iAdopt for the Holidays is in full swing and close to 1,000 animals have been adopted from Ontario SPCA animal centres since this adoption event began on Nov. 1. But there are still animals waiting to find their forever home this holiday season. Could it be yours?
Until Dec. 31, the Ontario SPCA, as well as SPCAs, Humane Societies and Animal Welfare groups across Canada are encouraging people to choose pet adoption as their first option when bringing home a new family member. Be sure to visit your local participating society to take part in iAdopt for the Holidays and change an animal's life this holiday season.
During the campaign period, all cats and kittens at Ontario SPCA animal centres are available for adoption for only $99. To further help our feline friends find a home, from Dec. 16-18 adoption fees will be lowered to $25 for all cats at Ontario SPCA animal centres.
Find the perfect gift for that animal lover on your list this holiday season with Paws & Give™, the Ontario SPCA's virtual giving catalogue. Gift givers can select from a variety of gifts to help animals in need.
Young animal lovers can "adopt" their very own pet through the Rocky & Friends line of plush animals modelled after real animals that have come through the Society. Other must-have holiday items include our 2017 Second Chances calendar and animal themed holiday cards.
There are also a number of symbolic gifts that are available throughout the year to help the many animals that come into the care of the Ontario SPCA. For example, purchase "Toys for a Shelter Pet" for a friend or loved one and they'll receive a card notifying them of the gift made in their name.
This holiday season give the gift that gives back.
Donor generosity has changed the lives of so many animals this year, but there's still work to be done. Our animal cruelty hotline will continue to receive calls throughout the holiday season, with our inspectorate on call and ready to respond 24/7. As the year comes to a close, there are also many animals that remain in our care.
Please make your year-end gift now and change the life of an animal in your community! Gifts received or postmarked before midnight on Dec. 31 are eligible for a 2016 tax receipt, but the fastest way to receive your tax receipt is to donate online now.
On behalf of our animal care workers, agents, inspectors and volunteers, thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
Please take a minute to watch a short video about why donor support means so much to Iris, a volunteer who has been helping animals for almost two years.
Save the date for a sweet treat!
Preheat those ovens! National Cupcake Day™ in Support of Humane Societies and SPCA's across Canada is back.
Register for National Cupcake Day and host your own Cupcake Day party where you bake cupcakes for your co-workers, friends and family. Your guests donate to the participating animal welfare charity of your choice in exchange for a cupcake. The event provides critically-needed funds for animals that are abused, abandoned, neglected or no longer wanted. Your Cupcake Day party can be held at your workplace, home, school or local community centre – anywhere where you think people will enjoy a treat!
Visit nationalcupcakeday.ca to register, bake and donate. Help "bake" a difference for animals' in need. The countdown to National Cupcake Day on Feb. 27 is on!
The Ontario SPCA would like to wish you a safe and happy holiday season with your two and four-legged friends and family members!
Normal hours of operation will resume on Tuesday, Jan. 3.
The Ontario SPCA is honoured to have received a very prestigious award from the Chatham-Kent Police. Chief Gary Conn of the Chatham-Kent Police recognized the Ontario SPCA's Major Case Management Team with a Chief's Commendation Award for their assistance breaking a major dog fighting operation in Tilbury, ON.
As part of a Joint Forces Operation in October 2015, members of the Ontario SPCA Major Case Management Team and the Chatham-Kent Police Service Intelligence Unit, Critical Incident Response Team, Forensic Identification Unit, Major Crime Section and Community Patrol Branch executed multiple warrants at a residence in Tilbury East Township.
As a result, five people were charged by the Chatham-Kent Police Service for animal cruelty and firearm related offences under the Criminal Code of Canada.
To commend the Ontario SPCA's Major Case Management Team for the actions, tenacity and dedicated teamwork its members exhibited throughout the investigation, the Chatham-Kent Police presented these highly trained officers with a Chief's Commendation during a ceremony on Nov. 15, 2016.
Thanks to committed volunteers and generous sponsors, feral cats will be warm and well fed this winter.
Through one of the Ontario SPCA's feral cat programs, over 240 shelters were built this year. Made by volunteers, these shelters are available to caretakers of feral cat colonies to provide a safe, warm place for their colonies during our cold, harsh winters. Special thanks to Wright Brothers Hay and Straw of Queensville, ON. for donating approximately 125 bales of straw, which is used as insulation.
The Ontario SPCA also operates a free feral cat food bank to provide a sustainable support of food to the caretakers of feral cat colonies. In addition to donations of cat food received by generous members of the public, LifeCorps Food Share in Richmond Hill has donated and delivered hundreds of pounds of cat food monthly for the past year. Thanks to their contributions, the food bank has been kept well stocked.


The wraith is very easy to kill and shouldn�t be an issue for any groups. Boss mechanics The Hollow Heart fires three ice projectiles in a frontal arc infront of her, leaving patches of ice on the ground which deal damage over time.
Just to be clear, Urfon Iceheart is not a world boss - he is a boss at the end of one of the main quests, and is intended to be difficult, but soloable. If everyone is finding that he's too challenging to complete alone, please let us know.


Well, my wife and I are planning a big trip to New-Mexico, Colorado, Utah... for 3 weeks, driving from Canada. I've been riding exclusively SS for the last year. Been mtb'ing since '93. We ride trails, I really enjoy climbing. But, I've never been to those places, although I have spent a week at Sedona a few years back, riding my Giant Trance.
Not knowing what the trails/riding are like in Santa Fe, Crested Butte, Moab and all those great places we always hear about, am I better off hopping back on my Trance or staying with my SS??? I don't know if I'll be able to repeat a trip like that in the future so I want to enjoy as much as possible.
If I find a way to bring both my bikes, when will I know which one to take???
bring your geared bike, just don't ever shift.
I live in CO, ride SS 90% of the time and still have the same dilemma every summer to deep in woods! I took my Slayer to CB last year - after all, I didn't think I could've "enjoyed" the whole experience with my ss, although I probably I could have suffered through it. Plrenty of people do, apparently. Don't be fooled by those old logging or mining "roads" that turned into trails - you'll realize miners and mules a century ago were really tough bunch. Klunkers footage show dudes pushing and puking on CB trail - yeah that's the feeling (sure they were drunk but hey). But if your wife is not as strong as you are, then you should take SS just to make it up with a handicap - she may ride ahead of you, and that's important for a trip like that.
SS is my choice in Fruita (almost next to Moab) as it is more of fantastic roller coaster trail with some steeps here and there that you can push yourself if you are determined.
Durango is probably like CB where extended climb will put the suffer-o-meter higher past fun level. Continental divide area - I'd inclined to take geared bikes from the same reason. Denver surrounding area - full suspension and gears are totally overrated if you are used to SS.
My 2 cents. Either way, have fun!
Stick with your single speed!
If you are worried about being able to ride you ss pick up a 21 tooth cog and maybe push a 32 x 21 while in cb.
My actual gearing is 32X19, on a 26" bike. I'm always ahead of my wife while on my SS... pisses her off sometimes ;-) I've gone up Pittsfield in VT (57 switchbacks all the way up the mountain) also Waterbury VT. But every place is different. Also, my shape is getting better with every ride.
32x19 on a 26"?? Yeah, you'll be fine.
Also, people ride all those trails on a rigid bike, so you can definitely do it on your hardtail.
Ha, sounds like you'll be on SS. Report back how it went, would you?
Trying to make sure this will be THE trip !!!!


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Industry Leaders Gather at 1st XBIZ Virtual Town Hall Meeting
ByXBIZ
Apr 8, 2020 Industry Leaders Gather at 1st XBIZ Virtual Town Hall Meeting
LOS ANGELES — Adult industry leaders and community members gathered for today's inaugural XBIZ Virtual Town Hall, where they discussed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their personal lives and businesses.
Moderated by XBIZ Founder and Publisher Alec Helmy, 15 industry leaders representing a variety of aspects of the adult entertainment — from performers, directors and studio owners, to clip and camming platforms, payment processors, attorneys and mental health advocates — gathered in the now-ubiquitous Zoom grid, with additional conversations occurring among community members in a concurrent chatroom.
The stakeholders who participated from their own self-imposed confinements were Brad Mitchell (MojoHost), Tim Valenti (Falcon/NakedSword), Cathy Beardsley (Segpay), Corey Silverstein (Silverstein Legal), Dariusz (Clips4Sale), Vanessa Eve (Streamate), Michelle LeBlanc (Free Speech Coalition), Steven Grooby (Grooby), Leya Tanit (Pineapple Support), Lance Hart (Lance Hart Studios/Pervout.com), Shirley Lara (Chaturbate), Romi Rain (performer and CAM4 ambassador), Megan Stokes (NMG Management), Kayden Kross (Deeper/Vixen Media Group) and Stan (FanCentro).
XBIZ's Events Director Moe Helmy was also onscreen to supervise the transmission.
Adult community members who accessed the broadcast through XBIZ.net, and took part in the conversation via chat, include performer-filmmaker Courtney Trouble, filmmaker Fivestar, Kink.com's Mickey Mod, PervCity's Suzanne, director mr. Pam, attorney Joe Obenberger, director Colin Rowntree, helmer Adam Christopher, Pink & White's Jiz Lee, Playboy's Holly Ruprecht and Professor Constance Pensley. XBIZ World Managing Editor Alejandro Freixes acted as chatroom moderator.
Alec Helmy convened the virtual town hall in an effort to unite the adult business community during the COVID-19 outbreak, he said, with the goal of helping companies and individuals circumvent challenges and seize opportunities ahead.
