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Esther Jane Williams (August 8, 1921 – June 6, 2013) was an American competitive swimmer and actress. Williams set multiple national and regional swimming records in her late teens as part of the Los Angeles Athletic Club swim team. Unable to compete in the 1940 Summer Olympics because of the outbreak of World War II, she joined Billy Rose's Aquacade, where she took on the role vacated by Eleanor Holm after the show's move from New York City to San Francisco. While in the city, she spent five months swimming alongside Olympic gold medal winner and Tarzan star, Johnny Weissmuller.[1] Williams caught the attention of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer scouts at the Aquacade. After appearing in several small roles, alongside Mickey Rooney in an Andy Hardy film, and future five-time co-star Van Johnson in A Guy Named Joe, Williams made a series of films in the 1940s and early 1950s known as "aquamusicals," which featured elaborate performances with synchronised swimming and diving.
Williams in 1950
Esther Jane Williams
(1921-08-08)August 8, 1921
Inglewood, California, U.S.
June 6, 2013(2013-06-06) (aged 91)
Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Resting place
Remains scattered into the Pacific Ocean
Los Angeles City College
Actress, swimmer, businesswoman
Leonard Kovner
(m. 1940; div. 1944)
Ben Gage
Fernando Lamas
(m. 1969; died 1982)
Edward Bell
(m. 1994)
www.esther-williams.com
From 1945 to 1949, Williams had at least one film listed among the 20 highest-grossing films of the year.[2][3][4][5][6] In 1952, Williams appeared in her only biographical role, as Australian swimming star Annette Kellerman in Million Dollar Mermaid, which went on to become her nickname while at MGM.[7] Williams left MGM in 1956 and appeared in a handful of unsuccessful feature films, followed by several extremely popular water-themed network television specials, including one from Cypress Gardens, Florida.
Williams was also a successful businesswoman. Even before retiring as an actress, she invested in a "service station, a metal products plant, a manufacturer of bathing suits, various properties and a successful restaurant chain known as Trails."[8] She lent her name to a line of swimming pools and retro swimwear, instructional swimming videos for children, and served as a commentator for synchronized swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Early yearsEdit
Williams was born in Inglewood, California, on August 8, 1921.[9][10] She was the fifth and youngest child of Louis Stanton Williams (January 19, 1886 – June 10, 1968) and Bula Myrtle (née Gilpin; October 8, 1885 – December 29, 1971).[11] Louis was a sign painter and Bula was a psychologist. The two lived on neighboring farms in Kansas and carried on a nine-year courtship until June 1, 1908, when they eloped and set off for California. However, they ran out of money in Salt Lake City, Utah, and settled there. Esther's brother, Stanton (September 4, 1912 – March 3, 1929) was discovered by actress Marjorie Rambeau, which led to the family (including sisters Maurine and June and brother David) moving to the Los Angeles area to be near the studios. Louis Williams purchased a small piece of land in the southwest area of town, and had a small house built there. Esther was born in the living room, which was also where the family slept, until Louis Williams was able to add bedrooms. In 1929, Stanton Williams died after his colon burst.[12]
In 1935, Bula Myrtle Williams invited 16-year-old Buddy McClure to live with her family. McClure had recently lost his mother and Bula was still grieving over the death of her son. Esther recounted in her autobiography that one night, when the rest of the family was visiting relatives in Alhambra, McClure raped her. She was terrified to tell anyone about the incident and waited two years before finally revealing the truth to her parents. Williams' mother seemed unsure about her story, claiming McClure was "sensitive" and was sympathetic towards him when he admitted his guilt. Bula Williams then banished him from her home, McClure joined the United States Coast Guard, and Williams never saw him again.[13]
Competitive swimmingEdit
Williams at the L.A. Athletic Club in 1939
Williams was enthusiastic about swimming in her youth. Her older sister, Maurine, took her to Manhattan Beach and to the local pool. She took a job counting towels at the pool to pay the five cent entry fee, and while there, had swimming lessons from the male lifeguards. From them, she learned the 'male only' swimming strokes, including the butterfly, with which she would later break records.[14]
Her medley team set the record for the 300-yard relay at the Los Angeles Athletic Club in 1939,[15] and was also National AAU champion in the 100 meter freestyle, with a record-breaking time of 1 minute 09.0 seconds.[16] By age 16, Williams had won three US national championships in breaststroke and freestyle swimming.[17]
Williams graduated from Washington High School (now known as Washington Preparatory High School) in Los Angeles, 1939, where she served as class Vice President, and later President.[18][19][20] However, Williams never trained in swimming while there.[21]
During her senior year of high school, Williams received a D in her algebra course, preventing her from getting a scholarship to the University of Southern California.[22] She enrolled in Los Angeles City College to retake the course. In 1939, Williams expressed interest in pursuing a degree in physical education in order to teach it one day.[21] To earn money for tuition, Williams worked as a stock girl at the I. Magnin department store, where she also modeled clothing for customers and appeared in newspaper advertisements.[23]
While Williams was working at I. Magnin, she was contacted by Billy Rose's assistant and asked to audition as a replacement for Eleanor Holm in his Aquacade show. Williams impressed Rose and she got the role.[1][24] The Aquacade was part of the Golden Gate International Exposition, and Williams was partnered with Olympic swimmer and Tarzan star Johnny Weissmuller,[25] who, Williams wrote in her autobiography, repeatedly tried to seduce her. Despite this, Williams remained with the show until it closed on September 29, 1940.[26] Williams had planned to compete in the 1940 Summer Olympics but it was cancelled because of the outbreak of World War II.
ActingEdit
It was at Aquacade that Williams first attracted attention from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer scouts. MGM's head, Louis B. Mayer, had been looking for a female sports star for the studio to compete with Fox's figure skating star, Sonja Henie.[27] Williams signed her contract with MGM in 1941. [28]
In her contract were two clauses: the first being that she receive a guest pass to The Beverly Hills Hotel where she could swim in the pool every day, and the second that she would not appear on camera for nine months to allow for acting, singing, dancing, and diction lessons. Williams wrote in her autobiography, "If it took nine months for a baby to be born, I figured my 'birth' from Esther Williams the swimmer to Esther Williams the movie actress would not be much different."[29]
A pin-up of Williams from a 1945 issue of Yank, the Army Weekly
While top stars at the studios such as Judy Garland, Betty Grable, and Shirley Temple took part in bond tours during the war, Williams was asked to take in hospital tours. At this point, Williams had achieved pin-up status because of the number of photographs of her in bathing suits.[30] To prepare, Williams and her publicity assistant would listen to Bob Hope and Jack Benny's radio programs, retelling the funniest jokes while at the hospitals. Williams also invited GIs to dance with her on stage and take part in mock screen tests. The men would receive a card telling them their lines, and they would act out the scene in front of the other soldiers. These tests were always romantic scenes to which the men were required to refuse multiple times. When the men said the final, "No", Williams would pull at her tear-away skirt and sweater leaving nothing but a gold lamé swimsuit. The scenes would always end with the men giving in and kissing her after that stunt.[31] Her hospital tours continued into the 1950s.[32][33] A (forged) signed, waterproof portrait of Williams was circulated among men in the United States Navy for a "capture the Esther" competition.[18] This competition continues to this day in the Royal Australian Navy, which holds in its archives an "original" forged signed portrait while maintaining a "capturable" image for use in the fleet.
1940sEdit
Three weeks after signing her contract, George Sidney directed Williams' first screen test. The studio was impressed, and when Lana Turner eloped with Artie Shaw, Williams screen tested with the leading man Clark Gable, for the film Somewhere I'll Find You.[34] However, Turner divorced Shaw after four months of marriage, and rejoined the film.[35] Following several short subject films, Williams appeared as Sheila Brooks in Andy Hardy's Double Life. Sheila was a coed with whom Andy falls in love.[36][37] Next was a small part in the film A Guy Named Joe, starring Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne. It was here she first worked with Van Johnson, with whom she would partner in five films.[38]
Bathing Beauty, previously titled Mr. Coed, starred Red Skelton as a man who enrolls in a women's college to win back his swimming instructor fiancée, played by Williams. This was her first Technicolor musical. The studio changed the title of the film to showcase Williams. Almost all of the film's posters featured Williams in a bathing suit, though the swimming sequences make up a small portion of the film. Her date to the premiere at the Astor Theater in New York City was future husband Ben Gage. For the event, MGM publicity set up a six-story-tall billboard of Williams diving into Times Square with a large sign that said "Come on in! The story's fine!"[39]
Williams, Van Johnson and Carleton G. Young in Thrill of a Romance
Williams appeared in the film Ziegfeld Follies as herself.[40] This was followed by the musical Thrill of a Romance. Van Johnson co-starred as a decorated war veteran who falls in love with Williams while on her honeymoon. Thrill of a Romance was the 8th highest-grossing film of 1945.[2] Williams had to help Johnson swim, and she placed her hand under his back to keep him afloat. The studio's publicity department tried to put the two together in public as much as possible in the hopes of encouraging a romance, even though Williams was involved with Gage at the time. When asked why they didn't date, Johnson replied, "because I'm afraid she can't get her webbed feet into a pair of evening sandals."[41]
Williams tried a more serious role in The Hoodlum Saint (1946), with William Powell. Audiences expected Powell's Nick Charles persona and rejected the idea of a romance between Williams and Powell onscreen.[42] She also appeared in Easy to Wed, a remake of 1936's Libeled Lady, with Johnson and Lucille Ball.[43]
Williams as Maria in Fiesta (1947)
