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Ben Summerskill
Ben Jeffrey Peter Summerskill OBE (born 6 October 1961 in Kent)[2] is Chair of The Silver Line[3] and Director of the Criminal Justice Alliance, a consortium of 135 charities working across the GB criminal justice pathway.[4][5] He was the Chief Executive of the UK-based lesbian, gay and bisexual equality organisation Stonewall, the largest gay equality body in Europe, from 2003 to 2014. He has a twin sister, Clare, who is a performer.[6] He has also worked as a businessman and journalist. Ben Summerskill is an occasional contributor to The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Observer, The Times, Time Out and other publications. In 2015 he won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the British LGBT Awards [7] In 2017, he was appointed by the UK government to the Council (Board) of ACAS, the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service. [8] He was first appointed a trustee of the Silver Line in 2017. [9]
Ben Summerskill
Giving a speech at the Stonewall awards, November 2011
Ben Jeffrey Peter Summerskill
6 October 1961 (age 57)[1]
|London, England
|Alma mater
|Merton College, Oxford
|Years active
|Chief executive of Stonewall (2003–14)
|Angela Mason (1992–2002)
|Ruth Hunt (2014–)
Early life and educationEdit
Summerskill was educated at Cobden Road Infants School, Amherst County Primary School, Sevenoaks School, where he held a scholarship, and Merton College, Oxford, where he was an Exhibitioner (holder of a junior scholarship) [10] but which he left after two years without taking a degree. He later wrote in The Guardian: "I still recall being struck dumb on being shown, as an undergraduate, a note from an Oxford tutor to a successful candidate's father: 'Many thanks for lunch, and the trip in the Rolls.'"[11]
Professional lifeEdit
His first career was in the restaurant trade. He was Operations Director from 1987 to 1990 with Kennedy Brookes, by then a publicly quoted hospitality company, responsible for 300 staff and an £18m turnover at the age of 26.[citation needed] Becoming a journalist in 1990, he rose to the position of Assistant Editor of The Observer newspaper which he joined in 2000 after having worked with Peter Hitchens and Peter Oborne[12] as Media Editor for Daily Express editor Rosie Boycott, and the London Evening Standard under editor and mentor Max Hastings and other magazines.
As chief executive of Stonewall, he succeeded Director Angela Mason in early 2003, expanding its work from parliamentary lobbying into other fields including workplace equality and campaigning against homophobia in schools. He led successful campaigns for the repeal of Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988,[13] the introduction of Civil Partnership for lesbian and gay people in the UK and the introduction in 2007 of protections against discrimination in the provision of "goods and services", covering areas from healthcare and housing to hotels and holidays.[14] He also led a successful parliamentary campaign in 2007–08 for introduction of a criminal offence of incitement to homophobic hatred and a campaign in 2009–10 to enable gay people to celebrate civil partnerships in religious premises. He also restored Stonewall to financial good health after a number of very precarious years. (Its turnover was £1.4m in 2003, during which it ran a deficit of £117,000, and £5.3m by 2014, with reserves having risen from £11,000 in 2003 to £3.2m and staff numbers rising from 21 to 75.) [15][16]
Under his direction, Stonewall's Diversity Champions programme, promoting good practice among major UK employers, grew from 35 to more than 600 members, employing 5.5 million people between them, ranging from IBM and Tesco to all of Britain's armed services and MI5.[17] Stonewall's Education for All programme, launched in 2005 to help tackle homophobic bullying in Britain's schools and universities, was supported by 70 major teaching and children's organisations.[18]
In 2006, Summerskill was appointed a Commissioner on the Britain's new Equality and Human Rights Commission.[19] He had for three years been a member of a Steering Group advising the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry on establishing the Commission, which has statutory powers for the first time to promote equality for lesbian and gay people. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.[20] He was appointed to the committee of the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service in 2009.[21] In July 2009 Summerskill resigned as an EHRC commissioner citing differences over leadership with its chair Trevor Phillips.[22] Five other commissioners resigned at the same time.
In 2010 he was a finalist as Ernst & Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year and in 2011 he was shortlisted as Britain's Most Admired Charity Chief Executive in the Third Sector Awards.[23]
In November 2011 Anthony Ryan, 42, received an eight-month prison sentence at Liverpool Crown Court after threatening to "put a bullet in the head" of Summerskill.[24] Ryan, whose sentence was suspended for 18 months, suggested that Summerskill start making "funeral arrangements".
In 2013 he was named by the Evening Standard as one of London's 1000 most influential people. [25] Summerskill stood down as Chief Executive of Stonewall in January 2014.[26] His resignation was marked by a Guardian editorial.[13]
During his time at Stonewall, Summerskill attracted controversy over the organisation's decision not to campaign on transgender issues. The 2008 Stonewall Awards faced protests[27] from transgender rights activists, but Summerskill maintained that the organisation should exclusively campaign for "gay men, lesbians and bisexuals". The policy of excluding transgender issues was reviewed within months of his 2014 departure[28] and eventually reversed.
Political role and backgroundEdit
Summerskill was a Labour councillor for the Westbourne Ward of Westminster City Council from 1994 to 1998. His paternal grandmother (Baroness) Edith Summerskill and his aunt (Dr) Shirley Summerskill were both Labour Members of Parliament and government ministers. Dr Edith Summerskill, a former Chairman of the UK Labour Party, was an early advocate of Britain's free National Health Service and a vocal campaigner for women's equality. Shirley Summerskill helped introduce the UK's Sex Discrimination Act, as a Home Office minister. His maternal grandfather Sydney Elliott was a newspaper editor of various papers, including the London Evening Standard. In 1944 Elliott became Editorial Advisor at the Daily Mirror, where he masterminded its campaign to support the Labour Party at the 1945 general election.
During his time at Stonewall, Summerskill frequently attracted controversy over the organisation's decision not to support equal marriage[29]. In a departure from many others in the LGBT rights movement, Summerskill also voiced his opposition to same-sex marriage while serving as Stonewall's chief executive. Speaking at the 2010 Liberal Democrat conference, Summerskill suggested "lots" of gay people didn't want same-sex marriage to be legal.[30] The event was attended by Lynne Featherstone, the minister for equality; Evan Harris, president of Liberal Democrat LGBT group DELGA; and Liberal Democrat MP Steve Gilbert, all of whom questioned Summerskill's comments. A poll commissioned by LGBT outlet PinkNews found 98% in support of marriage equality.[31]
Following a backlash that saw a number of calls for Summerskill's resignation, Stonewall confirmed it would support equal marriage in October 2010[32].
