The Luckiest Letter In Texas
François Simars de Bellisle outlived four other French officers after their ship’s captain abandoned them near Galveston Bay. Then, he was captured by Akokisa Native Americans.
By W.F. StrongFebruary 20, 2019 10:52 amArts & Culture, Stories From Texas
This is the story of what was luckiest letter ever mailed in Texas. It took about six months to reach its destination, which was Louisiana. But to say it was mailed is a bit of a stretch. It was handed to some people to be given to others and it bounced around a while, sat idle for months at a time and then miraculously moved on. Texas was, at the time, under Spanish rule, but the letter was written in French. It was a Hail Mary mailing. Truly an act of desperation. The fact that it arrived at all was a miracle within a miracle, and it saved the sender’s life.
François Simars de Bellisle was just 24 when he left France to come to America in 1719. He was headed for Louisiana on a small ship. As was often the case in those days, his captain overshot their destination. He missed Louisiana entirely and ended up near present-day Galveston where the ship ran aground off Bolivar Peninsula. But the captain thought they were relatively close to Ship Island near New Orleans, a little error of 300 miles. What Google Earth could have done for these early travelers!
Bellisle and four other French officers took meager supplies — biscuits, guns, minimal ammunition, swords — and went ashore to determine their location and seek help to guide their ship to port. They slept well that first night and when they got up the next morning their ship was gone. They had been abandoned.
They walked east and made it to what was likely the mouth of the Sabine River where they could go no further because of deep mud. They headed back the way they had come. Though they had some success finding oysters and killing small birds — they even killed a deer — they began, one by one, to succumb to starvation. Within two months, Bellisle had buried all of his friends. He was alone and hungry in this new land and, naturally, desperately depressed.
Bellisle believed he was living his last days. He was on the west side of Galveston Bay, out of bullets and reduced to eating boiled grass and worms out of driftwood. Then, one clear morning he saw the first Native Americans he had seen since being stranded. They were Akokisa and his only hope for survival. The Akokisas greeted him by taking all of his goods and stripping him of his clothes, leaving him naked – a state he would remain in for over a year. The only good thing that happened that day is that they fed him. But he was enslaved, ordered about mercilessly, beaten regularly and used as a beast of burden. How ironic that his name Bellisle meant “beautiful island,” but that is not what he found that day.
They took him west with them toward the Brazos River to hunt buffalo. He had to walk, naked and barefoot, carrying their supplies. But he did record later that, despite his wretched condition, he couldn’t help but marvel at the beautiful prairies they passed through for over 150 miles. He wrote, “This is the most beautiful country in the world. The earth is black. Grass grows there to a prodigal height, and in abundance, which is a certain sign that the earth is good.”
Upon returning to the bay, he realized that his situation was dire. He would die if he stayed. So he retrieved one of the few pieces of paper he had in his belongings and wrote a letter. He asked his hosts give it to the white chief they told him was rumored to live to the east.
He had nothing to write with so he carved a crude pen out of wood and made ink out of charcoal and water. He wrote a letter begging for rescue from anyone who would might receive it. A couple of his tribe took the message east but never attempted to find the rumored white chief. They just passed along this strange artifact to other tribes as a curiosity. It went from tribe to tribe, perhaps traded for one thing or another, but all the while moved northeast. Then the miracle occurred. Members of the Hasinai Native Americans, which had close ties to the French, happened to see the letter and knew that it was something the French would like to see. So they took it to the commander of the French garrison at Natchitoches, Louisiana, a week’s journey away. The commander, Louis Juchereau de St. Denis, wrote a letter in return, and ordered the Hasinais to bring the castaway back, whether dead or alive.
When Bellisle’s rescuers reached the Akokisa camp, they gave Bellisle the letter that informed him that the Hasinais would escort him to Natchitoches. His captors didn’t want to let him go, but they feared the Hasinais and so they relented. Bellisle said the final night in camp waiting to leave the next morning was the longest of his life. It still took him months to get to Natchitoches, but at least he was free. He had sent what was the land version of a message in a bottle, and it had caught the best currents and washed up on the perfect shore. His literacy, and luck, saved him.
The source of this story comes mostly from Bellisle’s memoirs, published in part by Henri Folmer in The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Oct. 1940), pp. 204-231.
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Forecasting Facebook’s future trends
Ben Smith Director, Social and Emerging Media | June 18, 2019
When it comes to Facebook, there’s no shortage of opinion, perspective, and news coverage of the social media titan. At times, it all can make it tough to see the forest for the trees.
To help us make sense of it all we sat down with Ben Smith, Callahan’s Director of Social and Emerging Media, who recently attended Facebook’s F8 conference for developers. In this episode, Ben shares his insight and perspective on the overall health of Facebook, its coverage in news, and what emerging trends could shape future marketing tactics on the platform.
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Welcome to Callahan’s Uncovering Aha! podcast. We talk about a range of topics for marketing decision-makers, with a special focus on how to uncover insights in data to drive brand strategy and inspire creativity. Featuring Ben Smith and Jan-Eric Anderson.
Hi, I’m Jan-Eric Anderson, Head of Strategy at Callahan.
I’m Ben Smith, Director of Social and Emerging Media at Callahan.
I’m pumped to have Ben on the podcast with me today. We’re going to be talking about his favorite topic, social media. Ben is fresh back from the F8 summit, a developer conference at Facebook. It’s a black tie event. No, it’s not a black tie event, but it is invitation only. Ben, what is F8? Help the listeners understand what F8 is and what it’s about.
Yeah, F8 is Facebook’s annual developer conference, as you mentioned. It’s an event they host each year, where Mark Zuckerberg, and the leadership of Facebook, really outline their vision for what’s next, both in the short term, and with their long-term roadmap, and at the same time, give attendees direct access to a lot of the product teams, the engineering teams, the people making what we’re using.
Got you. Invitation only. How many people are there?
Yeah, so there’s about 5,000 people go worldwide, and you either have to be invited, or apply, and a small number of people have their applications accepted. So, it’s a mix of pretty diverse mix of people, but a small group, which then affords that type of direct access.
Wow, 5,000 people’s a lot of people, but when you think about that they’re pulling from the world, it is a pretty exclusive group. You’re fresh back from that. You attended. You were one of the 5,000 in attendance.
So, today on the podcast, Ben has agreed to share some of his insights, from what he learned while he was at the conference. We’re thrilled to have you, so thanks for being here.
I guess I’d like to maybe have you comment on the elephant in the room. I see headlines all the time about Facebook. Is Facebook in trouble? Look, what’s going on? It seems like Facebook is in the middle, is the rope of the tug-of-war between in the U.S. political ecosystem right now. People hate or love Facebook for different reasons, depending on which side of the aisle. Is Facebook in trouble?
That’s a really interesting question. It’s one where there’s not a simple answer, but at the top level, to me, a lot of the headlines feel very overblown, being quite honest. There’s a lot of stories that make for good readership. There’s a lot of headlines that can get a little sensationalized. Yeah, there’s definitely things about Facebook which are under heavy scrutiny. It’s definitely the center of the political climate right now. A lot of it’s elevated in media topics, media conversations, and commentators, raising a lot of, sometimes valid, sometimes not as valid, questions or concerns.
To me, it’s something where, when I look at this, and really dig deep, a lot of the issues that are raised, are ones that really aren’t issues. At the same time, Facebook is going to be under scrutiny, but it’s also in a situation where it’s built itself, so whatever happens next, there’s really not a losing scenario. If Facebook was to be broken up, in many ways it becomes stronger as three individual companies. If Facebook continues as it is, it has a lot more opportunity, to keep growing and connecting its different services. So, I would say under scrutiny, absolutely, in trouble, not to the point I would be concerned.
