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Freeland says McCallum ‘does not speak’ for feds after explosive China interview
Global News 4 days ago Amanda Connolly
© THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Lahodynskyj Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada Chrystia Freeland speaks during a panel at the Ukraine Reform Conference in Toronto, on Wednesday, July 3, 2019.
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada's fired former ambassador to China "does not speak" for the government after he described offering advice to Chinese officials on how their attacks on Canada could influence the fall election to a newspaper.
In an interview with Hong Kong's South China Morning Post published Wednesday, veteran Liberal John McCallum said he told China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs that continuing to restrict Canadian exports to China would be politically beneficial to the Conservatives, who would take a much harder line on China than the governing Liberals.
READ MORE: McCallum reportedly warned China that hurting Canada ‘will help the Conservatives’
“Anything that is more negative against Canada will help the Conservatives, [who] are much less friendly to China than the Liberals,” McCallum was quoted as saying in the interview with the English-language newspaper.
“I hope and I don’t see any reason why things will get worse; it would be nice if things will get better between now and [Canada’s federal] election [in October].”
His explosive remarks quickly prompted accusations by Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer that McCallum was offering an “invitation of foreign interference in the Canadian election.”
Freeland was asked from a conference on media freedom in London, U.K., about the remarks by McCallum, who was fired as ambassador to China in January 2019 after weighing in on the merits of the extradition case against Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou.
"Let me be extremely clear that Mr. McCallum does not speak in the name of the government of Canada," she responded, before addressing accusations that the remarks were an invitation for political interference.
"It is a very important issue and it is something that we, as a country, have to be prepared to defend ourselves against," she continued.
"In that context, I think that it is inappropriate for any Canadian to be advising any foreign government on ways it ought or ought not to behave to secure any particular election outcome in Canada."
Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland says former China Ambassador John McCallum “does not speak” for the Government of Canada; referencing his comments that the Conservatives would be less friendly to China than the Liberals. pic.twitter.com/inKrdaGS3a
— Redmond Shannon (@RedShannon) July 11, 2019
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Plenary Lecture 15: Geomicrobial kinetics: bridging the gap between laboratory and nature
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[UMCW01] Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding Microbial Communities
Rates of natural microbes are a key parameter of theoretical and practical problems in environmental chemistry, microbiology, and biotechnology. Empirical models, such as the Monod equation, are standard tools for predicting microbial rates in laboratory and industrial reactors. But direct application of these models to natural environments often overestimates the significance and extent of microbial processes by orders of magnitude relative to field observations. Hence new theories and modeling approaches are required for quantifying microbial metabolism in natural environments and for simulating population dynamics of natural communities. The new theory of geomicrobial kinetics must account for dramatic differences in growth conditions between laboratory reactors and natural environments. For example, the energy available in the environment limits the metabolism of natural microbes, which can be described using the thermodynamic potential factor. According to this factor, the thermodynamic control becomes negligible where the available energy is much larger than the energy saved by microbes. But for common anaerobic respiration of natural environments, the thermodynamic control is significant because the available energy is of the same order of magnitude as the saved energy. The new theory also needs to address (1) how microbial diversity controls the rates of microbial metabolism; (2) what metabolic strategies microbes have to employ in natural environments and how these strategies impact microbial rates; and (3) how to integrate mechanisms and kinetics at different scales, from subcellular scale of enzyme kinetics and cellular scale of microbial kinetics to the field scale of watersheds and aquifers and global scale of element cycling. These questions represent current challenges of geomicrobial kinetics, and can be addressed by integrating the exciting advances in genome-scale modeling, microbial ecology, and environmental chemistry.
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Broncos WR Carlos Henderson suspended one game
By Nick Shook
Published: Aug. 15, 2018 at 04:09 p.m.
NFC West camp primer: Key players, questions
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Carlos Henderson's struggle to appear on the field has encountered another hurdle.
The Broncos wide receiver has been suspended one game by the league for violation of the NFL's Policy and Program on Substances of Abuse, the team announced Wednesday.
Henderson has not been in attendance for any of Broncos camp, starting it on the reserve/did not report list. KUSA-TV's Mike Klis reported in late July Henderson was dealing with a personal matter, and agent Erik Burkhardt said he and Henderson spoke to Broncos coach Vance Joseph and the team has "been supportive."
The former Conference USA Offensive and Special Teams Player of the Year has yet to appear in a regular-season game in the NFL. A third-round pick out of Louisiana Tech, Henderson his entire rookie season due to a thumb injury that required surgery and landed him on injured reserve in early September. Henderson was also arrested on a a marijuana possession charge in January in Louisiana.
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Reverse-Enginnering the Apocalypse
Are you all still alive out there? Did you survive the apocalypse?
I'm wondering if they plan the standard push-back date on the day of the last prediction, or if they plan ahead a few days so they can research another historical/religious/philosophical tidbit somewhere to base it on. That's about all the thought I'd spare on it, except that it's certainly good for story ideas!
Yes I know, stories about the apocalypse are rather overdone these days. Right up there with angsty vampires and hordes of zombies. Okay, so what's done is done. So why not do it in reverse?
How about instead of a story about how the world is going to end tomorrow and everybody is caught off-guard because nobody believes it, how about a plot where a society believes totally in it, but it doesn't happen? Imagine if we all believed implicitly that the world was going to end tomorrow. What would we do? How would people cope? And then, what if it didn't happen? Would people regret their actions the previous day? Would there be relief, or chaos?
Let's take it a step further. Very few characters involved in a vampire story who are not already vampires at the beginning of said story actually want to become one. For that matter, many of the vampires don't want to be what they are. But what if becoming a vampire was a desirable thing? Would there be some sort of caste structure? Perhaps the proletariat is composed entirely of vampires, and becoming one yourself is sort of like swearing fealty to a clan, much like a samurai might? Or maybe forget all that, and present a modern-day plot where humans believe it is natural evolution to become a vampire? At a certain point in your life you are turned as part of a coming-of-age ceremony, and turning somebody too early is akin to teen pregnancy?
Why do zombies always have to destroy the world? Maybe the zombie virus doesn't kill you, but reanimates your corpse into one of the hungry dead only after you die of other means? Maybe the whole world is infected, but they don't think much of it since the virus doesn't really do anything to you until after you die? What then? Would cremation be mandatory? Are there paramedic "death squads" that are dispatched in emergencies after somebody has already passed away, to ensure the remains don't reanimate? Or maybe becoming a zombie is some sort of transcendental religious thing -- zombies are tolerated and even considered holy, but kept at arms length and otherwise coexist with humans because there's some law against destroying them? The natural progression of death for a society where zombifying is as inevitable as death and taxes?
Everywhere you look, there's an idea for a new story plot. If you look a bit harder, your idea might just be that much more unique.
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Rick's Cabaret International, Inc. Earned 13 Cents Per Share In Third Quarter On Net Income Of $635,857
HOUSTON -(August 14, 2006)- Rick's Cabaret International, Inc. [NASDAQ:RICK] reported today it earned 13 cents per share on net income of $635,857 during its third quarter ended June 30th, compared with a loss of $10,681 for the quarter last year. Revenues for the period were $6,251,181, compared with $3,729,011. Total revenues for same-location-same period of club operations increased 22.4 percent to $4,317,945 during the quarter.
The increases were due chiefly to revenues generated by new clubs in New York City, Charlotte, NC and Houston of $1,844,013 and by a 20.9 percent increase in revenues of $682,027 generated by existing clubs, offset slightly be a decrease of $3,870 in internet operations.
"We are very pleased with our third quarter results on both the revenue and income lines," said Eric Langan, CEO of Rick's Cabaret. "Our cost of goods sold in our club operations declined during the third quarter and we continue to improve margins from liquor and food sales. The contributions from our recent acquisitions continue to be on track and we are actively pursuing additional acquisitions that will be accretive to revenue and earnings."
Total revenues for the nine months ended June 30th were $18,150,434, compared with $10,504,612 last year. Nine-month income from continuing operations was $1,867,382, compared with a loss of $98,780 for the same period a year ago. Basic earnings per share from continuing operations to date were 41 cents, compared with a loss of 3 cents per share last year.
Rick's Cabaret will hold a conference call at 4:30 p.m. August 14th at which Mr. Langan will discuss results for the quarter and other matters. It will be webcast live on the Rick's Cabaret website (www.ricks.com) and will be available to callers toll free at 877-407-8031 (Live participant dial in for international callers is 201-689-8031).
Rick's Cabaret International, Inc. (NASDAQ: RICK, www.ricks.com) operates upscale adult nightclubs serving primarily businessmen and professionals that offer live adult entertainment, restaurant and bar operations. The company owns and operates or licenses adult nightclubs in New York City, New Orleans, Charlotte, Houston, Minneapolis and other cities under the names "Rick's Cabaret," "XTC" and "Club Onyx." No sexual contact is permitted at any of these locations. Rick's Cabaret also owns the adult Internet membership Web site, www.couplestouch.com, and a network of online adult auction sites under the flagship URL www.naughtybids.com. Rick's Cabaret common stock is traded on NASDAQ under the symbol RICK. For further information contact ir@ricks.com or visit www.ricks.com.
This document contains forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause the company's actual results to differ materially from those indicated in this document, including the risks and uncertainties associated with operating and managing an adult business, the business climates in New York City and elsewhere, the success or lack thereof in launching and building the company's businesses in New York City and elsewhere, risks and uncertainties related to the operational and financial results of our Web sites, conditions relevant to real estate transactions, and numerous other factors such as laws governing the operation of adult entertainment businesses, competition and dependence on key personnel. Rick's has no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements to reflect the occurrence of future events or circumstances. For further information go to www.ricks.com.
Contact for further information: Allan Priaulx, 212-338-0050, ir@ricks.com
RICK'S CABARET INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
FOR THE THREE MONTHS FOR THE NINE MONTHS
ENDED JUNE 30, ENDED JUNE 30,
(UNAUDITED) (UNAUDITED)
Continuing Operations:
Sales of alcoholic beverages $ 2,214,651 $ 1,363,425 $ 6,600,135 $ 3,766,469
Sales of food and merchandise 679,049 414,348 1,995,048 1,205,446
Service revenues 2,931,801 1,673,269 8,367,721 4,766,110
Internet revenues 196,948 200,876 609,857 568,836
Other 228,732 77,093 577,673 197,751
Total revenues 6,251,181 3,729,011 18,150,434 10,504,612
Cost of goods sold 715,949 438,444 2,170,481 1,284,378
Salaries and wages 1,776,181 1,315,625 5,124,704 3,727,169
Other general and administrative:
Taxes and permits 763,337 484,244 2,238,103 1,405,870
Charge card fees 140,115 52,353 346,425 167,649
Rent 261,863 128,874 855,440 306,697
Legal and professional 256,938 156,750 592,885 502,829
Advertising and marketing 285,171 185,963 891,721 543,566
Depreciation and amortization 258,409 141,532 726,679 408,773
Other 898,168 661,623 2,561,295 1,838,823
Total operating expenses 5,356,131 3,565,408 15,507,733 10,185,754
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Income from continuing operations 895,050 163,603 2,642,701 318,858
Interest income 5,316 6,868 20,702 27,611
Interest expense (267,059) (181,348) (801,580) (438,298)
Minority interests 2,550 53 1,206 (6,360)
Other --- 143 4,354 (591)
Net income (loss) from continuing
operations 635,857 (10,681) 1,867,382 (98,780)
Discontinued operations:
Loss from discontinued operations --- --- --- (148,294)
Gain on sale of subsidiary --- --- --- 291,987
Net income (loss) $ 635,857 $ (10,681) $ 1,867,382 $ 44,913
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Basic and diluted earnings (loss) per share:
Income (loss) from continuing operations $ 0.13 $ 0.00 $ 0.41 $ (0.03)
Income from discontinued operations --- --- --- 0.04
Net income, basic $ 0.13 $ 0.00 $ 0.41 $ 0.01
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Net income, diluted $ 0.12 $ 0.00 $ 0.38 $ 0.01
Weighted average number of common
shares outstanding:
Basic 4,835,502 3,967,148 4,521,600 3,816,592
Diluted 5,752,084 3,967,148 5,211,700 3,938,960
Comprehensive income (loss) for the three months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005 were $613,612 and ($24,029), and for the nine months were $1,867,382 and ($46,294), respectively. This includes the changes in available-for-sale securities and net income (loss).
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Lord Amighty!
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Goodnessgraciousme! THIS put a swagger in my step:
…or are you a hater?
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Russian fine-art duo Komar and Melamid made a name for themselves as painters of images that are an amalgamation, based on polls of what people look for in a painting.
I came across a musical recording they did in 2008 called “The Most Unwanted Music.” Based on one of their polls, the team made what they call a “scientific attempt to create the most annoying song ever.” They actually pull off quite an interesting opus of undesirable elements.
Can you make it through?
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Rock Town Hall’s Tuesday Night Shut-In: New Year’s Edition
Sounds of the hall in roughly 33 1/3 minutes!
Something entertaining for your evening if, like LMKR and myself, you’re gonna have 2 or 3 beers and hit the sack to read a book by 10 tonight.
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Music and Lyrics by___________.
Even better than the real thing?
Okay, so for whatever reason, the only thing I can listen to lately is my entire oeuvre of Sonic Youth. Wait a minute, wait a minute, I know, most of you lot don’t like them. That’s not the point.
The point is: I was thinking about how Smashing Pumpkins‘ 1979 is the best thing Sonic Youth “never wrote.” Similarly, I feel that The Verve‘s Bittersweet Symphony is the best thing Jagger & Richards never wrote. [Or did they? – Mod.]
So that got me to thinking: What are other songs that one-up the influence? Which tunes distill the shape and inspiration to manifest and encapsulate the essence of their model? Fill in the blank: ________is the best thing______never wrote.
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Rock Town Hall’s Saturday Night Shut-In: Endless Summer
This is a dual production by myself and Ladymisskirroyale. It’s a follow up to Cliff Sovinsanity‘s recent summer-themed mix, and we gave it our personal spin as we gear up for our own trip to the coast.
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The work of graphic designer Mike Joyce is a marriage made in heaven: Typography and Punk. Joyce has transformed the d.i.y. flyers announcing punk and indie shows–the collaged, the Xeroxed, the disposable–and treated them to Swiss modernist style (anyone seen the documentary Helvetica?).
These posters, re-contextualized, visually engaging, and slightly humorous, are an homage to great gigs (see how many you’ve attended), and the formalized text and images that arose out of Switzerland in the ’50s that focused on cleanliness, order, objectivity, and readability.
See the work here at http://www.swissted.com
They’re all also available as an 11 x 14 book, with each page perforated so you can hang ’em on the wall.
What's your favorite style of concert poster?
Swiss typography style (a la the works of Mike Joyce).
Early rock 'n roll "boxing match" style.
1980s punk rock DIY Xeroxed collage.
Psychedelic style (a la Fillmore West/East shows).
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Young Soul Rebels
Popular music goes through its cycles, just like anything else. I look around, and it seems that blue-eyed British soul has once again come to the surface. The last time I remember this happening big time, was around the mid- to late-’80s, when the coolest music was coming from England, and everything had to be stamped with passion and neo-soul. The airwaves were ruled by the likes of Simply Red, The Style Council, Dexy’s Midnight Runners, The Blow Monkeys, Paul Young, Boy George, Alison Moyet, Phil Collins, Prefab Sprout…everything was redolent of Marvin Gaye and Aretha Franklin, and everyone wanted to be a smooth operator.
I can see where the groundwork has been laid for a recent rise in British White Soul. With the exception of some hold-outs, black music has gone all Money, Gats, and Ho’s a long time ago. A lot of White music is taking a Luddite approach, and the jug band look rules the indie coda today. Dance music is ruled by an inane “wub-wub-wub” aesthetic. Continue reading »
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Nigerian presidential candidate warns about vote-buying
Chuma Nobanda Chuma Nobanda
6 December 2018, 7:43 PM | SABC | @SABCNewsOnline
Tags: Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, Atiku Abubakar, Peopleu2019s Progressive Congress
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Atiku Abubakar from the People’s Democratic Party claims Buhari's ruling All Progressives Congress APC has offered cash inducements to voters.
The main challenger to President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019’s election has advised Nigerians against selling their votes as concerns persist over possible electoral fraud at the landmark polls.
Atiku Abubakar, from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), claimed Buhari’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) had offered cash inducements to voters.
“This is what the APC is doing. They are buying PVCs (permanent voter cards). They will come to you and give you 10 naira, 20 naira, 50 naira to buy your PVC,” he told supporters.
“They are buying your future,” he was quoted as saying in local media after a campaign rally in the central city of Ilorin on Wednesday.
There was no immediate response from the APC but civil society groups, local and foreign observers have previously voiced concerns about leading parties offering cash for votes.
The practice of using PVCs bought from voters to rig elections was said to have been widespread during recent governorship polls in the southwestern states of Ekiti and Osun, both won by the APC.
In Ekiti, both the APC and the PDP were accused of offering voters 3,000 to 5,000 naira ($8-13, 7-12 euros).
During the PDP presidential primaries in October, some candidates, including Abubakar, were accused of offering financial inducements to delegates.
Abubakar, a former vice president to Olusegun Obasanjo between 1999 and 2007 who used to run the country’s customs service, has also been accused of widespread corruption.
He denies the allegations and has challenged his detractors to produce concrete proof.
Buhari, 75, was elected in 2015 on promises to tackle endemic corruption, end Boko Haram’s deadly Islamist insurgency and boost the economy.
He is hoping for a second term of office but Abubakar, 72, said, “In terms of corruption, Nigeria is worse off today than we were in 2014.
“In terms of economy, we are the poorest country in the world today. In terms of insecurity, we are the most insecure than at any other time in history.”
Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari Atiku Abubakar Peopleu2019s Progressive Congress
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CASBAA—Satellite Studies In Singapore (Event)
[SatNews] CASBAA returns to Singapore for its annual gathering exploring the latest developments and issues affecting the satellite industry in the Asia Pacific.
Taking place on June 16 at the Shangri-La Singapore, the CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum 2014 will provide a platform for leaders from the satellite sector to come together and share their knowledge and experiences.
“With an active Satellite Industry Committee and a number of satellite related companies as CASBAA members, the CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum is an extremely important event in our yearly calendar,” said Christopher Slaughter, CEO, CASBAA. “An integral component of the multichannel TV business in the Asia Pacific, satellite services account for a large portion of how television signals are delivered to consumers in the region.”
Acknowledging the ever-evolving industry landscape, this year’s theme addresses “Remaining Relevant in a Time of Transition.” The agenda for this year’s forum will touch upon the challenges the industry is facing as the very definition of television changes to embrace new technologies, delivery methods and consumer habits, including:
Is the decrease in military and government business being counterbalanced by increased demand in the mobility sector?
What is the state of the international debate over C-band? And what are Asian governments thinking?
New Technologies and New Operators. New Kids on the Block?
“The customer is always right” – or are they?
How can satellite cope with the challenges of non-linear services?
The roster of speakers encompasses the whole value chain of the satellite industry including Cristiano Benzi (Director of the Business Unit Video and Broadcasting, Eutelsat), Thomas Choi (Founder & CEO, ABS), Anthony Colucci (VP, Marketing & Sales, SSL), Tony D’Silva (Group CEO, Media, Hinduja Ventures), Ali Ebadi (SVP, Space Systems Development, MEASAT), Yvon Henri (Chief, Space Services Department, ITU), Huang BaoZhong (EVP, APT Satellite), Osamu Inoue (Director of the Board, Senior EVP & Group President, Space & Satellite Business Group, SkyPerfect JSAT), Ethan Lavan (Director of Orbital Resources, Eutelsat; Chairman, Satellite Informal Group (SIG)), Deepakjit Singh (MD, Asia, Encompass Digital Media), Bill Wade (President & CEO, AsiaSat) and many others.
The CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum 2014 recognizes the generous contributions of Supporting Sponsor SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation and Sponsors Arianespace, AsiaSat, Eutelsat, Marsh, MEASAT, MHI Launch Services, SES, SSL and Thuraya.
For more information about the event, please access this direct infolink.
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‘Unexpected fountain of youth’ found in cardiac stem cells, researcher says – FOX31 Denver
Cardiac stem cells derived from young hearts helped reverse the signs of aging when directly injected into the old hearts of elderly rats, astudypublished Monday in the European Heart Journal demonstrated.
The old rats appeared newly invigorated after receiving their injections. As hoped, the cardiac stem cells improved heart function yet also provided additional benefits. The rats fur fur, shaved for surgery, grew back more quickly than expected, and their chromosomal telomeres, which commonly shrink with age, lengthened.
The old rats receiving the cardiac stem cells also had increased stamina overall, exercising more than before the infusion.
Its extremely exciting, said Dr. Eduardo Marbn, primary investigator on the research and director of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute. Witnessing the systemic rejuvenating effects, he said, its kind of like an unexpected fountain of youth.
Weve been studying new forms of cell therapy for the heart for some 12 years now, Marbn said.
Some of this research has focused on cardiosphere-derived cells.
Theyre progenitor cells from the heart itself, Marbn said. Progenitor cells are generated from stem cells and share some, but not all, of the same properties. For instance, they can differentiate into more than one kind of cell like stem cells, but unlike stem cells, progenitor cells cannot divide and reproduce indefinitely.
From hisown previous research, Marbn discovered that cardiosphere-derived cells promote the healing of the heart after a condition known as heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, which affects more than 50% of all heart failure patients.
Since heart failure with preserved ejection fraction is similar to aging, Marbn decided to experiment on old rats, ones that suffered from a type of heart problem thats very typical of what we find in older human beings: The hearts stiff, and it doesnt relax right, and it causes fluid to back up some, Marbn explained.
He and his team injected cardiosphere-derived cells from newborn rats into the hearts of 22-month-old rats thats elderly for a rat. Similar old rats received a placebo injection of saline solution. Then, Marbn and his team compared both groups to young rats that were 4 months old. After a month, they compared the rats again.
Even though the cells were injected into the heart, their effects were noticeable throughout the body, Marbn said
The animals could exercise further than they could before by about 20%, and one of the most striking things, especially for me (because Im kind of losing my hair) the animals regrew their fur a lot better after theyd gotten cells compared with the placebo rats, Marbn said.
The rats that received cardiosphere-derived cells also experienced improved heart function and showed longer heart cell telomeres.
The working hypothesis is that the cells secrete exosomes, tiny vesicles that contain a lot of nucleic acids, things like RNA, that can change patterns of the way the tissue responds to injury and the way genes are expressed in the tissue, Marbn said.
It is the exosomes that act on the heart and make it better as well as mediating long-distance effects on exercise capacity and hair regrowth, he explained.
Looking to the future, Marbn said hes begun to explore delivering the cardiac stem cells intravenously in a simple infusion instead of injecting them directly into the heart, which would be a complex procedure for a human patient and seeing whether the same beneficial effects occur.
Dr. Gary Gerstenblith, a professor of medicine in the cardiology division of Johns Hopkins Medicine, said the new study is very comprehensive.
Striking benefits are demonstrated not only from a cardiac perspective but across multiple organ systems, said Gerstenblith, who did not contribute to the new research. The results suggest that stem cell therapies should be studied as an additional therapeutic option in the treatment of cardiac and other diseases common in the elderly.
Todd Herron, director of the University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Centers Cardiovascular Regeneration Core Laboratory, said Marbn, with his previous work with cardiac stem cells, has led the field in this area.
The novelty of this bit of work is, they started to look at more precise molecular mechanisms to explain the phenomenon theyve seen in the past, said Herron, who played no role in the new research.
One strength of the approach here is that the researchers have taken cells from the organ that they want to rejuvenate, so that makes it likely that the cells stay there in that tissue, Herron said.
He believes that more extensive study, beginning with larger animals and including long-term followup, is needed before this technique could be used in humans.
We need to make sure theres no harm being done, Herron said, adding that extending the lifetime and improving quality of life amounts to a tradeoff between the potential risk and the potential good that can be done.
Capicor, the company that grows these special cells, is focused solely on therapies for muscular dystrophy and heart failure with ongoing clinical trials involving human patients, Marbn said.
Capicor hasnt announced any plans to do studies in aging, but the possibility exists.
After all, the cells have been proven completely safe in over 100 human patients, so it would be possible to fast-track them into the clinic, Marbn explained: I cant tell you that there are any plans to do that, but it could easily be done from a safety viewpoint.
'Unexpected fountain of youth' found in cardiac stem cells, researcher says - FOX31 Denver
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Radioactive shipment shifted, posed safety risk
Feb. 17. 2009
RED WING, Minn. (The Associated Press)
A radioactive piece of equipment shipped from the Prairie Island, Minn.,
nuclear plant to Pennsylvania in October shifted during transport, and had
radiation levels eight times over safety standards by the time it reached
its destination.
By webEditor at Thu, 02/19/2009 - 17:41
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30th anniversary of TMI's accident: Resources for Reporters
March 28 will mark the 30th anniversary of the accident at the Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pa. The TMI-2 accident had the greatest impact on nuclear regulation of any single event in history. Although there were no deaths or injuries, the accident is a reminder for the NRC and those who operate plants to remain vigilant in watching over the 104 operating reactors in the United States to ensure their safe operation.
1979 Accident
TMI 30
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NRC declines request to move evac centers
In the event of a nuclear emergency at Three Mile Island, residents living within 10 miles of the plant would be evacuated to relocations centers 15 to 20 miles away.
But if the event occurred during school hours, some of their children will be bused to pickup centers closer to the evacuation zone, some within a mile.
The watchdog group Three Mile Island Alert, fearing that parents who work outside the evacuation zone would not be able to reach the centers because of fleeing traffic, asked the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to move the sites for children at least five to 10 miles beyond the evacuation zones. Last week, the NRC agency denied TMIA’s petition saying existing emergency plans were adequate to protect the safety of school children in an accident.
The agency drew a distinction between the pickup centers for children, and centers for the general population:
“Host school pickup centers are intended to serve as temporary locations where school children can be held while they wait for their parents or guardians to pick them up, whereas general population relocation centers offer longer-term assistance to people displaced from their homes,” said Annette L. Vietti-Cook, secretary of the Commission, in a letter announcing the ruling.
Eric Epstein, chairman of TMI-Alert, said the ruling “defies logic.”
“I don’t think people understand that the closer you are to the 10-mile cusp the more likely it is that the roads will be shut down and folks will only be allowed to go out, and not in,” he said.
Harrisburg Mayor Stephen R. Reed, who supported TMI-Alert’s 2007 petition, also was dismayed by the NRC’s decision.
“The NRC’s refusal to consider this means that ... thousands of parents will likely be driving straight into an evacuation zone to pick up their children, increasing the risk of radiation exposure,” said Mathew Coulter, a spokesman for the mayor. “This will certainly lead to massive traffic congestion and will likely result in mass confusion.”
After the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island, federal regulators required communities to develop and test emergency plans that provide for the evacuation of everyone within a 10-mile radius of a nuclear plant.
Middletown Area School District children would be taken to Gov. Mifflin School District in Berks County.
Lower Dauphin children would go to Pine Grove School District in Schuylkill County.
But some West Shore School District kids would be bused to four schools, all less than three miles from the evacuation zone.
- Report by Garry Lenton of the Press And Journal
Garry Lenton can be reached at 944-4628, or glenton@pressandjournal.com
By webEditor at Wed, 02/18/2009 - 11:03
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Contents of UK Waste Site Nebulous, Some Say It's From TMI
By Matthew Legg Business editor
www.cumberland-news.co.uk
Nuclear chiefs have defended a controversial decision to question former employees of the Drigg waste dump to help them find
out what is in it.
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Three Mile Island: The People’s Testament by Aileen Mioko Smith, 1989
This is an excellent article written by Aileen Mioko Smith
for the 10th anniversary of the Three Mile Island Accident in 1989. The author interviewed residents who lived near
Three Mile Island at the time of the accident and chronicled their stories and experiences, which are stil denied by
government and nuclear industry officials.
Aileen is executive director of Green Action, a Japanese environmental NGO based in Kyoto, Japan.
She was nominated for the National Book Award (USA) in 1976 for the book "Minamata," co-authored with W. Eugene Smith.
(Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975.)
TMI History
By webEditor at Tue, 02/17/2009 - 17:31
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30 years later: Do nuclear plants operate more safely?
The most serious accident in US commercial nuclear power history: people vs. government
By Nicole Back - Staff Writer
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission stands by its claim that the most serious accident in US commercial nuclear power history did not cause any physical harm to those who were directly affected.
Hundreds of people lived near Three Mile Island when equipment malfunctions, design related problems and worker errors led to the partial meltdown of the TMI-2 reactor core. Residents insist the US government is lying about what really happened to them.
By webEditor at Mon, 02/16/2009 - 11:24
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TMIA's Proposal for Evacuation Standards for School Kids
By Eric Epstein
As noted below all “general populations” must be moved 10 miles from a nuclear power plant during an evacuation.
Community in the Radius
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NRC Denies TMI-Alert Petition to Move Children From Harm's Way During An Accident
(Harrisburg, Pa) - Three Mile Island Alert, Inc. filed a Petition for
Rulemaking with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on
April 11, 2007 to extend host school pick-up centers at least five miles
and preferably 10 miles beyond the plume exposure boundary zone of
Three Mile Island. Host-schools are the destination points that children
are transportedto for “safe keeping” until their parents, guardians or
primary caregivers arrive.
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Nuclear power at crossroads; waste skeletons in need of closet
This analysis was published in the Press And Journal of Middletown, Pa., in September 2008.
By Marlene Lang
We who live and work and go to school in Middletown are living and working and going to school at a crucial moment in the history of nuclear power. And so is the rest of the nation, of course.
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Three Mile Island Thirty Year Later: Accident Without An End; Industry Without Answers
(Harrisburg, Pa) - The core meltdown at Three Mile Island Unit-2 (TMI) beginning on March 28, 1979 ignited a fierce debate about the role of commercial nuclear power.
Eric Epstein, Chairman of TMI-Alert said, “In the three decades following the melt down, Americans have been exposed to a mercurial flow of misleading information relating to nuclear power. Nuclear energy is not a safe, secure or economical source of energy.”
Andrew Stein, TMIA’s economist, stated: “Three core problems and unresolved questions associated with nuclear power production continue to bedevil the industry:
“Where is the waste going to go?”
“Where is the water going to come from?”
“Why is 'Wall Street' sitting on the sidelines?”
Stein added, “In the last decade, costs associated with security, fuel, labor and nuclear waste disposal have priced nuclear power out of the marketplace.”
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Area communities ready for bang-up Thursday for Fourth of July celebrations
Tonganoxie residents will continue to light up the sky this week with fireworks. Though there is no official Independence Day celebration, residents can enjoy a fireworks display thanks to their neighbors throughout the town shooting off fireworks. Fireworks can be discharged until 11 p.m. today and Thursday.
Easter egg hunts, Egg My Yard fundraiser planned for Tonganoxie
Cornerstone Family Worship will have its EGGstravaganza event next week. Festivities will start at 10 a.m. Saturday at Cornerstone Family Worship, across from the Tonganoxie High School west campus ball fields on U.S. Highway 24-40.
Just what the ‘doctor’ ordered in Tonganoxie: Resident who favors a certain soft drink turns 101 Friday
Maybe we should rethink the experts telling us to eat our vegetables and steer clear of soft drinks. Just ask Angeline Goldasich, resident at Legend Healthcare in Tonganoxie. Her son, the Rev. Mark Goldasich, hands her a cup of Dr. Pepper during an interview Monday with The Mirror. Angeline eagerly drinks a little by straw.
Caregiver support group being offered each month in Tonganoxie
Legend Healthcare and Heartland Hospice Care is offering a caregiver support group the fourth Tuesday of each month in Tonganoxie. The next meeting will be 6 p.m. March 26 at Legend Healthcare, 1010 East St. The complimentary support group is for caregivers and family members of loved ones who are suffering from a disease of which there is no cure. Meetings are designed to help caregivers with strategies to help in learning about the disease and stress-relief techniques. The White Birch Agency, Realty Executives of Kansas City, also is sponsoring the support group. For more information, call Amanda Starcher at 913-369-8705.
Forecast favorable for 31st Annual Tonganoxie St. Patrick’s Parade on Saturday
Irish eyes should be smiling on a sunny Saturday. Weather forecasts show a weekend reprieve from precipitation and — hold on to your four-leaf clovers — 52 degrees with sunny skies. This year’s St. Patrick’s Parade — the 31st installment of the annual event — will start at 11 a.m. Saturday in downtown Tonganoxie.
Tonganoxie St. Patrick’s Parade is March 16
Come and celebrate the luck of the Irish. This year’s St. Patrick’s Parade — the 31st installment of the annual event — will start at 11 a.m. March 16 in downtown Tonganoxie. T-shirts will be on sale at various locations that will be announced in the coming weeks.
For LOVE of pizza
Sawyer Vestal’s favorite menu item at Gambino’s is pepperoni pizza. His love of said food was on display this week at his Valentine party in Stephanie Lang’s third-grade class at Tonganoxie Elementary School. As the tradition of Valentine’s Day goes, elementary school children exchange V-Day cards.
My spare, with care: Tonganoxie man receives kidney just in time for Valentine’s Day
Michael Kelly has two Valentines this year in a February he likely never will forget. The Tonganoxie attorney, who has battled kidney problems much of his life, successfully accepted a donated kidney from Deb Simmons of Lawrence last week. Kelly, who had been on dialysis for years and had to have a hand amputated due to other health issues, said he felt like a new person after his five-hour surgery Wednesday, Feb. 6 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
No shadow, better weather, says this year’s ‘Tonganoxie Phil’
Phil George didn’t see his shadow when he went to work Saturday. As this year’s honorary Tonganoxie Phil, that means an early spring in these parts, just as it did in Pennsylvania after Punxsutawney Phil saw no shadow back East. George said it was foggy and drizzly when he first went outside Saturday, but he probably wouldn’t have seen his shadow anyway.
Souper Bowl Challenge between Tonganoxie and McLouth Methodist churches wraps up this weekend
Souper Bowl drive continuing until Saturday The annual Souper Bowl Community Soup Drive has started. The drive is a friendly competition featuring McLouth and Tonganoxie United Methodist churches to see who can collect the most cans to help those in need.
A closer look at the latest Quilts of Valor in Tonganoxie
Local quilters created four quilts that earned the status of being Quilts of Valor. The quilts were dedicated and presented during Tonganoxie USD 464’s inaugural Veterans Day Program at the Tonganoxie High School performing Arts Center. Receiving the quilts were Jerry Jarrett and Elmer Tanking, along with the families of the late Lucas Frantz and Larry Meadows.
Letters to Santa: Christmas 2018
Editor’s note: Tonganoxie youths sent letters to the North Pole. The Mirror intercepted a few of those letters at the Post Office before the postal service sent them on to Santa Claus. Here are a few of those letters:
Winter wonderlands in Tonganoxie
When Tim and Teresa Burge lived in Tennessee, Tim was putting up decorations for his extravagant Christmas light show display. one of the children in the neighborhood exclaimed “That’s so cool!” “That just sold me right there,” Burge said. “It’s a lot of work, but it’s worth it.”
Holiday happenings: Breakfast with Santa; letters to Santa; silent auction wrapping up; Wreaths Across America; Elf breakout game; Linwood lighting contest
Youths will get a chance to have breakfast with Santa in December at Tonganoxie Middle School. The event will be 8:30-11:30 a.m. Dec. 15 at the TMS commons area. Cost is $5 per person for both adults and children. The fee covers a pancake and sausage breakfast, photo with Santa Claus, craft tables for the children and a silent auction. Tickets will be sold at the door. Proceeds will benefit the Tonganoxie High School After Prom.
Snow Day activity option in Tonganoxie: Write your letter to Santa
Beginning today, parents (and youths) can drop letters to Santa off at the front desk of the Tonganoxie Post Office. 1610 E. Woodfield Drive. The letters must be turned in by Dec. 14 to receive a response from Santa Claus. Be sure to include a return address with the letters. In addition, some of the letters may be shared with The Mirror newspaper and published in an upcoming edition or at tonganoxiemirror.com. The Tonganoxie Recreation Commission and Tonganoxie Public Library co-sponsor the Santa letters. Some letters may be shared in the The (Tonganoxie) Mirror.
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Catechist’s energy fuels passion in faith formation class
Catechist Luz Santiago leads a table of RCIA candidates in a discussion on the Sacrament of Baptism during a class at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church in Garland Nov. 6. (JENNA TETER/The Texas Catholic)
By Cathy Harasta
The Texas Catholic
GARLAND — When catechist Luz Santiago introduced “Chosen: This is your Catholic Faith” for teens at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church in September, she said that she sensed some skepticism in the second-year Confirmation class for RCIA participants.
Her purchase of red tote bags for the 26 eighth-through-12th graders met with a lukewarm response from some students who probably regarded the Monday night class as yet another obligation in their busy schedules, Santiago said.
But not only did the teens warm up to the “Chosen” faith formation program, but they also began to take pride in the tote bags, which kept their assignments organized and helped students from Garland, Mesquite, Forney and other nearby communities to form a connection.
“It was eye-opening to see how their attitudes have changed,” said Santiago, a retired elementary school teacher who previously taught faith formation to younger children. “Now, the kids will come up to me and say, ‘Hi,’ when they see me at Mass. When the class started, some of the boys were kind of, ‘Eh.’ ”
“Chosen” is a faith formation program by Ascension Press that incorporates engaging, thought-provoking videos and small-group discussions at intervals during the films. The content shares the Catholic faith in a meaningful way for teens, who get to speak their minds to each other and a facilitator about what they are learning, in class and in their lives.
“During the videos, you experience feelings you never even thought about,” said Mariel Lamai, an eighth-grader from Forney, whose father, Albert, also attends the class. “From Day One, you could see that Mrs. Santiago clearly is very organized and hard-working. She definitely goes above and beyond.”
Youth Is Served
In tackling teen faith formation for the first time, Santiago brought great joy, energy and teaching insights to her ministry.
She took painstaking care in planning each lesson, previewing and timing each video, and setting up the classroom. Her initiatives included tapping her love of arts and crafts to create a compelling painting with the theme of the Holy Spirit for the classroom. She brings each student’s favorite treats to celebrate a birthday.
“You can’t just put the video on for the class and go home,” she said. “Over the summer, I sat down and watched every single video and read every lesson. The program also has a book component that is important. The students have a challenge of the week, maybe to be especially nice to someone who has not asked them to be nice.”
Santiago also recruited her husband, José, to be a class discussion aide.
“It was a challenge to go out of my comfort zone,” he said. “I’ve seen them starting to open up more.”
Sherri Williams, St. Michael’s Parish catechetical leader, had longed to launch “Chosen” for several years before the day last summer when Santiago happened to spot the program’s videos and materials in Williams’ office.
“I’d been praying for someone to teach it,” Williams said. “It requires a self-starter, a go-getter. When Luz noticed the videos in my office and asked about them, I told her that nobody here had tried the program. She took it home and she ran with it. She previewed all the materials and—Boom!—she brought me a lesson plan.
“This was our maiden voyage with ‘Chosen,’ and we’re already seeing the fruits in the students’ more open faces. They’re volunteering with good attitudes and good spirits.”
The parents also have found the class enlightening, Lamai said.
“It’s a very good program that equips us in terms of knowledge,” he said. “The parents are also the students. The parents are also getting to know each other better than they can at Mass.”
Parents sit in groups apart from the teens and discuss the faith topics presented in the videos. During a recent class, 18 parents sat at four tables and chatted earnestly about a question asked in the video—“Where am I headed with the choices I’m making right now?”
“It’s awesome having the parents present,” Santiago said. “They might not have had the preparation, and they have questions. They really are enjoying the program.”
Lamai said that he would like the program to be available to parishioners beyond those who are preparing for Confirmation.
“When we first arrived for the class, we were like, ‘What’s this?’ ” he said. “The more we come here, the faster the time goes. You don’t feel the time passing, which tells me something. The things that are discussed in the program make you feel so empowered that you wish others could experience it.”
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Posts tagged with "Officer Patrick Zamarripa"
To Serve. To Protect. To Honor.
Wednesday, July 20, 2016048 The lives that they gave were gifts to those they vowed to serve and to protect. Their names will be eternal. Sgt. Michael Smith. Senior Cpl. Lorne Ahrens. Officer Patrick Zamarripa. Officer Michael Krol. Officer Brent Thompson.
City mourns, celebrates lives of fallen officers (VIDEO)
Wednesday, July 20, 2016090 The aftermath of deadly shootings in downtown Dallas on July 7 left a city heartbroken as five police officers lost their lives when a lone gunman opened fire after a protest and rally. Over the course of the next week, civic and faith leaders joined the community and the nation in honoring those officers who died as well as those who...
Portrait of Courage: Officer Patrick Zamarripa
Wednesday, July 20, 2016096 Patrick Zamarripa’s life was one of service. As a child, he served as an altar boy at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Fort Worth. Following graduation from Paschal High School, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving three tours in Iraq. When Zamarripa returned home to Texas, he became a police officer in Dallas.
SLIDESHOW: Portraits of Courage
Wednesday, July 20, 2016039 The aftermath of a deadly shooting in downtown Dallas on July 7 left a city heartbroken as five police officers lost their lives when a lone gunman opened fire after a protest and rally. Over the course of the next week, civic and faith leaders joined the community and the nation in honoring those officers who died as well as those who...
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Self-made Bollywood Stars
22, Mar 2015
It is said that if your father, mother or anyone from your family is in Bollywood, it's very easy for you to make an entry in B-Town. On the other hand, if you don't have any filmi background then you can hold the hand of a superstar and be famous in Bollywood. But we also have a few celebs who are self-made Bollywood stars. Today in this feature, we talk about the stars who don't have any filmi background nor have they taken the help of a superstar to be successful in Bollywood.
Also read: Bollywood Actresses Who Went From Boom To Doom
Shah Rukh Khan:
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The first in our list is superstar Shah Rukh Khan. SRK was a regular Delhi guy. But, his dreams were larger than life. He turned to acting and started his career with the small screen. And all thanks to his acting skills, he got an opportunity to star on the big screen. Post this, there was no looking back for him. Today, he is the richest actor in Bollywood. His stardom is more than what any star kid has. SRK is a perfect example of a self-made star.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan:
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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is indisputably one of the most beautiful women on this earth. She won the Miss World title in 1994 before turning to movies. She started her career down South and then entered Bollywood. The actress' first big release was Sanjay Leela Bhansali's ‘Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam' in which she proved that she is more than just a gorgeous face! Today Ash is one of the most respected actresses of Bollywood, whose comeback to movies is much awaited.
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Akshay Kumar:
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‘Na Main Amitabh, Na Dilip Kumar, Na Kise Hero Ke Bachche, Hum Hai Seedhe Saadhe Akshay Akshay.' This is a hit song from ‘Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi' and the track very well explains Akshay Kumar's scenario. The actor, who made his debut in the early 1990s, made a mark in the industry purely on his acting and stunt merits. Akshay Kumar became a superstarsans any godfather's support. He has shown his talent in action films as well as comedy.
Bipasha Basu:
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Today, Bipasha Basu might not be in one of the best phases of her career; but the actress has a decent number of fans and is surely a star in her own rights. Bipasha, too, didn't have any prior connection with B-Town. But, with her sharp features, character-driven roles and fantastic acting skills, she made a mark. She did not even take the help of any superstar in the industry to be at the top. In fact, she is one of the few actresses in Bollywood who doesn't shy away from starring with newbies in her films, thereby carrying a film on her own shoulders. After a spate of horror films, she has been tagged as the horror queen of Bollywood today.
Vidya Balan:
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Do you know what's the difference between any other superstar actress in Bollywood and Vidya Balan? Well, the difference is that Vidya has not yet worked opposite any of the supreme Khans of Bollywood, yet has been successful in making a mark. There was a time when she was said to be the fourth Khan of Bollywood, to which the actress was quoted saying why can't the Khans be called a Balan. Vidya has carried off varied characters with ease, and has excelled in each one of them. No wonder she even won a National award and several hearts across the globe.
Kangana Ranaut:
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Like Vidya, even Kangana Ranaut has made a mark in the industry all by herself. Kangana, too, has not yet worked with any of the supreme Khans. She has proven that she needs no one to make her the ‘Queen' of Bollywood. Her acting skills were enough for her to be one of the top actresses in Bollywood today.
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George Percy Farr1
George Percy Farr lived at Bedford, Cape Province, South AfricaG.1
Child of George Percy Farr
Gladys Raina Farr+1
Leonard Compton Arthur1
M, #125812, b. 1 February 1942, d. 11 February 1956
Leonard Compton Arthur was born on 1 February 1942.1 He was the son of Major George Leonard Arthur and Gladys Raina Farr.1 He died on 11 February 1956 at age 14.1
Sir Gavyn Farr Arthur1
M, #125813, b. 13 September 1951, d. 16 May 2016
Sir Gavyn Farr Arthur was born on 13 September 1951.1 He was the son of Major George Leonard Arthur and Gladys Raina Farr.1 He died on 16 May 2016 at age 64.2
He was educated at Harrow School, Harrow, London, EnglandG.1 He graduated from Christ Church, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, EnglandG, with a Master of Arts (M.A.)1 He was admitted to Middle Temple in 1975 entitled to practise as a Barrister-at-Law.1 He held the office of Sheriff of the City of London between 1988 and 1999.1 He held the office of Alderman of Cripplegate Ward in 1991.1 He held the office of Lord Mayor of London.3 He held the office of Bencher of Middle Temple in 2001.1 He was appointed Knight Bachelor in 2002.3
[S130] Wikipedia, online http;//www.wikipedia.org. Hereinafter cited as Wikipedia.
Archibald John Arthur1
M, #125814, b. 3 September 1909
Archibald John Arthur was born on 3 September 1909.1 He is the son of George Frederick Neale Arthur and Edith Lavender Taylor.1
Sigismund Montagu Arthur1
M, #125815, b. 26 August 1828, d. 26 August 1855
Sigismund Montagu Arthur was born on 26 August 1828.1 He was the son of Lt.-Gen. Rt. Hon. Sir George Arthur, 1st Bt. and Eliza Ord Ussher Smith.1 He died on 26 August 1855 at age 27.1
John Raynor Arthur1
M, #125816, b. 20 November 1830, d. 19 November 1903
John Raynor Arthur was born on 20 November 1830.1 He was the son of Lt.-Gen. Rt. Hon. Sir George Arthur, 1st Bt. and Eliza Ord Ussher Smith.1 He married Hon. Aileen Spring Rice, daughter of Hon. Stephen Edmond Spring Rice and Ellen Mary Frere, on 6 October 1864.1 He died on 19 November 1903 at age 72.1
He was in the Bombay Civil Service.1 He lived at Normandy Park, Guildford, Surrey, EnglandG.1
Children of John Raynor Arthur and Hon. Aileen Spring Rice
Aileen Mary Arthur+2 b. 3 Sep 1865, d. 10 Apr 1944
Sigismund Raynor Arthur+1 b. 9 Feb 1867, d. 8 Feb 1920
Oswald George Arthur2 b. 16 Jul 1869, d. 20 Mar 1896
Leonora Frances Arthur2 b. 22 Jan 1871, d. 21 Nov 1956
Major Edmund John Arthur+2 b. 29 Mar 1873, d. 26 Jan 1953
Christina Lucy Arthur2 b. 31 Dec 1875, d. 9 Mar 1962
Major Henry Bartle Compton Arthur2 b. 14 Oct 1879, d. 10 Aug 1916
Hon. Aileen Spring Rice1
F, #125817, d. 15 June 1916
Hon. Aileen Spring Rice was the daughter of Hon. Stephen Edmond Spring Rice and Ellen Mary Frere.1,2 She married John Raynor Arthur, son of Lt.-Gen. Rt. Hon. Sir George Arthur, 1st Bt. and Eliza Ord Ussher Smith, on 6 October 1864.1 She died on 15 June 1916.1
From 6 October 1864, her married name became Arthur.1 In 1870 she was granted the rank of a baron's daughter.2
Children of Hon. Aileen Spring Rice and John Raynor Arthur
Hon. Stephen Edmond Spring Rice1
M, #125818, b. 31 August 1814, d. 9 May 1865
Hon. Stephen Edmond Spring Rice was born on 31 August 1814.2 He was the son of Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon and Lady Theodosia Pery.2,3 He married Ellen Mary Frere, daughter of William Frere, on 11 March 1839.3 He died on 9 May 1865 at age 50, at sea.3
He was Deputy Chairman of the Board Customs.3
Children of Hon. Stephen Edmond Spring Rice and Ellen Mary Frere
Hon. Aileen Spring Rice+1 d. 15 Jun 1916
Hon. Lucy Spring Rice+3 d. 10 May 1884
Hon. Theodosia Spring Rice+3 d. 6 Jul 1926
Mary Spring Rice+3 d. 25 Apr 1868
Hon. Alice Spring Rice3 d. 23 Dec 1929
Hon. Frederica Spring Rice3 d. 8 Apr 1924
Hon. Catherine Ellen Spring Rice3 d. 22 Sep 1930
Hon. Amy Spring Rice3 d. 13 Jun 1920
Thomas Spring Rice, 2nd Baron Monteagle of Brandon+2 b. 31 May 1849, d. 24 Dec 1926
Francis Spring Rice, 4th Baron Monteagle of Brandon+3 b. 1 Oct 1852, d. 22 Dec 1937
[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume IX, page 118. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
Sigismund Raynor Arthur1
M, #125819, b. 9 February 1867, d. 8 February 1920
Sigismund Raynor Arthur was born on 9 February 1867.1 He was the son of John Raynor Arthur and Hon. Aileen Spring Rice.1 He married Constance Eleanor Hobhouse, daughter of Sir Charles Parry Hobhouse, 3rd Bt. and Edith Lucy Turton, on 2 September 1891.1 He died on 8 February 1920 at age 52.1
He was in the Indian Civil Service.1
Children of Sigismund Raynor Arthur and Constance Eleanor Hobhouse
George Raynor Arthur1 b. 1 Aug 1892, d. 16 May 1894
Reverend John Sigismund Arthur+1 b. 24 Aug 1894, d. 16 Dec 1974
Leonard Charles Arthur1 b. 23 Feb 1898, d. 8 Mar 1911
Lucy Eleanor Arthur+1 b. 20 Jan 1904, d. 1982
Sir Oswald Raynor Arthur+1 b. 16 Dec 1905, d. 4 Dec 1973
Constance Eleanor Hobhouse1
F, #125820, d. 27 October 1947
Constance Eleanor Hobhouse was the daughter of Sir Charles Parry Hobhouse, 3rd Bt. and Edith Lucy Turton.1,2 She married Sigismund Raynor Arthur, son of John Raynor Arthur and Hon. Aileen Spring Rice, on 2 September 1891.1 She died on 27 October 1947.1
From 2 September 1891, her married name became Arthur.1
Children of Constance Eleanor Hobhouse and Sigismund Raynor Arthur
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William Gordon van t'Hoff1
Last Edited=21 Nov 2007
William Gordon van t'Hoff was born on 21 February 1958.1 He is the son of Walter van t'Hoff and Rosemary Anne Cooper.2
Hugh Colin van t'Hoff1
M, #252092, b. 4 April 1960
Hugh Colin van t'Hoff was born on 4 April 1960.1 He is the son of Walter van t'Hoff and Rosemary Anne Cooper.2
Graham Robert van t'Hoff1
M, #252093, b. 20 December 1961
Graham Robert van t'Hoff was born on 20 December 1961.1 He is the son of Walter van t'Hoff and Rosemary Anne Cooper.2
Lucy Anne Cooper1
F, #252094, d. 20 September 1946
Lucy Anne Cooper was the daughter of Sir Richard Powell Cooper, 1st Bt. and Elizabeth Anne Ashmall.2 She married Brig.-Gen. Richard Mildmay Foot, son of Reverend Cunningham Noel Foot, on 30 March 1902.1 She died on 20 September 1946.1
From 30 March 1902, her married name became Foot.
Reverend Cunningham Noel Foot1
Reverend Cunningham Noel Foot was the Rector at Dogmersfield, Hampshire, EnglandG.1 He graduated from Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, EnglandG, with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)1
Child of Reverend Cunningham Noel Foot
Brig.-Gen. Richard Mildmay Foot2 d. 16 Oct 1933
Brig.-Gen. Richard Mildmay Foot1
M, #252096, d. 16 October 1933
Brig.-Gen. Richard Mildmay Foot was the son of Reverend Cunningham Noel Foot.2 He married Lucy Anne Cooper, daughter of Sir Richard Powell Cooper, 1st Bt. and Elizabeth Anne Ashmall, on 30 March 1902.1 He died on 16 October 1933.1
He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.)1 He gained the rank of Brigadier-General in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.1 He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.)1 He was appointed Companion, Order of the Bath (C.B.)1 He was appointed Companion, Order of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.)1
Mary Mabel Cooper1
F, #252097, b. 1880, d. 5 March 1953
Mary Mabel Cooper was born in 1880 at Lichfield, Staffordshire, EnglandG.2 She was the daughter of Sir Richard Powell Cooper, 1st Bt. and Elizabeth Anne Ashmall.3 She married Kenward Stuart Barker, son of Christopher Dove Barker, on 19 May 1903.1 She died on 5 March 1953.1
From 19 May 1903, her married name became Barker.
Children of Mary Mabel Cooper and Kenward Stuart Barker
Violet Mabel Barker2 b. 1904
Gordon Kenward Barker2 b. 1906
Kathleen Mary Barker2 b. 1908
[S4567] Bill Norton, "re: Pitman Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 6 April 2010 and 19 April 2011. Hereinafter cited as "re: Pitman Family."
Christopher Dove Barker1
M, #252098, d. 1905
Christopher Dove Barker married Alice Gray Elmslie in 1854 at Totnes, Devon, EnglandG.2 He died in 1905 at Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, EnglandG.2
He lived at Radnor House, Great Malvern, Worcestershire, EnglandG.1
Children of Christopher Dove Barker and Alice Gray Elmslie
Alice Florence Barker2 b. 1857
Gertrude Emmeline Barker2 b. c 1859, d. 1940
Constance Barker2 b. c 1862
Eva Louisa G. Barker2 b. 1864
Mabel Gray Barker+2 b. 1868
Reginald Stanley Barker2 b. 1869
Child of Christopher Dove Barker
Kenward Stuart Barker+3 b. 1863, d. 8 Oct 1946
Gordon Kenward Barker1
M, #252099, b. 1906
Gordon Kenward Barker was born in 1906 at Watchbury Barford, Warwickshire, EnglandG.1 He is the son of Kenward Stuart Barker and Mary Mabel Cooper.1
Edith Maud Cooper1
F, #252100, b. 1881, d. 2 February 1923
Edith Maud Cooper was born in 1881 at Lichfield, Staffordshire, England.2 She was the daughter of Sir Richard Powell Cooper, 1st Bt. and Elizabeth Anne Ashmall.3 She married Lt.-Col. Robert Essington Negus, son of Thomas Addison Negus and Edith Mary Brace, on 20 July 1910.1 She died on 2 February 1923, leaving issue.1
From 20 July 1910, her married name became Negus.
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Rev. Hon. John Blackwood1
M, #391461, b. 9 October 1757, d. 5 January 1833
Rev. Hon. John Blackwood was born on 9 October 1757.1 He was the son of Sir John Blackwood, 2nd Bt. and Dorcas Stevenson, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye.2 He married, firstly, Sophia Benson, daughter of Hill Benson, in 1778.1 He married, secondly, Eliza Dupré, daughter of Josias Dupré, on 4 June 1803.1 He died on 5 January 1833 at age 75, without issue.1
Hill Benson1
Last Edited=23 Oct 2009
Hill Benson held the office of Archdeacon of Down.1
Child of Hill Benson
Sophia Benson2 d. 1803
Sophia Benson1
F, #391463, d. 1803
Sophia Benson was the daughter of Hill Benson.2 She married Rev. Hon. John Blackwood, son of Sir John Blackwood, 2nd Bt. and Dorcas Stevenson, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye, in 1778.1 She died in 1803.1
From 1778, her married name became Blackwood.
Kendall Acton Brooke1
M, #391464, b. 27 November 1922, d. 10 September 2008
Kendall Acton Brooke was born on 27 November 1922.1 He was the son of Reginald William Acton Brooke and Lulu Hendrik Lodewyk Jense van Nieuwenhuis.1 He married, secondly, Erica Fay Cushny.2 He married, firstly, Fay Desch on 10 September 1948.2 He and Fay Desch were divorced circa 1958.2 He died on 10 September 2008 at age 85.2
Child of Kendall Acton Brooke and Fay Desch
Roger William Acton Brooke+2 b. 7 May 1953
Children of Kendall Acton Brooke and Erica Fay Cushny
Robin Brooke2 b. 28 Jan 1963
David Kendal Acton Brooke+2 b. 17 Jul 1964
[S3900] Alan Brooke, "re: Brooke Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 6 August 2009. Hereinafter cited as "re: Brooke Family."
[S4416] Roger Brooke, "re: Brooke Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 7 January 2010. Hereinafter cited as "re: Brooke Family."
Reginald Acton Brooke1
M, #391465, b. 10 August 1924, d. 21 April 1945
Reginald Acton Brooke was born on 10 August 1924 at South AfricaG.1 He was the son of Reginald William Acton Brooke and Lulu Hendrik Lodewyk Jense van Nieuwenhuis.1 He died on 21 April 1945 at age 20 at Finale, ItalyG, killed in action.1
He gained the rank of in the South African Armoured Car Regiment.1 He fought in the Second World War.1
Captain Robert Temple Blackwood1
M, #391466, b. 13 July 1788, d. 18 June 1815
Captain Robert Temple Blackwood was born on 13 July 1788.1 He was the son of Hans Blackwood, 3rd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye and Mehetabel Hester Temple.2 He died on 18 June 1815 at age 26 at Waterloo, BelgiumG, killed in action.1
He gained the rank of officer in the 52nd Regiment.1 He gained the rank of Captain in the 69th Foot.1 He fought in the Seige of Badajoz in 1811, where he was severely wounded.1 He fought in the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815.1
Hans Blackwood1
M, #391467, b. 28 September 1792
Hans Blackwood was born on 28 September 1792.1 He was the son of Hans Blackwood, 3rd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye and Mehetabel Hester Temple.2 He died at Naples, ItalyG, from a fever, unmarried.1
Joyce Revington1
F, #391468, b. 14 April 1913, d. 19 February 1986
Joyce Revington was born on 14 April 1913.1 She married Edward Acton Brooke, son of Reginald William Acton Brooke and Lulu Hendrik Lodewyk Jense van Nieuwenhuis, on 18 December 1945 at Cape Town, Cape Province, South AfricaG.1 She died on 19 February 1986 at age 72 at Somerset West, Cape Province, South AfricaG.1
From 18 December 1945, her married name became Brooke.1
Joan Elizabeth Coetzer1
F, #391469, b. 30 March 1930, d. 18 November 2008
Joan Elizabeth Coetzer was born on 30 March 1930 at Pretoria, Transvaal, South AfricaG.1 She married Edward Acton Brooke, son of Reginald William Acton Brooke and Lulu Hendrik Lodewyk Jense van Nieuwenhuis, on 5 April 1958 at Cape Town, Cape Province, South AfricaG.1 She died on 18 November 2008 at age 78 at Canberra, A.C.T., AustraliaG.1
From 5 April 1958, her married name became Brooke.1
Child of Joan Elizabeth Coetzer and Edward Acton Brooke
Alan Reginald James Acton Brooke+1 b. 17 Feb 1959
Alan Reginald James Acton Brooke1
Alan Reginald James Acton Brooke was born on 17 February 1959 at Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South AfricaG.1 He is the son of Edward Acton Brooke and Joan Elizabeth Coetzer.1 He married Sofie Kusnadi on 20 October 2000.1
Children of Alan Reginald James Acton Brooke and Sofie Kusnadi
Aidan Kusnadi Acton Brooke1 b. 7 Oct 2001
Sally Adrianna Acton Brooke1 b. 27 Dec 2006
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Things to See and Do in Sarajevo
by Kara Hernandez
The shadow of the Bosnian war and the subsequent three year attack of the city itself, still looks around the edges. Here’s an awesome motivations to visit Sarajevo!
Visit a World War I Site
It’s not a misrepresentation to say that the occasions of June 28, 1914 always changed the course of history. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed, Austria announced war on Serbia, Serbia’s partners proclaimed war on Austria, Germany bounced in and World War I commenced. The scandalous occasion happened on a corner in Sarajevo, when the auto conveying the Archduke and his significant other slowed down close to the Latin Bridge. Gavrilo Princip, an individual from a nearby progressive development, lethally shot both travelers. Back in the times of Yugoslavia, Princip was praised as a legend who cut down the Austro-Hungarian realm, and there used to be a solid piece with a couple of impressions denoting the site. Rather, guests can look at a photograph raised before the adjacent Sarajevo Museum, which houses a perpetual show laying out what life resembled in the city from 1878 to 1918.
Sarajevo is bounty captivating all alone, however the magnificence of Bosnia regularly lies outside its urban communities. The larger part of this rugged nation is thickly forested and divided by streams so blue it’s practically staggering. Luckily for guests to Sarajevo, the Skakavac Waterfall is just 12 kilometers outside the city and offers the ideal opportunity to appreciate this magnificent nature without wandering too far away. This “Grasshopper Waterfall” is a lovely two hour trek from the town of Nahorevo, only north of the downtown area. The “grasshopper” name gets to be apparent immediately, as the water skips and hops starting with one of the precipice’s fissure then onto the next as it falls 320 feet down. There’s not a great deal of water spouting from the seven springs at the top and streaming over the edge, yet these falls have a dazzling wonder in any case.
Relax and Enjoy Bosnian Coffee
Starbucks hasn’t advanced toward Bosnia and Herzegovina, and one evening spent at one of its cafés makes it simple to see why not. There’s no venti estimated vanilla soy lattes being trucked around Sarajevo. Rather, espresso is implied a break from the day, an opportunity to make up for lost time with companions and unwind. Here it’s served Turkish style, in a little copper pot joined by a small container inside another copper holder. To drink, scoop a touch of the cream that assembles on the top into the container, then pour in the fluid. Those with an affection for sugar ought to attempt the conventional technique for sweetening the blend: place one of the 3D shapes under the tongue or between the teeth, then taste the espresso. Local people can turn these little pots out for quite a long time, so locate a shady bistro in the old town, unwind and appreciate the people-viewing.
Visit Bascarsija, Sarajevo’s Old Bazaar
Bascarsija generally signifies “fundamental market,” and is the term used to allude to Sarajevo’s old town. Developed by the Ottomans in the fifteenth century, the bazaar made Sarajevo into one of the primary focuses of exchange the Balkans it’s still the spot to purchase Bosnian fortunes – whether that is an espresso serving set hand-created out of copper or the unit of the national soccer group. Discussing copper, there’s a whole path, called Kazandžilu or Coppersmith Street, devoted to the specialty, where laborers pound and etch their merchandise in many little shops. The road is situated close Sebilj, an open wellspring that is another vital point of interest and nearby meeting spot. Remember its area – the boulevards of the old bazaar meander and weave, so it’s anything but difficult to get muddled. Of course, there are such a variety of welcoming bistros and captivating shops that getting lost matters not in any way.
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Ben Relles
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Wonders of Latin America: Puzzling Pyramids of Mexico
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History.com explores The Temple of the Sun in Teotihuacan, the greatest city of this ancient civilization, and the site of the mysterious pyramids of Mexico. Run time 05:05.
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11 years after epic, Federer tops Nadal in Wimbledon semis
Publish Date - July 13, 2019, 01:33 AM
Wimbledon, July 12 (AP/UNB) — Roger Federer waited 11 years to get another shot at Rafael Nadal on Centre Court. This one was a semifinal, not a final. It was settled in four sets, not five.
Felt like just as much of a classic contest, though, one that anyone present is not likely to forget.
That, of course, includes Federer, who managed to pull away and beat longtime rival Nadal 7-6 (3), 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 Friday by finally coming through on his fifth match point.
"I'm exhausted. It was tough at the end," Federer said. "Rafa played some unbelievable shots to stay in the match. I thought the match was played at a very high level."
Federer closed in on a ninth championship at the All England Club and 21st Grand Slam trophy in all. In Sunday's final, Federer will go up against Novak Djokovic, who is the defending champion and seeded No. 1.
Djokovic overcame Roberto Bautista Agut 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 earlier Friday to reach his sixth Wimbledon final. Djokovic is eyeing a fifth championship at Wimbledon and 16th major title.
As entertaining Djokovic vs. Bautista Agut was — including a 45-stroke point won by Djokovic — it was merely a tasty appetizer ahead of the day's delectable main course.
Not only was this the 40th installment of Federer vs. Nadal, but it also was their first meeting at Wimbledon since the 2008 final. Nadal won that one 9-7 in a fifth set that ended after 9 p.m., as any trace of daylight disappeared, in what some consider the greatest tennis match in the sport's lengthy annals.
How excited, then, were the spectators for the rematch, more than a decade in the making? When Federer and Nadal strode out into the sunshine at 4:30 p.m., they were welcomed by a standing ovation before ever swinging a racket.
Quickly, that greeting was justified. These are, of course, two of the greats of all-time — maybe the two greatest — and they lived up to that status for stretches.
One key, for Federer, was that his rebuilt backhand, hit strong and flat more frequently than it used to be, held steady against Nadal's bullwhip of a lefty forehand. Another was that he was able to withstand Nadal's serve, which has improved a ton over the years. Federer amassed 10 break points, and though he succeeded on just two, that was enough, with the last, vital conversion making it 2-1 in the fourth set. And then there was this: Federer won 25 of the 33 points when he went to the net.
"I didn't play well enough," said Nadal, who lost a five-set semifinal to Djokovic a year ago.
There was something of an "Anything you can do, I can do, too" vibe to Friday's proceedings. Federer would kick up chalk with an ace to a corner, and Nadal would do the same in the next game. When Nadal jumped out to a 3-2 lead in the first-set tiebreaker, Federer used sublime returning to reel off five points in a row to claim it.
Who else but Federer could strike a serve so well that Nadal's framed response would end up caught by someone seated in the Royal Box, as happened early in the second set? Who else but Nadal could attack Federer's generally unassailable forehand in such a manner as to draw one so out of character and off the mark that it landed in the third row, as happened later in that set? And who else but Nadal could somehow retrieve an apparently untouchable ball and send up a lob that Federer would shank a leaping overhead, as happened in the last game?
"I thought probably the biggest points in the match went my way. There were some tight ones and long rallies," Federer said. "He plays with such velocity and spins and everything, you're not always sure you're going to connect the right way."
No one ever has managed to reduce Federer to mid-match mediocrity quite the way Nadal can on occasion, part of why the Spaniard entered Friday with a 24-15 overall lead head-to-head, including 10-3 at Grand Slam tournaments.
The final stretch Friday must have been agonizing for Federer, who already had wasted a pair of match points when Nadal served at 5-3. At 5-4, Nadal held a break point but let it slip away when he netted a backhand, then bent over and put his hands on his head, exasperation personified.
Federer's third match point — as his wife, Mirka, peeked through fingers covering her face — was a 24-stroke masterpiece that Nadal took with an inside-out forehand winner. The fourth was saved with a cross-court backhand. But when the fifth opportunity to close it out arrived after 3 hours, 2 minutes, Federer saw Nadal push a backhand long.
This was the second major in a row where they've faced off: Nadal won their windy French Open semifinal last month en route to his 12th championship on the red clay there. But Wimbledon is Federer's dominion. He's won 101 matches at the place — more than any other man at any other Slam, even Nadal at Roland Garros — and all of those trophies.
Earlier, Djokovic watched the 23rd-seeded Bautista Agut's shot hit the net tape, pop in the air and slide over for a winner that tied their semifinal at a set apiece. Walking to his changeover chair, as fans roared with approval, Djokovic nodded and waved his racket, then his right hand, at the crowd, sarcastically encouraging folks to get louder, as if to say, "Yeah, good for him and good for you. Enjoy it while you can."
Soon enough, he was ending that 45-stroke point — the longest on record at Wimbledon, where such stats date to 2006 — with a backhand winner to save a break point, then cupping his ear while glaring into the stands.
"I had to dig deep," Djokovic said.
His match was his 36th career appearance in the final four at a major tournament — and the debut in that round for Bautista Agut.
Even Bautista Agut didn't really expect his visit to the All England Club to last this long: The Spaniard was supposed to meet a half-dozen of his buddies on the island of Ibiza this weekend for his bachelor party. Instead, those pals were sitting in a guest box at Centre Court on Friday.
Eventually, Djokovic took control with his enviable ability to return serves, track down balls and go from defense to offense.
Now he's Federer's problem.
"I hope I can push him to the brink and hopefully beat him. But it's going to be very difficult, as we know," Federer said. "He's not No. 1 just by chance."
No 500 total but big hits still decide World Cup champion
Delph leaves Man City to join Everton
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Time Magazine Special Report - Bush, Cheney & Scooter Libby
Terribly interesting cover story in the August 3 issue of Time Magazine.
Titled "Inside Bush and Cheney's Final Days" it's written by Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopt and details the Vice President's attempts to get a Presidential pardon for his former aide, Scooter Libby.
Much more than being about this singular attempt, this Time Special Report also illuminates the relationship between Bush and Cheney and how the gears of power and relationship grind between the two men. It's also a fascinating look at how Cheney functioned in the White House along with the multitude of advisers, lawyers and Cabinet members who also provided influence on Bush.
Having finished the piece yesterday, I then saw today an Associated Press report that in 2002, Cheney wanted Bush to send troops into Buffalo to arrest terror suspects... what would have been unprecedented since the Civil War and also questionable within the bounds of the Constitution.
After reading something like this it just shows me that understanding history is important and makes me wonder what could have occurred had the Vice President continued to hold sway with the President through the entirety of both terms.
Also from this issue of Time, I found interesting this review of Richard Holmes' new book "The Age of Wonder". The book is account of experimental science at the end of the 1700s and described by Time writer Lev Grossman as "the most flat-out fascinating book so far this year." Pretty high praise...
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Due Process Waivers in Immigration Law
by Jill Family — Wednesday, Mar. 15, 2017
The Trump Administration’s immigration law policies are shining new light on the due process gaps in immigration law. In addition to the due process issues raised by his travel ban, President Trump’s new policies on expedited removal raise legal questions about the absence of process in immigration law.
There is another due process gap that has existed for a long time, but may widen under the Trump Administration: waivers of rights to due process. Years ago, I wrote about these waivers as one type of diversion from a hearing before an immigration judge. The idea is that the government need not provide a removal hearing before an immigration judge if the foreign national has waived rights to process. In the past, these waivers have come from at least two major sources: waivers obtained as a condition under the Visa Waiver Program and waivers obtained as a part of a stipulated order of removal.
Under the Visa Waiver Program, visitors to the United States must waive rights to due process as a condition to obtain visa-free travel to the United States. The program eliminates the need for a visa, but does not guarantee admission into the United States. In exchange for boarding a plane without first enduring the lengthy and expensive process of obtaining a visa at a US consulate, US law demands a broad waiver of rights. The statute states that anyone who benefits from the Visa Waiver Program “has waived any right” to: (1) challenge the immediate decision whether to admit the person into the United States and (2) “contest, other than on the basis of an application for asylum, any action for removal of the alien.” The government has argued in litigation that the “any action for removal” language applies in perpetuity. Even if a traveller is placed in removal proceedings 30 years later, the government maintains that the waiver still applies.
This phenomenon recently was in the news related to Daniela Vargas’ encounters with ICE. Daniela Vargas, 22, received a grant of deferred action under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy. Her DACA grant had expired. ICE took Daniela into custody right after she applied to renew her prosecutorial discretion grant under DACA (and right after she spoke publicly about her immigration story). News reports suggested that ICE might not give Daniela any removal hearing; that she could be removed from the United States without any hearing before an immigration judge. Why? Well, she had entered the United States under the Visa Waiver Program when she was seven and had waived her due process rights. Her family overstayed its period of lawful entry under the program. Eventually ICE released Daniela from detention, but her story illustrates the reach of these waivers. There are over 18 million entries into the United States per year under the Visa Waiver Program. If the administration places increased pressure on enforcing these waivers, there will be legal challenges. For example, if the government pushes to enforce the waiver in Daniela’s case, would a court enforce it? She was seven when she “agreed” to waive her due process rights.
