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Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone
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For the businessman and philanthropist, see Quintin Hogg
|The Right Honourable
The Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone
|Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham, in 1990
|Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
|In office
4 May 1979 – 13 June 1987
|Prime Minister
|Margaret Thatcher
|Preceded by
|Lord Elwyn-Jones
|Succeeded by
|Lord Havers
|In office
20 June 1970 – 4 March 1974
|Prime Minister
|Edward Heath
|Preceded by
|Lord Gardiner
|Succeeded by
|Lord Elwyn-Jones
|Shadow Home Secretary
|In office
13 April 1966 – 20 June 1970
|Edward Heath
|Preceded by
|Peter Thorneycroft
|Succeeded by
|James Callaghan
|Secretary of State for Education and Science
|In office
1 April 1964 – 16 October 1964
|Prime Minister
|Alec Douglas-Home
|Preceded by
|Edward Boyle (Minister of Education)
|Succeeded by
|Michael Stewart
|Leader of the House of Lords
|In office
27 July 1960 – 20 October 1963
|Prime Minister
|Harold Macmillan
|Preceded by
|The Earl of Home
|Succeeded by
|Lord Carrington
|Chairman of the Conservative Party
Lord Privy Seal
|In office
14 October 1959 – 27 July 1960
|Prime Minister
|Harold Macmillan
|Preceded by
|Lord Poole (Conservative Party chairman)
Rab Butler (Lord Privy Seal)
|Succeeded by
|Rab Butler (Conservative Party chairman)
Edward Heath (Lord Privy Seal)
|Lord President of the Council
|In office
27 July 1960 – 16 October 1964
|Prime Minister
|Harold Macmillan
Alec Douglas-Home
|Preceded by
|The Earl of Home
|Succeeded by
|Herbert Bowden
|In office
17 September 1957 – 14 October 1959
|Prime Minister
|Harold Macmillan
|Preceded by
|The Earl of Home
|Succeeded by
|The Earl of Home
|Minister of Education
|In office
14 January 1957 – 17 September 1957
|Prime Minister
|Harold Macmillan
|Preceded by
|David Eccles
|Succeeded by
|Geoffrey Lloyd
|First Lord of the Admiralty
|In office
19 October 1956 – 14 January 1957
|Prime Minister
|Anthony Eden
|Preceded by
|Viscount Cilcennin
|Succeeded by
|The Earl of Selkirk
|Member of Parliament
for St Marylebone
|In office
5 December 1963 – 30 June 1970
|Preceded by
|Wavell Wakefield
|Succeeded by
|Kenneth Baker
|Member of Parliament
for Oxford
|In office
27 October 1938 – 16 August 1950
|Preceded by
|Robert Bourne
|Succeeded by
|Lawrence Turner
|Personal details
9 October 1907
London, United Kingdom
|12 October 2001(aged 94)
|Political party
|Natalie Sullivan (divorced)
Mary Evelyn Martin (her death)
Deirdre Margaret Shannon (her death)
|Alma mater
|Christ Church, Oxford
Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, KG CH PC QC FRS[1] (9 October 1907 – 12 October 2001), who held the title 2nd Viscount Hailsham from 1950 to 1963, was a British politician known for the length of his career, the vigour with which he campaigned for the Conservative Party, and the influence of his political writing. He was considered for the leadership of his party (which would have led to his becoming Prime Minister) in 1963, and held for more than a decade the office formerly held by his father, Lord Chancellor.
Born in London, Hogg was the son of Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, who was Lord Chancellor under Stanley Baldwin, and grandson of another Quintin Hogg, a merchant, philanthropist and educational reformer. He was educated as a King's Scholar at Eton College, where he won the Newcastle Scholarship in 1925, and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford University Conservative Association and the Oxford Union. He became a Prize Fellow of All Souls in 1931. Although originally he read classics, he won his prize fellowship in law and was called to the bar in 1932. He spoke in opposition to the motion "That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country" in a debate of 1933 at the Oxford Union. His favourite hobby was mountain-climbing, and his ankles were broken so many times that in old age he was able to walk only with two canes.[citation needed]
Politics and Second World War
Hogg participated in his first election campaign in the 1924 general election, and all subsequent general election campaigns until his death. In 1938, Hogg was chosen as a candidate for Parliament in the Oxford by-election. This election took place shortly after the Munich Agreement and the Labour candidate Patrick Gordon-Walker was persuaded to step down to allow a unified challenge to the Conservatives; A. D. Lindsay, the Master of Balliol College fought as an 'Independent Progressive' candidate. Hogg narrowly defeated Lindsay, who was said to be horrified by the popular slogan of "Hitler wants Hogg".
Hogg voted against Neville Chamberlain in the Norway Debate of May 1940, and supported Winston Churchill. He served briefly in the desert campaign as a platoon commander with the Rifle Brigade during the Second World War. His commanding officer had been his contemporary at Eton; after him and the second-in-command, Hogg was the third-oldest officer in the battalion. After a knee wound in August 1941, which almost cost him his right leg, Hogg was deemed too old for further front-line service, and later served on the staff of General "Jumbo" Wilson before leaving the army with the rank of major. In the run-up to the 1945 election, Hogg wrote a response to the book Guilty Men, called The Left was never Right.
Conservative minister
Hogg's father died in 1950 and Hogg entered the House of Lords as the 2nd Viscount Hailsham. Believing his political career to be over he concentrated on the bar for some years, becoming head of his chambers, and did not at first hold office when the Conservatives returned to power in 1951. He became First Lord of the Admiralty under Eden in 1956, and under Macmillan was chairman of the party and campaign organiser for the 1959 general election.
Hogg appeared before the Wolfenden Committee to discuss homosexuality. The historian Patrick Higgins said that he used it as "an opportunity to express his disgust". He stated "The instinct of mankind to describe homosexual acts as "unnatural" is not based on mere prejudice" and that homosexuals were corrupting and "a proselytising religion".[2]
In June 1963 when his fellow Minister John Profumo had to resign after admitting telling lies to Parliament about his private life, Hogg (now Hailsham) attacked him savagely on television. Sir Reginald Paget called this "a virtuoso performance of the art of kicking a friend in the guts". He added, "When self-indulgence has reduced a man to the shape of Lord Hailsham, sexual continence involves no more than a sense of the ridiculous".[3]
He was Leader of the House of Lords when Harold Macmillan, the Prime Minister, announced his sudden resignation for health reasons at the start of the 1963 Conservative Party conference. At that time there was no formal ballot for the Conservative Party leadership.[4] Hailsham, who was at first Macmillan's preferred successor, announced that he would use the newly enacted Peerage Act to disclaim his title and fight a by-election and return to the House of Commons. His publicity-seeking antics at the Party Conference (e.g. feeding his baby daughter in public, and allowing his supporters to distribute "Q" (for Quintin) badges) were considered vulgar at the time, so Macmillan did not encourage senior party members to choose him as his successor.[citation needed]
Hogg failed to win the leadership bid but did win his father's old constituency of St Marylebone. He remarked to a journalist "After all, I am only 55. Perhaps about 1970 if there was a Tory government some ass might make me Lord Chancellor" – a remark which caused some amusement when in June 1970 there was a Tory government and Edward Heath did make him Lord Chancellor.
