffett, now owns about $1.4 billion of Apple. Occasionally we hear about various "celebrity investors" taking positions in the company or exiting those positions. The last one I remember was Carl Icahn. He seems to have exited Apple before Berkshire entered. There are some who will act because of these decisions. You should not be one of them.
Nor should the management of the firm act in response to investor decisions or concerns. Management is specifically distinct from ownership in the corporate construct precisely in order to bring professionalism to the role. The manager must set priorities as they see fit, irrespective of what the transient owner might prioritize. The separation of ownership and management is one of the greatest innovations in commerce.
There are many opinions on what priorities should be. Delivering a specific financial ratio, achieving a certain market position, changing the world for the better. These have all been cited as top priorities. I happen to believe that what matters most is the creation and preservation of customers. That is because I see customer creation as causal to the other desirable outcomes and it is therefore the more important priority.
And this is why, whenever possible, I try to deduce how well a company is performing on this metric. The greatest companies (by market capitalization) today are certainly examples of achievement in customer creation. Facebook, Microsoft and Google are members of the "billion user club" or companies that crossed a billion active users.
But do they really have a billion customers? Microsoft has over 1.2 billion users but many (most?) of those users are using computers that their employers provide on which Microsoft software was installed. They may not have made the choice to purchase the tools they are using. Microsoft certainly has millions of customers in the form of "accounts" purchasing its products and services, but It's not likely that there are a billion people who have directly chosen to buy a Microsoft product.
Facebook has over a billion daily users. Facebook users are certainly using the service of their own accord but they are not paying for the service. Quite the contrary, the actual customers of Facebook are companies buying an advertising service offered in the form of exposure to those billion users. The Facebook users are the product being sold, not the buyers. Thus Facebook's total number of paying customers is probably only in the tens or hundreds of thousands.[1]
Same with Google. We don't know how many accounts Google send invoices to but the number is very likely not even in the 100 million range. Its billions of users are beneficiaries of services but they are not paying Google/Alphabet.
Amazon has many millions of customers, if not billions. Prime membership is above 50 million but not above 100 million. Amazon may some day have a billion customers but there are limits to how quickly that can happen. The growth potential is governed by logistics and that's as much an issue with atoms as it is with electrons.
Which brings us to Apple. Apple does not offer a figure on its specific user count, but we have some viable proxies:
These figures are also parts of patterns (shown below) which offer an indication of predictable growth.
In addition to the absolute figures and their growth there is also the question of loyalty (frequently cited by the company), switching from other platforms (also frequently cited) and revenues. The company publishes specific figures on service revenues for consumer attached devices showing a run rate of $41 billion/yr in services for their device base.
In combination, a picture emerges which shows that Apple has nearly a billion customers. I can't say how many with any precision but it's certainly above 500 million (on the basis of iCloud and iTunes accounts). It's below one billion because some users have more than one device.
Even though it has not happened yet, the trend is pretty clear. Apple will at some point in time have a billion paying customers.
What is more significant than the specific count is that these customers mostly chose to be customers individually. Some may have been given the products as gifts, but the vast majority bought the items for themselves. Apple benefitted from hundreds of million of individual purchase decisions.
Furthermore, having made the decision to purchase, chances are that they will do so again. Apple customers are a recurring revenue stream. In fact, it's fairly easy to calculate that being an Apple customer is equivalent to spending about $1/day on its products and services, indefinitely.
Apple is not there yet, but a billion dollars a day from a billion customers is not inconceivable. That would be quite an achievement.Notes:
Can utility companies be recruited to help sell Electric Vehicles when they reward their customers for using less electricity?
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Horace and Farshad discuss Apple's recent milestone of one billion iPhones shipped. They also answer a slew of #CriticalQuestions.
Source: The Critical Path #183
The following is a list of the best-selling products across several categories:
Car model: VW Beetle 21.5 million
Car brand: Toyota Corolla 43 million
Music Album: Thriller 70 million
Vehicle: Honda Super Cub 87 million
Book Title: Lord of the Rings 150 million
Toy: Rubik's Cube 350 million
Game console: Playstation 382 million
Book series: Harry Potter Series 450 million
Mobile Phone: iPhone 1 billion
The iPhone is not only the best selling mobile phone but also the best selling music player, the best selling camera, the best selling video screen and the best selling computer of all time.
It is, quite simply, the best selling product of all time.
It is that because it is so much more than a product. It is an enabler for change. It unleashed forces which we are barely able to perceive, let alone control. It changed the world because it changed us.
And it did all that in less than nine years. One has to wonder what it will enable in the next nine.
If these questions are of interest to you, join the conversation at DisruptiveInnovation.org.
Horace and Anders discuss the numbers from WWDC, what didn't come from WWDC. And cars!
