OLD STAGEHANDS
Following a performer around with what amounts to a big flashlight sounds easy, and probably looks easy too, if you watch while it's being done. Well, it ain't; and your lack of ability is most immediately apparent to the other operators who can make those first outings tough on you if they wish. That's when those relationships first begin to pay back dividends. The lighting director will be less aware of your foibles because the angle from which he is observing is a bad one; the audience even less able to see anything of what is going on. Your buddies can cover for your short-comings, and try to talk you through the rough spots. You'd better be able to take a ration of good-natured ribbing about it too! Watching an experienced operator while the show is going on is one of the best ways to get a heads-up on many of the subtleties that can take years to acquire. If you show the proper respect to his situation, you can ask questions and get helpful answers during the show. This exchange is doubly instructive because you observe the mysterious operations while in direct correspondence to actions occurring on the stage. Sometimes the cuing is coming through a biscuit(a small portable speaker) and you see that much more clearly how his responses co-ordinate with what is taking place. The respect part is something that you must learn about too, in order to understand; when to ask your questions so that they are not bothersome, distracting or downright disastrous; being aware that the presence of the headset sometimes means others are hearing everything or aware of your presence in the booth. Few apprentice operators ever spend that much time doing this; many experienced operators are glad they don't!
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*** WORST OPENING PARAGRAPH EVER WRITTEN [FEB 28, 2015] Pelosi was on TV, as I sipped something that belonged on the bottom shelf. I'd already tried to unscramble the coded references in a long list of MediaCom channels(supposed to be available), and had just about decided that the paddle-shaped remote could be re-purposed as a swizzler, for stirring all the evil concoctions I knew had been the chemicals corroding the Senator's skin & converting knowing eyes into 'burnt holes in a blanket!' I briefly had thoughts of travelers in those rooms overhead, who pondered the same list(with instructions), while trying to consciously ignore CNN, by considering all the aero-dynamic factors coming into play, when their remote traced a looping-arc onto the unused bed next to the one already turned down. use entire paragraph as search-parameter @ask.com http://teapartyorg.ning.com/forum/topics/pelosi-to-mother-whose-son-was-set-on-fire-illegals-in-sanctuary-?page=8&commentId=4301673%3AComment%3A4492400&x=1#4301673Comment4492400 https://aclj.org/constitution/defeat-the-lefts-attacks-in-congress?utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=d-01112019_top-_seg-jayfb_con-con_typ-AD&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxoj4ksqu4AIVyB-GCh1g2w37EAAYASAAEgIJIPD_BwE ***
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https://www.facebook.com/pg/WorldBusinessEmailDatabaseList/posts/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7IoXDT4238 *** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HggqA5XDSPk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAAalFim4QQ - time-lapse installation[1:46] IATSE Local 720 (Las Vegas) Carpenters, Electrics, and Riggers installing Polaroid booth at CES 2015 in Las Vegas NV. 720 was hired on by PRG / Dave Sage. This video was shot with a GoPro Hero2 and was obviously not manned and ran out of card space or battery juice before the booth was finished. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YGecX5GJR0 The National Labor Relations Board petitions for enforcement of its order arising from an unfair labor practice charge filed by Gary Elias, alleging that the Union violated Section 8(b)(1)(A) of the National Labor Relations Act. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEBU6W73Ric know your history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHFpcmwDB1Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSoJjnh_nHc - go/pro vertigo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHFpcmwDB1Q - 1887/electrified theater/Manhattan IATSE/organizers met @Chicago World Fair;
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*** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHFpcmwDB1Q https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/who-we-are/our-history/1947-taft-hartley-substantive-provisions Taft-Hartley defined six additional unfair labor practices, reflecting Congress' perception that some union conduct also needed correction. The Act was amended to protect employees' rights from these unfair practices by unions. I remember Dad harping on the damage done to the Labor-Movement by this legislation; I was still in grammar school, and wrote a 'research-paper' on Labor Law[using excerpts from our dated set of encyclopedias. The amendments protected employees' Section 7 rights from restraint or coercion by unions, and said that unions could not cause an employer to discriminate against an employee for exercising Section 7 rights. They declared the closed shop illegal, but provided that employers could sign a union shop agreement under which employees could be required to join the union on or after the 30th day of employment. The amendments also imposed on unions the same obligation to bargain in good faith that the Wagner Act placed on employers. They prohibited secondary boycotts, making it unlawful for a union that has a primary dispute with one employer to pressure a neutral employer to stop doing business with the first employer. Unions were prohibited from charging excessive dues or initiation fees, and from "featherbedding," or causing an employer to pay for work not performed. The new law contained a "free speech clause," providing that the expression of views, arguments, or opinions shall not be evidence of an unfair labor practice absent the threat of reprisal or promise of benefit. Several significant changes were made for representation elections. Supervisors were excluded from bargaining units, and the Board had to give special treatment to professional employees, craftsmen and plant guards in determining bargaining units. Congress also added four new types of elections. The first permitted employers faced with a union's demand for recognition to seek a Board-conducted election. The other three enabled employees to obtain elections to determine whether to oust incumbent unions, whether to grant to unions authority to enter into a union shop agreement, or whether to withdraw union shop authorization previously granted. (The provisions authorizing the union shop elections were repealed in 1951). *** https://www.iatse.net/leadership/past-international-presidents Dick Walsh was still President, in 1969, when I joined IATSE Local 41 Walter Diehl was a Boston-projectionist/IA-rep until 1957, when he was appointed Assistant to the International President, a position he held until 1974, when he was elected International President of the IATSE by the delegates to the 52nd International Convention. *** Dick Walsh entered the entertainment industry as an apprentice electrician at Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue Theatre in 1917; elected President of Local No. 4 in 1925, and again in 1938, serving in that position through 1959; Business Agent of the same local in 1926; in 1941, he became International President of the Alliance, a position he was re-elected to through 1974, when he retired from office and was succeeded by Walter F. Diehl; Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital, Inc., and Director of the Union Labor Life Insurance Company[ULLICO]; Richard F. Walsh passed away on August 13, 1992, at the age of 92; before his retirement[1974], he attended IA-Conventions, but often was unable to stand/speak[Diehl spoke @Convention[s] with full authorization; effectively running the entire organization ***
