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check. programs here. at. the center of the fuser. to. let. you know to make everything less wrinkled. i come from a trapeze family and the last time i performed with bianca and my sisters and my

mom it was actually one of the saddest days of my life i remember like it was yesterday to the last show and i was actually. bottling up there smiling to the audience with tears and my sisters were crying because that was the last time i was going to form with them. but i can't leave show business it's in my blood. when we read the people as they leave i'm standing there with randy and i listen to what the people say and you know i can tell if they are thinking old leader maybe it's time for you to hang it up and i don't get that i get

a lot of them letting me know that i'm inspiring. so i know maybe they should have a circus for artists over 50 what do you think. i the reason we have so many retired show people here is because this is where john ringling bros i'm. at one time it was great to have elephants in sarasota county. i mean

i was there in the fifty's when we got television and circus was going to die forever and now this is how many years later to start my dad. and they're funny i'm cutting myself. so i saw my watch list. you're bidding on to a circus collector's plate no. wonder if it has the certificate. of authenticity. ladies and gentlemen boys and. i must ask you for the silence as miss jacob is prepared to perform the full somersaults to

a single road fully releasing the predatory. dolly she did a full flower somersault with that name she is here today to tell a story so you know but there were many times where hands were slipping from the heat to spray sion the group was in there and you could have talked yourself you going to talk yourself because people bought a ticket they going to see showed you cause oh i don't feel like doing it now now. and you talk yourself into the new do or you just going to do it. in monaco they have 40 acts from around the world so it's like the oscars of the circus and it's not categorize like animal to acrobatic or it's all 40 action around the world competing so the best actor wins the gold clown 1st

place in 2nd place is the silver cloud so i was. lucky enough to win this over clown in 88 presented to me by prince albert. my uncle taught me a trick that as far as i know there's only been 2 people in the world that have done it and it's a double somersault with a triple twist so it's 5 different things and one feet and i did that in 1999. it's weird though as you get older the time seems to go by quicker. you know. you know i have i have a we have

a family friend that when i turned 21 he said enjoy it because from now on the time the years will go by quickly and he was right i mean here i am 52 and it just seems like yesterday i turned 21. what's life like. let's ask let's go and. i can't wait to have dinner with my dad and interest the phone when you see him she seems like you like me so if you feel good in these teams. feel like you did it in the next day and the day before you. wrote this hard to explain the feeling.

here you can swing all the way up here you can touch up there. my baby blah. blah blah good day. and into you see i'm more than wired because the opening night. they they have started. painting decide no more lines no more. everything is changing totally changing well. if i had a chance i would like to make dad in 20 again go on good talk michael sheen i don't blame all of that my big 12 individually you missed when i come to the last tweak

it wasn't in i keep dropping into that one need all the normal and then i will come . it tells me it's over but. anyhow. that's business show patience the show must go on. here when minute of it was beautiful. i have kids that. want this and so i hide it because i don't want it to disappear. and cowher learned that made this.

but they don't make them like this no more this is why it's an empty i've been asked to put it in the museum down there but i don't want to. be selfish . this is probably in 52 this is either 62 or 63 on the way and this is what broke out there and then i come flying mail i ended up with a. sprained ankle lots of little tiny pieces of block charcoal in my back though because we were on a cinder lot. yeah. how long did it take you to get back up oh i was up the next day. i mean when you get off on the circuit you have to keep going

. keep going less you got a broken down. don't have 360. doing good. and i know. that. this is like an inventory basically you would have in a grocery store so here are the jugglers i have percent and they are all the clowns and then we have the an amount which is becoming a short department because i don't know where to put them and some of the produce i don't want to deal with these people these fanatic people so they don't even hire any anymore and then we have to aerial act and that's a very very big wide range of ideas for people don't understand because anything ariel would be high. flying top he's single top piece girl

that's a big department all the way to here. this thing started in 691 and the next one was born in 730 and he was a banker and now comes the 1st farm and he was born in 1760 and that's why it all started the other brotherhood out yes my grandfather yes all the gurlitz and the boys my mother. has myself he has counted on his stomach and. my family are animal people and they are the most situation is becoming so difficult what would be a good performing for dominic or to be adults should that be i call body sure to be dead devil. the top does not circus is in jeopardy here so what do

you want for your grandson i really don't know i can't answer this exactly. did you write the elephants to. your member no. more and. that's great news uber. is very dramatic. when this is some pro or for all but it is this is my. older girls this is our teacher. i think dez bryant park bigger than me. my mother lives with myself and pedro and as long as we've been home

and off the road from traveling she's with us. yeah. it's fun because you get to where you could hear are better. oh oh. i'm. i have a big cure for it or is he yeah you know i'm good for you. yeah trade here yeah.

