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A TV Mystery Review: 77 SUNSET STRIP "Legend of Crystal Dart." (1960).
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77 SUNSET STRIP "Legend of Crystal Dart." ABC, 15 April 1960 (Season 2, Episode 28.) Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Roger Smith, Marilyn Maxwell, William Schallert, Kurt Kreuger, Jacqueline Beer, Patricia Michon. Teleplay: Gloria Elmore. Director: Montgomery Pittman.
While the series has not yet officially released on DVD — and why not, I don't know — scattered episodes of 77 Sunset Strip are being shown on a cable channel called MeTV, which is how I managed to see this one, the first episode I've seen since it was first on the air. (Complete seasons are available on the collectors' market, but in absymal picture quality, even as advertised.)
Unfortunately, I had no choice as to which one came up first, and this one was it. It's not representative, I don't believe. Roger Smith, as Jeff Spencer, co-partner in the firm, shows up in the office only at the beginning and at the end. Kookie (Edd Byrnes) isn't in this one at all. It's up to Stu Bailey (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) to work this case completely on his own.
He's hired by a former famous French entertainer named Crystal Dart (a very buxom Marilyn Maxwell) to serve an eviction notice to her soon-to-be ex-husband in their isolated mountain lodge up in the mountains. Trapped in a snowstorm with them (as it turns out) are the ghostwriter for her memoirs, his wife, and the nurse/girl friend of Miss Dart's wheelchair-bound husband.
Sizzling resentments and vicious arguments quickly break out, some dealing with secrets from the past. Miss Dart has not a friend among them, or so it seems. Bailey is mostly content to sit back with his pipe and casual sweater wear, watching as he does in bemused fashion. It takes a while for a murder to occur, but surprisingly enough, it is not Miss Dart who is the victim.
Some mild detective work takes place, that plus Stu Bailey's obvious growing attraction to Miss Dart. In spite of the classic setting, that of an isolated snowbound haven from the elements, the slow pace manages to eliminate all but the smallest hint of suspense. Not the best example to begin with, I suspect.
32 Responses to "A TV Mystery Review: 77 SUNSET STRIP "Legend of Crystal Dart." (1960)."
Mike Doran Says:
First off, MeTV's running of 77 Sunset Strip isn't "scattered"; they've been running the episodes from the 1958 start, in original broadcast order.
Thus, I've been watching them from the start (on DVR, because MeTV has been showing them at 3 in the Blessed A.M.!).
As of today, June 29, they're about two-thirds of the way through Season 4. I have no idea whether MeTV is going to continue through to Season 6, when Warners and Jack Webb scotched the format – wait and see.
As to "representative":
The most interesting factor about 77SS is that there really isn't any such thing as a "representative" episode.
Just about every episode is different from all the others.
There are tough PI shows, drawing-room whodunits, out-and-out comedies, "digest" versions of old WB features, custom vehicles for name guest stars, the occasional "ghost story" which turns out not to be, and any variation and sometimes combination of all of these.
The stars – Efrem Zimbalist, Roger Smith, Edd Byrnes, later Richard Long – sometimes worked solo, sometimes worked together, generally in alternation, often (but not always) abetted by Suzanne the switchboard mam'selle and Roscoe the horseplayer – as I said, something different every time.
Nearly every show has some surprise, in the form of a Warners contract player who was destined for Bigger Things: one such show has a young Adam West as the shady boyfriend of an even younger Mary Tyler Moore (one example to serve for many).
And Warners always had a complete supply of old familiar character faces to fill the screen.
I might also mention Byron Keith as the resident cop, Lt. Gilmore, years before he became Mayor of Gotham City.
Watching this detective olio each night (or the next day, or whenever I get around to clearing out the DVR), I get the sense that the cast and crew are having fun with what they're doing.
I know I've having fun while I'm watching.
If you decide to make a project of 77SS, you might want to take note of the episodes written by Roger Smith, who liked to mix things up himself.
My favorite Smith-written show is "Once Upon A Caper" from Season 3, in which Rex Randolph (Richard Long) asks each of the partners how they came to be an agency; he gets differing accounts of the same case from Bailey, Spencer, and Kookie. It's a wonderful send-up of as many PI tropes as Smith could cram into an hour show.
What I'm waiting/hoping for is MeTV to bring back the other Warner Eyes, like Hawaiian Eye, Bourbon Street Beat, Surfside 6, The Roaring 20's – frankly, spotting the duplications of shows would be a major part of the fun!
Buenos Tardes, W. Hermanos!
(As you can see, I have a very low bar.)
So there, too.
Thanks, Mike.
You make me wish all the more for an official release of this series, and then as long as I'm wishing, all of the other Warners shows you mention, too. I don't get MeTV back home in CT, or at least I don't think I do. Is it possible they have different program schedules in different parts of the country? It's only been since I've been visiting Jon in L.A. this time that I've discovered that they're playing it here.
My memories of the show are what's scattered, but that's not surprising, since I've not seen an episode since it was on the air the first time, and how long ago was that?
In any case, you've filled in a lot of things I'd forgotten abut the series or didn't even realize in the first place. Thanks again!
Mike, I am surprised to learn MeTV is showing all the episodes. The original syndicated package did not include every episode, a point Warner Archive streaming made when they showed those episodes. The series has appeared and disappeared at Warner Archive yet it never showed all the episodes either.
I dropped the Warner service as they reduced the number of TV series they carry (it is also the most overpriced streaming service in the business).
I did get to see HAWAIIAN EYE and SURFSIDE 6 there. I have watched BOURBON STREET BEAT at YouTube and maybe Warner Archive. ROARING 20S has one episode (last I look) on YouTube and I have bought some in the collector's market.
I have no idea why Warner Brothers treats its library the way it does. Even if your series is made into a DVD it is way overpriced. Two major reasons a series does not make it to DVD are the soundtrack rights and confusion over who owns the copyright. I doubt either applies to these WB shows. I do know WB is one of the most protective of its library from YouTube appearances.
77 SUNSET STRIP (more than the others) was known for episodes that took chances. Roger Smith wrote and starred in one where there was virtually no dialog. Unlike Mike, I want to see the final season again. Jack Webb took over the series and turned it into a dark noir series unlike any TV had seen before. I liked the five-part episode FIVE and wish I could see the rest of the sixth season, especially the episode with Elizabeth Montgomery and the episodes written by Robert C. Dennis or Robert Leslie Bellem.
Steve, check Me-TV website for locations. Sadly, not all stations carry the entire line-up. Mine uses the classic TV to draw viewers to its religious programs.
Hello again, Michael:
Clarifying, I most certainly do want to see Season 6, "5" in particular; I especially want another look at the opening titles of "5", with its alphabetical "curtain call" of all those guest stars (the only time, I think, that Leonid Kinskey was so billed).
For the record, all but the last one of Robert C. Dennis's 77SS episodes were under the old administration; they'll be turning up on MeTV in the next few weeks. Most of them seem to feature Roger Smith.
Gary R. Says:
I happen to be a night owl, so I've been a pretty regular viewer of the series at 3 a.m. after I discovered it on MeTV several weeks ago. I missed out on the first two seasons and part of the third; hopefully MeTV will run those again. According to the channel's website, the show's 6th (half) season is also on the schedule.
Watching recent episodes reminded me of one quirk of shows from that era: when a regular cast member suddenly disappears from a series, but no mention is made that they were ever on the show in the first place. This happened when Richard Long as Rex Randolph vanishes when he's replaced by Kookie as a member of the firm. Same thing happened on Fess Parker's DANIEL BOONE when Veronica Cartwright as Boone's daughter was dropped from the cast after the first couple of seasons. You'd think the producers would've insisted on giving the audience some explanation of what became of those characters…
There are music issues with 77 SUNSET STRIP holding up a full DVD release, meanwhile some of the best episodes are available in decent shape on YouTube.
A good place to begin is "Lovely Lady Pity Me," loosely based on Huggins novel. It's mostly about Bailey but Spenser comes in to help, and the plot is better than usual.
July 1st, 2017 at 12:25 am
I have looked at the list of cable channels available to me back in CT, and alas, MeTV is not among them.
And a quick search on YouTube brings up only short clips. I'll look again later, but in general I don't care to watch TV shows on my computer anyway. I'll have to stock up on a few episodes here in L.A. for me to watch when I get back again.
July 1st, 2017 at 2:12 am
For 4. Mike and all who love great theme songs…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X7J8hzJq3Y
Steve, I think MeTV is a digital channel as well. A cheap digital antenna might work.
Just found this clip of a Roy Huggins interview about the creation of 77 SUNSET STRIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j5xQAzOg5I
July 2nd, 2017 at 11:10 pm
Thanks for the link, Michael. I finally had a chance to watch the clip. Writing for TV sure was a tough business to be in, back then. Doubt if it's gotten a whole lot better, but I hope so.
Daniel Neyer Says:
July 3rd, 2017 at 9:25 am
"Crystal Dart" is one of the weaker 77 episodes, and indeed not a good one to start with; it's essentially a vehicle for Marilyn Maxwell, and little else. I'm a huge fan of the show (have seen almost all of the episodes from the first five seasons; don't care for the dark and dreary sixth season), and would particularly recommend:
"The Silent Caper" (written by Roger Smith–the famous episode with no dialogue)
"Once Upon a Caper"–the hilarious so-called Rashomon episode, with each detective giving a contradictory and self-serving flashback version of the founding of the firm.
