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Riding the Wave of Simplicity
- CategoryUncategorized
- Written bySuzanna Cullen
Just as the surfer wants to catch the perfect wave, so did C.J. Olivares and Dean Nota want to create the perfect living environment when designing a home. Nothing about Amy and C.J. Olivares would overtly indicate their success, both collectively and individually. They are the rare type of people who shun ostentation and arrogance in favor of substance and sincerity. If one can disengage from the conversation long enough to peruse the wall of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, C.J.'s Emmy award is slightly visible on a shelf, with a stack of books almost blocking it from view. When the Olivares contacted noted architect Dean Nota, they knew he could create a home as welcoming and understated as they are.
Substance is a serious description, but it is the definition of both the Olivares family and the house they call home. C.J. Olivares is as modest as he is accomplished. The 2002 founder of FUEL TV network who worked as executive vice president and general manager until 2011, he led a high-profile life in television.
As a lifelong surfer, C.J. is committed to saving the oceans and creating a better beach life for generations that follow. Serving on the executive boards of directors for both the Surfrider Foundation and the Grades of Green Foundation, C.J. devotes his time to those causes he deems laudable and credible.
Amy Olivares has a 20-year career in real estate in both the South Bay and Chicago markets. She demonstrates a great understanding of both her clients and the properties.
When the Olivares decided to build a home, their demands for an architect were as stringent as the integrity by which they lead their lives. Dean Nota understands and shares the Oliveras' aspiration of perfection. It was a perfect fit.
From the entrance of the Olivares home, it is clear that they are a learned family. The living room is filled with the type of eclectic but studied elegance that is frequently found on the East Coast, where rooms evolve over time and tell layered stories about the inhabitants.
In the same room, the Olivares confidently placed a contemporary leather sofa on an antique Tabriz Oriental carpet, while two Eames chairs dance to the side. The hundreds of books on the shelves speak volumes about the owners' interest in the arts, sciences, fiction and non-fiction. The sunshine-yellow surfboard in the corner is both a piece of sculpture as well as a collector's item reflective of the passion for the favorite sport of the family.
Like all Nota homes, there is serenity about the house. Spaces are constructed with paramount concern for light and views. In a stroke of creative genius, a tidy porch separates the kitchen from the dining room. When the weather is nice, glass doors retract from each room, creating a beautiful flow from the kitchen to the outside and back inside to the dining room.
The incredibly high ceiling of the living room is magnified when the wall of doors is pushed back to completely open the room to the garden area. Working with landscape architect Steve Billings, the Olivares and Dean constructed a beautiful garden, resplendent with lush greens that offer both privacy and a beautiful canvas.
Bedrooms float on the second floor, where the Olivares broke Dean Nota's design rules and permitted each daughter one wall of intense color—electric purple and pacific green. The rooms offer the slight rebellion that all teenagers crave yet still retain Dean's mark of simplicity and light.
If a house can be described as a perfect wave, then so is the home Dean Nota created for the Olivares family. With its easy flow from the entrance, culminating in a tremendous invitation as the backyard draws one through, the house is, indeed, a very good ride.
First Crush
Former LA Kings right wing and current game announcer Jim Fox, his wife, Susie, and business partner, Dean Nucich, turn a lifelong passion for wine into a full-blown winemaking business.
Color Coding
A Hermosa Beach designer tailors a Mediterranean-style home for a young couple and their two children—but not without a lot of color and layered patterns.


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Illumina Infringed Gene Detection Patents: Jury
The case, first filed back in 2004, alleges infringement of six Affymetrix patents related to aspects of software, hardware and arrays, all of which are used for DNA sequencing and other purposes.