Is Facebook in trouble with these headlines, and sometimes sensationalist headlines? Is Facebook shedding users, are they shrinking?
This is the really interesting part, is you’ve got this tag-of-war going on, as you mentioned, both political parties, the media, even outside pressures, even outside influences. The Chinese tech companies really are watching, and seeing what’s happening, but in the middle of it all, you have the users. The user base keeps growing. In the last quarterly report, it showed 8% year-over-year growth despite everything you hear. What we tend to see is, outside of the bubble of media headlines, the political discussion, a majority of the people in the middle, the users, just want to keep using the platform, just want to keep doing what they’re doing, just want to keep sharing their content, talking to people, connecting with people. A lot of those people are really uninfluenced by the very bubble type conversations around them. So, it’s not losing users, it’s actually still gaining users.
Perhaps an indication of the political system in the U.S. being disconnected from the population. This is not a political podcast, so we will leave that where it is. Let’s get back to F8, because that’s what we really wanted to, to pick your brain about.
I’m always fascinated. You’ve been to F8 several years in a row. I really enjoy our conversations every time that you get back from F8, and hearing what you had heard from, and you usually come back with some overarching theme, maybe one or two themes that Mark Zuckerberg is focused on at the conference. What was the theme that came out of F8 in 2019?
This was a very clear-cut theme this year. Other years, you’ve gotten a number of different trends going on, different themes going on underneath that overarching one. This year was very definitive, and that was a move to privacy. So, move from being a very public-built social network, to being a very private, and privacy-focused social network.
That’s interesting, privacy. Public and privacy. Help me understand that, because it feels to me like, unless I’m sending a direct message to somebody, everything on Facebook’s private, or is public rather.
Yeah. It’s actually a headline which has scared a lot of people, in the marketing and ad tech marketing space, of, well what does a private Facebook look like? I’ve read headlines saying, “Well, this is the end of Facebook for marketers,” or “This is the end of social media.” Actually, to me, yeah, there’s a lot of things that haven’t been said, and people are joining too many dots that don’t even exist. When you really start looking at what has been said, digging deeper into both directly what’s been said, but also what’s been implied, start looking at where they’re investing engineering resources, people, money, what seems to be very clear, is that the public side of Facebook isn’t going away, but they’re adding this public layer to really compliment it.
The analogy they use is, in our daily lives, we have both public and private spaces. The town squares, and the living rooms, is the way they described it. So, in the same way we have those public and private spaces, in our daily offline lives, we need to have that more in our online life. That we need more spaces, we can choose to be private, choose to be secluded, choose who we’re with, while still having the space and resource to be public, but need to be able to move between the two seamlessly.
That analogy actually is really relatable. I think that makes, actually, a ton of sense, but historically, fair to say that Facebook has been much more about a town square than the living rooms. So, the big theme here, and the Aha, is that … or what’s revealed at F8 this year, is this this migration more toward creating these living room or private spaces.
Yeah, and really, Facebook’s mission to date, has been connecting the world, so that’s a very, very significant shift. What they talk about a lot, is how we learn, from a brand side, from marketer side, is learning how to engage in public, and then move people to in a private connection. So, it might be in, for instance, engaging or connecting with somebody in a Facebook feed, at a very high funnel level, then moving them Facebook Messenger for a private conversation.
Ah, I see. The ecosystem within Facebook is huge. Maybe run down a list of some of the big products that fall into this ecosystem, that we talk about with Facebook.
Yeah. When we say Facebook, we’re not just talking about the Facebook app, we’re talking about Facebook itself, but then also Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Groups, Oculus, the VR division. So, it’s really a whole ecosystem. What’s interesting is, you see people using different parts of that ecosystem, so where Facebook talks around 2.3, 2.4 billion monthly users, when you start looking at the ecosystem, you’ve then got 2.1 billion people using at least one of those apps every single day.
That’s billion with a B.
Yeah, lots of users. So, in this shift from public spaces to more private spaces, are there certain apps, or certain products, is probably the better word, that become more of a priority now, in terms of development, and enhancements, and features within that ecosystem, as they make this migration? What does that mean from a product development standpoint?
Yeah, from outside looking in, from the brand side, marketer side, looking in, we’re going to have to pay really close attention to Facebook Messenger. I think we’re going to see a lot of shift there, with resources going into the Messenger product, but also how consumers are encouraged to change their behavior through new tools, new applications. We’re going to see users encouraged to use Messenger mail, where they can communicate with one-on-one, or one-to-many, or control groups. Brands are going to have to learn to follow them, and how to engage in that environment.
And then, we’re going to see a big push, on both Facebook and Instagram, with Stories. They’ve already become an incredibly popular means of sharing content, but I really think we’re going to see a lot of shift of Stories functionality, to allow us to do more than share video, and photos, and stories, but to start replicating what would have been feed functionality in that private Stories environment.
Right. Messaging huge, Stories, and evolution with Stories is a big one, groups. As there is a migration into more of Groups, perhaps, that probably has some impact as well.
Totally. Yeah. With the relaunch of Facebook version five that just happened, Groups was put front and center. They’re placing as much importance on communities as on friends, and Groups is a fascinating one. A business, a brand can start a group, can participate in a group, but you have to have a good reason to do that. Is there something that’s meaningful to your brand, something your brand can own in terms of conversation?
But yeah, Groups is another thing. And another thing we’re going to have to watch for, beyond that, is Facebook currency. It wasn’t really addressed at F8, so a little bit of a segue, but it’s coming soon. Facebook are going to be launching their own micropayment currency, which could potentially disrupt eCommerce, as well as providing a means of allowing people to make instantaneous, very small payments.
That’s really interesting. How does that exactly work? With these micro payments, this is a new product, that’s in development right now, right? It has not launched.
Correct. This is something that Facebook is going to develop and deploy, and it appears from the information we’re seeing, that it will be managed and controlled by an independent party for Facebook, so it’s under regulatory control.
What it would allow people to do, is make payments, potentially make payments of any value, instantaneously. So, if you think about it, you’re on a website, and you want to access a piece of content, right now, a paywall might mean you have to pay a monthly fee, and it discourages a lot of people. What if you could pay 10 cents to read that piece of content, and could do it with no friction, no credit card to be entered, no login? You could buy things at 10 cents at a time, but buy them at scale.
Interesting. Now, so those are bite-size, that’s the micropayment idea that … Is there, then, other extensions for commerce on that? Is it beyond just spending a nickel on an article?
Absolutely. Here’s a great example. Think about Instagram. Instagram is a destination people go to, not just to browse content, but to buy goods. It’s a very visual platform. People shop there, sometimes way too easily.
Tell me about it.
One of the things we’re seeing right now, is the evolution of, very intentional evolution of Instagram as a shopping platform. There’s new products being rolled out, that allow you to browse products, for the brand to embed product tags, so you can literally see a product, tap on it, and then have the opportunity to purchase that product.
What if you didn’t have to enter your credit card number? You could just, not only see the product, tap to view it, and to enter a checkout process, but then to buy it without doing anything more. Everything’s integrated inside your Facebook account, including the payment itself. So, no third party transaction to worry about, just a fully integrated payment, from the micropayment up to a full eCommerce platform
Oh, it’s going to light the idea of impulse purchases on fire, and it will be the death of my checking account, for the record. I already have a big enough problem spending money in Instagram. The worst thing for me is, they can make it easier, which they sound like they’re doing. Thanks a lot.
All right, so we’ve got this shift, of going into private, and you’ve been into more private type spaces. You’ve been alluding to this, and hinting as you’ve gone through, but I guess I’m kind of curious, and I’m sure CMOs will be thinking about this, what does this mean for brands?
I get this, as a user, and connecting with friends, and smaller communities, and smaller groups, and smaller spaces. The living room example makes a ton of sense. What does it mean for a brand? Is this limiting for a brand? What opportunities does this create for brands, and how should CMOs be thinking about that?
