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ARROW Season 8×10, "Fadeout" (SERIES FINALE) recap
Welcome back, Arrowheads, for the last time! This short season has been one long goodbye for Oliver Queen, as he's said goodbye to friends and family, all while preparing for the Crisis that would threaten the entire multiverse. Well, the Crisis has come and passed, and Ollie is dead, having created a new universe for all his loved ones that is slightly different than the one his extended family remembers. And while we have seen how this new universe has affected other heroes, we only know about the future of Star City, being at peace for decades after Ollie's passing. But what about our present? What has been changed, and what is next for everyone who knows Oliver Queen now? Continue reading →
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DC Recap Round-Up 3, SPECIAL EDITION: CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS (PART 2)
Welcome back from the holiday break, and welcome back to the second half of our recaps of Crisis on Infinite Earths! Before we close off this big crossover event, let's just remind ourselves what happened last time, because it's quite a bit. The Monitor assembles a team of heroes to combat the universe(s) destroying threat of the Anti-Monitor, and it goes…not so well. Oliver Queen gets killed off early, but may serve a bigger purpose in the fight yet to come, as something else. And as worlds are destroyed, our heroes fight to save the multiverse. Unfortunately for them, the last of their Earths are wiped away, and our core group of heroes find themselves whisked away to the Vanishing Point, a space outside of the universe where they are safe. That core group being: The Flash, Supergirl, Batwoman, White Canary, scientist Ryan Choi, Martian Manhunter, and…Lex Luthor? Just how do these seven even succeed at restoring EVERYTHING they've lost? And what is the dead Oliver Queen's role in all of this? Continue reading →
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Welcome to the first of our special Recap Round-Ups on Crisis on Infinite Earths! There's gonna be a lot of ground to cover, lots of team ups, lots of cameos, lots of surprises, and lots of deaths to cover for this one (making up the first three parts of this epic crossover), so let's just get the basics out of the way. For the last year or so, we've had appearances by an alien being known as The Monitor, warning our heroes of a threat so immense it could destroy all of the multiverse! And now, things have lined up where that threat has come.
In the build-up, the Monitor recruited Oliver Queen and his friends (even bringing his grown children, Mia and William, from the future into the present) to prepare for the eventual multidimensional fight. Barry Allen has been living with the spectre of knowing The Flash will die because of this Crisis, and been preparing for that eventuality. And now, one of the Harrison Wells of the multiverse, Nash, may have just released said threat from its prison by accident! So, now the Crisis has begun! Continue reading →
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"The Way We Weren't"
Donald Trump's Strangest Bedfellows: Part 12
This is Part 12 of a blog series titled "Donald Trump's Strangest Bedfellows."
Although each entry in the series has some information and commentary
that can be of interest "standing alone," each builds on information,
concepts, and commentary introduced in earlier entries in the series,
and thus it is most effective to read the material sequentially from the beginning.
Click here to go to the first entry in the series, Part 1
At the end of each entry you will find a link to the next part of the series.
I never did get around to seeing the 1973 Barbra Streisand/Robert Redford The Way We Were movie. But anyone old enough to have been around during that era surely remembers the classic theme song by the same name, sung by Barbra. It was a huge hit at the time, named the Billboard Magazine top song of 1974, and "went platinum" eventually, selling over 2 million copies. It has long since become a cultural "pop standard" song.
Its popularity can in part be attributed to Streisand's usual powerful delivery, and the haunting melody. But I'm suspicious it is also in part because of the poignant lyrics…that many listeners can identify with. Starting with the opening two lines:
Mem'ries light the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored mem'ries of the way we were
Why "water-colored" and "misty"? Because even a harsh scene like a broken-down house or an auto junkyard, if rendered by a painter in pale water colors and as if seen through a watery mist—would lose all its harsh edges and jarring details! It can even take on a beauty of its own…especially if, as seen in a misty, water-colored memory, that run-down house has the gentle representation of some beloved person like a grandma standing on the porch.
A while back, I found a long-lost 1952 photo of my grandparents' northern Michigan farmhouse in a jumbled box of old photos, the only photo I have of it. I probably hadn't seen that photo since my childhood! My memories of visiting that house in that year, when I was six years old, have long included sitting in a porch swing, on a wide, wrap-around porch WAY high off the ground, that was big enough to comfortably seat my whole extended family on porch chairs to enjoy the gentle coolness of a summer evening and chat. The porch was so high I couldn't have safely jumped down from it, and thus I have always pictured railings all around it to keep me safe. To get down to the yard to go catch fireflies with my older siblings on a 1950s summer's eve, I would have needed to scamper down the wide steps leading down from the front of the porch, that were so clear in my mem'ries.
If asked to describe the building, I would have seen in my mind's eye a cheerful, brightly painted (probably white), expansive two story house (my bedroom when I visited was upstairs looking down over that porch). My misty mem'ry of Grandma and Granddad's house looks very much like this farmhouse I found just now with a Google image search.
In fact, adding the softening "watercolor effect" to my mem'ry (via photoshopping…) leaves what's long been in my mind something more like this:
Imagine my shock when I found the photo of the actual down-at-the-heels old house (probably built in the 1920s or so) as it looked in the 1950s.
After seeing this photo, I guess it was indeed two-story, and sprawling a bit, and there is the upstairs front window of the bedroom I remember looking out. But that is NOT a cheery building! It is dark and bleak. That's probably my Grandma Irene on the porch—which was certainly not nearly big enough to seat my family comfortably. There are no railings and no steps and no porch swing at all, and I could easily have jumped down from that porch to the yard even as a little girl.
I like my misty, water-colored mem'ries of the farmhouse, better than the vastly inferior reality. I have similar misty mem'ries of other things from my "Fifties Happy Days" youth, that all too often have to be readjusted when I see real photos of what it was REALLY like. I think most Baby Boomers have similar misty mem'ries of their own childhood and teen years. Nothing wrong with that, when it is involved in little features of our own family nostalgia.
The problem comes when we utterly refuse to admit that some things we think we remember are incorrect, including practically glorified memories about the wider society and culture of the time, even when faced with reality. And when we pass our incorrect inflated memories on to later generations, who may end up basing "real world" decisions in the 21st century on our claims.
There are a lot more important factors about the 1950s than the look of my Grandma's farmhouse, that have been filtered through water-colored mem'ries. Or, in some cases, filtered through outright efforts of certain people and groups who deal in misinformation…or disinformation.
Did, for instance, the Warren Court decisions in 1962 and 1963 regarding "government-guided" prayer and Bible reading and "religious exercises" in schools have a devastating effect on society? Did those rulings lead to most families and youth of the time being drastically degraded almost overnight from fine, upstanding examples of Christian Living as they had been in the 1950s and before, to degenerate hedonists? All because those decisions "kicked God out of the schools" and implied to Him that no one wanted His interference anymore?
To read the claims of many modern evangelicals, that we need to "Make America Christian Again" (along with making it militarily and economically Great again) one would think that indeed, the Warren Court was a tool of the Devil to bring about the near-destruction of an almost idyllic US society. And only a coalition between Donald Trump and his Strange Bedfellows can restore the Land to its former glory.
Let's part some of the mists shrouding the reality of the Happy Good Old Days, look at some actual photos and documentation, and see what we might see.
There seems to be a prevalent conviction among the nostalgic that the nature of marriage and family life in the 1950s and early 60s lined up throughout most of society with what you see on re-runs of old TV shows of the time. There is a particular nostalgia for the warmth of the marriage shown on I Love Lucy, and the patriarchal benevolence and respect for the dignified family role of fathers shown on Father Knows Best.
So let's take a brief look at these two upstanding/outstanding examples of what family life must have been like back in the heyday of when America was Christian and Great.
From the time the new I Love Lucy show hit the airwaves in 1951, Lucy and Desi were The American Ideal, the role models, of a loving couple. On TV, and in real life. EVERYBODY loved Lucille Ball. Especially, it seemed obvious, her doting husband of a decade (who played her fictional husband on the show), Desi Arnaz. The whole nation practically shut down every week as the latest episode of I Love Lucy was broadcast. Especially the episode that was aired on the date on which Lucy gave birth, in real life, to the couple's second child, Desi Arnaz, Jr.
The episode in which Lucy gives birth [to the baby called on the show "Little Ricky"], "Lucy Goes to the Hospital", first aired on January 19, 1953, which was the day before the inauguration of Dwight Eisenhower as President of the United States. To increase the publicity of this episode, the original air date was chosen to coincide with Lucille Ball's real-life delivery of Desi, Jr. by Caesarean section. "Lucy Goes to the Hospital" was watched by more people than any other television program up to that time, with 71.7% of all American television sets tuned in, topping the 67.7 rating for the inauguration coverage the following morning. [Source]