Source: The Critical Path #180
A merger is the result of two entities in the same business joining forces. It is usually justified through "synergy", a euphemism for removing redundancies from their unity. Arithmetically, the desired outcome is that the resulting organization should be smaller than the individual parts (which is desired if the available market is shrinking.)
An Integration is the answer to the question of "Why two companies in different businesses are better off together." Arithmetically, it suggests that the proposed sum is greater than the individual parts.
The spin-off is the response to a situation where one company houses two unrelated businesses.
For completeness, we can define an acquisition as the purchase of an unequal entity in order to improve the value of the acquirer.
The logic of any of these is that there is a disequilibrium which offers an opportunity to those who can exploit it. What the analysis fundamentally assumes is that the status quo of firm boundaries is not optimal.
Much of the measurement of the balance in the equations assumes that the overall industry is stable and that the problems (technical or market) are largely understood and that there is no learning that needs to happen. Boundaries need to be re-drawn because they are imperfect. Boundaries may have grown imperfect for many reasons: founders/owners were separate, markets and technologies evolve at different rates, resources are inflexible, processes are entrenched and values are outdated.
However, all this arithmetic can be safely thrown out of the window if there is a new industry in the making. If there is no balance to begin with because there is an entirely new problem being posited. That is, not only do we not know the answers to technical or market questions, we don't even know what the right questions are.
When looking at the history of industry creation, the breakthroughs were always about the discovery of the right questions to ask. The early automobile industry was a scramble for solutions to a huge number of technical and market questions: technology, business model, infrastructure, usability, customer segmentation. From 1886 until 1915 there were many grand experiments with thousands of automobile firms springing up.[1]
Early computing, internet, mobile and consumer durables industries went through similar periods of grand experimentation. But the breakthroughs occurred when someone was able to ask (and subsequently answer) a question that nobody had asked before.
Henry Ford asked, "What would enable everyone to have a car". The result was not a better car but a better production system.
Steve Jobs asked, "What would enable everyone to have a computer". The result was not a faster computer, but a more approachable computer.
Akio Morita asked, "What would enable young people to have their own music". The result was not a better audio quality but a smaller audio player.
Kiichiro Toyoda asked, "How can a car be built without faults". The result was not a bigger factory but many smaller ones.
Jeff Bezos asked, "What would cause people to do their shopping online". The result was not a lot of unique sites but one infinite one coupled to a logistics and computing service.
Having great taste in questions turns out to be the principal quality of the successful industrialist: The creation of economic value and power well beyond the boundary of the firm itself.
When the correct question is asked, resources can be efficiently marshaled to answer it. The wrong or incomplete question leads to inefficient resource allocation. And so the architecture of the solution can be built. If the new problem statement is a technical one then an integrated implementation is required. If the new question identifies non-consumption then a modular implementation is required. Each of these approaches suggests different customer sequencing strategies and different application of resources and processes.
There is no right architecture for industry creation. What matters is asking the right question.
So is Elon Musk, today, asking the right question?Notes:
When Spotify and Pandora were starting their streaming services many were quick to point out that Apple was about to be disrupted. The future, they said, was streaming because (young) people could not be bothered with ownership of music and the limitations of a personal collection. Who would want to pay for a few hundred songs when they could listen to millions for free?
This perception continued and became more vocal over the years. Seven years in fact. Spotify collected 20 million paying subscribers while Apple did nothing. Pandora grabbed 80 million active listeners and possibly 4 million paying subscribers while Apple did nothing. The boat had sailed and Apple was not only not on it but oblivious that there was a boat in the first place.
At first Apple launched a half-hearted streaming service and then a paid service finally showed up with Apple Music in mid 2015. Since then the company managed to add 15 million subscribers. A tiny number compared to the 900 million iTunes accounts it had reported a year earlier. Pathetic. The number of music subscriptions relative to iCloud accounts, iTunes accounts and active devices is shown the the graph below.
It may be paltry compared to the count of users Apple may have in total, but how does a 15 million user base in 1 year compare with the growth rate for the incumbents Spotify and Pandora?
The following graph shows the ramps for Spotify, Pandora and Apple Music since their moments of market entry. The accumulation of users by Apple looks to be the fastest yet.
This is, of course, due to a maturing use case. Apple did not have to educate people to the notion of music as a subscription. It could just announce it and users would discover it and just sign up, especially if they were already iCloud subscribers and had a credit card attached to their iTunes account.
But that's the whole point. Apple did not have to move first in music subscriptions. It did not even have to move second or third. When it did move it could just skim the market and add to its already healthy Services revenue (orange line in the first graph above.) Missing the boat in music in this case meant capturing all the value quickly and with minimal expense.
