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Today, I'm gonna share with you the Path to Blissful Life. The message is beautifully summarized in the enlightening verse of Kokila Gupta. She is Pioneer of Hindi Haiku. She is a personality with many facets. She is a teacher, reader, writer, illustrator, traveller, amateur photographer, gardener and many more. She writes at sunshineandblueclouds.blogspot.in and bikhremotimanke.wordpress.com. The depth of her understanding on life and spirituality could be felt from the following verse:
How to Live a Blissful Life?
Before knowing the way to blissful life, we should understand the meaning of life.
What is life?
What is life? How do you know that you are alive?
The simplest answer is by seeing others dying. Shocking! But truth. Do you know any other way of knowing that you are alive?
Death is the reference point of life. And, what is death? It is the absence of life. How do we know that someone is dead? By seeing ourselves alive. Life and death are complementary to each other. In fact, they are two different states of ourselves. If we introspect the characteristics of these two states – life and death, we find that life is like a stream while death is stagnant; life is motion while death is stationary.
Are motion and stationary absolute reality? Are they complete in itself?
No, they are relative concepts. They are complementary to each other. Motions are defined in respect of stationary objects and stationary objects are defined in respect of objects in motion. And, they are interchangeable, i.e. what appears in motion to you may appear stationary to others or vice versa. The best example to illustrate the idea is a train journey. When you are inside a train, it appears to you that trees are travelling, anything outside the train is travelling and you are static. And for others, who are outside, you are travelling inside a train and they are static. You also feel the same when you are standing outside and watch the passing train.
Motion and stillness are two states of object which are observer dependent. They depend on the way of observation; so is life and death. When we are in living state, death appears as motionless. May be when we are on the other side, opposite appears! Who knows?
Also read : Death – A Beginning or an End
Life is a journey not destination
Kokila has beautifully phrased "Jeevan Path" meaning "Path of Life" or "Alive State of Ourselves." Life is just like a train journey where we board into it at our birth and depart from it at our death. This life is, in fact, not the entire journey but a part of it – a journey of only one train. It doesn't tell anything about our previous travels or journeys yet to come.
The problem or misery begins when we misinterpret life as destination instead of journey; when we start to think it in terms of permanent state instead of temporary state.
To avoid misery in life, we should behave with others as if we are travelling in a train. We make friends as well as enemies during our train journey. Sometimes we play and some other times we quarrel but when we get down of the train, these friendship or foeship do not affect us. The reason is: because we don't form strong bond with them. It doesn't mean that we form hollow relationship with our fellow passengers. No, they are as genuine as we form in our daily life. The only difference is that we don't expect anything from them; we just enjoy the journey with them. We just follow our natural instinct without any prejudices or hidden agenda.
What is your identity
What is your identity? Who are you? Are you the zygote who was once conceived inside a female body? Or the one who came out after delivery? Or the toddler? Or the child? Or the adolescent? Or the adult? Who are you?
Most probably, you will say "all of these." Now I challenge you, how could you be all of these if you are only one? It isn't logical, is it? I further challenge you to take out the photograph of your childhood and stand before a mirror and prove that the person in the mirror and the person in the photograph are same and it is you in both of them. How you gonna prove it?
There is no way to prove it. You only know because someone has told you. In most of the cases, we are informed by our parents regarding our identity and we believe it to be true. It is better to say that what we know as our identity is actually the identity labelled by our parents to us.
Let it understand by a story. An eagle's egg was placed in the nest of a chicken. The egg hatched and the little eagle grew up thinking it was a chicken. The eagle did what the chickens did. It scratched in the dirt for seeds. It clucked and cackled. It never flew more than a few feet because that is what the chickens did. One day he saw an eagle flying gracefully and majestically in the open sky. He asked the chickens: "What is that beautiful bird?" The chickens replied, "That is an eagle. He is an outstanding bird, but you cannot fly like him because you are just a chicken." So the eagle never gave it a second thought, believing that to be the truth. He lived the life of a chicken and died as a chicken, depriving himself of his heritage because of the false identity labelled on him.
We, too, are living like this. Being an eagle, we are living a life of a chicken. Clouds are not boundary of sky. Sky is beyond clouds. Let the clouds part away. Try to see the sky through the gaps between the clouds. If dust settles on the glass of a mirror and nothing is seen but only dust and we think we are dust then it is nothing more than a sheer stupidity. Wipe the dust off the glass then you see your real self— true identity.
As you have noticed earlier that for a change or motion to occur, something unchangeable – something stationary is needed as reference. You are constantly changing from infant to child, child to adolescent, adolescent to adult and so on. There must be something within you as unchangeable as a reference point to observe these changes. Stop taking feedbacks from others about yourself and start to look within.
Also read: Memory – A Forged Identity Of Ourselves
Advantage of mind's limitation
In the Cosmos, everything is relative; nothing is absolute. In words of Einstein "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." The meaning only lies in our way of observation as in case with motion and static state. It is the state of observer which determines whether the object is in motion or static.
The state of observer is influenced by other things in the surrounding apart from the object of observation. Our mind, in fact, does not register any absolute state but only able to detect the relative difference between the observed object and its surrounding. When we compare 7 feet rod with 10 feet rod, mind registers it as small and when we compare the same 7 feet rod with 5 feet rod, it registers it as big.
The same comparison occurs also in the situation of miseries or happiness. You can take advantage of it in enjoying your lives. At the time of problems or miseries, you can imagine of the worst things that could happen in that situation and feel happy that you didn't hit by them.
Illusion due to prejudices
We have seen in previous section that how any observation depends more on observer than the object of observation. In this section we will see how our mind interprets the meaning differently under the influence of prejudices and sometime in entirely opposite direction.
The line "Jug me apni nijta laye kar" could be interpreted in two entirely different ways: First one would be to blend your ego into the world and look the world egoistically. And second one would be to harmonize yourself with the cosmos, acknowledging the differences as complement, and behave as unity.
The entire message from the reference point of our first interpretation of the third line conveys: "The secret of sustenance in life is to identify yourself with your ego, blend it with the world and see the world through it because that is the only world relevant for you."
This is a very dangerous interpretation. Unfortunately, most of the time, we interpret in this manner only because of our prejudices. We are conditioned to think in terms of ego since the very childhood. Moreover, we are loaded with the ego of family, religion, nation and many more.
I've heard a story of a person who once went to learn the secret of blissful living from a Zen fakir. The fakir welcomed him with a cup of tea and then began pouring more from his kettle into it. The person shouted annoyingly "what are you doing? It's already full. How could it accommodate more?" The fakir replied with a serene smile "I understand; but do you? How could I give you more if you already come overflowing?"
According to Zen saying, one who longs to be everywhere must not be anywhere. One who wants to be all cannot afford to be anything. There is no congruity between all and something; they just don't go together. You have to be nothing to become all. You have to relinquish your personal identity to gain cosmic identity.
Also read: Surrender - A Way to Freedom
Harmony is blissfulness
Harmony is the key to blissfulness not solution. Existence is paradoxical. Everything we observe in cosmos appears to us in pairs: day-night, hot-cold, light-dark, matter–antimatter, pleasure-pain, happiness-sorrow etc. It is not that they appear in pairs; it is our limitation of observation that we see them in pairs. We can only observe from some reference point and to generate that reference point, we divide the things into two. (Remember motion in reference of some static object and stationary state in reference of some motion.)
It is not only that we divide them into two but begin to believe them as a separate entity. Then the conflict arises – problem begins to upsurge. When problem surges, we try to find a solution for it. To find a solution, we start to compare between the two and choose one part against the other as solution. Then miseries begin.
One who chooses will always be incomplete, less than the whole, because the part he chooses will continue to delude him and the part he denies will continue to pursue and haunt him. He can never be rid of what he rejects and represses. That's the cause of his misery.
