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Today we are pleased to present an Exclusive Interview with Cassie Okenka. Ms. Okenka is currently in the ensemble and an understudy for Glinda on the First National Tour. Her previous credits include Dorothy in THE WIZARD OF OZ and a swing and understudy for the lead of role Bonnie in BONNIE & CLYDE on Broadway. To find out more about Cassie Okenka, please visit cassieokenka.com and follow her on Twitter @Cassieok.
What was your first professional acting job?
This question makes me giggle. I've always heard you're a professional when you get paid. With that mindset, my first job was doing CATS down at McLeod Summer Playhouse in Carbondale Illinois. I was Jellylorum and loved every second of it, except when it was 90 degrees, and I was wearing spandex with no air conditioning.
How did you get it?
I did a huge cattle call called the Midwest Theatre Auditions my Sophomore year of college. My friend at school actually got offered the part first before I got called.
What did you learn from the experience?
I loved my time down there. I loved the people. I learned that you really do have to challenge yourself to see what you can do. Never in a million years did I think I could dance that show, but there I was during the Jellicle ball, standing beside the Victoria and Misto Cats.
How did you come to audition for WICKED? How long was the audition process, and what did you have to do?
I had actually been going in for WICKED since I graduated college, but I had always been going in for an Elphaba cover, so a good 4 years, the casting team has seen me once or twice a year. I got as far to sing in front of the creative team but my feedback was my voice was too young. But the past time I went in for an Elphie cover, the feedback I got was I was more of a Nessarose type. Then I got a Glinda audition. Weird huh. But I went in for Glinda, sang my stuff (Glinda's opening, the scene into "Popular" and "Popular", and the catfight scene). The next day I went in and sang for the creative team. Then the following week, I went to a dance call. The next day I got the call! That process was fast, taking a bit over a week.
What was your reaction when you found out you had been cast in the show?
I just thought, this is really cool. And I am so ready for this ride. And honestly, I was kind of dumbfounded. Since I had gone in for Elphaba for so long, I thought I was just going to be put on a list for Glinda. And I was so glad the casting team was willing to see me for something different.
What was your first performance in WICKED like?
It was awesome! I opened in Portland but I had my put-in two weeks prior! So I had to remember what I was doing, since the two weeks prior I had been learning Glinda stuff. But it was so fun. And actually, it was the first time
the levitator failed ( How Elphaba flies) so Plan B was put in place. So that really made my WICKED Debut special.
What was your first performance as Glinda like?
Now that was cool! I was very lucky that I had a heads up my Glinda debut was coming so I could really focus in and not wrestle with as many nerves. Flying in the bubble was the scariest part but coming down surrounded by bubbles in a beautiful blue gown is such an amazing entrance. It was also the
first time I was hearing laughs, in rehearsal you don't normally get reactions like a full house reaction. I loved going on as Glinda and can't wait 'til it happens again!
Have you witnessed, or perhaps been involved in., any onstage bloopers or mishaps that you'd like to share?
Just a little one, but our conductor still pokes fun at me. I was in my 5th show as Glinda, and focusing a bit on notes given to me from my conductor. During "Thank Goodness", the lines "he couldn't look handsomer, I couldn't be humbler…" came out " I couldn't look handsomer, he couldn't look humbler". Which still kind of makes sense….but of course I couldn't make eye contact with anyone. And the conductor still calls me handsome time to time.
Do you have any favorite parts of the show to perform in the ensemble?
I ADORE my ensemble track. I play Pfannee so I get to be a mean girl with a permanent stank face, Frankenstien in a cupcake dress, and melt the witch as Dorothy. I think I love Ozdust the most. It's a challenge being a dance number, and it's a blast with my partner, Mikey [Winslow – ensemble u/s Boq]. There is always something for me to work on and I can make different choices after Glinda disses us.
What about favorite parts to perform as Glinda?
I would love to say "Popular" because it is so fun to do. But
there is something about "Thank Goodness". To see and hear Glinda's struggles in her wording is a great acting challenge, and I really love to sing it. It has great range and you get to see a bit more of Glinda's
Can you tell us a little about your experiences on LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL: THE SEARCH FOR ELLE WOODS?
This reality show came at a good point in my life. We filmed it my last semester in college so for me it was a great gage of how I was compared to established girls in NYC. It does suck that I was the first one kicked but it was a great way to make sure I didn't make a fool out of myself. It gave me great connections in the city and was a fun way to spend a few weeks instead of being in school. 🙂
What about touring with THE WIZARD OF OZ?