Fundamentally, Apple's entry into music subscriptions was a sustaining effort. Streaming sustained Apple rather than disrupting it. The difference may seem merely one of semantics, but it is also the difference between life and death for a challenger. Meaning matters.
This is a cautionary tale for those who would pronounce every new idea as "disruptive" to Apple or anyone else on the basis of novelty alone. The tests for disruptiveness are easy enough and it behooves the analyst to apply them before dropping the d-bomb.


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I read a book to my students today called "The Summer My Father Was Ten" by Pat Brisson. It is a beautifully written story, memoir style, of a boy who learns integrity (great for teaching those ever important lessons on developing good character traits).
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(other than by myself or my Dad, although "wise-ass" is a little different....)
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I'm sure there are other methods, but for my TBR (to be read)/wish I had 'em books, I add them to my library and simply tag them as "wish list" -- I know some of the more technologically advanced LTers access their libraries from pda, blackberry, whatever, while actually in the bookstore shopping...?!?!?
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Greece N.Y.-Greece Police confirming that the death of 17-month-old girl in Greece has been ruled a homicide by the medical examiner.
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As a young obstetrics and gynecology graduate from the University of British Columbia, Garson (Gary) Romalis wanted to experience a little bit of everything for his residency and internship. He opted for the medical cauldron that was Cook County Hospital, in the heart of Chicago.
Dr. Romalis was not prepared for what he saw. This was the early 1960s, a time when abortions were illegal, often the work of dubious back-alley practitioners, or desperate do-it-yourself attempts that ended badly. An entire 40-bed ward was set aside for women recovering from botched abortions. The beds were almost always filled, extra cots often lining the hallway. Up to 30 patients a day were admitted, suffering from septic abortions, some with gruesome complications. On average, one woman died each month. The impact was profound on the impressionable young Canadian, who worked on the ward in his first month.
Motivated by his stint in Chicago and an earlier case involving the abortion-related death of a Vancouver woman, Dr. Romalis, who loved nothing better than delivering babies, was among the first in Canada to provide legal abortions after the law was liberalized in 1969. Dr. Romalis's unwavering commitment to what he believed was a quick, harmless way to improve a woman's life almost cost him his own life – twice.
A bullet changes everything
Early on the morning of Nov. 8, 1994, as Dr. Romalis sat down for breakfast in his west side Vancouver home, a sniper's bullet smashed through the glass doors of his kitchen and tore into his left thigh. Gravely wounded, he fell to the floor, blood pouring from a large severed artery. Only his quick application of a tourniquet, using the belt from his bathrobe, prevented Dr. Romalis from bleeding to death.
As it was, he spent many months in hospital, and, despite intensive physical therapy, never fully recovered. The attack also catapulted Dr. Romalis into the headlines. He was the first Canadian physician to be targeted during a spate of murderous strikes against abortion providers in the 1990s.
"We'd been talking about the situation in the States and whether we should get some security," recalls Wendy Norman, a family physician and women's health researcher at B.C. Women's Hospital, who knew Dr. Romalis for more than 20 years. "But we thought, we're in Canada. None of us expected [the violence] to come here." Over the next three years, two other Canadian abortion providers were also targeted by sniper attacks. The prime suspect in all three cases, James Kopp, who was later convicted of murdering Amherst, N.Y., abortion provider Barnett Slepian with a single rifle shot, never faced charges in this country.
Dr. Romalis had performed abortions as part of his regular obstetrics and gynecological practice for more than 20 years, though he was not nearly as well known as his friend Henry Morgentaler. "I [was] just a little guy, working on the edge of the world, looking after patients and minding my own business," he told The Globe and Mail's Robert Matas. The shooting changed everything.
The family was forced to find a new home. Bodyguards moved in. When Dr. Romalis was well enough to resume his practice, they drove him to work. Security became paramount. Even tiny everyday pleasures were lost.
"Having to cover our windows, unable to look outside at the garden, having to look through a peep hole before going out. It was a complete change," his wife, Sheila Romalis, says. "We had to be taught how to live a completely secure life."
Worst of all, perhaps, the physical demands and uncertain timing of deliveries forced an end to his great joy, obstetrics. Yet, Dr. Romalis was not prepared to step away from performing abortions. After the two talked it over, Ms. Romalis remembers, her husband concluded: "I am a doctor. That's who I am. I treat my patients. All patients." She backed his decision wholeheartedly.
In fact, the shooting strengthened his commitment. Never a crusader, he spoke out on the issue for the first time. "These acts of terrorism are designed to frighten doctors into not performing abortions and they threaten the health of women," he told the Canadian Medical Association Journal. "I am careful, but I am not afraid."
