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On This Day – Drivetime – 27.2.1890 – Needham – Kerrigan fight a draw over 100 rounds
Posted on February 28, 2015 by Myles Dungan
Perhaps the most celebrated boxer to come out of San Francisco was the son of an Irish emigrant. James J. Corbett, better known as, Gentleman Jim, was born in 1866, fought 24 professional bouts and defeated the great John L.Sullivan to become world heavyweight champion. His father was from Mayo, his uncle, who shared his name, was a parish priest in the county. But while Corbett may have been the greatest Irish-American boxing champion to emerge from the city, the greatest, and indeed the longest, fight involved another Irish American Danny Needham.
Needham was born in St.Paul Minnesota a year after Corbett. He was one of four brothers constantly in trouble with the law until he found his natural home in the ring, fighting as a lightweight. The 1880s had seen the establishment of Queensbury rules but professional boxing then was very different to the sport as practised today. Most fighters wore 2 ounce gloves – four ounce gloves were scathingly referred to as 'pillows'. Today boxers wear gloves weighing 8-10 ounces. In most cases there was no limit to the number of three minute rounds that could be fought. Boxers generally agreed to keep going until one or other was knocked out or threw in the towel. The sport in America was dominated by men with names like Paddy Duffy Dan Murphy, Charlie Gleason, Charlie "Bull" McCarthy & Jack McGinty as well as Sullivan and Corbett. It was a very Irish sport and a very Irish route out of poverty.
Danny Needham was a colourful character, to say the least. He had a reputation for involvement in petty theft when he wasn't in training and always carried a revolver with him. In 1890 he was persuaded by his manager to move up a weight division to welter and to try his luck in San Francisco. There he encountered the Scotch-Irish boxer Patsy Kerrigan. Needham was conceding 6 pounds to Kerrigan. The fight turned into an epic – the War and Peace of professional boxing, although there wasn't a lot of peace in evidence.
The bout began shortly after 8.30 in the evening in front of an enthusiastic crowd. It ended six hours and 39 minutes later after 100 rounds, the second longest bout in pugilistic history. The longest, 111 rounds, came three years later between Andy Bowen and Jack Burke in New Orleans. According to one newspaper report 'Needham was pushed down three times in the fifty-sixth round and four times in the seventieth, but he arose and fought on desperately,"
Neither boxer laid a glove on his opponent in the final 11 rounds, both were so exhausted they simply stalked each other around the ring feinting from time to time. Eventually the referee called it a draw at 3.15 a.m. Some of the spectators had actually left the arena and returned a number of hours later to discover, to their surprise, that both fighters were still on their feet.
Later in life Needham went prospecting in Alaska, attempted to murder a man stalking his wife and was jailed for armed robbery in 1899. He died at the age of 55 after having spent the last two years of his life in a mental institution.
Danny Needham and Patsy Kerrigan eventually fought each other to a standstill in San Francisco in one of only two boxing contests to go over 100 rounds 125 years ago on this day.
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Declan O'Rourke concert for Gallipoli100, Kells, Co.Meath 25 April 2015
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ON THIS DAY – DRIVETIME – 20 FEBRUARY, 1794 – Birth of William Carleton
One of the great Irish writers of the 19th century, William Carleton, was an author who made a huge impression early on in his career and is still most famous for the first book he ever published. Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry came out when he was in his early thirties. To literate Dubliners Carleton was a Protestant writer whose full-time job was as a clerk in the Church of Ireland Sunday School office. He was noted for his satiric takes on certain Roman Catholic rituals like penitential pilgrimages to Lough Derg. By the 1830s Carleton was a well regarded middle class Protestant writer with an eye for detail and dialogue who had managed to capture perfectly the vagaries, eccentricities and violence of the Irish Catholic peasant.
Which is why Carleton's real background is doubly interesting. He was born into Catholic peasant stock in Co.Tyrone in 1794. He received much of his education in a variety of local 'hedge schools', informal educational establishments in the era prior to organized primary education. His early life was far from unproblematic. His family was evicted from their small-holding in 1813. Carleton himself, despite his later impeccable Protestant respectability, had at one time been a member of a local agrarian secret society. When his academic abilities had been noted he had also been aimed at the priesthood. But Carleton made his own choices rather than follow the road laid down for him by birth, tradition, and the will of others. If we are to believe the story 'The Poor Scholar' he reacted against the idea of the priesthood after being discouraged by a portentous dream
He left Tyrone in 1817 and worked as a hedge schoolmaster himself for a time before trying his luck in Dublin. He had little more than half a crown in his pocket. His luck held, he made some opportunistic adjustments to his life and prospered for a while. Though he had some early failures. He sought to join the army, for example, but it was suggested to him by a regimental Colonel that such a life might not be the best one for him. He had made his application in Latin.
Carleton has given us characters like Willie Reilly and his dear Colleen Bawn and the Squanders of Castle Squander while also writing a fictionalized but searing account of the Great Famine, The Black Prophet, published in the dark year of 1847.
Never a man given to political consistency he once offered to British Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel to link Daniel O'Connell to agrarian crime but still managed to befriend the romantic nationalists of Young Ireland and contribute to their newspaper The Nation. Despite, or perhaps because of, his own Catholic birth, his writing on the subject of religion and politics, was virulently anti-Roman.
He died in 1869, the year William Gladstone dis-established the Church which he had joined in the 1820s.
Never good with money he had relied in the twilight of his life on a government pension after a successful petition from a wide range of Irish political and religious figures, including the the fiery Belfast Protestant evangelical preacher Dr.Harold Cooke and the President of the Roman Catholic seminary at Maynooth College.
Carleton never quite extracted his foot entirely from the camp into which he was born, in Clogher, Co.Tyrone 219 years ago, on this day.
On This Day – Drivetime – 13.2.1820 – Death of the informer Leonard McNally
There are spies, there are informers, there are traitors, and then there is Leonard McNally. He was one of the most effective and enduring British spies in the ranks of an Irish revolutionary organisation. The unlucky, or careless, rebels were the United Irishmen, the men of 1798.
McNally, a barrister and playwright, was actually a prominent and radical member of the United Irishmen. He was eager for the organisation to accept military assistance from revolutionary France. But when William Jackson, an agent of the French government, was arrested in Ireland in 1794, McNally, rather than wait to be shopped for treason by Jackson, took a more pro-active course and offered his services to the Crown in exchange for not being hanged, drawn and quartered. Given what actually happens to someone who is hanged drawn and quartered he might well be forgiven for this initial capitulation. But the fact that he was still providing intelligence to Dublin Castle a quarter of a century later suggests that it had become more about remuneration than self-preservation.
After the 1798 rebellion McNally defended many United Irishmen charged with involvement in the abortive insurrection. He didn't win a single case. It could have been because his clients were guilty to begin with, or because he was fiendishly unlucky. But his winless streak was more likely to have been related to the fact that he was passing information on his clients to the prosecution. Not really the done thing for a defence attorney I'm sure you'll agree.
Among the men he defended were William Jackson, Wolfe Tone, Lord Edward Fitzgerald and, in 1803, Robert Emmet. So, were there an Irish Pantheon he would probably have contributed to the presence of about half the occupants. In the case of Emmet he advised the Crown that his client would enter no defence and allow cross examination of no witnesses on his behalf, as long as they did not misrepresent the facts. So the trial would be a walkover for the prosecution and Dublin Castle didn't even have to bother fabricating evidence that might come back to haunt them in court.
After 1803 you'd have thought McNally would have quietly and gracefully retired. But a £200 bonus, on top of his hefty pension of £300, ensured that 'JW', the code name by which he was known to his spymasters, stayed in business until his death in 1820.
In a doubtlessly fruitless effort to mitigate McNally's evil reputation it should be pointed out that he was also a successful playwright and librettist. One of his songs, The Lass of Richmond Hill, became a huge hit in its day, 1789, and a favourite of King George III, the one who had occasional bouts of madness. It was written about McNally's first wife Frances and describes her as 'a rose without a thorn'.
In one of those wonderful ironies for which a fiction writer would be pilloried were it to appear in a novel, a legal treatise, written by McNally the year before his betrayal of Robert Emmet, was pivotal in the definition of the principle of guilt being 'beyond reasonable doubt' before conviction.
His espionage activities did not become apparent until after his death when his son sought to have the payment of his pension continued post mortem. When the Lord Lieutenant inquired as to why a pension had been paid to such an ardent nationalist, the truth began to emerge.
Leonard McNally, barrister, playwright, serial informer and a rose with many thorns, died 195 years ago, on this day.
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On This Day – 6.2.1958 Death of Liam Whelan of Manchester United and Ireland in the Munich Air crash
Posted on February 6, 2015 by Myles Dungan
You are probably not familiar with the name William Augustine Whelan. You may not even be familiar with the name by which he was better known, Liam or Billy Whelan. But he was, and still is, the great 'lost genius' of Irish football. He hated flying, which is ironic, because he is also one of this country's most celebrated air crash victims.
Whelan was born on April Fool's Day 1935 and spent his footballing life making fools of many defenders, amateur and professional alike. Like so many gifted young footballers he played for the great Dublin youth team Home Farm before progressing into the very top of the professional ranks when he was scouted and signed by Manchester United. He was one of the Busby Babes, playing in the position then known as 'inside forward' – today he would be an attacking midfielder. His boss was the great Scottish manager Matt Busby who, in the 1950s, was in the process of assembling a young squad and building them into one of the premier European sides.
Whelan might have expected to serve the sort of long rugged apprenticeship customary for young professional footballers in the 1950s. Lots of boot cleaning and maintenance and the distant hope of making it to the top level. But he actually broke into the United first team at the age of 18 where he was joined two years later by another teenager, from Northumberland, one Robert Charlton.
In his four seasons at Manchester United Whelan made 98 first team appearances. He averaged more than a goal every two games, scoring 52 in all competitions for the club. He played four times for the Republic of Ireland but did not score. He was United's top goal scorer in the 1956/57 season when his team won the old First Division championship. With 26 goals in the League Whelan contributed a quarter of United's total that season.
In the 1957/58 season, as First Division champions, Manchester United became the first English club to play in the European Cup, a competition, up to that point, dominated by Real Madrid but held in low esteem by the English Football Association. They reached the quarter-finals, where in early February, they beat the Yugoslav champions, Red Star Belgrade, the second leg taking place in Serbia. The flight they took back to England stopped off for re-fuelling in Munich. A direct Belgrade to Manchester flight was beyond the range of the Airspeed Ambassador plane in which the team travelled. While the passengers waited in the Munich terminal building snow began to fall heavily. Two take off attempts were aborted. The passengers were asked to disembark while minor repairs were carried out.
Just before the plane took off for the third time Whelan was overheard by one of the other passengers to remark nervously and fatalistically to one of his teammates "Well, if this is the time, then I'm ready." Tragically, it was the time. The Airspeed Ambassador hit slush at the end of the runway, slowing the plane down. It did not now have sufficient speed to take off and skidded through a barrier, collided with a house, breaking in two pieces. 23 of the 44 passengers and crew died, including eight of the 17 Manchester United players on board. Whelan was one of the fatalities.
