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Automobiles revolutionized the American way of life, giving people previously unimagined mobility and greater freedom to live, work, and travel where they wanted. Exactly when the first automobile appeared in North Carolina is uncertain, although there is evidence to suggest that a steam-powered vehicle was used in the state as early as 1881 and perhaps even 1874. In all likelihood, the first automobiles to come to North Carolina used steam or electric motors to travel the few passable roads that existed at that time. The earliest vehicles were called "horseless carriages" because, except for the steering tiller mounted in the front and the engine tucked beneath the seat, they looked very much like a buggy without a horse. It is estimated that there may have been as many as 50 such "highwheelers" in the state by 1900.
As automobiles changed design and became less expensive, their numbers quickly increased. Aside from a few scattered attempts by state car builders to create their own versions of the famous Ford Model-T or other automobiles between 1900 and 1920, there were no serious manufacturing competitors in North Carolina. Only the Corbitt Motor Company of Henderson was able to market a production model, which never sold more than 100 units.
By 1909, the first year in which the state required licensing of autos, 1,600 vehicles existed in North Carolina. In 1912 the number of registrations had reached 6,000, and by 1919 it had leaped to 109,000. With the rapid expansion of the after 1921 came a steady growth of automobile use, reaching 473,623 registrations by 1928.
As the twentieth century marched on, North Carolinians' love affair with the car led to the growth of suburbs, motels, shopping centers, highways, theme parks, drive-in restaurants, service stations, and other now-common features of the state's economy and culture. Beginning with World War I, motor vehicles including trucks also changed the face of the military. The automobile spurred many support industries ranging from oil and parts production to insurance, vehicle inspection, auto racing, and state regulation of drivers. At the state level, vehicle safety inspection is ultimately the responsibility of the North Carolina Department of Transportation and its Division of Motor Vehicles.
Frank Coffey, America on Wheels: The First 100 Years, 1896-1996 (1996).
Robert E. Ireland, Entering the Auto Age: The Early Automobile in North Carolina, 1900-1930 (1990).
Capus Waynick, North Carolina Roads and Their Builders, vol. 1 (1952).
Additional References:
Job, Jennifer. "The Introduction of the Car to North Carolina." North Carolina Maps. http://www.lib.unc.edu/dc/ncmaps/car_k12.html (accessed June 14, 2012).
"Automobile & Truck Manufacturers" North Carolina Business History. 2007. http://www.historync.org/autos.htm (accessed June 14, 2012).
The North Carolina Transportation Museum official website: http://nctrans.org/ (accessed June 14, 2012).
Memory Lane Museum. http://www.memorylaneautomuseum.com/ (accessed June 14, 2012).
Estes-Winn Memorial Automobile Museum. http://www.grovewood.com/about-us/estes-winn-antique-car-museum/ (accessed June 14, 2012).
The Museum of Automobile History. http://www.themuseumofautomobilehistory.com/ (accessed June 14, 2012).
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"Photograph, Accession #: H.1914.316.2." Photograph. From the North Carolina Museum of History.
"Ornament, Vehicle, Accession #: S.HS.2004.45.1." Photograph. From the North Carolina Museum of History.
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Now that the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and Galaxy Nexus event is officially re-announced for October 19th, we are already starting to see signs of that tasty Ice Cream. Google headquarters in the same fashion as usual have already landed their newest landmark — the Ice Cream Sandwich sculpture right on the front yard of Google HQ. Check it out below!
We've seen this plenty in the past and comes as no surprise although they've neatly lined it right up with announcement today that was just posted and linked to above. Check out the details of the last sculpture as Honeycomb arrived at Google's building 44, or even the FroYo one we saw a while back wrapped in plastic.
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Superior Ambulance and Owners Charged in Multi-Million Dollar Health Care Fraud Scheme
Topics: Superior EMS Ambulance
U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
September 25, 2013
Medicare Billed $4.4 Million for Unnecessary Ambulance Rides
PHILADELPHIA—An indictment was unsealed today charging Superior EMS Ambulance Company, operating from Huntingdon Valley, PA, its owner, Beana Bell, 31, and operator Vadim Fleshler, 32, both of Philadelphia, with conspiracy to commit health care fraud. According to the indictment, the case involves a scheme in which the defendants submitted more than $4.4 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare. The defendants were also charged with making false statements in connection with health care matters. The defendants were arrested this morning. The indictment was announced by United States Attorney Zane David Memeger, Special Agent-in-Charge Nick DiGiulio with Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General and FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Ed Hanko.
The indictment alleges that the defendants conspired to defraud Medicare by recruiting patients who were able to walk and could travel safely by means other than ambulance and who, therefore, were not eligible for ambulance transportation under Medicare requirements. It is alleged that the defendants, and others acting on their behalf, falsified reports to make it appear that the patients needed to be transported by ambulance when the defendants knew that the patients could be transported safely by other means and that many of them walked to the ambulance for transport. It is further alleged that the defendants themselves, or through others, paid illegal kickbacks to the patients as part of the scheme. The defendants allegedly billed Medicare for these ambulance services as if those services were medically necessary and, as a result of the allegedly fraudulent billing, the Medicare program sustained losses of more than $2.4 million for this medically unnecessary method of transportation.