Speaking to The Observer in March 2014, he controversially criticised the Liberal Democrats as having only supported equal marriage in order to draw "clear blue water" between their coalition partners, the Conservatives, despite Stonewall having not been in favour of equal marriage when the issue was introduced into the Coalition-led Parliament.[33] Peter Tatchell was particularly critical: "Stonewall does great work but the gay campaign for marriage equality faced an uphill struggle, which was made worse by Stonewall constantly undermining our efforts. Some of the arguments Ben and Stonewall put forward at the time [2010] were quoted by homophobes to justify their opposition to same-sex marriage and this was hugely damaging. I am not a supporter of the Liberal Democrats, but on the issue of same-sex marriage the party took an early position, while Stonewall did all it could to sabotage that position.[33]
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- ^ "Industry : Public Sector Articles". The Times. London. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
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- ^ "Former Stonewall chief executive Ben Summerskill to head the Criminal Justice Alliance". Third Sector. 2 March 2015. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- ^ "committed to improving the CJS". Criminal Justice Alliance. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- ^ "Clare Summerskill's website". Claresummerskill.co.uk. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
- ^ "Home". British LGBT Awards. 2 August 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- ^ https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-announces-appointment-of-2-acas-council-members
- ^ https://www.thesilverline.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/THE-SILVER-LINE-BOLSTERS-ITS-BOARD-OF-TRUSTEES-WITH-FIVE-NEW-APPOINTMENTS-F.pdf
- ^ West, Ed (8 July 2013). "Ben Summerskill: 'We don't think religion is evil or wicked' –". Catholicherald.co.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- ^ Ben Summerskill (26 April 2005). "Why would you want to go to public school?". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
- ^ Ben Summerskill (19 April 2005). "Time to rain on Paxo's parade?". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 3 February 2009.
- ^ a b "In praise of … Ben Summerskill | Editorial | Opinion". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- ^ Womack, Sarah (26 January 2007). "The gay lobby". Telegraph. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
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- ^ http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends55/0001101255_AC_20140930_E_C.pdf
- ^ "Members of Stonewall's Diversity Champions programme". Stonewall.org.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- ^ "Stonewall Education Champions Programme : Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning". Ghll.org.uk. 5 July 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- ^ "[ARCHIVED CONTENT] UK Government Web Archive – The National Archives". Webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 11 December 2008. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- ^ "No. 58929". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2008. p. 12.
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- ^ Sam Jones and James Sturcke (24 July 2009). "New resignation hits Equality and Human Rights Commission". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
- ^ "Six sector leaders in contention to be Most Admired Chief Executive". Thirdsector.co.uk. 18 August 2011. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
- ^ James Meikle. "Man who threatened to kill gay rights campaigner gets suspended sentence | World news". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- ^ https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/the-power-1000-londons-most-influential-people-2013-crusaders-philanthropists-leaders-8826767.html
- ^ "Ben Summerskill to step down as Chief Executive". Stonewall. 23 January 2014.
- ^ "Celebs split over trans protest at Stonewall Awards". PinkNews. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
- ^ "Video: Stonewall holds historic first meeting with trans activists". PinkNews. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
- ^ "Peter Tatchell: Stonewall undermines campaign for gay marriage". www.petertatchell.net. Archived from the original on 4 January 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
- ^ "Up Against the Stonewall on Equal Marriage". HuffPost UK. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
- ^ Reeves, Andrew (28 September 2010). "What does Stonewall want if it isn't gay marriage?". LibDemVoice.org. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
- ^ "Stonewall says it will campaign for gay marriage". PinkNews. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
- ^ a b Tracy McVeigh (16 March 2014). "Lib Dems' support for gay marriage 'cynical', says former Stonewall chief". The Observer. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
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Uh oh. I know you may be thinking, I love beans but not so much the gas that comes along with them. Did I guess correctly? Well, Don't worry about the gas. There are products out there that can easily take care of that minor problem.
The health benefits of incorporating beans into your diet far outweigh the gas that they may give you. Plus the more you eat beans the less gas you will have over time.
So let's jump right into the second part of our series….beans.
What exactly is a bean?
Merriam-Webster defines a bean as: "the seed of any of various erect or climbing plants (as of the genera Phaseolus and Vigna) of the legume family other than the fava bean. A plant bearing beans. An immature bean pod used as a vegetable."
Beans can greatly benefit you in the following areas:
Since beans are naturally low in fat, free of saturated fat and trans-fat, and a cholesterol-free source of protein they make a much healthier choice for getting your daily protein intake met better than red meat does. Extensive research has shown that a low-fat low cholesterol diet which includes beans, may reduce your risk of heart disease.
Please don't forget to incorporate the other things you need to be doing for continued cardiac health. These include 30 minutes of moderate exercise five times per week, monitor sodium, sugar, and fat intake. And of course, to monitor your weight. Remember to ask your doctor if you are due for any labs or tests that can help determine the health of your heart.
Also, ask your doctor to recommend a diet and some exercises for you that will keep your heart healthy. You can also do research on your own. Like reading my blog posts. There are many sites online that can give you the trusted information you need to keep your heart in great condition.
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Beans contain both soluble and insoluble fiber. This means that beans are doing double duty to keep your G.I. tract on track. Soluble fiber slows down your digestion, which gives you that full feeling and insoluble fiber helps to prevent constipation. This is just a little side note here folks. Some people do not need help with this area of their lives. Some people, such as the elderly do need a little help in this area. As we age our G.I. tract doesn't work like it did when we were younger. That's why it's important to drink plenty of water and eat enough fiber daily to help keep you regular.
Blood Sugar Control
Beans have a low glycemic index and contain complex carbohydrates, which are digested slowly. The Glycemic Index(3) (GI) is a relative ranking of carbohydrate in foods according to how they affect blood glucose levels. This means that eating beans on a regular basis will help control your blood sugar. Which will in turn help to control you Hgb A1c. Great news for diabetics!
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Energy Booster
Beans' complex carbohydrates provide a sustained energy source. Complex carbohydrates(4) are made up of sugar molecules that are strung together in long, complex chains. The carbs in beans get absorbed at a slower rate over a longer period of time which helps to sustain your energy levels. Try eating a snack before your workout to see how much of an energy kick you get from beans.
During Pregnancy
Beans also contain Folate(folic acid)(5) which is vitamin B-9. This is very important for pregnant women and their unborn babies. During pregnancy, women need an increased amount of folate. Folate can help reduce the risk of birth defects of the brain and spine.
Adult women who are planning a pregnancy or could become pregnant should make sure to get 400 to 800 mcg of folic acid(6) a day. Please check with your doctor or health care provider to see how much folate you should be taking before and during your pregnancy.
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Lower "Bad" Cholesterol Low-Density Lipoprotein (LDL)
In an article by Diana Fleming(7), of Full Plate Living she states that beans lower your "bad" cholesterol in the following ways. They are a good source of resistant starch, which helps lower your cholesterol. They contain phytosterols, the plant form of cholesterol, which helps lower your cholesterol level. They're cholesterol free. They're trans-fat-free. Trans fat raises your cholesterol and triglyceride levels. They're low in fat, especially saturated fat, which increases your cholesterol levels. By the way, a normal LDL cholesterol level is < 190 mg/dl according to Healthquestions.com(8)
Remember to have your cholesterol levels tested at your annual physical. This is something you do not want to let get out of control. High cholesterol can lead to stroke and heart attacks. These are two major health issues that people die from every year which could possibly be prevented with proper health maintenance. Know your numbers!