Hogg as a campaigner was known for his robust rhetoric and theatrical gestures. He was renowned as one of the great Conservative speakers: his addresses to the party as chairman in 1958 and 1959 were remembered for decades afterwards.[original research?] He was usually in good form in dealing with hecklers, a valuable skill in the 1960s, and was prominent in the 1964 general election. One evening when giving a political address, he was hailed by his supporters as he leaned over the podium pointing at a long-haired heckler. He said, "Now, see here, Sir or Madam whichever the case might be, we have had enough of you!" The police ejected the man and the crowd applauded and Hogg went on as if nothing had happened. Another time, when a Labour Party supporter waved a Harold Wilson placard in front of him, Hogg smacked it with his walking stick.[citation needed]
He served in the Conservative shadow cabinet during the Wilson government, and built up his practice at the Bar where one of his clients was the Prime Minister and political opponent Harold Wilson.[5] When Edward Heath won the 1970 general election he received a life peerage as Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, of Herstmonceux in the County of Sussex, and became Lord Chancellor. Hogg was the first to return to the House of Lords as a life peer after having disclaimed an hereditary peerage. Hailsham's choice of Lord Widgery as Lord Chief Justice was criticised by his opponents, although he later redeemed himself in the eyes of the profession by appointing Lord Lane to succeed Widgery.
Hailsham announced his retirement after the end of the Heath government in 1974. He popularised the term 'elective dictatorship' in 1976, later writing a detailed exposition, The Dilemma of Democracy. However, after the violent death of his second wife,[6] he decided to return to active politics, first as a shadow minister without portfolio in the Shadow Cabinets of Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher, then again as Lord Chancellor from 1979 to 1987 under Margaret Thatcher.
He was appointed a Companion of Honour in 1975 and became a Knight of the Garter in 1988.
Marriages and children
Hailsham was married three times. He was married firstly in 1931 to Natalie Sullivan. The marriage ended in divorce in 1943 when he returned from the war to find her, as he later put it in a television interview, "not alone"; she was with French president Charles de Gaulle's chef de cabinet, François Coulet, with whom she remained until his death in 1984, dying in 1987.
On 18 April 1944 he married Mary Evelyn Martin (born 19 May 1919, died 10 March 1978), a descendant of the Martyn family of The Tribes of Galway. The marriage was happy and lasted 34 years, until her death in front of her husband in a horse riding accident during a visit to Sydney. They had five children:[7]
- Rt Hon Douglas Martin Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham, QC, PC (born 5 February 1945)
- Hon Dame Mary Claire Hogg, DBE (born 15 January 1947)
- Hon Frances Evelyn Hogg, OBE (born 11 November 1949)
- Hon James Richard Martin Hogg (born 1951)
- Hon Katherine Amelia Hogg (born 18 October 1962)
In 1986 Hailsham married Deirdre Margaret Shannon Aft, who predeceased him in 1998.
Death and succession
On his death in October 2001, just after his 94th birthday, the viscountcy that he had disclaimed in 1963 was inherited by his elder son Douglas. As a result of the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed right of most hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords, it was not necessary for him to disclaim his viscountcy to remain an MP.
Hogg's 1945 book The Left was Never Right was a fierce response to two books in Victor Gollancz's 'Victory Books' series, Guilty Men by Frank Owen and Michael Foot, and Your M.P. by Tom Wintringham, both published during the war and largely discrediting Tory MPs as appeasers and war profiteers. The Wintringham volume had been republished in the lead up to the 1945 general election, widely acknowledged at the time as a major factor in shifting public opinion away from the Conservative party. Hogg's book sought to contrast Wintringham's statistics on appeasement with patriotic statistics of his own, maintaining that Labour MPs had been lacking in their wartime duties.
Perhaps his most important book, the Penguin paperback The Case for Conservatism, was a similar response to Labour Marches On by John Parker MP. Published in 1947 in the aftermath of the crushing Conservative election defeat of 1945, and aimed at the mass market and the layman, it presented a well-written and coherent case for Conservatism.
According to the book, the role of Conservatism is not to oppose all change but to resist and balance the volatility of current political fads and ideology, and to defend a middle position that enshrines a slowly changing organic humane traditionalism.
For example, in the 19th century Conservatives opposed classic Liberalism, favouring factory regulation, market intervention and controls to mitigate the effects of laissez faire capitalism, but in the 20th century the role of Conservatism was to oppose a danger from the opposite direction, the excessive regulation, intervention and controls favoured by Socialism.
Hailsham was also known for his writings on faith and belief. In 1975 he published his spiritual autobiography The Door Wherein I Went, which included a brief chapter of Christian apologetics, using legal arguments concerning the evidence for the life of Christ. The book included a particularly moving passage about suicide; when he was a young man his half-brother Edward Marjoribanks had taken his own life, and the experience left Hailsham with a deep conviction that suicide is always wrong. His writings on Christianity have been the subject of discussion in the writings of Ross Clifford. Hailsham revisited themes of faith in his memoirs A Sparrow's Flight, and the book's title alluded to remarks about sparrows and faith recorded in Bede's Ecclesiastical History and the words of Christ in the Gospel of Matthew.
- The Door Wherein I Went (London: Collins, 1975).
- A Sparrow's Flight: Memoirs (London: HarperCollins, 1990).
Discussion of Lord Hailsham's faith
- Ross Clifford, Leading Lawyers Case for the Resurrection (Alberta: Canadian Institute for Law, Theology and Public Policy, 1996).
Titles from birth to death
- Quintin Hogg, Esq (1907–1929)
- The Hon. Quintin Hogg (1929–1938)
- The Hon. Quintin Hogg, MP (1938–1950)
- The Rt Hon. The Viscount Hailsham (1950–1953)
- The Rt Hon. The Viscount Hailsham, QC (1953–1956)
- The Rt Hon. The Viscount Hailsham, PC, QC (1956–1963)
- The Rt Hon. Quintin Hogg, QC (1963)
- The Rt Hon. Quintin Hogg, QC, MP (1963–1970)
- The Rt Hon. The Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, PC, QC (1970–1975)
- The Rt Hon. The Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, CH, PC, QC (1975–1988)
- The Rt Hon. The Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, KG, CH, PC, QC (1988–2001)
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 47: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- ↑ Patrick Higgins (1996), Heterosexual dictatorship, London: Fourth Estate, p. 35, ISBN 1857023552, 1857023552<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Parris, Matthew; Kevin MacGuire (2004). Great Parliamentary Scandals: Five Centuries of Calumny, Smear and Innuendo. Robson. p. 175.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Stone-Lee, Ollie (2 October 2005). "Return to conference nightmare?". BBC News Online. Archived from the original on 15 December 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/11/newsid_2542000/2542413.stm
- ↑ http://www.thepeerage.com/p26024.htm
- ↑ The Peerage, entry for 2nd Viscount Hailsham
- ↑ Chesshyre, Hubert (1996), The Friends of St. George's & Descendants of the Knights of the Garter Annual Review 1996/97, VII, p. 326<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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First up we stopped in at the infamous Riccarton markets, set amongst the beautiful trees alongside historic Riccarton house and grounds. Naturally, I wanted to buy everything, but refrained from tipping my baggage over the allowed weight and only bought a little bag of locally grown shiitake mushrooms, which lets face it, don't weigh much! After spending the previous day alongside Alesha from Bear Lion Foods (we have so much in common it's not even funny) I knew I had to try some of her legendary Ottolenghi-style salads, so salad for breakfast it was (bloody beautiful too!). My friend Delaney instead opted for a bowl of Posh Porridge, which looked like the best excuse I've ever seen to eat dessert for breakfast, yum! A quick stop in at Lyttelton markets after wards was in my humble opinion, not a bad way to spend a Saturday morning.