If convicted, the defendants face substantial terms of imprisonment, fines and are subject to criminal forfeiture proceedings with possible exclusion from participating in federal health care programs; Superior EMS Ambulance Company faces significant financial penalties, including substantial criminal fines, restitution and forfeiture obligations.
The case was investigated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney M. Beth Leahy.
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Meeting renewable energy targets turns out to be inexpensive
It turns out that adding renewable energy to the electricity generation mix doesn't end up costing all that much, in at least one case it has even saved money. In Colorado the cost came to less than a penny per kilowatt-hour in 2012.
Among the 24 states with renewable portfolio standards that were analyzed, the cost of complying between 2010 and 2012 was equal on average, roughly 1 percent of retail electricity rates, according to study by two national laboratories.
The average additional cost in 2012 for renewable energy came to about 2 cents for each kilowatt-hour. Oregon saw and slight decrease in costs as renewables replaced more expensive generation. Wisconsin had the biggest incremental cost, about 4.4 cents per kilowatt-hour.
The study was done by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif.
"The cost is fairly modest, though not insignificant," said Galen Barbose, one of the study's co-authors and a Lawrence Berkeley researcher.
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Sure, Windows 8 looks snazzy with that tile interface and stuff, but what are you going to buy in the meantime if you want a new Windows machine? Are Windows PCs really keeping pace? And what does Microsoft say to people using or considering Macs?
Microsoft Windows PC evangelist Ben Rudolph, better known as "Ben the PC Guy," was our guest on the latest GeekWire Podcast, tackling those questions and more — including tips on how to get seven notebook computers through airport security.
If you missed the show, or prefer text, continue reading for excerpts from our conversation.
His current favorite machine: The laptop I use right now is the Samsung 900X, part of the Samsung 9 Series. It's this super-cool laptop, about 2/3 of an inch thin, weighs less than three pounds, made of this stuff called duralumin, aircraft-grade aluminum, the same stuff they make fighter jets out of. It's totally cool. Solid state drive, really fast, eight hours of battery life.
On the latest advances in Windows PC hardware design: A lot of people are stuck in the Windows XP mindset. They got a Windows PC five or six years ago, and it's great, and in a lot of cases it's still working, but back then, hardware was bigger, it was clunkier, it was heavier. I think right now we're entering almost a Golden Age of PC Design. You see things like the Samsung, they're incredibly thin. Lenovo's got one that looks like a leather book. Toshiba's got one with a DVD drive that weighs three pounds. There's some really beautiful things being done with color, with different materials. More often than not, when we bring people in, or if I'm out and I show people this stuff, they're like, "I didn't even know that existed. I had no idea."
On the benefits of that variety: The way we built the business, and the advantage of the Windows world, is that our stuff works equally well across all our hardware partners. So the software is the consistent part across all of it. You can get the hardware that you want, and the experience that you're comfortable with.
Todd Bishop: This is where I struggle because I understand what you're saying. But then I go and I use a Mac, and it feels like the whole of the product comes from the same place, if not even the same mind. How do you replicate that in the ecosystem when you've got a bunch of different companies out there making hardware for one operating system, and you've got to do things to accommodate all sorts of different form factors. Do you feel like Microsoft and Windows live up to that vertical integration?
Ben Rudolph: I think it does, and I think the size of the ecosystem and the size of our user base says that. You mentioned Apple and how everything comes from one spot, and it does, and if you're wiling to conform to what that model is, that can work for you. … But we all have different needs.
On his love for solid state drives: If you've worked on a PC with a traditional spinning hard drive, and then you go to one with an SSD, the difference is night and day. I have had PCs that are great PCs out of the box, and with a spinning hard drive, maybe it takes 35 seconds to boot, and when you put a solid state drive in it, same exact, identical image, it boots in 10 seconds. … My colleagues joke with me because I put an SSD in everything. I like the fact that Samsung, Lenovo, Dell, HP, Acer, they're all starting to have SSD options for people.
How he travels: I've got this military-grade backpack, and I've usually got two laptops in it, I've got my Zune, I've got my Kindle, I've got cables, I've got flash drives, I've got a camera, I've got all this stuff. I was flying to New York for an event, and I took seven laptops with me. I got seven laptops through security, much to the chagrin of the people behind me in line, but I actually got stopped by security, and I had to show them my Microsoft badge, and turn on the PCs. I had to explain what I do, and then I got the, "Hey, while you're here, my brother-in-law is looking for a laptop, and he's got 500 bucks to spend, what do you think?"
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Patriarch Kirill opens 20th International Christmas Readings
The 20th International Educational Christmas Readings were opened on January 23, 2012, at Gostiny Dvor, Moscow. Its theme is Education and Morality: Concern of the Church, Society and State.
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia presided over the opening ceremony and the first plenary session and gave an opening address.
The presidium of the Readings included Metropolitan Christopher of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, who came for the Readings at the invitation of Patriarch Kirill, several high-ranking church officials, Ms Valentina Matvienko, chair of the Council of the Federation, several governmental officials, and president of the Russian Academy of Education, N. Nikandrov.
The opening was attended by bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, representatives of other Local Orthodox Churches and numerous representatives of governmental bodies and public organizations.