After several weeks of mainstream and industry reports about a clear uptick in viewership of adult content, apparently the result of homebound consumers turning to the internet for entertainment and stress relief, Helmy resolved to gather a diverse ensemble of business leaders to examine a wide range of topics and issues from both a business and consumer standpoint, and discuss how forward-thinking operators plan to navigate the weeks and months ahead.
Helmy opened the session by welcoming the participants and acknowledged the novelty of the format. He expressed his hope that it might result in other such gatherings and asked for a minute of silence to commemorate the 1.4 million people who had caught the coronavirus and the over 80,000 deaths around the world and their affected families and loved ones.
The first round of comments after the symbolic moment of silence concerned how the global pandemic and the stay-at-home measures has affected the participants on a personal level.
Living in the New Normal
Falcon/NakedSword's Tim Valenti set the tone for entirety of the town hall meeting by reminding himself of his own good fortune, and by expressing gratitude that the adult industry has been able to pivot and continuen to conduct their day-to-day business, given the circumstances.
Valenti spoke of being reminded of "how fortunate I am… for what we have built, and what we have in terms of resources. What it's done, what it's made even more clear [is] what I already believed, but feel this is an opportunity to practice: do whatever you can to help your family members, your neighbors, your friends, people that you don't even know, to really try to make a difference in their lives, to make things better."
Segpay's Cathy Beardsley referred to a cousin in New York who's a nurse and who caught the virus. Others in the group also acknowledged the increasing numbers of people they know who have tested positive, and relatives of people they know who have passed.
An emotional moment occurred when Michelle LeBlanc, executive director of the Free Speech Coalition (FSC), spoke candidly about her feelings about being separated from her younger daughter, who fell ill and was spending the quarantine with LeBlanc's ex-husband, who was also afflicted with symptoms.
MojoHost's Brad Mitchell spoke about feeling "extra-sensitive" about the situation, noting several people close to him, including his best friend's mother, have passed away from the illness.
Industry attorney Corey Silverstein acknowledged the cognitive dissonance in trying to imagine if someone had said to him, two months ago, "Hey, by they way, there's a chance the entire world might be completely shut down and everyone will be sequestered."
"I'd [have] probably looked at him and said, 'You're nuts,'" Silverstein remarked, before encouraging people to use the opportunity to "open up their minds" to preparing for circumstances that can seem unlikely.
Steven Grooby, founder of trans studio Grooby, explained he had been in Los Angeles preparing for the Transgender Erotica Awards when the lockdowns began to ramp up, but he initially talked himself into thinking the crisis would not be life-changing.
"I should have been ahead of the game," Grooby admitted. "My wife is Chinese, and she's been telling me for a couple of months all the facts coming out of China, and I was a bit dismissive of it."
Clips4Sale's Dariusz added that the pandemic also made clear that "it doesn't matter how much money you have," and that we are all in this together and have to pitch in resources to help defeat it.
Pineapple Support's Leya Tanit, speaking from Spain, where she lives, gave her perspective as a British expat who brought her mother to live with her because she did not trust the U.K.'s preparations to fight the virus with a person who "is very high-risk," liker her mother.
Most of the speakers emphasized the necessity for routines during the social isolation, particularly for those living with relatives, including small children. Helmy offered that every Friday he orders McDonald's as a treat, and he looks forward to it, having gained "an appreciation for the simpler things in life."
FanCentro's founder Stan offered a silver lining by pointing out that this was "the longest I've been at home for the last 15 years, so my wife is super-happy."
Performer-producer Lance Hart drew a contrast between the unusual situation of having his paysites running, and his business even seeing an uptick, while his older brother, a lobbyist in Washington D.C. who has always been seen by his family as "the stable one," might not have a job or an income in a couple of months.
"That's crazy to me," Hart said. "That guy has always had everything going on."
For performer and CAM4 ambassador Romi Rain, lifelong advice from her mother, a phlebotomist who has always taught her to not be alarmed and pay attention to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), helped her manage her anxiety.
Kayden Kross, a performer-filmmaker and studio head for Vixen Media Group's Deeper, spoke about having "a lot of time for reflection, a lot of thinking time."
Chaturbate's Shirley Lara called in from an unfinished room in her house, after her planned remodeling suddenly stopped. She spoke of having two small kids, a baby and a toddler, and how her live-in nanny, upon whom she depends to be productive in her demanding, full-time job, "got really freaked out about the pandemic. She gave me 72 hours' notice and took off back to her country."
Megan Stokes, from NMG Management, has experienced a similar situation as a parent with a full-time job suddenly adjusting to having to work from home and supervise children at the same time.
Another working parent in the group, Streamate's Vanessa Eve, observed that planning ahead has taken a backseat to living day-to-day and setting up self-care routines for good mental health.
At this point, Eve admitted, we might have to acknowledge that, at least for the time being, the current situation might be "the new normal."
A Rare Thriving Industry
After the personal comments, the adult industry leaders were asked by Alec Helmy to comment on the status of their businesses during this period of social isolation and the voluntary production halt recommended by the FSC.
The consensus was that many people in the industry had experienced the expected uptick in engagement, traffic and revenue reported by mainstream and industry sources.
The general note, however, was not optimistic: panelists spoke again and again of "gratitude" at this unexpected bonanza in lean times for most other businesses, tempered with a recognition that things could turn sour quickly, as overall disposable income dwindles down and consumers elect to prioritize other things over porn.
The panelists also spoke of having to maximize profits right now, while people are looking for at-home entertainment, but also of saving in preparation for an expected sea change.
Tim Valenti, whom Helmy described as head of a diversified operation including original content, paysites and VOD, spoke about the need to be "consistent and transparent" with his team so they know the direction the company is going."
"We are using the surplus of revenue," Valenti said, "to produce things we have been wanted to produce for a long time — things, of course that do not involve contact sex."
Vanessa Eve, whose duties at Streamate include recruiting talent for the cam platform, mentioned that she's seeing an increase in model sign-ups.
Eve said she is reviewing "stacks" of new people wanting to join the platform for the first time. But she's also prepared for a high dropout rate when many of these newcomers realize that either the adult entertainment industry is not for them, or that they came in only to make a quick buck during the pandemic.
"Business has picked up a lot," Eve said. "On one end, that is great, but on the other end, I'm waiting for the ball to drop — how long until they realize that you're not just gonna make thousands of dollars your first couple of days on cam? And that's when you start to lose people."
"It's important for me to really take a grounded approach and make sure that talent make an informed decision whenever they're getting into this, because maybe they're doing this out of circumstances, to get income into their household, but they have to realize this is gonna live forever after they leave," Eve concluded.
Shirley Lara from Chaturbate agreed with Streamate's Eve that the onboarding of new talent, particularly "civilians" or "mainstream people" trying out sex work for the first time while stranded at home with no income prospects, should be tackled carefully.
"We are seeing a huge new influx of new broadcasters signing up," Lara said, "and we're going to start an ambassador program," to onboard them with the assistance of seasoned performers.
Lara hopes that if their experience is positive during the quarantine, some of them will continue camming with Chaturbate after the current crisis is over.
FanCentro's Stan added that he has seen a 40 percent uptick in models signing up and is offering a 90 percent payout for the next 90 days with "all our profits going to the new influencers who are signing up to our platforms."
Segpay's Cathy Beardsley, described by Helmy as being "at the hub of commerce for adult," said that from the vantage point of payment processing for the premium sites, she's seen her numbers increase by four percent from February to March and is seeing the trend as being five percent increase for April.
"Clearly people need to pass the time and be entertained and we're benefiting from that," Beardsley added.
For NMG Management's Megan Stokes, while some of her clients' activities, particularly on the DVD side, have "ground to a halt," others have picked up. "Premium viewshare, clip stores, all those things — outside of physical goods, everything is either going up or staying stable. Right now, broadcast TV is staying stable."
Top stars like Romi Rain have taken advantage of the production hold for standard studio shoots to refocus on their main money-earners, premium sites and cam sites.
"My main income doesn't come from [studio] shoots," Rain — a CAM4 ambassador — said, "and I know of a lot of other performers are using premiums or cam sites to get by. Performers who aren't on premiums or cam sites are the ones struggling or concerned right now."
"There's been a huge surge in the past two weeks on premium sites, like OnlyFans and webcams," Rain added. "There's an interesting surge in popularity when it comes to contents and premiums. We need entertainment. Traffic has been incredible. It can inspire a little bit of guilt, because this is one of the industries that's been able to thrive and make money. I'm incredibly grateful."
"We are giving people a reason to pass the time, we need a distraction," Rain said.
Lance Hart, a prolific producer, performer and paysite operator, acknowledges that "there's lot to be grateful for," especially with this being a record time for revenue for his ventures. But he also wanted to point out that as a performer/producer who lives with another performer — Hart is married to Charlotte Sartre — he is fielding numerous office from studios to shoot at home for them.
"Charlotte and I are doing the quarantine together, obviously, so companies are reaching out to us to make movies for them, and I've also spent $10,000 in April paying people who are quarantined together to make movies for me, so I'm seeing both sides of that," Hart said.
Although they might be quarantined together, Hart explained, studios should not assume their cost will only involve paying performers' rates. As a producer, he is aware that many other costs are involved for talent who transition into producing. Hart advocated for appropriate negotiations to take place to make sure that these new talent-producers are compensated fairly.
"It's the Wild West right now," Hart said, "but if we don't talk about it now, the market will take care of that."