The other scenario involves stipulated orders of removal. This is when the government and a foreign national agree to removal without a hearing. Both the government and the foreign national stipulate that removal is the agreed upon result. By stipulating to removal, a foreign national waives any rights to a hearing before an immigration judge. Such stipulated orders of removal raise concern because of the unequal bargaining power and skill involved. The foreign national overwhelmingly does not have an attorney, does not speak English, and certainly is not trained in US immigration law. The government has used the stick of detention pending a hearing to encourage stipulated removal without a hearing. In the past, the government has even used stipulated orders of removal as a term of a criminal plea bargain.
Increasing the use of waivers of due process rights might be enticing to an administration bent on removing more foreign nationals without investing in immigration judges. Ultimately the courts would face serious questions about these waivers and the role of individual rights in immigration law. The administration could avoid that litigation by simply hiring more immigration judges and providing hearings.
About Jill Family
Jill Family is the Commonwealth Professor of Law and Government at Widener University Commonwealth Law School. She also directs the law school's Law and Government Institute, which educates students and the public about government law.
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Taliban storm hotel building in west Afghanistan
Robert Mueller Testimony Delayed Until July 24th
Hong Kong protesters resume chorus of opposition to extradition bill：The Asahi Shimbun
China warns United States 'not to play with fire' regarding Taiwan
French tech tax inflames tensions with US
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Trump Denies He Asked Barr To Probe Russia Origins
Trump said it was "ridiculous" that Wray wouldn't call the FBI's efforts to investigate the Trump campaign "spying".
In his testimony, Wray tried to make clear that although he did not use the term "spying" with regard to the Trump investigation, he was not picking a fight with those who do.
Democrats have accused Trump of using the allegations to divert attention from special counsel Robert Mueller's findings that Russian Federation aided Trump's 2016 campaign and that he could not exonerate the president on the question of whether he tried to impede Mueller's investigation.
The inquiry, which will focus on whether the government's methods to collect intelligence relating to the Trump campaign were lawful and appropriate, is separate from an investigation by the Justice Department's inspector general.
Last week, FBI Director Wray said he had personally seen no evidence of improper surveillance and that he was cooperating with Barr to "get to the bottom of an understanding of what the circumstances surrounding the initiation of that investigation were at the department and the FBI back in 2016".
As several sources noted, Durham had a history of investigating the investigators.
As he prepared to depart the White House on Tuesday, Trump was asked whether he retained confidence in Wray, given his answer.
Halep to face Bertens in Madrid Open final
She broke Bencic in the fifth game of the third set and then held through to the ninth game to serve for the match at 5-4. The contrasts between the two women who contested the first semi-final in this year's Mutua Madrid Open were extensive.
Trump said he had not asked Barr to make the move but said, "I think it's a great thing that he did it".
In a speech in Baltimore Monday evening, former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein said he believed the investigation "was justified, and closing it was not an option".
The appointment of John Durham, the USA attorney for CT, launches the third counter investigation after the conclusion of the 22-month Mueller inquiry, which found no conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Moscow to influence the 2016 election.
With the appointment, Barr is addressing a rallying cry of President Donald Trump and his supporters, who have accused the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation of unlawfully spying on his campaign.
The Associated Press noted that "Durham has previously investigated law enforcement corruption, the destruction of Central Intelligence Agency videotapes and the Boston FBI office's relationship with mobsters".
Durham was unanimously confirmed by the Senate in 2018.
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Mom charged after girl licks tongue depressor and puts it back
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Academic Contests
Spelling and Vocabulary
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Dr. David Stevens
Elements of the Contest
Each year, the UIL Spelling and Vocabulary Contest is based on a different vocabulary list provided by UIL and consists of a three-part test:
Part I: A fifteen-minute section of 30 multiple-choice items focused on vocabulary and proofreading, and...
Part II & III: The hand-written spelling of 70 words pronounced aloud to contestants, as well as a tiebreaker section of 20 additional pronounced words.
Spelling Overview Video
Eighty percent of the test will come from the UIL “Word Power” list that changes each year. Twenty percent will come from outside sources, such as commonly used words, proper names/words in the news, and words that are representative of important elements of the English language.
The “Word Power” list can is now a free digital download found on the right-hand column of this page.
DICTIONARY UPDATE
Houghton-Mifflin will release a dictionary called The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition: Fiftieth Anniversary Printing in October, 2018. For all intents and purposes, this is an unofficial 6th edition as there will be 150 new words and thousands of revisions. This will be the final hard-copy dictionary Houghton-Mifflin will publish. Beginning with the 2019-20 school year, we will tentatively move to this new edition as our sole source for words. Please note: This new edition is NOT an eligible word source for the 2018-19 school year.
Word sources will continue to be The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third (1992), Fourth (2000), and Fifth (2011) hard-copy editions. No online or paperback dictionaries are acceptable.
State contest Director
Linda Berrey
lberrey@sbcglobal.net
Section 960 of UIL Constitution and Contest Rules (C & CR).
Answer documents
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2019 New Part I Answer Document.
2019 New Part II & III Answer Documents.
2018-2019 Word Power
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2015-2016 Changes in Spelling and Vocabulary
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Integrating Spelling and Vocabulary into Classroom Instruction
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Migrants rest on a Mediterranea Saving Humans NGO boat, as they sail off Italy's southernmost island of Lampedusa, just outside Italian territorial waters, on Thursday, July 4, 2019. An Italian humanitarian group whose boat has been barred from docking in Lampedusa said the health of the 54 migrants it rescued at sea is rapidly deteriorating, prompting fears of another standoff with Italy's populist government. Mediterranea Saving Humans said Friday in a tweet that its sailing boat ALEX was off Italy's southernmost island of Lampedusa, just outside Italian territorial waters, and that it has been banned from entering Italian jurisdiction by ministerial decree. (AP Photo/Olmo Calvo)
Refugee group: 'Alarming' that only 27% of funds received
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A leading advocacy group for refugees said Monday that with half of 2019 gone, humanitarian organizations have received only 27% of the money needed to provide relief to people affected by crises worldwide this year. Norwegian Refugee Council secretary-general Jan Egeland...
The Italian NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans' Alex migrant rescue ship carrying 46 migrants rescued off Libya coasts, docks in the port of Lampedusa, Sicily island, Italy, Saturday, July 6, 2019. Italy’s hard-line interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has barred all private rescue ships from entering Italian ports. He pointed to an offer from Malta to accept the migrants from the Italian-flagged ship. (Elio Desiderio/ANSA via AP)
Migrants in Italy boat dispute disembark on Lampedusa
ROME (AP) — Migrants on a rescue boat that docked in the Italian island of Lampedusa against an explicit ban have disembarked after the vessel was impounded. Humanitarian group Mediterranea Saving Humans said in a tweet late on Saturday that over 40 migrants on board were "finally allowed to...
UN food aid agency steps up relief for Congo refugees
ROME (AP) — The U.N. World Food Program said Tuesday it will triple the number of people it is providing food and cash assistance to in northeastern Congo's Ituri province, which is facing inter-ethnic violence and an Ebola epidemic. WFP said a resurgence of clashes between ethnic groups has...
President Donald Trump, joined by joined by Vice President Mike Pence, left, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, right, holds up a $4.6 billion aid package to help the federal government cope with the surge of Central American immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, that he signed during a ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Trump signs humanitarian aid package to bolster migrant care
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a $4.6 billion aid package on Monday to help the federal government cope with the surge of Central American immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Many Democratic lawmakers were hoping for more. They wanted to provide stronger protections for how...
In this June 27, 2019, photo, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., prepares to do a television interview on Capitol Hill in Washington. Friday’s House Oversight and Reform Committee’s session comes as partisan and internal Democratic tensions near a boil over President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Border bill exposes Dems' rift over limits of fighting Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hardly anyone in Congress opposes improving the horrific conditions awaiting many migrants caught spilling across the southwest border. Yet for Democrats, distrust of President Donald Trump runs so deep that a uniformly popular humanitarian aid bill prompted the party's deepest...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., walks to the House floor from her office on Capitol Hill, Thursday, June 27, 2019 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation to provide humanitarian aid to migrants spilling across the southwest border has exposed deep and bitter division among House Democrats. The bill the House passed Thursday dealt a blow to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who had to accept weaker legislation than she preferred. It...
UN food agency starts partial suspension of Yemen food aid
CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. food agency says it has started a partial suspension of food aid in areas controlled by Yemen's rebels. The World Food Program says it is suspending its operations in the capital, Sanaa, affecting 850,000 people. WFP said Thursday it has taken the decision as a "last resort"...
FILE - In this 2018 file photo, Scott Daniel Warren, who is charged with human smuggling, walks in to U.S. District Court in Tucson, Ariz. On Monday, June 10, 2019, a federal judge in Tucson ordered a jury to continue deliberations in the trial against Warren after the jury told the court Monday afternoon that it couldn’t come to a consensus on the three charges against him. (Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star via AP, File)
Jury can't decide on charges against Arizona border activist
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A U.S. jury could not reach a verdict Tuesday against a border activist charged with conspiracy to transport and harbor migrants in a trial that humanitarian aid groups said would have wide implications on their work. Defense attorneys argued that Scott Daniel Warren, a 36-year...
Decision in Arizona border activist's trial now with jury
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Jurors in the criminal trial of an Arizona border activist started deliberating Friday whether he was fulfilling a humanitarian mission when he helped young immigrants or was instead conspiring to harbor and hide them from Border Patrol agents. Scott Warren, 36, the longtime...
US emergency aid for Venezuela to be distributed in Colombia
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — U.S.-supplied humanitarian aid that was earmarked for Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó will now be distributed in Colombia. Colombia's government said in a statement Thursday that it had reached the decision with the U.S. and representatives of Guaido because of...
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This photo released Friday, July 12, 2019, by the Vermont Capitol Police shows cannabis plants, left, growing on the grounds of the Statehouse in Montpelier, Vt. Police said they found a total of 34 plants during the week among the cultivated flowers that line the walkway in front of the building, but it hadn't been confirmed if the immature plants were marijuana or hemp. (Matthew Romei/Vermont Capitol Police via AP)
A Capitol offense? Cannabis found in Statehouse flower beds
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Almost three dozen cannabis plants have been found growing in the flower beds in front of the Vermont Statehouse. Police say a visitor alerted them to the 34 plants this week among the cultivated flowers that line the walkway in front of the building in Montpelier. Capitol...
In this Wednesday, July 10, 2019 photo Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore pauses during an interview with The Associated Press in Los Angeles. Moore says homelessness is a public health and safety concern rather than a law enforcement issue that requires more mental health, sanitation and housing resources. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
LA police chief aims to wipe out minor warrants for homeless
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said he is working to eliminate thousands of homeless people's old warrants for minor offenses in the coming weeks as part of a solution to help get people off the streets. "This is a humanitarian crisis of our generation," Moore said...
In this 2014 photo provided by the University of Mississippi, Dr. Suman Chandra inspects marijuana plants growing at the Ole Miss medicinal gardens in University, Miss. The plants are used for research under a contract from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The planned NIDA grow for 2019 will be divided between high THC and high CBD varieties with “recent interest (in CBD) as a potential medicine for a number of medical conditions,” NIDA said. (Robert Jordan/University of Mississippi via AP)
US growing largest crop of marijuana for research in 5 years
The U.S. government is growing the largest crop of research marijuana in five years, responding to interest in varieties with high levels of THC and CBD. The government is the only source of pot for nearly all research, while it still considers it illegal and dangerous. The National Institute on...
FILE - In this Thursday, June 6, 2019, file photo, Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha smiles and talks reporters before a meeting at the government house in Bangkok, Thailand. The leader of Thailand's military government has revoked a number of special executive legal orders and vowed to stop issuing more as he prepares to lead the next elected civilian government. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)
Thai leader names new Cabinet with military colleagues
BANGKOK (AP) — Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Wednesday officially named his new Cabinet, a mix of members of the military government he headed after leading a 2014 coup and key politicians who helped him assemble a majority in the House of Representatives after March elections. Prayuth...
FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2017, file photo, Jay-Z performs at the Austin City Limits Music Festival in Austin, Texas. Jay-Z is heading into the marijuana industry as a chief brand strategist for a cannabis product company. He said in a statement Tuesday, July 9, 2019, that he entered a multi-year deal with San Jose, California-based Caliva. His role will consist of driving creative direction, outreach efforts and strategy for the brand. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)
Jay-Z partners with cannabis company as brand strategist
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jay-Z is heading into the legal marijuana industry as a chief brand strategist in partnership with a California cannabis product company. The rapper said in a statement Tuesday that he entered a multiyear deal with San Jose, California-based Caliva. His role will consist of...
FILE - In this April 20, 2016, file photo, a man smokes a marijuana joint at a party celebrating weed in Seattle. Legalizing recreational marijuana for U.S. adults may have led to a slight decline in teen use. That’s according to research published Monday, July 8, 2019, in JAMA Pediatrics. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
Teen odds of using marijuana dip with recreational use laws
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‘Haunters: The Art of the Scare’ Trailer Takes You Inside the Haunted House Industry
People don’t want to just be scared by horror movies anymore; they want to experience horror movies for themselves. It’s a curious impulse (“Hey this movie about the knife-wielding cannibalistic butcher scared me to death; is there any way you guys could have the knife-wielding cannibalistic butcher try to stab me?”) but one that’s growing rapidly in popularity. Escape rooms inspired by films like Saw are sprouting up everywhere (usually with slightly less self-amputation than depicted onscreen), and haunted houses that are way more complex and realistic than the old standard are becoming increasingly popular.
This new phenomenon is chronicled in the documentary Haunters: The Art of the Scare, which takes you behind-the-scenes of this new haunting industry, from some traditional haunted houses to more extreme and disturbingly interactive encounters. (One guy boasts that he can deliver simulated drownings which, y’know, I’m gonna take a hard pass on that right from the jump.)
Here’s the doc’s official synopsis:
Haunters: The Art Of The Scare is a heart-warming and heart-stopping documentary about how family-friendly haunted houses for Halloween have spawned a growing subculture of extreme horror simulations. What kind of person dedicates their life to turning other people's nightmares into reality, and how far is too far? Explore the rise of terror as entertainment, by going behind-the-screams and into the lives of Shar Mayer, legendary scare actor, Donald Julson, a traditional boo-scare maze designer, and the infamous Russ McKamey, as he creates the most controversial full-contact haunt of all time... in his own backyard. Also featuring John Murdy (Universal Hollywood Halloween Horror Nights), Jon Braver (Delusion), Josh Randall (Blackout), Eric Lowther (Haunted Overload), Bruce Stanton (Reign of Terror), Sylvia & Jen Soska (American Mary & GSN's HELLEVATOR), Jessica Cameron (Truth or Dare) and many more talented artists.
Haunters will be available to own on Blu-ray and Digital HD on October 3.
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Airbus Unveils Thor, Their Fully 3D Printed Unmanned Test Aircraft
May 31, 2016 by Tyler Koslow 3D PrintingAerospace 3D Printing
When it comes to nurturing and promoting advancements in 3D printing technology, very few companies have taken the initiative that the European airline manufacturer Airbus has. The aerospace manufacturer started fully immersing itself into the world of additive manufacturing back around 2014, when they equipped their A350 airliner with a titanium 3D printed cabin bracket, and also utilized the first 3D printed spare part on an aircraft being used by Air Transnat. Since then, 3D printing developments and innovations have come rapidly apace from Airbus. Their A350 XWB aircraft is now comprised of over 1,000 3D printed parts, while German RepRap printers have helped to develop more effective camera mounts and windshield wiper systems for their helicopters.
Just about a week ago, Airbus filed a patent for a 3D printing process that would be capable of 3D printing an entire sturdy and functional airplane, hinting at a future where airliners will lift off straight from the print bed. Although the idea behind this recently filed patent will likely take a fair amount of time to fully develop, it seems that Airbus is already on its way to flying fully 3D printed aircraft. At their manufacturing plant in Hamburg, Germany, Peter Sander, the head of emerging technologies & concepts at Airbus, shared with the press at Innovation Days 2016 that Airbus had designed, built, and tested an entirely 3D printed unmanned aircraft vehicle (UAV).
Peter Sander with 3D printed parts for Thor
The 3D printed UAV is named Thor, which is an acronym for Test of High-tech Objectives in Reality. According to Sander, the aircraft will serve as a test platform for high risk and aerodynamic investigations, which will be used to further prove the viability of this 3D printed concept UAV. Thor is comprised of around 50 3D printed parts, two electric motors, and a remote control, essentially making the aircraft fully 3D printed. As Airbus continues to test and refine their 3D printed UAV, they are able to reprint and replace parts in a matter of days and weeks as opposed to a conventional manufacturing process, which would take months.
“You can [3D] print this kind of aircraft in four weeks,” Sander reportedly stated in his presentation to the media. “It has low lead times for fast track developments.”
Members of Airbus team with the Thor UAV
The unmanned aircraft was first tested back in November, taking flight for 40 km from Hamburg to their plant in Stade, Germany. Coming off of the successful testing, Airbus has scheduled 18 test missions for their 3D printed UAV throughout 2016. The entire unmanned aircraft is reported to weigh around 25kg, and has a length and a wingspan that measures out to about four meters each. The initiative is being worked on across the different Airbus company sectors, such as Airbus Defense & Space and Airbus Helicopters. The production cost of Thor is estimated at about 20,000 euros, which is quite the bargain for this type of flying testbed.
The 3D print UAV will be exhibited at the ILA Berlin Air Show, which is taking place from June 1-4 at the Berlin ExpoCenter Airport. Thor was named after the most renowned of the Norse gods, one who is generally identified with thunder; it’s a name that fits the innovative and ground-breaking nature of their UAV project. As Airbus continues to test Thor among their other 3D printing-based developments, they’re brewing the perfect storm for the additive manufacturing takeover, which could soon lead to UAVs being manufactured at the speed of lightning. Discuss further in the Airbus 3D Printed UAV forum over at 3DPB.com.
[Source: Engineering News & Der Tagesspiegel / Images: Airbus via Der Tagesspiegel]
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Shane Carney is the first Adrian College Club Baseball recipient of the NCBA National Player of the Week award. (Action photo by Spencer Furlich)
PITTSBURGH--Senior Shane Carney (Marengo, Ohio/Highland High School) has made Adrian College Club Baseball history this week as the first Bulldog to earn National Club Baseball Association (NCBA) Division 3 Player of the Week accolades.
In two home games against Division 1 opponent Central Michigan University on Saturday, Oct. 21, the outfielder provided much of the Adrian offense by going 4-for-6 with a double, four runs batted in and he scored a run. The Bulldogs split with the Chippewas, bouncing back for an 8-4 victory after dropping the opener 6-3.
"I think it is a great accomplishment not only for Shane but for the program," said first-year head coach Brent Greenwood '14. "We have played well to start the season and Shane has been a big part of it."
For the season, Carney is batting .545 and slugging .727 to go along with a .583 on-base percentage to help Adrian to an 8-4 record overall and 2-0 conference mark in its first season of competition.
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Episodes, Season 8, Islands episodes, Television Specials
February 2, 2017[1]
Elizabeth Ito
Tom Herpich[2]
Steve Wolfhard[2]
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"Helpers" is the seventh part of the Adventure Time miniseries Islands and the twenty-sixth episode in the eighth season of Adventure Time. It is the two hundred and fifty-first episode overall.[1]
Finn and his friends journey to the last refuge called Founders Island.[1]
Finn, Jake, Kara, and BMO are flying in the transporter on their way to Founders Island. Kara shows Finn his mother's thoughts and a hologram of her. Finn admires these things. They then arrive at Founders Island. Finn looks down at the many humans and is very surprised to see so many. They finally land and Finn looks around at the many humans.
Jake goes around screaming "Minerva." One person (who thinks Jake is a human in a dog costume due to the fact that there are no talking animals on the islands) tells Jake that Minerva is always there to help and that everyone knows that. Then a little girl comes by and asks Finn if she can pet his dog's (Jake's) tummy. Jake responds and says she doesn't have to ask. The little girl is so surprised and excited to see a talking dog. She then calls over her friends to come see "a talking dog."
Kara then sees Minerva. Finn goes over to her and she says to him "Hello young man. Is there anything I can help you with?" Finn then says several things slowly leading up to the question, "Did you lose a son?" Minerva than hesitates and picks up a battery and says, "Careful citizens, litter can be unattractive and dangerous as well." Finn than looks at her and she once again says, "Hello young man. Is there anything I can help you with?" Finn says that this is going a lot different than he pictured it.
Meanwhile, a crowd of humans is surrounding Jake. Jake is surprised that none of them have seen a talking dog before. The crowd enjoys Jake and laugh at the funny things he says. At this time, Kara trips over a battery and falls onto the ground. From a distance, she sees her old friend Frieda for the first time in years. She then runs off to speak to her. Jake tries to wrap it up with the crowd and find his group. One kid than shouts, "one more joke." Jake says he doesn't have any more jokes but he can do other things. Jake than stretches into a rocket ship and makes farting sounds. Many of the citizens begin to freak out in fright thinking Jake is a mutant. Jake than stretches into a regular dog to calm them down. The people are still scared and begin to shout, "Minerva."
At this time Finn is still with Minerva. Finn is talking to her but Minerva is just staring into nowhere and is not responding. Finn starts to think that she is in shock and asks if she needs help. Minerva than hears her name being called and walks over to the crowd. She then walks over to Jake. Jake then says, "Finn I found Minerva." As he is saying this several other people identical to Minerva walk up as well. One of the many Minervas than pulls out a shot and tells Jake to let them sedate him. Jake says he is not mutant and that he's magic but as is tranquilized as he is saying this. Finn than runs up and says, "Stop he's my brother, and I'm your..." and is tranquilized before he finishes.
The scene cuts to a large tower. Inside of it, Finn and Jake appear in some sort of prison. Finn than wakes up saying "...son." Jake says to Finn, "I love you, but your mom is a hundred robo-clones." Finn then tells him that those things are not his mom. Finn says that maybe they look like his mom because they did something to her and that he wants to rescue her.
Right after, several of the Minerva clones walk into the cell. One of them gets a blood sample of Finn and it loads into a machine that confirms that he is "Finn Mertens." At this moment all of the Minerva bots from all over the island are shocked about this. One of them then gets Finn and Jake to follow her (it).
Meanwhile, Kara and BMO saw Frieda walk into a toy store. Kara then looks through the windows and questions if she could be Frieda's friend again after she hurt her years back.
Back in the tower where Finn and Jake are, the Minerva bot is leading them to so sort of screen. Finn than ask the Minerva bot, "what is this?" The Minerva bot points at the screen and then Minerva appears on the screen and ask Finn, "who are you?" Finn introduces himself asks, "are you my mo..." Minerva than cuts him off and says, "it is you." She is so happy that he is actually alive and ask the Minerva bot to hug him. Finn is very weirded out and uncomfortable in this situation. Minerva keeps admiring Finn. Until then, she finally asks "What happened to you."
Then Minerva explains what happened to her. The scene then cuts to flashbacks. After Finn and Martin disappeared, Minerva was very sad and fragile. She then tells Finn that Dr. Gross sent her most powerful seeker (Kara) to bring him back, but years went by and Minerva lost hope of Finn and/or Martin coming back. Dr. Gross then accidentally released a terrible virus. Minerva called it the most catastrophic event that had happened to the human species in 300 years. 62 percent of the population died, but nearly 100 percent of helpers died of the virus. Minerva said that she was in no condition to do her job so she decided to not try to fight the disease and instead upload her brain the web making her now and artificial intelligence so she can be hundreds of helpers and cure the remaining humans on the island. Since that day, she protected all of her people.
After explaining all this Minerva says, "That doesn't matter anymore. You're back and you live here in safety…for the rest of your life."
Minerva Bots
Susan Strong (Kara)
Frieda (no lines)
Helpers (flashback)
Dr. Gross (flashback)
Hybrid Animals (flashback)
The Minerva Bots' hand weapons are similar to the Autons in Doctor Who.
The Minerva Bots walk through the prison cell force field similar to the Borg from Star Trek.
The history of the people of the islands resembles the history helghast from the game Killzone.
The policy of people in relation to mutants is similar to the Fourth Reich from Dmitry Glukhovsky's novel Metro 2033.
When many of the Humans on Founders Island freak out when Jake uses his stretchy powers they assume he is a mutant. Jake claims he is magic, but does seem to question that. He believed in "The Witch's Garden" that he got his powers from a mud puddle. It was also revealed in "Joshua and Margaret Investigations" that Jake is unaware of his origins.
Minerva mentions the virus that almost wiped the human race in the islands was the most catastrophic event for humanity in 300 years. This event 300 years ago could be Humans' previous disastrous attempt to leave the islands mentioned in "Hide and Seek."
Finn did not tell Minerva that he has met his biological father, Martin, yet Minerva assumes that Finn knows who he is. However, this might be justified, as Minerva had no way to know Martin left Finn after the two disappeared.
This episode was released for digital download and DVD on January 24, 2017.
Hynden Walch is credited for voicing Princess Bubblegum, even though PB didn't appear in the episode, and Walch only provided additional voices.
When Finn and Jake are in the prison cell, there are some scenes with Finn's left arm, instead of right one, appearing as the mechanical arm.
Promo for Islands
Finn's left arm becomes mechanical
Computer Minerva
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 http://devendaman.tumblr.com/post/154769347141/list-of-adventure-time-episodes-premiering-in
↑ 2.0 2.1 http://kingofooo.tumblr.com/post/156227447234/adventure-time-islands-the-8-part-miniseries
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Pixie and Dixie's Unmade Uncle Egghead
Remember the cartoon where Pixie and Dixie called on their Uncle Egghead, who gives them an electromagnet that Jinks swallows (thinking it’s candy) and then all kinds of metal becomes attracted to him? You don’t? It’s probably because the cartoon never aired or copyrighted.
But a storyboard was made for it. You won’t see these small story sketches very well because that’s the size they were on a web site. I imagine the story is by Warren Foster; the sketches certainly aren’t Dan Gordon’s from the first season.
“I’m having a nightmare—only in the daytime,” says the cat, reminiscent of “Light-Headed Cat,” which has a similar plot, with an anti-gravity machine lifting Jinks airborne every time a button is pushed. Daws Butler uses the term “night-time mare” in that one, just like he did in the Pixie and Dixie cartoon “Batty Bat.” Frankly, neither of the aforementioned cartoons were that great. (“Night-time mare” was heard in two other Foster-written cartoons: the much funnier “Snow White Bear,” with Yogi, and the Pixie and Dixie short “Hi Fido”). The magnet-in-the-stomach-attracting-stuff idea was also utilised by Joe Barbera in the Tom and Jerry cartoon “Old Rockin’ Chair Tom.” And there’s a Twilight Zone reference in one of the story panels but really no great one-liners. The Pixie and Dixie cartoons don’t seem to have inspired Foster as much as Yogi or Huck.
Whether Foster drew the board, I don’t know. And when it was drawn, I couldn’t tell you. But it’s always interesting to find unmade cartoons (we posted story panels from Earl Kress’ collection of an unmade El Kabong cartoon here). You can click on them to try to see them but I don’t know how much bigger they’ll be.
We’ve got another full storyboard for an unmade cartoon we’ll endeavour to post some time in the future.
Labels: Jinks, Pixie and Dixie
Hey There, It's Mel Crawford
Mel Crawford didn’t animate any of the Hanna-Barbera cartoons, but he was intimately familiar with many of the studio’s early characters.
Word has come from Jerry Beck about Mel’s death. Read more at this post.
If you don’t know who Mel Crawford is, he illustrated a number of the Little Golden Books featuring Yogi Bear, Top Cat, the Flintstones and other H-B stars. His shadowing on the characters is very distinctive.
We’ve posted some of his work here before, but here’s what he drew for Whitman’s adaptation of “Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear.” We’ve grabbed these from the Golden Gems website. You can see more of Mel’s work by clicking HERE. Enjoy the layouts and the rest of the artwork.
H-B Odds and Sods
Time to post some Hanna-Barbera image files sitting in my computer. I’ve made no notations where I got some of them.
A sadistic kid rode Yogi Bear in “Daffy Daddy,” so I guess this toy that’s seen better days makes sense. Light bulbs? Beats me.
Has Yogi merchandise ever stopped being made? This looks like newer stuff, not from the late ‘50s. Okay, other than the milk mug.
Here’s one of those great Kellogg’s ads in full colour. What?! The offer’s not good in Canada? Yogi’s lasted a lot longer than Kellogg’s OKs, hasn’t he?
Here’s Yogi in a beautiful Cadillac. Yes, I know you thought he drove a Chrysler LeBear-on. Hyuk, hyuk.
Prime time cartoons make the covers of TV magazines. The artwork is right on. These are from the collection of Jerry Beck.
These eggs cups were made in England by Ridgway Potteries in 1960. Even a really off-model Li’l Tom Tom rates an appearance.
“Hilarious new character”? Don’t think so. But this is a nice little one sheet to push the H-B studio’s only series that actually made it into theatres (others were proposed). Thanks to Scott Shaw! for this poster.
Finally, an image maker for the Quick Draw McGraw show. These look like they were used for newspaper box ads; the local station call letters and channel would be substituted.
Click on any of the images to make it easier to see.
Labels: Flintstones, Loopy de Loop, Quick Draw McGraw, Top Cat, Yogi Bear
Yogi Bear — Threadbare Bear
Credits: Animation – Bob Bentley, Layout – Ernie Nordli, Backgrounds – Art Lozzi, Written by Warren Foster, Story Director – Paul Sommer, Titles – Art Goble, Production Supervision – Howard Hanson.
Voice Cast: Yogi Bear, Government Official, Radio announcer, Mayor – Daws Butler; Boo Boo, Ranger Smith, Housewife – Don Messick.
Music – Hoyt Curtin.
Production R-68 (first cartoon produced for 1961-62 season).
First Aired: week of February 5, 1962.
Plot: Yogi and Boo Boo escape after being shipped to the Cincinnati Zoo.
Did you know the U.S. government orders a count of bears in national parks, and then sends any excess number of bears to a zoo? It probably doesn’t, but it does in this cartoon because that sets up the plot.
There aren’t a lot of laughs in this one, but the story’s a nice, tight one. It’s a character study showing how much Ranger Smith really likes Yogi and Boo Boo, even pretending to kill them to get them back to Jellystone Park. My favourite bit is when Smith gets word on the phone that the two bears have escaped while being transported by truck to their new home at the Cincinnati Zoo. “Yogi and Boo Boo,” moans Smith. “They know nothing but the protected life of Jellystone Park. They could starve to death.” Fade in to a scene where Yogi and the fattened Boo Boo are in a woodsy setting, chowing down on food they’ve presumably stolen.
I’m more than a little confused by the title and the title card. The story goes like this: a government official selects Yogi and Boo Boo to be sent to a zoo. After a misunderstanding, the bears are forced into a truck. They escape. They eat stuff. They’re shot at. Ranger Smith hears what’s happening on the radio. He rushes to a cave where Yogi and Boo Boo are hiding. He pretends to shoot and kill them and offers to take the “bear skins” back to the ranger station. So where does the “Threadbare” part come in? Is this a case, like “Ring a Ding Picnic Basket,” which started out with a different name? And why does the title card have the bears in a circus cage? They’re going to a zoo.
Bob Bentley is the animator. There’s nothing really distinctive in his work here other than this diagonal exit. These are consecutive drawings. Ernie Nordli designed the radio with the old-fashioned grid aerial.
We all know about Hanna-Barbera’s repeating backgrounds. There’s one in this cartoon. You can see where the spongework on the hills directly behind Ranger Smith is different from one frame to the network.
Art Lozzi gets the background credit. Note the blue tree trunks and downward-pointing pine fronds. Lozzi drew those no matter who the layout artist was. The bushes in the foreground of the first drawing are on an overlay and the back door of the truck is animated on cels.
The last scene has fir trees with flipped up branches. Monte liked drawing the same kind in the first season of the Huck show.
Cartoon Miscellany: Yogi is Bear 14 and Boo Boo is Bear 37 . . . Jellystone has 52 bears . . . “Your bears have odd names,” observes the government guy . . . Ranger Smith isn’t happy to see Yogi to leave for a change . . . a jaunty version of (Meet) The Flintstones plays when Yogi and Boo Boo burst out of the truck. It’s not the theme for “The Flintstones” as yet . . . Yogi easily steals a huckleberry pie. He spent an entire cartoon three years earlier (“Pie Pirates”) failing to do the same thing . . . The studio had Don Messick do a housewife’s voice in falsetto. Why pay for Jean Vander Pyl when you don’t have to? . . . Yogi and Boo Boo escaped somewhere near Freeport.
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Farmers Edge and Planet Partner to Change Global Agriculture Using Daily Satellite Imagery and Real-Time Big Data Insights
Landmark deal delivers Planet’s global daily imagery directly to Farmers Edge users, enabling growers to improve crop yields, quickly react to crop stress and boost profitability
WINNIPEG, Manitoba & SAN FRANCISCO -Friday, October 13th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Farmers Edge™, a global leader in decision agriculture, announced today a strategic partnership to bring Planet’s best-in-class global monitoring data and platform capabilities to the Farmers Edge precision agriculture product suite. Planet is an integrated aerospace and data platform company that operates the world’s largest fleet of earth imaging satellites, collecting the largest quantity of earth imagery. Farmers Edge is now a sole distributor for Planet in key agricultural regions, with the right to use and distribute high-resolution, high-frequency imagery from Planet’s three flagship satellite constellations.
Through this multimillion-dollar, multi-year global distribution agreement, Farmers Edge and Planet are significantly expanding their existing partnership. The companies will deliver the vanguard of remote sensing driven and analytics-based agronomy services to growers worldwide. Farmers Edge customers will be among the first to take advantage of field-centric, consistent, and accurate insights from satellite imagery. While traditional imagery products provide only a partial, delayed, or inconsistent view of fields, this partnership equips Farmers Edge growers with comprehensive, high-quality field imagery more frequently updated than any other company in the industry.
“Until now, the challenge with satellite imagery was the data was simply not frequent enough to react to crop stress in a timely manner,” said Wade Barnes, President and CEO of Farmers Edge. “At Farmers Edge, providing our customers with the most concise, comprehensive, and consistent data is at the core of what we do. We understand the need for more image frequency, that’s why we are partnering with Planet. Daily imagery is a game-changer in the digital ag space.”
The combination of Planet’s unprecedented data set and Farmers Edge state-of-the-art image processing technology allows for early crop monitoring and gives growers the best opportunity to correct factors that could limit crop performance and compromise yield potential. Growers will now have a wealth of field-centric data updated throughout the growing season, including early monitoring of crop stand, detection of pest and weed pressure, drainage issues, hail damage, herbicide injuries, nutrient deficiencies, yield prediction and more.
“Farmers Edge is consistently at the cutting edge of innovation in agricultural technology, and we’re proud to expand our partnership with them as we work to improve profitability, sustainability, and efficiency for the world’s producers,” said Will Marshall, CEO of Planet. “The challenges faced by the agriculture industry are complex in nature and global in scale, and we believe our data is uniquely positioned to solve agricultural challenges.”
“Retailers, co-ops, equipment dealers, agronomists, and all other important advisors to the farmer can now partner with Farmers Edge and leverage this industry changing capability within their business,” said Ron Osborne, Chief Strategy Officer of Farmers Edge. “We're pleased to be able to help so many in our industry manage risks, in near real-time. This is great for our customers, our partners, and agriculture.”
In 2016, Planet awarded Farmers Edge its Agriculture Award, recognizing the company’s pioneering work with ag-based analytics, Variable Rate Technology and field-centric data management.
About Planet
Planet is an integrated aerospace and data analytics company that operates the largest fleet of Earth-imaging satellites, collecting a massive amount of information about our changing planet. Planet designs, builds, and operates over 180 satellites, and develops the online software and tools that serves data to users. Decision makers in business, government, and within organizations use Planet's data and machine learning-powered analytics to develop new technologies, deliver business outcomes, power research, and solve the world’s toughest challenges. To learn more visit http://www.planet.com.
About Farmers Edge
Farmers Edge is a global leader in decision agriculture. Combining hardware, software, agronomy, and support, Farmers Edge provides growers with the right data to inform farm management decisions that maximize productivity and profitability. Originating in Canada, Farmers Edge is now active in five countries across the globe and has received international recognition, including the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneer award and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Canada’s Disruptor Innovator of the Year award, for its agricultural innovations and commitment to global sustainability. For more information, visit www.farmersedge.ca or www.farmersedgeUSA.com
Marina Barnes
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Posted by AT on August 14, 2010
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Topic: Prosecution of African leaders: Is the ICC anti-African bias?
Host: Vuiyswa
1- Mohammed Eltom
Charge d’Affaires, Sudan Embassy
2- Alice Ukoko
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What’s the road ahead after Sudan’s historic elections?
Posted by AT on May 19, 2010
Topic: What’s the road ahead after Sudan’s historic elections?
Broadcasting date: 18th May 2010
Presenter: Vuyiswa
1- Ahmed Diraige, Former Governor, Darfur
2- Dr Khalid AlMubarak, Media Counsellor, Sudan Embassy
Many are concerned about Al-Bashir’s legitimacy to rule after disputed elections in April. Now the country faces some tough times ahead to deal with problems in the South of the country and the general feeling among Southerners about Omar al-Bashir’s government.
At least eight people have been killed when mutinous troops attacked an army base in south Sudan following this month’s elections, officials say.
A southern army spokesman said the mutineers backed a former general who ran and lost in a Jonglei state poll.
George Athor denied leading the troops but told the BBC he sympathised with them and said the polls were rigged.
The ex-rebel SPLM party won a landslide victory to retain power in the south, amid widespread claims of intimidation.
The 11-15 April elections were the first in 24 years – and the first since the end of a two-decade conflict between north and south.
The BBC’s James Copnall in Khartoum says there have been intense negotiations for several days to avoid just this sort of problem in Southern Sudan.
Hear: Sudan now faces some of the toughest times in its history after general elections held this year.
See: SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr. Amina Osman, National Congress Party activist:
“The people of Sudan have nominated the National Congress Party to lead this nation towards peace, security and unity.”
Hear: Shortly after the elections there have been reported attacks on an army base in southern Sudan and fighting in West Darfur. The most serious of the recent developments is the attacks on West Darfur which The Justice and Equality Movement, one of Darfur’s biggest rebel groups, blame on the army. The group has decided to boycott peace talks with the government and threatened war if the offensive continued. Recent voting in the country did not take place in large parts of Darfur and Southern Sudan. The government had been working hard to prevent the latest events and this twist highlights the deep divisions within the country. Africa Today now finds out if the recent election results had any effect on resolving the conflicts in the Sudan region.
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Hear: Sudan’s elections this year was the first in 24years and widely deemed free and fair by African Union observers. President Omar al Bashir of the National Congress Party, who stood against eleven other candidates, was declared the winner with 68.24% of the total vote.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abel Alier, head of Sudan’s National Elections Commission:
“The winner to the position of President of the Republic of Sudan is Omar Hassan Ahmed Al-Bashir from the National Congress: 5 million votes with a 68 percent win.”
Hear: In Southern Sudan, which is semi autonomous, Salva Kiir of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement won the presidency with a 93% of the total votes cast there. Even though some opposition members boycotted the elections, it was largely peaceful. Now keeping the peace after the elections is the question on many Sudanese minds and South Sudan’s expected elections for independence, next year.
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I suggest you reposition away from the usual western media demonization through negative reports on Africa, by emphasizing new developments and transformations on the continent in the field of technology, leadership, higher education, ICT, and industrialization. Western television stations are shunned by most Africans as conspiracy mechanisms. But press TV can make a difference if it wants and people are quietly watching.
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Explicitly the problem in Somalia has traveled from bad to worst. Many innocent people are dying because of malnutrition and children have suffered a lot for nothing, such problem is because of the western intervention like USA on the domestic issue of Somalia. That’s why you should air some programmes by inviting some experts from the region. The issue of Somalia is part and parcel of African issue.
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How credible will Sudans elections be?
Posted by AT on April 20, 2010
Topic: How credible will Sudans elections be?
Broadcasting date: 20 April 2010
1- Vincent Magombe, Director, Africa Inform International
Roshan Mohammed Salih, Press TV Correspondent
Some parties have redrawn from Sudans elections and others are threatening to do so in the country’s historic elections from 11-13 April. This could also affect the peace deal as one of the main parties in the deal Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) – which serves in a coalition at national level with President Bashir – announced it was withdrawing from the presidential election and from polls in Darfur over fraud and security fears.
Sudan’s National Electoral Commission has said this month’s national polls will not be delayed, despite a boycott threat by a major opposition party.
The Umma party’s conditions for participating included a delay of four weeks for the creation of a new body to supervise the electoral commission. Many parties have either already withdrawn from the elections or are threatening to withdraw.
This is Sudan’s first multi party elections in 24 years. The country was ravaged with war for two decades until a peace deal was agreed in 2005.
Frequent coup d’états and civil wars between government forces and Sudan people’s liberation movement are among the reasons why elections haven’t been held until now. Other factors include the Darfur crisis and the subsequent arrest warrant by the ICC for the country’s President Omar al-Bashir. Furthermore, a key sticking point in the 2005 peace agreement was broken when an Arab militia and SPLM clashed in Abyei area on north-south divide.
Reasons for national election delays:
From 1958- coup d’états and Civil Wars between the North and South
2003- Darfur crisis
July 2008- Arrest Warrant for Omar-al-Bashir
2008- Clashes reported in Abyei
NCP campaign promises:
Provision of basic services across the whole country
The current ruling party National Congress Party led by President Omar al-Bashir has made some key promises to provide basic services across the country and enhance economic development.
Main Parties in Sudan’s elections:
Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir – National Congress Party (NCP)
Salva Kiir Mayardit – Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM),
Hatim al-Sirr Ali – Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Sadeq Abdel Rahman al-Mahdi – Umma National Party (UNP
Hear: His main opponent the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement with other parties boycotted the elections in the North but campaigned in the South promising to provide basic services, Health and Education, Protect the South’s right to a state and Deliver the dividends of peace.
Sudan long borders with many other countries:
• Map to show the following: Central African Republic (1 165 km)
• Chad (1 360 km)
• Democratic Republic of the Congo (628 km)
• Egypt (1 273 km)
• Eritrea (605 km)
• Ethiopia (1 606 km)
• Kenya (234 km)
• Libya (383 km)
• Uganda (435 km)
The outcome of the elections are crucial as Sudan is the largest country in Africa and the 9th in the world surrounded by countries at North, Central and Southern Africa. The country’s large oil finds and natural resources has drawn interests from the Chinese and other multi national organizations.
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The View from Queer Theory
By Jane Gallop - Category: Forum: Age and/as Disability
In January 2014, I presented this talk as part of a panel on “Age and/as Disability” at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention. On that panel, I was the proverbial fifth wheel: two esteemed scholars from age studies, two from disability studies, and me. I work in the field of queer theory, and my contribution was to offer a queer theory perspective on disability studies and age studies. From my standpoint in queer theory, these two fields look very different from each other.
For the past decade, there has been a flourishing of work at the cross- roads of queer theory and disability studies. In 2003, GLQ—arguably the most prominent journal of queer theory—published a special issue edited by Robert McRuer and Abby Wilkerson entitled “Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies.” The same year, an important conference at the University of Michigan on Gay Shame brought together a number of major queer theorists; that conference included a whole section called “Disabled Shame” (Halperin and Traub 181-216). I will here be calling this intersectional discourse “crip theory,” after the title of Robert McRuer’s 2006 book. The first time I saw McRuer’s phrase I immediately loved “crip’s” kinship with “queer,” and felt that was the direction I wanted my theorizing to head.
The intersection with disability studies has become one of the liveliest sites in twenty-first-century queer theory. Most strikingly, within queer theory, disability studies is not a special-interest application, but an advance in theorizing queer. For example, in a 2001 article in Public Culture, Eli Clare writes:
My first experience of queerness centered not on sexuality or gender, but on disability. Early on, I understood my body to be irrevocably different from those of my . . . playmates . . . a body that moved slow, wrists cocked at odd angles, muscles knotted with tremors. . . . I heard: “wrong, broken . . . unacceptably queer” . . . as my classmates called out cripple, retard . . . I stored the taunting . . . the shame in my bones . . . . This was my first experience of queerness.
Only later came gender and sexuality. Again I found my body to be irrevocably different. At nine, ten, eleven, my deepest sense of self was as neither boy nor girl. (361; emphasis Clare’s)
This quotation from Clare exemplifies what I find most thrilling about the intersection of queer and disability theory. Disability here is queer, queerer than queer, a more powerful way to resist normativity, a more radical way to affirm bodily difference.
For the last couple of years, I’ve been doing a lot of reading in crip theory, as background to a new book project. While the project is still tenuous at this point, it is definitely rooted in the way crip theory resonates with my own experience as someone who has been slowly losing the ability to walk or even stand, my experience as a part-time wheelchair user. Becoming a crip, I want to do crip theory.
The 2014 MLA panel on “Age and/as Disability” had a substantial impact on my work, even before it took place. In January 2013, at the previous MLA convention, I found myself in the hotel lobby next to some people who were planning this session. As I eavesdropped, I realized something that had not occurred to me before. For the last dozen years, I have been dealing with a progressive disability that began at the age of forty-nine. I have in fact been living what our session planners called a “point of intersection between disability and age,” an exemplary moment of “Age and/as Disability.” Yet I have thought of it only as disability, not as aging. Imagining doing scholarly writing based in this experience, I was drawn to crip theory; it had never occurred to me to turn to age studies. My question is at once personal and theoretical: why had I never considered aging for this project?
As a personal aside, let me say that I now imagine my project as drawing not only on disability theory but also on critical aging studies. How that will play out is a question for my sabbatical this coming year. For now, I want to think a bit about why a scholar in queer theory should have found disability such an attractive identity, such a compelling theoretical move, and especially to contrast that easy attraction with the way aging never entered my theoretical ambitions.
First, I would think about the way crip can be synonymous with queer. Militantly asserting bodily difference, crip theory seems to promise a radical challenge to normativity. There is a strong line in disability studies of asserting what Rosemarie Garland-Thomson has memorably called “extraordinary bodies”: “claiming physical difference as exceptional rather than inferior” (105). When disability becomes more explicitly queer, we find provocations such as Riva Lehrer’s in the 2012 volume Sex and Disability: “I will be one of the crip girls whose bodies scare the panel of judges. They are afraid that our unbalanced shapes hint of unsanctioned desires. On both sides of the bed” (234). For those of us who glory in the threateningly anti-normative, “crip” can look like a wildly sexy identity.
In the very same passage, Lehrer also suggests why a queer theorist so happy to embrace “crip” might not have wanted to go in the aging direction. The deliciously provocative lines just quoted are actually Lehrer’s reaction to a momentary consideration of her aging. Here is a longer version of the quote, which includes the two sentences immediately preceding those already quoted:
Old women disappear into a slow molasses of obscurity, even when they fight to be seen. I can see the day coming when the shape of my body will be chalked up to age and I will join the ranks of the Invisible Women.
Until then, I will be one of the crip girls whose bodies scare the panel of judges. They are afraid that our unbalanced shapes hint of unsanctioned desires. (234; emphasis added)
When Lehrer’s disability is “chalked up to age,” it will no longer “hint of unsanctioned desires.” Her extraordinary body will devolve from scary, anti-normative, hypervisible and queer to normative, invisible and desexualized. “Then,” she will no longer be “one of the crip girls.” The combination of disability and age threatens to undo the queerness of disability.1
What appears above used up my allotted time on the panel. But I did not want to end there; I went over my time limit at the MLA in order to make a quick and sketchy gesture toward what I thought might be a potentially rich intersection of queer theory and aging studies. I was trying to imagine a queer/aging nexus as vital as queer/disability currently is. I mentioned that the most prominent trend in queer theory of the last decade is an inquiry into “queer temporality.” A range of queer theorists have been challenging the normative life course that privileges reproductivity and devalues nonreproductive lives and moments. For example, Judith Halberstam writes: “Queer subcultures produce alternative temporalities . . . outside the conventional forward-moving narratives of birth, marriage, reproduction, and death” (2). So far as I knew, scholars using “queer temporality” have restricted their consideration of age to the category of the child. I went on to say that, from my position as a queer theorist only just recently considering age studies, the connection between aging and queer temporality looks like it could be very productive—a militant and edgy way to resist what critical aging studies calls “decline ideology,” the sense that after the age of reproduction, a person enters into decline (Gullette). For example, I said, imagine deploying queer anti-sentimental rallying cries like Lee Edelman’s “No Future” to value aged lives . . . .2
Just a few hours after the “Age and/as Disability Session,” I received an email from Cynthia Port who had been in the audience. The email alerted me to an article of hers in the June 2012 issue of Occasion, an article that “participates in the kind of dialogue between age studies and queer temporality” which I had called for in my closing remarks (Message). Port entitles her article “No Future?” “Although there are significant differences between queer sexuality and old age as embodied subjectivities and categories of identity,” writes Port, “these new approaches to queer temporality suggest intriguing possibilities for reconsidering the temporalities of old age” (2). Port notes how little work there has been at the intersection of queer temporality and age studies, citing only one published text, a 2010 article by Leerom Medovoi. 3 Medevoi connects queer temporality theories like Edelman’s and Halberstam’s to Gullette’s critique of the cultural narrative of “decline.” Unlike Gullette’s work, however, Medevoi’s article is concerned not with old or even middle age but with adolescence, thus perpetuating queer theory’s exclusive interest in applying non-normative temporality to the young.
In her 2012 article, Cynthia Port directly connects radical queer temporality to old age: “the old are often, like queers, figured by the cultural imagination as being outside mainstream temporalities and standing in the way of, rather than contributing to, the promise of the future. . . . And like queers, the old have projected onto their bodies that which normative culture fears and represses within itself: the knowledge of eventual bodily failure and mortality” (3).
Port is here following Edelman’s formulations in No Future, as he delineates what is projected onto queers in the name of the Child (the promise of the future). No Future urges queers to take up our place as threats to the Child and to the Future, urges us to stand in the place to which queers have been assigned, the radically negative place of the death drive. No Future was published ten years ago, and in the intervening decade more and more openly gay people are entering the normative life course, getting married and having children.4 On this particular point, the American cultural imagination has changed so quickly that queer may no longer figure as the threat it was just a decade ago. At this point in time, the worship of the reproductive future might in fact devalue old people even more than it does queers. What if, following Edelman’s resistant logic, old people took up our place as augurs of mortality, refusing to subordinate our present lives to the worship of the future?
1. ↑ During the discussion at the “Age and/as Disability” panel, a woman in the front row raised her hand and announced “I am Riva.” She was pleased to hear herself quoted; I was thrilled that she was there, and that she liked what I said.
2. ↑ This is where my MLA talk ended, with the final ellipsis signifying its unfinished, evocatory state.
3. ↑ Medevoi’s title, “Age Trouble,” alludes to Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble, one of the inaugural texts of queer theory, placing “age” within the anti-normative valuing of “trouble.” Port also cites one unpublished paper by Melanie Micir, “Living in Two Tenses: The Intimate Archives of Sylvia Townsend Warner,” which has since been published in the Journal of Modern Literature. To this short list of texts addressing queer temporality and aging, I would add a 2009 article from the social sciences by Maria T. Brown, “LGBT Aging and Rhetorical Silence.”
4. ↑ As I write this, my local paper informs me that over 100 gay couples were married in Milwaukee this weekend, as it became legally possible for the first time. The local news coverage is all sentimental celebration.
Brown, Maria T. “LGBT Aging and Rhetorical Silence.” Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC 6.4 (2009): 65-78.
Clare, Eli. “Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies: Disability and Queerness.” Public Culture 13.3 (2001): 359-65.
Edelman, Lee. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Durham: Duke UP, 2004.
Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. New York: Columbia UP, 1997.
Gullette, Margaret Morganroth. Aged by Culture. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2004.
Halberstam, Judith. In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives, Sexual Cultures. New York: New York UP, 2005.
Halperin, David M., and Valerie Traub, eds. Gay Shame. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2009.
Lehrer, Riva. “Golem Girl Gets Lucky.” Sex and Disability. Eds. Robert McRuer and Anna Mollow. Durham: Duke UP, 2011. 231-55.
McRuer, Robert. Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability. New York: New York UP, 2006.
McRuer, Robert, and Abby L. Wilkerson, eds. Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies. Spec. double issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 9.1-2 (2003).
Medevoi, Leerom. “Age Trouble: A Timely Subject in American Literary and Cultural Studies.” American Literary History 22.3 (2010): 657–72.
Micir, Melanie. “Living in Two Tenses: The Intimate Archives of Sylvia Townsend Warner.” Journal of Modern Literature 36.1 (2012): 119-31.
Port, Cynthia. Message to the author. 11 Jan. 2014. E-mail.
—. “No Future? Aging, Temporality, History, and Reverse Chronologies.” Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities 4 (2012). Web. 18 Aug. 2014.
Jane Gallop is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee. She is the author of nine books, including Thinking Through the Body (1987), Anecdotal Theory (2002), and, most recently, The Deaths of the Author. She is currently at work on a book on adult-onset disability, middle-aging, and sexuality. Readers may write to Jane Gallop at jg@uwm.edu.
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Is Gujarat Tourism prejudiced towards ‘Pride’ of Gujarat?
By Alok BrahmbhattAlok Brahmbhatt, Ahmedabad Mirror | Updated: Sep 8, 2018, 02:00 IST
Lincoln Park Zoo and Kruger Park are in Gir which houses African lions! Dazed? At a time when Gujarat takes pride in Gir’s Asiatic lions, so much so that it refuses to translocate them to Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat Tourism has made a spectacle of itself by using video clips of African lions from Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago and Kruger Park in South Africa to create promotional video of Gir Monsoon Festival 2018. The 55-second promotional video shows the roar of an African lion from Lincoln Park Zoo and a pride of lions occupying a narrow road in Kruger Park.
The clips have been lifted from ‘Lion Roar at Lincoln Park Zoo’ and ‘Largest Lion Pride in Kruger Park’ clips that have been widely watched on social media. The promotional video with professional voiceover ends with logo of the Gujarat Tourism department. It also showcases Somnath Temple, skate-boarding, glass-painting and cultural events to attract tourists to the festival between September 1 and 16. The fest was launched by tourism minister Ganpat Vasava and Gujarat Tourism Chairman Kamlesh Patel at a swanky event where actors of a popular Hindi serial entertained guests.
Liberty. Fraternity. Equality.
Blame it on the agency
When shown the video, Gujarat Tourism Managing Director Jenu Devan said, “It is our video.” After discrepancies were pointed out to him, he said, “I will have to get it checked whether we commissioned the promotional video or the agency made it independently.” After speaking to concerned officials, he said, “We have not got any such video made for Gir Monsoon Festival. This may have been made by the agency conducting the festival. However, taking note of the discrepancies, I have informed my team to get the video removed and take action against the agency.”
Video floated on social media
Gujarat Tourism gets several short videos made by several agencies. Surprisingly, the Gir Monsoon Festival 2018 video has not been posted on Gujarat Tourism website or any other official platform but widely circulated on social media.
What experts say
Mukesh Acharya, a wildlife photographer and researcher, confirmed the lion visuals in the video do not appear to have been shot anywhere in Gir. Manoj Thaker, a wildlife photographer, said lions shown in the promotional video are not Asiatic lions of Gir. He also pointed out that the cars visible in the video do not look like ones available in India.
Not the first goof up
Interestingly, this is not the first time the tourism department has committed such a blunder. During the Nalsarovar Bird Safari 2016 event, a kiosk had been set up at the venue to showcase movement of migratory birds via educational videos. In one of the animation films, the map of India was shown without Kashmir. The animation was corrected after Mirror reported it in its February 13, 2016, edition. The agency that made the video could not be reached for comments on th e issue despite several attempts.
We have not made the promotional video . It may have been made by the agency conducting the Gir festival. We will remove it and take action against the agency
Jenu Devan, MD, Gujarat Tourism
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Diana Penty, Radhika Madan, Mohit Raina, Sunny Kaushal in Kunal Deshmukh's next
By Natasha CoutinhoNatasha Coutinho, Mumbai Mirror | Updated: May 16, 2019, 10:09 IST
Kunal Deshmukh whose last directorial was the Emraan Hashmi-starrer Raja Natwarlal in 2014, is back with a love story. This one features Radhika Madan, Sunny Kaushal, Diana Penty and Mohit Raina and is titled Shiddat-Journey Beyond Love. While Radhika is opposite Sunny, Diana has been paired with Mohit. Produced by Dinesh Vijan, it will go on the floors in September and will be shot across Punjab, as also Paris and London.
“It has two parallel tracks focusing on the journey of both couples. The story has been written by Sridhar Raghavan and Dheeraj Rattan with dialogues by Dheeraj as well. The film will have a summer 2020 release,” informed a source close to the development.
When asked why a love story, Vijan jokes, “Well I got married recently, so I’m feeling like it, but on a serious note in this day and age where love is taken so lightly, it’s difficult to imagine the lengths people would go to for it. Shiddat is a not only a story about love but the distance one travels for it. The passion that overcomes maybe all senses or logic to do things that you wouldn’t usually imagine, the belief in something with all your heart and the drive to achieve it — that’s Shiddat.”
In this day and age where love is taken so lightly, it’s difficult to imagine the lengths people would go to for it
–Dinesh Vijan
Incidentally, Radhika is currently shooting for another Dinesh Vijan production, the Homi Adajania-directorial Angrezi Medium in which she plays Irrfan Khan’s daughter who wants to go abroad for higher studies. Sunny is currently filming Sneha Taurani’s debut directorial, Bhangra Paa Le and will be seen next in Kabir Khan’s sports drama ’ 83. Mohit made his film debut with the Vicky Kaushal war drama, Uri: The Surgical Strike last year. Diana, who was launched by Dinesh in Cocktail (2012) was last seen in Mudassar Aziz’s Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi.
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March 2019, 8(1): 57-72. doi: 10.3934/eect.2019004
On a C-integrable equation for second sound propagation in heated dielectrics
Ivan C. Christov
School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Received January 2018 Revised April 2018 Published January 2019
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An exactly solvable model in heat conduction is considered. The $ C $-integrable (i.e., change-of-variables-integrable) equation for second sound (i.e., heat wave) propagation in a thin, rigid dielectric heat conductor uniformly heated on its lateral side by a surrounding medium under the Stefan-Boltzmann law is derived. A simple change-of-variables transformation is shown to exactly map the nonlinear governing partial differential equation to the classical linear telegrapher's equation. In a one-dimensional context, known integral-transform solutions of the latter are adapted to construct exact solutions relevant to heat transfer applications: (ⅰ) the initial-value problem on an infinite domain (the real line), and (ⅱ) the initial-boundary-value problem on a semi-infinite domain (the half-line). Possible "second law violations" and restrictions on the $ C $-transformation are noted for some sets of parameters.
Keywords: Second sound, heat waves, C-integrability, dielectrics, radiation heat transfer, integral transforms.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35Q79, 80A20; Secondary: 35L20, 74J05.
Citation: Ivan C. Christov. On a C-integrable equation for second sound propagation in heated dielectrics. Evolution Equations & Control Theory, 2019, 8 (1) : 57-72. doi: 10.3934/eect.2019004
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Figure 1. Schematic of a thin, rigid rod of a dielectric material (contained within the domain $ \Omega $ with boundary $ \partial\Omega $ and unit surface normal $ \mathit{\boldsymbol{\hat{n}}} $) subject to uniform heating/cooling of its lateral surface by its surroundings. The dielectric is long in the $ x $-direction and thin in the cross-sectional $ y $- and $ z $-directions, so that heat conduction can be assumed to be unidirectional and radiation to be a volumetric source term in the energy equation. In this particular illustration, the temperature $ \vartheta $ at one end ($ x = 0 $) can be prescribed. The temperature in the surrounding medium (i.e., in $ \mathbb{R}^3\setminus\Omega $) is the constant $ \vartheta_\infty $
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Figure 2. Oscillatory behavior of solutions, given in Eq. (27), to the ODE (25) for $ \lambda_0 = \epsilon = 1 \Rightarrow \lambda_0^2 < 4\epsilon $. Solid curve correspond to $ \Theta_{\rm i} = 1 > \Theta_{\rm R} = 0.1 $, dashed curve corresponds to $ \Theta_{\rm i} = 1 < \Theta_{\rm R} = 2 $. For this choice of parameters, the solid curve's first minimum "dips" below $ \Theta^4 = 0 $; thus, this solution is not strictly non-negative and $ \Theta $ can become imaginary
Figure 3. Dimensionless temperature $ \Theta $ profiles versus $ X $ at different dimensionless times $ T $ showing the relaxation of a unit pulse via the exact solution in Eq. (40). (a) $ T = 0.5 $, (b) $ T = 1 $, (c) $ T = 2 $, (d) $ T = 4 $. Here, $ \epsilon = 0.1 $, $ \lambda_0 = \tfrac{3}{2}\sqrt{4\epsilon} $ ($ k<0 $) for solid curves, while $ \lambda_0 = \sqrt{4\epsilon} $ ($ k = 0 $) for dashed curves
Figure 5. Evolution of a (dimensionless) heat pulse $ \Theta $ under the solution from Eq. (44). (a, b) $ \epsilon = 0.1 $, (c, d) $ \epsilon = 0.5 $; (a, c) $ T = 2 $, (b, d) $ T = 4 $. In all panels $ \lambda_0 = \tfrac{3}{2}\sqrt{4\epsilon} $ ($ k<0 $) for the solid curves, while $ \lambda_0 = \sqrt{4\epsilon} $ ($ k = 0 $) for the dashed curves
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Seven Days in North Norfolk and Half a Book
After our long railway jaunt around central Europe earlier in the year H and I both fancied settling in one place for a week. Despite having spent three enjoyable holidays in North Norfolk in four years, we’d not been back in almost a decade: a return visit seemed ideal. We set off on one of those gorgeous autumn mornings, arriving in Blakeney in the late afternoon only a little discombobulated by the ‘axe-throwing escape rooms’ sign just outside Kings Lynn.
North Norfolk is famous for its big sky stretching out over the marshes to the sea. On a clear night the stars are spectacular, something we never see at home thanks to all that ambient light thrown up by the town. It’s also home to lots of pretty villages, many with delis offering treats, plus the small town of Holt which still boasts a proper department store. None of your brand concession nonsense at Baker and Larners.
We already had a catalogue of walks in our heads, the favourite of which for me is a circular hike beginning at Wells-next-the-Sea continuing to Holkham and back up the beach past Wells’ colourful beach huts whose numbers seemed to have expanded greatly since our last visit. One of the joys of this walk is watching lots of happy waggy dogs cavorting on the beach although they, like us, were having a bit of trouble with the buffeting wind.
By mid-week the bluster was in full-swing so we took ourselves off inland to Hindringham Hall’s gorgeous gardens, far more lovely than we were expecting with its beautifully ordered kitchen garden, groaning with produce, and autumn crocuses scattered across lawns surrounded by a moat.
Inevitably there was a wet day but I’d wanted to visit the Sainsbury Centre at UEA in Norwich for some time. The collection is housed in Norman Foster’s first building, still looking good despite its fortysomething years. Only a smattering of artefacts is on display from the vast collection but it’s beautifully curated. My favourite piece was a miniature Peruvian lama fashioned in silver c. 1400-1532. The afternoon was spent wandering around Norwich which is far enough away from anywhere else to have retained its character. It even has a little outbreak of Art Nouveau.
And the book? Sad to say that not nearly as much reading was done as either of us had hoped thanks to our cottage’s crepuscular lighting, clearly not designed for readers. I did manage to get stuck in to Emma Flint’s Little Deaths set in ’60s New York. Based on a true crime, it’s the story of a double child murder told from the perspective of the children’s mother whose apparently louche lifestyle puts her in the frame and the rookie reporter who shoulders his way into covering the crime and becomes obsessed by her. Not usually my cup of tea but it’s deftly handled and engrossing.
An enjoyable break, then, despite the blowing about by Storm Ali. I’m enjoying the current spell of sunny autumn days before knuckling down to winter. Long may it last.
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Rick Perkins, WG’70
DeWitt Peterson, WG’56
Jack F. Smith, W’51, WG’52, Chair Emeritus
Thomas Vincent, WG’56
Tom Jones has been President and CEO of Fifth Generation Computer Corporation since September of 1987. The Company designs and develops large scale parallel processing systems for government agencies and the telecom industry. Fifth Gen is the holder of three patents which it licenses to various tech companies.
Earlier, from 1973 to 1984, Tom founded and became CEO of Jones Health Systems Management, Inc (JHSM), an information services company which developed software for the health care industry and managed hospital IT departments on an outsourced basis. During that period, he became the contracted Manager of IT for the New York Hospital – Cornell Medical Center for three years. From 1967 to 1973, he was Director of Management Systems and Vice President at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, a large NYSE investment banking firm.
He began his career in the computer industry in 1958 with the IBM Corporation in Philadelphia where he headed a sales team working with large clients in the electronics and aerospace industries. In 1966, Tom was selected to become a White House Fellow under President Lyndon Johnson, a year long program whereby each Fellow is assigned to a cabinet officer. He was selected to become a special assistant to HEW Secretary John W. Gardner.
He has been active in his community over the years, at both the local, state and national levels. In the early 1970’s, for example, he was appointed to serve on New York City’s Community Planning Board for the Chelsea-Clinton neighborhoods on New York’s West Side.
He has had a continuing interest in Education Policy, having worked with the New York City Urban Coalition on an advisory basis to its Education Group that set up several innovative Charter Schools in the 1970’s. He was also a member of the New York State Advisory Council on Education in Albany from 1970 through 1975.
Tom is a member of the IEEE, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Licensing Executives Society. He graduated with a BS degree in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1954 and an MBA from the Wharton Graduate School of Business in 1958.
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Armoni Brooks
Breaon Brady
Nate Hinton
Alexis Yetna
Brady scores 13, No. 21 Houston holds out USF 69-60
By FRED GOODALLJanuary 20, 2019
Houston coach Kelvin Sampson paces the sideline during the first half of the team's NCAA college basketball game against South Florida on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019 in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Nesius)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Kelvin Sampson struggled to find appropriate words to describe a truly ugly game.
There were 32 turnovers, 62 fouls, 76 free throws attempted, 32 percent shooting by one team and slightly over 40 percent for the other.
“Not aesthetically pleasing,” Sampson said after No. 21 Houston held off South Florida 69-60 on Saturday night. “I felt bad that people had to watch that.”
Breaon Brady had 13 points and nine rebounds, Armoni Brooks scored 11 points and Nate Hinton added 10 to lead the Cougars (18-1, 5-1 American Athletic Conference), who squandered most of a 16-point second-half lead before pulling away for good over the last 10 minutes.
David Collins led South Florida (12-6, 2-4) with 23 points, 21 of them after halftime. Alexis Yetna scored 12, none in the second half.
“Two teams playing hard, competing,” Sampson said, adding that his team’s depth likely was the difference. “We had just enough bodies to get through.”
Houston limited USF to 23.8 percent shooting (5 for 21) in the first half and finished the period on a 16-6 run to open a 35-25 lead. The Cougars built the advantage to 16 before Collins scored six points over a two-minute stretch to help the Bulls whittle their deficit to 47-43 with 10:38 remaining.
Brison Gresham’s three-point play and Galen Robinson’s first points of the night on a short jumper settled the Cougars, who methodically built the lead back to double-digits. Collins made three free throws to make it a six-point game before Houston closed it out from the foul line.
“I think we did some good things, but not enough to beat a team like that,” South Florida coach Brian Gregory said.
Houston: The Cougars won for the third time since suffering their only loss, 73-69 at Temple on Jan. 9. They get another crack at the Owls on Jan. 31 in Houston, where the Cougars have the nation’s longest home winning streak at 29 games.
South Florida: The Bulls have lost 25 consecutive games to ranked opponents. USF’s last victory over an AP Top 25 team was Feb. 29, 2012 at Louisville. They haven’t beaten a ranked team at home since defeating Seton Hall seven years ago this month.
Robinson, who finished with five points and two assists, joined Derrick Daniels as the only players in school history with four 100-plus assist seasons. He’s four assists away from becoming the sixth player in program history with 500 in a career.
FOUL TROUBLE
Houston’s leading scorer Corey Davis was hampered by foul trouble and finished with just six points on 2-of-4 shooting in 18 minutes.
Brady, Brooks and Hinton took up the slack. And, the Cougars got some timely contributions from Robinson and Chris Harris, Jr., who came off the bench and had five points, four rebounds and two blocked shots in seven minutes.
“That’s the thing about our team,” Sampson said. “We don’t depend on one player.”
Houston was whistled for 33 fouls. USF was called for 29.
Houston: Return home to face East Carolina on Wednesday.
South Florida: Host Wichita State on Tuesday.
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Zach Chappell
Noah Baumann
San Jose State beats New Mexico to halt 17-game losing skid
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Noah Baumann drained 8 of 12 from long range and scored 26 points to lead San Jose State to its first victory in over two months, knocking off New Mexico 89-82 on Tuesday night to halt a 17-game losing streak and pick up its first Mountain West Conference win this season.
The Spartans (4-23, 1-14) had not posted a victory since beating Northern Arizona 79-74 on Dec. 15.
Michael Steadman made 10 of 20 field-goal attempts to post 21 points while pulling down 11 rebounds. Zach Chappell chipped in 17 points to go with nine assists for San Diego State.
The Spartans knocked down 11 of 22 from beyond the arc and were 31 of 64 from the floor (48 percent) while limiting New Mexico to 33-of-82 shooting (39 percent).
Keith McGee came off the bench to score 25 points for New Mexico (11-16, 5-10). Carlton Bragg added 17 points while pulling down 16 rebounds.
The Spartans took a 47-46 lead into the break. They never trailed in the second half, pushing their advantage to 65-52 early in the final period.
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Lanty Foster's Mistake
by Bret Harte
Lanty Foster was crouching on a low stool before the dying kitchen fire, the better to get its fading radiance on the book she was reading. Beyond, through the open window and door, the fire was also slowly fading from the sky and the mountain ridge whence the sun had dropped half an hour before. The view was uphill, and the sky-line of the hill was marked by two or three gibbet-like poles from which, on a now invisible line between them, depended certain objects--mere black silhouettes against the sky--which bore weird likeness to human figures. Absorbed as she was in her book, she nevertheless occasionally cast an impatient glance in that direction, as the sunlight faded more quickly than her fire. For the fluttering objects were the "week's wash" which had to be brought in before night fell and the mountain wind arose. It was strong at that altitude, and before this had ravished the clothes from the line, and scattered them along the highroad leading over the ridge, once even lashing the shy schoolmaster with a pair of Lanty's own stockings, and blinding the parson with a really tempestuous petticoat.
A whiff of wind down the big-throated chimney stirred the log embers on the hearth, and the girl jumped to her feet, closing the book with an impatient snap. She knew her mother's voice would follow. It was hard to leave her heroine at the crucial moment of receiving an explanation from a presumed faithless lover, just to climb a hill and take in a lot of soulless washing, but such are the infelicities of stolen romance reading. She threw the clothes- basket over her head like a hood, the handle resting across her bosom and shoulders, and with both her hands free started out of the cabin. But the darkness had come up from the valley in one stride after its mountain fashion, had outstripped her, and she was instantly plunged in it. Still the outline of the ridge above her was visible, with the white, steadfast stars that were not there a moment ago, and by that sign she knew she was late. She had to battle against the rushing wind now, which sung through the inverted basket over her head and held her back, but with bent shoulders she at last reached the top of the ridge and the level. Yet here, owing to the shifting of the lighter background above her, she now found herself again encompassed with the darkness. The outlines of the poles had disappeared, the white fluttering garments were distinct apparitions waving in the wind, like dancing ghosts. But there certainly was a queer misshapen bulk moving beyond, which she did not recognize, and as she at last reached one of the poles, a shock was communicated to it, through the clothes- line and the bulk beyond. Then she heard a voice say impatiently,--
"What in h-ll am I running into now?"
