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Pulsebeat #371

Mondays 3pm EST bombshellradio.com Archival shows : bombshellradiopodcasts.com Pulsebeat a new release based punk, alt. whatever show out of Abingdon, Oxfordshire broadcasting Mondays 3pm EST bombshellradio.com #Punk #Powerpop P Pulsebeat #371       Track No: Time Artist Title 1 00:00:12 The Chuck Norris Experiment - You Go Boom! 2 00:03:19 The Detroit Cobras - There's A Light 3 00:05:26 The Sadies - More Alone 4 00:09:32 Rick White & The Sadies - Try 5 A8 00:13:07 IST IST - Repercussions 6 00:16:54 Swami & The Bed Of Nails - How Are You Peeling ? 7 00:19:13 Steak Blake - I Lie, See 8 00:21:49 Bad Drip - Roadhouse 9 00:26:34 The Courettes, La La Brooks - California 10 00:30:11 Dealing With Damage - M 11 00:33:06 The Bug Club - Lonsdale Slipons 12 00:36:10 The Muffs - Every Single Thing 13 00:38:32 Redd Kross - Born Innocent 14 00:42:21 Barrington Levy - Bounty Hunter 15 00:46:18 Charlie Chaplin - Principle 16 00:50:08 Aerial Salad - Chances     Read the full article

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Ben Folds Announces New Tour

Ben Folds has announced some new tour dates. Emmy-nominated, multi-platinum selling music artist Ben Folds announces the return of his popular “Paper Airplane Request Tour,” performing solo shows across the US starting May 30, 2024. What initially began years ago as a request for songs as encores will once again be a central element in Folds’ shows when he engages audiences to make their song requests via paper airplanes. “The last time I did this on tour the response was overwhelming, with literally hundreds of paper airplanes with song requests being launched on cue from fans at the start of the second half of each of my concerts,” said Folds. “It’s the purest, most low-tech form of engagement that creates a special bond with my audiences.” Folds, who released his most recent album “What Matters Most” to critical acclaim, has been in studio in recent months working on his first holiday album targeted for release later this year. He’ll also be featured in a special PBS broadcast this spring that spotlights his ongoing “Declassified: Ben Folds Presents” concert series he curates as Artistic Advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. MAY 30 – CHARLESTON, SC – CHARLESTON MUSIC HALL 31 – AUGUSTA, GA – BELL AUDITORIUM JUNE 1 – PEACHTREE CITY, GA – THE FRED 2 – PELHAM, TN – THE CAVERNS 4 – CHARLOTTE, NC – BELK THEATER 6 – SAVANNAH, GA – DISTRICT LIVE 7 – VIRGINIA BEACH, VA – SANDLER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 8 – ROCKY MOUNT, VA – HARVESTER PERFORMANCE CENTER 9 – PITTSBURGH, PA – 3 RIVERS ARTS FESTIVAL 11 – RICHMOND, VA – LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN 21 – LOWELL, MA – LOWELL SUMER MUSIC SERIES 22 – GREAT BARRINGTON, MA – THE MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 23 – HAMMONDSPORT, NY – POINT OF THE BLUFF CONCERT PAVILION 25 – KENT, OH – THE KENT STAGE 27 – TOLEDO, OH – PERISTYLE THEATER 28 – POTESKEY, MI – BAY VIEW JOHN M. HALL AUDITORIUM 29 – KALAMAZOO, MI – KALAMAZOO STATE THEATRE JULY 30 – BOISE, ID – MORRISON CENTER AUGUST 2 – STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, CO – STRINGS MUSIC PAVILION 5 – BOULDER, CO – CHAUTAUQUA AUDITORIUM 6 – BEAVER CREEK, CO – VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER --- Please consider becoming a member so we can keep bringing you stories like this one. ◎ https://chorus.fm/news/ben-folds-announces-new-tour-2/

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 York Minster to Host BBC Radio 4 Recording -Christmas Service With The Archbishop of York

BBC Radio 4 will be at York Minster on Tuesday 12 December to record a special act of worship for broadcast on Christmas Day morning.   The Dean of York, the Very Revd Dominic Barrington, will welcome all to the service which will include prayers, Bible readings, and a homily from The Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, as well as much-loved Carols and traditional music for Christmas Day…

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History of Bagnall Dam & the Lake of the Ozarks featuring Dwight Weaver

History of Bagnall Dam & the Lake of the Ozarks featuring Dwight Weaver

Can you imagine no Lake of the Ozarks? Well, once upon a time, there was no Lake of the Ozarks. Carissa Biele takes a look back at how the lake came to be…

Credits: Dwight Weaver- Historian & Lake Ozark resident for almost 50 years Old photos via a Dwight Weaver book File video shot at Willmore Lodge museum Carissa Biele- Reporter

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Tasmanian Devils Born on Mainland Australia Offer Hope for a Species at Risk of Extinction

Tasmanian Devils Born on Mainland Australia Offer Hope for a Species at Risk of Extinction

Good News Notes: “Roughly 3,000 years ago, Tasmanian devils disappeared from the wilds of mainland Australia—instead only surviving on Tasmania Island, the landmass from which they got their common name. But now for the first time in millennia, a mama devil living outside of captivity has given birth to a litter of joeys, in this case, seven thumbnail-sized, hairless infants, reports Gemma Conroy…

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This is the second of four essays, to appear occasionally, on the “bubble of pretend” within which most Americans shelter their psyches. The thought binding these pieces is that we must come to terms with our crippled psychological and emotional states if we are to find our ways beyond them.

The first of these essays can be found here.

