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French postcard by MD, Paris, series no. D-410 (Mickey et ses amis). Image: Disney. Poster by United Artists for Mickey Mouse in Ye Olden Days (Burt Gillett, 1933). The king locks up his daughter, Minnie, when she refuses to wed a dippy prince. Mickey Mouse, a wandering minstrel, comes to the rescue.
Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character and the mascot of The Walt Disney Company. He was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at the Walt Disney Studios in 1928. An anthropomorphic mouse whose face can be drawn as three black circles. Often he wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves, Mickey is one of the world's most recognisable characters.
Mickey Mouse was created as a replacement for a prior Disney character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Walt Disney got the idea for the character from a mouse he saw in his Kansas City office. Initially, the character was to be named Mortimer Mouse, but Disney's wife Lillian Marie Bounds thought that name was too serious and not representative of the weaker members of the population. Therefore, the name Mickey was chosen. The character's depiction as a small mouse is personified through his diminutive stature and falsetto voice. Mickey's voice was originally provided by Walt Disney. Mickey debuted publicly in the short film Steamboat Willie (1928), one of the first sound cartoons. It was co-directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. Iwerks again served as the head animator, assisted by Les Clark, Johnny Cannon, Wilfred Jackson and Dick Lundy. This short was a nod to Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) released earlier that year. Although it was the third Mickey cartoon produced, it was the first to find a distributor and thus is considered by The Disney Company as Mickey's debut. Mickey Mouse went on to appear in over 130 films, including The Band Concert (Wilfred Jackson, 1935), Brave Little Tailor (Burt Gillett, Bill Roberts, 1938), and the feature Fantasia (James Algar, a.o., 1940). The Band Concert (Wilfred Jackson, 1935) was Mickey's official first colour film. In 1932, he first appeared animated in colour in Parade of the Award Nominees. This film strip was created for the 5th Academy Awards ceremony and was not released to the public. In the production of The Band Concert (Wilfred Jackson, 1935), the Technicolor film process was used. Here Mickey conducted the William Tell Overture, but the band is swept up by a tornado. By colourizing and partially redesigning Mickey, Walt put Mickey back on top once again. Mickey reached new heights of popularity. Brave Little Tailor (Burt Gillett, Bill Roberts, 1938), was an adaptation of 'The Valiant Little Tailor', which was nominated for an Academy Award. In total, ten of Mickey's cartoons were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, one of which, Lend a Paw (Clyde Geronimi, 1941), won the award in 1942.
Mickey Mouse's original design strongly resembled Oswald the Rabbit. Ub Iwerks designed Mickey's body out of circles (distinctly, the ears) to make the character easy to animate. Over the years, Mickey's appearance changed considerably. Pretty soon, Disney managed to give Mickey a friendlier face. In the oldest comics, Mickey wears red shorts with big buttons. In later versions, he dresses ‘normally’. Furthermore, he wears gloves that he never takes off. In the 1930s, animator Fred Moore tried giving Mickey's body more of a pear shape to increase his acting range; Walt Disney liked this adaptation and declared, "That's the way I want Mickey to be drawn from now on." Mickey's character also changes quite a lot. In the first stories, he is predominantly a wanton little fellow who often plays strange pranks. Later, Mickey becomes much more serious and also quite sensible; Mickey is often the one who knows the right solution in difficult situations. Mickey generally appears alongside his steady girlfriend Minnie Mouse, and his friends Donald Duck and Goofy. Remarkably, his pet dog Pluto behaves completely animal-like in every way, being the only one of the regular characters in the Mickey Mouse stories. Together, Mickey, Donald Duck, and Goofy would go on several adventures. Several of the films by the comic trio are some of Mickey's most critically acclaimed films, including Mickey's Fire Brigade (Ben Sharpsteen, 1935), Moose Hunters (Ben Sharpsteen, 1937), Clock Cleaners (Ben Sharpsteen, 1937), Lonesome Ghosts (Burt Gillett, 1937), Boat Builders (Ben Sharpsteen, 1938), and Mickey's Trailer (Ben Sharpsteen, 1938). In 1939, Mickey appeared in Mickey's Surprise Party (Hamilton Luske, 1939), along with Minnie, with a new design, which included pupils. Later on, in 1940, the character appeared in his first feature-length film, Fantasia (James Algar, a.o., 1940). The film used the redesigned version of Mickey with the pupils. His screen role as The Sorcerer's Apprentice set to the symphonic poem of the same name by Paul Dukas, is perhaps the most famous segment of the film and one of Mickey's most iconic roles. The apprentice (Mickey), not willing to do his chores, puts on the sorcerer's magic hat after the sorcerer goes to bed and casts a spell on a broom, which causes the broom to come to life and perform the most tiring chore—filling up a deep well using two buckets of water. When the well eventually overflows, Mickey finds himself unable to control the broom, leading to a near-flood. After the segment ends, Mickey is seen in silhouette shaking hands with conductor Leopold Stokowski. Mickey has often been pictured in the red robe and blue sorcerer's hat in merchandising.