The mushrooms made it back to Raglan safely, being naturally bendy shiitake meant they didn't get bruised or anything (bonus!). I already knew before leaving the markets in Christchurch that I wanted to roast them and have the sweet saltiness of white (shiro) miso in there too. So I threw together this little brown rice number, flecked with toasted sesame seeds, herbs, meaty roasted shiitake and my go-to miso mustard dressing.
PS.I'll be sharing more about my Christchurch trip real soon.
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If you can't get your hands on fresh shiitake mushrooms, I suggest using flat mushrooms instead, thickly sliced rather than using dried shiitake. They won't be the same but still yum. To toast sesame seeds, place into a dry pan and cook over medium heat, stirring often until light golden in colour and fragrant.
Serves 2-3 or more as part of a meal
1 cup (200g) brown rice (I use short grain)
1 3/4 cups (435ml) cold water
8-10 fresh shiitake mushrooms, wiped clean
olive oil
Fine sea salt + freshly ground black pepper
Big handful flat leaf parsley, roughly chopped
1 spring onion or a handful of chives, thinly sliced
1 tablespoon lightly toasted sesame seeds
1 tablespoon white (shiro) miso paste (check it's gluten-free)
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
1-2 teaspoons brown rice syrup (can use honey if preferred)
3 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
5-6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
I like to soak my brown rice overnight in the stated amount of water to help improve digestibility, but you can also just go ahead and cook it straight away. To soak, simply rinse the rice and drain before pouring over stated water, cover and leave on the bench overnight. The following day cook the rice in the same water (you don't need to use fresh water like you would for other grains). If you're not soaking, rinse and drain the rice, then place in a saucepan with the water. Cover with a tight fitting lid and bring to the boil. Reduce heat to the lowest setting and simmer, covered for 40-45 minutes until the water is absorbed and rice tender. Remove from the heat, keeping the lid on and allow it to stand for 10 minutes before fluffing up with a fork to keep the grains separated.
Preheat oven to 190C (375F). Remove the hard stems from the mushrooms (+ compost), then slice into thick slices or around 1/2 cm. Lay on an oven tray drizzle with a little olive oil, season with salt and pepper and roast for 10 minutes, give it a good stir, then continue to cook for a further 5-8 minutes or until tender and golden.
To make the dressing, combine miso, mustard and brown rice syrup in a bowl. Whisk well before adding vinegar. Slowly drizzle in olive oil, continuing to whisk to form a lovely thick dressing. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
To serve, combine rice (this can be warm or at room temperature), roasted mushrooms, parsley, spring onion/chives, sesame seeds and just enough dressing to coat (you will likely have a little extra, this will keep in the fridge for a week or so). Serve immediately or allow to sit and let the flavours mingle for a bit. Leftovers are also nice, they might just need a little extra dressing stirred through before serving at room temperature.


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So, after sitting in bed for an upwards of two hours (about an hour of that time spent on Pinterest), I was itching to bake. And this recipe was calling my name: Two-Ingredient Pumpkin Cake.
You will need:
1 box cake mix {I used yellow, but next time I will use spice cake}
1 can pumpkin {Not pumpkin pie mix!}
*Wine in the background not included. :)
Can I tell you a backstory about the canned pumpkin?
I hadn't been able to find it anywhere in Dallas for the past few weeks. Not that they didn't carry it; it was already all sold out! (I blame Pinterest.)
But because I was really wanting to make this, I gave it a good ol' college try and went to Target to see if they might have some. And boom, there it was on the shelf. Four 29-oz. cans were left.
I took them all.
Anyway, it's super easy to make. You just mix together 15 oz. of the pumpkin (I saved the remainder of ours for pumpkin pancakes later this week) and the cake mix.
Grease your liners and bake at 350* for 28 minutes.
*Note: Our apartment oven is not good and I had to bake mine for 35 minutes. Test after 28 minutes by sticking a toothpick in the middle of the muffins.
And I wasn't a big fan of the apple cider icing the recipe called for, so I made my own buttercream icing using this recipe. Why, you ask? Because I already had all the ingredients. Done and done.
PS: Those glass canisters were my great-grandmother's. I love them. Love, love them.
This is what your muffins will look like when they're done. Don't worry that they don't look round like normal muffins; they don't have eggs or oil, so they won't do that.
And because I didn't want my thick buttercream icing on the muffins, {they aren't cupcakes, after all!} I iced them while they were still hot. And it was all oozy and melty and amazing.
Brandon poured a huge glass of milk, had three of these and said, "This is the best pumpkin recipe I've ever eaten."
And coming from a boy whose momma makes some pretty darn good pumpkin bread? I'll take the compliment. :)


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Central Music is a Florida corporation that began in 1958. It was founded by Les Trubey and its first location was opened on Central Avenue in St. Petersburg, Florida (explaining the name). The late 1950s through the early 1980s represent the peak of the home organ industry in the United States. In its beginning, Central Music represented the Wurlitzer brand of home organs and pianos for the Tampa Bay area of Florida. Shortly after its founding, Central Music also became the dealer for Rodgers Instruments to serve the musical needs of the area's churches. One of the most popular organs found in churches and homes alike is the Rodgers organ.
Central Music enjoyed great success with Wurlitzer. Due to this early success, Central Music was faced with a need for a larger location. It was also at this time that Les Trubey and Nelson Newby of Illinois became acquainted. In 1973, Trubey built a new home for Central Music—a 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m2) building at 5175 Ulmerton Road, Clearwater, Florida 33760 (where Central Music still resides today). At the time, there were cow pastures on either side of the building. However, the area has grown up around Central Music with an international airport within 2 miles (3.2 km) and a new eight lane road in front of the building.
In 1977, due to health issues, Les Trubey decided to retire. Having developed a friendship over the years due to their mutual experience with Wurlitzer, Trubey approached Nelson Newby and offered him the company. In November 1977, Nelson Newby with his wife Sharon and son Timothy moved to Florida and became Central Music's new owners.
At that time, Central Music had three locations throughout the Tampa Bay area. These locations not only offered new and used instruments for sale but were also locations where private lessons and group lessons were available. Around 1980, Wurlitzer began to struggle due to challenges from competition, a worsening economy and what was the beginning of the decline to the home organ industry. To compensate, Central Music took on a new brand in the musical instrument field, Yamaha. Yamaha, quickly rose to prominence in both the piano and (albeit declining) home organ industries, and Central Music became a Top-10 dealership for Yamaha in the United States.
In recognition of Central Music's sales and customer service, company president Nelson Newby was nominated to the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Board of Directors in 1984. The highlight of his tenure was as co-chairman of the committee that created NAMM University and as a workshop presenter in its inaugural season. NAMM University remains a major focus of the organization to this day.
