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mccall67andresen · 2 years

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thewidowstanton · 3 years

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Carol Gandey, circus director: Gandeys Circus and Gandey World Class Productions

Circus director Carol Gandey – of Gandeys Circus – was The Widow’s 2020 Person of the Year, chosen for her for sterling efforts to keep touring circus as a viable artform in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, and also for the inspirational work she undertook in securing a large grant from the Arts Recovery Fund with what it termed an “exceptional” application. She has worked in what is a male-dominated industry for 45 years. Carol chats to Liz Arratoon about the problems Gandeys faced last year during the lockdown, and its plans for 2021.

The Widow Stanton: Which shows did you have running or in the pipeline? Carol Gandey: Gandeys had produced three shows pre-lockdown – we had shows in Hong Kong and Singapore, but in December 2019 word was filtering in about Wuhan. Hong Kong closed early because of it. The third show, Gandeys Circus Unbelievable Tour, started touring in the UK in February and was closed two weeks later. The costs of these closures were substantial. At that time we also had Circus Starr in the UK, Gandeys in Malaysia and the theatre and cabaret tour of the UK with the Lady Boys of Bangkok in pre-production. These shows were never opened.

How did the virus most affect you? 2020 was a challenging year for everyone within circus all over the world. Anxiety over loved ones catching the disease – families could be anywhere worldwide when tours were cancelled – was utmost in people’s minds. Our tour in Hong Kong was cut short and lost money. We had to bring artists and equipment back to the UK, and repatriate overseas artists, all of which was challenging.

Production costs and losses ran into hundreds of thousands of pounds. In addition we refunded tens of thousands of pounds in advance ticket sales. Artists were stranded in the UK as flights home were cancelled and borders closed. They had no redress to public funds and so no income. Suppliers who were owed money included local authorities, who were owed rent for sites agreed for 2020. But we were grateful for the help given by the government for the furlough of PAYE staff and the local authority money for rated premises.

What happened to the artists who couldn’t get home? I’m fortunate to live in the countryside, and Phillip [Gandey] and I were able to provide accommodation, electricity and living expenses for them. Thirty-three people lived with us from March until July. They were exceptional, taking the lockdown very seriously and restricting visits to the ‘outside world’. They concentrated on rehearsing and practising new skills. We erected a tent in the fields with an outside trapeze rig. The weather was great and they made the best of their confinement. I would say that given the circumstances this was a happy time; not one they would have hoped for but they were amazingly good natured and positive.

How did you begin to consider the logistics of reopening your shows? We felt we were in a unique position to be in the vanguard of reopening events and so closely followed the science around the transmission of Covid and produced air-flow plans to submit to the Association of Circus Proprietors and the government. We worked alongside Butlins to produce a working model to allow the circus to trial an opening at its resort in Skegness. The test showed an air-flow pattern that gave the government the confidence to allow circus to open in reduced-seating-capacity circumstances. This meant we could engage our artists and others in the UK to perform at Butlins’ three resorts over the summer.

The government took a very long time to help the arts in general. Did you have a plan? Throughout this period I was lobbying the government and the Arts Council, and anyone on an email list, to support circus as a relevant artform that provides quality skills in performance, social and economic benefits along with a lot more. I had been collecting and collating statistics on this for some time to be able to produce fact sheets to support my claims. Other industry people had been simultaneously lobbying. We were thrilled to see circus included in the Arts Council Recovery Fund. I applied for Gandey Productions for a grant to cover the losses incurred during 2020 due to the Covid lockdown, plus a survival package to include some performances last autumn at reduced capacity, and the production costs for opening again this year.

Gandeys was awarded the biggest grant – £1.1million – of any UK circus company. Why do your think application stood out? I imagine because we are the largest operator in the UK and produce shows for export. We had invested heavily in productions pre-Covid and had commitments to third parties moving forward that benefitted the artform and many communities. We have a commitment to affordable ticket pricing and supporting social projects alongside fundraising for local and national charities. Further, and importantly for an Arts Council Fund, we produce to a very high standard, our artists are internationally acclaimed and our production values are significant. What does this recognition mean for the circus industry? I believe the support of circus by the Arts Council is a dynamic and profound change in funding that will bring circus as a performing art closer to the mainstream public in the UK. Circus is possibly the most accessible artform to the wider population geographically, socially and financially.

How might Brexit affect the industry? Who knows yet? There is still a lot of small print to be reviewed, and however it works there will be more bureaucracy and uncertainty. Additional issues for artists will be the import and export of props and vehicles and the rules around members of the EU driving in the UK, which will impact on them travelling with their own vehicles and caravans. In addition there will be changes to insurances and health cover, and not forgetting the changes to the exchange rate due to Brexit. We are uncertain of those consequences after a period of relative stability. Artists looking at these barriers may decide the paperwork and risks are too complicated and prefer to stay in Europe. All this will cost more and ultimately reflect on the ticket price. This is always a worry for touring circus in the UK as it tries hard to be an affordable form of art. Yet another issue for us is that we operate annually in Belfast and are expecting some challenges working there as different rules will apply even though it is part of the United Kingdom. We have factored Brexit into our strategy for 2021 and beyond. We cannot stress the financial difficulties and the maintaining of a high level of morale over this period. However, we are resilient and we will keep looking forward in positive ways. And when I say we, I mean the whole team here at Gandeys, which includes our office staff, financial support, engineering and technical teams, production teams to include lighting designer, choreographer, music production, set and prop designers, and all the artists who have been so supportive with their attitudes and ideas.

What can you tell us about your plans for 2021? We have taken this time of closure to look forward to this coming year; to reimagine our productions, researching acts and skills and production techniques, and to consider and test new ways of working; logistically, digitally and financially. We intend to continue to communicate with our circus audiences, to improve training, safety and security and Covid measures, and to review and re-target our environmental and social policies and charitable work. We are a flexible organisation and will respond to the Covid directives of the government as best suited to our company and our audiences, always with the safety of others at the core of our operations.

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kelleyish · 5 years

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Tumblr, I tell you what. I’ve been having a difficult couple of weeks. I’m still kind of in the middle of it, too. I’m having another “poor me” phase, and feeling very discouraged about everything. The business thing is still struggling, and I’m having trouble finding motivation to do things. This in turn makes me feel like I don’t have what it takes to run my own business, and I should just go punch someone else’s time clock until I’m 70.

I’m sticking to keto, but truthfully it’s only because I went and put my car away in my garage a week ago, so I don’t have access to it to make midnight 7-11 runs. Nevertheless, every night my brain taps on my shoulder, asking if I should maybe steal my parent’s car keys, or if it’s too far to walk to the store.

While I’m eating keto, I haven’t been able to get my calories down as low as they need to be yet. Even though I weigh 300 lbs, my calories need to be down around 1200 a day to make any significant progress. And I haven’t been able to get down there yet.

Before I got off track a month ago, my lowest weight was 296. I saw as high as 305 on the scale sometime this month, and then as I made attempts to get back on the wagon I got back down to 298-something, which I think also aligned with shark week. Then I bounced back up again to around 304. I’ve been weighing every day for about the last week, and for the last few days I’ve been stuck on 300.8.