A knife in the back
Then, shockingly, less than six years after he was shot, Dr. Romalis was targeted again. In the lobby of his medical clinic, someone plunged a six-inch knife into his back. Fortunately, no major organs were hit and Dr. Romalis was able to recover after six days in hospital. Nonetheless, the second attack stunned the country once more, and prompted Dr. Romalis to tighten security. He wore a bulletproof vest to work and opted to leave clinical practice so as not to endanger others, restricting his services exclusively to abortions.Report Typo/Error
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2009 La Gerla Birba
Retail: $30.00
$24.97per bottle
750 mL
Closure Type
red fruit, strawberry and raspberry
asparagus, green pepper and red fruit
Product Description:
"The deep ruby-colored reveals a big, spicy, internationally-styled nose of new oak, red and black currants, and smoke. Medium-bodied, clean, and supple." - Importer
"The La Gerla property is situated at 320 metres above sea level, on the gentle slopes below Montalcino. This small wine estate has established itself as one of the great crus in this territory in the heart of Tuscany, delineated by the Orcia and Ombrone valleys."
"The owner, Sergio Rossi, was formerly involved in advertising. He was the director of three European offices of a famous agency and was used to travelling for work and to losing sleep over lay-outs and jingles. These days he is almost an "ilcinese," and he loves his vineyards as if they were children."
"This gentleman, with his vivacious character, has succeeded in his goal of creating a small cru in Montalcino where the most modern technology is combined with the know-how of local men and one winemaker. At La Gerla, human intervention plays an important role is extracting excellent Tuscan products from the land."
"The farmhouse, with the characteristic name "Colombaia" was once the property of the Biondi Santi family. They used it to make one of the best Brunellos in the area. Sergio Rossi purchased the property in 1976 and restructured it with care and attention to detail. Not long afterwards, in 1978, he created the trademark La Gerla." "Today the estate has 11,5 hectares (28,41 acres) under vine and large modern cellars complete with the latest technology. Sergio Rossi is flanked by a united team of people that have helped him to achieve his goal; the winemaker, Vittorio Fiore, who has been with the estate from the start and is both a friend and a trusted professional, Alberto Passeri, agronomist and director of the estate, Marisa the cellar boss, Luca the vineyard overseer and Sonia who deals with the estate administration."
"Last but not least, Seriano, the first "contadino" to work on the estate, has returned to the property. At La Gerla, as well as the development and continual evolution of our technology, we still give great importance to the people and the sentiments that are behind our wines and, for this reason, we couldn't give up on a local man, a real "ilcinese" with land and wine in his blood!"
"Perhaps this is one of the reasons why, in recent years, La Gerla has received consensus and high points in the best guides and trade publications, as well as appreciation in wine stores and restaurants. Could it be that our clients, when they taste a glass of Brunello La Gerla or Birba, perceive in the bouquet, along with the notes of berries and vanilla, some of the love of those that made the wine?" - Winery
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I finally reached 1000 miles on the motor. Man the WRX is quick. Puts you back in your seat. Anyways, I was up in the windy roads having some fun, and a Audi A8 with some rich older man( he came out of a mansion) started tailing me a bit. So we raced through the hills. I got him in the corners but any straight aways he caught me. It was pretty fun. I had the biggest smile on my face. Just thought I should share.
Also caught up to some sport bikes. I guess they didn't know how to ride.
Bone Stock WRX,
Kurlee Daddee
I am also looking to lower my car 1 inch all around. I see the posts for the Eibach and the Tiens. Anyone decided on which one they liked better. Can't afford the coil overs or new struts right now. I loved the way the Audi A8 or S6 looked all lowered.


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|by Gillian "gilliank"
|Date Added: Thursday 10 April, 2014
You will need a small portable battery with which to run this, but you can pick one up at a hobby shop. This puppy inflates my 9 foot dinghy in just a couple of minutes. I have an air floor that is high-pressure, and I have to finish that off with the foot pump, and this is a high volume, but low pressure pump. But that's ok.The only down side is the volume -- it's a real screecher, so you might want to use ear protection while using it.
|by GLM in VA
|Date Added: Tuesday 21 January, 2014
I have only used this once, but is totaly worth the price. Lots of air come out of this one. All depends on where I go and what inflatable I am using, but this works great in saving me from blowing them up by hand. Very good quality.