Yeah. That’s such an important question. I’ve heard so many negative push backs, negative headlines around this, of, well we can’t advertise in that environment. One of my personal beliefs around social, has always been, the biggest opportunity is building one-on-one relationships at scale. I’d love the process of doing that. So, to me this aligns perfectly with that.
That actually presents a really exciting opportunity to rethink how we advertise. So, I don’t look at this as a negative or something scary. The deeper I dig into this, the more I actually find opportunity. I’m looking at this. Think of the public space as the very top of the funnel, that initial awareness level, and then moving to private being that consideration phase. How we move from consideration to conversion.
Moving to private doesn’t mean to say you have to have, literally, a one-on-one conversation with somebody. There’s so many technologies you can deploy, and develop, to do that automatically, but in a meaningful way.
A great example is with Facebook Messenger. You can talk to somebody individually as a community manager, or you can develop a messenger Bot, that can help people find what they need, either information, or a product, something to buy, an appointment to make. You can have them move through that process, seamlessly, all the way to completion and conversion.
So, you’re engaging in a high effort awareness level in the public, moving through the funnel in private. It’s got so much potential, it’s actually a very exciting thing to see happening.
Yeah. And having worked with you enough, I’ve come to really appreciate your commitment to that one-on-one relationships at scale, of personalized relationships at scale. It almost seems like this is setting up to create an even better environment for being able to do those things.
Ben, before we wrap up, is there anything else that you … any other final notes you’d want to add about F8, or Facebook in general?
Yeah. I think, to me, that the big thing right now is just, don’t take every headline at face value. Facebook makes a good media scapegoat right now. There’s a lot of stories out there. It’s a very political issue. There’s also a lot of agendas at play. So I would encourage, particularly anybody who’s making business decisions around this, to dig deeper, and to not take every headline, not be reactionary, but to understand the longer term mission, the longer term vision, and to understand, truly, what the implications are of the changes Facebook are making, and potential political outcomes, and what it really means, and look for the opportunity instead of fearing the worst.
Well, yeah. Just to kind of build upon that, it seems like, if you read through the tea leaves, Facebook’s actually primed to take a huge leap forward. This particular trend, or theme, around the future being private, seems like it actually lends to the strength of the platform, and we actually may be on the doorstep of a whole new horizon, of great ways for brands to be even more relevant within that platform, and making more personal relationships.
Yeah. I think something that Facebook’s done a tremendous job of, over the years, is really understanding the importance of keeping users, and to keep users, you have to have a healthy platform, a healthy environment. If they’re willing to take a huge shift in how they do their business, ultimately they’re confident in how that impacts the user health, and users on the platform. So, for a brand, for marketers, the more users that are engaged in that platform, obviously the better. So, absolutely.
Well, the coming months will be really interesting to see, how all these developments unfold. And as you’ve stated all the time, by the time we get done recording this, maybe there will be new updates, that we’re already out of date on this podcast. Regardless of that, Ben, your insights from F8 are always really appreciated. Thank you so much for joining us on the podcast.
Well, thank you.
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“US” Reviewed by Cleo Coulter
Film Director/Writer Jordan Peele’s (Get Out, 2017) took a stab at creating a family summer vacation movie for his second feature film release. “Us” amply titled, takes the viewer through a corridor of dual realities. “Us” is a modern version of an old concept of an underworld parallel to our own. Modern moviegoers, who are obsessed with what can be described as a hidden clue will be satisfied to watch this movie over and over to digest this soon-to-be cult-classic fully.
The film’s opening scene takes film fans into an 80’s time warp, planting seeds that will, later on, become the tares amongst the wheat in this human transplant thriller. Jordan Peele’s subversive style of writing comingles comedy with horror that takes jump scares to a whole new level. This is not a conventional type of horror film per se, yet it weaves between Hitchcock’s, King’s and Peele’s different styles. Peele’s writing and directing may remind viewers of Hitchcock’s usage of reality against itself and King’s defiance to the natural order of things. The Peele style of metaphoric twists taught fans a lesson in his first film about taking frame changes for granted, so viewers beware.
“Us” follows a family on vacation to Santa Cruz when the unthinkable happens. Lupita Nyong’o (10 Years A Slave), leads this movie as the matriarch of her family. Her husband, played by Winston Duke (Black Panther), and their two children(Shahadi Wright Joseph and Evan Alex) are fighting to stay alive in what can be perceived as, “A Night of the Living Dead” scenario, but it is worse, much worse. It’s the Isaac Newton’s 3rd law, “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction,” as each member faces off against their mirrored selves in what can only be described as carnage on an apocalyptic level. Lupita turns in a hair raising performance playing dual roles as her reflected self with terrifying precision. While Winston is allowed to play the vulnerable husband that has to step up as a hero in the family’s fight for survival. The children bring the right amount of terror and shock to their respective roles performing acts that can create nightmares for a lifetime.
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Penny Lane opens officially this Friday – 26th April 2019.
Located at 9 Fletcher Gate, the new flagship venue, named Penny Lane after taking inspiration from seaside family holidays, summer trips to Matlock Bath and Blackpool and Brighton’s iconic pier.
Speciality cocktails designed by an award-winning mixologist and an extensive handpicked selection of food and drinks feature on the menu, designed to reflect the seaside look and feel.
The new bar and kitchen, which will serve as both a daytime and evening venue, will also have a nostalgic amusement arcade with a mid-century British inspired design throughout.
Michael Johnson, the operations director at Penny Lane, said: “We are thrilled to be opening our newest venture in Nottingham’s Lace Market – it is the perfect location and we think people will be really excited to try it out. Penny Lane will be our flagship venue, and will feature some of our most exciting and adventurous ideas yet.
“Nottingham is such a vibrant city, known for its artistic flare and independent scene, so it was really important that we created something different with a unique interactive element – Penny Lane is just that.”
Michael added: “There will be unusual cocktails on the menu, designed to bring back British childhood memories. Our Twister cocktail at The Hockley Arts Club is extremely popular, so we will be using similar ideas to fit in with the fun quirky theme at Penny Lane, as well as colourful lights and stunning monochrome tiles to deliver an iconic venue that the city can be proud of.
“We are really excited to open up the venue during the daytime too, which will be suitable for families and children looking to have a go on the games and relax with some casual food and drink.”
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“Glitterbomb” is an explosive pop-culture talk show hosted by an entirely gay, Latino, Hollywood-insider panel featuring “Entertainment Weekly” senior editor Patrick Gomez, iHeartRadio personality Alexander Rodriguez, and actor Enrique Sapene.
Their queer Latino perspective — drizzled with wit, humor and first-hand insight into A-lister life — gives “Glitterbomb” a festive and unique flavor that everyone can enjoy. Combining their experience in acting, radio and journalism, there’s no subject too hot to handle and no scandal too spicy to dig into.
“The LGBTQ Latino community has, for too long, been underserved,” says Luca Bentivoglio, LATV’s COO and Head of Programming. “LATV is proud to foster an environment of inclusivity and we are thrilled to be a pioneer in LGBTQ Latino programming by airing the first-ever talk show with an entirely gay Latino cast. As part of our network’s mission to be as inclusive as possible, ‘Glitterbomb’ is a shining example of our network’s commitment to serving diverse and alternative audiences.”
Produced at LATV’s state-of-the-art HD studios in Los Angeles, “Glitterbomb” is an English-language show that features heated discussions about the latest in pop culture news and trends; provides an inside look at the latest celebrity hot spots and events; and welcomes some of the biggest names in entertainment.
“We could not be happier that LATV has given three gay Latinos a platform as big as ‘Glitterbomb,’” co-hosts Gomez, Rodriguez, and Sapene say in a joint statement. “But we hope that people of all races, genders, and orientations will see a bit of themselves in our show — or, at the very least, have a good time watching it!”