Since 1930, Mickey Mouse has been featured extensively in comic strips and comic books. From 13 January 1930 to 29 July 1995, Mickey Mouse existed as a newspaper comic strip, published in numerous countries around the world. After 1940, Mickey's popularity declined until his 1955 re-emergence as a daily children's television personality. Despite this, the character continued to appear regularly in animated shorts until 1943 (winning his only competitive Academy Award—with canine companion Pluto—for the short subject Lend a Paw) and again from 1946 to 1952. In these later cartoons, Mickey was often just a supporting character in his shorts. Pluto was instead used as the main character. The character was featured in television series such as The Mickey Mouse Club (1955–1996). The last regular installment of the Mickey Mouse film series came in 1953 with The Simple Things in which Mickey and Pluto go fishing and are pestered by a flock of seagulls. A fan club for Mickey Mouse was founded in the 1960s, which is unprecedentedly popular and has thousands of members worldwide. Mickey returned to theatrical animation with Mickey's Christmas Carol (Burny Mattinson, 1983) an adaptation of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' in which Mickey played Bob Cratchit. This was followed up with The Prince and the Pauper (George Scribner, 1990). His most recent theatrical cartoon short was Get a Horse! (Lauren MacMullan, 2013) which was preceded by Runaway Brain (Chris Bailey, 1995), while from 1999 to 2004, he appeared in direct-to-video features like Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (jun Falkenstein, a.o., 1999), Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (Donovan Cook, 2004) and Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas (Theresa Cullen, a.o., 2004). Mickey also appears in media such as video games as well as merchandising and is a meetable character at the Disney parks. He is one of the world's most recognizable and universally acclaimed fictional characters. In 1978, Mickey became the first cartoon character to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Brand spankin' new Bridgeport Ranger (was made in Jan 2010) owned by BZ Disposal (EDCO) and on route in Lakewood, CA. Driver was really awesome and it was a pleasure to see this truck in action!
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Bone yards are the same as middens, which are ancient native refuse heaps. Over the many years of a village the bones, tusks, and common garbage were put in a dumping area. Gambell Alaska has two such places, the “Near” and the “Far” Bone Yards.
Many years ago the Yupik folk took their trash out to the far dump when weather permitted, and used the one closer to home when it was bad outside. Back in those days ivory tusks were considered just part of the garbage.
Nowadays, of course, native art is a commodity. When we were there the villagers would go out and dig around in the bone yards hoping to find old ivory which they then carved into objects for sale to gift shops in Nome.
By the way, because of the overturned earth these areas were excellent spots to find small birds poking about searching for food. While we were allowed to roam freely in the area to bird, we were forbidden to remove anything of course.
I was sitting in the bunkhouse one day, however, when a young man came in and laid a piece he had carved on the table. When I admired the beautifully tooled cormorant he offered it to me for forty dollars. I bought it immediately, later I saw similar stuff in Nome gift shops for hundreds of dollars.