The couple and their sweet little daughter (born just weeks before the first episode of the show) and young son were featured regularly on covers and in photo spreads in national magazines—and even comic books—giving the public a glimpse of the ideal family life they could aspire to.
Except…everything in those pictures was already a misty, water-colored façade.
On March 3, 1960, a day after Desi's 43rd birthday (and one day after the filming of Lucy and Desi's last episode together), Ball filed papers in Santa Monica Superior Court, claiming married life with Desi was "a nightmare"and nothing at all as it appeared on I Love Lucy. On May 4, 1960, just two months after filming that episode (the final episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour), the couple divorced. [Source]
The fictional couple you saw on the show were not a "reflection" of the real home and family life of the famous couple, as you might think from seeing all those magazine spreads. The life displayed on the show was pure fiction. From the earliest years of their marriage, in 1941, Desi Arnaz had been a confirmed womanizer, and by the time of the I Love Lucy show his private life was one never-ending round of drinking, gambling, and women when not "on set" filming the show.
People Magazine bio of Desi and Lucy 1991
[A potpourri of comments by people who knew them:]
Jim Bacon, veteran Hollywood reporter for the Associated Press: The big problem with their marriage was that when Desi would get drunk, he was wild. If he was out carousing, he wouldn't call in one whore, he'd call in 18. One night when I was with him in Palm Springs, he didn't do anything but sit on the floor naked and sing "Babaloo" with all these whores around.
Bob Weiskopf [screenwriter and producer]: Basically, Desi's attitude was, "What the hell's the matter? I love her. When I go out with women, they're usually hookers. Those don't count."
Jim Bacon: Lucy put up with it quite a bit, but then it just became too embarrassing. Especially when he got arrested on Hollywood Boulevard. That was sometime in the '50s. The cops picked him up, drunk, standing in front of this whorehouse, singing Cuban songs.
Bart Andrews [author of books about Lucy]: She told me that by 1956 it wasn't even a marriage anymore. They were just going through a routine for the children. She told me that for the last five years of their marriage, it was "just booze and broads." That was in her divorce papers, as a matter of fact.
Keith Thibodeaux, who played Little Ricky on the I Love Lucy show: [At their home] there was always tension. One time Desi Jr. and I were playing in the backyard, and they were in the guest house. We heard a lot of loud arguing and cursing and glass shattering and screaming, and we were scared. Desi Jr. turned to me and said, "There they go again." I was about 9,10 years old. [Source]
If the family life on I Love Lucy didn't really reflect the life of the actors in the real world of the 1950s, how about the family life of "Jim Anderson," actor Robert Young's alter-ego on the Father Knows Best show (1954-1960)?
When reminiscing about how godly and wonderful the society of the 1950s was, lots of folks with roots in that era will point to their memories of Father Knows Best as an example of how things were, and how far we've come from that ideal.
Jim and Margaret Anderson and their children, Bud, Betty, and little Kathy were touted back at the time as the perfect models for us all. And continue to be touted by some folks clear into the present as the perfect models to go back to, as part of Making America Great again, restoring "True Family Values."
The problem is, Jim, who supposedly Knew Best, and his wife and offspring weren't a family of the '50s. They were fictional characters! Invented by writers in Hollywood.
They weren't the "typical" family of the day. They were what I've come to call a Disneyfied version.
The show began in 1954, just a year before Walt Disney introduced the nation to his own "pseudo memories"…misty, water colored mem'ries…of his childhood hometown.
Mainstreet USA as seen in Disneyland and the later Disney parks such as this one in France…
…was created as an idealized version of Walt's childhood hometown, Marceline, Missouri. A VERY idealized version. For here is the unvarnished, un-water-colored, un-mistied up Marceline of the period when he lived there.
The Disney Imagineers who designed Main Street, USA, were trying to create a popularized Utopian environment. The word "Utopia" was invented by author Thomas More for his 1516 book titled Utopia, by combining the Greek words for not and place—it is "no place." A "Place that Never Was." The Disney version was based on Walt's pseudo-memories of a Place that Never Was.
And this is surely true of the fictional Anderson Family—it was the Family That Never Was.
Because the REAL people who populated the screen sets for the show during its run from 1954 to 1960 were nothing like the Andersons. Elinor Donahue (daughter "Betty") and Jane Wyatt (wife "Margaret") managed to escape major issues. But the stories of the rest of the cast make it clear that the show wasn't reflecting real life.
Robert Young ("Jim"): Young suffered from alcoholism and depression off screen during the show's run. He had a nervous breakdown in 1966 and it took him nearly 4 years to recover. He attempted suicide in 1991.
Lauren Chapin ("Kathy"—called "Kitten" on the show by her dad): In real life, Lauren, born in 1945, had a hellish home life, as briefly described in this review of her 1989 autobiography:
An astounding 20-year drug trip through hell, riveting from first word to last. In the Fifties and Sixties, Chapin was famous as Robert Young's snippish and pesty younger daughter Kathy on Father Knows Best. Her real-life mother and father separated because of her mother's alcoholism, and mother remained with Lauren and her two brothers. Mother was a vicious harpy and life with her sheer hell. But even before the divorce, Lauren as a three-year-old was sexually abused by her father, who fondled her while watching TV. Then at seven Lauren landed her TV goldmine job and, with her child actor brother, supported the family. But life with mother was a raging inferno and at 11 Lauren ran away to live with her remarried father and got court protection from her mother. However, Dad was soon up to his old TV tricks with his aging daughter and for years disgusted and terrified her with his demands.
So Lauren ran off again, to marry a kid she didn't love, then was taken in by a supercharming pimp hairdresser/drug-dealer, who got her hooked on heroin and had her turning tricks for $1000 each. Pimp Eddie was soon breaking her ribs and kicking her apart for not earning enough–and the rest of Lauren's tale is simply hair-raising, with vile, nutty killer Eddie and his .375 Magnum being the easy part. [Source]
Intermixed in all that, she suffered 8 miscarriages and two serious attempts at suicide. The first was a failed attempt at hanging herself on the rack in her clothes closet in her teen years. The second:
"While on drugs one night, she sought to exorcise her demons with a meat cleaver and was found by the police "wandering down Hollywood Boulevard, delirious and with my left hand almost severed. They took me to the hospital and managed to save my hand, but I have no feeling in it." [Source]
Early on she may have been "turning tricks" for $1000, but that didn't last long:
At first, men would pay handsomely to sleep with "Kitten." Eventually, she descended to working the street, servicing 30 to 40 men a night for as little as $5 a trick. [Source]
And the money she earned from her stint on Father Knows Best?
By the time she was eligible for her $90,000 TV earnings, held in trust, her mother, an alcoholic suffering from TB, had sued her for the money. Lauren settled the case out of court and emerged with just $19,000. [Source]
Gratefully, Lauren Chapin had a "religious conversion" experience in 1979 that turned her life around, and is reported to be doing well now at age 71.
Billy Gray ("Bud"): Billy was born in 1938, so when the show ended he was about 22. In 1962 at age 24, Billy was arrested and sent to jail for a while for marijuana possession. (He is reported to have publicly admitted to using weed heavily since age 14.) Although he was never again in problems with the law for drug matters, that single incident plagued him for years in terms of getting other acting roles.
Billy (now 79 years old) was probably the most honest critic of the show, insisting in interviews in later years that it was NOT either a good role model for families, nor an accurate reflection of family life and society in general in the 1950s. Here are some excerpts from a 1983 interview with Billy:
I wish there was some way I could tell the kids not to believe it. The dialogue, the situations, the characters,  they were all totally false. The show did everyone a disservice. The girls were always trained to use their feminine wiles, to pretend to be helpless to attract men. The show contributed to a lot of the problems between men and women that we see today. . . . I think we were all well motivated, but what we did was run a hoax. 'Father Knows Best' purported to be a reasonable facsimile of life. And the bad thing is, the model is so deceitful. It usually revolved around not wanting to tell the truth, either out of embarrassment, or not wanting to hurt someone. If I could say anything to make up for all the years I lent myself to (that), it would be, 'You Know Best.' [Source]
But is it fair to expose what was going on (behind closed doors) in just those particular settings? Perhaps the people involved weren't living up to the fictional depiction of family life in the shows. But was that just because they were immersed in the "entertainment industry," which had long had a bad reputation that didn't line up with "respectable society"?
From 1955 through 1964, I lived in a small town in northern Michigan named Traverse City. We had moved from Ohio to Traverse just as I went into the fourth grade. Virtually everyone else in my grade school had lived there since birth. As with many such small towns, it is hard for "outsiders" to be integrated into the community. Thus even after living there for eight years, I never felt as if I "belonged." And thus I never knew much about the "home lives" of the kids I saw every day at school.
My own extended family had many "issues" and relationship problems, everything from alcoholism, divorce, and adultery to mental illness. But since I was seldom around the families of my classmates, I developed a perspective that my family must be unique…and all these others were "picture perfect." They were, in essence, all living in Richie Cunningham's Happy Days world!
After I moved away to college, and never went back to visit any of those folks, that perspective never changed. Until recently. Facebook is an amazing resource for getting in touch with the past! Just in the past year, I've gotten back in touch with three women who had been in my classes in Traverse in grade school and high school whom I hadn't heard from since the 1960s. We've swapped memories and stories.
