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Welcome to Ozopolis!
One Ozzy project I wanted to track down at Comic Con last weekend was the new comic Ozopolis.
I had seen the cover and a short preview on-line, and it looked "promising." I usually pay little attention to new Oz comics as there are so many these days and sadly most are "revamps" and "updates," many of which turn Oz into a dark, psychotic land of mayhem and bloodshed. But when I looked at the online preview and saw the depictions of the Wizard with his typical Neill temple curls and saw the Woozy had a starring role, my curiosity was piqued.
Happily, Ozopolis has exceeded my "promising" expectations and is an utterly charming new Oz story. Writer Kirk Kushin and artist Gonzalo Martinez have produced a very engaging story. It feels fresh, new, and absolutely right. It is the Oz we all know and love. Ozma sounds like Ozma, the glass cat behaves like the glass cat, and Kushin clearly knows and loves Baum's Oz books very much.
One of the few bows to modernity is a clothing update for Dorothy and Ozma. Dorothy gets shorts, t-shirt, sneakers, and a little Ozzy jacket; and Ozma has traded in her flowing negligee-style gown for a slightly General Jinjuresque uniform. But uniform aside, Ozma's character is right on target. She's lovely, has a fondness for protocol, very warm, but a bit opaque.
The plot in this issue revolves around the Queen of the Field Mice asking Ozma for help dealing with some unusual wildcats. Since the problem is occurring in the deadly Poppy Field, Ozma sends three non-breathing Oz folk, Tik-tok, the Glass Cat, and the Sawhorse, on the mission. All three are smack-dab in character and are very funny. And when the Woozy is sent to rescue the rescuers, a hysterical moment occurs when the field mice can't remember the right word to make the Woozy's eyes flash fire.
In typical Baumian fashion, the "villain"of this issue is not as black as he seems. And while this issue has nice closure, a bigger threat remains to carry us on to future issues. I hope there will be many more to come.
Martinez's art for the issue is very good. The characters feel fresh and new, but will be wholly recognizable to Oz purists. It's a little cartoony (in a good way), yet advances the story, as good comic art should.
The one real blemish to the book is the number of typos and missing articles in the word balloons. Even a cursory proof-reading should have caught them. If the series continues and a trade is ever issued, I hope they will be corrected.
So, if you're hankering for a new Oz adventure, I happily suggest you try a short visit to Ozopolis!
You can see more previews and order copies at:
www.ozopolis.com
Labels: Comics, Reviews
Wizard Goes to the Eisner Awards
Last week we promised you a report of how Marvel Comics' adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz won big at the 2010 Eisner Awards ceremony. Now here's that report in the words of the project's writer, Eric Shanower:
On the evening of Friday, July 23, 2010, the 22nd Annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were presented in a ceremony at San Diego Comic Con International.
Skottie Young and I were both present at the ceremony. Our project for Marvel Comics, an adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, had been nominated in two Eisner Award categories: Best Publication for Kids and Best Limited Series or Story Arc. We thought we had a pretty good chance to win Best Publication for Kids. But the other nominations in the Best Limited Series category included very popular works by high profile comics creators. The chances of winning in that category seemed so remote that it almost wasn't worth thinking about.
The ceremony took place in the Indigo Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel, adjacent to the San Diego Convention Center where Comic Con International 2010 was taking place. Skottie Young, David Maxine, and I were seated with, among others, Dean White, Shannon Wheeler, Sean Phillips, and Duncan Fegredo at a table for nominees in the VIP section of the ballroom. After the customary buffet dinner, I got up from the table to get another drink. Skottie asked me to get one for him, too. The line at the bar was pretty long, but I figured I had plenty of time, since the ceremony hadn't even begun. But it got underway as I was waiting to reach the head of the line. The emcees were introduced. The cast of the forthcoming Scott Pilgrim movie came onstage to announce the first several awards. I was getting closer to the bar. The first category of the evening was Best Publication for Kids, for which Wizard was nominated. I gave my drink order to the bartender and as she was pouring the drinks, the nominees for the Kids category were being announced. As I paid, the winner was announced: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Whoever was behind me in line said something like, "That's you!" I grabbed my change and the drinks, rushed back to the table, set the drinks down, threw the change after the drinks, and hurried with Skottie up to the stage.
I accepted my Eisner statue from an actor from the Scott Pilgrim movie cast, but I have no idea who she was. I guess I'll have to see the movie at some point in order to figure it out. Skottie and I each said a few words, got our official photos taken, and - back at the table - decided that we could relax for the rest of the evening, since winning in the other category, Best Limited Series, seemed like such a long shot.
Another project I'd been involved with also had two nominations. Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and Walt McDougall, published by Sunday Press, was nominated for Best Archival Collection/Project-Strips and for Best Publication Design. This oversize, meticulous reprinting of Baum's Oz newspaper stories didn't win in either category. I'll have to content myself that at least it was nominated and that it was really neat to see L. Frank Baum's name up on the screen for work that he created over one hundred years ago. Still going strong!
I had one more duty at the Eisner Awards ceremony. As a past winner of the Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award, I was presenting this year's Russ Manning Award to Marian Churchland. Marian wasn't in attendance, so Marley Zarcone accepted the award for her. That went smoothly.
The Best Limited Series or Story Arc was the penultimate category. I was so tired by that point - after two and a half days at the Hungry Tiger Press exhibit booth and a loooooooong awards ceremony. It wasn't till halfway through the announcements of the Best Limited Series nominees that I even remembered that Wizard was nominated. I was applauding the other nominees and telling myself to stop applauding when Wizard was announced because it's just not polite to applaud oneself. Then I immediately forgot and kept on clapping when the presenter, Dave Gibbons, got to Wizard, last on the nominee list. David Maxine and Skottie Young both said later that the sudden burst of audience applause when Gibbons announced the nomination of Wizard clued them in to what was about to happen. But I was clueless, embarrassed that I was applauding for my own project. When the award went to Wizard, Skottie and I could hardly believe it. Wins in both categories we were nominated in. Wow!
I'm so thankful to all the people connected with the Oz comics we're doing for Marvel: all our editors - particularly Nate Cosby, Ralph Macchio, and Mike Horwitz; colorist Jean-Francois Beaulieu; letterer Jeff Eckleberry; the production and marketing people and everyone else at Marvel; and David Gabriel, Marvel Senior Vice-President of Sales & Circulation, who basically is the impetus behind the whole thing. And especially to Skottie Young, whose wonderful art is really the driving force behind the popularity of Marvel's Oz.
- Eric Shanower
Thanks for the report, Eric. Hungry Tiger Press displayed the Eisner Award statues at its exhibit booth for the rest of Comic Con International.
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Labels: Comics, Eric Shanower, Skottie Young
Drew Struzan in Oz
One of the Ozzy highlights of San Diego Comic Con International this year was the chance to meet legendary movie poster artist Drew Struzan. While Drew has created the posters for such blockbusters as the Star Wars films, E.T., Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, Back to the Future, and many, many more, my interest in meeting Drew was because he painted the poster for Disney's 1985 film Return to Oz.
At the presentation I saw a short preview of a wonderful new documentary on Drew, heard him speak about his career, and then many of us lined up to get things signed. I took along my main Return to Oz poster, a copy of Drew's other "Mombi Head" Return to Oz poster, and being a bit compulsive, I also took my copy of the original press kit (shown at right) and the Scholastic graphic novel which also featured Drew's poster design.
Drew's Return to Oz poster is much more rooted in the world of illustration than many of his other film posters which often have a more photo-realistic quality. It was most interesting to see the close-ups of his photo realistic posters. These show an incredibly stylized design and painting technique which strongly reminded me of J.C. Leyendecker.
Advance copies of a new book on Drew's posters, The Art of Drew Struzan, premiered at Comic Con. Alas, they sold out very quickly and I didn't get one.
So Drew signed my RTO stuff, we chatted for a few minutes, and the nice fellow behind me in line snapped a photo for me (Drew's the one in black). It was a neat little escape from our Comic Con booth.
Labels: Comics, Design, Disney, Movies, Return to Oz
The Oz Toy Book - Vol. 2
The very first book produced by Hungry Tiger Press (way back in 1994) was The Oz Toy Book Volume 2, a book of Ozzy cut-outs drawn by Eric Shanower. The original Oz Toy Book was a similar cut-out book drawn by John R. Neill. It was published by The Reilly and Britton Co. of Chicago in 1916. That original Oz Toy Book is a super-rarity of which only a handful of copies are known to survive.
Anyway, back in 1994, while Eric Shanower and I were pondering a good book to start our fledgling publishing company with, we came up with the idea of creating a sequel to the original Oz Toy Book. It would include Baum's Oz characters that were created after 1916 as well as some favorites from the later Oz books of Ruth Plumly Thompson and Jack Snow. We also added one page of supporting characters from The Wizard of Oz that Neill had not included, as that book was not in Reilly and Britton's catalog.
Eric Shanower drew over forty characters spread onto 14 pages, which we had printed on card stock and bound with a cover printed in blue. The book sold very well and those sales helped fund our first serious project, Oz-story Magazine.
Our Oz Toy Book has been out of print for more than a dozen years. However, while going through some old boxes here in the Tiger Den, I recently found a stash of unbound pages from the book. Thinking it might make a nice curiosity for our booth at Comic Con, I collated all the pages and made a new cover using Eric's original hand-drawn color separation. Eric had originally designed the cover to be printed in yellow and blue. But our printer in 1994 couldn't handle the job and we eliminated the yellow from the final design. So these two dozen Comic Con specials are the first to feature Shanower's cover as originally imagined!
So now I had a couple dozen unbound "portfolio style" copies of The Oz Toy Book Volume 2 and I took them with us to Comic Con this last weekend. As it turns out I have a VERY FEW copies left. If you are interested in having one these last copies, they are now available (until supplies run out) in our on-line store. Here's your chance for some Ozzy fun.
Click Here to order The Oz Toy Book Volume 2 "The Portfolio Edition"
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Labels: Eric Shanower, illustration, John R. Neill, Oz-story, Toys
Oz from Elsewhere
Foreign translations of the Oz books are another passion here in the Tiger Den. The widely varying illustration styles are one of the big draws. In general, foreign illustrators are not nearly as influenced (or ham-strung) by the MGM Wizard of Oz film as American illustrators often are.
Oz has been especially popular in Japan, and this little picture book is a favorite. This edition of The Wizard of Oz - translated as Ozu no Mahoutsukai - was published by Asahi Sonorama of Tokyo in 1980. The translation and adaptation are by Atsuko Nakamura and the illustrations are by Satoru Inoue.
This picture-book Wizard contains only twelve pages and most of them are double page spreads, many of which are quite attractive. The style is a bit cartoony - not quite Anime. I especially like the Tin Woodman. I'm not fond of the Dorothy - but pink poodle Toto is kind of a hoot! I especially like the spread for the fight with the Kalidahs (shown below).
Another cool thing about this edition is that it includes a small phonograph record (playing time about fifteen minutes) of the story, using different voices for each character and with charming little Oz songs sung in Japanese.
Labels: illustration, Oz in translation, Recordings, Records
Tik-Tok Twice
A while ago I blogged about the 10" Return to Oz stuffed Tik-Tok toy who was sold only in Japan at Tokyo Disneyland. I mentioned that Tik-Tok also came in a jumbo 20" size.
Well, this last weekend someone else's big Tik-Tok came for a playdate and photo shoot. I had never seen the two sizes side-by-side before and thought I'd share some of their Tik-Tok antics.
Labels: Disney, Return to Oz, Toys
Sis Sez Sunday - 4
This Sunday's installment of Ruth Plumly Thompson's "Sis Sez" comes from Issue No. 7 of King Comics, October 1936.