|by J. A. Wallace
|Date Added: Friday 14 October, 2011
The Rule inflator/deflator is nearly half the price of the LVM product and works perfectly. It inflates my 9' pontoon in less than 3 minutes, although a quick top off with a hand pump to reach 3 psi is required. It looks somewhat cumbersome but fits the hand well and has a large variety of adapters. Fortunately I have Bravo values and don't need an adapter--the extension from the pump works fine.Rule has been around a long time, and makes pretty good products. I've always had Rule bilge pumps and they've never failed. This pump has a good quality feel even though it's made overseas.The only reason I chose a 4 star rating was that unlike most pumps, the adapters must be broken off the plastic holder to use. It would be better if the holder was flexible because some will certainly be lost.I see no advantage to opting for the LVM over this one, however the LVM longevity may be superior. Too early to tell. They appear to be virtually identical. Highly recommended
|by D. Clark
|Date Added: Tuesday 30 August, 2011
Unfortunately the item received was not the UK made version, but rather made in China. It did not have the capacity that that the original UK versions I have seen and used (other peoples' unit.) The picture posted listed the UK version but the China version was delivered. I returned the unit.
|by E. Jackson
|Date Added: Thursday 07 July, 2011
You can read my full inflator review here (scroll down about 1/2 way where the picture of the inflator is)-[...]PRO's1. It fills a 3-person towable to the correct pressure without topping off with a hand pump within just a few minutes.2. Small and compact.3. Has a long power cord.CON'S1. It's louder than most (all are loud).2. You must connect it directly to the 12V battery posts (don't even try adapting it for use with a cigarette lighter, as it pulls up to 25A...at least you'll blow a fuse and at worst you're to likely burn up the wiring in your car, RV, boat, or whatever you plug it into).3. The switch may arc and fuse in the "ON" position, so that the only way to turn it off is to disconnect it. When it's reconnected, there's a big spark.4. Has a weird rectangular fitting from the inflate/deflate port to the adapter. If you lose that, you're dead (you can buy these, though).I would've given it 5 stars but for the fact of the sticking switch. You cannot just "bump" (quick taps) the switch. It needs to be held down, then released when done. I'm keeping mine.
|by Mr. Derek Walker "non-PC PC-user" (MK, UK)
|Date Added: Tuesday 28 September, 2010
I've tried other pumps and they are either weak and feeble or loud and unreliable. This one connects directly to the battery terminals, pumps fast and at a reasonable noise level. It inflates my Sea Eagle 12ft boat in just a few minutes at a high enough pressure to use without top-up. I recommend this air pump.


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Exactly my point from everyone. Whatever is appealing towards a particular crowd at that moment in time is what will win the vote. I see it all the time in my city where someone comes into work "bragging" about how the "new" person is running for Sheriff and stopped by their house to shake their hand. So prior to this, the person going on how they now "know" the new candidate has never once paid in the particulars about the agenda of the local community, but now decides they are an expert at the subject. I always make it a point to ask them what specifcally they are doing for the community and they cannot tell me a damn thing. All they know is they shook the hand of the next new sherrif and is going to vote for them.Those who know, do not speak. Those who speak, do not know.
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The Story (continued)
The first image of Lolita's youthful figure is impossible to forget - she wears a two-piece skimpy, flower-patterned bikini, and she sports heart-shaped sunglasses and a broad-brimmed, feathered straw hat while sunning herself on a blanket laid on the lawn. Charlotte continues babbling, oblivious to Humbert's smitten, bedazzled look and immediate infatuation:
My yellow roses. My - daughter....I can offer you a comfortable home, a sunny garden, a congenial atmosphere, my cherry pies.
Humbert quickly reconsiders her offer to rent a room for "something nominal, let's say, uh, two hundred a month...including meals, and uh, late snacks, etcetera...uh, you couldn't find better value in West Ramsdale." Charlotte is curious about what clinched the deal for him to move into the house: "What was the decisive factor? Uh, my garden?" Avoiding the truth, Humbert replies, tongue-in-cheek with a clever double entendre: "I think it was your cherry pies!" The scene ends on another long stare from Lolita.
The next scene (with an abrupt cut to the shot) jolts the audience - it is an excerpt from a projected horror film at a drive-in movie theatre, attended by the Hazes and Humbert (in their own fairy-tale world and sitting from left to right: young princess Lolita, the hero Humbert, and the monstrous Charlotte). A ghoulish figure in the supernatural horror film [Hammer Films' The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)] approaches menacingly - a symbol of Humbert's own lust. A shorthand montage of images and scenes visually provide a metaphor of Humbert's growing obsession for the young girl:
- In the front seat of the Haze vehicle, Humbert is seated in the front centered between Charlotte (in the symbolic driver's seat) and Lolita - all eyes are absorbed by the action on the screen. Frightened, both women grab toward Humbert's hands that rest atop his knees. He frees his left hand (from Charlotte's grasp), scratches his nose, and furtively slips his left hand on top of Lolita's left hand on his right knee to comfort and protect her from the evil. After another scream from the film, Lolita tops his hand with her right hand. Mrs. Haze, not wanting to be left out, and not wanting to be outdone, tops the entire pyramid of hands.