The only reason it is legal for me to have it is because he carved his name, village, and zip code in the back of the whale baleen on which it is mounted.
The Levitt & Sons Company advertised homes in major newspapers for their Belair development in Bowie, Md. in 1963, but refused to sell the houses to African Americans.
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE ) staged an all night sit-in at the Belair subdivision trying to force integration, but within a week an injunction against picketing was granted against protests on the private streets of the subdivision. Picketers moved out on to Maryland Route 450.
The picketing by the Prince George’s CORE chapter went on and off for several months and resulted in several dozen arrests when the group employed civil disobedience.
Richard Ochs, chairman of the CORE demonstration, told reporters that the pickets hoped that Federal agencies would force Mr. Levitt to change his policies.
Levitt remained steadfast in his segregation stance despite the successful battles to integrate some of his other developments around the country.
The development was eventually desegregated when original homeowners began to sell homes to African Americans and the federal government began enforcing no discrimination on FHA and VA loans and the federal 1968 Civil Rights Act was enacted. In the interim, Maryland voters rejected an open housing law by referendum in 1967.
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Image is from the Washington Star, August 10, 1963.
Top of a refuse bin in Kingsholm Road, Gloucester decorated for the Tonga v Georgia match during the Rugby World Cup 2015
i refused to hear any kind of songs in the radio or elsewhere especially the songs with the lyric that i do understand the meaning throughly.... cause it really hurts deeply when it touch the heart...
where's the music that comes from the open sea that i've heard before??? where are you? come to me!~ give the heart strength to shield it from getting hurts... where's it now??
These collapsible containers (Binvelopes) were given out in Easter 2004. The idea was people would take them in after the collection, but in my street the houses are short of storage space and people didn't like to handle them once they had been used and the dogs had peed on them, so they were permanently left out on the pavement. The council was warned this would happen but carried on regardless. The offending binvelopes were eventually collected, but they seem to have crept back and the recycling boxes are also being left out all the time.
San Francisco is a very green City. They encourage their business owners and residents to recycle anything recyclable.
The students claimed the clinic refused to let them enter to get help for their friend, chairman of Gerakan Mahasiswa Menuntut Kebebasan Akademik (Bebas) Muhd Safwan Anang@Talib, who was injured during arrest prodecure. There were 3 people in the clinic that night, a doctor and her two staff, who were terrified of what they heard and saw outside earlier. They were too traumatised to talk even after it ended. It was learnt that their normal procedure is to lock the doors at 12am, and will open to patrons if they knocked. News report at: www.nst.com.my/local/general/stay-away-from-illegal-demos... and first-person account: www.nst.com.my/local/general/protesters-defied-police-ord...
"Wild Bill Hickok lost a family pocket watch to Davis Tutt during a card game and asked that it not be worn in public. Davis refused and was challenged to a gunfight. Davis lost his life during a face to face shootout with Wild Bill on the Springfield public square."
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Today’s date in history is responsible for two of the historical places I like to take visitors to Springfield. (There are several.)
On this date, July 21, in 1865, the first recorded true western showdown shootout took place, not in the “Wild West,” but right here in the Springfield, Missouri, town square. Wild Bill Hickok, a scout and spy for the Union during the recently ended Civil War, beat Davis Tutt, a former Confederate soldier who knew Hickok, in a fight about a watch, a poker game and a woman. Hickok coolly plugged Tutt in the heart from a distance of 75 yards, after Tutt drew first. (Hickok was later cleared in a court trial.) You can go to the town square today, read the plaque and stand about where the combatants stood. You can also visit the unfortunate Tutt’s interesting grave at Maple Park Cemetery.
The back of the grave features a pocket watch, a six-shooter and a poker hand. The cards show a full house with three tens and two aces. I'm not sure if this was Tutt's winning hand from the previous day. We do know of another poker hand associated with Hickok: black aces and eights, known as the “Dead Man’s Hand” because it was the hand Hickok was holding when he was shot in the back eleven years later in Deadwood, South Dakota.