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Sonal Padalkar
- Assistant Professor
- Mechanical Engineering
Main Office2012 Black Engr
Ames, IA
Phone: 515-294-6066
- PhD, Materials Engineering, Purdue University
- MS, Physical Metallurgy, Government College of Engineering, Pune University
- BS, Metallurgy, Government College of Engineering, Pune University
Interest Areas
- Synthesis, characterization and simulation of hybrid nanostructures for energy related application
- Synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials for biosensing
- Utilizing advanced characterization techniques like TEM, HRTEM, EELS, Atom Probe to obtain solutions for complex research problems
- Bottom up synthesis techniques in the fabrication of nanostructures for nanoelectronic applications
- Design, Synthesis and Characterization of photoelectrodes for water splitting
Brief Biography
Professional Experience
- 2010-2013: Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Selected Publications
- S. Dumpala, A. A. Oni, S. Padalkar*, S. R. Broderick, J. M. LeBeau and K. Rajan, "Correlative Imaging of Stacking Faults using Atom Probe Tomography (APT) and Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM)", Microscopy and Microanalysis 20 (S3), 996-997, (2014)
- S. R. Broderick, S. Dumpala, S. Padalkar* and K. Rajan. "Data Intensive Imaging for 3D Atom Probe", Microscopy and Microanalysis 20 (S3), 812-813, (2014)
- S. Padalkar*, J. Riley, Q. Li, G. Wang and L. Lauhon, "Lift-out procedures for Atom Probe Tomography targeting nanoscale features in core-shell nanowire heterostructure", Phys. Status Solidi C, 11, 656, (2014)
- S. Howell, S. Padalkar* and L. Lauhon, "Spatial Mapping of Efficiency of GaN/InGaN Nanowire Array Solar Cells using Scanning Photocurrent Microscopy," Nanoletters, 13, 11, 5123-5128, (2013)
- J. Riley, S. Padalkar* and L. Lauhon, "Atom probe measurements of GaN-InGaN heterostructures," Nanoletters, 13, 9, 4317–4325 (2013)


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The Year in Film
Not One Conventional Picture
These movies concentrate on what is essential, not what is marketable
Looking over my 10-best list for 2009, I saw no common denominator at first. None of my choices is a conventional studio film, but that doesn't tie things together so much as set them apart. Then I remembered something Kathryn Bigelow had told me about directing "The Hurt Locker," which is my favorite movie of the year. The actors playing members of an American bomb squad in Iraq were concerned, as actors in a technical medium must be, about lighting, focus and hitting their marks. But the director told them not to worry—multiple cameras would keep up with them. Just concentrate, she said, on the bombs. The...


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The American Antitrust Institute (AAI) has issued a new white paper discussing the role of federal antitrust law in an ongoing reform movement aimed at reducing burdens created by state occupational licensing laws. The white paper is titled State Occupational Licensing Reform and the Federal Antitrust Laws: Making Sense of the Post-Dental Examiners Landscape.
Media Corner
The American Antitrust Institute welcomes to its Advisory Board Caroline Holland, a Tech Policy Fellow at the Mozilla Foundation, and welcomes back Anant Raut, a Visiting Fellow at Public Knowledge.
10-11-2017 - Senator Amy Klobuchar to Deliver Keynote Address at American Antitrust Institute Private Enforcement Conference
Senator Amy Klobuchar, the Ranking Member on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, will deliver the keynote address at AAI's 11th annual Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference on Tuesday, November 7th.
Today, the Chairman of the American Antitrust Institute (AAI) Board of Directors, Pamela Gilbert, announced the addition of W. Joseph Bruckner to the Board. "Joe's decades of leadership in the antitrust bar and his thoughtful and collaborative approach to decision-making will be tremendous assets to AAI," said Gilbert. "We are thrilled to have him join our Board."
06-30-2017 - Stutz Testifies on International Competition Policy Before House Antitrust Subcommittee
On June 29, 2017, AAI Associate General Counsel Randy Stutz testified at an oversight hearing of the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law. The hearing, entitled "Recent Trends in International Enforcement," focused on a recently published report issued by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Stutz's prepared testimony on behalf of the AAI is available here.