- One night, while Charlotte and Humbert play chess together, Lolita strolls into the living room wearing a full length nightgown. Charlotte is worried - symbolically: "You're going to take my Queen!" He replies, expectedly: "That is my intention." Lolita leans on the arm of his chair next to him, and then murmurs: "G'night." She kisses her mother on the cheek and then nuzzles cheek to cheek next to Humbert before leaving to go upstairs. Humbert immediately takes Charlotte's Queen in his next move: "It had to happen sometime."
- In the Haze backyard while Lolita practices twirling a hula-hoop around her thrusting, pubescent hips while counting the rotations, Humbert slyly leers at her over the top edge of the book he is pretending to read. He is dressed in a bathrobe and seated in a chair close to Lolita. Charlotte sneaks up and takes his photograph, misinterpreting his mood by adding: "See how relaxed you're getting."
At the Ramsdale High School summer dance attended by Lolita and her boyfriend, Charlotte and Humbert serve as formally-dressed chaperones. Teenagers dance with billowy dresses and 50's coats/ties. Humbert is dismayed by Charlotte's comment that "tonight's the night! Well, Lolita told me that she's positive Kenny's gonna ask her to go steady tonight." Charlotte introduces Humbert to John (Jerry Stovin) and Jean Farlow (Diana Decker), a fun young couple. John asks Charlotte to dance after getting Humbert's permission: "Mind if I dance with your girl? We could, um, sort of swap partners." While they are gone, Jean hooks Humbert's arm and confides: "Did you know that you've had the most remarkable effect on her. Did you know that?...she's begun to radiate a certain glow." Humbert deflects her observations while she adds, with a flirtatious twinkle in her eye, that she and her husband are liberated and sophisticated even though they're small-town residents:
When you get to know me better, you'll find I'm extremely broad-minded...In fact, John and I, we're both broad-minded.
Humbert must wonder whether their attitudes would permit his aroused fascination for the pre-adolescent Lolita. While away on the pretense of finding clean punch glasses, Humbert contents himself by fixatedly spying on his Lolita from behind floral decorations and arrangements. Charlotte notices a self-possessed Clare Quilty swaying and dancing with a somber-looking, dark-haired, speechless young woman named Vivian Darkbloom (Marianne Stone) [an anagram for Vladimir Nabokov]: "It's Clare Quilty! You know, the TV writer!" The buxom Charlotte primps and goes over for a forced hello - she cuts in on Quilty's dance partner by twirling into his arms:
Charlotte: Oh, hello. Hello, again! (Quilty avoids her after the dance ends) Oh, it's certainly been a long time!
Quilty: It certainly has, yes.
Charlotte: Do you know that I've been the local authority on you ever since.
Quilty: Is that so? Well, that's very sweet of you. Thank you so much.
Charlotte: I'll never forget that intellectually stimulating talk that you gave to our club.
Quilty: Yes, a magnificent club. Really magnificent. Tell me one thing - are you a columnist?
Charlotte: No, no. Don't you remember? That afternoon changed my whole life.
Quilty: Oh, well, how about that? (He chuckles patronizingly)
Charlotte: You remember it. [She whispers some recollections of a seduction that Charlotte had experienced with him to get closer to Lolita. Symmetrically, Humbert later lovelessly marries Mrs. Haze for gaining access to Lolita.]
Quilty: Did I do that? (She nods) Did I?
Charlotte: And afterwards, you know, I showed you my garden. And I drove you to the airport.
Quilty: (grinning ingenuously when he finally recognizes her) Yes, really great fun. Listen, listen, din, din you have a dawda (daughter)? Din you have a dawda with a lovely name? Yeah, a lovely, what was it now, a lovely lyrical lilting name like, uh, uh...
Charlotte: Lo-li-ta.
Quilty: Lo-li-ta, that's right. Lolita. Diminutive of Dolores, the tears and the roses.
At the conclusion of the dance, Lolita and her boyfriend are invited to a late-night party at the Farlows - leaving Humbert dreading and fretting that he might be left alone overnight with Charlotte at their house. Charlotte stirs fears in him with her own overt invitation: "We can go home now and have a cozy little dinner partout, huh?"
Back home, Charlotte changes into a full-blown, leopard skin-printed outfit [her first outfit had only a leopard-skin belt] - "something cozier" she mentions. She asks provocatively: "You don't think it's a little too risque?" Humbert believes Lolita is growing up, something that Charlotte believes is only natural: "...it's only natural and healthy that she should take an interest in those fascinating creatures known as the opposite sex." She clinks his glass of pink champagne, puts on Latin music with a distinctive cha-cha dance beat, and shimmies her low-cut bodice in front of him. Charlotte believes he is so "charmingly Old World" with his conservative attitudes and concern about Lolita being out all night: "That's what I adore about you." She wants to teach him how to dance with the latest steps:
Charlotte: I have a proposal. What say you I, uh, teach you some of the new steps, huh?