Metropolitan Merkury of Rostov and Novocherkassk read out a message from President Dmitry Medvedev, who wrote in particular, 'The theme of this jubilee Readings, 'Education and Morality: Concern of the Church, Society and State', is of great importance for the present and future of Russia. The tasks of the development of our country require that continuous attention should be given to the education and formation of the younger generation in the spirit of respect for moral values and patriotic ideas. It is a basis for the consolidation of civic peace and inter-ethnic accord, and it is extremely important here to broaden cooperation between state, public and religious organizations'.
Among the speakers at the opening were Metropolitan Christopher, Ms. Matvienko, Moscow Mayor Deputy A. Gorbenko and Deputy Minister of Education M. Dulinov.
Metropolitan Christopher spoke on the peculiarities of religious education in Czechia and Slovakia. While in the Czech Republic religious instruction is not compulsory, in Slovakia schoolchildren are taught the religious basics of their faith, though they can study the secular ethics instead if they wish. While in Czechia parents do not show great interest in this subject, in Slovakia most people confess Christianity and all the churches registered there use the opportunity to give religious instruction in public schools using a curriculum developed by the Metropolitan's Council and certified by the state. In kindergartens, religious instruction is given by professional teachers authorized by their ruling bishop to carry out 'canonical mission'. The teaching is organized under the Law on the Freedom of Religion, the Statute of the Church and Religious Organizations and the agreement on religious education and formation between the Republic of Slovakia and registered churches and religious organizations.
He also said his Church gives religious teachers professional training and advancement in close cooperation with the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the University of Presov. This training is financed by the state. Educational aids are published by the Ministry of Education.
Patriarch Kirill decorated N. Nikandrov with the Order of St. Daniel of Moscow in acknowledgement of his services in introducing the teaching of Basics of Orthodox Culture in secondary school.
This was followed by the awarding of prize-winners of the national contest for the best works in pedagogy and work with children and youth 'For the Teacher's Moral Feat'. This annual contest is conducted by the Ministry of Education and Science together with the ROC Department for Religious Education and Catechism and supported by Presidential Envoys in federal regions.
Among those awarded was S. Naumov, minister of education of the Nizhny Novgorod Region. He was decorated with the Medal of St. Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, for his outstanding contribution to the development of Orthodox education.
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate's department for external church relations, delivered a key paper on Moral Values and the Future of Humanity.
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FREE SHIPPING and RETURNS! :-) Everybody knows that the downside to online shopping is the return shipping fees when things don't fit or just aren't what you were expecting. But with their free delivery, ASOS have really taken out that worry. It's great!
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This upmarket shirt shop offers a monogramming service and alterations. They also have a six month guarantee!
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This US designer store has lots of designer brands that are unavailable in the UK. New international customers have to fax a copy of their passport before they can buy. We want to know if that's correct. Let us know.
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Henry Flores, director of the Communications Center in El Salvador, traveled to Guatemala for the start of Walk2gether. Below is his reflection of that first day.
About two years ago, Bob Hentzen, CFCA president and co-founder, announced his desire to walk from Guatemala to Chile. Dreams, plans, logistics, organization, hope and physical training started to be in the minds, souls and bodies of thousands of staff members and families around the world.
Time has gone fast and, yesterday, we began Walk2gether, a pilgrimage of 8,000 miles through 12 countries in Central and South America. At 2:30 a.m., hundreds of people were walking around the halls of the CFCA center in San Lucas Toliman, Guatemala, excited for the pilgrimage to start.
Waking up to the sound of the marimba, traditional music of Guatemala, was fantastic, the vibes of the music touched my heart. As Bob took his first step into the walk, fireworks, firecrackers, flowers, smiles and tears were merging all together into a sense of deep spirituality as sponsors, staff members and CFCA families were connecting to the road, connecting to Mother Nature.
What an inspirational message it was for me to see how the families were coming out of their homes or gathering along the highway to greet Bob and the pilgrims, some other ones were walking for miles and miles with us, and when I was looking at the road ahead of us, I only thought of how much more we need to do, of how many more people we need to reach out to.
The first 25 miles of the walk are finished. There are 7,975 more to go, lots of challenges to be faced on the road, thousands of families to meet, and the promise of the Hope for a Family sponsorship program is carrying us and calling all of us involved in CFCA to continue our mission to help create a path to out of poverty and self-sufficiency for our sponsored families, with dignity and love.
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Data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) show that the United States has historically maintained a trade surplus in private services. So what types of firms are involved in this kind of trade abroad? Thanks to a new BEA study we have a better understanding of the kinds of American companies that export and import services.
Here are some of the key findings:
- Firms in industries typically associated with the production or sales of manufactured goods are significant services traders, accounting for more than 25 percent of exports and imports covered by the study. Trade in services by manufacturers largely consists of transactions related to the use or creation of intellectual property, the provision of headquarters' management and support services, or the allocation of expenses.
- Multinational companies, especially U.S. parent companies, are important services traders, accounting for more than 80 percent of trade in services with both affiliated (their own foreign branches) and unaffiliated parties. U.S. parents tend to have larger transactions, trade with more countries, and trade more service types as compared to U.S. affiliates of foreign parents and non-multinationals.