—P. L.

11 MAY—Just before Easter I ventured forth from my remote village to a lively market town called Great Barrington to shop for the holiday lunch—spring lamb, a decent bottle of Bourgogne. Easter is much marked in my household, one of the few feasts we allow ourselves, and it is a reminder this year of a truth that could scarcely be more pertinent to our shared circumstances: After all our small and large crucifixions, there is new life to come.

Great Barrington lies in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, a fashionable little burg dense—as you can tell simply by walking around in it—with righteous liberals. No place, you remind yourself, is perfect.

And there along the streets and avenues as I arrived were what I had anticipated: Ukrainian flags hanging off front porches, in shop windows, on flagpoles just below the Stars and Stripes. Somebody has painted the bit of board displaying their house number in the blue and yellow we all now recognize. Father, forgive them, I thought, for they know not what blood-soaked horrors and hate-filled killers they enthusiastically endorse.

Not in my lifetime have Americans purporting to be thoughtful intelligent people been so wide-eyed, so stupefied as those who are pretending to lead them and to inform them by seeking to bury them in ignorance.

We now read that investigators are diligently “documenting the catalog of inhumanity perpetrated by Russia’s forces in Ukraine”—a U.S. diplomat’s remark. Nobody stops to think that we will never see the results of these “investigations” and whatever we may eventually be shown will not be serious. Nobody stops to think the investigators are all from nations that are acting against Russia.

“Where else should they come from?” they shrug in Great Barrington.

Nobody notes that the essential question has been crudely removed from public discourse as these sham investigations get under way. The atrocities in Bucha, Mariupol, and elsewhere are beyond all dispute, but we must never ask who is responsible for them.

I hear the good citizens of Great Barrington quaking with rage as The New York Times convicts the Russian leadership, as our president describes the Bucha tragedy and numerous others that have followed as Russian war crimes not an hour or two after they come to light.

We read not long ago in The Times, all about the joint American–Ukrainian campaign to inundate Russian discourse with propaganda intended to demoralize the public. The government-supervised Times explains, “Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a U.S.–funded but independent news organization founded decades ago, is trying to push its broadcasts deeper into Russia.”

U.S.–funded but independent. Priceless, and don’t miss the slide into passive voice to avoid the truth, a recurrent Times trick I have grown very fond of — “founded decades ago.”

Few of us have any experience of living under anything other than corporate domination.

Radio Free Europe was founded by a C.I.A. front Allen Dulles cooked up in 1949, the National Committee for a Free Europe. It received agency funding until at least the 1970s, when the funding function was transferred elsewhere in the Washington bureaucracy for the sake of appearances.

What RFE/RL is doing in Russia today is exactly what American liberals, in paroxysms of horror, accused Russians of doing during the 2016 election campaigns. But it is O.K. because we’re doing it, they say in the charming bistros along Railroad Street. We must fight for democracy with all the weapons at our disposal.

We are not reading in the corporate press, by contrast, that a new wave of brute censorship is now upon us, as social media such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube “suspend,” “cancel,” “de-platform”—whatever this radically antidemocratic business is called—dissenting writers and analysts who have taken the trouble to examine the facts on the ground in Ukraine such as we have them with professional disinterest.

We must defend democracy at home, too, the good of Great Barrington insist, just as we must in Ukraine.

Here I must interject a personal circumstance. Some weeks ago, after publishing several columns on the Ukraine crisis, here and elsewhere, Twitter “suspended” my account, @thefloutist. Twitter gave me the vaguest of explanations: I may have published material that was abusive or harmful—a nonsense any which way one turns it. Twitter Support offered me the opportunity to appeal this judgment. I did so weeks ago and have had not even the courtesy of a reply. I have to assume accordingly, I have been canceled, de-platformed, disappeared, choose your descriptive. Mine is “censored.”

O, say, can you see….

Since the Russiagate farrago overcame liberal America in 2016, there has been much debate as to whether our McCarthyesque circumstances are as bad as, similar to, or not as bad as things got during the Cold War decades.

This no longer seems to me the useful question. In various important ways we have passed beyond even the worst of the Cold War’s many dreadful features.

Our better reference is Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, wherein the English novelist pictured a society of incubated beings—programmed from birth, hooked on a happiness-inducing drug called soma, devoid of everything we now consider human, wholly incapable of connection, of responsibility, and, indeed, desiring neither. Infantile gratification is all that matters to those populating the World State Huxley imagined—such as anything matters.

We are not there yet, let’s not exaggerate. But we ought to honor Huxley for his prescience, for we are heading in the direction of his unlivable world of mind-deprived children watched over by a small, chosen, diabolic elite.

I am not surprised that it is Ukraine that brings us to what I consider a collective psychological crisis. After 30 years of post–Cold War triumphalism, Washington has decided to use Ukraine and its people in a go-for-broke attempt finally to subvert Russia. Stepping back for a better look, this is the decisive event in the imperium’s confrontation with the 21st century—its grand roll of the dice, its now-or-never moment.

Broke it will be when all this is over, however far in the future that will prove. A little like Cú Chulainn, the Irish hero who drowned swinging his sword in a rage against the incoming tide, we cannot win this one. And we are falling apart as the realization of our loss arrives subliminally among us.

Whoever wins the war in Ukraine, the non–West will win. Whoever wins, the 21st century will win, burying the mostly awful 20th at last. As for Americans, we have already lost. 

What of our condition, then? What has become of us, why, and what shall we do about it? If I am correct about America’s psychological crisis, its connection to the on-the-ground, in-our-faces crisis in Ukraine is not immediately apparent.

Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1931 and published it a year later. Let us take the cue. Let’s look back to consider the thoughts of a few people who, unlike most of us, took life seriously and so applied themselves to an understanding of their time.

Steve Fraser brought out The Age of Acquiescence in 2015. Fraser is among the best labor economists now active, an honorable man of the 1960s, and his subtitle tells us his line of inquiry: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power. Why and when, Fraser wanted to discover, had American workers rolled over in surrender? What happened to all those fine New Dealers who, with good minds and strong hands, fought hard for the kind of society they knew was possible?

Labor isn’t our topic, but Fraser’s book has implications far beyond his specific interests.

Fraser situates himself “peering back into the past at a largely forgotten terrain of struggle.” The New Deal years, the battles waged against the anti–Communist paranoia of the postwar decades, the antiwar movement of the 1960s and early 1970s: The people animating these movements had memories and experience.

They remembered what American society could be in its potential because they had lived for and acted on that potential. They knew another kind of America was possible.

Most of us have forgotten all that. Younger people never shared that consciousness in the first place. Very few of us have any memory or experience of living under anything other than pervasive corporate domination and a government, in its profound corruption, that serves corporate capital and does as little as it can otherwise.

There is nothing to wage struggle for, in other words. Our relations with those who hold power over us are not very different from the relations Huxley’s children had with the sequestered elites who controlled their lives. This is the root of our prevalent assumptions.

The work of any social or political campaign worth mounting is now rendered too imposing even to attempt. It is best to acquiesce to power, contenting ourselves—as if we all live in Great Barrington—with finding the best olive oil.

Mass acquiescence leads us most of the way to an explanation of the preposterous support most Americans have for the criminal regime in Kiev. But we’re beyond Steve Fraser’s Age of Acquiescence now. Americans don’t merely acquiesce to all that the imperium imposes on the world—wars, interventions, collective punishments, assorted other deprivations. Americans actively embrace the conduct of empire.

Please pass the kale chips.

There is an obsessive-compulsive aspect to the flag-waving I encountered in Great Barrington during Holy Week—and numerous places since. A kindly neighbor in my village appeared at a birthday party the other day wearing a finely made cardigan of light blue, beneath which she draped her splendid person in a yellow pullover, also of the Villager sort. On the table before the old gent celebrating his birthday were cards in blue and yellow envelopes.

We are confronted with a collective pathology in search of a diagnosis. Herr Doktor Lawrence’s is as follows.

I have long taken the attacks of September 11, 2001, to mark the uncannily abrupt end of the American Century. Much has flowed from those shocking moments. It was on that day Americans were forced to realize that they were not, after all, immune from the depredations of history. The providential nation did not, after all, enjoy the protections of Providence. History, after all, allows of no exceptions.

In my interpretation, a belief system that had endured for nearly four centuries, taking my date from Winthrop’s landing at Salem Harbor in 1630, collapsed on September 11, 2001. It would be hard to overstate the gravity of that moment. Remember the endlessly repeated footage of the World Trade Towers as the planes struck and the buildings crumbled? This was the first sign of the obsessive-compulsive pathology that has since overtaken us. The collapsing towers were but an objective correlative, an outer manifestation of the psychological and emotional collapse that occurred in the American psyche.

Americans, suddenly, suffered an immense spiritual emptiness. And they have ever since desired almost desperately (and I am willing to edit out my “almost”) to fill this emptiness. They needed something to believe in again. This something has turned out to be authority—any kind of authority so long as it filled our shared void, so long as it reassured us that we were still a good people, a just people, a people still immune from the forces of history—above all, we wanted once again to understand ourselves as an innocent people.

Authority, right down to the spooks who betray us and our ideals by the day, give us our regular doses of soma, as Huxley may have thought of it.

All the notable events that have followed—the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the chest-thumping righteousness of our coup operations in Libya, and Syria, the Russiagate nonsense—those Rrrrussians spoiled our march to eternal liberalism—and now the proxy war in Ukraine—flowed, in my view, from the psychic injuries sustained as summer drew to a close 21 years ago.

Let us consider ourselves from another perspective.

Iris Murdoch, the minor English philosopher and second-rate novelist, published The Sovereignty of Good, a gathering of three essays on morality, in 1970. I would be pleased to observe that nobody reads this ridiculous book anymore and few take Murdoch’s philosophic ruminations at all seriously: Both of these things are true.

But Murdoch’s arguments in favor of a moral clarity that lies beyond dispute have a great deal to do with what we’ve become. Right and wrong and goodness are objective realities for Murdoch—and how too many of us now live.

Human beings have no purpose so far as Murdoch was concerned. There are no ideals to strive for, no telos to use the Greek term she preferred. People are innately selfish. “Our destiny can be examined but it cannot be justified or totally explained,” as she put it. “We are just here.”

Here are a few snippets to give a taste of Murdoch’s prose and thinking:

“It is more than a verbal point to say that what should be aimed at is goodness, and not freedom or right action….The Good has nothing to do with purpose, indeed it excludes the idea of purpose.I assume that human beings are naturally selfish and that human life has no external point or telos…. The psyche is a historically determined individual looking after itself…. The area of its vaunted freedom of choice is not usually very great.”

As Murdoch sees it, there is but one thing to do as we sit stranded on the universe’s beach. We must recognize the inarguable reality of goodness and do our best to be good. This does not involve choices, as we have none to make. (Murdoch despised Sartre and the existentialists.) We are not, if I read Murdoch correctly, responsible for making judgments. Kindness, compassion, love—these are moral values, universal values. They’re all we’ve got.