You cannot find a solution of tree growth to a greater height by cutting its roots. You cannot find happiness as solution without sorrow. How would you know that you are happy without the reference of sorrow? Happiness could only be known from the reference point of sorrow.
Once, a boy was flying a kite with his father and asked him what kept the kite up. Dad replied, "The string." The boy surprised and said, "Dad, it is the string that is holding the kite down." The father then asked his son to release the kite from that holding if he thought so. The son broke the string. And then, the misery began.
A few minute earlier, he was happy. He was enjoying flying a kite. But now, he was sad. He was sad because he misunderstood the Law of Cosmos. Existence is paradoxical. The very things that are holding us down are also the things that are helping us fly. You cannot find a solution by choosing one against other.
There is a basic flaw in our understanding. We understand opposite as conflicting but, instead, they are complementary. The cosmos is a unity of contradictions and dialectics. It is composed of different and contradictory notes.
Harmony is the use of different and contradictory notes simultaneously. Harmony is a pleasing combination of elements as a whole. To be in harmony with cosmos means to be complete, to be integrated.
When you harmonize with Cosmos, you and cosmos become Unity. Then you just become synonym of cosmos. You don't have anything of your own because there is nothing left other than you to be owned by you. Your individual identity becomes nothing. And you become whole.
Seeing the cosmos in oneself
It is just like watching programs on your television by tuning it to broadcasting frequency. You don't need to be present at recording studio to watch the programs. You can watch them at your place on your television-set tuned in to the broadcasting frequency. In a similar fashion, you can see the cosmos within yourself when tuned in to it.
Let understand it from different perspective. A drop of water is same everywhere irrespective of its origin. It doesn't matter where it lies: whether in ponds, lake, river, ocean or single droplet or even in ice or vapour. Its true identity i.e. its composition will always remain the same. It's the same proportion of hydrogen and oxygen, you'll find in every forms of water. It means if you understand one droplet of water, you understand the whole water. The same is the case with you and the cosmos. If you understand yourself, you understand the cosmos. If you are able to see your true self then you are able to see cosmos within yourself.
Surdas said "One drop of water is in the river and another is foul in the ditch by the roadside. But when they fall into the Ganga both alike become holy." It means that it doesn't matter what you are at present whether clean river or foul ditch; to become holy, you only need to unite with holy Ganga. When you fall in Ganga, you become Ganga. In a similar way, when you unite with cosmos, you become the cosmos.
There is a beautiful story of Vivekananda associated with this Bhajan of Surdas. Once, a party was organized by Maharaja of Khetri in his honour. In that party, when a dancer entered into the court to perform, Vivekananda rose to go out. He was prejudiced regarding the character of those dancers. Upon seeing the Vivekananda rising from his seat, another stanza of this bhajan broke out from her choked throat with tears pouring down her cheeks:
"O Lord, not look upon my evil qualities! Your name, O Lord, is Same-sightedness. Make of us both the same Brahman! One piece of iron is in the image in the temple and other is in the hand of a murderer but when touched by philosophers' stone both alike turn into gold. So Lord, do not look upon my evil qualities! Your name, Lord, is Same-sightedness....."
Vivekananda was completely overwhelmed. He realized his mistake. He touched the feet of that dancer and begged for pardon. This is the secret of his blissful life. He never carried his ego with himself. He never let his ego come his way or overpowered by it. He never lived for false pride and importance.
Most of our energy goes into upholding our importance. If we're capable of losing some of that importance, two extraordinary things happen. First, we would free our energy from trying to maintain the illusory idea for grandeur; and second, we would provide ourselves with enough energy to catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the cosmos.
Ways to feel harmony with cosmos
- Practice choicelessness
- Spend time with nature
- Listen music without words
- Include dance in your life
- Try to observe the rhythm of your breathing in leisure
- Use the time on bed before sleeping for introspection
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the Universe.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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Washington, D.C.,'s most precious resource is its inhabitants. After all, without the people who actually run the federal government and drive the policymaking process, Washington would be only a smallish city with some interesting museums and a handful of Greco-Roman monuments to dead people — in other words, a lot like Europe.
D.C. is clearly much more than that, and its small scale (compared to great political-financial capitals like London and Tokyo) obscures the fact that today Washington exerts enormous influence — arguably greater influence on global politics and business than any other city in the world.
To know Washington is not just a matter of knowing one's way from the National Portrait Gallery to the nearest Starbucks. It is essential to understand who lives there and what these people actually do to make the U.S. government work.
You notice quickly upon meeting a few members of the Washington establishment that virtually no one is really "from" Washington. Instead, these people usually come to Washington early in their careers, maybe even for college. Most are not digging for gold, at least as a primary motivation; Wall Street and Silicon Valley offer much better returns for the young and intelligent.
They come to D.C. because the work of the U.S. government has its own unique rewards: power and the chance to actually make a difference in the world.
Likewise, professionals from the nation's leading banks and law firms may make far less money and squeeze into less luxurious offices when they come to work as staffers at the Department of Treasury or Justice. But the issues they deal with are usually far more interesting and consequential.
Who are all these people who call Washington home? Not the President or members of Congress. While they are indispensable to the policymaking process, their time in the city is restricted by term limits, constituents, or seemingly inevitable scandal.
True, some members of Congress settle in Washington permanently after they turn in their congressional office keys. (Those who settle permanently before leaving office often find that fact comes back to bite at election time.)
The real Washington establishment, however, consists of the people under the radar who spend decades there. They hold various titles — federal bureaucrat, lobbyist, lawyer, journalist, consultant, think-tank fellow — but they are alike in being inextricably linked to the policymaking process. They're the ones who make the trains run on time.
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Stay Awhile
Chapter: Do You Remember When We Stood in That Hallway?
Part I: Commentary: Smart Snobs
He was very, very real. And two feet away. Maybe one foot, ten inches away. One foot, nine inches. One foot, eight inches. He leaned closer. Did I get a ruler out, while writing this, to determine how close would be, ummm, interesting? No comment, except that it is hard to keep a numbers nerd away from her ruler.
And we traded atoms again. In fact, several of my atoms had broken free from my form and were ricocheting off the walls of the hallway and zinging past my head and zinging past his. While writing "Redwoodian," I thought a lot about how a powerful emotion isn't like this passive lump that sits out there. "Happiness" isn't one static single thing, nor is "excitement" nor the blues. Emotions are like little hives fully of buzzy bees, and while the hive forms the whole emotion, each bee represents a memory or experience or anecdote contributing to that emotion and the larger singular unit.
But how to say that? We aren't made of buzzy bees -- well, I'm not, but maybe a doctor has never looked closely enough -- but we do have an atom or two or two million or 78 thousand framillion. So it seemed fine for Fair to lose a few of her atoms in this heady moment, given that she has several million more holding her together. Mostly.
I shrunk into the wall. "What if. What if once all of this is resolved, and you don't sell me your pool and Motel Fairwil, or you do, and either way you don't hate me, what if you and I met at this time, in the middle of the night, so no one at The Wilfair sees me, and we met at the pool and we, um, did this kissing thing then? Because it feels like it should probably happen at the pool. To, like. Make things right. Symbolically." The smile I summoned was small and anxious. Ohhh, Fair and her obsession with symbolism. She's a little obsessed. Exhibit A? The mint dish that sits on The Wilfair Hotel's front desk. The mint dish represents how she's felt about her role at the hotel. The mint dish is pretty and a little ornamental and a little pleasant but ultimately unimportant (hence her new rallying cry, "The mint dish can go to hell!"). So it doesn't surprise me a whit that she'd suggest the pool as a very symbolic place to get close with the guy she's trying to take the pool from. ***Symbolism***
His sudden exhale revealed shock. "So, you'll meet me at the pool, regardless of how this all plays out, and I can kiss you then?"