Fiesta (originally called Fiesta Brava)[44] starred Williams as Ricardo Montalbán's twin sister, Maria, who pretends to be her bullfighting brother in hopes of luring him back home. Audiences, and Williams, thought the film was silly, as Williams and Montalbán had vastly different accents. Montalbán was born in Mexico and was a native Spanish speaker while Williams had a mid-western accent picked up from her Kansas-born parents. Production was difficult with a multitude of problems. By 1947, Gage and Williams were married. Gage had traveled to Mexico for the making of the film. He got into a fight with an employee of the cast's hotel, was arrested, and subsequently thrown out of the country.[45]The director of photography, Sidney Wagner, and one other crew member died of cholera from eating contaminated street food. Many of the film's stuntmen were sent to the hospital after being gored by bulls. Director Dick Thorpe hadn't wanted the bulls killed (as they usually were at the end of a bullfight) because he believed them to be too expensive to replace.[46]
After filming was completed on Fiesta, Williams appeared in the romance This Time for Keeps (1947) with singer Johnnie Johnston. In 1948, Williams signed a contract with swimwear company Cole of California to appear as their spokesperson, and Williams and the other swimmers in her films wore Cole swimsuits. Since the aqua-musicals were an entirely new genre, the studio's costume designers had little experience creating practical swimsuits.[47] William's plaid flannel swimsuit for This Time for Keeps was so heavy that she was dragged to the bottom of the pool, and had to unzip the suit, swimming naked to the edge of the pool to avoid drowning. Cole swimsuits used latex, which meant zippers were no longer necessary. While filming Skirts Ahoy (1952), Williams discovered that members of the WAVES program received thin, cotton, shapeless swimsuits as part of their uniforms. Williams modeled a Cole swimsuit for the Secretary of the Navy and explained that the new swimsuits helped support women's figures. The United States Navy ordered 50,000 suits immediately.[48]
Filming Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) was, according to Williams in her autobiography, an experience of "pure misery". A period musical starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra, the two male leads character's were players in a baseball team owned by K.C. Higgins, Williams's role. She claimed that Kelly and co-writer Stanley Donen treated her with contempt and went out of their way to make jokes at her expense. The film was well-received critically and became a major commercial success, raking in $3.4 million in rentals and becoming the 11th highest earning film of the year.[6] Williams made Neptune's Daughter (also 1949) around the same time with co-stars Ricardo Montalbán, Red Skelton and Betty Garrett, who had also been in Take Me Out to the Ball Game. [49] In the film, Williams sings "Baby, It's Cold Outside" with Montalbán. The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 22nd Academy Awards. Williams and Montalbán were originally slated to sing "(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China", but studio censors thought the song was too sexual (interpreting the word "get" as "have") and instead gave them "Baby, It's Cold Outside."[50] Neptune's Daughter became the 10th highest-grossing film of 1949.[6]
Williams as Annette Kellermann in Million Dollar Mermaid
Williams made Duchess of Idaho (1950), shot on location in Sun Valley, Idaho, co-starring Van Johnson.[51] MGM paired her with Howard Keel for two films, Pagan Love Song (also 1950) and later Jupiter's Darling (1955). They both had cameos in the film Callaway Went Thataway (1951).[52]
In Million Dollar Mermaid (1952), Williams portrayed Annette Kellermann, a real-life Australian swimming and diving star. Williams co-starred with Victor Mature, who played Kellermann's husband and manager, James Sullivan. The two engaged in a passionate affair during filming. Williams often called this her favorite film, and named her autobiography after it.[53] Williams also won the Henrietta Award at the 1952 Golden Globes, for World Film Favorite – Female.[54] Easy to Love (1953), also with Van Johnson, was filmed on location in Cypress Gardens, where a swimming pool in the shape of the state of Florida had been built specifically for the film. Williams was pregnant during shooting, but still performed all her own waterskiing stunts.[55]
In Dangerous When Wet (also 1953), Williams worked with three important males – Tom and Jerry and future husband Fernando Lamas. During casting, Lamas told Williams he did not want to star in the film with her because he only wanted to be involved in "important pictures". His part had to be rewritten to persuade him to take part in the film.[citation needed]
In 1953, Williams had been on maternity leave for three months while pregnant with daughter Susan, and assumed she would go straight to work on the film Athena when she returned.[56] However, production started without her, and the studio cast Jane Powell in the lead role,[57] rewriting much of the premise that Williams and writers Leo Pogostin and Chuck Walters had come up with. The studio moved her to Jupiter's Darling. Two more films were planned, Bermuda Encounter and Olympic Venus, about the first Olympic swimmers; however, these were never made.[58][59][60]
Many of her MGM films, such as Million Dollar Mermaid and Jupiter's Darling, contained elaborately staged synchronized swimming scenes, with considerable risk to Williams. She broke her neck filming a 115 ft dive off a tower during a climactic musical number for the film Million Dollar Mermaid and was in a body cast for seven months. She subsequently recovered, although she continued to suffer headaches as a result of the accident. Her many hours spent submerged in a studio tank resulted in ruptured eardrums numerous times. She also nearly drowned after not being able to find the trapdoor in the ceiling of a tank. The walls and ceiling were painted black and the trapdoor blended in. Williams was pulled out only because a member of the crew realized the door was not opening.
After MGMEdit
After 15 years of appearing in films, Williams was threatened with contract suspension from MGM after refusing the lead role in The Opposite Sex (eventually released in 1956), a musical remake of 1939's The Women. The role of Mary would have been rewritten to be an aquacade star (and was eventually filled by June Allyson as "Kay", a nightclub singer). Williams redecorated her dressing room to accommodate returning star Grace Kelly, packed her terry cloth robes and swimsuits and drove off the studio lot. As a result of leaving her contract, Williams lost almost $3 million in deferred contract payments, which had been taken from her paychecks over the previous 14 years and put aside as both a nest egg and a tax deferral. She was, however, still able to collect on the $50,000 signing bonus from when she first signed her contract.[61]
In 1956, she moved to Universal International and appeared in a non-musical dramatic film, The Unguarded Moment (1956). After that, her film career slowly wound down. She later admitted that husband Fernando Lamas preferred her not to continue in films. She would, however, make occasional appearances on television, including mystery guest appearances for What's My Line?, The Donna Reed Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, and two aqua-specials, The Esther Williams Aqua Spectacle (1956) and Esther Williams at Cypress Gardens which was telecast on August 8, 1960.[62] More than half of all television sets in use in the United States were tuned in to watch the Cypress Gardens special.[63] She starred in an aqua-special at Wembley Stadium in London.[7] In 1966, Williams was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.[17]
Later yearsEdit
Williams retired from acting in the early 1960s and later turned down the role of Belle Rosen, a character with a crucial swimming scene, in The Poseidon Adventure. (The role eventually went to Shelley Winters.) She continued to lend her name to a line of retro women's swimwear. "Women worldwide are fighting a thing called gravity," said Williams. "I say to women when I talk to them, 'You girls of 18 have until about 25, 30 at the most, and then you have to report to me. My suits are quality fabric.'"[50] She went on: "I put you in a suit that contains you and you will swim in. I don't want you to be in two Dixie cups and a fish line."[64]
She was also the namesake of a company that manufactures swimming pools and swimming pool accessories. She came out with a line of Swim, Baby, Swim videos, which helped parents teach their children how to swim. She also appeared as a commentator for synchronized swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics.[65] Williams met her fourth husband as a result of his calling her to coordinate her appearance.[50] She co-wrote her autobiography, The Million Dollar Mermaid (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), with popular media critic and author Digby Diehl.[53] In 1994 she made her first new big-screen appearance in 31 years as one of the hosts of the retrospective That's Entertainment! III.
In a 2007 interview with Diane Sawyer, Williams admitted that she had recently suffered a stroke. "I opened my eyes and I could see, but I couldn't remember anything from the past," she said.[66] In June 2008, Williams attended Cyd Charisse's funeral, which she did while seated in a wheelchair.[67]
In April 2010, Williams appeared at the first Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, California, alongside two-time co-star Betty Garrett.[68] Their film Neptune's Daughter (1949) was screened at the pool of the Roosevelt Hotel, along with a performance of the Williams-inspired synchronized swimming troupe, The Waterlilies.[69][70] South Beach Miami's 2010 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Swim, a showcase of designer swimwear, included a Williams suite, complete with a beach summer theme and sand palette with aqua accents.[71]
In 2000 an account of Williams's life and career appeared in the Swedish book Esther Williams — Skenbiografin (Esther Williams — The Fake Biography) written by Jane Magnusson,[72] in which the author shares with readers her own fascination for art swimming as a genre and, here, in particular, Williams as — to the author — both a bewildering and mesmerizing front figure and icon in this field.[73]
Political ViewsEdit
Williams was a registered Republican.[74]
MarriagesEdit
Williams married four times. She met her first husband, Leonard Kovner, while attending Los Angeles City College. She later wrote in her autobiography The Million Dollar Mermaid that "he was smart, handsome, dependable ... and dull. I respected his intelligence, and his dedication to a future career in medicine. He loved me, or so he said, and even asked me to marry him." They were married in the San Francisco suburb of Los Altos on June 27, 1940.[75][76][77] On their split she said "I found, much to my relief, that all I needed for my emotional and personal security was my own resolve and determination. I didn't need a marriage and a ring. I had come to realize all too quickly that Leonard Kovner was not a man I could ever really love."[78] They divorced on September 12, 1944.[77][79]