About LATV:
LATV is the only remaining Latino-owned TV network in the Hispanic television space. Its programming primarily targets U.S.-born Latinos and the coveted bicultural 18-49 Latino demographic, with content that features originally-produced shows in Los Angeles, as well as licensed content that has never before been seen in the U.S. For more go to www.LATV.com.
About the hosts:
PATRICK GOMEZ is currently a Senior Editor at “Entertainment Weekly”. As a veteran “People” magazine writer and member of the Television Critics Association, the Texas native has appeared on “Today”, “Extra!”, “Access Hollywood”, “E! News”, HLN’s “Michaela”, and “Nightline” and can be seen frequently on “Good Morning America”.
ALEXANDER RODRIGUEZ is an on-air personality and entertainer. His sense of humor shines on his nationally syndicated radio show, “On The Rocks”, “where celebrities and cocktails” on iHeartRadio and Universal Broadcasting Network. The show is broadcast live weekly from Sunset Gower Studios in the heart of Hollywood. The Southern California native also serves as Entertainment Editor for “Bear World Magazine”, a national LGBT online media source.
ENRIQUE SAPENE is an actor, host and producer. The Venezuela native has entertained audiences internationally as a reporter on Univision, NBC, ABC and Telemundo. As an actor, he has recurred on the Amazon Prime series “Borderline” and his telenovelas “ Pecadora”, “El Alma Herida”, “Eva la Trailera” and “Tomame o Dejame” have sold worldwide. In 2017, Enrique joined the cast of the docu-series “My Life is a Telenovela”, which aired on WEtv and E! Latin America and is currently available on Hulu.


December 18, 2012 - News Leader
RCMP WARN OF SCAM
Princeton RCMP would like to advise the public of a telephone scam that has come to the attention of the police. This involves an unknown individual posing as a family member or a representative of the family member. The caller requests that you send money to assist the family member and details are provided on how to transfer the money. Once the money is transferred, the person does not hear from the caller again and when they finally speak to the family member, it is realized that the call was not legitimate. RCMP would like to caution the public of such phone scams and if you do receive a suspicious phone call of this nature to contact Phone Busters at 1-888-495-8501.
WHY CHRISTMAS TREES?
The Christmas tradition of bringing an evergreen tree into the house goes back to northern Europe perhaps 300 years ago, but may have originated with a pagan custom dating even further back. The first Christmas trees were decorated with edibles - apples, nuts and dates. Some families hung sugar cookies on the tree. In America, popcorn and/or cranberry garlands were strung on the tree. Around 200 years ago, some families put candles on the tree. Often, the tree was set in the middle of the best room in the house, and the family danced around it singing Christmas songs such as ‘O Christmas Tree’. When Christmas trees became popular among Europe’s nobility, the decorations became much more elaborate. Confections were hung from the tree, and often small decorated boxes were hung and used as gifts for important visitors.
PAPER OFFICE CLOSES FOR HOLIDAY
Princeton’s only locally-owned weekly community newspaper, the Similkameen News Leader, will be closing this week. This will be the last issue published of the paper for 2012. The office of the Similkameen News Leader will close at 5:00 PM on Wednesday, December 19th for the Christmas holiday. There will not be a paper next week. “This is the only break we get all year so we’re going to do our best to enjoy as much of it as we can between now and the end of 2012,” explains Similkameen News Leader Owner/Publisher George Elliott. “Our office will re-open for regular business at 8:30 AM on Wednesday, December 26th and we look forward to serving you throughout 2013.” The first issue of the News Leader for 2013 will be available Monday, December 31st but will be dated Tuesday, January 1, 2013.
Dancers Celebrate The Season!
Photo: Dawn Johnson
Princeton Highland Dancers held their annual 'Christmas Fling' December 13th at Riverside Theatre. The event is free to attend, provided you bring a non-perishable food item. All 'admission fees' are collected and handed over to Princeton Crisis Assistance Society for their annual Christmas Hamper Drive.
Winner Walks Away With Paint!
The joint Princeton Home Hardware/Similkameen News Leader 'Splash/Win Some Paint' Contest in November saw a lot of interest thanks to Beauti-Tone. The new paint mixing machine at Princeton Home Hardware was the reason for the contest which was won by Princeton's Noreen Pringle, right. Her prize package included $215.00 worth of paint and accessories presented by Princeton Home Hardware Co-Owner/Manager Peter Rubingh, left.
COUNCIL AWARDS ANALYSIS CONTRACT
The contract for structural analysis of the Princeton Courthouse building was awarded at the December 3rd regular meeting of Town Council. In a motion made by Councillor Jason Earle, and seconded by Councillor Doug Pateman, David Nairne and Associates of North Vancouver will conduct a Structural Assessment of the building at 151 Vermilion Avenue valued at $7,728.00. A total of seven responses were received following a Request for Proposals with David Nairne & Associates being the lowest one received. The second lowest amounted was $9,366.00 and the highest came in at $49,600.00. An assessment of the mechanical, electrical and environmental systems was completed earlier this year. The second step is the structural assessment. “If the results are favourable, the next step will be an architectural engagement to determine the suitability of the building for the purpose of a Town Hall,” Interim CAO Helen Koning stated in her report to Council. The structural analysis will start “as quickly as we can sign a contract with them,” Koning added. Expect to hear more about this project well into 2013 as Princeton Town Council continues with a step-by-step plan for the future of the building.
MUSIC MAN RETURNS!
Princeton welcomed the return of Harold Crane, former band teacher at Princeton Secondary School. He was guest of honour at the band concert held at Riverside Centre on December 3. The reason for honoring Crane begins with current band teacher, Myrna Coates, seeking a vibraphone for her band. She went to a music supply store in Kelowna to ask if the shop owner knew of anyone who might want to sell a vibraphone. He did. He immediately contacted Joyce Crane, Harold’s daughter, who had a vibraphone stored in her basement. Her father had bought it for her many years ago when she was in a band with him. Joyce hesitated about selling it, but when she found out it was for Princeton, and told her father about it, he told her to make up her mind. The result was the vibraphone was donated to Princeton’s band. At the concert, 96 year old Harold Crane led the band in O Canada to begin the concert. Calling Crane Princeton’s ’Music Man’, Bob Cormack, who had been Principal of Princeton Secondary during the years when Crane taught music, gave a speech outlining Crane’s success as a band teacher. Crane began teaching in 1961 and by 1965 led the Princeton band to a championship at a music festival in the Lower Mainland. The mixed school and community bands completed the evening with a wide variety of music, some simple for the beginners and some complex involving the entire band, such as the rollicking finish with ‘Rock Around the Clock’.
Local Design Gets Our Attention!
Drawing: Steve Brodie
Princeton's Steve Brodie has ideas. The last one he shared with us at the Similkameen News Leader was for the zigzag project. Although Brodie's design was not used, it had some creative and practical applications and design features we really liked. This week Brodie shares with us his conceptual vision of what can take place at the old court house building on Vermilion Avenue. We like it because it's designed by a local. What do you think?
We Visit Internet Radio Station!
