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My confession to you, dear readers, is that I read Books 1, 2 and part of 3 of The Wheel of Time series a little over a decade ago. Back then, I was young, in college, in my first serious relationship, and easily distracted by shiny books, so I didn't go on with the series.
In Book 1, having recently read The Lords of the Rings by Tolkien, I felt there was a little too much cribbing from the man in Robert Jordan's The Eye of the World. Remember, these were my thoughts of a 19 year old. But my man was really into these books, so I read on. Yet life, and other distracting books, got in the way of enjoying this series and it fell by the wayside. By the way, my man is extra excited to have me reading this series and he has even offered to listen along (audio versions) and I will occasionally include his remarks in my posts.
Now, with the upcoming read along, I am thoroughly looking forward to enjoying this series with a group of people. In truth, as a Brandon Sanderson fan, I really, really want to see what he did with Jordan's world and how he ended the series. Yes, I have heard how good this series is, how many serious-beyond-belief fans there are of Jordan's works. But what I know is how good Sanderson's works are. If Sanderson picked up the torch after Jordan's death, there has got to be something really good about this series for him to build on. Or so is my hope.
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Without reflection and empirical support, many advocate law department lawyers delegating work to paralegals. Intuitively, it makes sense that tasks, especially those that are more routine, be performed by the lowest cost capable person take. How, testing is required to determine whether the results of such delegation, as measured by total legal spending per unit of revenue, bear out this seemingly commonsense recommendation.
To find out, I looked at data from the 2010 General Counsel Metrics benchmark survey. First, I took two important metrics--paralegals per billion dollars of revenue together with total legal spending per billion of revenue--and looked to see whether they moved in a pattern with each other. The correlation was only 0.052 with a p value of 0.163, meaning there is only a very small statistical relationship between paralegal support (normalized) and total legal spending (also normalized). The positive correlation even suggests that having relatively more paralegals is associated slightly with spending a little bit more on total legal costs.
Next, I looked at the ratio of paralegals to lawyers and tested that metric against the same total legal spending figure. Here, the correlation was even smaller but was at least slightly negative at -0.027. The p value was even lower. This finding suggests that adding paralegals, relative to in-house lawyers, pushes down total legal spending a tad.
For managers of legal departments, these findings may disappoint. So, I dug deeper. Perhaps, I thought, with many smaller law departments--those with only one, two or three lawyers--too few opportunities exist to use paralegals efficiently. That lump of law departments without paralegals may drag down whatever correlation there is, I thought.
Accordingly, I looked at only the law departments with five or more lawyers. Of the 437 where the data was complete, the correlation between lawyers and legal spending (both per billion of revenue) rose to 0.136, which was double the correlation for all companies. Still, however, the statistics say that having more paralegals correlates with more spending, not less.
Why? My guess would be that legal departments that face more issues, where legal spend is higher, more often see the value of adding paralegals. Had they not hired paralegals, their total spend might be even larger. We could test this hypothesis by looking at law departments of the same size that have paralegals and that do not have paralegals.
It may also be that the number of paralegals in the department has little effect on the amount spent on outside counsel. Inside paralegals do not substitute much for outside law firm expenses, discovery being the obvious counter example.
It also might be possible that paralegal usage falls more in areas of the law department that have not much relationship to the revenue of the company.
Still, commonsense would suggest that if they are productively busy on tasks that need to be done, paralegals produce work at a lower cost per unit than higher-paid lawyers and therefore should reduce legal spend. The data described here may not show it, but let the empirical research continue.

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" Author: Jane Ridley / Format: Hardback / Genre: Historical, Political & Military /Title: Bertie / ISBN 13: 9780701176143 / ISBN 10: 0701176143 / 624 pages / Publisher: Chatto & Windus / Published: 30 Aug 2012 / Language: English / Alternative title: Bertie: A life of Edward VII / Alternative ISBN 10: 0701176148 "
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Most of the main facts about King Edward VII (1841-1910) are reasonably well-known. He was regarded as oversexed by his parents, Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort, blamed by the former for breaking the latter's heart and causing his early death with the news that he (Edward) had enjoyed himself with a lady of the night, was notoriously unfaithful to his charming but prematurely deaf and lame wife Alexandra, hated reading books and learning but became a first-class unofficial ambassador to courts and countries abroad, and despite the low expectations of others and his poor health made an excellent King for the last nine years of his life.
Having read several other books about him already, I wondered whether there was possibly anything new to be said. This proves that there certainly was. As she explains in her Foreword, Professor Ridley's original intention was to write a short life of the man, his relations with his women - his mother, sisters, wife, and naturally his mistresses. Then she was granted unrestricted access to his papers in the Royal Archives and it soon became apparent that here was enough to produce another full biography, especially as she had access to archives elsewhere. She had almost finished what was already a pretty hefty book when the Royal Archives told her they had just discovered many more papers and files for her to consult.
Four years later, the book was finally complete. She intended to present a new portrait of a man who had in effect been obscured by authorised biographers who concentrated on the politics and said little about the scandals, and unauthorised ones with their one-sided image of a frivolous prince of pleasure whose bed-hopping exploits had been wildly exaggerated in the interests of a good story.
Any fully-rounded account of the life of King Edward has to begin with a close look at his upbringing, at the hands of tutors who were urged by his not very understanding parents to produce a paragon of virtue. The Prince Consort was not the best of fathers. His favourites among the nine children were the more serious, literary-minded, art-loving, scholarly, clever ones. 'Bertie', as he was always called in the family, was none of these things, but he was intelligent, outgoing, and eager to please. In some ways he was a perfectly normal lad - and his parents were not pleased, although his mother understood him enough to admit that he was her 'caricature'.
Although the author is sympathetic to him with regard to the bad parenting he received, and to some extent with his being forced into an arranged marriage before he was really ready to settle down, she admits that he was immature, treated his unfortunate wife and mistresses selfishly, and advances the possibility - which I had never come across before - that he might have given the former an STD, which if true could account for why their sixth and last child only lived for one day and explain why, though Alexandra was only aged 26, she never had any more.
Talking of their children, I was interested to read from this that their eldest son Albert Victor ('Eddy'), who some conspiracy theorists have tried to frame as Jack the Ripper, was not the half-witted youth previous biographers have insisted. He was backward, lazy, a slow developer, might have inherited deafness from his mother and also suffered from a mild form of epilepsy. In a later, more understanding age he would possibly have been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder. However from this book it appears that he was quite intelligent, and had it not been for the impatient tutor John Dalton in whom his parents had placed such blind confidence, he would have turned out perfectly well. In this case, Bertie was obviously not above making the same mistake with his eldest son (i.e. the wrong tutor) that his own father had made with him. Eddy, incidentally, died of pneumonia at the age of 28, much to his parents' everlasting grief. The informed opinion is that his surviving brother, later George V, made a far better King than Eddy would have done.