I loved my Wizard of Oz experience. Yes it was a bus and truck tour but I would not change it for the world. I met the most amazing and important people in my life, saw incredible places, sang at awesome places (The White Sox and Astro's games, opening the Smithsonian in D.C, On Good Morning America…) and I got to hang out with dogs! This being my first big thing out of college (I booked it 2 months after I graduated), it was a big test on my professionalism and work ethic. I also can sleep in any moving thing (subway. train, car, bus, plane) within minutes.
How did it feel to make your Broadway debut in BONNIE & CLYDE? You got to perform as Bonnie, the role you understudied. What was that like?
BONNIE & CLYDE was the most incredible, magical, powerful three months of my entire life. To be involved in a project in the early stages is cool enough but for it to be a Broadway show is just unimaginable. I could not have asked for a better Broadway Debut in my life. Laura Osnes [Bonnie], who I covered, wasn't feeling to well on Saturday so I took extra care to shadow her backstage just in case. She did both shows on Saturday, but Sunday morning I got the call I was going on. I had had about four hours of rehearsal the previous week but hadn't run majority of the show at all, including changes from the previous week. (It was the eleventh preview [previews are where the creative team makes changes to a musical before it is reviewed by critics]). I felt like I was shot out o f a cannon. I was prepared and ready and just so excited. I was able to have some amazing friends in the audience that I got entrance applause!! I could not imagined my debut going as well as it did. I sang a solo onstage, shot a gun, died, made fast costume changes, at one point did get confused backstage on what was next, and made was in a Broadway curtain call. I got to perform an ensemble track also which was so fun, too. I also got to be on the Original Cast Recording! It is a giant shame it closed. (BUT Go out and buy the soundtrack! You won't be disappointed). It was literally a dream come true.
P.S. As I'm answering all these questions, it really makes me realize how incredible lucky and blessed I have been.
Are there any dream roles that you'd like to perform one day?
I'm honestly not sure. There are songs I love to sing from different shows (THE LAST FIVE YEARS, SISTER ACT, etc…) bt nothing that immediately speaks to me really strongly. Maybe it hasn't been written yet. And when it does, I hope I tap dance in it.
What advice would you give to aspiring performers?
This life is very hard. and very frustrating. And, at times, will hurt
your soul and your heart. But, if you can make it through that,
someday you will walk home crying because your heart so full of pure joy, it will literally feel like it is going to burst out of your chest. And all the rejection and noes and "why not me?" will not matter. Just keep going and jump, no matter if it performing or what. Just jump.


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We had a very pleasant surprise this morning when there was a knock on the side of Waiouru. Upon opening the side hatch we discovered Paul Balmer of Waterway Routes, the producer of that excellent series of electronic canal maps and cruise videos. Paul spends much of the winter checking the accuracy of his maps and producing updates. I doubt any of the other canal mapping companies spend as much time and effort keeping their product current. Paul has been out checking the Trent & Mersey Canal and was hoping to complete the task by the end of the day. He does it all either on foot or riding his folding bike.
Our first canal holiday was on the Llangollen Canal. The three of us, Jan and I plus FMIL (favourite mother-in-law) have wonderful memories of that week. Jan bought the Waterway Routes video of the canal as a 2015 christmas present for FMIL. Hopefully it brought back memories on how not to throw a mooring rope!
In all the excitement of the visit I forgot to take a photo!
In the afternoon I decided to walk a short distance along the towpath towards Stoke. The first noticable thing was how the uncouth colonials had been able to scare away all the other moored boaters.
Back to being happy with our own company.
The first stop was Middlewich Junction. The boatyard and chandlery to the east and Wardle Lock to the west. You can see from the photo of the boatyard that there was likely a commercial wharf here at one time.
To the right in the photo is the entrance to the Wardle Canal which must be one of the shortest on the network. The Trent and Mersey Canal Company built it to prevent the Chester Canal (now the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal) from joining their canal. They then charged a very high toll for boats using the Wardle Canal.
Wardle Lock
For many years the lock cottage was the home of Maureen Shaw who was a former boat woman and well known to local boaters. She died in 2012 and the cottage is now being renovated by the new owners.
There were three boats moored on the towpath side of the 'wide' above Kings Lock.
Oops… looks like the boater at this end has a message from CRT!
When we first passed this way more than a decade ago I remember there being some rather large factories beside the canal. Most of them have now gone. The 'wich' in Middlewich means salt in old english and this area has a history of salt extraction and production from pre-Roman time. The industry hasn't totally gone from the area.