"Reserved for Mr. Bailey"–written by the talented Montgomery Pittman, a Twilight Zone-ish episode in which Efrem Zimbalist Jr. is the only actor to appear on screen.
"Mr. Bailey's Honeymoon"–written by Smith and Pittman, a great mix of mystery and humor with an appealing turn by an adorable West Virginian actress named Evans Evans (?) and a fun villainous performance by William Windom.
"Mr. Goldilocks"–Smith and Pittman again, a suspenseful (with well-placed doses of humor) chase saga set in the Death Valley area.
"The Man Who Wasn't There"–an involving and solidly-plotted mystery by Robert C. Dennis.
"Your Fortune for a Penny"–Robert Vaughn as a slippery master criminal, Robert C. Dennis doing writing duties again.
"The Inverness Cape Caper"–Jay Novello in a dual role as a murder victim and a hammy Shakespearian actor hired to impersonate the victim, Elisha Cook Jr. as a highly superstitious killer.
"The Parallel Caper"–A very cleverly constructed episode, in which Roger Smith and Edd Byrnes take two seemingly independent different cases which ultimately lead them to the same place.
"Dress Rehearsal"–essentially a classical fair-play whodunit, with all the clues and motives laid out in front of the viewer as the episode progresses.
There are many, many others worth seeing as well; the show had great variety, as others here have noted, and was definitely the best of the Warners detective shows.
Daniel Neyer, I would add the Roy Huggins episodes to the list. STRIP was easily the best of the WB buddy detectives of its time. But then HAWAIIAN EYE, BOURBON STREET BEAT and SURFSIDE 6 were pale copies.
Actually, Huggins had almost nothing to do with 77 Sunset Strip, the TV show, aside from writing the show's two pilots, "Girl on the Run" (a feature film) and "Anything for Money" (an episode of the Warner Brothers anthology show "Climax.") Aside from that, his only other connections to the show were (a) one of his books was used as the basis of the first episode, "Lovely Lady, Pity Me," (b) one of his Maverick scripts was remade as the Strip episode "The Perfect Setup," and (c) the character name of Stu Bailey came from his novels. It's due to (c) that he's usually credited as the auteur of the show, even though he once stated that it really wasn't his creation at all. Huggins was definitely an excellent writer, but other producers, writers, and directors deserve the credit for Strip–chief among them Roger Smith, Montgomery Pittman, Robert C. Dennis, George Waggner, Fenton Earnshaw, and Robert Douglas.
I forgot to add: both Huggins-scripted pilots had almost nothing to do with the actual show, in tone or characterization: his Stu Bailey was a much more cynical and mercenary character than the good-natured and gentlemanly Bailey of the TV series, and the show's other characters were nowhere to be found in the pilots. Huggins once explained how Jack Warner used the Stu Bailey name in "Girl on the Run" mainly to avoid having to give Huggins a creator royalty on the TV show. "Girl on the Run" was based on a novel that had been purchased by Warner Brothers, and was thus a "studio property." Warner could adapt studio properties into television series without having to pay creator royalties; thus, the use of Bailey as the protagonist of 77 Sunset Strip, instead of a brand-new character. Warner did the exact same thing with Maverick (he used a novel previously purchased by the studio as the show's pilot episode, and then claimed the whole series was adapted from a studio property), Cheyenne (which simply stole the title, nothing more, of a Warner Brothers feature from the late 1940s), and Sugarfoot (which stole its name from a Randolph Scott WB feature and its lead character from another WB feature starring Will Rogers Jr., "The Boy from Oklahoma.").
A few very meaty comments, Daniel. Thanks very much! Let me go back to #11, where you weighed in on this episode in particular. I was happy to read your assessment that it was one of the weaker ones, as that was my sense of it, too. As a showcase for Marilyn Maxwell, you're right. It works a whole lot better.
As long as we're in credit-where-it's-due mode, how about a bow for Howie Horwitz, who was 77 Sunset Strip's showrunner for the first five seasons?
(The term wasn't in use then, but you know what I mean.)
Horwitz's best-known credit was for producing Batman a few years later; compare the behind-the-camera credits on the two shows and you'll find many of the same names.
Horwitz was also likely the one who made 77SS's longtime cop Byron Keith Mayor of Gotham City.
In my original comment, I mentioned that 77SS did a lot of custom jobs for guest stars.
My favorite (?) of these was "Publicity Brat", written for the most obnoxious child actress of the time, Evelyn Rudie.
The erstwhile "Eloise" was paired off with Billie Burke (demobbed from Oz) in a brutal send-up of the kid-star process; nasty/funny all around.
77SS did a few Hollywood send-ups, usually for laughs; in one of them Louis Quinn's Roscoe got a love interest in the person of his real-life wife, Christine Nelson.
Note to MeTV:
Put 77 Sunset Strip on in prime time ASAP.
Boy, do we need it now …
Daniel, thanks for all the information. I especially look forward to using your list of recommendations.
I did know Huggins had no connection to the series other than be ripped off by WB. But I do still like the three episodes based on Huggins work – Girl on the Run, Lovely Lady Pity Me and Perfect Set Up.
I need to pull out my YouTube dubs and get back to watching. WB Archive occasionally would include some episodes but I don't remember any impressed me. But when you are doing 34 or more episodes a year there will be great episodes and the not so great.
One of my favorite TV writers is Robert C. Dennis but surprisingly I have yet to watch any of his episodes. I need to fix that soon.
In what way was Huggins ripped off? He sold a property, but did not create the subsequent series. Seems good to me.
Mike Doran,
I'd also like to see MeTV run 77 SUNSET STRIP in prime time. Actually, I wouldn't mind a prime time schedule with more variety; classic detective and Western series along with the sitcoms that now predominate. Of course, most of those classic shows are in b&w, which programmers are afraid will turn off viewers, so the shows are generally relegated to morning, afternoon, or late-late time slots.
Yes, I should have mentioned Howie Horwitz as another one of the people behind Strip's success; interestingly, he was spoofed in one of the episodes, "The Canine Caper," which features a TV producer character named Harry Orwitt. Horwitz sadly met a premature and bizarre end in real life, stepping off a cliff in a national park while backing up to take a picture of his girlfriend.
As for Huggins, he tells the full story (I misremembered it slightly) of how Jack Warner successfully maneuvered to avoid giving him creator's royalties on Strip; whether you call it a rip-off on WB's part or not, here's his story (from a Television Chronicle article on 77 Sunset Strip). The quote picks up after Huggins has been talking about how "Anything for Money" ran on "Conflict:"
"So I said, 'Let's do a one-hour private eye series, 77 Sunset Strip, and they said, 'Great. Let's come up with a pilot. I came up with Girl on the Run…The first move that indicated to me that something was afoot was a memo from Bill Orr [WB's head television producer] saying, 'Can you lengthen this screenplay so that it can be made into a 90-minute movie? Because if we don't sell it, we may want to release it as a movie…Then…they started no longer referring to it as 77 Sunset Strip. It suddenly began to be referred to as Girl on the Run…a movie. Then they called and said 'Change the hero's name to Stuart Bailey.' And then I knew something was really afoot. Because the name of the hero in Anything for Money was Stuart Bailey…The reason for all the problems about getting the credit for creating something was because J.L. Warner simply looked at Bill Orr and said, 'Bill, don't ever get yourself into a situation where we have to pay one of those writers a royalty'…Now, they didn't owe me a royalty because I had written a movie, which they owned, and now they had the right to make a television show out of it."
Returning to 77 Sunset Strip, other highly recommended episodes include:
"The Common Denominator"–a suspenseful serial-killer mystery cowritten by Roger Smith and Montgomery Pittman.
"Man in the Crowd"–Roger Smith is hunted by a mysterious would-be assassin, in another Smith and Pittman episode that owes something to Geoffrey Household's novel "Watcher in the Shadows."
"The Rice Estate," a nicely turned haunted-house mystery and a good little romance rolled into one; Efrem Zimbalist Jr. has one of his most interesting love interests in the person of Peggy McCay's eccentric, reclusive widow, the owner of the titular estate.
"The 6 out of 8 Caper"–a mild-mannered computer programmer seemingly has created a system for picking winning horses, and multiple people are after his secret; this episode is an especially good showcase for Louis Quinn's Roscoe.
"Ghost of a Memory"–a terrific spooky episode that anticipates the whole "Elvis sightings" craze: a dead pop star apparently returns from the grave, haunting his late wife and inspiring his teenage fans to create a sort of quasi-cult.
"Terror in Silence"–a deaf librarian stumbles onto a clever heist planned by a crafty accountant (Strother Martin); features a nicely scary and suspenseful final chase through the library.
"The Baker Street Caper"–Efrem Zimbalist Jr. matches wits with a genuine, Edgar-Wallace-style Master Criminal (Andrew Duggan) in London.
"Switchburg"–Efrem Zimbalist Jr. investigates strange goings-on in a near-ghost-town in another sharp Montgomery Pittman script.
"The Office Caper"–yet another Pittman episode, and a memorably offbeat one, with the action taking place entirely from the point of view of a quarter of professional killers (Bruce "Frank Nitti" Gordon, Robert McQueeney, Richard Jaeckel, and Pittman's steppdaughter Sherry Jackson) who have been hired to eliminate Efrem Zimbalist Jr.'s character.
"The Double Death of Benny Markham"–Roger Smith helps an English burglar track down the spies who are responsible for subjecting the burglar to a lethal dose of radiation; Walter Burke is great as the doomed client.
18. Barry, the clip of Huggins explaining his problem with WB is up in my post at #9.
It was more than just 77 SUNSET STRIP. It includes Warners behavior after Huggins created COLT 45 and MAVERICK.
This was a period when the major studios such as Warner Brothers saw TV as beneath them. When Disney started to make a fortune from TV, not only from advertisers but as a way to promote product such as Disneyland the studios held their nose and jumped in. As Huggins said, Warner had declared he would never pay a creator any royalty. It took awhile before some studios would even have a credit for created by.