Rumours and reports of mistresses there are many. But either Bertie covered up his tracks extremely well, or else his womanising and apparent fatherings on the wrong side of the blanket were very few. In fact, it seems that only one such child can definitely or almost probably be regarded as his, namely a son born (we think but cannot be sure) to Lady Susan Vane-Tempest around Christmas 1871. Ironically, this was the same time that Bertie came perilously close to dying of typhoid, on the tenth anniversary of the date that the same disease had killed his father. (There is a theory that stomach cancer might have carried the Prince Consort off, but the doctors attending him were called 'not fit to attend a sick cat' by some, and we will never know for sure). Lady Susan's husband was an alcoholic who had gone mad, been locked up, and attempted to murder his wife not long before, so it seems, he died of a burst blood vessel while he was struggling with his keepers who were trying to restrain him. A few years later she had a brief affair with the heir to the throne, became pregnant and was sent away to Ramsgate to have the child. It may have been adopted, or possibly even stillborn, while another theory suggests that it was never born and in fact had been aborted. Bearing in mind that she was quite generous with her favours to other men, the Prince may not necessarily have been the father. All that is known for certain is that within four years Lady Susan herself was dead, the cause of her death being unknown.
The devil found work for idle hands to do. Denied a chance to see state papers, serve in the armed forces or do anything really useful, apart from serving briefly on a royal commission to look into improvements in housing for the working classes, the Prince of Wales spent too much time enjoying the good life, partying until all hours, eating gargantuan meals, shooting, gambling and enjoying the company of other men's wives. When he was in his early twenties, Queen Victoria had complained in a letter to one of her daughters that he 'shows more and more how totally, totally unfit he is for ever becoming King.'
However, when she died in 1901 he defied expectations and proved himself an exceptionally unstuffy monarch, determined to modernise the institution after his mother's years of seclusion. He proved unexpectedly conscientious in reading state papers, astonishing courtiers who thought he was little more than an ageing playboy. Determined to end what he saw as Britain's isolation from much of Europe, and detach the nation from its time-honoured over-dependence on an increasingly warlike and untrustworthy Germany, in 1904 he paved the way for the creation of the Entente Cordiale with France. His last prime minister, Herbert Asquith, called him 'a very good listener and quite a clever man' He soon disarmed the critics who scoffed at him as 'vulgar', partly because they did not share his abhorrence of racism and anti-Semitism, prejudices from which he was considerably more free than many of his countrymen. When a courtier asked in astonishment why he had enquired after the health of James Keir Hardie, the first elected Independent Labour MP and an unashamed republican, his angry reply was that 'You don't understand me! I am King of all the people!'
The impression is that good as he was as a monarch, it came to him rather too late - he was 59 when Queen Victoria died. Throughout his nine-year reign he suffered from bronchitis, and although quite an abstemious drinker, obviously ate and smoked too much, resulting in a severe weight problem. His life was only saved just a couple of days before what was to have been his coronation (and had to be postponed for several weeks while he recovered), when a large abscess was operated on, and there is a graphic description of this in the book. There is also a telling account of him shortly before the end as a man who 'craved the affirmation of crowds' as he lived in 'the lonely bubble of a political leader, cocooned by his staff and detectives, with a mistress who was more political companion than lover and a deaf wife who shut herself away.'
I came across one or two minor errors of fact, such as a couple of family relationships given wrongly. Moreover the bald statement that the mad King Ludwig of Bavaria shot himself is inaccurate. As far as is known, he was drowned, or drowned himself, in a violent struggle with his psychiatrist, who was also killed while trying to save him. Yet this does not detract more than marginally from this being an excellent and very full biography.
The author has taken a good hard long look at family relationships and added a certain amount to what we already knew, or perhaps only guessed, about these. She is good on the personal and political aspects of his life, particularly the unsettled last few months of his reign with Parliament's efforts to curb the power of the House of Lords. I also found her last chapter, 'Bertie and the biographers', particularly interesting in its look at the various official biographies of him already written and how authors were encouraged to put a positive spin on their subjects, toning down any suggestion of scandal beyond the vaguest facts. In the 21st century we all know that there were royal scandals a-plenty, yet to reveal these in new biographies or discuss them in greater length is hardly likely to shake the foundations of Windsor Castle.
The book, or rather the text alone, is almost 500 pages long, so it is not for the casual reader. And at the price it is, I'd recommend trying the library first. However I thoroughly enjoyed it, finding it one of the most interesting royal biographies I had read for a long time.
[Revised version of a review I originally posted on ciao]


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Environmental Issues in Malaysia Essay by Sporks1981
Environmental Issues in Malaysia
This paper discusses that Malaysia is a region of the world which has a wide variety of environmental problems ranging from deforestation to air and water pollution, despite having a national policy of biodiversity.
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Published on May 13, 2006 in Environmental Studies (Environmental Problems) , Asian Studies (General)
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This paper explains that Malaysia has been identified by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature as one of 12 mega diversity areas in the world, which means that these areas are very rich in plant and animal species; however, it is estimated that, because of environmental problems, by 2020, almost half of all mammals and a quarter of all birds in Malaysia will face extinction. The author points out that agriculture plays a very important role in the development of Malaysia; large-scale farming has caused thousands of acres of forestland to be ploughed up, destroying the habitat of wildlife. The paper relates that Malaysia entered the industrial age, but at the cost of the environment: (1) Industrial zones have been approved by the government to be set up in mostly forestland and uninhabited areas, (2) many rivers have become polluted by the wastes poured out into these rivers and (3) hotels and resorts are being built on the rivers destroying the forests, thus eroding the soil and polluting the water.
From the Paper:"The dramatic losses of these species obscure equally large and important threats to genetic diversity as well. This could imperil agriculture too. Varieties of corn, wheat, rice, and other crops have rapidly squeezed out of land-races. Farmers and pastoralists bred and maintained a tremendous diversity of crop and livestock varieties. On-farm diversity is shrinking fast thanks to modern plant-breeding programs and the resulting productivity achieved by planting comparatively fewer varieties of crops that respond better to water, fertilizers, and pesticides. The loss of species stems from and invites the loss of cultural diversity."
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Training Of Marine Infantry In Sevastopol
Today you will get a chance to see how marine infantry in Sevastopol is trained.
Training young soldiers.
33 Responses to "Training Of Marine Infantry In Sevastopol"
A. Bunka here. That is one old pool table.
Beginning to feel like this is a army recruitment site.
You forgot to say "First, like the good ol' USA."
I love the First tradition
Can anyone explain the use of colored poles (held by two marines) at the unloading of the ship?
Its hardly to see out of vehicle lioke this where the ramp starts
Defending the Motherland (although this is in Ukraine) from American imperialism, neo-fascism, Islamic separatists, Georgian super-nationalists, Extreme Sports rowdies and drunkards, bazooka-wielding hooligans, and cucumber festival infiltrators.
You mean mighty Russia is afraid of little Georgia?
Well, two men from Georgia did conquer Russia, so maybe they should be afraid…
Its good to read you let in peace the hot russian girls getting refreshed in the fountains, or in bikini contests, having fun in the beaches, or getting sexy showing cars. There is hope for you.
That LST (Landing Ship-Tank) is a lot of boat!
I'm surprised at the high superstructure, and would wonder at the radar return it gave even at a distance.
Of course, according to the sub guys, there are ONLY two types of ship: Submarines, and Targets.
Nice post!
AKA, Large slow moving target.
From the Halls of the Reichstag to the shores of Sevastopol.
Are this Russians or Ukrainians ? Sevastopl is on Ukraine, but there is still is russian navy operating …
one reason is that Krim and the whole east ukrain belong ethnically to russia.
90% there speak russian und are the slaves of the kievskyi-rus. The west people belong to poland.
Only because Soviet doctrine relocated ethinic Russians to the sattelite states in order to dilute the blood of the local population.
Ehhh in 1200 there had been a Soviet doctrine?
Thx for the info mate..