In my mind I’ve pretty much already lost that weight loss bet I made. I’ve wasted an entire month, and now I only have four months and still an entire 50 lbs to lose. An average 300 lb person, especially a guy, could easily lose 50lbs in four months with a little hard work, but frankly I just don’t think my body will do it. If I could get to a place where I think I could give some extended fasts a go it *could* be possible, but currently I’m way too hungry for that.

And finally, as I mentioned, my being on the wagon currently is being maintained by external factors, like being at my parents’ house without access to my car. My willpower is pretty low. This upcoming weekend over Labor Day, I have to go down to Austin and housesit/dogsit for my brother. I will be all alone, unsupervised, with a car and a city at my disposal... and it just doesn’t look good. I’ve got the metaphorical angel and devil on my shoulder, the angel reminding me the diet bet isn’t out of range but can afford no more delays, while the devil whispers about the kolache shops in West, and RoundRock Donuts, and all the good food they have in Austin.

So, that’s all the internal reasons I’ve had a hard week. Externally, when I walked into my house a couple days ago it was 91 degrees inside, even though the A/C was running. I turned it off and went back the next day, in case it had frozen up, but it still didn’t work the next day. The system is only four years old, but I wonder if I managed to damage it by running it too much, trying to hit a certain electricity used goal so that I can get the cheapest electricity bill I can. So now it’s going to cost who knows how much to fix that. The system has a 10 year warranty but I’m pretty sure that’s just parts and not labor.

Second, I’ve had some Funko Pops for sale on eBay for a little while. One of them, a Lucky the Leprechaun figure, sold last week. So I packaged it up and sent it off, and immediately when the buyer received it, he requested a refund because the item was damaged. He was trying to claim it wasn’t the item that was in the pictures, that this one was all beat up looking. Well of course what I sent him was in pristine condition, and I immediately knew it was a scammer because I’d heard other people talk about the same thing on the Funko subreddit. The scammer claims they want to return the item, and if you accept, they get their money back and they ship you not what you sold them, but something worthless it its place.

After looking closer, I discovered this buyer’s account was less than two weeks old and has zero feedback. Had I noticed this before, I would have thought twice about completing the sale in the first place, because these scammers create new accounts every time they pull this, since the account will get banned when the scam is discovered. Rest assured I will not make that mistake ever again.

I requested proof of the damage from the buyer twice, which they ignored both times. After 5 days, I was told, the buyer would have the ability to escalate the claim, at which time eBay would step in. At that point, the buyer would have to provide proof, right? Wrong. The buyer escalated the claim at 2:30 AM (in the middle of the night, of course), and by 2:35 AM eBay had already sided with him and directed him to return the item to me, even though they could see my messages in their system and that he’d ignored my requests for proof.

I spent the next two days being pissed off about it, until I received his package back, containing - surprise surprise - a figure of Cartman from South Park, worth probably $5, instead of the $100 figure I had sold him. I called eBay and they refunded my money without even asking for any proof on my end. I guess maybe $100 is small potatoes for them but this whole process made me so angry. If they had asked the scammer for even a shred of proof... And then, when someone returns an eBay item, they have the option of making the seller pay for return shipping, so of course he did that as well. So that ended up being another couple of calls to eBay, making them refund that charge too, since it had turned out to be a scam and wasn’t my idea to allow the return in the first place.

On a completely different note, I recommend the movie Ready or Not, out in theatres right now. It had a pitiful opening weekend, which surprised me. It’s gotten good reviews, and it was a great movie. Samara Weaving was great in it, and I learned she’s Hugo Weaving’s niece (Agent Smith from Matrix, the elf dad guy in LOTR, and Red Skull from Captain America). Also Adam Brody was good in it, and I always like to see Dave Rygalski doing well.

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davewakeman · 4 years

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Talking Tickets 15 May 2020--AFL! Bundesliga! Refunds! And, More!

Hey There!

Thanks for being here again this week. If you are enjoying this newsletter, tell your friends and colleagues to sign up by visiting this link.

Don’t forget to check out what we are doing in the Slack Channel. The folks in there try to keep it fun and light while offering up ideas and perspectives on what they are thinking about, looking at, and doing.

A bunch of great free resources are going on right now, here are 3 from friends of the podcast and the newsletter that are worth your attention:

Eric Fuller has his virtual conference, Rescue Meet, going on the 19th from 9-11 AM PDT. He’s got a couple of conversations lined up with folks from venues, tickets, and the customer side along with a few other tricks, opportunities to connect with folks in the industry to work on solutions and to focus on moving forward.

We Will Recover is an effort started up by Einar, Martin, and the team at Activity Stream over in Europe. Frederic Aouad is co-hosting a webinar with me on 26 May at 9 AM EDT and 2 PM EDT to hit the North American and European markets. We are going to talk about recreating your revenue streams, rethinking your marketing approach, and building events that are destinations for your customers.

Andrew and Carol Thomas have put the Ticketing Professionals Conference online, or as many of the sessions from this year’s event as they could online. There are some really great ones coming up with Kara Parkinson, Kirk Bentley, and a bunch more.

There are a bunch more as well including weekly meetings with INTIX, Pollstar, and more.

And, don’t forget, me and my buddy, Ken Troupe, are hosting happy hour tonight.

To the tickets!

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1. Reopening events is starting to happen:

I start the week by sharing Dave Grohl’s essay on why we need live entertainment.

Tonight, we will see the first American attempt, potentially, at a social distancing concert in Arkansas. (Spoiler, as I was finishing this up, the event in Arkansas was postponed.)

The Bundesliga is returning as well.

These are all positive signs. But from my conversations with folks around the industry, we are still a long way off from being together with crowds again.

The UK released a three-phase plan this week. Cinemas are starting to reopen in New Zealand and the certification process for venues and stadiums to reopen safely is well underway.

In the US, we are still playing on the 50 state 50 strategy idea that likely means we are going to continue to experience a prolonged period of waiting for business to start to get back to normal. Which is going down against a backdrop of optimism around the NBA and NHL finishing their seasons and a lot of uncertainty around MLB even getting theirs off the ground.

Again, I’ve been pretty consistent on this one…

Watch what the countries that are out in front are doing like South Korea, New Zealand, Australia, and China…see what works and see what doesn’t, recognizing that in certain countries and places, the response to the virus has been a little more robust, targeted, and comprehensive. Then, adjust accordingly.

I wish I had a better answer, but I think we have to recognize that the path ahead is going to be a bit bumpy and that there isn’t likely to be a straight line.

But…I mean, BUNDESLIGA!

Who is your side?

I’m taking Bayern Munich because Munich is home of Oktoberfest.

Or, do you prefer to go to see a drive-in show?

2. Marketing, Revenue, and Rethinking What We Do:

Ceci Dadisman wrote about the conversation that seems to be picking up in too many places about things “going back to normal”.

I had a colleague email me the other morning, bemoaning the nature of a lot of conversations that they see taking place as “not productive” or “looking at the wrong things.”

From my point of view, for a lot of places, the way things were wasn’t at a level they needed to be to begin with: sports attendance was down and something most organizations were thinking through globally; the arts, opera, and theatre were seeing challenges to their business model; prices were up and costs were up, making profits tougher to come by.

My vantage is that over the next few years we are likely to see more challenges to profits, greater competition for customers, and less free-spending from investors, the secondary market, speculators and consolidators.

What does all of this mean for all of us?

I think we all need to become comfortable with the idea of innovation being our friend.

