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Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth
by Ian Brennan, foreword by Tunde Adebimpe
9/16/2019, paperback
Popular culture has woven itself into the social fabric of our lives, penetrating people's homes and haunting their psyches through images and earworms. Justice, at most levels, is something the average citizen may have little influence upon, leaving us feeling helpless and complacent. But pop music is a neglected arena where concrete change can occur--by exercising active and thoughtful choices to reject the low-hanging, omnipresent corporate fruit, we begin to rebalance the world, one engaged listener at a time. In Silenced by Sound, Ian Brennan delves into his personal story to address the inequity of distribution in the arts and demonstrates that there are millions of talented people around the world more gifted than the superstars for whom billions of dollars are spent to promote the delusion that they have been blessed with unique genius.
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"Shocking! I didn't think it was possible to write a shocking book about music anymore. This is the most radical music book I've read in years." —John Waters
"There is hope. Thanks to Ian Brennan for shining a light." —Bill Frisell
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Ian Brennan is a Grammy-winning music producer and the author of four books. He has worked with the likes of John Waters, Merle Haggard, and Green Day, among others. His work has been featured on the front page of the New York Times and on an Emmy-winning 60 Minutes segment.
Tunde Adebimpe is an American musician, actor, director, and visual artist best known as the lead singer of the Brooklyn-based band TV on the Radio.
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People with motor neurone disease can benefit enormously from physio input, says Nicola White.
My 22 years as a physiotherapist has involved working with people with motor neurone disease (MND) in various settings and stages of the condition. This includes work in acute neurology, community settings and my current post in a clinic-based role at The Walton Centre in Liverpool. As a specialist neuroscience trust, we are fortunate to have an MND care centre developed by the Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association.
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In a previous role in a community therapy team, I enjoyed a position within a MDT where we were able to maintain involvement as required with the person with MND through the stages of the disease.
The recently published NICE guidelines for MND (NG 42, Feb 2016) advocate this continuity of care and avoidance of untimely case closure. This comprehensive document is a welcome tool for allied health professionals in assisting our provision of good practice in assessing and managing people with this extremely difficult and multi-faceted condition.
Nicola White is a Band 7 physio in the neurological long term conditions team at The Walton Centre in Liverpool.
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One of the most prominent anti-terror prosecutions of the past decade opened Monday as government lawyers and those representing leaders of a Muslim charity began quizzing potential jurors.
The men on trial in federal district court aren't accused of being terrorists. Rather, they are charged with funneling millions of dollars to the militant group Hamas, which allegedly used some of the money to support the families of suicide bombers in the Middle East.
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Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson's Three Rules for Living Well: A Short and Succinct Life Philosophy
in Life, Music	| June 30th, 2016
Regular readers of Open Culture know us to gush over our favorite celebrity couples now and then: John and Yoko, Jean-Paul and Simone, Frida and Diego…. Not your usual tabloid fare, but the juicy details of these amorous partners' lives also happen to intersect with some of our favorite art, music and literature. One cultural power couple we haven't covered much, surprisingly, well deserves the "power" adjective: Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson, two personalities whose influence on the art and music of the last several decades can hardly be overstated.
Has Reed's reputation at times been inflated, and Anderson's underplayed? Maybe. She doesn't get nearly enough credit for the witty, profound, moving work she's done, year after year (with one lengthy hiatus) since the 70s. Reed's career since the 70s consisted of more misses than hits. But put them together (in 1992) and you get a harmonious meeting of Reed's raw, gut-level assertions and Anderson's curious, playful concepts.
Witness their personal strength together in the Charlie Rose excerpt at the top of the post. Reed, who was often a difficult interview subject, to put it mildly, and who gained a reputation as a brutally unpleasant, abusive rock and roll diva (immortalized lovingly in Bowie's "Queen Bitch"), comes off in this sit-down with Anderson as almost warm and fuzzy. Did she make him want to be a better person? I don't know. But Anderson's short obituary after his 2013 death remembered Reed as a "prince and fighter," her longer obit as a "generous" soul who enjoyed butterfly hunting, meditation, and kayaking. No reason he wasn't all those things too.
When it came to music, Reed could pull his partner into the orbit of his sweet R&B songcraft, as in their duet of "Hang on to Your Emotions," further up, and she could pull him out of it—like John Cale and Nico had done in the Velvet Underground—and into the avant-garde drone of her experimental scene (as above in the pair's collaboration with composer and saxophonist John Zorn). Just this past Spring, in one of the most touching musical tributes I've ever seen, Anderson recreated Reed's abrasive screw-you to his record label, Metal Machine Music, as a conceptual art piece called Drones, leaning several of his guitars against several fully-cranked vintage amps, letting the feedback ring out for five days straight.
None of us can be Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson; every couple is happy, or unhappy, in their own way. But what, in the grand tradition of mining celebrity couple's lives for advice, can we learn from them? I guess the overall message—as Anderson herself suggested in her Rock & Roll Hall of Fame acceptance speech for Reed (above, in shaky audience video)—is this: keep it simple. Kansas State English Professor Philip Nel points out Anderson's "wise… thoughtful" words on the subject of living well, delivered in her speech at the 8:55 mark:
I'm reminded also of the three rules we came up with, rules to live by. And I'm just going to tell you what they are because they come in really handy. Because things happen so fast, it's always good to have a few, like, watchwords to fall back on.
And the first one is: One. Don't be afraid of anyone. Now, can you imagine living your life afraid of no one? Two. Get a really good bullshit detector. And three. Three is be really, really tender. And with those three things, you don't need anything else.
Can you imagine Lou Reed as "really, really tender"? He certainly was in song, if not always in person. In any case, these three rules seem to me to encapsulate a personal philosophy built solidly on fearless integrity and compassion. Difficult to live by, but well worth the effort. And because I'm now feeling super warm and fuzzy about Lou and Laurie, I'll leave you with the short WNYC interview clip below, in which she reveals her favorite Lou Reed song, which he happened to write about her.
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Laurie Anderson's Top 10 Books to Take to a Desert Island
An Animated Lou Reed Explains The Velvet Underground's Artistic Goals, and Why The Beatles Were "Garbage"
Lou Reed, John Cale & Nico Reunite, Play Acoustic Velvet Underground Songs on French TV, 1972
Betty Davis' Legendary and Long-Lost Recording Sessions, Produced by Miles Davis, Finally Released (1968-1969)
in Music	| June 30th, 2016
Bringing her down-home North Carolina background to the world of funk, Betty Mabry spent a better part of the sixties trying to make it big in the music scene, while also modeling to pay the rent. She ran in the same crowds as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Hugh Masekela (who she dated), and she wrote her own songs, selling one to the Chambers Brothers, and then got a couple of singles on Capitol Records.
And then Miles Davis stepped in the picture. First as a whirlwind romance and marriage, then as a producer who was going to launch Betty Davis as the queen of funk (and refurbish his image in the process.) He had already dedicated two songs to her and put her on the cover of his 1968 album Filles de Kilimanjaro. And now he was set to produce her solo debut.