In 2006 he had a railway bridge named after him in Cabra, not far from Dalymount Park, where he had played with the Irish international team. The unveiling was performed by his teammate and one of the fortunate survivors of the Munich Air disaster, Sir Bobby Charlton, another goalscoring inside forward who lived to realize his potential with World and European Cup medals, 106 caps for his country and the prized Ballon d'Or – world player of the year – in 1966. While Whelan would never have won a World Cup winners medal all the rest that Bobby Charlton achieved was available to him.
Liam Whelan was two months shy of his 23rd birthday when he died, 57 years ago, on this day.
Some American music of the Great War
This is a guide to a small percentage of the music recorded in the USA which was related to the Great War. It is confined to material discussed by historians Glen Gendzel (San Jose State University) and John Borgonovo (University College, Cork) for a segment which did not make it into the final edit of a two part series I have compiled and presented for Lyric FM called 'From Tipperary to Salonika: Ireland the the music of the Great War'. The programmes will be transmitted by Lyric in the Lyric Feature slot at 7.00 pm on Friday 13 February and Friday 20 February. You will be able to 'listen back' to the two broadcast programmes on the Lyric FM website [http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/] and you will also be able to listen to Glen and John talk about songs like I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier, Over there, Stay down here where you belong and many more.
Songs written in opposition to WW1 recruitment were, of their nature (because they were illegal under the Defence of the Realm Act) never published or widely performed in public.
One notable exception to the lack of published anti-recruiting material was, of course, the USA where, before its entry to the war in 1917, there was strong anti-war sentiment, particularly amongst Irish and German Americans.
There was also a vibrant if patchwork 'left' which was opposed to the imperial nature of the conflict. The latter strain was reflected in the tunes recorded in The Little Red Songbook, first produced in Spokane, Washington in 1909 by the Industrial Workers of the World, or the 'Wobblies'. The famous Swedish-American labour activist Joe Hill contributed a number of songs, including an anti-war song Don't take my papa away from me.
Typical of the genre was the song Christians at war by John F.Kendrick published in the March 1916 'Joe Hill Memorial' edition of the Little Red Songbook [Hill had been dubiously convicted of murder in 1915]. It doesn't pull too many punches
Christians at war
Onward, Christian soldiers! Duty's way is plain;
Slay your Christian neighbors, or by them be slain,
Pulpiteers are spouting effervescent swill,
God above is calling you to rob and rape and kill,
All your acts are sanctified by the Lamb on high;
If you love the Holy Ghost, go murder, pray and die.
A rather gentler example of the genre was I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier with lyrics by Alfred Bryan and music by Al Piantadosi, published around the same time. This one centres around the figure of the [potentially] grieving mother.
It begins …
Ten million soldiers to the war have gone
Who may never return again,
Ten million mothers' hearts must break
For the ones who died in vain.
Head bowed down in sorrow
In her lonely years
I hears a mother murmer thro' her tears.
Then the chorus comes in …
I didn't raise my boy to be soldier
I brought him up to be my pride and joy
Who dares to place a musket on his shoulder
To shoot some other mother's darling boy?
Let nations arbitrate their future troubles
It's time to lay the sword and gun away,
There'd be no war today
If mothers all would say:
"I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier."
The response of Theodore Roosevelt to the song was to suggest that the place for women who opposed war was "in China—or by preference in a harem—and not in the United States."
After the US declaration of war in April 1917 the music industry – always quick to change direction and monetise – rapidly brought out songs like I didn't raise my boy to be a coward and I didn't raise my boy to be a slacker
According to the publisher I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier sold 700,000 copies in the first eight weeks of release. The first recording, by Morton Harvey, was coupled with an Irving Berlin song Stay Down Here where you belong which was recorded in an isolationist America in 1915 by Henry Burr
Stay down here where you belong
The lyrics depict a conversation between the devil and his son – the devil urges the son to "stay down here where you belong" because people on Earth do not know right from wrong. His son wants to go 'up above, up above'.
The Devil advises …
[Refrain:]
Stay down here where you belong
The folks who live above you don't know right from wrong
To please their kings they've all gone out to war
And not a one of them knows what he's fighting for
'Way up above they say that I'm a Devil and I'm bad
Kings up there are bigger devils than your dad
When the USA entered the war in April 1917 the song became acutely embarrassing for Berlin
– to Berlin's constant irritation Groucho Marx refused to let Stay down where you belong go away and sang it regularly – according to Groucho, Berlin offered him $100 to stop singing the song – but he was still doing it in the 1970s and it was included on one of his final concert albums An Evening with Groucho[1] – there's also a You Tube clip of him singing it on the Dick Cavett Show in 1971 – with, they both claimed, Irving Berlin watching on TV. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WTkzBRbtZA&feature=kp]
In fairness Groucho was singing it in the 1970s in response to Vietnam not WW1 and said as much on the Cavett show – [where he confirmed the $100 dollar story]
Berlin atoned for Stay down here where you belong in 1918 with God bless America [originally written for military musical Yip Yip Yaphank – Yaphank was in Long Island, site of Camp Upton – a product of Berlin's conscription into the US Army 'Army takes Berlin' was one waggish newspaper headline]–
One of the songs in Yip Yip Yaphank possibly testifies to the greater acceptance of slightly more subversive material in the USA than GB – the show included the song How I hate to get up in the morning.
This included the lyric …
Someday I'm going to murder the bugler
Someday they're going to find him dead
I'll amputate his reveille
And step upon it heavily
And spend the rest of my life in bed
Don't blame the Germans
The thriving US anti-war song genre included Daddy please don't let them shoot you, Don't take my darling boy away and If they want to fight, all right, but neutral is my middle name.
Perhaps the most interesting of all was Don't blame the Germans written in 1915 by John J.Donahue – a song written by an Irish-American and obviously aimed at his own community and that of ethnic Germans in the USA. The song begins by appealing to the American sense of fair play with a major statistical porkie …
Don't blame the Germans for it isn't right
Remember they are one to five in this gigantic fight
With the Allies all against them, yet they hold their own
It's hard to beat the Germans on the land or on the foam
It continues by appealing to Irish prejudices and to a revisionist trope that had emerged from Germany itself by 1915, the notion of 'perfidious Albion' really being at the heart of the conflict – that England was to blame for the war.
French and Belgians, misled by England's greed
Must very soon surrender for they know they can't succeed
It's a pretty startling form of revisionism which even some German Americans probably realized was an obvious example of special pleading
Needless to say all these songs disappeared in April 1917 – other than Stay down here where you belong but that was thanks to Groucho Marx
[1] Life with Groucho, Arthur Marx, Popular Library Edition, 1960 p. 167
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On This Day – Drivetime – 30 January 1846 – Birth of Katharine O'Shea (Parnell)
To this day she is known as Kitty, though her friends, family and London society in the late 19th century knew her as Katharine, or Kate. Although the name is innocuous today during the Victorian era it was meant to sting – in those times 'kitty' was a euphemism for a prostitute.
She is at the heart of one of the great 'what ifs' of Irish history, as in 'what if Katharine O'Shea and Charles Stewart Parnell had never met?'
But they did. She was the wife, probably estranged, of one of the great Irish chancers of Victorian London, Captain William Henry O'Shea, once a dashing Hussar but more familiar today as a talentless political opportunist. Had O'Shea not been a failed banker he might well have found other ways in which to discommode his native country. As it was it was his failure as a politician that was to have more serious ramifications than his inadequacies as a financier.
In 1880 O'Shea was a rookie Irish MP, Parnell was the new leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party. O'Shea had an attractive wife and he obliged her to make herself useful in the advancement of his political ambitions. She was instructed to invite Parnell to a number of political soirees she organized on her husband's behalf, or, more likely to keep the dodgy O'Shea at a disrtance. He pronounced his name O'Shee by the way, presumably to distinguish him from his common or garden countrymen of the same name. Parnell, however, was not one for the banality of opening invitations, or indeed letters in general, so to press her invitations she went in person. That, according to her own account, was when they fell in love. Parnell didn't leave any account. He was as good at writing letters as he was at opening them.
The relationship blossomed rapidly and soon, they were, in effect, man and wife. She became his 'Queenie', he became her 'King'. O'Shea rarely darkened the door of his wife's boudoir but found out about their trysts rather quickly. He challenged Parnell to a duel but when, to his surprise, the Irish party leader accepted the challenge, the former Hussar backed down. He contented himself thereafter with squeezing every drop of political nectar he could from his wife's lover and partner.
He looked away as the couple had three children together. His incentive, in addition to political advancement, was a hefty share in a large sum of money his estranged wife stood to inherit from an aged aunt. When the elderly lady finally passed on, and he was neatly cut out of the inheritance, he stopped looking away. He sued for divorce, no doubt full of the festive spirit, on Christmas Eve 1889.
The resulting court proceedings destroyed Parnell's career. In the middle of a year of huge controversy in 1891 he only made things worse for himself politically when he married Katharine after the divorce was finalized. Humiliated by a series of futile and debilitating by-election campaigns an exhausted Parnell died in their house in Brighton in October, a month the highly superstitious Parnell always considered ill-starred.
Katharine Parnell, as she now was, then did a great service to a country she had never visited and much of whose population considered her to be a scarlet woman or an English spy who had destroyed their leader. In an act of generosity she waived her right to have Parnell buried in a south of England graveyard where she could join him when her own life ended. Instead she allowed him to be returned to Ireland and interred in Glasnevin cemetery in perhaps the biggest funeral the country had ever seen.
Katharine O'Shea, or Katharine Parnell as she chose to be called, was born five months before her second husband, Charles Stewart Parnell, 169 years ago, on this day.
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Two different views comparing the barren landscape ravaged by fire with scenes showing the growth and colours of the regenerated vegetation.
Cape of Good Hope from Hoek van Bobbejaan.
Nature is amazing, how long between shots?
It will be three years in March and there have been spectacular shows of flowers. Even though this is the second year of drought the fynbos ecosystem is coping well.
At last I can now recollect some of the beautiful places you show us here on your blog, Liz! The richness of the flora on the Cape of Good Hope really is amazing to behold.
So glad that you experienced our Fairest Cape and her floral treasures. Though I do hope that the Cape Doctor behaved!
The regeneration is a joy to see.
It certainly is and the show of flowers has been terrific. Seeing the rare varieties that only bloom after fire has been a treat.
Appreciate your comments Fletcher. Grappling with the effects of climate change and wondering what happens if it's long term. We're so unprepared! The City officials appear to be dragging their feet when it comes to long term solutions.
They have been warned seven years ago already. And taking into account that the population of C T has doubled in the last ten years…..
I remember those predictions…. and the experts saying we need more dams. But hell, the politicians like to ignore such advice to create crisis situations….
Yes please …. pretty please can we have some of your rain. We need a voodoo call down here to send it to us.
It's amazing how healthy and strong the vegetation regrowth comes up. Space competition is fierce, the plants are all packed so tight now.
It been really heartening to see the fynbos regrowth – some spectacular flower blooms too. Thanks for the wishes Gilly…. here's to happy blogging.