I find no clear idea of what Sis means by "doggie clothes," but from Marge's illustration, Sis clearly means to be dressing up. Perhaps "doggie clothes" is simply a variant of "putting on the dog."
Seeya next Sunday, Sis!
Labels: Comics, Marge, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Sis Sez
Fistsful of Eisners!
Well, Eric Shanower and Skottie Young had a GREAT night at the 2010 Eisner Awards. Their bestselling Wonderful Wizard of Oz from Marvel Comics won the awards for both Best Publication for Kids and Best Limited Series.
Everyone is really excited, really happy, and really tired! We'll share a fuller account sometime next week after Comic Con is over!
Wowsers!
Labels: Comics, Eric Shanower, Marvel, Skottie Young
King Toto of Oz
As I've mentioned in previous blogs, one of the regular features Ruth Plumly Thompson wrote during her tenure as editor of King Comics was a "Pet Post" column under the byline of "Arty," created from her two initials R and T.
The "Pet Post" from issue King Comics No. 45, January 1940, is of some special Oz interest. Thompson announces a contest for people to send in lists of "trademark" animals like Nipper, the dog from Victor phonographs, Borden's Elsie the Cow, etc. But Thompson goes on to discuss animals in film and makes her only references to Oz in all of King Comics:
I think the best performance turned in this fall by an animal actor was turned in by the small skye [sic] terrier who took the part of Toto in the Wizard of Oz film. He was so exactly like the dog in the story he might have jumped right out of Baum's book. No wonder Judy Garland wanted to keep him after the film was finished. But Toto is a graduate of a Hollywood school and highly valued by his owner. So he could not return to private life and is probably studying for his next part right now.
Of course we all know that Toto was actually played by a female cairn terrier named Terry. Her "next part" was an uncredited walk-on in George Cukor's The Women (1939). You can read Thompson's actual "Pet Post" below.
Labels: Comics, MGM Wizard of Oz, Movies, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Winkie Con 2010
The 46th Annual Winkie Convention of the International Wizard of Oz Club will take place this coming weekend, July 23-25, 2010, at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California. This year's conference is chaired by L. Frank Baum's great grandson, Robert Baum.
Begun in 1964, the Winkie Convention is the longest running Oz convention. This year's convention celebrates the 100th anniversary of the publication of Baum's sixth Oz book, The Emerald City of Oz (1910). This year's presentations include several by the Baum family; a marvelous presentation by Atticus Gannaway on Oz illustrator Frank Kramer, detailing Kramer's involvement with the 1940s fantasy magazine Unknown Worlds; a Collector's Roundtable on the 1985 Walt Disney film Return to Oz; a presentation of John R. Neill's illustrations for The Emerald City of Oz; a Powerpoint talk by Robert Baum on Baum's early aviation novel The Flying Girl; plus all the Winkie Con favorites such as the Treasure Hunt, the Costume Masquerade, the Winkie Quiz, and lots of Ozzy camaraderie.
Once again for this year Hungry Tiger Press has prepared the official Winkie Convention Program Guide. It is a 140 page book of essays, illustrations, and additional reading material for the convention. The best way to make sure you get a copy is to go to the Winkie Con! It's not too late - drop-in visitors are welcome, too!
Here is a link for downloading a PDF of the info packet and registration form!
http://winkies.oogaboo.org/WinkieConvention2010Registration.pdf
The Winkie Convention also issues a monthly WINKIE CON e-mail newsletter.
You may subscribe by using the URL below:
http://winkies.oogaboo.org/news.html
Labels: Frank Kramer, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Return to Oz, Winkie Convention
Comic Con and The Land of Oz
Well, in just a few hours Comic Con International - San Diego 2010 will officially begin.
Hungry Tiger Press and Eric Shanower will be at our usual spot - Booth 2008 (across the aisle from DC Comics). If you're gonna be at Comic Con, please come say hello and take a look at some of our Comic Con exclusives!
The final issue of the Eric Shanower and Skottie Young comics adaptation of The Marvelous Land of Oz hits comic stores today. I'm especially fond of the alternate cover by Eric Shanower! I considered letting folks in on how the story ends, but you'll be getting no tip from me!
Labels: Comics, Eric Shanower, L. Frank Baum, Marvel, Skottie Young
Recipes from Ruth Plumly Thompson
In today's blog we have a recipe from Ruth Plumly Thompson for Popcorn Globes! The recipe was originally published in Thompson's children's page for the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
This recipe appeared in Thompson's weekly "Doll's Ledger" section, November 26, 1916. Start popping your corn!
The Cooking Class
by Ruth Plumly Thompson
Every doll and every doll mother loves to pop corn - why, even grown-up ladies and gentlemen like to. It is such fun watching the little hard kernels suddenly pop into little soft white balls - for all the world like Cinderella when the Fairy Queen waved her wand, and her old rags turned to beautiful silks and satins.
And after it is popped, here is the very loveliest way to fix it - so that it will taste every bit as good as it looks.
Popcorn Globes
Place three quarts of popped corn in a large pan. Then melt one tablespoon of butter in another pan and add one cupful of molasses and one-half cupful of sugar. Boil until it becomes hard when dropped into cold water
Then sprinkle the popcorn with salt and pour the hot syrup over it, stirring constantly. When cold enough to handle, shape in round balls, pressing as lightly as possible.
Labels: Recipes, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Leslie Gage, Her Book
When I got my first copy of L. Frank Baum's Father Goose, His Book (1899) there was an odd little newspaper clipping laid inside the cover. It featured a photo of Leslie Gage holding a copy of Father Goose and discussed Ms. Gage's recent visit to Minneapolis. Leslie Gage was the daughter of L. Frank Baum's sister-in-law, Helen Leslie Gage, who had coincidentally married a man with the same last name.
The clipping appeared in one of the Minneapolis papers and is dated Sunday, September 3, 1939. This date is only a couple weeks after the premiere of the 1939 MGM Wizard of Oz film, and I suspect this highly inaccurate article was some sort of local MGM-oriented publicity.
Here's the article in its entirety.
Woman Recalls Here Her Uncle Who Wrote 'Oz'
His Writing Spurred on by Success of 'Father Goose'
Did you ever see a rabbit climb a tree?
Did you ever see a lobster ride a flea?
Did you ever?
No, you never!
For they simply couldn't do it,
Don't you see?
And it was verse like that that first launched L. Frank Baum on a literary career which produced the "Oz" books of children's books - now picturized in the technicolor film, The Wizard of Oz.
The story can be told by Miss Leslie Gage, Winona, Minn., now visiting in Minneapolis with Miss Matilda Frey, 3929 Aldrich avenue S. Miss Gage is the niece of L. Frank Baum, and as a girl received autographed copies of his books as they came off the press.
He lived at first in Chicago, then moved to California to live during much of the writing of The Wizard of Oz, first of a series of "Oz" books which sold a total of some 9,000,000 copies.
Baum's first book was Father Goose, His Book and the foregoing verse is one of those written by him for it. The verses were hand-lettered on special illustrations from which plates were made. Success of Father Goose inspired Baum to further writing, and his California home was named "The Sign of the Goose."
Father Goose ended a period of financial straights for Baum, who had failed in an effort to run a notions store in South Dakota. He went to Chicago and there spent his last dollar for a rose - he was a lover of flowers.
The "Oz" stories were written later for his four sons and their friends. He told them the stories as they gathered before the family fireplace. His mother insisted he write them down, and he did so.
At the Hollywood premiere of The Wizard, Mrs. Baum, widow of the author, was an honored guest. Baum died in 1920. Miss Gage saw the picture Wizard of Oz at the first opportunity and thought it a first rate transposition of the story. Her only criticism was that the little girl of the books might have been somewhat too grown up in the picture version.
While this was certainly an interesting little article, a few of the more extreme inaccuracies must be corrected.
Baum's first published book was Mother Goose in Prose (1897) not Father Goose, His Book. Baum's home, "The Sign of the Goose," was at Lake Macatawa, Michigan, not in California. And similarly, The Wizard of Oz was written in Chicago, not California.
It was Baum's mother-in-law, Matilda Joslyn Gage (grandmother of the Leslie Gage in the article), that suggested Baum write down his stories so they might be published. Lastly, Baum died on May 6, 1919, not in 1920.
Labels: L. Frank Baum, MGM Wizard of Oz, Movies
It's Sunday with Sis again!
This time from King Comics No. 7 from October 1936.
Scraps and Me
Several blogs ago I told the tale of acquiring my first John R. Neill drawing. It took four years before I finally got a piece of Neill art from an Oz book.
At the time I was working as a stagehand at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. It was my first real job, and I was earning a real paycheck. When the picture at the left came up for sale, the stars aligned, Ozma winked, and I spent two weeks' pay on a 9" x 9" piece of paper.
This, of course, is Neill's drawing for the ownership page of The Wonder City of Oz (1940). This was the first Oz book that Neill both wrote and illustrated. The number one thing that attracted me to this drawing was that it featured the Patchwork Girl. I also liked that it was from the forematter of the book. Somehow I like that it has Neill's hand-lettering on it.
Another little plus is that Scraps's body is largely hidden within the giant book she is carrying and so I can pretend she is wearing her traditional clothing and not the boy's swimsuit she dons for much of Wonder City.
The original art is about a third larger than the printed image in the book (shown at right). the only notation by Neill is the word "bookplate" scrawled on the back. As you can see, there is also a "B" in a circle. This may stand for bookplate, too, or is possibly a note for the printer to show the order of the forematter. You can also see some erased pencil lines showing that the book had been a good deal bigger before. Neill also repositioned Scraps's foot.
The drawing is hardly one of Neill's masterpieces of pen-and-ink like those for The Road to Oz. But when examining this piece up close the effortless lines in Scraps's face are just great! While Neill clearly tossed this drawing off - possibly in minutes! - the life and character he put into Scraps's face, using only a few lines and blips of ink, are what make John R. Neill so wonderful.
Labels: John R. Neill, Original Art
Color Me Kansas
I was looking through some Oz stuff here in the Tiger Den and ran across a set of lobby cards from the 1955 release of the MGM Wizard of Oz. I only have four of them; there were eight in the set. All eight lobby cards feature black-and-white photos that have been rather crudely colored. The colorist seems to have had no idea what the film looked like. Dorothy wears a yellow and red dress and the ruby slippers are sort of blackish. This color-tinting technique was used on many lobby cards of the era. Oddly, the 1939 lobby cards were colored much more accurately. The images for the 1955 set were first used in 1949.
The most interesting of these photos is the last one (above) as it shows Dorothy waking up in Kansas in color, one of the scenes that's supposed to be in black-and-white.
These images were also used in various MGM licensing over the years, as can be seen here in a jigsaw puzzle produced by Jaymar in the late 1960s.
Labels: MGM Wizard of Oz, Movies, Toys
Ding, Ding, Ding went the Trolley
Of course we know Ruth Plumly Thompson best for her twenty-one Oz books. But few know her first novel, The Wish Express, which was published in book form for the first time in 2007.
The Wish Express was originally serialized in the Philadelphia Public Ledger from July 9th through September 24th, 1916, in Thompson's Sunday children's page. She later edited down the material for inclusion in The Wonder Book (1929), an anthology of her non-Oz writings published by Oz book publisher Reilly and Lee.
In the novel, Thompson exhibits all of the qualities she later displayed when she took over writing the Oz books. It may even have been this story that got her the job writing the Oz books after Baum's death. The Wish Express features a boy named Berens and his dog, Rags. They hop on a magical trolley and depart for a tale of self-discovery, talking animals, Thompsonesque towns, and of course, a happy ending.
The book features the original illustrations by Hammon from the newspaper serialization. But I wanted to give the book some extra flourish. And the magic trolley in the book provided the inspiration.
In the running title of each page I placed a little drawing of a trolley. And on each page of the book it's in a slightly different position. So as you read the story, the trolley progresses across the top of the left hand page, and by story's end, the trolley is on the far edge of the right-hand page. But of course you can also flip through the pages quickly and make the trolley zoom across the top of the pages and disappear in a little flip-book movie. On the last pages of the story, and the two-page biography of Thompson, the trolley vanishes in a puff of magical smoke.