Inscribed on the stone:
“Wild Bill Hickok lost a family pocket watch to Davis Tutt during a card game and asked that it not be worn in public. Davis refused and was challenged to a gunfight. Davis lost his life during a face to face shootout with Wild Bill on the Springfield public square.”
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The Killing of David [sic] Tutt, 1865, Springfield, Greene County, Missouri >From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western Historical Company, 1883. **********************************************************************
For some time after the close of the war Springfield was the resort of many hard characters. Adventurers of every sort came in and met the ruffians of both armies, who lately disbanded, were seeking a livelihood by any means not involving hard work. Among those who were in the town in the summer of 1865 was one J. B. Hickok, who came to be known as "Wild Bill," and as such has been made the hero of divers improbable adventures set forth in certain flashy, sensational publications. Hickok had been in the Federal service in Southwest Missouri and Northern Arkansas, as a scout for the army of the frontier, and in the performance of his duties had grown to be well acquainted with danger, and being by nature a ruffian he soon became a desperado, a drunken, swaggering fellow, who delighted when "on a spree" to frighten nervous men and timid women. After settling in Springfield a favorite diversion of his was to ride his horse on sidewalks and into saloons, hotels, stores and other public places, and make the animal lie down and perform other tricks, to the infinate delight, no doubt, of the proprietors, none of whom, unfortunately, had grit enough to blow the bully's head off. A man after Wild Bill's own heart was one David Tutt, an ex-Confederate soldier, who had lived at Yellville, Arkansas, and had come, with his mother, sister and younger brothers, to Springfield, early in the spring. Tutt was a ruffian and a crack pistol shot. He was said to have "gotten in his work," not only on Federal soldiers, but on citizens who had crossed his path against his protest. Both Tutt and Hickok were gamblers, and good ones, although the ex-Confederate was the more proficient of the two. The two men were boon companions for a time; the one touch of ruffianism made them both akin. They walked the streets together, they drank together, they gambled together, and in the latter pastime Tutt effectually "cleaned out" Bill. On the night of the 20th of July the two men played poker in a room at the "Lyon House," now the Southern Hotel, on South street. Hickok was the loser. First his money went; then his watch, a fine gold hunting-cased "Waltham," with a flashy chain and seal, then his diamond (?) pin and ring. He rose from the table completely "strapped," and much irritated and crest-fallen. Everybody knew Wild Bill's watch, and after it had been surrendered to Tutt this night, Bill asked him at a special favor, not to wear it publicly, or let people know that it had changed owners, as he (Bill) felt bad enough already and did not want the evidence of his misfortune, of his ill-luck and bad playing, flaunted in everybody's face. Tutt laughed a mocking laugh at Bill's humiliation, and assured him that it would give him as much pleasure to wear the watch on the streets as it had already given him to win it. "I intend wearing it in the morning," he added. Bill replied with an oath, "If you do, I'll shoot you, and I warn you not to come across the square with it on." The two men parted and retired to their rooms, to put fresh caps on their revolvers. The next morning Tutt put on his watch, and his revolver too, and went down on the square. Going along the west side he entered the livery stable on the northwest corner and sat in the door where he could command a view of all four sides of the square, and especially of the Lyon House and South street. Very soon afterward, Hickok came out of the hotel and down on the square, at the corner of South street. He stood on the west side of the street, and stopping one or two passers by inquired if they had seen "Dave Tutt down town this morning?" On being told that Tutt was on the square, Bill said, "Well, its all right if he hain't got my watch on, but if he has there'll be merry hell, you bet your life!" Tutt's younger brother came up, and to him Bill said, "You had better go and tell Dave to take off that watch;" and when young Tutt said he thought his brother had a right to wear what he pleased if it belonged to him, Bill