It was a man's voice, and, from its elevation, the voice of a man on horseback. She answered without fear and with slow deliberation,--
"Inter our clothes-line, I reckon."
"Oh!" said the man in a half-apologetic tone. Then in brisker accents, "The very thing I want! I say, can you give me a bit of it? The ring of my saddle girth has fetched loose. I can fasten it with that."
"I reckon," replied Lanty, with the same unconcern, moving nearer the bulk, which now separated into two parts as the man dismounted. "How much do you want?"
"A foot or two will do."
They were now in front of each other, although their faces were not distinguishable to either. Lanty, who had been following the lines with her hand, here came upon the end knotted around the last pole. This she began to untie.
"What a place to hang clothes," he said curiously.
"Mighty dryin', tho'," returned Lanty laconically.
"And your house? Is it near by?" he continued.
"Just down the ridge--ye kin see from the edge. Got a knife?" She had untied the knot.
"No--yes--wait." He had hesitated a moment and then produced something from his breast pocket, which he however kept in his hand. As he did not offer it to her she simply held out a section of the rope between her hands, which he divided with a single cut. She saw only that the instrument was long and keen. Then she lifted the flap of the saddle for him as he attempted to fasten the loose ring with the rope, but the darkness made it impossible. With an ejaculation, he fumbled in his pockets. "My last match!" he said, striking it, as he crouched over it to protect it from the wind. Lanty leaned over also, with her apron raised between it and the blast. The flame for an instant lit up the ring, the man's dark face, mustache, and white teeth set together as he tugged at the girth, and Lanty's brown, velvet eyes and soft, round cheek framed in the basket. Then it went out, but the ring was secured.
"Thank you," said the man, with a short laugh, "but I thought you were a humpbacked witch in the dark there."
"And I couldn't make out whether you was a cow or a b'ar," returned the young girl simply.
Here, however, he quickly mounted his horse, but in the action something slipped from his clothes, struck a stone, and bounded away into the darkness.
"My knife," he said hurriedly. "Please hand it to me." But although the girl dropped on her knees and searched the ground diligently, it could not be found. The man with a restrained ejaculation again dismounted, and joined in the search.
"Haven't you got another match?" suggested Lanty.
"No--it was my last!" he said impatiently.
"Just you hol' on here," she said suddenly, "and I'll run down to the kitchen and fetch you a light. I won't be long."
"No! no!" said the man quickly; "don't! I couldn't wait. I've been here too long now. Look here. You come in daylight and find it, and--just keep it for me, will you?" He laughed. "I'll come for it. And now, if you'll only help to set me on that road again, for it's so infernal black I can't see the mare's ears ahead of me, I won't bother you any more. Thank you."
Lanty had quietly moved to his horse's head and taken the bridle in her hand, and at once seemed to be lost in the gloom. But in a few moments he felt the muffled thud of his horse's hoof on the thick dust of the highway, and its still hot, impalpable powder rising to his nostrils.
"Thank you," he said again, "I'm all right now," and in the pause that followed it seemed to Lanty that he had extended a parting hand to her in the darkness. She put up her own to meet it, but missed his, which had blundered onto her shoulder. Before she could grasp it, she felt him stooping over her, the light brush of his soft mustache on her cheek, and then the starting forward of his horse. But the retaliating box on the ear she had promptly aimed at him spent itself in the black space which seemed suddenly to have swallowed up the man, and even his light laugh.
For an instant she stood still, and then, swinging the basket indignantly from her shoulder, took up her suspended task. It was no light one in the increasing wind, and the unfastened clothes- line had precipitated a part of its burden to the ground through the loosening of the rope. But on picking up the trailing garments her hand struck an unfamiliar object. The stranger's lost knife! She thrust it hastily into the bottom of the basket and completed her work. As she began to descend with her burden she saw that the light of the kitchen fire, seen through the windows, was augmented by a candle. Her mother was evidently awaiting her.
"Pretty time to be fetchin' in the wash," said Mrs. Foster querulously. "But what can you expect when folks stand gossipin' and philanderin' on the ridge instead o' tendin' to their work?"
Now Lanty knew that she had NOT been "gossipin'" nor "philanderin'," yet as the parting salute might have been open to that imputation, and as she surmised that her mother might have overheard their voices, she briefly said, to prevent further questioning, that she had shown a stranger the road. But for her mother's unjust accusation she would have been more communicative. As Mrs. Foster went back grumblingly into the sitting-room Lanty resolved to keep the knife at present a secret from her mother, and to that purpose removed it from the basket. But in the light of the candle she saw it for the first time plainly--and started.
For it was really a dagger! jeweled-handled and richly wrought-- such as Lanty had never looked upon before. The hilt was studded with gems, and the blade, which had a cutting edge, was damascened in blue and gold. Her soft eyes reflected the brilliant setting, her lips parted breathlessly; then, as her mother's voice arose in the other room, she thrust it back into its velvet sheath and clapped it into her pocket. Its rare beauty had confirmed her resolution of absolute secrecy. To have shown it now would have made "no end of talk." And she was not sure but that her parents would have demanded its custody! And it was given to HER by HIM to keep. This settled the question of moral ethics. She took the first opportunity to run up to her bedroom and hide it under the mattress.
Yet the thought of it filled the rest of her evening. When her household duties were done she took up her novel again, partly from force of habit and partly as an attitude in which she could think of IT undisturbed. For what was fiction to her now? True, it possessed a certain reminiscent value. A "dagger" had appeared in several romances she had devoured, but she never had a clear idea of one before. "The Count sprang back, and, drawing from his belt a richly jeweled dagger, hissed between his teeth," or, more to the purpose: "'Take this,' said Orlando, handing her the ruby-hilted poignard which had gleamed upon his thigh, 'and should the caitiff attempt thy unguarded innocence--'"
"Did ye hear what your father was sayin'?" Lanty started. It was her mother's voice in the doorway, and she had been vaguely conscious of another voice pitched in the same querulous key, which, indeed, was the dominant expression of the small ranchers of that fertile neighborhood. Possibly a too complaisant and unaggressive Nature had spoiled them.
"Yes!--no!" said Lanty abstractedly, "what did he say?"
"If you wasn't taken up with that fool book," said Mrs. Foster, glancing at her daughter's slightly conscious color, "ye'd know! He allowed ye'd better not leave yer filly in the far pasture nights. That gang o' Mexican horse-thieves is out again, and raided McKinnon's stock last night."
This touched Lanty closely. The filly was her own property, and she was breaking it for her own riding. But her distrust of her parents' interference was greater than any fear of horse-stealers. "She's mighty uneasy in the barn; and," she added, with a proud consciousness of that beautiful yet carnal weapon upstairs, "I reckon I ken protect her and myself agin any Mexican horse- thieves."
"My! but we're gettin' high and mighty," responded Mrs. Foster, with deep irony. "Did you git all that outer your fool book?"
"Mebbe," said Lanty curtly.
Nevertheless, her thoughts that night were not entirely based on written romance. She wondered if the stranger knew that she had really tried to box his ears in the darkness, also if he had been able to see her face. HIS she remembered, at least the flash of his white teeth against his dark face and darker mustache, which was quite as soft as her own hair. But if he thought "for a minnit" that she was "goin' to allow an entire stranger to kiss her--he was mighty mistaken." She should let him know it "pretty quick"! She should hand him back the dagger "quite careless like," and never let on that she'd thought anything of it. Perhaps that was the reason why, before she went to bed, she took a good look at it, and after taking off her straight, beltless, calico gown she even tried the effect of it, thrust in the stiff waistband of her petticoat, with the jeweled hilt displayed, and thought it looked charming--as indeed it did. And then, having said her prayers like a good girl, and supplicated that she should be less "tetchy" with her parents, she went to sleep and dreamed that she had gone out to take in the wash again, but that the clothes had all changed to the queerest lot of folks, who were all fighting and struggling with each other until she, Lanty, drawing her dagger, rushed up single- handed among them, crying, "Disperse, ye craven curs,--disperse, I say." And they dispersed.
Yet even Lanty was obliged to admit the next morning that all this was somewhat incongruous with the baking of "corn dodgers," the frying of fish, the making of beds, and her other household duties, and dismissed the stranger from her mind until he should "happen along." In her freer and more acceptable outdoor duties she even tolerated the advances of neighboring swains who made a point of passing by "Foster's Ranch," and who were quite aware that Atalanta Foster, alias "Lanty," was one of the prettiest girls in the country. But Lanty's toleration consisted in that singular performance known to herself as "giving them as good as they sent," being a lazy traversing, qualified with scorn, of all that they advanced. How long they would have put up with this from a plain girl I do not know, but Lanty's short upper lip seemed framed for indolent and fascinating scorn, and her dreamy eyes usually looked beyond the questioner, or blunted his bolder glances in their velvety surfaces. The libretto of these scenes was not exhaustive, e.g.:--
The Swain (with bold, bad gayety). "Saw that shy schoolmaster hangin' round your ridge yesterday! Orter know by this time that shyness with a gal don't pay."
Lanty (decisively). "Mebbe he allows it don't get left as often as impudence."
The Swain (ignoring the reply and his previous attitude and becoming more direct). "I was calkilatin' to say that with these yer hoss-thieves about, yer filly ain't safe in the pasture. I took a turn round there two or three times last evening to see if she was all right."
Lanty (with a flattering show of interest). "No! DID ye, now? I was jest wonderin"'--
The Swain (eagerly). "I did--quite late, too! Why, that's nothin', Miss Atalanty, to what I'd do for you."
Lanty (musing, with far off-eyes). "Then that's why she was so awful skeerd and frightened! Just jumpin' outer her skin with horror. I reckoned it was a b'ar or panther or a spook! You ought to have waited till she got accustomed to your looks."
Nevertheless, despite this elegant raillery, Lanty was enough concerned in the safety of her horse to visit it the next day with a view of bringing it nearer home. She had just stepped into the alder fringe of a dry "run" when she came suddenly upon the figure of a horseman in the "run," who had been hidden by the alders from the plain beyond and who seemed to be engaged in examining the hoof marks in the dust of the old ford. Something about his figure struck her recollection, and as he looked up quickly she saw it was the owner of the dagger. But he appeared to be lighter of hair and complexion, and was dressed differently, and more like a vaquero. Yet there was the same flash of his teeth as he recognized her, and she knew it was the same man.
Alas for her preparation! Without the knife she could not make that haughty return of it which she had contemplated. And more than that, she was conscious she was blushing! Nevertheless she managed to level her pretty brown eyebrows at him, and said sharply that if he followed her to her home she would return his property at once.
"But I'm in no hurry for it," he said with a laugh,--the same light laugh and pleasant voice she remembered,--"and I'd rather not come to the house just now. The knife is in good hands, I know, and I'll call for it when I want it! And until then--if it's all the same to you--keep it to yourself,--keep it dark, as dark as the night I lost it!"
"I don't go about blabbing my affairs," said Lanty indignantly, "and if it hadn't BEEN dark that night you'd have had your ears boxed--you know why!"
The stranger laughed again, waved his hand to Lanty, and galloped away.
Lanty was a little disappointed. The daylight had taken away some of her illusions. He was certainly very good-looking, but not quite as picturesque, mysterious, and thrilling as in the dark! And it was very queer--he certainly did look darker that night! Who was he? And why was he lingering near her? He was different from her neighbors--her admirers. He might be one of those locaters, from the big towns, who prospect the lands, with a view of settling government warrants on them,--they were always so secret until they had found what they wanted. She did not dare to seek information of her friends, for the same reason that she had concealed his existence from her mother,--it would provoke awkward questions; and it was evident that he was trusting to her secrecy, too. The thought thrilled her with a new pride, and was some compensation for the loss of her more intangible romance. It would be mighty fine, when he did call openly for his beautiful knife and declared himself, to have them all know that SHE knew about it all along.
When she reached home, to guard against another such surprise she determined to keep the weapon with her, and, distrusting her pocket, confided it to the cheap little country-made corset which only for the last year had confined her budding figure, and which now, perhaps, heaved with an additional pride. She was quite abstracted during the rest of the day, and paid but little attention to the gossip of the farm lads, who were full of a daring raid, two nights before, by the Mexican gang on the large stock farm of a neighbor. The Vigilant Committee had been baffled; it was even alleged that some of the smaller ranchmen and herders were in league with the gang. It was also believed to be a widespread conspiracy; to have a political complexion in its combination of an alien race with Southwestern filibusters. The legal authorities had been reinforced by special detectives from San Francisco. Lanty seldom troubled herself with these matters; she knew the exaggeration, she suspected the ignorance of her rural neighbors. She roughly referred it, in her own vocabulary, to "jaw," a peculiarly masculine quality. But later in the evening, when the domestic circle in the sitting-room had been augmented by a neighbor, and Lanty had taken refuge behind her novel as an excuse for silence, Zob Hopper, the enamored swain of the previous evening, burst in with more astounding news. A posse of the sheriff had just passed along the ridge; they had "corraled" part of the gang, and rescued some of the stock. The leader of the gang had escaped, but his capture was inevitable, as the roads were stopped. "All the same, I'm glad to see ye took my advice, Miss Atalanty, and brought in your filly," he concluded, with an insinuating glance at the young girl.
But "Miss Atalanty," curling a quarter of an inch of scarlet lip above the edge of her novel, here "allowed" that if his advice or the filly had to be "took," she didn't know which was worse.
"I wonder ye kin talk to sech peartness, Mr. Hopper," said Mrs. Foster severely; "she ain't got eyes nor senses for anythin' but that book."
"Talkin' o' what's to be 'took,'" put in the diplomatic neighbor, "you bet it ain't that Mexican leader! No, sir! he's been 'stopped' before this--and then got clean away all the same! One o' them detectives got him once and disarmed him--but he managed to give them the slip, after all. Why, he's that full o' shifts and disguises thar ain't no spottin' him. He walked right under the constable's nose oncet, and took a drink with the sheriff that was arter him--and the blamed fool never knew it. He kin change even the color of his hair quick as winkin'."
"Is he a real Mexican,--a regular Greaser?" asked the paternal Foster. "Cos I never heard that they wuz smart."
"No! They say he comes o' old Spanish stock, a bad egg they threw outer the nest, I reckon," put in Hopper eagerly, seeing a strange animated interest dilating Lanty's eyes, and hoping to share in it; "but he's reg'lar high-toned, you bet! Why, I knew a man who seed him in his own camp--prinked out in a velvet jacket and silk sash, with gold chains and buttons down his wide pants and a dagger stuck in his sash, with a handle just blazin' with jew'ls. Yes! Miss Atalanty, they say that one stone at the top--a green stone, what they call an 'em'ral'--was worth the price o' a 'Frisco house-lot. True ez you live! Eh--what's up now?"
Lanty's book had fallen on the floor as she was rising to her feet with a white face, still more strange and distorted in an affected yawn behind her little hand. "Yer makin' me that sick and nervous with yer fool yarns," she said hysterically, "that I'm goin' to get a little fresh air. It's just stifling here with lies and terbacker!" With another high laugh, she brushed past him into the kitchen, opened the door, and then paused, and, turning, ran rapidly up to her bedroom. Here she locked herself in, tore open the bosom of her dress, plucked out the dagger, threw it on the bed, where the green stone gleamed for an instant in the candlelight, and then dropped on her knees beside the bed with her whirling head buried in her cold red hands.
It had all come to her in a flash, like a blaze of lightning,--the black, haunting figure on the ridge, the broken saddle girth, the abandonment of the dagger in the exigencies of flight and concealment; the second meeting, the skulking in the dry, alder- hidden "run," the changed dress, the lighter-colored hair, but always the same voice and laugh--the leader, the fugitive, the Mexican horse-thief! And she, the Godforsaken fool, the chuckle- headed nigger baby, with not half the sense of her own filly or that sop-headed Hopper--had never seen it! She--SHE who would be the laughing-stock of them all--she had thought him a "locater," a "towny" from 'Frisco! And she had consented to keep his knife until he would call for it,--yes, call for it, with fire and flame perhaps, the trampling of hoofs, pistol shots--and--yet--
Yet!--he had TRUSTED her. Yes! trusted her when he knew a word from her lips would have brought the whole district down on him! when the mere exposure of that dagger would have identified and damned him! Trusted her a second time, when she was within cry of her house! When he might have taken her filly without her knowing it? And now she remembered vaguely that the neighbors had said how strange it was that her father's stock had not suffered as theirs had. HE had protected them--he who was now a fugitive--and their men pursuing him! She rose suddenly with a single stamp of her narrow foot, and as suddenly became cool and sane. And then, quite her old self again, she lazily picked up the dagger and restored it to its place in her bosom. That done, with her color back and her eyes a little brighter, she deliberately went downstairs again, stuck her little brown head into the sitting-room, said cheerfully, "Still yawpin', you folks," and quietly passed out into the darkness.
She ran swiftly up to the ridge, impelled by the blind memory of having met him there at night and the one vague thought to give him warning. But it was dark and empty, with no sound but the rushing wind. And then an idea seized her. If he were haunting the vicinity still, he might see the fluttering of the clothes upon the line and believe she was there. She stooped quickly, and in the merciful and exonerating darkness stripped off her only white petticoat and pinned it on the line. It flapped, fluttered, and streamed in the mountain wind. She lingered and listened. But there came a sound she had not counted on,--the clattering hoofs of not ONE, but many, horses on the lower road! She ran back to the house to find its inmates already hastening towards the road for news. She took that chance to slip in quietly, go to her room, whose window commanded a view of the ridge, and crouching low behind it she listened. She could hear the sound of voices, and the dull trampling of heavy boots on the dusty path towards the barnyard on the other side of the house--a pause, and then the return of the trampling boots, and the final clattering of hoofs on the road again. Then there was a tap on her door and her mother's querulous voice.
"Oh! yer there, are ye? Well--it's the best place fer a girl--with all these man's doin's goin' on! They've got that Mexican horse- thief and have tied him up in your filly's stall in the barn--till the 'Frisco deputy gets back from rounding up the others. So ye jest stay where ye are till they've come and gone, and we're shut o' all that cattle. Are ye mindin'?"
"All right, maw; 'taint no call o' mine, anyhow," returned Lanty, through the half-open door.
At another time her mother might have been startled at her passive obedience. Still more would she have been startled had she seen her daughter's face now, behind the closed door--with her little mouth set over her clenched teeth. And yet it was her own child, and Lanty was her mother's real daughter; the same pioneer blood filled their veins, the blood that had never nourished cravens or degenerates, but had given itself to sprinkle and fertilize desert solitudes where man might follow. Small wonder, then, that this frontier-born Lanty, whose first infant cry had been answered by the yelp of wolf and scream of panther; whose father's rifle had been leveled across her cradle to cover the stealthy Indian who prowled outside, small wonder that she should feel herself equal to these "man's doin's," and prompt to take a part. For even in the first shock of the news of the capture she recalled the fact that the barn was old and rotten, that only that day the filly had kicked a board loose from behind her stall, which she, Lanty, had lightly returned to avoid "making a fuss." If his captors had not noticed it, or trusted only to their guards, she might make the opening wide enough to free him!
Two hours later the guard nearest the now sleeping house, a farm hand of the Fosters', saw his employer's daughter slip out and cautiously approach him. A devoted slave of Lanty's, and familiar with her impulses, he guessed her curiosity, and was not averse to satisfy it and the sense of his own importance. To her whispers of affected, half-terrified interest, he responded in whispers that the captive was really in the filly's stall, securely bound by his wrists behind his back, and his feet "hobbled" to a post. That Lanty couldn't see him, for it was dark inside, and he was sitting with his back to the wall, as he couldn't sleep comf'ble lyin' down. Lanty's eyes glowed, but her face was turned aside.
"And ye ain't reckonin' his friends will come and rescue him?" said Lanty, gazing with affected fearfulness in the darkness.
"Not much! There's two other guards down in the corral, and I'd fire my gun and bring 'em up."
But Lanty was gazing open-mouthed towards the ridge. "What's that wavin' on the ridge?" she said in awe-stricken tones.
She was pointing to the petticoat,--a vague, distant, moving object against the horizon.
"Why, that's some o' the wash on the line, ain't it?"
"Wash--TWO DAYS IN THE WEEK!" said Lanty sharply. "Wot's gone of you?"
"Thet's so," muttered the man, "and it wan't there at sundown, I'll swear! P'r'aps I'd better call the guard," and he raised his rifle.
"Don't," said Lanty, catching his arm. "Suppose it's nothin', they'll laugh at ye. Creep up softly and see; ye ain't afraid, are ye? If ye are, give me yer gun, and I'LL go."
This settled the question, as Lanty expected. The man cocked his piece, and bending low began cautiously to mount the acclivity. Lanty waited until his figure began to fade, and then ran like fire to the barn.
She had arranged every detail of her plan beforehand. Crouching beside the wall of the stall she hissed through a crack in thrilling whispers, "Don't move. Don't speak for your life's sake. Wait till I hand you back your knife, then do the best you can." Then slipping aside the loosened board she saw dimly the black outline of curling hair, back, shoulders, and tied wrists of the captive. Drawing the knife from her pocket, with two strokes of its keen cutting edge she severed the cords, threw the knife into the opening, and darted away. Yet in that moment she knew that the man was instinctively turning towards her. But it was one thing to free a horse-thief, and another to stop and "philander" with him.
She ran halfway up the ridge, and met the farm hand returning. It was only a bit of washing after all, and he was glad he hadn't fired his gun. On the other hand, Lanty confessed she had got "so skeert" being alone, that she came to seek him. She had the shivers; wasn't her hand cold? It was, but thrilling even in its coldness to the bashfully admiring man. And she was that weak and dizzy, he must let her lean on his arm going down; and they must go SLOW. She was sure he was cold, too, and if he would wait at the back door she would give him a drink of whiskey. Thus Lanty, with her brain afire, her eyes and ears straining into the darkness, and the vague outline of the barn beyond. Another moment was protracted over the drink of whiskey, and then Lanty, with a faint archness, made him promise not to tell her mother of her escapade, and she promised on her part not to say anything about his "stalking a petticoat on the clothesline," and then shyly closed the door and regained her room. HE must have got away by this time, or have been discovered; she believed they would not open the barn door until the return of the posse.
She was right. It was near daybreak when they returned, and, again crouching low beside her window, she heard, with a fierce joy, the sudden outcry, the oaths, the wrangling voices, the summoning of her father to the front door, and then the tumultuous sweeping away again of the whole posse, and a blessed silence falling over the rancho. And then Lanty went quietly to bed, and slept like a three-year child!
Perhaps that was the reason why she was able at breakfast to listen with lazy and even rosy indifference to the startling events of the night; to the sneers of the farm hands at the posse who had overlooked the knife when they searched their prisoner, as well as the stupidity of the corral guard who had never heard him make a hole "the size of a house" in the barn side! Once she glanced demurely at Silas Briggs--the farm hand and the poor fellow felt consoled in his shame at the remembrance of their confidences.
But Lanty's tranquillity was not destined to last long. There was again the irruption of exciting news from the highroad; the Mexican leader had been recaptured, and was now safely lodged in Brownsville jail! Those who were previously loud in their praises of the successful horse-thief who had baffled the vigilance of his pursuers were now equally keen in their admiration of the new San Francisco deputy who, in turn, had outwitted the whole gang. It was HE who was fertile in expedients; HE who had studied the whole country, and even risked his life among the gang, and HE who had again closed the meshes of the net around the escaped outlaw. He was already returning by way of the rancho, and might stop there a moment,--so that they could all see the hero. Such was the power of success on the country-side! Outwardly indifferent, inwardly bitter, Lanty turned away. She should not grace his triumph, if she kept in her room all day! And when there was a clatter of hoofs on the road again, Lanty slipped upstairs.
But in a few moments she was summoned. Captain Lance Wetherby, Assistant Chief of Police of San Francisco, Deputy Sheriff and ex- U. S. scout, had requested to see Miss Foster a few moments alone. Lanty knew what it meant,--her secret had been discovered; but she was not the girl to shirk the responsibility! She lifted her little brown head proudly, and with the same resolute step with which she had left the house the night before, descended the stairs and entered the sitting-room. At first she saw nothing. Then a remembered voice struck her ear; she started, looked up, and gasping, fell back against the door. It was the stranger who had given her the dagger, the stranger she had met in the run!--the horse-thief himself! No! no! she saw it all now--she had cut loose the wrong man!
He looked at her with a smile of sadness--as he drew from his breast-pocket that dreadful dagger, the very sight of which Lanty now loathed! "This is the SECOND time, Miss Foster," he said gently, "that I have taken this knife from Murietta, the Mexican bandit: once when I disarmed him three weeks ago, and he escaped, and last night, when he had again escaped and I recaptured him. After I lost it that night I understood from you that you had found it and were keeping it for me." He paused a moment and went on: "I don't ask you what happened last night. I don't condemn you for it; I can believe what a girl of your courage and sympathy might rightly do if her pity were excited; I only ask--why did you give HIM back that knife I trusted you with?"
"Why? Why did I?" burst out Lanty in a daring gush of truth, scorn, and temper. "BECAUSE I THOUGHT YOU WERE THAT HORSE-THIEF. There!"
He drew back astonished, and then suddenly came that laugh that Lanty remembered and now hailed with joy. "I believe you, by Jove!" he gasped. "That first night I wore the disguise in which I have tracked him and mingled with his gang. Yes! I see it all now-- and more. I see that to YOU I owe his recapture!"
"To me!" echoed the bewildered girl; "how?"
"Why, instead of making for his cave he lingered here in the confines of the ranch! He thought you were in love with him, because you freed him and gave him his knife, and stayed to see you!"
But Lanty had her apron to her eyes, whose first tears were filling their velvet depths. And her voice was broken as she said,--
"Then he--cared--a--good deal more for me--than some people!"
But there is every reason to believe that Lanty was wrong! At least later events that are part of the history of Foster's Rancho and the Foster family pointed distinctly to the contrary.
Add Lanty Foster's Mistake to your own personal library.
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Do We Know Each Other? A Handsome Charade
Cary Grant poses with bonsai trees in 1965.
I’ve been wanting to explore a sense of style à la Cary Grant for quite some time so you can imagine how my brain exploded with potential when I came across the above photo of the actor posing with several bonsai trees: could an image be more apropos to the Currey & Company point of view? This led me to the remarkably chic movie Charade.
A Handsome Charade
Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Paris.
There were any number of film choices I could have drawn from that would have served this post well because his career spanned three decades (from 1932 to 1966) and he made 72 movies within that time. I chose Charade because Grant and his costar Audrey Hepburn have one of my favorite bits of repartee in it, which you’ll see in the clip of the film below:
CG: Do we know each other?
AH: Why, do you think we’re going to?
CG: I don’t know; how would I know?
AH: Because I already know an awful lot of people and until one of them dies, I couldn’t possibly meet anyone else.
CG: Hmmm. Well, if anyone goes on the critical list, let me know.
AH: Quitter.
CG: Uh, huh?
AH: You give up awfully easily, don’t you?
The film gleaned only one major Oscar nomination: Henry Mancini was tapped for Best Music, Original Song for the movie’s theme song. Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn were nominated for Golden Globes, and Hepburn won a BAFTA. Peter Stone was up for a Writers Guild of America Award for the screenplay he adapted from his own novel but not an Oscar. This was a very competitive year for films and actors: Sidney Poitier won the award for best actor for Lilies of the Field; and notable nominated films included Cleopatra; The Birds; It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; Tom Jones; Federico Fellini’s 8 ½ and Hud.
It’s remarkable to think that Grant never won an Academy Award but it’s true. In the video above, he’s accepting the Oscar for Ingrid Bergman in 1957 for her role in Anastasia. He starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s film noir classic Notorious with her, released in 1946; and in Indiscrete, which debuted in 1958. The two are shown in the photo below with Hitchcock, who directed them in Notorious.
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Alfred Hitchcock in 1946, the year Notorious was released.
Among the leading ladies with whom he was paired during his long career are Grace Kelly, Sophia Loren, Ginger Rogers, Jayne Mansfield, Eva Marie Saint, Doris Day and Deborah Kerr, to name a few. An Affair to Remember with Kerr has become a classic that still airs on romantic channels. Grant’s sense of style was impeccable, as the images that illustrate this post prove, so I thought it would be fitting to delve into Currey & Company’s offerings and tap products that would be smashing choices for his tailored sophistication.
Cary Grant lounges in a pair of white slacks and a tee shirt, at the height of his fame during the 1940s.
After I highlight these, I’ll share the opening of Peter Stone’s screenplay and novel for Charade so you can see where the two characters—Regina Lampert, or Reggie, and Peter Joshua played by Hepburn and Grant respectively—were born.
Cary Grant at the Racetrack in Santa Anita during the 1940s. Note the horseshoe cufflinks!
One look at the image above and you can see why Grant, whose real name was Archibald Alexander Leach, is quoted as saying, “Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”
Furnishing the Handsome Charade
Let’s make him more Cary Grant than he ever was with these Currey & Company offerings. There are a few bestsellers in the mix and a sneak peek at a new product that will be debuting during High Point Market in just over eight weeks (Can it really be that we’re closing in on October again? My, how time flies!). Be sure to read all the way through the post for What’s New What’s Next details, which takes place on September 14th.
Our Tête à Tête sofa is the perfect marriage of form and function. It also illustrates designer Edward J. Wormley’s belief in practical, streamlined beauty. This piece is in the Dunbar Collection
The Karlson credenza is made of solid oak that is covered with natural vellum veneer on the front and a caviar black finish on the frame. It’s a veritable work of art.
The simple forged iron base of the Boyles Silver drinks table, one of our bestsellers, has been treated to a black iron finish. It proudly lifts its antique silver tray-like top to make this an attractive table when only a small amount of space is available.
The Huntsman chandelier with its metal slats in alternating satin brass and antique brass finishes has bagged high style that it puts into orbit overhead. The six-light fixture is one of our bestsellers.
The Verona nightstand is one of our bestsellers; the black beauty with its sexy touch of gold is covered in black lacquered linen that is accented with champagne-finished metal detailing.
The Primo Brass wall sconce, in our Currey in a Hurry program, is to a space what a classic lapel pin is to a woman’s elegant suit. It was inspired by mid-century stylistic notes that would place it squarely on the forefront of design of that era.
The Fulton table lamp, a tailored composition of leather and nickel-plated metal, is one of our new products debuting during High Point Market.
Cary Grant so debonaire in a pinstripe suit.
Cary Grant could always rock a pin stripe suite, as he proves in the above photo from 1940. Don’t you think the products we’ve chosen for him would fit him to a tee were he setting up house today? If only it wasn’t a complete charade!
Charade the Novel and Screenplay
Grant and Hepburn with Paris’ Notre Dame in the background.
And now to the sampling of screenplay versus novel I promised you. I think you’ll see why I say I am much more enamored with the screenplay than the novel, as the movie treatment is lush in its descriptions while the novel, as any spy caper should be, opens more to the point. Here’s the opening of the screenplay from which Charade was made:
FADE IN (BEFORE TITLES)
EXT. FRENCH COUNTRYSIDE – DUSK
Silence – complete silence for the urbanite, though the oncoming darkness is punctuated by sounds of farm country – a few birds, a distant rumble of thunder from some heavy clouds on the horizon, a dog’s barking.
CAMERA PANS the green, squared-off flatland, lit only by a fine sunset in its final throes. Then, gradually, starting from nothing, a rumble is heard, quickly growing louder and louder until the sound of a train can be recognized.
CAMERA PANS quickly, discovering the railroad line atop a man-made rise of land, and the speeding passenger train is upon us, flashing by with a roar.
Then, as if from nowhere, the figure of a man hits the embankment and rolls crazily down to the bottom into the thick underbrush alongside the tracks.
Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant in Charade.
The novel Charade opens with this paragraph:
“Two weeks at Trouville on the Normandy coast had darkened Regina Lambert’s skin, lightened her hair, added six pounds to those parts of her that were most often admired and convinced her to divorce her husband….”
I certainly don’t see the six pounds on Hepburn in the above photo of her and Grant in Paris while filming the movie but it’s not the novelist’s fault, as he had a protagonist in mind who was not a Hollywood superstar!
Here’s how he describes her in the screenplay:
EXT. MEGEVE – DAY
A handsome and elegant hotel perched on the mountain-side overlooking the French resort town. A large, open sun deck – tables, gaily colored parasols, sun bathers. One of the latter is REGINA LAMBERT, a lovely young girl. She is, besides taking in the sun, involved in her favorite activity – eating.
Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Bob Hope and David Niven at the Academy Awards in 1958.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this handsome charade featuring Grant, who we see above with Clark Gable, Bob Hope and David Niven at the Academy Awards in 1958, and below on the opposite side of the camera than we normally saw him.
Cary Grant in 1938 on the other side of the camera for a change.
With “The End” of our Cary Grant caper, we would be remiss if we didn’t offer you a peek at our own bonsai superstar, Brownlee Currey, watering one of his trees during High Point Market!
Brownlee waters one of his bonsai trees in the Currey & Company showroom during High Point Market.
What’s New What’s Next
Come by the showroom to see us during What’s New What’s Next on September 14 and meet legendary designer Bunny Williams. We will have our new lighting additions to The Bunny Williams Collection for Currey & Company on hand. The inspiration for her designs spring from antique fixtures she has sourced for her design clients over many years. It is bold in scale and makes a statement in its broad range of materials and styles. We look forward to welcoming her to our corner of NYC when the festivities get underway at 1pm. We’ll be there until 9pm so stop by if you can. Our showroom number in the New York Design Center, or 200 Lex, is 506.
Saxon Henry also blogs as The Modern Salonnière.
This entry was posted in Currey & Company, Products and tagged black, cabinets, Chandeliers, design influencers, Events, Gold, Gray, Leather, Mid-Century, Modern, occasional tables, organic shapes, seating, Silver, Table Lamp, Wall Sconce on August 17, 2017 by Currey & Company.
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Go Haily Go!
Dave Burnett
by Wayne Dzubak
The Headlines read… Hailey Duke finishes 2nd for the second straight day!
The former Idaho Olympian is trying to get back on the USA Olympic team and compete in Sochi, Russia in February.
She is racing on the NORAM circuit in Colorado posting back to back second place finishes with hopes for a World Cup start and then the Olympics.
Duke, who graduated Capital High school and now lives in Sun Valley, made the Olympic team in 2010 but health issues caused her performance to suffer and she was cut from the team.
Shortly afterwards doctors found a large tumor on her pituitary and Duke decided to have brain surgery.
Duke says she feels better than ever and claims she is back on a level playing field with the competition.
Duke says her goal to go from Brain Surgery to Sochi! Sports Radio 630 The Fan has no doubt she’ll make it and we’ll be watching with daily Olympic updates in February.
Don’t blink because as Hailey says, “Her fastest turns are yet to come!”
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Massive Sports Complex in Hope Mills facing foreclosure after lack of support
By Morgan Norwood
HOPE MILLS, N.C. (WTVD) -- A local community center is at risk of closing before it's open. The TJ Robinson Life Center in Hope Mills was supposed to mentor at-risk youth and host sports tournaments but was hoping for more buy-in from Hope Mills and surrounding municipalities.
"July 1 they are going to foreclose on the property," said Charlotte Robinson.
The TJ Robinson Life Center is now in desperate need of a lifeline.
ABC11 first told you about the 57,000 square foot facility last March as they were trying to get community support from the Town of Hope Mills to finish the multi-million dollar construction.
"The TJ Robinson Life Center has taken grants to them and asked for a partnership and couldn't get a buy-in. Its two service-disabled veterans, skin in the game with a program for the community but no elected official buy-in from elected officials. You tell me," Robinson explained.
ABC11 took those concerns straight to Mayor Jackie Warner of Hope Mills.
"I'm saddened at where they are at, at this point right now, because I do think it was a good thing," said Warner.
Still, Warner says the town couldn't just fork up thousands of dollars.
"I don't think there was any buy-in necessarily from the town because it would be like anyone in our town saying I want to do this project and help us fund it," said Warner.
But Mayor Warner says it's even deeper than that. As she understood, the TJ Robinson Life Center would serve as a nonprofit mentoring hub for at-risk youth, a senior and community center, but on the weekends, a sports tournament facility that would rake in hundreds.
"How do you separate those two things? Yes the tournament ball would help our economy, that would probably be a good thing, but I don't see how we can create seed money for a for-profit group," said Warner.
While the Town of Hope Mills say they can't step in, Charlotte Robinson says you can.
If you would like to donate to help prevent them from foreclosure click here.
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The SMR Arsenal Squad Review – Attackers
With the season over and a trophy in the cabinet, I’m going to assess the season for each member of the Arsenal squad and rate them. I’m sure there’ll be some disagreements about some of my ratings, so feel free to comment at the bottom with your thoughts. Finally, it’s the attackers.
9. Lukas Podolski
After a great start to the season with an excellent brace at Fulham, Podolski seriously banjaxed his hamstring and wasn’t seen again until Boxing Day. A goal came on that day, as did other important ones in the run-in. Despite having to spend much of the season as a substitute, he forced his way back into the starting line-up near in the latter stages of the season, going on an excellent scoring run in April.
There are still questions about the best way to use Podolski as his work-rate is often queried on the flank, but his appearances as the lone striker have been pretty anonymous. With more competition for places, he did well to get back in the team, and remains lethal if manoeuvred into position to release that hammer of a left foot.
Season Rating: 6.5/10
12. Olivier Giroud
Giroud remains an easy target for criticism, however a lot of that is born out of the fact that he was the only good quality option as a lone striker in Arsenal’s squad for the whole season. Considering the burden he had to take on in that role, Giroud had a good season.
He is never going to be a player that will beat defenders with pace in behind, which is why his combination play with Theo Walcott was missed so much in the second half of the season, as the two together complemented each other well in the team. Mid-season private life problems did co-inside with an unhelpful loss of form, but overall Giroud put in a good shift as the lead front man all year. He just needs some help to share the load next season.
14. Theo Walcott
This looked to be the season that we really saw the best of Theo Walcott. He was taking more responsibility in the team, creating more chances and scoring regularly when he was fully fit. Rather than just being a quick player, he was making more intelligent runs in behind defences and the end product was regularly there from him.
It’s just a huge shame that his season was wrecked by injury. Walcott is unique in the Arsenal squad for his raw pace, and even though someone like Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is quick and will be an excellent player, Walcott’s added experience and tendency to sit on the shoulder of the last defender was hugely missed in the second half of the season. Hopefully it won’t be long into 2014-2015 that we see Walcott flying down the wing again.
Season Rating: 6/10
22. Yaya Sanogo
In the FA Cup final, whilst it was a surprise to see Sanogo thrown into the action to form a front two with Olivier Giroud, there were signs that this raw striker could be a good player. For the most part, he’s looked a bit out of his depth, and not scoring a goal is hardly ideal.
However, he also suffered from the fact that he shouldn’t have been the only real option as a back-up to Giroud. Sanogo does have a good turn of pace, is strong and can cause defenders problems. There are a lot of technique issues to be ironed out, but he’ll be better for playing in big games in the cup run and the Champions League this season.
23. Nicklas Bendtner
I’m staggered that he was even seen in an Arsenal shirt again this season. However, for all his problems, he did score a couple of important goals, especially the late one at home to Cardiff.
However, any professional footballer who goes on a trip abroad that isn’t authorised by the club, drops their trousers and then starts rubbing their junk on a cab needs to have a serious look at themselves. No-one will miss Lord Bendtner next season.
Listen to the Sam’s Match Reports podcast end-of-season awards special!
Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3
Tagged FA Cup, lukas podolski, Nicklas Bendtner, olivier giroud, Premier League, Sam Limbert, strikers, Theo Walcott, Yaya Sanogo
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etfaust says:
1414/06 at 5:30 pm
The Walcott injury really wrecked our season. It put too much pressure on players who weren’t ready for it. He and Özil barely played together. The two of them could help each other out a lot next year. I do think Sanogo has some potential. But he can’t be in the squad next year. A loan move to a Premier League side is a must. And who knows, maybe Joel Campbell will make an appearance.
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This Woman is Hysterical: Meanjin @ the Australian Centre
Wednesday 19 Jun 2019 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Forum Theatre, Level 1
Arts West
lauren.newton@unimelb.edu.au
https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/australian-centre
Fiona Wright and Clem Bastow in conversation
In the lead essay for the Winter issue of Meanjin, titled 'This Woman is Hysterical', author Fiona Wright argues that it's high time we trusted women to know their own bodies and minds and that 'when women speak, is it important to actually listen'.
'I've been trying to decide which of my encounters with doctors, the ones from the early days of my illness, was the most mortifying, the most frustrating, the most burdened with assumptions about young women and their bodies and brains...'
Join Fiona and Clem Bastow as they discuss her powerful new essay.
This event will launch the Winter 2019 edition of Meanjin. Copies will be available to purchase after the event.
Presented by the Australian Centre and Meanjin Quarterly.
Clem Bastow, Cultural Critic, Writer
Clem Bastow
Cultural Critic, Writer
**Clem Bastow** is an awardwinning cultural critic whose work appears regularly in *The Saturday Paper* and *The Guardian.* She has written about film and television for journals including *The Lifted Brow* and *Kill Your Darlings*, and books including *ReFocus: The Films Of Elaine May* (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) and *Copyfight* (NewSouth Publishing, 2015). She cowrote and copresented the 2017 ABC podcast *Behind The Belt*, a documentary “deep dive” into professional wrestling, and in 2018 she coproduced the first wrestling death match to be held on Tasmanian soil, *Night Massacre*, for Dark Mofo. She holds a Master of Screenwriting from VCA, and teaches screenwriting at University of Melbourne. Clem is currently undertaking a PhD in action cinema and screenwriting at RMIT University.
Dr Fiona Wright, Writer, Editor, Critic
Dr Fiona Wright
Writer, Editor, Critic
**Fiona Wright** is a writer, editor and critic from Sydney. Her book of essays *Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger* won the 2016 Nita B. Kibble Award and the Queensland Literary Award for nonfiction, and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the NSW Premier’s Douglas Stewart Award. Her first poetry collection, *Knuckled*, won the 2012 Dame Mary Gilmore Award, while *Domestic Interior* was shortlisted for the 2018 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry. Her most recent book of essays, *The World Was Whole*, was longlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize.
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Man City must ‘stand up’ from Tottenham knockout blow
The third act of Manchester City and Tottenham’s trilogy has some living up to do after a Champions League classic saw Spurs prevail on away goals to reach the semi-finals.
However, their Premier League meeting on Saturday has huge implications for both City’s bid to win the title and Spurs’ hopes of just qualifying for the Champions League again next season.
Pep Guardiola’s men are five games away from becoming the first side in a decade to retain the Premier League.
However, it is Liverpool who lead by two points as things stand having played a game more than their title rivals.
City were on course for an unprecedented quadruple until falling short in the most dramatic fashion in the Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday.
With the sides level at 4-4 on aggregate, Raheem Sterling scored the goal that would have sent City through in stoppage time, only for a VAR review to rule the goal out for offside.
“We have to stand up, we have to react,” said Guardiola.
“We fought a lot in the last nine or 10 months for the Premier League. We are still there, it is in our hands. Of course it is tough, but we have to do it until the end.”
City’s extra resources may have counted for little once more in Europe, but it could prove the difference with such a tight turnaround for both sides.
Guardiola could afford the luxury of leaving Fernandinho, Leroy Sane, Riyad Mahrez, Gabriel Jesus, Nicolas Otamendi and John Stones on the bench in midweek.
By contrast, Tottenham remain without Harry Kane and are now desperately short in midfield after Moussa Sissoko limped off midway through the first-half on Wednesday.
And should they lose a fifth straight away league game, third-placed Spurs could easily find themselves outside the top four come the end of the weekend.
– Cardiff before Barcelona –
Such was the drama at the Etihad that Liverpool’s serene progress to the Champions League semi-finals with a 4-1 win in Porto went largely unnoticed.
Jurgen Klopp’s men have now won eight consecutive games in all competitions and do not look likely to crumble under the pressure of delivering a first top-flight title for 29 years should City slip up.
A Champions League semi-final with Barcelona awaits, but first the Reds travel to Cardiff on Sunday.
Liverpool have on paper a much more comfortable run-in than City. However, Cardiff have plenty to play for themselves having beaten Brighton in midweek to haul themselves back to within two points of safety.
“We play on Sunday against Cardiff — that’s in my mind and will be in my mind 100 per cent when I wake up tomorrow and not how we play against Barcelona,” said Klopp.
“Cardiff is completely back in the race with that result so they will fight for it.”
– Must win for Man Utd –
In comparison to their Premier League rivals, Manchester United limped out of the Champions League with a whimper as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s men were beaten 3-0 by Barcelona on Tuesday to complete a 4-0 aggregate defeat.
United now face an uphill task just to make the Champions League next season as they trail Tottenham, Arsenal and Chelsea in the race for two remaining places in the top four.
The initial momentum garnered by Solskjaer’s appointment on a caretaker basis that landed the Norwegian the job permanently has gone amidst a run of five defeats in seven games.
That could get even worse if the rot is not stopped at Everton on Sunday as City and Chelsea visit Old Trafford next week.
“It’s a big week and we have to get ready for that week because (they are) three big games,” admitted Solskjaer.
Should Tottenham not shock City once more, Arsenal and Chelsea will be confident of edging ahead of their London rivals.
The Gunners can extend their excellent home record at home to Crystal Palace on Sunday, while Chelsea host Burnley on Monday.
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Archive for September 8, 2010
Star Hill Ranch Wedding
Ever thought of having your wedding on a movie set in Texas? Perhaps you didn’t know such a thing exists, but it does! It’s called Star Hill Ranch and it’s located right here in Central Texas, about 30 minutes from downtown (depending on how you drive), out near Hamilton Pool (near Bee Cave) in West Austin.
In 2002, the movie The Alamo was filmed on the set of Star Hill Ranch. One of the reasons that Star Hill Ranch was chosen is because it resembles an old west town. The 30-acre tract has one main street of dirt lined with antique buildings and churches that were built in the late 1800s and early 1900s, giving Star Hill Ranch the look of a western town.
Star Hill Ranch - A Popular Wedding Venue in Austin
Creating the town was the brainchild of architect and 5th generation Texan, Adam Woolley, who dreamed of creating such a set for years before making it happen and opening officially in 2004.
“Some childhood dreams DO come true. By the time Adam Woolley was nine years old, he knew that someday he wanted to create a town of his own, just like his great-grandfather’s hometown of Industry (the first permanent German settlement in Texas, near Brenham). When his fourth-grade teacher asked the class to write an essay on what they’d like to do when they grew up, Adam earned an “A” by detailing plans remarkably similar to what he has put together, thirty-four years later, in Bee Cave. ”
“My goal was never to build an Old West town,” he explains. “I was aiming for a Hill Country town – the kind of civilized, self sufficient community that European immigrants built when they came to Texas. I wanted a location close to an urban area where people could go to experience that lifestyle; one where people could just step off into an earlier time.” – Hill Country Magazine Online
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Star Hill Ranch hosts many different events including movies, weddings, corporate events and more. On site facilities include a historic, indoor chapel, an outdoor arbor (for outdoor ceremonies), a bride’s house, a groom’s quarters, large and small reception halls which can accommodate up to 300 people, a bier garten and lots of fun props including a windmill, wagons and more.
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No SVT? No Problem: Three super F-150s rise to the challenge
Bob Gritzinger
Roush Nitemare F-150
Saleen isnt the only company to leap into the void left by Fords Special Vehicle Team not producing an SVT Lightning pickup based on the current F-150. Three others have hot F-150 irons in the fire, all based on the supercharged 5.4-liter V8 formula.
Harley-Davidson F-150 SuperCrew
The Roush Nitemare F-150 is intended to be just thata bad dreamfor supercharger-challenged truck owners. Roush will build 100 copies, featuring the companys own Roushcharger producing 445 hp and 500 lb-ft of torque from the three-valve 5.4-liter V8. A Ford limited-slip 3.73 rear axle handles the power, while Roush technicians have pushed the speed limiter to 105 mph.
True to its Ford roots, the Nitemare will be offered exclusively in black for the 2007 model, with an array of Roush interior appointments. Options are limited to rear wing, hood scoop, locking lug nuts and GPS system.
Available only in a regular cab 4x2, the 2007 Roush Nitemare is priced at $41,750 and is on sale now through Ford dealers.
Ford F-150 Foose Edition
The 2007 Harley-Davidson F-150 SuperCrew, a four-door truck in full Harley-Davidson dress, now comes with a Saleen-sourced supercharger option. Available with rear-wheel drive or four-wheel drive, the truck rides on 22-inch five-spoke wheels. Inside, accents are done in chrome and piano black.
Under the hood is a supercharged, 5.4-liter V8 producing 450 hp and 500 lb-ft of torque. A naturally aspirated, 5.4-liter, 300-hp, 365-lb-ft V8 is also available. The base truck starts at $37,210, with the supercharged model adding $6,500 to the sticker.
The Ford F-150 Foose Edition, the truck in which Ford first revealed a supercharged 5.4-liter engine, will be the last one to market. Shown at the New York show in April, the Foose edition gets a supercharged, 450-hp, 500-lb-ft V8 under the hood, a Ford Racing intake and exhaust system and 22-inch Foose Design wheels. The F-150 Foose Edition arrives at Ford dealers in early 2008.
Source URL: https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/no-svt-no-problem-three-super-f-150s-rise-challenge
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Home / Lifestyle / Drums coming to St Michael Cathedral
Drums coming to St Michael Cathedral
George Alleyne
by George Alleyne
“The Church in Barbados is more English than English themselves.”
This is not the view of a disenchanted religious person demanding change, but it is the belief of Bishop Michael Maxwell speaking about practices in the Anglican Church of Barbados, which he leads.
“We think that we in Barbados have to stay with the English culture. England has gone on and we’re still more English than the English themselves,” the recently enthroned leader of the largest religious denomination on this island said this week.
The Bishop of Anglicans in Barbados was responding to historian Trevor Marshall’s insistence that the Anglican Church in Barbados is losing membership because it is steeped in tradition which young Bajans find unattractive.
“If the church is only the church of the over 50s… it will not survive,” Marshall said Tuesday while delivering the St Michael Centre for Faith and Action’s annual Dean’s Lecture at the Frank Collymore Hall Tuesday.
“The church must find some way of dealing with the demands of the young people,” Marshall said, adding, “You must change, adapt or die.”
The historian had suggested ‘jazzing up’ the Anglican Church to retain the few remaining young members and attract others. Following Marshall’s presentation Bishop Maxwell said he agreed with “most of the things” the historian said about the need for change, but added, “I don’t agree that the church needs to become an entertainment centre because we’re worshipping God, not entertaining each other. However, I do agree on the indigenization of our worship.”
Barbados’ newest Anglican Bishop, enthroned last week, then referred to two experiences in England and Grenada that strengthened his belief that the Anglican Church in Barbados is in need of change, signalling his intention to go as far as beating drum in The Cathedral Church of Saint Michael and All Angels.
The Bishop recalled visiting with colleagues at an Anglican Church in Birmingham and his surprise at changes he saw.
“I was really shocked to see in an Anglican Church in England… [as West Indians we were] wondering is this an Anglican Church, because we saw a priest up there celebrating mass and in just the simple clerical shirt, no robe and nothing of the sort.”
He added, “They have moved on and we have held on to what we believe that God gave them to give us and so [we] should not change from where we are.”
He said that these observations caused him to decide, “From now on I need to find where we are supposed to be.”
Marshall had spoken about the attractiveness and usefulness of drums in other religious denominations that have larger numbers of young people in their membership. On this note, Bishop Maxwell told of another time of student life in Grenada when he was pulled from his residence by drumming by a community group.
“The community invited me to sit down with them. They put a drum in my hand, I had never beaten a drum before, and they told me join in, just beat anything. I thought I was beating according to what was happening because it just seemed to blend in with everything,” he said.“And then I said [to myself] there is something about the drum that is a part of who we are as a Caribbean people.”
He said this experience led him, as a parish priest, to introduce the drums in St Jude’s Parish Church.
“And then I found the first Sunday worship using the drum, not the organ, was the biggest congregation.”
He conceded that this adjustment to suit young persons is not acceptable to many longstanding members, or other communities that are settled in more reserved cultural practices.
“There are different congregations, different people. St Jude’s was a more country, relaxed, more flexible congregation that were open to changes and so forth.”
Bishop Maxwell said that when he moved to Holy Trinity Church in St Philip, “It was a little bit more structured in terms of the fact they did have everything organized. As a priest you have to go in and observe what is happening, the culture of the parish before you can start to introduce a lot of stuff.
“The Catholics are very good at that. Wherever they set up, wherever they go, they embrace the culture of the people, and their music always is according to the culture that is there.”
He said, “Nevertheless, they [St Philip flock] started to grow in [to it]. They started to beat the drum because I like to beat the drum now.”
To much applause from the small gathering of Anglicans attending the lecture, Bishop Maxwell said, “I already warned the Dean that he needs to put a djembe in the Church so that when time comes, I would be beating the drum in the Cathedral because I sincerely believe this is who we are.” GA
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9 thoughts on “Drums coming to St Michael Cathedral”
Cecil Charles
We play drums not beat drums
Could as well ad some strippers. Would fit in well with the decor…and religion
Colin Loraine
Tradition killing the church, change is a must.
alex alleyne
Ain’t gine attract an extra fella.
Sofia Williams
The Bible tells us to make a joyful noise unto the lord
I have a friend in Tennessee, her church was losing members they started having a second service where persons don’t have to dress up to come to church, they were surprised, the church was filling up because they added Drums, Guitars and other instruments. Times are changing and we wondering why the wayside churches as we call them have persons leaving and gravitating to them
Janice Linton
Bishop Maxwell is the change that has come!
lswiltshire
INSTEAD OF DRUMS WHY NOT TRY PROPER TEACHING OF THE WORD OF GOD?
Olutoye Walrond
BT, surely you could have found a better picture of Trevor.
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Betsy Block
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New post up every Wednesday.
"I have mixed feelings about this," says 10-year-old E. He's talking about school ending on Thursday. I have to agree with him.
In my family, we do best with a routine. In fact, unlike pretty much anyone else we know, we're all happiest during the school year. My kids are up by 6 anyway, and fighting by about 6:03, so by 8 everyone's raring to get out of the house. When people ask what we're "doing" this summer, I'm not sure what they're getting at. Obviously, the answer is "camp." What else?
Although I do know families whose answer is "hang around", "go on vacations" or even, "spend the summer at a beach house." (Or worse, "spend the summer at our beach house.") Huh? How does this work? Aren't the kids fighting the entire time? Don't they just want to watch TV all day? With this plan, isn't Mom on the hook for all food, beverages and entertainment 24/7 for weeks at a time? This is called a vacation?
Life must be different in other households, or maybe it's that BD and I are doing something very wrong. One of BD's friends left a message on our machine saying he's taking his two kids on a camping trip; I shot a look at BD to which he replied, a little defensively, "I'm doing my best here." He fears even an hour's drive alone with our two kids, never mind all the rest that comes with a night away (at a campground no less!). And me? I'm right there with him. We resist change; we fear vacations.
In other words, even the question "what are you doing this summer?" shows that most people seem to be having an easier time of things than we are. By 9 a.m. on the first day after school ends, E will be wondering what exciting plans I've lined up for him: play dates, exotic day trips, projects, games... It exhausts me just thinking about it. And I can't really let him wander around town as much as he'd like because there's danger a-lurkin' in this here big city. We've thought about moving somewhere safe and rural, but then BD and I would lose our minds. Plus, we've read that there's no such thing as "safe and rural" anymore anyway.
Since most after-school activities and homework have ended, we've already been dealing with extra free time. That's why we've started dredging up all those kid-friendly projects we love so much, starting with the classic "peanut butter and pretzel cabin" pictured above which, as you can see, five-year-old P really dug into. If things around here get bad enough, edible crafts projects might have to double as dinner. Actually, this one just did.
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A Very Regency Christmas
From the glittering ballrooms of the English nobility to the cozy countryside of Regency lords and ladies, cuddle up this Christmas with three swoon-worthy holiday tales filled with dashing heroes, bold heroines and epic true love from USA Today bestselling author Julie Johnstone!
The Redemption of a Dissolute Earl – Book 1
The day Andrew Whitton, Earl of Hardwick chooses his fortune over the woman he loves, Drew discovers that money makes for a cold bed partner. Now, no matter how far he runs, the memory of his betrayal haunts him, and there’s not enough liquor to dull the past or diminish his disgust.
Charlotte Milne trusted in happily ever after until her knight turned out to be wearing rusty armor. Drew, the scoundrel, seduced her, though she very much enjoyed the seduction by the man she’s loved since childhood. Left scandalously ruined, Char flees her home intent upon forgetting Drew and proving her worth.
Separated by disloyalty and pain, each struggle to bury the memories of the other until a mandatory summons from the Duke of Danby sets them on a path of collision to Danby Castle. With the tides of irrevocable change rising, Drew must find a way to show Char that even the most selfish of rakes can be redeemed by love before the woman of his heart becomes the wife of another.
Season for Surrender – Book 2
Lillian Lancaster would rather catch the plague than a husband. Unfortunately, her abusive, recently deceased father’s will stipulates her inheritance hinges upon her marrying a lord. With time running out, Lillian proposes to the guilt-ridden, marriage-averse Lord Edgeworth after securing his agreement to a marriage in name only.
Edgeworth feels responsible for his former betrothed’s death and believes he doesn’t deserve love, which makes Lillian’s proposal oddly perfect. Commanded by his grandfather to marry by Christmas or become penniless, the obviously perfect choice is a woman who wants nothing to do with him.
When Lillian displays a brave and true heart and Edgeworth reveals his honorable, protective side maintaining a marriage of convenience becomes harder than these two wounded souls imagined. Now, Lillian and Edgeworth must decide if they are courageous enough to risk their hearts and surrender to love.
It's in the Duke’s Kiss – Book 3
Lady Emmaline Radcliffe always knew she never wanted to marry a man who embraced the rules of Society. But when her mother threatens to secure a suitable match for Emma if she cannot make one on her own, Emma sets out to determine if her girlhood infatuation is the love she’s been looking for. Nathaniel did save her life once, after all. But when she finds herself in the arms of the gentleman’s brother—the serious and proper Duke of Blackbourne—she begins to question all she ever thought she desired.
Lucian, the Duke of Blackbourne, is tired of playing keeper to his irresponsible brother. He vows to quit, but when his brother resolves to seduce the impetuous Lady Emmaline, Lucian knows he must save his foolish brother and the innocent debutante from themselves. Yet his plan to intercede goes awry when he finds himself drawn to the woman who is everything he was positive he didn’t want in a wife.
But his brother won’t give up so easily, and soon Lucian’s well-intentioned plans are revealed. Now to keep Lady Emmaline’s heart he must prove that he’s truly not the stuffy, sneaky duke he seems to be.
*These long novellas have each been published previously as stand-alone titles with the same names.
wonderful romance
I loved this group of stories. Johnstone does a great job of bringing heart pounding romance to the holiday season.
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Living translocally
Ideas August 21, 2018 August 21, 2018
Power, Purpose and Practices: Insatiable debates about community engagement and participation in museums by Helen Graham
This is part of a series of blogs exploring participation and community engagement. You can read about the Science Museum Group’s approach and future blogs will draw out the specific research agenda relating to participation and community engagement for the Bradford’s National Museum research project. The literature on participation and community engagement in museums can…
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‘Participation’ at the Science Museum Group – By Christopher Whitby and Lauren Souter, Science Museum Group
The term ‘participation’ is widely used in museums across the world but has significantly different meanings in different contexts: ‘participation’ can sometimes be used simply to refer to attendance, the act of visiting a museum or leaving responses to questions posed by the institution. Meanwhile, terms like ‘co-production’, ‘co-creation’ and ‘co-curation’ describe two-way collaboration between…
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Engaging Bradford with its Citizens – Kieran Thompson
I challenge you to look up next time you visit Bradford. It is a city with listed heritage buildings, ‘To Let’ signs, redundant 1960’s brutalism and vacant development plots. Call me crazy but this mixed palate and unique canvas rather excites me. The citizens of Bradford currently await major Central Government led Urban Regeneration in…
Ideas May 30, 2018 August 6, 2018
Bradford’s Translocal Connections: Changing Technologies, Media Representations, Staying in Touch – Seán McLoughlin
Like any city or district Bradford comprises the sum of the lives of its individual citizens and the households, streets, neighbourhoods and institutions in which they dwell. However, given its longstanding associations with imperial trade and international migration, Bradford also provides a world-class example of the ongoing significance of local to local – or “translocal”…
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First ‘Open Conversations’ Now Up on Flickr
A huge thank you to everyone who came down to join in our open conversations at the National Science and Media Museum’s first Open Day. This was the first of many sessions we will run to meet with anyone and everyone who has ideas about the role the museum might play in the district or who…
Ideas May 14, 2018 March 7, 2019
Changing Places at Osterley Park and House, National Trust – Harpreet Sandher
Earlier this year I was fortunate to visit part of a nation-wide touring exhibition entitled Changing Places, presented by Film and Video Umbrella UK and curated by Mariam Zulfiqar. The exhibition excited me as it enabled me to connect with sites of English national heritage in new ways, by drawing out multicultural narratives that resonate…
Ideas April 19, 2018 May 21, 2018
Living Translocally – Tim Smith
Bradford is renowned as being a cosmopolitan District that’s home to many communities with origins in different parts of the world. Less well known is that its closest links with places overseas are with very specific, often rural, localities rather than capital cities or entire countries. This phenomenon can be described as “translocalism”, and these…
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What connects thinking about Bradford, thinking about communities and thinking about Science and Technology? – Helen Graham
As you can see from our Questions page, we’re asking a range of questions about the museum, about Bradford, about communities and about the science and technology of media. In asking the questions, as is suggested by the project title and the repeated use of the word, we’re seeking connections. As we launch the project,…
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Open Conversations – Helen Graham
In May we’re launching an Open Conversation. We want to start a conversation with people in Bradford. We’d love to talk about what’s going on in Bradford and about how National Science and Media Museum in Bradford can make a positive contribution. The first part of the conversation is to really learn about all the things…
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Seven Trends to Watch in the Next Decade
No. 1 The Teenage Flood
The members of the first generation to capture America’s attention—the Baby Boomers—were born between 1943 and 1960, and this group grew to a formidable size of approximately 79 million (about 30 million more than the preceding generation, the Builders).
In the ’60s and ’70s, the Boomers became teens—and it’s no coincidence that church youth programs underwent face-lifts, too. There was a shift from entertainment and fellowship to more intentional ministry, with teens viewed as active participants—and even leaders—in youth ministry. National organizations committed to providing youth ministry training and resources burst onto the scene, and youth workers were added to countless church staffs for the first time.
As Boomers have aged, society has remained focused on this generation as it’s gained political and fiscal clout. What’s more, the attention given to teen problems in recent decades has largely been focused on how they’ve been abandoned by their self-absorbed Boomer parents. The church has continued its preoccupation with the Baby Boomers, preparing for ministry to those aging ones who’re returning to church after wandering in the wilderness. Untold hours and dollars have been spent on efforts to restructure worship and traditional church programs in order to create systems and experiences that’ll draw these adults into fellowship.
As the mainstream youth population has been overlooked, the flood waters of the largest boom ever have been slowly rising. In 1992, there was an increase of 70,000 teens and no one seemed to notice. The fact that school systems have been scrambling to find the funds to build more schools and hire hundreds of thousands of more teachers should’ve been a tip-off, but somehow we missed the signal.
The teen population is expected to grow at twice the rate of the rest of the population during the next decade, peaking in 2010 with approximately 30.8 million teenagers. This is 900,000 more teens than ever before. In fact, it’s 4.1 million more than in 1969—when Woodstock woke up mainstream America to youth culture’s existence.
If preparations aren’t made to accommodate this swelling youth population, the percentage of teens reached for Christ will decline. Even if the same number of youths are ministered to in the future as they are today, they’ll have less impact on their generation than in past decades. Their light will appear dimmer and their voices will sound softer as they’re hidden and drowned out by the masses. The implications of this future trend are even more alarming when one considers that this youth population will also, one day, reach adulthood—and be in charge.
If the Kingdom of God is to be advanced, youth ministry efforts must be multiplied in the next few years.
Evangelistic efforts should always be an intentional focus of the ministry, but the overwhelming numbers of emerging teens demand greatly expanded strategies and structures.
Here are some action points to consider:
Multiple youth ministers assigned to various age groups
Ongoing volunteer recruitment and training for all ministry areas
Mentoring opportunities for students who want to go into youth ministry
Increased financial support for expanding ministries
More building space for larger numbers of teens
Emphasis on reaching and teaching youths from many ethnic and social backgrounds
Mobilizing student leaders to multiply ministry efforts
School and community partnerships that provide access to student populations
Expanded youth ministry educational programs
Noah’s willingness to obey God and build an ark in the face of a flood resulted in salvation and life for generations to come. Without a doubt, the floods are coming. Our response to that flood may very well have greater implications for future generations than we can imagine today.
—Karen E. Jones is a youth ministry professor with the LINK Institute for Faithful and Effective Youth Ministry at Huntington (Indiana) College.
No. 2 The Narrative Gospel
You’ve no doubt noticed that teens are growing up influenced more and more by screens—computer screens, TV screens, movie screens. What do these contraptions do so well? They tell vivid stories.
The problem is that while some of the stories students experience through TV, film, or the Internet are life-building, a great many are life-destroying. But if vivid storytelling is expressed through the lens of Christianity, teens will be exposed to an incredible collection of trustworthy tales that amaze, transform, empower, and delight—especially if they’re told from the hearts of those who love kids.
The story is making a big comeback these days. In fact, I believe that narrative, biblical storytelling is the most effective ministry to teens today. After all, wasn’t that Jesus’ style?
If storytelling makes you nervous, you’re in good company! Most of us haven’t been exposed to much storytelling—much less done it ourselves. Yes, we’ve heard them read and analyzed, maybe heard a memorized verse or two, but rarely do we experience a whole story, told like a story—with action, dialogue, and narration.
I believe Jesus wants these stories communicated to our young people today—and he may be calling you to the adventure. As the crowd said to blind, boisterous Bartimaeus, “Take heart, get up, for he is calling you!”
What to do? Simple. Learn the story. Tell the story. Teach the story. But not necessarily in that order—there are lots of ways to start! Here’s one for brave beginners that’ll get you learning, telling, and teaching all at the same time.
1. Pick a story you like, one that’s big on action, light on dialogue, and not too long—like the Bartimaeus story from Mark 10:46-52. Print it in nonparagraph form, one sentence or phrase per line, with phrases indented. Divide the story into manageable chunks of two to three verses (“episodes”) and put extra space between them. Read your story out loud until your mouth and ears are used to it.
2. Gather your students into a semicircle, light a candle next to you, and turn out the lights. Give a brief intro: What if Jesus asked, “What do you want me to do for you?” How would you answer? Today we’ll hear a story about Jesus asking that very question of a person. Then, while you read the story out loud, instruct them to close their eyes and picture what’s happening. Pause between episodes. Let it sink in. Allow a moment of silence at the end, then blow out the candle and turn on the lights.
Other methods:
Read the story phrase by phrase and have your kids repeat each phrase after you.
Try the latter method, but get up and act it out while you speak. Try out different gestures; move through the story to different spaces in the room. Vary volume, tempo, and tone of voice.
Give your copy of the story to students and invite them to be storytelling leaders. Let them select one of the previously noted methods and lead with their own style.
For each episode, share background information about the Bible passage that puts it into the context of those persons who first heard it long ago.
Have each student pick a partner. Have the pairs take turns telling the story to each other—but let them know that the goal is to get from the beginning to the end without eliminating anything of major significance and without adding anything of major significance. Let the students help each other remember the story’s details as best they can.
Brainstorm connections to contemporary culture and life—things about the story that remind them of particular movies or TV shows, songs, current events, or experiences from their own lives.
If you hear a call to biblical storytelling and want some help, two great resources are Story Journey: The Art of Biblical Storytelling by Thomas E. Boomershine (Abingdon Press), the Network of Biblical Storytellers (800/355-NOBS or www.nobs.org), and “Telling the Living Story,” an article published by Leadership Network’s NetFax service (800/765-5323) on Oct. 25, 1999.
—Amelia Cooper is editor of The Biblical Storyteller, a periodical of the Network of Biblical Storytellers.
No. 3 The Return to Ancient Spiritual Practices
Heartbroken by our culture’s disregard for teens, hounded by the clatter of mail-gadgets, confused by the seductive sirens of the marketplace, discouraged by the worn-out bickering of church staffs and denominational leaders, frustrated with insular forms of worship—and above all, lonely in their longing to love God and love kids—youth workers in this new decade will become increasingly desperate to find ways to save their own souls.
Those who don’t leave ministry will seek out sabbath forms of living—simple, ordinary practices that integrate silence, meditation, and listening (contemplative) prayer.
More youth workers will seek to imitate Jesus’ rhythm of withdrawal and retreat into deserted and solitary places. As the majority of youth ministers become specialized with graduate degrees and certificates, a strong minority will hunger to become better disciples—casting off professional conferences for retreat centers that offer rest, spiritual practice, and attention to the everpresent Christ. Visits to monasteries, guidance through Ignatian exercises, and regular appointments with spiritual directors will be the survival strategies of long-term youth workers in all denominations.
As the culture spins into hyperactivity and churches (even as they’re declining) desperately imitate the consumer culture, I believe that only those youth workers who are mystics—who possess a lived-out experience of the indwelling Christ—will have anything to offer students.
It’s significant that as youth workers return to the source of faith, they will bring their students with them. Practices and experiences that focus on the presence of God will undergird confirmation classes and curriculum lessons. Youth workers will operate more holistically—concerned with transformation more than information. And the ancient disciplines of premodern Christianity—silence, prayer, and meditation—will be the necessary tools for forming souls in the twenty-first-century church.
Youth programs will slowly shift, too. Little spaces of silence and solitude will be scattered throughout classes and youth events. Singing will deepen from sentimental imitations of pop music to melodic chants that enhance prayer and worship. Expensive, resort like camps will be replaced by pilgrimages and periods of fasting in the wilderness as more churches seek to offer rites of passage.
Lectio divina, the Ignatian Awareness Examen, and the Jesus prayer will be familiar tools in any established youth program. In the immediate future, churches will exploit these prayers as the latest exotic ministry gimmick, but a good minority will incorporate biblical meditation and contemplative prayer as regular aspects of their discipleship programs.
Further, as youth workers and churches continue to engage in practices that attend to the presence of God, a significant portion will seek to disband their youth ministries. They’ll create churches that function as retreat centers, where children, youths, and adults can nurture their lives in Christ together.
I don’t believe ancient disciplines and contemplative practices of the church will ever be as widespread and popular as game nights, ski retreats, and those models of ministry that imitate the surrounding culture. But in the next 10 to 20 years, more youth workers will recognize that, in this period in the life of the church, it’s silence that proclaims the good news, stillness that brings justice, fasting that feeds the hungry, and prayer that trains the heart to hear the quiet beckoning of the living Christ.
—Mark Yaconelli is director of the Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project at San Francisco Theological Seminary.
No. 4 The Multicultural Church
We’ve been seeing a shift from the dominant culture to a diverse culture. That will be the case even more in the next decade. And the youth ministries that most effectively engage the world in the third millennium will be the ones that dare to usher in the Kingdom of God this side of eternity by reaching youths from “every tongue, tribe, and nation” (Revelation 7:9). That’s God’s way of building his kingdom. God wants to use you and your youth ministry to reach every teen in your community. Remember that “God our Savior wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:4).
But you can’t build a multiculturally sensitive ministry alone—which is why you must build a diverse youth ministry leadership team! Reflect your multicultural intentions by decentralizing power, allowing others to lead up front—including announcements, teaching, drama, worship, et cetera. It’s a great way to promote interdependence.