Nutritional Value Of Dry Beans
Check out this PDF(9) by the U.S. Dry Bean Council for these values on dry beans. There are many different types of beans listed here. Hopefully, you will be able to find your favorite type.
Nutritional Value Of Cooked Beans
Also, check out this PDF(10) by the U.S. Dry Bean Council for these values on cooked beans. There are many different types of beans, listed here also. Print them out and keep them handy for when you go to the grocery store.
Antioxidants are, "a substance that inhibits oxidation, especially one used to counteract the deterioration of stored food products. A substance such as vitamin C or E that removes potentially damaging oxidizing agents in a living organism."
The biggest class of antioxidants is flavonoids(12). According to Jessie Szalay, a Live Science contributor, "Flavonoids are a diverse group of phytonutrients (plant chemicals) found in almost all fruits and vegetables. Along with carotenoids, they are responsible for the vivid colors in fruits and vegetables. Flavonoids are the largest group of phytonutrients, with more than 6,000 types. Some of the best-known flavonoids are quercetin and kaempferol."
One-third cup of cooked beans has 80 calories, no cholesterol(13), lots of complex carbohydrates, and little fat. Which makes them an excellent choice to add to almost any meal. Especially a salad, rice, or a good old-fashioned bean burrito.
How To Reduce Flatulence
According to the U.S. Dry Bean Council, "the natural oligosaccharides (complex carbohydrates) in beans may cause temporary digestive discomfort." In an article from Livestrong.com(14), by Rose Erickson, there are some things you can do to help decrease the amount of gas you will get from eating beans.
They include soaking beans overnight, boiling your lentils for three minutes prior to soaking them to release some of the raffinose sugars that contribute to gas, add 1/8 teaspoon of baking soda to the soaking water to help remove raffinose sugars from the lentils, cook your lentils in a slow cooker for several hours, add acidic ingredients such as molasses or tomatoes only after you've cooked the lentils, take an over-the-counter digestive aid, and rinse canned lentils thoroughly before consuming them. Click on the Livestrong link to read the full article.
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How Many Beans Should I Be eating Per Week
Also, according to the U.S. Dry Bean Council(15) the U.S. Government's Dietary Guidelines 2005 urge adults to consume three (3) cups of cooked dry beans a week. This doesn't mean that you have to eat a cup at a time. You could break it up over six different meals throughout the week. You might want to do this, to begin with to decrease, even more, the amount of gas you're having after eating beans. The are many recipes and dishes that you can use to get your weekly requirements of beans. Just be creative. Ask family or friends for recipes.
Check out this website for some great bean recipes www.greatrecipes.com(16)
So let's put it all together. How are we going to get the most bang out of our bean? First, I believe we need to stop being worried about the gas we get from the beans. You can buy something over the counter like Beano to help with that.
Second, we need to remember that we are eating beans for their wonderful and healthy benefits that they bring to our lives.
Third, we need to research our favorite flavor of beans. See what recipes we can find to make them more appealing to us. We could even find ways to combine them with other healthy foods so we can get the most out of each meal.
Last, remember that in just a few weeks most of the gas will be gone and you can fully enjoy the taste and benefits of beans!
Please leave me a comment about how you've incorporated beans into your diet. Have they helped since you started using them? Do you notice any difference in how you feel or look? My wife, Dolores and I are going to find some tasty recipes and try them out.
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We were on our way to #Aarhus to hear Jean-Luc #Ponty. My girlfriend and I had pooled our resources and deposited most of them in the back pocket of her jeans; enough to pay for a ferry ticket to Samsø (an island halfway to Århus), a ticket the rest of the way to Aarhus, and enough again to pay for Jean-Luc's concert. I pocketed the rest to pay for our stay on #Samsø.
We got to Samsø on a gray day. But it was the middle of the summer, so we got ourselves a room and then bought some fresh plaice and went down to the deserted beach. Yellow-brown dunes covered with tufts of grass backed up the narrow, brownish beach by the dark olive-green sea. We built a little fire, found some fresh branches and managed to build up a little grill so that our plaice could get smoked without burning. We had a bottle of wine and soon we were eating a pleasant meal while we stared at the lapping waves.
We sat for about an hour talking and drinking our wine and then we crawled around in the sand shutting down the fire and removing traces of our presence. We even went up into the dunes to get fresh branches to rake the sand. Then we wandered back to the inn to get a night's sleep before the little ferry to Aarhus came at seven the next morning.
Bleary eyed we got up the next day and cleared out our room. I went downstairs and paid the innkeeper. As we went down to the landing, cars were waiting already and the little white ferryboat with a black bottom was emptying passengers and vehicles from the night trip onto the island. We found a man with a seaman's cap and a leather change bag and approached him to buy our tickets. My girlfriend reached into her back pocket and found, well, nothing. She rummaged through her other pockets. She even pulled the pencil out of her rolled-up hair to see if she had stashed our bill there. Nothing. The man went on about his business as we drew back to a picnic table at the side of the dock to discuss our predicament.
"I know we had it yesterday afternoon because I mashed it down into my pocket when we bought the plaice. Remember, we paid for the inn and the fish with the other bill. I wanted to put the big bill in a safe place."
"So," I said, "we had it at the fish store and our room at the inn was completely empty when we left. It must be somewhere between the fish store and the inn and the beach, or even on the beach itself. "
Both of us paused to check the wind. It was blowing rather strongly off the land towards the water in small, stalwart gusts.
"If it's still there, it won't be for long. We aren't going to make the ferry anyway. Let's have a look at the road to the beach and the place where we ate," she said. We got up and started to search the sides of the road ran along the beach away from town.
We found nothing on the road. When we got to the place where we had eaten, we could still see signs of our buried and camouflaged fire on the beach, but otherwise nothing but the wet, brown sand. We walked up towards the dunes where we had found some branches. Tall blades of heavy grass stuck up from the edges. The wind caught them and bent them in long rows towards the sea. On the very last blade of the very last plant, folded neatly with one half on each side, was our Danish 5oo kroner note. It flapped and flew like a little flag hanging on to what I only can describe as the last straw.
Ponty played without us in Aarhus that night; we had missed the ferry. We took the other ferry and train back to Copenhagen and treated ourselves to a huge fish banquet at a very good restaurant. We went home broke and happy.
Were we lucky or were we unlucky? I do not see it that way. We were carefree, our lives wrapped for the moment around one fragile blade of grass, feeling the wind on both sides and enjoying it. We might be blown away another day, but for today we hung on happily. After all, in principle the last straw is as good as any other.