It must also be said Huggins was not the most liked person in Hollywood. He was one who named names to the House Un-American Activities Committee. He had a reputation of a credit grabber such as with THE ROCKFORD FILES. James Garner hated Huggins.
But it was common for writers and actors to get screwed by creative accounting that Hollywood is famous for. In the sixties, Universal refused to pay the series producer for a script he had wrote saying it was part of what they pay the producer. Some like Larry Cohen of BLUE LIGHT would give the writing credit to friends so they could get the money and the valuable Writers union points to get into the Union.
Huggins created another writer named John Thomas James. Both Huggins and his alter-ego John Thomas James had their own union card. I think there is only a handful of episodes of ALIAS SMITH AND JONES that the story is not credited to John Thomas James.
The long-winded point I am trying to make is – like Huggins says in the clip – it was all a game. The studios in the process of losing its power and the talent fighting for whatever they could get.
July 6th, 2017 at 10:16 am
Maybe this is the wind-up:
I've just spent several days trying (without success) to find my copies of Television Chronicles (they're here somewhere, I just know it).
One of the late issues has an extended piece on 77 Sunset Strip, along with an interview with Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
It's an eminently quotable interview; I wish I had it at hand right now.
Since I don't, what follows is an approximation of a very wise observation made by Mr. Zimbalist:
… If a series does ten really good episodes in a season, and the rest mediocre to poor, that series will succeed.
Somebody ought to put that in a needlepoint sampler and post it at the top …
In re 77SS, the batting average is obviously a high one; a full-series release will bear this out.
Elsewhere in the same interview, Zimbalist names Monty Pittman (I'm quoting his familiarity with his good friend) as the genius of 77 Sunset Strip, which most of us will sign off on.
Now it's my turn to sign off (and go looking for those oedipusrexing magazines …).
9/18/17, after midnight:
MeTV has gotten around to the infamous sixth season of 77 Sunset Strip.
This past Friday/early Saturday, MeTV ran "White Lie", the second aired episode, with Elizabeth Montgomery. They did this so they could devote this calendar week to "5", the all-star kickoff to 77SS 2.0.
Of course I'll be DVRing the whole thing, saving it up for a weekend binge down the line; I especially want to see that opening billboard with all the guest stars doing a pre-curtain call at each episode's start, which will doubtless be an upgrade over my crappy VHS bootleg that I've had all these years.
Now to see how many of you check back on past postings …
Thanks for the warning Mike and thanks for this blog's RSS feed for comments.
Hello RSS!
… and welcome to Beating It To Death!:
Last week I got to see the final episode of Season 5, "Never To Have Loved" – which, as it happens, was apparently the first 77SS to be EPed by Jack Webb and PDed by Bill Conrad.
The show was somewhat more serious than some recent 77SSs had been: Kookie and Roscoe were present, but I noticed that the infamous nickname seemed to be in the process of being phased out.
All academic, of course: Season 6 jumped right in to the New Order, with no explanation for the sudden change in Stu Bailey's station.
"White Lie" was (my opinion) a pretty good little show – I hadn't seen it in first run (my family gave up on 77SS one segment into "5").
Looking back, I think I have an idea what happened:
77SS2.0 should not have aired at 7:30/6:30 Central time; better at a later hour, like the one the old show had had the previous season, 9:30/8:30 Central.
That later spot was given to The Fight Of The Week, which had to be moved from its old Saturday spot to make room for Jerry Lewis's two-hour disaster.
So, you see, the whole thing was Jerry's fault!
Mystery Solved!
IMDb has almost no info about the season 6 Strips, so their content will come as a total surprise to me – and to anyone else who watches, comes to that.
Think of it – a brand-new series, fifty-three years after the fact!
Television- it's Fun!
It's History!
It's America!
Alas I am back in CT where MeTV is only a rumor. When we were first discussing the show I looked for an outlet selling collector copies, and yes, I found one. I passed on them at the time, but I bookmarked the page. I hope they're still there!
Shortly after I mentioned my RSS on the comments here Apple did an update and wiped the RSS off my Mac. No doubt it will someday return but until then I am deaf to old comments (except here).
As for 5. I really enjoy the theme but hated everything else. Every character is one- dimensional cliche from the fat man villain of Maltese Falcon to the blonde the hero falls for. The writing is terrible with a wandering plot and a padded story that has no flow to hook us. There is no reason – be it the mystery or the characters – to make us care or even interested. The story likes its surprise twist at the end of the episodes but nothing that is not predictable for anyone who has watched mysteries since 1920s. The writer Harry Essex shoves in emotional and social issues with the subtilty of a sledge hammer. The production values are embarrassing especially the laughable street scenes. Everyone tries too hard to be stylish. William Conrad's direction avoids the invention of editing to the point of some strange shots of the back of the head of characters in the foreground. The soundtrack at times has been added by someone who has watched WEST SIDE STORY too many times.
Top it off ME-TV is worse than You-Tube. Sound keeps vanishing and with it lines of dialog. Scenes seemed clipped and the endless promo breaks make this even harder to watch.
This just might be the end:
As of last week, MeTV completed the 6th season of 77 Sunset Strip, which means it is no longer "lost".
I suppose someone will be writing up the whole season for you, someone far more knowledgeable than I.
That said, I'd like to talk about "The Target", which was third from last to run on ABC (the rerun season went back to the Version Originale).
"The Target" was about an ex-reporter (Keith Andes), just out of prison on a bum rap, who gets shot at just as he arrives home.
It seems that Andes has been writing The Book that will blow the lid off some racketeers old and older; these make up Stu Bailey's suspect pool.
On a hunch, I held off watching this one until the end, after seeing all the others – the majority of which, in my view, could have easily been done on the old show in the old style.
I'm talking about the plots; the main difference between old-style and new-style was amputating Efrem Zimbalist's manners; the suave, well-spoken Bailey of old-style became a snarling wiseacre who was grubbing for a buck, insulting everybody along the way.
This approach didn't last long; as season 6 progressed, Bailey became less gratuitously nasty (He'd suddenly developed a ferocious hatred for police, which would have definitely shocked Lt. Roy Gilmore; this was the first characteristic of nuBailey to go).
About midway through the cycle, Bailey's unseen stenographer Hannah suddenly became seen, in the person of the above-average-looking Joan Staley; her presence turned Old Stu into a major flirt (and don't think that certain recent headlines about a Major Hollywood Figure didn't occur to me while I was watching).
I might also mention that the 77SS opening titles were changed about the same time; Zimbalist's mournful ascent within the Bradbury Building gave way to a long tracking shot of Old Stu walking the Mean Streets at night.
I digress; back to "The Target".
I mentioned above that I saved watching this to last.
Beforehand, I learned something about it that led me to believe that "The Target" was intended to be the Final Episode of 77.
It was the casting of three of the to-be-exposed mob types:
Bill Conrad (Producer) as a semi-crooked fight promoter.
Lawrence Dobkin (Director) as a publisher who started out in nudie books.
Tony Barrett (Writer) as a retired procurer.
… And as a Bonus for the dweebs in the crowd:
James Lydon (Associate Producer) as a convict who starts Stu Bailey out in his investigation.
About this last:
During this time, one of our local Chicago stations was running a well-known series of comedy features from the '40s, which my family watched faithfully every Saturday afternoon.
We'd stopped watching 77 by this point, but now I wish we hadn't.
Thinking back, my brother, sisters, and I migt have gotten a charge out of our Dad telling us all:
"Look at that, guys – Henry Aldrich is in the clink!"
Anyhow, this sort-of group appearance by the 77 Sunset Strip front office seems to be to be a grand gesture of a kind from Old Hollywood Pros who knew the end was near and decided to have a little fun on the way out.
* … unless, of course, I'm wrong …*
One More Last Gasp:
BearManor has just published a biography of William Conrad, wherein you will learn much of this gentleman's storied careers in all media.
The reorganization of 77 Sunset Strip occupies part of one chapter covering the '60s, when Conrad was staying behind the cameras.
As noted above, Conrad directed the Season 5 finale, which MeTV ran a couple of weeks ago.
It was a Hollywood story; Conrad gave himself a cameo as an AD with clapperboard, setting up a scene-within-a-scene.
When Jack Webb and Conrad took over full-time for Season 6, their first decision was to scrap the 77SS format in toto and start from scratch.
And Conrad's own first decision was to fire Edd Byrnes – personally.
Quote from Conrad:
I had the pleasure of firing the little prick … He annoyed me no end.
(Some details in the book.)
… and I guess this is really the end of the 77 Sunset Saga.
( … unless somebody else has something …)
More inside details. I love it! Thanks, Mike.
Belatedly, it occurs to me that my plug was incomplete:
WILLIAM CONRAD: A Life And Career
by Charles Tranberg
BearManor Media (2018), available from the publisher or on Amazon.
… and now, maybe this is The End …
September 1st, 2020 at 2:23 am
What happens when I'm up late at night with nothing to do:
I'm looking over the lists of old 77 Sunset Strip shows …
… and I notice "Terror In Silence" about the deaf-mute girl who gets trapped in the library by Strother Martin …
Did you notice that the library set was the one that Warner Bros. built for The Music Man a year or so before?
The Warner Brothers certainly never let anything go to waste …
Friday, Jun 30th, 2017 at 8:21 am
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So, I have now data list and its ok, but that code skip lines after a number of lines, not specific word. Also, I can't save this list as properly CSV file; c Can u help?:)