She married singer/actor Ben Gage on November 25, 1945;[80][81] they had three children, Benjamin Stanton (born August 6, 1949), [45][82] Kimball Austin (October 30, 1950 – May 6, 2008)[83] and Susan Tenney (born October 1, 1953).[84] In her autobiography, she portrayed Gage as an alcoholic parasite who squandered $10 million of her earnings. Gage and Williams separated in 1952,[85] and divorced in April 1959.[86]
During the filming of Pagan Love Song in Hawaii, Williams learned she was pregnant with her third child, and notified the studio in California. Gage had met a man at the hotel who owned a ham radio and persuaded the man to let them use it to call California. What they failed to realize at the time, though, was that anyone could be listening in on their conversation, and news of her pregnancy was broadcast to the entire West Coast.[87]
She disclosed in her autobiography that she had an affair with actor Victor Mature while they were working on Million Dollar Mermaid, citing that at the time her marriage was in trouble and, feeling lonely, she turned to Mature for love and affection, and he gave her all she wanted. The affair stopped while Williams was recovering from her fall during the shooting of Million Dollar Mermaid. She was romantically linked with Jeff Chandler. She claims in her autobiography that Chandler was a cross-dresser and that she broke off the relationship.[88] According to the Los Angeles Times, many friends and colleagues of Chandler's rebutted Williams' claims. Jane Russell commented, "I've never heard of such a thing. Cross-dressing is the last thing I would expect of Jeff. He was a sweet guy, definitely all man."[89]
She married her former lover, Argentine actor/director, Fernando Lamas on December 31, 1969. For 13 years, she lived in total submission to him, where she had to stop being "Esther Williams" and could not have her children live with her. In return, he would be faithful.[50][90] They were married until his death from pancreatic cancer on October 8, 1982.[91]
She resided in Beverly Hills with actor husband Edward Bell, whom she married on October 24, 1994.[92]
LSDEdit
In September 1959, Cary Grant told Look magazine that he had taken LSD under a doctor's supervision, and it had changed his life. Grant's therapist, Mortimer Hartman, described LSD as "a psychic energizer which empties the subconscious and intensifies emotion and memory a hundred times". Grant said that, with the help of LSD, he had "found that [he] had a tough inner core of strength", and that when he was young, he "was very dependent upon older men and women. Now, people [came] to [him] for help." Williams stated that she wanted to be one of those people. As she said in Million Dollar Mermaid, "At that point, I really didn't know who I was. Was I that glamorous femme fatale?... Was I just another broken-down divorcée whose husband left her with all the bills and three kids?" Shortly after reading the article, she contacted Grant. He called his doctor and made an appointment for her. Williams said LSD seemed like instant psychoanalysis.[93][94]
Death and tributesEdit
Esther Williams died in her sleep on June 6, 2013, from natural causes, in her Los Angeles home. She was 91.[95] She was cremated, and her ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean.
Of her death CNN quoted[96] her International Swimming Hall of Fame biography, saying, "Her movie career played a major role in the promotion of swimming, making it attractive to the public, contributing to the growth of the sport as a public recreation for health, exercise, water safety -- and just plain fun."[97] Her stepson Lorenzo Lamas tweeted she was "The best swim teacher and soul mom."[98] Her friend Annabeth Gish also tweeted a tribute, writing that Esther Williams was "An elegant, gracious movie star, legend and neighbor".[99] Film historian Leonard Maltin called her "a major, major star, a tremendous box office attraction."[100]
For her contribution to the motion-picture industry, Williams has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1560 Vine Street. She left her hand and foot prints in front of the Grauman's Chinese Theatre on August 1, 1944.
Scarlett Johansson's character in the 2016 Coen Brothers film, Hail, Caesar!, shares several similarities with Williams, most notably being an aquamusical star who becomes pregnant during a production.
ArchiveEdit
Esther Williams donated her personal film archive to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.[101]
Film[102]
1942 Andy Hardy's Double Life Sheila Brooks
1942 Personalities Sheila Brooks (Screen test footage) Short subject
1942 Inflation Mrs. Smith Short film
1943 A Guy Named Joe Ellen Bright
1944 Bathing Beauty Caroline Brooks
1945 Thrill of a Romance Cynthia Glenn
1946 Ziegfeld Follies Herself ('A Water Ballet')
1946 The Hoodlum Saint Kay Lorrison
1946 Easy to Wed Connie Allenbury Chandler
1946 Till the Clouds Roll By Herself Uncredited
1947 Fiesta Maria Morales
1947 This Time for Keeps Leonora 'Nora' Cambaretti
1948 On an Island with You Rosalind Reynolds
1949 Take Me Out to the Ball Game K.C. Higgins
1949 Neptune's Daughter Eve Barrett
1950 Duchess of Idaho Christine Riverton Duncan
1950 Pagan Love Song Mimi Bennett
1951 Texas Carnival Debbie Telford
1951 Callaway Went Thataway Herself Uncredited
1952 Skirts Ahoy! Whitney Young
1952 Million Dollar Mermaid Annette Kellerman
1953 Dangerous When Wet Katie Higgins
1953 Easy to Love Julie Hallerton
1954 Athena – Screenwriter
Uncredited
1955 Jupiter's Darling Amytis
1955 1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration Herself Short subject
1956 The Unguarded Moment Lois Conway
1956 Screen Snapshots: Hollywood, City of Stars[citation needed] Herself Short subject
1958 Raw Wind in Eden Laura
1961 The Big Show Hillary Allen
1963 Magic Fountain[103] Hyacinth Tower
1994 That's Entertainment! III Herself
1957 Lux Video Theatre[104] Vicki Episode: "The Armed Venus"
1960 The Donna Reed Show[105] Molly Episode: "The Career Woman"
1960 Zane Grey Theater[106] Sarah Harmon Episode: "The Black Wagon"
1961 The Bob Hope Show[107] Episode: "The Bob Hope Buick Sports Awards Show"
Box office rankingsEdit
For a number of years, US movie exhibitors voted Esther Williams among the most popular film stars in the country:
1947 – 24th most popular star[108]
1948 – 11th[109]
1949 – 8th[110]
1950 – 8th[111] – also 2nd most popular star in the UK[112]
1951 – 5th most popular female star[113]
1953 – 12th
With the exception of The Hoodlum Saint and Jupiter's Darling, no film in which Williams starred for MGM lost money and some were extremely profitable.[116]
^ a b "Esther Williams Queen of Aquacade". Los Angeles Times. May 13, 1940. p. A12.
^ a b "Box Office Report for 1945". BoxOfficeReport.com. Archived from the original on July 13, 2009. Retrieved July 30, 2010. Thrill of a Romance
^ "Box Office Report for 1946". BoxOfficeReport.com. Archived from the original on June 24, 2006. Retrieved July 30, 2010. Till the Clouds Roll By and Easy to Wed
^ "Box Office Report for 1947". BoxOfficeReport.com. Archived from the original on August 7, 2008. Retrieved July 30, 2010. This Time for Keeps and Fiesta
^ "Box Office Report for 1948". BoxOfficeReport.com. Archived from the original on October 12, 2008. Retrieved July 30, 2010. On an Island with You
^ a b c "Box Office Report for 1949". BoxOfficeReport.com. Archived from the original on January 9, 2011. Retrieved July 30, 2010. Neptune's Daughter and Take Me out to the Ball Game
^ a b Williams 1999, p. 285.
^ "Esther Williams". The Telegraph. June 6, 2013. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
^ "Actress Esther Williams Hospitalized". ABClocal.go.com. Associated Press. October 25, 2006. Retrieved July 30, 2010. While some references cited 1922 as her year of birth, Williams told The Associated Press in 2004 that she was born August 8, 1921.
^ According to the California Birth Index, 1905–1995 located at the Center for Health Statistics, Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California.
^ L.A. Times & 01/02/72, pp. A6.
^ Williams 1999, p. 22.
^ Williams 1999, pp. 24–28.
^ "Swim Mark Shattered". Los Angeles Times. May 27, 1939. p. 8, Pt. I.
^ "L.A.A.C. Mermaids Set New Medley Relay Record". Los Angeles Times. March 31, 1939. p. 8. Retrieved July 15, 2010.
^ International Swimming Hall of Fame: 1966 Honorees – Esther Williams Archived June 9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
^ a b Sherrow 1996, p. 333.
^ "Photograph of Esther Williams's High School Yearbook". Archived from the original on July 7, 2011. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
^ "A Stroke for Esther". Los Angeles Times. September 25, 1977. p. U2. Retrieved July 15, 2010.
^ a b "Mercury Miss Olympic 'Hope'". Los Angeles Times. April 5, 1939. p. A13. Retrieved July 15, 2010.
^ "Esther Williams Back at Poolside". Los Angeles Times. May 27, 1984. p. G1. Retrieved July 15, 2010. Williams stated in her autobiography that her family could not afford to send her to USC, and that she did not get a scholarship to the school. In a 1984 interview with The Los Angeles Times, it reports she spent a year there.
^ "Weissmuller Lands Lead in Aquacade". Los Angeles Times. May 22, 1940. p. 21. Retrieved July 15, 2010.
^ Wayne 2003, p. 380.
^ Williams 1999, p. 101.
^ Hopper, Hedda (May 18, 1951). "Unexpected Pleasure". Los Angeles Times. p. 2. Retrieved July 15, 2010. Staff Sgt. Walter Wasik of Chicago appears to be a very happy GI as he holds Movie Actress Esther Williams on his lap for a picture before a swimming demonstration at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C.
^ Hopper, Hedda (November 15, 1942). "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood". Los Angeles Times. p. C3.
^ Scott, John L. (March 12, 1943). "Screen and Stage". Los Angeles Times. p. 14.
^ Hay 1991, p. 202.
^ Ziegfeld Follies at the TCM Movie Database
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^ "TCM article on The Hoodlum Saint". Tcm.com. November 12, 2009. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
^ Easy to Wed at the TCM Movie Database
^ April 19, 1945 The Deseret News.
^ a b Wayne 2003, p. 381.
^ Williams 1999, pp. 137–146.
^ a b c d 1999 New York Times Interview.
^ TCM Database listing for Duchess of Idaho.
^ TCM Database listing for Callaway Went Thataway.
^ a b Williams 1999, p. 1.
^ "Esther Williams, Alan Ladd Get Movie Henriettas". Los Angeles Times. January 27, 1952. p. B1.
^ Hopper, Hedda (March 7, 1953). "'Athena' Announced for Esther Williams". Los Angeles Times. p. 8.
^ Schallert, Edwin (January 6, 1954). "Drama". Los Angeles Times. p. B7.
^ "Danny Thomas Set in 2D Jolson Role". "Los Angeles Times. November 29, 1952. p. 12. Retrieved July 15, 2010.
^ The Toledo Blade, May 19, 1953.
^ Box Office Barometer, November 15, 1947 "This states Olympic Venus as incomplete."
^ (Fredericksburg, Virginia) Free-Lane Star, August 9, 1960.
^ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 23, 1997 article.
^ "Esther Williams: Biography". biography.com.
^ GMA interview with Diane Sawyer in 2007.
^ "LIFE - TIME". TIME.com.
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Jonathan Saul Freedland, né le , est un journaliste britannique. Il est éditorialiste pour le journal The Guardian et écrit mensuellement pour le Jewish Chronicle. Il est également un collaborateur régulier du New York Times et du New York Review of Books. Il anime la série « The Long View » à la chaîne radiophonique BBC Radio 4. Il a aussi écrit des livres sous le pseudonyme Sam Bourne.