I was open about my own nuclear and extended family's struggles back then. And one of the women startled me when she described attending the reunions of our high school class, the most recent our 50th in 2014. There she talked more deeply with some of our old classmates than she ever had in the past. She was one of those people who had lived in Traverse since birth. But I found out even THOSE people didn't really know much about what was going on in the home lives of our classmates back in the 1950s and early 60s! Just as I had, she had assumed the home lives of all our classmates were picture-perfect. But after I shared my own private stories, she wrote back:
You're right, there was a lot of stuff happening behind doors in TC. That post war era, without help [for returning WW2 vets] adjusting back into family life. I've been amazed how many have talked about the alcoholism & abuse that was happening in their home.
No, serious family problems in the 1950s were not limited to the families of celebrities.
But surely, some modern evangelicals would argue, at least the fact that viewers of the 1950s soaked up the Father Knows Best and I Love Lucy shows enthusiastically is an indication that the average American of the time had a strong preference for entertainment with wholesome Family Values. Add to that the enthusiasm of so many for the broadcasts of Billy Graham and Bishop Sheen. And don't forget to factor in the popularity of the wholesome, fresh-faced, squeaky-clean, prim and proper TV persona of singer Dinah Shore on her very popular musical variety show sponsored by Chevrolet that ran from 1951 to 1957!
She'd ended every show with her unforgettably perky version of the theme song "See the USA in Your Chevrolet!"
If you're way too young to remember her show, or if you are old enough to have nostalgia about it, click on the Play button below and get just a tiny taste of her girl-next-door simple, sentimental sweetness in a short clip from a January 1952 Dinah Shore Show.
Yes, if all you ever saw of TV musical variety show entertainment in the early to mid-50s was old clips of the Dinah Shore Show, you'd surely be convinced that public taste was indeed very respectable and genteel in those Clean Good Old Days.
But don't dig too deeply on Youtube for samples of 50s popular entertainment or your bubble might be burst…for instance, when you stumbled across the other main female variety show star of the era…Dagmar.
Dagmar's name was indelibly connected with automobiles too. But not in the way Dinah's was. To this day, "vintage car" aficionado guys are enthused to appreciate autos from the Fabulous Fifties with… Dagmar Bumpers.
Dagmar bumpers is a slang term for chrome conical shaped styling elements which began to appear on the front bumper/grille assemblies of certain American automobiles following World War II. They reached their peak in the mid-1950s.
The term is derived from the notable physical attributes of Dagmar, a buxom early 1950s television personality known for low-cut gowns and pronouncedly conical bra cups. She was amused by the tribute.
As originally conceived by Harley Earl, GM Vice President of Design, the conical bumper guards would mimic artillery shells. Placed inboard of the headlights on front bumpers of Cadillacs, they were intended to both convey the image of a speeding projectile and protect vehicles' front ends in collisions.
As the 1950s wore on and American automakers' use of chrome grew more flamboyant, they grew more pronounced.
The black rubber tips they gained on the 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham and other models were known as pasties. [As seen in the pic below…if you aren't familiar with the term, pasties are what burlesque show strippers wore on the tips of their breasts in situations where laws forbade fully topless "entertainment." ] (Source)
Looks like some car owners were even inclined to embellish their Dagmar Bumpers' pasties with another accessory common to burlesque shows… tassels.
Yes, at the exact same time that TV audiences were all ga-ga over Dinah Shore's demure persona and modest wardrobe, a huge proportion of those same audiences were equally ga-ga over Dagmar's…alternative attributes.
But just who was Dagmar?
Her real name was Virginia Egnor Lewis. Born in 1921 in West Virginia, she had married and moved to New York in 1941. For the next decade she had various jobs in modeling and minor roles in Broadway productions. Then TV burst on the scene. One of the earliest comedy-variety shows on NBC was a late-night show called Broadway Open House, which debuted in 1950 hosted by popular MC Jerry Lester. One of the people he hired for the cast of the new show was Virginia.
… [Lester] renamed her Dagmar. …As Dagmar, Lewis was instructed to wear a low-cut gown, sit on a stool, and play the role of a stereotypical dumb blonde. With tight sweaters displaying her curvy 5′ 8″ figure (measuring 42″-23″-39″), her dim-bulb character was an immediate success, soon attracting much more attention than Lester. Lewis quickly showed that regardless of appearances, she was quite bright and quick-witted. She appeared in sketches, and Lester made occasional jokes about her "hidden talents".
Her appearances created a sensation, leading to much press coverage and a salary increase from $75 to $1,250. With Dagmar getting all the attention, Lester walked off his own show in May 1951, and Dagmar carried on as host. On July 16, 1951, she was featured on the front cover of Life, and the show came to an end one month later.
LIFE proclaimed Dagmar to be "a national institution." And a 1950s poll of editors voted her to be "the most photogenic girl on TV."
I don't doubt Virginia Egnor Lewis was a bright woman, comedically talented. But it would be naïve in the extreme to assume that her popularity would have been the same without her decidedly un-Dinah-Shoreish, Dagmar Bumper characteristics.
Dagmar became one of the leading personalities of early 1950s live television, doing sketch comedy on Milton Berle's Texaco Star Theater, the Bob Hope Show, and other shows.
In 1952, she hosted the short-lived, late Saturday evening Dagmar's Canteen (which aired on NBC at 12:15 am Eastern Time, unsponsored), in which she sang, danced, interviewed servicemen, and performed comedy routines. The basic premise of the show was that servicemen from the audience were given roles to act alongside Dagmar in sketches. [Source]
Click on the PLAY button below to juxtapose Dinah Shore's demure TV performance of "It's a Lovely Day," shown in the clip above, with a much less demure performance by Dagmar , also in 1952, of song titled "Ballin' the Jack" on her Canteen show.
I think many Baby Boomers around my age (I was five years old when the Dinah Shore Show started) look back on their childhoods with either "blinders" on their memories that allow them to see only a very narrow field of vision of the past…
…or wearing "Rose-Colored Nostalgia Glasses"! Glasses that can even make bleakness look rosy.
Part of the problem is perhaps that they WERE young children during those early and mid 1950s. They weren't adults or even teens, and thus a lot of the strong sexual "innuendo" on TV, such as in Dagmar's performances, was lost on them. And of course, their parents would have not taken them to adult-themed movies.
Unless they were nosy like I was (poking around in closets and drawers in their dad's bedroom…), they also wouldn't have discovered that their Happy Days Era Dad may well not have been as pure-of-mind and heart as Richie Cunningham's dad Howard…for after all, Playboy magazine wasn't invented in the Swingin' Sixties, a product of the supposed slide into sleaziness invited by the Supreme Court school decisions. Its first issue, with a totally full-frontal nude centerfold of Marilyn Monroe from a 1949 photo-shoot, came out in 1953!
And then there were these ads, part of a series promoting, of all things, Griffin shoe polish (!) from magazines in 1956-1958.
I suppose those ads didn't show up in the Saturday Evening Post, but were created for the burgeoning "men's magazine" trade of that time. And Griffin wasn't the only company that understood that sex sells just about anything…
I had no clue who "Sabrina" was until looking her up on Wiki just now. She was evidently a 1950s British version of Dagmar. As the ad claims above, she used her "projection equipment" to sell projection equipment. Among lots of other things.
Norma Ann Sykes (born 19 May 1936), better known as Sabrina, was a 1950s English glamour model who progressed to a minor movie career. Her main claim to fame was her hourglass figure of prodigious 41-inch breasts coupled with a tiny 19-inch waist and 36-inch hips.
Sabrina was one of "a host of exotic, glamorous (British) starlets … modeled on the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and Lana Turner"
Even after all these years, she still has a big fan base on the Internet, including in Australia. I'm assuming many of them are aging Baby Boomer men with misty, water-colored mem'ries of the scantily-clad heroine of their youth. As the online "Encyclopedia Sabrina" website puts it…
Norma Ann Sykes D.Litt (Hon) is the voluptuous British lass who became Sabrina and accomplished above the hips what Elvis accomplished below.
She is the Cheshire cheese-cake pinup, actress, singer, cabaret star, publicity pioneer, and sex-queen who didn't like to be touched.
She was a 'dumb blonde' who was a genius at self-promotion, an ill-educated teenager because of lengthy hospital stays, and an honorary Doctor of Letters with an impossibly-proportioned figure.
A victim of polio, mocked for her lack of talent and excess of bosom, she became an international phenomenon who dated princes; charmed dictators, the public and cynical reporters; and generated more myths, lies, legends and throbbing memories than anyone else of her era.
Sabrina even one-upped Dagmar in getting vehicle parts named after her–"Sabrina's" were protuding parts of both a British truck…and British Hawker Hunter fighter planes.
Yes, Sabrina was part of that genteel, modest, Christian Era of the 50s too. Of course, this was in Britain, but the UK had long been viewed as being more "dignified" than the US, especially back in those days. And the reality is that Sabrina didn't come to TV fame until 1955…the US beat UK TV to the punch with Dagmar clear back in 1951. But Sabrina quickly caught up…
If you want to see the first face of modern British celebrity culture you have to go back to the evening of 15 February 1955 and comedian Arthur Askey's BBC television series Before Your Very Eyes. That night millions of viewers saw something they'd never seen before: television's first sex symbol in action. She was a young, busty, peroxide blonde in a tight black dress making her television debut. Viewers watched in amazement as she slid off a sofa, walked towards the camera, and then slowly turned sideways to reveal the mountain range of her magnificent cleavage. One can only imagine the effect on the families watching: a collective gasp of wonder. Men would fidget on the settee; teenage boys would blush and women would go and put the kettle on. [Source]