Cuke fest infiltrators are the lowest form of humanity, on par with the old White Army.
In a real all-out war, you wouldn't have six course meals. You would have to live off the land, eating plants and small animals. Russian troops are not spoonfed. They are prepared for the hardships of a real war! It appears you are not.
Trust me I know. I've done 7 years of service in the Russian Ground Forces. The first four were in the 4th Kantemirovskaya Guards brigade based in Voronezh. Then I did the Spetsnaz course and joined the 16th Spetsnaz brigade, based in Tambov.
SO you say all spetsnaz eat lizards when when in action? Trust me when i say i know what living off the land means to russian army steal all you can from farmers maybe rape the daughters aswell? The whole world saw your wonderfull spetsnaz in action at that school in Beslan,hang your head in shame.Australian SAS is considered by many experts to be one of the finest special forces in the world.So go back to chicken stealing mr spetsnaz.
NO we don't eat lizards in action. But that sounds like the sort of thing that you might do, if you were in such a situation. We were trained to differentiate between poisonous and harmful food, and those that are good.
A military should be judged on the care it gives it's fighters. Give them the best food, equipment, training and pay, and you will get the best fighters. That is a tried and true methodology. The problem is Russia has never valued life as much as the west. Thus it is ok to sacrifice soldiers in human wave attacks. It also shows in their respect for civilians and their property. Anyone under the boot of the Russian Army better hide his food, his, money, and his women.
"Australian SAS is considered by many experts to be one of the finest special forces in the world.So go back to chicken stealing mr spetsnaz."
Really? You should be ashamed of yourself because Your Army has never really fought any wars. Only thing they do really is to go and cook for the Americans and the British in war zones who are incidentally are their masters by the way. I didn't even know that you have an Army by the way. Which war have you ever fought and won by the way? Zilch. Only thing you are famous for is that you were sent to Australia as convicts.
Ever heard of Napoleon's invasion of 1812, the Crimean War, the First World War, the Second World War?!!! Obviously not.
And just so that you know, Russians were never sent to Australia!
I think news come a lil bit later to australia LOL.
And the education seems also to be very special australian if you lokk at Bloodhound.
For war russia always now and in WWII had big food savings. Russians soldiers never missed food in WWII, read some books ppl…
How about you come over to Russia, and say that at a Russian military base?!! Then you would see what standards we have at our barracks. And as for $30,000 per soldier, our equipment are not sophisticated and expensive. They are designed to be reliable, dependable and cheap, so that they can be manufactured in numbers.
Um… Flowers in the wash stand, why?
BigAussieBoris and I have 3 comments, all of which are disliked and hidden. Should we go for four mate?
Amen Brother
Folks, no need to fight. Let's respect these men's service. I am sure they do their best with what they have. Should these troops have better living conditions? Absolutely, and I hope they will get them. Is their equipment good? I believe so. Is it as advanced as some other countries? Some probably is, some is not. Far as the Australians and Russians go, stop fighting. Believe the Australians and Russians who fought the Axis during WWII would laugh at your whining. They fought and died, and gave up their tomorrows, so we could have our lives. Historian…wrong, Russian soldiers did miss food during WWII. Read "The Taste of War", by Lizzie Collingham. Good book about food in WWII.
Where are you MR spetznas iam waiting for your considered reply? Guess its the time difference do you a watch ? I suppose your grand father must brought several home after occupation of germany!Yes you are right i have nothing better to do ,you see unempoyment benifits are quite generours in australia about $400 aud ( usd 440 ) per week about the same as russian major general. LOL
1)If by MR spetsnaz you are referring to me, let me tell you this. My grandfathers never fought in WWII. But both great-grandfathers on my mothers side did and died in the first year of fighting. So show some respect when you say such things.
2)How the hell would you know anything about the Russian Army to make ridiculous comments about our salaries. I rose to the rank of Captain and my monthly salary was around $2200, plus an additional $500 or so since I'd done the Spetsnaz course.
And by the way, it appears my english is better than yours.
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Almost four years on from the Victorian Black Saturday bushfires, two years on from the Queensland floods and having just commemorated the 10 year anniversary of the Canberra fires, there remain significant casualties of these disasters. Not so much in terms of infrastructure and buildings, homes and jobs (which a still being restored where possible), but in terms of the mental health outcomes of those affected by disaster.
Even now – as the bushfires continue to rage through Gippsland and the fires in NSW and Tasmania are still being monitored – it has really been brought home to us that Australia is a country that is beholden to nature. We are at the mercy of cyclones, floods, fires and drought. And if predictions of climate change are correct, then we need to expect more of all these disastrous events. The threats of the current fires also serve to potentially open up old emotional wounds of these disasters past.
While we may prepare for these eventualities – by not building houses so close to the coast, to making houses more cyclone and fire proof – it is important to also plan for what these events will do for the mental health of Australians, particularly children.
Obviously the manner in which those who lived through the bushfires or floods were affected will vary depending on their experience, such as where they were, what dangers they were exposed to, what they may have witnessed happening to others or tragically whether they may have lost loved ones, so it is important to acknowledge that the impacts of these events is different for everyone.
Although dependent on what was experienced, after any disaster a proportion of survivors will show what is called a "resistant" trajectory of recovery. They report few, if any, symptoms of mental distress. At the other end of the scale, a small minority will develop persistent diagnosable mental health conditions such as depression or post-traumatic stress disorder.
Most survivors, however, fall somewhere between the two. They will develop mild to moderate re-adjustment difficulties. These are the people who, in the aftermath of disaster recovery, generally fall between the cracks. They focus on rebuilding, helping others, grieving loss – without seeking any formal mental health assistance. It is incumbent on response agencies to ensure that these people are offered health interventions, not only for their own well-being but also because to fail to do so will cost the health system much more further down the track.
Following the Victorian bushfires, the federal and state governments met with health professional associations and trauma experts to rapidly develop an evidence-informed framework to bring mental health care to those affected by the fires. This framework was implemented following the Queensland floods and, sadly, is likely to be used again and again in the future.
The framework identified three levels of response. The first is known as "psychological first aid", or PFA, and is designed for the entire affected population. PFA gives those affected by the disaster some simple recovery strategies to help themselves, their loved ones, and others in their community. It also helps them recognise signs of mental health issues and how to get professional care if required. This level of advice can be delivered by first responders in addition to community members.
Level 2 involves actual intervention by primary care and allied health professionals. The target group here are those who have persisting mild to moderate distress that affects their ability to function in everyday life. It can be provided by GPs and other community health workers.
Level 3 focuses on those who have developed a diagnosable mental health conditions as a result of their experience. While in the minority, these people need specialist care from appropriately trained providers.
It is critical that we ensure that services in the affected communities have the capacity and skills to provide the level of care commensurate with need to survivors consistent with the framework. Such services not only to ensure wounds from previous disasters continue to be addressed, but also to provide intervention for distressing memories re-awakened in the current bushfire season and offer early and effective support to those newly affected by the current fires.
Australians are tough. And, yes, for the most part people experience a normal recovery process after disaster. But for those who do not experience a so-called normal recovery it is not because you are "not tough". There are many like you, and one of the few upsides of disasters such as Black Saturday and the Queensland floods is that we know how when to help, when to step back and let you manage your own recovery and when to step in when you aren't feeling tough enough to go on.
Professor David Forbes is director of the Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health.
The Australian Financial Review


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Are you closer to the 18-year-old or 81-year-old side of the spectrum?