So, if you've never read The Wish Express, why not give it a chance? And for all of you Shanower-collecting completists, the little trolley was drawn by Eric Shanower.
Labels: Design, Eric Shanower, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Brunch in Bunbury
In L. Frank Baum's sixth Oz book, The Emerald City of Oz, Dorothy Gale and her entourage visit Bunbury, a village of living baked goods. Dorothy is rather hungry and wonders if the tasty citizens of Bunbury might find her something to eat:
Then a big, puffed-up man, of a delicate brown color, stepped forward and said;
"I think it would be a shame to send this child away hungry, especially as she agrees to eat whatever we can spare and not touch our people."
"So do I, Pop," replied a roll who stood near.
"What, then, do you suggest, Mr. Over?" inquired Mr. Bunn.
Well, things go down hill pretty quickly after Toto eats several of Bunbury's citizens. But in today's blog you can sample a genuine Bunbury treat by following L. Frank Baum's recipe for Popovers!
Baum's granddaughter, Ozma Baum Mantele, wrote, "Grandfather Baum liked to cook, as did my father [Kenneth Baum], who used to say that breakfast was a favorite meal in their house. On Sunday mornings we always had meat for breakfast, such as pork chops, lamb chops, lamb kidneys sauté (a particular favorite), plus popovers, another favorite. According to my father, these were favorites of his father." So here we present L. Frank Baum's very own popovers!
A recipe by L. Frank Baum
Grease six custard cups and place in a 450 degree oven. Beat two eggs, add one cup milk and one tablespoon cooking oil. Add one cup flour and one-half teaspoon salt. Beat until smooth. Half fill hot custard cups. Bake 25 minutes, then reduce heat by 100 degrees and bake fifteen minutes more, until firm. Prick each popover before removing from oven to allow steam to escape. Serve hot.
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Labels: John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Recipes
The Original RETURN TO OZ
I especially love finding Ozzy things that I didn't previously know existed. This 12" LP recording was certainly a surprise. It is an album of all the music from the 1964 Rankin Bass Videocraft Production of Return to Oz. This animated television feature was released as a follow-up to the short-lived Tales of the Wizard of Oz television cartoon series.
The record was produced for internal studio use and was seemingly distributed to the production staff only. The record label says "Not for Sale or Broadcast" and has a copyright date of 1963, the year before the film was broadcast. The record has music on only one side and the back is blank, containing neither label nor sound. The copyright is to FTP music, Inc., the initials of the three songwriters: Gene Forrell, Edward Thomas, and James Pollack.
When I re-watched the film recently to compare the film score to the newly acquired LP, I was surprised by two things. First, the film was better and much more enjoyable than I had remembered. The early 1960s design and animation has a charming retro feel to it now, instead of just looking cartoony and cheap, as I'd remembered it.
The second surprise was that the LP features a song that was not used in the final version of the film called "I'm a Wise Old Wiz of a Wizard," which is sung by the Wizard, of course. Otherwise the music on the record matches the music for the film. It's a neat little record.
Labels: Movies, Recordings, Records, Return to Oz, Songs, Television
Toy TIK-TOK Talk
Wel-come to to-day's blog. I am Tik-Tok. I am a hard-to-find RE-TURN TO OZ toy of Ja-pan-ese man-u-fact-ure.
Okay, enough of that! This charming little fellow was produced in Japan in 1985 as part of the huge merchandising campaign for Walt Disney Studios' Return to Oz. Tik-Tok and his friends, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and Jack Pumpkinhead, were seemingly sold only at Tokyo Disneyland. They were produced by a company called Heart à Heart and were issued in three sizes. The smallest were 3" to 4" tall and made of hard plastic (the Scarecrow and Jack wear fabric clothing).
The middle-sized version of Tik-Tok is shown here. He stands about 10.5" tall and is stuffed. His skin is a slick copper-colored vinyl fabric. His three friends were issued in proportional sizes and Tik-Tok is the shortest of each set. Much bigger versions of all four were also issued in which Tik-Tok stands about 20" tall.
Read about a Return to Oz Scarecrow toy in a later blog post!
If you want to see some cool Return to Oz stuff, exchange stories, ask questions, and share collecting tips, you should come to the Winkie Convention in Pacific Grove, California, July 23-25, 2010. On Saturday morning at 10:45 AM, Return to Oz collector Freddy Fogarty will present Returning to Oz: a Collector's Roundtable. Twenty-five years after the film's release, it has a grown into a cult favorite. Come share your feelings and memories about the movie and see some of the incredible merchandising the film generated! Information on the Winkie Con is available in the link below, as well as a link to subscribe to the monthly Winkie Con newsletter. Take a look!
SUBSCRIBE to the Winkie Con e-mail Newsletter
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Labels: Movies, Return to Oz, Toys, Winkie Convention
Well, it's Sunday morning and time for the comics! Thus we offer another installment of the Ruth Plumly Thomson and Marge comic book feature "Sis Sez" as printed in King Comics.
This installment is the earliest one I have and possibly the very first. It comes from King Comics No. 5, August 1936. This issue also contained the first chapter of Thompson's Oz-like fantasy novel King Kojo. Thompson had begun writing a monthly "Letter to the Readers" an issue or so earlier.
So hop on your bicycle and let's go for a spin with Sis, Ruth, and Marge!
Dirk Gringhuis in Oz
Over the years I have tried to explore the non-Oz work of the various Royal Historians and Imperial Illustrators of Oz. The Hidden Valley of Oz (1951) was illustrated by Dirk. And like most people, I never had any great fondness for Dirk's illustrations in Hidden Valley.
The pictures are sloppy, the anatomy of the animals (especially Percy the rat) is preposterous, and the book just isn't particularly attractive - though I like Rachel R. Cosgrove's story quite well.
Dirk's last name is Gringhuis - but the illustrations for Hidden Valley are credited simply to Dirk. I initially thought, "Well, with a last name like Gringhuis, no wonder he chose to only use 'Dirk.' " But that wasn't the case. On all of the other books he illustrated (and sometimes wrote) he always used his full name. Perhaps Dirk really disliked his work on the Oz book and chose to distance himself from the project.
Much of Dirk's other illustration work is better than his work for Hidden Valley. We can take a look at a few things in the coming months.
While I couldn't locate any original Oz book art by Dirk in the Tiger Den, I can share the image above, which is a large print produced by La Presse Militaire in Lansing, Michigan, in 1963. The image of Chief Pontiac is printed in black ink on a rough watercolor-like paper. But this copy of the print was watercolored by Dirk and then signed.
Labels: Dirk Gringhuis, Hidden Valley of Oz, Original Art, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Rachel R. Cosgrove
The Twin Tin Woodmen of Oz
Since W. W. Denslow illustrated the first Oz book, The Wizard of Oz, in 1900, the story has been illustrated countless times by artists all over the world. But the rest of the Oz series rarely gets new illustrations--at least in the USA. For many readers John R. Neill's illustrations seem inextricably linked to the post-Wizard Oz books. But there have been occasional attempts to replace Neill's work.
L. Frank Baum's Oz book for 1918 was The Tin Woodman of Oz. As usual, it was illustrated by John R. Neill (below left). Decades later in 1955 Oz book publisher Reilly & Lee brought out an edition of The Tin Woodman of Oz with new illustrations by Dale Conner Ulrey (below right), former cartoonist on the comic strip Apple Mary (which later became Mary Worth). These new illustrations for The Tin Woodman of Oz seem to have been the start of a plan by the publisher to make the Oz books appear more up-to-date.
As you can read on the cover of the Ulrey-illustrated edition, her illustrations were "adapted from original drawings" by Neill. Let's compare Ulrey's work with Neill's to see how close her adaptation was. If you want to see any of these illustrations in a larger size, just click on it. Then hit your "back" button to return to this blog.
Above on the left is Neill's depiction of Nick Chopper, the Scarecrow, and Woot setting out on their journey. And on the right is Ulrey's. Although it's the same moment in the story, Ulrey has gone so far as to rearrange the figures into a more symmetrical composition. Her design of Woot is younger than Neill's--and happier. But Ulrey didn't always take such liberties with her adaptation.
These illustrations of Woot, transformed into a green monkey, escaping from an underground den of dragons are virtually identical in composition. Ulrey's altered a few details for her illustration on the right, but otherwise hers is clearly taken directly from Neill's on the left.
Neill's full-page illustration (above left) of Ozma and Dorothy riding in the Red Wagon is closely matched by Ulrey's illustration of the same scene (above right).
Neill did a number of double-page illustrations for The Tin Woodman of Oz, such as the one above left, showing Ku-Klip meeting his tin creations once more. Ulrey matched Neill's version with a double-page illustration of her own above on the right, altering the scene to make, for one thing, Polychrome more prominent.
More often Ulrey turned Neill's double-page spreads into single-page illustrations. Here's the characters meeting Mrs. Yoop, the giantess. The moment of the story is the same, and even the positions of the figures are similar in both illustrations, but Ulrey's version on the right radically alters the composition of Neill's on the left.
Here's another major change in Ulrey's adaptation of Neill. In Neill's illustration above left, Nick's and Captain Fyter's enthusiatic acceptance of one another is immediately conveyed by the way their arms are thrown over each other's shoulders. In Ulrey's version above right Nick and Captain Fyter shake hands politely, but their pleasure is much more subdued.
Take a look at both illustrators' versions of Polychrome riding the Hip-po-gy-raf. They're extremely similar. Please note, however, that Ulrey has taken more care with the details of the story by giving Polychrome the Scarecrow's clothes to carry.
Neill's Polychrome in The Tin Woodman of Oz is not as attractive as his earlier illustrations of her in The Road to Oz, Sky Island, and Tik-tok of Oz. She appears slightly older and even seems to have put on some weight. Ulrey's Polychrome is less ethereal than Neill's tends to be, but her Polychrome is quite appealing and--in this story at least--more attractive than Neill's.
Ulrey's illustration of the Scarecrow stuffed with hay is interesting because her positioning of the Scarecrow (above right) is almost a mirror image of Neill's (above left).
Neill chose not to draw a black and white illustration of one of the story's most dramatic scenes--the discovery of Captain Fyter. He did, however, provide a color plate of Polychrome helping to oil the poor, rusted guy (above left). Ulrey's illustration of Fyter's discovery (above right) incorporates all the drama that the scene offers. It's one of the more striking of her illustrations for The Tin Woodman of Oz. What other eye-catching drawings might she have given us if she'd not constrained herself to "adapting" Neill's illustrations?
Dale Ulrey drew new illustrations for Reilly & Lee's 1956 edition of The Wizard of Oz, the first version of that book from the publishers of the rest of the Oz books. Ulrey also began new illustrations for Baum's third Oz book, Ozma of Oz, originally published in 1907. But that project was not published and Reilly & Lee's attempt to update the look of the Oz books with Dale Ulrey was abandoned. Ulrey's work is lively and attractive, particularly when she's not slavishly aping Neill. It's too bad she didn't continue to let us see Oz through her eyes.
Labels: Comics, Dale Ulrey, illustration, John R. Neill, The Tin Woodman of Oz
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Before the Rainbow - Designer Dilemmas
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Topher White is the founder and CEO of Rainforest Connection, a nonprofit tech company fighting to save the rainforests from illegal logging and poaching using cutting-edge environmental tech. He's a recipient of the SAP Innovation Award | Next-Gen Innovator (2018) and the Pongo Environmental Prize (2016). He was also a Draper Richards Kaplan Fellow (2016) and a National Geographic | Emerging Explorer (2015).
Rainforest Connection has created the world's first real-time monitoring platform for protecting remote forests by capturing sound signatures of destructive activities, such as chainsaws and illegal incursions.
Besides scalable deployments that protect forests, tribes (under threat) and key biomes– the biggest impact is sharing massive amounts of ecosystem data which are streamed to the cloud automatically - that can be used by the world's biologists, researchers, data analysts, land managers, governments, and law enforcement.
We work with partners on the ground who receive alerts and reports on patterns of activity for chainsaws and vehicles used in logging. Such partners include park rangers, indigenous tribes, NGOs, and government officials.
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What can save the rainforest? Your used cell phone.