"If you don't resent me." Fair! Dang. The four words "I can kiss you" just showed up in the last five words Gomery said and you bust out "resent" in your next statement? I mean, I know why, Fair, I do, but TIMING.
"All right, let's try and use 'resent' a little less from here on out." Gomery unhipped his hand and put it on the back of his neck. "The hotel looks down on the motel." The unhipping of his hand=confidence waning. Also, I think I wrote a post on this, but Gomery says "all right" and Monty says "okay" almost always. I know, the little things. Obsessive over details to, erm, an unhealthy point? Don't answer that. :)
"No, we do not!" This is one of my personal smile lines. I just love how indignant Fair is here and how quick to answer. She has a complicated relationship with having more than her neighbors, materially more, and when any conversation with one or both of her neighbors touches on this topic, or even seems to, like in this case, Fair flips out and overreacts.
"I mean physically. Someone might see you from a window, regardless of time of night. Your brothers. If I don't see Wil or Bo at your windows, it isn't a day of the week. Are you all right with having a moment that should be private be less so?" Gomery's question cuts to Fair's quick. She's spent a lot of her life on view, so now that a fun private moment is a possibility for her, she needs to consider how symbolic she'd like things to be -- aka kissing at/in the pool -- vs. how private she'd like things to be -- kissing anywhere away from Wilshire and Fairfax.
"Um. I don't like my personal life playing out in front of any employees or guests. Um."
The long dimples reappeared, an indication the dimple's owners believed this venture wasn't beyond hope. "There are the tables. How about under an umbrella?" The Motel Fairwil has those slightly saggy shade umbrellas that have the retro piping and fringe. Love those.
"But can't the whole motel see that area?"
"I suppose." Fair can be exasperating person, no doubt, but Gomery is determined to not get exasperated with her exasperation.
I brightened. "How about under the diving board?" Hello!
"Under the diving board," he repeated slowly. The dimples, his forehead pi-sign scrunch, and his usual easy grin had no idea what to do with that information; each facial gesture appeared and disappeared in succession as he processed the suggestion. Several things are occurring to Gomery here, most of them pleasant.
"It's in the pool but it's, like, almost totally hidden. If anyone looked down from above, from, like, a hotel window, they'd only see hands holding onto the diving board. Only our fingers gripping the edges. It's hard to tell who someone is just from their hands." Fair thinks she has hit upon the solution. There's privacy under a diving board. She's not really thinking here about what exactly it might mean to be under a diving board with someone she likes, in her bathing suit. Rather, she's all efficiency and "I've got this wrapped up."
"Our hands. Holding onto. The diving board." His eyes grew huge. Gomery gets the more intimate implications Fair hasn't yet fully embraced.
"You know. Like." I raised my hands over my head and gripped an invisible plank. My stance was similar to the classic, arms-in-the-air ballerina pose, though it was far less "Swan Lake" and far more "motel pool." I'm a complete glutton for two characters having a silent gesture they can make, in public, among other people, that will remain private to them. So the moment that Fair made diving board arms, and gripped the not-really-there plank, I knew we'd see this a few more times.
The man in front of me didn't breathe. Then, after several seconds, he put a finger up. "Give me a moment please?" He swiveled, walked to the end of the hallway, shook his arms, then shoulders, rolled his head a few times, cleared his throat, and then returned. "I think I can get behind this plan. It's." He didn't finish his thought. I'm going to leave Gomery to his private thoughts, but let's assume he's having a bunch of them at this juncture. A bunch.
"It's a good idea, right?" Fair doesn't ask for Gomery's approval too often, and vice versa. They just generally have it, and know they have it, and when they don't, they hear about it from the other person. But I was okay with her asking here, because, hell, they're planning a soggy-suited assignation under the motel pool diving board. This is some serious stuff! Wink.
"It is a very good idea, yes, but under a diving board seems more appropriate to a fiftieth kiss, not a first. Are you sure?" Gomery's totally right. That's why I love that Fair, in a bout of high-spirited innocence, pitched the idea without fully considering it.
"Why not?"
"Maybe give it more thought. The umbrellas are great by me. When can this happen?" Gomery is not exactly fibbing here, but trust: The umbrellas are now his second choice.
"Let's, uh. Get home and figure out the pool." I don't know if readers notice, but both characters refer to "our corner" and "home" in a mutually inclusive fashion; Monty might, too, once or twice. It's true, though: They do occupy the same corner, and their buildings connect. Still, they could say "you go home and I'll go home and we'll figure stuff out." I don't like that as much. I want them both to feel co-proprietorship over the corner.
"We can figure that out right now. Just ask, Fair. Don't mouth it and don't insinuate. Please. Ask me if you can buy the Motel Fairwil and its pool."
"I, uh. I, uh." I fell silent.
"You?" A person on the receiving end of a marriage proposal couldn't have had a more tense face than Gomery Overbove did at that moment. Tense face=unsurprising lack of dimples.
In all the times Fair Finley swung by Motel Fairwil to ask them to stop doing something -- turn the neon down on their sign or open the pool later, because early morning splashing was waking Wilfair guests -- Gomery could not have foreseen this weird exchange with his weird neighbor. But as it's happening he's likely thinking, "well, of course this is how it was always going to play out."
And he's all right with that. Because when you're dealing with someone who lives in the world of her head, then a spontaneous peck over at the art museum, in the Impressionist room, is too unmanaged and unplanned.
These books aren't about the loosening-up of Fair Finley, at all, because I don't want to change that about her, and I'm not sure it could. I like our wound-up hotel heiress in all of her overthinkingness. But I ultimately want Fair to be okay with... the ambiguity of whatever's next.
She can't manage everything. And I swear, if she tried to tell Gomery where to put his hands on the diving board, I'd probably throw my computer mouse across the room.
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Rail Engineering
A global supplier of rail vehicles and transportation systems asked Eastyoke to provide a Project Manager to champion the harmonization of CAD processes and design tools across multiple engineering sites in Europe and North America. Over the preceding five years, the business had acquired more than a dozen manufacturing plants, each operating its own distinctive design processes and CAD tools. It now made sense to converge on common processes and tools so that the subsidiaries might collaborate more closely. In other words, this was a business transformation programme with a strong engineering focus.
This 18 month project involved intensive consultation with local site managers to establish requirements and understand constraints. This was followed by a period of business process mapping, SAP interface definition, ITT, vendor selection, pilot programmes and systems integration. The pilot programmes were run at key sites in Europe and USA before being rolled out more widely across the business.
Towards the end of the programme, Eastyoke assisted with the recruitment and induction of an in-house programme manager to continue the harmonization process and ensure a smooth handover to the client's own engineering support function.
Plastic Injection Moulding
Eastyoke provided the Project Manager responsible for the installation and commissioning of plastic injection moulding machinery in the middle of a busy manufacturing site – an automotive tier 1 supplier – in the West Midlands. The challenge was to deliver the project safely and speedily, ensuring compliance with CDM 2015, while minimising the disturbance to nearby 24×7 production lines. The day to day tasks included the planning and oversight of civil, structural, mechanical and electrical engineering contractors involved in:
- Removal and replacement of the existing floor, relaying a new, stronger floor and re-seating several roof supports
- Supplying this area with extensions to the existing power, water, air and material feeds for the new machine
- Installation of a large overhead crane
- Installation of plastic injection moulding machinery, associated robotics and infrastructure
- Commissioning the new facilities
- Sign off and handover to client
Manufacturing Engineering
Eastyoke planned and managed the installation and commissioning of new production lines at a European automotive powertrain manufacturing plant. The scope of the programme included the machining lines for the cylinder block, head and crankshaft as well as the engine final assembly lines.