- Business, professional, and technical services, especially research and development, testing services, and management and consulting services, accounted for more than one third of trade by both U.S. parents and U.S. affiliates.
- Many small firms engage in services trade, but large firms dominate the value of trade.
- The trade in services of multinational companies is dominated by transactions with their affiliated parties. This is especially true for business, professional, and technical services, and royalties and license fees. Financial services trade, such as brokerage and advisory and management services, is primarily with unaffiliated parties. Those findings are based on a new data set that combines data from surveys on cross-border trade in services with data on the operations of multinational companies.
In 2008, trade in services included in the study—financial services; insurance; royalties and license fees; telecommunications; and business, professional, and technical services (excluding medical services)—totaled $302.3 billion in exports and $195.6 billion in imports, resulting in a surplus on trade of $106.7 billion. These services accounted for more than half of total private services exports and imports, and nearly three-quarters of the $148.3 billion U.S. surplus on private services trade in 2008. To learn more about the characteristics of U.S. exporters and importers of services, read the full article.


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Obama's bipartisan blunder
There's only one problem with President Barack Obama's characterization of the Senate's Friday vote to fund the government past Oct. 1 as bipartisan: It wasn't.
As Obama sought to isolate House Republicans in a statement delivered from the podium in the White House briefing room, he praised the Senate for dumping a House provision that would gut Obamacare and passing the bill back to the House.
"If Congress chooses not to pass a budget by Monday — the end of the fiscal year — they will shut down the government, along with many vital services that the American people depend on," Obama said. "The good news is, within the past couple of hours, the United States Senate — Democrats and Republicans — acted responsibly by voting to keep our government open and delivering the services the American people expect."
But not a single Republican cast an "aye."
( QUIZ: How well do you know this week's shutdown news?)
The bill passed 54-44, with 52 Democrats and two Democratic-leaning independents in favor and all 44 Republicans who voted opposed.
"Now it's up to Republicans in the House of Representatives to do the same," Obama said. "I say that because obviously Democrats have a great interest in making sure that these vital services continue to help the American people."


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AtariZoll wrote:I saw some simpler 3D sources in past, but need to look after again, because all those sites seem disappeared.
Don't know is medium resolution good idea. I don't know anything done for ST med res. Rotating cube is often done just as playback of prerecorded frames. In case of Ataris (and other oldies) without FPU integer divisions are avoided, even if there is such CPU command, because slowness. Instead it tables with precalculated results are used. Some universal code, for diverse resolutions hardly exists for Ataris, I think.
If you give me some intro (link), I can rip it
AtariZoll wrote:And something more: for benchmark purpose must remove v-sync from code, otherwise you may experience that rendering time is same on faster CPU .
wietze wrote:Have a look at the future minds code in ggns atar master sources. There is a non-precalced 3d there iirc. Otherwise there will be more examples there.
Google for ggn Atari master sources (I have trouble copy pasting on my mobile device, sorry).
wietze wrote:Yes. At least a glenz.
AtariZoll wrote:Here is the source of Alpha Waves. Comments are in French, maybe you are better with it
Precalculated will work faster with faster CPU and RAM. Multiplication and division speed depends mostly from CPU clock, and barely on RAM speed.
exxos wrote:Is the PRG a actual runnable program as it crashes for me ?
AtariZoll wrote:It works fine in Steem, just need to edit few things - like launcher - removing A:\ . But main problem is that some include files missing. Namely: SNDTBL.S - not needed for 3D really, and FILL.S - this is needed. If someone can contact author about it ...
exxos wrote:can anyone who can run those 2 programs take a couple of screenshots so i can see what they actually do ?
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Aug. 23, 2012 -- The reddish-purple rash, seemingly woven into the tattoo on a 20-year-old New Yorker's forearm, was strange enough to have doctors scratching their heads.
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He performed a skin biopsy so he could take a closer look at the rash under a microscope. What he saw was startling: the sample was riddled with a wormlike bacterium related to tuberculosis.
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Goldgeier, meanwhile, called the Monroe County Health Department.
"As soon as biopsy came back," he said, "I knew something in the process of tattooing was involved -- the ink, the water used for dilution, the syringes, the dressings."
And so began a nationwide medical mystery.
An article published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine describes how this one dermatologist helped connect the dots in an outbreak of tattoo-related atypical skin infections.
Dr. Byron Kennedy, public health specialist at Monroe County Department of Public Health, took over the case from Goldgeier. Kennedy first confirmed the results by repeating a skin biopsy on the patient. Once again, tendrils of mycobacterium chelonae, a type of tuberculosis-related skin bacteria, showed up in the sample.
Mycobacterium chelonae is a rapidly growing bug found in soil, dust, water, animals, hospitals, and contaminated pharmaceuticals. This family of bacteria does not commonly affect healthy individuals, but in patients with suppressed immune systems -- like those with HIV or on chemotherapy -- these bacteria can cause serious disease, often resulting in death.
The finding sent Kennedy and his associates to the tattoo parlor where the patient had been inked. Everything in the clinic was sterile, which made it unlikely that the infection had arisen there. But the tattoo artist, they learned, had been using a new gray premixed ink purchased in Arizona in April 2011; he used the ink between May and December 2011.