That's not a mountain of snow!
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When I was 13 or so, I watched a movie in which a young writer (played by Frank Sinatra?) and his girlfriend go to an Italian restaurant to celebrate the acceptance of his first short story. The restaurant's owner is celebrating too, as are all the people sitting at the other tables, which are covered with checkerboard tablecloths and lit by candles dripping wax. Everyone wishes the writer well, no one more so than I, who tried to foresee such a moment when I, too, would become a writer. The acceptance of the story. The cheers. The girl and the life of my dreams.
Most films about the writing life are more accurate, because writers write them. And rarely is the writer shown as successful, triumphant or — are you kidding? — happy. This subject comes to mind at the time of the Academy Awards, which has no category for Best Film About a Writer, so, unbidden, I'm going to nominate three. It wasn't easy whittling down the number. So many runners-up: "The Front," about Hollywood blacklisting, is a terrific picture written by a terrific screenwriter, Walter Bernstein. Woody Allen's "Deconstructing Harry" seems merely clever, but its ingenuity glides into something interesting when the writer literally slips out of focus, just like his fictional character. More than clever, too, is "Stranger Than Fiction," in which the life of an I.R.S. auditor is narrated by a novelist who plans to kill him off. Only when human kindness changes her mind does the story ring false.
Some might suggest other contenders: "Shadowlands"; "Barton Fink"; "Adaptation"; the creepy "Secret Window"; the scary "Misery"; and "Limitless," starring Bradley Cooper, one of this year's Oscar nominees, as a writer who takes a drug that allows him to use his whole brain, as opposed to those of us who use everyone else's.
Writers like watching movies about themselves. It gives us something to do. My doctor father used to scoff at movies about doctors because he was always finding fault with some diagnosis or treatment. I don't know how cops or lawyers feel about their portrayals. Politicians are usually shown as corruptible. Teachers as sad. Writers, with the exception of that movie I saw as a kid, are variously crazy (Jack Nicholson in "The Shining"), reckless (Michael Douglas in "Wonder Boys"), cranky (Van Johnson in "23 Paces to Baker Street"), self-destructive (Ray Milland in "The Lost Weekend"), without principle (William Holden in "Sunset Boulevard") and/or flailing (Paul Giamatti in "Sideways"). Nothing to argue with, really.
What we are not shown doing in movies is writing. Composers are shown composing because we can listen to their flights of fancy on the soundtrack. Painters are shown painting, because one can actually see art in progress. Kirk Douglas did some very good van Gogh impressions. Ed Harris went so hog wild in "Pollock," one was tempted to go out and buy an original Harris. But writers are rarely shown laboring at the craft unless you count Nicholson's "all work and no play." I suppose there's nothing visually dramatic in what we do, though we can get quite worked up about crumpling little balls of paper, tossing them on the floor, then turning our heads this way and sometimes that.
I ought to say I have excluded from consideration films about journalists as writers, because journalists are employed and moored to institutions; thus, while depressed and self-hating, they are less so than untethered writers, try as they might. They have company. Still there are some wonderful films about journalists in pursuit of a story: "Citizen Kane," "The Year of Living Dangerously," "It Happened One Night," "Foreign Correspondent."
Excluded, too, are films about famous writers, which are clunky in the way films about famous people are clunky in general. ("Billy? May I introduce my two good friends, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Sarah Orne Jewett?") My three chosen films are all good ones, both in themselves, and because they show us writers for what we are (besides unhappy): misfits who occasionally act nobly and honorably in life, yet are also more than a little afraid of it. Before the tension becomes unbearable, the winners are:
"The Third Man" (1949) is about corruption and divided loyalty, but also about a writer who knows who he is and knows his limits. Holly Martins, an author of westerns, comes to postwar Vienna to find his friend, Harry Lime. He learns that Lime was reportedly killed in a hit-and-run, but begins to suspect otherwise. Sinister people chase him. One wonderful scene has him taking refuge at a literary society meeting, to which he was invited because the members heard he was a writer. He tells them he was influenced by Zane Grey and has no opinion of James Joyce. Finding that Lime has faked his own death to avoid arrest as a black-marketeering murderer of sick children, the writer of westerns must don his white hat and turn on his friend. He is true to his genre. In the end, he shoots the bad guy, not to the music of a guitar but to the strum of a zither.