The programme was required to support the launch milestones of new engine and vehicle models and required careful planning of machine delivery, installation, capability testing and line readiness approval and sign off.
New Product Introduction (NPI)
Eastyoke has run new product development and introduction programmes for automotive manufacturers and their tier 1 suppliers in the UK, Europe, North America and China. Working at client sites, our project managers have planned and delivered:
- Electric vehicle development programmes
- Vehicle electronic control systems such as ECUs & body modules
- Infotainment systems, instrument clusters & connected car technologies
- Vehicle electrical distribution / wiring harness development programmes
- Seating development programmes
- BIW manufacturing lines
- Logistics outsourcing programmes
- Powertrain production lines
- Formula 1 race car data logging and telemetry systems
Production Machinery – Printing
Eastyoke has provided this global supplier of industrial printing machinery with interim managers for the past several years. In particular, Eastyoke has provided contract project managers to work with the engineering and marketing teams developing new technologies for deployment in faster, more connected, higher quality printers.
One of our interims recently completed a hardware and software development programme which enabled the client to launch a new product at an international trade fair. The products were delivered on schedule and within budget.
Eastyoke also helped the company review and improve the manufacturing processes in a recently acquired European subsidiary.
Automotive Engineering PMO
A major automotive tier 1 supplier engaged Eastyoke to set up and run a PMO for the 200-strong engineering department at one of its key European R&D sites. Eastyoke assigned one of its most experienced consultants to the client, a mature individual with a long track record of successfully running engineering departments and multiple concurrent R&D projects.
Eastyoke's consultant quickly established a bond with the key opinion formers, introduced immediate improvements in project governance and set up the standards and management processes which formed the basis of the new PMO. It took 6 months for the new processes to become sufficiently bedded in across the department, such that, towards the end of that period, the consultant started coaching one of the client's own senior managers to assume control of the PMO.
Our consultant left after 8 months but keeps in regular contact with this client. We are happy to report that they continue to optimise the PMO and that it is now a key part of their business culture.
Smart Meter Development
Eastyoke's client is a global leader in metering solutions for the electricity distribution industry. The client has used Eastyoke interim managers to lead the development of new smart meters for the residential marketplace. The development programme's objective was to deliver a reliable automated meter reading (AMR) and wireless telemetry solution in a robust, low cost unit suitable for high volume (>1m units) manufacture. The system had to meet stringent European safety & regulatory requirements and had to be integrated with the underlying comms and customer database infrastructure. The development programme was completed successfully and the units are currently being delivered to a major utility company for deployment to consumers in the UK.
The programme supports the UK government's drive to improve energy efficiency, reduce energy costs and contribute to a sustainable use of resources.
Chemical Process Engineering
Our client, a bioscience / biotechnology corporation asked Eastyoke to supply an interim project manager to oversee the expansion of its UK manufacturing facilities. The site manufactures chemical intermediates for the pharmaceutical industry and it was critical to ensure that production was not disrupted during the expansion.
The scope of the project included included design, construction and installation of a reactor hall, mezzanine floor, clean rooms, prep labs, stores, reactor vessels, mixing tanks and associated building services.
Eastyoke's project management contractor was responsible for the oversight and coordination of the civils and process engineering contractors, consulting engineers and CDM coordinator, as well as liaison with the client's management and stakeholders.


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Needless to say, Egypt is one of the developing countries that faces multiple challenges: Pollution and weak health care system which affect mainly two aspects of life: public health and communication. The grand challenge which our project focused on is pollution; waste and industrial smoke pollute the air with high amounts of toxic gases such as CO₂ and SO₄. So, a solution has been adopted to produce a highly-strengthened brick with a lower price. The solution is about extracting and precipitating silica fume (which is a highly toxic material in the gaseous state) from the industrial smoke, and mixing it with BacillusPasteurii bacteria, urine and calcium chloride to make a brand-new strengthened brick almost as hard as a marble. Based on the obtained results, our project could slightly solve Egypt's major problems, mainly the Pollution Problem.
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Scitex Corporation Signs Agreement to Combine Scitex Vision and Aprion Digital
Sunday, December 29, 2002
Press release from the issuing companyTEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 22 -- Scitex Corporation Ltd., a world leader in industrial digital inkjet printing solutions, announced today that it has signed a definitive share exchange agreement to combine the business of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Scitex Vision Ltd., with that of a venture backed Aprion Digital Ltd. (Scitex currently holds approximately 42.5% of Aprion's share capital and certain shareholders of Scitex currently hold approximately 28.5% of Aprion's share capital). The combined entity will become a leading provider of industrial digital printing solutions. The combined business will operate under the name Scitex Vision, while promoting the Aprion name for its unique inkjet head technology. Under the terms of the agreement, Aprion will acquire from Scitex all the outstanding share capital of Scitex Vision in exchange for shares in Aprion. The shares will be allotted to Scitex, at an exchange ratio of an approximate two to one basis, between Scitex Vision and Aprion, respectively, which reflects an adjustment from the previously announced exchange ratio of a one to one basis. Following such adjustment in the exchange ratio and certain other adjustments relating to Aprion's share capital, it is expected that, after the closing of the transaction, Scitex will hold, in the aggregate and subject to any further adjustments, approximately 75% of Aprion's outstanding share capital (equating to approximately 65% of Aprion's share capital on an as converted and fully diluted basis). At or prior to the closing of the transaction, Scitex will strengthen the share capital of Scitex Vision by an infusion of $15 million. The closing of the transaction is subject to the conclusion of due diligence, regulatory and shareholders approvals (which in the case of Scitex, requires a minimum level of support by Scitex's non-interested shareholders), and is intended to be completed by year-end. Scitex Vision Ltd., headquartered in Herzlia, Israel, with global operations, is a leading developer, manufacturer and service provider of wide and super-wide format digital printing systems and consumables. Aprion Digital Ltd., a company based in Netanya, Israel, is a developer, manufacturer and service provider of Drop-On-Demand inkjet technologies and systems for a variety of industrial, end user, digital printing applications. Aprion's first commercial applications are in the corrugated packaging and wide format printing markets. Scitex Corporation Ltd., through its wholly owned subsidiaries and strategic investments, is a world leader in digital industrial inkjet printing solutions. Scitex shares trade on NASDAQ and The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange under the symbol SCIX. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.scitex.com.
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Vandal Dance
The University of Idaho Dance Team has made a transformation over the last few years. They have gone from being a club on campus, to becoming a part of the Vandal Spirit Squad. These young women are talented, animated, and expressive when it comes to performing. They are passionate about supporting their athletic teams, while equally excited to show off their skills for Vandal fans. They do performances at every home Football Game and select Men's and Women's Basketball games
- Across the Floor Combinations
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- Fouettes
- Chaine Turns
- Jete Leap
- Pique turn
- Pirouette a la second
- Calypso
- High Kick Forward (both legs), Tilt Kick (both legs)
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I opened a bounty on stackoverflow hoping that my question would get more visibility, but sadly I noticed that it only got three views since I started the bounty yesterday.
Eventually, in 7 days, it will reach the top of the featured tab (right now it's on page 2, and no one will look that far).. But I don't want to wait for 7 days before the visibility bonus of the bounty will come into effect - and eventually it will. It just doesn't seem right to me having to sit for days before my answer goes up the list.
So, in my opinion the ordering should be changed. I have the following proposal: The reverse of what it is now.
- People are more likely to receive an answer immediately (which is good, people want things now not later), that maybe the OP will mark as accepted in advance, therefore reducing the number of featured questions (which is good because the others get more visibility).
- The asker will have time to accept the answer. For example, now the first question on the list on SO is this, it ends in 2 hours and it currently has a very high number of views and thus high potential for answers. However, if I decide to answer now, what are the chances the asker sees it and has time to accept it before the bounty expires?