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Bill Maher's breakout 1993 show that featured interviews with celebrities and politicans. The show ran from 1993 to 2002.
The following is a complete list of all known interviews from Politically Incorrect.


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2/2022 Kriminalita: Terminológia a interpretácia
1/2022 Intellectuals and the "National Question" in Post-1918 Central and Eastern Europe
2/2021 Networking and Trust During the Cold War
1/2021 Italy and Post-Habsburg Central Europe
2/2020 Self-publishing and Building Glocal Scenes
1/2020 Fanzines in Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspective
2/2019 Verní a neverní kráľovi
1/2019 Autonómia Slovenska 1938 – 1939: Počiatočná fáza holokaustu a perzekúcií
2/2018 Vystúpenia z vojen: od napoleonských vojen po druhú svetovú vojnu
1/2018 Elity na Slovensku v 19. a 20. storočí
2/2017 Local Roots – European Connections. The Position of Nazarene Art in 19th-Century Europe
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The Society against Venereal Diseases in Slovakia in the Interwar Period
During the interwar period special societies and associations were founded at several medicine departments in Slovakia. The Society against Venereal Diseases was one of them; its foundation was initiated by Professor Viktor Reinsberg, the head of the Dermato-venereal clinic at Faculty of Medicine at Comenius University in Bratislava. The Dermato-venereal clinic became an institutional basis for the development of dermato-venereology in Slovakia.
The Society against Venereal Diseases was the first organization of its kind in the territory of Slovakia. The Society's aim was the elimination of venereal diseases and evidence of infected patients. They used various educational methods, such as discussions or lectures, but also some other popular ones. The Society under the leadership of Professor Reinsberg was a voluntary, charitable organization with nationwide focus. It created an organizational framework for its educational, health, prophylactic and enlightenment activities and brought some system and expert approach to the elimination of venereal diseases. Even though aims of the Society against Venereal Diseases were rather practical, new research has shown that it also participated to a large extent in the development of the dermato-venereology in Slovakia.
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Aiming at the Android and BlackBerry user who wants to give the iPhone a whirl, Apple is reportedly working on a new plan to entice owners of the rival smartphones into trading them in for gift cards inside Apple Stores. These gift cards would then be used to purchase a new Apple iPhone model. The plan is similar to Apple's trade-in program for current iPhone users.
Following a period of time during which Apple will train its staff inside Apple Stores, the program will begin. Store employees will be charged with determining the value of a trade-in based on whether the handset is still functional, and how it looks. If a transaction occurs, an Apple Store employee will be able to transfer over the customer's contacts list to his new iPhone, but other data and content will have to be moved personally by the consumer.
While the original plan was designed to upgrade iPhone users to Apple's latest models, a version of the plan was added last summer for iPad users looking to move up to the latest version of Apple's tablets. Apple started the program in the summer of 2013 in conjunction with Brightstar. At the time, the goal was to expand sales of the Apple iPhone 5. Apple still relies on Brightstar to adjust its algorithm for iPhone trade-in prices, so we will have to see how much autonomy is given to Apple Store employees when giving a price for a prospective non-Apple trade-in.
One person on ars said apple gives $35 for a 32GB iphone4s. What will they give for an android phone, $5? Such pricks.
Unless you don't own a flagship device, I don't see the point in them doing this. Any one who has a Galaxy S or higher shouldn't even be remotely enticed. With the Galaxy S6 only weeks away, I wouldn't even be considering an iPhone 6/6+, even if I had the most crappiest phone ever made. Sorry going from my Note 4 would be a huge downgrade. I would lose an impressive 1440p display, quad-core cpu,more ram, better cameras, mass storage and more. Sorry Apple, but this seems desperate. I think they know a 75M sells quarter isn't gonna happen for a good little while.
Judging from these responses, Android users are not going to go for this trade in, viewing it as a downgrade. I must say, as a BlackBerry user, of the Passport at that, I wholeheartedly agree. I remember when BlackBerry was offering a similar program and iOS users were calling them desperate, as it was a trade in program for iPhone users to get a Passport. If that was the case, what does this make Apple? Smells like desperation to me.
Serious desperation. No way would I downgrade my Nexus 6 for any iOS device. That's retarded. And I'm quite sure BlackBerry users feel the same.
Agree. Who the hell would want to use a outdated 2012 phone? Wait, wait wait..... Let me guess...? Yeah the showoffs, who wants to pose with the Apple emblem, just to fit in the crowd, and look cool.
Yep apple is definitely desperate. They have a lot of reason to be that's for sure!
Hardly surprising that on their own website, Apple are explaining to potential customers why the iPhone is that smartphone they should choose. All companies do this. The tone has changed a bit though. Apple have previously steered clear of mentioning their competitors, but that most recent page talks about other mobile systems. Yes, they're responding to a competitor's major product launch and trying to convince you that their phone is the best. Isn't that what they should be doing though?
Hey I'mnotagenius. Desperation? Yeah Apple is desperate to sell 74 million iphones and make $18 billion dollars in profit in 3 months? Oh my bad. They already did that. How is that Blackberry stock trade working out for you. I'm up over 30 points on my Apple trade and I'm "Desparate" to get to 50 points. 99% of all Apple hate is based on nothing factual. Read these comments for proof.
Hey, kindlestalker...how are ya? I don't know why I have to keep repeating myself to you, but let me type it nice and big so that you'll see it: I DON'T GIVE A RATS SCRAWNY BEHIND HOW MANY HANDSETS APPLE HAS SOLD, HOW MUCH MONEY THEY MADE, OR HOW THEIR STOCK IS DOING. There. Got it? I hope so. And your rationale of "99% of Apple hate is based on nothing factual" is something that ANY OEM can be substituted in there for. Get your head out of the reality distortion field. You think Apple isn't doing this out of desperation because even they know there will not be a repeat performance of selling 74 million bending, buggy software ridden handsets with sub-par features? You think that this wasn't mostly upgrades due to a larger screen size? You think that, for all of the profit that Apple is making, that they can't put that money to better use to make an even better iPhone, as opposed to rationing out upgrades to the handset and people overpaying for it? Think again. You will of course respond with some crap about Apple making money and nobody is forced to buy the iPhone, yadda yadda yadda. But guess what? They can do much better for all the profit they pull in, and it's blinder wearing, wool-over-the-eyes individuals such as yourself that foster Apple's "not doing better even though they can do better" tactics.
Interesting point! Let's just hope they will give a serious discount and not just $50 off!
Lol, it's funny how irrelevant Windows Phone is Apple doesn't even pay attention to them but still pays attention to BlackBerry lol that's sad.
What if I want to trade an iPhone for an Android phone?
It won't work because you essentially have two kinds of android users - the cheap ones that want a budget phone and won't get much credit for trade in on a very expensive iPhone... and the enthusiast power user, who wants the open architecture and flexibility of an android flagship and not the closed ecosystem in iOS.