A: Use readlines, then use seek, and writelines:
with open('some.txt', 'r+') as f:
    text=f.readlines()
    f.seek(0)
    f.writelines(text[[i for i, s in enumerate(mylist) if '[APP]' in s][0]:])

Your file will be now as expected, and another plus that it doesn't do it by index.

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Eighteen-year-old Tony Cooks was convicted of second-degree murder in 1981, after four trials in Los Angeles County, California. When a fifth trial in 1986 revealed details of a sloppy police investigation, Cooks was acquitted.
On January 19, 1980, 42-year-old John Franklin Gould was beaten outside his Paramount Apartment Building by three black youths in a racially motivated attack. Gould, a white man, was a former minor league baseball player. At age 42, he was nearly bent over with severe arthritis. His wife, Barbara, witnessed his beating.
Thirteen days later, Gould succumbed to his injuries. He had never regained consciousness.
Throughout the next five weeks, Sheriff's Deputy Vernon J. Clover met repeatedly with Helen Foster, who would become the prosecution's main witness. She claimed to have seen Barbara Gould and the three assailants from her front porch, despite the fact that her door was 177 feet south of the crime scene and a chain-link fence obscured her view. On March 7, 1980, Clover presented Foster with a photo lineup. Foster recognized the picture of one boy, a 14-year-old (who remains unnamed) with a history of mental problems, because three weeks earlier she had told police that he had molested two young girls. She also identified the 14-year-old boy's older half-brother, Douglas Henderson, who resembled Cooks, but she claimed that he was not one of the attackers.
After meeting with Clover, Foster returned to her duties as a lunchtime crossing guard. Just minutes later, she saw a group of three black youths—Cooks, his friend Ray Coleman, and the 14-year-old boy—walking along the sidewalk across the street and summoned authorities. Once deputies arrived on the scene, Foster identified Cooks, whom she did not know, as the killer. She claimed not to recognize either of the other two youths, even though she had identified the 14-year-old in the photo lineup just moments before. Cooks was arrested, but the other two were released.
On March 10, the 14-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of molesting the two young girls. While in custody, he was also interviewed about Gould's murder. The boy confessed and named Cooks as the primary killer. Later, when Cooks identified Henderson as the murderer in court, the boy asserted that even if his half-brother were guilty, he would not tell authorities. Two days after the 14-year-old boy's arrest, Clover composed a report based on his interview with the boy. The report included a 312 word verbatim confession, even though the interview was not tape-recorded, and the boy's statement was written in language the boy likely would not have used, given his age and mental history.
In late 1981, after four trials, Cooks was convicted. His first and third trials had resulted in hung juries and his second was declared a mistrial. Superior Court Judge Roosevelt Dorn tossed out the conviction in light of "troubling" issues that convinced him Cooks did not receive a fair trial. In addition to the unreliability of the 14-year-old boy, who later recanted his confession, Dorn deemed Cooks' defense lawyer, Gus A. Poole, "totally incompetent." At the time of Cooks' trial, Poole was also defending Henderson, who Cooks believed was the real killer, in an unrelated criminal case.
Also, Dorothy McWilliams, the mother of one of Cooks' friends, did not come forward to confirm Cooks' alibi for the night of the murder because she feared her son Ronnie would be sent to juvenile hall for violating the terms of his probation. One condition stipulated that he was not to associate with Tony Cooks.
Clover also cleared Douglas Henderson through a telephone call that revealed he was working in Orange County at the time of the murder. The prosecutor, Thomas A. Gray, commented that this was a "totally inadequate" measure to eliminate a murder suspect from an investigation.
Finally, Clover's investigation excluded two primary witnesses who provided information that contradicted the testimonies of Foster and Barbara Gould. Two Latina sisters, Cathy and Pamela Canales, occupied an apartment on the second floor of the building where the murder took place. In separate interviews, each said they saw the three youths leave the murder scene headed southbound, not north toward the Foster home, as Foster and Gould testified. Poole failed to call the sisters as witnesses, and Clover did not mention them in his reports because he claimed they did not provide him with any "useful" information.
The specific grounds on which Dorn tossed out the conviction was the suggestive photo lineup Clover had presented to Barbara Gould on March 7. Clover assembled photographs of Cooks, Ray Coleman, and four other black youths who were not suspects. Cooks was the lightest-skinned man among those pictured. Gould's identification of Cooks was uncertain at best. Throughout the rest of the court proceedings, Gould identified Cooks as the killer with certainty. Both Gould and Foster offered inconsistent testimonies throughout the trials, and their testimonies conflicted at times.
After Dorn threw out Cooks' conviction, an appeals court reinstated it. Despite his belief in Cooks' innocence, the law required Dorn to sentence Cooks. He received 15-years-to-life in prison.
On November 27, 1983, a reporter, David Johnston, who had been introduced to the Cooks case by prosecutor Gray, published a story in the Los Angeles Times. His interest had been piqued by Cooks' adamant denial of his involvement in the crime throughout the proceedings. After reading Johnston's article, attorneys Barry Tarlow and Brad Batson convinced attorney John Yzurdiaga to take on Cooks' appeal pro bono, helping him to secure a fifth trial in 1985. At the fifth trial, Clover admitted to destroying evidence he deemed unimportant and to withholding certain pieces of evidence from the prosecution and defense. He testified that a field identification card that Poole and Gray never saw was likely stuck between the pages of his reports until after the fourth trial. This pink, three-by-five-inch sheriff's field identification card, became the key piece of evidence on which the jury based its acquittal of Cooks. The card showed that Henderson was stopped for questioning five minutes after the killing just a few blocks away. The clothing Henderson wore matched perfectly the descriptions of the killer's attire given by Barbara Gould and another witness. The killer had been described as sporting a mustache; Henderson had a mustache. Henderson's companions also fit the descriptions that Gould gave authorities.
Cooks' acquittal and exoneration came on November 10, 1986. Acknowledging that his was a case of mistaken identity, Cooks said he had every reason to feel bitter, but didn't. "Now I just feel great," he told reporters. "I'm just absorbing living free and I want to get away for a while and think about what I want to do and then get on with my life." He added that "I've got my freedom. And that's all I want."
- Carling Spelhaug and Dolores Kennedy
Sentence: 15 years to life
Contributing Factors: Mistaken Witness ID, Perjury or False Accusation, Official Misconduct, Inadequate Legal Defense