- There is none I can see. Same potential for visibility and answers, but simply reversed (you get a lot of visibility and answers right away, and little later on, instead of the inverse).
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I went to the gym today. Twice. The first time I was happy. The second time I was ticked.
Ever had those times where you want a certain outcome but you know that to have that outcome, you have to DO something, yet the DOING part seems so painful??
As part of his hip recovery, Mr HunBal needs to do some gentle physio each day, part of which includes gentle (static) bike riding. So today, the first day of physio, saw me lovingly drive my Love to the gym to supervise his physio. I even put my gym clothes on, you know, to look the part and settle the inner-Ju, who was being slightly narky, with her, "You know, YOU haven't been to the gym in aaaages you know. YOU really should do something while you're here." But no. I was suuuuperrrrviiiisiiiing, like the loving wife that I am. By his side. Always. On the non-cross trainer side. But at least I was in my gym gear.
After the physio, it was then super important to get the man home to ice the hip (as per the physio's instructions) so I couldn't possibly stay on to do a workout, even though Mr HunBal suggested it. But how could he be thinking straight right now? He's just had a hip operation!
You see the logic in all of this surely?
However! As soon as we made it home, it started. Mr Hunbal was throwing so much annoying logic at me that I could feel myself becoming more and more ticked at how much sense he was making and how much I didn't want to see the sense in what he was saying.
"You're dressed. I'm fine. I'm not going anywhere. You're DRESSED. Why not just pop back? I'm fine. You're IN-YOUR-GYM-GEAR-READY-TO-GO-ALREADY."
In this moment, I was that child. The one on the floor, kicking and screaming because I didn't want to do something. Well. In my head I was. On the outside, I think I had my resting bitch face on.
BUT I WENT. I think it took approx ten minutes of kicking my tukas on the cross trainer for the inner-Ju to finally get up from her epic tanty and simply accept that this was happening. As a mild disciplinary action for the bad behaviour, I added an extra weight to my lat exercises.
It was then in my cool down that I had the opportunity to reflect on the process it took to get me to the end of this particular workout and how now, I felt grateful, to myself, that I had pushed. Even if I was internally kicking, screaming and potentially mumbling sweary-type words.
I want a stronger body. I want muscles to be toned, I want my core to be strong and yet none of this will happen if I only think about what I need to do and not actually "Do the DOING" bit.
Then it hit me (the thought, not the weights)…..
How true is this of Love Relationships??
No one wants a bad relationship. No one goes into a relationship wanting it to be short lived and unfulfilled. Gosh no! I'd have to guess that a high percentage of those in a Love Relationship want it to be something that lasts forever and then not just last, but be so fulfilling as well!
Any Love Relationship can be stronger, deeper, scrumptiously gorgeous and forever and anyone can THINK that this is how they want their own Love Relationship to be. BUT! Thinking doesn't make the Doing happen. Doing the DOING bit, that's what makes it happen.
What does, "Do the DOING" bit look like?
- DOING stuff together (phones down!)
- Having chats. Having long chats.
- Deliberately cuddle
- Make each other a cuppa
…..and so much more…..!!
Thinking about how I want my body to be toned and strong is nice, but not effective at actually getting that strong and toned body. Likewise, wishing for a scrumptiously, gorgeous, forever Love Relationship is lovely, but wishing still doesn't create results.
In a nutshell, you just have to Do the DOING Bit.
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Simply, a person's BMI, or body mass index, is a numerical
measure of a their weight compared to their height.
It's primary use is within the health professions as an objective assessment of a patient's weight.
Because of its simplicity it is often inappropriately used to determine a person's 'fatness' or 'thinness'. Importantly, it does not take into consideration the body's composition, for instance, a well-trained body-builder with large muscle bulk would be given a BMI that might suggest they are over-weight. Conversely, the very weak-limbed, huge tummy physique might return a healthy BMI index.
As far as runners are concerned (assuming they are not very muscle-bound), it does give a reasonable indication of where you fall on the scale of a 'healthy' weight, especially when combined with an honest look in the mirror.
To find your BMI, enter your measurements below and look at the scale to see where you're at.
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Another conversation that I had at the ultimate tournament was with a student who argued that governments in third-world countries should freely distribute contraceptives. His reasoning was, by distributing contraceptives, the total amount of abortions would decrease thus eliminating the sin of murdering innocent children. He argued that conservatives should support the distribution of contraceptives if we felt that it was wrong to have abortions (he also tried to discuss politics with me, but that was one avenue I wouldn't follow him down). I asked him, "Don't you think you're missing the point?" I then explained to him if he just reads from the Bible that God doesn't want us to have sex, then he's missing God's purpose and the Bible's underlying message. I informed him that the Bible says that as a Christian I have permission to do anything. However, just because I can doing anything, doesn't mean everything is beneficial, or good for me. God isn't keeping sex from non-married individuals because God's trying to hold out on us. (Yes, I could have explained how pre-marital sex is an offense against the body, but please remember that non-spiritual people do not comprehend spiritual things and exploring this avenue wasn't, therefore, required.) I continued by telling him that God did not want us to have premarital sex for our benefit. We would not have to worry about STDs or the emotional, physical and spiritual baggage from having sex with multiple partners. And eventually, the sin takes over, we would become addicted and eventually aggressive in order to have sex, or needing to continue to feel in control, thus leading to cases of rape. I reasoned with him, instead of putting a bandaid on the symptons of the sin, why not just get rid of the sin?
The student continued to take the position that people in these countries would continue to have problems of rape (he wasn't a Christian, so the idea of evangelizing these countries was not an option) so we still needed to freely give contraceptives. I told him that I believed he was using circular reasoning for his case. (This is the same as my last post.) I asked him, "If you were 16 and asked your parents for a car and they said, 'No,' would you then tell them, 'Either give me a car or I will go steal one'"? He chuckled and said that he wouldn't. I continued, "Well, basically you're telling God the same thing, because God has told you not to have pre-marital sex you've replied to God, 'God let me have sex or I'll commit an abortion.' You're telling God, 'You choose which law you would rather me break.'" Then I told him, "My friend, you're not in any condition to be telling God what he should or shouldn't do or allow. The problem is that you don't love God, so you have no regard for any of his laws, not just murder." Then, I turned to conversation back full circle. "You know, we're sitting here talking about the lives of other people and their babies, but what about your life? You are worried about their physical life, but you should be worried about your spiritual life? These children are already dead; you, however, still have a choice. What choice are you going to make?"
He thanked me for talking to him and told me that I had given him a lot of stuff to think about. We, then, went our on ways.
In this post and my last post you see how I'm reasoning with these students and their arguments. Please realize that as Solomon wrote, "Nothing is new under the sun." All arguments against Scripture are the same; they've only taken new faces. (You see how the arguments in this post and the last post were like the argument facing Paul in Romans 3:5-8.) Many of these students that I talked with during the tournament were from ivy league colleges and universities. Most of them have had more philosophy classes than I have had. But I still have two 'tools' in my belt: 1) the knowledge of Scripture; and, 2) the Holy Spirit. As Christ told his disciples, "...for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say." (Luke 12:12) And, it is the word of God that is "sharper than a double-edge sword." Paul writes to the Corinthians, "Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a 'fool' so that be may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. As it is written: 'He catches the wise in their craftiness'; and again, 'The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.'" (1 Corinthians 3:18-20)
You don't have to be 'smart' to reason your faith, just know God's word and be willing to listen to the Holy Spirit's guidance.
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An aortic rupture occurs after there is trauma to the aorta such as that from a motor vehicle accident or a penetrating injury. This can make diagnosis difficult because the patient often has multiple traumatic injuries with symptoms that may mask the ruptured aorta. In most cases the condition is not discovered until CT scans or other imaging tests are performed.