Humbert: Oh Charlotte, I don't even know the old ones. And you do this so very well, I'd much rather sit down and watch you. Very good.
Charlotte: Oh come on, Humbert. Ah, Humbert Humbert, what a thrillingly different name.
With sexual double entendres dripping from her mouth, the sexually-thirsting woman explains how the rhythm "just pours out of you...you simply vibrate rhythm." Pursuing him and getting him to join her, she encourages him - (and being the gentleman that he is, Humbert obliges her): "A little more joie de vivre! You know, when you smile like that, you remind me of someone. Oh, ah, a college boy I had, uh, a date with. I went dancing with him. A young, blue-blooded Bostonian. Oh, my very first glamour date. And you know, in certain lights, you remind me of Harold..I adored Harold, I really did. I swore at the time I would never marry again. I don't think I will, but, uh, it wouldn't be fair to his memory, do you think?" Humbert answers: "No, one doesn't always find such loyalty these days!"
Wooing him, she immediately becomes a sexual hypocrite. She passionately wants him and backs him up against the living room wall to make him submit to her advances: "Shouldn't life be for the living? What think you? You see, I'm a strongly emotional woman. Very strongly emotional. (She has her arms around his neck.) Oh, don't be afraid of hurting me...Take me in your arms! Oh, I can't live in the past, not any more Hum, not any more."
Suddenly, a young female voice unexpectedly says: "Hi!" Lolita has just returned from the party and watches them from the hallway. Recovering quickly, Charlotte asks: "Darling, did you come back for something?" Lolita slumps down in a chair after giving her reasons for arriving home early: "Mona's party turned out to be sorta a drag. So I thought I'd come back and see what you two were doing." Humbert summarizes their evening for Lolita with a suggestive double entendre: "We had a wonderful evening. Your mother created a magnificent spread." He rushes to volunteer and make Lolita a sandwich because she says that she's "starving." While Humbert is in the kitchen, mother and daughter talk:
Lolita: Did you have a good time dancing with Clare Quilty?
Charlotte: Of course. He's a very erudite gentleman.
Lolita: Yeah, I know. All the girls are crazy about him, too.
Charlotte: That's neither here nor there.
Lolita: Since when?
Frustrated by the untimely appearance of her daughter, Charlotte attempts to coax her upstairs for bed, and finally succeeds after a quarreling, bossy exchange. Expressing all her loneliness, vulnerability, miserableness, and desire to be youthfully romantic, the young widow projects her competitive anger at her daughter for being present and preventing her from freely pursuing Humbert:
That miserable little brat. She is becoming impossible. Simply impossible. The idea! The idea of her sneaking back here and spying on us...She's always been a spiteful little pest, since the age of one. Do you know, she kept throwing her toys, her toys out of her crib so that I would have to keep stooping over to pick them up? She has always had some kind of gripe against me. Now, now she sees herself as some kind of a starlet. Well, I see her as a sturdy, healthy, but decidedly homely child. (She raises her voice) Is it my fault if I feel young? Why should my child resent it? (To Humbert) You don't resent it, do you? Do you think I'm just a foolish, romantic American girl?
Thwarted, the sex-starved Charlotte suggests going out with Humbert for a ride in the car, but he courteously refuses, explains that it's late, and bows his way out of the room with the excuse that he's tired. When she hears his door shut upstairs, Charlotte is left alone downstairs and she begins to whimper and sob - she dumps the pink champagne bottle back into the ice bucket.
Humbert writes his inner thoughts and experiences into a personal diary, and provides narrative commentary with passages from it:
What drives me insane is the twofold nature of this nymphet, a veteran nymphet perhaps, this mixture in my Lolita of tender, dreamy childishness and a kind of eerie vulgarity. I know it is madness to keep this journal, but it gives me a strange thrill to do so. And only a loving wife could decipher my microscopic script.
The following morning, Charlotte is still cranky and piqued by her daughter, as she prepares breakfast in the kitchen. Lolita is reprimanded for having her elbow lazily perched on the breakfast table:
Miss, in this house, we do not eat with the table on the el...elbows on the table!