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J. STEVEN WORTHLEY Chairman - District Four
1. Presentation given by United Way regarding an update on the 2-1-1 Program.
4. PUBLIC HEARING: Request from the Fire Department to approve Fire Hazard Abatement Cost Recovery. Confirm the accounting as modified. Order that the costs as confirmed be recorded in the office of the Tulare County Recorder. Order that the Tulare County Auditor-Controller/Treasurer-Tax Collector place such costs on the County Tax Roll as special assessments against the respective parcels of land.
5. PUBLIC HEARING: Request from the Resource Management Agency to accept the General Rule Exemption as the appropriate environmental document. Approve Tentative Subdivision Tract No. TM 807, filed by Lane Engineers, Inc., on behalf of Keith and Lisa Wilson for the division of a 2.59-acre parcel into 2 residential lots and a Remainder (Lot 1 = 19,150 sq. ft.; Lot 2 = 19,150 sq. ft.; Remainder = 87,120 sq. ft.) in the R-A-12.5 (Rural Residential - 12,500 sq. ft. minimum) Zone, located on the north side of Avenue 393, approximately 1,000 feet west of Road 34, adjacent to the south boundary of the Kings River Golf and Country Club, approximately 2 miles southeast of the City of Kingsburg. Adopt the findings of approval and conditions of approval for Tentative Subdivision Tract No. TM 807. Direct the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors to return the signed Notice of Exemption to the Resource Management Agency.
6. Ratify and approve an agreement with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) to provide a maximum of $11,266 in State subvention to offset costs of Light Brown Apple Moth trapping, retroactive to July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011. Find that the Board had authority to enter into the proposed agreement as of July 1, 2010, and that it was in the County's best interest to enter into the agreement on that date.
7. Approve an agreement with Extract Systems in the amount of $148,500 to implement redaction services of the County's historical images between 1980 and 2009.
8. Approve the Tulare County Youth Commission's recommendation to extend the term of the Healthy Kids-Healthy Lindsay Step Up Youth Activities grant from 12 to 18 months.
9. Appoint Scott Scheer to the Emergency Medical Care Committee as Ambulance Provider Agency - Imperial Ambulance, Seat 6, Alternate Member to serve at the Pleasure of the Board.
10. Reappoint Jim Crew to the Tulare County Fish & Game Commission as District 5 Representative for a term ending September 4, 2012.
11. Ratify and approve an amendment to Agreement No. 24478 with Webb and Son Corporation for the History of Farm Labor and Agriculture Museum Elevator project in the amount of $12,798.91. Find that the Board had authority to amend Agreement No. 24478 as of October 1, 2010, and that it was in the County's best interest to amend the agreement on that date. Authorize the Chairman to sign the amendment, subject to review and approval as to form by County Counsel.
12. Approve Amendment One to the Tulare County Association of Governments (TCAG) Joint Powers Agreement among the Cities of Dinuba, Exeter, Farmersville, Lindsay, Porterville, Tulare, Visalia, and Woodlake and the County to add subparagraph (q) which would allow TCAG to acquire, maintain, and dispose of real property or an interest in real property and subparagraph (r) which would allow TCAG to enter into joint powers agreements pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act, Chapter 5 of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code to paragraph 2. Authorize the Chairman to execute ten (10) originals of the Joint Powers Agreement (JPA) Amendment One approved by a sufficient number of the nine (9) political subdivisions to constitute at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the population of the entire County and leaving the date blank with the understanding that the effective date will be the date the Amendment is executed by the last party.
13. Approve an agreement with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection for the Volunteer Fire Assistance Program grant in the amount of $20,000 to purchase wild land fire shelters. Approve the necessary budget adjustments. (4/5ths vote required)
14. Reaffirm declaration of state of emergency in the Tulare County Drought Resolution No. 2008-0472 adopted June 24, 2008.
15. Ratify and approve the Purchase Order (No. 0000276523) and the acceptance of $12,500 in revenues provided by the University of California - San Francisco for the California Project LEAN (Leaders Encouraging Activity and Nutrition) Sugar Sweetened Beverages grant, retroactive to August 15, 2010 through January 31, 2011. Find that the Board had authority to accept this grant as of August 15, 2010, and that it was in the County's best interest to accept the grant on that date.
16. Ratify and approve an agreement with Tulare County Office of Education (TCOE) in an amount not to exceed $120,000 to increase youth knowledge and awareness regarding the consequences of underage drinking throughout Tulare County, retroactive to July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2013. Find that the Board had authority to enter into the proposed agreement as of July 1, 2010, and that it was in the County's best interest to enter into the agreement on that date.
17. Approve the Tulare County Child Abuse Prevention Council's (CAPC) request for their annual funding in the amount of $37,000 from the Children's Trust Fund (CTF) for Fiscal Year 2010/2011.
18. Approve the donation of Vehicle No. 3141, a 2005 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 Heavy Duty Pickup with mounted animal transport body for animal control, to the City of Farmersville for their Animal Control Division. Authorize the Tulare County Purchasing Agent to process the transfer of title to Vehicle No. 3141, to the City of Farmersville.
19. Approve a Memorandum of Understanding with California State Association of California (CSAC) - Excess Insurance Authority to renew the Delta Dental Program for 2011 on a self-funded basis.
20. Approve increasing funding for the On-site Mammography Program not to exceed an additional $15,000 to provide up to 250 mammograms for qualifying female employees over the age of 40 using San Joaquin Valley Insurance Authority (SJVIA) Wellness Program funds. Request retroactive approval by the San Joaquin Valley Insurance Authority of the funding shift of up to $15,000 from $50,000 budgeted for health risk assessments. Conditionally approve use of up to $15,000 of the County's remaining $120,000 dividend subsidy from our prior membership in the CSAC Excess Insurance Authority for use in the wellness programs as needed to fully fund both the Mammography Program at up to $25,000 and the Health Risk Assessment Program up to $50,000.
21. Authorize the pre-payment of $194,621.94 to the Southern California Edison Company for the County's share of the cost to relocate poles on the North Phase of the Road 108 widening project and the cost to relocate underground transmission ducts at the Liberty Substation.
22. Approve the Fixed Asset purchase of a Video Server from Leightronix in an amount not to exceed $5,500. Approve the necessary budget adjustments. (4/5ths vote required)
23. Approve the Fixed Asset purchase of a Digital Evidence Data Retention Server in an amount not to exceed $25,600. Approve the necessary budget adjustments. (4/5ths vote required)
24. Ratify and accept a Grant Award from the Office on Violence Against Women in the amount of $300,000 to operate the Tulare County Rural Program from October 1, 2010 through September 30, 2012. Approve and authorize a Personnel Resolution to increase the position allocation of the Sheriff's Department by one (1) Detective, effective November 8, 2010. Find that the Board had authority to enter into the proposed grant program on October 1, 2010, and that it was in the best interests of the County to enter into the agreement on that date. Approve the necessary budget adjustments. (4/5ths vote required)
25. Ratify and approve the grant award from the California Emergency Management Agency for the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Program from $179,087 to $200,000, retroactive to October 1, 2010 through September 30, 2011. Find that the Board had the authority to enter into the revised grant award agreement as of October 1, 2010, and that it was in the County's best interest to enter into the increased grant award agreement on that date.
26. Proclaim the month of November 2010 as Court Adoption and Permanency Month in Tulare County.
27. Request from Resource Management Agency to adopt pursuant to Government Code Section 65858, as an Urgency Measure, the Interim Zoning Ordinance prohibiting the establishment of Marijuana (non-medical) for an interim period of time in the unincorporated areas of the County of Tulare. Set a public hearing for December 14, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. Direct the Clerk of the Board to notice such hearing in accordance with Government Code Section 65858, in order to consider this ordinance and a proposed extension thereof prior to the expiration of this ordinance in forty-five days. Authorize the Director of RMA, or his designee, to issue a written report ten days prior to the expiration of the Interim Ordinance or any extension, describing the measures taken to alleviate the condition which led to the adoption of the Ordinance.
Tentative Subdivision Tract No. 807 to divide a 2.59-acre parcel into 2 residential lots and a Remainder, Southeast of Kingsburg, Board of Supervisors Public Hearing November 2, 2010
Interim Zoning Ordinance prohibiting certain consumption and cultivation of Marijuana (non-medical) authorized by Proposition 19 on the November 2, 2010 ballot for an interim period of time in the unincorporated areas of the County of Tulare. Board of Supervisors Agenda Item November 2, 2010.
Threats of litigation in the public record regarding the proposed Tulare County General Plan 2030 Update and Draft Environment Impact Report
Name of Case: County of Tulare vs Robert Van Grouw et al
Name of Case: County of Tulare vs Ronald H. Vanderham et al
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Summer is a time for fun, right? Not for cleaning your house. To minimize the amount of time you have to spend cleaning your house, use these tips to keep every room in your home clean—and give you more time for summer fun!
Use door mats and rugs to your advantage. Keep dirt at bay by keeping mats and rugs at every doorway to keep the sand and mud out of your home. If you have pets, check them over at the door for muddy paws and dirt.
Don't be afraid to live out of bags. Whether you travel or play all summer long, don't be afraid to stay organized with packed bags for each activity or to keep your items pre-packed in luggage for a quick getaway.
Have a container ready for wet clothes. Whether from the pool or an unexpected down pour, expect wet clothes to come in on a regular basis. Have a system ready to dry them out, wash them, and get them ready for the next round of summer fun.
Organize your laundry room. Dirty shirts and shorts are a part of summer. Ready yourself for those unexpected surprises, and organize your laundry room so you can spot shot as soon as possible.
Train other members of your household to maintain a clean shower. A bit of daily maintenance can go a long way toward saving you from hours of shower and tile scrubbing. Make sure everyone remembers to crack open a window or turn on the fan to prevent mildew and mold from growing. Give your shower door a regular spray-down or a daily squeegee to keep soap scum away.
Wipe down your bathroom counters daily. Leave a damp cloth near your bathroom counter, and wipe it down every day so you don't have to scrub down any stains later.
Wash dishes after every meal. Don't let your pile of dishes get higher than you. Wash down your pots and pans on a daily basis to prevent lengthy wash-downs later.
Do a quick wipe down. Your counters, toaster, microwave…give everything in your kitchen a quick wipe down with a damp cloth.
Pick up your clothes. Keep your bedroom clutter-free. Put your clothes into a laundry hamper every night, or—even better—straight into the washer!
Don't be afraid to hire cleaning help. Hiring a home cleaning service does not have to mean that you give up cleaning your house. If you need a cleaning service on days before you entertain, schedule accordingly. Or if you only want a certain room clean, give your cleaning service specific instruction. If you need someone to clean your whole house from top to bottom, there's nothing wrong with that. Summer is meant to be enjoyed—not spent trying to keep up with a messy house.
Keep the grill and patio clean. Use outside dining to your advantage, which means easy clean up after meals. Use a bucket of water and soap to wash down your patio and furniture. Use a brush to keep your grill ready for another day of grilling.