Believe me, if you attempt multicultural youth ministry, you’ll get some heat for this “new wineskin.” But be courageous, humble, and remain biblical. Remember that teens of all colors and ethnic groups are more broken and wounded than ever—and therefore our ministries will have to be safe, sensitive, encouraging communities where students can be discipled over the long haul. Multicultural evangelism will be process oriented. But dare to engage the emerging generation through authentic relationships; dare to reach youths by translating the gospel in a relevant way to your demographically changing community.
Diversify your ministry portfolio, focus, and strategies. The emerging multicultural generation will be more open to people from other backgrounds and drawn more by ministries that value diversity. They’ll be seen as real and compelling if they understand and reflect our global community.
But the bottom line is love: You can’t build a ministry that crosses cultures unless you’ve allowed love to break down barriers. Now is the time to be a reconciled reconciler. Our God is a multicultural God.
—Larry Acosta is director of the Hispanic Ministry Center in Santa Ana, California, which trains youth workers to reach and disciple Hispanic teens.</em>
No. 5 The New Leadership Metaphor: Organic Gardener
Leadership. We’ve all been told to develop this skill. Some of us have taken graduate and postgraduate level classes dealing with it. Some consider themselves quite good leaders, while others pray daily for the skills and abilities.
I’d like to suggest that most of what we’ve learned about ministry leadership will be of very little worth in the next two decades. It simply will not produce the sort of outcomes we desire.
Over the last half century there’ve been many metaphors for leadership—and they’ve helped us understand and define our ideas and roles. Here are a few of the most prominent:
The War General. Many of us have difficulty connecting to this one, because for us war is conducted from the air and seen on TV like a spectator sport. But for those weaned into adulthood during the first and second world wars and the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, the idea of war, winning battles, and taking a hill makes great sense. For these men and women, the leader-as-warrior metaphor has worked quite well. You can see it in our Christian lexicon: Fights, battles, Christian soldiers.
The Coach. This approach has been popularized more recently. The people in our ministries are seen as the team, there is a game to be won, and our job is to train and utilize our team members to win that game. But for many kids, the idea that their youth workers are simply coaches who help them win games seems shallow in the light of real-life struggles.
The Chaplain. They’re important only because they fulfill religious-worker duties for organizations. Youth workers are often viewed in the same light—the idea that, as the leader, your sole role is performing certain religious duties for kids.
The CEO. Organizations we lead should be done so with clear principles, job descriptions, focused goals, plans, and strategies. Many churches believe similarly: Youth workers have expense accounts and budgets to crunch, quarterly evaluations to write, and bottom lines to meet. The “corporate ministry” model has found very fertile ears in recent years. It’s evident, however, that emerging generations desire more from leaders than simply accomplishing goals and executing strategies.
A New Metaphor. Our postmodern, pluralistic world is challenging Christianity with many other philosophies, religions, and spiritualities. In order for the people in our youth ministries—and Christianity itself—to thrive, we need to demonstrate that being a Christian is viable, and in fact, is an even better way of living in our world.
I believe, however, that this goal won’t be best served with past metaphors—by taking hills, winning games, fulfilling our predetermined roles, or treating ministry as a business. It will come through personal and communal growth—creating environments where people grow in faith, love, and service. I propose we begin viewing our leadership roles as if we’re Organic Gardeners. Some things to consider:
1. Soil is most important. Gardeners will tell you the way you get a beautiful garden above the surface is to have healthy soil below it. Healthy organic gardens aren’t created by what’s put on the plant—but by what the plant draws from the soil. Youth workers will need to spend time with their ministries’ soil, keeping it healthy by being sure that what’s in it will help produce the desirable plants.
2. Bugs and worms are good! To gardeners, ugly bugs and worms don’t look so bad—because they ultimately promote healthy plant growth. Youth workers in the next two decades will need to use the ugly parts of kids’ lives to promote their spiritual health. This doesn’t mean that everything is accepted—there are threats to the garden that you must keep at bay. But remember, too, that what may seem ugly now could be the agent of ultimate spiritual health.
3. Growth comes in cycles. There are annuals and perennials. There are times of the year when certain plants grow and times when they don’t. Organic gardeners know that the garden sets the schedule. Youth workers also will need to know their kids well enough to not force certain outcomes—but let blossoms emerge.
4. Beauty matters. For many gardeners, there’s more to their gardens than simply products to be consumed. Often beauty is the goal. In a world that tends to lack beauty, a beautiful Christian ministry garden may be just the thing the world around us needs to see, smell, and touch.
5. Pruning is crucial. Pruning means more than cutting. Pruning requires attention to what’s going on in the garden and removing that which is no longer needed. Pruning is what takes gardeners the most time and work. As such, youth workers will need to be in their gardens, checking the soil, pulling off leaves, and paying attention to every plant.
6. Don’t forget the basics. When it comes to plant growth, nothing beats simple water, sun, and air. Youth workers know there are basics to spiritual growth as well—prayer, Scripture, service, worship, to name a few. They’ll always need attention.
Certainly being a youth ministry gardener requires much work and patience. And perhaps it won’t produce as much bounty as commercial farming or an additive-based, synthetic “Miracle Gro” garden. But like the angel-gardeners speaking to Mary Magdalene at Jesus’ tomb (John 20:15), the toil and strain will be worth it—because your real reason for digging in the dirt is pointing your kids to the risen Christ.
—Doug Pagitt (formerly of Leadership Network) is pastor of Solomon’s Porch, a holistic, missional Christian community that officially began as a church in southwest Minneapolis on January 2.
No. 6 The Postdenominational Church
A few months ago I met a guy who attends a Lutheran seminary—that wasn’t shocking to me. What was shocking was his reaction when we got to talking about the Concordat (a statement acknowledging that the Episcopal and Evangelical Lutheran Church of America will share clergy, recognize each other’s ordinations, and join together at the Lord’s Table).
What amazed me was the vehemence with which this 25-year-old guy attacked the accord—in fact, he’s organizing a student group to overturn his denomination’s decision.
It had been such a long time since I met anyone under 30 who really cares that much about denominations.
When I was in seminary—not that long ago!—I was envied by my classmates for being unencumbered by denominational affiliation. Most of them were jumping through hoops to get money and recognition from their sponsoring denominations, only to fear where they might be assigned upon graduation. Denominations—it seemed to them and to me—would forever be a necessary evil.
There’s good news, though: They’re becoming less and less necessary. Though some will fight valiantly to save them, denominations are a dying breed. We’re entering a postdenominational age.
For 30 years, my church ran a spring break ski trip to Colorado. It started with just our youth group. But by the time I was in high school, our Congregational church had been joined on the trip by two Catholic parishes and a Lutheran Church. I don’t know what the leaders’ meetings were like, but I doubt they argued over transubstantiation or theories of the atonement. All I know is that I saw my youth pastor model what it means to work with youth workers of other denominations. I learned tolerance of fellow Christians, no matter what their church affiliations. They were simply my brothers and sisters in Christ.
This is the wave of the future. We once rallied around denominations—those doctrinally similar to us—and more recently we’ve organized around large teaching churches. And now more than ever, Christians are connecting across denominational lines. This is a good thing—because we are the minority in today’s culture. We simply cannot afford to ostracize ourselves from fellow believers because we don’t agree on baptism or predestination or other doctrinal nuances.
And on this front of community, youth workers must lead the way. Let’s face it: Many of our senior pastors are beholden to their denominations. They went to denominational seminaries, and denominations offer them financial and job security. It’s going to be up to us—the youth workers—to take the courageous steps needed to reunify Christ’s church.
Here are three examples of what God’s doing in our town—perhaps he’s doing similar things in yours:
We’ve resurrected a once-strong network of youth workers in a town where the competitive spirit between churches runs high. We meet for lunch the second Thursday of the month at a restaurant for fellowship and prayer.
We’ve started a high school vespers service once a month that rotates between our church and two others. It’s entirely student led and consists of music, testimonies, and prayer. (Congregationalists, Catholics, Baptists, Presbyterians, and Covenanters have joined together at these services.)
Recently I was approached by an assistant to the Archbishop of the local Roman Catholic Archdiocese. He asked if I thought we could get all of the churches in our city to share a youth ministry program to teach the basic tenets of the faith! Now if that doesn’t convince you that times are changing, nothing will! (This also bolsters another theory of mine—that within 500 years, we’ll all be Catholic or Orthodox again.)
I say let’s meet the challenge. We can take risks our bosses cannot. We can rally all the Christian churches of our communities for the one cause we all have in common: Offering students the redemption that’s available in Jesus Christ. We need to recognize that postdenominationalism is already a reality among most of our students. In fact, it seems that the irrelevance of denominations increases as age decreases! That means, with each succeeding generation, we’ll see more and more teens who have no time for denominational squabbles. That means we’d better pay attention to what’s happening around us.
We always talk about “one church.” We even sing about it. Now is our time to do something about it.
—Tony Jones is minister to youth and young adults at Colonial Church of Edina (Minnesota).
No. 7 The Intergenerational Church
God has arranged the parts of the body—every one of them—just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, how could they be a body? The teens cannot say to the parents, “I don’t need you!” And the older adults cannot say to the children, “I don’t need you!” There should be no division in the body. Its parts should have equal concern for each other(Adapted from 1 Corinthians 12).
I confess that I never wanted to do intergenerational ministry. For many years I’ve taken great pride in developing great programs for teenagers, fighting for facilities, begging for budget increases, and being confident in the knowledge that youth ministry is the most important thing in the church. We would do our thing and let the other ministries do theirs. Then God began whispering to me that I was selfish and wrong.
In recent years, I’ve sensed God calling me to stop leading a ministry separate from the rest of the church body. All my years of steering clear of these other age groups left my students deprived—because these folks can make deep, lasting marks on my kids. (And my kids can make deep, lasting marks on them!)
I’ve slowly been transformed by taking seriously the call toward body unity—and getting to know the people behind the generalizations. With God’s help, I’ve been seeking creative ways to join more fully with the Boomers, the Builders, the Silents, the Xers, and the Millennials who gather around me each week. Here’s where sparks occur—good sparks—when the generations come together in meaningful ways.
I’ll never forget the 76-year-old guest teacher who—with plenty of wisdom and no crowd breakers—led my students in a study of the Psalms. After the lesson, he told me, “In fifty years of teaching, that was the best Sunday School class I’ve ever taught.” Later the students approached me and asked, “When is he coming back?”
Here’s some of what I’ve learned:
Building bridges between generational groups will help build healthier, more vibrant congregations. When we share our faith journeys, we strengthen connections and weaken divisions. But it takes work to convince different age groups to stretch their preconceived ideas about other age groups, leave their corners, and come together for something new and different. Because in intergenerational ministry, no one gets everything they want. But when it’s done well, everyone gets what they need—a deepened respect and empathy for those who are ahead of them…and behind them.
Intergenerational ministry can be done well only with intergenerational leadership and partnership. I may know teenagers, but I need others to help understand what it means to be 50 or 80. It’s a rich experience when the planning, promotion, and execution is intergenerational. Creativity, flexibility, and risk are essential to cultivating meaningful experiences.
At my church, the student and adult ministries started a monthly intergenerational worship service that connects all the represented age groups. Through music, faith stories, open-mic sharing, object lessons, video, creative communion, prayer, and focused themes and drama, everyone is catching a fresh new spirit of worship together.
We had to let go of some things. We gave up one Sunday a month. Some students say we don’t meet as much.
When we’re with the adults, we’ve had to lose the we-can-do-whatever-we-want-all-the-time attitude, too. I’m more cautious of driving, scheduling, planning, too—intergenerational ministry calls me to grow up!
I know we’re on the right track. Helping kids grow up into Christ; helping adults grow young by seeing faith in new ways; growing together. This is our vision of the future.
What are your dreams for your church?
—Mike Collison is pastor of student ministries at Orchard Hill Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (For more reading on our generations, Mike says to check out The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy andGenerations: The History of America’s Future, 1584-2069, both by William Strauss and Neil Howe—as well as Howe’s 13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail.
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Russia: Life expectancy rises to 72 years
July 9, 2017 1 CommentBy Contributor
Life expectancy in Russia is on the rise, reported the official government’s statistics body Rosstat. In 2016 it achieved nearly 72 years (71.87).
Women in Russia live 10 years longer
However, the giant gap between the life expectancy of men and women still remains a problem for the Russian Federation. This is one of the main reasons why women outnumber men in the countries of the former Soviet Union. (In total, there are about 11 million women more than men in Russia, with the demographics of 86 males to 100 females.)
But the statistics show a move in the right direction. If previously females outlived males by 11 years, now the gap is narrowed to 10:
Russian women live on average up to 77 years.
Men’s life expectancy raised to 67 years.
Yet, even though the numbers may still seem low to residents of countries like Japan or Australia, where both ladies and gentlemen live over 80 years, for Russia it’s an achievement.
President Putin said earlier this year that by 2025 Russians will be living on average to reach the age of 76, Lenta.ru reports.
For the last 5 years life expectancy in Russia improved substantially.
The latest figures show that residents of Moscow, as well as autonomous national republics of Dagestan and Ingushetia (both located in the region of the Northern Caucasus, near Chechnya), live up to around 77 years on average (the data includes both genders).
Removed regions of the Autonomous republic of Tuva (Southern Siberia, near the border with Mongolia) and Chukotka (Far East) just make it past 64. In fact, it means that most males in these areas don’t reach the age of 60.
People living in the Jewish Autonomous region (Russian Far East, near Khabarovsk in Siberia) are expected to live until 65.8 years.
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Inspired by a dream, a newly-single man (Matthew Kennedy) eases the pain of his mid-life crisis by launching a public-access talk show. But no matter how innocuous the topic, each episode devolves into chaos, veering from slapstick comedy into supernatural horror, driving the Divorced Dad ever closer to his emotional breaking point. Produced by the Canadian filmmaking collective Astron-6 (The Editor), DIVORCED DAD is a nostalgic nightmare that toys with the technology of no-budget, '80s video chat shows in a way that relishes, rather than mocks, the outdated conventions of the medium.
Directed by Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy and Conor Sweeney, DIVORCED DAD originated as a web series, and was promptly banned from YouTube upon the release of its brilliant "My Sis" episode. Kino Lorber now presents all five episodes of the series, plus previously unreleased episodes, extended cuts, and a wealth of special features.
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American Chopper (Season 9)
The Last Build
In the series finale, the crews are under pressure to finish the 911, GAF and Venetian bikes. Cody goes after OCC with a revengeful prank as Chopper Live draws near. Sr and Jr find common ground in their relationship but are at odds over the new company.
This is not quite the end. There is still the 2-part build-off next week, which I will recap as usual. After that, not far down the line, I’ll do a short retrospective/recap of my coverage of the series, which I invite you all to jump in on and leave some comments.
And now, on with the show.
This week starts exactly where last week ended. (Jason: “I’m a real life industrial designer!” STILL FUNNY!)
“We had a good time with the R+D. We were able to blow stuff up.” -Senior, talking about last week’s outing to the shed shop, or whatever it was they were plugging last week.
This episode promises: Pranks, arguing, and disagreements. Hey, that’s how this show began! Anyway, Senior is frustrate that he and Paulie can’t see eye to eye on the bike. “It is starting to being back some of those old feelings… I’m at work at 7, he doesn’t come in until 11.” -Senior, and again, he said that way back in season one as well. anyway, for some strange reason, Senior keeps gathering his crew and telling them updates (“nothing is happening”) on the new business with Paulie. Why? Do they care? This has not affected them one bit, but Senior is trying to look good, like he is the victim, like he is the wounded party.
“Every business does business with a contract or agreement so we don’t have these problems.” -Senior
“I feel like I’m losing my mind.”-Paulie
They do a few minutes of the PJD build, a few minutes of the OCC build, then at 9:10 they go back to what every single viewer is dying to see- the preparations for the PJD demolition derby, where they will destroy the prank car OCC gave them last week.
And this was ALMOST IMMEDIATELY after Vinnie explained how little time they have to get the 9/11 bike done, and how fast they have to move on it. I guess Vinnie’s haterd of Senior, his refusal to work at OCC, won’t stop him from going with Cody to destroy two cars in their parking lot.
It wasn’t that impressive.
“It wasn’t the best prank.” -Senior, and he was right. It was pretty lame, despite Discovery editing it to show the same tepid crash six or seven times from about as many angles.
Paulie and Senior did one thing right. They decided to go out to dinner. The catch? No business discussed. Smart. I twent really well, just talking about whatever came to mind, and they both agree that they get along much better when business isn’t involved.
At about the midway point, the oft-ignored Venetian Bike was unveiled in Vegas. The build for this was largely ignored over the past few weeks. It was built by the OCC b-squad, and only rick went to the unveil. I said it before, the Venetian did not its money’s worth. Even Big Ass Fans got more promotion on the show.
Meanwhile, Paulie and the gang loaded up supplies and brought a truckload to Staten Island for disaster relief. I recognized the area.
The Memorial Bike was put back in shape and returned to NYC. Not to be too poetic, but there are worse ways the show could have ended.
As I write this, it is 9:47 and the American Chopper era is coming to an end. Senior is unveiling the GAF bike and there has been no indication that there will not be more shows. It seems that the decision to cancel was made without giving them the chance to do a real series finale. Of course, there are still two more shows, and two more chances to root against Senior in the build-off. While I more or less think that Paulie will win (people hate Senior and Jesse James is an ass) I would not be surprised if Fast N’ Loud won in a sort of passing the torch moment. I’m assuming they will all build bikes this time around, and as usual the vote will come down to a popularity contest.
It is now 9:51, after the break we get the last segment of OCC ever, though I would bet even money on some American Chopper specials down the road.
So how does the show end? At 9:55 Senior goes to PJD to look at the frame for the production bike, which he does not like.
“It doesn’t seem like we are good at doing business together.” -Paulie, right before they agreed to not work together for the sake of the relationship. That’s as close to a happy ending as this show could possibly give.
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American Chopper: Impasse
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Impasse
PJD’s 911 Memorial Bike is in more hot water than they thought. The pranks leading up to Chopper Live rev up and Sr. and Jr. hit a snag when the production bike discussions open old wounds.
Read that again. That description is why I am thrilled this show is being cancelled, for good I hope.) They cancelled it once before but brought it back as Sr. vs. Jr.) The pranks leading up to Chopper Live rev up. They are building the show around the stupid, fake, and totally stupid pranks leading up to Chopper Live. From feedback I’ve seen, that is the part of the show everyone hates. They could have built a whole show around the Memorial Bike. Back in the day they did just that. Shows were- hold on to your hats- about building bikes! Pranks were secondary, not a focus of the show. With the drama around 9/11, Hurricane Sandy, and the destruction of the Memorial Bike, there is potentially a whole month of shows. But they are wasting one of the last few episodes on pranks, pushing Jesse James and Fast N’ Loud, and ignoring the fans. But that is the usual thing for this show.
TONIGHT! JASON VS. PAULIE!
“I’m a real-life industrial designer!” BWAH HA HA! Jason! He said that!!!!! I can’t wait to see that fool take on Junior.
But I will have to wait as the show starts with OCC building some sort of beat-up car (“more rivets!”) to make fun of Paulie ahead of the build-off. It was not funny. Compare that to Paulie, who when we first see him is building a motorcycle. You remember motorcycles, those things OCC used to build? (“It is definitely the most creative thing I’ve seen from OCC in the last three years.” – Paulie, on the OCC prank car.)
Then it cuts to Senior meeting with his attorney. I won’t belabor the point I have been making for weeks, but one scene has nothing to do with either the previous scene or the one that comes after.
Meanwhile Rick, the only sane man at OCC and Vinnie, the only sane man at PJD, got together to just talk things out, from Vinnie’s meeting with Senior to the whole production bike mess. The show aired a clip from the past, when Paulie and his father were fighting in the shop and who was doing all the work in the background? Rick and Vinnie. The two men agree on one thing- the whole project is a bad idea that is getting worse.
The 9/11 bike is very rough condition, every time they look at it they find another problem. It is going to have to be broken down, engine and all, to every single nut, bolt, and gear. Salt water is a corrosive, and if you never saw salt water damage, you would not believe what it could do. It might almost be better to make a new bike.
“Any parts that move, don’t move any more.” -Vinnie.
Paulie got a call from the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo. “Hi Andrew,” he said. (BTW- this was a 30 second segment sandwiched between two large commercial breaks. Sigh.) But back to my point, where was the respect? They had obviously spoken before, and I am sure that at some point the Governor said “call me Andrew” but still, no “Hello Mr. Cuomo? Hello Governor?” PJD is going to the Hurricane Sandy zone to hand out much-needed supplies.
So while PJD is working on the Memorial Bike, OCC is at a place that builds shingles, fooling around in sheds, trying to blow each other over. Was it fun? For them, sure. For the viewers? No. And it was less fun, but much more stupid, when they set off a bomb in one of the sheds. You know what else it wasn’t? Impressive.
Barely mentioned last week, either here or on the show, is the fact that the OCC B-squad, a couple of guys we never saw before, are working on a bike for the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. The new guys fit right in- they come off as goofs. The bike isn;t getting much attention and is being done on the cheap. The Venetian is not getting its money’s worth.
At 9:44 Senior went to Jason to complain about Paulie- as usual- and asked Jason to design a logo. That is bound to make Paulie angry. And can you blame him? With all the problems of the production bike- which as yet is not even designed on paper- a logo is probably on the lowest end of the spectrum. At this point who cares? Design a bike first! But this move is CLEARLY designed to anger Paulie. And that is the old Senior coming out.
It’s 9:52, the show is almost over, it must be time for that big Jason Vs. Paulie fight they teased, right? Right?
No. It is time for more commercials!
What do I always say? They leave the only good parts of the show for the last 5 minutes. You can skip the entire show but as long as you see the last few minutes you’re fine.
9:56, finally, here we go.
Paulie, Senior, and Jason had a meeting where no one could agree on what they had already agreed on. Paulie was trying to be nice to Jason, but Jason took offense at something Paulie said about not making drawings. He argued a little but backed down, as he should. He has no dog in that fight. Paulie walked out- and maybe he was wrong- but Jason was being a jerk and looking for a fight.
Best line ever? “I’m a real-life industrial designer!” Oh Jason, you are so full of yourself. We saw his process tonight- A lot of people come up with ideas, then he draws a picture. We’ve seen years of how realistic his bikes are, so case closed.
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Health Practitioners /
After Hours Other Medical Practitioners (AHOMPs) Program
The AHOMPs Program currently provides access to higher Medicare rebates to non-vocationally recognised (non-VR) medical practitioners providing after hours general practice services through an accredited general practice or an accredited Medical Deputising Service (MDS).
Printable version After Hours Other Medical Practitioners (AHOMPS) (PDF 74 KB)
From 1 January 2019, the After Hours Other Medical Practitioners Program (AHOMPs) will close to new participants.
Doctors currently participating in the AHOMPs will be grandfathered and can continue to access the higher Vocationally Recognised (VR) items in the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) until 30 June 2023.
Why is the AHOMPS ceasing on 1 January 2019?
One initiative under the Stronger Rural Health Strategy, announced in the 2018-19 Budget is the reform of MBS access for doctors. The aim of the reform is to reward investment in attaining general practice fellowship and encourage more doctors to work in regional, rural and remote areas of Australia.
One part of this reform is to close the Other Medical Practitioner (OMP) programs to new participants from 1 January 2019. These programs are:
Rural Other Medical Practitioners Program (ROMPs)
After Hours Other Medical Practitioners Program (AHOMPs)
Outer Metropolitan Other Medical Practitioners Program (OMOMPs)
I am currently on the AHOMPS – how long can I stay on this program?
Under the grandfathering arrangements, eligible doctors who are participating on any of the OMPs programs will be given up to 30 June 2023 to fulfill their commitment to obtain fellowship. Doctors must continue to meet the eligibility requirements of the OMPs program to maintain access,
Doctors on the AHOMPs are required to obtain fellowship within 6 years of registration on the AHOMPs program. Under the AHOMPs guidelines the period can be extended if there are extenuating circumstances. Requests for extensions are approved on a case by case basis by the Department of Health.
If iI move to a new practice can I still access AHOMPS?
Yes. Grandfathered doctors who move to an eligible location can still apply to access the higher VR items under AHOMPs until 30 June 2023.
If I am already on the AHOMPS, can I apply to another omps program?
Yes. Doctors who were enrolled on one of the closing OMPs programs as at 1 January 2019 can make an application to join one of the other OMPs programs if they are eligible. For example, an eligible doctor participating in the AHOMPs can apply for access to the higher VR items at a new practice through the ROMPs. Information about OMPs program eligibility is available on the Department of Health website.
If I am currently on the AHOMPS, do I need to do anything to be grandfathered?
No. If a doctor is already on an OMPs Program, there will be no change. Eligible doctors will be able to continue to claim the higher VR items up to 30 June 2023.
How will I continue to access VR items after 30 June 2023?
The aim of this measure is to encourage vocational recognition through fellowship of a general practice college. A doctor who has obtained fellowship, or, who is participating in a formal pathway to fellowship through the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) or the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) will be able to access higher VR items.
Will I be given support to work towards fellowship?
As part of the Stronger Rural Health Strategy the Department is providing funding for a Fellowship Support Program to support non-vocationally registered (non-VR) doctors to attain fellowship. The Fellowship Support Program will be delivered through the RACGP and ACRRM and will be available from 2019.
What happens after the 30 June 2023, can I still claim a medicare benefit?
Yes. Doctors who have an active Medicare Provider Number and are currently claiming Medicare benefits will be able to access the items for non-VR GPs.
Non-VR GPs working in Modified Monash 2-7 locations can access items from Group A7 of the MBS. These items are set at 80% of the equivalent VR items.
Non-VR GPs practising in metropolitan areas (Modified Monash 1) will be able claim:
A2 items for standard GP services;
A19 items for attendances associated with Practice Incentive Payments; and
A7 items for all other relevant subgroups.
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PDF version: After Hours Other Medical Practitioners Program Application Form (PDF 70 KB)
For general OMPs policy enquiries –
The Department of Health: OMPs@health.gov.au
For application procedures and eligibility –
The Department of Human Services – Medicare: provider.registration@humanservices.gov.au
For Fellowship enquiries –
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners: www.racgp.org.au
The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine: www.acrrm.org.au
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Wear Your Rotary Pin — or DIE
Our plan is very simple: we’re getting out the word about our club, our members, our stories and our service — and keeping it up for years to come. If you ever wanted to see a combination of Madison Avenue savvy, big-time marketing smarts and a plan for bringing every bit of it into our club, Rob’s presentation did the trick. While he is new to our club, he’s not new to Rotary at all: For 14 ½ years, he was at RB Sunrise Rotary, nine of it as their PR chair. Partially through his marketing and PR efforts, the club went from zero media coverage to plenty of it within six months — and raised $156,000 at their big fundraiser in 2018. He also works with future club presidents at PETS every February.
Putting our mortality aside, the point is that by wearing our pins wherever we go, people come up and ask, “What’s that pin about?” Then we share about Rotary, invite them to have dinner with us at a meeting… and watch the interest grow. Even if they don’t become members, just by gaining awareness of Rotary, members of the community are far more likely to donate and participate in our fundraisers, and support our events. Our goal is to overcome the lack of public awareness of Rotary — by increasing awareness of our club and what we do. “An educated community provides easier fundraising, strategic partnerships, more potential members and higher quality members,” Rob said.
One of Rob’s biggest points: we all have a story. It’s time to share them — and people love stories rather than dry statistics. He shared the story that changed his Rotary pitch forever: Of RB Sunrise member Mike Miller, who lost his home in the Witch Creek Fire just after angrily resigning as the club treasurer. RB Sunrise organized a volunteer crew of 40 to help Mike and family get back on their feet, which left Mike in tears. A week later, Mike was back in the room, overwhelmed by the outpouring of love from his fellow Rotarians. When he reminded everyone he resigned, another member said, “We never accepted your resignation.”
“I’m in Rotary for life. You’ll never get rid of me,” Mike said.
With his trademark mix of great information, insight, experience and edgy NYC humor, Rob then broke down the various ways of reaching out, informing the public, getting our member and club stories out, and continually heightening awareness to benefit all of our programs, events and fundraisers. Our goal: to create a public perception that we’re everywhere at once. A quick bullet-point breakdown of the tools we’ll be revving up further to make that happen:
• Networking
• Website
• Rumbles newsletter
• Print media
• Radio/TV
• Billboards
• Collateral materials — brochures, club business cards, etc.
• Community outreach — “let’s go fishing where the fish are,” Rob said, specifically referring his role in our club as the liaison to the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce.
• Signage
• Sponsoring clubs and kids, through programs such as Rotoact and Interact
He also discussed strategy points for branding, finding hidden opportunities to generate a buzz (the Mike Miller story is a perfect example), and building alliances, fundraising and membership through these activities.
For those who saw his presentation, Rob asked for feedback. Please give him your thoughts: https://tinyurl.com/howdidrobdo
With that, Rob signed off — and launched our new era of community outreach, fundraising, and public and media awareness.
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Prague (region)
13 Weird and Quirky Places in and Around Prague
Why Prague is a Peculiar Capital
Beneath Prague’s cityscape of monumental castles and towering landmarks, there’s a host of weird and quirky places that you can stumble upon in and around the Czech capital. We’ve gathered most of the unusual sights and experiences that can add some fun colours to your visit to this remarkable city.
Prague has long been known for its affinity with the occult, so why not pay a visit to an old alchemist’s lab in the city? Or, if you’re one with a knack for the macabre, head out to an ossuary that’s built of human skeletons. A handful of spots are entwined in myths and legends, and theatres offer unordinary yet spectacular shows. Read on to learn why Prague is a peculiar capital to visit.
Sedlec Ossuary
Enter a chapel of bones
Sedlec Ossuary is probably the most macabre Roman Catholic chapel you’ll ever visit. Europe has a good collection of ‘bone churches’ – places of worship made up of human skulls and skeletons – and this one in the Czech Republic has an especially intricate design.
The chapel of bones features skeletal remains from about 70,000 people, made into décor and furniture: a big and ghastly chandelier, skull candelabras and glass cabinets displaying hundreds of bones. You can reach the ossuary in an hour’s drive east from Prague.
Location: Zámecká, 284 03 Kutná Hora, Czech Republic
Open: April–September: daily from 8am to 6pm (9am to 5pm in October and March). November–February: daily from 9am to 12pm and 1pm to 4pm
photo by Davis Staedtler (CC BY 2.0) modified
Basilica of St. James
Spot the dangling mummified thief’s arm
The 13th-century Franciscan Kostel svatého Jakuba Většího (Basilica of St. James the Greater) is a baroque church in the heart of Prague’s Old Town. Past the impressive mosaics, beautifully gilded altar, and tomb of Count Vratislav of Mitrovice, play ‘I spy’ for a peculiar dangling object near the tomb entrance.
This black and withered thing is the 4 centuries-old forearm of a thief who attempted to steal from the high altar, but somehow got his arm ‘seized’ by the statue of the Virgin Mary. The monks caught the stuck thief and cut his arm off.
Location: Malá Štupartská 635/6, 110 00 Staré Město, Czech Republic
Open: Daily from 9.30am to noon and from 2pm to 4pm
photo by Flejberková Monika (CC BY-SA 4.0) modified
Houska Castle
A ‘gateway to hell’
Houska Castle, a historical gothic landmark north of Prague, may not look fairytale-like, but it’s a site of eerie legends. This 13th-century, rocky cliff fortress is believed to have been built over a large bottomless hole, a ‘gateway to hell’, to seal it. Dark, winged beasts and otherworldly creatures were said to have crawled out of it.
Having served as a place where the Germans used to conduct inhumane experiments on prisoners of war during WWII simply makes way to crazier imaginations.
Location: Houska 1, 471 62 Doksy, Czech Republic
Open: Tuesday–Sunday from 10am to 6pm (closed on Mondays)
photo by Ondrej Pospisil (CC BY-SA 2.0) modified
Faust House
Prague's ‘haunted house’
The Faust House in Prague’s Charles Square was named after the legendary German figure who’s known for black magic and having made a pact with the devil. The mansion had a long list of successive inhabitants, ranging from alchemists and eccentrics who’ve mostly contributed to the house’s reputation.
To name a few, an astrologer lived there with his sons, only to have one kill another over a rumoured treasure hidden in the mansion. A mad scientist blew big holes in the ceilings during his chemistry experiments and even mechanically rigged the doors to open by themselves.
Location: Na Slovanech, 128 00 Nové Město, Czech Republic
photo by Øyvind Holmstad (CC BY-SA 3.0) modified
Dripstone Wall at Wallenstein Palace and Gardens
A grotesque grotto
Deep within the lush and beautifully manicured gardens of Prague’s baroque Wallenstein Palace, you’ll come across a hidden grotesque feature known as the Dripstone Wall. It is believed that the grey wall was designed to mimic stalactites in a limestone cave. The result, however, made way to varying interpretations.
The wall is set in such stark contrast to the green lawns and colourful flower gardens. Look long enough, and the reliefs start to look like deformed hands and faces, and sometimes even animals.
Location: Letenská 123/4, 118 00 Malá Strana, Czech Republic
Open: Monday–Friday from 7.30am to 6pm, Saturday–Sunday from 10am to 6pm
photo by Tugrul Kagan Ates (CC BY 3.0) modified
The Magical Cavern in Petrin Park
Enter a mad artist’s lair
This quirky art gallery, deep within Prague’s Petrin Park, might be one of the most imaginative places you’ll ever visit. It isn’t for everyone, though – it can be a tad creepy. Free to enter, the gallery’s weird décor and vibe inside is accentuated by the peculiar hospitality of the artist-host himself, the eccentric Reon Argondian.
Reon won’t hold back to passionately talk to you about astrology and his fantasy, dream-like paintings. Most of his unicorn art and dreamscapes are set in his dreamland called Argondia.
Location: Petřínské sady 417/5, 118 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic
Open: Daily from 10am to 10pm
Speculum Alchemiae
The museum of alchemists and magicians of Old Prague
For a better grasp of the Czech Republic’s medieval affiliation with alchemy, enter Speculum Alchemiae. Dubbed the ‘museum of alchemists and magicians of Old Prague’, this small museum features an old, underground lab, complete with dusty vials, pestles, scrolls and distillers.
Tour guides (who speak English) show you around the museum, which happens to be one of the oldest houses in Prague. You’ll also get to hear mythological stories and learn about interesting legends. You can buy an elixir at its gift shop and bring a bit of the occult home.
Location: Haštalská 1, 110 00 Staré Město, Czech Republic
photo by Davide Mauro (CC BY-SA 4.0) modified
Idiom Installation at the Municipal Library of Prague
A spiralling tower of books
The Municipal Library of Prague is home to the Idiom Installation, a mesmerising art installation that’s made entirely of books. It’s the work of Slovakian artist Matej Kren, who carefully stacked hundreds of books into a spiralling tower that reaches up to the library’s ceiling.
Kren deliberately left a crag in one side of the towering installation for viewers to easily peek through. She also placed mirrors, resulting in a dizzying illusion of a never-ending spiral of books.
Location: Mariánské nám. 98/1, 110 00 Staré Město, Czech Republic
Open: Monday from 1pm t0 8pm, Tuesday–Friday from 9am to 8pm, Saturday from 1pm to 6pm (closed on Sundays)
photo by amanderson2 (CC BY 2.0) modified
Sex Machines Museum
You know you’re curious
Prague’s Sex Machines Museum is not your regular arts and jewellery showcase. It features interesting exhibits that range from glass dildos in varying shapes and sizes to toys and devices that are testament to human ingenuity.
There are modern static bikes with saddles bearing pleasure contraptions as well as furry teddy bears with phalluses.
Some items on display come straight from the land of fetishism and BDSM, like leather suits, gas masks, straps, and locks and chains.
Location: Melantrichova 476/18, 110 00 Staré Město, Czech Republic
photo by Zoq-Fot-Pik (CC BY-SA 4.0) modified
Old-New Synagogue
Home of Prague's legendary Golem
The Old-New Synagogue is a well-preserved 13th-century synagogue and a monumental landmark in Prague’s Jewish Ghetto. You can usually take a seat to absorb the place’s historical atmosphere. Tall and enduring tales tell of the medieval building’s attic (not open to the public) keeping the body of the legendary Jewish mud monster known as golem.
Legend says that to defend the ghetto from anti-Semitism, the late 16th-century rabbi of Prague, Judah Loew ben Bezalel, created golem by taking clay from the Vltava riverbank and bringing it to life through magic spells. Rather, the monster wreaked havoc through the village, and was deactivated and never to be brought to life again.
Location: Maiselova 18, 110 01 Staré Město, Czech Republic
Open: January–March: Sunday–Thursday from 9am to 5pm, April–October: Sunday–Thursday from 9am to 6pm, November–December: Sunday–Thursday from 9am to 5pm
photo by Jorge Royan (CC BY-SA 3.0) modified
HILT Black Light Theatre
For a different kind of spectacle
Prague’s Černé Divadlo (Black Light Theatre) uses black light and special lighting techniques to bring out the dramatic and illusory effect of its onstage performances. Against a pitch-black backdrop, projection and 3D mapping help bring floating and colourful figures, from classic tales like Cinderella, to life.
The shows aren’t always classic retellings, though. They can range from cool breakdancing skeletons, ballets and other trippy dance routines to unusual magic shows. Tickets are from 590 Kč for adults and 390 Kč for kids under 12 years.
Location: Betlémská 286/5, 110 00 Staré Město, Czech Republic
Open: Shows mostly start at 8pm
photo by Black light theatre Prague (CC BY-SA 4.0) modified
The Brno Dragon at Moravia’s Old Town Hall
Climb the tower for great views
The gothic Old Town Hall of Moravia is home to the Brno Dragon, a legendary creature that threatened the town’s citizens and livestock. Well, the ‘dragon’ looks more like a large, stuffed croc rather than any winged dragon of medieval folklore. It now hangs from the hall’s passage ceiling.
The majestic town hall itself is a sight for sore eyes with its gothic architecture and Renaissance wall reliefs. It also boasts a gallery. You can climb the hall’s 63-metre-high tower for great views over the town.
Location: Radnická 8, 602 00 Brno-střed, Czech Republic
Open: Tuesday–Sunday from 9am to 10pm, Mondays from 11am to 10pm
Museum of Medieval Torture
For when you have ‘time to kill’
Interested in how people liked to brutally inflict pain upon others in medieval times? Enter Prague’s Museum of Medieval Torture. It has all the macabre torture devices and weird-looking ancient instruments used during those dark ages. All are paired with clear descriptions (mostly also in English), to help you understand how they worked.
Weird stuff on display range from chastity belts (both for him and her), spiked chairs, dunking tanks and cucking stools, as well as straightforward tools and devices like jagged saws and hooks.
Location: Křižovnické nám. 194/1, 110 00 Staré Město, Czech Republic
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Sir David Wilkie (circle of) RA (1785-1841)
A painted table depicting a Highland Family at their Illicit Whisky Still
Period -1799
Oil painted, ebonised and gilded snap-top occasional table, the top painted with a highland scene in the manner of Wilkie, enclosed within a circular lobed frame on a balluster support on three scroll legs. 19th Century. 17ins diameter, 21ins height
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The Next Generation of Private Equity
Dominium Becomes National Employee Benefit Consulting Practice For Global Risk Management Firm Integro
NewsKastle Olson
New York, NY & Atlanta, GA (November 10, 2014) – Integro Ltd., one of the world’s largest and fastest growing privately held insurance brokerage and risk management firms, has acquired Atlanta-based Dominium to lead its national employee benefit consulting practice. Joining Integro positions Dominium for rapid growth and complements Integro’s Property and Casualty success in the large complex risk market. The Dominium management team, led by CEO Scott Schanen and COO Jimmy Mills, will guide this large complex risk practice and will play a key role in formulating future growth plans for the combined companies.
“The employee benefits sector is crucial to our suite of corporate solutions, especially as we look to further enhance and leverage Integro’s leadership position in the management of risk. The combined knowledge and expertise of Dominium and Integro will ensure we deliver unique and sustainable solutions to managing the burgeoning cost of health care,” said William Goldstein, President of Integro. “The strategic approach, technical abilities and proven record of success of Dominium are a perfect fit with Integro’s vision and plans for future growth.”
Schanen and Mills will remain in their respective leadership positions, reporting directly to Goldstein. Each will also serve on Integro Ltd.’s Operations committee. According to Schanen, “Combining the Integro and Dominium brand further differentiates our employee benefits practice and facilitates the development of innovative strategies to rethink the management of healthcare, pharmacy, disability and workers’ compensation programs.”
Dominium was launched in 2007 under the belief that innovation in employee health and well-being programs can help companies maximize the power of their own performance. “Becoming part of the Integro organization enables us to leverage the resources and expertise of a large international firm while providing the client focused service of a boutique benefits consultancy; we continuously punch above our weight,” notes Mills. “Our combined expertise and talent will bring innovation and profit-oriented outcomes to the clients we serve.”
Dominium will maintain its successful brand and remain headquartered in Atlanta where it will support branch office growth into other major U.S. markets.
Source: Integro
Is Private Equity Losing its Taste for Risk?
ArticlesKastle Olson
Private Equity managers aren’t paid to be patient, they are paid to put money to work and they’ve never had more of it. With over $1 trillion of committed capital coming into 2014, you would think that risk taking would accelerate, but several factors seem to be pushing the industry in a surprising direction; away from risk.
Surplus Capital is driving valuations higher and returns lower
Valuations are approaching record levels for the first time since 2007 and rumor has it that projected equity returns are in the “mid-teens” for large, leveraged buyouts. This means that the average equity investment is projected to return 2 times their principal in 5 years (before any losses or expenses). That’s better than public equity returns but leaves little room for error.
Debt markets are frothy again
Valuations are being levitated by the abundance of debt financing available. Leverage multiples are now exceeding 5X ebitda, on average. This is ok if interest rates stay at historic lows but it can lead to intoxicating overconfidence on a dealmaker’s perceived risk profile. One General Partner at a major fund told us that he was fine going over 5X leverage on a $1 billion buyout. He paid more than 10X ebitda and hence the deal was “under 50% debt to total capitalization”. That seems like cold comfort since a higher level of debt heightens the risk to both the debt and equity holders, regardless of valuation.
The cost of an investment mistake grows exponentially
Higher valuations and leverage magnify the impact of small changes in a deal, such as higher capital spending, loss of a customer, a rise in interest rates or multiple contraction upon exit. One or a combination of small changes in each of these can quickly crush the equity in a deal.
A single busted deal can put the “next fund” and its fees in jeopardy
If successful deals are projected to return about 15%, you can’t afford a hiccup. A loss on one or two deals in a portfolio can quickly bring the average return down close to or below the fund’s hurdle rate (generally 6-8%) and decimate the value of the GP’s carried interest. At current valuations, the likelihood of a large return from one deal (eg. 5X to 10X) to offset losses in the portfolio is greatly diminished. General Partners in large funds often make more in management fees than they do in carry. Hence, they are forced into “playing defense” in a low return environment; protecting that stream of management fees can become a dominant factor in deal selection, pricing and management.
All of these factors dampen a Company’s risk appetite
Historically, private companies were able to operate outside the spotlight of the public market and act more aggressively to pounce on opportunities. At today’s valuation and structures, the cost of increased R&D, acquisitions or expanding a sales force can become much more risky to fund. Large leveraged buyouts at high valuations can actually make management more risk averse. When banks have a say in funding these unexpected “opportunities”, covenant changes can be costly.
What does this mean for Entrepreneurs? Higher valuations and more choices sound like good news for Entrepreneurs but they need to do more careful homework on potential partners. Here’s what they need to know:
Funds will gravitate toward larger, more stable businesses with less risk but less upside where they can put more money to work. The private equity industry is now dominated by larger funds that prefer to “pay up for quality”. This implies investing at a higher valuation in a larger, more established business with steadier cash flows. This results in a lower, but more reliable investment return with less risk of loss. Higher risk deals for more volatile companies may need bigger discounts in valuation or have a harder time getting done.
Private Equity firms may become more bureaucratic
Success in Private Equity seems to result in bigger and bigger funds. The industry has grown over 1000% in the last 20 years and fund sizes have multiplied. Cultural change is inevitable when companies employ hundreds (instead of tens) of people. While Private Equity continues to attract the “best and brightest” people, they have added more layers and, hence, more uncertainty and complexity in their investment process. Larger organizations tend to be less entrepreneurial and slower moving. They tend to become more inward-focused; towards organizational survival, and less flexible for entrepreneurial CEO’s.
Private Equity could start to look more like the high yield debt market
The “debtification” of the private equity market represents a shift of emphasis towards return of capital rather than multiplication of capital. As Private Equity returns converge with high yield debt, they will favor terms that mitigate and shift risk to the Entrepreneur and founding shareholders who may get less value from a capital partner who is not as aligned with their interests.
Smaller funds will be more effective in the lower middle market
Large Cap funds will be replaced in the lower middle market by smaller funds, spinoffs and independent sponsors, who will be more eager to pursue investments under $10-20 million and allocate time and energy towards their success. Entrepreneurs will be better off avoiding large, “brand name” funds and focus on smaller funds that can give Entrepreneurs what they need most; attention from senior partners.
Cheap capital may not always be a good thing for Entrepreneurs
Lower returns can be indicative of a more efficient capital market which lowers costs and benefits everyone. However, it should also expand companies’ financing options, improve transparency and lower transaction costs which does not seem to be happening. Financing options for Entrepreneurs will become more perilous as funds chase returns lower but structure more onerous downside protection- something akin to offering “teaser rates” to borrowers. You may have to read the fine print to know what you’ve really got in a deal.
Potential Value of Management Options will Decrease
In deals of equal size, management options will be worth 63% less over five years at a 15% IRR versus a 30% IRR. Hence, management may need more equity or become more focused on current cash compensation and less on long term capital gains.
As Private Equity evolves into a large, institutionalized asset management industry, its success seems to be causing a shift away from its original constituency; smaller, privately-owned businesses that need support and guidance to achieve the next level of success. The economics of larger fund sizes and deals and, hence, fee income to GP’s are just too compelling to ignore. When funds chase bigger deals at reduced IRR’s, they become focused on return of principal, less able and willing to pursue riskier growth strategies and, structurally, more dependent on management fee income vs. carry as a percent of the overall professionals’ compensation. The additional layers of people needed to manage the larger infrastructure can also dilute the talent and attention to the portfolio companies.
Entrepreneurs have a bigger selection of potential partners than ever but a far more complex selection process. Smaller investment firms with a highly engaged senior team who get most of their compensation from capital gains may be harder to find but offer a significantly stronger value proposition as capital partners.
Integro Insurance acquires California-based employee benefits broker
Integro Ltd. on Thursday announced that it has acquired the Newport Beach, California-based employee benefits broker and consultant Lugo & Associates Insurance Services Inc.
Terms of the sale were not disclosed.
“Lugo & Associates focuses on group health and 401(k) and pension plan clients in the small to medium size markets, a great complement to Integro’s larger company client base,” Integro North America’s San Francisco-based president, Marc Kunney, said in a statement released Thursday. “With his vast experience in this market, Mike (Lugo) will lead the small to mid-size group division serving clients with fewer than 250 employees.”
Lugo & Associates will be rebranded as a unit of Integro, and continue operating from its offices in Newport Beach.
Source: Business Insurance
15May/14
Integro Announces New Management Team
May 6, 2014 – Integro Ltd., a leading risk management and insurance broking company, announced today that John Clements has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors and Rocco J. Nittoli has been appointed Vice Chairman of the Board. The Company also announced the formation of an Executive Committee, consisting of Marc Kunney (President, North America Operations), John Sutton (President, International Operations), William Goldstein (President and Chief Operating Officer), Toby Humphreys (Chairman of Integro Insurance Brokers Limited) and William P. Costantini (Managing Principal & General Counsel), to assume management responsibilities, including those of Peter Garvey, who has left the Company. The Company wishes Mr. Garvey well in his future endeavors.
“We are pleased to have elevated a team of proven Integro executives to lead the Company’s continued organic and acquisitive growth,” said Mr. Clements. “We are confident that this team possesses the experience, enthusiasm and vision to propel Integro to the next level, providing quality insurance broking and risk-management services to our expanding roster of top-notch commercial and private clients across a wide range of industries and businesses.”
Founded in 2005, Integro is headquartered in New York City and has offices in Atlanta, Bermuda, Boston, Chicago, London, Montreal, Nashville, San Francisco, Toronto and Vancouver.
Finalists announced for Arizona Deal of the Year
The Association for Corporate Growth-Arizona Chapter has announced the finalists for its prestigious “Deal of the Year” Award, which will be presented at the organization’s Southwest Mergers & Acquisitions Conference on May 14-15.
The three finalists are:
— The merger of E.B. Lane and Terralever into LaneTerralever, which was nominated by JDB Capital Partners, LLC.
— Recapitalization of QK, Inc. by Cave Creek Capital, Stewart Capital and Seacoast Capital, nominated by Greene Holcomb Fisher.
— Sale of Pinto Valley Copper mining and milling operations and related railroad company, nominated by Polsinelli.
The Southwest Mergers & Acquisitions Conference will conclude with the presentation of the ACG-Arizona 2014 Deal of the Year Award, a coveted honor given annually to a company or private equity firm in recognition of their accomplishments in Arizona’s mergers and acquisitions or capital markets marketplace. The award will recognize a deal/transaction in the Arizona marketplace involving established businesses with between $10 and $750 million of revenue that closed in the 2013 calendar year.
Additionally, the conference program will include exceptional speakers and content for the business community, including:
— Breakfast Keynote with Jim Huntinger of BOK Financial
— Breakfast Keynote with Anthony LeBlanc of the Phoenix Coyotes
— CEO Panel Discussion in Morning Breakout Session
— Lunch Keynote with Douglas Holtz-Eakin, economic policy expert
— Afternoon breakout sessions featuring Private Equity and Credit Market updates
“We are pleased to be able to recognize these three exceptional transactions which have had a positive effect on Arizona’s economy,” said Sanat Patel, President of the ACG-Arizona Chapter Board of Directors. “These are perfect examples of how middle-market transactions are helping create economic growth and job development in our state and the country as a whole.”
Endeavour Capital’s purchase of Arizona Nutritional Supplements was recognized as the 2013 Deal of the Year last year.
The conference will be held at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Resort, where a room block for attendees is available. Registration is $310
for ACG members who sign up in advance and $410 for non-members. At-the-door registration is $365 for members and $465 for non-members.
The conference will kick off on May 14 at 1 p.m. with a Golf Event at the Tournament Players Club of Scottsdale. The golf event is open to all registrants for the conference and is $195.
Conference sessions will take place on May 15, and will begin with an 8 a.m. breakfast featuring Huntzinger and LeBlanc as breakfast keynote speakers. After the morning CEO panel, lunch will be served and the Keynote Luncheon Speaker will be Holtz-Eakin.
A distinguished policy advisor, academic, and strategist, Dr. Doug Holtz-Eakin is skilled at forecasting policy changes on the horizon and recommending sound strategies for mitigating risk to your industry. He has served at the highest levels of government concerned with economics and is well-known on Capitol Hill and in Washington’s top think tanks. Having been involved in policy, politics, campaigns, and elections, he addresses economics from all points of view with his well-rounded expertise.
For more information or to register for the conference, visit www.acg.org/arizona, e-mail the chapter atacgarizona@acg.org, or call 602.448.3981.
Source: azbigmedia.com
Transparent Capitalism
Why Independent Sponsors Can Be A Better Way To Invest in Private Equity
Independent Sponsors are rapidly penetrating the Private Equity market and are now involved in nearly half of all middle market transactions. These groups invest in each deal individually,rather than through ten year committed funds (affectionately known as “blind pools”). As this trend accelerates, it is also helping high net worth investors (“Investors” with >$1MM of investable assets) access and fund deals where they can earn better returns with more control over deal selection, less risk of delayed liquidity, fewer fees and more transparency. These are not high flying, venture capital “club deals” with lottery style risk and return; these are generally established, profitable middle market companies which are managed through trusted relationships, distribute current income and provide investors with timely access to a company’s detailed information. This “Transparent Capitalism” is yielding enormous advantages for Investors; they can make their own decision about each deal and pick the ones which coincide with their interests and values and which are better timed and sized to their liquidity. Deal quality is self policing as each investment must stand on its own merits and Independent Sponsors are under no required timetable to invest uncommitted funds.
Independent Sponsors are not tied to a single funding source and can select Investors who offer more than just money. The best ones often focus their fundraising efforts on Investors who can add value through their expertise, background and relationships. Investors can be more than passive bystanders; they can serve as consultants, board members or just interested parties on the lookout for new customers or key hires. Their questions, insights and involvement can actually aid in the due diligence process and improve investment outcomes over time. They are the opposite of “dumb money”. In Transparent Capitalism, Investors become engaged, informed and focused on a smaller number of deals rather than participants in widely diversified, passive investment portfolios managed or selected by third parties. Transparent Capitalism also enables a virtuous cycle. Investors can use these networks to share in deal referrals with other like-minded groups to gain access to a larger number of higher quality transactions than they could otherwise find and invest in individually.
Investors in the public markets face a sobering prospect of lower returns as interest rates have plummeted, earnings growth has slowed and stock performance has declined over the last decade. They would gladly trade some short term liquidity in return for access to Private Equity opportunities yielding double digit annual returns, but most Investors have little ability to indentify or underwrite these investments on their own. The majority of large Private Equity funds (often sold to individuals through brokers with a high fee structure) require a 10+ year commitment before you even know the identity, valuation, timing and structure of the investments. Furthermore, the surplus of capital in the large buyout market has depressed the returns of these large funds which, on average have underperformed the returns of the lower middle market funds. Hence, the growth of Independent Sponsor networks is creating a much needed realignment of investment opportunities by combining an Investor’s capital with his or her expertise and network of relationships.
Investors historically invested the large majority of their assets in the stock and bond markets and only a small percentage of their assets (“fun money”) went to private deals that were perceived as high risk but high reward for those that worked out well. However, these deals often created adverse selection risk by focusing on earlier stage investments (or, my favorite, speculative real estate). Generally, the further away from the Sponsor’s personal network or industry they went to seek funding, the more likely the deal’s risk/return characteristics were mismatched or exorbitantly favored the insiders. Independent Sponsors in established, profitable middle market companies, putting their personal capital to work alongside Investors, mitigate the risk of adverse selection and provide an important investment discipline.
The advent of Transparent Capitalism is turning traditional investing upside down. Investors can take matters in their own hands and invest a much larger portion of their assets in fewer companies where they can leverage their industry knowledge and relationships. Capital has become cheap and oversupplied in most capital markets and Investors have come to accept capital preservation as a more modest and realistic goal for their institutionally managed money. Investors are realizing that their future wealth will be created by their own business or from private investments coming out of their own network. Independent Sponsors enable Investors to pick their own deals within a trusted network and favor investment structures that mitigate risk. Investors sacrifice liquidity but gain access and influence with their Sponsor or Management team. These investments often yield current income, improving liquidity and providing Investors with some financial cushion in a distressed economic environment.
Individual investing in private companies is not a new concept. The Independent Sponsor model in Private Equity is just another step in the ongoing financial disintermediation of personal investments from the institutional model; improving transparency and efficiency and leveraging the growth in information technology, a form of social networking with financial objectives. Transparent Capitalism mimics the benefits of the merchant banking model of the 1800’s by ensuring that investors’ interests are closely aligned (ie. Everyone is writing a check and has money at risk). The model takes advantage of trusted networks that need to maintain each party’s reputational status. By pooling talent and capital, Investors’ ongoing business relationships and investment results are strengthened, generating transcendent franchise/network value. Importantly, Transparent Capitalism can function as an evergreen source of investment opportunities and funding for the Investor network, with proper incentives for all parties’ active involvement towards a successful investment result.
Integro Canada Acquires Winnipeg’s Multimedia Risk Inc.
November 5, 2013 – Integro (Canada) Ltd. today announced its acquisition of Winnipeg-based Multimedia Risk Inc., a leading specialized insurance brokerage serving the national and international film and television production industry from offices in Canada and the United States.
Financial considerations were not disclosed.
Established in 1998, Multimedia Risk has brokered coverage for hundreds of film productions, including “The Expendables,” “The Mechanic,” “Midnight’s Children” and “Getaway” as well as television productions, ranging from “Heartland” and “Cracked” to “Corner Gas,” “Little Mosque on the Prairie,” “Cashing In” and “Todd and the Book of Pure Evil.”
“Multimedia Risk adds to our geographic presence and enhances our expertise in entertainment,” noted Mark Rankin, president of Integro Canada. “With Integro offices in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, Multimedia gives us a physical presence in a fourth Canadian city and province, Winnipeg, Manitoba, and its diversified, flourishing economy. We are excited to welcome Claude Forest and his accomplished team, and to leverage their success across the Integro organization.”
Forest, who founded and leads Multimedia Risk, said, “We are proud of what we’ve accomplished over the past 15 years and excited at the prospect of helping Integro assume a leadership role on the international entertainment risk management stage.”
Multimedia Risk is the latest of several international entertainment sector acquisitions by Integro Canada’s parent company – New York-based Integro Insurance Brokers — in recent years:
Doodson Broking Group, a UK-based entertainment and sports specialist (October 2013);
Allan Chapman & James, leading UK-based media insurance broker (August 2012);
Frost Specialty, Nashville, TN-based entertainment specialist (August 2010).
About Multimedia Risk Inc.
Since 1998, Multimedia Risk has provided insurance-related services to the national and international film and television industries — covering the spectrum from micro budget to blockbuster productions. Multimedia Risk understands the complexities of motion picture and television production in all its forms, and tailors comprehensive, cost effective solutions delivered on time from offices in Canada and the United States.
About Integro (Canada) Ltd.
Established in 2005, Integro Canada provides commercial clients, from coast to coast, with solutions to complex risk challenges from its offices in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. The firm offers a broad array of brokerage services with specialties in Mining, Manufacturing, Construction, Marine, Real Estate and Recreational. Integro Canada is a division of Integro Insurance Brokers, an international insurance brokerage and risk management firm based in New York.
About Integro
Integro is an insurance brokerage and risk management firm focused primarily on serving organizations with complex risks. Clients credit Integro’s superior technical abilities and creative, collaborative work style for securing superior program results and pricing. The firm’s acknowledged capabilities in brokerage, risk analytics and claims are rewriting industry standards for service and quality. Launched in 2005, Integro and its family of specialty insurance and reinsurance companies, some having served clients for more than 100 years, operate from offices in the United States, Canada, Bermuda and London.
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Integro Acquires UK-Based Broker Doodson
October 22, 2013 – International insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro announced it has acquired Doodson Broking Group, a UK-based entertainment and sports specialist that also provides full service commercial and private client broking services.
Doodson was established in 1964 in Manchester. It also has UK offices in London and Halifax, and Austin, Texas in the US. Integro’s bulletin notes that it has “has achieved significant success with clients in the entertainment, live event and sports sectors in the UK and US, and also large corporate entities and high net worth private clients in the UK.”
Integro President and CEO Peter Garvey said: “Joining forces with Doodson enhances our reach and existing strengths in sports and entertainment, as well as our presence in UK retail broking.” With the addition of Doodson as well as the firm’s strong organic growth, Garvey noted, Integro’s annualized revenue surpasses $150 million.
“Strategically Doodson, along with earlier acquisitions Frost Specialty, a significant presence in entertainment coverage in the United States; and Allan, Chapman & James, a leading film and media insurance broker in the United Kingdom, solidifies Integro as a leader in entertainment and live event risk,” Garvey said.”
Integro said the “current Doodson management team, led by Neil Clayton with the support of James Dodds and David Leech in the UK, and Roger Sandau in the US, will remain in place.”
Managing Director Clayton said: “Partnering with Integro is great for Doodson clients and staff. The combined forces of the group will give us a great platform to continue to grow the business in the UK and internationally, especially in our key sectors. Integro has a culture and ethos completely aligned with Doodson’s, further strengthening the strategic fit.”
Cave Creek Capital Management Leads Recapitalization of Denny’s and DelTaco Franchisee
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PHOENIX, AZ ( 4 September 2013) Cave Creek Capital Management is pleased to announce its investment in QK Holdings LLC, the largest Denny’s franchisee in the United States. QK operates 84 Denny’s and DelTaco restaurants in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Utah generating over $100 million in annual revenues.
Doug Koch, President of QK Holdings, said, “We are looking forward to growing even faster with the strategic guidance and additional capital from our new partners. They structured a deal which met our needs perfectly”. CCCM’s transaction funded both growth capital and personal liquidity for the Founders who maintain a majority interest in the Company. Robbie Qualls, Doug Koch and Dennis Ekstrom will continue as Chairman, CEO and COO of the Company. Kevin Fechtmeyer, Managing Partner of CCCM, noted “QK is a classic example of our investment approach; pick strong operators who don’t necessarily need to sell but would like an institutional partner to fund growth, cash out some of the shareholders and leave the management team with an even larger equity upside in the future.”
Co-investors included Stewart Capital of Stilwell, Kansas and Seacoast Capital, an SBIC based in San Francisco and Boston. The senior lenders in the transaction included lead agent, GE Capital, National Bank of Arizona and Alliance Bank of Arizona.
Dennys Corp.
Denny’s Corp (NASDAQ: DENN) is a leading national franchised chain of family restaurants with nearly 1,700 locations worldwide. Founded in 1953, Denny’s has built a strong brand with its America’s Diner theme and its Grand Slam ™ and $2-$4-$6-$8 Breakfast, lunch and dinner specials.
DelTaco Corp.
DelTaco is a national quick service restaurant (“QSR”) chain offering freshly prepared, value for the money Mexican and American favorites. The Company, founded in 1964, is based in Lake Forest, CA and has grown rapidly to over 500 locations in 16 states becoming the second largest Mexican QSR concept in the U.S.
Cave Creek Capital Management LLC
Cave Creek Capital, based in Phoenix, AZ, is a growth investor with the flexibility of a family office, the talent of a major firm and a much wider range of capital solutions than traditional private equity funds. Cave Creek Capital does not require control and can invest in both equity and debt. With no structural deadlines, we can be patient investors and focus on long term goals. This enables Cave Creek Capital’s management partners to achieve leadership in their markets and generate exceptional growth and returns.
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Management Buyout Results in Team Owning Majority Stake
VMC purchased from Aeroflex, Inc., was a leader in providing vibration isolation and seismic control solutions to the industrial, military and construction markets
Purchased for $8.6 million in 2005 by Management and CCCM
Management maintained control of Board and majority ownership with a $1 million investment alongside $3 million mezzanine investment
Revitalized management team and workforce produced dramatic improvements
Sales and ebitda grew more than 250% within three years
Acquired competitor Amber Booth in 2007
Management recapitalized the mezzanine debt and equity with Fifth-Third Bancorp in 2009 at an 8x markup in equity value
VMC makes strategic acquisitions in 2015; AAC of New York and Dynamic Control Labs in Reno, NV establishing leadership in online sales and testing and certification for compliance with the International Building Code
$32 million minority recapitalization completed in May 2015 in conjunction with new partner Seacoast Capital and East West Bank refinancing the Senior Debt
Center Rock Capital Partners Acquires American Piping Products
CEO Adventures – 2018
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Sierra College Robotics Club Wins Internationally Using Hacker Lab-Sierra Partnership
Sierra College Makerspaces / Posted In: Makerspaces, Projects, Students / Jun 14, 2019
By Michael Mott on Monday, June 10, 2019
https://hackerlab.org/en/blog/read/1060066013/sierra-college-robotics-club-wins-internationally-using-hl-sierra-partnership
A six-wheeled, solid-chassis Autonomous Firefighter clambered over stairs and debris in the mock house, methodically scanning rooms using infrared sensors to detect fire
The International RoboGames win last year was the club’s big break. The club saw a spark in membership and led to a series of wins across Northern California. Students used Hacker Lab’s Rocklin campus’s tools, CNC Tormach machines, 3D-printers and electronics equipment to take home win after win in 2018-19.
“That’s when people started taking us seriously. We got a lot of publicity. Our numbers increased in the club. It’s one thing to be in a club, and another to show you can compete aggressively on the global level,” said Mason Sage, club president.
The firefighting robot was just one of the creations dreamed up by the club: A sign-language speaking hand, bi-pedal walking robot and a battlebot with a 30-lb spinning blade took home medals, too. This May, three club members, Josh Adriano, Chandler Bonner and Patrick Leiser won the top 3 spots in bipedal robotics at RoboJam, a robotics competition held at Maker Faire in San Mateo. Students also drifted around the track on souped-up toddler-sized electric cars.
After the cancelling of RoboGames, one of the major heavyweight robotics competitions in the country, Sierra College decided to put on their own event: The NorCal Robotics Expo. Sage took third for building an autonomous vehicle in May, among other team wins.
“Right now, they’re on a real high. There’s a lot of interest,” said Mike O’Connor, a club member with a 40-year career in machining and welding who mentored the club to use the advanced-manufacturing equipment and tools.
Students used Hacker Lab like a garage for the robots’ development, and Sierra College for club meetings, Sage said. The club brings electronic experience to O’Connor and Ray Atnip’s machining backgrounds with Sierra Makerspaces, Sierra College’s project with three private-makerspace partners.
Tony Osladil, Sierra College Mechatronics professor, a mentor to the club and its faculty adviser, said the recent wins were a culmination of years of hard work.
“The real success is the club’s existence since 2007. Dozens of students have designed and built so many different projects, including combat robots from 1lb. to 220lbs, racing “barbie cars”, autonomous navigation, autonomous firefighter bots and more,” Osladil said. “In the process, the students not only learned how to see an idea though from initial concept to working product, but also got hands-on practice with electrical and mechanical technology, as well as teamwork, leadership, deadlines and other skills that will last a lifetime.”
The “barbie” cars teach students the basics of suspension, gear ratios and how a transmission works. That leads to combat robotics with 1,3,120- and higher weight remote-controlled robots competing in an arena with bulletproof glass. The club pulls parts off industrial machinery, including copper from a ski lift and AR400 steel used for Humvee armor found at a scrap yard.
Sage credited the 24-hour access at Hacker Lab Powered by Sierra College, O’Connor and Sierra College’s Mechatronics program. Students used welding equipment, 3D printers, Fusion 360 modeling and other tools.
“We would not be able to do what we do without Hacker Lab. The amount of tools and mentorship we’ve gotten from there has been been invaluable. We were using it pretty much every day all term leading up to competitions,” Sage said. “We’d work from 3 – 6 p.m. And come back from 9 to 2 in the morning.”
Sharing experience
All of the students’ designs are original and student-created, first of their kinds and one-offs. Usability and project turnaround was increased with the laser cutter. Some of the 3D-printed parts were used to confirm it worked, later machined by Mike O’Connor.
The club dedicated the Sierra College-funded battle arena to O’Connor for his mentorship.
“I guess I’ve helped them out a bit,” admitted O’Connor, 55.
Students first came to O’Connor’s machine shop 13 years ago, searching for help from Granite Bay High School’s robotics program. When he wanted to upgrade his knowledge, he went back to school to Sierra to learn the CNC machines. He got credit for attending the robotics club, which he soon learned was led by the student he first taught in his shop years before was the club president before Sage.
Students will bring a problem to O’Connor, which he helps workshop.
“3D printing is not applicable to everything; some things need to be made out of metal,” O’Connor said. “If it’s doable, we figure out what material and decide whether to do a CNC or a manual lathe.
O’Connor had a contract with the school for maintenance on the Tormach CNC and developed curriculum using grant money that’s since expires. O’Connor retired early for health reasons and remains a student to help the robotics club.
“They’re so smart. There’s no more shops in high school and most of them have never seen this many tools. Electrical stuff is one thing, and Mechatronics has sheet metal; they don’t have a lot of heavy machining. Hacker Lab helps them broadened that education.”
O’Connor recalled a go-kart with a broken transmission part.
“I said, make a new one. They looked at me like I was crazy. I came back within an hour with the part,” he said with a laugh. “I don’t know anything about the electronics stuff—coding, programming, computers, I have no—but when it comes to the parts and welding, they help me if I have problems and I help them.”
“It works out pretty good that way,” he said.
Driven by passion
Students have also used Hacker Lab Powered by Sierra College for their personal projects.
Mason Sage knew sign language. He couldn’t find any sign-language speaking robots. So, he built one.
Using 3D-printed parts, servos, python programming and a Raspberry Pi brain, Sage took an open-source arm someone had posted and retrofitted it to sign letters of the alphabet. His robot could sign several letters for a $200 total, much lower than the $2,000 hands existing today. Sage built the communication protocol in open-source, a foundation for others to contribute to down the line.
Next up, the club will engage in an inter-club competition this summer using the arena by the front door for combat and hosting another competition. O’Connor has another year or two to go, he said.
Sage, president for two years, is graduating and heading to San Jose State for Mechanical Engineering with a Mechatronics focus to do robotics R&D.
“It gets me up in the morning,” Sage said. “We’ve been given the resources we needed. Our adviser, Tony, is hands-off allowing us to excel. We wouldn’t be as successful without this partnership.”
Osladil goes back to the international win for his highlights.
“Competing against other schools as well as professional engineers from the US and other countries such as Germany and Indonesia, our team more than held their own. We even received a US Congressional recognition of our excellent performance.”
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Relationship between government and governance in europe
Urban Governance in Europe : the Government of What ?
The notion of going from government to governance, known as the . and the relationship between government and governance are seldom elaborated. .. European Journal of Political Research, 43(2), – Governance with/out government has emerged as an alternative or into the governance literature by students of International Relations and European Politics. Introduction. The shift from 'government' to 'governance' is one of the more noteworthy .. great importance in the relations of Swedish government units with EU.
More or less, it depends. In France or Britain, the making of large outer city social housing schemes in the s was not matched by services to the population. In French poor suburbs where some estates concentrated the poorest populations and recent immigrants, local authorities did not have resources, while social services, police, schools and public transports were insufficient. Those places were not governed, or weakly governed.
In the US, M.
In his seminal contribution, G. Martinotti identified different city users beyond the classic groups of those who work and live in the same place, a minority in most cities.
Who governs transnational networks of retired Moroccan, Pakistanis, Senegalese or Turkish pensioners who spend half the year in their home country where they build a house and half the year in a host country where the children have organised their life? Who governs mobile population? This raises numbers of questions about the provision of services, about tax avoidance, about school population or the provision of housing.
One could argue that increased mobility of different sorts make urban society less legible and therefore far more difficult to govern.
However, the economic sociology of regulation is helpful to understand regulations. In analytical terms, cities are more or less organised around markets or governments, in more or less conflictual or combined ways.
Three ideal types are usually defined: This type of regulation implies domination and control as well as the capacity to sanction. This description can also fit certain large, hierarchized organizations where authority is the principal moving force, even if only informally.
Patronage is defined as: As far as urban politics is concerned, the latter is more relevant. In other words, parts of the city can be regulated according to non classic governmental principles but with the participation of governmental actors.
Corrupt elite networks sometimes.
What is GOVERNANCE? What does GOVERNANCE mean? GOVERNANCE meaning, definition & explanation
Associations, voluntary sector organisations, from neighbourhood group to giant utility firms have a say and some power in urban policies. Emerging problems raise questions which cross horizontally over bureaucracies and sectors, and vertically over different levels of government. Cities were considered vulnerable to these risks due to: But until recently, these problems were not framed as risks.
Although this can be seen as part of a wider extension of the notion of risk to policy issues, risk holds some special features in urban settings, and these relate to the questions addressed in the previous section. Nor can it be said that cities today are more vulnerable than they were before. True, they are more densely populated and more dependent upon a whole set of complex and interdependent networks. But the middle age city could easily be characterized in similar terms, when set against their wider political and economic environment.
From government to governance and onward to adaptive governance | Ideas for Sustainability
There are no such studies in Europe, due for the most part to the way cities were built and developed over the centuries. Vulnerabilities and hazards are well known, but they have for the most part always been there. The development of urbanization may have increased the risk of flooding in cities like Paris, London and Prague, for example, but one can hardly state that these cities are more at risk than they were a hundred years ago.
While some groups of the population will be considered as being at risk, others may be defined as risk factors by their behaviour, for instance minorities accused of drug trafficking or carrying diseases. Maps help decide which neighbourhoods are exposed to dangers, be they flooding or criminal activities, and this will have an indirect impact on property values.