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Ephrat Asherie
"Riff this Riff that"
Ephrat Asherie's "Riff this Riff that," which rolled through the Atrium Plaza at 180 Maiden Lane on Monday afternoon (it repeated Tuesday), opens on an uncharacteristically subdued note — a point made clear by the wild ride that follows.
Six dancers, some sitting, some standing, congregate around a row of wooden stools and gaze at Ousmane Wiles as he eases forward into space and crouches, spinning back to them before dashing away again with sliding feet in reverse. He stops in place and snaps his fingers. Soon, the others ease away from the stools too and join in to create a percussive suite of bodies.
Ms. Asherie started out in ballet, but like for many who came of age in the 1990s, hip-hop took hold. There are no obvious sign of classical dance in "Riff this," but Ms. Asherie makes space for just about everything else. Dance forms — from tap to swing and vogueing — are knitted together throughout this production.
Ms. Asherie's movement phrases — compact bursts of choreography with rapid-fire changes in rhythm and gestural articulation — bubble up and dissipate, quickly paving the way for something new. But it's more than an exploration of motion and energy. Inspired by "The Spirit Moves: A History of Black Social Dance on Film, 1900–1986," Mura Dehn's excellent documentary, Ms. Asherie investigates the jazz roots of contemporary house, breaking and hip-hop.
"Riff this" shows Ms. Asherie's entrancing qualities as a dancer: She is both tough and supple. But Ms. Asherie has much more room to riff on her ideas about tradition in dance; in its current form, the piece, just 25 minutes, feels like a beginning, not an ending. As problems go, that's a good one. GIA KOURLAS
Will Rawls
"The Planet-Eaters: Seconds"
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Many artists describe what they do as interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary, but Will Rawls, in the program notes for his work "The Planet-Eaters: Seconds," offers this alternative, "nondisciplinary."
A choreographer and writer, Mr. Rawls never lands for too long in any one medium, staying nomadic with the help of his sound and costume collaborators. One pleasure of watching "Seconds," a reconfiguration of his 2013 "The Planet-Eaters," is not knowing where to place it.
I didn't see the first "Planet Eaters," but I imagine that the second, presented on Monday, resonated differently by virtue of its new setting, the "Circle of Dance" exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian in Lower Manhattan. (The first performance was at the Chocolate Factory in Long Island City.)
The circular room houses brilliant costumes associated with traditional American Indian dances. These hover in our peripheral vision as Mr. Rawls and the musician Chris Kuklis concoct ceremonial dance and song of their own, clad in rough-hewn regalia by the Serbian designer Sasa Kovacevic.
"The Planet Eaters" grew out of Mr. Rawls's travels in the Balkans and his study of the region's folklore. Swerving among dance, storytelling and music-making — the instruments included a laptop, a guitar, a tuning fork and a stainless-steel bowl — it stirs up questions about authenticity, racial identity and cultural appropriation that evade easy answers.
Mr. Rawls has written about his mixed-race background as the son of a former Georgia sharecropper and a woman of Welsh ancestry. I thought about that while watching him, in a headdress of long golden braids capped with a white cross, tussle with Mr. Kuklis over several tracts of fake grass. Eventually, they merged this disputed territory into one small mountain and, sitting on either side of the pile, or the table, began to count, clap, sing and speak in harmony.
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After several years out of service for a major overhaul, Ab 699 is nearly back together.
On September 23, 699 rolls back into service and be combined with a belated 50th anniversary celebration of the Fairlie Branch Line's closure. The last official train on the line ran on March 2, 1968 - however we didn't want to leave the Ab out of the festivities, so delayed them instead.
A ribbon will be cut by our chief engineer to officially welcome the engine back into service and to launch the day's festivities.
The Mackenzie Highland Pipe Band has been invited to play the locomotive out of the station in the afternoon. One noteable change is that 699 won't be 699. It will be dressed up at Ab 718 - the lead engine (followed by Ab 798) on the last train, all those years ago in 1968.
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500 Hardtop Sedan. Just a guess because the Monza seems to have some addtional trim on the side.
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Bush to Woo GOP Senators on Immigration
President Bush is expected to use a Capitol Hill lunch meeting to urge Senate Republicans to help resurrect a bill aimed at overhauling immigration policy. The president says the bill is too important to be permitted to languish.
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President Bush returned to Washington last night from a trip to Europe; and today he takes a shorter journey up to the Capitol, where he'll have lunch with Republican senators. The meeting was scheduled before the Senate dropped work last week on the immigration bill that the president supports. But he's expected to take the opportunity to urge GOP senators to stop blocking that legislation, as NPR's Brian Naylor reports.
BRIAN NAYLOR: For President Bush, mired in an unpopular war and facing a Congress controlled by Democrats, immigration legislation has emerged as a rare opportunity to claim a success in his final two years in office. Before he left Bulgaria for Washington yesterday, the President said he believes an immigration bill is something, in his words, we can get done.
President GEORGE W. BUSH: We made two steps forward on immigration, we took a step back, and now I'm going to work with those who are focused on getting an immigration bill done and start taking some steps forward again. I believe we can get it done. I'll see you at the bill signing.
NAYLOR: And while the president won't want to hold his breath until an immigration bill is signed, there are some faint hints of progress on the issue. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pulled the bill from the floor last Thursday night after supporters of the measure fell 15 votes short of the number needed to move it on to final passage. Reid now says he will do, in his words, everything possible to return the measure to the floor after the Senate debates an energy bill.
Senator HARRY REID (Democrat, Nevada; Senate Majority Leader): I want to get the bill done. An overwhelming majority of the Democratic Caucus have already voted for cloture. The American people are certainly looking to Congress for leadership. We hope that President Bush and his Republican allies in Congress will find their way to work with us, to deliver this bill to the immigrants, businesses and all Americans who demand and deserve it.
NAYLOR: Reid said a letter to the president calling on Mr. Bush to exercise, quote, "stronger leadership on the measure," which members of the administration helped draft. The bill would among other things create a path to citizenship for the 12 million undocumented immigrants now in the U.S., as well as tighten security at the border. Reid noted just seven Republican senators backed ending debate on the bill, the so-called cloture vote that under Senate rules is necessary before a final vote can be held.
Reid was criticized after his decision to pull the bill. Republican leaders said they thought the measure might have been approved if Republicans had two more days to debate it and offer amendments to change it. Speaking on the Senate floor yesterday, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell couldn't resist a dig at his counterpart across the aisle.
Senator MITCH McCONNELL (Republican, Kentucky; Senate Minority Leader): I thought there was every reason to believe that we could have finished the immigration bill by tonight; instead we ended up having another cloture vote - in my view a day or two premature, and taking the Friday off and today spending our time on a meaningless resolution giving the president advice about who the attorney general ought to be.