That album is finally being released. Betty Davis: The Columbia Years 1968-1969 drops tomorrow. To hear Light in the Attic's video press release above breathlessly tell it, "music fans have long debated the truth about one legendary session recorded in 1969 at Columbia's 52nd Street Studios." Personally I don't know what was actually debated, but yes, Betty Davis recorded tracks for a funk album using members of Jimi Hendrix's Experience band (Mitch Mitchell, drums) and his Band of Gypsies (Billy Cox, bass), along with guitarist John McLaughlin, keyboardist Herbie Hancock, Harvey Brooks on bass, Wayne Shorter on sax, and Larry Young on organ. Teo Macero co-produced with Miles Davis.
If this sounds like most of the band that went on to make Miles' Bitches Brew (a record title suggested by Betty), then you're right. It could be seen as a session that got the wheels spinning in Miles' mind about a new direction to take his own work. And it's that moment that so fascinates music fans.
Columbia passed on the Betty Davis album and buried it in its vaults. It would take four years until Betty Davis was able to get a solo album out on her own terms. That eponymous 1973 album and the two that followed were poor sellers, but earned cult status due to Betty Davis' unabashed and unapologetic sexuality, feminism, and ferocity on stage—the same factors that scared radio operators and concert venues.
"She was the first Madonna, but Madonna was like Donny Osmond by comparison," Carlos Santana once quipped about her.
The Light in the Attic site has very brief clips from the songs on the new release, but since they are all from the openings of the tracks, they give little indication of the funky stew to follow, from the Cream and Creedence Clearwater Revival covers ("Politician Man," "Born on the Bayou") to her own songs. The CD and LP package looks gorgeous of course, with liner notes and photos.
Davis retired from music after her fourth album went nowhere but she is still around, and, according to the Light in the Attic website, a documentary is in the works on this influential funky icon who needs rediscovering.
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Miles Davis' Entire Discography Presented in a Stylish Interactive Visualization
The Night When Miles Davis Opened for the Grateful Dead in 1970: Hear the Complete Recordings
Rare Miles Davis Live Recordings Capture the Jazz Musician at the Height of His Powers
Physics & Caffeine: Stop Motion Film Uses a Cup of Coffee to Explain Key Concepts in Physics
in Food & Drink, Physics	| June 30th, 2016
Want to teach me physics? Make it interesting. Better yet, use a cup of coffee as a prop. Now you've got my attention.
Created by Charlotte Arene while interning at the University of Paris-Sud's Laboratory of Solid State Physics, Physics & Caffeine uses a shot of espresso to explain key concepts in physics. Why does coffee cool off so quickly when you blow on it? It comes down to understanding heat and thermodynamics. Why does coffee stay in a cup at all? That seemingly simple question is explained by quantum mechanics and even Newtonian physics and special relativity. You might want to watch that section twice.
Shot image by image, this stop motion film took three long months to create. Pretty impressive when you consider that 5,000 images went into making the film.
Get more information on the film, and even download it, from this page. And find more physics primers below.
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics, The Most Popular Physics Book Ever Written, Now Completely Online
World Science U Lets You Take Free Physics Courses from Leading Minds in the Field
Einstein for the Masses: Yale Presents a Primer on the Great Physicist's Thinking
The Philosophy of Bill Murray: The Intellectual Foundations of His Comedic Persona
in Comedy, Film	| June 30th, 2016
"Bill Murray is a national, no, an international, no an intergalactic treasure," said Jim Jarmusch, who directed him in Coffee and Cigarettes and Broken Flowers, when the actor won this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. But what, exactly, do we find so compelling about the guy? I launched into my own quest to find out after seeing his performance in Rushmore (regarded by most Murray scholars as a revelation of depth at which he'd only hinted between wisecracks before), watching every movie he ever appeared in. Similarly rigorous research must have gone into this new video on the philosophy of Bill Murray.
"Since replacing Chevy Chase on Saturday Night Live in 1977," says narrator Jared Bauer, "Bill Murray has embodied a very particular type of comedy that can best be described as 'ironic and cooly distant.'" Bauer references a New York Times article on Murray's ascendance to "secular sainthood" which describes him as having had "such a long film career that, in the public mind, there are multiple Bill Murrays. The Bill Murray of Stripes and Ghostbusters is an anti-authoritarian goofball: the kind of smart-aleck who leads a company of soldiers in a coordinated dance routine before a visiting general, or responds to the possible destruction of New York City by saying, 'Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!'"
That memorable line makes it into "The Philosophy of Bill Murray," as do many others, all of which spring from the actor's signature persona, which "stands slightly at a distance from everything, enabling him to maintain a dryly humorous commentary about what's going on around him." Bauer places this in a tradition of American comedy "dating back at least to the vaudeville days" and continuing through to Groucho Marx's habitual breakage of the fourth wall. He even connects it to 15th-century Japanese playwright-philosopher Zeami Motokiyo and, in some sense his 20th-century continuation, Bertolt Brecht.
But what influence best explains Murray's distinctive onscreen and increasingly performance art-like offscreen behavior today? Maybe that of his onetime teacher, the Greco-Armenian Sufi mystic G.I. Gurdjieff, who, as Murray's Ghostbusters co-star Harold Ramis put it, "used to act really irrationally to his students, almost as if trying to teach them object lessons." He taught what he called "the fourth way of enlightenment," or — more fittingly in Murray's case — "the way of the sly man," who can "find the truth in everyday life" by remaining simultaneously aware of both the outside world and his inner one while not getting caught up in either. The sly man thus exists between, and uses, "the world, the self, and the self that is observing everything."
Bauer sums up Murray's uniqueness thus: "He turns the usual style of American comedic irony against itself, or against himself," leading us to "identify not with Bill Murray's character, but with Bill Murray, who distances himself from the stakes of the narrative." But whether playing a character, playing himself, or something between the two, Murray seems as if he knows something we don't about the stakes of life itself. "I'd like to be more consistently here," he once said to Charlie Rose, who'd asked what he wants that he doesn't already have. "Really in it, really alive. I'd like to just be more here all the time, and I'd like to see what I could get done, what I could do, if I was able to not get distracted, to not change channels in my mind and body." A universal human longing, perhaps, but one Murray, the ultimate sly man, has come to tap more deeply into than any performer around.
Listen to Bill Murray Lead a Guided Mediation on How It Feels to Be Bill Murray
An Animated Bill Murray on the Advantages & Disadvantages of Fame
Bill Murray Reads Poetry at a Construction Site
Bill Murray Reads Great Poetry by Billy Collins, Cole Porter, and Sarah Manguso
Bill Murray Gives a Delightful Dramatic Reading of Twain's Huckleberry Finn (1996)
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23 Hours of H.P. Lovecraft Stories: Hear Readings & Dramatizations of "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," & Other Weird Tales
in Audio Books, Literature	| June 29th, 2016
Image by Lucius B. Truesdell, via Wikimedia Commons
H.P. Lovecraft has somewhat fallen out of favor in many circles of horror and fantasy writing. Just this past year, after much debate, the World Fantasy Awards decided to remove his likeness from their statuette. Because, quite frankly, Lovecraft was not only a bigot but a committed anti-Semite and white supremacist who loathed virtually everyone who wasn't, as he put it, "Nordic-American." This included African-Americans and "stunted bracycephalic South-Italians & rat-faced half-Mongoloid Russian & Polish Jews, & all that cursed scum," as he wrote in a letter to fellow writer August Derleth. The statement is representative of many, many more on the subject.