Does anyone have any doubt that she would have had the same effect on men and teen boys in America? Press the PLAY button below and you can get a short glimpse of Sabrina in action, in an ad selling Automotive Lubricants.
Dagmar and Sabrina and all their scantily-clad, excessively endowed sisters were particularly fodder for the "men's magazines" of that era. I'm suspicious many, if not most, kids' dads of the time had a stash of these under the bed mattress or in a dresser drawer under their socks. Some of these publications focused on "true" (or pseudo-true) violent war memoir stories, and dangerous outdoor adventure stories with vicious wild animals…with illustrations of half-naked babes thrown in as spice on occasion. Others were more narrowly focused on those half-naked babes in "pin up" poses. The most adventurous such dads may have rushed out to buy Playboy, the "New Guy on the block" in 1953. It had the best in the way of actual photos, especially with that Centerfold.
But it cost a bit more (50 cents), and had all that "intellectual" stuff to actually read if you were so inclined. For 25 cents and less reading effort, anybody's dad could afford the trashy men's mags that had sleazy stories and luscious realistic (well, cartoonic reaistic) artwork of scantily clad women. Yes, most weren't nearly as explicitly raunchy as what men can purchase at Truck Stop magazine stands today—the ones back in the 50s would have been what is now called "soft porn." But I can guarantee that most would still curl the toes of the average mom in a 21st century evangelical household if she caught her husband or teen sons hiding some under the mattress!
There was Stag magazine, that had been in print since the 1930s.
Its publisher successfully sued Hugh Hefner over the name of his planned magazine…Playboy was originally going to be titled Stag Party!
There were many, many of these magazines, with names like TRUE, True Men, Cavalier, For Men Only, Man's Life, Man's Action, and on and on and on.
But of course, that's MEN. Surely at least the women of that era were mostly prim and proper, and uninterested in anything sexual outside of their own marriage?
It's kind of difficult to maintain that illusion when you consider…Peyton Place.
Peyton Place is a 1956 novel by Grace Metalious. The novel describes how three women are forced to come to terms with their identity, both as women and as sexual beings, in a small, conservative, gossipy New England town, with recurring themes of hypocrisy, social inequities and class privilege in a tale that includes incest, abortion, adultery, lust and murder. It sold 60,000 copies within the first ten days of its release and remained on the New York Times best seller list for 59 weeks.
The novel spawned a franchise that would run through four decades. Twentieth Century-Fox adapted it as a major motion picture in 1957, and Metalious wrote a follow-up novel that was published in 1959, called Return to Peyton Place, which was also filmed in 1961 using the same title. The original 1956 novel was adapted again in 1964, in what became a wildly successful prime time television series for 20th Century Fox Television that ran until 1969, and the term "Peyton Place" – an allusion to any small town or group that holds scandalous secrets – entered into the American lexicon. [Source]
A week before it hit bookstores, on September 24, 1956, it was already on the best-seller list, where it would remain for half a year. In its first month, it sold more than 100,000 copies, at a time when the average first novel sold 3,000, total. It would go on to sell 12 million more, becoming one of the most widely read novels ever published. During its heyday, it was estimated that one in 29 Americans had bought it—legions of them hiding it in drawers and closets due to its salacious content.
I saw one "nostalgia piece" on the Web where a fellow confessed that he and his teenage buddies of that era would sneak their moms' copies of Peyton Place out of the house, and get together and read the "dirty parts" out loud to each other at all-guy parties. I'm going to guess that this was not unique to just that group of young men. I'll bet it happened all over the country!
Yes, just like Playboy, the Peyton Place phenomenon was also not spawned by the Sexy Sixties, but by the allegedly prim and proper Fifties. And it would be pathetically naïve to think that those first 100,000 people who read it that first month—and the millions more later—were all men. Sorry, younger generation folks…your grandmas and great grandmas were scooping up their own copy and breathing heavily while reading it too. I was only ten when the first edition came out, so I didn't get caught up in the first wave of readers. But by 1962 I was 16 and old enough to go out to the bookstore on my own. I bought my own paperback copy (and brought it home and promptly hid it under a chair cushion in my bedroom.)
And why should anyone be surprised that both men and women of the 1950s had salacious interests? Many Boomers look back on the misty mem'ries of movies they saw in the 1950s and tend to remember just Family Friendly ones like Old Yeller and The Ten Commandments and Singin' in the Rain.
They seem to totally forget hits such as these below, that were loaded with sexual innuendo and scantily clad beauties…
And, as mentioned in an earlier entry in this series, there was a huge spate of sex-themed films in the 50s that were aimed particularly at teens.
Many later generations of evangelicals seem determined to believe that their own dear ol' grandad and grandma of the post-war baby boom generation, and great-granddad and great-grandma of the Depression and World War 2 "Greatest Generation," were perfectly pious adult gentlemen and proper ladies back in the 1950s, because America Was Christian back then. They refuse to even try to imagine that their grandparents or great grandparents might have had lustful interests. Because if that were so…maybe there IS no era that we could "go back to" that was truly pure and pious and great! Maybe we'd have to just realize that human nature has been pretty much the same throughout human history. Maybe every generation has had… The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. And the Trashy…
In fact, in spite of the huge efforts of the Religion in American Life organization (described in an earlier entry in this series) to make sure everyone went to The Church of Their Choice every Sunday morning, might it be possible that this was the "aim"… but not the reality? Even Norman Rockwell gave a hint of this little secret on a Saturday Evening Post cover in 1957:
And maybe, just maybe, a significant percentage of those who DID go to church on Sunday—under peer pressure, or out of a desire to be part of a social circle that might enhance one's social status in a community…had spent Saturday night watching a sleazy movie or reading Peyton Place. Attendance at a one hour ritual on one morning a week really is no "proof of piety" at all.
As a matter of fact, even singing innocuous songs on TV for an hour is no particular "evidence" of what a public personality is really like. Take Dinah Shore for instance…I watched her show for several years as a child. But I never saw her like THIS:
And I never realized until recently what her…ahem…social life out in the real world was like until reading up on her bio recently. Dinah was her stage name. She was actually born "Fannye Rose" to Russian-Jewish immigrant shopkeepers in 1916. After a rough youth including a bout with polio and the death of her mother when she was 16, she broke into show business in New York.
In her early career, while in New York, Shore was briefly involved with drummer Gene Krupa. After Shore relocated to Hollywood, she became involved with James Stewart and it was rumored that a Las Vegas, Nevada, elopement was aborted en route. Shore's flirtation with General George Patton was commented on when he escorted her for a portion of her tour to entertain the troops in Britain and France during World War II.
Shore was married to actor George Montgomery from 1943 to 1962. She gave birth to daughter Melissa Ann, now known as Melissa Montgomery, in January 1948. She later adopted her son, John David "Jody" Montgomery. The author of Mr. S, Frank Sinatra's longtime valet George Jacobs, claimed Shore and Sinatra had a long-standing affair in the 1950s. After her divorce from Montgomery, she briefly married Maurice Smith. Romances of the later 1960s involved comedian Dick Martin [of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In], singer Eddie Fisher, and actor Rod Taylor.
In the early 1970s, Shore had a long and happy public romance with actor Burt Reynolds who was twenty years her junior. The relationship gave Shore an updated, sexy image, and took some of the pressure off Reynolds in maintaining his image as a ladies' man.
The couple was featured in the tabloids and after the relationship cooled, the tabloids paired Shore with other younger men, including Wayne Rogers, Andy Williams, Iggy Pop and "Tarzan" actor Ron Ely. In her later years, Shore also dated novelist Sidney Sheldon, Dean Martin, and former New York Governor Hugh Carey. [Source]
Yes, Dinah Shore was not actually the prim, proper little lady singing cheery songs that are part of my misty, water-colored mem'ries of the 1950s. That was just a very, very tiny glimpse of a very tiny portion of her life. She was that way for one hour on TV a week for six years. The rest of the time she was not necessarily a role model for every evangelical Christian mama's daughter! As you can see in this photo, no doubt from the period in which she was involved in a romance with Dick Martin:
Rowan and Martin's Laugh In, (Episode 87, February 8, 1971):
"Dinah Shore plays a stripper in a mod salute to the working girl."
After sorting through the reality behind many of my own memories of the 50s for several years now, through the magic of the huge collection of information, photos, and videos on the Web, I have become convinced that for most of us, that classic song needs a new ending…
Misty water-colored mem'ries
Of the way we WEREN'T
In the next entry in this series, we will explore why it is so important to Donald Trump's Strangest Bedfellows that they ignore–or refuse to even consider–the reality that America was neither truly great, nor truly "Christian" in the 1950s.
A Fair to Remember
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Each circuit functions as a two-input NAND gate with Schmitt-trigger action on both inputs.
The gate switches at different points for positive and negative-going signals.