Over the years, Central Music's church organ division steadily became a larger and larger portion of the company's revenues. In the mid-1980s, Central Music began to shift its attention away from home products, to focus on the needs of churches across a larger geographic area. Today Central Music serves Florida, Georgia and the Caribbean.
In 1992, Central Music's success was noticed by Fratelli Ruffatti's National Director for US Sales (and concert artist) Ted Alan Worth. Headquartered in Padua, Italy (26 miles from Venice), Fratelli Ruffatti is the largest European supplier of pipe organs to the United States. Upon meeting, the Newby family and Mr. Worth quickly became friends and Central Music added Ruffatti to the list of fine musical instruments it offers.
Our Mission
At Central Music we believe that music is an essential part of life. We believe that the enrichment which comes from music has a lifelong impact, and we hold dear our customers who give us the opportunity to bring music into their lives.
Our mission at Central Music is to represent outstanding manufacturers in our industry and to then help music lovers find the ideal products for their needs and budget. We also believe that the sale is the beginning of our relationship with a buyer, rather than the end, and therefore we strive to provide the best service and education as well.
Our plan for achieving this mission is based upon the understanding that in taking good care of our customers, staff, and suppliers, in a manner we ourselves would want to be treated, our firm will continue to prosper and be the most logical choice for those who love music.
"Music embraces the whole person. It entrances the mind
and the heart, and its vibrations reach and touch the entire
physical body. Yet there is still something deeper in the way
that music pervades us. In contrast to every other art form,
it finds us out in more immediate and total ways.
The inrush of intimacy in music is irresistible.
It takes you – before you can halt it.
It is as though music reaches that subtle threshold within us
where the soul dovetails with the divine."
~ Rev. John F. O'Donohue
Central Music Staff


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A rough top ten highlights of our RTW trip
By Christy Collins
Category: travel
Now we're "back", people often ask us our favourite moments or places from the trip. Often it's hard to recall from the hundreds of experiences just a few highlights. So, I've created a rough "top ten" experiences from the trip, listed here in chronological order. OK, I cheated, there are eleven, I just couldn't bring myself to bump any of the following:
- The sunset camel ride towards our bedouin tents in the Sahara, Morocco.
- Enjoying the music, beer and craic in a pub in Doolin, Ireland
- Cruising the Fjords of Norway.
- Taking the trans-mongolian express – if I could have a block of 5 days of the whole 7 months to repeat right now, these are the days I'd choose.
- Enjoying street food with the locals at half-time during the world cup – Beijing, China.
- The memorial service for 75th anniversary of those killed in the Hiroshima bombing – in which locals and visitors can create paper lanterns and float them down the river, Hiroshima, Japan
- Enjoying the stunning views while trying the local fare at the wine farms just outside Cape Town, South Africa.
- Encountering a leopard on our self-drive safari through Pilanesberg Safari park, South Africa.
- Holing ourselves up for a week to watch the autumn colours and read books in Vermont, USA.
- The unmatchable food and festivities all over Mexico!
- Watching the clouds lift over Macchu Piccu, Peru.
But there are so many others: winning a (small) jackpot in Vegas; Karoking til the sun came up in Kyoto; sunset in the Sacred Valley, Peru; lying on the beach sipping Margaritas in Cancun; watching the Nile drift by; honing my bargaining skills in the Beijing clothing market; Sundowner drinks on the plain at Addo Elephant park; the Russian ballets and operas; "A little night music" on Broadway; "Blood Brothers" on West End; risking life and limb on the Cliffs of Moher, Ireland; hammock hanging in the jungle, Palenque, Mexico; snorkeling with the sea turtles, Tallum, Mexico; inching just a little closer to enlightenment in the temples of Nara, Japan; lobster munching in Maine, USA; learning to love the onsens in Osaka, Japan; soaking our cares away in the hot springs of Aguas Calientes, the moments we were able to spend in a mosque in Morocco…
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All the surrealists, humanists, poets, mystics, environmentalists, peacelovers, scientists, religious nuts, faeries, shamans, witches, pot-heads, DMT worshipers, paranoids, Jules Verne & H.G. Wells readers, buddhist monks, doctors and dreamers out there who were worried about terrible things happening when the two NASA impactors hit the moon at 5600 miles an hour today can breathe a sigh of relief – absolutely nothing happened ! In fact, despite all the media hype, twitter coverage, and millions of dollars of synchronised equipment involved from the earth's surface to the moon, it seems the experiment has been mostly a waste of time and money. On the real time coverage supplied by NASA we see the first impactor – the Centaur – clearly dive-bombing into the dark crater, then nothing: no explosion, no miles-wide crater, no 10 km high plume of moon-stuff – nothing ! From the camera of the second impactor we see absolutely no trace of a devastating impact from the first; just a few old-looking micro craters on the flat floor of the target crater. Then the second vehicle's camera goes blank maybe 20 seconds before it's own impact was due, for no visible reason.
Here's the first news report that I found after the event:
No doubt spontaneous prayer and meditation groups that sprung up around the world and got together in reaction to the announcement of the bombing will attribute this to strength and conviction of their combined spiritual energies, allied to the forces of light and a vegetarian lifestyle. The ufo/alien sects and pulp sci-fi fans will be reassured that an alien craft, appearing as a small thermal blip just before the crash obviously hit the impactors with a disintegrator ray to prevent the scarring of our "man in the moon", thus saving the day to pass the time while preparing their fleets for the Great Californian Space Rapture… Distressed Haiku writers in Japan will stop donning their Samurai robes and preparing their Seppuku ritual and relax – they will be able to continue using the muse of the weekend moon-viewing tradition reassured that it won't explode in their faces. Various witch covens, relieved they won't be losing half their pantheon in one night, will celebrate with a frienzied orgy dedicated to the Lunar Goddess in her most fertile and liberating aspect. Werewolves everywhere will get off the Prozac and dog food and resume eating people with confidence.
The moon might just be sitting there – or rather speeding rather fast around us while maintaing a direct stare encompassing most of our activities – but it is much,much more than than a mere "celestial body" for a hell of a lot of people: an inspirer of artists and poets, a symbol of primordial, feminine and magical forces that effects us from an emotional level all the way down to the very substance of our bodies.
The symbolism of the moon is rich and powerful to enough people to make jealous any Forbes billionaire. This failed experiment could have been seen as just one more case of the bright soul of a marvelous, mysterious thing being ignorantly reduced to it's most materialistic aspects, then shattered. I think we should discourage this tendency whenever possible or we might run out of poets and dreamers one day.
Perhaps if you want to do research on the water levels on the moon, a more humble and respectful approach would be more appropriate and affective, NASA ? The Gods, dreams, inspiration and ideals of many are watching over her, and I'm sure with all your technology you can find out about water on the moon without blowing bits of her up.


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Last week we said that leaving work makes us temporarily smaller. Even if it is welcome and voluntary, leaving work involves loss. Retirees will serve themselves well if they think through the loss and review some foundations of life, thereby preparing for new ventures. Continue reading
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Remember that Office To-Do List?