The ingredients of the ink -- pigment, witch hazel, glycerin, and distilled water -- seemed innocuous enough. But further examination revealed that the distilled water in the pigment was the likely culprit of the contamination.
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While the pigments are subject to FDA monitoring, "no specific FDA regulatory requirement explicitly provides that tattoo inks must be sterile," they said.
Local jurisdictions can further regulate the practice of tattooing, with Los Angeles County cited by the CDC as an area where only sterile water is allowed for use with tattoo ink. This is not, however, uniform around the country.
In a perspective article published Wednesday in the New England Journal, Pamela LeBlanc of the FDA comments on this.
"Even if a person receives a tattoo at a tattoo parlor that maintains the highest standards of hygienic practice, there remains a risk of infection from the use of contaminated ink," she writes.
Kennedy had found the source of infection in this patient's case. Now, he and his colleagues focused on both treatment as well as source control.
"To make sure we weren't missing any cases, we contacted all 60 tattoo parlors in the county," Kennedy said. Luckily, none of the other parlors had been in contact with the contaminated ink. Kennedy then instructed nearby pathology labs to notify the county health department of any reported cases of this same infection. Due to these combined efforts, 19 cases of this atypical and difficult-to-treat skin infection were identified and treated, all from the same tattoo parlor. Kennedy and his team then turned the case over to the FDA.
"This case really put it on the radar of the FDA," Kennedy said.
And it was not a day too soon. CDC testing revealed that 1 out of 3 unopened bottles of the gray ink from the original distributor in Arizona contained mycobacterium chelonae. The CDC then issued a national alert for local health officials to be on the lookout for tattoo-related infections caused by this bacteria.
According to the CDC, 21 percent of adults in the U.S. report having at least one tattoo -- an increase from 14 percent in 2008. But with this burden of ink comes increased need for monitoring of safe practices and tattoo-related complications -- especially skin infections.
The CDC urges consumers to be vigilant about ensuring hygienic practices at their tattoo parlor of choice, and to alert health care providers at any sign of infection or rash.
Doctors, meanwhile, are urged to report suspected or confirmed cases to FDA's MedWatch program.
"The local dermatologist was the person to put this on our radar," said John Ricci, Senior Public Health Educator at the Monroe County Department of Health. "Without this initial case report to us, it would never have been detected."


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The Royal Opera has commissioned a new full-length opera from composer George Benjamin and playwright Martin Crimp, whose most recent collaboration Written on Skin was performed by The Royal Opera to acclaim earlier this Season.
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'We are delighted that – following the incredible success of Written on Skin, which seems to be conquering the world – George Benjamin and Martin Crimp have agreed to write a brand new full-scale opera for the main stage at Covent Garden', said Kasper Holten, Director of Opera. 'It is hard to imagine a better match between a composer and a writer.'
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Thursday, 8 November 2012
Music, memory
In turn, his enthusiasm seems to have catapulted me back into my own long ago, far distant singing past. I find myself walking around the house singing scraps from half-forgotten oratorios, remember responses from masses and evensongs in the shower. I'm back there, in overheated music rooms and draughty chapels and churches, nursing sore throats and waiting for the tenors to fuck up again.
I'm not really sure how or why or when I stopped singing, but it used to be something I did without thinking, without effort. I was quite good at it - not gifted, but competent - but I did all my grade exams, had lessons, and growing up, there was always a choir in my life. Choral singing in particular used to be one of those things that gave me the kind of complete absorption, concentration, and enjoyment that the best hobbies do. Yes, we've been here before. This is probably the third time I've thought about finding a choir in Brussels, but every time I scare myself with worrying about not being good enough, about my rusty sight-reading skills, about not coping if I get rejected. It's pathetic, I know, but I've had a pretty comprehensive loss of nerve over the past couple of years so I dither, and retreat, and miss out. Grace wrote something lovely recently about being too scared to join a band, and it really resonated.
Singing in a choir, though, was always such a happy, simple thing: I joined the chapel choir in my college in Oxford more or less the minute I got there and it was, I think, the sole extra-curricular activity I ever committed to. For three years, Sundays had a reliable shape and rhythm when much of the rest felt alien and uncertain. Two hours of practice, dinner, then the strange and beautiful combination of liturgy and music of a choral evensong, wood polish and Brasso and dust and the pervasive, all-permeating chill of bare 17th century stone. Without a shred of religious faith, the act of singing in a group, in that setting, felt like a tiny shred of transcendence, a moment outside my unhappy self.
I've been thinking further back, too, to school choirs. Singing carols in geriatric wards, lunchtime practices, trips across the country in coaches to perform in school halls and parish churches and Quaker meeting houses. Crushes on boys almost as tragically uncool as me. Forgetting all that angst, and self-doubt and the pervasive insecurity of adolescence for a few minutes, a few hours, in music. I feel very glad I had choir for that easy sense of wellbeing, but also for the things it opened my eyes and ears to. When I was about 16, we sang Elgar's Dream of Gerontius, that strange, dreamy oratorio based on Newman's poem about, well, death. I remember whole swathes of it, melodies, words, timing, perfectly preserved in some dusty corner of my brain, all those big ineffable thoughts feeding and expanding the hormonal stew of confusion that was my brain. It was an odd choice for a bunch of teenagers, and that was down to Goblin.