BC's » We're Talking Jazz » Drummer's Bytes » This was a fun gig.
Ahaha. At first I'm sitting here and watching and thinking, Wow, there's a guy that looks like Don sitting on the other side of a restaurant booth. What a strange way to set up a band. And the guy is moving right along to what Don is doing, too. Really getting into it.
Asaph wrote: Ahaha. At first I'm sitting here and watching and thinking, Wow, there's a guy that looks like Don sitting on the other side of a restaurant booth. What a strange way to set up a band. And the guy is moving right along to what Don is doing, too. Really getting into it.
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This is an updated version of the previous Cupcakes recipe I had that I am very lucky to be able to share - these are delicious and were a staple in my friend Kacy's very successful cake business. I am making cupcakes a lot these days and have not been satisfied with previous recipes as they still seem a bit dry etc. These have the perfect ratio of ingredients that mean they never fail, and I love the amount of vanilla. They are buttery, melt in the mouth.
It is all about the icing with cupcakes, as you expect that fun quiff on top, so whip it up as fluffy as you can. Instead of food colouring I like to add a splash of water to 1/4 cup of berries (raspberries are my favourite) in a small pan and cook gently til it all softens and mingles together and then push the bright pink juice through a small strainer straight into the icing mix to take out the pips etc.
They freeze well so are perfect for large birthday parties or events involving large numbers of guests - the more you can prepare in advance the better, and they don't need plates!
Recipe provided by Kacy Grainger. Icing narrative by Iain Dawson.
Cream the butter and sugar in a bowl with an electric mixer until the mixture is light and creamy. Add the eggs one at a time and beat well between each. Add the vanilla. Sift the flour and baking powder then add them to the bowl and beat until just combined. Fold through the milk and spoon the mixture into 24 muffin pans lined with patty cases, 3/4 full.
Bake for 18-20 minutes then turn out onto cooling rack.
Icing - by Iain Dawson - too funny not to quote!
Place butter in a bowl and beat well until it is as white as possible, add half the sugar and gradually add the milk to the bowl and beat well, add the remaining sugar and then any colouring or vanilla you like - "preferably with an electric mixer, but for those without a whisk will do well if you go to the gym for a week in preparation (!) Add loads of icing sugar til it's just thick enough to be scary. Add a few drops of colour – a very rich pink can be achieved by dumping a tablespoonful of the colour in! Wait til the cakes are super cool and then ice them – otherwise the icing melts a bit and looks terrible. The best method for seamless icing is to get a big dollop of it on a spoon or such and dump it on top in the middle then pat until it spreads under gravity – this also leaves a jaunty quiff that just screams Simone Logue............" - Iain Dawson.
TasteTip - There are four basic cake-making methods - 'whisking', 'creaming', 'rubbing in' and 'melting'. They produce cakes as varied as the Savoy sponge (Biscuit de Savoie - an 18th century sponge cake), the Victoria sandwich (perfect party cake), rock cakes (bite-sized cakes) and the parkin (soft cake traditionally made of oatmeal and molasses served on Guy Fawke's night), respectively. Noone actually knows how the 'creaming' method evolved but interestingly it is the reverse of bread-making where you add flour to fat (creaming) rather than fat added to flour (bread-making).


