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After spending 20 years in the radio business, as a producer and on-air host, and gigging as a drummer in a series of Newfoundland and Toronto-based bands, Terry Carter spent 20 years as a dialogue breakdown editor for Nelvana animation. He is currently a podcast producer for The Charity Report’s Talking UP, a show featuring authors and journalists talking about their work, and an audio book reader specializing in non-fiction, memoir, history, and sports. He has a home recording studio. Contact terry1994carter@gmail.com. Website www.terry1994carter.com
Dalya Alberge - The Guardian, April 10, 2022It was a courtroom drama with two towering protagonists. In one corner stood a record mogul with a history of violence and Mafia links who was notorious for stealing musicians’ work. In the other corner stood a Beatle.
The battle between John Lennon and Morris Levy, the boss of Roulette Records and inspiration for a ruthless music mogul in The Sopranos, played out over several months and culminated in 1976 in New York’s district court.
TC’s B-rolls, audio book reader Terry Carter reads stories from headlines all over the world.
Tara Conlon, The Guardian, Feb 2, 2022
Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist is being given a new spin in a star-studded BBC prequel to the Victorian novel, which highlights the parallels between food poverty in the 19th century and now.
Echoing the most famous line from Dickens’ 1838 classic – “Please sir, I want some more” – and Marcus Rashford’s campaign to reduce child hunger, the writers of forthcoming 10-part family adventure series Dodger say they “made a conscious effort” to put food poverty “to the fore” in their show based on the exploits of Dickens’ characters the Artful Dodger and crime-lord Fagin.
TC's B-rolls, audio book reader Terry Carter reads stories from headlines all over the world.
By Neil Vigour, New York Times, January 28, 2022
Peter Robbins, whose voice brought Charlie Brown to life on several “Peanuts” television specials in the 1960s, but who later in life struggled with mental illness and served prison time, died on Jan. 18 in Oceanside, Calif. He was 65.
In TC's B-rolls, audio book reader Terry Carter reads stories from headlines all over the world.
“… a fascinating manifesto on how non-profit organizations can ‘be the change’ … It is an original and must-read contribution to the literature on non-profit organizations …”
James Tully, Professor emeritus, University of Victoria
Language can be one of your most powerful allies or ardent foes. The 100 Year PR Plan will help you get language on your side. It evaluates how conventional wisdom about how nonprofits communicate is undermining their ability to make lasting change.
The 100-Year PR Plan is a tool to escape the limitations of this moment to think systematically about the future by reaching deep into the past. In moments of crisis, the inner-contradictions of our current systems are laid bare. The future presses in on us. We have a choice to make, that much is clear. But the immediacy of endless urgent need, now as always, can make liberation from the present unimaginable.
The book examines self-defeating ways of thinking and offers in their place an easy-to-use step-by-step guide for nonprofits to communicate to transform society.
Covid Fatigue
By Gwynne Dyer, in the Portugal News · 15 Jan 2022
Once they called it ‘combat fatigue’, and treated the soldiers who showed the symptoms with a mixture of pity and contempt. Then they renamed it ‘post-traumatic stress disorder’ (PTSD) and broadened the definition to cover similar responses to other stressful situations. And now we have Covid fatigue.
In TC's B-rolls, audio book reader Terry Carter reads stories from headlines all over the world.
Analysis of wood from timber-framed buildings in Newfoundland shows Norse-built settlement 471 years before Columbus. Caroline Davies, The Guardian, October 21, 2021.Half a millennium before Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic, the Vikings reached the “New World”, as the remains of timber buildings at L’Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of Canada’s Newfoundland testify.
There will soon be 9 billion people to feed! What will the food supply be like at the dawn of the 2050s? Will it consider environmental challenges? Clara Stephan from globalgoodness.ca gives us her take.
Art Rupe’s little Hollywood label, Specialty Records celebrated Black culture’s boundless beauty, energy, joy, and excitement. It was also an originator of the rock ‘n’ roll sound.
By Michael Elliott / 5 August 2021
Depending on your age or environment, the term “rock ‘n’ roll” can conjure an image as innocent as a jukebox in a soda shop, as threatening as a switchblade in a dark alley, or as distant and detached as an old movie populated from what seems like people from another planet. For the converted, however, it will undoubtedly inspire visions, among others, of records – 45s mainly – and the iconic labels that adorned them. The deep blue with silver lettering of Chicago’s Chess Records. The musical notes that danced around the bright yellow rays of light that illuminated Memphis’ Sun. The little yellow and white label with the bold scrawl across the top promising a whole lot of fun within its grooves: ‘Specialty’.
(August 3, 2021) “I will never kneel before such a destructive force (as the Taliban),” declared Ashraf Ghani, the soon-to-be-ex-president of Afghanistan. “We will either sit knee-to-knee for real negotiations at the table, or break their knees on the battlefield.”
Good luck with that, Ashraf.
GWYNNE DYER: Afghanistan: how did they think it would end?
Woke means you lose’: Donald Trump rails at USWNT after Olympic bronze
Ted Lutz, The Guardian
· Loser of presidential election attacks team who won bronze
· Trump falsely says players did not stand for anthem
(August 5, 2021) Donald Trump, who spent significant portions of his presidency criticizing
athletes, has been strangely quiet during the Tokyo Olympics. But on Thursday he popped up to take aim at one of his favourite targets: the US women’s national soccer team.
“If our soccer team, headed by a radical group of Leftist Maniacs, wasn’t woke, they would have won the Gold Medal instead of the Bronze,” Trump said in a statement that failed to explain why Canada, whose team have spent much of the last week showing support for their non-binary and trans midfielder Quinn, are in the gold medal match.
By Albumism's Andy Healy, "Prince’s Inspired ‘Welcome 2 America..."
A lot has been said about Prince and his prolific songwriting nature. Even way back when Purple Rain was ruling the charts in 1984, rumors swirled that Prince had a vault filled with countless unreleased albums, enough for him to release one each year for the next century.
By The Guardian's Barney Ronay in Tokyo
ROC’s Olympic successes mean ‘absent’ Russia are more present than ever
The presence of 335 Russian athletes has raised eyebrows, but fingerpointing from Britain and the US invites dark chuckles . The presence of 335 Russian Olympic Committee athletes at these Games has seemed to surprise those who had assumed the ban for state-sponsored doping might have restricted Russia’s physical presence in some way. Or indeed that Russia’s athletes would have to compete in Japan as something other than Russia, beyond a few shifts in branding and a change of song.
From the New York Times, Penelope Green
Chuck E. Weiss, Musician Who, in Love, Inspired a Hit Song, Dies at 76
He and Tom Waits and Rickie Lee Jones were inseparable in the late ’70s, and when Mr. Weiss’s romantic life took a turn, Ms. Jones memorialized it in “Chuck E.’s in Love.”
:10 -Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries that Inspired the Golden Age of Animation, Reid Mitenbuler, Grove/Atlantic, December 2020
2:19 -Testimony: A Memoir, Robbie Robertson, Knopf Canada, October 2017
5:40 -Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, Ronan Farrow, Little, Brown and Company, June 30, 2020
8:01 -On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder, Crown, February 2017
9:50 -1966: The Year the Decade Exploded, Jon Savage, Faber & Faber, July 2016
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