Helmy asked Deeper's Kayden Kross about Vixen Media Group's recent $250,000 initiative to provide talent with equipment to shoot their own content. Kross emphasized that the catch is that Vixen's brands are "known for quality," so the new content would have to be up their standards.
"Controlling the quality remotely [is] gonna be one of the things we'll probably have to be the most careful with," Kross said. "We're putting together guides and manuals and step-by-step instructions for how to capture that quality without having someone on set to navigate it for them."
Kross also spoke about how the new performer-producer projects could continue even after quarantine ends. "This form of content is gonna be a long-term project for us, if we launch it correctly."
The Deeper director also emphasized that she is grateful that the studio "had a lot of scenes in the can when this began."
"We are very, very lucky," and "very, very grateful from a business perspective," Kross added.
Steven Grooby reported that for his trans studio, business was up between five and ten percent. "We're making sales, we're making money," Grooby said, but warned the room to prepare because "this economy is gonna crash."
"This is a short-term grace period," he said.
When people start running out of money, Grooby warned, "entertainment is gonna be the first thing to go."
"We are trying to get as much money as we can right now," he said, before soberly recommending others to build "a war chest" for an imminent downturn.
Clips4Sale's Dariusz also reported an increase in traffic and uploads to his platform, but like Grooby, he stressed that "we don't know what's gonna happen next month." Dariusz encouraged the production community to build into their routines some productive activities that could be done during the quarantine, starting with "maintenance you can do at home," from improving keywords to re-editing content that might have under-performed
Wasteland's Colin Rowntree and other participants in the sidebar chat continued the conversation by sharing tips on how to maximize the downtime. "You'd be surprised by how many of us have videos we forgot to release," offered Lydia Love. "Going through old memory cards is important right now."
Others recommended the repackaging of old content with super-cuts and releasing director's cuts.
MojoHost's Brad Mitchell spoke about his "bird's-eye view of activity," with companies hosting with his representing cam sites, premium sites, clip sites, tube sites and advertising networks.
Looking at the picture from his level, the business is "up by 15 percent, not as much as I would have guessed as a layperson."
Traffic is up, and higher, on platforms like CAM4 and Flirt4Free, but clients that are dependent on content production and not distribution are not doing as well.
The FSC's Michelle LeBlanc mentioned that the people most affected by the quarantine are not top talent, but "the crew and small independent producers." The FSC has activated its Emergency Fund to help these people "who are hurting right now."
Among the panelists, "we are hearing from people who are okay," LeBlanc observed. "Everyone on this call will be fine at the end of this, probably, but we don't have representation on this panel from people who aren't fine, and weren't fine a week after the production hold went in, people who were already living paycheck-to-paycheck."
Kink.com's Fivestar, who participated via the chat, asked LeBlanc about PASS testing for performers who were shooting while being quarantined together. According to the FSC director, the PASS system has been left open — despite the voluntary production halt the group recommended — precisely because of situations like that.
Later, LeBlanc explained that performers who would like "to talk through a specific safety scenario regarding a shoot and testing status" should email the FSC's Ian O'Brien.
Leya Tanit from Pineapple Support said she had been researching the long-term effects of isolation on mental health. She has been seeing people stressed about their income, about the uncertainty of the future, and people who are passing the quarantine in a place that is not safe.
More people, Tanit said, are reaching out over social media proactively, in case they ever need the mental health resources Pineapple Support offers to sex workers.
Industry attorney Corey Silverstein was asked by Helmy about the economic relief programs offered by the U.S. government, and how they apply to adult businesses, webmasters and talent. Silverstein parsed out the differences between two different packages of support: EIDL (non-forgivable) loans, with "generous" terms and the PPP program.
Silverstein mentioned the EIDL's application page's notorious "prurient" exclusion, which appears to disqualify sex workers and sex businesses from application. He encouraged stakeholders to speak with their legal counsel about it before assuming that the "pruriency clause" applied to them.
But the attorney strongly encouraged people to apply for the PPP, "an SBA loan that you apply [for] through your bank." He advised the group to find a financial institution that will assist with the process, and emphasized that it is "a forgivable loan," which amounts to "free money" that companies can use for "group health care, insurance [and] some interest payments."
Another noted industry attorney, Joe Obenberger, posting on the chat conversation, commented the EIDL.
Obenberger has "advised clients to check the 'nonprurience' box and I'm not alone among the lawyers representing adult. In the Supreme Court case, Brocket v. Spokane Arcade, the high court had a great deal to say about what 'prurience' is and is not. When SBA chose to use to the term, they adopted the meaning of 'prurience' given it by the Supreme Court. That's my opinion, but it's not legal advice to anyone here. Consult your own attorney."
As Helmy brought the discussion to a close, Michelle LeBlanc offered that one good thing to come out of the current pandemic is the many ways in which performers are giving back to each other, from large donations to the FSC Emergency Fund, to whatever they're able to give, including their camming tips for the day.
Romi Rain closed the town hall encouraging talent to "get on premiums! Webcam site, OnlyFans, FanCentro, MayVids! Traffic is up. Join them all!"
"It was really inspiring and interesting," Rain told XBIZ after the 100-minute town hall had wrapped. "I really enjoyed that we all had slightly different but comparable perspectives in our unique industry facets."
"I hope XBIZ does more of them!" Rain added.
Flirt4Free Announces Easter Egg Hunt Promo Contest
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Q: How to do a find and replace special character in SQL Server 2008 I am trying to find and replace numerous "special characters" in my database that was entered in from a different charset.
I have looked around and found the REPLACE function in SQL Server and have tried the following:
UPDATE mans_brands_packages
SET package_content = REPLACE(package_content, 'œ', '&')
WHERE package_content LIKE '%œ%'

But I get a error as such:

Msg 8116, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
  Argument data type text is invalid for argument 1 of replace function.

It is because SQL Server doesn't take "œ" as an argument? Thanks.

A: You are trying to replace against a text field - replace expects a (n)(var)char data type as the first parameter.
UPDATE mans_brands_packages
SET package_content = REPLACE(convert(nvarchar(max),package_content),'œ','&')
WHERE package_content LIKE '%œ%'

Also, the text data type is deprecated. You should change it to an (n)varchar(max) field

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Hoarseness is usually caused by a problem in the vocal cords. Most cases of hoarseness are associated with inflammation of the larynx (laryngitis).
Hoarseness that lingers for weeks or months may be caused by a variety of problems. Some causes are minor, while others are serious.
Hoarseness may be short-term (acute) or long-term (chronic), but is treated the same in most cases.
This kind of hoarseness is very resistant to medical therapy. Rest and time are the only ways to cure hoarseness that is not associated with other symptoms. Crying, shouting, and excessive talking or singing will only make the problem worse. Be patient, the healing process may take several days. Don't talk unless it is absolutely necessary and avoid whispering. Whispering can strain the vocal cords more than speaking does.
Gargling does not help the vocal cords. Avoid decongestants because they dry the vocal cords and prolong irritation. If you smoke, reduce or stop smoking.
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Did you lose your voice completely?
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A rest day where everyone are waiting for..there are only jiyeon and eunjung at home. They just come back from buying some breakfast in nearest shop. Eunjung are going straight to jiyeon room to hide a small present that she buy when they going to Japanese last time for a small concert.
Suddenly…something attracting her..a small letter..inside a magazine…on jiyeon table..aka desk..thus, because of her curiosity, she opened that letter n read it..
I think it's a dream..
I wanna walk o run away from here..
WHY?? WHY IT HAPPENED LIKE THIS..
U always talk about him..
U never ask me about myself like u usually done..
I felt my heart aching as time goes by..
WHY?? WHY TIME GOES SLOW??
It make my day difficult..
U neglecting me n care only about him..
WHY?? WHY U DOESN'T FULLFIL IT??
The promises that U said..
The promise that U tell me..
The promise that U wouldn't forget..
Its not warm at all..
Its cold n only a while..
It make myself seem pathetic..
WHY?? WHY U MAKE ME LIKE THIS??
Eunjung startled with the content of the letter. She taught that its nothing..just something that anyone can read n look. She become anxious about every single word that be written there. "Is it bout me??" she ask herself.
"Unni??" Jiyeon called eunjung that still static in front o her desk. She started thinking that something happened there. She walk slowly to eunjung.
Eunjung already put the letter in its original place. She just feel sorry and confused bout it. She really feel that letter is for her.
"Nothing..my leg suddenly feel numb..thats all.." eunjung trying to change the subject o the conversation and walk away from there.
"Hmm.." jiyeon clueless with the situation. She just follow eunjung to kitchen. They eat breakfast together. Jiyeon eat a lot as usual. BUT eunjung eat less than usual. She lost her appetite after reading Jiyeon letter.
Everyone is back…the atmosphere is lively. Everyone sit together and chatting..Jiyeon still look at eunjung that doesn't look like herself that day. She concern about her more than everything. She ask others about eunjung condition but no one know..
At last, jiyeon initiate an awkward conversation with eunjung that currently drinking a juice. She staring blankly at the wall while drink the juice slowly. Bit by bit.
Jiyeon take the bottle of juice that eunjung give. She drink a bit..her eyes still watching every single move of eunjung….
Jiyeon can't stand with the awkwardness n that situation make her heart filled with burden. She doesn't know why..but…her tears suddenly falling down without her concern..she run away from there n going to her room.
"eunjung…why jiyeon crying??" ask soyeon that suddenly coming rom eunjung back. She come asking eunjung after she see slightly that jiyeon crying after talking to eunjung.
"she's crying??" ask eunjung that doesn't realize at all that jiyeon crying.