you're. right. there was and i'm home now i'm not performing is because my father has parkinson's and he's very ill and i'm helping my mom take care of him. he was like me he's like me he was the catcher you know he was the strongest one of the true and to see him in the world here and now parkinson's is taken its toll pretty to. this is what i usually do at night after dinner with my parents go to bed i'm not much of a t.v. watcher there are a few shows that i like to watch on t.v. but i i sit down and i put on my music and you know i'm costumes or ideas that i have. but it's tough sometimes you know

when i'm up before me. i dream about it i'm glad i was a circus performer and even though it doesn't make you rich or enormously famous there at least i'm content and i'm happy about that. that the places i've traveled the people i've met. you know where i've performed and it's it's been an amazing life. and i think that every night i can die happy and peaceful that i did what i enjoy. it's great it's a great feeling. well welcome to you all * i'm so glad you came i was really excited about it really

wonderful come right in come right and answer my little studio my little my little wisdom area here come right ahead this is truly you know apartment and actually very obvious with the result a good affordable one came in but i love it dearly because it's just like i want it . you'll notice what i do with the make up i start here. and the cheeks. and i follow my laugh line watch the last line. you notice what i'm doing this more to life and you know it's fun doing this get younger look at night. and. my walking came all hand me down my walking cane and my games.

and. i do a little clowning in some of the things here not much of anything but it's my nature i mean i can't help it. i can't get a life and i'm very unhappy.

that when i say we have somebody that's do it areal work normally by the time they're 40 they're done do an aerial work. when a performer gets to the point where they're having trouble booking or their health won't let them work they have a major transition to make the transition is from what they've done to something new and different but they don't yet want to give up maybe tomorrow they'll get their booking or maybe tomorrow they'll be able to work again. if everybody was honest enough and knows when to quit that would be a good thing then i would have less. people say she worked 18 horses and one morning before she came to america she had

24 stallions you know it wasn't done again great but if i would have dragged on and tried to go back and do so with one horse maybe a high school horse that would say she used to do. and. it hurt cried a lot right for yeah. it was all about myself oh my god i died and opened you know but i died.

i want to go a little. closer to ground 0 for. those pretty blue males who think that why is it twisting. look underneath it looks pretty level these are actually their rings that i performed on. ice something rings and i believe it was 2000 and i was already diabetic. and my back was had a herniated disk so that year was over difficult and i. had to have back surgery on that disc. it's

a very dangerous act anything you do in the air is dangerous but the rings you know 32 feet high full swing completely letting go you know only hanging on by your fingertips and with my back it was time to. you know. hang it up. teach the kids now though the rings and. and i enjoy it actually i get up and demonstrate and the whole feeling is back. in a while. to look like you know. somebody said. i'll give you a job on the road would you go yes. in a heartbeat. in a heartbeat. i do wish that. because i enjoyed traveling with the

circus. whether we were in mud up to our knees or we were on nice grass. or whether we were in pouring rain. or not. i mean i i still say that people say. sword ask gets under your feet. i wish i just stayed with the circus and not listen to my mother. i mean my mother said children need an education. so as soon as my one child turned 6 that's when i quit the circus. oh i've done many jobs working after getting off the road i went to work at tropical fish. been doing that for so many years now my job just closed.

so now i'm looking for another job however pet shops are not interested in somebody my age. i've always had $2.00 and $3.00 jobs at a time. i took care of trailer park took care of sick people. some circus people. but i've worked cheap otherwise i would have had money. i don't have money. i have nothing. jump into the stream there is a lot going on in this and julian global community when i don't have all the misinformation i think we are more afraid than we are and where be part of the debate don't ever take anybody's one word because there's always a difference when no topic is off the table we have been disconnected from our land

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acknowledge to troops we cannot allow civil unrest to descend into chaos we must protect life and property but we also must enter stand very clearly if we don't listen to those communities in pain and those people on the streets many of whom were arrested are speaking a fundamental truth that we must change we will be right back here again a russian opposition leader election of on the has been moved to a prison hospital his doctor says he could be near death while authorities say his condition is satisfactory the kremlin critic is on hunger strike over what he says is a lack of medical treatment ukrainian soldier has been killed by separatists in the country's east fighting is escalated in recent weeks undermining a ceasefire agreed on last year russia backs the separatists and has been building up its military along the border moscow has rejected calls to pull back troops saying it's free to deploy forces within insane territory cuba has marked the end