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Q: WebKit/WebView tap/onclick default highlight (Android Ice Cream Sandwich) I'm developing a webview application (4.0.3) and there is one annoying thing about the ice cream sandwich webview:
every time there's a tap/on click event on a link or any clickable element there's a blue(I think it's device dependent) highlight displayed. It doesn't look very nice bacause I have my own tap actions added to the elements. It doesn't seem that the newest jQueryMobile(1.1.1) handles the issue very well. In previous version all major webkit styles has been overridden.
If anyone has any idea how to get rid of the annoying highlight it will be much appreciated.
Cheers,
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Of course I've tried to change them before I asked:
-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);
-webkit-focus-ring-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
but it doesn't work in case of Ice Cream Sandwich. This solution worked in Android 2.3 where we have an infamous 'orange border' when clicking the link.
It looks it is a part/setting of a WebView. You've got that same behaviour browsing pages in the native browser. It is really annoying because it concerns not only links but also buttons and other html elements.
Besides, it is still not solved by jQuery Mobile teem although it affects graphics quite significantly. Either they haven't see it yet or they are still working on a solution.
Any other suggestions?

A: I found myself with the same problem (android was always highlighting an svg element even with the CSS suggested above).
Honestly I don't know why the css rule was not enforced (I'm 100% sure it wasn't overridden) but I found another solution.
It looks like that the highlight is given only to elements for which an onclick listener is set. I found out that setting an onTouchStart listener instead of an onClick listener actually solved my problem.
I tested it on a Galaxy Nexus with JB 4.2.
Please not that applying the css rule in the following example works as expected.
<!html>