"Yeah..she is..hope u solve it quickly..before it goes bad.." advice soyeon that concern bout the situation. She quite worried as a leader, member and friend or both of them.
"Thx a lot..I will.." eunjung that just awake with the situation walking fast to jiyeon room. She knock twice the door before coming in. She's shock with everything that in front of her. Jiyeon is hiding inside the blanket and crying non-stop. Eunjung just stand there watching. She really doesn't know why jiyeon crying. After a few minutes..eunjung step forward n sit near jiyeon.
"Jiyeon..are u ok?" ask eunjung slowly..afraid that jiyeon will crying more loud than before. No replied from jiyeon. But jiyeon become more quiet than before..
"I…I guess I made a lot of mistake without realizing bout it…am i?" ask eunjung. Her tone..its not usual..full of regret..
"I'm sorry..please forgive me…"added eunjung. She move a bit to jiyeon that still hiding from her.
"Are the letter inside the magazine is for me??" ask eunjung curious bout the letter that she read before. Jiyeon startled a bit when she hear that question. "She read my letter.." she whispered to herself.
Eunjung that doesn't receive an answer from jiyeon feel a bit hurt. She feel that jiyeon ignoring her. Suddenly, jiyeon started to open from her hiding place. She sit in front of eunjung but doesn't look at her.
Eunjung hug a person that facing her. She love that person BUT she make her cry. It make herself lost for a while searching for the reason why its happening.
"The promise..I remember it..I never forget it.." add eunjung again..
Eunjung can feel a bit response from jiyeon that nodded a bit n hug her back..but jiyeon still keep quiet and crying a bit..
"BUT" jiyeon interrupt eunjung words..
"hmm.."jiyeon just nodding n tightly hug her girlfriend. The warmest hug that she doesn't felt before this. It make her heart flutter and melt with eunjung love.
"here.." after a while hugging each other. Eunjung give a present that she buy for her love..
"A gift..what is it??" jiyeon take the gift and open it..
"let me put it on u" eunjung take the necklace and put it on jiyeon.
Jiyeon feel embarrass all of sudden..her face is only an inch with eunjung face. She can feel eunjung breathing in and out..they shared the same air. The hotness of the air between them make them stuck in that position for a while..
Eunjung make a move..a kiss..deep kiss with her love jiyeon.. nothing can stop them …for further loving..
...for further imagination..up to u..
living normally is a best thing I ever want and have..
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Sports News, Discussion And Analysis
VAR IN FOOTBALL: BENEFICIAL OR DAMAGING?
VAR also known as Video Assistant Referee is a word that has become synonymous with football. It is being used in many competitions, both domestic and international. We can talk about the FIFA World Cup, Champions League, Eredivisie, La Liga and others. It is set to make it entrance into England's top division this season after a trial run in the Carabao Cup. Before that development occurs in the premier and probably other sports, let's us recap what we know about the technology. We can also learn what we don't know about it, the benefits as well as the disadvantages.
A picture of a VAR Screen.
VAR IN FOOTBALL: HISTORY.
The idea for this technology called Video Assistant Referee (VAR) was born during the Refereeing 2.0 project in 2010. It was under the direction of the Netherlands Football Association (KNVB) that the idea came about. The idea was turned into the technology we know today and was tested through mock trials during the 2012/13Eredivisie season. The International Football Association Board (IFAB) approved the technology for trials during its 2016 general meeting. The idea behind this technology was to protect referees from making mistakes that are immediately visible to everyone. An example of the mistake was the Thierry Henry handball that eliminated Ireland from 2010 World Cup qualification.
A live trial of the technology began in August 2016. It was used in a United Soccer League (USL) match. It was also used in a friendly between France and Italy. A pitchside monitor that allows the referee to review footage from the field was introduced during the 2016 FIFA Club World Cup. The Australian A-League was the first professional club competition to use the technology. During the match between Wellington and Sydney on April 2017 the VAR made it first intervention, awarding Sydney FC a penalty for an illegal handball. Since then the VAR has made a gradual inroad into football by being deployed in the Bundesliga, Serie A, La Liga etc. It will debut in the English Premier League this season.
VAR: IT USE AND INTERPRETATION.
The Video Assistant Referee technology (VAR) is used in four main situations. The first of them is when an attacking team commits an offence, ball goes out of play, ball entering goal, handball, offences and encroachment during penalty kicks [goal or no goal situation].
VAR also comes into play when a penalty should be awarded or not. Under this situation a review is made when an attacking team commits an offence, ball goes out of play, location of offence is not clear, incorrect awarding of penalty, and offence is not penalized.
A referee checking the VAR monitor.
The technology is also used when there is a denial of obvious goal-scoring opportunity through foul or violent conduct (biting, spitting, insulting, gestures, abusive language).
VAR is again used to review the case of mistaken identity. That is, situations where the wrong person has been booked or carded.
VAR IN FOOTBALL: BENEFITS.
The Video Assistant referee has several benefits or advantages in the modern game.
One of the advantages the technology has is that it correctly awards or wave away unmerited penalties that would have otherwise been given. The technology review cases to see if the penalty incident merits a penalty or not.
Another benefit of the technology is that it combats against diving. It becomes difficult for the referee to spot diving incidents in a match clearly but the technology help makes the referee certain. This certainty allows the referee to take actions.
VAR also helps the beautiful game in the sense that it disallows goals that touched the scorer's hand or was scored through a foul incident or offside position. This things in the past made players and officials angry but it has been reduced drastically thanks to VAR.
A number of VAR Screens in the Control Room.
VAR IN FOOTBALL: DAMAGES.
The technology, aside all it benefits has been criticized for a number of reasons. The reasons being cited are a hindrance to the growth of football. Some of the criticisms levelled are discussed below.
VAR has been criticized for creating as much confusion as clarity. The technology has been involved in several contentious moments in several competitions and matches all over the world. We can talk about the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup as an example. Other contentious moments are when penalties are decided, goals awarded or ruled out. This confusion it creates instead of clarity mars the beautiful game.
The technology suffers criticism for time wasting. The VAR takes a lot of time when reviewing certain incidents. It can take as much as 2 or 3 minutes to review incidents. Although additional time is always added, it ends up increasing the time players play the match as well as the time fans watch the match. This is damaging to football.
VAR is also criticized for frequently suffering from issues preventing it use. The malfunctions the technology suffers are from a variety of issues. One of those are situations where supporters' flags obscure the VAR camera. Some are the technical malfunction of its software. Other situations are when the technology malfunctions due to radio interference. All these issues damage the beauty of the game we love.
VAR: CONCLUSION.
The technology without a doubt is a good one as it limits mistakes that is made in the game. On the other hand, the attempt to limits mistakes sometimes create new ones. So does the merits of the technology outweigh that of the disadvantages. I leave that for you to judge using the comment section of the post. Invite your friends to join the arguments by sharing the article with them.
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Eric on 16th August 2019 at 11:21 am
Technology is a part of all sports and it is slowly growing more in each. I feel that if you are going to have tech in sports to go all in.
Instant replay continues to show how many calls ar consistently missed by umpires and referees.
If the goal is to get the calls right every time, then the only way to do it is to eliminate the human element.
Fredrick Adehe on 16th August 2019 at 7:47 pm
You are right Eric, technology is present in every sports nowadays. I neglected that a bit.
brokehockeymom101 on 16th August 2019 at 1:09 pm
It makes me wonder if the technology will expand to incorporate AI technology and eliminate refs. I wonder how this impacts fans. Will they lose interest if adversity is eliminated because there will be perfectly called games. Wil this lead to no one wanting to go to games?
That is the big question. Those few mistakes make the game more fun and interesting. So what happens when we loose all those aspect of the game and it becomes boring and predictable.


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IJBFC Chat - April 19, 2015
(Name of message originator above the timestamp)
Laura Leff joined the room
Steve Archer joined the room
Steve Archer
Laura Leff
How's life up north?
Great - it's been a bennyriffic weekend, just saw Joan at REPS and plenty of others
Marc Thorner joined the room
Oh, I didn't even realize that REPS was this weekend. Duh.
Your name was invoked many times.
especially at Joan's panel - "Laura would know that"
Hi Marc
Hi Marc!
Marc Thorner
Are you someone we know by another name?
Now that we have the real names thing going on.
no.. just me
I wonder if I ticked off someone at REPS. None of them ever let me know what was going on. And I've been too busy with too many other things to keep an eye on them.
Hey Hookie
R. Hookie
I didn't know either till I heard an ad with Joan on the radio!
I just found out like a week ago. I haven't been involved with REPS before.
Anyway I met (and drank) with Joe Kearns' cousin, that was fun.
Beverly Washburn is the loveliest person ever and says to say hello
Yes, she's delightful!
Did she have on her St. Christopher medal?
I spoke to her for about five seconds before I was getting hugs!
Both she and Gloria McMillan!
I didn't notice the medal
She has half a St. Christopher that Jack gave her. She often wears it to things like this.
Congratulations, you have now been hugged by a Beverly Hills Beaver and Margaret Truman at the same time.
So how was the weekend? What did they do, and what did they talk about?
Hi Ed
There were a couple of beavers there. Stuffy Singer and Tommy Cook...Cook was a beaver too, right?
I don't think so. He was a child actor, but I'm pretty sure he was never a Beaver IIRC.
OK, might have that one confused. He's a character.
Hey hey! Brad made it in!
Hi Brad!
Oh yeah...met him about 12 years ago at a convention.
Brad from Georgia
I finally made it. Had to go out and change my browser.