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this very cruel sissoko. elvis is entered the building there. this is andrew the feeling. now watching here . was the thing where you're looking at. you look at me like that anymore. oh ah thank you we. are. going down memory lane. this is a very beginning. very very beginning of this track fact. because that.

is all that hair perry that. is that caught me he made the cape talk i've never seen anybody use a cape the way he did this what sealed the deal is look at that. really kate look at that beautiful me kate this is the softer from cellar certainly for that hot up as you can see the bridge you know so and that's why don and i met kind of when the glue was set i was practicing the sailor circus and dolly was prepped and said a circus and so that's me flying from the class ring and i go to class ring and use the rope ok so when i catch the rope right in the top and it was a red mark my mark was there the string would break and i would fall about 20 feet . 2025 feet and then my bungee would stop me and i would be in the floor in 2

seconds you know but one day i was. booked in new york and unfortunately. i couldn't set the rhythm myself there was a horse at liberty act at work before me so my rope and string and everything was said stage left. and so are both mustering up it's a very high spring in the lungs when i jumped. and i grabbed the rope perfect. felt the string break down and the next thing i know i was on my back you know like i was like in shock because this was abnormal i had the rope in my hand i didn't miss the rope my brain was trying to compute what had happened and my ankles that were talking to me and say you're in pain because we're broken but what did happen is they had moved the rope untied the string and i forgot to check the bungee so there

was no nothing to stop me and yeah that was the basic. the how do you say they they they killed the flame. they used to be young and beautiful now has beautiful. concert. circus today is changing a lot because my son chimes people are saying so many things that play a good beach fantasy and it's not. said they expect an awful lot from. sackless it's a plea deal people. working in which to day life i know are. and kind of don't they don't get to emplace with that and you won't because to say

2 months trying not yet c.v. i knew she did most impossible things i love to watch sexual a because. every change is. on. its plate and there you have some great performers on there but you don't know who they are. don't have a name. beautiful and entertainment but something. norma has made this. and she's made it from a picture and the picture is of my dad and my mom and willie and edelsten had been made in 1948 or 49 and it was her gift to me for what i've done for her they call me for anything that relates to the non circus world the business side

i've been called to go to the funeral home to make final arrangements i've been called about wills and plan giving and trusts and how do i get medicaid and how do i get help for this or how do i get help for that. it started because my mother and father were circus people i respect what they did my mother said help these people. i came home from work the day my job clawed roost. and i see this big sign instead of a proper propertius he had it up for sale and now i don't know what's going to happen and my trailer is 79 thing. way too vague to move to another trial. and even if it went to another trailer park i cannot

afford the right. guy i've ever seen your of there so. did kathy speak to you about me 1st oh yes you have kathy said yeah my has a problem do you care if i have her car you know i really appreciate what she did for me so thelma has to make a choice of what she's going to do she cannot stay here for ever because the properties for sale and the like most of the property up here. the state of florida in transition we're going from a place where people could come live modestly live in trailers live in small quarters to a place where people come and live in big quarters brand new big quarters.

we want everybody to be the norm i mean my term i like to use is manicured acres we want every town to be manicured so we're the ones who make the rules it's not the government where the government so we're the ones that force these issues of we want how we want to control our neighbor who are unable to us with their property because it might affect our property so we make it difficult for anybody that is a little different a little special be this special negative or special positive show people are special positive but they're special in this transition they don't want to get rid of the trappings of circus so they need a spot where they could go with these trappings and as society gets more and more sophisticated it's harder and harder to find those spots we've started down a we've got

a little property up north where we subsidize we subsidize our own at 30 percent. so we've got to ready now wow i mean it's a big property just to have a chance trailers on it it seems like a nice piece of property if they were really nice to have circus people next door tell you i'm going to go test the water go test of water oh that's it yeah just the water that's city water. tastes in the water because she deals with food. so she says what is this water to so. one of us from think is a good for my fish. ok babies. and of course i'd have to have paper to wrap them but i'm not going to wrap my own. as well go into. well. reg scale let's read. didn't even know it why did that.

wore out or out. when. ready doing i was going to cover it when you 2 tried to make the march ok maybe on the outside i just didn't know what you were doing. here we're. really.