When present, symptoms of an aortic rupture may include:
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Investing in Ceramics - CoorsTek: A Strong Player in High-Tech Markets
"When World War I erupted, the British closed off the gateway from Germany, which at that time was the primary supplier of scientific labware. The U.S. government began looking for another supplier, and Herold China and Pottery stepped in to fill the gap. This move diversified the company's product line beyond just oven-safe pottery," says Terry Terens, investor relations director.
The development of isostatic pressing in 1940 enabled the company to expand its product range even further by allowing it to manufacture ceramics in a variety of different shapes and sizes. By 1992, when it was spun off from the Adolph Coors Co. with the rest of ACX Technologies, Coors Ceramics Co. was offering high-tech solutions to a variety of industries.
Then, in December 31, 1999, Coors Ceramics Co. was spun off from ACX, enabling it to become a separate entity with a mission all its own. At that moment, CoorsTek and its "Amazing Solutions" were born.
"We created the name CoorsTek and the tagline 'Amazing Solutions' to go along with it because we believe that we are a provider of comprehensive solutions to a wide array of industries. We don't just manufacture off-the-shelf products—we partner with our customers who come to us with a problem, and then we solve that problem," says Terens.
The Keys to SuccessWithin a year of operating as a separate company, CoorsTek had increased its sales by over 50%, achieving a record $539.7 million in revenue in 2000. The company attributes its success to its capabilities as a solutions provider.
"In the nine years since we left the Adolph Coors Co., we've developed a wide range of capabilities, the foundation of which is our materials expertise," says John K. Coors, chairman and CEO. "We have the ability to do design, engineering and prototyping work for our customers, and then take that into the full-scale manufacturing of components—particularly critical components—as well as integrated assembling of those components into complete machines."
One of the biggest markets CoorsTek serves is the semiconductor capital equipment industry—a market that has proven to be a dynamic springboard for the new company. "We seized an opportunity in the semiconductor capital equipment market in 1999 and succeeded," says Coors. "This segment represented 57% of our revenue in the fourth quarter of 2000, up from just 6% in 1998."
It was through this industry that the company branched out into materials other than ceramics. "We've actually been doing some metals and some plastics for a number of years. But we've greatly expanded these capabilities over the past several years—particularly our metal-machining capabilities—in support of our move to the semiconductor capital equipment industry. We wanted to become a complete outsourcing partner to our customers," says Coors.
The remaining 43% of the company's business is in advanced materials—products such as co-fire multilayer ceramic packages, custom engineered ceramics and seal faces for the automotive industry; electron tube components, hybrid microelectronic substrates and semiconductor packages for the electronics industry; armor products, pump components and medical ceramics for industrial applications; and fiberoptics, hybrid microelectronic substrates and semiconductor packages for the telecommunications industry, as well as a whole host of other products and technologies. CoorsTek rarely turns down the opportunity to develop a solution for any of the industries it serves—even if the opportunity appears at first to be a risky venture. "Our main goal is solving our customers' problems, whether it's a materials problem or a manufacturing problem, a supply-chain management problem or a speed-to-market problem—we deal in all of those areas," says Coors. "We do a lot of off-the-wall stuff, and some of it doesn't lead anywhere. But one of our strengths is the ability to do off-the-wall things. And occasionally those off-the-wall things lead to large markets, so it's worth the risks."
Investing in the FutureRecognizing that future growth requires wise upfront investments, CoorsTek expanded its capabilities in several notable arenas in 2000 and early 2001. In November, the company commercialized its state-of-the-art automation technology, acquired through a licensing arrangement with a California-based engineering firm. This technology enabled CoorsTek to begin volume manufacturing automatic door openers—devices that automatically open and close an industry-standard, 300-millimeter wafer pod, enhancing the reliability, accuracy and repeatability of the semiconductor chip manufacturing process.
In December, the company announced that it would expand the capacity of its subsidiary, CoorsTek Korea, to include lasered substrates that are used in the production of electronic circuits for the telecommunications and automotive markets. "It has been exciting to witness firsthand the growth of CoorsTek Korea and the success we are enjoying in the dynamic and growing Asian market," says Coors. "This subsidiary currently provides ceramic components for semiconductor processing equipment, power generation machinery, and other heavy industry applications. Now, with our expansion into lasered substrates, we are further diversifying our customer base to include leading electronics manufacturers."
January 2001 brought news that the company would also begin expanding capacity at its Grand Junction, Colo., facility to accommodate growing demand for ceramic ferrules, which are critical components of fiberoptic connectors and cables. As part of this expansion, CoorsTek will also broaden its capabilities to provide value-added cable assembly services. As a result, the company's range of competencies in this area of the opto-electronics market will expand beyond making ferrules to include offering assembled connectors and terminated fiberoptic cables.
"Our expansion in the telecommunications arena, and in particular, opto-electronics, fits perfectly with our long-term growth strategy," says Coors. "Telecom is both a high growth market and an industry in which we enjoy strong customer relationships with key players. Moreover, this market offers the opportunity for value-added assembly. In addition to manufacturing critical components, we now have the capacity and competency to assemble these components into finished or near-finished products. As a further synergy, we are planning to add cable assembly capacity to our recently-opened, low-cost manufacturing facility in Mexico."
Despite the current economic instability in the U.S., CoorsTek believes that it is well positioned for a successful future. "We have an advantage because we supply nearly every industry of the global economy. Just because something's out of synch right now doesn't mean it's always going to be that way," says Coors. "We will strive to build on the success of the past year and gain market share, particularly in our semiconductor segment. We will remain focused on our core competencies and offer our diverse customer base the industry's broadest array of materials and services. With our strong balance sheet, we have the financial flexibility to take advantage of new business opportunities and if needed, weather volatile market conditions."


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Winter Whale Watching, The Tubes, Natural History of the Anza-Borrego Region
Events December 19-December 25, 2019
Various Authors noon, Dec. 14
616 J Street, Downtown San Diego
Jsix at the Hotel Solamar downtown closed down at the beginning of the year to revamp the menu.
The restaurant now promises food that is organic, sustainable, hormone-free, and that supports local farmers.
All of this sounds good, but it would just be buzzwords if the food wasn't any good.
Luckily, the new menu is excellent, with lots of dishes that aren't available elsewhere.
"I'm having the rabbit," said my 11-year-old daughter and Food Network fan.
I was so proud of her. Some people have a problem with rabbit, but it's a popular dish in most places in the world and more sustainable than beef.
Jsix chef Christian Grave braises the rabbit for two hours into a tomatoey, Bolognese-style ragout, served with ricotta cheese and homemade spinach pasta. The result is sweet and bacony and a revelation to people who might otherwise cringe at the thought of braised bunny.
I kept asking for taste after taste. Research, of course.
I ordered the roasted halibut which is served with potatoes and a fried oyster on top. Our waitress Michelle poured oyster chowder over the dish while I was waiting.
The halibut is buttery and the chowder is a nice way to sauce up the dish. I usually like a bit of hot sauce on chowder, but was eating it so quick that I was halfway done before I realized I had forgotten to ask.
My wife is a vegetarian who doesn't do dairy. The entree items were limited as a result, but she was able to find plenty of options in the starters and appetizer sections such as the quinoa-crusted avocado, which is flash-fried and served with chimichurri sauce and grilled lime.
Problem for her is that my daughter kept wanting bites.
Both of them loved the sweet pea salad, served with mint, pea flowers and pea shoots.
My wife ordered it without the aged cheddar, croutons, or Caesar dressing. My daughter did like the dressing. Another option my wife liked was the roasted cauliflower with chimichurri in place of the usual basil dressing. The grilled broccoli with breadcrumbs, peppers, and onions sounded good to her, but was more spicy than she liked. I thought it was great so your mileage may vary.