Technical devices, such as cameras and once again maps, are used as instruments destined to change the behaviour of individuals; but more often then not they will force them to move to other parts of the city either to avoid a danger or to avoid being watched. City officials have lists of vulnerable populations they must provide assistance to in case of a pandemic, heatwave or other major catastrophe. But these lists rarely match from one city to another and once again reveal distinctive preferences.
Preparations for a potential H5N1 pandemic and management of the recent H1N1 pandemic both offer interesting illustrations.
While in some countries, the state relies on local government to take part in the management of the pandemic, in others it organizes the response with its own resources. For example, on issues related to water or waste, metropolitan governments possess not only the resources but also the policy style needed to address these often complex technical and social problems. Faced with emerging risks, local authorities are initially at pains to manage the scientific debates on whether or not these technologies present a risk for health or the environment.
In many instances, these contribute actively to a reduction in the general level of controversy and political risk. In turn, this competition may fuel the general controversy and help maintain some risk issues high on the public agenda — whatever the actual risks for the population may be. Such a transfer calls for renewed institutional capacities, either at the level of an urban region or within the state. Yet, many risk issues reveal that such capacities are still lacking.
More and more, these conflicts are framed as risk issues. Territories of urban governance: The city is proving more elusive, populations more diverse, governments are being rescaled and new modes of governance are being structured. Another highly cited paper on governance Rhodes, developed a definition that was strongly influenced by the political context in the UK at that time.
It relates governance to self-organizing networks characterized by interdependence between organizations, continuing interactions between network members and a significant degree of autonomy from the state.
Today Governance is distinct from Government. Governance is a way to manage power and policy, while government is an instrument to do so. Governance is seen as an alternative to conventional top-down government control, yet issues of legitimacy and accountability abound in the literature on governance.
In the same vein, environmental governance is best understood as the establishment, affirmation, or change of institutions to resolve environmental conflicts Paavola, As a process, governance may operate at any scale: It is increasingly recognized that environmental governance is often neither small-scale nor large-scale, but cross-scale Berkes, quoted by Adger et al. It is still unclear how local-level, bottom-up, participatory approaches can be congruent with international and national top-down regulatory strategies in a consistent way Adger et al.
Some part of the response lies in the transdisciplinary framing of scale and governance so that a broad variety of stakeholders can join the decision making process Kok and Veldkamp, Ostrom quoted by Adger et al. A better matching of the scale of governance to the scale of ecological and social processes leads to increased capacity to adapt to change Walker et al.
The most pressing contemporary environmental challenges involve systems that are intrinsically global. Global governance has enticed and startled humankind from its dawn and kept crossing the centuries. The idea was strongly resisted when questioning national boundaries, yet more easily embraced when facing global menaces.
Consequently, nearly international environmental agreements are now into force Biermann, The UN has made some attempts in this direction, e. It is based upon multilateralism, interstate negotiations and quantitative targets but bears the failure of effectiveness, legitimacy and above all scale matching.
However, in light of its universality and scope, Weiss credited the UN with a special role, albeit not a monopoly, on future leadership for global governance.
Aside from the UN, Europe represents a mandatory case study when it comes to supranational governance and it may be not so far-fetched to see the EU as trend setter in environmental governance. The EU was among the first actors going from government to governance. Even if is limited and hampered by divergent cultures and political preferences, there is still a strong number of EU supporters pledging in favor of a common baseline of administrative tools and practices.
With its overarching tool box of policy instruments and cross-cutting strategies, the EU is one of the best examples for regarding governance as a complementary way to pursue environmental objectives and to operationalise sustainable development by dealing with strategic aspects. In the nexus between conservation and development, Governance provides an opportunity for rethinking multi and cross-scale relations in meaningful ways for the livelihoods of individuals and communities Hyden, In the complex policy issue of sustainable development, governance points to the need for changing institutional relations and rules.
Change is creatively but rigorously addressed by the resilience perspective.
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On June 7, 2017, Carmen Alvarez filed a Class and Collective Action Complaint with the District Court of New Jersey against her former employer, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., for failing to pay her overtime as required by the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) as well as New Jersey’s State Wage and Hour Law. Alvarez argues that Chipotle classified her as an “apprentice” in an attempt to circumvent the overtime protections set forth by the FLSA and New Jersey law. Due to this classification, Alvarez contends that she and similarly situated “apprentices” worked forty or more hours per week without overtime compensation.
Alvarez worked as an apprentice at four different Chipotle restaurants in northern New Jersey between March of 2014 and Mach of 2017. She contends that Chipotle’s “apprentices” are employees in training to become general managers of Chipotle restaurants, and that Chipotle classified them as “executive” and/or “administrative” employees, thereby exempting them from the overtime requirements set forth in the FLSA and New Jersey law. Once the United States Department of Labor (“the DOL”) promulgated a final regulation in 2016 addressing the overtime requirements and exemptions (“the Overtime Rule”), Chipotle stopped paying apprentices a set salary. Instead, the restaurant chain converted its apprentices to hourly employees and began paying them a premium for hours worked in excess of forty per week.
Recognizing that on November 22, 2016, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas enjoined the DOL from implementing and enforcing the overtime rule, Alvarez argues that the Eastern District of Texas did not stay the effective date of the Overtime Rule or otherwise prevent the Overtime Rule from going into effect, which Alvarez contends occurred on December 1. Alvarez goes on to argue that the Eastern District of Texas’s decision meant that although the Department of Labor could not enforce the overtime rule, the decision did not keep the rule from going into effect for private companies and that workers are free to try and enforce the overtime rule themselves.
The future of the overtime rule, promulgated during President Obama’s tenure in office, is unclear under President Trump. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta has indicated that the Department of Labor would open a request for information, which labor advocates believe could weaken or further delay the rule.
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Memories of Blackheath 1944-1958
Below is an amazing recollection of Blackheath at the end of, and just after World War 2. Please click on the post to read the full piece.
It was written by Bob Land, who now lives in The Netherlands, but found this site, and (luckily for all of us) was willing to share his memories. I think it’s great, and I urge you all to read it, especially to visualise the antics of the milk carts. It makes picking up half a pint of semi-skimmed in Shepherd Foods seem incredibly dull in comparison. Now, if we could only reinstate the bakery and the toy shop…
Recollections/memories of Blackheath 1944-1958
By Bob Land
Wartime Blackheath
I was born in 1939, so my recollection of the war years are very limited.
One night looking out of the front bedroom window I saw a doodle bug passing overhead, on its way towards London, with its typical spluttering sound and flames coming out of the rear exhaust.
One day, around about midday, we were at school (All Saint’s), and there was a huge explosion, all the windows at the rear of the school fell out of their frames, I am led to believe, that this was the result of the flying bomb, which had a direct hit on the Weslyan Church in Blackheath Grove, although it is doubtful, that this was the cause.
On another occasion, towards the end of the war, there had been extensive damage to a few shops in Tranquil Vale, and having taken my Grandmother’s broom, I helped the Fire Brigade sweep up the glass which was lying on the pavement from all the shattered shop windows. I can still recall the smell of charred timbers, iodine and broken plaster board.
We spent many, many nights in the air-raid shelter in the garden, during the Blitz and later on with the V1 and V2 rockets
Just after the war, the summer of 1945 I was still at All Saint’s, we used to have “lessons” in the mornings, and in the afternoon we were put into bunk beds, to rest, presumably to catch up on all the sleep we had lost during the Blitz.
There were a flight of steps next to the school at the bottom of Blackheath Vale which led up onto the Heath, adjacent to the Hare & Billet Pond, we used to sometimes as a class go up these steps and play on the grass.
I remember there being some toys, pedal cars and the like, the older pupils used to push us toddlers around in them.
Winter in Blackheath
In those days, after the war, the winters always seemed to be harsh.
Walking across the heath on the narrow path from Tranquil Vale to Blackheath Vale, sometimes the snowdrifts used to be more than knee high.
We used to go tobogganing in Greenwich Park, going at breakneck speed from the heights of General Wolfe’s Statue all the way downhill to the Naval College, then trudge all the way back up with the sledge in tow, to start all over again.
At the end of the afternoon, the long trek back home, across the Heath, the sun setting fast now, a huge red ball on the horizon, the temperature plummeting even further. Wet shoes and clothes, tired, but eagerly looking forward to tea, tobogganing gave a young lad a healthy appetite, in those days.
We also used to make “slides” when the Hare & Billet Pond was frozen, running down the embankment as fast as we could, once we reached the edge of pond, jumping onto the ice, placing both feet squarely in front of each other, and then “slide” across the Pond, in an endeavour to reach the other side.
Christmas in those days, was also a joy, the windows of Raggety Anne’s Toy Shop, in Osborne Place were like a magnet.
Spring in Blackheath
There used to be a large wooded area between Paragon Place and Pond Road, and on the other side of Pond Road was marshland. This was a delightful area for adventurous young boys, from playing Cowboys and Indians in the woods, to bird and nature spotting and catching newts in the marshes .
As Spring progressed, so an air of anticipation grew, the Easter Fair was on its way to Blackheath, at last the first few trailers and caravans arrived, and then it became a hive of activity, all the sideshows and main attractions seemed to be erected at breakneck speed. At last, it was open, music blaring and lights blazing and masses of people milling around.
Summer in Blackheath
A delightful time of the year to be in Blackheath.
Thinking of it now, it seemed to be a time of never ending sunshine, the delightful smell of fresh mown grass after the Park’s Attendants had cut the grass with their tractor mowers all over the Heath.
Sitting on the grass, on a hot summers day, watching the then numerous skylarks hovering and twittering, before they dived earthwards, a wonderful sight.
On one day in the week, in the morning, we used to run up to Mrs. Coultate’s Newsagents Shop in Tranquil Vale (the little shop next to the Three Tuns Pub) to buy the Beano and Dandy comics, and then sit on a friend’s steps outside his house in Collins Street and read them. We often used to play Monopoly on the same steps, in the warm summer air.
On Sundays, the Princess of Wales Pond was a favourite, high powered model speedboats were raced there.
In those early days after the war, on very warm sunny afternoons, the Village seemed to be in “siesta” mode, there were very very few cars about and even even less people on the streets. In fact it was so quiet that if you stood on the forecourt of the The Crown Public House, or on the opposite side of the road, in front of the Corner Book Shop, and looked toward All Saint’s Parish Hall, you could not only see the house-martins flying to and from the nests under the eaves, you could hear them as well.
And on not so hot days, during the school summer holidays, we used to play football on the heath, with two coats spread out as goalposts… and cricket, with bat, ball and three stumps!
When it got dark, we all used to sit on the wooden seat at the top of Tranquil Vale, chin-wagging until it was time to go home.
Autumn in Blackheath
It seemed that there was often mist or fog in early Autumn, some days the visibility was only a couple of yards, and it was so quiet, that you could often hear the foghorns of the tugs on the River Thames!
November was a notorious time for pea soup fogs, sometimes the visibility was a couple of yards , quite often the buses had to be led from the Village, across the heath, to the Royal Standard, by someone walking slowly in front of the bus, sometimes they started off with one bus, and by the time they were halfway across the heath, they had two or three in tow.
There used to be a large orchard where the John Ball School now stands, so this was a favourite place to go in late autumn, “scrumping” for apples, often being chased out of the orchard by the irate owners.
Late autumn was the time for gathering chestnuts and even more fun, “conkers” (wild chestnuts), soaking them overnight in vinegar, running a hole through them with a meat skewer and then threading a sturdy length of string through them and then to battle! It all seems pretty primitive now in these days of computer games and iPods.
Also in November, the excitement of Guy Fawkes Day, the bonfire was on the stretch of heath in front of the Royal Parade, later it moved to a piece of waste ground next to the Express Dairy in Wemyss Road.
There were many children with a Guy Fawkes Dummy out on the streets, apparently the best (and most lucrative) place to be was outside the railway station during the early evening rush hour.
Other moments or recollections
In those early years after the war, the Army sometimes camped on the heath, on exercise. There was always an atmosphere of axle-grease, oil and impregnated tents, the soldiers used to ask us for our old comics, I suppose those men were really just like us, very young boys at heart.
One traumatic moment was an accident with an Express Dairy milk float in the yard at Wemyss Road. Apparently the horse reared and bolted in the yard with the float in tow, and then the horse jumped over the low rear wall at the back of the yard, which was a sheer drop down onto the bomb dump where the Wesleyan Church had been. The float had not gone over the wall, but the horse had, and it was dangling in its reins and harnesses… We saw the vet climb up a very long ladder, presumably to put the horse to sleep. We did not stay to watch this!
With regard to the Express Dairy Yard, in Wemyss Road, when you walked past it there was always a very pungent odour of horses, milk and straw. A more pleasant odour was that of fresh baked bread at the rear of Jobbins the Bakers in Bennett Park.
Another extraordinary sight, was the horse drawn Express Dairy milk float, negotiating the very short steep hill between Collins Street and South Vale. The milkman used to get the horse into a canter halfway along Collins Street, take a very sharp right turn at the end and gallop up the short hill into South Vale, all accompanied by a cacophony of clattering of horses hooves on the road, the Milkman shouting encouragement to the horse and cracking his whip, together with the din of shaking milk bottles and crates on the float, this was all repeated a few yards later up the short steep hill from South Vale to Tranquil Vale. An amazing sight and sound.
Most of us did paper rounds, a couple of us worked for Mrs. Coultate, and a couple for another small newsagents in Montpelier Vale, but the creme de la creme were the lads who worked for W.H. Smiths at the railway station, they all had “company bicycles” – they were all painted red and had double pannier bags! We had to use our own bikes and were given shoulder satchels .
In the early 1950’s a coffee-bar opened at the top of Tranquil Vale. It was next door to the Corner Book Shop. It had a juke-box and a regular clientele, and nothing ever happened there, but if you thought to yourself “I won’t go this evening,” you did anyway, because you were afraid you might miss something. But you never did…
Further down from the Coffee-Bar there was a restaurant named “El-Sombrero” (we called it “The Hat”). They served delicious omelets.
I left Blackheath in 1958. I have been back a couple of times since then, and standing in the Village, looking all around me and then casting my mind back to those early years, it gave me a sense of satisfaction to have spent such a happy carefree childhood in such a pleasant place.
Bob Land
If you enjoyed this, can I again recommend reading “Blackheath Village and Environs ” by Neil Rhind.
Volume 1 is in print, available from The Bookshop on the Heath, or from Amazon .
Volume 2 is out of print, but can still be found second hand.
Photo based on this modern photo by littlestar19
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295 responses to “Memories of Blackheath 1944-1958”
Kathy Kent
I had two great aunts who lived in Blackheath. Last name Edwards. One aunt was Anne, Ann or Annie. Not sure if the other one was Elizabeth. Both never married and lived together. I think they lived there from at least 1900 to 1980. My family would like to know more about them, since we never had the chance to meet them before they died. From what i understand they owned some sort of bake/food company. If anyone can recall them, let me know. Thank you so much
What a wonderful reminiscence. I fondly remember many of the shops Bob wrote about, Raggedy Ann’s, Coultates and Jobbins. He missed Reeves and Jones though which was the most marvellous old school habberdashers where you could buy a yard of elastic for french skipping or any amounts of ribbon / buttons / fabrics etc. The other gem was Florians an Italian deli which now exists in the form of Genaro’s in Lewis Grove, Lewisham – the only thing that will lure me down to Lewisham shopping these days!
blackheathbugle
I’ll have to give Genaro’s a try. Lewisham has plenty of hidden gems, like the TFC I mentioned the other day!
Stefan Black
Dear Lucy, You mention Florians delicatessen shop in the Village as being Italian. It was run by my father and was the first Polish Delicatessen in the area. He first opened in the late 1960ies in small premises in Cresswell Park, and then moved next door to what was the Nat West bank on the corner of Cresswell Park and Blackheath Village. He retired in the mid 1980ies. The shop is now an Italian restaurant.
Rowland Evans
My stepfather , Henryk was Polish and he used to go into Florians quite a bit.
Hi David – Yes, and minnowing in the pond! Catching them in a one ounce tobacco tin ….. at the shop by the pond I once stole a chew while the chap’s back was turned, then felt so guilty, I put it back! The American bubble gum sweets – Bazooka Joe, and Flags of the World cards. (Have I got the right pond there?)
My mother used to make papier mache animals and glove puppets, kindly sold by Raggedy Ann’s. (See Lucy’s post) My friend and I tried to put on a Punch and Judy show at All Saint’s but we didn’t realise till we actually started. that we hadn’t prepared a script…… it was so humiliating, the audience left muttering “rubbish.”
Just up the hill on the corner, was a hall where I did ballet for a short time. I was a “sheep” not an agile “goat” – it was a bit early for the invention of child psychology and positive affirmation!
I was a bit of a monster at school, and once Mr Rhodes upbraided me in front of the whole school for one of my crimes, saying “There are women, and there are ladies… you will not be a lady!” Unfortunately this statement struck me as silly, as coming from a vibrantly socialist family, the last thing I wanted to be was a lady. My heroes were Pippi Longstocking and Just William! I was kept in the school on sports day as a punishment, but I hated sport so that was OK! Except when my mum found out.
My lifelong love of music I’m sure came from the hymns we had to sing at school…… “To be a Pilgrim” etc.
Nice set of memories
“at the shop by the pond ”
Can’t recall that , where was it exactly ?
This just about describes my childhood in Blackheath, my mum (Sheila Forge) and Liz Anne Bawden ran the Blackheath film society in the hall.
Jennifer Fowler nee Bunn
Hello Bob.
I am not too computer ‘savvy’ so hope that you will get this OK?
My name is Jennifer Fowler nee Bunn.
I too was born in1939 and lived in Kidbrooke.
We were evacuated some of the time during the war years. My sisters Ann and Elisabeth probably have many more stories that they remember.
I remember so many fun times in Blackheath when a child.
The toy shop, bakery, and we used to attend Miss Barton’s ballet school, later another one opposite by the bakery.
Remember the pond so well with the little sailing boats and also going for the tadpoles in the ‘swamp’! I loved Blackheath Village.
Later I attended Kidbrooke Comprehensive School for girls and we attended St. James Church. My sister was married in the Catholic Church in Blackheath. I left the UK in 1961 to come the USA where I live now in WA state.
Thank You for bringing back such fond memories.
Jennifer Fowler.
Pearl fitzsimmons
Hi Jennifer you won’t know me but I was born in 1942 went to all saints school when I was around 5. I lived at holly hedge bungalows. The thing I remember in the village was the sweet shop where a man owned it. Quite essentric I imagine. He had heaps of clocks all around the shop. We used to get pen north of sweets there when our parents could afford it. I have lived in Australia since 1957. Pearl fitzsimmons nee hall ottaway
Hello Jennifer. Glad you enjoyed it, nice to hear from someone from my generation.
Rosemary Jeanes Antze
In looking up Raggedey Ann’s toy shop I found this blog. It brings back memories of childhood in Blackheath, from 1949 (my birthdate) to the end of 1957 when my family immigrated to Canada.
The toy shop was a favourite place where my older brother David and I stopped regularly on our way home from school. The ballet school I remember was Miss Stowe’s, in the village. We also skated/slid on the pond and watch the sail boats in warm weather. The times when the circus came and pitched their tent on the heath were memorable. Our father ran the Greenwich Chest clinic on Maize Hill, so we often went to the observatory and rowed boats in Greewich Park.
Hi Lucy,
I missed a couple of others as well, Fenners the Greengrocers, Ebenezer Smith , the undertakers, Butcher Curnows , photo shop, Webb’s Bicyle shop, Hinds Department Store some others I see them in my mind, but I can’t recall their names.
Where were Florians and Reeves and Jones situated ?
Ebenezer Smith really does sound like a very appropriate name for an undertakers! By the way, I think nearly 600 people have seen your post so far :)
Ian Webb, whose father owned Webb’s Bicycle Shop, was a school friend and we both went to John Ball primary school. I was living in Hollyhedge House at the time and remember the prefabs before they were eventually pulled down. Your site has certainly reawakened many happy childhood memories of living on the heath.
Ian Webb
I have just come acros this site and pleasently suprised to find my name and my father’s shop mentioned.
I am Ian Webb and my father owned Webb’s cycle shop from just after War. Sadly he died several years ago but only this afternoon I was talking to my Mother (aged 91) about when Dad opened the shop. It was bomb damaged and he had to repair it and I believe it was the Earl of Dartmouth who owned lots of the Blackheath properties who let it before Dad purchased it.
I was born in 1949 and went to John Ball school and every day went to the shop and got my bus fare home and most days went straight over the road (and hopefully out of sight) and spent it on an ice cream cornet from Sears?.
I worked on a Saturday when I was 14 in Lovibonds off licence which was in Royal Parade.
I have lots of lovely memories of Blackheath.
Adrian Bance
Delighted to learn that you’re still in the land of the living!
Do you remember that bike ride you took me on? You said we were going to Shoreham to go fishing!..You had a lightweight alloy racing bike and I had an old army surplus commando bike that weighed a ton and folded in half!
20 miles or so later we ended up in a village called Shoreham, not Shoreham by the Sea…just a measley river and no fishing!
Hi Adrian
My memory isn’t what it was! I do remember cycling to Shoreham (fishing in a private section behind a wall comes to mind). Did you live in the Army barracks?
Yes, the army barracks (TA LAA) you are thinking of were in same enclosure as Hollyhedge House.
I think your bike at the time (1960?) was a Dawes?….very lightweight and expensive at the time…I seem to remember you were quite small and wore round blue wire glasses…..at school for some unknown reason we were chosen a couple of times to go on stage and improvise a ventroliquist and dummy act……you were the dummy!
i know it’s been ages but I remember Webbs so well. Douglas to be precise was a friend of my dad’s we went there every weekend to buy stuff for bikes and cars. I still have a set of wooden drawers from when he shut the shop down. He was related to the Coppings family who I also know. Douglas kept my birthday bike at his shop when i was 9 yrs old and i was sent to get something only to discover it was a ruse for me to find my new bike, i will never forget his smiling face and his engineers coat. I still repair cars and bikes to this day it rubbed off on me big time !
I must have been at John Ball School at the same time as you
My teachers were Mrs. Bowes Smith and Mrs Curley . Mr. Beale
used to take some of our lessons.
I was at John Ball until 1975 MRs Beer i recall and an Indian teacher who’s name i seem to think was Chipatti but I fear this may have been why i was unpopular :) with them all.
Helen Logan
Hi Bob sorry I only just saw your comment – the shop was on the opposite corner from the pub. So on the same block, on the left. Unless I have hallucinated it of course. Memories get mixed up I’m afraid, and sometimes even with dreams! I don’t think I’m crazy, but then crazy people never do! HA AH BW Helen
Hi Helen.
Thanks for the reply, but which pub?
pearl Fitzsimmons (Ottaway)
Hi Bob I have read your memories I lived at hollyhedge bungalows for maybe a few years. It must have been maybe around 1949 I would have been about seven. I always remember I used to go buy sweets at a shop in the village where there was just one man and he seemed a little essentric to my young mind. He had all types of clocks around the inside of the shop. I would go and get a penny worth of sweets in a bag and there always seemed to be such a big bag. I also went to All saints school and walked over Greenwich Park. I can remember when a pond was all iced over and we used to skate on it in our school shoes. I can also remember a fair that was on the Green. I would so like for someone to remember the sweet shop. When I was reading Jobbins sounded familiar? Thanks for the memories. Regards Pearly
Hi Pearl, I remember a couple of sweet shops in the Village, but not this one. Jobbins was the bakers, opposite the Railway Station.
Florians was at the top of the village across the road from Fenners, it might have been a later addition though, possibly early 70’s. Reeves and Jones was in the big shop next door to Butcher Curnow on Tranquil Vale.
Do you also remember the little dark pipe shop in the middle of the village? I remember buying pipe cleaners in there to make little men with!
Where was the pipe shop? We need more pipe shops and fewer estate agents!
The tiny little shop next to the florists was the pipe shop it has the tiny stairwell in front of it, i remember Coultate’s very well and was a paperboy for the newsagents based in the station.
You are right Florians is much later than 1958, apparently Reeves and Jones opened in 1959 !
Can you be a bit more explicit on the pipe shop , I don’t recall it , but maybe I could look it up somewhere.
I have one correction, Ebenezer Smith was not an undertaker but an upholsterer, but his shop did look like an undertakers.
I remember one of the men working in Florian’s had a numbered tattoo on his arm.
There was also Madeleine Moore’s shop up near the heath….She sold milk and ice lollies.
Mrs Coultate’s son was called Frankie and opened his own newsagent over the road.
Mandy Donovan
Mrs Coultate had two sons – Frank and another one. Does anyone remember his name?
R. G. Land
I done a paper round there for about 2 years,
the only people I saw in the shop were, Mr. & Mrs. Coultate and sometimes their young son
Frankie.
Done a quick check on the Free BMD on internet, the Coultates had three children, Frank born 1930 , Eric born 1931 ( never knew, or saw him) and Kenneth born 1945 ( he was often in the shop , with his mother , after school).
Frank Sr. died in 1960 and mrs Coultate died in 1990
I remember Frank well. I liked in Baizdon Road and went to John Ball school. Frank Coultate used to call me Kim Novak and I called him Frank Sinatra! I lived there from birth in 1956 til I was 10.
Madeleine Moore started off as a Florist.
You are right , Frank Coultate , has his own newsagents across the road, I think his shop prior to that, was an Off Licence.
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Well done, Bob. We had some super times in and around the village, didn’t we? Anybody remember the name of the coffee shop at the top of Tranquil Vale?
Bob has since found out that the coffee shop was called The Rendezvous. Anyone else remember the rum ba bas? They were fabulous.
I remember The Rendezvous very well,as a border at Christ’s College Between 1954 & 1959, if you had behaved yourself during the school week, you were allowed out between 2.00 & 4.00. so some of made for the cafe,pocket money being only 2/- per week we could only afford to buy a cup of tea and wait for somebody to put 6d in the juke box to listen to Guy Mitchell, Of cause there was the chance of meeting a local which was in the backs of our minds! Happy Days.
TonyOsborne
I too was a boarder 1955-60. I guess not so many left from that era. Well certainly they were different days – some happy sure. Did you have that old dear Mr Carbasse with his singular method of control? Except in the table tennis room as I remember
Peter C
You mention in your article about the explosion blowing out the windows at All Saints School in Blackheath Vale.
I was born in 1938 and was in the school when it happened. A few of us were showered in glass particles ( my hair was covered in a sort of glass powder. The explosion was, in fact, the V2 that landed in Wemyss Road destroying a few houses and 3/4 of the Wesleyan Church.
I lived in Wemyss Road at no.21 and we suffered roof and wall damage and all the windows blew in. My Father and Mother were at home and I remember my Mother coming to the school to see if I was OK and taking me to my Great Aunt who lived by The Sun in the Sands.
I am not sure about this, at first I thought that it was the V2 which demolished the Wesleyan Church and a few houses, but it is really too far away from All Saint’s School, plus the fact that the school is below the level of the Heath, I don’t think that the resulting shock waves from the exploding V2 would have dipped down into Blackheath Vale.
I have another theory, Neil Rhind writes in his book “Blackheath Village and Environs”, that :
on 21st. July 1944 Talbot House houses , Nos. 1 and 2 were blown to smithereens , Nos. 3 and 4 so badly damaged , that they had to be demolished.
Talbot Houses are in Duke Humphrey Road, these houses were on the right of the entrance to Blackheath Vale.
This seems a more likely and feasible reason that the windows blew out in the school.
or not ?
Hi Bob. At my age and with a scanty memory I seem to remember that V1 hit the houses on the left of Blackheath Vale flattening them and severely damaging Talbot Houses. After the clear up we used to play on the engine section of the doodlebug which at been left at the site. V1 flying bombs stopped by Sept 1944. The V2 offensive started in Sept 1944. I wish I could remember the date of the Wemyss Road V2 but it was certainly the day I got covered in glass and my Mother picked me up. I remember she was covered in soot and dust
Trevor Allman
The date of the V2 hitting Wemyss Road was 8th March 1945. I was born at 6 Wyatt House in 1965. I have lived in Blackheath ever since.
Eric Flack
Hi. It was 7 St Germans Place which was about 40 yards from the crater that got virtually demolished by a V1 doodlebug on Wednesday 5th July 1944. My father was staying with the Donovans at 7 St Germans Place when it got hit. His diary also notes on Thursday 20th July that from 11pm to 6am there were V1s almost every 10 minutes.I wonder if offical records back his observations up.
My scanty memory, thought that is was the wreck of a car, but you could be right. Also in the vicinty of the engine, there were a few steps leading down to a small cellar of one of the bombed out houses. On one particular day, we found the cellar stacked out with bandages and pill boxes etc etc etc, so we cycled down to Lee Green and reported it to the police at the Police Station there. If any action was taken, I can’t remember.
Niel Rhind states in his book, that the V2
hit the Church and surrounding area on the 8th. March 1945.
Regards the ” bomb dump ” in Blackheath Vale , I remember that as well, do you remember seeing a ” cave ” in the sand , about half up the sheer wall on the Heath side of the Vale, we used to venture into it, but did not dare to go more than one or yards inside, afraid that the roof of the cave might collapse .
I do remember the sand cave. It was actually at ground level. It went in about 20 ft. (give or take because I was little at the time!) and then turned back on itself a few feet away. I seem to remember that you carried on and came out allongside the entrance but memories are hazy now. I do remember Miss Collins (the head mistress of All Saints school) telling us that it was a dangerous place.
Another memory was at a school service in All Saints church. I think I was about 8yrs. Father Green was giving a talk about God making the world and Adam & Eve. I remember putting up my hand and asking who made God. I was told not to be silly and sit down! Afterwards Father Green suggested I join the choir and learn about God through singing. I did and have been a chorister for quite a few years of my life.
I am now pretty convinced that the July 1944 V1 caused the All Saint’s School windows
damage.
The V2 in March 1945, at the Wemyss Road area, it is just to far away from the school
to have caused any damage, I have seen an aerial photo of the damage caused by the V2, all the damage is contained in the area Wemyss Road, Blackheath Grove , Montpelier Vale and a little bit of Tranquil Vale.
Perhaps these is someone else living in Blackheath
who can throw some more light on this subject.
A bomb (not sure if V2?) landed opposite my Dad’s house (near beckenham) and nearly killed him. At the time he was meant to be hiding under the kitchen table with his mum but went to look out the window at the wrong time.
The explosion caused him to be covered in glass and spent many months in hospital. Even today he still has glass in his forehead.
After that incident he went to stay with a family Brixham in Devon.
Norman O'Brien
Well Bob I coudn.t wait to look at your website. It was truly wonderful to read your comments and other peoples comments about Blackheath. I used to deliver papers for Coultates. I remember on fridays the bag was so heavy I could barely lift it. I used to go to the Rendezvous Cafe in the late 50’s and early 60’s. I was a Mod and had my Lambretta scooter all decked out. I dont think anyone mentioned Sainsburys in the village. I can always remember my mother going there to pick up her cheese and other items. Then we would go to the butchers and then next door to the green grocers, cant remember the names. There was also an off licence across from the church. Again I remember the Dairy, because as a youngster I would be there very early to meet the milkman and help him deliver the milk. I remember the horse eating the hedge at st Germans place where I lived in a prefab. I went to Blackheath and Kidbrooke school. We had a private boys school in my street called Christs College, we would play in the bombed houses in St Germans Place. Those same houses now are worth millions of pounds. When I left school I worked as an apprentice draughtsman on the Isle of Dogs. I used to cycle across the Heath through Greenwich Park and the through the foot tunnel to Millwall. I did go back a few years ago, first time back there since 1959. It has changed completely. My mother used to clean the house of the Managing Director of Siemans who lived in St. Germans Place. I remember sometimes his chauffeur would take me to school in the Rover.
Patrick Frawley
I lived in the prefabs , No 22 Hollyhedge Bungalows. The chauffeur’s name was Burt Eade, they lived in the prefab next to us. His son Fraser was my best mate, as was Philip. There were three of us, me, Patrick Frawley / Fraser Eade and Philip White. I remember winning the egg and spoon race in the territorial army barracks in 1953 , a party for the queen.
I won a bag of marbles for that. Racing down Granville hill on a book and skate. Catching sticklebacks at the Hare and Billet pub and skating on the pond next to Greenwich park. Going to the sand pits at the bottom of Pagoda Gardens, swinging right out on a rope hung from a tree with a sheer drop. So dangerous on reflection. Walking to Pets Corner in Catford. We had so much freedom in those days, at the week end we would go out in the morning and would not come back till late. Such fond memories. My three sons have had a very sheltered upbringing by comparison. These days I spend half my time in China on business, my second home, keeps me young.
Hi Norman.
Thank you for sending in your memoirs.
Your name does ring a bell with me, do you
remember a guy named Kenneth Tucker, he also
lived in those prefabs.
I think the greengrocer you mentioned is Fennett ?
The butcher I cannot remember either.
Sainsbury’s was I believe next door to Jobbins the bakers on the corner of Bennett Park ???
Hi Bob. I cannot believe you mentioned Ken Tucker, he lived in the prefab in front of me. My prefab backed on to the heath, Kens front was in St. Germans Place. Ken was one of my very best friends, I havn’t seen him in over 35 years. I believe he was a fireman. We both went to Poplar Technical College. My wife was at Wimbledon about 20 years ago, and she heard this voice that she recognised and low and behold it was Ken Tucker in his firemans uniform. At that time Wimbledon were hiring firemen as commissionairs. Tell me how you know Ken Tucker.
Hi Norman,
Please e-mail me at my private email address, which is :
rgland (at sign) home (dot ) nl
because other people on this list, might not be interested in our reminiscing over the old days in Blackheath.
trevor plumb
I too worked for mrs coultate and I knew both her sons who both opened shops. I also worked on saturdays at Fenners. In my lunchtime I would walk the boxer dog
of madeline from the flower shop at the top of the village.
Cullens was another shop and also Mr fenners sister had a teashop not far away. I wnnt to John ball primary and in later years I was a sea cadet at greenwich .one of my childhood memories is of going through greenwich tunnel to the isle of dogs public park and at 1 pm we used to watch free films on a screen in the back of a lorry whilst seated on the ground. I left to be an army apprentice and my parents moved out of london in 1967. I was born in forest hill in a house with no electricity in 1949 and moved to blackheath in 1954 to lawn terrace
Hi Trevor
If you were born in 1949 and went to John Ball school you might remember my stepbrother Alan Kaszubowski
Hi Trevor, I too grew up in Blackheath., sang at St. margarets Church., became good friends with Charlie Plumb, who lived close to Lawn terrace., perhaps you are related.–I have Lived in the U.S..A. for the past 50 years.
Hello .
I have forgotten how to write and post comments on this site?
I did not realize it was still running? Hoping this might get on your site?
Anyway, I used to live in Kidbrooke, born 1939, until I left to live in the USA
in 1961. (Cailifornia and now Washington state).
I attended Sherington Rd School in Charlton and then Charlton Central, finally Kidbrooke Comprehensive School.
I loved Blackheath Village and myself and family have wonderful memories
of our growing years there. Remember the Roxy, the Pub, Ortons grocery store as so many have commented on. Then the lovely Blackheath! We used to walk through Morden College grounds to the heath and village.
The Pond, tadpole hunting the fair on the heath, so many lovely memories, and so many more to be told. I also took ballet lessons there and remember
the bakery and Catholic church.
We had a friend who lived with his parents at The Paragon, his name was Colin Campbell if anyone might have known him at all?
Not sure if this will get anywhere or just get lost in cyber space, so will end for now.
Thanks for all the lovely memories.
Jennifer BUNN Fowler.
Ronald Knight
During 1953-1956 I variously lodged with Mr Gumbleton at 173 Shooters Hill Road, Mrs Gilbert at 3 Begbie Road, and Mrs Joslin at 11 Glenluce Road.
I was a regular attender at St. John’s church, being a sidesman for a short while. Also at St. John’s I was a member of the 20-plus group that met at the Memorial Hall after evening service. At this or another meeting place in Vicarage Avenue, meetings would be disturbed by the trains running underground.
The ‘Roxy’ and ‘Gaumont’ cinemas I remember going to.
I used to cycle to and from the Docks on the north River bank, along comparatively quiet roads, and race lorries through the Tunnels. It was something of a slog cycling up the hill in Greenwich Park, even in low gear.
In early 1956 I moved across the River to Barking, and the rest of my life. Sadly I have not been back to Blackheath since, and wonder what happened to all the nice people I met during my pleasant time there, including the above, and Shirley Flew at 139 Old Dover Road, and Monica Williams at 12 Shooters Hill Road.
Ian Watson
My great grandparents lived in Shooters Hill and latterly Point Hill, my great grandfather Cecil was the local copper and his “rounds” used to take in all the pubs including the one on the heath wending his way round to the Standard and back home to an ear-bashing after a quick snooze in the park, apparently my late great grandmother had a bit of a reputation as a bit of a tyrant but I remember her fondly and she used to tell me stories of the area and the navy.
Lloyd Rich
Hi Bob, Great to read your memories of Blackheath, although ypou left just a year after my being born in Wemyss road in 1957 it seems much the same as I remember my early years there. I went to John Ball primary school and spent many hours just sitting and watching the old steam engines shunting rolling stock around the shunting yard beside Blackheath station instead of paying attention to my lessons ! My elder brother and I and also a couple of friends also had paper rounds with Mrs Coultate, I also remeber her son Frank who opened a shop almost opposite her shop. I was also friendly with a family,(I forget their name now) who ran an Off License next to his shop, which used to be an Undertaker’s. Some of us also had Saturday jobs with the milkmen from the Express Dairy in Wemyss road. Much later I worked with Holmes Plating in Blackheath Grove which was based near the far end on the right next to the railway line. It was mostly below street level and I was told that it used to be a theatre and an Ice Rink, although I have never found anything on this on my searches on the net. Would love to know more on this building. Lloyd
kym wilfort
Hi. I remember you from John Ball school, didn’t you have a brother Rene and sister Sue? I’m still in touch with Sue. We reconnected in Amsterdam where I lived for 30 years. I had a brother, Steve. It’s been great reading all the comments here. I have such great memories! Kym.
Olly Knight
Does anyone know the history of 1 Lawn Terrace which is now Locale Restaurant? I heard it used to be a toothpaste factory?
Checked in Neil Rhind’s Blackheath Village & Environs, no mention of a toothpaste factory, seemed all to be domestic servants cottages.
Thanks Bob.
Don’t know where i heard that from. It must have been something individual as it’s a stand alone building and quite large. The houses next door to it and further down probably would have been domestic servants cottages like you said.
I shall inquire further.
Maybe it’s the taste of the food? I’ve only eaten there once, but toothpaste would have been preferable to the meal I had…
Zing! I used to work there and (for two months back in 2006) and as well as the food being sub standard they stole all of our tips. I hope they leave the village.
Alan Burkitt-Gray
Lloyd Rich said ” Holmes Plating in Blackheath Grove … I was told that it used to be a theatre and an Ice Rink”
Neil Rhind’s books say there was a skating rink in Blackheath Grove, on the site of the Royal Mail sorting office, and (I think — haven’t got Neil’s books by me at the moment) before the railway was built. So a long time ago as the line is about 160 years old.
In Neil’s book he states ” it was a roller skating rink , on a narrow stretch
of land , between The Grove and the Railway Line, after it was demolished
it became Homes Plating Works and the Post Office Sorting Centre”
I must admit, I thought it was a roller skating rink, not an ice rink.
Thanks to all of you above for the info on the old Holmes Plating site, I had heard that it was a theatre/skating rink but was not sure if it was a rooler or ice rink. Did not know it wa also on the old post office depot aswell, although it would make sense as a rink would need to be a fairly large building. I will have to get Neil Rhinds book, would love to find out the dates of this and Holmes’s buildings. I was told that the Holmes building was actualy part of the Rink/theatre, and of what I can remeber from working in there I could quite easily see a theatre being in there.
Highly recommend his book(s). The main one (light green) is usually for sale in the Bookshop on the Heath. The yellow one is out of print, and more expensive, but I picked a copy up in the Cancer Research shop once! More info here.
I think the Bugle and fans need to persuade Neil to get the book reissued.
Alfred Alchin
I have read the forgoing with great interest searching for Holmes Plating Ltd the reason being my dad worked at Holmes 1930/39 as a silver finisher I worked there as a metal polisher around the 50’s. Reading the comments it triggered some distant memories perhaps some one can jog them even further. All Saint’s school I have this thought that I attended that school which would have been 1936/8 is there a way of checking this, regarding the V2 damage were children injured killed? Like some readers I also went through the begining of the blitz I lived on Glengall Terrace off the Old Kent Road I only went down the Anderson twice dank dirty musty ,with damp matresses Uk!! I was lucky enough to be evacuated to Daventry Northants for 4.5 years
I now reside in California as I have for the past 31 years
David an ex Brit
Avenue Mansions
Blackheath Grove was named The Avenue prior to 1947. The basement of the former gentleman’s club at 13/14 was converted into an air raid shelter in 1940. You can still see the wartime “3” and the cast iron stairs leading to the entrance. As such it would probably have been the emergency shelter for Holmes employees as it could easily have held 50 and is well protected by high blast walls which are still standing. Can anyone out there remember this building pre 1960?
reg counsell
re air raid shelter for holmes plating workers .
when raids got worse a concrete shelter was built, but old tight jolly
jack holmes did like us useing it because to stop work cost him money so
he bought us all tin hats so we could carry on working during the raids
Richard Hutt
My forebears lived in Glengall Terrace but long before you did prior to the Blitz. I now reside in Australia but before selling my house and leaving SE London I made a point of visiting Glengall Terrace to see the house which miractulously survived the end of terrace destruction when the V2 hit Waite Street. Do you recall which number in Glengall Terrace?
There is one thing I do remember, when you came within a few yards,
in the vicinty of the Works, there was always an acrid chemical smell in the air, I often wondered what is was like for the people working inside .
The smell you refer to was nitric acid used for cleaning brass and gave out clouds of yellow fumes, sometimes a train had to stop after leaving the station and they would have got a good wiff. But to get some in eye was terrible, the only way to remove it was to get a mate to get a mouthfull of water and spit in your eye,
I worked for Holmes Plating from 1972 until 1974 then again in around 76/77. It was a smelly place to work in but you got used to it, it was worse in the Summer due to a lot of hot water tanks in which to rinse work off . But we also had a lot of protective clothing,gloves,wellies and rubber aprons, towear and this could get very uncomfortable in the Summer months. But I did enjoy the work, it was very interesting to learn the process of Electro Plating, I spent most of my time working in the guilding shop where specialised work was carried out using Gold ,Silver and Platinum plating. There was a very friendly crowd of staff and management working their during my stints there. There was also a man involved in a famous murder case working there while I was there who actualy committed suicide in the works using Cyanide.
David Hinds
What wonderful memories!
I moved to Blackheath in 1950 and attended All Saint’s School for a few months before going to Catford Central School. (catching a 75 bus outside Sainsburys for the journey). My Father was the Station Master at Greenwich Station and we lived in the flat above Blackheath Station. There was a small green gate between the butchers shop (Tuckers?) and, I think a florists shop. This gateway led down some steps to the front door of the flat. Because of our name our mail was often wrongly delivered over the road to the departmental store.
I remember most of the shops mentioned by others. In addition there was a philatelist’s shop where I spent much of my pocket money at the time. There was a barbers shop in the maze of houses behind Royal Parade, here many of the engine drivers used to go for a haircut. I remember talking with them about the performance of the various classes of loco working the rolling stock out of the yards. In Royal Parade there was an electricians Schofields, I played with Rene and Philip Schofield who also also went to All Saints School. Was there not a British Restaurant somewhere at the top village that served economic mid-day meals?
With others we used to tramp the heath after the fair looking for copper coins that had been dropped. Another way of making money was to collect soda siphons for The Victoria Wine Company shop? which was opposite Hinds store.
Making lightweight balsa wood boats that skiffed across the Prince of Wales pond come to mind. I had a freind Micheal Jones who lived in a “posh” house next to the Hare and Billet pond, his father had a super prewar Talbot 75 motor car. Few people had cars then, and a ride was a special treat.
The name Kenneth Tucker rings a bell, others that I remember from All Saint’s are Ronnie Charlesworth, Ann?Blackman, Derek Pegram and Eric Fouce?
In 1953 my Father gained promotion and we moved to live in the flat over Catford Bridge Station, so I slowly lost touch with Blackheath.
I have only just started “silver surfing” and Blackheathbugle is a super find – thank you.
Other memories on trawling the grey matter. There was a secondhand bookshop on the end of Royal Parade. The massive fire seen for miles around when the Greenwich Council wood-store on the edge of the heath by Maze Hill burnt down. The teacher (Mr Rhodes?) who purchased a smart brown Harris Tweed suit just before joining All Saints. He was embarrassed to find when he joined the school it was identical with those warn by the rangers who looked after the heath. Also the large cylindrical cast iron fire in the room that housed the top class in the school which glowed red hot at times.
This, I am sure is more than enough!
My father Keith Watson was a relief signalman along that line down as far as Gravesend and Cuxton as well as crossing keeper at Charlton Lane for a while from the early to mid fifties once he passed out from a box boy, he was one of the first to arrive at the disaster at St Johns Wood and was arrested for hitting people who were robbing corpses but never charged, it haunted him for many years.
My late grandfather Bob (Walter) Watson was apparently well known as much as his father Cecil the policeman was around Blackheath, I remember going into many of the shops in the village with him as a kid in the early 70’s and everyone seemed to know him
Cecil and his wife owned quite a few properties at the top most part of point hill and I understand the Luftwaffe did much to reduce their portfolio during WWII
I remember well the night of Lewisham train crash, Dec. 4th 1957. It was an awful night, the thick smog caused the driver of Battle of Britain class loco “Spitfire” to run the red signal at St. John’s Station. My father was on duty that night at Ladywell Station, a short distance from the crash site, to where many “walking wounded” passengers made their way after the crash.
Doubtless our fathers knew each other from the nature of their occupations.
I do hope that this is not too far removed from the Blackheath thread.
David, have a look on Google street view. you can see the village florists next door to a butchers shop, there is a small alleyway between them, no green door though, and no sign of a flat, nor above the Railway Station. Good hunting!!!
Thanks for taking such an interest. On street view the gateway between the butchers and the florists is now black, with a white notice on it. The whole thing being obstructed by the florists rack of plants. If you, in the 50s, went through the gate there was an alleyway for some yards between the shops. You then entered the garden of Station House, then on the right there was a flight of steps down to platform level where the waiting rooms, loos etc were. At the back of these facilities there was a front door into the hallway of the station house. On entering this there was a staircase that led up to the flat that was above the facilities of the “up” platform of the station. It was a very spacious dwelling. Some of the rooms looked out above the platform and you could look down on the passengers waiting on the platform below.
Looking at street view there are clearly now large trees in what was the garden
and the chimneys of the flat can be seen above and behind the florists shop. The satellite view shows both the trees and the apex and ridges of the roof above the flat.
Does the email address that you gave Norman in 2009 still hold? I might have some photos somewhere I can scan in for you.
Hello David,
Yes , I still have the same email address.
Sandra Bussell
The talk of the Express Dairy stirred memories for me – we moved into a new house in The Keep in 1958 when I was a baby. Aged about 2, I suppose, I followed the milkman, Mr Palmer, around and he told me stories about delivering milk in a horsedrawn carriage of some kind to the big house which was there before Span built The Keep.
Raggitty Anne’s was where Oddbins is now. I worked Saturdays at Florian’s slicing salami when I was about 15 or 16, so around 1973/4. Florian’s Polish mother and aunt ran the place. There was a Scandinavian shop just up the hill where the bathroom shop is now. Remember the original Cave Austin? Some kind of grocery shop, I think. Hext, Fenners and maybe the butcher are still around and the same 50 years on – or have I forgotten some?
If you go onto Google, type Express Dairy Horse Drawn Milk Float in the search box and then click the photos box, there is a black and white photo of a milk float.
Hi All, I noticed on reading some of the latest threads that a couple of people, David and Ian, mentioned the dreadful train crash at St Johns in December 1957. Just to let you know that there is a book available on this disaster, I have recently read it and it covers the accident from all angles. It is called St John’s Lewisham 50 Years on, Restoring the traffic by Peter Tatlow and published by The Oakwood Press. Very sad but very interesting read.
Stanley Lover
Having just discovered this marvellous site I revel in the memories of Blackheath. Mine go back to the early ’30s, through the war and in adult life.
I recently published my memoirs ‘Chronicles of a Timid Lover’, for family and friends.
In that I refer to the Mitchell Farm opposite St. James’ church, where we played in the pigeon loft. From the basement window of our flat in Kidbrooke Park Road I often saw ‘Old Mitchell’ walking past our house leading one of the magnificent Shire horses, Mick or Toby, to the farrier.
I loved watching the farrier at work. I can still recall the clangs of hammer on anvil and the acrid odour of red hot horseshoes burning into the bony hoof. Fascinating!
I wonder if you have any reader who remembers that smithy. I’m fairly sure it was on the corner of Old Dover Road and Sunfields Place, although my older brother, Frank (just turned 89) thinks it was Bowater Place. Who is right?
BB has promised to include extracts from my memoirs soon. I hope they will stir pleasant days in and around Blackheath.
Looking forward to reading your Blackheath Memoirs.
Linda Faulkner
Hi stanley,
Just reading your great article. My name is Linda Faulkner the daughter of Daisy Faulkner (Mitchell) of Express Dairy Farm Kidbrooke back then. Mum was so excited when I read what you had said out to her. If you would like to email: lindafaulkner3@yahoo.com we would love to hear from you.
Sheala Lyons
I grew up in Blackheath in the 1940s 1950s I left in 1958, Reeves and Jones used to be in Delacourt Road before it moved to Blackheath Village. I still miss Blackheath it will always be my home.
Please don’t let themchange it.
Hi Stanley, I lived near to Bowater place in the 1940s 1950s,
at the corners of Bowater Place is The British Oak public house and the opposite corner was a chimney sweep, at the corners of Sunfield place were a private, Drakes newsagents and at the rear Gilberts builders yard in my time the opposite corner was a ‘bomb site’ so it seems that the ‘smithy’ could have been there and you are right. I also remember the shire horses I think at that time they were taken to somewhere near Lnagton way.
Sheala
Pat Clegg
Just seen your comment about the smithy on the corner of Sunfields Place and Old Dover Road. I lived in Sunfields Place before it was demolished on 30th November 1944 by a V2 rocket and the smithy’s name was Mr McKechnie. Pat Clegg
My grandfather talked about the smithy as he used to get parts made up for his Austin 7 there until he had to go to someone in Westerham who could continue the work, he kept that car going well into the early 70’s when he changed it for a 2 litre Triumph Vitesse.
Vanessa Kells
Hi! Can anyone remember the Pre-Fabricated housing that was built after the War. I lived there as baby and moved when I was about 5 years old. I know I started school at All saints in 1950 and moved about 1951. I went to look for them in 2006 and no one could tell me were they would have been. My address was 70 Hollyhedge Bungalows Blackheath se3 I hope someone can help me. Vanessa kells.
Holly Hedge Bungalows were apparently on the Wat Tyler Road .
Thank you again Bob.
I have looked Wat Tyler Road up on Google and I did go that way, and properly walk on that road , because I did say to my husband I had a feeling that’s were the prefabs might have been. It’s funny how even though I was only 5 year’s old when we left Blackheath thing’s stayed in my mind all these years later. I am so happy to have finally found out where they were.
Brenda Anderson-Browne
Hi, Vanessa, My Family and I lived at I think it was No.9 Hollyhedge Bunglows and they were all on the piece of land surrounded by St Austell Road, Mounts Pond Road, Wat Tyler Road & Hare & Billet Road. You can see Hollyhedge House on Google Earth and what we used to call “the dips” which was a sloping green area where we used to play. I think we moved there after you left around 1953. I have a photo of me and my Sister taken there in the snow. Its published in the group “Growing up in Blackheath & Greenwich in the 1950’s & 60’s” on Facebook.
Hi, I used to live in Hollyhedge House when all the prefabs were still around.
The”Dips” you refer to we called “The Big Dips” and we used to slide down them on pieces of polished hardboard in the summer. They were called the “Big Dips” to distinguish them from the “Little Dips” which were over by the side of Greenwich Park where we used to ride our bikes.
Hello Brenda and Vanessa,
St. Germans Place, Blackheath on Google,then click on PICTURES
you should find a photo of a painting, right at the beginning ,click on the painting, it should bring up two paintings, one of the prefabs in St. Germans Place, the other I think are the Hollyhedge ones ‘Good luck
Does anyone remember the old Riding School at the corner of what Is Baisdon Road? I remember the building being there in a dilapidated state
in the early 50’s.
hello, my name is Irene i lived at Number 29 Hollyhedge Bulgalows in the early 50s where my family and myself lived there untill 1960. Myself and my brother attended John Ball School. I would love to hear from anybody who lived at the bungalows of that time.
I left a message a few days ago – 10 Feb 2013.
I was born at Hollyhedge bungalows in 1958. My mother is Pam and her mother and father were Ada and Arthur.
Does anyone know why there was some kind of track (cinder?) on the area of heath near the Rangers Lodge? My dad, rather misguidedly, I think, took me there to practice my bike riding skills (more like grazed leg skills!)
Hi Victor.
Scroll back to 2 postings, one from David Hinds , December 25, 2011
and one from myself, December 26 , 2011. We spoke about the cinder Cycle Speedway Track.
Adrian Frawley
Hi, my name is adrian ,was your brothers name Jeffrey, I have a two brothers Kevin and Patrick we lived at number 22 hollyhedge bungalows
Hello Irene
I think I was at John Ball School the same time as you
What was you and your brother’s surname
I must add this is a great site. I have been looking for something like this for a long time. It bring’s back great memoiries.Thank you to everyone that comments It’s wonderful !!!!!!!!!
Vanessa kells.
The one’s I remember were on the grass side of the Heath, along the length of St. Germans Place.
‘Thank you’ Bob.
I will google the map of Blackheath again and try and pick up St Germans Place.
I now live in Australia and have done since 1957 I was ten year’s old when my parent’s migrated here.
I have photo’s of my sister and I taken outside the bungalow we lived in and when Icome to England in 2006 I tried to find out where they would have been built but no one could help me. So Thank you again.
Your excellent running history of Blackheath prompts me to wonder if I might add a few memories of the area, as a child, from 1925 to the war years, then as an adult commuting daily to the City of London via Blackheath Station.
My autobiography CHRONICLES OF A TIMID LOVER (a limited self-published edition) recounts several aspects of life which may enlarge on the interesting stories provided by your readers.
Central to my vivid memories are the Mitchell’s farm next to St. James Church; the macabre alley behind the church to the Heath; playing in and around the ponds; the rise and fall of THE ROXY cinema; bonfire nights and fairs in the ex-quarry pits before they were filled with bomb-damage rubble; carol singing to raise pennies for the gas meter; being arrested as a 7y.o. member of a sweet stealing gang; those huge steam locomotives thundering in and out of the station before electric trains took away the drama; hot days watching cricket and tobogganing on snow slopes in Greenwich Park; schooldays at Blackheath & Kidbrooke C of E in Old Dover Rd; The Rectory Field in it’s heydays of the Blackheath rugby club and riveting cricket battles between Kent and Surrey…and a host of others.
But, where to start? My memoirs as written are too long to quote but perhaps one or two of the above items would be of particular interest.
Hi Bob, have just checked out Google Earth and found St German’s Place. Can’t believe it is the only part of blackheath I didn’t go and look at! Does anyone know what year the prefab’s were pulled down.
Apparently there were also Prefabs in The Wat Tyler Road, near to Hollyhedge House, hence the name of your bungalows.
Please have a look at the these two websites :
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=110637655644699#!/photo.php?fbid=401825814752&set=o.110637655644699&type=1&theater
Thank you Bob.
I have looked up these websites “Great ” Thank you! Brings back a lot of memories. That’s definitely where Holly hedge Bungalows were. I remember saying to my husband when I went looking for them that’s where I thought they would have been, it just felt right. To think I would have walked on the spot I had walk to school 55years ago at the time I was in England. It makes me feel so much better that my trip was not in vain. It had been on my mind for all those years and I needed to find out were I grow up and were my life began. I just love this site keep up the good work. Regards Vanessa Kells
Hi Vanessa
Were you able to access the two websites ( please see below)
Readers who enjoyed the movies at THE ROXY CINEMA, in Old Dover Road, might like to know what a 9y.o. boy felt at the birth of a palace of dreams and drama. Here is his story.
Extract from CHRONICLES OF A TIMID LOVER : Chapter 7
Our lives brightened in 1934 when we read a notice fixed to a wall opposite The Royal Standard pub, where the Old Dover Road meets Charlton Road;
The ROXY CINEMA will be
built on this site
We had never seen a picture show but older mates, who had been taken by parents to silent movies, gave us some idea of what to expect. The new entertainment sounded much more exciting than the magic lantern slide lectures about African villages we endured at school, when denied football afternoons because of bad weather.
In the following months we made regular jaunts past the site to inspect progress. We counted almost every brick laid and urged the builders to hurry as the bright modern cinema house emerged from demolition rubble.
Local newspaper stories fuelled mounting excitement up to the opening date. We learned that the architect was a Mr Bertie Crewe; that 1,300 tip-up seats (750 downstairs and 550 in the balcony) awaited paying bottoms; that a grand Werlitzer organ, imported from America, would accompany singing audiences with glorious notes from dozens of pipes.
On The Big Opening Day, 11 February 1935, hundreds of excited people milled around the swanky front entrance of our posh new cinema. I was nine years old and joined a long queue, stretching from the main doors in Old Dover Road, around a corner and along the whole length of the building to the car park at the rear.
The moment I crossed the threshold I stepped into another world. I gawped at the palatial décor – bright cream walls, sparkling chandeliers, and scarlet deep pile carpets in the foyer which led up wide stairs to the balcony. Graciously draped long burgundy-red velvet curtains heightened the warm luxurious atmosphere.
A buzz of excited anticipation echoed around the crowded hall. Inside, the auditorium was a blaze of red from the comfortable plush seats and ceiling-to-stage curtains.
I rushed to claim a place in the middle of the front row and when the curtains slid open I stared up at the huge white screen. This was to be my canvas for spectacular animated pictures; my portal to a completely new world – for a lifetime.
Until that day my knowledge of what went on outside my tiny cocoon of existence had been limited to crackled voices and music heard over a battery powered wireless set; a boys comic or two; a few vague references in family conversation to wars, famine, and disasters, which seemed serious but were beyond my comprehension.
My front row view obliterated the packed audience behind me and allowed for deep concentration. It was just me, the screen and my imagination – nothing and nobody else. My mind was empty but willing and anxious to discover new sights and sounds; to absorb layers of knowledge of the outside world. My heart was open for strange emotions sharpened by virtual involvement inside plots of intrigue, violence, tenderness, love. I was ready to absorb anything and everything displayed on that huge white canvas.
In a semi-crouching position, with feet on the seat, arms hugging my legs and chin resting on bare knees, I was drawn like Alice into Wonderland and hovered in another universe. From the opening bars of popular music and the first appearance of twenty-feet high moving, talking, singing characters, I was hooked.
For four years, until we moved away from Kidbrooke, The Roxy was a vital part of my life. I learned much about the outside world; what was considered right and wrong; a range of characters and situations I may have to face in adulthood. I felt the early growth of deep emotions in response to people and circumstance.
The Roxy became an ABC cinema in 1963; closed February 1974, and was reduced to demolition rubble in April 1981. As I write it is a modern Marks & Spencers store.
A sad ending to a glorious era.
re.article on holmes plating co.the vale blackheath village i started work there in 1941 at the age of 14 till i was called up in1944 the working conditions were appalling wages was 4p an hour wqrking with all known acids and poisons,no protected clothing just a pair of wooden clogs.
not many in the village knew it was a war factory doing parts for aircraft
and other goverment work.
if the v2 had landed a bit futher up the road there would have been many
casualty. i remember seeing the pilot of the plane that droped the bomb
that killed all the kids at sandhurst school as it passed over blackheath
in our dinner break. lots more stories if you are interested.reg counsell
in my 85 year now but still lots more about blackheath after the war
My father was in “digs with Mrs Donovan at 7 St Germans Place “and notes in his diary Wed 5th July 1944. Fine Day. Pilotless planes raid all day. Blown up. Lucky to be alive. In air raid cellar about 40 yards from crater.”
Hi Reg, Great to read your memories of working in Holmes plating, it sounds like it was a terrible place back then, it was only a little better when I worked there in the early 1970’s, although we did have some protective clothing, not that it was much help against acid running down your arms etc ! It was a very hot dirty place in the summer months too. Very interesting to read that it was doing it’s part in the war effort too, I never knew that, although of course I do know that many such companies did such work during the war period. I used to live in the next road up, Wemyss road at number 10, I was not born until 1957 in the house, but do know that numbers 1 to 9 were destroyed in the bombing of Blackheath and the side of number 10 still shows the scars today where the side wall had to be rebuilt. Again I thank you very much indeed for sharing your story of working at Holmes plating, and would be intersted in hearing more about the place if you know anything about the history of the building etc. Thanks Lloyd
Joanne Morris
HI, my mum lived with my grandparents in Paragon Place. I have such fond memories of visiting my nan and granddad there and used to stay with them over the school holidays (in the 70’s) I have a particular memory of the Toy Shop in the Village, with the rag dolls suspended from the ceiling. I always wished I could own one of these lovely dolls. Then one lovely day, I travelled up from Kent to see my nan and granddad, I walked into their front room to be greeted by one of the very dolls that I had admired so much!!! I still have Raggerty Anne and cherish her and the fond memories of those days.
My mum, now in her 70’s, will love this site. I will be passing on the details so she can have a wander down Memory Lane!
Margaret howlett
i was living in 20 blackheath Grove from 1940 to 1949 ,my name was Marg Kitching, remember both the doodle bug, and the V2 falling, l was 10 tyears older than you, but still write to a good friend Chris Rutherford who lived in Weymyss Road,and went to the same school as you, you may know her l remember Jobbins, and our grocer was called The Bacon shop, so many good memories,, and often wonder where all my old friends are, Bernard Swann, for one, Marion Phillips, another,
I used to be friends with Paul Rutherford, Christine’s younger brother.
Paul became very famous, he was the leading avant-garde trombonist in the
UK, unfortunately , he passed away a couple of years ago. You can find a lot about him on the internet.
lIt was sad Paul dying, so talented, l keep in touch with Chris, she was friends with my younger sister Pauline, but as l am on the internet we correspond all the time, she sent me a great book by niel Rhind, its so interesting,l live in w Australia now, so does Pauline,
me being older remember the bombing,l worked in a shop called The New Argosy, at the time.
What was the new argosy shop I don’t remember it… Jack
I lived in Ryculff Square from 1953 -1968.
I remember the bombsite where the Span flats were built at the corner of
Pond Road and South Row. We called this the Top Field and spent countless days setting up camps in the dank cellars. Another bomb site was the old Riding School on the corner of Baisdon Road and Elliot Place. I shudder to think of the times when we youngsters would walk across rotten beams about 10 foot from the ground. No PC in those days.
I used to go down to the Express Dairy stables and the milkmen would let us go in and feed the horses. On the corner of Wemyss Road and Montpelier Vale there was a newsagent/sweet shop. The owner was called ‘Titch’ and he had a light green Alvis sports car. Our little gang used to drool over it but , unlike some modern youths we would never dream of scratching it. Opposite this shop was Webbs the bike shop which I used quite a bit until I found Youngs in Lee High Road where I bought my first racing bike.
I had fond memories of John Ball School.
I also remember the Day family who lived above the post office. They bred Pyrrenean Mountain dogs, and at one time had 7 of these huge dogs.
I remember the village library opening in Tranquil Passage and the smell of the new books. Opposite the library was a small shoe repair shop which used to sell shoe polish and leather goods.
There was also a small sweet shop on the library side just past Brigade Square and I vaguely recall a barber’s shop almost opposite this shop which was one of those ‘Short back and sides’, Dennis Compton poster on the wall advertising Brylcreem and although I never heard it myself , I am sure that the old phrase ‘ Would sir like anything for the weekend’ was in use.
I remember old Madeleine Moore, she was a lovely character.
I used to frequent the Rendezvous cafe and around 1957 you would see many an old motorbke like a Vincent outside. I played Elvis Presley’s All Shook up on the Juke Box continuously and nobody seemed to mind.
Among the shops I remember in Royal Parade were a motorcycle shop which only had one motorbike on display as the window was so small. This was a Panther and it had a sidecar. There was also a TV/radio shop.
I was in the 11th Lewisham North Scouts and we met in the Parish Hall opposite the Crown pub. This hall had a strange smell of polish. I used to love the Church Parade but never got the honour of holding the flag which I coveted.
I did a paper round for Smiths in the evenings and another one in the mornings for the chap who used to sell papers outside the station. One day his father didn’t turn up for work so he sent me to knock for him. There was no reply and it turned out that he had died.
Another recollection was watching the steam trains shunting in the small siderails at Blackheath station.You could see this from the windows of John Ball school.
I have plenty more memories but I think I should take a rest for now.
I had a Saturday job in Jobbin’s Bakery and remember the distinctive smell of fresh bread and cakes which were full of fresh cream. Manageress at the time was a lovely lady named Launa and another lady I remember very well was a lady named Lou who taught me all I needed to know to work in a bakery, I do believe she lived in Bennett Park. I really enjoyed going into work even though it was for one day a week. I made lots of friends with people who lived in the village and visited our bakery regularly, chats over coffee in our small but, very quaint coffee area was a lovely meeting place.
I often wonder where these people are now or if any one remembers me !!!! I was sixteen at the time and I’m now 49 years old and still living in Blackheath. if any one knows please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me
E-mail : carol28.williams@mypostoffice.co.uk
Hello Bob
I wondered if you knew any more information about the Express Dairy Horse Drawn Milk Float in Blackheath because, my mum’s dad ( Harry Rowe ) looked after the horses in the stables. If anyone as any photos or information or perhaps they knew Harry Rowe? I would be over the moon to know, please don’t hesitate to get in contact.
Hi Carol, Just stumbled on this site. Replying to Bob Rowlands posting, I lived at 5 Dartmouth Row as a 5 year old in 1954 – above a green grocers. I remember his anger when the Express Dairy horse mounted the pavement and ate the entire top layer of apples from the fruit on display!!
Hello Carol,
Sorry I don’t have any more info or photos, but if you
go to GOOGLE, type in the search box , Express Dairy Horse Drawn Float
and then when the page(s) appear click on PICTURES, you should find some, scattered around, I have just been on the web, and have just seen a few.
Thank you for your quick reply and my I had a great time looking through many pictures which I found very interesting of Express Dairy Milk Floats. But, unfortunately I didn’t see any information regarding my mum’s dad ( Harry Rowe ) or the stables. I will keep on searching, thanks again.
Where the Clarendon Hotel is today there were also 2 other hotels.One was called The Regency. Does anyone remember the name of the third hotel?
Hi Rowland, I saw your question the other day on here and could not remember the name of the third hotel, I tried hard to think but it just would not come to me. Later that same evening I was checking through some old bus photos I have and just by chance I found one of a bus going past that very same hotel, it’s name was Heathview Hotel. Not sure if it is still called that or not, will look next time I am over that way again.
Please email me the photos if you can! blackheathbugle at gmail.com
The Heathview Hotel. Great!
I am so relieved as I used to live at the back of those hotels and my dentist was only a few doors down from The Princess of Wales pub
Just sent the photo I mentioned in my last comment. Lloyd Rich
Just emailed the photo I mentioned in my last comment regarding the hotels on Blackheath. Lloyd Rich
Thanks so much for the photo Lloyd. It certainly brought back some
. hi Lloyd re memories of holmes plating co.
during the war the factory had a glass roof which was painted black and
when working nightshift during air raids sharpnel fell on the roof and we
had to climb up there an stick paper over the holes to stop light getting
out, i don’t think heath and safety would allow this today.
around 1940-41 most of the men had been called up so boys and girls
as young 14 and15 were working there, i have a photo i took on the heath
near the army camp in 1941, allso one of holmes plating darts team
which played for the princess of wales pub which was our local.in the 1950s
please can you let me know how i can post them on the site.
all; the best from reg counsell
Hi Reg, Sounds like a very tricky job having to black out the roof windows in Holmes, must have been a nightmare of a job to do, what with all those pipes everywhere, and the tanks full of various acids and chemicals underneath you. I have to say I loved working there and found it very interesting, I went on to work on my own in a plating shop with a plastics company specialising in repairing plastic moulds with Hard Chrome, moulds would wear down or get damaged so I would rebuild them with chrome and then the parts were machined down to the correct shape and size. If you have the photos on your computer, just email them to blackheathbugle@gmail.com they should then appear on here, that is all I done to add the bus photo on here. Good Luck and look forward to seeing them on here. Lloyd Rich
Hi Rowland, I lived just behind the hotels too, in Wemyss road and I also shared the same dentist as yourself ! Glad you saw the photo. Lloyd
Hi Lloyd,
Thanks for the reply. I have horrible recollections of being gassed and the awful smell of the rubber as you went off into a coma for a few minutes. As
a matter of interest do you remember the name of the newsagents/confectioners run by Tich on the corner of Wemyss Road opposite Webbs bicycle shop?
Hi Rowland, I am not 100% sure , but I think their name was Sewell or Sewers, I remember the old Alvis he had, I think it started as a green one,metalic if I remember correctly, then later he had it resprayed metalic red, a nice dark red, he certainly loved that car. My dad got on very well with him, we lived at number 10 Wemyss road, the first house next to the flats with bomb damage scars down the side wall. Lloyd Rich
Hi Lloyd
You are absolutely right. It was an almost peppermint green metallic colour.
I know where you lived. I believe the flats were for policemen. My scoutmaster was a sergeant in the police and he lived in one of those flats. If I recall correctly there used to be a beaten track down the side of the flats which enabled one to get to the Post Office. Roly Evans
Michelle O'Brien
“… do you remember the name of the newsagents/confectioners run by Tich on the corner of Wemyss Road opposite Webbs bicycle shop?”
I seem to recall that THE (or at least A) proprietor of that corner newsagents shop belonged to a wonderfully zany group of pals from this area who called themselves The Unpredictables.
The Unpredictables got up to all sorts of lunatic and sometimes hair-raising stunts (swimming the Thames at Greenwich was one) with the two-fold aim of raising money for good causes AND having a damned good time.
Their “leader” ran a dry rot preservation company in this area, as I remember – somebody called Brian, I think.
The Unpredictables at one stage had based themselves at the Constitutional Club at Lee Green. But they had to go after a Sunday newspaper reporter writing a story about the group challenged them there and then to live up to their name and do something unpredictable.
They gleefully obliged, stripping off to pose bare-bummed for a photograph in the car park outside the club.
The picture of them in the buff, backs to camera, duly appeared in the paper that Sunday – with the sign “Lee Green Constitutional Club” appearing prominently in the background above them.
It was all too much for the club management. It ruled The Unpredictables and their picture had brought the Lee Green club, which was allied to the Conservative Party, into national disrepute and told them they had to go and not come back.
Whether or not the proprietor of the newsagents shop on the corner of Wemyss Road was involved in that particular Unpredictables stunt I can’t recall. But it’s the same Lee Green club, now long closed, that’s currently under renovation for private housing.
HI Lloyd hope the photos arive most of lads came blackheath or lewisham
many of them have sadley passed on by now. but somebody might
recognize them,i see you done hard chrome plating i did this before i
was called up in 1944,parts of the cannon gun on spitfires had to be
hard chromed because of wear.thats all fof now reg
just checked e mails and photos returned e mail not known reg
New thread, I have just found entering “Blackheath” on The British Pathe site a clip, among several related to the subject, one of a Penny Farthing cycle ride from Westminster to Blackheath in 1945. There are some interesting frames near the Prince of Wales pond where the ride ends. One of my interests is cycling history, does anyone remember this ride/race?