Are you closer to the 18-year-old or 81-year-old side of the spectrum?
They might have an average age of 59 years between them, but these ladies show they can still kick it with the young crowd in this new dance video.
Story looks back on special relationship between much younger woman and her elderly ward.
Some in the media are calling this incident yet another indication that Japan's entering an unprecedented era of geriatric delinquency.
When it comes to years old and spicy moves, she's got plenty of both.
Don't try this at home, kids (and grandkids)!
Walk into any supermarket or inexpensive restaurant in Japan, and you're sure to notice the racks of free, pennysaver-like magazines for visitors to take. They really come in handy when you're looking for new employment opportunities, new and used vehicles, or you'd like a coupon to try out a new restaurant or salon.
But this time, one free magazine in Nagano Prefecture is shaking things up by offering a stylish look into the lives of some of the older residents around the area. If you've ever seen those Japanese grannies rocking purple hairdos, you'll know right away what a brilliant idea they've struck upon, and they've even put up some promotional videos on YouTube to prove it!
A somber case is currently making its way through the Japanese legal system as a 93-year-old man goes on trial for killing his wife, apparently at her request. This heartbreaking case has made headlines in Japan and evoked a gut-wrenching testimony from their eldest daughter.
If you're feeling a little jaded on romance in these days of impersonal dating apps, casual hookups and seeing who can pretend to be the most indifferent, then pull up a chair and watch this heart-warming video! RocketNews24's intrepid team of reporters hit the streets of Sugamo, Tokyo to interview some of the shopping district's oldest and wisest residents on matters of the heart, touching on topics such as money vs looks, where to find hot guys in Tokyo, and why you're never too old to fall in love.
There are certain privileges that come along with adulthood. For example, if I decide I really want to eat a bag of cookies for dinner or stay up until sunrise playing video games, there's really not a whole lot any other person can do to stop me (even if my body is likely to eventually break down in protest of the unhealthy lifestyle).
Likewise, one you hit the age where you stop getting an allowance from your parents and start earning a legitimate paycheck, you're generally considered to have earned the freedom to spend your money however you want. And just like you wouldn't take kindly to someone trying to reinstate a bed time for you, seniors in Osaka aren't too crazy about a government offer to check up on how they're spending their government-administered pensions.
On your next birthday, take a moment to reflect on your lifestyle choices. Do you eat healthily and get plenty of exercise? How are your sleeping habits? And do you consume a hefty amount of bacon every mor–wait, what!?
If you're seeking answers about how to live a long and prosperous life, why not take it from the ultimate authorities on the subject–the supercentenarians themselves? After all, the oldest currently living people in the world have lived lives that span three separate centuries, so you'd think they know a thing or two. And you might just be surprised by how diverse their answers are!
After inventing the printing press, mastering the power of flight, and connecting the world through the power of the Internet, it's inspiring to know there is still more human ingenuity out there innovating and giving us life-changing products like a USB-powered rice ball warmer. But our species is a bright bunch and we continue to find new ways to harness technology, like a Japanese startup that has announced a new wearable device that predicts bowel movements and gives the user a 10-minute heads-up before needing to find a toilet.
It may not be as trendy of a wearable as the upcoming Apple Watch, but it could be a life-changing device for people who suffer from incontinence or those working in the nursing home industry.
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These days, though, families are getting smaller, and more mothers are working outside the home. As such, the numbers of both senior centers and daycare providers are on the rise. But rather than keep their two groups of charges separate, some facilities are giving them opportunities to mingle in something called yoro shisetsu, institutions where the very young and elderly interact and share experiences that let them both see that the beauty of life has neither a minimum age nor an expiration date.
Ah mochi, the delicious Japanese sweet. It can come in all different shapes and flavors, from the loveable daifuku with sweet bean paste filling, to hot zenzai soup with azuki beans and white mochi, to such delights as mochi ice cream and even chocolate cow poop mochi.
Since mochi is a traditional New Year's treat in Japan – you can even reserve your New Year's kagami mochi at Baskin Robins – more of it is consumed around this time of year than any other.
But all that mochi-eating has a dark side to it. With its incredibly sticky texture, mochi causes the most choking-related deaths of any food item in Japan. Last year it killed two people during the New Year season, and after just two days into 2015 it has already claimed nine lives and hospitalized 128 others.
What do you dread the most about growing old? Is it the aching muscles after what used to be an easy exercise routine? The need to get up and pee multiple times during the night? Or how about that distinctive "old-person smell" that sneaks into the air whenever a senior citizen is around?
Speaking of that last one, have you ever wondered where that particular odor comes from? Although many people believe that the source of the smell is behind the ears, a team of Japanese researchers have recently disproved this theory after what must have been an excruciatingly odoriferous ordeal. You might want to plug your nose for this one, folks–things are about to smell more than a little fishy around here…
Life as a retiree isn't exactly easy. Sure, you don't have to get up and go to work every morning, but that also means you don't have a very substantial income. While your retirement checks might help you put food on the table, they'll probably seem a bit underwhelming as you get even older. And in Japan, you can't even go out and get a depressing job as a greeter at Wal-mart.
But there's always Yahoo! Auction, where you can sell any manner of things you might have lying around the house. Old instruments, old clothes, old dolls, or even, what the heck, how about some old pornographic photos? Any of those are sure to fetch a tidy sum online, but you might want to be careful about those explicit photos–they could very well end up with you getting arrested, as one 83-year-old Tokyo retiree learned!
As Japan's population continues to grow older, the nation is having to change to cope with the challenges that come with this aging demographic. The following story is just one unfortunate example of how current systems can fail to meet the needs of the elderly.
To show the world that young people do not have a monopoly on dancing, a choreography group from Japan has put together a video showing an elderly Japanese woman busting some mean moves on a trendy street in Tokyo. Made in honor of "Respect for the Aged Day," it shows a kimono-clad woman getting down with her bad self to fast-paced electronic music.
Given the amount of time people spend riding trains in Japan, it's no surprise that there's a whole set of both implicit and explicit protocol passengers are expected to follow. Eating on the train is considered bad form, for example, and passengers are expressly asked to refrain from talking on their cell phones or allowing them to ring.
One of the trickiest aspects of Japanese train etiquette involves giving up your seat on a crowded train. Good manners stipulate that the elderly and young children have priority, but as the stories from Twitter users below show, what seems like it should be a simple act of kindness isn't always so simple after all.
This Monday was Respect for the Aged Day here in Japan, so we're celebrating by bringing you this story about an old dude who deserves much respect: 102-year-old sprinter Hidekichi Miyazaki. Not only is this centenarian still very much alive and kicking, he's breaking world records in the 100-meter dash and dreaming of a race with the world's fastest man.