Reconnu comme éditorialiste de l'année » en 2002 par , il gagne le David Watt Prize for Journalism en 2008 pour son essai Bush's Amazing Achievement.

Formation et début de carrière
Jonathan Freedland a étudié au University College School, une école pour garçons située à Hampstead, ainsi qu'au Wadham College.

Il commence sa carrière journalistique au Sunday Correspondent. En 1990, il est engagé par la BBC. À l'été de 1992, il gagne le Laurence Stern fellowship du Washington Post. En 1993, il devient le correspondant à Washington du Guardian. Il revient à Londres en 1997 et devient éditorialiste.

En 1998, il publie Bring Home the Revolution: The case for a British Republic sous le pseudonyme Sam Bourne.

Entre 2002 et 2004, Freedland écrit occasionnellement pour le Daily Mirror. De 2005 à 2007, il publie hebdomadairement dans le London Evening Standard. En 2008, il réalise la série British Jews and the Dream of Zion ainsi que les documentaires How to be a Good President et President Hollywood.

Publications

Bibliographie
 Jacob's Gift: A Journey into the Heart of Belonging, Hamish Hamilton, 2005
 Bring Home the Revolution: The Case for a British Republic, Fourth Estate, 1998
 The Righteous Men, HarperCollins, 2006
 The Last Testament, published elsewhere as The Jerusalem Secret, HarperCollins, 2007
 The Final Reckoning, HarperCollins, 2008

Notes et références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 The Guardian

Liens externes

 Entrevue d'Al Gore par Jonathan Freedland
 Journalisted – Articles de Jonathan Freedland
 Archives de Freedland sur The New York Review of Books

Naissance en février 1967
Journaliste britannique
Éditorialiste britannique
Écrivain britannique du XXIe siècle
Animateur britannique de radio
Républicain britannique
Collaborateur du Guardian
Collaborateur du New York Times
Étudiant de Wadham College

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Tom Berg and his bright yellow Studebaker. He likes to drive it when the weather's good because it's a convertible. Photo by Deborah Stone.
Those who know Tom Berg often delight in playing a guessing game with themselves as to which car the local man will drive on any given day.
Berg, a real estate broker in the Woodinville Windermere office and longtime area resident, is a car collector. He's passionate about his hobby and jumps at the chance to talk about it if asked.
"I started seriously collecting about ten or twelve years ago," explains Berg. "I've always liked cars, ever since I was a teen. But, whereas the other guys liked driving muscle cars, I found it fun to drive the old ones. Part of that was due to the fact that I didn't have a lot of money back then and I couldn't afford the muscle cars. I would get the old ones and paint them and make them look good."
Berg remembers his first vehicle, a 1951 Ford, and adds, "I was sixteen and I needed a dependable vehicle because I lived in the sticks in Kent. I was pretty proud of that car and drove it everywhere."
The local man's collection currently stands at six and includes a 1947 Ford pick-up, a '62 Corvette, '59 Willys Wagon, '48 Diamond T 1-Ton pick-up, '48 Studebaker convertible, '31 Model A pick-up, and his most recent acquisition – a 1928 Model A hot rod.
"The hot rod I just got is great," says Berg. "The guy who owned it put airplane insignia on it to honor his uncle who was a bomber pilot in the war."
If asked to choose his favorite car, Berg responds like a proud father of a big family: "I like all of them because they're totally different. Each is unique in its own way."
He then laughs and adds, "My favorite is usually the one I'm driving at the moment!"
Unlike some collectors who keep their prized vehicles out of public sight, Berg takes pleasure in driving his cars.
For him, the fun is in taking them for a spin around the area. He meets lots of people in the process, who often approach him wanting to talk cars.
"I get a lot of comments from complete strangers," he notes. "They come up to me and admire the cars or ask questions about them, or share their own car stories with me."
Berg reads up on cars and does extensive research before purchasing one in order to know the value of them.
Basically, he buys only those vehicles that are in good shape and considered "nice drivers," as he's not interested in doing much work on them. "I'm not a mechanic," he explains. "I'll putter around and do some cosmetic stuff such as spray paint the floors, put in doormats or fix door handles, but I'm not like those guys who work on one car for years."
Berg views his cars as works of art. He adds, "I can put my money in the bank where it'll make no interest to speak of or I can have a cool car to look at and drive. I choose the latter."
On occasion, the local man has taken his cars to the Duvall Big Rock Car Show. But, he emphasizes that he's not into having them judged and evaluated professionally.
"It's just for fun," he remarks. "Though I did win Best Grandpa's Truck for my Diamond T one year!"
Finding the cars is a bit of a treasure hunt for Berg. He looks on eBay and CraigsList and keeps his eyes and ears open.
Some take conscientious effort; others he stumbles upon accidentally. The one that usually gets the most attention is the Studebaker. He says, "It's bright yellow and I like to drive it when the weather's good because it's a convertible. It definitely makes a statement and I'll park it right in front of the Windermere offices in Woodinville where everyone sees it as they drive by on the main drag."
Berg has sold a few of his collector's items in the past in order to make room for new purchases.
He notes that you need plenty of space to house a collection.
Currently, he has several garages on his property, but he admits to being one short now and adds, "I'm going to have to build another one to accommodate the hot rod I just bought."
And like a true collector, Berg is always looking ahead at his next acquisition.
When pressed, he contributes, "I've been looking at the old Land Rovers, from the '50s or '60s. They're kind of cool."