Thanks Lloyd for printing photos I hope someone can remember some of them. Some more memories of the village before i get to old to remember them, finlays tobaco shop on the left handside coming into the village,[ is it still there] we use to buy our tobaco there loose from jars and weighed on scales, rose the barmaid in the railway pub, during the war cigaretes were in short supply the little shop in front of the railway station the lady would let us buy 5 woodbines which she got from under the counter and put them in a sweet bag. The scandal of the white girlfrom blacheath who married the black african chief seretise kmama she worked in jobbings the bakers for a while. After I left the army I went back to holmes plating courted a girl who lived in collins street for 2 years many happy memories partys in a big house in bennet park. Then in the 60s took a job at edward evans which once
You remembered my mom’s name, but not mine, and you went out with me for two years. You were also saving to buy me an engagement ring.
Doreen Evans
Hi Reg, Just came across the site looking for something else. I am the daughter of Rose from the Railway Tavern. The girl that you were courting for two years. Do you remember my name?
Opps something gone wrong continue from last post:
Called hinds a large store at the top of the hill as a tally man on the knocker. Although i did not live at blackheath i have many fond memories hope this all makes sense because i do ramble on all the best from reg P.S I now live in Folkestone
What a great website! Reading these comments really takes me back to the days when the village was more than just a collection of estate agents and pretentious eating houses.
I remember the shops in Tranquil Passage:Poffrey’s and Wheeler’s. They were the Sainbury’s and Tesco’s of their time. Mr Poffrey had lost a hand at some time in his past. He wore a leather glove to cover the stump. His shop, like the other grocer shops, smelled of bacon, cheese and biscuits.
Everything was sold loose. The sugar was weighed and put into blue paper bags. Butter was chopped and patted with wooden spatulas. Our mother favoured Mrs Wheeler. She had an account at her shop. This meant that food was bought ‘on tick’ and paid for at the end of the week. My brother, Len, tried to get some sweets using this facility, but Mrs Wheeler was wise to his tricks.
Sears was another favourite, a sweet shop where ice cream was made on the premises. I fyou arrived early you had to wait for the process to take place. The Sears were very nice people. They let my brother, Paul, have a box of chocolates on ‘hire purchase’. He was buying them as a birthday present for me, but didn’t have the necessary cash at the time.
Blackheath Bacon Shop was was owned by two two men who were ‘the only gays in the village’. Also very nice people who liked to play tennis in the park.
Jobbins the bakers, Fenners the greengrocers, Butcher Curnows the chemist and photographers; all part of our childhood- gone but not forgotten.
Marion Langham (nee Allaway)
Bob’s account of tobogganing down the hill from the General Wolfe statue to the Naval College brought back happy memories although he would have had to crash through the Maritime Museum before he reached the college. I was born in Roan Street, Greenwich in 1940 and my father ran the shellfish stall, in King William Walk, on Sundays. My mother had an allotment in Greenwich Park during the war and she used to grow fabulous tomatoes and lupins and other veg. It was my older sister’s job to follow the milkman and coalmans’ carts to collect the manure dropped by their horses for use on the allotment.
Sand used to be deposited by the side of the river, next to the pier and, on sunny days, we would go there with a picnic and make sand castles, just as if we were at the seaside. Happy days!
Does anyone remember the bird in the cage automaton in Hinds? You put a penny in and he sang and moved. I wonder where that is now – must be worth a small fortune. How about the circus train which used to come to Blackheath Station and we could volunteer to walk animals across the Heath to the big top? Would we be allowed to do this today? The old fashioned milliners – two elderly ladies with a window full of hats? I remember taking my little brother to the barbers where the Woolwich Building society was opened eventually (up two or three steps) near Butcher Curnow. There was a very imposing receptionist with her hair in a bun who told me very severely that I couldn’t go in with him, it was men only! I remember the stamp and coin shop nearby. Who remembers the allotments on Blackheath? And the Nissen huts? I still have a scar on my knee from tripping over the barbed wire – and this was AFTER the war! As a child, I walked across the middle of each pond on Blackheath – yuk!
I haven’t seen any mention yet of the shop “The New Argosy” at the top of the village just down from Coultates. It sold lovely china and glass etc. I worked there as a Saturday girl for a short time in the fifties and was warned by the other Saturday girl never to go into the stock room with the owner! I always managed to avoid it! I believe the new owner in later years hung himself in that same stock room?
Gerald Dennett
The New Argosy was owned by my great aunt Hilda Colman with her husband Fred. I guess you were warned against Uncle Fred! He came from Lambeth/Bermondsey. Aunty Hilda was from Cudham in Kent. They had met through the Labour Party in Bermondsey. Uncle Fred had been a CO in WW1. In WW2 they gave the shop window over to the Peace Pledge Union, but that didn’t stop the Luftwaffe from bombing it. They sold up and retired to Storrington in Sussex in the early 1960s. Uncle Fred died in 1968, Aunty Hilda lived to 93 and died in 1991. I have some of the unsold stock from the shop.
Hello Gerald
I particularly remember the Rowland Hidler Kent scene framed prints and Tretchikoff’s Blue Lady displayed in your shop.
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Hi Gerald – yes I remember now his name was Fred. I never met Hilda- presumably she didn’t work in the shop on a Saturday. I was only fifteen then and adored the shop – they had such good taste and had such lovely things in there. I even loved dusting it all! Interesting that it has gone back to selling stuff for the home although not in the same way. I went in there a couple of years ago on a flying visit to Blackheath and was very nostalgic!
Hi Ian.
My parent’s bought me my first new bicycle at your Father’s
shop in 1952, still remember it, it was a Hercules Sports model, colour blue,
drop down handlebars and derailleur gears, and I clocked up a lot of miles on it . We often, during the school summer holidays , on the spur of the moment,
whilst lazing about in the sun on the Heath, suddenly decide to go to Chislehurst or Keston Ponds, Eynsford or even Biggin Hill, which wasn’t really a big deal in those days, being young a having a Hercules Sports Bike !!!
If I remember it rightly, the bike cost £ 12 15s 0d, and standing next to it in the showroom was a Green Raleigh Countryman, a heavy duty bike, brakes and dynamo were built into the wheel hubs, and this machine cost £ 24 0s 0d.
This does not sound like a lot of money today, but way back then it was.
In the early 1950s the LCC provided a cinder bicycle speedway track on the heath. My memory of it is that it was away from the village on the Greenwich Park side of the heath. I have just noticed that on http://www.cyclespeedwayhistory.org.uk there is mention of a team that used the track the “Blackheath Aces”, there is a list of riders together with a photograph of some of the team. Does anyone remember the track or any of the riders?
Yes, I remember it well, it was situated on the grass ,opposite the wall
which runs along Greenwich Park, between Charlton Way and Prince Charles Road , a very short distance from the War Memorial or Kiosk.
It was enclosed within a cheap wood stick fence, it had , as you say a cinder track, it had all the way round two circles of I believe old Fire Brigade hoses, which had been filled with sand or earth and painted white.
I never saw any of the so called riders, but we sometimes used it ourselves, we used modified bikes, i.e. they had very wide flat handlebars,
no brakes , mudguards etc etc, and special tyres, these were probably the forerunners of what you see on mountain or ATB bikes today. We did not
have protective clothing or helmets , like the riders, so our mothers’s were
not very amused when we arrived home, with scuffed shoes and dusty
trousers. That’s all I know about it.
Gerry Nathan
What a wonderfully nostalgic site. I lived in Blackheath from 1954 to 1964, 20, Blackheath Grove (aready mentioned prevously), I think the house was divided into two flats and subsequently moved to No.16 after a fire at No.20.
Rowland has recalled his time with the11th Lewisham North Scout Troop. I remember that all of the Scoutmasters were police officers and what’s more as Troop Leader, I did carry the flag at Church Parades! Great memories of the times camping with the scouts.
I was one of the ‘Creme de la Creme’ who worked as a paper boy for W.H.Smith at the railway station. I had the village round and recollect meeting up with Billy Lewis who delivered papers on the same round for Coultates and sharing the papers between ourselves so that one of us would deliver papers to one half of the Village and the other to the rest of the round. Saturday morning after being paid we would make our way to the bakers and buy their stale ‘Dunkies’ (doughnuts) for 1d each and a few of the paper boys would gather at one of the homes for a Dunkie breakfast! I seem to recollect that I used to deliver newspapers to Roger Moore and Dorothy Squires who lived at The Keep which was off Blackheath Park.
I also bought a new bicycle from the ‘Bike Shop’ after saving my hard earned wages from Smiths, £12 as I recollect and decided to try it out at ‘The Dips’, result….two buckled wheels!
Mention of Sears the sweet shop, I recall being able to buy a glass of lemonade and topped with ice cream there, for 1d.
I mustn’t go on but one last story….As I recall it, at No 22, Blackheath Grove lived the Harpley family, three brothers and a sister and Patricia had been born during a V2 air raid and had been christened Patricia Doodlebug Harpley!
Sweet fond memories and so many more!
Hi Gerald
I hope you are well. It was lovely to read your account of old times.
I remember coming round to your house for tea and sometimes for breakfast when I used to come and meet you before going to school. Your brother Derek, and your mum and dad (Solly?) are very clear in my memory. I saw Billy Lewis about 25 years ago . He moved to Bristol and started a motor car sales business and I believe he became quite successful. I remember his sister Barbara very well ( as I recall she was very pretty).I remember Glenda Jackson living in the village. I remember the Dips well and like you I ruined my bicycle wheels there. Do you remember Mr. Hancock and Mrs Curley at John Ball School. I remember Mr. Beale giving me a serious good hiding – imagine that today especially in a primary school! It didn’t do me any harm though, I probably deserved it. Cheryl Lovelace has been in touch recently – Google her. What a clever girl she was and is a very eminent professor now.
Anyway, once again it’s nice to recall old times.
I had a couple of senior moments when replying to you. Your brother was not Derek but Geoff. Also it was not Mr.Hancock but Mr. Hitchcock.
Sorry old buddy.
Hallo Rowland,
Senior moments! Your memory is in remarkable fettle after almost 50 years!
Do you remember the lad who was the son of the owner or manager of The Regency Hotel, could have been Ian or something similar or am I confusing myself with Ian Long who lived over the Post Office in Blackheath Grove?.
He along with myself, the aforementioned Billy Lewis and the Hines brothers, Peter and Colin, used to trawl through the Village going into shops buying sweets, cakes, cigarettes and even into Raggety Anne’s to buy fireworks for Bonfire Night, in fact anything that took our fancy and asking the shopkeeper to ‘Put it on the Regency bill’!
I never did know if he had his father’s permission!!
Previous post talked of the ‘ice sliding’ across the ponds on the Heath brings to mind the occasion when we were out sliding on the pond alongside The Princess of Wales, the longest slide being the winner! Peter Hines took a long run from the banks and launched himself onto the ice only to disappear under it, fortunately reappearing almost immediately!
The ‘camps’ that we built for ourselves that get a fond mention from you, there’s numerous stories to be told of those self-built constructions that we played in, that can wait for another day.
Health and Safety, what was that?
I did attempt to contact you a while back but I’m not sure that I pushed all the right buttons or flicked the appropriate levers!
My email Address is gerry.nathan201@btinternet.com
My email is gerry.nathan201@btinternet.com
The Regency Hotel lad was Ted White and I recall that when they organised a sort of gardening club for us kids at John Ball School that Ted arrived with state of the art equipment, stainless steel shears , forks,sivs and spades while we had to make do with sharing what the school provided which was invariably rusty or made of rotting wood. Needless to say these were all on the Regency bill.
Do you remember the Dinky Toy racing cars we used to race on the little slope by the big playground. I remember the Maserati, Bristol Cooper,& Ferrari particularly well. The games of football on concrete weren’t much fun if you were goalkeeper, and I remember a boy called Rice who thought nothing of diving full stretch to save a goal whatever the weather or whatever the outcome of crashing onto the hard surface.
Then there were the fantastic Cavalry and Indian ‘playfights’ when about 15 boys would strip to the waist and paint their bodies and faces with powder paint and come running down the slope on the Baisdon Road flats side of the playground into the main playground where another bunch of boys would form a ‘square’ firing imaginary rifles at them. The hardest bit was admitting that you had been ‘shot’ and on several occasions a little punchup would occur over a dispute on whether you were ‘dead’ or not.
I remember Mrs.Curley well, a great teacher. She could make a story sound so fascinating that every one of us was enthralled by what she was reading, one in particular was ‘The Secret Garden’.
Well, I had better close for now . All the best
…it’s great to hear that someone else has memories of playing with toy racing cars on that slope in John Ball…I had a Vanwall Dinky car but I covetted the Masseratti more..the car that went the furthest won(!)….I don’t remember “Cavalry & Indian ” fights but I do remember “British Bulldog” in the playgroun,d which of course would not be allowed today because it is considered “too dangerous”…whatever happened to Maypole dancing?….
I envy you the Vanwall. Of course I forgot the Alfa Romeo. Most of my Dinky Toy racing cars ended up with the tyres missing in the end. How I wish that I had kept them in good nick together with the boxes.
Did you collect cigarette cards and flick them up the wall in the playground ?
Thanks Rowland, of course it was Ted White. Now that the memory has been jogged, the garden tools that he turned up to school on that day were the envy of us all!
In fact, his ability to shop at most of the Village shops, on credit and on ‘The Regency bill’, was a marvel. No surprise that we all wanted to be his friend!!
The camp beds in the classroom for our midday nap and hoping to land the bed next to Cheryl is another recollection!!!
My favourite part of the school, the school library, in the entrance hall if memory serves me right, Famous Five, Secret Seven, Billy Bunter, all books which stirred the imagination of a young boy seeking adventures.
On a more sombre note, does anybody remember having to stand in the playground, in line, in silence at 9am on the day that Ruth Ellis was executed!
That event, on that day have always stayed with me!
I remember the Ruth Ellis incident very well indeed and like you that event will always stay etched in my mind.. I mentioned this to a teacher at John Ball School about 20 years ago and she looked horrified.
With regard to the beds in the classroom I recall that it was a choice of getting near Cheryl or Francis Moro.
I recall an incident when Stanley Marsh, who lived in the prefabs in Pond Road, and I helped ourselves to some ‘fireworks’ which the caretaker Mr. Burdett had been keeping in store for the school firework display.
Unfortunately these were a bit more powerful than the normal everyday fireworks and there was a bit of a fuss at the time over their disappearance. However, sometime after the firework display, in early December , Stanley decided to let them off. He and two other kids were temporarily hospitalized and the police were involved.
I remember coming home from Chiesman’s store with my mum having seen Father Christmas, when the police apprehended me and I was taken to Mr.Burdetts house at the corner of the school in Collins Street and made to confess to my sin. Needless to say I got a severe telling off from the policemen and, when I got home I felt the full brunt of my dad’s rather horny hands on my backside. After a brief spell of rehabillitation I decided to stay on the right side of the law in the future. The school never got involved as I think that the police and Mr.Burdett could see the fear in my eyes as I left his house in order to go home to my fate, and they must have taken pity on me.
Does anybody remember the craze of collecting matchbox tops. This became very competitive and was taken to a ridiculous level when Raggity Ann’s started selling packs of replica printed versions. My neighbour David Tadd, who went on to be a very important figure in the Forensic department at New Scotland Yard and masterminded the identification of all British naturals in the Tsunami disaster and was very important in solving so many major criminal and terrorist activities had the best collection of genuine tops.
If you google David Tadd you will see what a great contribution he made to our society.
What a shocking story. I’d never read about Ruth Ellis before. There’s a good Wikipedia page about it here.
Does anyone remember the ‘Green Man’ pub at the top of Blackheath Hill
Henry Cooper and Jim Wicks his manager used this as a base when he was in training for a fight.
….The Green Man pub at the top of Blackheath Hill had a Judo club in the basement…somewhere I still have my club membership card and photos of my time there…Aerial Bombshell fireworks!…I still have a scar in my hand where the pointed plastic base penetrated when it exploded ….we used to fire them at each other whilst riding our bikes(!)…..the flats on right hand side half way down Blackheath Hill were also police flats….I think making Airfix planes and hanging them from cotton on bedroom ceilings must have been endemic at that time…all my friends did it….does anyone remember playing around the Pagoda, there was a small block of flats with a lift in it which was very new and inviting?…
Rowland, your memory is par excellence. Francis Moro, Stanley Marsh, David Tadd are all names that had been erased from my memory…..until now, all flooding back.
Regarding fireworks, were you part of the ‘Firework Battle’ which took place on Baizdon Road around the beginning of November one year? Some of the lads had ‘Air bombs’, a three or five pronged firework which emitted explosive projectiles, strapped to their midriffs, the remainder of us having bangers and other explosive type fireworksI
When confronted by the lads living in Baizdon Road, one of them known as ‘Ginger’, at a pre-arranged time who were also ‘armed’ to the teeth, a full-scale battle ensued. The amazing outcome was that I don’t recall any injuries just plenty of smoke and noise!!
‘Butch’ Lockley was in the vanguard, all four foot nothing of him!
My brother also had an experience with fireworks. As you rightly said, the flats linking the bottom of Blackheath Grove and Wemyss Road were accomodation for serving Police officers and their families, funnily enough in those days known as the Police Flats!
My brother Geoff, a real mischief maker in his youth removed a cap from the petrol tank of one of the cars owned by a resident, no locking caps in those days, and threw a firework in the tank! Result, one blazing car and one very irate car owning copper!
Cars were thin on the ground in the 50’s and early 60’s, we were able to play football and cricket in Blackheath Grove with no cars parked along the road. The wicket for the cricket was one of the brick gateposts which stood at the end of the road, gardens were ‘6 and out’ as were any balls hit into the grounds of Holmes Plating. You quickly learnt to play cover drives and other ground strokes which kept the ball on the tarmac and racing down the Grove!.
Rowland, can I put your memory to the test…….Edward Evans? Was it a furnishing store or the name of the son of the owner. I’ve googled the location and a Costcutter store now stands on the site.
Quite right, Glenda Jackson did live in the Village and it wasn’t too unusual a sight to see Manfred Mann in the local shops in the early 60’s.
I received a school prize one year, a book signed and presented by the local M.P. Christopher Chataway.
My mum used to work as the Hoffman presser for ‘Clobber’ owned by Jeff Banks who was married to Sandy Shaw at the time. This was at the side of the railway bridge.
Was the store called ‘Edgar Evans’?
I remember ‘Butch’ very well . Other names that come to mind are Ray Gibson (I think he got an OBE in later life), Terry Beckett, Melvin Mantle,
Bruce Watson, Chris Spencer .There was a lad called Guy Littler who lived in the big house in Pond Road next to the church and also David King who lived in the Coach House at the back of his house.
It was very nice for a council house boy to enjoy the surroundings of a rich environment as I was often invited to their houses for tea and to play in the garden. They were really nice people and , as I was a great fan of Just William at the time it was the nearest I got to the real thing.
I wasn’t in that particular firework incident but I do remember the bonfire gatherings on the corner of Baisdon Road. One of the boys from the flats was called Jimmy Ellis (maybe Elliot?) and along the road was where Michael Bing lived.
When I started secondary school I was on an 89 bus and there was a commotion between the bus conductor and a passenger regarding smoking on the lower deck. This ended with the man leaving the bus. I was told that it was Brendan Behan.
I used to make Airfix warplanes and became accidentally rather fond of the smell of the glue, but was not aware that in the future this woud become a youthful pastime. I used to use drawing pins to hang them on my bedroom ceiling but my brother decided to shoot them all down with his airgun.
Rowland, a few recognisable names there.
Michael Bing, Mervyn Mantle, a little older than us by a year or two and a bit of a bully in those days I recall. I’d better add ‘allegedly’! Ray Gibson who I was particularly chummy with for some time, Chris Spencer another familiar name and Stanley Marsh, always biting his tongue!
The Lockleys, Butch and his elder brother Dave. Lived in Lawn Terrace, never did know why ‘Butch’!
What do you remember of Paul Lobb???
Do you recollect any of the annual Scout camps that we went on…Acrise, near Folkestone and there was another in Gloucestershire and many to Downe in Kent for the weekend. I can remember having to clear a couple of inches of snow to allow us to pitch our tents on one weekend camp at Downe!
I vividly recall the time that Billy Lewis and myself had to complete a 24 hour hike as part of our Queen Scout badge. Setting off in the morning and hiking 20+ miles, we spent the night, having made a bivouac out of a large bush, in St Radigunds Abbey, a mediaeval ruin with bats flying around all night! We failed to return to the campsite at the designated time (24 hours after setting off) and the Scoutmasters, all Police Officers, called in their Kent colleagues to search for us. We arrived back at the campsite 12 hours later having got ourselves hopelessly lost!
That’s enough remimiscing for now.
Gerry.
Hi Rowland,
Just stumbled on this site – what a fantastic read!!
I well remember the Green Man Pub, I lived at 5 |Dartmouth Row, just behind where the pub was, until 1955 when my parents moved to Charlton.
It was above a green grocers and corner store. I was at All Saints school from 1952 ’till 1959. One of the funnier moments I remember as a 5 year old was the Express Dairy horse stopping outside the grocers, mounting the pavement ithe the milk float and demolishing the top layer of best cox’s apples from the green grocers store ( he had deliberatly put the best apples on the top of his display!) He shouted word that I didn’t understand at the time.
My rcollection of Blackheath and All saints School was that it was a great place to grow up in
Also recollect your comment about matchbox label collecting – circa 1954. I remember this also extended to cigarrette packet collecting – not that we smoked, as 7 year olds!
Does anyone remember more about All Saints school between 1952 and 1959? I remember the head teachers name was Miss D Knott.
The time period is spot on Ken.
I remember your school in Blackheath Vale. It’s still there I believe.
Did you know a boy called Mervyn Mantle who lived in the row of houses between Camden Row and Tranquil Vale facing the heath. I believe he went to your school. Did you have blue jackets with gold lettering on the breast pockets?
I sure did know Mervyn. Memory of his name came flooding back though I can’t remember what he looked like. I was five when I went to All Saints in 1952. To save you working it out I’m now 64!! Also other names – Phillip Schofield whose dad had an Electrical shop facing the heath: Ian Harris who lived at 10 Camden Row. I grew up at 5 Dartmouth Row, near the top of Blackheath Hill. thats how I remember the Green Man pub mentioned on an earlier thread on this site. Also remember going across the heath for school lunches, firstly at the Parish hall where Camden Row faces the heath and later at John Ball school.
The jackets were blue; the lettering was ASB in white/silver on the breast pockets and caps.
I was at All Saints from 1953 to 1960 ( I think!) I still have the prizes I won most years, all signed by Miss Knott! Then I went on to the Roan School, along with my friends, the Staleys from The Orchard, Ian Harris from Camden row, Kenneth Adams and others, I still have a few photos from school. We lived in Lee Park but moved away to the South Coast in 1962/3 over that awful winter. I still remember the snow starting on Boxing Day at our aunties house in Bennet Park. My grandmother and her husband lived in Colonnade House, long before I was born, she died in 1948 the year i was born. Blackest day of my life, the day we left! One shop I haven’t heard mentioned was Cave Austin? They used to deliver “The Order” every week in a big soap powder box. We lived near the coal and transport yard run by mr Falce, who everyone called “Nelson” as he wore an eyepatch!
Halcyon days!
Hi David I hope this works – I changed ISP – anyway I wanted to ask you if I could see the All Saints C of E photos you mentioned – I would be very interested to see them! My email is funkypips@btinternet.com … Wasn’t Miss Knott the head before Mr Rhodes? I remember Andrew Staley vividly… I used to love fighting and hanging with the boys generally.
Hello Ken, you aren’t Kenneth Adams are you? Ian Harris, Peter and Andrew Staley and I were all great friends, flying planes on the Heath, boats on the Prince of Wales pond ( Colonnade House opposite was my grandmothers home from 1912 to 1948) an I remember a Kenneth Adams, big lad, who came I think from over by the Standard was one of us. We all went on to the Roan school, then my family moved down to the South Coast ( Blackest day of my life!) in Christmas 1962. Funnily enough, my sister-in-law has just moved to Charlton so I do go back now and again although we now live in France. I loved living in Blackheath!
Thanks once again Rowland, Edgar Evans, I was close!
The Green Man, I remember the pub’s name, but couldn’t place it on a map at that time. Just found out that it was demolished in 1972 to make way for a block of flats!
Your mention of boxing, the annual fair which would pitch up on the Heath every year, maybe it was every Bank Holiday, had a boxing booth which invited the local lads to win a few quid if they were able to go three rounds with one of the fairground pugilists. I think it cost around a ‘tanner’ to watch a couple of fights in the large tent and even us young’uns were able to gain admission.
Not so easy to get in to see the ‘strip shows’ that travelled with the fair though. Naked ladies, well topless anyway, in various scenes, the curtain coming down between each scene to allow for a ‘costume change’ and a change of backdrop!
In those days the law allowed topless poses although the ‘artistes’ were forbidden to make any movement.
I may have been only 12 or 13 at the time but one scene that I do remember was Cleopatra’s Boudoir, the snake remains forever etched in my memory!
If you’re wondering how a young whippersnapper was able to see such sights, a couple of us crawled under the fringes of the tent ‘cos they wouldn’t let us in the front!
I have a feeling that Ray Gibson was with me at the time as we were close chums for a couple of years.
Rowland, can you dredge that remarkable memory that you possess and recall the lad who lived in Talbot Place?.
Lived in a fine Georgian house and an only child, I well remember his parents going away for the day and myself, Billy Lewis and the Hines boys making ourselves at home in the basement of the house partaking of the Haig Dimple whiskey! Must have been 12 or 13 years old at the time!
Hi Gerry
The only lad I remember who lived on the heath in a big Georgian house was Terry Beckett ( but I think he lived over near Blackheath Hill). But he had about 5 siblings as I recall. He was known as ‘Tubby’ in those days but he went on to be a superfit, personal trainer. Nice to hear mention of ‘Banjo’ Hines and his bruv. Two of the nicest people you could ever meet. I have fond memories of them living in South Vale Road almost next to John Ball School. Billy Lewis lived opposite but further up the road.
Hi Gerry,
I was at All Saints school in the mid 1950’s. I remember a lad; I think his name was Timothy Hyde, who lived in the big house at Talbot Place. It backed on to the school. Is this the time period you are thinking of?
Ken Adams
Did you go to secondary school in the Blackheath area?
No. in 1959 I went to Woolwich Polytechnic secondary school. its strange but my recollections of my years in Blackheath are much more vivid than my secondary school years. Dicovering this website the other day made the memories flood back.Blackheath in those days was a great place to grow up in. I remember most summers, the heath going brown.
Hallo Ken,
We moved to Blackheath in 1954 after 7 or 8 ‘moves’ to different parts of London in the first 8 years of my life, dropping anchor in rented accomadation in the Village after years of ducking and diving to avoid the Court Bailiffs and other debtors that my father had swindled and ‘chiselled’! The time period matches that you mention and the name Tim Hyde sounds a little familiar but I’m sure it wasn’t his house in which we ‘imbibed’.
After digging deep into my memory I seem to think that the lad who lived at Talbot Place, his name was David.
D’youknow, I can’t remember All Saints School at all, I thought that John Ball was the only Primary School in Blackheath!
Pretty parochial, us Villagers in those days!
I have just got back from visiting my little brother (half-brother actually Alan Kaszubowsk) who remembers coming to your house on the way to school.
He remembers how cosy it was in your place because of the paraffin heaters. My mum and dad used to go to work early and although we did not have central heating we were not allowed to put the fire on as times were a bit hard in those days , and also there was always the possibiility that we would leave it on all day so it was a real pleasure to come to your place for a warm up and to meet you so we then all went to school together.
He also recalls passing the Blackheath High School for Girls in Wemyss Road and straining our necks trying to look into their changing rooms which were below ground.
Do you ever remember a big Irishman who wore a huge overcoat and a rugby helmet in the winter who used to be a lodger in one of the houses near the police flats?
I don’t know how I became anonymous but the posting about how cosy your place was came from me.
Hi Gerry, I was born in number 10 Wemyss road and cn also recal trying to look through the changing rooms of Blackheath High School for Girls ! The very tall Irish man you mentioned was a lodger in our house, my father used to let rooms to various lodgers and I can remember a few of them, some of them being quite odd characters, the tall Irish man we all new as just Big John, he was very very quiet and hardly spoke at all in the years I knew him, I know he used to leave very early to go to work and return in the evenings and these were the only times you heard or saw him. My mother remembers that one day she was hoovering his room when she saw a large lump of mud on a window ledge, she just picked it up and threw it away, later that day on his return from work he went mad , asking my mum what she had done with the Shamrock his mother had sent over from Ireland ! I think he sadly passed away at work in the very late sixties. Lloyd Rich
pearl fitzsimmons.
hi ken my name is pearl fitzsimmons known at all saints as Pearl Hall. I migrated to Australia in 1957 with my family. I was born in 1942 so would have been at all saints in 1947. I used to live at hollyhedge bungalows and walk over the Heath to all saints school. I remember in the little village a sweet shop on a corner and he had heaps of old clocks on the walls all around. We used to love going in and getting our penny worth of sweet which was a large bag. To me the owner was essentric but it is indelibly in my memory and have never been able to get it out. It is so good being able to read about Blackheath and seeing the school photo for the first time in over 60 years. There must have been a lake on the Heath because it used to ice over and we went skating around on it?
Paul Sumner
Wow, this has certainly bought back memories. I was born in Wyatt House, Wemyss Road (it was Police flats then, my father being in the Met) in 1960. I attended All Saint’s School which meant a walk over the heath, and indeed remember my hair catching fire in All Saint’s Church when we were attending as a school, all carrying candles. The first thing I knew about it was my teacher Mrs. White hitting me over the head to put the flames out, no harm done by either blows or flames! I remember playing on the bomb-site behind the flats with my older brother and friends, going to Tich’s newsagents, admiring the fabulous toys in Raggety Anne’s window and actually getting a toy robot one birthday. We moved in 1967 to Bexleyheath.
Hallo Paul, I’ve only just discovered this brilliant site as well and of course it was Wyatt House, the name had slipped from my memory.
I was, for a short while, a choir boy at All Saint’s Church, we would receive 1/6d, looks odd written that way, (one shilling and sixpence)a week which I thought were chorister’s wages. I found out a few weeks later that the ‘wages’ were in fact a payment to my Mother for the washing and ironing of my surplice!
Talking of choirboys, do you remember David ‘Bibby’ Lowe who used to live in the prefabs at St.German’s Place. He was a wonderful singer and got all the solo parts at the various school shows. If you remember he had black hair with a middle parting and waves that his mum used to keep in place with Amami waveset. If you touched his hair it felt like a set of bedsprings.
Another boy from John Ball who comes to mind was David Alt. He was a big lad our Dave and you didn’t mess with him in a hurry.
An incident that also springs to mind was when the headmaster, Mr. Hitchcock, allegedly caught somebody called John Craker (?) being cruel to an animal or a bird (?) and, in front of the whole school, on the stage in the main hall ,slapped him several times around the face. It is amazing to think what went on in Primary Schools in those days. The PC brigade would have a fit if this happened now.
The Parish Hall that you mention was also the Boy Scout meeting place being the H.Q. for the 11th Lewisham North Troop. I can remeber the games that we played in the hall, British Bulldog and other rough and tumble games that young lads thrived on!
It appears to be a private house these days!
The scoutmaster lived in the police flats as I recall. Was his name Ken Thomas? And was his assistant who lived in your road called Derek? (not sure about that one)
I remember when we came out of the Scouts Hall that on the opposite side of the road the bikers used to congregate inside and outside the Rendezvous cafe.
Good evening Rowland,
The name Ken Thomas does ring a bell and I think that the fellow who lived in Blackheath Grove was Derek Pritchard, he was a Rover Scout and lived in the flat above ours with his mother Flo and his sister Maureen. I think that he was the only Rover in the troop and as such was acting as a Scoutmaster.
When you think back to our Scouting days, we carried sheath knives on our belts, the longer the knife the more proud of it we were and smaller knives in the top of our socks and alongside those, a 6 foot stave. What would happen if caught with ‘weapons’ such as those these days.
Can you remember the Scout uniform, in particular the shorts and the b rimmed hats that we wore so proudly.
I really appreciate the effect that my time in the Scouts has had, I’ve no doubt that it has provided me with a perspective on life that would never had been if not for the discipline, respect and values that the organisation had taught me.
The Rendezvous Coffee Bar was a biker’s hangout and I can remember the first Betting Shop opening up alongside it when they were first legalised in 1961. I used to take my Grandad’s 7/- bet up there every Saturday and although I was only 15 years old (had to be 18 by law), I had no problems in getting the clerk to accept it!
Keep on posting,
Yes Gerry, I remember Derek living above you , big muscly bloke , used to be a keen cyclist.
I can remember the scout uniform well, the wide-brimmed hat, yellow scarf, armful of badges, armed to the teeth..I was a seconder in Kestrel patrol and I have particular fond memories of cooking in the bit of green alongside the Parish Hall where we burnt pastry ‘twists’ and baked potatoes. I made my own woggle from a bit of bone with the marrow cut out and varnished it, but the damn thing kept slipping and falling off.
The trips to Downe and Cowden (near Penshurst Place) were great fun. I remember winding up Derek Pritchard about something and he dipped me in a cowpat so put my soiled shirt in his sleeping bag. He then climbed a huge tree and tied the shirt round the top branch. I think its probably still there..
You mentioned that you used to know Philip Schofield. Did he have an older brother called Peter? I remember that a Peter whose dad owned a shop along the Parade went to Scouts at the same time as me.
The name Peter Schofield certainly does ring a bell. I vaugely remember he was in the year above Philip at All Saints. Philip was in my year (1952 – 1959) The shop definitly was an electrical appliance shop.
In the late 50’s my mum used to do a bit of cleaning for James Callaghan (later to become Prime Minister). I got quite friendly with his son Michael (who went to St.Dunstans in Catford from memory) and I remember Audrey, Margaret Callaghan and her boyfriend /fiance Peter Jay at that time. I used to play in their garden quite frequently. I recall attending a Labour gathering at the Parish Hall which they hosted and there was one part of the hall which was called Nye’s Nook after Aneurin Bevan. I had no political leanings at that time and was merely there for the pop and the grub. I think Barbara Lewis (Bill’s sister) was there at the time with her current beau.
I mentioned David ‘Bibby’ Lowe in an earlier posting who was a good singer.
I might have got his first name wrong – it may have been André.
Forgot to mention that Jim Callaghan lived in Montpelier Row in a modern span-type house. This backed onto Paragon Place and , before I knew the Callaghans our little gang used to nip over his garden wall and ‘scrump’ apples from his tree. Jim was al right but scrumping was a dodgy business at that time. If caught you may well have got a cuff round the ear , and some householders had some pretty ferocious dogs.
Good day Rowland,
Before becoming Troop Leader I was Patrol Leader of the Kestrel Patrol and you were my Seconder! I think that being undeservedly made Troop Leader, there were many in the troop that would have done a better job, remains a mystery to me, to this very day!
I still have a photograph of myself, in uniform sporting the three stripes on the shirt pocket!
I also remember well the ‘twists’ and ‘dampers’ that we made, flour and water kneaded into a dough, twisted around a green twig and burnt to a cinder! I really can’t think of anything more inedible!!!
Do you remember the weekend camp, I think to Downe, where we were spending an evening in a hut with the Scoutmasters telling a ghost story, pitch black outside, the lights in the hut were low and the storyteller creating an eerie and frightening atmosphere when a blackened face appeared at the window, outside of the hut scratching at the glass! A really terrifying experience for a bunch of kids!
Andre Lowe was the name ‘cos at the time I never could figure out if he was English or French but I also vaguely recollect the name David ‘Bibby’ Lowe as well! Were there two Lowes?
Billy’s sister Barbara was a bit of a looker, wasn’t she, never short of admirers!
Didn’t know about Jim Callaghan living in Blackheath at the time but ‘scrumping’ was a regular activity! There was a small orchard right at the end of Blackheath Grove just beyond one of the sites of one of our ‘camps’. The camp was behind a brick fuel store with the orchard over the barbed wire wall behind it. Apples and pears in season and I don’t ever recollect being caught!
I was a little befuddled with the ‘Anonymous’ post, trhat’s cleared that up!
I don’t know if you’ve missed one of my replies, on Saturday replying to a post of yours on the 11th January, I asked what you remember about Paul Lobb, not easy to forget!!!!
It’s funny you mention Paul Lobb. I do not remember him at John Ball but there was a lad about 3 years older than me at my secondary school with the name Lobb who was a big bully. He got his in the end from one of the good guys though.
Paul Lobb wasn’t with us at John Ball but in the Scouts. He was a ‘big lad’ of that there was no doubt!
I’ve just realised that back in those days we had no telephone in the house, friends would come ‘knocking’ for us. “Are you coming out to play?”. Not a great deal on TV either after Childrens Hour, did rather enjoy The Cisco Kid, Robin Hood, Rin Tin Tin, Billy Bunter and Ivanhoe though!
We used to play a good deal of the time on the ‘Bomb Site’ at the end of Blackheath Grove and at one time we constructed a ‘camp’ out of planks, bricks and something which resembled Tarmac sheeting! We also built a small watch tower hut on top of the construction to enable ‘Butch’ Lockley to act as sentry! God knows who we expected to attack us!
We also found at another time, a large hole behind The Blackheath Art Club at the far end of Bennett Park although I seem to recall that it was a manufacturing building at the time.The hole was 6-7feet deep and approximately 8 feet square, we laid planks across the hole embedding them in the side, tarmac sheeting over the planks and a covering of turf to conceal the camp. We left a flap of turf in one corner to enable entry and exit! I’ve no memory how we were able to lay our hands on all of that building material but it seemed to come easily!
One of the ‘gang’ was Hazel Vining, a bit of a tomgirl who lived in Bennett Park and whose mother had seen us head off in that direction, she came in search of Hazel and when we heard the mother calling we kept totally silent in the camp waiting for her to leave. After a couple of minutes and all seemed quiet, Butch popped his head out of the entry hole only to find Hazel’s mother still there and looking straight at him. I can’t imagine what was going through Mrs Vining’s mind when she saw a head coming out of the ground but she sure took off down the road in a hell of a state! Hazel was never allowed out to play with us again after that incident!
Enough remimiscences for the time being.
I liked those TV programmes as well. Other favourites of mine were Sword of Freedom ( especially Adrienne Corri), The Grey Ghost ( about a Confederate cavalry officer), and of course the 6-5 special and Juke Box Jury on Saturdays. I can still remember Terry Dene, Marty Wilde, Vince Eager, Cuddly Dudley, Dicky Pride and of course Cliff Richards, Don Lang and his Frantic Five and the John Barry Seven. Great days!
Talking of music , we had a Skiffle group on Ryculff Square led by John Dwyer ( who went on to take his own life a few years later). We had a tea chest for a bass and I played washboard. I was so bad that I got the sack and Philip Martin ended up with the job.
Do you remember Derek Blunden ( a really good footballer) who was a friend of Ray Gibson?( Ray’s brothers were Tony (Tich) and Michael).
Going back to our cave dwelling days we used to make camps in the Top Fields next to the Paragon which contained the ruins and cellars of older demolished houses. They eventually built Span flats on them. I have never liked them and I think they are a blight on their lovely surroundings.
Why couldn’ t they have built something more in keeping with the character of the area? Ta ta for now.
Do you remember the New Argosy shop in Montpelier Vale which sold objets d’art and prints etc., I loved that shop in the winter especially round Christmas when the frost would gather round the ‘Georgian’ wooden windows giving a real ‘festive feel’. I particularly remember the print of Tretchikoff’s ‘Blue Lady’, the picture of a Chinese girl. It hung in a prominent position in the shop for ages and I was fascinated by it.
There also used to be a greengrocers next to Tich’s newsagents , called Reddens ( they took it over in the late 50’s as I recall)
The Roxy cinema was another of our haunts. I loved Saturday morning pictures and still remember most of the words of the song we had to sing.
I sometimes went to the Gaumont at Lewisham especially in the winter because you could get hot chestnuts from a vendor in the street who roasted them on a brazier. Also you could go round the back of the Gaumont to Botti’s cafe for a nice hot cup of tea and a pie with brown sauce.
When I got older the Roxy and the Rex (fleapit) at Lewisham were the venues for my early attempts at being a Romeo. It was all very uncomfortable and fairly innocent and rebuffs came with the territory.
Sunday afternoons in the Roxy were not so pleasant as the place was full of teddy boys and rockers and the ushers were quite often put under pressure by the more unruly section of this crowd.
Top Fields….Did they have a row of brick arched and vaulted ruinous buildings? They seem to strike a memory chord!
Mention of Marty Wilde, when he was a young plain Reg Smith in the mid 50’s, he would practise guitar and singing in the back room of the fish and chip shop my parents ran in Woolwich Road, Charlton, his parents were fed up with the ‘racket’ at home!.
The Gaumont or was it the Odeon in Lewisham was a regular Saturday morning event. ‘The Minors of the ABC’. ‘We’re all pals together’!
I became a monitor there when I was 14 or 15, having to keep the younger kids under control Once the lights went down for any length of time t’was the opportunity for the monitors of both sexes to have a snog!!
The Beatles, Dave Clark 5, Hollies, Kinks and the Stones and many more of the top acts of the day played there.
I went to the Roxy and the Rex a few times.
It was just a few yards from the Roxy where John McVicar was arrested after one of his escapes from prison. He was holed up in a flat on Stratheden Parade opposite the Royal Standard.
When in my teens, I spent most of my mispent time in Lewisham, Bon’s cafe, slap bang next door to the Gaumont, was the favourite meeting place during the day, The Anchor pub just under the bridge or The Roebuck, where you had to descend to the basement level, in the evenings.
Your mention of Reddens the greengrocers in the Village reminds me of a fellow I knew in Lewisham around 1964. There was a fellow whose surname was Redden and went by the name of ‘Ginger’ who had a greengrocers stall in Lewisham Market which used to be in the High Street in those days. We had a bit of a fall-out over a young lady that I had on my arm at the time, he having taken a fancy to her. Not the most pleasant of people!
Any relation I wonder!
I do remember the New Argosy shop, at that age I didn’t appreciate the finer things of life so it sort of passed me by!
Nostalgia rules!
Yes, they were the Top Fields. The Gaumont was the Odeon but I never could work out when the name changed and then changed back?
I was a monitor too. I remember the liitle liaisons very well. You are right about the Reddens , they had stalls on Lewisham market and Ginger was one of them. You were very brave standing up to him. I know the flat that John McVicar was in when he was caught. It was above a parade of shops.
When I go to Blackheath now it resembles Hampstead with all its swish restaurants etc.. It’s as though it has had a facelift. That’s progress I suppose, but I kind of liked the slightly dilapidated grandeur of the old Blackheath . I prefer a bike shop to an estate agents or swish restaurant.
Hiya Rowland,
Ginger Redden, a little foolish to face up to him but the young lady’s honour and safety was at stake! In those days I’m convinced that there was a little more derring-do and chivalry than exists in current times.
You’re dead right about Blackheath Village these days, so much more up-market than the Village we lived in.
I have taken the current lady in my life to London on a number of occasions to see the sights! We’ve always stayed at The Clarendon and on many evenings we’ve strolled into the Village to enable me to reminisce and wallow in nostalgia. Save for the buildings, there aren’t too many memories for me to get excited about.
There were no take-aways in the Village in the 50’s except for the Fish and Chip shop and I don’t recollect, although I’m probably mistaken, a cafe except for the Rendezvous!
I still attempt to conjure up the fading memories of the 1950’s but it’s a different environment to that in which we grew up in. As you said, that’s progress I suppose but I bet the kids in the Village don’t have as much fun as we did in those ‘Heath and Safety’ legislation free days, when we had to create our own amusements and recreation!
Do you remember Bob-a Job week? Knocking on doors and prepared to take any job on for a shilling! When the job was completed, the ‘bob’ handed over and the card filled in we gave them a gummed window sticker with a tick on it to indicate to any other Scouts that the house had been ‘done’! We almost always got a little extra from the householder.
Keep remimiscing.
The only other cafe in the village I can remember was the Heath Cafe by Tranquil Passage. My mum would very occasionally give me a couple of bob for pie and chips in the school holidays as she was at work, and I remember there were cinema posters on hoardings outside it.
Health and Safety? What with bows and arrows where the arrow head was a lethal sharpened object like a metal stylus from a radiogram held to the green stick with plasticine. Airguns. Crumbs, we would have armed police and helicopters out if we tried that today.
Bob -a- Job weeek -was the ticket yellow with red lettering ? Yes, the householders were, in the main, quite nice and generous.
Good luck old buddy
Hallo again Rowland,
Here’s a couple of activities that we got up to in the Village back in the 50’s which may be still in your recollections.
First off, a little filching of the components, namely a length of wooden plank, two smaller pieces of wood a little length of rope and the wheels from a pushchair or similar and with a few nails it didn’t tke very long to build a SOAP BOX CART! Didn’t have too much trouble in finding these things, bomb sites were a good source of rubbish!
The fun to be had with those vehicles surely exceeded most things we got up to!
We would take turns in driving the cart or pushing it and then after building up a head of steam, leaping on to the back! Even better if you could find an incline to save on the energy to push it.
The end of Southvale Road alongside John Ball School leading down to Baizdon Road was fairly good for a run! Didn’t worry too much about cars in those days as there weren’t that many around and as long as you had a lookout at the bottom of the run, t’was not too dangerous unless of course the brakes failed!!!
Another recollection was of the traditional ‘Penny for the Guy’, leading up to Bonfire Night, regularly making an effigy of Guy Fawkes with whatever we could lay our hands on, old clothes filled with anything that would bulk it out. affix a mask and hat and guaranteed to earn a few bob! Our favourite pitch was outside Blackheath Station.
One year stands out, that when Billy Lewis built a ‘Guy’, stood around 6’6″ high and had eyes that lit up (battery operated). We ‘pitched’ up outside the Station in the evenings after school to catch the commuters from London who mostly came out of the Station from the same exit and the Guy was made to flash his eyes whenever a copper or two went into the hat!
Billy had the bulk of the ‘earnings’, rightly so!
I can’t help but feel that we wouldn’t have lasted too long outside the Station these days, some do-gooder no doubt reporting us to the authorities.
In those days the ‘grown-ups’ let us kids be kids!!
In the 50’s , used to do a lot of roller skating in the Village, down from the Corner Bookshop to the railings at the junction of Tranquil Vale and Montpelier Vale, weaving in and out between the shoppers, who didn’t appreciate it at all.
I remember one day, skating down the hill , from South Vale Road to Collins Street, I had just started rolling , in the middle of the road, when the
milkman with his horse and cart came thundering round the corner from Collins Street, I just managed to swerve to the left , a few yards in front of the galloping horse, never skated there again, I must have had a guardian angel on that day.
I remember well the Express Dairy milkman driving horse and cart through the streets.
I worked as a milkmans lad for a short while, on a Saturday morning before getting a paper round which was seven mornings a week and consequently more wages, 12/6d a week! Cash in hand too!!! By that time though, the motorized milk float had been introduced.
I think that all of the milkmen in those days had a youngster helping them on a Saturday.
It was either the Coalman or the Rag n Bone man (‘Any Old Lumber’) who was the last to use the horse and cart.
Am I imagining it when I recall the Rag n Bone man giving me a goldfish in payment for a bundle of old clothes?
We can’t forget the Ice Cream man who would ride around the streets on his bike which carried a large ice box on the front full of ice cream.and lollies!
I remember Rossi Bros ice cream van coming round to Ryculff Square. That particular company was owned by the relatives of Francis Rossi of Status Quo fame.
With regard to the school trips I am afraid I never went on any of them , firstly because I didn’t like to ask my mum and dad as they worked very hard and even though they would have moved heaven and earth to come up with the money it didn’t happen as I never told them. Also from the age of 9 I was banged up in the Miller hospital with a life threatening condition for about 6 months. I remember I was so keen on playing football that despite having a terrible raw scar I managed to get around with my leg heavily bandaged and actually got a couple of games for the Lewisham district side.
I loved the wide games . One I rememer in particular was when I first joined the Scouts and the elder lads including Peter Schofiel and John Elliot took the upper ground on a slope in Greenwich Park and we had to try to run up the hill and get past them. It was a tad rough for an 11 year old but I got a bit of cred as they said that I was a game little beggar and I was determined not to give up or show any weakness.
Way back in the Fifties we never had the financial wherewithal or the opportunity to go on family holidays but were compensated by going on Scout camps and school trips.
Were you one of those kids that went on the ‘School Journey’, as it was called in those days, to Cooden, near Bexhill when in Primary School? Seven days of fresh air, nature, sea and exciting trips to castles, battlefields, farms and other places of interest. A different world for a city-kid!
We stayed in a large house alongside which was a field of freshly-mown hay which had been left in the field. The lads formed into opposing ‘armies’ and with the hay built forts from which we were able to attack the other fort!
At Scout camps we regularly played ‘Wide Games’ which once again were the sort of games we lads loved. Teams were formed to carry out exercises which involved army type manouevres which were mainly carried out at night when dark!
We also played Wide Games across the Heath in the dark. One of the games that I recollect was of one team starting from the gates of Greenwich Park carrying a mug of ‘Heavy water’ (Orange juice in fact) which had to be transported safely across the Heath, back to Scout HQ with the minimum of spillage and avoiding contact with the opposition! A great deal of belly-crawling resulting in very muddy uniforms, but didn’t we just love it!
I’m sure that in those days there was little if any, risk-assessment having to be carried out by the teachers or Scoutmasters. We had no contact with our parents for the whole time, no telephone at home anyway.
I lived at No 22 Hollyhedge Bungalows , well I was born there and grew up there. Wonderfull memories, like when Jack the express milkman would come up into the culdisack and my dad would send me down to get the horse manure for the garden. Us kids would some times get Jack to juggle the milk bottles waiting for him to drop one, which his did sometimes. Or winning the egg and spoon race at the garden party for the Queen correnation at the terratorial barracks, I won a bag of marbles. My older brother rolled them all down Granville Hill.
Jan Volkmer
Hi, just left a comment. But must have erased it by mistake.
Would love to hear from anyone. I lived in Blackheath all my young days. I know live in Adelaide, Australia but still love hearing about Blackheath. Any replies would be great. My e-mail address is. jvolkmer@internode.on.net
I was born at 8 The Paragon in 1950 and my parents moved to 60 a Shooters Hill Road, where we lived until 1962. I have many fond memories to share and would love to hear from anyone who shared my childhood with me at All Saints Primary. (I was Helen Mills then)
Shooters Hill and Delacourt Road before the road works
We moved out in 1962 before our neighborhood was destroyed. My father couldn’t bear to see it.
He drank in the Sun in the Sands pub every day, and my mother did our shopping in Delacourt Road. we could get there by crossing Shooters Hill Road once, then it was safe on the pavement all the way,
Delacourt Road was a busy shopping street in the early ‘50s.
No supermarkets, (the available groceries would take up about one third of a cereal aisle today.) Just as well, because there were no cars to bring food home! My mother could only afford a day’s food at a time anyway. She carried our shopping, a simple selection of potatoes, eggs and other staples, or prammed it. Our pram was huge: waist high, four bicycle sized wheels. An old orangey bronze ten bob (50p)note bought a weekend’s shopping, with change left over.
People got about on bikes…. when one of the tenants at our house had a boyfriend with a car, my mother told me it meant he was well off. (We didn’t own a car until I was 13, when my father passed his test with great difficulty at forty.)
About halfway up Delacourt Road, was the grocer’s shop. Mr. Orton the mustached conjuror of dry goods emerged from his cave of tea chests and sacks to weigh out your tea and sugar into blue or brown paper bags with fastidious magnanimity.
At the end of Delacourt Road you turned left: the first road went down to the library; the next down to the Roxy. There were bomb sites down there, and some prefabs. I only went to the Roxy once, to see “The Two Way Stretch” with Peter Sellers. I was taken by my friend Robert Scourfield’s mum. There was a greengrocers at the junction called Kelly’s, where they shouted out lewd Cockney remarks to passers by, and a wet fish shop about half way down.
None of my primary school friends lived near me. My nearest friends were Philippa (Caroline) Evans who live across the road from me on the same side as The Avenue, and Jonathan Fry, who lived in Mycenae Road way down past the Roxy and beyond.
My neighborhood lives in my head, a series of fond pictures of particular street corners, houses, trees, and so on which appear in my dreams as they were in the fifties, with the reassuring warmth of familiarity. When visiting family in London I sometimes drive through on the road that now slashes through Shooters Hill Road – it always feels like having my internal organs pulled out!
Although I’ve said we didn’t have much cash at this time, as a kid I didn’t want for anything. Our luxuries were things like a block of ice cream for a summer weekend or chestnuts to roast at the fire in winter. Toys came mostly on birthdays or Christmas. A treat really was a treat, and special occasions were really special. I feel sorry for today’s kids, who suffer from stuff fatigue. More choice, less content. Celebrities, designer labels, fashion, media pressure, and the constant pressure to communicate when you have nothing worth saying. What’s to enjoy when it’s heaped on you from day one?
I could not agree more with the comments you have made in the final paragraph of your posting on 12th November.
Aged ten I moved to Blackheath in the year you were born.The fun and pleasure that I had flying my kite on the heath or sailing boats on the Prince of Wales pond are memories that I still treasure. Simple outdoor activities that cost very little and occupied me for hours.
Hi David I posted some more stuff here but when I clicked “post comment” it all disappeared! Maybe if I can re-remember it at some point I’ll have another go!
David Hinds.
There has been mention of various bombs dropped during WW2 on and around the heath and village. The BOMB SIGHT web site shows the number that fell during the blitz, in the early part of the war.
A very interesting site, pity though that they have got the present day street names in the wrong area, quite a few of the Blackheath street names are being recorded as being in Hither Green !!!!!
I was living in Woolacombe Road during the war and first found shelter in the basement of the Dover Patrol before trying our luck at home with a settee placed on top of the dining room table ! We had an incendiary bomb lodged in our gutter and a land mine fell fairly close, but my main memory was of anti-aircraft gun fire and the whistle of falling bombs. As I was only 10 at the time it didn’t seem so bad !!
Sue Buckle (nee Penn)
My Father George Penn was born in Marlborough Road Charlton. I was born in 1958 in Kirkside Road Westcombe Park, in the sweet shop of my Grandparents named Isa Penn. My grandfather Frank had a removal business near Maze Hill station and he also had a car repair garage at Delacourt Motors, Sun in the Sands. His brother Len had a motorbike shop I believe in Charlton. Can anyone remember any of these establishments from the 1950’s??
Angry Grandparent
My dad got his old Norton from a place in Charlton probably was that place, he was the signalman at Charlton Lane Crossing from the late 50’s to mid sixties being put there after St Johns disaster which led to him having a complete breakdown due to the terrible carnage of that tragic event.
Poor man, he must have suffered terribly . The St.John’s disaster was a terrible , sad event.
All you lovely people that have offered up your memories and reminisces of Blackheath have given me the most enjoyable read I’ve had on the internet for sometime. Bless you all!
On the night of the St. John’s train crash I was appearing in an evening school production of Hansel and Gretel, not a starring role, merely a player, it was my first year at Eltham Green School.
After the performance that evening I had to return home in the smog, no buses were running and the walk home more than a little hazardous, visibility being down to three feet or less!
Those who are of an age will confirm the lack of visibility, both day and night, during the ‘smogs’ (derived from the words smokey fog).
Lamp post, bus stops and fellow pedestrians had to be gingerly bypassed, if you were able to spot them, taking great care not to stumble off the kerb into the road
On my way home with my mother, a route I knew well, Yorkshire Grey to Lee Green and then up the hill to the Village, we managed to lose our bearings and found ourselves some distance along Lee High Road in the direction of Lewisham.
It was an eerie experience and only when we arrived home at a very late hour did we hear of the tragic disaster at Lewisham.
There is an interesting report of the crash here………
He only ever spoke about it in any detail once and the sheer pain could be heard in his voice as he was only a young man himself not long starting on the railways as a box boy (trainee signalman), nowadays he would be treated for PTSD but back then there was nothing of the sort.
Poor man didn’t have much luck either as he was off shift when visiting my mum in Mayday hospital with a brand new me and the police had to take him away as a Hastings unit had gone off at Hither Green which he was covering as a relief signalman due to a broken rail.
That was a fair old walk from the Yorkshire up to the village, I see the pub is now a McDonalds I do remember thinking it a long walk from my great grandmothers over at Point Hill to the boating lake with my granddad and he was a real pusser Navy man and me dawdling along got on his nerves terribly :)
At the time of the Lewisham train crash my Father was the Stationmaster at Catford, Catford Bridge and Ladywell stations. I remember the night well, I travelled by train from attending college at Norwood Tech. back to Catford with several changes enroute from West Norwood. It was a very long, chaotic and sad night, leaving many people with ghastly memories.
The BoB loco “Spitfire” was rebuilt after the crash. When it came out of sheds after the rebuild it was sent to Epsom as the standby engine for a royal train. By this time my Father was Stationmaster there. During the rebuild some cotton waste had been left in with some of the boiler insulation, this caught fire and rendered the loco useless as the standby and totally spoilt the new paintwork job.
My Dad was a Police Officer in attendance at both the St. John’s and Hither Green train crashes.
Hi Trevor My ex-husband also attended the Hither Green disaster, he was a PC who joined the Met as a young cadet (16?) and it was his first serious assignment after becoming a PC.. It made a deep impression on him which troubled him all his life: he was told to walk the line and find the passengers. What an experience for a lad. He was stationed at Bow St and died in 1998.
That was my first year at Shooters Hill Grammar school. We must be the same age. I remember the smogs well. Even later I recall walking home from London Bridge and getting lost in Greenwich. It was very dangerous. What primary school did you go to?
Sorry Rowland,
I’ve mislaid my password and not sure how to obtain another.
T’was me that walked home from Eltham Green.
That was some trek that you undertook, London Bridge to Blackheath!
Hope all is well with you, Happy New Year, Gerry.
Hi Rowland only just spotted your post – I don’t know why I’ve appeared as Anonymous – my fault prob! My hubby was older than me – He was born in Audlem Cheshire and was a strong swimmer and was asked to be in the police water polo team. We married 1982 when I was living in SE23. I went to All Saints from 55 to 61: and I’ve yet to hear from anyone who was there with me! Perhaps I was such a little monster, they don’t want to! I did have good mates though. I was an awful tomboy, I loved fighting. Teachers were Miss Dubby, Mr Rhodes, can’t remember any more. The taste of those cod liver oil capsules with the milk – Yugh! BW Helen
My older brother, Andrew Allman, was at All Saints from 1960-1966.
I also went there, 1970-1976.
You are a bit younger than me according to those dates but did you used to go to Saturday morning pictures at the Roxy?
Dear Rowland Gosh, I’ve found someone who calls me “young!’ No, going to the pictures wasn’t part of my family’s life at all: I went there only once, when a friend and his mum took me to see The 2 way Stretch (Peter Sellers). Although I roamed all over the area by myself and with mates, curiously I never went to the pictures.
On the prefab thread, I remember there being prefabs along that piece of ground between the Roxy and Delacourt Road. There must have been a bomb hit round there, there was a crater there for ages I think after the fish shop.
My email is funkypipsatbtinternetdotcom…. not all one has to say is of general interest I feel!
My brother Alan, also attended shooters hill, with Graham gatfield-late 50s –I attended Northbrook—have lived in the U.S. since 1965, mostly CA.
ron.coombs@ntlworld.com
My name is Ron Coombs and I was born in Dartmouth Row 1940, my brother Chris 1942.. I used to do a paper round for the local shop owned by Tom ???. My round covered Hyde Vale area. I also collected paper bills from the prefabs by the Army Barracks as we used to know them. They were along the Hare and Billet Road and Mount Ponds Road. I remember Diane Mcdougal, Shirley Eaglestone, Derek Wilkinson who lived there.
I have always felt I had about the best childhood possible. It was full of adventure playing on the bomb sites, in Greenwich Park dodging the park keepers, going through the museum on the way to Greenwich swimming baths. I went to Greenwich Central in St Catherines Grove and my brother went to Shooters Hill Grammer.
The Lewisham train crash was mentioned above.We were talking only yesterday about the concert held in the Gaumont that seemed to go on forever with artists turning up to entertain, I particularly remeber Petula Clarke and how good she was.
I culd go on. Great site
Please do go on, the more Blackheath memories, the better.
I couldn’t find any pictures on the web of the prefabs on Blackheath so have posted one of my brother sat in front of them on my site at
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/roncoombs/family_members_who_have_died__du.htm
A friend told me about this site recently and I’ve finally managed to find it. I’m just in time it seems to be included as I was born at Hollyhedge bungalows in 1958. My blind grandfather Arthur and his wife Ada also lived in the bungalow. My cousin Kenny lived in a bungalow nearby – his Dad was Ted and he worked on the railways and seemed to mess around with TV sets (lots of old chassis and valves about his place). I cant remember the number. I will speak to my mother but I don’t remember any photos. We had a fabulous time roaming around the heath and park. We were later housed down on Lewisham road when I was 7. As a 13 yr old I was a cadet bombadier at what we called the “barracks” and attended with half a dozen friends. I returned to Blackheath 10 years ago after a period working in the US and decided I wanted the open space and leafiness. Blackheath has changed so little really, I will have to dig for some memories.
No particular thread but a couple of random memories – St Wolfran’s Hotel on the Heath was where my friend Christine Caunter lived with her mum who was housekeeper at the time. She was at All Saints with me and inspired in me my lifelong love of horses. She also told me the facts of life, which one of the houseboys had told her! Totally unrelated: does anyone remember the tramps of yesteryear? They would appear seasonally and were instantly recognised by their long coats and beards. They didn’t beg, and were always walking somewhere!
And the last bit of flotsam: my mother Ruth Mills taught needlework and art and English, first at Haberdashers Askes Girls school when I was a kid, and then many years later when she returned to S. London, she taught at the Boys’ Haberdashers…
Best wishes to all
I was at All Saints, about the same years, my brother just found another school photo which I am presumably in but i can never recognise myself and hate having my photo taken. I think I have your e-mail address and when I have scanned it in I’ll send it to you, looks about year three. Mrs Dubby was the infants from memory and Mr Rhodes took the top year before he stepped up to head after I had left?
Hi David I should love to hear from you, and see the photos – very kind of you to go to the trouble, and thanks! Please note my email address is funkypips@btinternet.com – you might have my old one there. I think you were in a year above me, because I’m sure Mr R was head before I left. Mrs D was cuddly and kind – I remember a slightly less motherly type, a blond lady, who took the youngest too. I also don’t like myself in photos although in the ’80s I looked Ok in them for a while.
Hello David. About All Saints Primary – Did you send me a photo? I was quite naughty at this school, and was told off in front of the whole school on one occasion. Mr Rhodes ranted away saying “There are ladies and there are women – you are not a lady!” Which even in the mid-fifties sounded politically incorrect to me and the only effect the intended put-down had was to make me feel superior and scornful! What is it about Blackheath? It was so full of magic for me as a kid. Some of my best times were with the Clark sisters, Katie and Lisa, in Eliot Vale… they were tomboys like me and we played out in the twilight on the streets. Imagine that today! I would love to say hello to them, if anyone knows them. This would be between 1956 and 1960, we would have been between 6 and 10. Anyway, I’ve wandered as usual: any class photos of All Saints 1955-1961, I would love to see! BW Helen
Caroline Owens
Hello Helen. We used to be close friends when you lived in the garden
flat in Shooter’s Hill Road. I used to love your father’s paintings and
your mother’s puppets. I was sorry when you moved to Broxbourne (?)
in Herts. and wondered how you and your brother would get on there.
I’m still in the area and concur with your memories above.
I love reading all about Blackheath and its history on here. Best place in the World in my opinion!!
I was born at 6 Wyatt House, then Police Flats, in Wemyss Road in February 1965, and lived there until my parents divorced when I was 8. My Mum and I moved over to “temporary” accommodation in Coleraine Road, and 39 years later, I’m still here!!
Hi Trevor, do you have a brother named Andy? we used to play with him as boys, my name is Lloyd Rich and my brother is Rene, we lived in number 10 the first house next to Wyatt house, I left Blackheath in 1975 Rene left in the late 80’s to Shooters hill. I now live in SW London/Surrey in Morden.
Yes, I am Andy’s little brother, and remember you and Rene well. Part of my musical education was coming round to your place with Andy to listen to the latest vibes!!
Also some great times playing football round the car park. I admittedly got battered about, being about 10 years younger than the rest of you, but it toughened me up!!
I’ve never moved away from Blackheath and am now near Westcombe Park station.
Cheers for getting back to me Trevor, I thought it was you, I knew many kids who lived in the flats during the sixties but can only remember yours and Andy’s surname, all the others have somehow gone from my memory now ! I still get over that way quite a bit when I have the time, was only over there yesterday in fact and on looking in a shop window (the Blackheath Bookshop) I saw a painting in the window of Sears sweet shop on the corner of Wemyss road as it looked in the sixties just how we would have known it, I may even go back and buy it. Funny I went to look at the old car park maybe a year ago and saw our painted goal posts are still there after all these years ! All the best mate Lloyd
jessaka
Probably a little later than these fabulous recollections but I’m recalling Royal Parade in the 1960s when my (late) uncle ran The Glass Shop at 11 Royal Parade which also sold – to my eye absolutely hideous – repro furniture and mirrors as well as being a glazier. He fitted all the lovely vitrolite interior which I believe is still there in Gambardellas at Blackheath Standard.
And two doors on, my other uncle ran The Music Shop – I only wish I had a photo of that – which was later run by a chap called Mick, I think, whatever became of him? Then a there was Kebab & Wine on one corner and that pine shop on the other with a really good Oxfam shop and a bead shop which I frequented each and every Saturday on my lunch break – I was a Saturday girl at Jobbins. Happy days indeed!
Delacourt Road: Great site. I remember the garage in Delacourt Road well. My Mum worked in the chemists, owned by Mr Woods I believe. I vaguely remember one of her colleagues who also worked in there circa 1964 (Patty? not sure about the name). I have a photo of the three of them somewhere just in case anyone is related to the other two women who worked there.
Delacourt Road was our local shops as we lived (1950’s to 1962) at 60a Shooters Hill Rd. There was a wonderful grocery store there, Orton’s, with a dark wooden boarded floor- it was like a cave of wonders to me as a kid, with it’s dark boarded floor and sacks of loose goods to be weighed out by Mr Orton who did this like a magician performing tricks. When I was older I would go to the newsagents on the corner and buy a Puffin book with my pocket money. I can’t remember a garage though. Once you got to the end of the street and turned left, you were in the road where the Roxy was. There was a bomb site about halfway down. There were some prefabs on the left going down to the library.
Lesley Howell( nee Terry)
Oh Helen, just found this website and all my memories of growing up have flooded in! I lived at 53, Old Dover Road between 1957 and 1965 when we were rehoused due to the A2 being built. I was aged 2 to 10 and remember it so fondly. We lived above the Express Dairy shop and my dad was an Express Dairy milkman at the depot further up in Shooters Hill Road.Kellys on the corner of Banchory Road was where i used to play with my friend Jeffrey who was the grandson of mr and mrs Kelly, along with my other friend Alison Brown whose parents owned the sweet shop in our parade, Brownes. I remember the lovely bakers in Delacourt Road, Hemmings where mum bought our bread and sometimes as a treat, an iced bun! Between Brownes and Kellys was Morgans, a grocery shop that sold ham on the bone and other meats sliced on the big machines behind the counter and bags of sugar that were then 1 and sixpence! I used to love going there and getting my mums ‘messenges’ as the shopping was called! Also there was a pet shop called Powells with Dog biscuits in containers in front of the counter (i used to like eating them:( ! ) Then just along from there was Walshes the sweetshop run by ‘uncle Joe’ where a Mars bar used to be thrupence! He sold papers too and his son, Peter was a friend of my mum and dad. Next to Walshes was a hardware shop called Kemps i think , they sold everything and i still remember the smell of paraffin and rope! Mr Walsh and Mr Kemp used to sing ‘ All Things Bright and Beautiful’ when they were closing up at night! I can’t remember the name of the Italian cafe on the corner of Craigerne rd but they sold the best ‘Jubblies’ ever! My mum was a part time usherette at the Roxy when I was really young and then my brother and I used to go to Saturday Morning Pictures, how we loved it! My playground was the Heath, where we used to play cowboys and Indians in the Uppers and Downers as we called the bushy hilly bits at the beginning of the heath! Also Greenwich Park and Langton Way where they used to have a steam engine rally once a year. I went to Invicta infants school and then onto Sherrington Junior Girls, where the headmistress was called Miss Diffy. My other friend , from school, was called Gillian Twigg and she lived in one of the prefabs in Furzefield Rd. I thought they were very posh cos they had a bathroom and inside toilet! We had the big butler sink, tin bath and outside toilet! The bombsites further down Old Dover Road were also where we played, although looking back must have been dangerous because they always seemed full of water and rubbish! One of my earliest memories was going out to Kent on an open lorry with the Ellises up in Shooters Hill Road to go apple picking and we slept in tents i think? There used to be dog shows in the carpark of the Roxy sometimes and my mum used to get our clothes from the Red Cross shop at the Standard!
Fanny and Johnny Craddock used to live in one of the big houses in Shooters Hill Road and my dad delivered milk there, and they sometimes bough greengrocery from Kellys. When i was about 10 my friend, Alison, and I went over to the Village to the ‘Black Cat’ coffee bar and had coffee and apple strudel, we thought we were so sophisticated!
On Sundays we went to Sunday School at Sunfields and I used to sit out on our upstairs living room windowsill to watch the boysbrigade go past every Sunday too! Mum sometimes got winkles and cockles and i had to get them out with a pin when they were cooked!
One of my biggest joys was the Library in St Johns Park and I can still remember the wonderful smell of polish and wood and books! I also went to bible class in the library or a hall by it. I used to dash home from school on a Tuesday to go and pick up my ‘Diana’ from the newsagents in Delacourt Road. Oh Happy Days!!
Sorry if this is a bit of a ramble but I just wanted to get it all out. I have really enjoyed reading other peoples stories! Lesley
Great to have your memories Lesley. You were having a much fuller life than me! And your being able to recall all the shops and their names is impressive. We do share our memory of the library… it was a very special place for me too… I started walking there on my own when I was about 8 or so, sometimes I could read all my books and change them twice in one day. Just William and Pippi Longstocking were 2 of my favourites.
Sue Buckle Nee Penn
You mention Delacourt Motors on the Sun in the Sands roundabout. My Grandfather Frank Penn owned and worked in the garage but he died about 1955. My Grandparents also owned the sweetshop in Kirkside Road, opposite St Georges church. My Grandmother was Isa Penn. My two brothers and I were all born in the sweetshop. There were three brothers in the Penn family. Father George, then 3 sons Frank, George and Len. Also 3 girls, Lillian, Pat and Rose. The family had other business in the area, a motorbike shop maybe in Plumstead, a removal business at the bottom of Maze Hill as well as the sweetshop and garage. maybe you remember something of the family?
Just wondered if any of the contributors who have such wonderful memories of Blackheath have any recollections or memories of Morden College they could share with me thank you.
Hi If it’s of any interest, my dad taught art there for a while – it might have been evening classes, his name was William Mills.
Hello Helen
Thank you for your comment it was really nice to read about your memory of the college. I would love to hear if any other readers may have a story they would like to recall and share about the lovely alms houses there now for over three hundred years.
Hello Roy.
Yes, I remember many times using the ‘trail’ there for a short cut to get to Blackheath from Kidbrooke where I lived. It was always a little ‘spooky’ walking through there as a child and teenager. I remember there was a little gate or turnstyle type of opening we had to go through about halfway on the trail to the Heath. I remember too always being amazed at looking at the college and thinking how lovely it looked and how old! If I remember correctly it was designed by Christopher Wren? My sisters and brothers too have fond memories of Morden and Blackheath. Fond memories for all, even though we are spread out in different places around the world now.
Roy Havery
Hello Jennifer
Thank you for sharing your lovely memory of the College. I agree with you its very beautiful and your correct in thinking it was designed by Christopher Wren. I was in Blackheath just before Christmas and walked up to the College from the station. Although there was a thick fog on the heath and drifting around the College it still looked enchanting. I had the opportunity of visiting the College chapel while I was there its so serenely beautiful and really worth a visit. As a child I lived in Hanwell now I live in Manchester but very time I visit Blackheath I always appreciate just how friendly and helpful all the locals I meet are.