Were these simply private political opinions and nothing more, there might not be sufficient reason to read them into his work, but as several people have argued convincingly, Lovecraft's opinions form the basis of so much of his work. China Miéville, for example, writes "I follow [French novelist Michel Houellebecq—hardly known for any kind of political correctness] in thinking that Lovecraft's oeuvre, his work itself, is inspired by and deeply structured with race hatred. As Houellebecq said, it is racism itself that raises in Lovecraft a 'poetic trance.'"
Lovecraft's xenophobic loathing begins to seem like an almost pathological hatred and fear of anyone different, and of any kind of change in the nation's makeup. It goes far beyond casual "man of his time" attitudes (and increasingly, of our time). F. Scott Fitzgerald lived during Lovecraft's time. And Fitzgerald had the critical distance to satirize fanatical bigotry like Lovecraft's in The Great Gatsby's Tom Buchanan. All of that said, however, it's impossible to deny Lovecraft's influence on horror and fantasy, and almost no one has done so, even among those writers who most vehemently lobbied to retire his image or who found his presence deeply troubling.
World Fantasy Award winner Nnedi Okorafor writes about contemporary authors having to wrestle with the fact "that many of The Elders we honor and need to learn from hate or hated us." Winner Sofia Samatar, who wanted the statuette changed, exclaimed, "I am not telling anybody not to read Lovecraft. I teach Lovecraft! I actually insist that people read him and write about him!" In a short essay at Tor, sci-fi and fantasy writer Elizabeth Bear expressed many of the same ambivalent feelings about her "complicated relationship with Lovecraft." While finding his "bigotry of just about any stripe you like… revolting," his work has nonetheless provided "a powerful source of inspiration, the foundations of it like Hadrian's Wall; full of material for mining and repurposing."
It's not particularly unusual to find such ambivalent attitudes expressed toward literary ancestors. All artists—all people—have their character flaws, and to expect every writer we like to share our values seems naive, narrow, and superficial. But Lovecraft presents an extreme example, and also one whose prose is often pretty terrible: overstuffed, overwrought, pretentious, and archaic. But it's that pulpy style that makes Lovecraft, Lovecraft—that contributes to the feverish atmosphere of paranoia and alienation in his stories. "He's a master of mood," Bear avows, "of sweeping blasted vistas of despair and the bone-soaking cold of space."
That much of his despair and horror emanated from a place inside him that feared the "gestures & jabbering" of other humans does not make it any less effectively creepy or hypnotic. It just makes it that much harder to love Lovecraft the author, no matter how much we might admire his work. But perhaps Lovecraft was such an effective horror writer precisely because he was so terribly afraid of change and difference. As he himself wrote of his particular brand of supernatural horror, or "weird fiction," as he called it: "horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected… because fear is our deepest and strongest emotion." One needn't be a phobic racist to write good horror fiction, but in Lovecraft's case, I guess, it seems to have helped.
Just as much as the work of Isaac Asimov, or Robert Heinlein, or Gene Roddenberry resides in the DNA of science fiction, so too does Lovecraft inhabit the organic building blocks of horror writing. Horror and fantasy writers who somehow avoid reading Lovecraft may end up absorbing his influence anyway; readers who avoid him will end up reading some version of "Lovecraft pastiche," as Bear puts it. So it behooves us to go to the source, find out what Lovecraft himself wrote, take the good over the bad, even "pick a fight with him," writes Bear, "because of what he does right, that makes his stories too compelling to just walk away from, and because of what he does wrong… for example, the way he treats people as things."
We've previously brought to your attention several online Lovecraft archives, such as this compilation of Lovecraft eBooks and audiobooks, and these many fine dramatizations of Lovecraft's stories. Additionally, you can download many of Lovecraft's stories and letters published in the seminal horror and fantasy magazine Weird Tales. And in the Spotify playlist above (download Spotify here if you need it), you can hear The H.P. Lovecraft Compendium, 23 hours of readings and dramatizations of Lovecraft's creepy short stories and novellas, including The Shadow Over Innsmouth, "The Dunwich Horror," The Whisperer in Darkness, "The Call of Cthulhu," and many, many more. However repugnant many of Lovecraft's attitudes, there's no denying the power of his "weird fiction." As the playlist advises, "you might want to leave a light on when listening to these chilling performances…."
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in Art, Books, Music	| June 29th, 2016
Her avant-garde performance art endeared her to the New York art world long before she dated, then married, one of the most influential men in rock and roll. Her work has at times been overshadowed by her more conventionally famous partner and collaborator, but after his death, she continues to make challenging, far ahead-of-its-time work and redefine herself as a creative force.
No, I don't mean Yoko Ono, but the formidable Laurie Anderson. In addition to her experimental art, Anderson is a filmmaker, sculptor, photographer, writer, composer, and musician. Her surprise electronic hit "O Superman" (above) from her debut 1982 album Big Science, "warns of ever-present death from the air in an era of jingoism," writes David Graham at The Atlantic.
Anderson herself explains the song as based on a "beautiful 19th-century aria by Massenet… a prayer to authority. The lyrics are a one-sided conversation, like a prayer to God. It sounds sinister—but it is sinister when you start talking to power."
"O Superman" speaks, mockingly, to American military hegemony and to a particular historical event, the Iran hostage crisis. As such, it is representative of much of her work, melding classical instincts and musicianship with electronic experimentation and a darkly comic sensibility that she often wields like a critical scalpel on U.S. political attitudes—from her huge, five-record 1984 live album United States (with songs like "Yankee See" and "Democratic Way") to her 2010 project Homeland.
One of Anderson's most recent pieces, Dirtday, "responds," she says above, to "a very tragic situation… a decade after 9/11… so much fear. Dirtday was really inspired by trying to look at that fear… almost from a point of view of 'what is it when a whole nation gets hypnotized?'" Her art may be politically oppositional, but she also admits, that "as a storyteller, I find my 'colleagues' in politics, you know, a little bit closer than I thought." The admission belies Anderson's ability to incorporate multiple perspectives into her complex narratives, as all great writers do. And great writers begin as readers, their work in dialogue with the books that move and shape them.
So what does Laurie Anderson read? Below, you'll find a list of her top ten books, curated by One Grand, a "bookstore in which celebrated thinkers, writers, artists, and other creative minds share the ten books they would take to their metaphorical desert island." Her choices include great comic storytellers, like Laurence Sterne, and chroniclers of the lumbering beast that is the U.S., like Herman Melville. Other well-known novelists, like Nabokov and Annie Dillard, sit next to Buddhist texts and creative nonfiction. It's a fascinating list, and if you're as intrigued and inspired by Anderson's work as I am, you'll want to read, or re-read, everything on it.
Within the Contexts of No Context, George W.S. Trow: "Hilarious and Dangerous. Dead-on analysis of what makes America so big."
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: "The most visual language of any book I know."
Moby Dick, Herman Melville: "The words were songs, the flow embraced the way we actually think."
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Laurence Sterne: "The ultimate shaggy dog story."
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov: "Poetry disguised as prose."
Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson: "An epic poem. Plus very, very funny."
The Well-Tempered City, Jonathan F.P. Rose: "Deeply Inspiring."
Peter the Great, Robert K. Massie: "Immediately made me want to read all his other books."
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard: "Reminds me to be in the present."
When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chodron: "Reminds me that disasters can be positive."
Skip on over to One Grand to read Anderson's complete, witty commentaries on each of her choices.
Also check out, UBUweb, which has a nice collection of Laurie Anderson's early video work.
via The New York Times Magazine
David Foster Wallace's Surprising List of His 10 Favorite Books, from C.S. Lewis to Tom Clancy
Hear 230 Episodes of Escape: Classic Radio Dramas of Stories by Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, H.G. Wells & More (1947-1954)
in Radio, Sci Fi	| June 29th, 2016
"Worried about the price of butter and eggs? Fed up with the housing shortage? Want to get away from it all? CBS offers you Escape!" These words open October 1st, 1947's broadcast adaptation of "The Most Dangerous Game," Richard Connell's safari culture-satirizing short thriller about a New York big-game hunter en route to Rio who falls off his yacht, swims to shore, and soon finds himself evading an eccentric Cossack aristocrat who hunts human beings for sport on his own private island. Not exactly the sort of material that takes all one's cares away, but Escape, it seems, had its own definition of escapism.
Originally airing on CBS radio between 1947 and 1954 — time that, without a regular sponsor, it spent in eighteen different time slots — the program's 230 episodes took material from all over the literary landscape: Ray Bradbury's "Mars Is Heaven," Daphne du Maurier's "The Birds," H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine" (among several other of his tales), F. Scott Fitzgerald's "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz," Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost Special," and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher." You can listen to almost all its broadcasts, which mix then-new writers in with the established or already canonized ones, at the Internet Archive. (Stream all the episodes right above or find them here.) "Escape brings together everything that was good about old-time radio drama rolled into one," say the notes there, calling each episode "a micro drama carefully planned to capture the listener's attention for thirty minutes."
"Many of the stories were later reused by more high profile shows such as Suspense, but on the whole the Escape versions were of equal quality and sometimes more dramatically focused and atmospheric. When Radio Life wrote 'These stories all possess many times the reality that most radio writing conveys,' it hit the nail on the head." At the time, the show's creators must have constantly worried that all their sponsorship troubles and time-slot changes would keep the show from lasting, but even listeners now, more than sixty years after the Golden Age of radio and with our own concerns about egg prices and housing shortages, can find in it a quality of escapism still unmatched by most popular culture.
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President Warren G. Harding's Steamy Love Letters
in Letters	| June 29th, 2016
If you know something about American history, you know that Warren G. Harding (1865-1923) will never appear on Mount Rushmore. He died during his unpopular first term in office, tarnished by the Teapot Dome scandal and revelations of an extramarital affair. Harding once apparently said, "I am not fit for this office and should never have been here." And historians tend to agree. Consistently polls ranking the performance of American presidents put him at the bottom of the list.
History might, however, look more kindly upon Harding's love letters, the byproduct of his womanizing ways. Before taking office, Harding fathered a love child with Nan Britton, a woman 31 years his junior. He also carried on a 15-year affair with Carrie Fulton Phillips, a friend's wife, to whom he started writing letters in 1910. And what letters they were. Here's one from January 28, 1912:
I love your poise
Of perfect thighs
When they hold me
in paradise. . .
I love the rose
Your garden grows
Love seashell pink
That over it glows
I love to suck
Your breath away
I love to cling —
There long to stay. . .
I love you garb'd
But naked more
Love your beauty
To thus adore. . .
I love you when
You open eyes
And mouth and arms
And cradling thighs. . .
If I had you today, I'd kiss and
fondle you into my arms and
hold you there until you said,
'Warren, oh, Warren,' in a
benediction of blissful joy. . . . I
rather like that encore
discovered in Montreal.
Did you?
And another from September 15, 1913, which John Oliver playfully mocks above:
Honestly, I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief untilI take a long, deep, wild draught on your lips and then bury my face on your pillowing breasts. Oh, Carrie! I want the solace you only can give. It is awful to hunger so and be so wholly denied. . . . Wouldn't you like to hear me ask if we only dared and answer, "We dare," while souls rejoicing sang the sweetest of choruses in the music room? Wouldn't you like to get sopping wet out on Superior — not the lake — for the joy of fevered fondling and melting kisses? Wouldn't you like to make the suspected occupant of the next room jealous of the joys he could not know, as we did in morning communion at Richmond?
Oh, Carrie mine! You can see I have yielded and written myself into wild desire. I could beg. And Jerry came and will not go, says he loves you, that you are the only, only love worthwhile in all this world, and I must tell you so and a score or more of other fond things he suggests, but I spare you. You must not be annoyed. He is so utterly devoted that he only exists to give you all. I fear you would find a fierce enthusiast today.
Originally unearthed by historian Francis Russell in 1964, the letters were donated to the Library of Congress, where they remained under seal until 2014. You can find scans of the original Warren G. Harding-Carrie Fulton Phillips Correspondence on the LOC website. (The LOC also produced an informative video on the exchange.) Read transcriptions of the best letters at The New York Times.
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Royals 8, Indians 6: Royals rally past Indians to end seven-game losing streak
Brian Dulik
CLEVELAND — Maikel Franco drove in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning and had an RBI single in the ninth as the Kansas City Royals beat the Indians 8-6 Tuesday night to snap a seven-game losing streak.
Whit Merrifield hit a three-run homer and Cam Gallagher had an RBI double for the Royals, who had been outscored 51-18 and only held the lead after one inning in losing their first seven games in September.
Adalberto Mondesí led off the eighth with a single off Adam Cimber (0-1) and scored on Franco's fly to center, putting the Royals up 6-5. Later in the inning, Nicky Lopez was hit by a pitch from Oliver Perez with the bases loaded to score Hunter Dozier.
Franco added a two-out single in the ninth off Adam Plutko to extend the Royals' advantage to 8-5.
Greg Holland (3-0) worked two perfect innings, striking out three, for the win. Scott Barlow allowed one run in the ninth before earning his second save.
Carlos Santana, Sandy León and Francisco Lindor each homered for the Indians, who had won three in a row.
Indians rookie Triston McKenzie struck out seven and allowed three hits in five innings, leaving with a 5-3 lead. The right-hander is 2-0 with a 2.57 ERA through four starts.
Royals right-hander Jakob Junis gave up a season-high five runs and all three Indians homers in 4 1/3 innings, remaining winless in seven starts since Sept. 4, 2019.
Santana hit a two-run homer in the first and León had a solo shot in the second to stake the Indians to a 3-0 lead, but Merrifield answered with a three-run blast onto the left-field porch in the third.
Lindor put the Indians back in front 5-3 in the bottom of the third with a two-run homer, plating César Hernández. Lindor has a .500 career average against Junis with five home runs and 14 RBI in 36 at-bats.
The Royals tied the score again with two runs in the seventh. Nicky Lopez reached on a fielder's choice that scored Matt Reynolds, then came around on Gallagher's RBI double off Cal Quantrill.