Who decides what is good and worthy of kindness, and how? Who decides what is right and wrong? Murdoch didn’t address these essential questions because, being an empiricist, what is good, right, and wrong is simply there for us to see. “Good is non-representable and indefinable,” Murdoch writes—slithering, it seems to me, out the side door.

Here’s my question: Would Iris Murdoch have made an excellent “content monitor” — a censor this is to say—at YouTube? CEO at Twitter, maybe?

Readers may now suspect where all this is leading. It leads to the main drag in Great Barrington. There we find people who are intent only on self-fulfillment and being good and kind and compassionate, while taking no responsibility for the events of their time because, after all, there is no purpose in life and “we are just here.” Being seen to be good and kind and compassionate is, of course, the essential thing: They too are empiricists.

Joe Biden denounced the Bucha atrocities at 10:30 am Eastern time on 4 April, at the very moment word came of them. At that time he could not possibly have had any knowledge of what had transpired. His reference here is to Russian President Vladimir Putin:

“Well, the truth of the matter — you saw what happened in Bucha. This warrants him—he is a war criminal.… This guy is brutal. And what’s happening in Bucha is outrageous, and everyone’s seen it.”

Pictures often require a thousand words and certainly they do in the Bucha case, but never mind that. The important thing is, we’ve all seen some images. It is a straight-ahead case of right and wrong: Ukrainians suffer. Let us be kind to them. Russians have intervened into their country. Let us condemn them.

Let us acquiesce. Let us be good.

An earlier version of this essay appeared in Consortium News.

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On this Day: 1 March

1776 – French minister Charles Gravier advised his Spanish counterpart to support the American rebels against the English. 1780 – Pennsylvania became the first U.S. state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only). It was followed by Connecticut and Rhode Island in 1784, New York in 1785, and New Jersey in 1786. Massachusetts abolished slavery through a judicial decision in 1783. 1781 – The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation. 1803 – Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state. The name “Ohio” originated from Iroquois word ohi-yo’, meaning “great river” or “large creek”. The state was originally partitioned from the Northwest Territory. Although there are conflicting narratives regarding the origin of the nickname, Ohio is historically known as the “Buckeye State” (relating to the Ohio buckeye tree) and Ohioans are also known as “Buckeyes”. 1836 – A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico. (Side Note: If you ever have the opportunity to go to "Washington on the Brazos", go. They give a very informative and historic presentation there. While you are there go to the "Barrington Living History Farm" just down the road, simply amazing pieces of our collective history.) 1862 – U.S.S. Tyler, Lieutenant Gwin, and U.S.S. Lexington, Lieutenant Shirk, engaged Confederate forces preparing to strongly fortify Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing), Tennessee. Under cover of the gunboats’ cannon, a landing party of sailors and Army sharpshooters was put ashore from armed boats to determine Confederate strength in the area. Flag Officer Foote commended Gwin for his successful “amphibious” attack where several sailors met their death along with their Army comrades. At the same time he added: “But I must give a general order that no commander will land men to make an attack on shore. Our gunboats are to be used as forts, and as they have no more men than are necessary to man the guns, and as the Army must do the shore work, and as the enemy want nothing better than to entice our men on shore and overpower them with superior numbers, the commanders must not operate on shore, but confine themselves to their vessels.” 1864 – President Lincoln nominates Ulysses S. Grant for the newly revived rank of lieutenant general 1936 – The Hoover Dam is completed. 1941 – “Captain America” first appeared in a comic book. 1941 – Nazi extermination camps begin full operation. These include Auschwitz, Bamberg, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Chelmno, Jena, Sobibor and Treblinka. Over 2.600.000 Polish Jews are among those killed during the course of the war. Over 12.000 people would be killed daily at Auschwitz alone. By 1945 nearly 6 million Jews and more than 3 million Communists, gypsies, socialists and other dissidents will be exterminated. 1941 – The US Navy forms a Support Force for the Atlantic Fleet. The main part of this unit is made up from three destroyer squadrons of 27 ships. 1941 – Nashville radio station W47NV begins transmitting. The station was the first in the country to receive a license for FM radio transmission: All previous commercial stations transmitted via AM, which was more prone to static and interference. The station started its FM broadcast with a commercial for Nashville’s Standard Candy Company. 1953 – Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later. 1971 – A bomb explodes in the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., causing an estimated $300,000 in damage but hurting no one. A group calling itself the “Weather Underground” claimed credit for the bombing, which was done in protest of the ongoing U.S.-supported Laos invasion.

Congressional Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day

*BRUCE, DANIEL D. Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps, Headquarters and Service Company, 3d Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division. Place and date: Fire Support Base Tomahawk, Quang Nam Province, Republic of Vietnam, 1 March 1969. Entered service at: Chicago, 111. Born: 18 May 1950, Michigan City, Ind. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a mortar man with Headquarters and Service Company 3d Battalion, against the enemy. Early in the morning Pfc. Bruce was on watch in his night defensive position at fire support base tomahawk when he heard movements ahead of him. An enemy explosive charge was thrown toward his position and he reacted instantly, catching the device and shouting to alert his companions. Realizing the danger to the adjacent position with its 2 occupants, Pfc. Bruce held the device to his body and attempted to carry it from the vicinity of the entrenched marines. As he moved away, the charge detonated and he absorbed the full force of the explosion. Pfc. Bruce’s indomitable courage, inspiring valor and selfless devotion to duty saved the lives of 3 of his fellow marines and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the U.S. Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life for his country.