VANDALS COST PRINCETON POSSE $$$
by W. George Elliott Owner/Publisher
Princeton’s Junior B Hockey Club, the Posse, suffered a lost over the weekend. No, they didn’t lose a game and they didn’t lose a member of their team. The Princeton Posse lost an opportunity. The past five seasons the Princeton Posse has been part of a network of teams in the KIJHL and other sports teams in Western Canada that ‘webcast’ their games over the internet. The games are part of a pay-per-view program that makes money for both the league and the team. Viewers spend an average of $7.00 to view the game. A portion of that fee
goes to the league, which is then distributed to teams at the end of the season. The Princeton Posse webcasts have been the second most viewed in the league for the past two seasons. On average there can be anywhere from 25 to 100 people watching the live webcasts at home anywhere in North America. You do the math. That’s a few dollars. Multiply that by 25 home games in the regular season and tack onto that playoff games and additional revenue from viewing archived games and you get the picture that this is not a few bucks we’re talking about. Some time after the November 16th game and November 30th the Princeton Posse webcast equipment was damaged. The damage was serious enough to prevent the team from putting last Friday night’s game online, which lost the team (and KIJHL) some revenue. The Posse pay a per game fee to webcast each game and the league fines teams a hefty amount for not providing a webcast. The Posse could be fined for all future games not provided online. Fortunately a fundraising campaign started before last Friday night’s game ended and generous donations have been received. But why did this happen? I have my suspicions of what went on in the broadcast booth at Princeton Arena between Posse home games, but I have no proof, and it is not my style to point fingers without something to back me up. What I do know is that there are issues related to safety and security at Princeton Arena, which affect all the users of the facility. But what it really comes down to is sharing. We all need to share the space and we need to respect what other users are doing with their portion of that space. Wrecking webcast equipment is one thing. Those things can be replaced, but what happens if it gets more serious than that? If you have any information regarding the circumstances revolving around the vandalism of the Princeton Posse webcast gear, I’d like to hear it.
TOURIST STRATEGY WORTH BILLIONS
A 10 year tourism strategy has been developed by the Thompson Okanagan Tourist Association for the entire region, which will include a strategy for marketing the Similkameen Valley. Tourism in the region is valued at an estimated $1.7 billion. During the past two years, the regional Tourist Association has worked to make business aware of the potential. Meetings with stakeholders have been involved in developing the strategy through a coordinated approach to strengthening the tourist industry. One of the key messages to every part of the region was to stop viewing competition as the business down the street, and start seeing it as the business in California or New Zealand. The goal of the Association is to put Thompson Okanagan region on the world stage as a ‘must visit’ destination. Similkameen Valley Planning Society has worked on marketing the entire valley. One of the key findings at the tourism meetings was a lack of identity for the Similkameen Valley. A Similkmeen Valley website is being developed which will contain numerous images of the valley. One of the common goals of every part of the region is to create jobs and development that respects and sustains our environment and our culture. For those who may doubt our culture, an overview of what goes on in the region is much like what goes on in the Similkameen Valley. Ours is a region of forests, mountains, rivers, lakes, ranches, vineyards and wineries, sawmills, mines, orchards, ski hills and ski trails, and First Nations Reserves and businesses. The sheer diversity of the region lends itself to a real marketing opportunity. The focus on summer tourism is still in place, but there seems to be a lack of tourists in the colder months, a problem the Association will address. Snowmobile tours and ice fishing are winter time activities which may benefit from more and better marketing.
Sightings Prompt Action!
Residents on the Second Bench in Princeton have reported seeing a bear in their neighbourhood off and on over the past couple of weeks. There have also been bear sightings in various other residential locations in the area for several months. This bear trap spent a few days parked on the Second Bench as Conservation Officers took action resulting from the volume of sightings.
Zigzag Project Update!


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Internet Killed The Radio Star
Posted on March 18, 2017 by mattsoldmanrants
Last week was record-breaking on pop music charts all over the world. It was also quite a telling week regarding the state of music in the digital age.
Here in Australia, Ed Sheeran’s third album ÷ (aka, Divide) debuted at number one, already certified 2xPlatinum for first week sales of more than 140,000 units. During the 90s and early-2000s plenty of albums racked up multi-platinum first-week sales and debuted at number one, but these days it’s a double-whammy that almost never happens; in fact, it’s a feat only achieved so far this decade by two other albums.
Sheeran also set a chart precedent ten weeks ago when Divide’s first two singles were released at the same time and debuted at numbers one and two; no other artist had ever sent two singles to the Top 2 of the Australian chart, on début, in the same week.
Six weeks later, while Shape Of You and Castle On The Hill were still on the two top rungs, the third track from Divide, How Would You Feel, also crashed into the chart at number two, pushing Castle On The Hill back to number three; the same artist occupying the entire chart podium had only ever been seen twice before—when Beatlemania took off in 1964, and, inexplicably, when Karise Eden won The Voice in 2012.
Last week, the remaining thirteen tracks from Divide all debuted within the Top 40. Yep, every single track.
And if you think that sounds weird—it certainly is, at the very least, highly unusual—then spare a thought for Irish music lovers: the entire Top 16 of last week’s Irish singles chart was the tracks from Divide!
Shape Of You and Castle On The Hill were, officially, Divide’s first two singles, while How Would You Feel was designated as a ‘promotional single’. And the other thirteen? Well, at least for now, they’re just tracks on the album. And this is where the modern way of things starts getting a tad confusing, if you actually try to understand how it all works. So let’s forget the complexities of the present for a bit, and take a step back in time for some context.
In the olden days (but, really, not that long ago at all) a single was a single, and in 99% of cases its prime objective was to promote album sales. A single had a physical release in at least one format, it was played on radio (sometimes) and on music TV shows (sometimes) and it only hit the chart if enough people went to a retail outlet and paid for it; subsequent singles from the same album would follow more-or-less the same pattern. Total sales volumes and resultant chart positions were determined by a physical exchange of cash for product—a CD, a cassette, or a black vinyl platter that, as if by magic, had somehow been infused with music. It was a pretty straightforward process: 1 payment = 1 exchange = 1 sale. 100 payments = 100 sales, 35,000 payments = 35,000 sales and, in the latter case, a gold record accreditation.
It was also extremely rare in the olden days for any non-single album track to ever see the light of day on TV or radio.
In the olden days, albums were always the big-hitters. Other than any singles already released, we were largely unaware of an album’s content until we actually bought it—and so, there was a vested interest in buying it; invariably, we enjoyed some tracks more than others, and there were sometimes even tracks that we didn’t like much at all. But we still viewed an album as a body of work and we listened to each track in the order in which it appeared on the album; even in the age of random play and ‘shuffle’, some music lovers stood firm in the belief that this was the order in which the artist wanted us to hear the album.
These days, the content of any album is readily accessible online, at least to ‘preview’, without necessitating any kind of purchase whatsoever. Individual album tracks can mostly be paid for and downloaded, whether they’re a single or not; in fact, as far as digital downloads go, these days there’s virtually no discernible difference between an album track and an actual single, other than the fact that some singles are available before an album’s release and some have their own bespoke cover art; some also contain additional tracks or remixes, both of which usually leads to an ‘EP’ designation and a price hike.
These days, album tracks, as with singles, can also be streamed. While downloads count towards a track’s total sales just as physical purchases did in the olden days, the part played by streaming involves a more complex equation. According to ARIA CEO Dan Rosen, it goes something like this: “Say for example it was 175 streams equating to one sale, once you work out that conversion you tally up all your streams, divide it by that number, tally up all your iTunes downloads and add the two and that’s the number for the ARIA chart”… clear as mud, right?
These days, there are virtually no physical sales of singles—although, the vinyl revival of the past few years has seen that changing, if only in small numbers. Specifically in the case of the thirteen Ed Sheeran tracks, though, it was the enormous number of times they were streamed that saw all thirteen of them hit the chart at once; purchased downloads only accounted for the tiniest proportion of this seemingly bizarre outcome. Such is the way the charts are calculated these days that three of the tracks made it all the way to the Top 10, joining the first two singles that were still sitting pretty at the top of the chart—and streaming volumes just keep getting higher and higher, to the point where digital services accounted for more than 60% of total market value in 2015.
Meanwhile, Divide, saw an almost 50/50 split between physical CD sales and digital downloads, which in itself is also quite unusual for any album these days.