Jon Cope
I just wanted to add that I was one of the many paper boys employed at one time or another by Coultate’s. I did the round in the mid to late 80s – I remember the Sun headline ‘Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster’ (which would date it to 1986). I also clearly remember the headlines reporting Wham! splitting up in the same year, which was quite a blow at the time. I was a solidly middle class kid, brought up in Camden Row and had never heard of the news of the World when I started the round. Mr Coultate’s scrawl of the paper’s title next to a certain customer looked to me like ‘Lew’s World’ and I have thought of it like that ever since. The round was pretty tough. I had to arrive at the little alleyway next to the shop some time before 7am and sort all the papers on a rickety old trestle table, then shove them in a huge bag and pedal my Raleigh Night Burner BMX from the village right up as far as Kidbrooke, via a circuitous route around the Cator Estate and various other addresses. In the winter months it was of course pitch dark and occasionally quite eerie around the quietest parts of Blackheath. My pay, I remember, was £7.50 per week, which seemed OK at the time. At Christmas, I received tips from most of the customers, usually left in an envelope attached to the front door. I can clearly recall piling up pound coins on my bedside table and have never felt richer than after a good haul of Christmas tips. I later abandoned Coultate’s for a better paid round with what was then John Menzies, which if memory serves me correctly paid about £12 a week – Coultate’s couldn’t compete with that.
Same as in my day. Mrs. Coultate didn’t pay as much as W. H. Smiths., but I liked working for her. I did a morning and an evening round, but they were confined to the Village and all the area stretching from Camden Row up to
Aberdeen Terrace , and indeed Christmas was financially a very good period. The worst part of it all was, during the winter period, trudging through the snow , pushing my bike , and as you say, having that huge bag around your neck.
What was the name of the sweet shop in Tranquil Passage just a bit further on towards the Crown and on the opposite side to the cobblers?
“Fraid not Roland, I do remember it though, often used to walk past it , on my way to my friends house in Wemyss Road. There is also no mention of it in Neil Rhind’s excellent book “Blackheath Village “.
Hi all …..Does anyone have memories they could share with me about the tea hut run by Peter Hanon (and his parents before that) for the lorry drivers it was one of the few places yu could stop on the heath with a vehicle ?
“Fraid not Roland, I do remember it though, often used to walk past it , on my way to a friends house in Wemyss Road. There is also no mention of it in Neil Rhind’s excellent book “Blackheath Village “.
What a walk through history! I went to school in St Germans place from 1956 ~ 1962 and now realise how much I missed out about the village as many called the centre area. As for the prefabs that used to line the other side of St Germans place, I would put their removal at the end of the 1950s or in the very early 1960s. I could not trace the date of the bomb that destroyed the chapel in St. Germans place though I well remember its basically four walls still standing with a roof truss or two still in place in the early 1960s along with the copper on the back end though that was ‘liberated’ at about the same time as the last of the prefabs were going.
I also remember the train crash. One of the boys I went to school with used to catch the train home but was delayed that day, he ran down to the station platform only to see the train disappearing. Then he waited for a very long time before he was told that there would be no train coming that night. The news of his near miss sobered us all up for a while.
I used to go to school by bus when I was younger, travelling from Bexleyheath first by trolley bus to Welling and then catch the 89 bus to Blackheath. During the big bus strike I had to use the train which meant a long walk from home to the station and then a walk up across the heath to school. I remember someone saw a bikini for sale in a shop window when they were still a rare sight. We were all shocked, not at the small size but at the high price which we thought represented a huge mark up from the price per yard of the fabric. Oh the innocence of youth!
I was one of those who missed the trolley buses when the were withdrawn, though of course they never went to Blackheath turning off in Welling to go to Woolwich.
The 89 used to run over Shooters Hill and I remember the day when the bus had a minor fire. It stopped, and those on the top desk heard a lot of moving about down below, then the conductor came a few stairs up and asked everyone to “please get off the bus”, then he turned and went back down and as he did so he added, “because the bus is on fire”. In fact it was a lot less dramatic than that sounds and we all stood along side looking to see the flames though the fire had gone out by then!
The road from Shooters Hill towards Blackheath had a run of hospitals starting off with the military one, the Royal Herbert, though there was the Catholic one on the top of Shooters Hill.
I left in the area1962 when my family moved to the West Country.
I have only visited the area once since then, perhaps ten or twelve years ago. Much was still as I remembered it though enough had changed to make the experience especially the road directions confusing.
What a lovely website. I lived as a boarder at Christ’s College from 1972-78 so a bit later in time than most of the other posters. Apart from the horrors of being in a boarding school (just joking, sort of) my memories of Blackheath are those of an Eden. Lovely sunny summers, tennis balls thwacking, lawn mowers and the smell of grass. Long walks to Greenwich on Sundays after church in our school uniforms (maroon blazers and gray slacks). Horrid winters when I always got the flu, every February like clockwork. Damp shoes squelching across the heath. Someone else mentioned using jackets as goalposts, so true. Sports day. Once I turned 16 we could actually go to the pub back then and I do remember drinks at the Princess and the Clarendon for darts. The pond. Wow. It all seems like yesterday. Thank you.
Yes, Anonymous, what is that Blackheath magic? For me, a child with a head full of The Treasure Seekers and The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, and David Davies reading The Box of Delights on the radio . …. all part of the magic for me because the big houses and gardens around me were clearly the locations for magic wardrobes and fabulous beasts.
On my chap’s 60th we did a trip crossing from Hackney via the cable car, on to the Park, and joy of joys, the teashop near General Wolfe… where my granny took me after school (All Saints) for an ice cream back in the ’50s….. Ah, nostalgia! Marcel Proust, who needs you! – we have the Bugle! Long may Blackheath keep it’s magic.
Did anyone know or remember my grandpa William Whittaker? he was a footballer at Charlton Athletic Club and played in the FA cup 1947.
les de la mare
Yes I remember him along with the Don Welsh sailor Brown Hobbis sam Bartram Jack Hobbins Peter Croker Duffy and Oaks Turner and a few more, in 46/47/48 I use to sell programs on match days at the bottom of Church lane by the Station, then get to watch the match Free Hobbis was
Sammys stand by goal keeper.
June White
My dad used to own Clarks Garage in Sun Lane in the 60’s_70’s, it was a little cut through from the Sun in the Sand’s pub. We lived at 168 Shooters Hill Rd , no longer there now it’s sheltered housing. It was right next to the parade of shops. We had an off licence next door and the people who lived there were called Short and our surname was Long !! Dad used to drink in the Royal Oak Pub at the Standard. I remember going to the circus on the heath near Greenwich park many times with my twin sister Janet. I also remember attending The Pointer school for a short while. Happy days 😃
marian bryen
Wonderful memories …I remember the Green man pub..we used to think Manfred man lived in the big white house near to it ..the big dips as you have been calling them was daisy Dell to us…do you remember the man that used to sell monkey nuts out side the park gates to feed the squirrels ..and Rossi’s ice cream van by the Donkeys best ice cream ever ..I used to feel , sorry for those poor donkeys ..l used to go to a youth club in the village but can’t remember the name of it …
Roger barrett
Hi; Have only just found this site, and came across it by accident while looking for something related. My parents moved into Wemyss Road after they married in 1954 and then I arrived in early 1956. We stayed there until was about 18 months.
I knew my grandfather was a milkman and then later, a grocery shop manager. My mother recalled recently that both places of work were in Blackheath village but that was all. Having read the original post in this thread I’m fairly certain it would have been Express dairies. (There is a photo, found recently, of my grandmother with others ladies, in a ‘card’ with a photo of the Express Dairies plant at Morden. The photo was taken at Blackheath & Charlton Baptist Church, where my grandparents, parents and then myself all attended.
I’m guessing that the grocery shop my grandfather managed may have been part of the Express dairy business, but as I said it’s a guess. I don’t recall anything of my time living in Wemyss Road, (no surprise given we moved when I was only 18mths) so the information here has helped enlighten and broaden my knowledge.
I went to Royal Hill Primary School in the late forties/early fifties.
Miss Broad and then Mrs Baxendale were the head teachers with Miss Stubbs, Mrs Waite and Mr Ford some of the teachers.
I have never been able to track down any of the pupils from those days.
Were YOU there then?
Hello June White, just read your post. I wonder if you recall my brother, Julian (Stephen Mills) who was there from 1961 to 1962? If I’ve got the right school – was the uniform purple and green? We both started new schools at the same time, mine was Prendergast’s girls’ school in Rushey Green. His great friend was a boy called William. BW Helen
William Fletcher
Bill Fletcher.
I was born in 1939. I went to All Saints when I was four. Mrs. Dubby’s class. I remember a few names. Miss. Collins was the lead mistress. I remember Mary Wallen, Keith Borgust, Olive Lapsley, Sylvia Richards, Paul Rutherford, Glennis Herd, Dereck Pegram, Ronnie Dugan … that about it.
I lived on Bennett Park … number 12.
My father was in the ARP … he was a photographer and took photographs of “secret stuff” for the government. One night he brought home an unexploded incendiary bomb, which we kept in the basement of the house where we lived … much to my mother’s dismay. On VE night there was a huge bonfire at the top of Bennett Park, and my father brought out the bomb and put it in the fire. The darned thing blew up and the fire became a huge wave that moved down the street.
There was a Morrison air raid shelter – one of the brick jobbies … at the end of Bennett park. We used a shelter at the bottom of Bennet Park across from the United Dairies … or was in the Express Dairy … anyway, the one behind Sainsbury’s.
The houses that were flattened on Blackheath Vale left a tunnel at the bottom of the sandstone cliff, and a cave on the wall of the cliff. We used to play there. Probably very dangerous.
On Royal Parade there was Christies Tea Shop with strawberries and clotted cream. I have lived in the US since 1964, and I took my family to Blackheath a few years ago. We took a boat to Greenwich and walked up through the park and across the heath … and Christies Tea shop had become a pizza parlor!! Is nothing sacred?
I remember the cave in Blackheath Vale, it could have been quite dangerous. Paul Rutherford was a good mate of mine back in the early 1950’s’ . He became quite famous, try a Google with his name. He passed away in tragic circumstances. Derek Pegram and Ronnie Dugan I remember their names. Ronnie’s father had a car repair garage in South Vale Road, behind the The Crown Pub.
I remember the cave in Blackheath Vale , quite dangerous when I think about it now. Paul Rutherford was a very good mate of mine back in the early 1950’s. He became quite famous , try googling his name. He passed away in rather tragic circumstances. Derek Pegram I knew slightly. Ronnie Dugan’s Dad had a car repair garage in South Vale Road, just behind the Crown pub. I can’t remember there being a Dairy in Bennet Park, there was an Express Dairy in Wemyss Road. Jobbins the bakers , had their kitchen/bakery behind Sainsburys, I often used to look in there, while they were baking bread and rolls.
Your name is familiar … maybe I knew you.
Paul’s sister was Christine. As for Ronnie … a decade or two ago I went to the UK on business. I went to Blackheath to see what had changed. Pubs were the same. Banks were the same … my dad banked at Lloyd’s. Fenners was still there. I walked up Bennett Park, and was looking at #12. There was a man and woman – and a man about my age – behind the fence. I said “I used to live here.” The woman looked at me intently, and said “I know you!!! You had a sister … Judy!!” I said “yes, who are you?” And she said “I’m Mrs. Dugan.” So the younger man must have been Ronnie. Still there in Blackheath after all those years.
My mate, when I was older, was Tommy Roberts, whose father, Tom, owned the tie maker – Roberto Neckwear. I used to go to his house on Sundays and his mother, Marie, made winkle tea. Winkles, muscles and welks. Do people still have winkle teas … and jellied eels? Tubby Isaacs, the famous jellied eel stand in the city. You could order the eels, or “a pint of liquor” – which was the slimy green stuff they cooked the eels in.
Tommy became Mr. Freedom. I bumped into him in San Francisco in the 70s, when he was marketing his shoe line — green boots with red wings!!
Tommy is gone, now. He became a bit of a cult figure. He teamed up with Charlie Simpson, who used to hang around the Rendezvous. (BTW, the woman behind the counter was “Griff”.)
That is the end of my mind dump, but it would be interesting to find a few more “survivors” and piece together a good picture of Blackheath back then. There are lots of “whatever happened to old so-and-so names in my head.
How much freedom we had as kids!!! Playing in the bombed out churches, and playing on the barges on the Thames. It was a very different time.
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In this proposed Anthology project, Vera explores the milieu as a subject for study and introduces texts that demonstrate the power of creating new worlds. Link to PDF
Christopher Vera
http://chrisvera.com
Creating New Worlds: Exploring the Milieu
Introduction, by Christopher Vera
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Integral Trees, by Larry Niven
Ringworld, by Larry Niven
Seed Stock, by Frank Herbert
DragonFlight, by Anne McCaffery
Without A Thought, Berserker, by Fred Saberhagen
Museum Beetles, by Simon Kewin
The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
Dune, by Frank Herbert
Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” (Tolkien, 9). When I was just out of elementary school these immortal words began for me an amazing adventure that took me from the pleasant hills of the Shire, home of the hobbits, through the spider-infested forests of Mirkwood, inhabited by the Wood Elves, past the shores of Laketown where Men live, and finally to the dank caverns of Smaug the dragon, bane of the last dwarven King Under the Mountain.
When we read stories, we all expect our protagonist to meet great challenges and to hopefully overcome them in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Readers of the milieu have an additional expectation: We expect to be taken to new places unlike those in which we live. Not merely to other cities, or continents, but to other worlds, alternate universes, even other planes of existence. Worlds that we imagine existed long ago, or may yet one day exist. We want to see problems we can relate to in ways we never imagined.
Such stories help us to realize that the possibilities of the universe are truly infinite and that humankind’s ability to grow is limited only by its imagination. And readers of milieu have hungry imaginations.
With the idea of travel to Mars and other planets in our solar system, it is not so difficult to imagine a time when humans might seek to colonize other worlds. Frank Herbert tells the hopeful story of one such colony in “Seed Stock”. The small band of humans, now landed on a distant world completely and forever out of touch with Earth, must survive or perish. The water, the air, even the one of the few edible life form on the planet—shrimp-like creatures known as trodi—contain a slow poison that kills the crops and animals the colony brought with them. When their children are born sickly and stunted, it is feared the colony won’t last long. “Here was the thing the scientists would not admit. They were trying to make this place into another Earth. But it was not and could never be.” (Herbert, 74). Only through great determination would the children of man survive in such an unkind place.
Planets can be so passé. What would life be life be like in a place with no land? Where beings lived on kilometers-long trees that drifted through a gaseous atmosphere like so many green clouds in the sky? Whose primary source of gravity was caused not by a planet underfoot, like the Earth, but by the rotation of these giant trees through the air? Larry Niven imagines such a place in The Integral Trees. He describes such a tree thus: “The trunk went straight up…It seemed to go up forever, a vast brown wall that narrowed to a cylinder, to a dark line with a gentle westward curve to it, to a point in infinity– and the point was tipped with green. The far tuft.” (7). Of course the people that live on these trees have problems, just like any society of people living together. But their tree—their world— is dying and they are faced with the impossible question of how to survive.
Niven astounds us again in Ringworld by showing us yet another world without a planet. Instead, an ancient race has constructed a gargantuan ring around a distant sun. They populated the inside of this ring with with land, oceans, and colonized it with strange creatures. As the protagonist of the story approaches it in a spaceship for the first time, he is awed by its sheer size. “The rim of the Ringworld grew from a dim line occluding a few stars, to a black wall. A wall a thousand miles high, featureless, though any features would have been blurred by speed…Its edges converged to vanishing points, to points at infinity on either end of the universe…” (109). What is the purpose of such a construction and what beings could possibly exist on a fabricated world whose total land mass is thousands of times that of the Earth?
While Earth creatures unknown and yet unknowable may yet lie in wait to be found by explorers or archaeologists in real-life, our imaginations are better kindled when we turn our eyes to the heavens. What life waits for us beyond the Earth’s atmosphere?
On a distant planet settles a colony of humans and they name it Pern. They fail to realize the significance of a small red planet in an erratic orbit around their new home. Years pass. As the red planet comes close, its indigenous inhabitants of worm-like lifeforms called the Thread travel through space to Pern, “…destroying anything they touched. The initial losses the colonists suffered were staggering.” (McCaffery, ix). The only hope of the colonists is an unusual breeding program of a large flying reptile with the ability to breathe fire after chewing on phosphine rock. The dragons, as they are named after the mythical creatures of Earth, are flown by riders trained to be telepathically and empathetically attached to them. The colonists are spared only by the heroic efforts of dragon and rider to burn the Thread while still high in the air over towns and villages. And that’s all before page one.
In some cases, strange species lie in wait for humankind in the vacuum of space as we search out new places to live. “The machine was a vast fortress, containing no life, set by its long-dead masters to destroy anything that lived,” (Saberhagen, 1) leaving humankind to face and destroy an intelligent “race” of robotic moon-sized death stars determined to eliminate all life in the universe.
However, curious creatures are not merely reserved for discovery on new planets after light-years of travel. One only need wait for enough time to pass.
Simon Kewin imagines a post-apocalyptic Earth where generations of humans led by their Curator dwell entirely within the walls of a massive museum, and have no understanding of the outside world. “As a young boy [the Curator] had ventured far, far down [The Mammal Wing]. Had explored perhaps halfway along, glimpsing new rooms, new wonders all the way, before his nerve had given way in the echoing dark.” (Kewin). Each generation faces a new threat in the Museum Beetles. At first the bugs are a simple nuisance, over time eating the documented history of mankind, growing in number and in size. Each generation of humans loses more of this collected knowledge, reverting slowly over time back to hunter-gatherers. Finally, their human tribe dwindling, the last Curator is sure the beetles were “…larger than they used to be. Sure that in the past, they didn’t fight back.” (Kewin). Ironically, Kewin’s characters are forced to imagine what life might be like outside the confined world their kind had long ago adapted to as they are slowly pushed out by their enemy.
H.G. Wells, one of the early masters of science-fiction describes one the inhabitants of Earth in the year 802,701 A.D.: “He was a slight creature—perhaps four feet high—clad in a purple tunic, girdled at the waist with a leather belt…He struck me as being a very beautiful and graceful creature, but indescribably frail.” (Wells, 17). Contrasting with this fair race dwells an underground people of whom a representative looked like “…a queer little ape-like figure…[with] large greyish-red eyes; also here was flaxen hair on its head and down its back.” (34) Wells imagines the relationship between these gentle surface dwellers and the mysterious subterranean people as “…a gradual widening of the…social difference between the Capitalist and the Labourer” (36) and readers find ourselves wondering what would politics look like in places other than our own and how does the writer’s chosen milieu affect them?
Society and Politics
What world populated with sentient beings would be complete without a study of the cultures and interactions of its many “peoples”? For example, the milieu lets the reader imagine how colossal governments and cultures borne of necessity from their harsh surroundings might function.
A royal family beset by a vindictive Emperor and his legions, inter-planetary corporations, guilds, smugglers, spies, assassins, and a mysterious desert people known as the Fremen converge on the waste planet known as Arrakis, or Dune, in order to secure its only appreciable export: The spice, an addictive drug required to heighten the mental state of beings that use this power to fold space—making it possible travel vast distances very quickly. Without the spice, the entire intergalactic economy would collapse and billions of addicts would die. Meanwhile, an ancient prophesy tells of a messiah who will come to Dune to lead the Fremen. “And that day dawned when Arrakis lay at the hub of the universe with the wheel poised to spin.” (Herbert, 447). Could the fate of an entire galactic society depend on a single planet? Likewise, in real-life, could the whole of Earth depend on a single fragile system: A sea? A rain forest? A city? A building? A milieu story allows us to see what happens after a single cog of a incalculably vast machine breaks down.
Humankind transported far from Earth and forced to survive without support is a common theme in milieu stories as this gives us the opportunity to discover fantastic places and problems in a perspective we can understand and identify with. But the old problems of human civilization, including greed and power, follow along with us. Imagine the captain and crew of a space-faring ship arriving at their new world with a large berth of passengers. The passengers don’t understand navigation, gravitational forces, or the mechanics of driving a spaceship. Now imagine on arrival, the captain and crew, who incidentally own all the weapons, decide they will rule this colony. Roger Zelazny presents such a scenario in Lord of Light with an additional twist: The rulers have the ability to make themselves immortal by transferring their psyches into new bodies. As generations of passengers forced into a new Dark Ages live and die and breed on the planet below, from their ship the captain and crew control all technology, effectively making themselves gods. Crew that disagree with this are not allowed to transfer their psyche, and through attrition, are eliminated. One crew member, neither acknowledging nor disavowing claims of godhood, rebels: “…we of the crew should be assisting them, granting them the benefits of the technology we had preserved, rather than building ourselves an impregnable paradise and treating the world as a combination game preserve and whorehouse.” (Zelazny, 78). How does one man fight against the gods themselves?
What Milieu Tells Us
Milieu stories often subtly—and not so subtly—hold the most significant of dramas: Life as we know it. As we read stories written for the milieu, we realize, this is it. The threat against our characters is not merely against their persons, or their way of life, but against the entire race of humankind. As our characters go, so goes our entire race. Therefore, we read not only with great interest, but with great caution. This is the essence of why we read milieu. We may sense in our own lives our own dying Integral Tree; have our own Thread to burn; our own gods to challenge; our own dragon to slay.
The milieu lets us see that somewhere, somehow it has been done before. It ignites a spark of hope in our imagination that we human beings may yet accomplish that which we once knew to be impossible.
Herbert, Frank. Dune. New York, NY: Ace Special 25th Anniversary Edition
Herbert, Frank. “Seed Stock”. Masterpieces of Science Fiction. Durwood, Thomas, and Armand Eisen, eds. Kansas City, MO: Ariel, Inc., 1978
Kewin, Simon. Museum Beetles. Abyss & Apex: 2005. <http://www.abyssandapex.com/200507-beetles.html
McCaffery, Anne. “DragonFlight”. The Dragon Riders of Pern. New York, NY: Random House Publishing Group, 1988
Niven, Larry. The Integral Trees. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1983.
Niven, Larry. Ringworld. New York, NY: Random House Publishing Group, 1970.
Saberhagen, Fred. “Without a Thought”. Berserker. New York, NY: Ace Books, 1967
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966.
Wells, H.G. “The Time Machine”. The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells. New York, NY: Avenel Books, 1978
Zelazny, Roger. Lord of Light. New York, NY: Avon Books, 1969.
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Sony Just Released A New Lemmings Game on Mobile
Sony just released a brand new Lemmings free to play game on iOS and Android which is a interesting turn as just yesterday I pined for a new mobile release. It's a classic franchise that deserved an updated version and after I heard the news this morning I downloaded it and gave the first few levels a try. So far, the game is fine, it uses energy that slowly refills over time or you can purchase an instant refill for money. That energy is what you use to activate your Lemmings abilities to float to the ground, build up and dig. It lacks some of the polish of the DOS original but as I've said, so far it's a fine port. I'll do a more formal review later but I wanted to... Read All Sony just released a brand new Lemmings free to play game on iOS and Android which is a interesting turn as just yesterday I pined for a new mobile release. It's a classic franchise that deserved an updated version and after I heard the news this morning I downloaded it and gave the first few levels a try. So far, the game is fine, it uses energy that slowly refills over time or you can purchase an instant refill for money. That energy is what you use to activate your Lemmings abilities to float to the ground, build up and dig. It lacks some of the polish of the DOS original but as I've said, so far it's a fine port. I'll do a more formal review later but I wanted to let you know that it exists and that you can pick it up for free on Android and iOS now!
https://cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/posts/3966/lgr-looks-back-at-holiday-lemmings
"Lemmings: A cute, clumsy and clueless species of green-mopped creatures on a journey home, in desperate need of help. For over 25 years, players have answered their call, with millions playing the puzzle game that became a pop-culture phenomenon.
We cheered when we saved them, cried when they died and as a schoolkid back in the ’90s, my classmates and I seemed hell-bent on killing the poor things in the most barbaric way possible. Kids were cruel in the ’90s. We had no internet.
Now it’s time for a whole new generation to save/slaughter those adorable critters once again, with a brand new Lemmings game out today, designed specifically for your mobile device."
https://blog.eu.playstation.com/2018/12/20/lemmings-comes-to-mobile-devices-today/#sf204641336
Dude I think you have powers.
Quick, write a post about how you hope Valve releases Half-Life 3.
jdodson Admin Member Post Author wrote on 12/23/2018 at 06:23pm
LGR Looks Back At Holiday Lemmings
Lazy Game Reviews is a YouTube channel about game reviews, retro reviews as well as retro PC hardware reviews. It's one of my favorite channels and I wanted to share one of his latest videos that was seasonally appropriate. Holiday Lemmings started out as a few level demo and got a full fledged release later on. I had all the Lemmings demos I could get my hands on but never was able to buy the full versions. It's not a hard game to find now but I wish Sony would do more with it and release a new Lemmings game on all platforms including mobile. Lazy Game Reviews is a YouTube channel about game reviews, retro reviews as well as retro PC hardware reviews. It's one of my favorite channels and I wanted to share one of his latest videos that was seasonally appropriate. Holiday Lemmings started out as a few level demo and got a full fledged release later on. I had all the Lemmings demos I could get my hands on but never was able to buy the full versions. It's not a hard game to find now but I wish Sony would do more with it and release a new Lemmings game on all platforms including mobile.
Ben Paddon Talks About Sony's Lemmings Problem
Lemmings is one of the coolest DOS games out of the 90's and seems to not have taken hold of modern audiences. In the latest episode of Ports Center Ben Paddon talks about this and the big reason why. Lemmings would make a great mobile game so why hasn't it come to everyones smartphone? Lemmings is one of the coolest DOS games out of the 90's and seems to not have taken hold of modern audiences. In the latest episode of Ports Center Ben Paddon talks about this and the big reason why. Lemmings would make a great mobile game so why hasn't it come to everyones smartphone?
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Game Streaming of the Day: YouTube Launches Their Twitch Competitor
Via Mashable
Twitch has dominated the new market of video game streaming and now YouTube wants a cut of the action.
As they announced at the beginning of the summer, YouTube has planned to launch YouTube Gaming, a separate site dedicated to streaming, watching and chatting about video games. On Aug. 26, they began a slow release of the new platform.
Mashable says the introduction is fairly painless:
Getting started is a simple process of navigating your browser over to gaming.youtube.com and following the steps in a setup process (that includes phone verification). You'll need to set up encoding software, fill out the necessary info for your stream and tick off any optional features. There's a checklist right there on the setup page, but Google also put together a more involved guide to getting set up.
YouTube Gaming supports streaming from PlayStation 4, Wii U and Xbox One consoles, provided you've got a capture device sending video from the console to your computer. Google specifically calls out Elgato's HD60 as a YouTube Live Verified device, but there's a good chance that other game capture solutions work as well. If you've got one, try it out before you run out and buy something new.
Apparently, mobile apps for Android and iOS are also around the corner so you can watch your gaming of the go.
The launch comes only a year after Google prepared a heaping ton of money to purchase Twitch, but then Amazon swooped in with $970 million and bought the streaming service.
There's no telling yet whether the search giant will have any luck in a space already dominated by Twitch and executives at the leading streamer seem to think not.
Matthew DiPietro, Twitch's SVP of Marketing released a statement Aug. 25, basically bragging about how their numbers are so much bigger:
For our current stats, we have 1.5 million broadcasters (11K Partnered channels), 100 million viewers per month who watch 106 minutes per person per day on average, and 38 million installs of our mobile app with 4.7 billion minutes watched across 10.3 million unique devices.
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Victoria and Jiangsu commit to future partnerships while affirming 35-year friendship
by admin · August 11, 2014
On July 28th, Victorian Premier Denis Napthine attended the 15th meeting of the Victoria-Jiangsu Joint Economic Committee (VJJEC) in Melbourne and officially signed the minutes of the meeting.
The Vice Governor of Jiangsu Province, Mr Shi Heping, is in Melbourne accompanied by more than 60 senior government and business leaders – one of the largest trade delegations from Jiangsu to visit Victoria.
The meeting is the cornerstone event of the Victoria-Jiangsu Festival celebrating Victoria’s 35-year Sister-State relationship with Jiangsu, which was officially marked in April this year. It brings together government leaders to reflect on progress to date, and develop new opportunities and partnerships in key economic and cultural areas.
“The Victoria-Jiangsu Joint Economic Committee is the foundation of our economic relationship, reaffirming economic ties and securing links in higher education, government and private industry through exchanges, agreements and expos,” Dr Napthine said.
The minutes of the VJJEC meeting commit Victoria and Jiangsu to focus on key areas for collaboration over the next two years. These areas include culture, education, food and agriculture, information communication technology and biotechnology, sustainable urban design, tourism and transnational e-commerce.
Areas for cooperation outlined in the minutes include:
establishing the Victoria-Jiangsu Regional City Alliance;continuing economic cooperation;collaboration through forums, exhibitions and business matching events;establishing a two-way civil servant exchange program to commence in 2015;expanding the Victoria-Jiangsu Business Placement program;committing to a new healthcare cooperation agreement between Jiangsu Provincial Commission of Health and the Victorian Department of Health; andsupporting deeper cooperation between state cultural institutions and other cultural exchanges through an agreement between Jiangsu Provincial Cultural Department and Arts Victoria.
The minutes also recognise successful partnerships between Victoria and Jiangsu since the last VJJEC meeting, which was held in Nanjing in 2012
as part of the Victorian Government’s Super Trade Mission to China.
These include high level diplomatic visits; economic cooperation such as the commencement of the Victoria-Jiangsu Business Placement program; the Jiangsu-Victoria ICT seminar event; new sustainable urban design projects; and education and training partnerships such as the official opening of the Southeast University-Monash University Joint Graduate School in Suzhou and the Hamer Scholarship program.
Since 2011, the Victorian Coalition Government has conducted nine trade missions to China, involving 900 Victorian businesses and
organisations across 20 Chinese cities and generating $2.3 billion in export sales.
New Victoria-Jiangsu alliance to promote investment and growth
Premier Denis Napthine today welcomed the launch of the Victoria-Jiangsu Regional City Alliance that will enhance ties between regional cities in Victoria and Jiangsu.
The alliance was launched as part of Victoria-Jiangsu Festival commemorations marking the 35th anniversary of Victoria’s sister-state relationship with Jiangsu.
The Vice Governor of Jiangsu Province, Mr Shi Heping, is in Melbourne accompanied by 70 senior government and business leaders – one of the largest trade delegations from Jiangsu to visit Victoria.
“The Regional City Alliance is a joint initiative between the Jiangsu Provincial Government and the Victorian Government that will strengthen links between complementary Victorian and Jiangsu cities, and promote ongoing prosperity and growth,” Dr Napthine said.
“This alliance will position regional cities across Victoria and Jiangsu to take advantage of emerging economic and cultural opportunities between our state and province. I envisage that, at the end of the next 35 years of our relationship, every city in Victoria and Jiangsu will share bonds of friendship as deep as those we celebrate this week between our state and province.”
Dr Napthine said that the Regional City Alliance will build stronger relationships and create investment opportunities, with mayors and CEOs from the regional municipalities of Bendigo, Geelong, Horsham, Latrobe, Shepparton, Mildura, Wangaratta, Warrnambool, and Wodonga attending the event.
By expanding upon Victoria and Jiangsu’s existing relationship, the alliance will provide a platform to help improve economic outcomes between regional cities through:
mutual visits at the municipal level;economic and trade exchanges; andregular symposiums, forums and exhibitions to highlight industry sectors and areas of competitive advantage.
As part of the alliance, Dr Napthine witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Regional Development Victoria and the Jiangsu Foreign Affairs Office as the two coordinating agencies.
Dr Napthine also witnessed the signing of an MOU between the City of Greater Geelong’s Enterprise Geelong and the Jiangsu Development and Reform Commission.
“This MOU between the City of Greater Geelong’s Enterprise Geelong and the Jiangsu Development and Reform Commission will help to promote bilateral investment in advanced manufacturing, services, tourism and agriculture,” Dr Napthine said.
“Regional cities such as Geelong are important hubs for Victoria’s agricultural production, resources and manufacturing sectors.”
Dr Napthine said Victoria’s network of sophisticated and vibrant regional cities, including Geelong, provided a unique platform for future growth.
“Our regions are an important strategic economic asset for Victoria, with around 60 per cent of population growth in regional Victoria over the last decade occurring in regional cities,” Dr Napthine said.
“The benefit of Victoria and Jiangsu’s city-to-city relationships are already evident in the success of existing sister-city relationships.
“Geelong shares strong links with Jiangsu’s Lianyungang, and this partnership is complemented by geographic and economic similarities between the two cities.”
As part of the 2014-15 State Budget, the Napthine Government is supporting a stronger regional Victoria by investing $1.2 billion in new infrastructure to drive jobs growth, including in Geelong.
Since 2011, the Victorian Coalition Government has conducted nine trade missions to China, involving 900 businesses and organisations across 20 Chinese cities, and generating $2.3 billion in export sales.
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Board index ‹ GENERAL DISCUSSION - The Age of Media Fakery ‹ Apollo, and more space hoaxes
Mars One - "non-profit" raising money for Mars reality TV
If NASA faked the moon landings, does the agency have any credibility at all? Was the Space Shuttle program also a hoax? Is the International Space Station another one? Do not dismiss these hypotheses offhand. Check out our wider NASA research and make up your own mind about it all.
Re: Mars One - "non-profit" raising money for Mars reality T
by brianv on Wed Aug 26, 2015 1:56 am
hoi.polloi wrote: By the way ... Can you guess what the second most recent "update" to the "Mars One" program may be, which we might thank Space.com for? If you guessed a promotion of the latest Mars-based Hollywood production starring eager sell-out Matt Damon, you would be correct.
Hell, I guess if they're going to speculate about concepts like "outer space travel", they'd better go to the source, huh?
Hoi are you a devotee of Red Dwarf perchance? I'm curious about "smeg". Surely it can't have traveled that far? Kinda like the mars mission huh?
brianv
by pov603 on Wed Aug 26, 2015 6:15 am
If they can find that asteroid shaped like Felicity Kendall's bottom, then, I'm in...
by hoi.polloi on Wed Aug 26, 2015 8:56 am
brianv wrote:
brianv, I don't want to derail the Mars One nonsense, but since it can roughly be described as a poor set piece decorated by stillborn pop culture flotsam already, I guess Red Dwarf is actually a bit on topic. I have watched with a semi-critical eye my share of that smeggin' show (but never paid for a penny of it — poor sots in the UK). However, I do watch all shows in a culturally abnormal way — scanning every episode for signs of influence by committees and duped hyped-up suckers. It's hard for me to be a devotee of any show until I have scraped it with my little rake.
However, my inner teenager that wanted to "belong" was definitely attracted to anything like Mad magazine, which had a prominent cultural place making fun of the crass and stupid aspects of our culture. The downside to this immature attitude is that one has to first absorb pop culture in order to get all the stupid jokes making fun of it. So does it help people put up enough resistance to reach escape velocity? I like to hope so, but we can't escape ourselves if we only create by iconoclastic action. We must be the cultural creatives that replace the obsolete that we're clearly taking note of. Ruthlessly self-deprecating entertainment is interesting in that it puts up a resistance to its own audience. That feels really British. Or Jewish. Or just the pan-cultural tradition of satire.
Not to derail the derailment but it's kind of like the "pub" mentality to this research, sometimes. Who even knows about 'Mars One' and how utterly idiotic it is (yet, contradictingly, the core of the present Mars background static to our lives), except through commentary about it on various web sites? Now, we have just joined the chatter. We may be in the "heckler" camp, but we are still stuck talking about absolutely moronic things sometimes, to put up the resistance.
Maybe it will be this way until we re-invent our standards about what it means to listen to our loved ones or subject them to our interests, habits and addictions. Maybe we do all have to be better, more honest entertainers of each another. But culture needs to be morphed if it's going to pay attention to the improvement. Which comes first? Smeg it. I just don't know. It's probably just an ongoing natural process.
hoi.polloi
by brianv on Wed Aug 26, 2015 1:22 pm
Yes, I was worried about the derailment aspect, you can move the posts to the chatbox if you like! But thanks anyway. My 10 year old son loves it. I was quite surprised, as it was initially aired on UK TV at pub closing time and clearly aimed at that "smegment" of UK "society". The late 80's and 90's Beer and Vindaloo fueled "Lad Culture". And Clare Grogan indeed? Yeucch! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lad_culture
@Pov wasn't that Young Ones? Or does she get a shout in RD too?
by hoi.polloi on Sun Aug 30, 2015 9:53 pm
Buzz Aldrin to join "Populate Mars!" effort [!??!]
In what capacity is the slave "joining" anything? But of course we are supposed to see the old liar is still at it. What happened this time? Did they threaten his family? Did they offer him more patriotic lip service? Money? Does he even have a choice in his own decisions are did they shuttle him to the Florida institute or merely make the announcement for him?
"According to GeoBeats News" (a video presently viewed by fewer than 300 people?) in turn according to report "by Royce Christyn"
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Actor, Documentarian, Writer, Producer, Director, Author.
Fake, Schemer, Stooge, Sell-out, Simulation?
Legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin was among the first humans to walk on the moon, and he’s once again at the forefront of a pioneering space endeavor.
Aldrin has joined a team at the Florida Institute of Technology intent on colonizing Mars within 25 years.
The opening of the Buzz Aldrin Space Institute, which will focus on researching means of populating the Red Planet, is planned for the fall of this year.
Among them is a transport concept referred to as “Aldrin Mars Cycler,” which would perpetually orbit between Mars and Earth.
Aldrin noted the moons Deimos and Phobos are ideal stepping-off points for the colonizers and that he would like to see the astronauts’ trip durations last about a decade.
He commented, “The Pilgrims on the Mayflower came here to live and stay. They didn’t wait around Plymouth Rock for the return trip, and neither will people building up a population and a settlement.”
It’s also his preference that the endeavor be enacted in the year marking the 70th anniversary of his own historic moon venture.
That date is, however, somewhat negotiable. 2040, the year following it, also falls in the plan’s current timeline.
- http://yournewswire.com/video-buzz-aldr ... s-or-less/
Again, the mythos of an "orbit" that works as a perfect precessing ellipse or arbitrary path through space. Purely unproven fantasy.
Again, the childish comparison of an inhospitable, unreachable concept of "space beyond Earth" to Earth itself.
Again, the silly remembrance of number dates to anchor the new malarkey to established malarkey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyRlFupmjP0
The supposedly insightful video in question (link above), however, only cites NASA, Fox News, Florida Institute of Technology and generally seems like a worthless reference. Why the fuck are official News sites using the YouTube channel "GeoBeats" for Mars information, exactly? Have viewers completely lost any need for proof that an article has actually been researched rather than merely handed down from a bloody invisible office chair to the static illustration of a Max Headroom floating head?
by hoi.polloi on Mon May 01, 2017 4:38 pm
As posted by patrix ...
https://futurism.com/its-official-human ... r-mission/
Is the Reality TV show going to happen now?
On March 21, President Trump issued a mandate for NASA: get people to Mars by 2033. One week later, NASA responded with its most detailed plan to date for reaching the Red Planet, and it details five phases along the road to Mars.
As if Trump has power, and as if he made the order ...
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Indieterria meets Dave Haslam
The summer festival season is now in full bloom. Many great events are now behind us (Glastonbury Festival, Isle of Wight, Camden Rocks) and many are yet to take place. One of the festivals that we have been looking forward to for a long time, started on the 4th of July and will last until 21st July. It is of course the Manchester International Festival – a biannual celebration of music, art, theatre and film.
Thousands of people are expected to visit Manchester to participate in more than 250 presentations, art exhibitions, talks and concerts throughout the city. We are of course interested in the musical part of the event the most and the MIF LIVE is looking extraordinarily good. With gigs from Janelle Monáe (already sold out), Queens of the Electronic Underground (showcase of the best female DJs and producers in electronic music presented by BBC6 Music’s Mary Anne Hobbs) to free public concerts at Albert Square, there is nothing to complain about. Fans of rock, funk, soul, dance, jazz and even spoken word will have plenty to choose from. We have sat down with Manchester music legend, Mr Dave Haslam, to speak about his involvement with MIF, curating the Albert Sqauare stage and his newly released book “Life in thirty five boxes”.
Dave Haslam – the man himself
Official bio: DJ and writer Dave Haslam DJ’d over 450 times at the legendary Hacienda in Manchester during the late 1980s and has since DJ’d worldwide (including shows in Peru, New York, Berlin, Barcelona, and Italy). He made his debut at the Hacienda on May 1st 1986. Ian Brown, Tim Burgess and the Chemical Brothers all later credited his eclectic Thursday night sets as an inspiration. In 1990 he toured America with Mike Pickering, Graeme Park, and Paul Oakenfold. Since the early 1990s he has hosted a variety of successful club nights in Manchester, including ‘Yellow’ at the Boardwalk. He’s played afterparties for New Order, Gorillaz, and Depeche Mode. He’s is also the published author of “Life in thirty five boxes”, “Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor”, “Life After Dark: A History of British Nightclubs & Music Venues”, “Not Abba; the Real Story of the 1970’s”, “Adventures on the Wheels of Steel: The Rise of the Superstar DJs”, and “Manchester, England”. In 2012, he co-curated the exhibition “Dreams Without Frontiers” at the Manchester Art Gallery. In 2017 he co-curated a major New Order project for the Manchester International Festival.
Not many people know this, but you were born and raised in Birmingham! At this moment, West Midlands scene is incredibly strong with amazing acts such as Table Scraps, The Cosmics, The Pagans SOH, The Novus, Karkosa and many others. Was it like that when you were growing up?
Dave Haslam: I write about my Birmingham teenage years in my memoir “Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor”. I was lucky enough to be able to see some great bands, many of them local, including the Au Pairs, Steel Pulse, Dexys Midnight Runners, and The Prefects. Birmingham at the end of the 1970s was full of good gigs, and I was already a massive music enthusiast. When I came to Manchester in 1980, I was already trained up to go out looking for exciting new music and the weird stuff.
You are a man of renaissance – an published author, DJ, radio presenter, producer, journalist, legendary promoter. Is there one thing that you regret not doing? If yes, what is it?
Dave Haslam: I don’t think about regrets, really. I probably should have taken more photos and videos etc. In the 1980s not many people did any of that; not like now! But in terms of my work life, I really 100% cannot complain.
So far you have written four books and the fifth one is being released this month. It is called “Life in thirty five boxes”. Can you tell us more about it?
“Life in thirty five boxes” front cover
Dave Haslam: It’s a book about the joys of collecting, specifically vinyl collecting. It’s about how attached we can become to our vinyl; those records are like our best friends, our potent memories. But then the twist at the end I sell them. This was three years ago. And everyone thinks I was mad to do so, but I explain why and I tell the story of what happened to me and the records afterwards. It’s actually a very emotional rollercoaster of a book!
For Manchester International Festival, you are curating a series of gigs that will take place in the Albert Square. There will be nine acts over four days – all performances are free of charge. We love the idea! Was it something you wanted to do yourself or were you approached by the Festival to organize it?
Dave Haslam: I have done similar things for the Festival before. Way back when I got Everything Everything to play, and also Dutch Uncles, as they were both breaking through, and also Lonelady who I adore and doesn’t play much locally. On the DJ side, I gave Bicep their first ever gig at MIF and now they are mega (their song “Glue” is one of my favourite songs of the last couple of years). So MIF trust my ears, I guess!
You have chosen a mix of legendary acts (Horace Andy) and up-and-coming bands. Some of them proudly represent Manchester (The Blinders, Witch Fever, Liines), other acts come from Birmingham (Pagans S.O.H), Halifax (The Orielles) or Norwich (Sink Ya Teeth). How long does it take to finalize such a varied line up?
Award winning West Midlands quartet, The Pagans S.O.H debut new single just in time for MIF
Dave Haslam: It took about five minutes to come up with the line-up. I sat down with a pen and wrote the names of six or seven bands I’d like to invite, the ones I’d like to play in an ideal world. Then it took about two months to track everyone down and organise it. But the great thing is, everyone on that first list said YES! Then I was talking to my friend Dom who runs a fabulous sandwich shop in Stockport and DJs playing reggae (he’s basically the Blood & Fire Soundsystem) and I told him I wanted reggae on Sunday evening. He knows so much about reggae, so we threw some ideas together, and then he said, “Oh Horace, might come and get on the microphone”. I asked: “Are you talking about Horace Andy?” and he was. Dom knows everyone! So I agreed: “Yes, Dom, let’s do that. Let’s bring Horace!”.
In February 2018, you published an article in ‘I Love Manchester’ magazine entitled “Women in Manchester music: Are The Times A-Changing?” in which you argued that female artists must be given their rightful place on the Manchester music scene. You mentioned Witch Fever and now you have booked the band for the gig you are organizing. The whole line up is 50% female artists too. It’s refreshing to see somebody actually doing something practical to address the gender gap. What do you think needs to be do done more to improve the gender equality in the music business?
Dave Haslam: It’s worth remembering that there’s a lack of female representation in many walks of life and in many businesses. Female lawyers, for example, have big obstacles to get through; they work in a very male dominated industry. So there is nothing unique about the gender gap in music. In a way, the answer to your question is in the question itself – it’s about doing practical things. Men need to wise-up and in some cases open their ears. It amazes me how many indie-type lads are totally wedded to the idea that their favourite bands are and will always be basically four boys with guitars. Any deviation from that – either in terms of other kinds of music, or female fronted acts – are too weird for them. And women need to keep nurturing a sense of solidarity, the sisterhood can move mountains!
Stage times displayed at the Albert Square
Inside of New Pavilion artists leaflet
The cover of New Pavilion stage leaflet
New Pavilion leaflet calendar.
Festival Booklet inside
Cover of Festival Booklet
Two of the acts you have chosen played Glastonbury this year: Liines and The Blinders. Are you expecting crowds?
Dave Haslam: I have been organising concerts long enough to know that you can’t guarantee anything, but I’ll be disappointed if we don’t get good crowds because the bands are ace. I like to think some people will come out of curiosity too, knowing these are special events.
If you were to name Manchester acts to watch for in the coming months – who would you recommend? Is any new band catching your attention?
Dave Haslam: I’m actually very excited about the quality of some of the spoken word performers around at the moment. Can I mention Eve Piper? She was at Glastonbury too. She grew up in Chorlton, and she’s a name to look out for. The Manchester band I am kicking myself I didn’t make room for at MIF are Cold Water Swimmers, their new single is called “Burn Your Idols“.
The Blinders perform “Brave New World” at legendary Leftfield Stage at Glastonbury Festival 2019
The last question at Indieterria is usually a bit of a fun. Let’s say you have the opportunity to resurrect Hacienda and to bring it back into the City. Of course the original location is no longer available but you can chose a new place. What’s the new address?
Dave Haslam: Somewhere secret, or at least hard to find. The Hacienda was best before it got commercialised. So many of the best things are under the radar. You can find those places if you look hard enough.
You can follow Mr Haslam on social media at:
http://www.davehaslam.com/
https://www.facebook.com/DJDaveHaslam/
https://twitter.com/Mr_Dave_Haslam
https://mif.co.uk/whats-on/festival-square/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1453832158075371/ (Book signing event in Stockport)
Manchester International Festival Albert Square Schedule (in bold events curated by Dave Haslam)
Dave Haslam Live poster
New Pavilion Stage at Albert Square.
Tent – 400 people (please show up early as it is first come first serve basis)
Square – 2500 people at one time
12.30 – 2pm – NoTTwins present BeeLive with China Lilly, Emanuel J Burton, Maxi Zee, Pablo & ALEKS
3 – 4.30pm – Young Identity & Contact present One Mic Stand
5.30 – 7pm – KYSO
8pm – 12am – Horace Andy Soundsystem set with Blood & Fire
12.30 – 2pm – Kara
3 – 4.30pm – Psychedelic DiscoTech plus guests
5.30 – 7pm – Chorus of Others
8 – 10pm – The Orielles & Working Men’s Club
10pm – late – Psychedelic DiscoTech plus guests
Tues 16 July
12.30 – 2pm – Jon Kenzie
2.30 – 3pm – John Robb talks Ballet with Jordan Mooney
3 – 4.30pm – Matthew Whitaker
5.30 – 7pm – The 7:45s
8 – 10pm – The Blinders, Witch Fever & The Pagans SOH
10pm – late – DJ Shell Zenner
12.30 – 2pm – Lingua Franca World Music Agency present The Tebu Project
3 – 4.30pm – Hannah Ashcroft
5.30 – 7pm – NoSpace
8 – 10pm – LIINES & Sink Ya Teeth
10pm – late – DJ Jez Kerr ACR
With multitute of shows, concerts and festivals happening over the summer, Manchester is once again emerging as a leader in cultural entertainment. We all could learn a thing or two from our Northern brothers and sisters.
Have a fun and support your local scene!
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Indieterria Review – “May” by Deadwing
Don`t fall in love with yet another band…don`t fall in love with yet another band…
Oh, Hello there! We are glad that you have returned to discover new music via our blog. You came in a right moment. We have been here sitting and listening to newest music submissions, when we found a real sonic gem. They are very young, still unpolished and at the beginning of their journey – but there is so much character, talent and potential in this act that we just cant stay still.
The band is called Deadwing and describe themselves as gothic psychedelia. Their debut single “May” came out last month and the quartet had just played their first headlining show at our beloved venue in town- Jimmy`s Manchester. Deadwing may be putting their first steps in the music industry but they present some serious qualifications: they mix prog rock with some hauntingly beautiful vocals, take inspiration from a wide range of artists and try to form their own sound. Also they write poetic and mature lyrics. Additional point for the band here. Imagine later day Anathema fronted by Anneke van Giersbergen, with The Cure, Siouxsie and The Banshees and Cocteau Twins lending a hand from the off sides – a tasteful combination of gothic rock, cold wave, ambient, metal and shoegaze (or neo-psychedelia if you prefer). Even the name is spot on – original, mysterious and you can imagine it on future festival posters and in rock n roll encyclopedias that yet have to be written.
You may think we are going (slightly) bombastic here – but A&Rs have this gut feeling when we hear bands that can shape musical futures. And this is one of those moments – a group of kids that picked instruments and have yet to realise their power. Will they be determined to continue and develop their potential that is another story. For every band that makes it – 250 do not. One can only hope that they will stand united as a band and will have both luck and perseverance, good managers and a faithful label to help them along the way.
We are gonna say the same thing as NME once said to My Bloody Valentine when they first started out. Hey Deadwing – please promise to meet us on this blog in five years time when you are about to release your highly anticipated second album. We`d love to speak to you before you go on that long European tour, OK?
Deadwing photographed by Spencer Mason
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Please introduce yourself to the readers of Indieterria.
Ellis Elwyn: We are Deadwing, a four piece gothic psych-rock band from Manchester.
Where are you based and who is in the band?
Ellis Elwyn: We are based in Manchester, with me Ellis Elwyn on vocals, Jake Lafferty on drums, Jack Stanley on bass and Isaac Batty on guitar.
Tell us something about the project – are there any goals that you managed to achieve?
Ellis Elwyn: We launched at the start of March this year and released our debut single at the end of May. We also organised and hosted our own headline gig to launch the single at Jimmy’s! In terms of venues, we have been lucky enough to play at some of our favourites in Manchester such as The Deaf Institute, Band On The Wall and Jimmy’s.
The poster for band`s debut headlining show at Jimmy`s Manchester
Ellis Elwyn: We have a variety of influences! Including Radiohead, The Beatles, Black Sabbath and Jaco Pastorius. We tend to take inspiration from drama and emotion.
Ellis Elwyn: I wrote “May” after a particularly difficult time last year. The story is so open to interpretation, but I like to see it as a song with two different perspectives/people in it if that makes sense, almost singing to each other. I wrote the song just on my acoustic guitar but took it to the band and they turned it into something huge!
Ellis Elwyn: We aren’t currently touring, but at the minute you can catch us playing live in Manchester on the 15th August and in Leeds on the 9th August! Follow our social media’s for all the details when they get announced.
Ellis Elwyn: Check out our email: thedeadwingband@gmail.com
Ellis Elwyn: We’d all probably go for…can we say a band? Because it’d be Pink Floyd in a huge collaborative album! If it just has to be one artist we’d choose David Bowie, at Abbey Road Studios!
Deadwing – a band to have on your radars – photo by Thea Brooks
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You HAVE to follow the band on the socials:
https://www.facebook.com/deadwingband/
https://www.instagram.com/deadwingband/
https://soundcloud.com/deadwingband
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCznzJHpYbj-4xEp0j0-jYiA
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1qZDjUpnTjsYK1yTslsmHj?si=vJeRiDZNR6mep7VHyv93-w
Deadwing are officially on our “bands to watch for” radar, their single “May” has been added to our Spotify list and we are happy A&Rs as we just spotted another talent. What else? Stay tuned because we are not finished yet and “Hello Manchester” will continue in July with more good music and great bands.
Did we mention how much we like Deadwing?
M&R
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Indieterria Photo Review – The Blinders at Glastonbury 2019
Performing at Glastonbury Festival, the biggest festival in the world, is a dream come true for all musicians. The Blinders have been invited to join the official line up at the last minute after Sam Fender was forced to cancel his apperance at the Worthy Farm due to illness. Their accouncement that they will play the politically charged Leftfield Stage as the main support act for the singer/songwriter KT Tunstall, sent massive shock waves throughout their social media. The band performed on Saturday, 29th of June between 7:30 and 8:30 pm. They shared the scene with a fantastic group of other artists including Fontaines D.C., Billy Bragg, Queen Zee and Dream Wife to name just a few.
Set list (not in this particular order): “Gotta Get Through”, “Brave New World”, “L’Etat C’Est Moi”, “Ramona Flowers”, “The Writer”, “Lunatic With A Loaded Gun”, “Wither”, “ICB Blues”, “Rat In A Cage”, “Hate Song” and “Et Tu/Berlin Wall/Brutus”. Their set lasted about 50 minutes.
Glastonbury artwork and releases:
Once The Blinders have been confirmed, the festival marketing machine went into its standard mode and all social media have been updated to include the Doncaster trio. Within hours, The Blinders name appeared on official websites, posters and an announcement has been issued.
The Blinders are playing Glasto!
Leftfield schedule poster
Official announcement
The Shelter of a Dream by Stanley Donwood
Stage Times
Official social media:
https://www.instagram.com/glastoleftfield/
https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/areas/left-field/
https://twitter.com/glastoleftfield
https://www.facebook.com/glastoleftfield
Official pictures and videos:
As usual, on the next day after the gig, The Blinders uploaded a set of official pictures taken by Sam Crowston of Sam Crowston Imagining/Nasty Man Creations.
Sam has been working as an official visualizer for the band since 2016 and is responsible for all videos, pictures and videography.
Glastonbury 2019 pic.twitter.com/CyrkziLvB4
— THE BLINDERS (@theblindersband) July 3, 2019
Fan pictures:
Indieterria is proud to say that The Blinders have some of the most beautiful fans in existance! They are not only willing to travel all over the country and abroad to attend their shows, but they always share pictures, videos with those who couldn’t be there. When fans realized that the BBC Glastonbury coverage sadly didn’t cover LeftField, they immediately shared their own recordings and photos. We have teamed with Alan Wells, Bob Wallis and Liam O’Farrell to bring you a great selection of pictures/videos from their Glastonbury set! Thank you so much guys! Please respect the copyrights and if you’d like to share those pictures, please provide full credit to the authors.
Bob Wallis gallery:
Bob can be contacted at: https://www.facebook.com/bob.wallis.75
The Blinders before their show at the Leftfield Stage. Picture by Bob Wallis. Used with permission (and with a guest apperance from Photographer, Alan Wells)
Thomas Haywood of The Blinders at Leftfield stage at Glastonbury 2019. Picture by Bob Wallis. Used with permission
Charlie McGough of The Blinders at Leftfield stage at Glastonbury 2019. Picture by Bob Wallis. Used with permission
Matty Neale of The Blinders at Leftfield stage at Glastonbury 2019. Picture by Bob Wallis. Used with permission
Liam O’Farrell gallery:
Liam Can be contacted at: https://www.facebook.com/liam.ofarrell.16
Charlie McGough of The Blinders at Leftfield stage at Glastonbury 2019. Picture by Liam O’Farrell. Used with permission
Thomas Haywood of The Blinders at Leftfield stage at Glastonbury 2019. Picture by Liam O’Farrell. Used with permission
Charlie McGough (bass) and Matty Neale (drums) of The Blinders at Leftfield stage at Glastonbury 2019. Picture by Liam O’Farrell. Used with permission
Fan Videos:
The Blinders are known for their atmospheric and energetic live performances and their show at Glasto was not an exception. The tent was packed and everybody had good time, danced, pogo’ed and sang along. You will notice that during the set, drummer, Matty Neale, sustained a hand injury but kept on playing! This has earned him a massive respect from everyone in the audience. We have to say, we are very impressed. We also hope that the injury is not serious and Matty will recover in no time.
“The Writer” and “Brave New World” filmed by Bob Wallis:
Another (short) video clip of The Blinders performing “Brave New World” taken by Alan Wells:
@theblindersband smashing @GlastoLeftField stage @GlastoFest 2019 #NewMusic #Glastonbury2019 pic.twitter.com/XB6PCEYk0A
— Alan Wells (@TheAlanWells) July 1, 2019
“Brutus” (without “Et Tu”/”Berlin Wall”) has been filmed by gorillaprint:
@theblindersband @GlastoLeftField @GlastoFest #Glasto2019 pic.twitter.com/RuDln6zKoS
— gorillaprint (@printgorilla1) July 1, 2019
There are few interesting articles about The Blinders playing at Glastonbury, so please knock yourself out if you still haven’t had enough 🙂 !
https://www.nme.com/festivals/glastonbury-2019/political-pilton-heres-guide-everything-political-glastonbury-2019-2512338
https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/people/doncaster-band-the-blinders-set-to-play-glastonbury-alongside-kt-tunstall-and-billy-bragg-342369
https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/people/doncaster-band-the-blinders-set-to-play-glastonbury-alongside-kt-tunstall-and-billy-bragg-342369
https://offthehookmusic.com/festival-highlights
Thank you again to those who made this post possible. You are absolute rock and roll stars.
We will be monitoring the internets and if something else pop ups, then we will let you know (but of course)!
Thank you for listening and enjoy the summer festival season.
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Indieterria Review – San Pedro “The Demon Sessions”
Running a music blog is an exciting thing. You get to interview some of your musical heroes or new emerging acts. You meet interesting people, you go out to gigs, festivals or various cultural events. But most importantly (at least for us) you have a chance to listen to the music before anyone else. And if you are lucky, you may discover a next big thing. When we listened to one of the submissions we received last week, we immediately knew that we have found a winner.
San Pedro Logo
San Pedro is a new project of Rikki Turner, the mastermind behind several Manchester electronic outfits such as The Paris Angels, The New Southern Elektrik and The Hurt. A large collective named after the Californian town where Turner’s favourite writer, Charles Bukowski lived out his final days, San Pedro consists of musicians, DJ’s, writers, poets, artists and singers based in the UK, mainland Europe and in America. We are not sure how many people are actually involved (the collective seems to be quite mysterious and fluid) but several names have been confirmed. So far we know about singer/songwriter Millie MacBean known for her ethereal vocals, Suddi Raval (ex member of rave duo Together, best known for their hit “Hardcore Uproar” that went to the top of the national charts in 1990), Simon Wolstencroft (The Fall, Ian Brown, The Stone Roses, Johnny Marr and Freak Party), Keith Higgins (former member of The Hunt), Justin Leonard, Martin McClaren, poet Karl Hildebrandt and Antnee Egerton of The Winachi Tribe.
San Pedro picture by Paul Husband
San Pedro group picture by Paul Husband
Their debut EP entitled “The Demon Sessions” will be released by Blindside Records on July the 5th and every fan of an old school rave, electronica and house music should be on high alert.
“The Demon Sessions” contains only 4 tracks: two versions of “The Things You See”, acid-house inspired “Theme from San Pedro” and “The View From The Drowning Pool”. The first version of “The Things You See” nicknamed the “Original Version” has been chosen as the leading single and features Millie MacBean on vocals. It reminds us of an early Utah Saints meeting 808 State, with strong ambient background beat a la U.S.U.R.A (“Open Your Mind”) or Sven Väth circa 1992 (“Accident In Paradise”). The second version of the single (called “Rikki Turner Remix”) brings softened loops and more house feelings that could have won many hearts at the Hacienda. Again, it has a strong bass beat with ambient influences but its aesthetics are closer to OPUS III and KLF than to Vath. Also, it makes heavy use of samples which gives the track additional depth. “The View From The Drowning Pool” with spoken word by Rikki Turner will probably not receive much commercial airplay due to expletive language, but has chances of become a fan-favourite song.
San Pedro “The Demon Sessions” cover artwork
The Demon Sessions is a must have for everyone who remembers the good old days of Madchester scene. Hopefully, it will introduce new generation to (quite) forgotten genres such as ambient, big beat, house and rave. Also, we are told, San Pedro Collective is planning on releasing additional material in the autumn and we cannot wait to hear what they’ll come up with next.
San Pedro release poster
You can follow San Pedro Collective online:
https://www.facebook.com/sanpedrocollectivemcr
https://www.facebook.com/BlindsideRecordsUK
https://www.attackmagazine.com/features/interview/brief-history-acid-house-suddi-raval/
https://jammerzine.com/the-test-drive-san-pedro-the-demon-sessions/
https://www.xsnoize.com/manchesters-san-pedro-to-release-brand-new-ep-the-demon-sessions
https://artvoice.com/2019/06/25/manchester-heavyweights-san-pedro-release-new-ep-the-demon-sessions/
https://baggingarea.blogspot.com/2019/06/san-pedro.html
As usual, please support your local scene (new and old)!
We will see you shortly.
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Indieterria Review – “California” by Hey Bulldog
We have another single to review from a Manchester band and this one is a belter. If you are familiar with the scene up North – you will surely know Hey Bulldog – either from their energetic shows or their countless national radio plays and high profile festival appearances. This band has Steve Lamacaq at BBC 6, John Kennedy at Radio X and Charlie Ashcroft on Amazing Radio on a speed dial and will appear at Kendal Calling ad Cotton Clouds among other festivals this summer. On June 28th they will unleash their newest gem – “California” much to the enjoyment of their fans.
The sleeve for “California” single
Mixing stoner rock with distinctive psychedelia made Hey Bulldog underground favourites in the North and “California” is not a radical departure from the sound established by their other singles such as “No Future (Part Two)” or “Al Lupo”. But there is something in the track that we would describe as a nod to Welsh heavyweights Feeder, especially in their “Comfort In Sound” period. Perhaps it is the urgent bass line and the punky yet melodic vocals, or maybe overwhelming sense of loss waved in between the notes?
We had a pleasure to speak to Hey Bulldog`s front man Rob Manton about the band, the new single and their gruelling touring schedule. And this is what he had to say:
Hey Bulldog live at Jimmy`s Manchester – photo by Jo Lowes
https://www.facebook.com/jo.lowes
Rob Manton: We’re Hey Bulldog from Manchester with me Rob Manton on guitar/vocals, Matt Parry on bass/backing vocals and Ben Howarth-Lees on drums.
Rob Manton: Opening the2nd stage at a massive festival like Kendal Calling was definitely a box ticked last year and we’re delighted to have been asked back to play again for the second year in a row this July, our first gig abroad playing a festival in Sicily was also an amazing life experience.
We’ve had incredible radio support from day one from the likes of Steve Lamacq 6 Music and John Kennedy on Radio X, Chris Hawkins on 6 Music has been mega to us too. We’re well into double figures for the amount of different songs we’ve had on national radio and the buzz of getting played alongside the best artists in the world never wears off.
We’re currently planning our first vinyl 7 inch release and also our debut album so those steps will also be great ambitions achieved for us.
Hey Bulldog at iconic Manchester venue – The Castle Hotel, photography by Dave Morely
Rob Manton: Great musicians and bands like The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Led Zeppelin who were primarily guitar, bass and drums will always be our foundation but that’s combined with artists like Neil Young and David Bowie, who consistently tried to develop and progress all the way through their careers. Modern acts like The Kills, Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem, Ty Segall, Mogwai, Nadine Shah, PJ Harvey, who combine lots of different musical elements into what they do are also the current benchmark for us.
Rob Manton: Our new single ‘California’ is out on 28th June. It was inspired by a chance meeting I had with lo-fi garage rock legend and now sadly the late great Rex ‘Tatarex’ Thompson. His band The Summer Hits released a handful of singles between 1992-1996 and were played on BBC Radio 1 by legendary DJ John Peel. I met Rex a few years ago in California when he was dj`ing at Burger Records event I was at with my friends who knew him. We got chatting and talked about music and his time in the UK over a couple of days, he was a massive character that anybody who met would never forget so when I heard he had died about a year later I wanted to make a bass driven stoner rock track in tribute to him.
Tour poster
Rob Manton: To promote the new single we’ve got a date in London and a string of festivals over the summer that we really excited to play.
28th June, Sebright Arms, London Event Page Tickets
5th July, Not A Cult Festival, Malvern Event Page Tickets
19th July, Blackthorn Festival, Cheshire Event Page Tickets
26th July, Kendal Calling, Cumbria Event Page Tickets
17th August, Cotton Clouds, Saddleworth Event Page Tickets
Rob Manton: Just send us an email at info@hey-bulldog.com
Rob Manton: David Bowie would have been a pretty cool producer. Working with somebody like Jamie Hince from the Kills or James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem in a legendary studio like Electric Ladyland or Abbey Road would be incredible and really interesting to hear how they would want us to sound. We’d also love to be able to record with our current mixers Boe Weaver at their own Studio Humbug in the Isle of Wight, the dream would be to go out to the Rancho de la Luna studio in the Joshua Tree and record with them their too!
Bringing guitar infused fury to a venue near you – Hey Bulldog photographed by Steve Hampson
https://www.facebook.com/shampson3
Listen to “California”
http://www.hey-bulldog.com/
https://www.facebook.com/heybulldogmusic
https://heybulldog.bandcamp.com
https://twitter.com/heybulldog
https://www.instagram.com/heybulldogmusic/
https://www.youtube.com/user/heybulldogmusic/
https://soundcloud.com/heybulldog
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5OLxViZI8qMwA9VV3NzsKW?si=lBbyVNGbSi2K-MvMZXclIw
All right folks, Hey Bulldog receives a full stamp of approval from us and we urge you to see them live in nearer future – because we live in a wonderful times for indie music and great bands seem to pop up all over the shop. Tony Wilson was right – best music does come from Greater Manchester area so don`t miss out!
We have more music to discover so please come again!
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Indieterria Photo Review – Cabbage/Afghan Sand Gang/Thomas Haywood at Night & Day Cafe, Manchester
A lot is being said recently about mental health crisis yet it still reminds a taboo. Mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, eating disorders (bulimia and anorexia) and addictive behaviours (drug use, alcohol dependence) carry a lot of stigma. People suffering from mental illness are often misunderstood, treated badly or even are subjected to prolonged abuse or bullying. hey are twice more likely to be physically or verbally attacked and receive less support in comparison to those who suffer from cancer or other long term illnesses. According to NHS, nearly 30% of all population of the United Kingdom suffers from or is declaring depression and mood swings. Almost 17% of women and 12% of men are prescribed medication for common and rare disorders. And while almost 80% of all females diagnosed with depression are seeking treatment, only 5% of men are doing the same. This has tragic consequences.
Boys are raised not to cry or show any emotions that could render them vulnerable. They have to be strong in every circumstances. If they are not, their masculinity and their worth are called into question. In a society where seeking help is considered a failure, man are dying. The statistics are shocking: three out of four suicides (76%) are by men and suicide is the biggest cause of death for men under 35. 73% of adults who go missing are men. 87% of rough sleepers are men. Men are also three times more likely to abuse illegal substances in an attempt so self medicate.
Liam Smith fundraiser – sold out!
On Monday, 24th of June, three of Manchester best bands: Cabage, Afghan Sand Gang and Thomas Haywood (representing The Blinders) came together to play a show at the legendary Night & Day Cafe in Manchester, to collect funds for the family of Liam Smith, a young man who lost his battle with depression in Australia.
The statement released before the concert read: “After the tragic death of our close friend and Mossley brother, Liam Smith, we Cabbage along with The Blinders and Afghan Sand Gang are hosting a fundraiser event at Night & Day Cafe on Monday 24th June. Liam lost his battle with mental health and took his own life on the other side of the world in Australia. This leaves his family in the predicament of an astronomical bill for his repatriation and funeral costs. So many people have been kind enough to donate a large portion of the 20k required to Liam’s Gofundme page, currently standing at £15,000. We are hoping our fundraiser can be the final donation required. Tickets on sale now from Gigs and Tours. A huge thank you in advance for anyone that can contribute and come along. This is also an urgent message to encourage people to speak out if they have any problems of their own and are suffering in silence. Cabbage x”
Tickets sold out within minutes and many people went to contribute to the donation page that is still open at: https://uk.gofundme.com/repatriation-amp-funeral-cost
If you’d like to donate, please do so as the family is undergoing an incredibly hard time and they will need a lot of support. Thank you!
Vanadian Avenue teamed up with Steve Hampson, Louder Than War magazine photographer to bring you a photo coverage of the event. We think that words are not necessary at all to describe what was happening. We want to show you the images taken that night. They speak for themselves. We would like to thank Steve for his images and for the ability to highlight this incredibly important event. We need to start talking about mental illness differently: without fear or blame. Only then, we can concentrate on fighting the common enemy.
Thomas Haywood (The Blinders)
Set list: “Ballad of Winston Smith”, “I Will Always Be Here Waiting For You” (original song), “Circles” (original song), “Phantom Lover” (third and last original song), “Ramona Flowers” and “Ballad of Tin Man” (Bob Dylan cover).
Thomas Haywood performing solo. Picture by Steve Hampson, used with permission
Afghan Sand Gang
Set list: “Mantra”, “Scribe”, “Envy”, “White Lies” “Glistener and Descension” and two new unnamed tracks.
Afghan Gang Sand. Picture by Steve Hampson, used with permission
Set list: “Uber Capitalist Death Trade”, “Arms Of Pleonexia”, “Terrorist Synthesizer”, “Dinner Lady”, “Kevin”, “Tell Me Lies About Manchester” (dedicated to Ray Boddington of the Piccadilly Rats), “Necroflat In The Palace”, “These Boots Were Made For Walking” (Nancy Sinatra cover)
Cabbage. Picture by Steve Hampson, used with permission
Steve Hampson:
Steve Hampson is one of Manchester’s premier music photographers. Music been a passion of his for as long as he can remember, since he was old enough to sneak into gigs down at the local pub. And his camera is something he’s never been able to live without. A Manc born and bred, Steve has been attending gigs in the city for over 30 years, and he is now following in the footsteps of outstanding photographers like Kevin Cummings. Steve loves nothing more than descending the steps into a dingy basement in the Northern Quarter and photographing the next big thing or one of the country’s most iconic acts. From The Who to The Courteeners, Alabama Shakes to Patti Smith, Steve is never far from the music.
http://www.stevehampson.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/rangerpeg
Thank you to all who made this evening a success!
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FWT Final coming up at Nisson Xtreme Verbier
by Anna Langer
The season is slowly coming to an end and that means the finals of the Freeride World Tour are coming up!
Peak of a season full of extraordinary freeriding will be the Nissan Xtreme Verbier 2011 by Swatch, which is coming back to the legendary Bec des Rosses on Saturday, 19 March (weather permitting).
From its earliest incarnation the Verbier Xtreme, the world’s longest-running, most prestigious freeriding event is now entering its 16th consecutive season of competition on Verbier’s notorious Bec des Rosses.
Only the top 13 men skiers, seven men snowboarders, and five women skiers and snowboarders have qualified to compete on the Bec des Rosses this weekend. Following this event, the riders’ best four results will be used to determine the 2011 Freeride World Champion in each category: ski men, ski women, snowboard men and snowboard women.