Marketing had gone to the crapper before the coronavirus. I could go on and on and I have in private conversations about the deterioration of the marketing role in organizations because folks are afraid to talk about being in marketing because that’s where the money is.

Instead, folks get lost on misguided ideas like “clicks”, “likes”, “reach”, and other terms that aren’t directly attached to money.

Our marketing efforts going forward are going to have to be heavy on revenue generation, getting people into events, and making one time customers repeat customers. For any business, you have to create and keep customers. In far too many instances, that idea is being mouthed, but not followed through on.

I say more about revenue and rethinking below. But marketing and strategy should be on the agenda for every call, meeting, and brainstorming session we are all having.

3. Australian Sports Business Is Back, But What Comes Next?

Australia has a lot of news coming out about the return of sports with the big news of the AFL’s blockbuster return on 11 June.

While the return of sports is exciting for all of us, especially Melbourne fans like me?!

A lot of the conversation around the return of sport has revolved around will the industry contract and how will the country deal with potentially having to endure its first official recession in almost 30 years.

Hawthorne president Jeff Kennett is asking questions about how to reform the AFL’s business heading out of the pandemic, the NBL could see players leave the league due to the virus, and the A-League is having to go to a hub system to complete its fixtures.

There have been a lot of interesting things going on in Australia and New Zealand both since they’ve handled the virus very well and they are in the Southern Hemisphere.

First, we need to pay attention to how these leagues and organizations monetize. The AFL’s membership program is a pretty great example of monetization of your audience, globally.

Second, we will have to watch what happens as they head into the fall and winter and whether or not there is a snapback of the coronavirus as they head into their flu and cold season.

Third, it will be interesting to see how the Australians capitalize on the absence of sports in the States over the next few weeks since the AFL was broadcasting live to the west coast of the US before the coronavirus shut down Australia as well.

4. Ticketmaster, Refunds, and Finger Pointing:

Representatives Pascarell and Porter wrote a letter in Billboard this week, admonishing Ticketmaster’s behavior during the pandemic.

The letter from Washington was quickly followed up by one from Jared Smith, defending Ticketmaster’s practices.

Jared Smith is absolutely correct when he is explaining his points, but the first rule of crisis PR as credited to Ronald Reagan is “if you are explaining, you are losing.”

That’s where Ticketmaster finds itself along with StubHub and other companies.

I’m not saying it is right or wrong, but the pandemic has exposed the shaky financial underpinnings of a lot of businesses, including live entertainment.

Currently, Live Nation is raising around $800 million by selling off debt.

And, it was good to see that the company is thinking about experimentation heading into the back half of 2020.

From a customer point of view, every one of these examples is a stain on the industry. We’ve had StubHub getting hit heavy, early on. Ticketmaster and Live Nation are taking heat now. We’ve had mismatched refund, exchange, or compensation packages from teams all over the place around the world.

Maybe, most amazingly, I sat in on a call where people were debating ways to avoid paying back fees to customers on tickets they purchased for events that can’t happen, won’t happen, or might never happen.

Again, each of these points creates another dent in the armor of trust between industry and customer and the habit of going to shows, events, and games.

I feel a lot like a broken record here, but none of this stuff happens without customers, fans, and buyers. In an industry where there are so many unsold tickets to begin with, to expect that folks are just going to come rushing back and eat poop to do so is ridiculous.

I recognize it is an uncertain time for everyone, but the longer these refund stories stick around…the more damaging it becomes.

5. Vince McMahon and the XFL…

Well, the XFL isn’t going quietly into the night…I see.

This isn’t the kind of story that I typically find interesting, but as we are dealing with a lot of new ideas due to the pandemic, it pays to think things through differently.

With this story about Oliver Luck and Vince McMahon, there are a few things to pay attention to here.

First, Vince McMahon guaranteed Luck’s contract. I’ve had a couple of folks call me and ask me about taking on new jobs or moving after our lockdowns let up.

Basically, they are looking for advice and I think the wise decision is to make sure you get guarantees.

Second, the basis for not paying the contract is pretty weak.

The precedent that is set here if McMahon wins would be pretty awful for folks, period.

I highlight this story for a few reasons, but I think if you look at what this story highlights about the coming future of what we are dealing with in events and especially sports a couple of ideas come to mind:

1. Strategy matters and it seems like the strategy that the XFL was built on was suspect. The pandemic has highlighted this at a macro level now and I think we are going to see a renewed necessity to adjust the sales process, innovate pricing, and focus on driving attendance.

2. Pick your partners well.

3. Multiple streams of revenue, product-market fit, and testing the basic assumptions of “what everyone knows” or thinks is going to be more important than ever.

Look at the NBA, they are as “innovative” as any league in American sports and 40% of their revenue is tied up in getting fans to come to the arena. This tells you that really two revenue streams drive their entire business: TV and in-game. Something about “all your eggs in one basket” comes to mind.

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What am I up to this week?

Not a lot planned. It is the final week of 4th grade homeschooling…so once we are through that, maybe I can get back to a slightly more normal schedule.

Make sure to check me out on social media and follow along with me at www.davewakeman.com

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disaffectednotes · 4 years

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Corona & culture / cultural studies - Scattergun virus thoughts

Putting some scattered thoughts down, largely inspired by a steady diet of high-fibre podcasts in recent weeks. These notes are fragments, really, and hardly add up to more than passing thoughts, given the unfolding situation and the partiality of any knowledge right now. I’ve noticed in myself the will to “master” the situation by consuming as much information as possible – even as I know this will inevitably fail. Perhaps the following can be read in the same spirit of failed mastery, or to sublimate the anxious energy that’s all around...

“We’re all in this together.” The virus as the “great equaliser.” Such appeals to the common good and common ground have been… common. War mobilisation rhetoric is also doing the same work of unifying the disparate population. At the same time, disgruntled jokes are made about celebrities and royals getting tests when frontline medical staff cannot. It’s also clear that this virus will rip through some communities more than others, as reporting this weekend about effects in black communities in the US has made clear. Arundhati Roy also made this clear too in her excellent piece for the FT this weekend. India is only just at the start of this. The economic crisis has reached many poorer countries before the virus itself hits.

On the cultural level, some of this mobilisation of fellow-feeling and resentment has been played out through celebrity culture (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/arts/virus-celebrities.html). There will be people on this list more expert in celebrity culture than me (paging Celebrity Studies scholars), but commentary is engaging in the cyclical argument about how this will be the end of celebrities. As if seeing in 1080p the smooth interiors behind celebrities cocooning at home will rupture the culture industry and the star system. And yet, the hatred is real. “The film Parasite, in which a poor South Korean family cleverly cons its way into the home of a rich one, has been converted into a well-worn social-media retort whenever celebrities offer glimpses inside their own manses; the reference succeeds partly because so many superrich people have such blandly similar minimalist homes.”

More abstractly – how do the universal and the particular interact in this moment? We seem to have the interaction of universalism in the sense of appeals to and mobilisations of public health (with its birth as a discipline in Soviet healthcare, no less) and the particularity of suffering.