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Electric Television

The organization spearheaded the force age industry and in the fields of significant distance power transmission and high-voltage rotating current transmission, divulging the innovation for lighting in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

The primary business Westinghouse steam turbine driven generator, a 1,500 kW unit, started activity at Hartford Electric Light Co. in 1901. The machine, nicknamed Mary-Ann, was the principal steam turbine generator to be introduced by an electric utility to produce power in the US. George Westinghouse had based his unique steam turbine plan on plans authorized from the English creator Charles Parsons. Today a huge extent of steam turbine generators working far and wide, going to units as extensive as 1,500 MW (or multiple times the first 1901 unit) were provided by Westinghouse from its industrial facilities in Lester, Pennsylvania; Charlotte, North Carolina; or Hamilton, Ont. or then again were fabricated abroad under Westinghouse permit. Significant Westinghouse licensees or joint endeavor accomplices included Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan and Harbin Turbine Co. also, Shanghai Electric Co. of China.

Westinghouse had 50,000 workers by 1900, and set up a conventional innovative work office in 1906. While the organization was growing, it would encounter inside monetary challenges. During the Panic of 1907, the Board of Directors constrained George Westinghouse to take a six-month time away. Westinghouse authoritatively resigned in 1909 and passed on quite a long while later in 1914.

Under new administration, Westinghouse Electric enhanced its business exercises in electrical innovation such as electric television. It gained the Cope man Electric Stove Company in 1914 and Pittsburgh High Voltage Insulator Company in 1921. Westinghouse additionally moved into radio telecom by setting up Pittsburgh's KDKA, the main business radio broadcast, and WBZ in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1921. Westinghouse ventured into the lift business, setting up the Westinghouse Elevator Company in 1928. Consistently, expansion induced extensive development; deals went from $43 million of every 1914 to $216 million out of 1929.

Westinghouse created the main operational American turbojet for the US Navy program in 1943. After numerous victories, the disastrous J40 venture, begun not long after WWII, was surrendered in 1955 and prompted Westinghouse leaving the airplane motor business with conclusion of the Westinghouse Aviation Gas Turbine Division (Kansas City) in 1960.

During the last part of the 1940s Westinghouse applied its aeronautics gas turbine innovation and experience to build up its first modern gas turbine. A 2,000–strength model W21 was introduced in 1948 at the Mississippi River Fuel Corp gas pressure station in Wilmar, Arkansas. This was the start of a 50-year history of Westinghouse modern and utility gas turbine advancement, preceding the deal by Westinghouse of the force age business to Siemens, AG in 1998. Developing from the Small Steam and Gas Turbine Division shaped in the mid 1950s, the Westinghouse Combustion Turbine Systems Division was situated in Concordville, Pennsylvania, close to Philadelphia and the old Lester, Pennsylvania plant, until it was moved to Power Generation base camp in Orlando, Florida in 1987.

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Editorial: #MeToo "Cherry Picking" was the slang for older bosses going after young reporters at TV-6 News in Marquette, MI: Former TV-6 reporters preyed up on by former executives at WLUC TV-6 News - In fact I had to take one young reporter to get an abortion in Wisconsin after she had affair with TV-6 executive

Editorial: #MeToo “Cherry Picking” was the slang for older bosses going after young reporters at TV-6 News in Marquette, MI: Former TV-6 reporters preyed up on by former executives at WLUC TV-6 News – In fact I had to take one young reporter to get an abortion in Wisconsin after she had affair with TV-6 executive

#MeToo U.P. Breaking News Editorial 11-29-17 11:45 a.m. ET: I witnessed “cherry-picking” at WLUC TV-6 Newsroom – even had to take one young TV-6 reporter to get an abortion

By Greg Peterson U.P. Breaking News Owner, News Director 906-273-2433

With today’s firing of Matt Lauer – This reporter has decided to come to the defense of former WLUC TV-6 news reporters – all young females with their first…

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The life of Leslie Howard

Words Mark Bryant

The actor Leslie Howard, who went to school in Dulwich and who lived in the area for nearly two decades, is probably best known as the gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes in the Hollywood blockbuster Gone with the Wind, which celebrates its 80th anniversary this year.

But he was also a wartime radio broadcaster of British propaganda and the director and star of a number of patriotic wartime films, notably The First of the Few, about the designer of the famous Spitfire fighter plane – which itself has links to Dulwich.

He was born Leslie Howard Steiner at 31 Westbourne Road (now Westbourne Drive), Forest Hill, on April 3 1893, the first child of Hungarian-born stockbroker’s clerk Ferdinand “Frank” Steiner, and his English wife Lilian.  

Shortly after his birth the family moved to Vienna, where a sister Dorice and a brother, Alfred, were born. Dorice later founded Hurst Lodge School in Ascot, whose pupils included the actress Juliet Stevenson and the future Duchess of York.

On their return to London, Frank anglicised his surname to Stainer and soon afterwards Leslie and his two siblings were baptised at St Chrysostom’s church in Peckham.  

In 1903 another sister, Irene (later a celebrated casting director for MGM and others) was born and, in 1904, Leslie attended Belvedere House preparatory school in Upper Norwood.

The family  eventually settled at 45 Farquhar Road by Crystal Palace Park – only a short distance from Dulwich – and lived there from 1907 (when Leslie was 14) to 1910. It was a convenient location as Leslie’s widowed maternal grandmother ran a lodging house at “Woodbury”, 2 Jasper Road, close by.

In September 1907 Leslie was sent to Alleyn’s School. Here he was a near contemporary of the future novelist CS Forester (1899-1996), who was at Alleyn’s around this time.