Goblin our music teacher - everyone called him that, though of course he has a name - gave off the friable, taught aura of one permanently teetering on the verge of catastrophic nervous collapse. He was not, I think, wholly suited to teaching - there was some throwing of chairs, a lot of staying in his office and not coming out for days at a time, occasional outbursts of incoherent fury, lots of random disquisitions on subjects unrelated to the GCSE curriculum - but he was a proper musician, a man of vivid and vividly communicated passions, and he certainly broadened my musical horizons unimaginably.
I think, particularly, of the time when I was probably 13 or 14 when he made us sing Britten's setting of Jubilate Agno, 18th century madman Christopher Smart's rambling, mystical and intermittently very beautiful devotional poem. There wasn't even a performance, I think: we just learnt it, sung it, and moved on, all in the matter of a couple of months, but it has stayed with me ever since. I thought of it for the first time in ages yesterday: I remember trying to find out more about it, half-heartedly, in the days before the internet, and giving up, but of course, now it's all conveniently laid out for me to rediscover. If anything it's an even odder choice than Gerontius, but it completely captivated me. The poem is recognisably written by one in the grip of intense mania, but it's also full of clever, agile imagery, punning and wit and passion. The famous bit about his cat, Jeoffry, is marvellous, but it's all full of weird, beautiful madness. I like "The mouse is a creature of great personal valour". It's funny and visual and many, many layered. The music, too, sparkles. I don't generally get along with Britten, but singing it forced me to make the effort, to learn to love it and to be blindsided by the moments of glorious harmony. I feel very grateful to Goblin for having the confidence, or the insouciance, or the cussedness or whatever it was motivated him, to expose us to that peculiar, adult universe. I suppose that's what good teachers do, at least in part? They challenge, provoke, stretch. Perhaps he was better than I give him credit for.
Having remembered Jubilate Agno, I put it on, loud, last night as I made dinner and bits of it just poured out of me, note perfect, a thing untouched for maybe twenty five years.
"Euh, tu peux baisser?" said the children, irked, turning up the sound on Spongebob and I ignored them. I was back on the wobbly wooden chairs in the music room and Goblin was bashing out the accompaniment on the wonky music room grand piano (this one go plunk) and I was lost again in the combination of words and melody and the happy complicity of singing as a group.
I love how music can do that, take me to a perfectly preserved cache of memory: a time, a place, a sense of utter, contented absorption. I think of my son, one day, thirty years from now, finding all the words of the Slaves Chorus from Nabucco safely preserved, perfect, within him, and it's a very happy thought. So thank you, Goblin, for my memories, and thank you, La Monnaie, for Fingers's.
22 comments:
- Grace said...
What a great post. You're able to recount such vivid memories, and I truly believe that whatever is holding you back from joining a choir again should be batted to the back of the room. You obviously take huge pleasure from singing, so go back and give it a go. I wish you lived in London... we could go and find a choir together. My last post was all about being too afraid to ever join a band. The frustration I feel now! It's ruinous...
As for Fingers. Wow. What a great thing that at 8 to be so enamoured with Verdi. I wish I had been educated in such things at such an early age.
- 8 November 2012 at 16:56
Oh Waffle - this is lovely. There is a yearly anthology of Best Music Writing (I know Alex Ross edited one volume; they had some funding problems but I think they're back), and this should go there. I also loved your Messiah piece and was really glad when Red picked that up.
Do join a choir - I've been wanting & waffeling on that, too, for pretty much the same reasons. (Also: what if they all HATE me?) So I'll go if you go!
Re opera: as a six-year old, I was mad for the Magic Flute (an old, old girl friend told me a while ago that she found that phase rather trying. Oh well.) And now my daughter's class are putting on a (simplified) version, so she is singing it, and I sing along, and we have such fun. Good on La Monnaie for doing this!
- 8 November 2012 at 17:54
- Meropes said...
Waffle - yet another wonderful post (I confess that I have been stealthily, greedily lapping up your posts for several years).
If my own experience is anything to go by, not only will Fingers have the warm and happy comfort of recalling the words perfectly in 30 years' time, he can maniacally fall about laughing trying to sing them falsetto, unless he learns the tenor or bass parts after his voice has broken.
- 8 November 2012 at 18:09
I loved reading this. Chimed heartily with my experience. I too sang in a good choir as a teenager, forgot all about it until my eldest son discovered he had a voice at around Fingers' age.
What happened next meant changing schools to one across town, where singing was A BIG DEAL and NOT AT ALL A BULLYING EXCUSE, supporting the boy through weekly singing lessons, church services, concerts, you name it.
A shy, awkward boy, he had found something he was very good at. He is now at Oxford, with a choral scholarship.
One thing which really helped his confidence along the way were the Eton Choral Courses (http://etonchoralcourses.co.uk/). They now run a junior version for 8 year olds and upwards. I can't recommend these guys highly enough, Emma. Maybe you could find something similar for Fingers? http://www.choralcoursefoundation.co.uk/projects/the-junior-choral-course/
- 8 November 2012 at 18:46
- Nimble said...