Closer to the question of Cultural Studies as an intellectual formation: what reconfiguration of economy, culture, society etc might follow from this. After the financial crisis a decade ago, there was, no doubt, a new opening onto political economy in cultural studies. As Randy Martin put it in 2015, “the very architecture by which knowledge of the social has been made legible – the grand trinity that partitions economy, polity and culture – has come undone, and from these ruins issue all manner of challenge and possibility.” Of course, this pandemic event adds another dimension to the broken trinity – or, put differently, where do quasi-natural factors like novel viruses fit in the trinity? Chuang and Rob Wallace suggest the historic spread of pandemics cannot be untied from urban development, intensive agriculture and capitalist markets. If there’s no unsullied “nature” outside global capitalism, this also suggests the open question of whether this is an exogenous or endogenous shock to an interlocked world system.

Another plank of this concerns the status of the “economy” as an object, and what its abstract claim is on politics (in our really-existing world of market-dependence, obviously). E.g. the increasing attempts to weigh up the economic cost of lockdowns vs care of population. Already as part of a wide-spread legitimacy crisis post-2007-8, there was a growing sense, I think, that people did not see their lives reflected in GDP figures (see Will Davies on this). Sure, the numbers are going up, people seemed to say en masse, but I’m not seeing that in my life. Wellbeing budgets (e.g. NZ and UK) were one attempt to deliver a fix for this gap between lived experience and economic indicators.

What is being asked for here is an unprecedented global demobilisation and isolation, almost concurrently. There’s anxiety about this. It’s unknown territory. Above all, those clamouring for a return to the Service of Goods right now seem to be desperately ensnared by the oikodicy that Joseph Vogl talks about. “A theodicy of the economic universe: the inner consistency of an economic doctrine that—rightly or wrongly, for good or ill—views contradictions, adverse effects, and breakdowns in the system as eminently compatible with its sound institutional arrangement.” Nothing needs to change; just get the people back to their stations and everything can carry on. The hangover from this governmental largesse will surely come in the form of austerity lashings for many.

On the conjuncture in which this virus appeared – it seems important to remember the crisis of legitimacy that has been underway (at least) since the last financial crisis. This has had several effects, I think, on trust in politicians and trust in experts. Lockdowns have played out in rather draconian ways, I think, because flows of trust between citizenry and state are at low levels. (Equally in those countries that English-language media are lumping together as “Asian” or “East Asian”.) The US and the UK have fumbled their management terribly, and lost a lot of time to quell the virus in the process. Aside from the obvious political disaffection and so on surrounding elected officials, there was already an epistemological crisis surrounding the “expert” and expertise, the media and information sources — and now? It seems to be going in two directions. In some ways, epidemiologists and other public health actors seem to be trusted; in part, they seem to be figures of faith for acting in the best interests of the public / society / everyone. Goodwill seems to be carrying their message through, helped by endless news reports of deaths. And yet conspiracy theories continue to be rife – 40% of US Republicans believe the virus is a Chinese concoction from a lab; on the weekend, we’ve seen 5g mobile towers burned in the UK in some sort of anti-tech connection with China. It will also be interesting to watch the anti-vaxxer groups in the wake of this, themselves one of the chief symptoms of a rear-guard response to the epistemological crisis around science.

At the level of everyday life, it will be interesting to experience the new tempos and rhythms of everyday life that will come out the other side of this. Obviously, people are right now being enlisted in a series of new habits around social distance, but time is also being enlisted too. We check the news to see updates on the length of lockdowns, the next meetings, the rise over the past 24hours. Morbid scoreboards measure out days and deaths, for our fascination and horror. We hear that lockdowns will come ago. Six weeks, two weeks, maybe six months, up to two years, maybe five years. Yet the future as a space of projection feels utterly blank. Who can plan anything, other than as a coping mechanism with an asterisk of a disclaimer (to be confirmed)? Epidemiological metaphors, otherwise describing dynamics visualised on graphs, have slid into the language with almost universal recognition. Flatten the curve (even in German they say this, auf Englisch). Now people speak casually about “the hammer and the dance.”

Another cultural question of everyday life – what will survive of neighbourhood businesses, given the economic ruin that is already evident in unemployment statistics and massive companies going on rent strike. In Berlin, neighbourhood places like cinemas, bars, restaurants and cafes, unable to open for weeks, have taken to asking people to support them by buying vouchers and merchandise online. Cancelled gigs and events ask people who can afford to ignore refund, so that music venues and theatres and promoters and artists can come out the other side. I’m sure similar things are happening elsewhere. But there’s a chance this could alter the face of local communities (in places already changed by gentrification, no doubt, and other processes).

Equally – what will cultural policy and support for cultural industries and artists look like? Responses already seem divergent. Germany has trumpeted a huge package of money for operators at all sizes (https://news.artnet.com/art-world/berlin-senate-bailout-process-1820982 & https://news.artnet.com/art-world/german-bailout-50-billion-1815396). In Berlin, bookshops are essential services and remain open. In Australia, the other case I know something about, anxiety was rising before the lockdown that this could decimate those artists already struggling with high costs of living and piecemeal work (https://www.themonthly.com.au/blog/anwen-crawford/2020/19/2020/1584580982/coronavirus-cancelling-culture). I don’t know that any systematic response has emerged to this situation from the Australian government(s). Meanwhile, Jerry Saltz suggests the art world could look different after this – https://www.vulture.com/_pages/ck8ivxorc0000yeyerntsmxxj.html. By that we can also include the mass sackings of culture workers with barely any hope of reinstatement anytime soon – https://hyperallergic.com/551571/moma-educator-contracts/

I wonder if there might be a new “paranoid style” in culture and everyday life. What does life look like after we have been so thoroughly inculcated into logics of the other (and self) as virus vectors? It seems hard to imagine that sociability will not be affected by this sustained mentality. I imagine there could be an ecstatic return of sociability? Matched with paranoid moments? Prevailing at different points? Except, I think we already being prepared for a staged return to normal social mixing. So the ecstatic moment may not come. People wonder out loud too about parallel epidemics of loneliness and mental health from weeks of limited social contacts.

In cultural production, it will be interesting to see how this paranoid style might play out in formal and generic novelties, rather than simply the pandemic *content* that will be pushed through the Netflix pipe. The “bottle episode” format might become even more of a mainstay. And the lockdown nostalgia genre (like the “blitz spirit”) is probably already in the making. Will “flatten the curve” become “keep calm and carry on” kitsch?

It’s interesting to watch what Adam Tooze called a clumsy rewiring of globalisation – where Zoom comes to the fore as platform, where relations to flying around the world become more fraught and second-guessed. This ad hoc reconstitution of institutional and individual practices is obviously apparent at universities. It will be fascinating to see what the afterlife of this moment will be in the sector. Again, like the ecstasy of reunion with friends (and strangers), will the metaphysics of presence reassert itself as a thousand and one postponed conferences are launched onto the market for papers and academic attention? Or will the convenient and environmentally sustainable virtual conference finally become more acceptable? For those at a distance from the conference centres of the northern hemisphere, there’s been a certain obliviousness among, e.g., European academics about the many costs involved in travelling from, e.g., Australia for a conference. The Fridays for Future movement and others had already instilled greater awareness about this; so perhaps this accelerated acquaintance with these technologies will make the option viable. I’ve been part of several online reading groups already in the past fortnight, and their decentralisation has been inspiring. For example, one group hosted in Ireland had its largest number of participants in India and Israel. Obviously cultural, symbolic and financial capital will continue to accrue among the big-name academic cities and campuses, but these initiatives have opened onto new constellations of community, discussion and collective endeavour.

What are the subjective effects of all this? Some psychoanalysts co-wrote a letter a couple of weeks ago about their patients with some striking insights.