Joan's panel was nice. She did one on Friday too where she commented on clips from TB or NTB but I had to work on Friday.
ed kienzler
Hi guys...l have lots of time now...crushed left foot from hit and run
Yikes Ed!
Hi, Steve!
Brad hi...
I am talking about REPS. I literally saw Joan three hours ago.
Ed, howdy.
Ouch for sure
Did you get a chance to talk with Joan directly?
Been a long time Brad...
Just really briefly Laura.
Sorry for your injury, ed!
She signed my copy of SNAS, we talked a bit about you but had to move on.
Oh funny. Hope she said nice things.
Joan seemed a bit more reserve and less "mingly" than some of the others.
When I talked to Joan for the Eddie Carroll book, she was nice as could be, but for most of my questions she'd say, "
Laura Leff would know about that...."
Yeah, she's in an interesting position because everyone wants to know about the show but she really knows more about "dad".
Still charming and pleasant as can be.
Exactly. She and I probably talk more about music than we do about her father.
She did talk about the new foundation and the pistachio farm profits leading to it.
Best thing she said to me: "If you saw the Jack Benny show, you saw Dad. He was just the same at home as on the show, just a nice, sweet man."
Yepper. I'm going to put a blurb on that in the newsletter today.
Really a nice thing.
Somehow I hear John C.L. Slivoney advertising pistachios....
Just shows you how Wonderful those pistachios can be!
So who listened to the show for this month?
I did!
I did too.
I did twice
Were the sound problems in it for everyone? I got a long period of silence, then a stuttering effect for awhile on one of Phil's lines.
Yay! I had the show for last month, but then no one listened to it. So I figured I'd just hold it over. Was still a good chat.
Yes, same here Brad
Brad - Yep, that's on the mp3.
Not exactly proper English
Well, it was an old show...
I think someone did a bad transfer from the disc.
Hiya, Hookie@
Hi again Brad
That was sposed to be a hexclamaiton mark.
This is really the first time you get to see a trace of Phil's character.
I thought you turned me into a email address
Phil had an interesting blackface voice.
His "Righto!" response was about the extent of his involvement to that point. Very subdued.
hookie@prompter.com
Don't know how to feel about Jack and Co doing the dialect.
It takes a lot to push my "offended" button and I can contextualize it historically but still a few winces there.
That's part of the reason I wanted to discuss it. When you think about it in 1936 terms, it was fine. But is it worse than things that other people point to as "racist," like the Si-Sy routine.
It bothered me a little, but then we have to look at it in the context of the times, I suppose. I did graduate work on the writings of Joel Chandler Harris, and a good many black scholars I talked to felt torn--the dialect was accurate, but they felt it was demeaning.
Now I thought Si Sy was funny
It has always been funny
Even in 1936 terms...the stuff like "I didn't wash my face all week",
It seemed to me that Jack and the gang mostly did the bit as an affectionate look at minstrel shows. Bear in mind that some minstrel shows were all white, but more than half were either integrated or all-black.
Having heard the auditions for the Rochester spin-off and hearing the AA actors speaking "straight" as they introduce themselves, and then go into dialect for reading the script...that was a challenge.
That material wouldn't fly today
I think just labeling something as "racist" is not super helpful, it's like an on-off switch and you can't think about it after it has that label.
It's subjective...kind of like the comment about pornography ("I know it when I see it.").
Steve true
So you need to-- at least *I* need to --- acknowledge the "wrong" aspects of it then dive in and see what does and doesn't have value otherwise.
Some of the dialect (not to mention a certain tenor) was WAY overdone, I thought. That sort of made me uncomfortable.
I've had people tell me that they don't think Jack's programs get more airplay today because of Rochester, Si-Sy, etc.
Heah I come!
I was offended by Don dressed as Jell-o
Speaking of which - Joan at the panel yesterday briefly addressed this when a question came up about "Rochester"
Why does no one ever complain about Professor Le Blanc being racist?
It's really interesting to look at this program, then the very early Rochester programs, then the post-war ones. Jack's sensibilities on the issue evolved toward a much more enlightened stance.
Well, that's more "ethnic" than "racial"
Besides, "Blanc" is French.....
I don't know if it's so much Jack's sensibilities, or what they could get past their Southern stations.
'Course it does mean "White," so there you go.
Steve - What's the difference?
Well, the French aren't considered a "race" like "Caucasians"
Originally spelled Blank...
If you think of Henry Armetta, is he ethnic or racist?
I don't know who that is
Stereotypical Italian comedian.
Like the time Jack and Rochester were sparring and Rochester knocked him down. They got complaints from the South about that...but Jack essentially said, "Forget 'em, it's a funny bit."
Or j Carroll naish
Or Chico Marx.
Basically back in the 19th century you were a Negroid, a Caucasoid or a Mongoloid to use the old awful terms.
Mongoloid meaning an Asian?
Or a Native American.
and "science" believed those categories had some validity other than just clinal variation of human traits.
Meant both, actually.
Hey, Hitler agreed with that. Not that I agree with Hitler.
Hitler added one: Aryan. Based on no science.
Right...thus why "French" doesn't have the loaded history as a "race" that "Negro" does.
I don't either
Know I've talked about this previously, but I've gotten complaints from people on John L.C. Silvoney.
Mark Twain: "God created Man a little lower than the angels, and he's been getting lower ever since. Today he stands somewhere between the angels and the French."
Well, Slivoney is so obviously a dig at the Irish.
I kid.
People claim he makes fun of alcoholics (maybe they're thinking of him on the Gleason show in Joe's Bar) and others claim he makes fun of people with cerebral palsy.
I can't think of anyone who was making fun of people with cerebral palsy back then.
really? i thought it was drunks
I get questions about Kitzel, but people complain about Silvoney. It's odd.
Those times were different then
I recall Benny on the Johnny Carson show, when Carson asked, "Didn't you change your name when you went into show business? Wasn't it Kubelsky?" And Jack said, "Well, actually my father changed it. It used to be O'Kubelsky. We came from Ireland, you know."
Does anyone complain about the people in Allen's Alley?
I don't think Silvoney, or obviously Rochester, is hateful, but there are certain aspects of each that you certainly couldn't do today.
Marc, I was kidding about Slivoney.
Brad - Oh that's funny.
About modern "complaints" - there's a bit of "what's the point" to it....
Benny was riffing on his own show: "Mr. Kitzel, I had no idea you were Irish!" Kitzel: "Just on my mother's side. Full-blooded, I'm not."
I mean, who's worried about Mrs. Nussbaum's stereotype influence on society today. No one even knows who Fred Allen is anymore.
I just find it interesting that everyone needs to "classify" the question of "what is wrong/unusual about Silvoney?" Why can't he just be funny?
Actually, I think I've heard complaints about Foghorn Leghorn, who's ripped off from Senator Claghorn.
And Parker Fennelly was doing his New England thing for Pepperidge Farm into the 80s.
For me the one thing that saves it--thanks, Laura, that's about what I was going to say--is that in the era of the show, America was one big nation of people from everywhere. Yes, people laughed at stereotypes, but my gosh, EVERYONE was a stereotype--a New Yorker, a Southerner, a Midwesterner, as well as Scots, German, etc.
Kathy Fuller-Seeley joined the room
The network censors were easy in those days on ethnics
Hey Kathy!
Well - re: Silvoney, he's kind of a dumb guy with a speech impediment which I think -together- is the crux.
Hi Kathy
Kathy Fuller-Seeley
Hello Laura and everybody, interested to see what you are talking about today
I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "Garrison Keillor is such a racist, the way he makes fun of those poor Norwegian bachelor farmers!"
Jack Benny and racism (inspired by the show for today).
Hi, Kathy.
I need to step aside a moment, the dog wants me...
Hi Penny.
I mean, if Gracie Allen talked like Geri Jewell but didn't actually have CP, you could see the issue.
Dogs can be very needy.
Come back Brad
well, I very much agree with you folks that atttitudes about racial and ethnic stereotypes were very different back in the day
Steve - That's an interesting point.
I've never been away. My dogs are upstairs.
It's Hookie's dog, Penny, who's interrupting.
so we have to do a lot of "mea culpas" to bring it up. Understanding the historical context helps a lot
Once upon a time every cartoon character had to have some kind of speech impediment OR sound like a movie star.
I'm remembering one of Eddie Anderson's very early appearances, before he was Rochester
She's out now, but not for long... it's 56 deg here
Pete Puma is Silvoney
Sure is.
Where he's supposedly playing a French waiter, but still doing it without a French accent.
you are RIGHT Brad, Harry Conn even admitted so, in a letter from him to Jack. Its the most easily recognizable difference
I think of it as "aural slapstick" as opposed to Keystone Kops physical slapstick
Haven't heard it in a while, but there's some kind of song about Jell-O, and Anderson calls out "Make mine watermelon!" I could never hear it without wincing.
Popeye's speech impediment
Yeah, is Popeye racist?
Are people with missing eyes a race?
if he took that pipe out of his mouth
Is Bugs Bunny a racist stereotype of people from Brooklyn?
Well, there's Mr. Geezle, who is a stereotypical Jewish pedlar-type.
I thought he was Bronx
It's sad that Charlie Chan can't get airplay any more.
Bugs is a mixture of Brooklyn and the Bronx, according to Mel Blanc's autobiography. "The two toughest-sounding dialects."
but you can buy the nice box set of Charlie Chan movies
stereotypes are the very basis of humor, exploring our differences to play with incongruity, and (sadly) superiority.