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Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American comedienne, model, film and television actress and studio executive. She was star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy and Life with Lucy, and was one of the most popular and influential stars in the United States during her lifetime. Ball had one of Hollywood's longest careers,[3] especially on television. Her film career spanned the 1930s and 1940s, and she became a television star during the 1950s. She continued making films in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1962, Ball became the first woman to run a major television studio, Desilu, which produced many successful and popular television series.[4]
Ball was nominated for an Emmy Award thirteen times, and won four times.[5] In 1977, Ball was among the first recipients of the Women in Film Crystal Award.[6] She was the recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1979,[7] the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986,[8] and the Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 1989.[9]
In 1929, Ball landed work as a model and later began her performing career on Broadway using the stage name "Diane Belmont". She assumed many small movie roles in the 1930s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures. Ball was dubbed the "Queen of the Bs" (referring to her many roles in B-films). In 1951, Ball was instrumental in the creation of the television series I Love Lucy. The show co-starred her then-husband, Desi Arnaz, as Ricky Ricardo, Vivian Vance as Ethel Mertz, and William Frawley as Fred Mertz. The Mertzes were the Ricardos' landlords and friends. The show ended in 1957 after 180 episodes. The cast remained intact (with some additional cast members added) for a series of one-hour specials from 1957 to 1960 as part of The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse. Its original network title was The Ford Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the first season, and The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Presents The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the following seasons. Later reruns were titled the more familiar Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, which was a perennial summer favorite on CBS through 1967. The specials emphasized guest stars such as Ann Sothern, Rudy Vallee, Tallulah Bankhead, Fred MacMurray and June Haver, Betty Grable and Harry James, Fernando Lamas, Maurice Chevalier, Danny Thomas and his Make Room for Daddy co-stars, Red Skelton, Paul Douglas, Ida Lupino and Howard Duff, Milton Berle, Robert Cummings, and, in the final episode, "Lucy Meets the Moustache", Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams. Ball went on to star in two more successful television series: The Lucy Show, which ran on CBS from 1962 to 1968 (156 Episodes), and Here's Lucy from 1968 to 1974 (144 episodes). Her last attempt at a television series was a 1986 show called Life with Lucy – which failed after 8 episodes aired, although 13 were produced.
Ball met and eloped with Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz in 1940. On July 17, 1951, at almost 40 years old, Ball gave birth to their first child, Lucie Désirée Arnaz.[10] A year and a half later, Ball gave birth to their second child, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, known as Desi Arnaz, Jr.[11] Ball and Arnaz divorced on May 4, 1960.
On April 26, 1989, Ball died of a dissecting aortic aneurysm at age 77.[12] At the time of her death, she had been married to her second husband and business partner, standup comedian Gary Morton, for more than 27 years.[13]
Early life
Ball was born to Henry Durrell Ball (September 16, 1887 – February 19, 1915) and Desiree "DeDe" Evelyn Hunt (September 21, 1892 – July 20, 1977) in Jamestown, New York. Although Lucy was born in Jamestown, New York, she sometimes claimed that she was born in Butte, Montana.[14] Shortly before her father's death her family moved to Anaconda, Montana at age 3 where her father died, and then to Wyandotte, Michigan.[citation needed] Her family was Baptist, and her ancestry included Scottish, French, Irish, and English.[15][16] Some of her genealogy leads to the earliest settlers in the colonies, including Edmund Rice, an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony.[17][18]
Her father, a telephone lineman for Bell Telephone Company was frequently transferred because of his occupation, and within three years of her birth, Lucille had moved many times, from Jamestown to Anaconda, and then to Trenton.[19] While DeDe Ball was pregnant with her second child, Frederick, Henry Ball contracted typhoid fever and died in February 1915.[20] Ball recalled little from the day her father died, only fleeting memories of a picture falling and a bird getting trapped in the house. From that day forward, she suffered from ornithophobia.[21]
After her father died, Ball and her brother Fred Henry Ball (July 17, 1915 – February 5, 2007) were raised by her mother and grandparents in Celoron, New York a summer resort village on Lake Chautauqua just west of Jamestown.[22] Her grandfather, Fred Hunt, was an eccentric who also enjoyed the theater. He frequently took the family to vaudeville shows and encouraged young Lucy to take part in both her own and school plays.[citation needed] Four years after the death of her father, Ball's mother DeDe remarried. While her step-father, Edward Peterson, and mother went to look for work in another city, Ball was left in the care of her step-father's parents. Ball's new guardians were a puritanical Swedish couple who were so opposed to frivolity that they banished all mirrors from the house except for one over the bathroom sink. When the young Ball was caught admiring herself in it she was severely chastised for being vain.[23] This period of time affected Ball so deeply that in later life she claimed that it lasted seven or eight years, but in reality, it was probably less than one.[24] Edward Peterson was a Shriner. When his organization needed female entertainers for the chorus line of their next show, he encouraged his twelve-year-old stepdaughter to audition.[25] While Ball was onstage, she began to realize that if one was seeking praise and recognition this was a brilliant way to receive it. Her appetite for recognition had thus been awakened at an early age.[26] In 1927 her family suffered misfortune when their house and furnishings were taken away in a legal judgment after a neighborhood boy was accidentally shot and paralyzed by someone target shooting in their yard, under Ball's grandfather's supervision. The family then moved into a small apartment in Jamestown.[27]
Teenage years and early career
In 1925 Ball, then only 14, started dating Johnny DeVita, a 23-year-old local hood. DeeDee was unhappy with the relationship, but was unable to influence her daughter to end it. She expected the romance to burn out in a few weeks, but that did not happen. After about a year, DeDe tried to separate them by using Lucille's desire to be in showbusiness. Despite the family's meager finances, she arranged for Lucille to go to the John Murray Anderson School for the Dramatic Arts in New York City[28][29] where Bette Davis was a fellow student. Ball later said about that time in her life, "All I learned in drama school was how to be frightened."[30]
Ball was determined to prove her teachers wrong, and returned to New York City in 1928. Among her other jobs, she landed work as a fashion model for Hattie Carnegie.[31] Her career was thriving when she became ill, either with rheumatic fever, rheumatoid arthritis, or some other unknown illness, and was unable to work for two years.[32] She moved back to New York City in 1932 to resume her pursuit of a career as an actress, and supported herself by again working for Carnegie[33] and as the Chesterfield cigarette girl. Using the name "Diane Belmont", she started getting some chorus work on Broadway[34] but the work was not lasting. Ball was hired – but then quickly fired – by theatre impresario Earl Carroll from his Vanities, by Florenz Ziegfeld from a touring company of Rio Rita,[35] and was let go from the Shubert brothers production of Stepping Stones.[citation needed]
After an uncredited stint as one of the Goldwyn Girls in Roman Scandals (1933) she permanently moved to Hollywood to appear in films. She appeared in many small movie roles in the 1930s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures, including a two-reel comedy short with the Three Stooges (Three Little Pigskins, 1934) and a movie with the Marx Brothers (Room Service, 1938). She can also be seen as one of the featured models in the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film Roberta (1935), briefly as the flower girl in Top Hat (1935), as well as in a brief supporting role at the beginning of Follow the Fleet (1936),[36] another Astaire-Rogers film. Ginger Rogers was a distant maternal cousin of Ball's. She and Rogers played aspiring actresses in the hit film Stage Door (1937) co-starring Katharine Hepburn. In 1936 she also landed the role she hoped would lead her to Broadway, in the Bartlett Cormack play Hey Diddle Diddle, a comedy set in a duplex apartment in Hollywood. The play premiered in Princeton, New Jersey, on January 21, 1937 with Ball playing the part of Julie Tucker, "one of three roommates coping with neurotic directors, confused executives, and grasping stars who interfere with the girls' ability to get ahead."[37] The play received good reviews, but there were problems, chiefly with its star, Conway Tearle, who was in poor health. Cormack wanted to replace him, but the producer, Anne Nichols, said the fault lay with the character and insisted that the part needed to be reshaped and rewritten. The two were unable to agree on a solution. The play was scheduled to open on Broadway at the Vanderbilt Theatre, but closed after one week in Washington, D.C. when Tearle suddenly became gravely ill.[38] Ball was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the 1940s, but she never achieved major stardom from her appearance in those films.[39]
She was known in many Hollywood circles as "Queen of the B's" – a title previously held by Fay Wray – starring in a number of B-movies, such as 1939's Five Came Back. Like many budding starlets Ball picked up radio work to earn side income as well as gain exposure. In 1937 she appeared regularly on The Phil Baker Show. When that completed its run in 1938, Ball joined the cast of The Wonder Show, starring future Wizard of Oz tin man Jack Haley. It was here that she began her fifty-year professional relationship with Gale Gordon, who served as show announcer. The Wonder Show lasted one season, with the final episode airing on April 7, 1939.[40] MGM producer Arthur Freed purchased the Broadway hit musical play DuBarry Was a Lady (1943) especially for Ann Sothern, but when Ann turned down the part the choice role was awarded to Miss Ball, who in real life was best friend to Miss Sothern. In 1946, Ball starred in Lover Come Back[43], and in 1948, made an uncredited appearance as Sally Elliot in The Fuller Brush Man.