Harvard Law School's Einer Elhauge was presented the Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship by Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll's Dan Small at the American Antitrust Institute's Annual Conference on June 21. The Cohen Award was created through a trust established in honor of the late Jerry S. Cohen, an outstanding trial lawyer and antitrust writer. It is administered by the law firm he founded, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll.
The American Antitrust Institute (AAI) presented William J. Baer with the 2017 Alfred E. Kahn Award for Antitrust Achievement during the luncheon program at AAI's 18th Annual Conference on June 21. Baer recently served as Acting Associate Attorney General and was Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ). Baer was introduced by Renata B. Hesse, former Acting Assistant Attorney General at the Antitrust Division and partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision today upholding the trial court's injunction preventing the merger of giant health insurers Anthem and Cigna because it would would be anticompetitive. The American Antitrust Institute (AAI) had joined with numerous consumer groups to file an amicus brief urging the Court of Appeals to affirm the district court decision. The proposed merger would have been the largest in the history of the health insurance industry, combining two of the four national carriers.
For almost three decades, light-handed enforcement of the U.S. antitrust laws tilted the scales toward allowing consolidation and strategic conduct that was thought to enhance "efficiency." Justifications for this approach ranged from forcing down costs, to promoting quality control and spurring investment in R&D by large deep-pocketed firms. Over-enforcement was the bogeyman of conservative ideology. Too-vigorous application of the laws threatened to stifle the efficiencies that were expected to flow from mergers and restraints on competition.
On Tuesday, January 31, 2017, President Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch from the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. AAI President Diana Moss said, "AAI will continue to review Judge Gorsuch's record and press the Senate to ensure any Supreme Court nominee is committed to enforcement of the antitrust laws. Such enforcement should be consistent with congressional intent throughout the past many decades, thereby ensuring the robust continuation of free and competitive markets."


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Sony Ericsson has gone ahead and done something fairly unexpected. It has confirmed that its 2011 Xperia lineup, which consists of a grand total of 10 devices, will all receive the boost up to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Not a lot of manufacturers have been this brazen with their announcements so let's hope Sony is able to stick to its word and roll out the software for all of the phones listed.
Speaking of roll out, unfortunately, Sony Ericsson didn't announce when the devices would see the update only that the update would be coming. You can just assume that 2012 is when you'll see the upgrade.
So which phones will be seeing it? Here is the list:
- Xperia Active
- Xperia Arc
- Xperia Arc S
- Xperia Play
- Xperia Neo
- Xperia Neo V
- Xperia Mini
- Xperia Mini Pro
- Xperia Ray
- Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman
If you got one of those, you're in the clear and that's always exciting.
We'll update you when we get more information on timetables for each Xperia device.


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A Wrinkle in Time
|Laughing lines.
Today, she would have been seventy-six... my mother. Her hair a little thinner, wispier, her skin creased by more laugh lines, more frown lines: a point of pride for her. She knew she had earned those lines and she generously shared them with all of us, portioned out vigorously with her usual zest.
Our mother, our grandmother, our sister, our friend, our Tekla... yes, she would have been seventy-six years old... (and, here, I sigh)... would, could, should have been. And, then, who is to say? Death by childbirth, death by plague, death by hardship, death by torture at any given moment in our short and brutal human history- that was not her story, her time. Hard work and persistence earned her a rich life. I reflect on the preciousness of this fragile life and how it is, most definitely, worth a wrinkle or two.
Happy Birthday Mom. To a life well-lived.
Of Spanish Wine and Roses
|Some of my photos from Spain, with an eye to my mother's love of detail.
|El Greco
Wandering the streets of Seville and Granada and Madrid, not quite hot but warm enough, we made our escape from Canada's endless winter. We walked and walked, my husband and I, and I did feel my aching, healing, fractal foot with a slight limp on the cobbled streets by the end of each day. Spain was a 'yum' of history, art, music, wine cheaper than water, and olive laden tapas.