I think there's a BIG old continuum between sterotype - negative stereotype - ignorantly racist - and cross-burning/sheet-wearing
Right. Other people are superior to Jack because he's cheap, or they're classier than him (Colmans), etc.
I agree, Steve
I think that the key is celebrating the differences, not being negative about them.
Agreed Brad
And laughing at them. Like Dennis Day being a silly kid.
I think that's a lot healthier and happier, Brad : )
Or Phil Harris being bragadocious.
Vive la difference.
I am hoping that if our culture is so sensitive to this today, that in 10-20 years we will have learned something and get past it. Such a dreamer I am
I don't think there's a moment on the Benny show that ever flipped to the truly racist side of the teeter-totter.
Phil Harris is what Laura???
So what else on the show for this month? Do we want to debate the old Kenny vs. Dennis question?
Pro-Denny
guiltily I admit that Kenny was a better singer, and got classic showtunes to sing many times. I get so tired of the Irish songs haha
Ed - Bragadocious...overly loud and bragging.
Coming from Georgia, which I do, I'm very fond of collard greens, black-eyed peas, and yes, watermelon. I was in an Atlanta restaurant ordering a meal--the server was African-American--and I asked, "Do you put sugar in the collards?" she indignantly said, "No, we don't!" "Then bring me a bowl," I said. She laughed and said, "I thought you were a Yankee. They don't know doodly about collards."
Yeech who puts sugar in collards?
Evidently...damnyankees do.
Yes, why would you put sugar in collards...
the same folks who put sugar in grits. I saw terrible things done by Yankees in Atlanta
i never knew this
I thankfully never had collards with sugar in them. So much pork you couldn't see the green, but that's just about proper.
Southerners put sugar in tea.
Some people do that to tone down the bitterness, but I like the bitterness of collards. I cook delicious collards myself, actually.
or tea in their sugar
Laura, sweet tea is tea in its natural state.
I think I'm the only person in Seattle who buys collards!
I put sugar on lefse
Brad - Define natural state.
(BTW, I come from Brooklyn.. The Melting pot. If you can't make fun of yourself in the most dire of situations. You also learn to take it as well as give it!!)
collards are also good substitutes for the wrappers in stuffed cabage.
I purely love watermelon, too. I understand that around 1900 it became a stereotypical racial "marker" for bad jokes, though, and know why it can be so offensive.
That's true, Laura. I'm now craving soul food.
I hear that. And being in Oakland, I could get some excellent fare if I wasn't cleansing today.
Stepping aside again briefly
I agree that Kenny was a better singer. Kind of unfortunate that he never did much after Jack.
Turnip greens and pinto beans...that's what I like about the South. My wife says I make better biscuits and corn pone than she does.
Do you put sugar in your cornbread?
I think Dennis was more versatile and had a greater range in the acting department. Laura, perish the very thought.
I HAVE been known to put cracklings in it, but they're so fatty I have to lay off them.
Well, I do, and I use a Paul Prudhomme recipe.
YES I agree Brad that Dennis turned into a MUCH more nimble performer. I have heard Kenny on a Fred Allen show when he joined Fred (1941?) and he is just annoying.
Thoughts on Mary's character from this month's show? This predates her making the change from girl-pest to, well...
Yep, that's N'Orleans cornbread. It's okay, but I usually like the cornbread to have that nice flavor that's set off so well with a dab of butter.
Is that the guy who looks like Dom DeLuise?
Mary?
You're thinking of Babe
Hookie - Yep
Mary was just kind of...there for me in this one.
I didn't think Mary really stood out here
Does Mary stand out in any of the 30s shows?
Its interesting to see how much star publicity Mary was getting in 1936. The Press really made her out to be Jack's partner.
Aside from Snow White and the Seven Gangsters.
Good point Laura
I like Mary in the Why Girls leave home skits, she is cute and knowing
Kathy - She even got her own movie about this time.
and its the ones we don't have recordings of. I would have loved to hear her Mae West, which got lots of comments in the newspapers
Oh, there are recordings of that.
Laura do you have a copy of This Way Please in the archive? I will have to order it
Yep, sure do. Oh hey, what did you think of the first TV episode?
yeah, sometimes I forget what I have heard vs read
I know exactly how that is.
OH WOW I loved the first TV episode! It was much better than the script suggested, or reviewers. I was struck by how very small the set was. And that bus was cardboard that Jack gets off.
I don't think Mary's Mae West is much different from mine. Or Paul Lynde's.
Ah, television in its infancy.
Makes me think of Doctor Who from the 70s.
You are right about the standard Mae West imitation. Interesting to me that Mary's character was so youthful and dumb, but she gets to play Mae
Me too. I got REALLY excited earlier this week when I saw a book advertised on Kindle that indicated someone had found a complete print of the lost Laurel and Hardy short "Hats Off" in Cuba. Then when I started to order it, I read that it was a work of fiction, a mystery with finding the film as the maguffin.
The Sportsmen sang quite the intro there too
Doh! Brad, now that sounds like creativity, but a frustrated bait and switch as well
Yes, I was disappointed.
Kathy - Well, her dumb dora character was also interested in men, so it's not that huge of a stretch. She was silly but not necessarily virginal.
Although those 1932 scenes of them flirting and falling in love are very sweet.
on the Oct 1950 TV episode, looks like they were running short on time. The Rochester introduction was SUPPOSED to be longer, with his face hidden by the window cleaning material and he would rub himself a hole to bring him into view
I agree Laura, Mary wasn't a 13 year old kid like the Portland Hoffa character.
Though Mary does a passable Portland voice.
Yes. Portland seemed pretty asexual, as was Fred.
Yes, and Jack does a pretty good Allen imitation.
Hey Laura on another topic - something that came up at REPS
Laura, how about the May 5 1940 episode next time? I think that's got one of the early take-offs on Fred Allen's show.
and fun that when Jack had to write his own emergency script in March 1936 that he made it a parody of Fred Allen's talent show
Do you know of the whereabouts of George Balzer's manuscript book on Jack? Joan and many there were saying how much they'd like to read it.
Brad - Not the earliest one, but I can do that.
Steve - I have it.
oooooh, Laura, so what does Balzer say?
I know--I SAID "one of the early" ones, for heaven's sake. Nobody LISTENS to me....okay, I can't do a good Benny voice even on a computer.
Super - they were saying they were fearing it was lost.
Hopefully there's a publishing outlet for it someday.
Nope. Got it.
I was waiting a bit to approach the kids about the possibility of publishing it.
Sorry had get some water...hard to do with a walker...
LL--I know a publisher who'
Thing is, that it needs a really good editor. You can see that it's still pretty drafty.
who would take it sight unseen...
I was thinking about self-publishing it through the IJBFC.
And I have worked as a professional editor. I could do it pro-bono. Or pro-Benny.
Laura, Brad - that would be such a great thing!
And I can format books for POD or epublishing, too.
I'm kind of torn about it, because on one side, I think it's interesting to get George's stuff unedited. You really see the pure voice that is his.
For a kid from the South, that ain't bad.
But on the other hand, it gets bogged down in spots and I confess that I haven't read the whole thing.
Well, a good editor should be able to preserve the voice and tone and cut out the boggy
LL--there are ways and ways. It's probably do-able. Maxwell Perkins said "Everybody can write one good book."
True. Well, let me see if the family is open to having it published.
Actually, he said ANYbody.
Just to drive you all nuts, I think it would solve a mystery.
oh boy, I love a mystery
Ah! We get to know who Quentin was!
The mystery from Milt's book?
That would make a good radio show.
Nah, I know it's not that.
Is that your Shatner impression?
Hookie - Good one.
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It's a subtle reference to an old-time radio show about a team who loved a good mystery. And the title of that show was... Gangbusters!
Judy!
Cary!
maybe we could find out who killed Carlton Quince
Hi Judy
Hi, Judy#
Hi Judy!
I cannoy find the ! on my new keyboard.
or the t!
It is an ergonomic keyboard. You find an erg, it'll nom it for you.
Do a percent sign next!
I can also do "deformed rabbit."
Judy - We only just became this crazy.
they don't put the "cents" sign on the keyboard anymore. Darned inflation.
Oo...don't want to know about deformed rabbit.
You can get the ASCII character fo it, though.
That's because no one has any cents any more.
It's a reference to the late, dearly missed, Terry Pratchett, Laura.
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The people on my bus sure have some scents though
Terry Pratchett died?
Yes, sadly
He was only 66.
He did NOT commit assisted suicide, by the way. Natural causes.
Nuts. Well he left us a heck of a library of stuff to enjoy.
Cancer?
Now Mort can do his job.
So what else Benny-wise is on folks' minds tonight?
Steve - Any more news from REPS?
Er...this afternoon. I changed the time of the chat...
No, he had Alzheimer's, but a peculiar variety that gradually robbed him of his ability to put names to objects. He would know what a telephone was, but could not identify one by sight. Anyway, he declined and died of pneumonia, I think it was.
Well, like I say, got to meet Joe Kearns' cousin who lives in Seattle.
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Brad - My mother had that affliction after her stroke. That's very sad.
Did he have any stories about Cousin Joe?
We actually started talking more about other stuff - he was more like an "uncle" to him though technically a cousin.
I saw a 2013 interview with Pratchett in which he was asked, "Do you mind being the poster boy for dementia?" He said, "No, but I think I make it look good. I've had two books on the best-seller lists here and in America since being diagnosed with it."
I don't think anything folks here don't know.
Joan's panel was fun, she was mortified when they played tape of her subbing in reading Mary's lines.
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Aww....
For which show?
Hi Phil!
Hello, Phil!