I am glad you have those memories. Choral music is something that just about lifts the top of my head off. It has to be in person. Recorded choral singing is fine. But if I am in the room or singing it is much bigger. A group breathing as one and making a fabric of woven voices, there's nothing like it.
Opera strikes deep and you never know when or where!
- 8 November 2012 at 20:28
- The Reluctant Launderer said...
This is so lovely. Your writing at its best (which is saying something). Yes join a choir! Yes get Fingers as involved as you can! And please keep us all in the loop about how it all goes.
- 8 November 2012 at 21:54
- MsCaroline said...
Always love your writing, but this post struck such an enormous chord (pun intended) with me I just had to write in and say, "thank you!"
I, too, grew up in choral groups, but let them fall during my busiest mothering years - ironically, while trundling my children around to their own choral and instrumental practices. I was desperately jealous when Son#2, at age 9, was given a spot in the children's chorus in a local production of La Boheme. I trotted him to 4 or 5 lengthy rehearsals each week and happily sat there, soaking it all up.
When we moved to Seoul last year, one of the first - and smartest - things I did was to join an international women's choir. Yes I was a little rusty, and yes, the music was challenging, but those moments of complete absorption that you described so perfectly were a wonderful reward. Join a choir. Really. Do it. And then, please,please, write about it.
- 8 November 2012 at 22:23
- Kim Velk said...
I heart this. I had no musical education and I have no musical talent, but I can appreciate with the best of them. (Well, except for the half deaf part, but never mind about that now). I hope you get all your music back (and more) and that doors to opera &c are flung open wide, one by one, for Fingers.
- 8 November 2012 at 23:20
Oh yes - I want to say I agree with every comment before me as well! I have also sang in choirs nearly all my life, and when I returned after the only break (of 10 years) it was like coming home.
Choir singing is the best exercise and therapy - physical, spiritual and intellectual - as well as a wonderful "team sport" to contribute and belong to.
Go on - have another go! And how wonderful for you and Fingers! I love this story...
Heather (NZ)
- 9 November 2012 at 02:48
- Barbara said...
I humbly join the chorus of voices exhorting you to be brave and find a choir to sing with. And my dear God keep writing
- 9 November 2012 at 08:19
- cruella said...
Please go find yourself a choir! Of course they'll have you. Auditions are horrid but a skilled choirmaster can clearly evaluate your voice in a just manner even if your wavering from nerves etc.
Lovely post, thanks.
- 9 November 2012 at 16:25
- Sonya said...
This.. just ...this. It sums up my experiences with choral singing and what it meant to me and my fears about rejoining this world and...
For me it is Bach's Oratorio and Handel's Kyrie. And it seems I do nothing but sit in meetings and make power points and review the clinical data of patients I will never meet...and it is like a piece of my soul (if I believed in such a thing as an atheist) is missing.
You do write so beautifully.
- 10 November 2012 at 05:02
A glorious post, your writing is always good but this is great. I hope that you and Fingers can find a piece you can share together.
You transported me back to my college choir and reminded me how much I loved it even when Oxford was killing me. Evensong, oh!
If I do move to Brussels next autumn (when the PhD is finally over) I'm planning on joining two things - Stitch'n'Bitch and a choir. I'll hunt you down and drag you with me!
- 10 November 2012 at 07:37
You should come and join us in the Brussels Choral Society!
- 24 November 2012 at 15:20
The brussels choral society needs you! The first rehearsal of the new term will be on the last Thursday in August. Come by and see what you think.
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Kevin asked "Did the photographers go out to private houses and take alfresco pictures like this? And would they bother with the servants? It seems so by the evidence but I am surprised. I don't know if the address on the Postcard fits to the picture."
My first task was to estimate a date for the photograph. It is unfortunate that the stamp has been ripped off, and that the postmark is largely obliterated. There is enough of the latter still visible to confirm that it was indeed posted in Derby, and the remnant of the stamp still stuck to the card is, I believe, enough to identify it as one of two King George VI green half-penny definitive stamps issued in 1911 and 1912. They were replaced by another issue later in 1912, suggesting that, if my identification is correct, the card may have been posted in 1911-1912 or shortly after.
The clothes worn by Frances and her companion appear to be appropriate for that approximate period. It's perhaps worth illustrating the development of domestic uniforms over the decades, from the 1880s until the 1940s, with the following selection of images from my own collection and from others on the web. Hover your mouse over an image for the approximate date, click on it to see the original source.
I found an interesting discussion of the lives of Victorian domestic servants on Peter Ward's web pages. Housemaids appear to have had slightly different uniforms from other house servants, such as the housekeeper, ladies' maids, cooks, kitchen maids and scullery maids.
The reverse of the post card shows that it was produced by the studio of Pollard Graham, who operated a studio in Derby for several decades from the mid-1880s until the 1930s.
I checked the 1912 issue of Kelly's Trade Directory for Derbyshire, probably compiled in late 1911, and discovered that the occupant of 5 Arboretum Square, Derby - the home address given by Frances - was none other than the photographer Pollard Graham himself! I think this deals directly with your question about whether photographers would normally have gone to private residences to take portraits of servants. The answer is, it probably depended on the circumstances.