Measures of success have also shifted. In the olden days, whether a single was successful or not was largely inconsequential as long as the album it was promoting sold like hot cakes; and if it did, then even the least successful of singles could go on to be fondly recalled as a massive hit.
In 1970s and 80s Australia, full-length LPs were still relatively expensive. Nevertheless, Australians snapped up albums like Cold Chisel’s East, ABBA’s Arrival and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours in massive numbers; it was as if everyone everywhere knew every word of every song on every big-selling album. Some of those albums also featured singles that were hugely successful in their own right, although that certainly wasn’t always the case, but at any rate albums were the artists’—and the record companies’—bread and butter; singles were merely promotional tools.
Fast forward a decade or two and the radio producers and presenters who were air-guitaring and lip-syncing to all those songs in the 70s and 80s were now adding them to their playlists; even if they were never big hits to start with, their status as pop and rock classics was now assured, thanks almost entirely to radio and music video airplay decades after their release.
But there was trouble brewing. Long before the Internet started to skew how we watch TV and movies, it also had a significant hand in the slow demise—or, at very least, the destructive realignment—of the music industry.
In the olden days, the only way to hear those non-single album tracks was to preview the album at a retail outlet—some larger retailers, like Virgin and HMV, offered ‘listening posts’, others had a stereo at the counter to serve the same purpose, while smaller stores would simply play whatever you wanted to hear through their speakers, in turn allowing everyone else in the shop to hear and thusly pour scorn all over your questionable taste in music… or was that just mine? In most cases, though, the only way some people ever heard those tracks was to actually buy the album.
Since 1998 the Internet has given rise to a constant evolution of how we consume music. Today, anyone can go online, preview album tracks, largely ignore them, buy individual songs, or use streaming services to listen to some or all of any given album, the latter of which avoids a purchase and results in artist royalties that are, at best, variable and, at worst, contemptuously minimal—for example, a track apparently needs at least 1,000 streams on Spotify to earn the artist a paltry $1.
Industry bodies have acknowledged artists’ record sales for decades. In Australia, the first sales accreditations were established by record companies in the 1970s. The numbers weren’t always consistent between the companies and levels were sometimes different between singles and albums but, generally, a Gold accreditation was awarded for 50,000 sales and Platinum for 100,000 sales. The physical award that was presented to the artist was generally a gold or platinum-coloured copy of the vinyl disc, in a great big frame with a plaque—thus the terms “gold record” and “platinum record”.
Having taken end-to-end management of the national charts in-house during 1988, in 1989 ARIA revised accreditation levels down to 35,000 for Gold and 70,000 for Platinum—possibly something to do with the organisation having been created by a conglomerate of the four major local record companies in 1983.
Even though the reduced numbers meant greater recognition of singles sales, albums were still far and away the biggest hitters. Throughout the 90s, high-selling albums regularly achieved certifications of between 5 and 10xPlatinum, while the really big ones—Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill, Savage Garden’s 1997 début, and Shania Twain’s Come On Over—were certified up to 15xPlatinum. Earlier mega-sellers, like The Best Of ABBA, the Grease soundtrack, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, John Farnham’s Whispering Jack, Meat Loaf’s Bat Out Of Hell and Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms, have all, over time, been accredited for sales in excess of 20xPlatinum.
In 1993, Whitney Houston’s mega-hit I Will Always Love You became the first single ever accredited 4xPlatinum by ARIA, recognising local sales of more than 280,000 units. Five years later Elton John smashed that record when his tribute to Princess Diana, Candle In The Wind, achieved an unprecedented 14xPlatinum certification, a record that went unbroken for seventeen years. But, under ‘normal’ sales conditions, Houston’s achievement technically stood for two decades, although it looked like it was about to be bettered multiple times before then—Lou Bega’s Mambo No. 5 and The Offspring’s Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) had also joined the 4xPlatinum club in 1999, but it wasn’t until 2003 when, after twelve weeks at number one, Eminem’s Lose Yourself was well on its way to becoming ARIA’s first 5xPlatinum single. Then… nothing. But finally, after the best part of a decade of a consistently small volume of digital sales, Lose Yourself was, all at once, awarded seventh Platinum certification (and therefore, by inference, its fifth and sixth) in mid-2013.
But by then, a 7xPlatinum accreditation for a single had become so commonplace that, in July 2014, LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem was certified a whopping 15xPlatinum—not only making it the only single to ever sell more than a million units in this country, but also placing it just behind the only eight full-length albums that have ever sold more. And since 2013, ten other singles have also been certified between 10 and 13xPlatinum.
That’s how much things have changed, certainly since 1993, but most significantly in just the past five years.
In the olden days albums were, by far, the bigger sellers—singles just propped them up—but these days it’s the reverse. As a general rule, singles now sell by the (digital) truckload, sometimes bouncing around the chart for up to two years. But long-player sales have been so depleted that it’s not uncommon for an album by a niche artist to début at number one off the back of a couple of thousand sales, before disappearing from the chart altogether within three or four weeks.
The divergence between olden days volumes and today’s—and the very reason why Divide’s opening week tally of 140,000 units is so significant—is crystal clear with a few historical comparisons. In December 2003, for example, Guy Sebastian’s Just As I Am had opening week sales of 164,000 units; in 2006, Anthony Callea’s A New Chapter couldn’t edge any higher than number 45 with sales of nearly 5,500 units. By January 2014, the entire Top 500 albums combined sold just under 182,000 units; in March 2015, one-time superstar Madonna’s Rebel Heart debuted at number one on less than 7,000 sales, before nosediving to a measly 1,300 sales in its second week; three months later, just 3,777 sales pushed Ed Sheeran’s previous album X back to number one; and even in the UK last week, Sheeran’s new album sold more units than the rest of the Top 500 albums combined.
As well, the hugely reduced volume of overall album sales results in a whole lot of super weird in/out up/down activity on the albums chart that simply wasn’t seen before about five years ago; ultimately, it calls into question the relevance, or even the validity, of the chart, particularly given outcomes like the one seen last week with Ed Sheeran—for example, why should non-single tracks appear on a singles chart, rather than their streaming and download volumes being combined to reflect sales of the album they feature on? Surely that makes more sense and it couldn’t be that hard, could it? I mean, I’m no mathematician or statistician, but it seems logical to me that each download of a single track from a 16 track album should amount to 1/16th of a sale of that album… shouldn’t it?
At any rate, it’s unlikely any of the thirteen Sheeran tracks will see the light of day on the radio again, once post-release hysteria has been quelled, unless they’re released as a single.
Cue the question of ‘what does the future hold?’, because, at the current rate of change, music seems to be evolving in ever-decreasing circles.
Radio’s been around for a century, and for much of the last sixty years it was the go-to source for music that people wanted to hear; today you’re more likely to see people gathered around a smartphone’s Spotify playlist, while radios merely generate background noise in kitchens, on desks and in mechanics’ workshops across the country.
Music television took off in the early-80s and, for music lovers, was an essential resource for at least twenty years; today, a music video isn’t even guaranteed for any release and, more often than not, if there is one they’re usually not much more than an ultra-fancy YouTube lyric video. Music Television, as we knew it in the olden days, is virtually dead; the ABC’s Rage, which celebrates its 30th anniversary next month, is now pretty much the sole survivor.
The ability to quickly and easily convert CDs into individual audio files in the late 90s lead directly to the P2P file sharing revolution, which, come 1999, had music lovers all over the world partying like it was, indeed, 1999 as they uploaded and downloaded free song after free song after free song—as quickly as their glacially slow dial-up connection would allow them to; but even Napster, the one that arguably started it all, was dead within seven years.