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Hansjörg Pauli (* 14. März 1931 in Winterthur; † 15. Februar 2007 in Locarno) war ein Schweizer Musikwissenschaftler und Schriftsteller. Er ist der Verfasser mehrerer musikwissenschaftlicher Aufsätze und Bücher sowie eines sehr bekannten Erklärungsansatzes zur Funktion von Filmmusik, welcher noch heute im Musikunterricht der allgemeinbildenden Schulen gelehrt wird, obgleich der Autor ihn 1994 wieder verwarf.

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Pauli studierte am Konservatorium Winterthur (heute: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste) und erhielt 1957–58 Privatunterricht bei Hans Keller (1919–1985). In den fünfziger Jahren war Pauli ausserdem als Jazzpianist und Musikkritiker beim Neuen Winterthurer Abendblatt tätig. Ab 1960 war er zunächst als Redakteur bei Radio Beromünster und, 1965–1968 beim Norddeutschen Rundfunk in Hamburg als Leiter der Abteilung Musik tätig.
1987 promovierte Pauli an der Universität Osnabrück.

Erklärungsmodell zur Wirkung von Filmmusik
In seinem 1978 veröffentlichten Erklärungsmodell zur Wirkungsweise von Filmmusik setzt Pauli Bild und Musik einer Szene funktional in Beziehung. Er benennt drei "Typen" von Filmmusik: die Paraphrasierung, die Kontrapunktierung und die Polarisierung.

Paraphrasierende Filmmusik stimmt in ihrer assoziativen und/oder emotionalen Wirkung mit den Inhalten des Filmbilds überein. Zu ihr zählt unter anderem die Technik des Mickey Mousing, eine Kompositionstechnik der Filmmusik, die, wie der Name bereits andeutet, häufig bei Cartoons angewendet wird. Sie beinhaltet eine direkte akustische Nachbildung der auf dem Filmbild befindlichen Bewegung. Eines der bekanntesten Beispiele für diese Technik, bzw. für die Technik des Underscorings im Allgemeinen, ist Max Steiners Filmmusik zum 1933 gedrehten Spielfilm King Kong und die weiße Frau.

Kontrapunktierende Filmmusik erzeugt einen Kontrast zur durch die Filmbilder erzeugten Stimmung. Ein sehr typisches Beispiel hierfür ist eine Sequenz aus dem 1987 erschienenen Spielfilm Good Morning, Vietnam, in der zu Bildern von Krieg und Zerstörung das von Louis Armstrong gesungene Lied What a Wonderful World (1968) gespielt wird.

Polarisierende Filmmusik schafft eine emotionale Referenz für ein inhaltlich (mehr oder weniger) neutrales Bild. Sie existiert also um Assoziationen zu erzeugen oder Gefühle zu wecken, wo das Filmbild allein dies nicht oder nur bedingt tun würde.

Bücher

 Filmmusik: Stummfilm. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-129-36310-6
 Für wen komponieren Sie eigentlich? Fischer 1982, ISBN 3-100-60601-9
 Stanley Kubrick. Carl Hanser, 1989, ISBN 3-446-12639-2
 Filmmusik. Ein historisch-kritischer Abriß. In:  H.-Chr. Schmidt (Hrsg.): Musik in den Massenmedien Rundfunk und Fernsehen. Perspektiven und Materialien. Schott, Mainz 1976, S. 91–119. ISBN 3-7957-2611-5
 Funktionen von Filmmusik. In: Helga de la Motte-Haber (Hrsg.): Film und Musik. Schott, Mainz 1993
 Hermann Scherchen 1891-1966. Kommissionsverlag Hug & Co., Zürich 1993 (Neujahrsblatt der Allgemeinen Musikgesellschaft Zürich, Bd. 177)

Artikel
 Auf dem Threni von Strawinsky. In: Tempo. Neue Reihe, 1958, Nr. 49, S. 16–17 und 21–33
 Hans Werners Henze italienische Musik. Kerbe 1959, Nr. 25
 Vergegenwärtigung der poetischen Absichten für das Gefühl. Über Bernard Herrmanns Musik zum Film "Citizen Kane". In: Hartmut Krones (Hrsg.): Bühne, Film, Raum und Zeit in der Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wiener Schriften zur Stilkunde und Aufführungspraxis, WIEN MODERN 3, Wien/Köln/Weimar 2003