“And yet, against the predominant narrative of trauma and the dangers of isolation, we find many patients who are doing fine or even doing better, who like externalized chaos, or whose melancholia is abated by the nearness of death and reproach; those who are used to doing their own thing and who find their anxiety and sadness contained and cohered by the pervasive force of a virus that shuts all down. We hear those who have longed for everything to be cancelled, for life as we know it to be paused, hushed and stopped, even to the point of daring to express their own desire to, in fantasy, be one of the affected, which is to say, infected. Many admit that they are feeling strangely fine—no more FOMO—and even a few are looking forward to enjoying the spiteful reality that the virus effects all, rich and poor. Beyond this, there might seem very little worth saying. Some now don’t talk at all in session, while indicating that they are talking all the time, like the run on social media. Symptoms, despite so many breaks in the fabric of reality, persist, sometimes blindly and deafeningly so; it feels crushing. The continued contact can be important, but perhaps only for that—to know the analyst is still there.”

Other things to say… but I’m running out of steam and you’re probably running out of patience… so now in the form of suggestive promissory notes for further thoughts…

These ideas all came from listening to Adam Tooze talk about the current crisis and how it compares to 2008: Incoherent American power — soft power and culture yet literal bankruptcy of American social model, meanwhile Fed is efficiently fighting spotfires and Trump is a clown show; running 2008 playbook but at high speed; public balance sheet taking over from private again; fiscal conservatism as cross to nail progressive politics to cross for years; expansionary fiscal policy nationally vs contractions and austerity locally; emerging markets pressure (South Africa — immunosuppressed HIV population + downgrade of currency); timing of crisis with oil shock and uncertain global supply chains; car-making is dead right now; VW is worried about liquidity; what might bailout conditions be?; German governments talking about mass buying VW electric cars to ensure work when factories can reopen, while aiding in VW’s need to increase electric sales.

Media companies — some experiencing a massive boost in visitors right now, but with drop off in advertising. Who wants to sell stuff next to death charts? Who is in mood for big spending? Media outlets cutting staff or closing.

Mutual aid groups and solidarity networks have sprung up informally – and been mirrored formally by state calls for volunteers. This puts me in mind of the anarchist / horizontalist moment of Occupy a decade ago. Then, since, the return to state by activists for Corbyn and Sanders. What now?

Also, what do social movements do to respond to what will be inevitably be an uneven roll out of crisis response? Plus, the draconian enrolment of police and military, with powers for six months to two years? How do groups organise against that? What are the forms of creative protest in times of physical distance? Cementing affected and affective communities somehow – maybe seeding these online to go “live” when restrictions are lifted. Thinking also about ACT UP and other social movements – e.g. How to Survive A Plague. Those movements, internationally, put their bodies on the line, staged die ins during AIDS-HIV crisis. Militant disobedience might be demanded to get better crisis response. (Sidebar: Fauci and Birx, both experts on HIV and AIDS; Fauci was targeted by ACT UP but was sympathetic.) Some small protests in Berlin on the streets in recent weeks, using social distancing. Calling on politicians and population not to forget refugees at EU’s borders. Others occupying empty apartments (& Airbnb) to call for homeless relief. Also, what could cultural protest look like right now? (https://hyperallergic.com/550091/illuminator-covid-19/).

What might the crisis do for an ethics of care – and awareness of social reproduction too. Some public health thinkers have talked about “social immunity,” particularly in the US. And the flipside seems to be the social contagion that Chuang invoke. (No doubt here all the biopolitical debates come up again, e.g. Esposito on immunity)

And there’s been interesting work on geographies of movement and exclusion. Various visualisations of how the virus moves around the world and what this illustrates about travel, business, leisure etc today. But also the unevenly distributed luxury of working from home – the NY Times piece about poorer workers in NY moving around the city much more than the knowledge workers who could “shelter in place”. Five bus drivers have died in the UK. Meanwhile, in Germany, the former socialist eastern part of the country has far fewer cases. This once again underlines a deeply sensed feeling of stasis – both a distance from the cosmopolitan cultural power of an EU-level project but also the literal (comparative) lack of infrastructure for things such as fast-speed rail links between cities from eastern German states into western states and beyond into other parts of Europe.

No doubt these reflections are parochial and limited, drawn from what has most captured my attention – selfishly – in a truly global crisis, and one with many months to run….

For rolling lists of good discussions on these topics:

https://the-syllabus.com/coronavirus-readings/

https://yourpart.eu/p/QuarantineSchool_COVID19

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Matthew-Lee Erlbach, in less urgent days

Matthew-Lee Erlbach first realized he would become an actor and a playwright when he saw “True West” on Broadway at age 14 – “It was like gods performing rituals to mortals,” he says. It took years before he understood “just how vulnerable those gods are.” Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, “our businesses are being eviscerated, and our friends and family are being evicted from their apartments,” Erlbach says, “but we were being left out of meaningful economic relief and even out of the political conversation.” Since June, Erlbach has been a co-organizer of a campaign to save the arts in America, Be An #ArtsHero, with Labor Day actions planned across the country tomorrow — including an 8 a.m. gathering in Times Square limited to 100 participants, including a few original cast members of “Rent,” who will sing “Will I?”

‘Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care. Will I wake tomorrow from this nightmare?”

followed by 100 seconds of silence — one second each for the 100 Senators that the group hopes to convince to pass the DAWN Act (Defend Arts Workers Now) a bill that would create a fund of $43.85 billion to give grants to individuals, cultural spaces, and related businesses. Erlbach wrote the bill.

His journey from writer, actor and filmmaker to, well, lobbyist, was “accidental,” but not a total surprise given his history: He wrote and performed a solo show in 2013 entitled “Handbook for An American Revolutionary,” based on his interviews cross-country with everyday Americans. Three years ago, he wrote an article for the Huffington Post making an economic argument for the arts, The Arts Economy Is Worth Billions. It’s an argument he refined and updated in An Open Letter to the Senators of the 116th U.S. Congress, which asked for economic relief for individual arts workers and arts organizations. The letter was published in American Theatre Magazine’s website on July 25th, and has since gained 10,000 signatures.

“The story the arts have been telling about ourselves has not been working in getting the directly proportionate economic relief that we require,” Erlbach explains his approach. “This is not about ‘the Arts.’ This is about the $877 billion in value the arts and cultural sector add to the economy annually,” according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.” It’s about the 675,000 small businesses that just happen to be arts businesses. This is about 5.1 million arts workers in your neighborhood who are struggling to survive, because they cannot go back to work because there is no work.

“If coal were an $877 billion industry in America, you bet your bottom dollar that eery senator and every Congressperson would be elbowing each other trying to help.” The request of $43.85 billion is five percent of the total annual value.

Once the letter was published, and so many signed on, the question became: What next? How could the organizers get the Senators to take action? It turns out “the legislative process isn’t as as simple as Schoolhouse Rock! Offices were saying, ‘This is all great, we’re with you, here’s the Senator’s record, you should write some bill language. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel–look for something that exists and send us something back.’ What they are basically saying is, “Make our jobs easier to help us all get the thing done.”

“Lobbyists write bills and this is their process. So, we’ve all become activist-advocate-lobbyists…and we’re doing it all through an incredible team of volunteers working 16-19 hour days.”