  <title>Click/touch test</title>

On click listener

On touchstart listener

Here's the jsfiddle http://jsfiddle.net/aQ9zM/2/

A: I finally found the answer:]
it it a webview feature that can be disabled calling
setLightTouchEnabled(false)

A: This should go away if you set those css properties on your elements:
-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);
-webkit-focus-ring-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);

A: Set the following css property: -webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(0,0,0,0); This will not cause the problem with the input boxes. But in this case you'll need access to the HTML code you are running (though you can inject this to the HTML anyway).

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Barcelona – Chelsea
It's time for a second round between Barcelona and Chelsea – two rivals which know themselves pretty well in the Champions League. After a 1-1 draw in the first game at the Stamford Bridge, now only one of these two sides will continue to the 1/4-finals of the Champions League.
The first game in London had a lot of tactics involved. It wasn't really much of an attractive game in the English capital, but the viewers still saw two goals being scored – Willian for Chelsea and Lionel Messi for Barcelona.
Now Barca have a slight advantage after the result in the first leg. It remains to be seen how Chelsea's manager Antonio Conte is going to approach the game. Will his side attack more, looking to an away goal, too? Or maybe they will sit back and wait for their chance on counter-attack?
Conte knows that it's difficult to attack on the Camp Nou and leave empty spaces for the Catalans. That's why most of the teams are defending tightly at this stadium, relying on counter-attacks. But in same time at Chelsea they know that they will leave the competition if they don't score at least one goal in Marc-Andre ter Stegen's net.
The big question in Barca is related to the captain Andres Iniesta – is he going to play? The experienced midfielder had an injury in his thigh, but lately he has been training with the squad. It won't be surprising to see him starting the game, but another option for Ernesto Valverde is to use him as a substitute.
Barcelona have the advantage after the result in the first leg – this is clear. But don't write off Chelsea – they are the current champions of England and they deserve respect. But one thing is for sure – it's going to be very hard for them.