We were both impressed with waitress Michelle, who was very knowledgeable about the wine list and food pairings — even with my typically bizarre explanations of the wines I like.
"I really like fruity Pinot Noirs that sort of coat your tongue like an old sock."
"Gee, I don't think we have any sock wines, but you might like this Carmenere from Chile."
Jsix's menu is great for a foodie, but, admittedly, it was difficult trying to figure out what my particular (not picky) 8-year-old son would eat because the menu items sounded strange to him.
"Rabbit? Lamb? Rainbow Beet Terrine?"
He settled for the burger, the most familiar dish on the menu. However, the other food items we got looked so good he ended up trying things like the rabbit ragout and the fried oyster that topped my halibut.
As far as desserts go, the kids enjoyed Jsix's upscale version of a s'more: a chocolate pudding served in a jar with candied graham cracker bits. But I fell in love with the raspberry sorbet served in a ginger beer that, I believe, is made there.
Desserts aren't usually the driving point for me when I eat out, but I would consider a return trip to Jsix for that. However, I'd probably want the rabbit as well.


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A sunny afternoon, the final proof of the latest volume of my family history … and a hot cuppa tea!
Here's a link to a mention on the radio!
In Podcast #29 I joked about the number of wood card index cabinets scattered about my home. Here's two of them!
It's nice that the podcast got a mention in the current issue of Who Do You Think You Are?– and a special thank you to the listener who brought the paragraph to my attention. Podcasting can be something of a lonesome affair – scripting it, recording, editing, scheduling and posting. So, hey, it's great when we get an echo and we realise that, yes, someone is listening. Thanks to everyone involved
A Young Lad's Connection with the Fighting Temeraire.
If I had but known. That's a phrase that I've thought so often during my adventures in family history that I'm hardly conscious of the words these days. If I had known that my family had been disrupted by land enclosures, I would have paid much more attention to my history lessons at school. If I had known that my grandfather served in the Machine Gun Corps, I would have asked many more questions. But I know that the greatest missed opportunity for making the most of an experience was much, much closer to home.
I wasn't seven years old when the doctor decided that I should lose my tonsils and, because I was the son of a Navy family, I should be admitted to the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar, close to the shores of Portsmouth Harbour.
I hated it. I hated being away from my Mum and Dad. I hated having to stay in bed and I can still recall being cross when doctors and nurses ignored me as they walked past.
What a difference it would have made if I had known that, on 1 December 1805, the injured sailors in the 'Fighting Temeraire' had been brought to Haslar following the Battle of Trafalgar. Of the 129 admissions from the battle, 52 were from the Temeraire. Nelson was my number one hero at the time and I'm sure that this slice of history would have let my imagination run free. I mean, come on, I was there, in the same passageways and high-ceilinged wards as those veterans of Trafalgar. In fact, let's not exaggerate, those sailors suffered amputations and that's what lay in store for me – I was going to have my tonsils amputated!
The hospital had been built in 1746. No brick-built building in Europe could match it for size. It had 114 wards. This was Britain's first Naval Hospital and, for all the bloody -not to say savage – surgery of the day, the hospital was the scene of many advances in battle medicine. The hospital closed in 2009 and the magnificent buildings are now in the hands of developers. For all I know, my tonsils are still there.
So, what's this all about? Well, for all my light-heartedness, I do feel a 'sense of something', having been admitted to the same hospital as the men of the Temeraire – and this is not belittled by the very obvious concession that tens of thousands of other patients shared that experience. The disappointment is that I didn't pick up on anything of Haslar's history until the 1980's – some thirty years after I'd lost m'tonsils. The lesson, I suppose, is to research the side alleyways of local history that might connect with our genealogy. Oh, how I would have made the most of those days, as a seven year old, if only someone had told me.
25 February 2018
Some new ideas on a Victorian Murder. My essay "Why Was Hannah Bowyer Guilty?" appears in the Winter 2017 Genealogists Magazine (Society of Genealogists)
And Further On ….
I don't post on this page as often as I should but it is nice to see how they link together. The study of an old cricket match, back in the Spring, resulted in my privately published history of three brothers on my family tree and Cricket in Bingham, Notts.
And now, if you scroll down and read the last post about a parish history of Gedling ….. well, thanks to a great friend, here is the book in new covers!
20 Sept 2017
"The Answers in the Wind" My look at weather records and family history appears in the Journal of Genealogy and Family History
Looking into a Parish History
Years overdue, I recently purchased a copy of Charles Gerring's parish history of Gedling, a Nottinghamshire church where I, my mother and grandfather were baptised. I was pleasantly surprised to find my great-grandfather mentioned as a bellringer, parish councillor and subscriber to the volume (but no word, unfortunately of his cricketing). Various entries make it clear Gerring also shared these interests and there's little doubt that he and my gt-grandfather would have known each other. This brought a new dimension to the book for me because Gerring was writing not only at time but also with a perspective that my gt-grandfather would have shared. No, it isn't a vicarious conversation but it does help get a little closer to the character. And, of course, as a subscriber gt-gdfa would have owned and I hope read the same book.
Just a little more research confirmed that Gerring also transcribed the early marriage registers for Phillimore. This task would have been so absorbing and time consuming task that we need only a little imagination to believe that gt-gdfa knew the work was going on – and may even have looked over the scribe's shoulder!
I am sure this is not an uncommon example. I have always said that we should read the old parish histories with 'two pairs of eyes' – the first learning about the place while the second recognises what the writer is telling us about their own time – the priorities and attitudes of the years when the book was written. In a podcast on W.E. Tate, I mentioned that one delight of his introductory chapter to The Parish Chest was his comparisons with English villages of times gone by also gave us a look at a 'modern day' village of the 1940's.
It all adds to the picture.
13 June 2017
What Place Guy Fawkes
Some years ago, I worked near Dunchurch, Warwickshire, and enjoyed taking lunch on the green within sight of Guy Fawkes House. Except, it had never been Guy Fawkes House but it had been an inn where the conspirators planned to muster after the outrage. It was of more interest to the interrogators after the plot than it had ever been to the terrorists beforehand.
I had become more interested in the Treason of 5 November since moving, geographically speaking, to the hinterland of Catholic dissatisfaction in the English Midlands of Elizabethan and Stuart times. It seems unlikely now that this hotbed was not really as hot as the propagandists of the time would have had people believe. Not many Catholics from the Shires would have risen up to support an insurrection led by the gunpowder plotters.
The answer to a more realistic perspective lies in the genealogy. Catesby, the dashing leader, Robert and Tom Wintour were great grandsons of Sir George Throckmorton. Two more of the circle, John Grant and Francis Tresham were married to his great grand-daughters. Thockmorton himself had married Catherine Vaux whose family tree brought Ann Vaux, Eliza of Harrowden and other Treshams into this family of the plotters and sympathisers. Yes, there were others who were outside the family – including Mr Fawkes – but the better explanations of the Gunpowder Treason begin with a careful drawing of the extended pedigree and an examination why this family spawned such rabid radicalism.
So, what's in this for the genealogist?
It is another example where the answer to understanding history lies in the genealogy. It might be outdated now to talk about all history being the biography of the great people but setting down clearly the extended family relationships between the protagonists, the bit part players and the opinion formers so often unlocks the mysteries of what was going on.
And it's worth bringing the lesson to our own work. As we bring in more collateral lines and in-laws with far reaching branches, can we try for a sense of where was the past and where did the future lie? The matriarchs, the wise men, the money earners and not to mention the productive pairings.
3 June 2017
Missing Shakespeare Moments
A quick glance at my list of forthcoming episodes shows that I have been putting together a podcast drawing on the different genealogical sources for Shakespeare. I have been fascinated by his life, and his London, for many years; it seems so full of hidden intrigue – and it is never very far away from the Gunpowder Plot. No matter how many wild and willowy claims are pushed forward, surely, there is still room for more conspiracy stories, so whenever I talk or write about W.S. I like to throw in a teaser for committed enthusiasts to gnaw away at.