Desi Arnaz
In 1940, Ball met Cuban-born bandleader Desi Arnaz while filming the Rodgers and Hart stage hit Too Many Girls. When they met again on the second day, the two connected immediately and eloped the same year. Although Arnaz was drafted into the Army in 1942, he ended up being classified for limited service due to a knee injury.[citation needed] As a result, Arnaz stayed in Los Angeles, organizing and performing USO shows for wounded GIs being brought back from the Pacific. That same year, Ball appeared opposite Henry Fonda in The Big Street, in which she plays a paralyzed nightclub singer and Fonda portrays a busboy who idolizes her. The following year Ball appeared in DuBarry Was a Lady, a film for which the natural brunette first had her hair dyed the flaming red that would become her screen trademark.
Ball originally filed for divorce from Desi in 1944, even going so far as obtaining an interlocutory decree; however, she soon reconciled with Arnaz and stopped the proceedings.[41] Even though the couple were only six years apart in age, many apparently believed that it was less socially acceptable for an older woman to marry a younger man, and hence split the difference in their ages, both claiming a 1914 birth date until this was disproved some years later.
I Love Lucy and Desilu
In 1948, Ball was cast as Liz Cugat (later "Cooper"), a wacky wife, in My Favorite Husband, a radio program for CBS Radio. The program was successful, and CBS asked her to develop it for television. She agreed, but insisted on working with Arnaz. CBS executives were reluctant, thinking the public would not accept an All-American redhead and a Cuban as a couple. CBS was initially not impressed with the pilot episode produced by the couple's Desilu Productions company, so the couple toured the road in a vaudeville act with Lucy as the zany housewife wanting to get in Arnaz's show. The tour was a smash, and CBS put I Love Lucy on their lineup.[42] The I Love Lucy show was not only a star vehicle for Lucille Ball, but a way for her to try to salvage her marriage to Desi Arnaz, which had become badly strained, in part by the fact that each had a hectic performing schedule which often kept them apart.
Along the way, she created a television dynasty and reached several "firsts." Ball was the first woman in television to be head of a production company: Desilu, the company that she and Arnaz formed. After their divorce, Ball bought out Arnaz's share of the studio, and she proceeded to function as a very active studio head.[43] Desilu and I Love Lucy pioneered a number of methods still in use in television production today such as filming before a live studio audience with a number of cameras, and distinct sets adjacent to each other.[44] During this time Ball taught a thirty-two week comedy workshop at the Brandeis-Bardin Institute. Ball was quoted as saying, "You cannot teach someone comedy; either they have it or they don't."[45]
When the show premiered, most shows were aired live from New York City studios to Eastern and Central Time Zone audiences, and captured by kinescope for broadcast later to the West Coast. The kinescope picture was inferior to film, and as a result the West Coast broadcasts were inferior to those seen elsewhere in the country. Ball and Arnaz wanted to remain in their Los Angeles home, but the time zone logistics made that broadcast norm impossible. Prime time in L.A. was too late at night on the East Coast to air a major network series, meaning the majority of the TV audience would be seeing not only the inferior picture of kinescopes but seeing them at least a day later.[46]
Sponsor Philip Morris did not want to show day-old kinescopes to the major markets on the East Coast, yet neither did they want to pay for the extra cost that filming, processing, and editing would require, pressuring Ball and Arnaz to relocate to New York City. Ball and Arnaz offered to take a pay cut to finance filming, on the condition that their company, Desilu, would retain the rights to that film once it was aired. CBS relinquished the show rights back to Desilu after initial broadcast, not realizing they were giving away a valuable and durable asset. Desilu made many millions of dollars on I Love Lucy rebroadcasts through syndication and became a textbook example of how a show can be profitable in second-run syndication. In television's infancy, the concept of the rerun had not yet formed, and many in the industry wondered who would want to see a program a second time.[47] In fact, while other celebrated shows of the period exist only in incomplete sets of kinescopes mostly too degraded to show to subsequent generations of television viewers, I Love Lucy has virtually never gone out of syndication since it began, seen by hundreds of millions of people around the world over the past half century. The success of Ball and Arnaz's gamble was instrumental in drawing television production from New York to Hollywood for the next several decades.[48]
Desilu hired legendary German cameraman Karl Freund as their director of photography. Freund had worked for F. W. Murnau and Fritz Lang, shot part of Metropolis (1927) as well as the original Dracula (1931) with Bela Lugosi, and had directed a number of Hollywood films himself, including The Mummy (1932) with Boris Karloff. Freund used a three-camera setup, which became the standard way of filming situation comedies.[49] Shooting long shots, medium shots, and close-ups on a comedy in front of a live audience demanded discipline, technique, and close choreography. Among other non-standard techniques used in filming the show, cans of paint (in shades ranging from white to medium gray) were kept on set to "paint out" inappropriate shadows and disguise lighting flaws.[44][50] Freund also pioneered "flat lighting," in which everything is brightly lit to eliminate shadows and the need for endless relighting.
I Love Lucy dominated the weekly TV ratings in the United States for most of its run. (There was an attempt to adapt the show for radio; the cast and writers adapted the memorable "Breaking the Lease" episode—in which the Ricardos and Mertzes fall out over an argument, the Ricardos threaten to move, but they're stuck in a firm lease—for a radio audition disc that never aired but has survived.)[51] In the scene where Lucy and Ricky are practicing the tango in the episode "Lucy Does The Tango," the longest recorded studio audience laugh in the history of the show was produced. It was so long, in fact, that the sound editor had to cut that particular part of the soundtrack in half.[52] The strenuous rehearsals and demands of Desilu studio kept the Arnazes too busy to comprehend the show's success. During the show's production breaks they starred together in feature films: Vincente Minnelli's The Long, Long Trailer (1954) and Alexander Hall's Forever, Darling (1956).
Desilu produced several other popular shows, most notably Our Miss Brooks (starring Ball's 1937 Stage Door co-star Eve Arden), The Untouchables, Star Trek, and Mission: Impossible. Many other shows, particularly My Three Sons in its first seven of twelve seasons, Sheldon Leonard-produced series like Make Room for Daddy, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Andy Griffith Show, and I Spy, were filmed at Desilu Studios and bear its logo. Desilu was eventually sold and merged into Paramount Pictures in 1967.
Testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities
When Ball registered to vote in 1936, she listed her party affiliation as Communist.[53] (She was registered as a Communist in 1938 as well.)[54] In order to sponsor the Communist Party's 1936 candidate for the California State Assembly's 57th District, Ball signed a certificate stating "I am registered as affiliated with the Communist Party."[55] The same year, she was appointed to the State Central Committee of the Communist Party of California, according to records of the California Secretary of State. In 1937, Hollywood writer Rena Vale, a self-identified former Communist, attended a Communist Party new members' class at Ball's home, according to Vale's testimony before the United States House of Representatives' Special Committee on Un-American Activities, on July 22, 1940.[56] Two years later, Vale reaffirmed this testimony in a sworn deposition:
within a few days after my third application to join the Communist Party was made, I received a notice to attend a meeting on North Ogden Drive, Hollywood; although it was a typed, unsigned note, merely requesting my presence at the address at 8 o'clock in the evening on a given day, I knew it was the long-awaited notice to attend Communist Party new members classes ... on arrival at this address I found several others present; an elderly man informed us that we were the guests of the screen actress, Lucille Ball, and showed us various pictures, books and other objects to establish that fact, and stated she was glad to loan her home for a Communist Party new members class[57]
In a 1944 British Pathé newsreel, titled Fund Raising For Roosevelt, Ball was featured prominently among several stage and film stars at a fund-raising event in support of Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaign for re-election.[58] She also stated that in the 1952 US Presidential Election, she voted for Republican Dwight Eisenhower.[59]
On September 4, 1953, Ball met privately with HUAC investigator William A. Wheeler in Hollywood and gave him sealed testimony. She stated that she had registered to vote as a Communist "or intended to vote the Communist Party ticket" in 1936 at her socialist grandfather's insistence.[60] She stated she "at no time intended to vote as a Communist."
Ball stated she has never been a member of the Communist Party "to her knowledge" ... [She] did not know whether or not any meetings were ever held at her home at 1344 North Ogden Drive; stated... [that if she had been appointed] as a delegate to the State Central Committee of the Communist Party of California in 1936 it was done without her knowledge or consent; [and stated that she] did not recall signing the document sponsoring EMIL FREED for the Communist Party nomination to the office of member of the assembly for the 57th District...J. Edgar Hoover, then director of the FBI, named "Lucy and Dezi" [sic] among his "favorites of the entertainment world."[62] Immediately before the filming of episode 68 ("The Girls Go Into Business") of "I Love Lucy," Arnaz, instead of his usual audience warm-up, told the audience about Lucy and her grandfather. Reusing the line he had first given to Hedda Hopper in an interview, he quipped: "The only thing red about Lucy is her hair, and even that is not legitimate."[63]
A review of the subject's file reflects no activity that would warrant her inclusion on the Security Index.[61]
Children and divorce
On July 17, 1951, one month before her 40th birthday, Ball gave birth to her first child, Lucie Désirée Arnaz.[10] A year and a half later, Ball gave birth to her second child, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, known as Desi Arnaz, Jr.[11] When he was born, I Love Lucy was a solid ratings hit, and Ball and Arnaz wrote the pregnancy into the show. (Ball's necessary and planned cesarean section in real life was scheduled for the same date that her television character gave birth.)[11] There were several challenges from CBS, insisting that a pregnant woman could not be shown on television, nor could the word "pregnant" be spoken on-air. After approval from several religious figures[64] the network allowed the pregnancy storyline, but insisted that the word "expecting" be used instead of "pregnant." (Arnaz garnered laughs when he deliberately mispronounced it as "'spectin'").[65] The episode's official title was "Lucy Is Enceinte," borrowing the French word for pregnant;[19] however, episode titles never appeared on the show. The birth made the first cover of TV Guide in January 1953.[66]
Ball was outspoken against the relationship that Desi Jr. had with Liza Minnelli. Talking about Liza Minnelli dating her son, she was quoted as saying, "I miss Liza, but you cannot domesticate Liza."[67] Her various close friends in the business included Ginger Rogers, Vivian Vance, Mary Wickes, Mary Jane Croft, and Carole Cook; whom all appeared at least once on her various series.
In October 1956, Ball, Vivian Vance, Desi Arnaz, and William Frawley all appeared on a Bob Hope special on NBC, including a spoof of I Love Lucy, the only time all four stars were together on a color telecast.
By the end of the 1950s, Desilu had become a large company, causing a good deal of stress for both Ball and Arnaz; his increased drinking further compounded matters.[citation needed] On May 4, 1960, just two months after filming the final episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, the couple divorced. Until his death in 1986, however, Arnaz and Ball remained friends and often spoke very fondly of each other.[citation needed] Her real-life divorce indirectly found its way into her later television series, as she was always cast as an unmarried woman.[68][69]
The following year, Ball did a musical on Broadway, Wildcat, co-starring Paula Stewart. That marked the beginning of a thirty-year friendship between Lucy and Stewart, who introduced Lucy to second husband Gary Morton, a Borscht Belt stand-up comic who was thirteen years her junior.[13] According to Ball, Morton claimed he had never seen an episode of I Love Lucy due to his hectic work schedule.[70] Ball immediately installed Morton in her production company, teaching him the television business and eventually promoting him to producer. Morton also played occasional bit parts on Ball's various series.[71]
Later career
The 1960 Broadway musical Wildcat ended its run early when Ball became too ill to continue in the show.[72] The show was the source of the song she made famous, "Hey, Look Me Over," which she performed with Paula Stewart on The Ed Sullivan Show. She made a few more movies including Yours, Mine, and Ours (1968), and the musical Mame (1974), and two more successful long-running sitcoms for CBS: The Lucy Show (1962–68), which costarred Vance and Gale Gordon, and Here's Lucy (1968–74), which also featured Gordon, as well Lucy's real life children, Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz, Jr. Ball appeared on the Dick Cavett show in 1974 and spoke of her history and life with Arnaz. She revealed how she felt about other actors and actresses as well as her love for Arnaz. Referring to her divorce from Arnaz and marriage to Morton, she said that the success to her life was "getting rid of what was wrong and replacing it with what is right."[cite this quote]
Ball also revealed in this interview that the strangest thing to ever happen to her was after she had some dental work completed and having lead fillings put in her teeth, she started hearing radio stations in her head. She explained that coming home one night from the studio, and as she passed one area, she heard what she thought was morse code or a "tapping". She stated that "as I backed up it got stronger. The next morning, I reported it to the authorities and upon investigation, they found a Japanese radio transmitter that had been buried and was actively transmitting codes back to the Japanese."[73][74]
Ball was originally considered by Frank Sinatra for the role of Mrs. Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate. Director/producer John Frankenheimer, however, had worked with Angela Lansbury in a mother role in All Fall Down and insisted on having her for the part.[75]
During the mid-1980s, Ball attempted to resurrect her television career. In 1982 she hosted a two-part Three's Company retrospective, showing clips from the show's first five seasons, summarizing memorable plotlines, and commenting on her love of the show.[76] A 1985 dramatic made-for-TV film about an elderly homeless woman, Stone Pillow, received mixed reviews. Her 1986 sitcom comeback Life With Lucy, costarring her longtime foil Gale Gordon and co-produced by Ball, Gary Morton, and prolific producer/former actor Aaron Spelling was canceled less than two months into its run by ABC.[77] In May 1988 Ball was hospitalized after suffering a mild heart attack.[78] Her last public appearance, just one month before her death, was at the 1989 Academy Awards telecast in which she and fellow presenter, Bob Hope, were given a standing ovation.