NAYLOR: McConnell has himself faced criticism for not reining in conservative Republicans who have been trying to block the immigration bill by amending it to death. Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl, one of the bill's GOP authors, said he expects the president to tell Republican senators at lunch today that he is aware of their concerns over the immigration measure. Kyl was interviewed last night on NPR's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.
Senate JON KYL (Republican, Arizona): I think, first of all, he will acknowledge that a lot of what we're hearing from our constituents back home is actually true. Our folks here are worried that the government will not enforce a new immigration bill because, frankly, the current law is not very well enforced. I think he'll acknowledge that but make the point that actually we need some changes in the law for it to be enforceable.
NAYLOR: The test for President Bush will be whether he can convince conservative Republicans in the Senate, who have all but abandoned him on this issue, that's it's in their best interest to vote for a bill which most conservative activists see as a betrayal of their core beliefs.
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Good morning. 1pm (LON:OPM) announces a £1.5m equity investment from Henderson, 1 billion new shares, at 0.015p a share. There's clearly a need to consolidate the shares, this is 21st century Britain, not Weimar Germany!
It's a good deal though for this small asset financing lender, which is operating in a lucrative niche largely abandoned by the major Banks. They also announce that results for the year ended 31 May 2013 will show good organic growth, with profits ahead of market expectations, at £750k. It looks an interesting situation, although below my usual £10m market cap cut-off.
There are not many results today, and generally it's set to be a fairly quiet week, although there are lots of AGMs, so therefore likely to be plenty of trading statements for me to interpret.
Immunodiagnostic Systems Holdings (LON:IDH) is a share that has been mentioned here before, and is difficult to value - because it's a former high growth share (which was rated very highly) which hit hard times after competitive pressures increased, stifling their growth. I rarely pay high earnings multiples for growth companies, because they are just an accident waiting to happen.
Investors often over-pay for growth, and the trouble is that when growth disappoints, then you are hit by a double whammy of lower earnings estimates, and a much lower earnings multiple. Combine the two, and it can be carnage.
IDH peaked at 1200p in July 2011, then collapsed to lows of around 250p a year later, after warning on profits. However, they have perked up more recently, rising strongly to 453p in recent months. That gives a market cap of £126.8m, and the company itself has net cash of £19.6m, so has a very solid Balance Sheet.
They state in the narrative to today's results (for the year ended 31 Mat 2013) that revenues and profits are in line with expectations, but according to my figures their EPS of 27.2p is slightly down on broker consensus of 29.7p. The share price of 453p prices the company at a multiple of 16.7 times earnings just announced. Even allowing for their net cash being a healthy 15% of the market cap, that still doesn't strike me as much of a bargain for a company whose turnover amp; profits are actually down on the prior year.
The outlook statement is OK. I'm not tempted to revisit these, the price seems to already factor in a recovery, so risk/reward doesn't look attractive to me at this 453p level.
Thank You to @MrContrarian who points out on Twitter that 1pm (LON:OPM) have made the "cock up of the day" by stating in their RNS that they have issued 1bn new shares to Henderson at a price of 0.015 pence per share. I didn't spot this at first, but that's a mistake because the share price is over 10 times that figure, at 0.172p!
If the company itself cannot cope with such a tiny share price, then the case for a share consolidation (e.g. 1 for 1000, to take the share price up from 0.172p to 172p per share) is absolutely overwhelming.
So I expect people at 1PM's headquarters are embarrassed (as they should be, this was sloppy), and working on a correction RNS right now. Ah, I see the correction was issued at 08:13.
I'm impressed with today's announcement from Software Radio Technology (LON:SRT), demonstrating how shareholder friendly they are. They have turned their AGM day into an Open Day, with tours of their offices, meet the team, a presentation, and a buffet lunch. This is a really good initiative, and let's hope more companies follow suit, in treating their AGM as an opportunity to showcase the company, and really engage with shareholders amp; other interested parties. It's being held in Bath, so as I live in Hove that's probably not practical in terms of travel amp; the need to write these reports, but I would like to go if possible. We definitely need more of this kind of thing.
I've tried to make sense of the valuation of Keycom (OFEX:KCO), and can't. They seem to have 761.6m shares in issue, currently at 17.5p, giving a market cap of £133m. Yet their interim results announced today show turnover of only £3.1m, and an operating loss of £0.7m. It just doesn't make sense at all, and the market cap seems at least 10 times the level that would begin to make sense, based on these historic figures.
I've been rummaging around other announcements, but can't see anything interesting today within the sectors that I cover, sorry about that. So I'll sign off for now, and see you same time tomorrow.
Breaking News:
I see that 2Ergo (LON:RGO) have announced their re-financing, and as I have cautioned in the past in these reports, it's almost a wipe-out for existing shareholders. Most recently on 31 May, I commented;
Rolling out this type of system is going to be costly, and they've run out of cash (again), and are in the process of fund-raising now. Hence I wouldn't touch the shares with a bargepole until the refinancing is agreed, as existing equity could be all but wiped out by people putting in the fresh funds, which is a risk that we just don't need to take.
Sure enough, they've done the fund-raising at just 1p a share, so even though the price had fallen to about 3.5p today, it's now likely to lurch down again, and will probably be drawn towards 1p from people flipping stock after the Placing.
256m new shares are being Placed, with MXC Capital being described as the "cornerstone investor", and they are also putting in their choice of Executive Chairman, with 3 existing Directors stepping down. Although interestingly, the existing Directors are putting in another £540k of their own money, so one assumes they are staying on with the company as employees?
Surprisingly, the share price has not yet moved downwards, and is still showing 3p Bid/ 3.75p Offer. That has to come down, but maybe the new management amp; refinancing will see a premium maintained to the 1p Placing price?
It's an interesting company with an intriguing product, but has been a disaster for shareholders, as blue sky things often are - in reality it's incredibly difficult, time-consuming amp; expensive to commercialise new technology, now matter how good it is. Promoters of companies forget to tell investors that when they are spinning a good yarn about the future potential for some amazing new product.
Regards, Paul.
(of the shares mentioned today, Paul has no long or short positions)
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Here is something we all should educate ourselves with about the Lokpal Bill. It is an answer to those who feel Anna should have waited and waited.
Today I heard a news that in Mumbai crowd shoved back members of political parties carrying their respective flags, crowd peacefully stressed it is time for only INDIAN flag to show up and no other political flags. We don't need cheaters against cheaters we need India against cheaters.
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Advance tickets available Thursday, August 30 through Thursday, September 27. Tickets will also be sold at the door on September 30, subject to availability.
A recent graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Steven Franklin will be accompanied by the Philadelphia-based pianist David Hughes. Franklin performed spectacularly in Glencairn's 2017 Christmas Sing Concert and is back by popular demand.
The program features: Sonata in D Major, G.1 by Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709); Legende by Georges Enescu (1881-1955); Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat Major by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809); Sonatina by Hans Werner Henze (1926-2012); Nicholas DiBerardino, With Pinions of Immense Desire (b. 1989); Concertino by Roger Boutry (b. 1932); Fantasie by Francis Thomé (1850-1909).