What Congress Has Done

Congress passed the CARES Act, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security, which was signed into law on March 27, and provided almost two trillion dollars in economic relief. The National Endowment for the Arts got $75 million to distribute to arts organizations. But arts organizations were also able to get funds through the Paycheck Protection Program, and individual artists were eligible to receive Economic Impact Payments of up to $1,200 per individual, with more for a household with children. And then the states received money to boost pandemic unemployment compensation.

(The Americans for the Arts put together a chart on Funding Opportunies for Arts Organizations and Individual Artists)

What Congress Hasn’t Done

“I don’t want to diminish the great help that CARES was able to give our institutions,” says Erlbach. But CARES wasn’t enough, and some of its provisions have already expired.

“The problem with CARES is they gave $75 million to the arts, but $50 billion (in grants and loans) to the top ten airlines,” says Erlbach. “That $75 million does not address the needs of our constituents. The other problem is that the NEA has to distribute funds evenly across 50 states, but Illinois has a $30 billion arts economy and Wyoming has a one billion dollar arts economy, so the relief needs to be proportionate.”

“Thanks to America’s unique COVID-19 crisis, our entire industry, much of which is centered in New York City, is three breaths from dead,” theater musician Matt Hinkley wrote in the Daily News “We have no curbside pickup; we cannot virtualize everything we do; and the interactive nature of our business means we will be among the very last to return to work. Millions of Americans share our pain — the loss not only of substantive livelihoods, but also our identities, our connection to a purpose and community we treasure.”

A report in August by the Brookings Institution entitled Lost art: Measuring COVID-19’s devastating impact on America’s creative economy estimated that between April 1 and July 31 half of all workers in “the fine and performing arts” lost their jobs ( full report as a PDF)

On May 15, the Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives voted to propose $3 trillion COVID-19 relief aid package titled the HEROES Act H.R. 6800 (which the Americans for the Arts details here)

“The HEROES Act could add $10 million to the NEA and some of that money directly to state arts agencies and regional organizations.”

The RESTART Act S.3814, introduced a week later, would extend the Paycheck Protection Program, which was established to support small businesses and establish a loan program

On July 22, Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) introduced the Save Our Stages Act, S.4258, which would authorize the Small Business Administration to make grants to eligible live venue operators, producers, promoters, or talent representatives. It is a bill promoted by the National Independent Venue Association

A day later, Rep Rob Kind (D-Wisconsin) introduced The Encores Act in the House, which would give a credit to venues for 50 percent of any refund they had to make for canceled shows.

Congress is scheduled to return from its August recess this week and may take up some of these bills.

As for Erlbach’s bill, which has yet to be introduced, he says “The future of DAWN is bright. There is movement in the House nd Senate, things are happening with the bill that I cannot disclose yet. This bill is only a week old, and we have had meeting with 40 Senate offices, and we are moving very quickly.”

The organizers argument seems to gaining ground. “The arts sector includes museums, theaters, opera houses, dance companies, libraries, cultural spaces, theme parks, production sets, and the essential businesses that support them: costume shops, light and sound businesses, scenic shops, PR firms, and the list goes on.” Erlbach says. “If our institutions fail, a highly interdependent commercial ecosystem collapses — retail, hospitality, restaurants, tourism.

“We don’t have the equivalent of a Department of Transportation or a Department of Energy. We are filling a void to be a squeakier wheel and tell the economic story of the arts worker. We wish we didn’t have to do that, but we do.”

Taking Action to Save the Arts: Turning from playwriting to bill writing Matthew-Lee Erlbach first realized he would become an actor and a playwright when he saw “True West” on Broadway at age 14 – “It was like gods performing rituals to mortals,” he says.

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Things to Do Valentine's Day in Toronto 2020

A Valentine’s Day dinner at a restaurant is a safe bet for the most romantic day of the year, but some years, you want to mix it up a bit. If you want to skip the fancy (and often expensive!) V-Day dinner, there are many other things to do Valentine’s Day in Toronto 2020 where you can spend time together doing something you both enjoy. Check out these fun Toronto events for Valentine’s Day 2020 below:

The Second City Totally Likes You

If you are looking for fun Valentine’s Day events in Toronto, you might want to attend Second City Toronto’s newest comedy show, The Second City Totally Likes You. The Second City comedy troupe mocks dating, sex, meet-cutes, and meet-uglies in this super-charged show that features classic material and brand-new sketches. This 90-minute comedy has two shows on Valentine’s Day Friday, February 14, 2020 at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Tickets are General $32 (you have to share a table) or Rail $52. Purchase tickets online or at the box office. You can add dinner at Wayne Gretzky’s (next door) for an additional $33.04 (two course) and $38.94 (three course). Second City is located at 51 Mercer Street, 416-343-0011. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push();

Couples Massage at Novo Spa

Start Valentine’s Day off with a Couple’s Valentine’s Day package at Novo Spa in Yorkville that includes:

55-minute Therapeutic Massage by Registered Massage Therapist

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The Couples Valentine’s Day package is $410. Other Valentine’s Day packages include the Valentine for Two Couples package, $350, which includes a Rose Petal Foot Soak & Massage (15 min); Rose Salt Scrub (15 min); Chocolate Body Mask and Chocolate Mini Facial (40 min); couples private steam, jets, Colour Therapy Shower, beverages for two, chocolates and red rose.

Paint stations set up for Paint Nite at Midtown Gastro Hub in Toronto.

Valentine’s Day at Paint Nite Toronto

Express your creativity at Valentine’s Day Paint Nite events on Friday, February 14, 2020 at 7 p.m. at Marche Movenpick; Fox and Fiddle; Originals Ale House; Pie Bar; Chelsea Hotel; The Rhino Bar & Grill; and Krepesz Cafe & Bar. Participants will paint a specific painting with step-by-step instructions provided by the class instructor. Cost is $45 plus tax. Read about Blogger Diana Condolo’s experience at Paint Nite.

Motherhood The Musical at Lower Ossington Theatre

Immerse yourself in the challenges and pleasures of motherhood in the comedy, Motherhood The Musical, at Lower Ossington Theatre. The musical focuses on soon-to-be first-time mom Amy; lawyer Brooke; mother-of-five Barb; and single working mom Tina. The show features the Billboard Top 10 comedy hit, “The Kids Are Finally Asleep;” plus “Costco Queen;” and “I’m Danny’s Mom.” Performances on Valentine’s Day Weekend 2020 are on Friday, February 14, 2020 at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, February 15, 2020 at 3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, February 16, 2020 at 3:30 p.m. Tickets are $59.99 plus tax and service charge. Purchase tickets online or at the Box Office. Lower Ossington Theatre is located at 100 Ossington Avenue.

Taking Back Valentine’s Day

Enjoy a night of full tribute sets to Jimmy Eat World, My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Fall Out Boy & Thrice on Friday, February 214, 2020 by members of PONY, Pretty Matty, So Young, Weak Hands, Wild Black, Feels Fine, Nice Going & Baby Band. The event is a fundraiser for Supporting Our Youth, which works to support the health and well-being of queer and trans-spectrum youth. Doors at 8 p.m. $15/NOTAFLOF at Junction City Music Hall, 2907 Dundas Street West.