Given all the aches and pains that intensify with age, it can be especially delightful to celebrate some things that were (or should be) left behind at the career place. Conquering the To-Do List in yesterday's The Wall Street Journal may well deserve such a celebration. Many retirees gleefully toss out the old career-ladened to-do list, and despite Ms. Sue Shellenbarger's excellent column, many of us can simply skip it. Now, back to that pain in my left shoulder …
New Entrepreneurs Among the Later Living
Later life is more and more a time of entrepreneurship, says the Atlantic. One reason is the good health enjoyed by many people who have been spared a hard life of physical labor. Other reasons, not mentioned in the Atlantic, may include a growing number of unemployed among people 50 years old and above, and a growing interest in providing help to younger family members who themselves may be unemployed. Times are tough. The examples in the Atlantic are persons who have had careers, who may be already retired, and who have the interest and energy to start something new. Later life is a good time to start a business.


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Maydelle Turntable . Texas State Railroad . Watercolor . 12" x 16"
... The St. Louis - San Francisco Railway built this turntable in the late 1890s at their Paris, Texas rail yard. The Texas State Railroad acquired the turntable in 1981 and moved it and restored it at their facilities in Maydelle. The Texas State Railroad presently owns three different Baldwin steam locomotives, one 4-6-0 Cooke and one 2-10-4 Lima. It also operates two different ALCO diesel electric engines. The Baldwin locomotive number 300, illustrated on the Maydelle turntable, is a 2-8-0 "Pershing" originally built for the U.S. Army in 1917.
This watercolor was painted for a Bella Terra Maps publication.


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This is the radio controlled, carbon fiber and balsa, Almost Ready-To-Fly,
Great Planes Fling DL Discus Launch Glider.
For Beginner to Intermediate Glider
Pilots 14 years of age and older.
FEATURES: Construction: Fiberglass fuselage pod, carbon fiber boom, balsa tail
and carbon fiber reinforced wing.
Launched with a highly effective discus throw technique. An example
of the procedure is shown in the manual and on the box.
Wing: Bolt-on wood sheeted reinforced with carbon fiber, full span
ailerons, carbon throwing peg
Aileron Control: Dual servo
Linkage System: Pull/pull system for rudder and elevator
Building Time: Ready for launch in only 2-3 hours
Warranty Period: Great Planes warrants this kit free from defects
in both material and workmanship at the date of purchase.
This warranty does not cover any component parts damaged by use or
INCLUDES: Pre-built wing, fuselage, and tail section, throwing peg, wing bolts,
pull/pull strings, aileron pushrods, bag of steel shot,
wing joiner, decal sheet and photo-illustrated manual.
REQUIRES: Radio: At least 4-channel with mini receiver
Servos: Four micro sized
Y-harness (for the ailerons)
Two 12" extensions
Battery: Micro sized 350mAh (GPMP0950)
SPECS: Wingspan: 60" (1524mm)
Wing Area: 340 sq in (22 sq dm)
Weight: 12-14oz (340-400g)
Wing Loading: 5.1-5.9 oz/sq ft (16-18 sq dm)
Length: 39.5" (1000mm)
Airfoil: AG45


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considered the founder of the Yang Family Style of Tai Chi Chuan, Yeung Lou Sim
was born in the Hebei (Ho-Pei) Province of China. He showed an interest in the
martial arts at a very young age and first learned a hard boxing style from an
elderly boxer named Shao-Lin. At the age of 10 he left his home village to go to
Chenjiagou in Wenxian County. There he worked for the Chen family and learned a
style of Tai Chi called "Lao Jia" ("Old Frame"). He also learned "Tui Shou"
(push hands) and combat with weapons from Master Chen Chanxing (Chen
After a long period of study (30 years) with Master Chen Chanxing, Yeung Lou
Sim returned to his birthplace and began to instruct others in Tai Chi. In
addition, he gave demonstrations of his power and many stories and legends exist
regarding his abilities and strength. Yeung Lou Sim had 3 sons. The first died
very young but the other two, Yeung Ban Hou (1837-1892) and Yeung Kin Hou (Yang
Chian) (1839-1917) were trained in Tai Chi Chuan by their father.
As Tai Chi increased in popularity, Yeung Lou Sim modified the form to make
it more accessible to people. This form would be further modified by his 3rd
son, Yeung Kin Hou (Yang-Chian) and by his grandson, Yeung Ching Po (1883-1936)
into the present "Da Jia" (Big Frame) style of Tai Chi Chuan.


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Comic-Con International's Preview Night will be held Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Preview Night is open to 4-day with Preview Night badgeholders, plus professionals and press.
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Using PS3 controller on laptop for gaming
I just got a PC game that I have been waiting for a long time; Dark Souls 2. I tried to connect my PS3 controller to my pc as I am not very comfortable with keyboard controls. I have configured the controller with the DS4 tool but the pc still does not recognise the controller. Help please?


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Please take a moment and welcome the new Instant Gardeners…
- Danielle Kennedy (yes, we snagged her back!)
- Debbie Olson
- Jennifer Dove
- Rhea Weigands (will begin joining us next month!)
- Broni Holcombe
- Cheryl Scrivens
Now… here's our latest and one of the most beautiful flowers in our Instant Garden Collection… it's "Le Vie en Rose"!
I decided to stay super simple in my colouring today and just stick to black, white and grey tones for my creation.
First I actually created my own digital paper using the "I Love You" sentiment. You can see it tucked behind the heart and rose. I also included the second sentiment, "Be My Valentine Every Day", tucked in the top of my heart die cut.
As you can see, I added some simple clear Wink of Stella for a little bit o sparkle on my roses.
Thanks for stopping in today! Don't forget to check out our Power Poppy Peep of the Week challenge going on all month long. Here are are some ladies who would like to share some amazing creations with you this week… Take it away Bloomies!!!
Allison Cope – you are here!
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Cindy Lawrence
Dawn Burnworth
Julie Koerber
Kathy Jones
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Leslie Miller
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Have a great day everyone!
~ Ally ~
Sponsored by: Power Poppy
stamps: Power Poppy (Le Vie en Rose)
cardstock: X-Press It Cardstock, Recollections black cardstock
patterned paper: Echo Park (Love Story)
ribbon: Offray
die cut shapes: Spellbinders (Hearts, Scalloped Hearts, A2 Curved Borders 1, Ribbon Banners), Cheery Lynn Designs (Mesh Border), Lawn Fawn (Stitched Rectangles)
ink: Ranger Distress (Pumice Stone), Copic Markers (N1, N3, N5, N7, N8), Wink of Stella (clear)
tools: Bow It All, We R Memory Keepers (Envelope Punch Board).


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A spicy, one-pot, one-dish, vegetarian meal of beans and rice made with 3 different types of beans.
Beans and rice is always a great meal. It's an easy no fuss meal when you don't have much food in the house. I try to keep many varieties of dried beans in my pantry and always rice. With just these two simple ingredients, I can throw together many delicious meals (it just takes a little time). Beans and rice are inexpensive and nutritious too. Best of all they are a great source of fiber. Whenever I'm on my own for a while (because my husband is out of town) there is nothing I like more than cooking a big pot of beans and rice to eat on all week. This recipe is from just such an occasion and it was wonderful.