"Starting Out in the Evening" (2007) may be the only film about an important writer that persuades you he's important. Leonard Schiller (Frank Langella), forgotten by readers, is pursued by Heather Wolfe (Lauren Ambrose), who is doing her master's thesis on his work, so, in a way, this is a horror film. The beauty of it comes from Leonard, a widower, who is reserved, formal and ailing. Despite readers' neglect, he continues to write, taking art as seriously as it deserves to be taken. Reluctantly, he agrees to weekly meetings with Heather, who is smart but shallow, and overly interested in Leonard's personal life. They sleep together once, but it is beside the point. The point is Leonard, the pure, single-minded writer. We can't take our eyes off him.
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961), Blake Edwards's near-perfect film version of Truman Capote's novella, centers on the fragile eccentric, Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn), but the writer, Paul Varjak (George Peppard), bears as much watching. Holly wants out of her life; Paul wants into his. He is a kept man who has not published anything since a critically successful book of short stories. One telling scene shows the apparently scatterbrained Holly hunkered down over Paul's book in the New York Public Library. Silently, she is drawn to his words, as are we to her. After failing to win a life with some wealthy jerk from Brazil, and having learned of the death of her cherished brother, Holly is in despair. But Paul, because he falls in love with her, discovers himself as a man and as an artist. He finds authentic love, which rescues them both.
Nominees aside, my sentimental favorite portrait of a writer occurs in a film not as good in itself as any of the above, but one that offers writers the incomparable satisfaction of getting a piece of work right. "Bullets Over Broadway" (1994) stars the can-do-no-wrong Dianne Wiest as the deliciously manipulative actress Helen Sinclair, and the can-do-nothing-unappealing John Cusack as the terrible playwright David Shayne. But for the writers in the audience, the hero is Chazz Palminteri, who plays a gangster named Cheech. Shayne can't write a lick. But Cheech is a natural, his writerly instincts so dead on, one laughs aloud in sublime appreciation of every improvement he makes in Shayne's play. What's more, he's never tentative. And while he buys it in the end, as gangsters must, he has made every writer who sees this film happy to be doing what we're doing. Happy to be who we are. Happy. Do you hear?


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A Squeeze Chute Showdown – Cattle Herding Made Easy
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This is what happens when you get a group of sales reps together. In a competition to see who is the best Squeeze Chute Salesman, each stepped up to demo the product (without any cattle running through them).
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The Tinkers HeartSubmitted by hwa staff on Wed, 2015-06-24 11:57
They consider the Tinkers' Heart as a site of high cultural significance in three main areas:
(1) it gives us a great understanding of the traditions and material heritage of Scottish Travellers;
(2) it is a rare example of a permanent physical monument of Scottish Travellers;
(3) it holds a high significance in the consciousness of Gypsy/Travellers and the people of Argyll as a symbol of Scottish Travellers and their heritage.
Kate How (landowner) HOTT (Heart of the travellers) and members of Here We Are met to work together in the best interests of the Heart.
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A good fine-motor-skills development activity for toddlers.
Please mind that depending on the age of the toddler, this might be a two-parter activity. In our case, it was. The glueing of triangles happened in one session, and later on, as a 'totally different activity', the white snowflakes were scattered onto the trees.
And you can imagine how happy the grandma and grandpa will be when they see it in their mailbox!


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Fifty neglected novels
Fifty neglected novels
Ballard, Vikings and Samuel Johnson.
Fifty neglected novels
Ballard, Vikings and Samuel Johnson.
Thanks for putting up that link, John.
The list is fascinating and I'll admit to ignoring most of the volumes on it (and the list of books to read goes up , up, up)…
Lists of neglected works are often worth a look and this one certainly was. I've read the Ballard but that's it, knew about some of the others–Elizabeth Taylor (not the actress!) was republished recently–but the rest have been off the radar.
I quite enjoyed reading "Sostiene Pereira" – there was movie with Mastroianni in 1995.
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A MIDLAND secondary school which may be axed as part of a proposed £750 million transformation in Staffordshire is stepping up its fight to stay open.
Queen Elizabeth Mercian School in Ashby Road, Tamworth, is due to close in 2012 after rationalisation plans by Staffordshire County Council under its Building Staffordshire's Future strategy.
The site would become a new post-16 centre for Tamworth, governed by a new academy which will replace Woodhouse Business and Enterprise College.