Valentine’s Day Couples Cooking Class at The Chef Upstairs

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Caroline, or Change at Winter Garden Theatre

Valentine’s Day events in Toronto 2020 include the performance of Caroline, or Change starring Jully Black as Caroline and featuring Measha Brueggergosman. Caroline, a single mother of four, is a black maid working for a Jewish family in 1963 Louisiana. In response to suggestions that Caroline’s salary of $30 a week is insufficient, her employer tells Caroline that she can keep the pocket change she finds in the laundry. This act of racial condescension creates a moral dilemma for Caroline and symbolizes the imminent social and economic tensions in the U.S. The musical runs from Jan. 30 to February 15, 2020 with a performance on Valentine’s Day – Friday, February 14, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. – at the Winter Garden Theatre at 189 Yonge Street. Tickets are $129, $109, $89, $59, and $39 and can be purchased online.

Post Malone at Scotiabank Arena

Post Malone performs at Scotiabank Arena (formerly Air Canada Centre) on his Runaway Tour on Friday, February 14, 2020 at 8 p.m. Special guests include Swae Lee and Tyla Yaweh. Tickets $934, $819, $585, $502, $429 and $351 and can be purchased at Ticketmaster.

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London Travel Guide – Tips for Visiting London

London is among the biggest & most densely populated cities on earth. Additionally, it is a frequent stop on many holiday trips, European vacations, or even last-minute vacations. Everybody wants to visit London! Individuals are interested in it by graphics of bars, museums, theatre, and even royalty. London is actually really just a cultural and fashion capital, a wonderful spot to really go outside, and also an remarkable location to consume. There is always something fresh to complete! The one issue with London is the fact that it is extremely, very costly; it may eat away at your allowance in the event that you are not attentive. Fortunately, you will find a lot of cheap or free things you can do in London which may meet your own time. But simply make certain to budget extra with this particular city — you’ll want it!

10 Top Tourist Attractions in London

Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey is a large, mainly Gothic, church located just to the west at the Palace of Westminster. It really is but one of the very prominent religious buildings at the uk and will be the original place of coronation and burial site for English and, after, British monarchs. The majority of the current building dates from 1245 into 1272 if Henry III made a decision to reconstruct an old abbey from the Gothic design. The construction was later somewhat enlarged: the Chapel of Henry VII has been inserted between 1503 and 1512, whereas both West Front Towers date in 1745.

Palace of Westminster

The Palace of Westminster is the Chair of Parliament at the Uk. The present building largely dates from the 19th century as it was rebuilt after a fire at an excellent example of Victorian neo-Gothic structure. The House of Commons is found to the north of this construction and can be decorated with green leather upholstery, and also the House of Lords is found south west east and decorated with white leather upholstery.

St. Paul’s Cathedral

Built in the 17th century, St. Paul’s Cathedral is among London’s most famous & most recognizable sights. The Cathedral has been heroically rescued by fire fighters as it had been bombed during the 2nd World War. Its striking dome has been motivated from St Peter’s Basilica at Rome and climbs 118 meters into the crossover during its summit. This had been the greatest construction in London in 1710 to 1962, and its dome can also be one of the greatest on the planet.

Trafalgar Square

Trafalgar Square is actually really just a massive city square-foot Lord Horatio Nelson’s victory against Napoleon’s navy at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The fundamental monument over the square can be one tall pillar which the amount of Nelson stands over London. His island is surrounded by four gigantic dinosaurs and also a run of enormous fountains. More than an open plaza, Trafalgar Square is arguably amongst the very famed city squares in the world, and it has come to be a societal and political site for tourists and Londoners alike.

Tower of London

Currently home to the Crown Jewels, the Tower of London was built by William the Conqueror in 1078. It functioned as a prison out of 1100 into the mid twentieth century. This has caused the term”provided for the Tower”, which . Famous offenders Involve Sir Thomas More, King Henry VI, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard and Rudolph Hess. Now the Tower of London is now still amongst the hottest London tourist attractions.

London Eye

Situated on the banks of the River Thames, the London Eye can be a enormous, 135 meter high observation wheel carrying 32 outside glass-walled capsules. It gives fantastic views over central London. The wheel will not normally stop to undertake passengers whilst the spinning speed is slow enough to allow passengers to walk off the capsules in bottom level. It’s by far the most used tourist attraction from britain, seen by over 3.5 million people yearly.

Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace may be your most important house of Queen Elizabeth II though it’s possessed by the British country and also really isn’t the monarch’s personal real estate. Even the Fore-court of Buckingham Palace can be employed for Changing of the Guard, a Significant service and tourist appeal. Between May and July the protector changes daily and on alternative days the remainder of the season. Since 1993, the palace country rooms are around the general public throughout August and September.

British Museum

Buckingham Palace maybe the essential house of Queen Elizabeth II though it’s owned by the British country and in addition is not the monarch’s real estate. The Fore Court of Buckingham Palace may be utilized for Changing of the Guard, a Substantial tourist and service attraction. Between May and July the shield varies each day and on other days the remaining of the growing summer season. Since 1993, the palace country places are round the average man or woman all through August and September.

Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge is a Joint bascule and suspension bridge from London, Across the River Thames. It’s near the Tower of London, that gives it its name, and it is now an iconic emblem of London. Construction started in 1886 and took eight years to build. The bridge includes 2 towers that are attached together in the top level in the shape of two flat paths that are intended to defy the forces of these suspended segments of their bridge.

Big Ben

The 150 year-old Big Ben clocktower is just one of the greatest attractions in London. The name Big Ben actually refers not to the clock tower , however into the 13 ton bell placed inside the tower also carries its name from the guy who ordered the bell, Sir Benjamin Hall. The presentday Big Ben shot has been assembled in 1858 after having a very first bell of 16 loads broken irreparably a couple of decades prior. The clock has turned into a favorite attraction, and it has appeared in several films. From the film Mars Attacks! As an instance the Big Ben is destroyed with a UFO attack.

Best Time To Visit

Spring starts early at the U.K., which is best in differently jelqing weather (still: package an umbrella). Mild winters and also conventional xmas markets create November and December hot, too.

London Transportation

Choose in the metro (known as the underground or tube; one ride starts at $2.60) for trucks, ships, commuter trains and flights. Transport is broken up into zones; so the farther the zone is out of central London, the more costly it’s going to be to arrive. If you should be at the town for a couple of days, buy a wise card, and then also consider per day ($9.90) per a week pass ($49.50).

London Weather

January is the coldest month, with a mean low of 7 °C and July is the hottest month, with a mean high of 19 °C.

Money Saving Tips

Visit all the free museums – The Majority of the museums in London are liberated — that the Museum of Londonthe British History Museum, the Natural History Museum, and the Science Museum are great. Get your fill of history without having to spend a pence! The National Gallery and the Tate Modern are free and therefore so are a few of my favorites.

Buy an Oyster Card – This prepaid credit card can help you help save you about 50 percent on each subway. If you anticipate utilizing the tubing alot, make this card! In the event you leave and possess extra on the card, then they can even refund the total amount!

People watch at the markets – Sunday is market day at London. There is the Camden Market, the Portobello Market, the Flower Market, and several thousand more choices. Folks today see, capture amazing photos, and relish local London lifetime without having to spend a dime.

Watch the changing of the guards – The changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace are at 11:30am, and also the horse guards in Whitehall shift at 11:00 am. All these are both interesting and free to see because you ingest authentic British flare.