As his daughter, Leslie Ruth Howard, says in her book A Quite Remarkable Father (1959): “The young Leslie went to school, which he loathed and at which, due to shyness and his afflicting near-sightedness, he was never much good.���

However, he began to write short stories and one-act plays and dreamed of becoming a writer. He later said: “As a boy the possibility of being an actor never even occurred to me... I wanted to write.”  

Unfortunately, when he announced that he wanted to be a full-time writer his father had other ideas. Unlike fellow Old Alleynian CS Forester, whose father supported him for six months to get him started, Frank wanted Leslie to get a proper job and took him out of school in April 1910, shortly after his 17th birthday.

As a result, after a brief spell as a junior clerk in the purser’s office of a Thames steamboat company, he commuted daily by train to central London to work as a bank clerk for Cox & Co.  

By this time the family had moved to “Allendale”, 4 Jasper Road, next to Leslie’s grandmother. Leslie’s uncle Wilfred Noy, a film director working for the Clarendon Film Company in Croydon, lived next door.

According to Leslie’s daughter, “It was a peaceful neighbourhood of large, ugly red-brick Victorian houses mostly set back from the road, with short carriage drives and pleasant gardens.

“Jasper Road, where the family found themselves, looked over a green valley where trees hid similar houses,  and circled a hill on whose summit stood the Crystal Palace.”

Leslie’s mother, who had always been interested in the theatre, set up the Upper Norwood Dramatic Club (UNDC), for which  Leslie was honorary secretary as well as playwright, actor and musician. By 1912 the UNDC was appearing regularly at Stanley Halls in South Norwood.

While working at the bank, Leslie continued writing and performing in his spare time with some success. In 1913 his story The Impersonation of Lord Dalton appeared in  The Penny Magazine, and his play Deception was reviewed in The Stage. The following year, after the outbreak of World War One, he appeared in a crowd scene in his first film, The Heroine of Mons, directed by his uncle Wilfred.

When he was 21, he volunteered for the army and was commissioned in 1915 as a second lieutenant in a cavalry regiment stationed in Essex. Here he met and married a local girl in the spring of 1916 and was dispatched to France shortly afterwards. However, in May that year he was sent back home suffering from shell-shock.

Deemed unfit for military service, he decided to become a professional actor and changed his name to Leslie Howard. His uncle Wilfred also helped him get a role (his first credited film part) in The Happy Warrior and after acting in various provincial theatres he made his first appearance on the London stage in February 1918.  

At about this time his parents and siblings left south-east London and settled in a large house in West Kensington. As a result, Howard, his wife and their young son, Ronald (who was born in Norwood in April 1918), also left and moved in with them.

In the 1920s Leslie went to the USA and began appearing in films, notably Berkeley Square, which earned him an Oscar nomination for best actor. In 1934 he was in an ��NBC radio play, Without Benefit of Clergy, with another Old Alleynian, Clive Brook, and starred in The Scarlet Pimpernel and Of Human Bondage.

Two years later came The Petrified Forest with his friend Humphrey Bogart (Bogie and Bacall named their daughter Leslie Howard Bogart), followed by Pygmalion in 1938, which earned him another best actor nomination. Leslie’s youngest brother, Arthur also appeared in this film.

Leslie’s last Hollywood film, Gone with the Wind (1939), was ironically greatly admired by Goebbels, and Hitler himself was a fan of Leslie’s co-star Clark Gable, later even offering a reward for his capture and transportation to Germany alive.

With the outbreak of World War Two, Leslie returned to the UK. He joined a Ministry of Information “ideas committee” for propaganda projects and made National Savings films with Noël Coward.

He also bought a house in Surrey and, helped by  his friend and neighbour Jonah Barrington, the radio correspondent of the Daily Express, he listened to radio broadcasts from Poland as the Nazis invaded.  

By coincidence it was Barrington who coined the nickname “Lord Haw Haw” for the infamous former Dulwich resident William Joyce, who by this time was broadcasting Nazi propaganda to the UK.

By a further coincidence, not only was Leslie later mentioned by name in some of these broadcasts, but the house he lived in when at Alleyn’s School (45 Farquhar Road), was only two doors away from Joyce’s own home (41 Farquhar Road) before he left for Germany in 1939.

Leslie broadcast propaganda himself, notably  appearing on the novelist JB Priestley’s popular BBC weekly programme Postscripts, and later alone on Britain Speaks. These talks were broadcast to north America throughout the London Blitz, in an effort to persuade the (then neutral) USA to support the Allies.  

In addition, he acted in the Ministry of Information’s first full-length feature film, 49th Parallel and produced, directed and acted in a number of  patriotic anti-German propaganda films himself.

These included “Pimpernel” Smith, which was set in Nazi Germany and allegedly inspired Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg to mount his real-life rescue operation in Budapest that saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi concentration camps. The casting director was Leslie’s sister, Irene, and his son Ronald, by then 23, also appeared in the film.

Another film, regarded by many as his best, was The First of the Few, whose title (suggested by Leslie) refers to a line in Churchill’s famous speech about the RAF’s role in the Battle of Britain: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”. In the film, which has a number of Dulwich links, Leslie plays RJ Mitchell, the designer of the Spitfire fighter plane.

Mitchell’s wife is played by future Dulwich resident Rosamund John (1913-98) who, from 1950, would live in Alleyn Park with her second husband, Old Alleynian  politician John Silkin (the third son of Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin, and a younger brother of another Old Alleynian politician, Samuel Silkin, Baron Silkin of Dulwich).