Around every corner, I could feel my mother's Spanish soul."¡Qué lindo!" are my mother's words that spring to mind, I can hear her voice: "¡Qué lindo!", How beautiful! She spoke Spanish simply and clearly, having learned it when my parent's bought land in Costa Rica more than 30 years ago, mostly to communicate with the worker's as they built Villa Tekla and then to the small children she taught and the friends that she made. She loved the Spanish language, the Latin flair, the fragrances of the Mediterranean, the clicks of a Flamenco dancer's heel. She loved to travel and gave me that curious and insatiable travel bug.
I felt her presence in the galleries while standing in front of El Bosco and Rubens and, especially, the dark paintings of El Greco... and in my mind we discussed the colours, composition, and the studied faces. Art: my religion, gave comfort to my loss.
In the heavy Moorish and medieval Islamic palaces of the Alhambra and Alcazar, I echoed her words: "¡Qué lindo!" as I took in the intricate carved tiles and endless archways. The gardens, with their early spring flowers, thrilled my gardener's soul... that heavily soiled gardener's soul being one of my mother's greatest gifts to me.
Thank you for all the flowers, the soil, and the soul, Mom.
|A Tekla travel collage (photos, for the most part, courtesy of her partner in crime, Bill Deverell, my father).
Back to the Grind
Sewing like a mad fiend now, my days are numbered as my return to the working world work looms and I still have this vast fabric thing... that which now seems gigantic as I begin to put it all together. I made 42 little joining-green-squares and 35 horizontal-joining-reddish-rectangles and 36 horizontal-joining-reddish-rectangles and, whew, after all that, I began to feel like a factory of one. I am dutifully pinning and measuring, desperately trying to line things up... do I work from the centre out or the edges in? I often imagine my mother standing in the doorway laughing at me, and with me, as I try to match the rows of the quilt blocks together. They sort of fit... and 'sort of' will simply have to do. Not looking for perfection here, folks, just the simple poetry of human accomplishment.
|The busy-ness of sewing the quilt together well accompanied by the laziness of an old dog.
Another thread
Blogging about my quilt was a way to ensure that I would complete the task, putting it out there so publicly and openly, a guarantee to succeed under the watchful eyes of many. What I didn't expect was how I could move others to examine their own grief, accept, heal, and honour their loved ones. I am touched that I have been an inspiration to many but in particular to my cousin, Barb Lubda, daughter of my mother's closet and dearest sister Sophie. Barb lost her son tragically when he was 18, her grief must have been almost insurmountable, I cannot imagine. Now, some four years after his death, she is making a healing quilt with friends and family using Lucas' clothing. And so begins another thread... I am with you in this endearing endeavor, Barb.
|I leave you with these... Tekla's unique and beautiful Spring peonies.


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Environmental Health & Safety
The Risk Management and Safety Service Office administers insurance, environmental, health, and safety needs for American University and assists the campus in monitoring compliance with federal and local laws and regulations.
- This office oversees the use of chemical and hazardous materials. More information can be found on the Chemical and Hazardous Materials page.
- The Chemical Hygiene Plan establishes policy, responsibilities, and procedures to ensure the safe use of hazardous chemicals within the laboratories on campus.
- The office also monitors the use of radioactive and biological materials. More information can be found on the Radioactive and Biological Materials page.


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How-To: Setup IPv6 Connectivity using DD-WRT
I was bored. Plus it was planned long before anyway. [Why just now? It's either i have other things to do, or I had to let go of the completely-configured AP to deploy somewhere else.]
So here's how i set-up an IPv6 connectivity using Tunnelbroker and a Linksys WRT54G running on DD-WRT firmware.
I. Setup an account in Hurricane Electric's Tunnelbroker.
- Signup for an account in TunnelBroker. Be ready to provide information, such as your valid email address. The password will be delivered to your email.
- Once you have logged in, click "Create regular Tunnel" under User Functions in the left-hand side of the screen. NOTE: you can also create BGP tunnel (haven't tried yet)
- In the "Setup IPv6 Regular Tunnel" page, input your static public IPv4 address. Note that this should be reachable via icmp before it can be added.