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Deepings Swimming Club quintet compete at Swim England Midland Short Course Championships
By James Bedford
james.bedford@iliffepublishing.co.uk
Published: 08:51, 07 November 2019
Five Deepings Swimming Club swimmers qualified for the Swim England Midland Short Course Championships held in Nottingham last weekend.
Bethany Eagle-Brown, Holly Leggott, Louis Metselaar, Tom Adams and Jake Jungmann competed in 26 events, swam eight short course personal bests, reached three finals and broke one club record.
Podium places were at a premium against the best swimmers of all ages in the midlands region, but 17-year-old Louis swam a new personal best in the 100IM heats to reach the B final, then went even quicker to finish a highly respectable third in the final.
Jake Jungmann, Louis Metselaar, Tom Adams, Bethany Eagle-Brown and Holly Leggott at the Midlands Short Course Championships.
Louis also made the B final in the 50m breaststroke, touching in eighth, and placed inside the top 25 in the 100m breaststroke (20th) and 50m butterfly (22nd), swimming another personal best. He also raced in the 100m butterfly and 50m freestyle.
An excellent swim in the 50m butterfly heats saw 16-year-old Bethany qualify for the B final where she sprinted to a new short course personal best to finish fourth – less than two-tenths off third place.
Bethany also achieved a lifetime best in the 50m backstroke and 50m freestyle during a busy schedule where she competed in seven events, including the 100m freestyle, 100m backstroke, 100IM and 100m butterfly.
Team-mate Holly Leggott, also 16, broke the Deepings club record for the 16yrs 50m backstroke setting a new benchmark of 31.60 to finish 33rd overall.
She also came 33rd in the 100m backstroke, but saved her best result for her final race, coming 30th in the 50m freestyle out of 83 competitors.
Holly also lined up for the 100m freestyle and 100IM and contested close to her top form.
Tom Adams, 17, set a pair of short course personal bests, with excellent swims in the 100m butterfly and 50m breaststroke.
His best result came in the 100IM, finishing 21st, while he also competed in the 50m and 100m freestyle, and 50m and 200m butterfly.
Completing the weekend racing was Jake Jungmann where a strong swim in the 100IM saw the 16-year-old finish 44th overall.
Lynn Chapman, Deepings Swimming Club head coach, said: "This was a tough competition against outstanding swimmers but our squad put together some strong performances to prove they belong at this elite level.
"They showed excellent attitude and were rewarded with a number of decent personal bests."
RESULTS IN FULL
Bethany Eagle-Brown: 100m freestyle 27th; 100m backstroke 34th; 100IM 35th; 50m butterfly 13th, B final 4th; 100m butterfly 22nd; 50m backstroke 41st; 50m freestyle 31st
Holly Leggott: 100m freestyle 43rd; 100m backstroke 33rd; 100IM 60th; 50m backstroke 33rd; 50m freestyle 30th
Louis Metselaar: 100m breaststroke 20th; 100m butterfly 45th; 50m freestyle 62nd; 50m breaststroke 14th, B Final 8th; 100IM 14th, B Final 3rd;50m butterfly 22nd
Tom Adams: 100m butterfly 26th; 50m freestyle 79th; 100m freestyle 46th; 50m breaststroke 25th; 200m butterfly 26th; 100IM 21st; 50m butterfly 60th
Jake Jungmann: 100IM 44th
James Bedford


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The app industry is growing up.
Consumers downloaded 11% more apps on Christmas Day this year than on Dec. 25, 2012, according to data from app analytics group Flurry. While that still makes for a record number of downloads, it is markedly slower growth than seen in recent years — an indication that the near-exponential growth of app sales in previous years will most likely never return.
"The slowing growth rates and smaller Christmas Day app download spike signal market maturation," Mary Ellen Gordon, director of industry insight and analytics at Flurry wrote in a blog post. "Fewer people are coming online with mobile for the very first time. Consumers who are on second, third or fourth devices have apps that they like and trust, and while they still download new apps, there isn't much more impetus to do so on Christmas than any other day when they have a little downtime."
The slowing growth of Christmas Day app downloads also indicates a shift in the demographics of new mobile users. Those receiving their first mobile devices now tend to live in countries where Christmas is not a major holiday, meaning they are less likely to contribute to the day's download spike, Gordon notes.
The app market was worth about $53 billion in 2012 and is on pace to balloon to $143 billion by 2016, according to data from market analysis firm VisionMobile. The decline of PC sales and the explosion of mobile device consumption has helped spur growth in the app industry, which has led to jockeying between Apple and Google for control of the market.


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A simple [AWS Lambda](http://aws.amazon.com/lambda) function that demonstrates how to write a skill for the Amazon Echo using the Alexa SDK.

## Concepts
This sample shows how to create a Lambda function for handling Alexa Skill requests that:

- Custom slot type: demonstrates using custom slot types to handle a finite set of known values

## Setup
To run this example skill you need to do two things. The first is to deploy the example code in lambda, and the second is to configure the Alexa skill to use Lambda.

### AWS Lambda Setup
1. Go to the AWS Console and click on the Lambda link. Note: ensure you are in us-east or you wont be able to use Alexa with Lambda.
2. Click on the Create a Lambda Function or Get Started Now button.
3. Skip the blueprint
4. Name the Lambda Function "Minecraft-Helper-Example-Skill".
5. Select the runtime as Java 8
6. Go to the alexa-skills-kit-java/ directory, and run 'mvn assembly:assembly -DdescriptorId=jar-with-dependencies package'. This will generate a zip file named "alexa-skills-kit-samples-1.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar" in the target directory.
7. Select Code entry type as "Upload a .ZIP file" and then upload the "alexa-skills-kit-samples-1.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar" file from the build directory to Lambda
8. Set the Handler as minecrafthelper.MinecraftHelperSpeechletRequestStreamHandler (this refers to the Lambda RequestStreamHandler file in the zip).
9. Create a basic execution role and click create.
10. Leave the Advanced settings as the defaults.
11. Click "Next" and review the settings then click "Create Function"
12. Click the "Event Sources" tab and select "Add event source"
13. Set the Event Source type as Alexa Skills kit and Enable it now. Click Submit.
14. Copy the ARN from the top right to be used later in the Alexa Skill Setup.

### Alexa Skill Setup
1. Go to the [Alexa Console](https://developer.amazon.com/edw/home.html) and click Add a New Skill.
2. Set "MinecraftHelper" as the skill name and "minecraft helper" as the invocation name, this is what is used to activate your skill. For example you would say: "Alexa, Ask minecraft help how to make a door."
3. Select the Lambda ARN for the skill Endpoint and paste the ARN copied from above. Click Next.
4. Copy the custom slot types from the customSlotTypes folder. Each file in the folder represents a new custom slot type. The name of the file is the name of the custom slot type, and the values in the file are the values for the custom slot.
5. Copy the Intent Schema from the included IntentSchema.json.
6. Copy the Sample Utterances from the included SampleUtterances.txt. Click Next.
7. Go back to the skill Information tab and copy the appId. Paste the appId into the MinecraftHelperSpeechletRequestStreamHandler.java file for the variable supportedApplicationIds,
   then update the lambda source zip file with this change and upload to lambda again, this step makes sure the lambda function only serves request from authorized source.
8. You are now able to start testing your sample skill! You should be able to go to the [Echo webpage](http://echo.amazon.com/#skills) and see your skill enabled.
9. In order to test it, try to say some of the Sample Utterances from the Examples section below.
10. Your skill is now saved and once you are finished testing you can continue to publish your skill.

## Examples
### One-shot model:
    User: "Alexa, ask Minecraft Helper how to make paper."
    Alexa: "(reads back recipe for paper)"