In addition, one of the real-life test pilots involved with the development of the Spitfire (and on which David Niven’s role as the fictional RAF squadron leader Geoffrey Crisp was partly based), was Old Alleynian wing commander George Hedley Stainforth (1899-1942). Sadly Stainforth was killed on active duty the year the film was released.    

Leslie started shooting The First of the Few in the summer of 1941. The following year the Ministry of Information commissioned him to direct a recruitment film, The Gentle Sex, about women serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS). Leslie was also the narrator.

Once again future Dulwich resident Rosamund John starred, as one of seven girls from different walks of life who join the ATS. In Leslie’s final film, The Lamp Still Burns, John was cast in the lead role as an architect who becomes a nurse.

In April 1943, shortly after his 50th birthday, Leslie was sent to Lisbon on a British Council lecture tour of neutral Spain and Portugal, which some claimed later was really a top-secret mission for Churchill to dissuade General Franco from joining the Axis powers. Some even thought that he had been mistaken for Churchill himself.

Whatever the truth, when flying back to Bristol from Lisbon, the civilian airliner he was travelling in was shot down on June 1 1943 by Luftwaffe fighters over the Bay of Biscay, and he and all the other people on board were killed.

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Dr Mark Bryant lives in East Dulwich and is the author World War II in Cartoons and other books.

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WAMC reaches its $1 million goal in one morning

WAMC/Northeast Public Radio completed its February Fund Drive on Feb. 13, 2023, raising over $1,000,000 to support the station's award-winning news and cultural programming. WAMC board and staff thank its listeners for their generosity and devotion to the station. With the help of the Locked Box fundraising prior to the drive, the on-air portion took less than three hours on Monday morning.

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WAMC/Northeast Public Radio completed its February Fund Drive on Feb. 13, 2023, raising over $1,000,000 to support the station's award-winning news and cultural programming. WAMC board and staff thank its listeners for their generosity and devotion to the station. With the help of the Locked Box fundraising prior to the drive, the on-air portion took less than three hours on Monday morning.

WAMC's live fundraising was possible with the help of volunteers and WAMC staff fielding calls and online donations.

Proudly, the station partnered with community organization The Food Pantries For The Capital District, helping to provide over 45,000 pounds of food to those in need.

WAMC President and CEO Alan Chartock says, "Simply amazing. This public radio family fills my heart with joy and I am truly so grateful for the outpouring of support. We didn't plan to reach our goal so quickly, and then we all came together and did it. I'm beyond thankful for everyone who believes in WAMC."

Joe Donahue, the host of The Roundtable, adds, "The love you share with us each and every Fund Drive is just astounding. You filled the Locked Box and let us finish the on-air drive in under three hours. You helped feed the food insecure and made our radio community stronger. You are all heroes and we love you."

WAMC is a listener-supported station that relies on contributions to stay alive. Its Fund Drives occur three times a year: February, June, and October. Each drive has a $1 million goal to support the general operations of WAMC/Northeast Public Radio. WAMC broadcasts the highest quality programs from NPR, American Public Media, BBC World Service as well as a wide range of award-winning local programming.

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Treachery and treason

Words: Mark Bryant; Photo by Paul Popper/Popperfoto/Getty Images

This year, 2019, not only marks the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War, but also the departure for Nazi Germany of a former Dulwich resident who became one of modern history’s most notorious propagandists – William Joyce, better known as “Lord Haw-Haw”.

Joyce was born in Brooklyn, New York, on April 24 1906, the eldest of four children of an Irish émigré builder and a doctor’s daughter from Lancashire. When he was three the family returned to Ireland and 12 years later he was sent to England to stay with his mother’s relations in Oldham.  

Intending to study medicine, he moved to London in 1922 to attend the Battersea Polytechnic Institute (later the University of Surrey in Guildford), while living in digs  nearby.

The following year his parents and siblings moved to Allison Grove, Dulwich, just off what is now the south circular near West Dulwich Station, and William joined them. His father had set up shop as a grocer nearby.

Their new home, to paraphrase from Rebecca West’s book The Meaning of Treason (1949), was “a house as delightfully situated as any in London. Allison Grove is a short road of small houses which has been hacked out from the corner of the gardens of a white Regency villa in the greenest part of Dulwich.

“Not far off is Mill Pond, still a clear mirror of leaves and sky, and beyond it Dulwich College amidst its groves and playing fields. The neighbours all noted that William was the apple of the family’s eye, and they could understand it, for the boy had an air of exceptional spirit and promise.”

However, his studies at the polytechnic did not go well and he failed his exams soon after moving to Dulwich. Undaunted (he was still only 17), he got a place to study English at Birkbeck College, University of London.  

While at Birkbeck he became chairman of the Conservative Student Society and had ambitions to become a Tory MP.

In December 1923, while still a student, he also became a member of the British Fascists (BF) group which canvassed for the Conservative and Unionist parties and acted as stewards for their meetings.

In the run-up to the general election of October 1924, Joyce was a steward at a rally at Lambeth Baths hall near the Imperial War Museum (now the site of Lambeth Towers) for the Unionist candidate for Lambeth North, Jack Lazarus.  

However, a fight broke out with Communist hecklers and Joyce was badly slashed in the face by a razor. The Evening Standard reported the incident on its front page, quoting Lazarus as saying “The man Joyce, one of our supporters, fell down, his face covered in blood”. The article continued: “Mr William Joyce, of Allison Grove, Dulwich, had... to be confined to hospital.”