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Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set Them Free
Héctor Tobar In conversation with author Jesse Katz
Thursday, Oct 16, 2014 | 7:15pm Mark Taper Auditorium-Central Library
In this master work by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Héctor Tobar tells the miraculous and emotionally textured account of the thirty-three Chilean miners who were trapped beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. Join us to hear this astounding account of the personal histories that brought Los 33 to the mine and the spiritual elements that surrounded their work in the deep down dark.
Héctor Tobar
Héctor Tobar is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and a novelist. He is the author of The Barbarian Nurseries, Translation Nation, and The Tattooed Soldier. The son of Guatemalan immigrants, he is a native of Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife and three children.
Jesse Katz
Jesse Katz is the author of The Opposite Field, a memoir set in the immigrant suburb of Monterey Park. As a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, Jesse shared in two Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of the 1994 Northridge earthquake and the 1992 L.A. riots. As a senior editor at Los Angeles magazine, he received the PEN Center USA's award for literary journalism and the James Beard Foundation's M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award. RatPac Entertainment is producing a movie based on Jesse's most recent story, "Escape from Cuba: Yasiel Puig's Untold Journey to the Dodgers."
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This collection consists of letters exchanged by James Hope (1819-1892) of Castleton, Vermont, a portrait painter and landscapist, and his wife Julia, between 1854 and 1874.
James Hope was born in Scotland on November 29, 1819. After the death of his mother, his father immigrated to Canada. Hope's father died in 1831, and James left Canada to apprentice as a wagon-maker in Fairhaven, Vermont. In 1841, he married Julia Marietta Smith (b. December 28, 1820) in West Rutland.
Hope developed a skill for portraiture (and later for painting landscapes). After studying in Montreal, he supported his family by teaching painting and drawing at Castleton Seminary. In the early 1850s, he took a studio in New York City where he painted and marketed his work during the winter and returned to his home in Castleton in the summer. In 1872, Hope built a studio and art gallery in Watkins Glen, New York, where he lived until his death on October 20, 1892. Julia Hope died in Watkins Glen September 2, 1906.
The correspondence between Hope and his wife, Julia, from 1856-1872 is the focus of the collection. In these letters, which have been transcribed, Hope, living in New York City in order to paint and market his work, writes of professional disappointments as well as his worries about poor food and his health. In her letters from Castleton, Julia expresses her financial worries and domestic concerns. By the spring of 1872, however, Hope is enthusiastically planning the studio he will build in Watkins Glen, New York, where the family will live until a house is completed.
These James and Julie Hope letters are part of a larger collection of family papers known as the James Hope Papers, 1854-1893 (MSA 529). The VHS Library also holds a second group of the Hopes' letters which have not been transcribed; this collection is known as the James Hope Letters, 1853-1954 (MSA 230-231).