Spicy 3 Beans&Rice a onedish onepot vegetarian meal. [Tweet this]
Spicy 3 Beans and Rice
Cook time: 45-60 minutes
Servings: 6-8
1 Tbsp olive oil
3 bell peppers, chopped
3 jalapenos, diced (with or without seeds depending on how spicy you want it)
1 medium onion, chopped
2 cups or 1 can black beans (drained and rinsed)
2 cups or 1 can pinto beans (drained and rinsed)
2 cups or 1 can kidney beans (drained and rinsed)
1 14.5oz can diced tomatoes
2 Tbsp garlic powder
2 Tbsp paprika
1 cup dry brown rice
2 cups water
Salt and pepper
**I used dry beans for this recipe so I used 1/2 cup of each type of bean (that's about 2 cups each when cooked) then just cooked them together in the same pot until tender. I didn't add salt while cooking the beans so I added more salt in the final dish.
In a large stock pot (or I used my big 10-cup rice cooker/slow cooker), saute the peppers and onion, with a sprinkle of salt and pepper, in oil until just tender. I kept the seeds in my jalapenos...it was very spicy and very good.
Add all the rest of the ingredients and stir well to combine. Increase heat until it begins to boil, then lower the heat to a simmer. Cover and let simmer for about 45 minutes (my rice cooker has a brown rice setting which is what I used) or until rice is tender.
Taste and add more salt and pepper as needed.
Serve with a dollop of sour cream or plain greek yogurt...I may have used more than just a dollop (omit this if you want to keep the dish vegan).
Makes 6-8 servings.
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Five-times Tour de France winner Bernard Hinault has struck out at Lance Armstrong's chance of winning this year.
In short, according to Hinault, he hasn't got one.
"I hope he will not be there. Is he afraid of France? Nobody forced him to come, he only has to stay home! He cannot win the Tour. I hope that Contador gives him a beating."
Strong words indeed, but not as strong as Armstrong's reaction on Twitter;
"What a wanker. 5 TdF wins doesn't buy you any common sense."
Winning the Tour at 37 would be a huge achievement, but even if he doesn't pull it off he'll still have seven wins under his belt. Bernard Hinault will never have more than five.


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Shot with Tim over the weekend under the hot sun… Threw on a basic tee and baggy jeans for my typical get up, not forgetting something more dramatic underneath.
Thank you Tim for the photos. Check him out on instagram (@timsuen)
T shirt: Maison Martin Margiela
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The MultiDrizzle Handbook
5.1 Available Software
Several software packages have been developed to implement the drizzle algorithm, to correct images for distortion, to identify cosmic rays and to align and combine images into a cosmic ray cleaned, distortion-free product. The software was originally developed as a set of Fortran routines which were available both as stand-alone executables and as IRAF tasks in the Dither package. The original drizzle software was developed as a collaborative effort by Andy Fruchter and Richard Hook. The main code was written in Fortran77 and incorporated into IRAF with STSDAS v2.0, inside the Dither package. This set of code formed the basis for a more automated task for aligning images to produce distortion-corrected images; namely, the Python task PyDrizzle (Section 5.3). Finally, all the steps required to identify cosmic rays using the aligned images produced by PyDrizzle were automated in the Python task MultiDrizzle (Section 5.4). The Python tasks can only be run from the PyRAF environment while the original IRAF tasks can be run from either PyRAF or the original IRAF command language (also known as the "cl").
5.1.1 Original IRAF Tasks
There are many tasks which are available in the PyRAF dither package. Many of them represent the original interface to the drizzle codeset in IRAF and are no longer supported - though their functionality has been included in the new scripts which are used by PyDrizzle and MultiDrizzle. It is important for the user to realize that use of the non-supported functions may result in inferior output products since the most current updates to the code and methodology are only implemented in the Python functions called by PyDrizzle and MultiDrizzle.
The following functions are the original IRAF interface routines and are no longer being fully supported:avshift - Averages the shifts measured on the 4 WFPC chips. crossdriz - Builds a set of cross-correlation images (shift + rotation). deriv - Take the absolute derivative of an image. driz_cr - Create cosmic ray mask based for dithered data. loop_blot - Runs blot for a given list of input and output images. loop_driz - Runs drizzle for a list of input, output, and mask images. offsets - Builds cross-correlation image (shift only). mask_head - Attach mask names to image headers; invert mask if requested precor - cosmic ray processing. rotfind - Finds rotation angle from a set of cross-correlation images. shiftfind - Finds X,Y shifts in a cross-correlation image. dunlearn - Resets all task parameters to default values. gprep - Transform shifts for one WFPC2 chip into parameters for mosaicing all four chips. wfpc2_chips @ parameter set for 'avshift' and 'gprep' tasks. cdriz @ parameter set for the 'offsets' task.
5.1.2 Currently Supported Tasks
The latest developments in the dither package have focused on automating the functionality of the original separate IRAF tasks. The native IRAF tasks which are still fully supported include:drizzle - Perform linear image reconstruction using "drizzling". blot - Image sampling using interpolation (reverse "drizzling"). tran - Transform coordinates taking into account distortion tranback - Transform an X,Y position from output to input pixel position using the same conventions as drizzle traxy - Transform an X,Y position from input to output pixel position using the same conventions as drizzle wcs2dr - Convert WCS header information into drizzle parameters for image registration
A majority of the new task development has been done by writing the new tasks in Python. These new tasks use PyRAF to provide an IRAF EPAR interface to use them as if they were native IRAF tasks. These Python tasks can only be run under PyRAF or directly under Python itself, and include:multidrizzle - Automated Python task for performing cosmic ray rejection pydrizzle - Automated Python-based interface for the "drizzle" task tweakshifts - Compute residual shifts between images xytosky - Translate a 2-D image pixel coordinate to right ascension and declination, optionally applying the distortion coefficients for the detector. wtraxy - Transform an X,Y position from input to output pixel position using the same conventions as drizzle, with WCS and list support wtranback - Transform an X,Y position from output to input pixel position using the same conventions as drizzle - with WCS and list input support wblot - Image Sampling using Interpolation - reverse Drizzle version with WCS support
5.1.3 Supplemental Tasks
The last set of tasks involve operations which are generally useful, but not directly involved in image alignment or coordinate transformations. These are supporting PyRAF tasks which may still aid the user in preparing and analyzing their datasets:cgsky - Compute sky using `gsky' plus a correction for histogram truncation. gsky - Compute sky using the same mode algorithm used in task "crrej". imextreme - Locates the maximum and minimum pixels in an image. sky - Sky processing by "crrej-like" algorithm.\ dq @ parameter set for the 'sky' task.
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Harakhte, Lord of the Two Horizons
Ancient legends and cosmogonies equipped the living with the wisdom and skills needed to understand their environment and live in harmony with it. We are not so equipped in the modern age, despite the advances of science and industry. This is undoubtedly why we look to past cultures for the strengths and insights we miss.
Yet we are still the same as our predecessors in fundamental ways – we desire to belong to that which is greater than ourselves, to transcend the ills of our civilization, and understand our divine origins. For these reasons, Egypt's Sacred Tradition has great relevance today.
Two vital books now disclose the ancient Egyptian view of human life and its inextricable connection to the natural and divine worlds.
They examine in detail the technology the ancients used for thousands of years to maintain this connection and its value to modern practitioners... Sacred Science.
• Cosmic Resonance • Esoteric Architecture • Theurgy
The Esoteric Wisdom Revealed
This groundbreaking work is a detailed course in the cosmology, religious iconography, and esoteric philosophy of ancient Egypt – allowing the reader to intimately understand the pharaonic wisdom.