Just walk and explore – London is a enormous metropolis, and also there are amazing historic buildings all over. I walked four hours and scarcely made a dent to the road I had been going to shoot (thus the requirement to find the Oyster Card.) Nevertheless, as soon as you walk and escape the tourist area across the Thames, then you are going to have to see London exactly the way in which the tourists do. You are able to get free maps of revealing walking paths round the funding from some one of London’s tourist advice shops.

Last minute theater tickets – You’re able to obtain last minute tickets into the theater from the state booth at Leicester Square. Availability varies each and every single day, so make sure you make it early.

Skip the cabs – Taxis are very pricey in London and certainly will eat into your budget by simply choosing them . I remained out past once the tube shut night and the cab to my hotel was 31 GBP! If you commence taking taxis anywhere, you are going to wind up spending tens of thousands of dollars every day, so bear this in your mind.

Master the night bus – To prevent taking costly flights, make certain you receive yourself a map of their nighttime bus paths and that means that you may return to your own hotel/hostel on the economical. These buses move throughout the town and in the suburbs. You might even utilize your Oyster card on those buses. In reality, buses are necessarily the most affordable public transport option!

Stay at a Hola Hostel – Hola Hostels is just really a system of hostels mostly in South and Central America, though they currently have locations around Europe, too. They provide you a 10% reduction with their associates, in addition to additional regional discounts for activities and food. Joining is completely totally absolutely free of charge, and also their hostels may also be devoted to environmentally sustainable techniques.

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Letters to the Editor (July 10, 2018)

Veteran reports disappointing experience with U.S. Mint

I was not surprised to read in the June 12, 2018, copy of NN that the number of military medals decreased. I was surprised that the number was so high. Here is what happened to me.

I received my commemorative dollar and medal set, but I was unhappy that the collar had a fingerprint on the reverse of the coin. (It seems to me that all of the publicity pictures of mint procedures show the people working with proofs to be wearing gloves. How could a fingerprint get on a coin?)

I called the Customer Service at the Mint and was promised that if I returned the set to the Mint that it would not cancel my order but replace the faulty dollar. I packaged the set, checked off the box that I wanted a replacement, took the package to the UPS store with the having-been-provided pre-paid form, and had it sent.

A few days later, I received an email from the Mint that it had received my package and that it was crediting my credit card for the original cost! This was not what I wanted at all. I was lied to by the Customer Service representative.

I tried to reply to that email, but the Mint refused to allow such correspondence. Therefore, I printed the refused email that had my desire to have a replacement rather than a refund, found the mailing address of the Mint in Washington, D.C., and sent the email to the director of the Mint. I have not yet heard from him. I enclosed a note saying what had happened and that I hoped that he would replace the set that I had bought.

I complained that this is a horrible way to treat veterans: produce something that we would want, and then give us shoddy products and service. Is this what the Mint thinks about us veterans? President Trump has made helping the veterans one of the priorities of his administration, but it appears that the swamp does not care about what he wants.

You might ask your readers if others have had similar circumstances as the main reason why the number of medals has decreased so much. I cannot believe that across the board so many sets have been returned for some other reasons.

I would appreciate your not using my name or address if you choose to delve into this. It is horrible. Name withheld

Collector enjoys NCV tokens

As everyone who has read Numismatic News, I make my finds from the Coinstar coin counting machines.

Not only do I find coins – both collectable and spendable – but I also find modern-day tokens in and on the Coinstars.

Many are “No Cash Value” (NCV) brass game tokens that have a heraldic American Eagle on the obverse.

But there are other tokens bearing the names of businesses that make gaming tokens for video or pin ball gaming machines as well as “juke boxes.” Two local (northeast Ohio) firms are Automatic Music and Cleveland Coin Machine Exchange (CCME).

These tokens are not dated, so the year is not important, and one of each is sufficient for a collection.

A different story is the Chuck E Cheese token. The Chuck E Cheese tokens are dated, and Chuck has morphed from a rat-like image to that of a mouse with a guitar. Early tokens state the location of the pizza place, also known as “Pizza time theatre.” Some of the early Chuck E Cheese tokens do state a “25 c[ent] Play Value.”

There are several amusement parks that have issued NCV tokens. I had fun Googling them to find out their location. One, issuing tokens in a “white metal,” is from Macedonia … Ohio, that is. One of my favorites is “Billy Bob’s Wonderland” located in Barboursville, WV.

Going “down East?” Visit Blackbeard’s Amusement Park in Bangor, Maine. (This is the farthest NCV token I’ve found to date.) Other tokens I’ve found are various self-serve car wash and vacuum tokens, baseball batting cage tokens, laser tag NCV tokens, and even promotion tokens.

There are numerous tokens out there to collect; I’ve only ventured on the “tip of the iceberg.” Tired of collecting coins? Take a “break” and collect NCV tokens to start an adventurous endeavor.

I am a collector of both currencies as well as stamps. Most of the coins are base metal, sprinkled with silver. The bank notes are circulated (G-VF) and uncirculated. My stamps are used and off paper. My entire collections are worldwide issues.

Yes, you can collect both coins and currencies (bank notes) if you wish. That’s the fun in collecting; no rules, except to enjoy your collection.

Bill Tuttle Cleveland, Ohio

Reader searches for older wheat cent dates

I have searched through probably 50,000 wheat cents, looking for dates. I generally find over 10 percent of older dates, S mints, near UNC condition. Found a 1909-S but no initials, though. There are a couple of dealers in the News that advertise unsearched wheat cents that are actually searched. In those, I could not find anything older than 1940, no-S cents and 1943, or UNC cents.

Paul Prechel Coolidge, Ariz.

Strange finds recovered from carwash vacuum bags

I used to buy wheat penny bags, 500-1,000-count bags, to find mint error pennies. I’ve found 50-60 errors so far.

I read one of your articles on how we can get kids to start collecting coins. So I started making bags with complete 1941-1958 cents, but the #2 book goes to 1974. I was going to buy Memorial pennies to fill the book when my younger brother solved my problem.

He was vacuuming his car at the car wash and accidentally sucked up his girlfriend’s earrings. Luckily, the owner was there, and my brother knew him. He started collecting the bags for the owner, saving the owner a lot of time (the owner has four carwashes).

He brought all the change that gets sucked up to me to go through: pennies, dimes, nickels. I have found Memorials 1959-1974 to fill 18 books, Jefferson nickels to fill one #2 book, 1962-1995, in Fine to XF condition, as well as two #2 Roosevelt books, one with dimes VG+ to Fine+ and the other from VF-XF-AU.

I have given my friends’ kids 10 years old and older (18) books or bags so that they can put them in by themselves. I gave them one wheat penny book #2, one Roosevelt book #2, and one Jefferson book #2 along with a Numismatic News subscription card. I tell them they can find the nickels and dimes in mom, dad, grandpa, or grandma’s change jars.

My brother says he’s pulling 80-100 dollars a week out of the vacuum bags, not counting gold and silver chains, rings, and earrings. I get the pleasure of going through all the change.

John R. Covington Elmendorf, Texas

‘D’ quarter unusual as first 2018 coin on East Coast

I found my first 2018 coin in change on March 21. It’s surprising because it’s a “D” minted quarter of the Pictured Rocks variety. I don’t see many “D” minted coins as a first of the year here in New Jersey.

It was April 24 when I got my first one-cent coin from the Philadelphia Mint in change. There was no mintmark.

Richard Dahms Somerset, N.J.

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