Doby Day
Indians president of baseball operations Chris Antonetti said the Indians have had "some preliminary dialogue" with MLB about having players wear No. 14 in honor of Larry Doby. Doby became the first Black to play in the American League when he debuted with the Indians on July 5, 1947. Jackie Robinson broke the color line on April 15, 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Royals: Left-hander Danny Duffy (2-3, 4.83 ERA) seeks to break a seven-start winless streak in Cleveland. He is 0-6 with a 9.33 ERA at Progressive Field since Sept. 22, 2014.
Indians: Right-hander Carlos Carrasco (2-3, 3.43 ERA) faces the Royals for the second time this year. He struck out 10 over six innings, earning the win on July 26 in Cleveland.


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Q: SQL Injection when magic quote is enabled
Possible Duplicates:
Are single quotes escaped automatically in PHP? Then what's the need for cleaning?
Successful SQL Injection despite PHP Magic Quotes

Earlier today I asked about automatic escaping of quotes and learned about magic quotes. The thread is located at Are single quotes escaped automatically in PHP? Then what's the need for cleaning?.
We came to the consensus that magic quotes is not enough and that we should always validate and clean user input as well as using prepared queries.
However, this lead to this question, on a magic quote enabled server what kind of sql injections would bypass the security measures imposed by magic quotes? Why is magic quotes not secure?
To convince me that magic quotes is not secure I would like to see a real world example of an injection that would bypass these measures. I have build a test set up on my local server with the code:
$foo = $_POST['foo'];
$sql = "SELECT * FROM bar WHERE foo='".$foo."'";
$result = query($sql);

where query() is the usual code needed to execute a query. No cleaning what so ever. However, magic quote is enabled.
Any examples of injections that would bypass magic quotes on this set up?
Cheers,
Erik

A: The issue is that magic quotes uses PHP's addslashes() function which is not unicode aware (which means multi-byte characters are not escaped).
This should be all of the convincing you need.


As a woman, I feel comfortable telling people that I live with bipolar disorder and I often experience clinical depression.
However, I've heard from my male friends that they don't have the same experience about opening up about being a man and having Depression. In my mind, this is a societal misperception and indicative of sexism. I believe that everyone with mental health issues has the right to feel their feelings in a candid way and speak about them openly. I was inspired to find out more about how men experience Depression.
I started with the staff of The Good Men Project for commentary on the subject.
Kasdan knew that he needed to get help after he was working himself to the point of mental and physical exhaustion. This is a common theme amongst men with Depression. They often attribute their symptoms to stress or life circumstances.
"Mr. Claude, burnout is not a medical condition. You are going through a major depression, and I suspect you may have an underlying, unspecified mood disorder." It was then that Claude accepted that he was living with Depression.
"Sometime during middle school I felt this weight and sadness that continued to grow, and it became part of who I am. As I developed I learned how to use it in the creative process through writing and music, but it grew as I grew." McKeen was able to transform his depressed thoughts and feelings into art. I can relate to this, because I went to a performing arts high school. When I felt depressed, I could use my feelings in my acting roles.


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TOMS RIVER - The Ranney boys basketball team already has more hardware than any Shore Conference boys basketball program ever during a single season.
On Thursday night in Toms River, two of its top players earned a little bit more to close out the season.
Scottie Lewis won his fourth straight I'm Possible Slam Dunk Contest and senior teammate Ahmadu Sarnor was named game MVP in his West All-Star's 136-110 win over the East in the Shore Coaches Senior All-Star Game Thursday night at RWJ Barnabas Health Arena.
"A lot of us out here are friends so getting to play with each other is just a good time," Sarnor said of the All-Star experience. "At Ranney, when we go out on the court, it's a war every time. Out here, we have a good time playing with everybody. It's a lot of fun."
Lewis said he flew home from Miami - where he was working out with Indiana Pacers guard Victor Oladipo - and made it to the arena in time to successfully defend the slam dunk title he has held since his freshman year.
After winning another slam dunk title, Lewis and teammate Bryan Antoine will play in the McDonald's All-American Game in Atlanta on March 27.
"From here on out, everything is a business," Lewis said. "McDonald's practices, (Nike) Hoop Summit in April - I'm just getting prepared to knock down open shots and make winning plays in front of those NBA scouts and GM's to make sure my stock keeps rising."
This year's format pit five challengers against one another with the top dunker earning the right to face Lewis in the final. Wall junior Quinn Calabrese beat out Manasquan senior Brad McCabe, Raritan junior Jaylen Smith, Lacey senior Carl Swensen and Ranney senior Alex Klatsky to get a shot at Lewis.
With three chances to complete two dunks, Calabrese and Lewis each missed their first two attempts and Calabrese could not convert his third either. That meant Lewis just had to complete one dunk to win and he capped his fourth title with a soaring, one-handed windmill that earned him a perfect score of 40.
Lewis also served as a prop for his younger brother, Smith, who attempted to dunk over his older brother and Raritan teammate Tim Hayes. Smith completed a reverse dunk on his first try but could not put down the dunk after leaping over his brother and teammate.
Last season, Lewis clinched his third title by leaping over Smith for a reverse dunk, so Lewis returned the favor in an effort to help his brother reach the final.
Calabrese advanced with a pair of dunks off the bounce, one a windmill and the other a reverse dunk - the second of which earned a 37.
After Lewis finished defending his title, Sarnor helped his West All-Stars take the game over in the second half. The 6-2 Ranney senior scored 20 points during his MVP effort, teaming up with Christian Brothers Academy guard Stephen Braunstein to lead the game-breaking run that stretched the lead from 10 to 26.
Braunstein finished with a game-high 25 points to wrap up a standout career, during which he became the 20th player in the storied history of CBA's basketball program to reached 1,000 career points.
Sarnor was a three-year starter at Ranney and was limited to only 18 games during his senior season due to an NJSIAA rule that limits the amount players who played high school basketball in eighth grade while out of state can play. Sarnor played 16 games as an eighth grader and had to sit the first 16 of this year.
"It was tough but surprisingly, it went by pretty fast," Sarnor said. "It's like it was just yesterday I was sitting out and now we're at the All-Star Game. It's been a helluva journey and to be here right now is great. It's wonderful."
Once eligible, the Ranney point guard finished fourth on his own team in points per game but contributed across the board with 4.3 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 2.4 steals. He also proved his worth in Ranney's biggest games, scoring 18 points in the Shore Conference Tournament final - 16 in the second half - and scored all 13 of his points against Bergen Catholic in the Tournament of Champions final in the second half as Ranney captured the Shore Conference's first ever T of C title.
"Playing with (Antoine and Lewis) every day in practice made me better and it made them better," Sarnor said. "Coming to this school made me a better player."
Miss the all-star action on Thursday night? Want to re-watch it? Check out the replay of the boys Senior All-Star Game and I'm Possible Slam Dunk Contest below.


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I came across this recipe via my facebook news feed when someone posted it.
In a microwave safe 2 quart bowl, heat chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk, on high for 1 minute.
Remove from microwave. Let sit for 1 minute, then stir to combine. If needed, heat an additional 30 seconds. Stir until chips are completely melted and chocolate is smooth.