It is the first work to examine the knowledge of cosmic resonance, esoteric architecture, and theurgy in the manner that these arts were truly employed. You will learn the Egyptian view of nature and spirit, their origins and meaning.
Here, the mandates of the Solar, Lunar, and Stellar temple traditions are also disclosed, traditions that taught and practiced an integrated system of ritual power that was the foundation of Egypt's esoteric tradition. Chapters include:
* A Sacred Astronomy
* The House of Life
* The Masters of the Temple
The Divine House
* The House of the Dead
* Initiation
The Spiritual Practice Restored
This volume – the long-awaited sequel to The Sacred Tradition – is the first comprehensive manual and liturgy for the modern Egyptian working temple. Detailed research of ancient texts and inscriptions has been undertaken to provide rubrics, invocations, and spells in the ancient language with English translation.
Rituals are arranged for use by either the solitary practitioner or temple group, and a complete repertoire is provided for observing daily, monthly, and annual ceremonies. Chapters include:
* Khesu - Daily Rites for Purification and Offering
* Iru - Monthly Ceremonies for the Neteru of the Annual Calendar
* Hebu - Festivals for Dedication, Marriage, Thanksgiving, Transition
* Kheperu - Rites of Transformation
The years spent in compiling this work have revealed to me that ancient Egyptian spirituality
is as transforming and relevant to us today as it was to the ancients. – Rosemary Clark
Cosmic Resonance
The Egyptians practiced a sacred astronomy – that is, they observed celestial events in context with their connection to terrestrial life. This stems from their belief that divine forces reside in all natural phenomena – the Sun, Moon, planets, stars – and that their appearances marked significant events for other living beings. From this body of knowledge most of our contemporary systems of prophecy, prediction, astrology, and geomancy arose.
|Esoteric Architecture
The architectural encryption of sacred principles in monumental building.
The Egyptians employed numerology, sacred geometry, measures found in nature, and mathematical models based on celestial motion to design sacred spaces. An intricate approach to constructing their temples, tombs, and pyramids included the use of symbolic art and rich building materials. For example, certain stones and metals were viewed as emanations of divine qualities, such as light and permanence.
|Theurgy – Divine Work
This is the Sacred Tradition of Ancient Egypt
And this is what many scholars have failed to discern, despite the overwhelming proliferation of clues. Egypt's religion, government, and technologies were deeply rooted in this Sacred Science. We see examples of cosmic resonance, esoteric architecture, and theurgy whenever we look at the artifacts of Egypt. Egyptologists examine the minutiae of temples, tombs, and pyramids without looking at the big picture, the purpose that shines through these enigmatic monuments. That purpose is also expressed consistently in Egypt's sacred literature – the pyramid and coffin texts, the books of the dead, and the later philosophy of Hermetism.
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All About Meditation
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The remarkable story of a woman who lived two lives in one – in ancient Egypt and the 20th Century
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17th - 20th October 2016
Writing: Dan Le Grys (Year 9)
Photography: Ruhan Shah (Year 10)
Editing: Tom Burke (Year 10)
After heats earlier in the week, the House Drama final kicked off with the third scene of Macbeth, performed by Foxell. From the outset, the wonderful costumes and facepaint combined to make very scary witches. The actors were supported by a large range of background noise and music, increasing the atmosphere to an incredibly tense state. Despite only having six actors, the extract was performed outstandingly.
Second to go were Newman, with part of The Tempest that drew the audience in, kept them there, and had them nearly falling off their chairs. Costumes and voices alike were used to great effect, and the use of mime, coupled with some excellent stormy sound effects, made this a performance definitely worth seeing.
Finally, Rayner presented a piece based on an extract of Henry V. The background music had people on the edge of their seats during a narration scene at the start, only for it to be interrupted by a fourth wall break. Rayner's house captain Rohan Montgomery took on the role of Mr Millar and stopped the play, skipping ahead to a further part. Joe Moore then entered on the shoulders of Rayner's deputy house captain Louis Williams, using a coat to great effect in covering them both. This was one of Rayner's many ways in which they brought the audience comedy gold. As they continued to pay homage to many of Mr Millar's most successful plays a second fourth wall break occurred and 'Mr Millar' entered a soliloquy, throwing all his problems in a hilarious way out to the audience.
The scores were tallied up, and results were in: first place for Rayner, followed by Newman and then Foxell. A big round of applause to all boys involved!


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Espadrilles: Local heros
Espadrilles (or jute soled shoes) are traditional canvas topped shoes made with the soles made originally from esparto grass, then hemp and later jute. The insolating properties of the cheap casual sneakers protected the feet from cold, humidity and heat . These could be worn all year round and were made as a form of cottage industry in Catalonia and the French and Spanish Basque regions. In the 14th century each town gave their espadrilles a unique signature. This might be a wider ribbon her, a thicker sole ; or extra crisscross at the back of the ankle, these regional varieties are still recognised worn at town festivals. Whilst mainly a peasant shoe the Espadrilles enjoyed a great vogue in the glamorous 30s and 40s when artisans such as Salvator Dali were seen wearing their white canvas shoes. In 1930, a good pair of espadrilles would cost two Spanish pesetas, (approx one cent US). During the Spanish Civil War (1936 - 1939), Republican soldiers were supplied with several pairs of espadrilles because they were cheap and serviceable. The sandals were considered so important to the army, factories were nationalised in 1938. When changes in local economy saw farm labourers move form the country to the factories in the towns and cities the demand for espadrilles fell and by the end of the fifties many of the local factories closed. The surviving factories continued to use the same jute braiding machines they had always done and by the 60s the once peasant shoe was seeling well again this time to holiday makers to the Spain. When Yves Saint Laurent was asked to design a red satin pair of espadrilles with gold satin ribbons in a 2-inch wedge for a fashion show once again the shoes caught the attention of the fashionista. More designers such as Christian Dior, Armani and Louis Vuitton took interest and there was a brief renaissance during the 80s when fashionable espadrilles enjoyed a short vogue. The Castañer factory has been in operation since 1927 and now creates luxury, high-heeled espadrilles for 15 designer labels, including Lanvin, Hermès and Christian Louboutin. Currently there are 17 Castañer boutiques in Spain, France and Japan. Their best seller "the peasant," has sold eight million pairs alone. Castañer is held as a leading example of how a family-run Spanish shoemaking business can capitalize on traditional craftsmanship to carve an international niche.
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Poll: What is Beyonce's Best '4' Music Video?
With the premiere of the "Party" music video on Wednesday night (Oct. 26), Beyonce has unveiled a whopping six music videos from her latest album, "4," including three new clips in the past 19 days. "4" was released only four months ago, but B has already given fans a half-dozen thematic styles and striking tones, from the vulnerability of the stark "1+1" clip to the joyful wedding of "Best Thing I Never Had" to bouncy boy/girl group choreography of "Love on Top."
As the pop star prepares to become a mother, she has churned out some eye-popping clips… but which one is the best? If you've missed any of Beyonce's latest music videos -- and we don't blame you, there's been a lot of them! -- check out all six clips below, then vote on which one you think best captures B's beautiful pop aesthetic.