The Woodhouse academy, due to be privately sponsored by hotel group Landau Forte, would house up to 1,200 pupils, aged 11-16, working with the adjacent Tamworth and Lichfield College. Staff and parents of Queen Elizabeth Mercian School have begun the new academic year by erecting Save Our School banners.
A school spokesman said: "The deadline for public consultation is January 15, so we are urging everyone interested in keeping this school open to make their views known."
Tamworth's four remaining secondary schools would lose their sixth forms if the proposals go ahead, with 11-18 provision served by the proposed post-16 centre.
Carolyn Lang, a member of the Hands Off Tamworth's Schools action group, said: "We are running out of time, but this is a last ditch appeal to try to stop these proposals.
" We only saw the consultation in November and feel cheated the county council has done this over Christmas. We haven't had time to get the word around.
"We feel they have chosen to close Queen Elizabeth Mercian for the land because it is the largest site. My daughter only started there last September and faces having to leave after three years and start her GCSEs at another school."
Tamworth's prospective Tory MP Christopher Pincher has called on the local authority to extend the January 15 deadline.
Staffordshire County Council deputy leader Coun Robert Simpson said: "Building Staffordshire's Future is a once in a lifetime opportunity to improve the lives of generations of young people.
"Whilst education performance in Tamworth has improved recently for young people, GCSE and post-16 performance is poor. We believe a radical solution is needed."


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Can be tricky. They're considered personal property, not real property, unless and until they're plopped onto a foundation--so you can't get mortgage loans for them.
The builders can usually help you get in touch with people who work with trailer people to get loans set up for them, but mostly it ends up being with interest rates 4-5x higher than a mortgage loan, and terms half as long. 5-10-15 year fixed loans with 8-12% interest rates are really typical for this.
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Foreclosures and the credit climate becoming part of the solution
Some times you have to take a chance to move forward in what you want to do.
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Okay, this girl's eyes are to die for! And those freckles - LOVE THEM! Alex wanted to do her senior pictures with her horse. What a treat for me! I love horses. He was beautiful and did such a great job doing what we asked of him. Alex did too, of course. I really had a lot of fun with her - she's smart and knows what she wants to do in life and has her game plan on. Thank you for sharing this part of your life with me!
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
A few Friday finds
Here are some things I found at tag sales on Friday, a few vintage things (except the small lidded blue pot - I just liked the shade of blue), a couple of framed floral prints, and some lidded storage jars with shelf. Do you ever think of blogger friends when you find something you know they would love? I thought of Dawn at The Feathered Nest when I saw the floral prints - she would love their soft, muted colors. When I spied the storage jars, I thought how Rebecca at A Gathering of Thoughts would do her magic on them with her beautiful roses. Me, I'm probably going to paint and decal them. Hope you had a chance to find some pretties this weekend!
12 comments:
- Happy To Be/ Gl♥ria said...
WOW!! You did great girl...love the perfume bottle the best...May you have a great week...hugs and smiles Gl♥ria
- July 25, 2009 at 3:04 PM
WOW, WOW, WOW, You did great!! I love the prints!!
- July 25, 2009 at 4:02 PM
- Lisa said...
You hit the jack pot!! Well Done! I was good and passed up several yard sales this AM as Mom said more stuff to find a place for! Yours are great!
Hugs, Lisa
- July 25, 2009 at 5:31 PM
- The Pink Rose Cottage said...
Great finds! I can't wait to see what you do with them!
- July 25, 2009 at 6:18 PM
I love the jars and I would paint them too! Very nice finds.
- July 25, 2009 at 11:18 PM
- Eclectic Pink Rose said...
Great finds, love them ALL!!! Ooooh, you have to share when you re-do the jars!!!
♥ Teresa
- July 26, 2009 at 3:09 AM
- Kathleen said...
I love all the great stuff you found. Isn't it fun to find something and fix it up! I went to the auction last night, and bought a few fixers. Hugs, Kathleen
- July 26, 2009 at 5:04 AM
- Coralie Cederna Johnson said...
Oh don't you just love weekend tag sales! I surely do love all your great finds! It's exciting, isn't it? Wondering just what you're going to find next! Oh the mystery of it all! Great fun!
- July 26, 2009 at 5:12 AM
- Rebecca said...
I missed tag sale shopping yesterday. Too much going on...yard work, cleaning, etc. Sometimes I just have to tell myself NO.
Then...I look at your treasures and I'm wondering just WHO it was that took my stuff home.
I'm so depressed.
Love your finds. The pics are 2die4.
Love, Rebecca
- July 26, 2009 at 6:33 AM
- June said...