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Ariana Perez: Annapolis teen is ambassador at Global Down Syndrome Be Beautiful Be Yourself Fashion Show
Ariana Perez
I'm beautiful. I'm smart. I'm confident. I'm strong.
That's how 16-year-old Charlotte "Charley" Fonfara Larose describes herself as she smiles from ear to ear and looks straight at her mother, who's sitting in the living room with me for the interview. Charley is that and much more. Anyone who would sit and chat with her for just five minutes would describe her as such, along with kind, sweet and funny.
These qualities have made her the perfect candidate to become this year's ambassador at the Global Down Syndrome Foundation's Be Beautiful Be Yourself Fashion Show. The show, which will take place Nov. 2 in Denver, Colorado, is the annual marquee fundraiser for the Global Down Syndrome Foundation with proceeds benefiting medical care and research.
Charley softly brushes her long blonde hair back with her hand every time the show comes up in conversation, accompanied by a bright smile and quick small claps.
"I'm very excited for this year's show," she said. "I get to represent people with Down syndrome and show everyone else how capable we are."
Charley was born with Down syndrome, a genetic disorder in which a person has three copies of chromosome 21 instead of two. Down syndrome is the most frequently occurring chromosomal disorder and the leading cause of intellectual and developmental delay in the U.S. and in the world, according to research by the Global Down Syndrome Foundation.
But this hasn't stopped Charley from accomplishing many of her dreams, which include modelling, meeting Ariana Grande in person and dancing on a runway with her boyfriend Zach while Sheryl Crow played on stage. She is an avid swimmer, loves math and enjoys going out for sushi with her friends.
When she was just 4 years old, Charley appeared on her first Target ad. Her modeling career took off from there when Target called her three years in a row to do more ad campaigns and eventually, she made her way to becoming a model for the Global Down Syndrome Foundation.
As we speak, Charley stops to gently pet Mango, her bulldog she got on her fourth birthday, as she slowly stomps into the living room while Noelle, Charley's younger sister, runs and jumps into the living room holding freshly popped popcorn in her hands.
Her mother, Cathy Fonfara, smiled at both her daughters and looking at Charley, said she was beyond proud of everything she has accomplished.
"I looked at the Target ad as an opportunity to put a face of a person with Down syndrome out in mainstream America, " she said. "I didn't want anyone feeling sorry for her or putting limitations on her. I wanted to teach Charley along the way how to stand up for herself. We all have our strengths and weaknesses and that's OK."
Cathy, who volunteers as the vice president and facilities chair at GiGi's Playhouse Annapolis, said she was thrilled when she found out Charley would be this year's ambassador after five years of attending the foundation's annual gala.
Cathy's eyes light up every time she looks at Charley, especially as she reflected on her journey.
Two hours after Charley was born, Cathy was informed her newborn had Down syndrome. The news were followed by tears. "I cried because I didn't know anything about Down syndrome, it's not out in the mainstream," she said. "I was afraid mostly of how other people would treat her."
But once she held Charley in her arms, she knew her life had changed for the better. She realized that even when things in life didn't go according to plan, maybe that was just a way of life gifting a pleasant surprise that she never knew she wanted.
"I never knew I wanted a child with Down syndrome until I had Charley," said Cathy. "When she was less than a year old, her grandfather told me that she made him a better person. If God came to me and told me that he would take away that extra chromosome, I'd beg him not to. She is Charley, she is my girl. She has an extra chromosome, so what?"
Through their involvement with the Global Down Syndrome Foundation, Cathy said her family has learned about the work they're doing in researching medical issues. And according to the organization, medical or clinical research can improve the health and lifespan of people with Down syndrome while also uncovering how the triplication of chromosome 21 leads to a higher incidence of certain diseases and protects those same individuals from other diseases.
Through her own experience and involvement with local organizations, Cathy assures parents and caregivers of children and adults with Down syndrome that just like her, their life can change for the better.
"It will be OK and you will be pleasantly surprised," she said. "It's given me a new perspective of what's really important in life. Sure, I want my children to be healthy, happy and successful. But now success to me means being kind to people and giving back to the community."
Charley, who loves to work hard and study, hopes to one day go to college. After recently completing hip hop dance classes, her bucket list has grown to include being on "Dancing with the Stars" to meet Peta Murgatroyd personally and dance a Cuban cha-cha with Val Chmerkovskiy.
Before I depart, she looks at me and we agree to do a push-up contest. As expected, the dedicated athlete and Washington Caps fan, defeats me. She looks at me with a bright smile in sign of celebration, followed by a strong high five and a warm hug.
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Nairobi, Tuesday June 20, 2017: Kenyan food is set to be safer than ever after the European Union made available state-of-the art equipment that will enable national food control authorities to test the quality and safety of a wide range of food products.
The food testing laboratory equipment was launched by The Cabinet Secretary for Industry, Trade and Co-operatives, Adan Mohamed and the EU Ambassador, Stefano Dejak at the Kenya Bureau of Standards headquarters.
The equipment was made possible through the Standards and Market Access Programme (SMAP) launched in 2014 through a 12.1 million Euro grant from the EU (Sh 1.4 billion), of which 5,860,885 Euro (Sh 679 million) went into the purchase of the equipment. The CS stressed that the government will ensure the equipment is effectively used to guarantee the continued supply of safe foods not only for the export market but also for domestic consumers.
CS Mohamed said the SMAP project contributed to removal of the 10 percent increased physical checks on Kenya's French beans at designated ports of entry in the EU. The French Beans are now getting access to the EU market as a result of the efforts between the Kenya Horticultural Council, KEPHIS and the EU institutions.
He also noted that, through SMAP, Kenya developed and launched standards to boost the safety and quality around food and horticulture products. "With support from the EU, we have developed 77 standards which cover tea, coffee, horticulture fresh produce, cereals and pulses, milk and milk products, processed fruits and vegetables. Meat and meat products, fish and fishery products, tea, coffee and honey products are also included," said Ongwae.
Ongwae added the standards will guarantee that goods and services locally produced or traded with any country are safe, and fit for consumption whether locally or for export. Safety and compliance will also be enhanced for goods coming into the country.


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Fallout 1.5: Resurrection je modifikace pro hru Fallout 2. Vyšla 3. října 2013. Vývoj trval přibližně 10 let. Vytvořila jej skupinka 4 českých fanoušků původní hry. Ti na modifikaci pracovali ve svém volném čase. Herní doba se odhaduje na přibližně 25 hodin. Modifikace nabízí úplně nový příběh a lokace.

Název Resurrection má symbolizovat znovuoživení starého Falloutu a zároveň však odkazuje na hlavního hrdinu této modifikace. Ten do jisté míry vstane z mrtvých.

V současnosti vzniká anglická verze, která je plánovaná na rok 2014.

Vývoj
Nápad na vytvoření Fallout 1.5 Resurrection vznikl na fóru Šílené Brahmíny, největší fanouškovské stránce Fallout v Česku. Práce na něm začaly v roce 2003. V té době byl uvolněn oficiální editor map a základní skriptová dokumentace. Od počátku měl projekt vysoká očekávání, ale vývojáři řadu věcí podcenili a především očekávali, že vytvoření hry bude jednoduché. Díky tomu došlo po roce vývoje k vystřízlivění a rozčarování. Vývoj se zpomalil, ale vývojáři začali nad svou prací více přemýšlet. To co vzniklo v prvotním nadšení se ve hře nakonec z většiny neobjevilo. Taktéž se řada věcí v průběhu děje měnila. Nakonec byl dokončen a vydán v roce 2013.

Příběh
Děj je zasazen do Nového Mexika v roce 2170, tedy období mezi hrami Fallout a Fallout 2. Hlavní hrdina se, vážně zraněný, probudí v jeskyni. Nepamatuje si, jak se tam dostal ani kdo je. Nezbývá mu nic jiného než po své minulosti pátrat. Jeho jediným pojítkem je záhadný talisman, který má u sebe.