With a price undercut at $23,000, Volkswagen's plan to launch a new electric car could be the response to Tesla's Model 3, its cheapest electronic car which costs $45,000 currently.
Volkswagen has been working hard on reviving its reputation after the 'emission scandal' for which it has been focusing on embracing electric vehicles among other things. Having promised to electrify 300 vehicle models by the year 2030 along with the installation of 2,800 charging stations across the US; the German car maker is turning focus on manufacturing new vehicles and its competitor and market leader Tesla in the EV market at present.
The electric car known as 'MEB entry' will be discussed in the supervisory board meeting on Nov. 16 for a green signal after which, with an aim to produce 200,000 vehicles a year in the beginning, three existing factories will be planned to convert for starting production of the entry- level electric vehicle, according to a source close to Volkswagen.
A confirmation from Volkswagen has not been secured. Volkswagen will gain a significant advantage over Tesla at the lower end of the market in case an electric car is possible in that price range.
However, whether or not the MEB entry comes close to competing with Tesla's Model 3's performance is yet to be seen.


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Leo Baeck College Library
The Leo Baeck College Library houses one of the finest collections of Judaica in Europe. A Jewish Studies library in the widest possible sense: our collections cover every area of Judaism and Jewish life, thought and culture, including books in English, Hebrew, German, Yiddish, French and Russian, from traditional, professional and academic literature. Our Main Collection is enhanced by rare books, archival and digital material, and donations from Rabbis, teachers and scholars which makes researching in our collections an extraordinary voyage of discovery.
Find out more about the library on their Discover information page.
The Library and Learning Services at Kingston University supports students and staff in pursuing their learning, teaching and research ambitions.
Their focus is on the delivery of high-quality learning resources and services to students and staff (face to face and online). They support a wide range of information-driven activity from skills support through to innovative online learning experiences.
The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple Library
Middle Temple Library provides legal reference services to members of all four Inns of Court. This includes access to over 250,000 books, journals and law reports – all listed in the Library catalogue – a variety of online legal databases, and an enquiry service staffed by qualified legal librarians.
Leeds Public Libraries
Central Library, Leeds Public Libraries
The Grade II* listed Central Library holds the rare book and manuscript collections. Highlights include the Gott Bequest of early gardening and botanical books and the Gascoigne Collection of naval and military history. The library also houses a rich collection of books relating to Leeds and Yorkshire.
Library Hub Discover holds the Special Collections, Local History, Music and Art Collections of Leeds Public Libraries.
National Army Museum Library
The National Army Museum's collection is the world's largest, and most significant, accumulation of artefacts relating to the British Army and other Land Forces of the British Crown (including the former Indian Army until 1947).
The museum's collection of printed books and periodicals is one of the largest in its field readily accessible to the general public in the UK, with approximately 58,000 titles. The collection contains volumes published since the early sixteenth century to the present, and includes extensive holdings of regimental histories, campaign histories, biographies, Army Lists and other official publications.
Explore the libraries' collections on Discover
– Selecting the search code to the right of each library name on the Libraries list page enables you search for all the records from an individual library.
– To browse or limit your search to the holdings of any library, or group of libraries, use Advanced Search to select the Libraries tab and choose the library name from the list of libraries.
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I often feel compelled to comment on the state of the world or the news of the day. I recognize that by opinion and my interpretation is personal and based in the sum of my experiences, education, and other biases. Most days I resist the urge to use this platform and share my outlandish views on social media and in speaking opportunities. This is mostly to honour the unwritten agreement that I have with subscribers to Make it Your Problem. For long time readers, you will have recognized dozens, maybe hundreds of times that I stepped into the fray and ranted away. Let this introduction serve as a disclaimer – if you don't want to hear my latest rave, it would be best to exit this page and head over to my Patreon site for something completely different.
The headline reads " President Suffers Third Degree Burns When his Trousers Spontaneously Ignite." The rant is regarding alternate truth and what we are to do when someone we need to trust disregards the facts and says whatever serves his self-serving agenda. Do we say " Oh, that's just Donald." Should we continue to ignore everything that flows from his lips? Can we hold up a light and shine truth on his statements? What could/would we achieve?
To be clear, not everything that is spoken is a lie, and not everything that turns out to be false is a lie either. When, he/we misspeak and are careless about how he / we tell a story, it may be wrong, but without malice aforethought, it is just bad practice and poor preparation. But there comes a time when the glaringly ridiculous isn't negligent but rather malicious. When the statement is meant to manipulate and deceive, forgiveness and concessions shouldn't be available.
The line was crossed with mean-spiritedness in statements about Mexican rapists, 911, NATO commitments, wiretapping, Russian involvement and election fraud. Reputable officials and appointees as well as media have continued to discredit conspiracy theories, self-aggrandizing assertions, and 'woe-is-me' whining.
Back to the question " What do we do?". I wish, we could just ignore the diatribes but the ramifications and consequences that these may have would mean that I am dangerously naive to ignore the message and therefore the messenger. Holding him and his utterings to a lower standard is a disservice to the country, the planet and ourselves and the danger is still that they inflame and conflate tension and do nothing to bring back a level of hope and truth.
So, by my reckoning, we are left to challenge the recklessness with all ammunition at hand. We have a voice, in face-to-face conversations. We have an audience in our blogs, podcasts and social media channels. We have friends and colleagues that we can recruit to speak their voices. With the power we have there is a responsibility to exercise good judgement and check the veracity of our message. A lie that is meant to defeat a different lie only serves to perpetuate the downward spiral.
If you read something, see something, feel something check it against at least three disparate sources before you forward, retweet, or share in any form.
It may be prudent if we return to Descartes 17th century Method before creating personal havoc by haranguing with only suspicions.
1. The first precept is never to accept a thing as true until I know it as such without a single doubt.
2. Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
3. The last rule is to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so comprehensive, that I should be certain of omitting nothing.
After working through the Cartesian process, I/we should be capable of creating with brevity and clarity (and humour if possible), a well reasoned and compelling rebuttal that makes sense to and resonates with our specific audience.
I can't be sure that I won't go flying off the deep end and react to something that I believe to be inaccurate or venomous or even mischevious. I will attempt to hold myself to a higher standard of verification and thought. I will try to hold the importance of truth over the urgency of being heard. I will do my best to gather information, data, and opinion from a variety of sources with a variety of positions. I will use my voice to shine a light when I have done my diligence. I won't ignore and I won't minimize.