- Select the server closest to you. I chose Hong Kong. Then Submit.
- Check the Tunnel Details for your newly created tunnel. You are allowed to create a maximum of 4 tunnels for your account.
Details for my account (not real):
Server IPv4 address: 188.8.131.52
Server IPv6 address: 2001:abc:13:592::1/64
Client IPv4 address: 220.127.116.11
Client IPv6 address: 2001:456:784:321::2/64
Routed /48: Allocate
Routed /64: 2001:456:784:321::/64
II. Configure DD-WRT v24 for IPv6.
- Download DD-WRTv24 custom build by CrushedHat.
- Connect to your router (192.168.1.1) to configure.
- Enable IPv6 and Radvd in Administration->Management tab (under IPv6 Support).
- In Administration->Commands, input the lines below. Then save as Startup Script.
- In Administration->Management tab, input the ff. in the space for Radvd config.
- In the Administration->Commands, type the lines below. Then save as Firewall.
insmod ipv6
insmod /jffs/lib/modules/2.4.34/ip6_tables.o
insmod /jffs/lib/modules/2.4.34/ip6table_filter.o
insmod /jffs/lib/modules/2.4.34/ip6t_multiport.o
ip tunnel add he-ipv6 mode sit remote 188.8.131.52 local 188.8.131.52 ttl 64
ip link set he-ipv6 up
ip addr add 2001:456:784:321::2/64 dev he-ipv6
ip route add ::/0 dev he-ipv6
ip addr add 2001:456:784:321::aa:bbbb:cccc/64 dev br0
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/forwarding
Explanation for each line:
* Line 1 loads the critical IPv6 kernel module, followed by the IPv6 filter modules, discussed below.
* Lines 5 and 6 configure the IPv4 tunnel between the appropriate server at HE and the local static IP address.
* Line 7 sets the local IPv6 address on the small tunnel network supplied by HE.
* Line 8 sets a default route to the tunnel for IPv6 traffic.
* Line 9 sets the IPv6 address on the local LAN/WLAN bridge. This is based on the /64 prefix allocated by HE for the local net plus the MAC address of br0, encoded in the standard IPv6 way. This could instead be in a /64 subnet of a /48 allocated by HE.
* Line 10 enables packet forwarding between IPv6 networks.
* Line 11 guarantees that radvd is run after this configuration is complete. It seems that the radvd enabled by the GUI option starts in a different thread from the startup script, so that it exits immediately upon discovering IPv6 missing in the kernel or an incomplete config. The second run will simply exit, so there should be correct behavior (one running radvd) regardless of the race.
interface br0 {
AdvSendAdvert on;
prefix 2001:456:784:321::/64
AdvOnLink on;
AdvAutonomous on;
iptables -I INPUT 2 -p ipv6 -i vlan1 -j ACCEPT
Note that this is the simplest setup. Add/edit the firewall settings to reflect your specific rules.
Source: IPv6 on v24 (DD-WRT)


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3 Makeup Looks Inspired by My Favorite Albums of 2016
Since I'm a visual person I hardly ever remember the album title but I just remember what the album art looks like.
So… I have pink hair now! Yay! You might have noticed that my hair has been through a lot of changes in the past few months, from black to purple to green to blonde and now, pink. I was actually aiming for a pastel pink when I did it, but it turned out quite bright. After a few washes, it should get to the right level of pastel, but for now I'm pretty happy with it.
With pink hair I look like a grown-up toddler if I wear colourful clothes (eww), so my wardrobe has changed, and I've also found that my makeup has changed a lot, too. Lipstick shades that were a nude-pink now look straight up pink, and my complexion looks different, too.
With pink hair, or lighter hair in general, my skin looks a lot paler, and I can look washed out if I don't wear foundation or at least concealer to brighten up parts of my face. Pink hair in particular also emphasises any redness in my skin, and pimples or other blemishes look ten times more apparent. Now, when I do my makeup, I take extra time to cover blemishes and spots, and also make sure all my redness is covered with my foundation.