As well as making Scrabble Art Frames for friends & family, I was asked if I could make a Family Tree.
My first attempt with painting it was awful and no way was I happy. So I got some spray paint and Tadah much more happier with this now.
It can be time consuming making these crafts but I enjoy doing them.
I have never been brave enough to make this but doesn't it look delicious ?
Even the colours look vibrant.
I always struggle with colours when baking so tend not to try anything adventurous like this.
I first made these at Christmas time and pretty much been making these at least once a month since, thanks to family members always asking me for these.
I have never had a Millies Cookie before but was very surprised when i was told mine were better than the shop ones !
So many variations can be used for these but batches of choc chip & smarties ( not together ) seem to be very popular in my house.
Recipe is so simple and i did find i had to cook then for 20 minutes not 7- 10 as stated in recipe and i make way more than 17 each time.
Give them a go !
Remember my previous blog post Wish Jars where i mentioned using an old candle jar ?
I just remembered that they have other uses !
Can I just say ……before anyone slates Andy Murray they do well to remember what he has achieved as a BRITISH player and it will be a long time until it happens again.


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L'Dor V'Dor? Intergenerational Equity, Climate and the Jews
By David Krantz
NEW YORK (Nov. 14, 2013) — The Public Trust Doctrine — which dates back to Roman times and is incorporated today into U.S. law — recognizes that some natural resources, such as the air we breathe and the water we drink, are for the greater public's good and that it is the government's responsibility to protect these resources for both current as well as future generations. It's also reflective of several Jewish biblical principles.
In the book of Genesis (2:15), we are commanded to be stewards of all Creation. In the book of Leviticus (19:16), we are instructed not to stand idly by as atrocities occur. And in the book of Deuteronomy (30:19), we are told to live so that our children should live. These lead to principles of environmentalism, social action and protection of intergenerational equity. Scientifically, when we pollute the air we breathe, we pollute ourselves. But Jewishly, from the Torah's perspective, when we burn too many fossil fuels, we are stealing from future generations. Our collective carbon overconsumption steals fresh air, clean water and a stable climate from future generations. And if we do not change and do not say anything about it — if we stand idly by — then we are doubly guilty.
With that in mind, the Green Zionist Alliance this week joined five other faith-based environmental organizations, including GZA partner Interfaith Moral Action on Climate, in filing a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in what's known as the "Our Children's Trust" case. Five young people are suing the U.S. government for being in violation of the public-trust doctrine. In essence, they are calling out the United States for failing to protect our natural resources — the air, water and land that the generations of tomorrow will inherit from the generations of today — by not enacting policies to abate climate change.
They are not alone. Recently, thousands of young people from across the country traveled to Pittsburgh for the Powershift conference, frustrated with the thought of inheriting a broken climate and wanting to do something about it. And students are calling on their university leadership to dump fossil-fuel stocks and invest in renewable energy instead.
Youth of today are not standing idly by and as Jews we cannot either. Join the Green Zionist Alliance in fighting against climate change and fighting for smart climate policy. As much as climate change threatens the United States, it threatens Israel even more, and it threatens all of Creation. Tell the leaders in your Jewish community that they should be investing in the stocks of renewable-energy companies instead of continuing to support fossil-fuel firms. And call your government representatives and tell them: Stop stealing from future generations. Take responsibility for what we are doing to the Earth. And start being stewards of Creation. L'dor v'dor — from generation to generation.
Click here to download the brief of faith groups as amici curiae in the Our Children's Trust case.
Click here to download the brief of leading scientists as amici curiae in the Our Children's Trust case.
Click here to download the opening brief of the youth plaintiffs in the Our Children's Trust case.
David Krantz is the president and chairperson of Aytzim: Ecological Judaism.
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Tenagomysis tanzaniana is een aasgarnalensoort uit de familie van de Mysidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1975 door Bacescu.

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Q: Apache PDFBox - Difference among PDFont types I started recently to use PDFBox to process some PDF files. I loaded successfully the Roboto font, however, I don't understand the difference between PDType0Font, PDType1Font and PDTrueTypeFont. Which one is better to use?
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A: If you want to use the standard 14 fonts (times, helvetica, courier, symbol, zapf dingbats) => use PDType1Font.HELVETICA etc. (Only WinAnsiEncoding supported)
If you have type1 fonts on your computer and want to use these => use the PDType1Font constructor.
If you want to use TrueType fonts in an inefficient way (only 256 glyphs, no subsetting) => use PDTrueTypeFont.load().
If you want to use TrueType fonts in an efficient way (more than 256 glyphs, subsetting) => use PDType0Font.load(). You can and should use the same font object for the whole PDF, i.e. don't create a new PDFont object for each page.
If you want to use TrueType collections, do this:
TrueTypeCollection ttc = new TrueTypeCollection(new File("C:/windows/fonts/mingliu.ttc"));
PDFont font = PDType0Font.load(doc, ttc.getFontByName("MingLiU"));
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ttc.close(); // only after PDF has been saved


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Great Read: At Bela and Martha Karolyi's retreat, gymnastics charges ahead
Members of the U.S. national women's gymnastics team and invited guests take part in a training session at Karolyi Ranch. (J. Patric Schneider / For The Times)
Bela, left, and Martha Karolyi pose outside their ranch and U.S. Olympic gymnastics training site in New Waverly, Texas. (J. Patric Schneider / For The Times)
U.S. Olympic gold medalists Gabrielle Douglas and MacKayla Maroney are among the gymnasts who have named bricks at the U.S. gymnastics walk of fame at Karolyi Ranch. (J. Patric Schneider / For The Times)
U.S. Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas smiles during a workout session at Karolyi Ranch. (J. Patric Schneider / For The Times)
U.S. gymnastics team coordinator Martha Karolyi, right, talks with gymnast McKenna Kelley during a training session at Karolyi Ranch. (J. Patric Schneider / For The Times)
U.S. Olympic gold medalist talks while stretching before her workout at Karolyi Ranch. (J. Patric Schneider / For The Times)
U.S. gymnastics team coordinator Martha Karolyi watches U.S. national women's gymnastics team members and invited guests stretch before a training session at Karolyi Ranch. (J. Patric Schneider / For The Times)
U.S. gymnastics team coordinator Martha Karolyi talks to members of the U.S. National Gymnastic team and invited guests during at workout session at Karolyi Ranch. (J. Patric Schneider / For The Times)
U.S. Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas, center, and other members of the U.S. national women's gymnastics team warm up before a training session at Karolyi Ranch. (J. Patric Schneider / For The Times)
Members of the U.S. national women's gymnastics team warm up before a workout session at Karolyi Ranch. (J. Patric Schneider / For The Times)
U.S. gold medalist Kyla Ross performs during a training session at Karolyi Ranch. (J. Patric Schneider / For The Times)
U.S. junior national gymnast Norah Flatley practices on the balance beam during a training session Karolyi Ranch. (J. Patric Schneider / For The Times)
U.S. Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas takes part in a recent workout session at Karolyi Ranch. (J. Patric Schneider / For The Times)
Gymnastics coach Chris Burdette assists gymnast Veronica Hults on the uneven bars during a training session at Karolyi Ranch. (J. Patric Schneider / For The Times)
Gymnast Amelia Hundley performs on the balance beam in front of coaches Kim Zmeskal-Burdette, left, and Mary Lee Tracy during a training session at Karolyi Ranch. (J. Patric Schneider / For The Times)
By David WhartonStaff Writer
Reporting from the Sam Houston National Forest —
Afternoon descends on the piney woods of East Texas with a heat that clings to your skin, the air so thick you have to work at drawing a full breath.