Great finds and I know you will do amazing things to them.
- July 26, 2009 at 11:59 AM
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~Beautiful finds. Everything is so lovely. :)
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Diablo 3 received a ton of criticism during its first year out on the market for a number of reasons. One of the big issues from some of the community was that it was too easy but according to Blizzard the game was actually too hard.
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Pushing Back The Darkness
If you had taken a walk on a moonless night in Rugeley Town or any of the surrounding villages in the years immediately after the Great War the only thing lighting your way would have been the pale glow of an occasional gas lamp hissing away. You would have been well advised to carry a lantern of some kind, or better still stay indoors.
However things were about to change. Brereton Colliery had first produced electricity on a limited scale way back in the 1890s using a small dynamo to supply lights around the pit head, pit bottom and the underground stables. They decided in the 1920s to increase their generating capacity by building a powerhouse and installing a 500 KW steam powered generator at their Brick-Kiln Colliery, four years later the capacity was increased to 1 MW. At first surplus capacity from these generators was used to light up Brereton Hall, the colliery manager's house, and other houses close to the colliery but its use gradually progressed to other properties in Brereton Village including St Michael's Church. The expansion in the use of electricity by the colliery included carrying the supply on overhead cables alongside the colliery branch railway line to supply the Brickworks at Springhill Terrace and the Coal Wharf at Rugeley.
In 1928 this usage was again extended by the signing of an agreement between the colliery and a new electricity provider the Trent Valley and High Peak Electric Company with offices in Albion Street. The agreement was for cables to be taken into Rugeley from Wharf Road for distribution and use by the electric company throughout the town. This arrangement continued for some six years at which time the Trent Valley and High Peak Electric Company brought their own supply lines into the area from Stockport.
So gradually in our towns and villages life began to change particularly after dark, first the larger houses, shops and public houses converted to the new electric lighting, then over the next twenty years or so everywhere saw the gas mantles fade into oblivion to give way to the tungsten bulb. The town centres became oases of light, they took on a new appearance with the sudden growth of poles and wires festooned along the roadways and buildings, an unfortunate but very necessary addition to modern living. Today when approaching Rugeley from the north the glow in the sky from the built-up area can be seen from many miles away.
From that small beginning in the 1920s when the first electric lamp, powered from the colliery, flickered into life the technology improved immensely and some 37 years later one of the first large combined-colliery/power station installations (Lea Hall Colliery and Rugeley "A" Power Station) in the country was commissioned in 1961. Rugeley "A" consisted of 5 generators each one 120 times larger than the one in Brereton Powerhouse which ironically was about to be demolished.
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The Drowning of Sir William Wolseley – 1728
In the Rugeley area floods and fires were of frequent occurrence. On one occasion an extraordinary occurrence at Longdon, mentioned here, caused the death of Sir William Wolseley, 3rd Bart.
Sir William was a great traveller, and on one occasion he brought four beautiful Arab mares back to England from Persia. In Persia he had had his fortune told to the effect, that as a punishment for having consulted a fortune-teller he and his four mares should be drowned together. To avoid this calamity he sent his mares home in one ship while he followed in another.
Some years after, while living at Wolseley Hall, he invited the Rector of Colwich to accompany him to Lichfield and dine there, but the Rector excused himself on account of a dream his wife had had the night before.
Sir William accordingly went to Lichfield by himself, and was returning about 8 pm on 6th July 1728 in the midst of a great storm. He reached the little brook at Longdon, (Shropshire Brook) and at that instant the increase of water in the brook caused by the thunderstorm burst the mill dam, and a great flood of water came down carrying horses and carriage with Sir William down the stream and drowning them. The coachman's life was saved by means of an over-hanging tree which he clung to.
100 years or so later one of the plates of the hammer-cloth was dug up near the spot and is now in Wolseley Hall.
Sir William was buried at Colwich St Michael's Church on the 9th July 1728.
These notes were taken from an article written by George Marmaduke Cockin and from Colwich Parish Register.
The Story of Pinson's Leap
On this occasion the passing of time dramatically transformed an unfortunate feat of incompetence, which was likely to have been due to youth and inexperience, into a romantic heroic deed. We all know how our Ancestors liked a good story and if one didn't exist they were not averse to making one up. It appears that this story threaded its way through almost a century of Rugeley folk lore.