In addition to the event’s cash prize of $60,000USD, each 2011 Freeride World Champion will also drive away from the event in a brand new NISSAN JUKE.
Catch the live stream at FreerideWorldTour.com!
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Shopping Smart Money-Saving Tips for Co-ops & Condos
By Lisa Iannucci 2011 July Finance
The day-to-day costs of running a multifamily residential building are significant. There’s the fuel oil, electric, cleaning supplies, equipment maintenance and service calls for repair and upkeep. Then there are the insurance costs, landscaping, trash removal, snow removal, advertising, property taxes, and maintenance fees.
In today’s economy, the cost of many of these expenses have gone nowhere but up (and up and up…). For example, Jerry Blumberg, CEO at Kew Forest Maintenance Supply in Woodside admits that in his industry, the supplies costs are going ‘through the roof.’ And after one of the harshest winters in a long time when fuel costs escalated, most businesses are just raising their prices just to keep up with their own rising expenses.
Costs should always be on the forefront of a manager’s mind, and there may come a time when like it or not, the budget simply has to be tightened. The bottom line to managing a building’s bottom line is to do what anybody does when facing more month at the end of their money—evaluate spending, cut costs and look for better deals.
Evaluate Spending
Evaluating current spending is the first step in determining whether or not any spending is out of control and if changes are needed to rein things in, says Robert Serrara, management director at Anker Management in Hartsdale. Several times during the year, he and his managers review their buildings' budgets. “We go over the year prior, and now we’re doing that more frequently because of the costs going up,” he says. “We’re always watching, especially with the kind of economy we’ve been in.”
When it comes to ordering supplies, Anker’s managers keep a running log of what the supers in each building need. “As the super goes over items in the building, say on a monthly basis, we can see what is being used more frequently,” he says.
Report: Manhattan Condo and Co-op Sales Down in 2Q 2018
Meanwhile, Inventory Is Up
Influx of NYC Homes Could Be a Boon for Buyers
Meanwhile, More Families Are Renting, Says Report
Report: Condo Prices at Trump Properties Take a Hit
Average Sales Price for a Trump Unit Fell 16 Percent Compared to a Manhattan Condo
Robert Nordlund on Maintenance Charge Increases:
Mike - well said. As a national provider of Reserve Studies (over 50,000 prepared for clients in all 50 states), we see all too commonly tha…
Robert Nordlund on Underfunded Reserves:
Thank you AJ. I have a couple more observations to add. In our work for associations of all types (we've prepared over 50,000 Reserve Studie…
Elizabeth Relnick on New York City Co-op and Condo Tax Distribution:
I am on 6th fl, (shareholder) "K" Line, the coop Underneath me. 5th floor, is exactly same in amt of size, as rest of apts on floors 4,3,…
Roy H on Share and Share Alike:
We are shareholders in a Co-op of 120 units, roughly 80 shareholders 40 renters. We have one share each. The land value has increased fo…
Michael on Residential Development Comes to the Financial District:
When it occurs, why do developers typically convert buildings to condo rather than co-op? Are there financial reasons? Is a conversion to…
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Totally Biased Fan Review: Marie Hodson:Walking The Floor Over You
Marie writes in her liner notes: I’m not a writer and I feel it best to leave it to those who are truly remarkable at their craft. Technically and traditionally, I am a singer/songwriter advocate. However, I can count on one hand those in country music who can truly sing somebody else’s song and sing it to perfection. Marie Hodson is one of them. The Kiwi with Scot and Irish heritage and who now lives a stone’s throw from the Country Music Cap. in Australia, Tamworth, at Werris Creek, devours torch and twang like I do a bowl of icecream.
Well known for her awesome tributes to the likes of Patsy Cline and Reba McEntire, Marie can sing traditional country music songs like very few others can. I have been fortunate enough to see Marie LIVE quite a few times now, and she sells a song like it is a Broadway play. Perhaps in the last life or the next she was/will be an actress on the stage.
Some of these songs are well known, some aren’t. Modern Country Music hero, Joshua Hedley, has two songs featured on here, and he is the real deal, (see my reviews). I saw him in Melbourne this year, and he is part of the great country music revival in America. I love Marie’s version of Funny How Time Slips Away. The Alabama song, Feels So Right is fantastic too. The Kiwi connection is strong, with my Dad’s favourite gal, Johanna Hemara featured, and Camille Te Nahu and the Blue Smoke song there. I particularly like the opening track Forget Him, written by Camille and hubby Stuart French. I was busy picking up song titles and lines, a bit like I did with Luke O’Shea’s Listen to the Words! The duet with Anthony Taylor, After the Fire is Gone is pretty much necessary, considering their similar styles and Anthony and Marie’s mutual admiration for each other’s work.
Although Marie sings other’s songs, she doesn’t always make obvious choices in songs, just songwriters. Nobody’s Darlin’ but Mine fits her like a glove. There had to be a Merle song, there just had to be….I didn’t mean to love you is a great choice. The title track is a classic that every country music fan should know, if they don’t, they should seriously consider following another genre, it is known to those outside country music circles. It is probably the most covered song on the album. I would love to know why Marie called the album this, however, considering the meaning of the song. I would have perhaps chosen I Didn’t Mean to Love You or Funny How Time Slips Away (considering that it is supposedly her last album).
Bill Anderson has written some great songs, it is nice to see him featured on here. Walkout Backwards is a song that my Dad often played when I was a kid. It has some great lyrics.
If this is Marie’s last album, it is a Hell of a way to go out. Say it isn’t so! I know a lot of people who love listening to Marie sing and perform LIVE. They are from all walks of life and they are all ages. That is unusual, considering that Marie sings the more traditional style.
As usual, she gets the balance right. That is not easy. Thank you for the music, Marie.
Forget Him (Camille Te Nahu and Stuart French)
This Time (Joshua Hedley)
Funny How Time Slips Away (Willie Nelson)
Mr Jukebox (Joshua Hedley)
Feels So Right (Randy Owen)
I Got Lucky With You (Emily Miller)
Nobody’s Darlin’ But Mine (Jimmi Davis)
After the Fire is Gone (Duet with Anthony Taylor) (L.E. White)
Walking the Floor Over You (Ernest Tubb)
I Didn’t Mean to Love You (Merle Haggard and Red Lane)
Walkout Backwards (Bill Anderson)
Blue Smoke ( Ruru Karaitiana)
Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Steve Newton (Enrec Studios)
Co-Producer: Marie Hodson
Musos: Stuart French, Jason Roller, Greg Franks, Brad Bergen, Ron Mahony, Justin Branum, Michel Rose, Mike Johnson, Liam Kennedy, Andrew McMahon, Artie Taylor with Johanna Hemara and James Craswell on Harmonies and Anthony Taylor
Author kindartPosted on October 30, 2018 Categories Totally Biased Fan Reviews
2 thoughts on “Totally Biased Fan Review: Marie Hodson:Walking The Floor Over You”
Leonie McClure says:
Once again you are so right, with everything thing you say about Marie Hodson
I love the fact that you listen to my program every week, it’s proves you have great taste, I would love to use your write ups about your selection of Artists on my show each week we should do a segment
That would be awesome, Leonie. Sorry, I am just seeing this! Thank you for thinking of me. I would love to. We both have excellent taste.
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The Commodore 264 is not actually a computer but it's a model range. This range of computers consist of the C16, C116, Plus/4 and the prototypes 232, 264 and the 364.
The name 264 was used for the first proto type of this range and is printed on most of the serial tags at the bottom of the computers. After the success of the Commodore 64 and the end of the VIC 20 production it was time to develop a new computer range.
The exact reasons for the 264 range are not clear. Some sources say that it was the successor of the VIC20. But there are also sources that tell that is was intended to compete with the Sinclair Spectrum or Timex as it was called in the USA. And if you take a look at the C116 that you will see similarities with the Spectrum. The target was to build a cheap computer like the C116 and the C16 with above that the advanced version with bigger memory and build in programs like the Plus/4. The proto type 364 was a Plus/4 with a bigger keyboard and a processor that could produce spoken words. The 264 series was also a attempt to get into the professional market. This was the main task of the Plus/4 with build in programs like a word processor, spreadsheet, database and a graphical program. The strange thing is that all the three models (C16, C116 and the Plus 4) use a different motherboard.
Processor: MOS 7501 / MOS 8501, 1.8 (0,9) MHz.
RAM memory: 64 kbyte
ROM memory: 64 kbyte (Basic, Kernal, Characters, TEDMon, Programs)
Co-Processor Graphic / Sound: TED
Connections: Expansion-port, User-port, Serial-port, Datassette, 2 x Joystick, TV, Video, Audio, Power-Supply.
The specifications above are for the Plus/4. The C116 and the C16 only have 16 kbyte of RAM and 20 kbyte of ROM. And there is no User port on these models.
On the picture a C116. This is a PAL version. The C116 is the little brother of the Plus/4 with less memory and no build in programs. The outside looks like the Plus/4 but is a smaller. The keyboard was a attempt to reduce the price of the computer. The keyboard is as bad as that of the Max machine.
The use.
Commodore introduced the 264 as a professional machine to be used by companies and schools. But as it was with the VIC 20 and the C64 games was the most attractive use of the machine. The 264 was not as good at games as the C64. The sales of this series never reached a level like that of the C64. Problem was that the C64 stayed in production when the 264 went in production. The C64 was too big of a competitor for the 264 range. In Europe a large amount of the C16 and the Plus/4 computers were sold as a package. The package consisted of a computer, datassette, and a complete BASIC course and a couple of other games or programs.
For this series a new range of external devices was introduced. Like the MPS 803 printer in black. There was a special disk drive for the 264 series, this was the 1551. The 1551 looks like a black painted version of the 1541 but has a parallel connection instead of a serial connection. Buying a joystick was not that easy. For a not explained reason Commodore decided to get ride of the standard connection for a joystick and put a new type of connector on this model range (mini DIN). Most people got an adapter cable which made it possible to connect normal sub-D 9 joysticks to the new type of connector.
Off course you could go to Commodore Computer meetings but they where mostly C64 orientated.
In spite of the poorer game possibilities of the 264 series in comparison with the C64 many games were written for this computer. Because the C116 and the C16 have less memory not all games could be played on these machines. Some of the well known games are: Quadrilion, Winter / Summer events, Jerry's Quest, Dizzy, David's Midnight Magic, Elite, Ace.
Graphic programs:
The 264 series has a bigger color pallet than earlier Commodore computers. The amount of colors is 16. And every color has 8 levels of brightness what will bring the total number of colors to 121 different colors. (A number of colors are not counted because they are the same). Well known graphic programs are: (Multi) Botticelli, MagicPaint +++, FLI Editor, Micro Illustrator, Graphics.
Music programs:
The 264 series has a music chip which is a bit less advanced then the SID chip in the C64 but can produce reasonable sound. Well known music programs are: MConv v1.6, Music-Hearing V1.0, Speech +4, Digital Drum Machine, RAP4.
Word processors:
The Plus/4 has a word processor build in but there was also other software available. Well known word processors are: Script/Plus, Page Setter and the word processor in GEOS 3.5.
Office package:
The most known and used package is GEOS. GEOS is a complete package for the Plus/4 or a RAM expanded C116 and C16's in combination with a 1551 disk drive. Build in disk speeder, word processor, database, graphic program, communications and much more. Besides GEOS there are also other programs like: Calc/Plus, Superbase +4, Script/Plus.
For specific tasks are special programs available. Copy programs for the Datassette and Disk drive are made in many versions. Also crunchers (zip) are popular to reduce the size of programs making loading faster. A few examples of utilities: Mega Assembler, Disk Demon, Austrospeed Compiler, Cruel Crunch 4.0, Dir-god V3.3.
Demos started as a sort of competition between hackers. Hackers included a little intro before the cracked program. In the beginning it was a text scroll soon followed by a couple of hires pictures. Some cracked games were copied just because of the intro and not the game. After a while the intros became stand alone programs (demos) that showed everything that was possible with a C16, C116 or a Plus/4 and also the stuff that was not possible. Nowadays the making of a demo is a art and the most demos fill two sides of a disk. Some of the best demos are: Chaos (Absence), Questionmark (New System Technology (NST)), Infinity (Electronic Vision Software (EVS)), Heartfixer (Luca and Bubis), Genetic Faulty (Gentlemen Software (GS)), We are the cure (Luca and Bubis). Hundreds of demos are made and you can find web sites that will host these demos.
Cartridges:
Not a lot of cartridges were made for the 264 series. The production of cartridges was expensive and they were easy to crack. Cartridges went out of fashion for these reasons. A few examples are: Jack Attack, Pirate Adventure, Script Plus, Calc Plus, C16 Tutor. Also a memory expansion and a SID cartridge are available.
External devices:
For this range of computers is also a range a external devices available. Most known and sold must be the black edition of the 1530 datassette the 1531. Except for the color and the connector it is equal to the 1530. With a little adapter you can use a 1531 with a VIC-20 or a C64. There is a 1551 disk drive that looks like the 1541 but it has a parallel connection for faster loading and saving data. The MPS 803 printer is available in the black color. Commodore also offered a joystick. The Commodore joysticks were not that good so most people bought another brand. You had to use a adapter cable to connect another joystick.
On the picture a C16 "Lernkurs" package. This package consist of a C16 with a datassette and a BASIC course on cassette with a book. This package was available in the German and English language.
The Central Processing Unit 7501 (8501).
The processing power of the C16, C116 and the Plus/4 is taken care of by the 7501 (8501). The 7501 and the 8501 are identical in technical way. The only difference is the way they were produced.
I/O bus: 7 bit
Interrupts: IRQ, RDY
Speed: 1,8 or 0,9 MHz
Data bus:
The 7501 (8501) works like all other processors with the binary system. That means there are only 2 possibilities on or off. This will be shown as a 0 or a 1. This called a bit. If you got a 8 bit wide data bus then the possibilities are 00000000 to 11111111. A value of 8 bit wide is called a byte. In the normal decimal system that is 0 to 255. All processing is limited to the numbers 0 to 255. If you need bigger numbers you will have to chop the big number into little parts.
Address bus:
With the address bus the processor can point to a point (address) in the memory. The limitation is the width of the bus. With 16 bits you can make a numbers between 00000000 00000000 and 11111111 11111111. Or in decimals between 0 and 65536. The 7501 (8501) can address 64 kbyte of memory. But there are memory expansion that will go to 256 kbyte and more. If you want to address more than 64 kbyte you have to switch between memory banks (bank-switching). This trick has also been used in the PET / CBM range and the C128. The processor can only see 64 kbyte at one time.
I/O bus:
This part is extra with the 7501 (8501) in comparison to the 6502 processor (PET/CBM, VIC20). And this was also put in the C64. This I/O bus can change how the C16, C116 and the Plus/4 looks inside. The bus is 7 bit wide and will give 128 options in theory. The data on this bus is connected to the PLA which does the switching of memory inside of the C16, C116 and the Plus/4. The C16, C116 or the Plus/4 is a 64 kbyte machine but in reality there is 64 kbyte RAM, 8 kbyte KERNAL, 8 kbyte BASIC, 4 kbyte characters, 2 x 8 kbyte for cartridges, Registers of the TED. Normally this will not fit in a 64 kbyte system but with clever switching you can use everything only not at the same time. If you use BASIC the RAM under the BASIC cannot be used this explains the boot message of the Plus/4 - 60671 BASIC BYTES FREE. But if you don't need the BASIC you simply switch it off and you can use the RAM memory underneath it.
Interrupts:
A interrupt is a stop-sign. The processor can be halted with a interrupt. If the TED needs more time it will halt the processor via a interrupt.
The system speed of the C16, C116 or the Plus/4 is 1,8 MHz (or 0,9 MHz). This means that there are 1,8 (or 0,9) million actions per second that are processed. So the 7501 (8501) processor can do 1.800.000 (of 900.00) action every second. The fasted instruction takes only 2 actions but the slowest instruction takes 7.
On which speed the processor works depends on what the TED is doing. If the screen is made or the RAM is refreshed the speed will be switched to the lower speed. In other cases the higher speed will be available.
The number of instructions is 150 but there are in theory 255 instruction possible. Programmers found extra instruction by experimenting. But these are actually defects that are build into the chips and are not real instructions. There are instructions that only move data like LDA (Load the accumulator with a value) but there are also instructions that will calculate data like ADD (ADD a value to the accumulator) Also there are instructions the manipulate a value like ROR which shifts the bits a place to the right.
On the picture a Plus/4 "Lernkurs". This package consist of a Plus/4 with a datassette and a BASIC course on cassette with a book. This package was available in the German and English language.
The TED.
TED stands for Text EDitor and takes care of the graphic on the screen produces the sound gets the keyboard information keeps track of time and manages the memory. Al these tasks are normally done by more than 1 chip like in the C64. Combining all these parts resulted in a cheap computer. But combining all these tasks meant that there had to be some limitations on the possibilities of the computer. This is what became the weak point of the 264 series. Like other Commodore models the TED is compatible with the television standard and different versions were produced.
7380 / 8360 - PAL-B (Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia) and NTSC (North America, South America, Japan)
8365 - PAL-N (Argentina, Uruguay)
8366 - PAL-M (Brazil)
The 7380 and the 8360 are identical in technical way. The only difference is the way they were produced.
Text: 40 x 25 characters with 8 x 8 pixels
Hires: 320 x 200 pixels, Multicolor: 160 x 200 pixels
Colors: 121
Smooth scrolling
Light pen
Hardware-cursor, -text blinking, -text reverse
Sound: 2 voices square shape. 1 Voice can produce noise
A big disappointment of the TED was that it had no hardware sprites like on the C64 and the Amiga's
On the screen you can put 1000 characters. The character will come from the CHAR ROM but you can design your own characters. In normal text mode there are only two colors, the background color and the character color. But there is also a multicolor mode. In multicolor mode you can have 4 different colors but this will reduce the resolution from 8 x 8 pixels to 4 x 8 pixels.
Hires:
Instead of characters the screen can now be filed with 320 x 200 = 64000 pixels. The drawback is that this will use up a large part of the memory (8 kbyte). Hires has also a multicolor mode and will reduce the resolution to 160 x 200 = 32000 pixels.
There are 16 different colors. Every color has also 8 levels of brightness. If you count all the colors you will come to 8 x 16 = 128 but the 8 brightness levels of black are all the same. So there are 128 - 7 = 121 different colors.
Smooth scrolling:
The TED can move the complete screen with one pixel at the time in all directions (smooth scrolling). To let something appear from nothing the visible screen can be made smaller. The smaller screen is now 38 x 23 characters. Now you can place your data, characters or hires, in the covered part of the screen and slide it into the visible part of the screen. You can slide 8 pixels with smooth scrolling. If you need to slide more you have to move the whole screen data 8 pixels and start the sliding again from the start.
Light pen:
If you shoot or click on the screen with a "light-gun" of "light-pen" the TED will tell you the position on the screen.
Hardware-cursor, -textblinking, -textreverse:
The TED can put the cursor where you want with its hardware. The hardware can make all or some characters blink. A lot of character sets have build in reverse characters. The TED does the reverse via it's hardware.
The TED has two oscillators. A oscillator is a mechanism to produce a signal with a specific frequency. The oscillators inside the TED have a frequency range of about 100Hz tot 23kHz. The frequency can be adjusted in 1016 steps. The oscillators are independent of each other. The oscillators are also called voices. The shape of the signal produces by the oscillators is a square shape.
Volume control:
The volume of the TED can be adjusted in 9 steps. (0-8)
Timers:
With a timer you can make a signal with a specific timing. This is used to make a RS-232 signal.
The reading of the keyboard is also a task of the TED. It reads via a matrix which key is pressed on the keyboard.
On the picture the NTSC version of the Plus/4. The only difference between the NTSC and the PAL version is a different frequency cristal. The video chip (TED) will adapt automatically to the chosen frequency. Besides the technical difference the packaging is also different to the PAL version.
The ROMs.
Inside the C16, C116 and the Plus/4 there are a couple of ROM's. These are memory modules with data inside that cannot be changed. You can read the memory but not write to this memory.
KERNAL:
Most important ROM is the KERNAL ($D800-$D7FFF - 8 kbyte). The kernal is the operating system of the computer. Inside the kernal are the parts that let you load and save programs to the disk drive and the datassette or print text to the screen or printer.
Another ROM is the BASIC ($8000-$9FFF - 8 kbyte). This contains the BASIC interpreter. The BASIC interpreter translates the BASIC commands to machine language. Machine language is the only language that the processor of the C16, C116 and the Plus/4 understands.
CHAR:
The characters on the screen are coming from the CHARacter ROM. ($D800- $DFFFF - 4 kbyte)
PLA:
The PLA looks like a ROM and can be replaced by a (very fast) EPROM but is actually a special designed switch. This switch controls the inside of the 16, C116 and the Plus/4.
Plus4 programs:
In the Plus/4 there are a couple extra ROMs. Inside these ROMs there are user programs stored. The programs are a word processor, spreadsheet, database and a graphical program. The build in programs were to big for the available memory and the programs were adapted. The result was that the programs were not that good.
On the picture a Drean C16. Drean was a Argentinean company that had it's own version of the C16 (also other Commodore models) that were sold in Argentina. The reason for this version was the high import taxes on complete computer systems. The motherboards came from Commodore and the rest was made in Argentina like the power supply, housing, packaging etc.
The connectors.
The C16, C116 and the Plus/4 have many connectors. All have a different function but are not always needed for an application. Only the Plus/4 had a user port.
User-port:
The user-port can be used to connect external devices to the Plus/4 to control or measure something. Examples are: Modems, Parallel printers, Parallel disk drives, relays, robots, EPROM programmers and much more. Nice thing about the user-port lines is that can be inputs or outputs independent from each other.
Datassette:
The Datassette is the cassette recorder input of the C16, C116 and the Plus/4. Diskdrives where quite expensive and that was the reason that many computers had a cassette recorder connection. With the Commodore computers this was not a normal cassette recorder. Because all datassettes were equal there were very few problems with the loading of software. But the read / write head had to be in the right position. The use of cassettes was very popular after the introduction of the tape-turbos. Cassette software could be loaded faster than with a standard disk drive.
IEC:
The IEC-port is a serial connection to devices like a disk drive or a printer. De serial-port was limited in speed.
Via the video-bus the picture signal was send to a monitor. Also the audio was available through this bus. With the video connection and a monitor you had a better quality picture than through the RF.
RF:
This is also the video and audio signal but now suited for a television-set.
Expansion-port:
The expansion-port can be used to expand the C16, C116 and the Plus/4. The lines on this connector are connected to the de address- and databus. The most common use is to connect ROM's. ROM's contain programs that are permanently stored in a chip and are always and directly available. Many ROM's contained arcade games or utilities such as speedloaders, assemblers ect. The 1551 disk drive uses this connection to send or receive data much faster than a serial disk drive. Another group of expansions were memory expansions that gave the C16, C116 and the Plus/4 up to 256 kbyte (and more) of memory.
Power-Supply:
Off course the C16, C116 and the Plus/4 needs power to make it's electronic parts work. The power supply delivers 5 volt DC for the IC's and 9 volt AC. The 9 volt AC is available at the user-port. Because the C16 and the C116 don't have a userport the 9 volt AC is not needed. These models have a different power supply.
Joystick:
This must be the most important connector. The joystick was the key to play the many arcade games. This connection also connected the light-pen the paddles and the mouse.
On the picture the NTSC version of the C16. This edition was sold with a tutor cartridge.
De 264 model range.
Proto type of the 264 range. Was later renamed the Plus/4 and was taken into production.
Plus/4 - 1984
Most expanded version of the 264 range with build in software.
+/4 - 1984
Identical to the Plus/4 but with a wrong logo. The logo was changed.
C16 - 1984
The successor of the VIC-20 with a cheaper motherboard (no userport or build in software).
C116 - 1984
The competitor for the (Timex) Sinclair Spectrum. It has the same bad keyboard as the (Timex) Sinclair Spectrum.
Prototype, looks like the 264 but with less memory (32 kbyte). (about 200 were made)
Prototype, looks like the 264 but with a speech module and a bigger keyboard. (1 working prototype and 2 show models)
Drean C16 - 1984
Drean was a Argentinean company that had it own version of the C16 (also other Commodore models) that were sold in Argentina. The reason for this version was the high import taxes on complete computer systems.
On the picture the +4. It's a special edition with a different logo.
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HAL Rudra :- India indigenously designed Attack Helicopter
Source:-HAL Rudra :- India indigenously designed Attack Helicopter
The HAL Rudra also known as ALH-WSI is an armed version of HAL Dhruv. Rudra is equipped with Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) and Thermal Imaging Sights Interface, a 20 mm turret gun, 70 mm rocket pods, anti-tank guided missiles and air-to-air missiles.
While flight testing the Light Combat Helicopter, a modified version of HAL Dhruv, the Indian Army came to the conclusion that without making any major modifications to the Dhruv air-frame, an armed variant can also be developed and delivered to the army quickly. This variant was named Rudra.
The Rudra underwent integration trial for armament and electro-optical systems and a final round of weapon firing trials in September 2011, which included testing of the 20-mm turret gun. The 70 mm rockets and MBDA Mistral air-to-air missiles were tested in November 2011.The helicopter exceeded the payload and performance requirements at the height of 6 km. It has integrated sensors, weapons and electronic warfare suite, and uses an upgraded version of the glass cockpit used in the HAL Dhruv Mk-III. The sensors include stabilised day and night cameras, infrared imaging as well as laser ranging and designation. It has an Integrated Defensive Aids Suite (IDAS) from SAAB, with electronic warfare self-protection which is fully integrated into the glass cockpit. On-board self-defence systems include radar & missile detectors, IR jammer, chaff and flare dispensers. The helicopter can be used in both unarmed and armed roles that include reconnaissance, troop transport, anti-tank warfare and close air support.
In September 2012, ground tests for the first production Rudra were completed. It featured a turret gun, rockets, air-to-air missiles and could carry air-to-ground missiles like the anti-tank helicopter-launched Nag. HAL was awarded with a combined order of 76 Rudras for the Indian army, the primary customer, and the Indian air force. It was reportedly that the weapons platforms and avionics of HAL Rudra and the under-development Light Combat Helicopter would be the same.
Arming the Dhurv comes after Indian Army keep fighting for buying new fleet of attack helicopters for air cover, Even the armed Mi 17 v5 operated under the Air force, since Indian Army don’t have any attack helicopters. Army gets a better system for primary air cover to the ground forces. Currently Indian Army only have some Dhruv’s for troop transport and resupply.
Army needs two version of modified helicopters, One for reconnaissance and SIGINT purpose, another for dedicated attack support. or by saying Mark III and Mark IV version of Dhurv. The Mark III incorporates reconnaissance hardware along with counter measure suites. The Indian Army Aviation operates some 20 such Mark III Dhruv’s.
Interestingly the Mark 3 version comes with Indigenously made Sakthi engines, The engine was developed with the support of Safron, France. The same version who also powers the LCH and future variants of Dhurv’s. The same engine also used in the prototype version of Russian Ka 60 utility helicopters. The Sakthi is one of the known engine used by the Dhurv mark 3, 4 versions.
The Mark IV has all the above specification along with weapon systems, A improved infrared jammer and helmet mounted pointing system. The obstacle avoidance system used in the Rudra used to alert the pilot, if the helicopter flying very closer to an nearby obstacle. The system alert the pilot about small size objects like Electricity power cables, telecom towers and close hills too.
Rudra can be armed with 70mm unguided Rockets and missiles like Nag anti tank missile and French made mistral air to air missile. The Naval version comes with two light torpedo’s for anti shipping capability. During the Navy’s evaluation trails The Israeli Elbit’s target tracking system tracked surface ships at the range of 14 kilometers, and the IRST illustrated image quality good enough to read even the designation number of the Ship. Which impressed the Navy to adopt the Dhurv Mark III for coastal surveillance operations. However Navy not interested the WSI Dhruv. but the Mark 3 version.
Rudra effectively used in Kashmir and Rajasthan during the Trails, which can be used to stop enemy adversaries, Same goes to Eastern sector too. The Indian Army aviation currently operating two Rudra’s. Which is deployed close to Kashmir. and the serial production rolling on HAL production line. Same like other projects lack of funds, man power and manufacturing items, Rudra running behind the schedule. Privatizing the Production line brings good number of output in coming years.
The Air force, Army and Navy interested in the Armed variant of the Dhruv. Army already place some sixty units of Rudra, and Air force too order 16 units. However the orders can be increased along with export orders. Currently HAL produced only 27 units of both Mark III and Mark IV Variants.
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West Virginia teachers got their raise. Where do your state's teachers rank?
West Virginia schools closed for nine days as the state's teachers went on strike for higher wages and better benefit...
Posted: Mar 6, 2018 7:51 PM
Updated: Mar 6, 2018 7:51 PM
West Virginia schools closed for nine days as the state's teachers went on strike for higher wages and better benefits.
At the center of the debate was the state's wages to teachers, which have been flat in recent years, and the state's health insurance program, the Public Employee Insurance Agency. Samantha Nelson, an English teacher in West Virginia, told CNN that fixing the rising health care costs in the state was a major reason behind the strike.
An agreement was signed into law Tuesday to raise teacher pay by 5%. The West Virginia Legislature had approved a proposal to give the raise last week but negotiations were stymied again Saturday night when the state Senate passed only a 4% raise.
The raise is critical, say policy analysts in West Virginia, not just because teacher salaries in West Virginia have slumped on average in recent years but because the state health insurance program had become strained, with costs increasingly being passed on to public employees.
A task force has been set up to try to find a way to stabilize the insurance program's costs.
"It's so difficult to bring down health care costs," said Ted Boettner, director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. "States just don't have the bargaining power to really bring down costs."
Those cost increases have, in recent years, greatly outgrown average teacher pay. The West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy determined that an average teacher with two kids and a spouse on the state health insurance program saw total health costs increase by nearly $1,000 in the last three years (up $958), while average pay is flat. School service personnel, which includes other kinds of school instructors, saw a similar increase in their health care costs.
The increases are particularly high for larger families, explained Boettner, because coinsurance rates and deductibles have gone up.
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Crime Fiction LoveriBook Kindle Print ReviewsThe Cuckoo’s Calling
Written by Andre
Written by Robert Galbraith — The mystery surrounding Robert Galbraith was solved this month when it was revealed that this debut novelist was in fact JK Rowling writing under a pseudonym. The Cuckoo’s Calling is the Harry Potter author’s first foray into crime fiction. So is it any good?
After a slightly ponderous start, the answer has to be an emphatic yes. Rowling has written an ingenious, unashamedly traditional crime novel with an antagonistic, damaged private detective bearing the unlikely name of Cormoran Strike. The Cuckoo’s Calling is not a violent novel; bodies don’t pile up over the course of its 450 pages. It is more concerned with superior storytelling, evocative description of modern London and an intricate approach to detection that feels as familiar and precise as a crossword puzzle.
Rowling’s story begins in the aftermath of the death of a wayward supermodel who fell – was she pushed? – from the balcony of her Mayfair apartment. It’s a powerful preamble from Rowling who describes the broken body of Lula Landry in the snow-clad streets, the nervy police, media scrum and hysterical headlines with prose that’s surely informed by her personal experience of press coverage and intrusion.
Several weeks after the apparent suicide of the troubled model, Cormoran Strike enters the fray along with his secretary Robin Ellacott, a wide-eyed 25-year-old temp who’s new in town. Robin’s a well-drawn foil to Strike and allows us to see his detective work and the city streets through an innocent’s eyes, though she soon reveals a talent of her own for teasing out information.
Asked to investigate the death of Landry by her brother, an initially reluctant Strike pounds the streets and bumps up against truculent cops, snooty lawyers and a monstrous movie producer. The supposed suicide soon throws up plenty of questions. Why is rapper Deeby Macc so touchy about his whereabouts that night? What did the supermodel’s attention-seeking neighbour really hear before Landry fell? And is the louche boyfriend’s alibi solid? It’s an intricate case, bursting with potential suspects and competing accounts, but Rowling’s control of her narrative is masterful. Her description of London – from joyless fine dining in Mayfair to a profanity-strewn encounter in a grotty East End boozer – is clear-sighted and witty and her knowledge of women’s fashion should have been a clue to Robert Galbraith’s real gender.
Strike is headstrong, bull-like, ex-army – his appearance is described as “a young Beethoven who had taken to boxing” – but with an unconventional family background; his office is based in the rock ‘n’ roll district of Denmark Street, a clue to his chaotic upbringing. He’s also falling apart in every sense: his business is failing, he’s walked out on his glamorous girlfriend and he’s struggling with a prosthetic leg, the result of an horrific injury in Afghanistan. He’s also drinking and his thirst for pints of Doom Bar might well boost sales of that Cornish ale. Only Strike’s taste for Tom Waits hits a false note, as if Rowling has been reading about DIs Thorne and Rebus and alighted on a moody music influence for her own investigator.
There are some passages of over-description and it can be jarring when the point of view shifts from Strike to Robin on the same page. However, I can overlook these teething troubles because Rowling’s novel soon settles into such a pleasurable, perfectly plotted read. It also demonstrates the power of crime fiction to portray the cracks and corruption in society through the eyes of an investigator – in this case a taciturn, troubled detective with a talent for piercing pomposity.
The Cuckoo’s Calling has the elegance of PD James, the sly humour of Kate Atkinson and the ingenuity of Margery Allingham. JK Rowling has reinvented the classic crime novel for a modern readership in a detective series debut that deserves its belated bestseller status.
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Paul Cain July 24, 2013 at 6:53 am Reply
A best seller but only when revealed who really wrote it.
Kristopher July 24, 2013 at 12:39 pm Reply
Great review Andre. I had much the same feelings about the book and can’t wait to see what will be on offer with Book 2. Strike and Robin have the potential to be a long-running pair.
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Anna Smith October 4, 2013 at 6:59 pm Reply
I’d like to recommend Robert Glenister’s excellent performance of the audiobook. Strike sounds a lot like Rubeus Hagrid and probably looks like him too, judging by the descriptions!
crimefictionlover October 5, 2013 at 11:01 am Reply
Thanks for the tip Anna
Anna October 13, 2013 at 4:49 pm Reply
Any idea who might be the Mister Jake from Deeby Macc’s lyrics?
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BM Smith July 9, 2016 at 6:34 pm Reply
I love J.K. Rowling but this book for me was too repetitive and, crucially, I found the central murder plot dull. I didn’t care who did what or why by the end of it and the big reveal felt stale. Very tired old reasons.
The worst thing in the prose – which smacks of Rowling in that it needs editing and contains some of her hallmark phrases – is the incessant use of ‘the fact that’, which grated on me to the point of making me feel more homicidal than the murderer in the book.
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(1926–99), US writer and editor. She wrote about women's lives in her novels Families and Survivors (1975), Superior Women (1984), and A Southern Exposure (1995), among others, and in short stories that are collected in such works as To See You Again (1982).
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(born 1944), US writer and critic; full name Alice Malsenior Walker. She wrote the award-winning The Color Purple (1982), a story about a black woman rebuilding her life after being raped by her supposed father, which was made into a movie in 1985. She also wrote Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) and By the Light of My Father's Smile (1998).
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(born 1944), US writer and critic; full name Alice Malsenior Walker. Notable novels: The Color Purple (Pulitzer Prize, 1982) and Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992).
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In Danish
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Ezra Levant receives Danish Sappho Award
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Your struggle for the freedom of expression has set an example for all freedom-loving Westerners, said Danish free speech advocate when motivating the award on March 1.
As George Orwell famously said:
To be corrupted by totalitarianism one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
The recipient of the Sappho Award 2014 knows this better than anyone else.
He doesnt live in a totalitarian country, but he does live in a country with laws corrupted by soft totalitarianism.
In 2008, when he became a victim of this soft totalitarianism, he decided to embark on a one-man struggle to oppose it. And he prevailed.
For that reason it is an exquisite honor for me to award this years Sappho Prize to Ezra Levant.
Your story is a frightening example of how far a Western country is willing to go to combat so-called hate speech. It is also an edifying tale about the difference a lone citizen can make.
Sometimes, when I despair and am about to lose my vigor in the lengthy, tough and sometimes tiresome struggle for free speech, I click on to YouTube to once again enjoy the video where you wiped the floor with the female representative of the Canadian states soft totalitarianism. That restores my fighting spirit and good mood. And Im not the only one.
Bent Jensen one of Denmarks leading historians, who has just published a distinguished work on the Cold War has this comment on your video:
It brings tears to my eyes every time I see and listen to Ezra Levant his dauntlessness, his ability to expose his interrogators despicable questions, his whole fighting style. He has set a fine example for the rest of us to follow.
Yes, Ezra Levant, you have set an example and on this side of the Atlantic, you have given us inspiration to carry on the struggle that all freedom-loving Westerners have an obligation to wage.
Permit me to retrace the historical events.
In February 2006, Ezra Levants news magazine, The Western Standard, was the first media in Canada to reprint the Danish Muhammed cartoons.
Trouble was to follow.
An imam was so incensed at these as he described them hateful drawings that he went to the police and demanded that Ezra Levant be arrested. When the police refused to comply, the imam went on to one of Canadas numerous human rights commissions empowered to implement the countrys hate speech laws.
»I am expecting a formal apology from the The Western Standard. Please help, the imam said.
Instead of rebuffing the imam with a condescending smile, the human rights commission took his complaint dead seriously.
The entire apparatus was mobilized against Ezra Levant. Later he found out that the commission had spent 900 days and secured the services of no less than 15 government employees to prepare the case against him.
When Ezra Levant contacted his lawyer, he was told that faced with the might of the human rights commission, most people give up, pay up and apologize.
Nobody had ever been acquitted after being accused of a human rights violation.
Ezra Levant could have chosen to cave in. He did the opposite: The human rights commission would get all the opposition he could muster.
In early 2008, he was summoned to a preliminary interrogation based on the imams complaint that he had violated the Korans proscription on blasphemy.
In Levants own words: »It was really happening: I had become the first journalist in the free world to be grilled by a government inquisitor about the cartoons.
Ezra Levant made one demand as a condition for appearing before the inquisitor: That he be allowed to make a video of the interrogation. With hesitation, the interrogator, a woman by the name of Shirlene McGovern, complied. It was a decision she would live to regret.
A few days after Ezra Levant had posted the video on YouTube, it had been seen by 400,000 and created a perfect storm in the media.
And it is truly worth a look. With crystal clarity we are presented with a confrontation between a state representative demanding unlimited power to regulate the thoughts and pronouncements of citizens all in the name of self-evident righteousness and, on the other hand, a dedicated opponent of totalitarianism.
Shirlene McGoverns opening question is revealing: What was your intention when publishing the Muhammed cartons?
»Why is that a relevant question,« Ezra Levant replied.
»I always ask people their intent what was the intent and purpose of your article with the cartoon illustrations,« Ms McGovern answered soothingly.
But Levant was far from reassured. (Subsequently, he commented: »That one sentence summed up the commissions illiberal nature. The idea that the government could haul in a publisher and force him to answer questions about his political beliefs didnt seem extraordinary to this woman. Apparently, it was all in a days work.)
Ezra Levant fired back: We published those cartoons for the intention and purpose of exercising our inalienable rights to publish whatever the hell we want, no matter what the hell you think.
Evidently, Ms McGovern wasnt used to this attitude among her victims and appeared dazed by Ezra Levants broadside. And he continued: »It speaks for itself, that you dare ask a publisher in Canada in the name of the government what his political thoughts are. It shows you are hunting for at thought crime.
Thought crime with this Orwellian expression we are at the core of not only this case but of all hate speech cases. When the state is not satisfied with punishing actions but strives to criminalize what is in the soul of citizens, it has embarked on a course to proscribe all genuine freedom of conscience. And it was freedom of conscience that was in the dock that winters day in 2008.
Thats why it was both courageous and important that Ezra Levant asked for the case not to be dropped. As he told the increasingly dispirited Ms McGovern: »I reserve the maximum freedom to be maximally offensive, to hurt feelings as I like. I didnt do that in this case. It was a reasonable publication, but that is not what should exculpate me; my right as a free man should.
He added that he hoped Shirlene McGovern would take the case to a court of law in order to highlight the political scandal that it was. What a happy coincidence that the human rights commission chose to challenge a man like Ezra Levant who proved to be their downfall.
Out there in front of their computers people were jubilant and their rage was directed at state inquisitor Shirlene McGovern. It took only ten days for the human rights commission to announce that its servant had laid down the case, whereupon the chronically offended imam hastened to withdraw his complaint.
Most importantly: The public had seen for themselves what the hate speech legislation is all about. And last year its most notorious article, Section 13, was abolished.
This marks a rare and unusual victory in our common campaign against hate speech legislation. Canadian law has become less corrupted by totalitarianism. And we owe this to Ezra Levant.
Dear Ezra Levant, if anyone deserves the Sappho Award, you do.
You have shown that you have the backbone. You have shown that it is possible to win.
And by your love of freedom, your integrity and your sharp-wittedness you have demonstrated to us all why hate speech laws are an abomination in a free society.
Please acknowledge this years Sappho Award recipient, Ezra Levant.
Katrine Winkel Holm is acting President of The Free Press Society.
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The White House Correspondents' Association typically keeps a low profile in its discussions with the White House press secretary over issues involving the news media. It tends not to wade into controversy, at least not in public. But faced with the president's continued hostility and confronted by false official statements, the two candidates vying to become president of the group want to take a bolder - and more confrontational - approach. "We as an organization need to be more concerned about getting lied to as a matter of course - and the American public getting lied to, through us - than about access," HuffPost correspondent S.V. Date wrote in an email touting his candidacy to the WHCA's 425 voting members. He added, "I've been in this business more than three decades, and what's happening now is unprecedented. We are attacked on a near daily basis using Stalinist language. We are called corrupt and dishonest. We are given false information from staff who often know full well that it is false." CBS News Radio reporter Steven Portnoy, 38, uses less explosive language in his pitch for support, but makes clear his disappointment that the White House hasn't held a press briefing in a record 93 days as of Wednesday. Ticking off a long list of news stories that have transpired in that time (for example, "Pelosi-Schumer talks implode as Pelosi accuses Trump of 'cover up' "), Portnoy wrote: "As the president continues to call news organizations 'corrupt,' these are just some of the issues he has ducked by not having his aides appear regularly before the press corps." The two journalists' statements suggest that the White House press corps has grown more frustrated - and is willing to say so publicly - after more than two years of disparagement by Trump and press...
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So cute that they think that we still believe them as "press" and don't see them as what they are - Democrat party propaganda.
stratman
Pretty rich for a cabal of lying twerps to claim outrage when POTUS shows disdain for them. What a bunch of snowflake hypocrites!
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The corporate media doesn't have "grievances." It has a bias in favor of its corporate masters and the Democrat party which serves them.
Humans1st
It's like dealing with freaking 2nd graders
alfred bellows
They are propagandists.
Sbassman
"We are called corrupt and dishonest."
Well, have ya tried NOT-being corrupt and dishonest?
"We are called corrupt and dishonest." Well, have ya tried NOT-being corrupt and dishonest?
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One of the two candidates for president of the White House Correspondents' Association is from the Huffington Post. Please. We all know the bias is very strong in that site - it's not even fake news, though, because you have to be news first. That site is a complete joke, and so would the WHCA be if they chose him as their president.
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"We are called corrupt and dishonest." Well....you are. Thats a concept the "press-corpse" isn't familiar with: the truth.
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First Entomology Alumni Reunion
insecta Uncategorized January 22, 2018 October 8, 2018
On October 21st, 2017, as part of Alumni / Homecoming Weekend, the Essig Museum of Entomology hosted a gathering for UC Berkeley entomology alumni. We reached out to former undergraduate and graduate students from Berkeley’s entomology program and saw some familiar faces and met others who were part of our university’s entomological past. Alumni reconnected with one another, enjoyed food, wine, talks and exhibits from our current faculty, graduate students, and the Essig Museum. Award for farthest traveled to attend the event goes to Kim Hoelmer, from Newark, Delaware! It was wonderful to meet and catch up with Berkeley entomologists from the past and present- we plan to make this an annual event.
In attendance: Shan Amin, Elizabeth Arias, Dick Arnold, Cheryl Barr, Dylan Beal, Art Berlowitz, Roberta and Bob Brett, Jan Buellesbach, Leo & Ana Caltagirone, Don Calvert, Elizabeth Cash, Les Casher, Kezia Coster, Sara Crews, Paul & Maria da Silva, Paul Daley, John De Benedictis, Kim Do, Jenny Florio, David Garnick, Josh Gibson, Rosemary Gillespie, Natalie Graham, Charles Griswold, Lisa Marie Harris, Shiran Hershcovich, Kim Hoelmer, Casey Hubber, Deanna Jackson, Alan Kaplan, Susan Kennedy, Max Klepikov, Anthena Lam, Bob Lane, Vernard & Lisa Lewis, Jessica Maccaro, Kevi Mace, Patina Mendez, Seongmin Nam, Ida Naughton, Peter Oboyski, Nina Pak, Sean Perez, Alan Poropat, Jerry Powell, Julian Rasco, Vince and Cheryl Resh, Kevin Roberts, George Roderick, Valle Rogers, Paul Rude, Bill Shepard, Andre Szeiner, Lisa Treidel, Neil Tsutsui, Matthew Van Dam, Brandt Weary, Noah Whiteman, Brian Whyte, Kip Will, Caroline Williams, David & Caroline Wood, and Bob Zuparko.
Essig Museum Research Associate Elizabeth Arias and Berkeley Alumnus John DeBenedictis picking up their name tags as they entered the event.
Alumni, students and faculty enjoyed a variety of food and beverages as they caught up with one another.
So many choices…
Berkeley graduate students were instrumental in helping to make the evening a success.
Essig Museum Director Kip Will and Berkeley professor George Roderick address the group.
Essig Museum Collection Manager Pete Oboyski talks about the function of the Essig Museum and its daily activities.
Professor Noah Whiteman describes his research on insect-plant interactions and genomics.
Kip Will tells the audience about his ongoing research projects with carabid beetles.
Berkeley professor Neil Tsutsui Talks to the group about his research on ants and other social Hymenoptera.
Browsing the various displays at the event.
Above photos by Max Klepikov.
Lepidopterists honor Jerry Powell
poboyski Alumni, Event, Lepidoptera January 8, 2018 January 8, 2018
Speakers from the Powell symposium (l-r): Dave Wagner, Frank Hsu, Felix Sperling, Eric Metzler, Dan Rubinoff, Jerry Powell, Jim Kruse, Kelly Richers, Peter Oboyski, John Brown.
Dr. Jerry Powell was honored on July 30, 2017, at the Lepidopterist Society annual meeting in Tucson, Arizona, with a symposium organized by John Brown, Dan Rubinoff, and Dave Wagner. Speakers included students and colleagues who roasted and toasted Jerry, who sat with his wife Liz in arm chairs at the front of the room. A general theme throughout the presentations (besides Jerry’s demanding and often gruff facade) was how he influenced the trajectory of each person’s career. Others who chimed in remotely, either by Skype or email, included: Dan Janzen, Jim Liebherr, Cheryl Barr, and John De Benedictis.
Jerry and Liz with front row seats to the roastng.
Jerry is known largely for his work in Lepidoptera, particularly microlepidoptera (ie. small moths). His publications (>240) include Moths of Western North America, (Field Guide to) California Insects, the biology and systematics of spruce budworm, Lepidoptera of the California Channel Islands, yuccas and yucca moths, insects of California sand dune habitats, and a long list of collaborations on various moth groups, including the taxonomy, systematics, and biology of Tortricidae, Heliodinidae, Ethmiidae, Prodoxidae, Pyralidae, and many others. He described as new 227 species of Lepidoptera, and collected over 440 holotypes in various groups. Over 40 species of insects have been named for Powell in seven orders to-date (Hemiptera x1, Neuroptera x1, Diptera x9, Coleoptera x4, Hymenoptera x5, Trichoptera x1, Lepidoptera x22). A true “vacuum cleaner” collector, Powell has contributed many hundreds of thousands of specimens to the Essig Museum of Entomology, where he still curates the Lepidoptera collection a few hours every day.
Comic on Powell’s office door.
Speakers also reminded the audience of their favorite Powell quotes and phrases: “If it was easy someone would have done it already”, “Science moves forward by creeps and jerks”, “chowdered”, “corked”, “good grief”, “One larva; two larvae / NO EXCEPTIONS”, Powell’s Law: “No biologist studies anything found within 100 miles of where they live.”
Although Jerry’s main research focus has always been the insect fauna of western North America, especially California, what was evident from the comments of speakers and other contributors is Jerry’s depth and breadth of knowledge in both insects and plants (and their interactions), and his influence on the careers of entomologists throughout the country and on most continents. Perhaps just as telling is a comment made by a citizen scientist helping to digitize label data from the Essig Museum specimen collection through our Notes From Nature portal who quipped, “Who is this Jerry Powell? Is he some sort of vampire? He has been collecting for over 60 years!”
Jerry Powell collecting in Anza Borrego, March 2017.
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Frankie Thieriot Stutes Finds a Higher Gear on Rebecca Farm CCI3* Cross Country
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By Leslie Wylie on Jul 21, 2018 9:55 pm - 1,223 views
Frankie Thieriot Stutes and Chatwin. Photo by Leslie Wylie.
Frankie Thieriot Stutes’ last thought before she left the start box today was, “This one’s for Kate.” Kate as in Kate Gillespie, an eventer whose teflon spirit fought for years to compensate for a body besieged by chronic pain, only to be overcome earlier this summer.
Rebecca Farm was Kate’s favorite event — she won the CCI2* here 10 years ago and tackled the CIC3* the following year — and her memory has been heavy on the hearts of the eventing community this week. Some riders have donned South African ribbons, a nod to Kate’s home country, and an effort is underway to fundraise for a jump in Kate’s honor at Shepherd Ranch.
“I just wanted to go out and kind of kick on for her a bit knowing that it was what she really wanted to do,” Frankie says. “That was special.”
Kick on she did, although Chatwin needed little encouragement. The pair picked up only 1.2 time penalties around the CCI3* course and looked super the whole way around. “He’s a magician cross country,” Frankie says. “It’s unreal. When you stand up to gallop him, it’s like nothing I’ve ever encountered, and my old Advanced horse was SO fast. He just has this gear box that I can’t even explain.”
Frankie has a big team of family and friends here this weekend, including her two young children. One of her sons, Drake, was even helping out in the vet box.
“I think when you become a mom, it puts things in perspective, good and bad,” she says. “You can have the greatest day ever, but it’s even better to have your kids in the box, and they can see how excited you are and see you’re safe. It’s put a lot into perspective for me. If it goes great that’s awesome, and if it doesn’t, there are things that matter a lot more than one ride. I’ve been trying to take in the moments this week and have a great time.”
Caroline Martin and Islandwood Captain Jack. Photo by Leslie Wylie.
Caroline Martin and Islandwood Captain Jack cooked around the course to move from a tie for 4th after dressage into 2nd place. Their journey here wasn’t paved with a perfect preparation, but Caroline says she’s glad they made the trip.
“His last show was Great Meadow, and he had the Monday after that off, Tuesday he went hacking, and Wednesday he did a little canter set and then left,” she says. “It’s not the most normal way of getting to a show, but it’s good practice for him especially since he’s a 9-year-old. Hopefully he’ll be a horse who will head to Europe and do some competitions there, so I thought this would be good for his education.”
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DANCING ON PLUTO – EP Review: “Paradise Fahrenheit”
On May 15, 2018 May 15, 2018 By EclecticMusicLoverIn Reviews
Dancing on Pluto is a talented and charismatic rock band I learned about at the beginning of this year, when I first heard their fantastic single “Feels Good” (which I reviewed). Formed in early 2017 and based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Dancing on Pluto is made up of four long time friends Chas (lead vocals), Josh (drums), Gilbert (guitar) and Ishmael (bass). Drawing influences from many of their favorite genres, including rock, hip hop, R&B, reggae, synth-pop, shoegaze and grunge, they create music that’s eclectic, interesting and unpredictable. They released their superb debut EP Abandon Ship in 2017, followed by “Feels Good” at the end of the year. In April, they dropped their second EP Paradise Fahrenheit, delivering five great new tunes for our listening pleasure.
Like they did on Abandon Ship, Dancing on Pluto really bends genres and mixes things up on Paradise Fahrenheit – one of the things I love about their music. The first track “Ozone” has a sunny reggae beat, but a hip hop element is added via Chas speed-rapping in the song’s middle. The acoustic and wobbly electric guitars are particularly good, with a tasty little riff in the bridge. The song seems to essentially be about not seeing the forest for the trees, and feeling pessimistic about life: “All I see, nestled in green, tripping over nothin’ by my own damn feet. I can’t see at all, no stars in the sky. No food and I’m starving.” But after spending time in the forest, he finds clarity and peace of mind, and his attitude becomes more optimistic: “Nestled in green. Visibly at ease. The stars are so beautiful.”
“Where the Wild Things Are” starts off as an uptempo rock song, with buoyant riffs and peppy drums. Halfway through, the track shifts to sort of a ska beat, with jangly guitars and strutting bass. Chas sings of teenage insecurities, self-doubt and the struggle for independence: “I know what people see. I’m scared that you’re too good for me. That’s why I’m always scared. / Is it because I get jealous when I see you in a crowd? Is it because I can’t take you where my thoughts get loud? Am I not beautiful enough for you to want to treat me good?”
The joyously uplifting gem “Feels Good” is the song that first made me fall for Dancing on Pluto. Beginning with Chas yelling “It feels good, yeah!“, followed by a few seconds of a simple drumbeat and tapping drumsticks, the track bursts wide open with a barrage of shredded guitars, then settles back down. Chas’ incredible vocal dexterity really shines on this track – sounding as smooth and soulful as John Legend one minute, then raw and loud the next. The tempo goes from a mellow, bass-driven groove while he croons “When you’re on your own, take time and deep breaths. And when you’re on your own you’ll find out…”, to an explosion of wailing guitars and thunderous drums with the refrain that perfectly describes the song’s affect on me: “It feels good! It’s so good, right on!”
The guys change things up again with “Snowflakes on Mercury,” which sounds totally different than any of the other tracks on the EP. The beautiful, languid song has more of a shoegaze vibe, with greater use of synths and keyboards, yet they insert some grungy riffs in the bridge, adding a bit of poignant drama. The lyrics seem to address self-awareness and appraisal: “Snowflakes, I want to see you even when you hurt my eyes. I want to feel you even when you hurt my skin. Falling and floating. You help all of my footprints be seen. So I can see how far I am from where I’ve been. Falling and floating.”
“Monet,” is a seven-minute-long rock song with an incredibly pleasing and catchy melody, and marvelous strummed acoustic and electric guitar work. At roughly four minutes in, the tempo slows and riffs of jangly guitar dominate until drums and crashing cymbals return. The instrumentals all quiet down to just a simple acoustic guitar riff to close out the track. The lyrics seem to be about working through problems in a relationship: “I’d paint a picture of love that I can’t put into words for you. / This is your whole life, not just a cause worth fighting for. / I’m standing outside your door, ’cause I thought that I was more than the half-hearted fool you took me for. We’re fine ’cause our creator says so. We’ll be fine.”
With Paradise Fahrenheit, Dancing on Pluto have another solid EP under their collective belts as they start to build an impressive discography. I love their music, and look forward to hearing more great and innovative songs from them.
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4.5 Overloading and Function Selection
C++ For C Programmers, Part A
Universidad de California en Santa Cruz
This course is for experienced C programmers who want to program in C++. The examples and exercises require a basic understanding of algorithms and object-oriented software.
Graph Theory, C++11, C++, Graph Algorithms
I like Prof. Ira a lot and wish to see more courses from him! I wish I was his student at SC. Best Regards to him and the Coursera team for the great work.
I really loved this course. It is really helpul for my programming aspect. I have managed to develop my logical abilty and this course really helped me.
Prim’s and Kruskal’s algorithms. Use of basic Container Classes. Tripod-Container, Iterator, Algorithm.
4.1 MST13:15
4.2 Jarnik-Prim MST11:50
4.3 Jarnik-Prim MST: Another Look11:07
4.4 Kruskal's Algorithm8:30
4.5 Overloading and Function Selection32:19
4.6 STL and STL C++1111:00
4.7 STL Example5:05
4.8 C++11 Feature: auto5:38
4.9 Vector Methods10:36
4.10 More Code8:50
4.11 C++11 Feature: for statement7:07
4.12 STL Input File11:30
4.13 Iterators Categories14:19
4.14 Output a Random Graph12:30
Ira Pohl
Okay, next topic.
When you get back to some core C++ ideas.
So, we've outlined the methods you need for the homework.
You can either use Prim or Kruskul or
do both, compare them if you have energy and time.
You're gonna add that to your pre-existing homework
where you have already done graph algorithms.
Try and refine whatever you learn from before, maybe your graph structure
will be more elegant and now that you've learned more C++ you can rebuild
even your basic graph class.
But in any case, the new problem is to do a Kruskal or
a Prim minimum spanning tree.
And now we wanna introduce further ideas from C++.
The critical ideas we want is a very neat idea.
Something that hasn't been put into Java, for example.
There are arguments over whether it's a good idea.
But in lots of arenas, it's a very valuable idea.
And that's called operator overloading.
And that's where we provide new meanings to existing C++ operators.
And, we've already used this as very rich idea in the IO community and
the IO package where we have operator overloading
of the left bit shift for doing output.
And we're gonna show how important yet another idea is that we haven't seen yet
in C++, which is using friend functions,
especially when we wanna provide operator overloading.
Okay, high level principle.
User defined types should be indistinguishable from native types.
Operator overloading is a mechanism that allows us, and conversion.
Those are mechanisms that allow us to implement this principle.
In the native language, if I have two ints,
we all know what a+b means.
But let's say I decide to add from a library or
whatever a rational number.
For those of you that don't remember your highschool math,
a rational is just a number represented by two integers, q divided by b,
so two-thirds is irrational, three-quarters is irrational,
seven-elevens is irrational.
Pi is not a rational,
remember that the notion the other day of pi being transcendental.
It can't be represented precisely by, there are ways to represent pi.
There's a nearby rational, for example 7/22
is a fairly good approximation to pi when you have two small integers.
And you can approximate pi as closely as you want by a rational, but
you can't make it exact.
Anyway, if I all of a sudden had some kind of package for
doing rational arithmetic, I might also want to be able to have c + d.
Because now mathematicians can add rationals.
Again, if you remember your grade school work,
they probably told you how to do this kind of addition.
So your rational overloading of the plus operator would lead you to
provide the algorithm for doing rational arithmetic.
But, rationals can be used much like integers and doubles.
So you might also expect that you should be able to do a + c.
Where a was a normal int and c was a rational.
And have a resulting conversion and convert the a to a rational.
So now your rationals, this new thing, this new class that you've invented,
G gets used as conveniently as the native type.
That's part of the OOP principle.
When you add a type, you want to add a type in a way that is consistent
with pre-existing types in the C++ world.
So we're gonna add a type, we're gonna add the type point.
Points are very simple to type.
Here's a point,
we're going to think of a point as a pair in a two dimensional world, X and Y.
Maybe that's the point.
1,1.
As with good OO, we're gonna hide representation.
So the actual underlying representation will be a pair of doubles.
So we can also have the point 0.5, 0.5,
really we should be thinking of that as
1.0, 1.0.
So we're gonna use doubles.
We're gonna have a bunch of constructors.
Here's the constructor.
That's the constructor of one argument, which basically takes an argument,
makes it the x value, and leaves the y value as zero.
So a point here is going to,
if I wanna have a point whose value is initialized with three,
I'm gonna end up with the point 3,0 through this constructor.
This is gonna be important because this is
also what we call a conversion constructor.
So here's point s, we can think of it
as having value zero-zero if we define that class properly with a default.
And now we have a double, 3.5.
And we say assign to s, d.
Now d is a double, and we don't have a logic for assigning a double.
So there needs to be a conversion.
So d needs to be converted to the point 3.5,0.
Once it's converted, then we can have the.
Now, if we wanted to make that clearer, we could do it via an explicit assignment.
But actually, this works as well.
Because C++ allows for implicit conversion.
In fact, I'm gonna go back to the previous slide because
I'm gonna show you something that you can keep in mind.
If you didn't want that behavior you would have to add the keyword.
Explicit.
An explicit in a way turns off
Implicit conversion opportunity.
So, there's lots of times that you don't really want that to happen because
adding conversion opportunities in this language
it's very sensitive because conversions allow signatures to be matched.
They allow expressions to be evaluated, and
you don't want that to happen inadvertently.
Now, what about converting a point to double?
Well, we know how to convert double to point.
The way we convert double to point, is we write a conversion instructive.
So, the argument, the double argument
becomes an argument of value to instantiate
some of the underlying data in point.
But we can't write a conversion constructor in
the native class double, double is a native type.
You could think of it as having its own code somewhere in the world,
it's really just built into the compiler.
But there isn't a way to inform the compiler
that I wanna change the rules about double.
So, because there's no access to that code.
So, C++ does provide an alternative, and we see the alternative here.
You can, inside the class point,
so again, we see that we have scoped
resolution to point by providing operator double.
The type to be converted to.
We allow a point to be converted to a double.
Now, whether that makes sense, whether that's a good idea,
it probably only should be used where it's natural to the semantics of that type.
What I mean by natural to the semantics of that type?
Which somebody who is used to a draftsman, who is used to using
two dimensional objects, two dimensional coordinates points.
If you told him that I wanted to convert a point to a double,
would he know what you meant?
He doesn't know what you mean.
If he doesn't know that you intend to use the distance, the vector is
from the origin, which is basically what we're doing here, then it's a bad idea.
Then you should probably provide something that's explicit,
like the length of a point from the origin.
You should have a name type.
So, these conversion opportunities can easily lead to obscure programming.
And they frequently should be very heavily justified and
the justification should come from the domain, in which the type is used.
But it's available, so now you can have
what might be called a narrowing conversion.
And you can turn a point into a double, or
you could turn a point similarly into anything else.
By providing it with whatever this type name is,
a type and some semantics to convert to that type.
And then you have conversion opportunities.
Pretty powerful stuff.
Oh, we've already talked a little bit about that.
I've already pointed this out.
Again, C++ 11, some of the earlier compilers already implemented,
this allowed an explicit keyword.
Once people started doings rampant operator overloading and
conversion was soon discovered that things
were happening subtly that nobody expected.
And so, the explicit key work got introduced so that could be turned off,
that opportunity could be turned off.
Now, remember that in C++,
one of the big changes from C is you have function overloading.
So in C, if we wanted the sum of an integer array,
we have call it sum if int array.
If we wanted the sum of a double array, we have to give it a different name.
We have to distinguish the name, even when the code read the same.
C++ provides a number of ways to keep the name for something that
where we're doing conceptually the same work using the same code.
The two principle methods are ordinary overloading of functions.
So, we can call both C adding of arrays of ints, and
the adding of arrays of doubles, or even the adding of arrays of rational sum.
And then they get discriminated by their signature.
I maybe just write it,
so if I want it, I could say,
double, sum, double.
Int, sum Int.
The code would probably look the same.
I could even do this with templates.
And the compiler has to have a way,
among the meanings available to it to choose which meaning.
Otherwise, it becomes ambiguous, so you can,
as a compiler error message, get the fact that the compiler is confused.
Now, the compiler has a very complex and
detailed way it as preferred selection.
So exact match, exact match is always preferred if would,
is passed in a set of arguments.
And it's looks a third type, and it says, oh, I have exactly code for
those types, then it picks that.
No problem, everybody understands it.
But now, we have all these promotions available.
So again, just like with square root,
remember square root is in the standard library, in the math library.
Square root will work on an integer, even though it's intended to work on doubles.
Because the integer will be promoted automatically silently to a double.
So again, what happens is, an overloading standard promotions,
which are the safest kinds of promotions, are preferred over anything else.
And so, if there's a signature and it requires a standard promotion,
and there's no exact match, then this would be tried.
The next in line is standard type conversions, including demotions.
Then there are user defined conversions, much like those,
the conversions we defined on point.
And then there's a match to see if there's an ellipsis signature, and
that's the worst.
Now, if you're following any of this in my text, there's description of it.
Page 198 to 200 with a detailed
example using rational numbers, but it can be very complicated.
And you can see where you have all these additional
user defined conversion opportunities that you have to be very, very careful.
Hence, the introduction of explicit to avoid silently
ending up with execution of code that was uninvented.
Friends, next big topic, we have these things called friends functions.
There is a couple of friends, they're my own cats they're named Googly and Hamster.
They're friends, though they're more frienemies than friends.
They, cats being, even domesticated cats seem to be fairly territorial.
So, they do hiss at each other, and they especially fight over their food bowls.
But a critical thing about friends, and that's going to be true in C++ is, if
you're a really good friend of mine, I'm gonna let you look at my private stuff.
I'm gonna let you look at the private implementation of my class,
that gives me the opportunity to act on your class,
almost as if I was a member function.
So a friend function has access as if it was a member function,
but it's not a member function.
If it's not a member function that means it has no access to what?
Think about that.
Is one thing that member functions always get, ordinary member functions always get,
that functions that are called
with arguments on the class don't get, and that's the disc pointer.
Remember, a member function is activated through the disc pointer.
Friend function get's to treat the private parts as if it was a member function,
but doesn't get to directly access because that's not
pass in an argument through the dot notation.
There's a class point, and again,
because the C object oriented idiom,
we want the behavior of the bit shift operator to be used for IO.
Again, here we see the IO signature that's our idiom.
We need this call by reference, we pass back out call by reference.
We have a non-mutated object passed by reference.
And it's semantics are that we're gonna prevent a point looking like this.
So, what we would see as output for
a point that had hidden representation 1.0,
2.5 would be (1.0, 2.5), but this is going to fail.
So, if we were in regular code and saying,
C out, blah, blah, and the point name was q.
We would get a compiler error, and
the compiler error would say wouldn't have access to x and y.
X and y are private.
This is an ordinary method.
It does not have the ability to access hidden representation,
can't make use of this.
Well, oo says, that this must remain restricted, data hiding principle.
So, the way around this, well,
one idea you could try is to make this a member function.
But, recall a member function has a default first argument.
A default first argument has to be an object of type point.
But for this to work in the syntax that's expected,
the first argument has to be an ostream.
It has to be in most an ostream, like C out.
So, we can't make it a member function.
A member function would solve the problem of getting access, but
it wouldn't solve the problem of having the wrong argument order.
And C++, courtesy of invented a way around to this kind of access problem,
and that was to create friend functions.
There is were friend becomes important.
I use this special keyword friend that informs
the compiler that it's got these privileges.
It breaks the normal data hiding, so it should be used very carefully.
Friend should be used very carefully.
We allow it to have these important access privileges, and
unlike a class method it does not have the dot argument.
So, now we're going to pass in both arguments.
We're gonna pass in an ostream and a point.
And that'll be passed in through the argument list,
which is another thing to consider.
Because when we pass stuff in through the argument list,
they're subject to conversion opportunities.
So that's another point, very important and subtle point,
that deals with the use of friends when we overload operators.
Friends overload operators by
having the arguments always go through the parameter list.
A member functions overload the arguments by having your
first argument be the class argument, namely at this point your argument,
that is not overloaded to have conversion opportunity.
So only a second, or other argument would have a conversion opportunity that
leads to a different behavior, even when we can overload the same operator.
And have the choice between friend overloading,
member function overloading, we frequently choose friend overloading.
I'm gonna make that point a couple of times cuz it's very subtle and
important point.
We do that to maintain symmetry.
A friend overloading lets us use the argument list,
the argument list means for binary operators,
we get all the conversion opportunities symmetrically on both arguments.
Here is a member function overloading of the operator +.
So, think of what you're doing.
You have two points, let's say we have (2,
1) and (1/2, 0).
And we want, maybe that's an a, and that's a b.
And we wanna be able to because that's what we are used to as mathematicians,
be able to write naturally a + b.
And we can see what we want that to be, that result.
Let's call it c, we want c to
come out (2 1/2, 1).
And the way we do that is If we're overloading
this with the notion that we have a plus b,
we really are calling through to this point of a,
and through the argument was b.
That's really how this is getting activated.
So, that's why x and y are without.
Those fields are discriminable.
See, these are really, this points at x, plus p of x.
And that leads to two and a half, and similarly for the y, okay,
if you understand everything I've just said, you're really getting all this.
If you don't understand what I've just said, you gotta work with this.
You gotta do your own stuff.
You gotta overload operators.
And see how that works.
So this is very critical that what I just said, is clear to you.
So here you've seen how to overload the binary plus using a member function,
and here i'm just repeating what I said on the other with a different example,
I have three points, I'm adding to a, b plus c,
a is gonna end up being two and
a half, seven.
But, if instead that operator got
overloaded in a way that we use the friend function instead of a member function,
its invocation, Would instead call a friend function.
And both b and c would be passed instead of this pointer.
And an argument.
This would be arg 1 and arg 2, and they would be completely symmetric.
So in the completely symmetric case, all of the available conversion opportunities.
So for example, remember, we can convert an ordinary double to a point.
So that would mean, if you're following me,
that if d was a double, and I did d + b
This wouldn't work.
Or member overloading.
And that gives you the reason why you want it as a friend function.
Friends are really important.
They're really important especially when you're doing operator overloading.
They're important in other considerations too,
when you have two very strongly linked classes.
Gotta warn you about operator overloading, people get infatuated with it, why?
Cause it's a way to have a secret calculus.
Everybody loves making their own secret notation.
That's okay.
If you're just playing with the stuff, and you're not in a company, and
you're not using it professionally, where other people will need to interact
with your code, do operating overloading to your heart's content.
Maybe you can even come up with something close to APL if you remember this hugely
powerful early IBM language, a man named Iverson, invented
the language in which there was super powerful overloaded operators in effect.
That worked very well with linear algebra calculations.
And from what I recall, I may be wrong about it, somebody can write into a forum
on this, I believe you could write out a linear programming
algorithm using the Iverson notation.
In relatively few lines of code, whereas if you had to use the language
of the day such as Four Train and PL1, it would be a considerable amount of code.
So you would have this enormously dense,
powerful operator language, and this could be replicated.
With operator overloading, but using this,
one expects to conform to the rules of math.
You generally are going to use it in domains for
which people know what the meaning is.
You don't want to have to explain that plus is something that it isn't.
What does times mean in a domain where you are talking about clocks?
Let's say you decide to design a package called a clock, and
clocks have minutes, seconds, and hours.
Well it's pretty easy to understand how, you know,
I have an appointment a half an hour from now.
So I want to know what time that's going to be.
But now what's the times operator gonna be?
Can I multiply two clock times, is that reasonable?
So, you gotta be very careful, and you need to be comprehensive.
So you're not going to go and overload + in a normal domain,
in which- is understood as being the inverse operation.
So normally you're gonna overload the complete algebra.
You have to do what's expected.
You have to do what's natural.
And you have to do what fits in with the native C++ types.
Okay, here's a quiz to this section.
Not all operators are overloadable.
Most operators in C++ are overloadable.
Some operators like scope resolution remember that's colon colon.
That's not overloadable.
That would cause capacitor fee.
If you gave it a different meaning from what it needs to be.
Which is scope resolution.
It would for one thing it's very hard to imagine what that meaning could be.
So it's not overloadable.
Another operator that's not overloadable is ternary operator and
there is a single ternary operator and what I'm asking you is,
to explain what it is and why it's not overloaded.
Answer, the ternary operator is question mark equal so
the typical thing is you have some lets write out something just so
you remember, there are many people who will rarely use this operator.
say something like (a < b)?
a :b, so these are the three arguments,
arg 1, arg 2, arg 3.
The normal language says test this for truth.
And true, this is the true result.
And this is the false result.
So, many people prefer to just do these things with, miscalculations.
No reason that this is overloadable is [INAUDIBLE] didn't wanna bother with it.
It's already not that used in operator.
It's generally not an operator you'd expect in any algebra.
It would be ugly, so it's not overloadable.
Maybe there's some other reason.
Okay, that's it for today, we've packed in a lot, and I will see you next time.
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