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Steven Franklin
Chicago-born trumpet player Steven Franklin got married this summer and currently lives in Miami Beach, FL where he is a first-year Trumpet Fellow at the New World Symphony. He performs as a soloist, orchestral trumpet player and pianist, and also works regularly as a composer. He was Principal Trumpet of the Hawai'i Symphony for a half season before joining the New World Symphony. He also plays regularly with the Rochester Philharmonic and the Lake Placid Sinfoneitta. The Philadelphia Inquirer says of his playing, "You couldn't hope to hear a more correct and pristine trumpet solo than the one turned in by Steven Franklin."
Mr. Franklin earned his bachelor's degree from the Curtis Institute of Music studying with David Bilger. He attended the National Orchestral Institute in 2015, performing and recording as Principal Trumpet on Copland's Appalachian Spring (Naxos Records). As a soloist, he won first prize from numerous competitions, including the Roger Voisin Memorial Trumpet Competition, the International Trumpet Guild Solo Competition and the National Trumpet Competition. He has performed as soloist with the Ocean City Pops and Masterworks Festival Orchestra, among others.
In addition to his career as a trumpet player, Mr. Franklin is an emerging composer. He was recently commissioned by the American Brass Quintet, Lake Placid Sinfonietta and members of the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, The Philadelphia Orchestra and Boston Symphony. In 2015 the Curtis Trumpet Ensemble took first prize at the National Trumpet Competition playing Mr. Franklin's own Trumpet Sextet No. 2. His post-romantic style "looks back longingly to the abiding tonal sensibilities of Richard Strauss" (Philadelphia Inquirer).
David Hughes
David Hughes is a Philadelphia-based pianist with a wide-ranging repertoire that places a special emphasis on modern and lesser-known works, as well as chamber music. He has performed at the Kennedy Center, Amsterdam's Muziekgebouw and the Carmel (CA) Music Society's subscription series. In 2014 he was featured on Philadelphia's WRTI radio station as part of their "Music Makers" series: an hour-long segment in which he both discussed and performed solo repertoire. Mr. Hughes made his debut in Paris at the Cité Universitaire in a program of modern American works, sponsored by Orléans Concurs International. This event was preceded by a roundtable discussion about the state of contemporary music in France and America in which Mr. Hughes also took part.
Mr. Hughes holds the Doctor of Music degree in piano performance from Indiana University Bloomington, where he served as an associate instructor of both private and class piano and conducted research into the writings of pedagogue Abby Whiteside. He also holds a Master's degree from Indiana and a Bachelor's degree from the Oberlin Conservatory, also in piano performance. His teaching is influenced by the Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Method, and Zen Philosophy. He maintains a private studio in the Passyunk Square section of South Philadelphia.


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It would be prudent for anyone to believe that dormant racism was ever a solution for the United States. Not that this ever fully occurred, but upon seeing the aftermath in Charlottesville, it's also fair to concede that white supremacists who once hid in the shadows now have no restraint in showing their true beliefs.
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Over the years I have used any number of different gardening tools for hand weeding, planting and general cultivation. A few have stood out and become fast favorites. The three key characteristics I look for in a good gardening hand tool are: 1. ease of use, 2. working power, and 3. durability. These criteria are met by the following tools:
Fine-bladed hand trowels are excellent all-purpose tools for weeding and planting. They quickly cut at deep or shallow roots in no time and withstand lots of wear and tear if made well. The "rockery hand trowel" at Clarington Forge is just such a fine-bladed tool, and it's beautifully crafted for the long haul. Its fine blade makes for easy weeding and planting--especially in heavier or pebbly soils.
For super fast hand weeding nothing beats the classic ho-mi (hoe-mee), also called the Korean hand plow or cultivator. This sharp, downward-facing tool can get to the base of a dandelion root in seconds with a quick chop, chop, chop. Nothing is more effective. For smaller weeds, I use the side of the ho-mi to scratch and smooth the soil. It's an excellent tool for lightly aerating the base of a plant or getting to the root of a tough herbaceous weed as well as planting new plugs. If well cared for, a ho-mi will last forever (if cleaned after use and oiled to prevent rust). It's relatively cheap, too. Long-handled versions are also very useful. Just be careful when chopping away with this sharp tool. Its tip can be nasty.
A child-friendly weeder that's easy for the little ones to wield is the Dutch hoe from Clarington Forge. It's not sharp, scrapes up surface weeds with little effort and keeps the kids helping out in the garden. This kid-sized Dutch hoe allows children to help out in the garden, and it's fun to use!
I could not get by in the garden without my trusty garden knife (also called a soil knife or Japanese hori-hori). It can cut into the soil to deep roots below and saw through the bases of tough plants. I even use it for harvesting greens and cole crops. One side of the knife is sharp for slicing and the other is serrated for sawing. This tool can easily break through skin, so its best held in a leather belt holder or sheath.
The Cobrahead company sent me a sample of their classic Cobrahead hand weeder and cultivator, and it's a nice, effective, well-made weeding tool. It has a sharp, curved head that makes for fast digging and hand hoeing.
For big "weeds" choose a Pullerbear uprooter. In a matter of minutes, an area riddled with small weed trees can be cleaned beautifully roots and all. It works like no other tool I've tried. Just clench the base of the sapling or small tree and pull. Ignore the fact that it's a bit pricey. It will pay for itself quickly in time and effort saved wrangling with hard-to-pull woody weeds.


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Viewing ourselves as a beacon of democracy and freedom is deeply ingrained in our national self-image. And yet, the history of how we've acted—both abroad and towards our own people—tells a very different story. A similar struggle plays out in our personal lives as well. A day after returning from the All Souls BorderLinks trip to Arizona and Mexico, Rev. Keithan will reflect on the gap between our aspirations and our reality--and what we can do about it.
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Solo show: November 5th – December 17th, 2016
Solo Show: Synthesis, April 5th – May 10th, 2014
Alexis Anne Mackenzie's new show Multiverse explores how minor fluctuations in circumstance, or a slight rearrangement of the same elements, can create a wholly different entity. The term Multiverse is the blanket term for parallel universe theories.
Most of Mackenzie's work over the past year has investigated living a sort of double or split life. The new direction in her work started with "Synthesis": her project-space show at EHG less than a year ago. We are delighted to be showing more of her new works.
As Mackenzie delves deeper into the new direction of her work, she is thinking in larger terms, moving from just the personal sphere to a consideration of how we all have multiple facets of our lives, and about how so many things that we do and experience hinge on chance encounters, forks in the road, choices, and risk taking. She is playing with the idea of trusting the universe, as it were, then considering what so doing entails.