good all right here here. mommy i see you wore your good the horse training shoes again well it wasn't supposed to be a horse trading i was just looking. yes that's not the right shoes for horse training. but i'm not a horse trainer any more of it as you are. i on the advice given by myself and i come in many shoes i wanted to find. the safety factor because my feet are all that you've broken so many times can't be broken anymore. but. sometimes i get up in the morning something else hurts i said but what can i do now that i didn't even do anything. but you work through it. when i

was given the opportunity to perform with dolly since we're both going away we're very similar you know our lives it was a it was an honor i've been wanting to work with her for years. dolly jacobson is fabulous. if you've never seen were she is a miracle in motion. because she's so beautiful out there. absolutely gorgeous. it took us a long time to perfect that trick because we couldn't get it in there was the time line where we were too old to do this. like in rehearsals i keep my knee holding

her back as well just for safety but in performance i actually take my knee away so it's a complete just to complete one hold and she's laying on my my arm. even at the show when i have the control in my hand i'm selling my tuxedo nobody sees me running the control of the 3 person act you know. and that really person is so. so important to the act you know they can make or break you. i'm also a funny person when it comes to learning a trick. when i go to see the ring on show and i see girls that have got a lot john it takes it away from me i just can't. i joyeux they

anticipation of them doing their job perfectly without a problem. the traveling circus have the facilities for a traveling circus we are. part of sarasota we're part of the community. dollar now we bought it can't we bring to the bank borrowed some money for a used tent and put up a tent and you know if you build it they will come of course it's not true because is it a revival is it a car sales is it a service never knew what it was with no money for advertising there was a learning curve for us but as a nonprofit organization idea was to give back to the community you know really to give back to the circus and to raise the perception of the circus as an art form because young america has a preconceived perception that the circus carnival side show or one that is not

true ok the circus is separate is an art form it's a tradition people work their butts off hours 1000 hundreds of hours to perfect something or beauty that they can display to the audience. or to it's gotten pinion. you don't. think that. his. sketches are the ones you've done in the past if you look much better than me so i use them absolutely in. all of them richer than any of.

the. data that remains from 24 years. yeah. press 20. wow 4 more years it will be 24 and 24 but i did overlap so i did a few years rings answer after. this age that she is in great physical shape strength the beauty. so raise the bar she raises the bar that's why i tell you got to keep going to physically cannot do with every year all i don't know bill mike no you go and you grab people whose hearts and you spew emotion and only an artist can do that if you true artists. still criticize you saw so much as my job. but honestly there's there are days where you know you question yourself and then

there's things that teaches you know you love it so much and you don't look in the mirror and you just feel like you're ageless. long. do you feel that you have to put on makeup on because she is getting older. don't

go there mommy no. but i mean. i would i will say less is more. this is the only justice and life. doesn't matter who it is going to be big tall short of feds for everybody gotta get old that's hearing it can only grow old gracefully what about now. is that are you willing to bet jacket tonight or are you gonna wear the black and white chalk and. red jacket you gotta wear the black and white yeah hold the jacket. well how old are you when that was made for you ok let's see how. 4646 yes in america.

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here. we are to. feel. there is no fear ok i can save is the fear i think if you have fear you can get 100 percent. fear out of the rain and out of the stages is stuck to what i love that's here. when i enter. the ring i feel i feel on top. and i don't want that feeling to go away.

a family name. politicized by the forces of nature. filmed before year ends i can inform my documents his struggle for his community survival and build the template for global action on climate change. p c to the climate diaries eyewitness documentary on how to 0. how bad the weather looks very unsettled across florida at the moment we've got some very heavy rains sliding across the deep south through the panhandle states

pretty wet here for a time the mcgrath you see things that quieting down this area of high pressure starts to have an effect further north we've got this cold front that's sinking its way further south with cold normally waynes arctic winds pushing some snow yes snow into central parts of the u.s. across the plains just 7 celsius there for kansas city 3 degrees in chicago to the east of that is fine warm and sunny 23 in d.c. a 20 for new york not too bad we'll see that so when she makes started to push its way towards the northeast as we go on into a wet and stay dry down towards the southeast in places silo as you drive across central parts they just temperatures starting to recover kansas city getting up to around 11 celsius no such issues for the west it stays warm to the up towards pacific northwest seattle still getting up to $21.00 degrees celsius that's 70 in found high slushy dry across the caribbean meanwhile some pleasant sunshine coming through here of course we have got some wet weather just coming in across the gulf

of mexico some showers into central america we could see some lovely downpours all the way down into panama. from the al-jazeera london broil. to people in thoughtful conversation i can be in my culture i can still raise my voice against bigotry with no host and no limitations the pandemic actually exposed the injustice in our society to as my town and has had in hospitality we have protected these men who are violent and bully studio to be unscripted on al-jazeera. a wondrous diverse ecosystem but human activity is the escalating climate change and posing an extra stench of threat in the lead up to us to algeciras on special coverage

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