The story begins on Thursday the 31st August 1815, when a (20 year) old Rugeley youth, James Pinson the son of a local Shoemaker was employed by the Rugeley Post Mistress to convey the mailbags from Rugeley to Uttoxeter, the regular post boy being either ill or otherwise indisposed. The town was still bussing with the news of the great battle that had recently taken place just outside Brussels.
The mail coaches passed through Rugeley regularly, on their journeys between London and Liverpool and London and Chester, leaving the Bye Mail for the surrounding districts, to be forwarded to their final destinations by the local Post Office.
Killed his Horse
Pinson proceeded on horseback with the bags of mail until he reached the bridge over the river Trent at Colton Mill, there his horse took fright for some reason and Pinson lost control, the horse and rider leaped over the parapet of the bridge and fell 20 feet into shallow water. The horse was killed on the spot, but luckily for Pinson he escaped completely unhurt.
He however was so alarmed and shocked at what had occurred, and most probably in fear of the punishment for what he had allowed to happen to the mail and not least the death of a valuable horse that he ran away. In his haste he left the dead horse and the mailbags in the river, luckily the episode was witnessed by several people passing along the Colton Road, and the mail was recovered and returned to Rugeley Post Office. The above account was obtained from a very small paragraph in the Staffordshire Advertiser published on the 2nd September 1815.
There is no record of the punishment if any that Pinson received but it didn't seem to greatly affect his future, for some 13 years later he married Martha Martin a relative of the Rugeley Postmistress, Mary Martin, at the time of his accident.
Pinson followed his father into the trade of Shoemaker, but it appears still found time to occasionally act as postman. The Pinson family first lived in houses in Sheep Fair and King Street, Rugeley, and as they prospered and raised their family of 10 children (5 surviving into adulthood) they moved to Upper Brook Street, in the main street of Rugeley town probably in a shoe repair shop or cobblers. By the time James Pinson was in his 50s he was more often giving his occupation as Letter Carrier than Shoemaker. By the time James and Martha died in the 1860s they had become respected and well known citizens of the town.
No doubt over the years Pinson told the story of his leap many many times in the local hostelries, a story that we will see was modified obviously to his credit, - more of this later.
The making of a Hero
From later accounts it appears that sometime after James Pinson's death and before the reconstruction of the Colton Mill Bridge in 1890, site of his youthful misadventure, a plaque had been manufactured and erected on the bridge to commemorate the event of 1815. The exact wording of this plaque, has not so far come to light, but the following extract from a letter written to the Staffordshire Advertiser by a native of Rugeley, on Saturday the 12 August, 1893 following the rebuilding of the bridge, is quite enlightening, it reads as follows: -
"The particular instance of vandalism which he desires to bring to notice is the removal of the inscription on the bridge recording Pinson's Leap. He has no desire to blame the Rugeley Local Board for having restored the approaches to the bridge. No doubt such renovations were eminently desirable for the safety and convenience of rustic traffic, but he submits that the disregard for the memory of a brave action shown by those who were responsible for the work in question is a reproach to the inhabitants of Rugeley. He suggests that a tablet should be let into the stone coping to commemorate the brave act of Pinson, who while carrying the mails, jumped his horse into the river rather than allow the mails to fall into the hands of ruffians."
So it seems that James Pinson had managed very successfully to live down the rather unfortunate events of his youth, only to emerge a hero in later life.
HOWEVER - The fact that no new inscription was in fact placed on the bridge may be an indicator that the authorities or elders of the town were fully aware of the real happenings on that day in 1815
Ken Edwards
9 March 1997
updated 17th October 2009
Wolseley Road, Rugeley
When the modern National Insurance scheme started in 1948 some odd quarters were chosen as local offices (from necessity - they were stringent times) but one which was pleasingly memorable was the Rugeley office at Churchdale.
Churchdale was a delightful old Georgian house which had seen better times. It cried out for some gentle tlc. The main room downstairs was heated by an antiquated coke stove; the others by uneconomic coal fires in old cast –iron grates; the toilets were antediluvian; the roof leaked. It had belonged to the titled Littleton family, as witness the cattle trough on nearby Wolseley road, ("presented by the Revd the Honble C. J. Litttleton of Churchdale, 1909"), but by 1960 it was owned by an MP, leased to the Ministry of Works, and the lease was running out. Soon, its grounds would be part of a large housing enterprise. The demolish – and – burn philosophy of the 1960's was rushing in.