A week after his 21st birthday, when he was still living at home in Dulwich, he secretly married a fellow Birkbeck student. In June 1927 he received a first class degree in English and soon afterwards began a postgraduate course in philology.

He and his wife then moved to Chelsea, where he joined the Conservative Party (he had left the British Fascists in 1925) and, having failed to be nominated as a Tory candidate, he tried unsuccessfully to get a job at the Foreign Office. He then worked as a tutor of languages and history at the Victoria Tutorial College in Eccleston Square.

By 1932 he and his family (which then included two daughters) had moved south of the river again and settled in a flat on Farquhar Road in Gipsy Hill, near the Crystal Palace before it burnt down. The house was within walking distance of Joyce’s parents in Dulwich.

While on Farquhar Road Joyce continued working as a tutor and, having given up his philology course, he began to study part-time for a PhD in educational psychology at King’s College London.  

Meanwhile, he joined Oswald Mosley’s newly founded British Union of Fascists (the Blackshirts) in August 1933 and when he was offered a well-paid  job working for the BUF in November, he gave up his PhD and his tutoring  work.  Within two years he became the BUF’s director of propaganda and deputy leader.

Meanwhile, his relationship with his wife had deteriorated and in 1936 the marriage was dissolved. He then remarried and moved to north London. As Rebecca West says: “He left south London, which had been his home since he was  a boy with the exception of a few brief episodes; which was still the home of his father, Michael Joyce, and his mother, Queenie, and his brothers and sister.”

However, before long he returned to Dulwich. In 1937 he left the BUF and founded –  with ex-BUF members John Beckett (fomerly the independent Labour MP for Peckham) and John McNab – his own party, known as the National Socialist League.  

The NSL held a number of meetings in Dulwich on the corner of Calton Avenue and Dulwich Village, outside Dulwich Library on Lordship Lane and sometimes inside when permission for the use of St Barnabas��� Parish Hall in Dulwich Village was refused).

His brothers also supported the NSL. To paraphrase Mary Kenny: “Frank had spoken for the Mosley Blackshirt movement on a couple of occasions, mostly at local meetings in Dulwich. Quentin also became caught up in the fringes of fascist politics because of his unquestioning devotion to his brother William.

“Indeed, William seems to have roped in his whole family. He even had his teenage sister, Joan, hand out Fascist propaganda leaflets at Sydenham School for Girls. He also dressed little Robert up in a black shirt. ‘Poor Mrs Joyce!’ the neighbours in Dulwich used to exclaim. ‘With all those terrible children in their black shirts!’”

The NSL was disbanded in 1939 and Joyce and his wife moved to Germany on August 26 that year, only days before the Second World War broke out. Within a short while he began his infamous nightly propaganda broadcasts to Britain prefaced with the words “Germany calling”.

The nickname Lord Haw-Haw originated from an article written by Daily Express radio critic Jonah Barrington, who added: “I imagine him with a receding chin, a  questing nose, thin yellow hair brushed back, a monocle, a vacant eye, a gardenia in his button-hole. Rather like PG Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster.”

In 1939 Barrington produced a humorous book, Lord Haw-Haw of Zeesen – one of the German radio stations Joyce broadcasted from).  It was illustrated by the cartoonist Ian Fenwick, who was killed during the war.

Many other cartoonists lampooned Lord Haw-Haw including William Heath Robinson and Leslie Illingworth, who lived in Dulwich in the 1960s. The Beano comic’s “Lord Snooty” strip even featured him during the war.

He was also the butt of comedians such as Max Miller in the revue Haw-Haw at the Holborn Empire, Arthur Askey as “Baron Hee-Haw” on BBC radio’s “Band Waggon”, Geoffrey Sumner, presenting “Nasty News” on British Pathé newsreels  and the Western Brothers in their song Lord Haw-Haw, the Humbug of Hamburg.

Joyce broadcast throughout the war years but, ironically, one of the first German bombs to land on Dulwich during the London Blitz in August 1940 completely destroyed his family home. His parents, sister and youngest brother then moved into a flat on Underhill Road, East Dulwich.

His parents both died there in the 1940s, after which his sister and brother Quentin lived in the flat for a while. Quentin was arrested as a possible spy in 1939 but was released from prison in 1943. He later married and lived nearby in Sydenham Hill.

His other two brothers, Frank and  Robert, both served in the British Army during the war. Frank’s first wife was the daughter of Harry Weeks, who ran the Magdala pub in Lordship Lane (now The Lordship).  

In the last days of the war Joyce was captured by the Allies and put on trial. By a strange quirk of fate the chief prosecutor was Old Alleynian Sir Hartley Shawcross (the future Lord Shawcross), who later became chairman of the board of governors of Dulwich College and was president of the Alleyn Club.

At first it seemed that Joyce might be acquitted as he was born in the USA (and was thus not a UK citizen), but he was eventually condemned of high treason and hanged as a result of  his application for a British passport in 1933 while living in Farquhar Road.

In 2009, when she was in her 80s, Joyce’s elder daughter Heather, interviewed on  BBC Radio 4, said that she was at boarding school when war broke out and was not aware of his activities.

However, she added: “I saw him in my mind’s eye at the parental home, where my grandparents lived, in Allison Grove and he was pacing the carpet of their living-room with the lace curtains and the piano, and he had his little German songbook and he was walking up and down and he was singing, ‘Dulwich-Land, Dulwich-Land Uber Alles’.”

William Joyce died in Wandsworth Prison on January 3, 1946 aged 39. He was the last person to be executed for high treason in the UK.

 Mark Bryant lives in East Dulwich and is the author World War II in Cartoons and other books.