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package com.capitalone.dashboard.service;

import com.capitalone.dashboard.model.Feature;
import com.capitalone.dashboard.model.SprintEstimate;
import com.capitalone.dashboard.model.DataResponse;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Optional;

import org.bson.types.ObjectId;

public interface FeatureService {

	/**
	 * Retrieves all stories for a given team and their current sprint
	 *
	 * @param componentId
	 *            The ID of the related UI component that will reference
	 *            collector item content from this collector
	 * @param teamId
	 *            A given scope-owner's source-system ID
	 * @param agileType
	 * 			  Agile type to be retrieved (e.g., kanban | scrum)
	 *
	 * @return A data response list of type Feature containing all features for
	 *         the given team and current sprint
	 */
	DataResponse<List<Feature>> getRelevantStories(ObjectId componentId,
			String teamId, Optional<String> agileType);

	/**
	 * Retrieves a single story based on a back-end story number
	 *
	 * @param componentId
	 *            The ID of the related UI component that will reference
	 *            collector item content from this collector
	 * @param storyNumber
	 *            A back-end story ID used by a source system
	 *
	 * @return A data response list of type Feature containing a single story
	 */
	DataResponse<List<Feature>> getStory(ObjectId componentId,
			String storyNumber);

	/**
	 * Retrieves all unique super features and their total sub feature estimates
	 * for a given team and their current sprint
	 *
	 * @param componentId
	 *            The ID of the related UI component that will reference
	 *            collector item content from this collector
	 * @param teamId
	 *            A given scope-owner's source-system ID
	 * @param agileType
	 * 			  Agile type to be retrieved (e.g., kanban | scrum)
	 * @param estimateMetricType
	 * 			  The reporting metric (hours | storypoints)
	 *
	 * @return A data response list of type Feature containing the unique
	 *         features plus their sub features' estimates associated to the
	 *         current sprint and team
	 */
	DataResponse<List<Feature>> getFeatureEpicEstimates(ObjectId componentId,
			String teamId, Optional<String> agileType, Optional<String> estimateMetricType);

	/**
	 * Retrieves estimate total of all features in the current sprint and for
	 * the current team.
	 *
	 * @param componentId
	 *            The ID of the related UI component that will reference
	 *            collector item content from this collector
	 * @param teamId
	 *            A given scope-owner's source-system ID
	 * @param agileType
	 * 			  Agile type to be retrieved (e.g., kanban | scrum)
	 * @param estimateMetricType
	 * 			  The reporting metric (hours | storypoints)
	 *
	 * @return A data response list of type Feature containing the total
	 *         estimate number for all features
	 */
	@Deprecated
	DataResponse<List<Feature>> getTotalEstimate(ObjectId componentId,
			String teamId, Optional<String> agileType, Optional<String> estimateMetricType);

	/**
	 * Retrieves estimate in-progress of all features in the current sprint and
	 * for the current team.
	 *
	 * @param componentId
	 *            The ID of the related UI component that will reference
	 *            collector item content from this collector
	 * @param teamId
	 *            A given scope-owner's source-system ID
	 * @param agileType
	 * 			  Agile type to be retrieved (e.g., kanban | scrum)
	 * @param estimateMetricType
	 * 			  The reporting metric (hours | storypoints)
	 *
	 * @return A data response list of type Feature containing the in-progress
	 *         estimate number for all features
	 */
	@Deprecated
	DataResponse<List<Feature>> getInProgressEstimate(ObjectId componentId,
			String teamId, Optional<String> agileType, Optional<String> estimateMetricType);

	/**
	 * Retrieves estimate done of all features in the current sprint and for the
	 * current team.
	 *
	 * @param componentId
	 *            The ID of the related UI component that will reference
	 *            collector item content from this collector
	 * @param teamId
	 *            A given scope-owner's source-system ID
	 * @param agileType
	 * 			  Agile type to be retrieved (e.g., kanban | scrum)
	 * @param estimateMetricType
	 * 			  The reporting metric (hours | storypoints)
	 *
	 * @return A data response list of type Feature containing the done estimate
	 *         number for all features
	 */
	@Deprecated
	DataResponse<List<Feature>> getDoneEstimate(ObjectId componentId,
			String teamId, Optional<String> agileType, Optional<String> estimateMetricType);

	/**
	 * Retrieves estimate done of all features in the current sprint(s) for the current team
	 *
	 * @param componentId
	 *            The ID of the related UI component that will reference
	 *            collector item content from this collector
	 * @param teamId
	 *            A given scope-owner's source-system ID
	 * @param agileType
	 * 			  Agile type to be retrieved (e.g., kanban | scrum)
	 * @param estimateMetricType
	 * 			  The reporting metric (hours | storypoints)
	 *
	 * @return A data response list of type Feature containing the done estimate
	 *         number for all features
	 */
	DataResponse<SprintEstimate> getAggregatedSprintEstimates(ObjectId componentId,
			String teamId, Optional<String> agileType, Optional<String> estimateMetricType);

	/**
	 * Retrieves the current sprint's detail for a given team.
	 *
	 * @param componentId
	 *            The ID of the related UI component that will reference
	 *            collector item content from this collector
	 * @param teamId
	 *            A given scope-owner's source-system ID
	 * @param agileType
	 * 			  Agile type to be retrieved (e.g., kanban | scrum)
	 *
	 * @return A data response list of type Feature containing several relevant
	 *         sprint fields for the current team's sprint
	 */
	DataResponse<List<Feature>> getCurrentSprintDetail(ObjectId componentId,
			String teamId, Optional<String> agileType);
}

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I have been flirting with the Michelin-star bistro for a while now, looking at their menus and dishes. I respect the work and creative cuisine of Mr Akos Sarkozi, the chef. My birthday was an excellent opportunity to try the Michelin-star bistro.