The exhibit is comprised of diptychs and single original images that have been altered to be unrecognizable from their original selves. The diptychs are two images that are combined to create one clear and one "scrambled" version. Sometimes the diptychs are created out of three images. One image is cut and layered over two others, representing how the same exact image will manifest differently depending on circumstance.
Mackenzie wants these works to speak to the parts of ourselves that reflect on where we are in our lives and how we got here. She posits that one reason people are interested in parallel universe theories is that these theories appeal to the parts of ourselves that have made mistakes or missed opportunities. Conversely these theories also resonate with the parts of ourselves that are grateful for the path we've taken or the luck we've enjoyed. These theories, and by extension the work in her new show, acknowledge how malleable we are as people, and how random "fate" can be.
About the Artist
Alexis Anne Mackenzie, b. 1979, lives and works in San Francisco, CA. She received her BFA from Tufts University / School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA and has shown in solo and two-person shows at Ampersand, Portland, OR; Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA; EBERSMOORE, Chicago, IL and POVevolving Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; among others, as well as in group exhibitions including MOMA PS1, New York, NY; Berkeley Art Center, CA; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL; and The Hole, New York, NY. In 2012 she received the Wynn Newhouse Award and her work is held in numerous private collections.


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When Richmond Times-Dispatch Publisher Tom Silvestri started a conversation with me last winter about his ideas for some real estate at 300 East Franklin Street, I was intrigued.
I've known Tom since my first career, which started at 300 East Grace Street. I was a young cub reporter – well, "City Desk intern" – at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and he was a business reporter. We reconnected while I was at Luck Stone – I was working on leadership and culture, and he was working on innovation and culture. We've since become friends, and collaborators.
I know Tom as a big thinker, eager and willing to stretch the conversation in new directions – even when he's swimming upstream. Maybe especially when he's swimming upstream.
Which is how an idea as unique as 1E (a temporary name, I promise) managed to get traction at a time when risk aversion was the coin of the realm at the TD's then-parent company, Media General.
Yesterday, the Times-Dispatch announced the creation of a new collaborative workspace in their downtown building. The Floricane team will be working with Tom's his team to take 4,000 square feet of space on the first floor of the building and create a dynamic community for 6-8 small businesses and entrepreneurs. That's just Phase 1.
Our small team formally relocated this week, and we'll be actively working with the Times-Dispatch to help them recruit and select another handful of businesses to fill out the space. On the Grace Street side of the building, we've carved out space for Floricane and other businesses, and wrapped it around 1,500 square feet of coworking space – big shared areas where the entrepreneurs and the Times-Dispatch can come together and work, connect and interact. We see it as a catalyzing space, and a social space – a space that is about collaboration and synergy.
It's hard to live in Richmond and not have a love/hate relationship with the Times-Dispatch. In so many ways, the paper has been seen as emblematic of many of Richmond's challenges. It's also a mirror of what is right about Richmond, and its potential.
Last month's sale of the Times-Dispatch from Media General to the new Berkshire Hathaway Media Group reframes the paper's potential – and that of our community – on so many levels. And the creation of this new space for the business community reflects that.
It's a big, fun surprise to be returning to the building that helped me find my voice as a writer 21 years ago. I'm looking forward to strengthening my voice in collaboration with other entrepreneurs and a team of journalists who are as committed to the #RVA community as Floricane.


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Returns for the second quarter of 2015 were relatively mild given the headline drama with China and Greece. One could almost characterize it as a quarter of Much Ado About Nothing as broad market equities were relatively flat across the globe. Investments more sensitive to interest rates stumble as yield rose, pushing prices down. Overall, as the Greek and Chinese drama unfolded, we found that true economic growth remains a concern and continued our focus on investment fundamentals.
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"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" was written by which poet?
The Missouri native often composed poems about being black in America.
The Missouri native often composed poems about being black in America.
He also created a series of children's tales called the "Rootabaga Stories".
Her poems touched on many troubling themes, and she committed suicide at age 45.
She lived in isolation and is now regarded as one of the best poets in history.
She spent much of her time caring for a variety of plants.
He died hundreds of years ago but remains one of the most influential writers in human history.
Many of his poems touch on the struggles and joys of rural life.
He also wrote famous pop songs and made a name for himself as a screenwriter.
His signature (intentional) fractured style was off-putting to many publishing companies.
She's better known for her novels but she composed plenty of poetry, too.
He is best known for a poem called "The Prelude."
Even as a child she showed tremendous promise, and she became a literary star in Europe.
But many of them were altered for publication because they didn't fit contemporary styles.
His imaginative style emphasized creativity over logic.
Tennyson was so nearsighted he could hardly write down his poems; he worked on them in his head.
He survived and created thousands of poems, dying of a brain hemorrhage in 1962.
It was Plath's only novel, and the last major work of her life.
He was even trained in surgery but decided that the arts were more important to him.
She died at the age of 48 from an intentional sleeping pill overdose.
He wrote more than 100 poems but was better known for his novels, written as Mark Twain.
She also wrote lyrics for a Christmas carol called "In the Bleak Midwinter".
He was also a lawyer but the family constantly struggled with lack of money.
Collins has spent much of his life trying to make poetry a mainstream art form.
Blanco is also the first openly gay poet laureate.
His work brought him almost no money, and he died at a young age.
He was also an influential educator and taught at Harvard.
He had no real money himself but he was happy to give to others.
The poem helped to cement his status as an influential English poet.
In the poem, the girl is something like Medusa, who turns men into stone by looking at them.
He was only 40 when he died, but he left behind a legacy worthy of Hollywood.
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Bill's Day Out 11/17/2011
This morning was ideal for riding - sunny, clear and just
a bit on the cool side. When I went out around 8:30 the
temperature was about 55 degrees. GMR was almost
deserted, I saw only two cars and five other cyclists as I
made my way up to the shed. I went on up a bit farther
to the wall by the top of Monroe Truck Trail to take a
couple of pictures. By the time I was ready to come
down, the temperature had gotten up to 70 degrees.
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It had been a tough summer. On the second day of the school holiday I'd had my left arm plastered up to the elbow to allow my fractured wrist to heal after my fall from that tree. Worse than the pain had been the walk of shame home from the woods, my thin shorts having snagged on a branch, then being ripped off me whilst I fell wrists-first to the ground. They were to remain up there for several years after, flapping like a resplendent flag at full mast, a gradually weathering reminder of my concession to gravity. On the third day of the school holiday I had my other arm, which had started to hurt in the night, plastered up to the elbow (same X-ray machine, same consultant) to allow my other fractured wrist to heal.
The following week, Mum and Dad drove us to Wales where we eventually found the caravan perched on the side of a mountain. It was small, unsophisticated and remote. There were two amenities – one was a rope swing hanging from a nearby oak. My parents banned me from it. The other, about 25 yards from the caravan, was a rickety corrugated iron hut which served as our primitive loo, containing a wooden bench with a hole in over a dug pit, a piece of twisted wire holding a loo roll, and about three million spiders. My sister was terrified and it made her cry. Being 13, I teased her mercilessly about it, though to be honest I was pretty scared of it myself. All four of us were terrified of it come dusk because of the bats that swooped around outside, forcing us to hold our bladders between 8:30pm and sunrise.