On April 18, 1989, Ball was at her home in Beverly Hills when she complained of chest pains. An ambulance was called and she was rushed to the emergency room of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She was diagnosed with dissecting aortic aneurysm and underwent heart surgery for nearly eight hours, receiving an aorta from a 27-year old man who had died in a motorcycle accident. The surgery was successful, and Ball began recovering very quickly, even walking around her room with little assistance. She received a flurry of get-well wishes from Hollywood, and across the street from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the Hard Rock Café erected a sign reading "Hard Rock Loves Lucy". On April 26, shortly after dawn, Ball awoke with severe back pains and soon lost consciousness.[79] All attempts to revive her proved unsuccessful, and she died at approximately 05:47 PDT. Doctors determined that the 77-year old comedienne had succumbed to a second aortic rupture, this time in the abdominal area, and that it was unrelated to her surgery the previous week.[80][81] Her ashes were initially interred in Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, but in 2002 her children moved her remains to the family plot at Lake View Cemetery in Jamestown, New York, where Ball's parents, brother, and grandparents are buried.[82]
Legacy and posthumous recognition
Ball received many prestigious awards throughout her career including some received posthumously such as the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George H. W. Bush on July 6, 1989,[83] and The Women's International Center's Living Legacy Award.[84]
There is a Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center museum in Lucy's hometown of Jamestown, New York. The Little Theatre was renamed the Lucille Ball Little Theatre in her honor.[85] Ball was among Time magazine's 100 Most Important People of the Century.[86]
On August 6, 2001, which would have been her 90th birthday, the United States Postal Service honored her with a commemorative postage stamp as part of its Legends of Hollywood series.[87] Ball appeared on the cover of TV Guide more than any other person; she appeared on thirty-nine covers, including the very first cover in 1953 with her baby son, Desi Arnaz, Jr.[88] TV Guide voted Lucille Ball as the Greatest TV Star of All Time and later it commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of I Love Lucy with eight collector covers celebrating memorable scenes from the show and in another instance they named I Love Lucy the second-best television program in American history, after Seinfeld.[89] Because of her liberated mindset and approval of the Women's Movement, Ball was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2001.[90]
The Friars Club has named a room in its New York clubhouse for Lucille Ball.[91]
She was awarded the Legacy of Laughter award at the fifth Annual TV Land Awards in 2007,[92] I Love Lucy was named the Greatest TV Series by Hall of Fame Magazine,[citation needed] and TV Guide voted her greatest TV star of all time[32] In November of that year, Lucille Ball was chosen as the second out of the 50 Greatest TV Icons, after Johnny Carson. In a poll done by the public, however, they chose her as the greatest icon.[93]
On August 6, 2011, which would have been her 100th birthday, Google honored Ball with an interactive doodle on their homepage. This doodle displayed six classic moments from the I Love Lucy sitcom.[94] On the same day a total of 915 Ball look-alikes converged on Jamestown, New York to celebrate the birthday and set a new world record for such a gathering.[95]
On February 8, 1960, she was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one at 6436 Hollywood Boulevard for contributions to motion pictures, and one at 6100 Hollywood Boulevard for television.[96]
Filmography and television work
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- ↑ Ball explained, "In those days that was not a big, terrible thing to do. It was almost as terrible to be a Republican in those days." Testimony of Lucille Désirée Ball Arnaz, September 4, 1953, Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, 83d Cong., 1st sess., Investigation of Communist Activities in the Los Angeles Area – Part 7, September 4, 1953 (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1953), p. 2571 (PDF p. 18)
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- ↑ Life With Lucy. TV Party. Retrieved on 2008-04-06. ""Life With Lucy" turns out to be a flop"
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- ↑ Welcome to Women's International Center. Women's International Center. Retrieved on 2008-04-09. "Living Legacy Award"
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- Citations – books
- Ball, Lucille (1996). Hoffman, Betty Hannah. ed. Love, Lucy. New York: Putnam. ISBN 978-0-399-14205-5. OCLC 231698725. This autobiography covers Ball's life up to 1964. It was discovered by her children in 1989 (Love, Lucy. WorldCat. Retrieved on 2011-11-19.)
- Ball, Lucille (1997). Hoffman, Betty Hannah. ed. Love, Lucy. New York: Berkly. ISBN 978-0-425-17731-0. OCLC 52255505.
- Brady, Kathleen (2001). Lucille: the life of Lucille Ball. New York: Billboard Books. p. 20. ISBN 0-8230-8913-4.
- Harris, Warren C (1991). Lucy and Desi: the legendary love story of television's most famous couple. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-74709-1.
- Herringshaw, DeAnn (2011). Lucille Ball: Actress & Comedienne. Edina, MN: ABDO. ISBN 978-1-61787-664-6.
- Kanfer, Stefan (2003). Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-375-41315-4.
- Karol, Michael A. (2004). The Lucille Ball Quiz Book. United States: iUniverse. ISBN 978-0-595-31857-5.
- Sanders, Coyne Steven; Gilbert, Thomas W. (1993). Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-688-13514-0. http://books.google.com/?id=y1pXKrPW0DoC&pg=PA216&lpg=PA216&dq=Paula+Stewart+introduces+Lucille+BAll+to+Gary.
- Sanders, Coyne Steven; Gilbert, Thomas W. (2001). Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. New York: HarperEntertainment. ISBN 0-688-13514-5. OCLC 48543617.
- Web pages
- FBI file: Lucille Ball, Part 1. FBI (October 18, 1994). Archived from the original on 2008-10-31. Retrieved on 2011-11-19.
Further reading
- Karol, Michael (2003). Lucy in Print. ISBN 0-595-29321-2
- Karol, Michael (2004). Lucy A to Z: The Lucille Ball Encyclopedia. ISBN 0-595-29761-7
- Karol, Michael (2005). The Comic DNA of Lucille Ball: Interpreting the Icon. ISBN 0-595-37951-6
- McClay, Michael (1995). I Love Lucy: The Complete Picture History of the Most Popular TV Show Ever. ISBN 0-446-51750-X (hardcover)
- Meeks, Eric G. (2011). P.S. I Love Lucy: The Story of Lucille Ball in Palm Springs. Horotio Limburger Oglethorpe. p. 45. ISBN 978-1468098549.
- Pugh Davis, Madelyn; with Carroll Jr., Bob (2005). Laughing With Lucy: My Life With America's Leading Lady of Comedy. ISBN 978-1-57860-247-6
- Sheridan, James; Monush, Barry Monush (2011). Lucille Ball FAQ: Everything Left to Know About America's Favorite Redhead. ISBN 978-1-61774-082-4
- Young, Jordan R. (1999). The Laugh Crafters: Comedy Writing in Radio & TV's Golden Age. Beverly Hills: Past Times Publishing ISBN 0-940410-37-0 (interview with Bob Schiller)
External links
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- Lucille Ball at the Museum of Broadcast Communications
- Lucille Ball at Find a Grave
- Flint, Peter B. "Lucille Ball, Spirited Doyenne Of TV Comedies, Dies at 77." The New York Times. April 27, 1989.
- Lucille Ball & several other actors participate on Orson Welles Radio Almanac 1944; recordings
- Celebrating Lucille Ball at 100: Unpublished Photos – slideshow by LIFE.com
- Lucille Ball Google doodle
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