Not that the owner of the Karolyi Ranch seems to mind as he bounces along in a utility vehicle that looks like a supercharged golf cart, its knobby tires encrusted with mud.
Bela Karolyi steers toward a sparkling body of water just beyond the trees and launches into a story about how he dug the lake himself, learning to drive a bulldozer and pushing dirt for six months.
"I'm good at it," he says. "I love it."
Every bit the gentleman rancher in khaki pants and a red-checked shirt, Bela stops at the shore. Catfish — fat and black, as long as a man's arm — gather near the surface to gobble chunks of homemade sausage he feeds them as treats.
"Hey, guys," he says. "Big suckers."
Much of the world remembers this man as the Romanian gymnastics coach who guided Nadia Comaneci to a perfect 10 at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. After his defection to the U.S., he molded a new generation of American stars that included Mary Lou Retton, Kim Zmeskal and Kerri Strug.
His voice remains strong, his words still full of gravel, but age has turned that bushy mustache to white. In recent years, Bela has traded Olympic glory for another sort of passion.
"We're in the boonies," he says gleefully. "The middle of Mother Nature."
Down by the front gate, a large, blockish building stands out amid the pines. This is where Martha Karolyi — the other half of the famed coaching duo — spends her days.
Beneath the shine of electric lights. Insulated from the wilderness by a steady blast of air conditioning.
"I'm a city girl," she says.
The life her husband has fashioned for them as they enter their 70s still prompts an occasional frown. She sees him checking miles of fence each morning to be sure his beloved red deer — he breeds them — remain safe from coyotes. She listens to his plans for adding another cabin or barn to a patchwork complex on 2,000 acres.
"We used to have a big house in Houston," she says. "In a nice subdivision."
The cavernous gymnasium is her refuge. It gives Martha a chance to keep nurturing girls and young women who travel miles of country road to learn from a legend.
On this day, dozens of the top females in the nation — including Gabby Douglas and Kyla Ross, both from the gold-medal U.S. team in the 2012 London Olympics — have arrived for training camp. The Americans are preparing for a string of major competitions including the P&G Gymnastics Championships, which start Thursday in Pittsburgh.
They know to begin practice by arranging themselves according to height. Martha walks down the line, inspecting their posture.
"Make sure the shoulders are not stiff," she barks.
Three decades have passed since the Karolyis grew weary of the Communist-run sports machine, and slipped away from the Romanian team in New York City to request asylum.
Though they faced a wide-open future, Martha could not have imagined ending up in a place like this.
Their life in America began in 1982 when acquaintances provided the financial backing to open a gym in Houston. Retton became the first big star, followed by half a dozen others.
Moving to Texas gave Bela an opportunity to pursue his love of the outdoors and someone suggested that he try hunting in the Sam Houston National Forest.
On a typically humid Gulf day, he and some friends got lost tracking deer. They wandered out of the trees to a trail where a man drove by in a horse-drawn carriage.
"An old guy," Bela says. "We became very good friends."
In the months that followed, Bela's new acquaintance showed him around the forest. They passed tattered fences that bordered private plots long since abandoned. It took some rummaging through records at the county courthouse to locate the owners.
"You could buy the properties cheap," Bela says. "I find one and another and another."
His holdings grew to 14 parcels scattered over many miles. Suspecting that federal authorities weren't pleased about private land interrupting their vast public reserve, he proposed a swap.
The government agreed, he says, giving him all that contiguous acreage near New Waverly, a town about 60 miles north of Houston. Bela recalls: "I wanted a retreat for me and my family."
First came the house.
Bela transformed a log cabin into something his wife might like with an updated kitchen and a place for grandchildren to sleep. A new family room proved troublesome as the roof kept collapsing.
"I never built anything before," he says. "I make a lot of mistakes."
Basic remodeling wasn't enough for Martha. She wanted more.
An old barn was converted into the gymnasium; with subsequent additions, it grew as large as an aircraft hangar filled with padded floors, balance beams and uneven bars.
The couple began holding camps there in 1984, gradually shifting their business from Houston, but more than a decade passed before Martha agreed to close the city gym and move to the country. In 1999, with the American team struggling, USA Gymnastics named Bela the national program coordinator and made the ranch a focal point for training.
"As a gymnast, you hoped to be asked out there," recalls Zmeskal, who now goes by her married name, Zmeskal-Burdette. "It was an honor."
The Karolyis forged a system based loosely on the centralized Communist model. Athletes continued working with personal coaches but visited Texas for periodic guidance.
Some coaches resisted the change and some athletes bridled at the workload, claiming Bela pushed them to injury. After a year or so, he says, "I had to step out. They had to elect someone they trusted."
That someone was Martha, whose style was, as she puts it, "a little more diplomatic."
The couple had reached equilibrium: Martha could remain devoted to gymnastics, showing up for practices with manicured nails and coiffed hair, while her husband could spend his time outdoors with hammers and bulldozers.
Talking about the ranch, Bela feigns weariness — "Always there is work" — but soon grows excited, his voice rising.
"Look over here," he says. "I'm planting trees."
Cabins with rustic wood siding dot the property, as do dorms that resemble roadside motels. Bela builds almost everything himself, enlisting the help of neighbors.
Beside the lake stands a lodge decorated with overstuffed couches, a billiard table and trophies — the heads of elk, impala, gnu and Cape buffalo — from his many expeditions. He says: "This is where I'm cooking hunting stews. My specialty."
At one point, he cleared space for two large fields and opened a soccer camp. When the first group arrived, boys crawled atop hay bales in his new barn to sneak cigarettes and accidentally started a fire.
The grass on those fields now grows tall, serving as a pasture for Bela's horses, miniature donkeys and camels.
"No more soccer players," he says.
A smack reverberates through the gym as the reigning all-around world champion, Simone Biles, sticks a dismount off the uneven bars. Martha pauses from her incessant circling to suggest the routine needs more energy.
When Douglas springs off a vault and lands awkwardly on her back, the coach tells her: "Precise and clean."
Though Bela often stops by the gym — he visits with campers and serves as a confidant in national team matters — there is so much else for him to do.
Peacocks run screeching across the property in the late afternoon while guinea fowl wobble about, picking bugs from the ground. Llamas find shade under a tree.
Turkeys, pigeons and rabbits live beside a lush vegetable garden. The dog pens near the house hold German shorthaired pointers, cocker spaniels, Hungarian Pulik and a wirehaired dachshund.
"Look at the baby," Bela coos, calling to an unsteady kid among his goat herd. "Tell me what's the problem."
Back in the house, he entertains guests by cooking a pheasant he shot and pouring endless glasses of palinka, which he calls "Hungarian moonshine."
The clear liqueur is made by slipping an empty bottle over a fruit tree branch and waiting for the bud — a pear, in this case — to grow inside. Next comes the fermentation process, the result tasting something like gasoline.