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Carillion's UK facilities management contracts to be acquired by BGIS
BGIS, a leading Canadian property management firm, has announced that it is set to take on a large portfolio from Carillion's facilities management busi...
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BGIS, a leading Canadian property management firm, has announced that it is set to take on a large portfolio from Carillion's facilities management business within the UK.
This will see BGIS becoming responsible for the management of a number of buildings including hospitals, schools, justice facilities, transport services and emergency service centres across the UK.
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The Buel spoon
Fishing spoons are concave on one side—curving inward—so they catch water and wobble. How a spoon wobbles depends on its shape and thickness. The deeper the spoon, the wider it wobble in the water. The flatter the spoon, the less it wobbles. And longer spoons wobble more than shorter ones.
The spoon is one of the oldest fishing lures. Nordic people have been making spoon lures since the eighth century and they may have been used way before that. They've been made from iron, bronze, copper and even seashells.
In the United States, Julio Buel re-invented the spoon in 1834. He was eating his lunch in his boat one day and accidentally dropped a spoon overboard. As he watched it sink to the bottom, a huge fish came up and chomped it. He went home and cut the handle off another spoon that he "borrowed" from his mother. Eventually he made more spoons and had it patented.
The first fishing lure I ever owned was a spoon. It was a silver Thomas spoon with a rainbow trout pattern on it. It was 1-1/2 inches long and made to catch trout. They still make the exact same spoon today. It's called a Thomas Buoyant Minnow and it was patented in 1946.
My dad bought that lure for me before opening day of fishing in Massachusetts. He purchased it at an auto supply store called Western Auto, across the street from his office. They had a small fishing section. In fact, they even had some of their own fishing tackle—rods and reels and minnow buckets under the brandname Revelation. My first tackle box was a green Revelation tackle box. They sold toolboxes, too, so I guess it was pretty easy for them to cross over and make tackle boxes. You can still find a lot of Revelation tackle being sold on e-Bay.
In 2020, a company minted a coin that is a replica of the Buel spoon. It has a single hook on it. The silver spoon weighs a half-ounce and the gold spoon weighs a tenth of an ounce. On one side of the spoon it says Legendary Lures with a picture of Julio Buel. On the other side it has a picture of Queen Elizabeth II.
The crazy thing is the promotional video shows a modern-day guy fishing. The value of the silver lure is about $100 and the gold one is $350.
Would you cast a $350 spoon into deep cover or would you be afraid you'd lose it? If I ever owned one, it would remain safety at home. Losing a large fish might give you a bad feeling but nothing like what it would be like to lose a $350 lure!
Tim "Tackle Box" Bete
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Award-winning outdoor writer Tim Bete (pronounced "beet") began his fishing adventures in western Massachusetts and Cape Cod but now lives in Ohio. He is the author of four books, including Guide to Pirate Parenting, which includes sage advice on how to get gum or a giant octopus out of your child's hair and how to convert your minivan into a pirate schooner.
In addition to his books, Tim's writing has appeared in Tenkara Angler magazine, Outdoor Lore, the Christian Science Monitor, Chicken Soup for the Soul anthologies, and many regional magazines and newspapers. He is also creator of the Dink Caster Comic Strip, which follows one man's obsession with fishing.
Tim set the World record for the longest Mad Lib, which as a fishing fanatic was appropriately based on the book Moby Dick. (Tim is well aware that a whale is not a fish but when he created the Mad Lib, the book Old Man and the Sea was not in the public domain and nothing spoils a day of fishing more than an intellectual property lawsuit—so Tim settled for a whale. Old Man and the Sea features a large marlin, which is a fish. A small marlin is also a fish.)
When he's not fishing, Tim's hobbies include pushing his luck and skating on thin ice—although he prefers fishing on thin ice to skating on it.
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When Halloween was approaching, my friend and I decided to go try some spooky fun so we headed to a local cemetery with our cameras, tripods, and a white sheet.
For this image, Deb was under the sheet and I had my camera set to ISO 100, 8 seconds, f/16 and a 3 stop ND filter (it was around 5:45 PM and mostly cloudy). I originally set up without the ND filter, auto-focused on Deb, switched my lens to manual focus (so it wouldn't try to refocus with the ND filter on), and then carefully put the ND filter on the lens. I triggered my camera and counted 4 seconds out loud. At the 4 second mark, Deb ducked down behind the headstone for the last 4 seconds.
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So to sum up my thoughts on the VU filter system. The filters are glass, so you must handle them carefully, if you drop them they will break, while the resin filter made by other companies will just scratch. I mainly use Lee filters (http://www.leefilters.com) which are glass and I am extremely careful not to drop them and so far they have lasted me a couple of years. VU's website is lacking in information on how the holder works, especially using the polarizing filter. The site also is weak on explaining the strengths of their various filters. So learning what the codes means makes it difficult to figure out which filters you would want to have. It is a well made filter system and would make a great addition to someones camera bag. The use of neutral density filters to slow down your shutter speed is great, I love using the square filters, you can take them on and off very quickly, and you will be taking them on and off often, just to recompose the shot. So for me the square filters are the ones I will use all the time. The Vu Filters are good, I still prefer the Lee Filter system, which I will review over the winter. Both systems are good and fill a need, you must ultimately decide which would work out better for you.


It is our utmost pleasure to announce the new National Coordinator of Understanding Europe Italy: Daniela Cappuccio!
Daniela joined the team in 2016 and has been working tirelessly on the project ever since.
We would also like to thank Alice Leone for the dedication and the effort she put in Understanding Europe in the past and wish her the best for the future.
This new adventure has began! Since yesterday our future Head Trainers of Understanding Europe Daniela Cappuccio and Elisa Cappa Bava are working in Berlin to implement even more this project, in Italy and also abroad! Stay tuned for exciting news and follow them in the instagram stories as well!
Meanwhile we wish them good luck for everthing!
The 11th edition of EYP Italy Chairstraining will be held in Trieste from the 3rd to the 5th of August 2018. The call for Trainers will be open also to international applicants.
The Head Organisers of the event will be Isabella Zampa (IT) and Anna Trost (IT).
The first General Assembly Day in the city of Latina, Italy.
Our events are taking place all over the Italian peninsula! Between the 3rd and 5th of May an EYP Italy event was held in Acquaviva delle Fonti (BA). It was a truly special event, consisting in 1 day dedicated to an Understanding Europe module and in 2 days of Committee Work. About 30 students, coming from Italy and the Netherlands gathered to produce three resolutions on different topics.
We want to sincerely thank all the participants, and a special mention goes to our Jacopo Mazza, Alice Leone and Elisa Maris Grosso for representing our NC at the event.
General Assembly Day(s) in Perugia of the European Youth Parliament.
The Event will gather more than 80 delegates from the Perugia and its province.


Here is the step by step guidance to enable the option "show hidden file and folders" in windows7.
3. Under the "Folder Options" click on "Show hidden files and folders"
4. Folder options will pop up in a new window, under the "View" tab select the radio button "show hidden files, folders, and drives" and Click "ok"
Lex acts as a lexical analyzer which reads the input and converts strings in the source to tokens according to the regular expressions defined in the source.
After the installation type the following two commands on the console.
How to find the process running on port 8008?
3. Find the last column in the displayed result. It is the PID of the process which listening to port 8008.
4. Open task manager and inside process tab find PID column. If you cannot see PID column, go to view>select columns and check PID check-box.
5. Arrange processes by PID then find the PID resulted previously and see the corresponding process.
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is focused on enhancing security of application softwares. It offers various documents and tools for this purpose. WebGoat is one of such a project of OWASP which is designed to teach web application security lessons. Here is a guide how to install WebGoat in a windows environment.
Doulble click on any of the bat files to start Tomcat for browsing WebGoat directory.
To start browsing WebGoat directory give http://localhost/WebGoat/attack on the address bar of the browser.
Then it will probably ask for an username and a password, give "guest" for both username and password.
Follow the series of lessons they have provided for web application security.
Here is a step by step procedure to install JDK and JRE on ubuntu operating system. Note that there should be an internet connection for this method of installation.
Install JDK and JRE using the following command.
During the installation process it will ask whether to proceed or not. Give y or n (y and n for yes and no respectively).
Go through the wizard like interface and complete the installation.
On the command line type following and confirm JDK is working. This Should return the java version which has been installed for a successful installation.


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from django.db import migrations, models

from coop_cms.moves import reverse

def set_homepage(apps, schema_editor):
    # Move from homepage_for_site to SiteSettings
    site_class = apps.get_model("sites", "Site")
    for site in site_class.objects.all():
        try:
            homepage_article = site.homepage_article.all()[0]
        except (models.ObjectDoesNotExist, IndexError, AttributeError):
            homepage_article = None

        if homepage_article:
            site_settings_class = apps.get_model("coop_cms", "SiteSettings")
            site_settings = site_settings_class.objects.get_or_create(site=site)[0]
            if not site_settings.homepage_url:
                homepage_url = reverse('coop_cms_view_article', args=[homepage_article.slug])
                site_settings.homepage_url = homepage_url
                site_settings.save()

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
        ('coop_cms', '0003_auto_20160204_1540'),
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.RunPython(set_homepage),
    ]


The past week was exciting for traders especially on Wednesday, the daily range went over 120 pips. Thursday the rally up continued from 1 am to 5 am South African time. Instead of a weak slow pullback trend it went strong resulting Thursday to close a bearish day. Friday was trading range price action rejecting prices lower than 0.79365 and prices higher than 0.80071.
I use a method called multiple time frame analysis. 3 minute time frame for trading, 1 minute time frame for fine tuned analysis, 1 hour time frame for market structure.
The first step is finding the structure, in the screen shot above it is highlighted by the shaded a area. The second step is to identify the trend. On the market opened continuing Fridays trading range. At 01:55 am the market broke bearish, the down swing ended at 03:00am. A sharp swing back to the trading range began at 03:05 am. The upswing failed at 04:20 with a spike confirming a trading range market. The third step is to identify strength and weakness strength and weakness.
The up swing are currently showing weakness making it difficult for the bulls to make money. The top of the trading range is highlighted with a red line. High probability set ups in a trading range occur in a test of the range boundaries or a break out failure.
Caution to entries in the middle of the range. A bear day confirms when price action breaks below the low of the day. The trading time frame trend is currently bearish, whole sale prices are found in pull backs. Happy trading.