Brings about the chlorination of a range of organic molecules, forming stable C-Cl bonds. Also oxidizes bromide and iodide. Enzymes of this type are either heme-thiolate proteins, or contain vanadate. A secreted enzyme produced by the ascomycetous fungus Caldariomyces fumago (Leptoxyphium fumago) is an example of the heme-thiolate type. It catalyses the production of hypochlorous acid by transferring one oxygen atom from H2O2 to chloride. At a separate site it catalyses the chlorination of activated aliphatic and aromatic substrates, via HClO and derived chlorine species. In the absence of halides, it shows peroxidase (e.g. phenol oxidation) and peroxygenase activities. The latter inserts oxygen from H2O2 into, for example, styrene (side chain epoxidation) and toluene (benzylic hydroxylation), however, these activities are less pronounced than its activity with halides. Has little activity with non-activated substrates such as aromatic rings, ethers or saturated alkanes. The chlorinating peroxidase produced by ascomycetous fungi (e.g. Curvularia inaequalis) is an example of a vanadium chloroperoxidase, and is related to bromide peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.18). It contains vanadate and oxidizes chloride, bromide and iodide into hypohalous acids. In the absence of halides, it peroxygenates organic sulfides and oxidizes ABTS [2,2'-azinobis(3-ethylbenzthiazoline-6-sulfonic acid)] but no phenols.
Chloroperoxidase. I. Isolation and properties of the crystalline glycoprotein.
Hager LP, Hollenberg PF, Rand-Meir T, Chiang R, Doubek D.
The crystal structure of chloroperoxidase: a heme peroxidase--cytochrome P450 functional hybrid.
Enantioselective Sulfoxidation Catalyzed by Vanadium Haloperoxidases.
Oxidation reactions catalyzed by vanadium chloroperoxidase from Curvularia inaequalis.
Chlorinations catalyzed by chloroperoxidase occur via diffusible intermediate(s) and the reaction components play multiple roles in the overall process.
Crystal structures of chloroperoxidase with its bound substrates and complexed with formate, acetate, and nitrate.


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Aside from a rich and challenging curriculum, Middle School students experience a strong sense of collegiality and connectedness among faculty and peers.
Welcome to St. Andrew's Middle School!
St. Andrew's Middle School, which comprises grades 6 through 8, is built on strong teacher-student relationships. Class sizes are small and student engagement is high. Continuing their quest as scholars, artists, athletes and servants, students are able to experience a challenging curriculum, daily chapel, physical education or athletics, meaningful community service, small advisory groups, and have diverse choices in foreign language and fine arts.
Middle School Academics News
Congratulations to our eighth grade students, who held commencement in McGill Chapel followed by the time-honored Boat Party. Five eighth-graders were honored for high achievement and leadership: congratulations to Costas Award winners Mary Louisa Donoghue '23 and Morgan Harrison '23, Grooms Award winner William Sykes '23 and Faculty Award winners Ella Hall '23 and TJ Jobe '23.
Wilson House Wins 2019 Cup
Congratulations to our outstanding Middle School scholars, artists, athletes, and servants who were honored at the Middle School's Four Pillars Banquet. The Kay Hart Award for Exceptional Service went to Ben Hofer '23, whose Project Citizen project to wipe-out AISD lunch debt drew local and national attention (most recently on NPR's Here and Now). Our Middle School Athletes of the Year were also honored for their exceptional sportsmanship and talent: William Dunaway '23, Will Magids '23, and Ella Townsend '23. The Wilson House defended their title as House Cup champions! Wilson House accumulated the most points through team competitions and community service during the school year, culminating in the final House tug-of-war.
Hofer's Civics Project Makes Local News
Eighth-grader Ben Hofer has found himself in the local spotlight (Spectrum and KXAN) after launching a plan to tackle some of the $19,000 worth of Austin Independent School District's school lunch debt. Ben said, "I didn't realize public school students had to pay every day a certain amount of money to get lunch."
Students and Alumni Show Leadership, Latin Skills at TSJCL Convention
The Texas State Junior Classical League (TSJCL) Convention this year was held at Anderson High School here in Austin on April 5-6. The state convention brings together JCLers from across Texas to network and to compete in various competitions related to the Classics. Students had the opportunity to compete with other Latin students from around the state, participate in colloquia presented by Classics scholars and members of the Senior Classical League, and show off their skills in a talent show, among many other activities.
Mindfulness Program Featured in "Diversity IS" Magazine
St. Andrew's Mindfulness program, led by director Adam Ortman, was featured in this month's Diversity IS magazine - the diversity and inclusion magazine for independent schools. The article "Faculty and Administrators Are the Front Line to Providing Mental Health Services" discusses how mindfulness can combat the negative effects of technology habits: "As young people turn increasingly to technology to avoid feelings of loneliness, boredom, and anxiety, the harder it is to learn to cope with unhealthy aspects of their lives," Adam says, adding, "One of the most natural things we do is breathe and relax in our bodies. If we can offer these sorts of tools to young people, I think that it makes them feel more empowered to take care of themselves and work with their own experiences."
Seven Students Head to State PSIA Competition
Thirty-two Lower and Middle School students represented St. Andrew's with flying colors at the Private Schools Interscholastic Association (PSIA) competition on March 9. For several preceding months they worked hard after school and during weekends and holidays to prepare for a variety of academic events with the help of faculty and parent volunteers. After placing first or second in the District 8AA meet, seven students - Abigail Gormin '26, James Graham '26, Ava Hanners '25, Olivia Korman '26, Sally Queen '29, Aidan Strauss '27, and Anna Wayne '24 - are heading to the State competition at TCU in April. Fifteen students placed in the Top 10 of their respective competitive categories.
Get Ready for Summer at St. Andrew's
It's time to start thinking about your summer plans - that means summer camp at St. Andrew's! Our summer camp is open to everyone, so feel free to invite a friend or family member who doesn't attend our school.
What: Summer at St. Andrew's camp
When: June 3-July 19, 2019. *Camp will be closed July 1-5.
Who: Open to all Austin youth ages 4-18 - invite friends to join you!
How to register:
1) Download the camp catalog to read camp details and make your selections before registering
2) Visit www.sasaustin.org/summer. Click on the yellow "Register" button to begin the process. (You can also download the camp catalog on this page.)
Certamen Advance to State, Erben '19 and Snider '20 Take Top Awards
By Emma Schmidt '21 and Jennie Luongo, US Latin Teacher
This month the St. Andrew's Upper School hosted the Austin-area Latin Convention. The convention brought together students from over 25 schools in the Austin-area, allowing students to network and compete in various Classical events.
Download The Highlander Magazine
Our mid-year, digital magazine The Highlander is here. (Download a PDF version here).Our students have been growing every day in their classrooms, on courts, fields, and stages, and in the greater Austin community. Be sure you click on our hyperlinked content to find extra info and photos. Our magazines are always available to view (including archived issues) on our Publications page.
Spotlight on Faculty
Our faculty and staff bring a variety of talents and experiences to their profession. Learn a bit more about them in this ongoing spotlight series (click their name). This month:
Amanda Boardman, School Nurse
Kathryn Culliton, 4th Grade Teacher
Geoff Harrison, Director of Student Services
Betsy Ross, MS P.E. Teacher and Coach
Danny Schmidt, LS & MS Band Director