On a frantic day in 1961 (Lady Day – the very day the lease expired) we moved to an excellent new Vic Hallam building in Sandy Lane (a journey from quasi- rural to unremitting urban) and said farewell to the house which had been our work place, to the fine stables and other out buildings, the unexplored timber summer – house which probably contributed to one of the many bonfires (not just in Rugeley but all over England) which then burned on building sites. And farewell to the remaining grounds into which cattle from the adjoining farm would sometimes wander and peer curiously at us through the windows.
Today Churchdale would be protected as a listed building. Not so in 1961. But begone dull care!
This tale has a pleasing postscript. Someone who has a house with a canal at the bottom of his garden (on part of the old Churchdale land, perhaps?) has his holiday- hire narrowboat berthed on the Trent &Mersey there. She is called the 'Churchdale'. When not abroad, and but a short walk from the canal bridge on Station road, she may be seen, tied up at home.
May God bless all who journey in her.
Peter Everall


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Prevent infinite recursion during evaluation
MuPAD® notebooks will be removed in a future release. Use MATLAB® live scripts instead.
MATLAB live scripts support most MuPAD functionality, though there are some differences. For more information, see Convert MuPAD Notebooks to MATLAB Live Scripts.
The environment variable
MAXLEVEL determines
the maximal substitution depth of identifiers. When this substitution
depth is reached, an error occurs.
Possible values: integer greater 2; the maximum value depends on the operationg system, see below.
When a MuPAD® object is evaluated, identifiers occurring
in it are replaced by their values. This happens recursively, i.e.,
if the values themselves contain identifiers, then these are replaced
as well.
MAXLEVEL determines the maximal recursion
depth of this process. If the substitution depth
MAXLEVEL is
reached, then an error occurs.
The purpose of
MAXLEVEL is to provide a heuristic
for recognizing infinite recursion with respect to the replacement
of identifiers by their values, like in
delete a: a := a
+ 1; a. If, in this example, the substitution depth would
not be limited, then
a + 1 would be substituted
a infinitely often, and the system would "hang".
Similarly, the environment variable
MAXDEPTH provides a
heuristic for recognizing infinite recursion with respect to function
calls; see the corresponding help page for details.
There is a close connection between
LEVEL and
If the substitution depth
LEVEL is reached during the evaluation
process, then the recursion stops and any remaining identifiers remain unevaluated, but no error
Thus, if
MAXLEVEL > LEVEL, then
MAXLEVEL has
no effect. By default,
LEVEL and
MAXLEVEL have
the same value
100 at interactive level. However,
the default value of
LEVEL within a procedure is
and thus usually
MAXLEVEL has no effect within
There are some notable differences between
LEVEL and
The value of
LEVEL depends
on the context, namely whether the evaluation happens at interactive
level or in a procedure. Moreover, some system functions, such as
context and
do not respect the current value of
LEVEL. In contrast,
MAXLEVEL is
a global bound. It works as a last resort when the control of the
evaluation via
LEVEL fails.
The default value of
MAXLEVEL is
MAXLEVEL has
this value after starting or resetting the system via
reset. Also the command
MAXLEVEL restores the default value.
MAXLEVEL is a global variable. Use the statement
save MAXLEVEL in
a procedure to confine any changes to
MAXLEVEL to
this procedure.
The maximum value of
MAXLEVEL depends on
the operating system. Under Windows® it is 213 =
8192. Under UNIX® operating systems the maximum
value depends on the maximum size of the C-stack. With a default stack
size of
8 MB the value is 8192,
too; with a bigger stack size it can be bigger (in a bash the stack
size can be set with
ulimit -s).
Evaluation of objects defined by an infinite recursion produces an error:
delete a: a := a + 1: a
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This also works for mutually recursive definitions:
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MAXLEVEL is smaller or equal to
as is the default at interactive level, then objects are evaluated
completely up to depth
MAXLEVEL-1, and an error
occurs if the substitution depth
MAXLEVEL is reached,
whether a recursive definition is involved or not:
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Error: Recursive definition: Reached maximal evaluation level.
On the other hand,
MAXLEVEL has no effect
if it exceeds
Then any object is evaluated up to depth at most
LEVEL, and the "recursive
definition" error does not occur:
MAXLEVEL := 3: a, b, c, d
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A large telecommunications provider was faced with the challenge of almost null use of a Remedy BMC system. We typically discuss gamification in the context of changing performance and culture in a company, however, this organization approached Gameffective in search of a way to get its employees to adopt its new Remedy BMC IT software. When they first contacted us no-one was using the system, so discussion of change management was not yet on the cards. Luckily, we had an enormously successful gamification implementation.
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