Battleford is a town in the province of Saskatchewan. It is on the North Saskatchewan River.
Original capital of the province.
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I have installed a GPS tracker in my car. I tapped into the power cable to the boot lamp to provide a continuous 12v supply. Works well except every now and then when starting the car the voltage drops momentarily to the unit causing it to send a message telling me the power has been turned off. Need to find a better power supply that is not effected with car starting. Don't want to take a lead of the battery terminal because all is hidden from those nasty thieves etc. Any suggestion where to tap into to get a constant 12v supply would be greatly appreciated.
You could tap into the fuse panel that's on the lower left side of the steering wheel. But you're probably always going to have a slight voltage drop when starting the car. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
You tried the constant behind the radio?
I use the dome light by the rear view mirror for my phone dock. Maybe that is an option.
That's correct. Best bet is to do a combo of what has been said here....tap into the domes where there is a 12v source but add a switch so you can flip it off while starting the car or when not in use.
Firstly..Thanks to all who have replied. Don't want to put a switch because if I turn the tracker off just before starting and then turn back on it will sent a message stating power has been turned off. The slight drop in volts when starting is enough sometimes for the tracker to think power has been off and sends message. Will look further into power supply to radio and look at the fuse board options.


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Robert Brandt (born October 21, 1982 in Helsinki) is a Finnish long track speed skater who participates in international competitions.

Personal records

Career highlights

European Allround Championships
2006 - Hamar, 30th
2008 - Kolomna,  25th
National Championships
2002 - Seinäjoki,  3rd at allround
2003 - Seinäjoki,  1st at 10000 m
2003 - Seinäjoki,  3rd at allround
2004 - Helsinki,  2nd at 5000 m
2004 - Seinäjoki,  1st at 10000 m
European Youth-23 Games
2004 - Göteborg,  3rd at 10000 m

External links
Brandt at Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database
Brandt at SkateResults.com

1982 births
Finnish male speed skaters
Living people
Sportspeople from Helsinki

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UK-based festival ticket and travel booking platform Festicket has secured funding of $4.6 million from Edge Investments.
Festicket's latest investment follows the $10.5m series D funding round it closed in 2018, led by transatlantic venture capital firm Beringea.
Festicket partners with festivals to provide standard and VIP packages that combine accommodation, transfers and admission for festivals worldwide. It has four additional offices in the EU and US.
Founded by Zack Sabban (CEO) and Jonathan Younes (CPO), the management team has since been bolstered by a series of senior executive hire from companies such as Live Nation, Eventbrite, and Channel 4.
Festicket works with more than 2.5 million customers, over 1,200 festivals and 4,500 suppliers across 50 countries.
Edge's investment will support Festicket's entrance into new markets, primarily the US and Asia, as well as development of its technology platform.
Edge Investments Founder and CEO David Glick said: "What attracted me to Festicket was its talented and committed management team.
Edge Investments Director David Fisher said: "We are excited to partner with such a fast-growing company.
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Step into the cool expanse of Overture Hall on select summer Saturdays during the Dane County Farmers' Market on the Capitol Square to enjoy the gift of beautiful music with the Madison Symphony Orchestra's Overture Concert Organ. Bring your family and friends for a relaxing 45-minute free concert. No tickets or reservations are needed and all ages are welcome!
About David Ball
Juilliard-trained organist David La'O Ball (BM '14, MM '16) serves as Organist and Assistant Director of Music at Christ Cathedral in the Diocese of Orange, California (formerly Crystal Cathedral). David is a recognized and well-lauded young performer—The New York Times declared his appearance in Juilliard's FOCUS! Festival "a rousing performance"; and his performances have been nationally broadcast on American Public Media's nationally-syndicated radio program Pipedreams and WQXR-FM, New York City's classical radio station. In recognition of his accomplishments, David was named one of The Diapason's 2017 Class of 20 under 30, a peer-selected group of young people at the forefront of the organ field.
David completed both the Bachelor and Master of Music at The Juilliard School in New York City, studying under Mr. Paul Jacobs. As part of a wide-ranging musical vision for 21st-century collaboration—a vision cultivated during his time at Juilliard—David is committed to making the "King of Instruments" play well with others. He has spearheaded a number of "David and Friends" chamber recitals, commissioned many new works, and co-founded the ensemble duo corgano, a horn and organ duet featuring fellow Juilliard alumnus Trevor Nuckols. David has performed solo and collaborative recitals across the country, including duet recitals with Dr. John A. Romeri on the largest musical instrument ever built: the Boardwalk Hall Organ in Atlantic City.
David is an active member of the American Guild of Organists (AGO). As a winner of the AGO/Quimby Regional Competition for Young Organists, David performed as a Rising Star at the 2016 National AGO Convention in Houston where he "used the organ evocatively… displayed a wide palette of colors in his artistic registration and… brought Mozart's K. 608 to a thrilling close, earning an enthusiastic response from the audience." (The American Organist) David has additionally won AGO Competitions in Wichita, Denver, Kansas City, and St. Louis, and was the recipient of the rarely-conferred Outstanding Student Award from the St. Louis Chapter of the AGO.
The only thing that matches David's passion for solo and ensemble performance is his commitment to creating liturgical music of the highest caliber. From his earliest days as the organ scholar at the landmark St. Louis Cathedral Basilica, David played and accompanied the Cathedral Basilica's choirs in performances across the country and in Rome, Italy. During his studies at Juilliard, he worked as the Assistant Director and Interim Director of Music at St. Malachy's – The Actors' Chapel in Times Square. As Christ Cathedral Organist, David's musical contributions underpin the Cathedral's vast array of weekly services and events, accompanying the Diocesan, Cathedral, and Children's Choirs and supporting the parish's diverse congregation. David is a featured recitalist on the re-dedication series of the Cathedral's famed Hazel Wright Organ, the 5th-largest organ in the world.
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Just a few weeks ago, we asked you to tell Baltimore County lawmakers to support Prologue, Inc. Now, we'd like to say thank you for stepping up and helping deliver a big win for Prologue and Baltimore County.
Despite pressure from local developers and community members who did not want a homeless outreach facility in downtown Towson, the Baltimore County Council voted unanimously on September 5 to approve the County's grant to Prologue that will allow them to purchase the property and keep their doors open.
Prologue's Towson site is an important partner for our Baltimore County clinic, and for more than 20 years, has been providing outreach services to individuals without homes in the region. Trinity Episcopal Church owns the site, and thanks to this government grant, Prologue now plans to buy it. But all that was put on hold when the County Council decided to review the grant. Thanks to our clients, staff, and community members who came out in support of Prologue, we made sure that councilmembers knew the importance of Prologue and voted in support of it.
Baltimore Housing for All members and Health Care for the Homeless clients James Barnes, Bill Price, David Parker and Bonnie Lane attended a County Council hearing along with Director of Government Relations Eric Colchamiro and Client Relations Specialist Vanessa Borotz. Bonnie, a former client of Prologue, joined Chief Health Officer Nilesh Kalyanaraman to testify in support of the County's proposed grant.
Prologue will have to meet some additional conditions as a result of the hearing—such as security and investing more into upkeep of the building—but both Prologue and the County government are confident that those requests are doable.
One thing is certain: no doors will be closing at Prologue any time soon.