I have a photograph of my great-grandparents and my grandfather (shown above), taken in about 1894 by a Derby studio photographer (in spite of the card mount stating Leeds!), almost certainly in their garden in St James' Street, Normanton. However, they could perhaps afford it. The Arboretum Square photo may well have been done for free by Pollard Graham for his employees. A nice gesture. We'll have to wait a few years until the 1911 Census is released, but when it is, we may well find this confirms that Frances and her friend were working for Pollard Graham. Perhaps we may also be able to identify her companion.


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Opening a new thread here, as the old one was closed.
@SpierMackay: Until when does the Boxing Day promotion run?
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Honestly I would suggest you take a trip to the tailor and see what they can do with letting out the back a little. Sleeves could be shortened a touch as well.
And I just saw that @dangerpenguin beat me to the punch in the other thread.
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Bridesmaids reunion kind of with Chris O'Dowd and Kristen Wiig.
Bridesmaids reunion kind of with Chris O'Dowd and Kristen Wiig.
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Labels: Michelle Rodriguez, Molly Shannon, Tim Robbins, Tobey Maguire, Will Ferrell
Chris O'Dowd was the best thing ever in This Is 40. The second best thing was that Kristen Wiig was not in This Is 40
Hey Sandy, maybe when you're rich you can buy that suit off of Will Ferrell and wear it!
Are we not a fan of Kristen Wiig, Too?
Those pictures of Michelle are funny/sad.
MiRod is headed for serious downtime.
@TTM - and this wasn't bad either.
Speak it, @TTM! Chris O'Dowd is my man.
That first picture of Cara looking at Michelle, Cara reminds me of Macauley Culkin! Or maybe the pizza delivery guy.
No, we are not, Harry
@Sugar uh no but I am buying me some cashmere sweaters and prime ribs to eat.
I'm a medium in cashmere sweaters. Just to let ya know.
Megan Fox was definitely there for you boys.
Awww, I quite like Kristin Wiig.
Sorry, Sugar, that was the royal "we". You like whomever you want!
Haley Joel...just...wow.
So I'll buy you a small then so your chest looks bigger Sugar (not sayin' it's small either!)
Chris O'Dowd in anything makes me happy!
and so we can also get some midriff action out of you too!
Sandy stop undressing me with your eyes.
I love it when Will wears the money suit!
The pap in the second Michelle/cara pic must have gotten some seriously close up pics.
I'm digging stealth photoguy in the second Michelle-Cara photo. Watching the game, shooting the girls.
Look at haley joe osment. Wtf? Very very strange look about him.
Ive got it!! He looks like that kid in movie Mask!!
E cigarette yeah right, try a vaporizer for the sticky icky. Not that I would know anything about that.
Ok Sugar Ill start using the hands :)
Looooove Chris O'Dowd!!
Kristen, please stop dressing like a little girl.
I do not understand how that Cara fugface is a model.
Michelle is a slob.
Yeah, that actually might be it. He looks so...different.
I like an ugly dress, but even Wiig's dress and shoes are a mess in my fug book.
Those ladies are not a hot mess!
Wiig always wears the worst dresses. Ugh. That Cara person needs to go away.
I am so glad I wasn't eating or drinking anything when I saw that pic of Haley Joel Osment or it would've been sprayed all over my monitor.
I just can't believe people don't love Molly Shannon the way I do. She is seriously awesome!
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Molly Shannon needs to dress for her age. She's very thin but that doesn't mean she should wear baby doll dresses at classy events. She did the same at a Will Ferrell tribute & it was not good.
Orvilla - I didn't write that in response to your post...I like her, too : )
@Dena no worries. I agree that look is...unfortunate but I just excuse her everything. She cracks me up like no other.
I love her 80's stand up comic routine.
Don't get me started. Don't even get me started. *deadpan voice*
@sugar YES!
That Cara chick looks like Mariel and Margeaux Hemingway, that might explain her fame.
Nothing explains the fug of Michelle Rodriguez's pants and top!
I know we all looked at Michelle and her tongue w Cara but wtf was she thinking with that outfit??
YES! thank you! It's been driving me nuts trying to figure out who she reminds me of.
Wiig is giving me a Johnny Rzeznik vibe with the hair style/color.
Please tell me someone is around drinking and watching the Peeps Choice Awards. I'm ready for some action
Chris O'Dowd was great in the IT Crowd, which IMHO was one of the best shows ever on TV.
Haley Joel Osmont needs to learn to stand up straight ... dude's hair looks terrible too ... and that suit ... oh dear ...
Can't stand that stupid Cara Delevigne - she has a face for radio and looks like the biggest druggie ever. Probably quite apt that she's hanging out with that silly Michelle Rodriguez then.
Sick of Will Ferrell - go away already.
I love Michelle's skull sweater & I don't care who knows it.
Zeeeky, good point! Total Hemingway look!
Cara is unique looking but not gorgeous imo & I don't get what Rih & Michelle see in her-drugs? Sad about Michelle but hasn't she had probs w booze before??? Hope she gets help
TTM : have you seen the IT crowd? Long time O'Dowd fan. His wife and her docos are even more awesome.
I loved cashmere, as a vegan. Til I read about what they do in china to angora bunnies. Fuck it. My wardrobe will be limited to hemp and toxic plastics at this rate.
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