Lolita is instructed to take a breakfast tray upstairs to "Professor Humbert," while Charlotte speaks on the phone to Jean Farlow. Wearing a droopy sweater, Lolita delivers the tray - interrupting Humbert's journal-writing. She eats most of his breakfast, languorously drapes herself on his desk, and inquires about his diary, now locked away from view in the desk drawer: "'Fraid somebody's gonna steal your ideas and sell 'em to Hollywood, huh?" To sidestep her curiosity about his scribblings, he reads her some poetry by "the divine Edgar" - Edgar Allan Poe. [The poem is Poe's Ulalume.] She judges parts of the poem "pretty clever," but other parts are "a little corny." Just as she is going to tell him something about her girlfriend Mona, in confidence, she reconsiders: "You'll blab." But when he vows: "I will never give away any of your secrets," she playfully replies: "Well, for that, you get a little reward." She dangles a fried egg from his plate above his open mouth and teasingly instructs: "You can have one little bite." Symbolic of his sexual desire for her, he holds her arm and ravenously takes one enormous bite.
From downstairs, Lolita hears her mother's voice bellowing for her. Charlotte is tremendously irritated at her daughter, commanding: "I forbid you to disturb Professor Humbert again. He is a writer and he is not to be disturbed!" Lolita responds with a 'Sieg Heil' gesture. Shortly later, Charlotte announces a "surprise" to Humbert. He wrongly guesses: "The Farlows have been arrested?" No -- Lolita will be going to a camp two hundred miles away: "Mona Farlow is leaving for summer camp tomorrow. Lolita is going with her....isolation from boys would be the best thing for both of the girls this crucial summer." His face suddenly expresses understated consternation at the thought of Lolita's departure:
Humbert: Do you think that the camp is the answer?
Charlotte: Oh, frankly Hum, I do. And it's all arranged. The Farlows and I phoned the camp long distance, and I did all the shopping this ...(She inquires about the pained expression on his face.) Is something the matter with your face?
Humbert: Toothache!
Charlotte: Oh, you poor man.
Rather than accompany Charlotte with their coffee out to the "piazza," he excuses himself to go upstairs and nurse his tooth.
Early the next day, the bleary-eyed, awakened Humbert watches the Haze station wagon being packed for the car trip to the girls' camp from his upstairs bedroom window. Lolita looks up toward his window and then rushes inside, hugging him in the upstairs hallway. She casually tells him:
Lolita: Well, I guess I won't be seeing you again, huh?
Humbert: I shall be moving on. I must prepare for my work at Beardsley College in the fall.
Lolita: Then I guess this is goodbye. (The car horn honks from outside)
Humbert: Yes.
Lolita: (She half-winks at him and races off) Don't forget me. (Romantic, sentimental piano music plays on the soundtrack for the rest of the scene)
As the car pulls away, an anguished Humbert retreats to Lolita's bedroom, hung with pennants and other high-school souvenirs or symbols of teenage hero-worship. [One of Quilty's cigarette advertisements cut from a magazine hangs on the wall next to her bed - it bears a striking resemblance to one of actor Peter Sellers' early 60s comedy albums.] He throws himself on her deserted bed, touches her articles of dropped clothing, buries his head into her pillow and sobs. Humbert composes himself when the maid unexpectedly presents him with an envelope from Mrs. Haze. He opens it and reads the note with a hoarse voice, becoming more melodramatic as the reading progresses, realizing that Charlotte has offered him a proposal of marriage:
'This is a confession. I love you. Last Sunday in church, my dear one, when I asked the Lord what to do about it, I was told to act as I am acting now. You see, there is no alternative. I have loved you from the minute I saw you. I am a passionate and lonely woman. And you are the love of my life. Now you know. So you will please at once pack and leave. This is a landlady's order. I am dismissing the lodger. I am kicking you out. Go! Scram! Departez! I shall be back by dinnertime. I do not wish to find you in the house. You see, cherie, if you decided to stay, if I found you at home, which I know I won't, and that's why I'm able to go on like this, the fact of your remaining would only mean one thing. That you ... (He begins to hysterically and uncontrollably burst out laughing with a fiendish sound), that you want me as much as I do you, as a life-long mate. And you are ready to link up your life with mine forever and ever and be a father to my little girl. Goodbye, dear one, pray for me, if you've ever prayed.'
[The camera pans over to the picture of Clare Quilty watching Humbert's predicament with cold detachment.] His sinister, reckless laughter continues into the blackness of the fade. To be near Charlotte's seductive child so that he can proceed with his nymphetomania, Humbert realizes that he must accept Charlotte's bait.
In the next scene, Charlotte and Humbert are already married, although he has snuck away from their conjugal bed and sought privacy and refuge in the bathroom to write in his diary. Thunder booms in the background as a rainstorm is about the begin. He narrates about how he has accepted his fate and his distaste for his new wife - he is sharpening a "conspiratorial dagger" for her:
The wedding was a quiet affair. And when called upon to enjoy my promotion from lodger to lover, did I experience only bitterness and distaste? No. Mr. Humbert confesses to a certain titillation of his vanity, to some faint tenderness, even to a pattern of remorse, daintily running along the steel of his conspiratorial dagger.


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