Postavy
Významné postavy ve hře:

 Třináctý – Hlavní antihrdina hry. Byl zraněn v boji, díky čemuž ztratil paměť. Probudil se v jeskyni, kam ho odtáhla velká krysa.
 Keri – Mladá dívka, která se k hráčovi může připojit v Seditu. Má dobrodružnou povahu.
 Lystra – Může se k hráčovi připojit v Albuquerque. Pátrá po svém bratrovi a řídí se morálními zásadami.
 Vořech – Pes, kterého lze získat v Rat Hole.
 Gabriel – Nájemný zabiják, který se nachází v Ztracené čtvrti Seditu. Hledí pouze na prospěch, ale může se k hráčovi připojit.
 Spasitel – Hlavní antagonista hry a vůdce kultu Obrody, kterou tvoří Ghoulové. Snaží se o ovládnutí oblasti.
 Sebastian – Fanatický vůdce lovců mutantů. Chce vyhladit mutanty.
 Dernus  – Vůdce skupiny supermutantů. Chce smrt Sebastiana a odvést své lidi do bezpečí.

Tým
 Václav "Daemon" Panoš
 Marek "Maryo" Štípek
 Milan "Ratman" Ratičák
 Marián "Saruman" Lóži
 Kromě hlavní části týmu však na Resurrection pracovali i externí spolupracovníci.

Přijetí
Mód se dočkal několika pochvalných recenzí a server Bonusweb jej dokonce navrhl na nejlepší hru roku 2013. Úspěchu se Resurrection dočkal i u hráčů, kteří ji právě na serveru Bonusweb zvolili 6. nejlepší hrou roku. Na jiném serveru Eurogameru, byl Resurrection zvolen 3. nejlepším RPG roku.

Reference

Externí odkazy
 Oficiální stránky
 Mód v databázi her
 Galerie na abecedě her
 Fallout 1.5: Resurrection Wiki

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České RPG videohry
České videohry z roku 2013
1.5: Resurrection
České videohry s otevřeným světem
České postapokalyptické videohry
České videohry o organizovaném zločinu
České hry pro Windows

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Max Verstappen could face five-second penalty for pushing Lewis Hamilton off the track
Rebecca Clancy, Motor racing correspondent
A penalty would push Verstappen, who finished second in Brazil, down to third
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Mercedes have asked stewards to look again at an incident between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton at the Brazilian Grand Prix after new footage came to light yesterday. It initially appeared Verstappen pushed Hamilton off the track as the seven-times world champion tried to overtake on lap 48, but the incident was not investigated given information available at the time.
Since then, the onboard footage from the Red Bull driver's car has been made available and hours after it was released on Tuesday, Mercedes announced their intent to apply for the stewards to take another look at the incident.
Verstappen could now be hit with a five-second penalty for pushing a driver wide. The 24-year-old finished second behind Hamilton in São Paulo but a penalty


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Ritter argues Browns Canyon should be protected as Nat'l Monument
Browns Canyon should be protected as a national monument now
By Bill Ritter Jr.
Last month, 100 eager faces gathered amid the sound and spray of the swollen Arkansas River for a crash course in history, ecology and customer relations. Colorado's newest crop of river guides had gathered in Salida to learn about Browns Canyon, which will be their home for the next several months as they lead visitors through the whitewater of one of Colorado's most iconic and popular landscapes.
Browns Canyon is both an economic driver and a pillar of life in the upper Arkansas Valley. The values that attracted these guides – and that will draw tens of thousands of visitors this summer – are what make Browns Canyon a jewel worthy of preservation as a national monument.
The river valley and surrounding mountains provide ideal habitat for a variety of species: peregrine falcons, golden eagles, elk, bighorn sheep, bobcats, to name a few. Hikers, hunters and anglers treasure this quiet and rugged landscape and the unique experiences it offers. The 100-mile section of the Arkansas River that includes Browns Canyon was recently designated as Colorado's longest stretch of Gold Medal Trout Water, sustaining some of the state's most productive fishing and attracting more than 100,000 anglers a year.
And it's no secret that Browns Canyon is one of the most popular whitewater rafting destinations in the U.S. Beginning in June, and for the next few months, more than 200,000 visitors will paddle down the Arkansas River, generating more than $55 million in revenue.
Over the years, there have been a variety of community-driven efforts to safeguard the future of this pristine place. In 2005, legislation to protect Browns Canyon was introduced by Congressman Joel Hefley and Sen. Wayne Allard, both Republicans. The companion bills, which ultimately were derailed by special interests, had the support of more than 100 local businesses, not to mention Colorado's entire congressional delegation.
The latest legislative proposal, carried by U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, reflects this same broad, bipartisan and community-driven approach. In fact, his bill to set aside the canyon and 22,000 acres of adjacent public land as a national monument is the result of 18 months of meetings, public-comment sessions and written input from Chaffee County leaders, residents, businesses and other stakeholders. This is how public lands designations should be done — and I strongly urge Congressman Doug Lamborn, whose district includes Browns Canyon, and the entire delegation to get behind this grassroots bill.
If other recent national monument designations are any guide, Browns Canyon is a no brainer. For example, consider the recent designations of Point Arena-Stornetta seashore along the rocky northern California coast and 500,000 acres of rugged land in the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks of New Mexico. These are valuable additions to our national heritage, protecting for future generations access to land for hunting and outdoor recreation, critical wildlife habitat, and places of cultural and historical significance.
And the public supports a similar designation in Colorado.
In polling conducted last year, two-thirds of voters in nine western states said that protecting public lands for future generations was very important to them. And in Colorado College's annual "Conservation in the West" poll earlier this year, a stunning 98% of Coloradans said that public lands are an "essential part" of the state's economy, providing recreation opportunities and enhancing our quality of life.
It's hard to argue against such sentiment, considering that outdoor recreation supports 125,000 jobs and is responsible for more than $13 billion in spending each year in Colorado. That translates to almost a billion dollars in annual revenue for local and state governments.
Places like Salida and Buena Vista know this already. They recognize the threat that things such as potential mining in Browns Canyon pose to their quality of life. The only guarantee for ensuring that the canyon remains the lifeblood of the upper Arkansas Valley for generations to come is to protect it in perpetuity.
Recognizing Browns Canyon as a national monument is the best way to ensure that its many unique values are safeguarded and remain available to us and our kids far into the future. We should not wait any longer. The time to act is now.
Bill Ritter served as governor of Colorado from 2007-2011. He is currently the director of the Center for the New Energy Economy at Colorado State University.
This entry was posted in environment and tagged Arkansas River, Bill Ritter, Browns Canyon, Chaffee County Colorado, Colorado, Colorado State University, Mark Udall, Wayne Allard on August 1, 2014 by Staff.
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