Oh god, this is precious.
I love the art style of this game, a very interesting story.
Holy sheito this game earns an 10000/10! Best game ever!
A very lovely game, with an amazing aesthetic.
What a lovely project, you guys did really well to hit me in the heart. Well done..
Very interesting! I enjoyed it a lot.
I like how you used lights and colors. I think I can learn a lot about that just looking at your game.
Finnaly got round to playing this and im glad i did, Just as the last game i played from yarnspinner they know how to hit Story and Atmosphere , and keep the game intresting whereas many others of its type would feel boring, living up the name walking simulator, however you almost forget here. Im not idssapointed to say the least.
Meant to play this earlier, only got time to play it recently.
It really gave me the creeps and that moment when i realized what was going on in the cabin was very emotional. I really enjoyed this little game, so simple and yet makes you reflect on life.
Ahhh, this was so good! I kind of pieced things together pretty quickly, but I wasn't sure what ending the road was going to lead me to.
The atmosphere, the story being told through text messages that we can't reply to, the memories that keep popping up and the ever-creeping sense of mortality really added up to a pretty darn amazingly moving experience.
such a great narrative! Definetly tugs at your heart strings! I really enjoyed the color palette and the choice in music as it set the mood and tone for the story! Great job!
It was an amazing experience playing your game, thanks!
Repeat msg: Hey I saw No response on twitter, I'm from a new yet to be names coffee themed tech and gaming news site with reviews interviews and more We used to be based on https://aestuoshop.co.uk/articles/ and you can see some of our articles on there but we're now splitting off to our own site, Hooray! Could we have a copy of no response to review? And maybe one of your developers would be interested in a interview to promote one of your games?
Thank you for the free game i really enjoyed it and keep up the amazing work.
Such a relaxing environment for such a somber and serious story. The build up was what gave this game such a powerful ending that I wasn't expecting. I would've liked more messages and possibly a bit longer of a game to flesh out the story a bit more but maybe the shortness added to the shock at the end.
It's short, but an enjoyable game nonetheless. While playing it felt like the walking was going too slow, but I think given just how short it was, the slow pace worked really well for it and the environment was really nice so at least there was a good amount of beauty around while walking around. Toward the end I started to suspect the twist ending coming, but still wasn't prepared for it and damn, those feels man. Thanks the free key, I hope you enjoy the video!
Hi I saw No response on twitter, I'm from a new yet to be names coffee themed tech and gaming news site with reviews interviews and more We used to be based on https://aestuoshop.co.uk/articles/ and you can see some of our articles on there but we're now splitting off to our own site, Hooray! Could we have a copy of No response to review? And maybe one of your developers would be interested in a interview to promote one of your games?
This game is pretty cool, I enjoyed the story.
It was good because the story was deep.
It is a sad story, but the quality of the work is outstanding.
Thanks Yarn Spinner for hooking me up with a key!
Hi there, thank you for contacting me about your game. I'll be giving a quick review here, mostly going over the things I liked and didn't like.
I'll start off with what I liked. The game is very pretty, I love the lighting effects used, and the warmth of the colours is very inviting, it gives a somewhat relaxed feeling despite the circumstances. I found the atmosphere/tone of the game to very well done, you can immediately tell that there's more going on underneath the surface but the game slowly builds up to it, which is nice. The story is pieced together fairly well, I like when a game can tell a story through the use of it's environment, and I'd say that's done well here. The sounds used throughout the game are good as well, from the splashing of the waterfall to the hoo of an owl, everything sounded nice, though a tiny bit too loud at times, but that may have just been my headphones.
Now for what I didn't like. It wasn't easy getting the game to record properly, I have a dual monitor setup, my primary monitor is 2560x1440 and my secondary monitor is 1920x1080, it seemed as though the game was locked to a 1080p resolution and full-screen. Any time I tried to force windowed mode the game would revert back to full-screen after pressing 'enter' on the title screen, causing my second monitor to shift my capture applications around. A graphics options menu would have been lovely and would have saved about 20-30 minutes of fiddling around if I was just able to change the resolution and or window mode properly.
All in all, I tried not to let the technical issues spoil the game for me, it really is a lovely experience to be had, the game is breathtaking and the environments have been crafted with a lot of care, with details packed into each scene. The issues I experienced would likely only happen to people with similar setups as me, trying to record the game as well.
As mentioned, I recorded a short let's play of the game for my channel, hope you don't mind.
You guys played with my emotions all over again! Still, this was a beautiful game, and I appreciate you sending me a key. I haven't uploaded any new LPs in a while, but I decided start making videos again, starting with your game.
I like games that are pretty, and this game? It's very pretty. Try not to get sad!
does the game have voice acting or is it a reading type?
Any plans for a Mac release? I love the illustration.
will i know some people that would love to play your game for some videos! i hope to see the trailer soon!
was trying to buy this but it says "seller does not accept paypal at this time" ?
The opposites are attracted lol! :D (Very cool game btw).


China reached the top of the medal count at the 2019 edition of the German International Taekwondo Open, which was held in Hamburg last weekend, after grabbing a total of 4 gold medals in the Senior class. Russia did also perform at a very high level and managed to clinch 3 titles. Poland was the other team to step on top of the podium in more than one occasion with 2 golds, while Kazakhstan, Turkey, Jordan, Brazil, Niger, Croatia and Czech Republic tasted glory once in Germany on Saturday to complete the 16 categories in competition.
The Chinese fighters who won the gold medals for their country were: Tan Xueqin, who proved to be the best competitor in Women's -46 kg after defeating her compatriot Li; Guo Qing, who became the new Women's -49 kg champion after getting rid of Yildirim from Turkey in the final; The double Olympic champion Jingyu Wu, who reigned in Women's -53 kg yet again after beating Kudashova from Russia in the crucial fight; and Guo Yunfei, who stepped on top of the Women's -67 kg podium after managing to edge her compatriot Song.


TIÉBÉLÉ, Burkina Faso - On the rocky ground outside the Kollo mining village near the border between Burkina Faso and Ghana, about 100 people are working, 30 or so of them children. They smash boulders into pebbles and pebbles into grit with primitive hammers and sticks. They haul buckets of well water up the hillside and, pouring this water into shallow pans filled with rock and dirt, they swirl the muddy mix, looking in the silt for tiny flecks of gold.
Nearby, a small hill rises from this barren gold field, and atop this hill are hand-dug shafts that plunge 150 feet into the ground. Joseph, 15, and Germain, 12, lead the way down into the mine, gripping knotted ropes, finding footholds and squeezing past support timbers in the yard-wide pits. They get to the bottom after 20 minutes and silently begin to fill buckets of ore to be hauled up by rope.
The shaft ends in a cramped, pitch-dark pit. The bottom widens a bit to reveal a tiny, wedge-shaped crevice. In the darkness, sitting cross-legged with a flashlight strapped to his head, is a small boy. He chinks at the rock walls with a handmade pickax and scoops the shards into a large green bucket. His hands never stop moving - scooping and chipping, chipping and scooping. The older boys call him Théophile. They say he is 7 years old.
in Burkina Faso, where last year the government announced a plan to significantly reduce the numbers of exploited children by 2015. But enforcement is lacking.
The U.S. Department of Labor also is funding a four-year, $5 million project in Burkina Faso, one of the world's poorest nations, to reduce child labor in cotton farming and gold mining. The grant will be used to help raise awareness about child labor laws and build government capacity to monitor and enforce the laws, said Eric Biel, acting associate deputy undersecretary for the Bureau of International Labor Affairs.
The project aims to help 1,000 households and 10,000 children avoid "exploitative child labor" by offering schooling, financing, and alternative employment.
Child labor in the gold mines here is so prevalent - and so obvious - that the U.S. government prohibits its agencies and contractors from buying the gold directly from Burkina Faso. The prohibition, however, does not extend to private dealers.
Observers say porous borders, which facilitate black-market trades, and the very nature of the world gold supply chain make tracking gold mined in Burkina Faso almost impossible. Furthermore, federal purchases of gold from legitimate international sellers do not necessarily preclude some of the gold originating here.
The Canada-based Artisanal Gold Council, which is working to implement tracking systems and promote fair-trade policies, says there are no hard data to pinpoint whether gold mined by children in Burkina Faso reaches the United States or ends up in jewelry purchased by Americans. Anthony Persaud, a policy and field operations coordinator for the council, says it is "unlikely" but not out of the question.
Burkina Faso does not refine its gold but sells it through exporters to refiners in Dubai and Europe, he says. From there the gold enters the world supply chain.
"The thing about gold, you can fit $50,000 of it in your pocket without anybody noticing," says Persaud. "It's quite easy to move across borders like that."
Juliane Kippenberg, a senior researcher for Human Rights Watch, said the group's 2011 report on child labor at small-scale mines persuaded one gold refiner to suspend purchases from Mali.
"We are not calling upon companies to boycott gold that has been mined by children," Kippenberg said, "but to remediate the situation if they find child labor in their supply chain - by engaging the relevant government, their suppliers, and demanding progress to get these children out of the mines and into school."
Gold production in Burkina Faso has more than doubled in recent years, reaching 32 metric tons in 2012, according to the World Bank. (Unlike its neighbors Mali and Ghana, ancient gold kingdoms and major producers today, Burkina Faso is a relative newcomer to the market.) The return of international mining companies, banned for a time in the 1990s, has boosted production. Still, much of the gold comes from small-scale mines.
Small-scale gold mining began here in earnest in the 1980s as droughts and famines forced families from farms and into mines to earn a living. It remains a family affair.
"You cannot eliminate child labor in a community when the income of the family is so low," said Alexandre Soho, senior program officer for the International Program for the Elimination of Child Labor of the ILO. "You need to tackle the issue of the livelihoods for the parents."
The U.S. Labor Department and the ILO consider mining one of the worst forms of child labor because of the risks of injury and death and the long-term health consequences from constant exposure to dust, toxic chemicals, and heavy manual labor. The list of documented ills includes permanent lung damage caused by inhaling pulverized minerals, muscular and skeletal injuries, hearing loss, accidental blinding, and mercury poisoning with its attendant neurological damage. And then there is the fact that when children are working, they are not in school.
In Tiébélé, near the Kollo mine, Daouda Ganno, general secretary of the mayor's office, says local communities are trying to establish a prefect near each village to enforce school attendance. When a child is absent, he said, "the prefect will go out and find the parent and ask, 'Where is your child?' and then they will find the child and bring him to school." This is Ganno's plan, but for now, he says, it is still only a plan.
The nature of the mining makes enforcement difficult. Often the mines are illegal and hastily dug on private property. A claim is worked and then abandoned and the miners move on. The government collects taxes from miners who work or prospect on public land and has made efforts to regulate the small mines, but with an estimated 200 mining sites, most of them very remote, the task is overwhelming, authorities say.
At a new mining site in the Bilbalé region 12 miles west of Diébougou, about 200 people show up overnight, drawn by the rumor of gold. About 50 children are in the crowd and even the tiniest will work. In hours, the men and older boys have cleared the ground of scrub trees and sparse grass and the digging begins at a frantic pace.
Little children, some naked, squat on the ground to claw dirt and rocks into shallow bowls. The families fill as many vessels with raw dirt and rock as possible. This rock and dirt is weighed and becomes their share of the "take" from the mine. If gold is found, all the miners will get a little money. If there is no gold at this site, the miners move to the next place where gold is rumored to be.
Miners earn little for their work - children even less. ILO surveys found children often were paid no more than $2 a day or only received food for filling buckets with gravel, Soho said. An entire family might make $5 at an undeveloped site. At established mines, such as Kollo, workers say they can earn about $40 a day.
If the yield at a field is good, word gets out and a boomtown springs up with shanties, supply huts, and cafes among the plastic-covered huts where miners live. Such is the case at Kollo, now home to 3,000 people.
With the established mines and villages also come the ore-processing centers where miners take large sacks or rocks and pebbles to be ground into powder. This powder will be processed, usually with mercury, and further refined into gold nuggets at another location.
The ore-crushing machines are makeshift contraptions cobbled together with pulleys, belts, grinding plates, and smoke-belching diesel engines. And while it takes the strength of a man to empty the bags of rock into the crushers, children do most of the other work. They sharpen metal grinding wheels without eye protection; scoop and bag fine powder without dust masks; and fetch and carry just inches from pulleys, belts, and spinning motors with the power to rip and shred anything caught in their works.
The pounding and clanking of the crushers are deafening. The machines spew constant clouds of dust, which coats the children from their heads to their bare feet. Water is scarce, so the children use the bilge water from the machines to wash their faces and brush their teeth. When the children are not working, they lie down near the machines and sleep, oblivious to the noise. Their coughing is constant.
At the Kouékowéra camp near Gaoua, Karim Sawadogo works with his uncle. The boy says he thinks he is 9 years old, but he isn't sure. He has been to school, but only a little. Before the gold field, he was a goatherd near his home in northern Burkina Faso. In the camp, he cooks, fetches water. In the mine, Karim works barefoot and shirtless, his feet thickly callused, his muscles flexing as he chips ore and fills buckets.
Speaking in his native dialect, Karim smiles when he is asked what he wants to do with his life. "I came here to make money," he says. "My dream is to make enough money so I don't have to do this anymore."