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Michael Baden Bio, Age, Height, Wife, Salary, Net Worth Fox News
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Michael Baden Biography
Michael Baden is a popular person, he is known for being a board-certified forensic pathologist. And an American physician. He also is known for hosting HBO's Autopsy and his work in investigating high-profile deaths.
Baden worked from 1978 to 1979 in the City of New York as the chief medical examiner prior. He worked at the House Select Committee on Assassinations' Forensic Pathology Panel as a chairman additionally. Baden also investigated the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Michael Baden Age
Baden was born on July 27, 1934, in the Bronx, New York, in the United States. He is 87 years old as of 2021.
Michael Baden Height
Baden is 5 ft 7 in/1.7 m tall.
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Baden graduated top of his class in 1955 at City College of New York. Then he went to New York University School of Medicine and a degree in medicine.
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Baden is a cheerful married to his beautiful wife to Linda Kennedy. Linda Kennedy is a former prosecutor turned private trial attorney. She has represented high-profile clients like Casey Anthony, ex-NBA star Jayson Williams.
Kennedy's cousin Michael Skakel and Phil Spector tied the knot vows in 2000. Baden was married to Judianne Densen-Gerber, a founder of Odyssey House drug treatment program and a physician, however, they separated in 1997 before.
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Baden has four kids; Dr. Trissa Baden, Dr. Sarah Baden, Dr. Lindsey Baden. One of his kids Judson kicked passed away when he crashed his motorcycle a week before his death in 1996. He passed away due to undiagnosed injuries and complications of the crash.
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Baden annually earns a salary of $99,693, according to Fox News contributors' salaries.
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Baden has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
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Baden is a popular person, he is known for being a board-certified forensic pathologist. And an American physician. He also is known for hosting HBO's Autopsy and his work in investigating high-profile deaths.
He worked on Fox News as a Forensic Science Contributor. And on Fox's late-night satirical program Red Eye where he was described as the "Death Correspondent". He was a frequent guest, Baden also has his own television series on HBO called Autopsy. He also got titled a celebrity pathologist by New York Magazine journalist Sarah Weinmann.
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Ethiopian security forces managed to seize 116 guns and thousands of ammunition in Amhara regional state smuggled from South Sudan.
The three day operation involved both the region's security forces and the Ethiopian army.
Three lorry drivers have been arrested in connection to the weapon smuggling operation.
Ethiopia and South Sudan have a security cooperation agreements in place, including an arrangement to stop hosting armed opposition groups in their respective countries.
In 2016, Sudan and Ethiopia meet in Addis Ababa and signed a memorandum of understanding providing to enhance joint security and military cooperation between the two neighbouring countries to fight terrorism.