So-called “legitimate” online services have very much become the accepted norm since the local launch of the iTunes Store in late-2005, and they more-or-less had a monopoly until about 2012; but since 2015 the increasing uptake of streaming services has seen digital download revenues decrease by more than 10%, year-on-year—in other words, as streaming uptake increases, the number of paid downloads decreases.
What’s next, then? How soon can we expect streaming to also become obsolete? From what we’ve seen in the last ten years alone, its demise is probably just around the corner. Should we expect a replacement with an even shorter life-cycle?
Whatever it turns out to be, it will inevitably be some form of online platform. And, it’ll mean yet another nail in the coffin of the video and the radio star.
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ABOUT PAUL NEWMAN
Paul Newman’s craft was acting. His passion was racing. His love was his family and friends. And his heart and soul were dedicated to helping make the world a better place.
Paul was quick to acknowledge the good fortune he had in his own life, beginning with being born in America, and was acutely aware of how unlucky so many others were. True to his character, he quietly devoted himself to helping offset this imbalance and used his influence to advance many social causes. He accomplished this with an uncanny ability to break new ground.
Paul applied his greatest commitment and derived his deepest satisfaction from his quiet work in philanthropy. He used his influence, gave of his financial resources, and personally volunteered to advance humanitarian and social causes around the world. He accomplished this with an uncanny ability to break new ground.
In 1982, he founded Newman’s Own, Inc., which was one of the first food companies to use all natural products. Today, Newman’s Own, Inc. is a successful international food business, of which all after-tax profits and royalties are donated to thousands of charities worldwide through Newman’s Own Foundation. Thus far, over $500 million has been awarded to grantee recipients in all 50 USA states and in 31 countries around the world.
Paul founded the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Ashford, Connecticut, for children with life-threatening conditions. It was the first of many camps established where children could escape the fear, pain, and isolation of their conditions to kick back and “raise a little hell.” Later, he founded the SeriousFun Children’s Network (formerly known as the Association of Hole in the Wall Camps), which now includes a global network of camps and initiatives.
Upon turning 70 years old, Paul decided not to accept any more awards for his charitable work. He was personally reluctant to acknowledge that his charity was anything special, and true to his character, he burned his tuxedo in a front-yard ceremonial bonfire attended by family and friends.
While Paul Newman was a Hollywood star of extraordinary celebrity and a person recognized for exceptional commitment and leadership for philanthropy, he lived his life as an ordinary person, which he always considered himself. He was a man of abundant good humor, generosity, and humility. Paul departed this world on September 26, 2008.
Paul Newman and Hotch filled empty wine bottles in the basement with homemade salad
dressing to give as holiday gifts to friends and neighbours. Before long they all came back asking for more.
Newman’s Own Salad Dressing officially launched, generating over $300,000 in first-year profits. Paul declared, “Let’s give it all away to those who need it!”
Paul Newman’s Own entered the Australia market and the product line started expanding with the introduction of pasta sauce.
The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp opened in Connecticut, serving 288 kids in its first year. A place where children with life-threatening conditions could “raise a little hell’.
Following the success of salad dressing, pasta sauce, lemonade, and microwave popcorn, Newman’s Own introduced salsa — all from Paul’s recipes.
A significant milestone was reached of over $50 million donated to charity in the company’s first decade.
By this time, Newman’s Own products had expanded globally, with distribution to countries including the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
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On September 26, Paul Newman’s life and legacy were recognised upon his passing, honouring the actor and philanthropist who helped make the world a better place.
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1 Article Burden of musculoskeletal disorders in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 1990-2013: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. 2017
Moradi-Lakeh, Maziar / Forouzanfar, Mohammad H / Vollset, Stein Emil / El Bcheraoui, Charbel / Daoud, Farah / Afshin, Ashkan / Charara, Raghid / Khalil, Ibrahim / Higashi, Hideki / Abd El Razek, Mohamed Magdy / Kiadaliri, Aliasghar Ahmad / Alam, Khurshid / Akseer, Nadia / Al-Hamad, Nawal / Ali, Raghib / AlMazroa, Mohammad AbdulAziz / Alomari, Mahmoud A / Al-Rabeeah, Abdullah A / Alsharif, Ubai / Altirkawi, Khalid A / Atique, Suleman / Badawi, Alaa / Barrero, Lope H / Basulaiman, Mohammed / Bazargan-Hejazi, Shahrzad / Bedi, Neeraj / Bensenor, Isabela M / Buchbinder, Rachelle / Danawi, Hadi / Dharmaratne, Samath D / Zannad, Faiez / Farvid, Maryam S / Fereshtehnejad, Seyed-Mohammad / Farzadfar, Farshad / Fischer, Florian / Gupta, Rahul / Hamadeh, Randah Ribhi / Hamidi, Samer / Horino, Masako / Hoy, Damian G / Hsairi, Mohamed / Husseini, Abdullatif / Javanbakht, Mehdi / Jonas, Jost B / Kasaeian, Amir / Khan, Ejaz Ahmad / Khubchandani, Jagdish / Knudsen, Ann Kristin / Kopec, Jacek A / Lunevicius, Raimundas / Abd El Razek, Hassan Magdy / Majeed, Azeem / Malekzadeh, Reza / Mate, Kedar / Mehari, Alem / Meltzer, Michele / Memish, Ziad A / Mirarefin, Mojde / Mohammed, Shafiu / Naheed, Aliya / Obermeyer, Carla Makhlouf / Oh, In-Hwan / Park, Eun-Kee / Peprah, Emmanuel Kwame / Pourmalek, Farshad / Qorbani, Mostafa / Rafay, Anwar / Rahimi-Movaghar, Vafa / Shiri, Rahman / Rahman, Sajjad Ur / Rai, Rajesh Kumar / Rana, Saleem M / Sepanlou, Sadaf G / Shaikh, Masood Ali / Shiue, Ivy / Sibai, Abla Mehio / Silva, Diego Augusto Santos / Singh, Jasvinder A / Skogen, Jens Christoffer / Terkawi, Abdullah Sulieman / Ukwaja, Kingsley N / Westerman, Ronny / Yonemoto, Naohiro / Yoon, Seok-Jun / Younis, Mustafa Z / Zaidi, Zoubida / Zaki, Maysaa El Sayed / Lim, Stephen S / Wang, Haidong / Vos, Theo / Naghavi, Mohsen / Lopez, Alan D / Murray, Christopher J L / Mokdad, Ali H. ·Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA. · Department of Community Medicine, Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. · Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Bergen, Norway. · Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. · Japan International Cooperation Agency, Lusaka, Zambia. · Ophthalmology resident in Aswan University Hospital, Aswan, Egypt. · Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Orthopedics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. · Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. · The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. · The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. · Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. · University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. · Food and Nutrition Administration, Ministry of Health, Safat, Kuwait. · University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. · Saudi Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. · Division of Physical Therapy, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan. · Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany. · King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. · Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan. · Public Health Agency of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. · Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia. · Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, California, USA. · David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), California, USA. · College of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Jazan, Saudi Arabia. · University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. · Monash Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Cabrini Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. · Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. · Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. · Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. · Clinical Investigation Centre INSERM (the National Institute for Health and Medical Research), Université de Lorraine, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France. · Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. · Harvard/MGH Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations, and Health Disparities, Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. · Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society (NVS), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. · Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrine and Metabolic Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. · Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany. · West Virginia Bureau for Public Health, Charleston, West Virginia, USA. · Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain. · Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. · Nevada Division of Behavior and Public Health, Carson City, Nevada, USA. · Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA. · Public Health Division, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia. · Salah Azaiz Institute, Tunis, Tunisia. · Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine. · Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK. · Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany. · Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. · Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. · Health Services Academy, Islamabad, Pakistan. · Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA. · Department of Health Registries, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Bergen, Norway. · University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. · Aintree University Hospital National Health Service Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK. · School of Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. · Mansoura Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura, Egypt. · Imperial College London, London, UK. · Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran Universities of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. · McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. · College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington DC, USA. · Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. · College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. · Hunger Action Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA. · Health Systems and Policy Research Unit, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. · Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany. · International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh. · Faculty of Health Sciences, Center for Research on Population and Health, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. · Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea. · Department of Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, College of Medicine, Kosin University, Busan, South Korea. · National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. · Noncommunicable Diseases Research Center, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran. · Contech International Health Consultants, Lahore, Pakistan. · Contech School of Public Health, Lahore, Pakistan. · Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. · Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland. · Sweidi Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. · Society for Health and Demographic Surveillance, Suri, India. · Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. · Independent Consultant, Karachi, Pakistan. · Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. · Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. · Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. · Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil. · University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. · Alcohol and Drug Research Western Norway, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway. · Department of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. · Outcomes Research Consortium, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. · Department of Anesthesiology, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. · Department of Internal Medicine, Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, Nigeria. · Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany. · German National Cohort Consortium, Heidelberg, Germany. · Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. · Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. · Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA. · University Hospital, Setif, Algeria. · Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ·Ann Rheum Dis · Pubmed #28209629.
ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES: We used findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 to report the burden of musculoskeletal disorders in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). METHODS: The burden of musculoskeletal disorders was calculated for the EMR's 22 countries between 1990 and 2013. A systematic analysis was performed on mortality and morbidity data to estimate prevalence, death, years of live lost, years lived with disability and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). RESULTS: For musculoskeletal disorders, the crude DALYs rate per 100 000 increased from 1297.1 (95% uncertainty interval (UI) 924.3-1703.4) in 1990 to 1606.0 (95% UI 1141.2-2130.4) in 2013. During 1990-2013, the total DALYs of musculoskeletal disorders increased by 105.2% in the EMR compared with a 58.0% increase in the rest of the world. The burden of musculoskeletal disorders as a proportion of total DALYs increased from 2.4% (95% UI 1.7-3.0) in 1990 to 4.7% (95% UI 3.6-5.8) in 2013. The range of point prevalence (per 1000) among the EMR countries was 28.2-136.0 for low back pain, 27.3-49.7 for neck pain, 9.7-37.3 for osteoarthritis (OA), 0.6-2.2 for rheumatoid arthritis and 0.1-0.8 for gout. Low back pain and neck pain had the highest burden in EMR countries. CONCLUSIONS: This study shows a high burden of musculoskeletal disorders, with a faster increase in EMR compared with the rest of the world. The reasons for this faster increase need to be explored. Our findings call for incorporating prevention and control programmes that should include improving health data, addressing risk factors, providing evidence-based care and community programmes to increase awareness.
2 Article Payer decision-making with limited comparative and cost effectiveness data: the case of new pharmacological treatments for gout. 2012
Meltzer, Michele / Pizzi, Laura T / Jutkowitz, Eric. ·Department of Rheumatology, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA. ·Evid Based Med · Pubmed #22345034.
ABSTRACT: CONTEXT: The need for comparative effectiveness (CE) data continues to grow, fuelled by market demand as well as health reform. There may be an assumption that new drugs result in improved efficacy compared with the standard of care, therefore warranting premium prices. Gout treatment has recently become controversial, as expensive new drugs enter the market with limited CE data. METHODS: The authors reviewed published clinical trials and conducted a cost effectiveness analysis on a new drug (febuxostat) versus the standard (allopurinol) to illustrate the limitations in using these data to inform evidence-based decision-making. FINDINGS: Although febuxostat trials included allopurinol as a comparator, methodological limitations make comparative effectiveness evaluations difficult. However, when available trial data were input to a decision analytic model, the authors found that a significant reduction in febuxostat cost would be required in order for it to dominate allopurinol in cost effectiveness analysis. This case exemplifies the challenges of using clinical trial data in comparative and cost effectiveness analyses.
3 Minor Allopurinol versus rilonacept for the prevention of gout flares: comment on the article by Schumacher et al. 2013
Meltzer, Michele. · ·Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) · Pubmed #23281274.
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Audrey White
Fighting back against sexual harassment
In 1983 Audrey White was the manager of the Lady at Lord John clothes store in Liverpool. When her area manager sexually harassed four women in her team, she complained – and was sacked.
But Audrey was a TGWU (now Unite) member and she was going to fight. Her campaign put sexual harassment at work in the spotlight and ultimately led a long campaign and a change in employment law in 2005. Audrey tells us more below.
It was shocking to be sacked over the phone.
I said, “I’m sorry, I don’t understand.” My manager replied, “Isn’t plain English bloody good enough for you? I’m sacking you.” The company thought they could treat me like garbage but they hadn’t reckoned on me being a union member. The advice from my union was to keep going to work until they sacked me in writing.
Back at work, my manager brought in the police to arrest me if I didn’t leave the store.
The staff didn’t stand up for me – they were too scared of losing their jobs. The company refused to meet with my union so we started picketing outside the store the next day. We were there with banners and petitions from opening time to closing for five weeks. And no one crosses a picket line in Liverpool!
Inspired by this story?
You can’t tell people who haven’t experienced solidarity what solidarity is like – it’s priceless.
On the picket we had dockers, car workers, staff from unemployed centres, union members, local activists. I feel such warmth when I think of those ordinary people who invested so much time and energy in supporting the cause. It was wonderful, but it was also bitter and harrowing and my nerves were on edge because all these people were fighting for my job and I didn’t want to let them down.
We didn’t even know the phrase ‘sexual harassment’ back then.
We learned how bad things were: women came up to us on the picket and said, “I had a wonderful job but my boss would do this, so I had to leave.” And, “I didn’t go along with what the boss wanted, so I got demoted”. When the company finally agreed to meet with us, they wouldn’t discuss the sexual harassment complaints, even though I’d got statements from the girls. They claimed I’d been sacked because I wasn’t ‘bubbly’ enough.
My most vivid memory from that time was the victory.
Once we lined up pickets at the Manchester and London stores, the company relented. I remember phoning the pickets from London and saying, “You can take the pickets off because we’ve won!” That night I got back to Liverpool and had the most fantastic night of my life, singing, dancing and celebrating. I got paid for lost earnings and walked back into my job.
My story shows that a woman can win – even a woman in a shop in 1980’s Britain.
When I’m in the supermarket I’ll always chat with the women on the tills. If they have a little moan about their work I’ll say, “Are you in a union?”. They’ll shake their heads and say, “I’d be the only one…” But even one woman in a workplace can change conditions if they’ve got their union behind them. And they’ll inspire other women to do the same. We can fight – and we can win.
What happened next?
In 1988, Audrey’s story was made into a film – Business As Usual. Here she is with Glenda Jackson, who played her character.
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Koch Adds Three Labels
By David Greenwald | June 23, 2006 12:00 AM EDT
HBD, Worldwide and Taxi link with distro.
Port Washington, N.Y.-based Koch Entertainment Distribution has announced exclusive, North American agreements with three independent record labels. Koch will handle releases from HBD Label Group, Worldwide Music, Inc. and Taxi Records.
The reggae-focused Taxi Records is owned by Grammy-winners Sly & Robbie. The 30 year-old company has previously issued albums through Island /Universal, and upcoming Koch-distributed releases include Sly & Robbie’s “Rhythm Doubles” featuring Wyclef Jean, Bounty Killer and Beres Hammond, as well as the tribute album “Greetings to Led Zeppelin + Queen.”
The HBD Label Group, which boasts its own overseas distribution network, encompasses urban and electronic labels. Koch is the company’s first distributor.
Worldwide Music, Inc. is a gospel label founded alongside Gospel Truth Magazine by Kerry Douglas. The company’s releases were previously handled by Navarre.