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I have been going over tons of forums and i am not sure what the best way to mount the rims. I have a 2001 Z28 Vert. I just picked up a set of C5 wheels, front are 245/45/17 rims are 17 x 8.5 offset 56mm. Rear are 275/40/18 rims are 18 x 9.5 offset 61mm. I tried to mount the rear wheel and the bumper stop was in way and also a piece of the front inside wheel well. I don't want to cut bumperstop or use a BFH either on the car. So im wondering if spacers are fine to use so i dont have to mod of wheel well. From what im reading people seem to have different clearances in their wheel wells. Whats the best way to measure size of spacers needed. Any help or personal experiences would be appreciated.
My calculation indicates a 61mm offset, with a 9.5" width gives a backspace of 7.65" (this is approximate, because it requires an assumption of the width of the flanges that hold the tire on the rim). That should not be hitting the bump stop (are they stock or the aftermarket Jeep bump stops?), or the inner fenders. I have 11" wide, 50mm offset in the back, and they have a 7.93" backspace, and they do hit the bump stops and the inner fenders. With regard to the factory bump stops, the only thing that needed to be cut off was the projecting metal lip of the stop, not the actual composite stop material.
My C5 chart (verified with online sources) indicates the 97-99 wheels were 18x9.5 61mm in the back. But those aren't 97-99 wheels in the pic. They are 2000 and up, and my chart shows them as 18x9.5" 65mm offset. That bumps the backspace up to 7.81", which should still give you a bit of clearance to the bump stop and inner fenders.
Measure the backspace. Put a straight edge across the flanges of the wheel (not touching the tire) and measure from the bottom of the straight edge to the face of the hub mounting surface.
Did you try fitting the rear wheels to both sides of the car? If not, the rear of the chassis may not be centered exactly over the rear axle assembly, and the wheels would only hit on one side. Is your car lowered? Do you have an adjustable panhard bar?
You need to check the fitment with the car jacked by the axle. Just remember - if you have to jack the car by the chassis for a roadside tire repair, the edge of the bump stop may still move upwards and can catch the edge of the rim or the edge of the tire, causing damage.
You need to check the fitment on both sides of the car. If the chassis is off center, one side may be fine and the other side may hit something. Because of the design of the panhard bar, as the chassis moves up and down, it moves sideways due to the fact the panhard bar is moving in an arc. The spacing side-to-side can change by as much as 1/4".
Your situation is made worse with regard to rubbing on the inner fender, because the rear tires you have are 1" larger in diameter than the stock tires, and stick up 1/2" further into the wheel well. Your speedometer will read 3.7% lower than actual speed. At a true 60 MPH, your speedo will read 57.7 MPH.
I didn't have to use spacers. What thickness spacer/adapter are you using?
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Post by FromLItoLogan » November 14th, 2022, 2:22 pm
I wonder what his story is?
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Re: Xavier Williams No Longer on Roster
Post by AggieGrad2021 » November 14th, 2022, 2:29 pm
I'll defer to Brian on this, em he probably knows more, but I'm assuming it has something to do with his lack of playing time. He was in the rotation getting a lot of reps in a national championship game, to have guys like KVN ahead of him here, I'm sure he wasn't thrilled with that.
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Post by brownjeans » November 14th, 2022, 2:46 pm
AggieGrad2021 wrote: ↑
His reason for leaving may be connected to his lack of playing time
His lack of playing time may be connected to why he is now leaving
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Post by Hoot » November 14th, 2022, 2:57 pm
I'd be mad if McGriff was playing over me too lol.
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Post by DreadPirateRoberts » November 14th, 2022, 3:55 pm
This is old news.
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Post by Roy McAvoy » November 14th, 2022, 4:40 pm
There's a lot of dudes no longer on the roster that haven't been there a bit. Maybe this is recency bias, but it feels to me like more non-injury attrition than I'm accustomed to seeing mid-season..
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Post by aggies22 » November 14th, 2022, 5:07 pm
DreadPirateRoberts wrote: ↑
This is very old news. The Aggship guy tweeted this out today for some strange reason.
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Post by LarryTheAggie » November 14th, 2022, 5:08 pm
aggies22 wrote: ↑
Odd I think Kyle Goon tweeted about it 2 days ago...
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Here is the list of players that WERE on the fall camp roster that no longer appear on the roster released today.
RB - Pailate Makakona
WR - Ziggy Williams
TE - Jimmy McCormack
TE - Ron Tiavasu'ue
OL - Austin Leausa
DE - Addison Trupp
LB - Marcus Betts
LB - Avery Ellis
LB - Owen Fa'amoe
S - Gurvan Hall
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Post by hvaggie » November 14th, 2022, 5:21 pm
And Ron Tiavasuue
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Post by aggieguy13 » November 14th, 2022, 5:25 pm
Can we get the full Marcus Betts story now? Wasn't he like 28 years old and hadn't played since 2015?
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Post by Imakeitrain » November 14th, 2022, 5:55 pm
It seems like there is an uptick the past year or so around the country. I do remember hearing this a while ago but maybe I heard a rumor then that now came to fruition.
I think there can be a lot of reasons for it and wont pretend to know. I will say with super seniors, I can completely understand the frustration for people that dont feel they are getting enough playing time.
hvaggie wrote: ↑
Dammit. I left him off. Thanks my Aggie brother!
Hoot wrote: ↑
And now McGriff is skipping his covid season.
I know John Gentry is still listed on the roster, but I have to include him on the list as well.
He never saw the field, he doesn't dress, and he's been totally removed from the depth chart.
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Post by slcagg » November 14th, 2022, 6:55 pm
Best of luck to him. I'm looking forward to who steps up next year in that spot.
What's with John Gentry. I really thought he showed a lot of upside last year.
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Post by OrangeCountyAggie » November 14th, 2022, 9:31 pm
What happened to Hall?
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Post by Elkaggie » November 14th, 2022, 9:32 pm
Coach said kind of under his breathe at luncheon that "Gurvan is currently not on the roster due to some injuries" he said it fast while showing highlights from game as he was talking about Marion playing safety.
For whatever reason he just doesn't fit in the plans. I don't expect him to return next year.
Elkaggie wrote: ↑
It is not injury related.
I know but that is a direct quote from BA at todays luncheon. Why would he say that ??
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Post by GrandPoubah » November 14th, 2022, 11:22 pm
Cuz, despite y'all soaking up that born again stuff, the man talks out both sides of his mouth.
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Post by WAAggie » November 15th, 2022, 5:28 am
Surprised it took 23 post before pouba contributed.
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Post by AGinNEIowa » November 15th, 2022, 8:15 am
injury to multiple egos?
Post by Roy McAvoy » November 15th, 2022, 8:33 am
Roy McAvoy wrote: ↑
Cole Joyce is another player no longer listed on the depth chart. No idea if he's hurt or what. It's insane how thin we are at LB right now.
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Post by GeoAg » November 15th, 2022, 8:50 am
He played on Saturday on special teams. He is still on the roster as of today.
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Post by HomeTown » November 15th, 2022, 3:03 pm
I don't think he said exactly that. I think it was more like 'Due to Gurvan not currently being on the roster and some injuries Marion is playing.' I think Gurvan not on the roster and injuries were two different reasons for him seeing the field not one statement as a single reason.
HomeTown wrote: ↑
Precisely this.
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Post by AggiesForever » November 16th, 2022, 8:56 am
Players leave for a variety of reasons. Anderson said Monday it's is usually always about playing time.
I think in Hall's case he came out here for his Senior season thinking he was guaranteed a starting role, which he initially had. But he didn't count on Ike Larsen simply becoming a better player than him. Now you have Larsen and Reynolds starting at safety and Hall is upset about. The answer: play better.
Xavier Williams was non factor all spring, they did everything they could to try and get him meaningful touches. But he couldn't beat out the guy in front of him, the same as at Alabama. Why? Don't know. But he's not playing, so he wants to go somewhere else . . . where I'm betting the same thing will happen again.
With most of these players who transfer, it's about playing time. But it goes deeper. In many cases their practice habits, and "motor" just don't match up with what the coaches are looking for, despite their obvious talent. They will be forever in the transfer portal, looking for a place where whatever they do have, and can actually do align in such a way that they can get on the field. That usually means a lower level of play, such as FCS schools.
For those lucky enough to hook on with a school at a higher level, it doesn't mean a chance at playing time, let alone stardom. For every Jaylen Warren that transfers to Oklahoma State and stars, you get, for instance, Cam Lampkin. He got lucky hooking on with Washington State after committing to several other schools after leaving here, but he's not doing much-- 8 games, 4 tackles. Better or worse off? Zahodri Jackson wound up at North Texas, but by looking at their stats, he's not playing any more than he did here. Eleylon Noa isn't doing anything at Boise State. 31 carries for 123 yards. So a quarter of the carries and yards he had last year.
That grass elsewhere is not always greener. Look at the guys who have entered the portal this year from our team-- they're guys who entered the portal to come here, searching for that elusive "bigger role." They haven't been able to find it. I'm guessing their searching has nothing to do with talent. Maybe it it really has to do with a lack of heart. JMHO.
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Post by apo » November 16th, 2022, 12:24 pm
AggiesForever wrote: ↑
While I agree that generally the biggest factor is playing time. There's a lot of unseen factors we don't see that can be paired with that. I'd be hesitant to make a "lack of heart" a generalized reason for transferring. Some people couple their lack of playing time with family issues that require a closer move. Also you may feel that your lack of playing is also due to development and you feel like a different coach will develop or scheme you better.
And, as we've seen with this coaching staff, loyalty and favoritism by the coaching staff can always be a major role.
I'd just hate to over generalize a transferring reason to a "lack of heart" when all we see is a tiny piece of the puzzle and most of these guys are far more invested in their own success than we will be. It's their lives/livelihoods on the line, compared to our fan-ship.
…although that's not to say there are some (likely few) who lack heart.
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Post by cval » November 16th, 2022, 12:33 pm
I blame the transfer portal... It was certainly too hard to get out of a situation you didn't like before, but the pendulum has swung so far that every guy thinks he would be better off if he could just go somewhere where he was more appreciated.
Nobody says, "I just need to work harder to make it work." It's the coaches fault for not using them enough, or not using them right.
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Unless you feel like working hard in the same setting won't bring the same results as working hard in a new setting.
A lot of times we come down hard on players for transferring but I've switched jobs because I felt management was limiting my potential. I worked hard but that hard work wasn't being rewarded.
I understand how transferring in the middle of the season is problem. You owe your team everything you've got for a whole season but they don't owe us anything beyond that season. I'd love for great people to stay but at the end of the day, people need to do what's best for them.
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Alack Sinner es una historieta policíaca desarrollada por los autores argentinos Carlos Sampayo (guion) y José Muñoz (dibujos) para diversos mercados europeos a partir de 1975. Está considerado como uno de los clásicos del género y sus autores cuentan con numerosos discípulos y algunos imitadores. Su protagonista homónimo también aparece en otras obras de los autores, en calidad de personaje secundario, como El bar de Joe o Billie Holiday.