Visionet Systems, Inc., a leading provider of technology and technology-led BPO solutions to the real estate and mortgage industry, announced today that their CD-to-UCD conversion solution is now in full production. Visionet's solution is the industry's first complete end to end solution designed to ensure compliance with the Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac (FHLMC) Uniform Closing Dataset (UCD) initiative.
Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac (FHLMC) have undertaken a multi-year program called Uniform Mortgage Data Program (UMDP) to enhance data quality and standardization. The Uniform Closing Dataset (UCD) is the effort within UMDP to provide a standard format for communication of the loan closing data represented on the final Closing Disclosure (CD) document. The UCD is the required set of data from the closing disclosure along with additional loan related data that, beginning in Fall 2017, all mortgage lenders who sell loans to FNMA or FHLMC will be required to deliver along with their traditional data and document packages.
The Visionet solution provides a single solution for all lenders. Through the use of the CD2UCD.COM web portal or web services interface, lenders can deliver the executed Closing Disclosure and receive the completed Uniform Closing Dataset electronically.
"The Visionet solution is comprehensive and addresses the challenges in producing the UCD that lenders and the GSEs have acknowledged. It creates a single solution for UCD implementation." Said David Gottdenker, VP of Financial Services, Visionet Systems. "With the extensive compliance requirements upon lenders, our CD2UCD solution is a simple and effective way to address the latest requirements.


I was totalling up my exercise session count from last year. I did 367 exercise sessions from May 1st 2012 to May 2013.
Well this is all well and good what would be more interesting to you would be to understand my motivations around this exercise load. At 1 exercise session a day you would have to say I am pretty "motivated" to do exercise. I would say it is more than motivation, it is simply part and parcel of what I do and who I am. It is a natural thing to do and thus motivation to do it is not overly important.
Ok, to sum it up – I exercised every day and felt great after pretty much every session. However, I only wanted to exercise about half of the time and my performance in the session were below par in about 40% of the sessions I did.
The funny thing is how you define a below par session. This is normally the feeling I could have done more and I did feel that energised or motivated compared to normal. However, if you review the workload done objectively you will see a below bar session is still probably 80-90% of a fully pumped and excited session.
This is why you get great results simply by showing up week to week. The below par sessions were pretty much as good as a fully pumped up session bar just a 10-20% difference. If I should be running speed 10 I went at speed 9, if I was meant to lift 100kg I moved 80kg, instead of 15 minutes running I just did 10min. Compare this with the alternative and you see that sitting in on the sofa watching TV is not even in the same league as the debate of whether to go speed 8 or 10. Speed 0 is much much slower!
It means if you want to consistently exercise you have to distance yourself from the pre session feeling and forget "reviewing" how good your session was as a basis for deciding if you should go again. instead you need to just focus on doing the exercise session after session.
When motivation is low your pre conceived ideas of having to do "25 minutes" or having to go at speed 12 will be enough for you to pull every excuse in the book. Your main focus should be deciding on whatever gets you through the door. Once you have a got yourself into the gym, out into the park, onto the road or the spare workout room……..Just get going…….focus on your set out minimum plan. If after warm up you want to do more then do so, if not, then don't!" Forget evaluating how good the session was, simply congratulate yourself for doing a session and then return the next day or similar for more.
Keep doing this and before you know it you will never be missing an exercise session and in 12 months time you would have chalked up many exeercise sessions. Now that is what the basis of results is about!!!
The After the previous fat stripping days I returned to more muscle building nutrition, though I was a little low on the goal protein intake, the rest of the numbers were fairly accurate.
*This is my own 10 point self measurement system, it does not correlate to body fat scores. At a guess 40mm – 7.5%, 50mm – 9.5%, 60mm – 11%, 70mm – 12.5%. I do not take it everyday if looking to gain muscle or maintain as it puts me off wanting to eat more. If on fat loss phase i take it daily.
** All reference to people, their goals, their jobs and even when i met them are completely distorted from the actual person/event I am talking about…this keeps their privacy but they are based on real people with real stories.


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Kazakhstani President Tokayev Embarks on a Turbulent Second Year in Office
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 17 Issue: 42
By: George Voloshin
March 31, 2020 06:44 PM Age: 3 years
Kazaksthan's Kashagan oil field (Source: AzerNews)
On March 19, 2019, Nursultan Nazarbayev resigned as president of Kazakhstan and was constitutionally succeeded the following day by the speaker of the Senate, Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev. Less than three months later, on June 9, the president ad interim was confirmed in his role through a popular election. The new head of state was quickly faced with unprecedented street protests that began during the election campaign and which the government blamed on exiled former banker–turned–opposition–activist Mukhtar Ablyazov. Now that Tokayev's presidency has entered its second year, the ruling regime is facing a much bigger crisis. The double hit of low oil prices and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, which has shut down a significant chunk of global commerce, arguably poses the highest threat to domestic stability that Kazakhstan has ever faced, even in comparison with the turbulent 1990s (see EDM, June 12, 2019, March 27, 2019, March 24, 2020).
A year since Nazarbayev's stepping down, on March 6, 2020, Russia and Saudi Arabia's four-year OPEC+ deal on oil production limitations collapsed. In 2016, the Saudi-led Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Russia and a group of smaller exporters had collectively agreed to remove 1.2 million barrels of crude per day (bpd) off the market, effective January 2017. The cut was increased to 1.7 million bpd in December 2019. Amid falling demand caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic, Riyadh had conceived a plan to almost double the cut to 3.2 million bpd, but Moscow turned it down. With OPEC+ unraveling to the surprise of many, the price of Brent crude tumbled in mid-March to below $27 per barrel for the first time since 2003. Given the Saudi decision to unleash an all-out price war in retribution for Russia's intransigence, it is likely that the price of Brent will trail its 2017–2019 $63/barrel average for a long time, at least until 2021 (RBC, March 6, 12; Vedomosti, March 18).
In keeping with tradition, Kazakhstan had gone along with Russia in vetoing OPEC's proposal to step up the output cuts. However, Energy Minister Nurlan Nogayev later said that the collective deal "had been in everybody's interest" and acknowledged that the OPEC+ collapse had taken Kazakhstani authorities by surprise. Kazakhstan maintains high sensitivity to the oil price curve because it still depends on crude exports for approximately a quarter of its gross domestic product (GDP) and some 60 percent of government revenue. The national currency, the tenge, which has been in free float since August 2015, weakened from around 382 per dollar at the beginning of the year to a record low of almost 450 per dollar today (Tengrinews.kz, March 11; RIA Novosti, March 10; Zakon.kz, March 6).
After 4.5 percent nominal growth in 2019, Kazakhstan's GDP was, until recently, expected to expand by a further 4.1 percent in 2020, according to a three-year official spending plan until 2023. But on March 10, National Economy Minister Ruslan Dalenov admitted that the macroeconomic forecast would need to be revised downward. The current budget, which for 2020 projected a deficit of 2.4 percent, was predicated on an average price of oil equal to $55/barrel. The last time Brent traded at that level was the end of February 2020; it has halved since then. Although Dalenov refused to discuss alternative scenarios, he said that economic growth might slow down to 2 percent and the budget deficit could rise to 3 percent. In neighboring Russia, Fitch Ratings recently downgraded its 2020 GDP growth forecast from 2 to 1 percent while the Russian government expects a 0.8 percent surplus to give way to a 1 percent deficit (Kommersant, March 19; Kapital.kz, March 10; Inbusiness.kz, February 28).
Not only was Kazakhstan absent from the crucial conversation between Saudi Arabia and Russia that ultimately caused the collapse of their oil alliance, but it is also worse prepared than Russia for a prolonged economic shock. Since the 2008–2009 financial crisis, real disposable income has taken consecutive hits in 2009, 2014 and again 2015 as a result of overnight devaluations. Since right before the last devaluation dated August 2015, the tenge has lost more than 58 percent of its value vis-à-vis the dollar. Diminished purchasing power stems from the inevitability of price hikes for imported goods—from cars and electronics to clothes and foods. Reduced oil revenue means lower public spending, with material implications for a wide range of companies that either depend on government subsidies or work extensively with the sprawling public sector. The Kazakhstani banking sector remains structurally fragile as well and will see its asset quality deteriorate as the crisis sets in (Xe.com, March 25; Liter.kz, March 3).
The oil shock is being compounded by the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, which the World Health Organization declared a pandemic on March 11. On March 15, President Tokayev declared a state of national emergency. Both the former and current capitals, Almaty and Nur-Sultan (named Astana until last year), have been in lockdown since March 19. The government is allocating a record $9.8 billion as part of a massive anti-crisis package to help businesses and workers ride out the slowdown if not outright shutdowns in some industries. While this figure is impressive in absolute terms (Kazakhstan's 2019 GDP amounted to a total of $178.2 billion), it is less than what the government spent on rescuing the banking sector from knock-on defaults in 2017–2019. Unemployment benefits the Tokayev administration is planning to extend to as many as 1.5 million people are a meager 42,500 tenge ($95) per person and their availability is contingent on an active social security account. All this suggests that Tokayev's second year in office will be far more difficult than his first one (Liter.kz, Inform.kz, March 23; Zakon.kz, March 19).
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Symphleps is a genus of moths of the family Thyrididae.