They didn't play the 5/22/55 show, did they?
Phil Curry
Finally got on..
Hi Phil
It was one of the last season ones, not sure of the airdate - I don't think the very last show.
Because that's not her on the last show. It's Jeanette Eymann.
That could be a reason she looked mortified.
No, this was definitely Joan, unmistakable.
Who moderated the panel?
They played some of her earlier cameo bits from the show and same voice.
so what is this gathering REPS?
Larry and John Gassman
Oh, that's why I didn't know anything about it.
Radio Enthusiasts of Puget Sound.
well, that sounds great. Local angle but national reach?
I take it there's a story there...maybe not for the chat?
I also don't know anything about SPERDVAC, it has an annual gathering?
Other guests were Gloria McMillan who is a super sweetheart, Terry Moore, Stuffy Singer, Beverly Washburn, Tommy Cook
Kathy - That's an interesting question.
I had breakfast today with Tom Ritter (Son of Tex/brother of John) who is also super nice.
Who in the room can speak to SPERDVAC?
And minimize stepping on the politics of the question.
Many Benny fans there of course but no one I know particuarly from the club.
Yes, get any group of old radio fans together, and a lot of them will be Benny fans.
We're an elite group
Hey Judy...
ah ha, information I can find out another time : ) Intergroup politics, sounds as bad as the dust-storms raised in faculty meetings
Judy - If you're looking to speak in the room, type in the white box at the bottom of the screen next to the paper clip image.
Faculty politics. A major reason why I enjoy being retired.
Beverly was incredible in a recreation of the play "Long Distance" - just full throttle old time SUSPENSE type performance.
Well, here's my attempt at a summary.
and I am envious, Brad! haha I was at Georgia State for 10 years
There are two factions. One wants to focus on the audio library, and not have a convention. The other wants to focus more on gatherings.
So there has been a struggle over many years of who's in charge, and whether they have a gathering or not.
I was at Gainesville Junior College/Gainesville College/Gainesviille State College/The University of North Georgia for 28 years. That's one place, just four different names. I think the institution owed somebody money they didn't want to pay back....
I think the group that does gatherings is now in charge.
sigh if they can't cooperate for the common good. just like at school
that is a great school in all its iterations, hard working faculty making a difference for its students
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Yeah, you don't want to hear the stuff that was discussed during the consumption of alcohol in the hospitality rooms.
REPS was lovely but I have to say the demographics would suggest it isn't going to be around for too many more years.
That's unfortunate. I was only there once, and it was a number of years ago.
Did they do any radio recreations?
Speak to us, Judy!
Thanks, Kathy. We worked our butts off for years--our president convinced the legislature that we could get by on half the money of comparable schools!
Hi again Judy!
ah HA, Laura. My good friend in LA attended the most recent gathering and met Beverly Washburn there and was very impressed with her kindness
There ya go.
She's a doll.
Yes - several, all very good. No Jack Benny. I'm sorry that I couldn't attend on Friday, they did an OUR MISS BROOKS with Gloria McMillan with her grandkids playing Walter Denton and Stretch Snodgrass which would have been fun.
I mean my non-radio-fan friend attended SPERDVAC, she says I ought to go when the book gets out....
Very much agreed.
Oh, the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company talked to me earlier today about producing another one of my scripts. We're about to produce my adaptation of TREASURE ISLAND (I'm to be Dr. Livesy), and they want to do my affectionate parody of THE LONE RANGER for a live audience if they can find the right venue.
so Laura, have you assembled Benny fans together in the last few years?
Kathy, let her tell you about Benny conventions....
oh wow Brad, I am so sorry I don't live in Atlanta any more, would love to hear you!
No...last time that we did anything big was 2003. It's a big job.
Brad - Ha...
oh you bet, my husband gets involved in gatherings of old Volvo collectors (both ancient cars and aged owners)
Kathy, the TREASURE ISLAND will...eventually...be available on Audible.com. We're just into rehearsal, and will record it next month.
Well, let's say this (and I think some of you have heard this story previously). My ex-husband and I agreed that if anyone at the convention asked, "When's the next one?" we would say, "We'll have the next one when you agree to pay for either a divorce or a funeral."
there's a group here in Austin, the Penfold Theater, did a fine version of "Miracle on 34th street" as a radio play for their Christmas show
well, thank goodness for virtual gatherings!! hahaha
I once stayed in a bed-and-breakfast in Marshall, Michigan that happened to be hosting a Rolls-Royce fanciers' group. The parking lot was worth more than every house my family has ever owned all put together.
Happily now, I've already paid for the divorce.
And come to think of it...it would probably be a lot easier to pull together a convention without him around being nasty behind the scenes.
Howevah...
Rolls Royce owners are a crazy breed of people, indeed! Volvos are cheap (sadly, as are their owners)
I think back on so many of the people we had on the panels, and they're dead.
And, of course, Eddie Carroll is dead.
So it would be very hard to pull together a weekend of activities centered around just Jack.
Of course, I'm open to suggestions if anyone has ideas.
well, you never know what the future can hold.
I'd have to time it so that I can do it between contracts.
Well, perhaps there can be a mini-event associated with something else sometime. Like a dinner if there's ever something like another DVD release, that kind of thing.
good luck on that, Brad. At least you'll be 5 pounds thinner when they are done : )
When I did it the first time, my company was in decline and laying off people, so I didn't have much to do and could handle doing a lot during the day.
What we need is an educational institution that could put together a conference on radio humor, focusing on Jack. Those guys can make anything dull.
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Yes, I have done some of those when I've travelled for work.
Hm. I do have a pretty good friend at Stanford....
If they do REPS again next year and anyone comes up for it I would be happy to organize a Seattle area Benny dinner.
oh you got it. Brad, But indeed I am starting to work with profs who are doing radio history, and comedy history, so let's see
There ya go. Maybe we can organize something around the release of the book.
woo hoo, indeed. now there is something to look forward to : )
So what else for discussion this month?
Judy - Double-click on my name if I can help you with anything. Your persistence, as always, is impeccable!
were you able to acquire the Benny scripts from the ebay seller? Were they annotated?
"....the trope of stinginess played well to a nation accustomed by the Depression to living as cheaply as possible, and Jack Benny exemplified what I shall term for the purposes of this discussion the 'reflexive,' or 'audience aware' treatment of exaggerated thriftiness...."
LOL Brad
hahaha is that the Journal of American History article?
Are you copying from the..oh heck...can't remember the author..
Imagine that in a drone, and you've got an academic conference in miniature.
McFadden article
yep, why I just love academic conferences, haha
Just remembering sitting in a hotel conference room with my eyes glazed over so much my ears started to frost over, too.
I always cause a big stir by just talking and not reading a paper. This last talk about what young Jack learned from Frank Fay in vaudeville
Let's see if I can pull something really dry from that article...I haven't been able to finish reading it either...but that's because the author is also insane.
True, Laura.
Hey, I'd like to hear that talk.
Part of it was the walk, wasn't it, Kathy?
"America's Boy Friend Who Can't Get a Date": Gender, Race, and the Cultural
Work of the Jack Benny Program,
oh yeah, Margaret McFadden has an article coming out in the same journal issue as my one about Benny and Conn creating the Jack character in 32-34. Guess who's article will be better? ; )
Bob Hope took that from Fay, too. But Hope cupped his hands. Jack said he looked like a maitre-d' who was hinting for a tip.
her piece is about Eddie Cantor this time
Oh no WAY! She's still on about Jack?
great line, Brad!
no, she's moved on to Cantor
If she knew Eddie like I know Eddie...
I can't imagine what she's dreamt up about him.
thank the lord hahaha she never actually published anything else after winning the big academic prize for that article
An article on Cantor?
The article on Jack, I think.
Oh please no
I know that Gary Giddins won a big award for his article on Jack that's riddled with factual errors.
Which journal, Kathy? I had a phone call and think that I missed some of this.
there's another academic Scott Balczyerak (sp) who last year published a book claiming that Jack and Rochester were gay, Eddie CAntor was gay, Hope and Crosby were gay, Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy,,,,,you get the drift. His new upcoming book is about early TV comedians, so Martin adn Lewis will be gay...
the hell?!?!
Oh that's McFadden's assertion too.
Rowen and Martin, too?
who are these so called experts?!?!
Well, we KNOW Bert and Ernie are gay. But then they don't have anything below the waist but elbows, so that's all right.
Cheech and Chong?
Gay.
good old Margaret McFadden and I will be in a little journal called Studies in American Humor. I will post my article when it comes out closer to Fall. I at least get my facts right : )
Gilligan and Skipper?
Please do! Love to see it.
Gay and gay.
Gomer and the Sargent
Laverne and Shirley?
Paul Lynde and Agnes Moorehead?
Oddly, though, the consensus is that Liberace was just pretending.
oh and Laverne and Shirley, exactly, lesbian
"My interpretation of the messages and appeal of the Jack Benny show draws on the work of theorists of mass culture, who had developed ways to analyze the relationships between mass cultural texts and the social and political contexts in which they are produced. The work of these theorists can help historians approach popular texts as an important source of evidence about American culture."
No, Paul and Agnes were straight and bi.
Well, we know Lenny and Squiggy
arrrggghh Laura, you're killing me, haha
Stoopnagle and Budd?
Myrt and Marge?
Smith and Dale?
Lucy and Ethel
Rin Tin Tin and Timmy
Sanford and Son?
Salisbury and Kubelsky?