answered, "He shan't wear that watch anyhow." Just then Tutt came out of the livery stable and walked south along the square. Bill saw him and exclaimed, "There he comes now." The little group about Bill scattered, and he took a few steps toward and drew his revolver, a Colt's dragoon, with cap and ball. Just as Tutt reached the corner of the court house and Campbell street, Bill called out, "Dave, don't you come across here with that watch." Tutt, as some say, drew his pistol, and almost instantly Bill fired, using one arm as a rest for his revolver. Tutt fell, shot nearly through the heart, and died very soon. Some deposed that Tutt's revolver was out of its scabbard when the body was first examined, and that Tutt had fired first. One chamber of the revolver was empty, and there were those who swore that they heard two pistol shots. Bill's shot was a fine one, but it is said by those who knew him well that it was a chance shot, for it is averred that when here Wild Bill was not considered a crack shot at all, and that his shot which killed Tutt at a distance of 75 yards was an accident. As soon as he had fired and seen that his shot had taken effect Bill handed over his pistols to the sheriff, who came up, and informed that officer he was his prisoner. A few minutes afterward Bill was observed riding leisurely up South street taking the morning air. The circuit court was in session at the time. Bill was promptly indicted, arrested on a bench warrant, and brought to trial. He was vigorously prosecuted by the circuit attorney, Maj. R. W. Fyan, and ably defended by Hon. John S. Phelps. Witnesses testified that they heard two shots, and that the first came from near where Tutt's body was found. The empty chamber of Tutt's revolver was exhibited, and upon the ground of "reasonable doubt" that Hickok was the aggressor, the jury acquitted him. There were those however, who asserted that Hickok was cleared because he was ex-Federal and a Radical, and the man he shot was a "rebel," and the jury were all men who could take the "Drake oath." A prominent attorney harangued the crowd from the balcony of the court house, and denounced the verdict as against the evidence and all decency, and there were threats of lynching Bill, but nothing was done, and he was allowed to live until shot by another desperate character, named Jack McCall, at Deadwood, S.D. (Tutt's body was first buried in the old cemetery, inside the city limits. In March, 1883, it was disinterred by Lewis Tutt, a former slave of the Tutt family, and reburied in Maple Park cemetery.)
A former refuse lorry converted to a tri-axle flatbed and now earning keep with Upright Scaffolding. Has kneeling suspension to aid loading and unloading.
Bone yards are the same as middens, which are ancient native refuse heaps. Over the many years of a village the bones, tusks, and common garbage were put in a dumping area. Gambell Alaska has two such places, the “Near” and the “Far” Bone Yards.
Many years ago the Yupik folk took their trash out to the far dump when weather permitted, and used the one closer to home when it was bad outside. Back in those days ivory tusks were considered just part of the garbage.
Nowadays, of course, native art is a commodity. When we were there the villagers would go out and dig around in the bone yards hoping to find old ivory which they then carved into objects for sale to gift shops in Nome.
By the way, because of the overturned earth these areas were excellent spots to find small birds poking about searching for food. While we were allowed to roam freely in the area to bird, we were forbidden to remove anything of course.
I was sitting in the bunkhouse one day, however, when a young man came in and laid a piece he had carved on the table. When I admired the beautifully tooled cormorant he offered it to me for forty dollars. I bought it immediately, later I saw similar stuff in Nome gift shops for hundreds of dollars.
The only reason it is legal for me to have it is because he carved his name, village, and zip code in the back of the whale baleen on which it is mounted.
The Woman Who Refused to Dance
An opera for Soprano, Speaker, Dancer, Instrumental Ensemble and Video
Shirley Thompson Music Productions
Concept, Music and Words: Shirley J. Thompson
Director: Anastasia Belina-Johnson
Choreographer: Monique Jonas
Artistic Producer: Shirley Thompson Music Productions
Pianist: Rebeca Omordia
Drums/Percussion: Orphy Robinson
Violin: Marsha Skinns
Cello: Joseph Spooner
Trumpet/Conch Shells: Byron Wallen
Performed by: Nadine Benjamin and Tania Dimbelolo