The aspect of my makeup that's changed the most, however, is my eye makeup. Fun eyeshadow colours make so much more of a statement! Fun colours like blue, green or in this case, purple, look brighter and pop more. I especially love a single wash of a pastel colour for a dreamy candy-coloured look.
I find that wearing neutral colours also looks very chic and polished; however, when I had black hair, it just looked kind of plain. I guess anything looks more fun with pink hair, though.
I also make way more of a statement whenever I do something different with my eyeliner, like a big, thick cat eye or a minimal rectangle.
Contouring has changed for me in a major way. I used to contour with a cool-toned-greyish-brown shade, but now I find that it's too cool for my skin and I can look a bit skeletal and dead with it. I now use a warmer contour shade and it works way better.
I'm also very thankful that banana powder exists as it makes my face look brighter and more alive. I use it to highlight my skin and I love it. Before my light hair days, I highlighted with a gold shade of highlighter, as the pearly-pink shades looked too powdery and ashy for my skin. But now those shades look really nice and are accentuated by my pink hair.
Lipstick has also changed for me a lot. I used to love Thalia by NYX and Pretty Please by Sportsgirl and believed they were the perfect nude-pink or light pink lipsticks for me, but now they just look too pink on me. Maybe they always did and I just didn't realise? But anyway, it seems obvious to me now that I have to find a new, more subtle pink lipstick.
I also look extremely "kinderwhore" when I wear any dark lipsticks and more cutesy in anything red. (I ain't complaining.)
I have to say that pink has been my favourite hair colour so far. It makes me feel cheeky, and I really like it. I don't mind that I've had to change up my makeup for it, and I'm looking forward to finding the perfect nude-pink lipstick.


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Britain's best lidos and outdoor pools
Although the summer peak may now be behind us, lovers of swimming in the open air can still look forward to several weeks of warm(ish) water temperatures and the chance to enjoy time in the country's many traditional lidos and open-air swimming pools.
And what a magnificent selection there are. True, there are fewer lidos now than there were in their 1930s heyday. But many of those that do remain – in some cases following extensive and costly refurbishment – retain their Art Deco flourishes and, in addition to providing great places to relax, are a feast for the eyes and the senses.
Most of the best examples are in the south of the country. Previously, we have covered the pick of London's outdoor swimming spots - including the newly-opened bathing pond in King's Cross. Here we look at some of the finest in the rest of the country.
Opening days and hours are subject to change, sometimes at short notice, so check with the venue before your visit. On very warm days you may have to queue to get in.
Stonehaven Open Air Pool Photo: Alamy
Stonehaven Open Air Pool, Aberdeen
Olympic-sized pool containing heated, filtered sea water and set in a colourful Art Deco-listed building. For those seeking midnight swims beneath the stars, the pool opens from 10pm until midnight every Wednesday during the height of the summer. This year's season runs until September 6.
Queen Elizabeth Park, Aberdeen
01569 762134
Nantwich Outdoor Brine Pool, Cheshire
The medicinal benefits of the Nantwich 'salt pit' (a brine spring) have been known for hundreds of years, particularly by those needing treatment for rheumatism, and it was a popular spot for recovering soldiers in the First World War.
The pool at Nantwich today dates back to 1935 and is possibly the only inland brine pool left in the country. It measures 30.5 metres by 15 metres. Open from May until the end of September. Heated.
Wall Lane, Nantwich
01270 685590
Sandford Parks Lido, Cheltenham
Family-friendly spot on the edge of the Cotswolds with a children's pool with slides and a paddling pool. The main 50-metre pool has two lanes generally reserved for more serious swimmers, and is heated. Open to general public until September 27; lovers of cold water (who are also members) will be able to use it until October 3.