"Good," Bela says. "Right?"
Another project has sprung up in his head. The next morning, he announces his intention to expand the dining hall, moving the walls to accommodate more tables and chairs.
When Martha hears this, she winces. How long can he possibly keep tinkering with this ranch of his?
"Hoo," he says, grinning again. "Forever."
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Record-holding goaltender Lovisa Selander talks childhood, goals
By Namish Gali February 27, 2019
Lovisa Selander—a senior studying Chemical Engineering, and captain and goaltender for RPI's women's Ice Hockey team—has recently broken the record for women's hockey NCAA Division I career saves, with a total of over 3,800 for her collegiate career. I interviewed her to find out more about her journey and what it was like breaking this record.
GALI: You're originally from Sweden, what made you come to an American college to play hockey and pursue a bachelor's degree?
SELANDER: At home we don't have school sports, so it's hard to play hockey and get an engineering degree. My older brother went to school in Iowa—he played golf at Mount Mercy University—and really enjoyed his experience. So it was something that I also wanted to try.
GALI: When you went into the match against Harvard University, did you know you were about to break a record?
SELANDER: Yeah, there was a lot of attention around it and I kind of heard about the buzz and saw the countdown. But it wasn't something I was really focusing on, I just wanted to stop some pucks and play a good game. But as it was getting closer and closer I could see a lot of old alumni behind the net and it was a lot of fun seeing them there. It wasn't a part of my focus for the season, but it was a cool record to break.
GALI: What did it feel like when you broke this record? How long did it take for the realization to sink in?
SELANDER: I don't really think it's sunken in yet. I think that's something that'll happen when I quit hockey and look back on my career. But for now, I think the next game and how we play is so much more important than getting a record.
GALI: Still, you are pretty famous. And you've also been named as a Top ten finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, and could possibly be named the best player in the NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey this year. How does that feel?
SELANDER: I think it's always nice to get the recognition but that's not what you do it for. I think it's huge for us as a team and for us as a program that this is getting a lot of attention now, but I don't really thrive on personal attention: I just do it for the team and for my teammates and coaches.
GALI: As a child, when did you first realize that you had a love for this sport?
SELANDER: I was really young actually. My older brothers, Jacob and Oscar, started playing hockey and I think I immediately got pretty jealous. I got to start practicing with Oscar, and then just quickly fell in love with the sport. I think I've been a goalie since I was five or six years old and it came very naturally for me to just end up in this sport.
GALI: What was your worst moment when playing hockey? In those moments did you ever imagine the position you'd be in today?
SELANDER: I mean, as a goalie you've [sic] definitely had some hard bounces and tough games. As a kid, you let in some stupid goals and even now in college, just a few games ago, I messed up and the puck ended up in our goal. So you've [sic] just got to let those moments go. It was just a dream of mine, ever since I was a kid, to be the best goalie I could possibly be. My family is very competitive and loves sports, and their support helped me push past the hard times.
GALI: Who or what was your biggest inspiration?
SELANDER: My biggest inspiration was definitely the 2006 Olympics when Sweden won gold for Men's Ice Hockey and silver for the Women's. Henrik Lundqvist and Kim Martin [Hasson] were my biggest idols growing up; they were the best goalie's I knew. Having goalie's like that to look up to was amazing as a little kid. And now to step into their shoes—I mean I got to play for the [Swedish] national team—and getting up to that level has been so incredible.
GALI: On the subject of playing for Sweden's national team, how did it feel to first get the news that you were going to be playing for them?
SELANDER: It was really amazing, a dream come true. To get to take that step into international hockey was so incredible. Getting to play against Canada in Canada was just the most fun ever, and even though we didn't win the game, it was so much fun to get to wear that jersey on my back.
GALI: You major in Chemical Engineering and have a stellar GPA that's far above the average at RPI. How do you do it?
SELANDER: For me, I was given this incredible opportunity to come here on a full scholarship, and after getting that support, I think it's the least I can do to give my absolute best in both hockey and school. Having the structure of hockey in school also has helped me, because I have to be very structured and plan ahead for meetings and when I have time to study. My classmates have been so helpful when I need it, and my lab groups understand when I can't make some of the meetings or we have to reschedule things due to hockey. I just want to give back to the opportunity I was given.
GALI: What advice would you give to an average RPI student who struggles with time management?
SELANDER: I think the most important thing for me is to have my planner and know when the due dates are so I can plan ahead. So if something's due on Thursday, I'll probably want to do it by Tuesday in case I get into trouble. A huge thing for me this year has been trying to get eight hours of sleep every night. Going to bed at ten and waking up at eight, getting on a schedule that works for your body, and making sure you eat and sleep right is so important for your brain.
GALI: Do you feel any different after breaking this record? Do other people treat you differently?
SELANDER: There's definitely been a lot of interviews and some media attention that's been a bit different for me since I'm usually pretty shy. It wasn't my goal for this season, so it hasn't affected me too much, and my friends and family make sure I stay grounded.
GALI: What do you see for yourself in the future, professional ice hockey? And what's the next milestone you want to achieve?
SELANDER: I got drafted to play in Boston, so now I'm trying to apply to jobs in Boston and do both engineering and play professionally for at least a couple more years. My biggest dream is to go to the Olympics. My plan for now is three more years of hockey, and I'll see where it leads me.
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Ohio library can't block religious group's meeting
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal judge ruled yesterday that a central Ohio library can't stop a conservative Christian activist group from holding a meeting with religious aspects inside a library meeting room.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge George C. Smith permanently prohibits Upper Arlington Public Library near Columbus from excluding activities it deems are "inherent elements of a religious service" or elements that are "quintessentially religious." He said in the ruling that his finding in favor of Cincinnati-based Citizens for Community Values was a narrow one and that the group would be harmed by not being allowed to hold its meeting at the library.
The judge's conclusion expressed no opinion on the constitutionality of the library's policy of precluding religious services.
The court also noted that the library would not be significantly harmed if the meeting were held and that even minimal infringement of First Amendment rights can be damaging.
Citizens for Community Values, which spearheaded the 2004 amendment that bans gay marriages in Ohio, was told by Library Director Ann Moore that it could not hold the meeting if it included religious elements, according to the lawsuit.
The canceled library meeting was part of a "Politics and the Pulpit" discussion planned by CCV. It was to include a discussion of politics and religion, as well as a "prayer petitioning God for guidance in the church's proper role in the political process" and "singing praise and giving thanks to God," according to the lawsuit.
Library officials said praying and singing are elements of a religious service, which is not allowed under library policy. Moore did not reply to a message requesting comment in time for this story.
Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed suit on behalf of CCV against the Upper Arlington Public Library Board of Trustees on March 7.
"Christian groups shouldn't be discriminated against for their beliefs, and we are pleased with the court's recognition of that," said ADF Legal Counsel Tim Chandler.
The group also filed a federal lawsuit in June for CCV against Union Township, east of Cincinnati, saying it refused to allow the group to use its civic center for a "Politics and the Pulpit" seminar. The township restricts meetings with religious elements in public buildings, and CCV was told the meeting could violate "separation of church and state," according to that lawsuit.
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