Type species: Symphleps atomosalis  Warren, 1897

Species
Some species of this genus are:
Symphleps atomosalis  Hampson 1897
Symphleps ochracea  Pagenstecher 1886
Symphleps perfusa  Warren 1902
Symphleps seta  (Viette, 1958)
Symphleps signicostata (Strand, 1913)
Symphleps suffusa  Warren, 1898

References

Encyclopedia of Life

Thyrididae
Moth genera


This year's Edinboro High School Journalism Day keynote speakers, Jason Pettigrew and D.X. Ferris, both hail from the music industry.
Pettigrew is the editor-in-chief of Alternative Press (AP), a music magazine based out of Cleveland, Ohio. Ferris is an author and reporter, most recently working on his book "The Story of Donnie Iris and the Cruisers," a long work in progress, he noted.
Pettigrew said music journalism was something he was always interested in, but he first got involved with AP when he saw a free copy of the magazine towards the front entrance of a music venue he and his friends were at in Cleveland. He saw in the magazine that Mike Shea, "the founder, owner, CEO, kahuna of Alt Press" wrote a "not-pleasant" review of Bauhaus' Peter Murphy covering Pere Ubu's "Final Solution" and was displeased with it.
Pettigrew said the largest changes he's seen while at AP are the change of musical generations and technology.
"The same people who were going to live and die by Jane's Addiction or Red Hot Chili Peppers or Ministry, I don't know if those people are going to shows anymore or buying records, or if they just have a Spotify subscription," Pettigrew said.
"It's not ink on paper anymore, and because all of these other aspects to the brand, to the business are changing constantly, we have to step up our game even further," he said.
Pettigrew also runs a podcast called Cautionary Tales where he interviews musical artists and discusses their journeys through the industry.
"You want to write about grindcore polka? You have to be able to tell me the history of the genre, the crucial recordings, is there a cultural mindset that goes along with that?" he explained.
Eventually, Pettigrew would like to see AP create a service that helps people discover new bands they might like, based on their artist history.
Ferris had a bit of a different experience getting into the field.
"When I graduated high school, the one distinct uncommon ability I had was writing, so that was the one thing I had that I thought I could develop a little bit," he said.
After beginning college as a technical writing major, he eventually wanted to go into bioengineering, but "my brain can't do chemistry." So, he ended up going into journalism.
"I wasn't really focused at the time, and I wanted to maybe try to do some writing about popular culture; that thing was still relatively novel then," he said.
Eventually, he found himself at California University of Pennsylvania running the student paper.
Ferris, a professor at the University of Akron, tells his students to take initiative.


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Former Kansas City Councilwoman Wins Missouri Lt. Governor Democratic Primary
KCUR | By Lynn Horsley
Democratic candidate for Missouri Lt. Governor, Alissia Canady, talks with a poll worker on Tuesday afternoon outside the Southeast Community Center.
If Alissia Canady wins in November, she would be the first woman of color elected statewide in Missouri history.
Missouri voters chose Democrat Nicole Galloway to challenge incumbent Gov. Mike Parson in Tuesday's primary election that took place amid worries about the Coronavirus pandemic and a struggling economy.
With unofficial results reported Tuesday night, Galloway, who is Missouri state auditor, easily defeated four other little-known Democratic primary challengers. Parson coasted to victory over three Republican challengers.
The statewide race with a key Kansas City connection was the Lieutenant Governor's race, where former Kansas City Councilwoman Alissia Canady handily defeated Gregory Upchurch of St. Charles, Mo. In the Democratic primary.
In the November general election, Canady will challenge incumbent Lt. Governor Mike Kehoe, who defeated three Republican challengers.
If Canady wins in November, she would be the first woman of color elected statewide in Missouri history.
Canady is an attorney and chair of Kansas City's Tax Increment Financing Commission. She served as the 5th District city councilwoman in Kansas City from 2015-2019, before she ran for mayor, coming in third in Kansas City's mayoral primary behind Quinton Lucas and Jolie Justus.
Canady's platform focuses on ways to combat urban violence; address health disparities; and promote educational and economic development opportunities, especially for underserved communities.
In the Missouri attorney general's race, two Democrats from St. Louis were vying to challenge incumbent Republican Eric Schmitt.
With incomplete returns Tuesday night, Rich Finneran, former assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri had a sizeable lead over Elad Gross, an attorney who served under former Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster.
Gross has filed a lawsuit hoping to expose dark money donors to former Gov. Eric Greitens' non-profit. He said he would bolster the public corruption unit in the Attorney General's office and called for more transparency in state government.
Finneran argued that Schmitt has put politics ahead of what's best for Missouri citizens, particularly by joining an ongoing federal lawsuit to overturn the Affordable Care Act. Both Gross and Finneran opposed Schmitt's effort to overturn the federal health care law and supported Medicaid expansion, which was also on the Aug. 4 ballot.
Tuesday's primary also featured Missouri Legislative contests affecting the Kansas City area. Some of those key races included:
MISSOURI SENATE DISTRICT 7
In unofficial results in the Senate District 7 race, state Rep. Greg Razer defeated Michael Brown, who is vice president of the Metropolitan Community College Board of Trustees. They were vying to fill the seat vacated by Jason Holsman, to represent a district that includes part of Kansas City, south Kansas City and Grandview.
Razer has represented House District 25 since 2017. He previously was the deputy regional director for U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill from 2008 to 2016. He said he supports local control of the Kansas City police department, sensible gun legislation and smart budget solutions.
Razer will face Green Party candidate Nathan Kline in November.
In Missouri Senate District 9, state Rep. Barbara Washington beat Raytown Alderman Ryan Myers, in a contest to fill the seat vacated by Kiki Curls.
Washington is an attorney who has been the state Representative for District 23 in Jackson County since 2018. Myers is a commercial appraiser who also serves on the Raytown City Council.
Washington said her priorities in the Senate would remain the same as in the Missouri House: economic development, education, mental health and criminal justice.
Washington faces Republican candidate David Martin in November. The district is heavily Democratic and covers southeast Kansas City and Raytown.
MISSOURI SENATE DISTRICT 31
In the heavily Republican District 31, Cass County Auditor Rick Brattin defeated state Rep. Jack Bondon and farmer Bill Yarberry to represent the district that spans Cass, Henry, Bates and Vernon counties.
Bondon has been the House District 56 state representative since 2015. Both Bondon and Brattin said they were strong supporters of President Trump, favored an end to abortion and wanted to cut waste in the budget. Bondon had the endorsements of the Missouri Farm Bureau, Missourians for Life, the Missouri Chamber PAC and the Missouri Fraternal Order of Police.
Brattin was supported by a PAC tied to the Senate Conservative Caucus. He garnered national attention in 2014 when he introduced legislation requiring a woman wanting an abortion to get written approval from the man who impregnated her.
The incumbent is term-limited out. Brattin will face Raymond Kinney of Raymore, who ran unopposed in the Democratic primary.
Incumbent state Rep. Ingrid Burnett defeated former teacher and non-profit advocate Phyllis Hardwick and LGBTQ activist Wick Thomas. The district covers the Historic Northeast neighborhood plus part of Sugar Creek and Independence.
Burnett has represented the district, since 2017. She had said her focus would be "quality of life" issues for her constituents, ranging from health care to housing to the arts and recreation.
Hardwick said the district needed a representative who would focus more on support for affordable housing and small business and job growth.
Thomas said he would fight the Republican-dominated Legislature on behalf of the LGBTQ and other marginalized communities.
No Republican filed to run in the heavily-Democratic district.
Lynn Horsley is a freelance journalist in Kansas City. Follow her on Twitter @LynnHorsley.
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