Trayectoria editorial
Sus autores, grandes aficionados a la cultura estadounidense, pretendían con Alack Sinner

Fue publicada por primera vez en la revista italiana AlterLinus en 1975. Posteriormente, ha sido editada en Francia por Charlie Mensuel en 1975; en España por Totem desde 1977; en Argentina por la revista Fierro, y en Suiza, la ex Yugoslavia, Holanda, Bélgica, México, Brasil, Estados Unidos y otros países.

En 2006 fue puesto en edición un nuevo libro de Alack Sinner, cuyo argumento alude a los efectos de los atentados de Nueva York en 2001.

Argumento
En un principio era un policial negro ambientado en Estados Unidos, pero los autores se desprendieron rápidamente del género para dar lugar a una obra de carácter humanista, muy centrada en las relaciones entre las personas.

Una particularidad propia de este personaje es que, a lo largo de los años, ha envejecido, situándose en una esfera realista y naturalista.

Influencia
Alack Sinner motivaría a Vittorio Giardino a crear su propia serie policíaca, Sam Pezzo (1979), la cual se ambienta en su ciudad natal, Bolonia, en lugar de una Nueva York imaginaria.

Referencias

Bibliografía

Enlaces externos

 Alack Sinner 1974-75: PRIMERA PARTE en Ouroboros World
 Alack Sinner 1975-77: SEGUNDA PARTE en Ouroboros World
 Alack Sinner 1982-92: TERCERA PARTE en Ouroboros World
 Alack Sinner 2000-2006: CUARTA Y ÚLTIMA PARTE en Ouroboros World

Historieta policíaca
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Q: Missing type specifier While compiling below code I am getting missing type specifier error. Any way I can solve this issue? I have been trying for few days now and couldnt make any progress. Done almost everything that was suggested for this similar issue but cant seem to get through
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#include "MemoryProtection.h"
#include "Resources.h"
#include "stdafx.h"

pWriteProcessMemory pfnWriteProcessMemory = NULL;
pReadProcessMemory pfnReadProcessMemory = NULL;

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#pragma once

#include <Windows.h>
#include "3rd\detours.h"
#include <Psapi.h>
#include <atlstr.h>

#pragma comment(lib, "Detours.lib")

typedef LONG NTSTATUS;

#define NT_SUCCESS(Status) ((NTSTATUS)(Status) >= 0)

LRESULT CALLBACK GetMsgProc(int nCode, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam);

typedef BOOL(WINAPI* pReadProcessMemory) (HANDLE hProcess, LPCVOID lpBaseAddress, LPVOID lpBuffer, SIZE_T nSize, SIZE_T* lpNumberOfBytesRead);
typedef BOOL(WINAPI* pWriteProcessMemory) (HANDLE hProcess, LPVOID lpBaseAddress, LPCVOID lpBuffer, SIZE_T nSize, SIZE_T* lpNumberOfBytesWritten);

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Severity    Code    Description Project File    Line    Suppression State
Error   C4430   missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int        6
Error   C2146   syntax error: missing ';' before identifier 'pfnWriteProcessMemory'     6
Error   C4430   missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int        7
Error   C2146   syntax error: missing ';' before identifier 'pfnReadProcessMemory'      7
Error   C4430   missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int        8

A: If you're using pre-compiled headers #include "stdafx.h" should be the first  pre-processor line. Otherwise all previous includes are overwritten.

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The compiler treats all code occurring before the .h file as precompiled. It skips to just beyond the #include directive associated with the .h file, uses the code contained in the .pch file, and then compiles all code after filename.
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See also What's the use for "stdafx.h" in Visual Studio? and StdAfx.h for Novices on cplusplus.com.

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