No, Timmy had Lassie
Reminds me of when my wife and I went to see "Avenue Q" on Broadway. My puppeteer daughter was amazed we liked it. Why? "Well," she said, "it's, you know, kind of raunchy for you guys. I mean it has puppet sex onstage." I said, "Oh, we weren't bothered. It was only SIMULATED puppet sex, not REAL puppet sex."
exactly, these "scholars" suggest that any time two people stand together, our subconscious brain puts them into a sexual relationship
gumby and pokey
Lassie and Rin Tin Tin
Says so much more about the "scholar" than the subject...such a trend in lit crit and social theory. If I wanted to know about YOU, I'd be your psychotherapist!
Scarlett and Mammy?
I want to root for stars/celebrities who show no sexual desire at all. Jack's character is oftentimes much more like that.
that's a new book, Laura, published recently I think
My gosh, Kathy, are there still all those papers out about "privilege" and "empowerment"?
Hayley Mills and Hayley Mills?
Gay and Yag.
Kathy - What, Scarlett and Mammy?
more than ever, Brad! come join us, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies will be at the Hilton in downtown Atlanta early next April! I will be there to give a non-crazy paper, just don't know what it is yet, haha
yeah, some new book about Mammy's backstory, gives her a name like "Ruth" and some adventures.....
*Face in hands* I can't believe that people are still going for the Jack and Rochester thing. That's just...crazy talk.
Shoot, yeah! I'll be there--it's a thirty-minute drive. We've moved to Snellville, just east of Stone Mountain.
I lived in Stone Mountain village, miss my old farmhouse.
It was a cold, rainy day in Atlanta. Ruth Mammy, Private Eye, waited in her office for a client to walk in....
Kathy - Fan fic. Often good for amusement.
Stone Mountain Village is charming.
the radio historians at this conference are actually the most sane people at this conference. Hooray!
"Gee, Miss Scahlett..youse look awful pretty in that dress..."
Kathy - Who else will be there?
Belles gone Wild
"Thanks, Mammy, but I got a guy I need tailed..."
Stone Mountain was also filled with gun shots, I couldn't go out in my own backyard, even during the middle of the day, sigh
Steve - LOL
Stone Mountain...Juarez, Mexico. Same thing.
I like the Carol Burnett version
The only time it bothers us (five miles away) is during the laser shows. Our dog hates the sound of fireworks.
I'm still teaching part-time for UNG. I'll see if I can get educator's rates...
"A useful starting point for historians is Fredric Jameson's theory that mass cultural texts perform the ideological work of legitimtating the social status quo (or some new order) by representing social and political tensions and anxieties..."
Oh gee Laura, probably Michele HIlmes, whose book Radio Voices is the best academic thing out there. She has just retired from U Wisconsin. Other friends of mine who do great stuff on the history of ad agencies who actually ran radio and TV (Cynthia Meyers, whose book And Now for a Word from our Sponsor is also terrific). Young guy working on Norman Corwin. Another great woman who works on comedy radio daytime programs for female audiences
Oh hey, I should connect your person on ad agencies to my writing partner, Marty. He's a walking encyclopedia on advertising.
eeeeek, I need a silver stake to put through the heart of F Jameson!
a book on Norman Corwin?!?! I'd buy that!!
Seems like a lot of people have tried to do stuff on Corwin, but I don't think I've seen anything come to fruition.
I would too. But Miss Barbara just called down to say that dinner is ready, so I
will bid yall a fond farewell.
Good night Brad!
OK, this has been a good chat again. Thank you folks!
Bye Brad!
I'll post a couple of good academic radio books to the facebook page sometime soon
Should we call it good for this month, or do you want to keep going?
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sure thing, Brad, let's get together!
Is the plan to keep the chat at this time or is this an experiment for a while?
OK folks...thanks again for stopping and making this a really good and fun discussion.
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well Laura, I still have three weeks of classes to teach (sigh). But in my comedy course we are looking at internet humor. I will make a Jack Benny meme to show the class
Steve - I'm open to input. I keep thinking about doing a poll on it, but haven't done it yet.
We've had a number of really good chats at this time, so I'm inclined to keep it here, but am open to input.
I actually prefer the later time, but want to do what's best for the group.
Alternate times month to month
Then no one will know when to show up.
Didn't think of that...
hi Laura, sure I am still here
Oh man, I don't even want to think of fielding the E-mail complaints on that one...
Just on the west coast it's kind of in the middle of the day and hard to make if you've got anything going on.
then like Jack we could do a second broadcast, Laura has nothing else to do : )
But again, just a data point of one here. If folks like this time I will do my best to make it.
Yeah, I understand since I'm in the same time zone. On the flip side, I couldn't put anything in the evening when it was later.
I should do that poll. I keep thinking about it.
Well hey, good stuff folks. Thanks again, and hope to see you next month!
Well, maybe keep this time for a few months and then revisit the question?
What's the show for next month!!??
I'm open to that.
I was going to take Brad's request of one of the Allen send-ups.
Super, that sounds great.
OK, have a good month, folks!
OK, later folks!
Night all


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Dam removal was not a realistic option in the twentieth century, and people who suggested it were dismissed as radical dreamers, but in recent decades dam removal has become increasingly common, with dozens of removals now taking place each year nationwide. How did this happen? Same River Twice answers this question by telling the stories of three major Northwestern dam removals—the politics, people, hopes, and fears that shaped three rivers and their communities. Author Peter Brewitt begins each story with the dam's construction, shows how its critics gained power, details the conflicts and controversies of removal, and explores the aftermath as the river re-established itself.
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'Kasukuwere is responsible if someone gets killed'
Mar 29, 2017 | Zim Latest
Saviour Kasukuwere can not threaten civilians with unspecified action
zwnews.com Political Reporter- Simba Moyo
Whenever, a leader makes certain negative comments about someone, it has a tendency of being taken as an order, or form of justification of attacking that person by the leader's subordinates.
Remember the comments that were made by the Zulu king Goodwill Zwelithini sometime ago in South Africa concerning foreigners, or most recently the comments made by Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba, in both cases violence, xenophobic attacks followed.
The same thing also happened with Gukurahundi.
Thousands of innocent people were butchered following reckless statements by the country's leadership.
But people are wising up and our leaders should exercise restraint and self control knowing that a sharp tongue cuts its own throat.
Local Government Minister Saviour Kasukuwere, a decorated CIO operative, recently made headlines when he threatened journalists from The Herald newspaper with unspecified action.
While it is well known that journalists should not be partisan in carrying out their duties, threats by Kasukuwere were not warranted, as they were many ways at his disposal to seek recourse.
Some analysts believe it is dangerous for senior public figures to threaten civilians with unspecified action.
Political commentator, Elder Mabhunu says the minister may have set bad precedence in making those threats more so as the nation gears up for elections which are usually characterised by violence.
"It is wrong for a senior government official to threaten civilians with any action other than legal action. This is because of the fact that he is a politician, senior public figure he is able to do anything including killing.
"Kasukuwere did a mistake, you cannot threaten civilians that way, he would rather have threatened with legal action. This could exonerate him if something bad happen to those he threatened," he says.
He adds that now it is on record, once something bad happens to those guys people will remember his threats and hold him answerable, even when he is not the one who may have caused the incident.
"When we were growing, we used to be guided against saying 'Uchazviona' (You will see it) to someone. Threats are dangerous especially when you are a senior public official," he adds.
Meanwhile, some media organisations in the country have slammed Kasukuwere's behaviour saying it is a threat to freedom of speech and expression. The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) says what he did may be interpreted by his followers as an endorsement of violence.
ZUJ urges journalists to be guided by factual, ethical, and professional way of conduct as their line of defence. The association also calls upon politicians to desist from dragging journalists in their political fights, and vice versa.
MISA Zimbabwe chips in saying while the media is not immune to criticism, the abusive language that Kasukuwere used was unacceptable and could trigger onslaught tendencies against the lawful duties of the media. zimnews
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Economic downturn has Russians saving
Data from Russia's Deposit Insurance Agency shows that in 2009 the volume of individual deposits in Russian banks increased by a record 1.5 trillion Roubles to reach more than 7.5 trillion, Kommersant writes.
Deputy general director of the DIA, Andrey Melnikov, says the increase reflected sums in at call accounts and fixed term deposits.
"This is money brought in on fixed-term deposits and also on on-demand deposit accounts as well as personal checking and salary accounts."
The data shows a surge in deposits from pre-crisis levels with almost a third of the annual inflows – around 450 billion Roubles – coming in December. Yulia Demenyuk, deputy director of the retail department of VTB 24, believes the data shows an increased focus on saving by the general population.
"From our observations, individuals in a larger degree are moving towards saving money, rather than spending it, and this factor, undoubtedly, worked in pushing the active influx of money in banks at the end of last year."
Rusrating financial analyst, Aleksandre Ponomaryov agrees, but adds that it also reflects reduced consumption.
"First of all, it's lowering consumption, which is coupled by a lower income as well. And second, it's people's desire to be on time with putting their money into a bank while deposit rates are still high enough."
Sovlink analyst, Olga Belenkaya, believes the recent lowering of deposit rates by Sberbank will reduce some of the savings impulse.
"Already in January, the largest player on the deposit market, Sberbank, noticeably lowered rates and their example will most likely be followed by other players. Because of this, savings growth could slow down. Just as in last year, deposits allowed for a profitability that was significantly higher than inflation."
Deputy head of Alfa-Bank's retail business department, Ilya Zibarev says the December inflows show people are trying to lock in deposits before rates fall further.
"Everyone sees the trend by banks in lowering rates, and if you have money, than you need to place it in a deposit now before rates fall to pre-crisis levels."
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