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Dwarves – FEFU – Interview
April 13, 2007 Bands, CDs, Interviews
FEFU (MVD)
An interview with vocalist Blag Dahlia
Photos and interview by Chris Casella
Here with Blag Dahlia, rock'n'roll legend…
Blag helped raise me…
I take no responsibility for that.
Through your music and the guidance in your music, your vision of how to interact with the ladies…
Your mom and I, we did our best. We did what we could.
Is that where I got my brown eyes?
(laughs) I don't like to mention your mom and "brown eyes" at the same time.
The depravity of the Dwarves is the stuff of legend, on and offstage. What's the philosophy on this?
You can see some of it on the FEFU DVD that spans 20 years of mayhem. Something about our music inspires people to go off, get violent, and fuck each other. I can't really explain it. There've been so many incidents… I've been stabbed, beaten over the head, had my cock sucked, my balls kicked, and that was just on stage. Then there's the living legend that is HeWhoCanNotBeNamed, a terror both on and offstage. We should get stuntmen, we really should.
Why don't you bare yourself, or wear stockings, etc. onstage anymore? Is this the more mature version of the Dwarves?
I used to be the naked one, but HeWho had a bigger cock and a flatter stomach, so he inherited the mantle.
The Dwarves are out touring a 2004 release…
The Dwarves Must Die, right. It was a classic. It was in the realm of the world's not ready yet.
What about The Dwarves Must Remix?
Yeah, we had dance mixes of the songs. That was by popular demand. All the discos and places where people dance were demanding Dwarves tracks on vinyl. The baggy pants hip hop kids needed some Dwarves, so we gave it to them.
And they loved it, of course.
They lapped it up. You know how it goes. Like everything the Dwarves do…
You worked with Suicide Girls on your DVD?
Yeah, we worked with the Suicide Girls. That was thrilling.
They really beat the shit out of you…
Yeah, that was their instruction. The song was called "Fuck Eat And Fuck You Up." (Which is what FEFU stands for. Try to keep up, kids. -Ed.) We didn't eat that much, but all the rest of it, we did. The idea was to beat me senseless, beat the band, hit us, hurt us, make us feel it.
I understand why you work with dwarves: You are the Dwarves, but how was your love scene in the video?
You know, everybody else makes their video and says "We want it to have a story. We want an underwear model girl and the story is like, she's real sad cuz I'm on the road, but I have to go so I can communicate with the people, and then we talk on the phone, and we get mad, and at the end, we kiss." I said "I'm not making that video. I said I want naked girls to beat the shit out of me, then I want to make out with a dwarf girl."
She was on the cover of How To Make Friends And Influence People.
Yes, Selene Lunez is her name. She's a great little person. I dig her. It's my only love scene. I was surrounded by Suicide Girls and fetish models, and I said "I'll take the dwarf." It's just how I roll, man.
I started listening to the Dwarves when you were on Sub Pop, around Blood Guts & Pussy, when everybody was on Sub Pop.
Everybody who was an antibody was on Sub Pop. (He might've said "Everybody who was an anybody," but this sounds cooler. -Ed.)
Poor Sub Pop…
Well, come on… They ran out of steam, we didn't.
What was the "Penetration Moon" 7″ about? It was one and done?
It was about having long hair and picking up metal girls in the late '80s. We did a lot of Dead Boys, NY Dolls, and other palatable hair music. It was pretty hilarious, and somewhere there are 10 more songs!
How did you get on the Epitaph tour?
We made a record in '97 called The Dwarves Are Young & Good Looking which had a lot of the pop punk classics, all the hits. I licensed that to Epitaph, so that's how we got on their label. We made another record for them called Come Clean, and we did the Punk-O-Rama tour with The Distillers and Dropkick Murphys and the Bouncing Souls. We mostly did cocaine on that tour.
That probably kept you going…
It did. Otherwise, I would've fallen asleep for the other bands.
That tour was all ages…
All ages is good. Young girls are good. Now I'm at the point that I can literally sleep with a girl that I'm twice as old as.
What do you do to keep yourself in top physical condition?
Sodomy, clean living, LSD, and pizza. In a cup. Yep, I like it in a cup.
What do you consider "clean living"?
Bathing each day and eating well. Also, not sharing coke straws with hookers.
So you eat everything but the crust?
Everything but the crust.
So, Butt Crust…
Yeah, butt crust. (laughs) It's sort of my philosophy of music too: Everything but the crust.
What do you think of the sad state of affairs that is punk rock these days?
It's now a place where young bands invite their parents to the show and propose to their girlfriends when they turn 18. In other words, it makes me laugh. When I started, it was for outsiders, now it's very much inside.
Have you checked out any of the new "punk" music out? The Bronx? Kill Cheerleader?
We played shows with The Bronx. I like them. Haven't heard Kill Cheerleader. I like to listen to talk radio and read books, so I miss most new bands. I'm sure some of them are good, but there are too many bad ones to sift through.
You did some dates overseas with Nick Oliveri?
Yes, Nick Oliveri is a Rock Legend. He slept on my floor for several years. He's brilliant. He's super talented. We went to Europe and did all acoustic shit, which was fun.
Are you ever going to do that again?
Yeah, but he was calling it the Uncontrollable, and I don't know about that. We had a great time. We did Dwarves covers and Mondo songs, and then we did some of my funny songs, like "Bitch, I Love You" and "This Jihad." I like doing the acoustic shit because I get to talk to the crowd and make fun of people, the different side of the equation. It's kind of like Earl Lee Grace: I made a bluegrass record when that wasn't cool. After that George Clooney movie, everybody made bluegrass records…
Why weren't you on that soundtrack?
See, we always do everything before everyone else. So, Blood Guts & Pussy was before punk came back, and our first record, Horror Stories, was before the '60s punk thing, so we're always first. First punk band to lay beats and drum programming on a record. Five, six years later, everybody thought that was cool.
So what do you think about everybody riding your coattails?
It isn't even so much that they ride our coattails, they don't know enough to ride our coattails! We're just so far ahead of the curve, musically. They're riding someone else's coattails who's riding someone else's coattails who road ours. They don't even know… Forgive them, for they know not what they do.
I've seen you a few times live, and I've seen the two DVDs, and looking back on the early years, there was a considerable amount of violence.
There's been a lot of violence, and it's funny, because we can't fight to save our ass. Somehow, we are always getting stuff thrown at us. I got stabbed in the throat, almost killed me. I get beat over the head with things. It still happens all the time. Our music brings out violent impulses in people.
Like the back of the Blag Dahlia 7″.
Right, where I had the shit beaten out of me. I've always been a target for violence. I've gotten in a few blows here and there. If you're going to dish it out, you're going to have to take it.
HeWhoCannotBeNamed looks like he can dish it out.
HeWho is more into random chaos, but you gotta love him. He's the guy who walks into the dance party and shakes around like an epileptic. By the end of the night, everybody's in love. It's impossible not to love HeWho. HeWhoCannotBeNamed is an icon of rock.
What are the plans for new recordings?
I'm making a weird record now. I'm doing it with a really good guitar player, Tom Harris, from Oakland. It's just crazy. I don't know what it is: It's not a country record, it's kind of retro, it's just a crazy record, it's not very Dwarves. I don't know what I'm going to call it, if the readers of Lollipop want to come up with a name for the record I'm making now…
You put a ton of time and effort into getting the folks you got to be on the last Dwarves record.
That was a hard one. Everyone from Dexter Holland from the Offspring, Nash Kato from Urge Overkill, Nick Oliveri from Mondo Generator…
And Queens Of The Trust Fund…
Yeah, and Queens Of The Trust Fund. We had San Quinn, who lives on my block in San Francisco, he's a great rapper. It was crazy: All kinds of different people guesting on there, like Gary Owens, the original announcer on Laugh In, an old television show from the '70s.
Wasn't he in the video for "Bleed On"?
I don't know if he's in there, he might be. I don't want his agent to call me. Yeah, The Dwarves Must Die, the idea was "can you change genres every sixty seconds on a record?" You have pop punk, hardcore punk, hip hop, turntable, noise, garage, every genre… and then you loop over, say, a garage record, and make it as though you were making a hip hop record, and make a new song. The Dwarves Must Die was a great experiment. I had Eric Valentine help me produce it. He's a great producer. It took a lot of time and was cool, and at the end of it, I said "the Dwarves must die, we can't do anything better than this, the Dwarves must die, death." This, being in Cleveland on a Monday night, is part of our death.
I heard you got in a little scuffle with the singer from Queens of the Stone Age.
Yeah, he was mad cuz I made fun of him on a record. He doesn't have much of a sense of humor. I was just sitting there, and he came up and hit me over the head with a bottle. I don't know if you've ever been hit over the head with a bottle when you're just kind of sitting there, but it's not like the movies. I don't give him too much thought. I don't like to talk about him, I like to talk about me.
The Dwarves Must Die mocked all the bullshit rock bands I don't care about, and I pretty much conquered them through music. They tried conquering through publicists and labels, but I don't have the time for that, I make music. So we decided to collect up all the old footage that we had and make a DVD of all the weird, violent events that happened. I've been around forever. One little monkey doesn't spoil the show. We made the FEFU video with footage from over the last twenty years.
I have to mention this: I wrote a book called Nina, about a naughty seventeen year old girl. It just came out, and people are saying I'm a child molester and all this kind of stuff. I got in an argument with someone about the Dwarves and that very subject a few years ago and almost beat the shit out of them. I tried to tell them it was just like watching a horror movie, it wasn't real. (laughs)
We're all on your team.
Team Dwarves. That's why we're in Lollipop, dude. These other magazines, it's all about payola. They don't care if they like the band or not, as long as we're paying for advertising, they'll put us in the magazine. Lollipop, this is a legit mag, man. That's why they're talking to the Dwarves.
Do you still have a rotating line-up?
We're like the Wu-Tang Clan of punk rock. No one ever leaves. Right now, we have the drummer from KMFDM, Dutch Ovens. We have the bass player from a San Diego metal band, End of Power, and John Cougar Concentration Camp, Chip Fracture. And, of course, HeWhoCannotBeNamed, my partner in crime. We've been making rock for 23 years. Fresh Prince of Darkness on guitar, he's a classic. All kinds of guys over the last few years. Nick comes in and out. We went to Europe, and he played bass. Yeah, Dwarves is like the Wu-Tang Clan, no one ever leaves. We only take the best.
Will there be any more Blag Dahlia singles or EPs?
I did a spoken word thing recently, based on some radio things I'd done, and some readings from my book Nina. I'm making a new record now that will probably get a group name, but not the Dwarves. It's kind of retro, kind of humor stuff.
One thing that stumped a lot of people is when you had a female bass player.
See, this is the thing: We don't hate women, we love women. We've even got a foreigner now. If we can get foreigners and women in our band, you know that we're warm and fuzzy. That was Tazzy Bushweed, she was great. Women are allowed, everyone's allowed in the Dwarves. You just can't be whack, that's the issue. We haven't had a Canadian yet, but we're working' on it.
When is Blag going to settle down and get a steady girl or (deep breath) get married?
I just got divorced, so give me a few days.
(www.thedwarves.com, www.musicvideodistributors.com)
Blag Dahlia
Chris Casella
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This September, global institutional investors will convene in San Francisco along with government leaders, scientists, students and citizens for the Global Climate Action Summit. The Summit, co-chaired by the Governor of California, Jerry Brown, and other climate leaders, aims to serve as a progress checkpoint and ideas sharing forum in anticipation of the Paris 2020 climate talks. Conversations will be organized under five key areas: Healthy Energy Systems, Inclusive Economic Growth, Sustainable Communities, Land and Ocean Stewardship and Transformative Climate Investments. This last pillar challenges institutional investors to scale up climate aware investments, foster innovation, and accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy.
What do investors need to know about the challenges that will be introduced at the Summit? Join us for a webinar where we will hear from the California Governor's office senior advisor on infrastructure and energy, followed by an overview of the frameworks and tools that can be critical in meeting the call to action, including scenario analysis, climate metrics, low carbon indexes, portfolio analytics and reporting.


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Number 29 Waiheke Table Olives (250g) - a jar of premium olives, grown and produced on Waiheke Island, NZ. As the olives are harvested at their peak ripeness, the olives have an aromatic, fresh, fruity flavour.
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