The more I read about Shakespeare the more I see folks' determination to complicate the story as the root of the problem, And an obvious example – as far as family history nuts are concerned – is the question of the 'Lost Years'.
We are supposed to be puzzled because there is no mention of Shakespeare's life between the baptism of his twins in 1585 and the line in Robert Greene's pamphlet of 1592 referring to 'the upstart crow', In fact, his name does appear in a legal dispute over a parcel of land in 1589 – but let not that spoil a riveting argument.
Good Lord, this is seven years in the life of a Tudor glove maker's son and few enthusiasts browsing a family tree would be worried by an interval of seven years, Information about the general classes during Tudor years is pretty damned sparse and a pedigree that mentions a 1585 baptism, a 1589 legal dispute and a 1592 pamphlet might be considered a well accounted space of time. It is more informative than many, if not all, of my branches in Elizabethan times.
It seems to me that there are two issues here,
Firstly, we should recognise the different perspectives of the genealogist and the broader historian. Genealogists are looking for documented evidence to support a timeline that either reinforces or disputes a pedigree, For them, records of hatch, match and dispatch are the pillars of any biography which need to reconciled with the evidence of residence, property and life time events. Here we have that familiar distinction between the genealogist who is looking for a sturdy skeleton, the family historian who seeks to put flesh on the bones and the local historian who wants to place the flesh and bones in their environment. No discipline is superior to either of the others. And so, the "television" historians are looking for collateral evidence to document Shakespeare's move to London and are frustrated when they find none and they will have little patience when the genealogists shrug their shoulders and mutter, "We told you so."
The second issue arises from this same attitude. The historian should not be worried by 'Lost Years' – compared with what similar families might expect, those years a very well evidenced. But it is the documented commentary rather than the years that are missing. They cannot explain why Shakespeare moved from Stratford to London, sometime after 1585 in time and sufficiently inspired to write Henry VI before 1592.
My response to that question cannot help but be influenced by the grime of old family tree roots under my fingernails. I am sure the answer lies in the genealogy.
22 April 2017
Hearth Tax Returns
At Home with the Chimney Men
I thought it slightly odd when a teenage date – this was some years ago – admitted relaxing by considering international time zones, but I couldn't say she had been wasting time. And I remember thinking that things were turning out right when my daughter began to habitually browse through different telephone directories. But, while lists of names are good, they cannot come close to bus and railway timetables which illustrate man's attempt to control time and distance, two elements he has no hope of controlling. On the whole, lists are a worthy and honourable pass-time.
This evening I have spent a couple of hours (even I would be embarrassed to mention the true timescale) playing in front of the fire. That is to say, I have been comparing the parish registers of my ancestors' village with the Hearth Tax returns of 1662/4. With a book listing taxpayers open on the carpet and the transcript of the registers on the screen, I have sat with a pencil and notepad marking crosses and ticks and a curious shape that you might mistake for a tadpole or cupid's arrow gone wrong but is my notation for a migrating fellow.
Now, this was playing around – nothing serious. The approach was neither studious nor scientific. How many years before and after the tax return should I take account of hatches, matches and dispatches? Well, let's not have any rules; I'd know when I'd gone too far, and I would have to break for coffee at nine o'clock no matter how far I had got.
I was considering a village in a sequence of long thin parishes so I was accustomed to finding high levels of migration between them. Having walked the ground, I knew how easy it was to trip over the boundaries between not just two parishes but three or four. However, my couple of hours with ticks and crosses emphasised the point. (The alternative to migration, in this study, could be the incidence of children baptised 'out of parish' or in mum-in-law's parish, possibly the parish of confinement – an aspect I ought to do more work on.) The other picture that emerged very starkly was the level of new and not-so-new mums and dads who were not householders – I guess many were living with the in-laws.
But if the conclusions are woolly and uncertain, what's the point?
I hope this post shows how the family history nut, idling around without too many rules or structures, can come up with a hypothesis that's worth working on. In fact, idling unstructurally is probably to best mood for conjuring up ideas. Hey, a good example of a genealogist with too much time on their hands – that's the by-line of my talk-genealogy podcast and we'll covering Hearth Tax returns in the August or September upload.
In the meantime: if I was travelling by bus from Chichester to Salisbury in 1962, I wonder how many times I would have had to change and where would be a good break for lunch? (No, please, the question is – probably – no more than rhetoric.)
12 April 2017
Cricket on an English Village Green
This afternoon – after Sunday lunch – I returned to a local history of Bingham, a Nottinghamshire village, and I was surprised by how little attention I had previously given the page or two about a cricket match played over 17-18 September 1800 between Bingham and Melton. (I had bought the book many years ago.) A gentleman, who appears to have been my gtx4, was much involved, along with three of his cousins. (Why should I be shy? The old man scored the greatest number of runs!) A couple of hours on the net brought forth other references to their parochial cricketing careers which secured them some little mention in the early cricket history of the county. Especially teasing was the mention of an old print of the match with a transcript of the score card – so that's something to look out for.
(This, by the way, is the wrong picture)
So, why is this worth a few words on my page of thoughts?
Well, records of hatch, match and dispatch, apprenticeships, taxation and even court appearances certainly provide reference points when we want to construct the lives of our ancestors. And, yes, there is much to be noted in the photographs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, depicting those grandfolks we've 'nearly heard of' but aren't quite sure about. But when it comes to the oldens for whom we have grown up with neither names nor places, specific events – a day, a place and a doing of something – within the colourful course of their lives provide a touchstone on which, perhaps, we can build. As we research further back, we might learn of their part in the battles and survivals of history (and I feel as chuffed as anyone when I hear of their roles at Hastings, Crecy, Agincourt and the rest) but the opportunities to picture them doing something ordinary – like playing cricket for the village – become increasingly rare.
And worth a few words.
12 Mar 2017
Place Names and His Name
I have never been enthused by Place Names Studies. I remember enrolling on WEA evening classes some years ago; the first three sessions were so uninspiring that I cut my losses. While the history and development of a name might hold a passing interest for me (alright, probably not), I just cannot be grabbed by questions of origin. I think the problem is that the answers are either so obvious that they don't merit explanation, or so obscure the explanations seem little better than guesswork.
My attitude should have changed when I tracked down the origin of my mother's surname to a lost village in Nottinghamshire. I found the village, the descriptive origin of the name seemed evident enough and I even found records of the chap who, probably, was one of the first to carry the name. But I am sure that I would have felt no more or less excited if the place had been called Woodleigh Bottom or Brown's Field instead of Horse-Pool.
This evening, I have been browsing through a Dictionary of Place Names, looking rather idly for any names that throw a curious light on the activities of English folk in years gone by. But, once again, it's all a let down. Picklescott must surely have an interesting origin; no, it is simply Pick's Cott. What about Flegg – that has got to be an odd-ball pastime. No, it's all about a water plant apparently.
The disappointment comes from a sure conviction that the subject should be interesting – and it is only the names themselves which make it ordinary. And, of course, those names had to be uninteresting and immediately obvious if there were to serve their purpose. No, toponymy has got be a hobby for other people, I'm afraid.
Now, all of this is downright disrespect because the General Editor of the English Place Name Society was, for several years, Frank Stenton – who knew more about old England than most people would ever need to. He wrote the Anglo Saxon volume of the Oxford History of England and numerous other titles, including a quaint but likeable biography of William the Conqueror. The contents of the Stenton Special Collection, his working library and even his coin collection are the marks of a historian such repute that it's difficult to believe that he would be kept busy with place names if they were really so humdrum.
But surely we can come up with a better answer for Picklescott


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