Keynsham Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
01242 524 430
Jubilee Pool Photo: Alamy
Jubilee Pool, Cornwall
This spectacular pool was badly damaged during the storms that lashed the south coast in February 2014 and has not opened since. Following the award of a grant, a major programme of reconstruction is underway and the Friends of the Jubilee Pool are currently seeking to raise further funds to ensure it can be brought back up to scratch.
It is hoped that the pool - something of a treasure for open water swimming aficionados - will be ready to re-open in 2016. This is the largest sea water lido in the country and offers spectacular views out to the sea. In addition there are lots of lovely Art Deco flourishes and for younger swimmers there's a toddlers' pool set within the main pool area.
The Promenade, Penzance
01736 369224
The Cornish coast
Bude Sea Pool, Cornwall
This unique part-natural, part man-made pool nestles in the rocks at Summerleaze Beach in northern Cornwall and is about as close to the sea - and the experience of swimming in the sea - as it gets. It measure 88 metres by 50 metres and is topped up twice a day by the waves of the Atlantic.
Keeping the pool open is dependent on donations, fundraising, grants and the goodwill of volunteers, local businesses and visitors. Entry is free. For further details, check the Bude Tourist Office.
There are other natural pools in Cornwall at the following locations:
Perranporth: Home to a natural open air pool which is filled with sea water at high tide and
Polperro: a small tidal bathing pool, which could be described as a giant rockpool. polperro.org/bathingpool.html
Portreath: Tidal sea water pools lie on either side of Portreath beach. There is a retaining wall along side a natural rock pool, as well as Lady Basset's Baths, six bath-shaped pools, which were made from the rock to catch the tide.
There are also sea pools at Mousehole, Cape Cornwall, Porthtowan, Millendreath, and Treyarnon Bay. A note of caution: You are advised to be careful when using sea pools and check the tides and lifeguard services before visiting.
Bude Sea Pool (Ben Salmon)
Shap Swimming Pool, Cumbria
At just under 1,000 ft above sea level Shap Swimming Pool in the Lake District is reputedly the highest heated outdoor pool in the country. There's a 20-metre pool and a small paddling pool for toddlers. The water is heated and the pool is run by volunteers. It remains open until September 2.
Gayle Avenue, Shap
07512 466172
Chagford Swimming Pool, Devon
Situated within Dartmoor National Park, this river-fed pool is a good spot to cool off after a walk across the moors. It is also very state of the art with solar pool covers which are rolled out each evening to maintain the temperature and kept there in the mornings. As a rule, swims take place in the afternoons.
01647 432929
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Pells Pool, Lewes, East Sussex
The oldest freshwater pool in the country, dating back to the 1860s. Open this year until September 13; mainly early mornings (7-9am) and afternoons. If a swim here gives you a thirst, Lewes is also home to the very fine Harveys Brewery.
Brook Street, Lewes
01273 472 334
Lymington Sea Water Baths, Hampshire
One of the oldest in the country, the Lymington Sea Water Baths (or Lymington Lido) has a pedigree stretching back to the late 18th century when the therapeutic benefits of bathing in salt water were beginning to be recognised and when "a male guide kept bathers [who were unable to swim] afloat with the use of a rope".
The site has been refreshed many times but at 90m x 30 m the baths are still one of the largest in England. Sea water. Scheduled to remain open until first weekend in September.
Bath Road, Lymington
01590 678882
Tinside Lido, Plymouth
Beautifully restored semi-circular sea water pool with lots of Art Deco features, a fountain at its centre and direct views onto the sea. The pool is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year and on the final weekend of the season (September 12/13) there will be a 1930s theme, with an entrance charge of 1p per person, guards in period costumes and cream teas.
Hoe Road, Plymouth, Devon
01752 261915
Arundel Lido, West Sussex
A good-sized outdoor pool dating from the 1960s - this one affording nice views of Arundel Castle. Open until September 6.
Queen Street, Arundel
01903 882 404
Ilkley Pool & Lido, West Yorkshire
On the edge of Ilkley Moor, this is one of the best outdoor pools in the north of England. The main pool is freshwater and unheated and there is a large lawned sunbathing and picnic area. When the weather does turn there is an indoor heated pool here too. The season runs until September 6, but there will be further opportunities for early morning/later afternoon swims for the following couple of weeks.