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Q: NULL ID Generated Via @GeneratedValue On Composite Key Using @EmbeddedId Trying to save a row in a table that has a composite key (Long & Date) via Spring Data JPA. The Long part of the composite key is @GeneratedValue. But I'm getting the following error when doing a basic save() call:
org.hibernate.id.IdentifierGenerationException: null id generated for:class com.bts.billing.domain.CashBatchPaymentHistoryDto

The date is getting set manually prior to the save() and I've validated the sequencer exists in the database and is accessible.
Entity
@Entity
@Table(name = "CASH_BATCH_PMT_H")
public class CashBatchPaymentHistoryDto implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    @EmbeddedId
    private CashBatchPaymentHistoryPK pk;

    private Date        cashBatchProcDt;
    @Column(name = "C_CBP_STS", nullable = false)
    private String      cashBatchStatus;
    @Column(name = "C_CBP_TYP", nullable = false)
    private String      cashBatchType;

    //Removed Getters & Setters To Save Space
}

@Embeddable Class
@Embeddable
@SequenceGenerator(name = "CBPMT", sequenceName = "CBPMT", allocationSize = 1)
public class CashBatchPaymentHistoryPK implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    @Column(name = "N_CBP_OID", nullable=false)
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.SEQUENCE, generator = "CBPMT")
    private Long cashBatchID;
    @Column(name = "D_CBP_PROC", nullable=false)
    private Date cashBatchProcDt;

    public CashBatchPaymentHistoryPK() {}

    public CashBatchPaymentHistoryPK(long cashBatchID, Date cashBatchProcDt) {
        this.cashBatchID = cashBatchID;
        this.cashBatchProcDt = cashBatchProcDt;
    }

    //Removed Getters & Setters For Space

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        final int prime = 31;
        int result = 1;
        result = prime * result + (int) (cashBatchID ^ (cashBatchID >>> 32));
        result = prime * result + (int) (cashBatchProcDt.hashCode() ^ (cashBatchProcDt.hashCode() >>> 32));
        return result;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
        if (this == obj) {
            return true;
        }
        if (obj == null) {
            return false;
        }
        if (getClass() != obj.getClass()) {
            return false;
        }
        CashBatchPaymentHistoryPK other = (CashBatchPaymentHistoryPK) obj;
        if (cashBatchID != other.cashBatchID) {
            return false;
        }
        if (cashBatchProcDt != other.cashBatchProcDt) {
            return false;
        }
        return true;
    }
}

Repository Class
public interface CashBatchPaymentHistoryRepository extends CrudRepository<CashBatchPaymentHistoryDto, CashBatchPaymentHistoryPK> {
}

Any thoughts on the issue? Thanks!

A: It looks like you're setting the ID value to half-prepared state (Date being set but the long field to be initialized by the persistence provider, right? This means, pk is effectively non-null when the CashBatchPaymentHistoryDto instance is handed to repository.save(…). If so, this will cause an EntityManager.merge(…) being triggered, which can imagine to cause the exception as it's not going to expect to have to generate ids.
Generally speaking, if you're manually maintaining id values (even only partial ones), you have to explicitly determine the is-new-state of the entity (as this will effectively decide whether to call persist(…) or merge(…) in the JPA case). By default, this works by looking at the id field and interpreting a null value as new, non-null as not new.
In your current situation there are two options:

*

*Use an @Version annotated field and leave this uninitialized before the first call to save(…).

*Implement Persistable and its isNew() method to inspect your objects state to correctly decide whether it's new or not (in your case probably by checking (pk.cashBatchID for being null).


Ok so sometimes we all get into an exercise rut. Either from doing the same kind of thing for a long time and reaching a bit of a plateau, or having had a break from exercise and in need of a kick up the backside to get back into it! This 10-day Fire-Up Workout will be sure to get you going and it only takes a few minutes a day. Pair up with a friend and hold each other accountable. Set a timer on your phone to remember to get started each day. You'll be feeling so good by the end of it and ready to take on another challenge! And yes, there are burpees. But you got this! Read on for a description of the exercises and a printable version of the challenge.
Stand with feet hip-width apart, squat down and put your hands on the ground outside of your feet.
Lay on your back with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor, and your arms by your side.
Activate your glutes and push your hips up to make a bridge.
Lower back down to starting position.
Start in a push-up position with your hands directly under your shoulders.
Engage your core by pulling your belly button up to your spine.
Keep your body in a straight line from head to toes, with your neck soft.


The EP was produced by the band at Oak House Recording in Alta Dena, Calif., with David Peters, and mixed and mastered by Jocko in Syracuse, N.Y., at his More Sound Studios. Jocko has worked with bassist Dustin Treinen on past projects Paria and Hello From Ghost Valley, as well as with notably known reggae band John Brown's Body and metal act Ed Gein.
Mute Swans will perform all five songs from their new EP, plus some new tracks, at their EP Release Show at El Cid in Los Angeles, on Saturday, July 2. Doors open at 9 p.m. For more information, please visit http://www.eldcidla.com.


A recent advertisement for Beautyrest™ mattresses announces that "Sleep Performance Is the New Performance," and compares sleepers to swimmers, cyclists, and marathon runners: it's all about technical perfection in pursuit of human excellence. I have to admit that, not being a sporty type, the idea of sleeping counting as physical exercise and even an athletic skill immediately appealed to me: will they soon make sleeping into an Olympic event, with subcategories for light dozing, power napping, and—the big attraction—deep slumber? At least one thing is like the Olympics: with the widespread use of psychopharmacological supplements, the contemporary sport of sleeping is one giant doping scandal.


The Industrial Strategy white paper (statement of Government policy) published in November 2017 follows extensive engagement by government with industry, academia and business bodies who submitted almost 2,000 responses to the green paper consultation earlier in 2017.
The strategy reflects this engagement, with a new and unique partnership between government, academia and industry, supported by policies that are committed to making the UK economy more productive and giving it a competitive edge in the future and abroad.
The Marches LEP very much welcomes the long term, industrial strategy and the importance it has given in helping to drive the future of the UK economy.
As a partnership of business, political, university and college leaders, we are fully committed to helping make both the long-term interventions and immediate changes needed. Focussed solely on growth and productivity and we bring together the right people in a "place" to ensure that all pillars of the Industrial Strategy are working together locally. We will work with a range of partners in both Wales and across the Midlands Engine area to improve living standards and economic growth by increasing productivity and driving growth.
Following the update of the Strategic Economic Plan, we will develop a Local Industrial Strategy (LIS) in 2019 alongside stakeholders aligned to the national Industrial Strategy. It will identify local strengths and challenges, future opportunities and the action needed to boost productivity, earning power and competitiveness. More information on Local Industrial Strategies can be found here.


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