Run The World (Girls)
Debut: May 18
YouTube Views: 98.5 million
Synopsis: Beyonce rides a horse through an apocalyptic world, then leads a female army with some inspired shoulder-shaking. The guys don't stand a chance.
Best Thing I Never Had
Debut: July 7
YouTube Views: 50.8 million
Synopsis: Two words: Dream Wedding. Three years after exchanging "I Do's" with Jay-Z, B prances around in a wedding dress and walks down in the aisle in this smile-inducing clip.
Debut: August 26
YouTube Views: 16.0 million
Synopsis: Basically the female version of D'Angelo's "Untitled (How Does It Feel)" clip, the video for this simple ballad features Beyonce's amazing body, some simple camera tricks and not much else.
Debut: October 7
YouTube Views: 8.3 million
Synopsis: Beyonce rocks a pixie haircut and bats her eyelashes in a black turtleneck in this salute to 1950s cinema. Oh, also: baby bump.
Love On Top
Debut: October 16
YouTube Views: 6.5 million
Synopsis: With five guys serving as backup singers/dancers, a pre-baby-bump Beyonce recalls her Destiny's Child days by jamming out as the leader of a vocal group.
Debut: October 26
Synopsis: It's fitting that the music video for "Party" is the most star-studded clip from "4": aside from guest rapper J. Cole, the outdoor shindig in the video also has cameos from Solange Knowles and DC's Kelly Rowland.


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I cringe whenever I hear an executive or a manager say something like, "Yeah, we got some development teams doing that agile thing." Which is usually followed by something like, "I don't know what the impact is, but we have a directive to have more teams doing agile."
There are so many problems with those two statements my head usually starts spinning…
"What exactly do you mean, you are doing agile?"
"Why are only the developers participating?"
"What metrics are you using to verify improvement?"
"Who made the directive and how are they helping the organization succeed?"
"Did you provide any training or coaching?"
"Did you hire any agile consultants with actual experience doing agile transformations?"
"What problems are you trying to solve?"
"How often do the teams produce working software?"
"What practices and processes are you using that make you agile?"
And so on and so on.
The most important thing you need to accept for an agile transformation to be successful is this – agile is not something you do, it is something you are. Let me repeat that. Agile is not something you do, it is something you are. Actually, in many cases, agile ends up being something you are not. But let's stay positive.
What makes you agile? In order to answer this, let's take a look at:
- What is agile?
- What makes an individual agile?
- What makes a team agile?
- What makes an organization agile?
What is Agile?
Agile is set of values and principles. These have already been defined somewhere, haven't they? Ah, yes, any good agile blog should have at least one reference to the "Agile Manifesto", so here goes… You can read the "Agile Manifesto" and its:
- Value statements at http://agilemanifesto.org/
- Underlying supporting principles at http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
By the way, I'm wondering why they don't have a better webpage yet? Seriously, it's been over 11 years! But it really is good stuff and these statements are pretty widely accepted by agilistos. Of course, there is always room for continuous improvement, right? For example, I have seen some great updates made by http://disciplinedagiledelivery.com/.
Be forewarned though, just reading these values does not inherently make you agile – it can only make you agile aware. True agility can be achieved by embracing these values in the software disciplines and methods you practice. Heck, I even find myself applying agile principles outside the IT world and in my personal life, but that sounds like another blog post for another day.
What is Scrum?
Agile is not any one specific software methodology or process. Scrum is currently the most commonly adopted agile methodology for agile transformations. This is primarily because it is very straightforward, focuses on project management, and there is a plethora of "experts" available. We won't even get into the joke that is the ScrumMaster certification test. The problem is many teams try to do Scrum without understanding the underlying core agile values behind Scrum. They don't realize the discipline that is actually required. Inevitably, these teams are unable to adapt to changing conditions or scale to more than one team. And then we are forced to invent terms like water-scrum-fall, scrum-but, and fr-agile to describe the mess they've made.
What is Lean?
It seems like speaking to organizations about Lean can be easier to comprehend than agile. Lean never pretends to be a silver bullet process. For those unfamiliar with Lean, pause a moment and check out wikipedia. As is often the case, wikipedia provides a fair enough introduction at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_software_development.
Lean is a set of principles –
- Eliminate Waste
- Amplify Learning
- Decide as late as possible
- Deliver as fast as possible
- Empower the team
- Build integrity in
- See the whole
These principles can easily translate into goals for a team or an organization. And the best thing about goals is even if you never reach your goals, you can still make significant improvements trying to attain them. Agile and lean are very complementary, so don't worry about having to be only agile or just lean. Be lean. Be agile. It sounds sort of like a prescription for IT yoga, doesn't it?
What Makes an Individual Agile? Experience counts!
When someone allegedly reputable tells you they can teach you Scrum in 15 minutes, what they mean is they can teach you the Scrum roles, ceremonies, vocabulary, and timelines in 15 minutes. And they probably can. However, it should come as no surprise there is much more to being a ScrumMaster than memorizing a few practices. Scrum is not taught in the pages of a book. A solid book with deep experience reports is a great place to start, but reading can only get you so far. (Geek comment alert.) Reading about Scrum is like adding more cores to a machine to get performance improvements running an application not designed for multi-threading. Scrum is really only understood and mastered through actual Scrum implementations with actual people and projects with actual goals and deadlines. This goes for more than just Scrum too. Be careful selecting your agile coaches and mentors and make sure they have the appropriate experience. This should not be too much to ask. Agile is already mainstream and as mobile development explodes with very short feedback and delivery loops, agile will be pressed even more into action.
What Makes a Team Agile?
It is pretty easy to see whether a team is agile or not. Agile zealots will argue their beliefs religiously and righteously declare, "You're not agile!" Well, often they are correct. There is a whole pile of agile practices common to agile teams and you can find a good number of them here. It is also pretty easy to spot agile anti-patterns. As a developer with IBM in the early 2000's, I can describe in detail many of those anti-patterns. (oooh another good blog topic). I can also understand why the zealots get so defensive. They have invested in building methodologies and when projects fail, they want to make sure the blame is on the people, not the process itself. "Who made you a process expert?" And the truth is, maybe they are indeed not software delivery process experts. But, shouldn't the goal be to grow the agile community and help those teams understand how to embrace core agile values?
What Makes an Organization Agile?
I have hinted at this previously, but let me state it explicitly. Agile is not solely about the development team, it is about the organization. The testers need to work hand in hand with developers. The architects need to come down from the ivory tower and join the teams. The business analysts need to stay involved and collaborate with development. Discussions and demonstrations need to be ongoing and repeated. Project managers need to relinquish command and control practices. Executives have to adopt new metrics and change organizational structures. Traditional role boundaries start to bleed together and disappear. This is what makes agile transformation much more difficult than deploying agile from inception at a small startup. Organizations and people are resistant to change. Or so it is said. In actuality, change is unavoidable, and even more so, change is welcomed all the time. What organizations are really afraid is losing control. How do we keep control during an agile transformation? That sounds like another good blog post and may even make use of an agile swear word – governance.
What Makes You Agile?
How would you answer that question? For me it is not about the ceremonies or practices, but rather the underlying core values and principles. Agile is a maniacal focus on responding to change, collaboration, quality, working solutions, providing value, and broadening skill sets.
Go. Be lean. Be agile. Just don't be fr-agile.


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