Fortunately it rained a lot because it meant I could wear my parka – the only piece of clothing I owned with sleeves wide enough to give my plasters a joyful anonymity. In short sleeves I looked like a mummy, drawing stares from other kids visiting the Rhondda Museum and Llechwedd slate mine whilst their nosey parents were asking my parents what I'd done.
We returned home to the flushing toilets of Surrey and what was always going to be the highlight of the summer at nearby Sutton and Epsom Rugby Ground. This was a trio of rugby pitches stretching out from a club house between parallel rows of back gardens. The first pitch had floodlights and was used for midweek training – you could hear the grunts, cusses and ambulances from our house 2 streets away. The middle pitch had the slope flattened out of it, the greenest grass and a small stand to hold for the small number of spectators who would turn up for matches. To even look at the grass, let alone play on it would bring an angry shout or two from the clubhouse. It would have been safer to walk on a Somalian minefield than their sacred pitch so us kids kept well away. The final pitch – furthest from the clubhouse, was feral due to its lung-busting slopes and bare patches, and used only for occasional tournaments and by me and my friends for football. Exponents of the round ball rather than the weird oval thing, we played there for hours, safe in the knowledge that no one in the club house could shout loud enough, or be arsed, to get us to scram. Our only consternation came from angry neighbours when our errant shooting launched a ball into their gardens or, even worse, struck their precious wooden fences.
Once a year, the Rugby Club held a summer event. For a few years it was Cottles circus, then it became a donkey derby, with lorry loads of the poor beasts brought to be raced in front of an accompanying fair. This year, 1977, well this was to be a Donkey Grand Prix with local-boy-come-good James Hunt there, yes current Formula 1 Word Champion, James Hunt, and I could not have been more excited.
Today I have no interest in cars whatsoever, short of getting me from home to my destination without breaking down or crashing. As a gardener, my car is a mobile shed, full of muddy tools, muddy boots and mud. I have little regard for cars and no truck at all with Top Gear or the pimp-chromed mobile baubles driven to meet monthly outside the local Burger King car park by their piston-headed owners.
But in 1977 things were different. I loved cars. I even wanted to be a mechanic despite my previous ineptitude with Meccano. Whilst other teenagers may have covered their walls with pictures of Charlies Angels or Kevin Keegan, mine had Jody Scheckter and his super-sexy 6-wheeled (yes – 6-wheel) Tyrre1l, Emerson Fittipaldi's black beast of a Lotus JPS and best of all, James Hunt helmeted and squashed into his magnificent McLaren M26, it's chassis daubed in English red and white. So to hear both hero and car were coming to town was more thrilling than the chance of seeing Jenny Hanley's knees twice a week on Magpie.
Came the day, came the weather. It was glorious. Damn. I wanted rain – as heavy as the Japanese Grand Prix where James had won his trophy mere months before. His rain put arch rival Lauda out of the race, while mine left me with Mum not only refusing to allow me to wear my parka, but insisting I wore a blue denim cap to thwart sunburn. By now my casts were showing signs of age, beyond grubby and covered in signatures, ketchup stains and grass burns as I walked my lanky, half plastered, bell-bottom-jeaned self excitedly to the Rugby Ground well in advance of the gates opening.
Once in, I ran to the enclosure which penned the McLaren. In the sunshine it shone as sleek as a panther covered in red and white icing. It seemed huge yet small, so still while full of latent power. The tyres were fat and black and big enough to land jumbo jets. It displayed the number 1 – as designated to the current world champion. The tannoy said James was arriving at 3pm – I had 3 hours to gloat at his mechanical monster. A board said they would take your photo in it for £2.50. I checked my money – I had £1.32. I had no alternative. I ran home to ransack my bedroom for coins then plead with my Dad for the rest. He came up trumps – I returned with £3.50 and a grin wide enough to swallow the McClaren's stylish rear spoiler. By now the queue for photos was enormous, so I decided to look at the fair until it had died down.
I kept my hands in my pocket as I passed the lucky dip, coconut shy and other temptations – except one. Wow! On our football pitch, straw bales had been laid down to mark out a circuit within which, for £1, you could ride 3 laps on a small Yamaha monkey bike. I looked at my battered crumbling casts, thought for a moment of the consultant warning against boisterous behaviours and decided that it could only be a good idea to have a go.
Lap 1 was a circular struggle as I fought to coordinate throttle and steering. Lap 2 and I was Barry Sheen, wind in my unhelmeted hair. Lap 3 I banked too hard, dragged a pedal into the earth, bucked off and lay on the ground as the rotten bike's chain bit into my ankle-flapping jeans and chewed a good legful of denim before the brutish operator yanked it off me, disgorging my jeans from its gnashing teeth.
I was unhurt, but was now reduced to one and a half trouser legs, a trail of ripped material with oil stained teeth marks hanging below my left knee. The operator glared at me as if it was my fault, and it probably was, so I left to rejoin the masses, a bit trembly but eager not to be shouted at – I figured I'd get enough of that from Mum later.
Eventually James Hunt arrived to great cheers. He acknowledged the crowd, declared the Grand Prix open then was placed on a donkey for a race. He looked a pillock with an undersized riders hat crushing down his famous golden halo of hair, and his long legs hanging either side of the donkey so close to the ground that he could almost have picked it up and run with it, Anthill Mob style. The donkey proved to be the Austin Allegro of the equestrian world and James came in last to everyone's laughter and cheers. He took this potential humiliation in good spirit.
They announced James would be by his car to meet people as they had their photos taken in it. I was so excited it really didn't matter that the queue was as long as the Nürburgring circuit. Eventually it was my turn and I walked up, unspeakably star struck and looking like a cross between a Dickensian urchin and Ramesses III to share short but unforgettable discourse with my hero.
'Bloody hell – you've been through the wars a bit' said the Formula 1 deity.
'Not really' I replied, trying to sound cool and hard but probably just rude.
End of short but unforgettable discourse with my hero.
I climbed into the cramped monocoque shell of the M26, gripped the tiny steering wheel and looked up at the camera, giving it my best chilled look as if I sat in grand prix cars all the time. That was it. I paid my £2.50 and left James laughing with the next far more eloquent and personable fan.
Somewhere in my Dad's house is the black and white photo that was delivered an excruciating 10 days or so later. My outstretched arms clutching the wheel still look gawky and thin despite their covering of half-rotted plaster. The denim peaked hat made me look as camp as a picnic with the Village People, and my cool expression? Well, I look as miserable as a boy missing It's a Knockout each week as his mother made him go to cubs to try and engage him with other boys his own age. But that's another story.
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