Denton Rd, Ilkley
01943 600 453
Friends of Ilkley Lido
Droitwich Spa Lido, Worcestershire
Another modernised (saltwater) pool dating from the 1930s, this one offers lots of space (44 yards by 22 yards), a children's wet play area, sun terraces and a Lido Café.
Droitwich Spa Leisure Centre, Briar Mill
01905 799342
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Thermae Spa, Bath
OK this is not strictly a lido or an outdoor swimming pool but it is a pretty amazing place to soak up the sun and take in the scene of some of the gorgeous surrounding buildings. When you're tired of lounging about in the water in this rooftop pool you can retreat downstairs to the spa below. And then of course head on to the nearby Roman Baths, one of Britain's most outstanding sights. They certainly knew how to take the waters in style. The Thermae Spa is open all year, excluding Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day.
The Hetling Pump Room, Hot Bath Street
0844 888 0844
Thermae Bath Spa
Clifton Lido, Bristol
In close by Bristol, this is a very stylish refurbishment of a baths that dates back to the Victorian era. It is essentially a state-of-the-art bathing facility and spa for members, but non-members can apply for passes: a three-hour afternoon pass Mon-Fri costs £20 per person, but the options involving meals can prove better value: swim and breakfast costs £30 per person while swim and lunch/ swim and dinner are £35 and £40 per person respectively. There are also plenty of possibilities for spa treatments. Open daily, year-round. Water heated to around 23/24 degrees C.
Oakfield Place, Clifton, Bristol
0117 933 9530
Further information
Kate Rew's Wild Swim: River, Lake, Lido & Sea: the best places to swim outdoors in Britain.
Janet Smith's Liquid Assets
Expert UK guides
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Cornwall travel guide
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Devon travel guide
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Glasgow city guide
Lake District travel guide
London city guide
Manchester city guide
Norfolk and Suffolk travel guide
Oxford city guide
York city guide
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This article was first published on July 17, 2013, and updated on August 28, 2015


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Five in running for Orange Rising Star Award
Eisenberg, Hoult, Mulligan, Rahim, Stewart vie for nodLONDON -- Jesse Eisenberg, Nicholas Hoult, Carey Mulligan, Tahar Rahim and Kristen Stewart are the names vying for public affection to secure this year's Orange Rising Star Award 2010 dished out during the Orange British Academy Film Awards.
The only British Academy Film Award voted on by the public, the rising star nod will be presented during the shindig on Feb. 21.
Whoever wins joins an impressive list of previous vox pop winners for the nod, now in its fifth year with James McAvoy in 2006, Eva Green in 2007, Shia LaBeouf in 2008 and Noel Clarke last year all picking it up.
Eisenberg's credits include "The Squid And The Whale," "Adventureland" and "Zombieland." Hoult is a familiar face after his big screen breakout "About A Boy" and subsequent roles in "A Single Man" and upcoming "Clash of The Titans."
Mulligan is already drawing heat after her turn in "An Education," garnering myriad nominations and winning an independent film award best actress nod late last year.
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Campus Hosts Conference on Mentoring Undergrads
Hoping to become better mentors to Caltech undergrads, dozens of staff and faculty members gathered on May 11 for a daylong series of workshops, presentations, and discussions aimed at helping them hone their skills.
The event, Mentoring Across Difference: Conference on Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers, was open to anyone from Caltech or JPL who mentors undergraduate students in research.
The day opened with nine workshops from which participants could choose, featuring topics such as managing personality differences in a mentoring relationship, balancing competing demands, dealing with procrastination, and avoiding the pitfalls of perfectionism.
"Good mentoring relies on a set of skills and experience that develops over time," Candace Rypisi, director of Student-Faculty Programs, told the audience. "Our hope today is to provide you with information and a set of tools that you can use as you move forward on your mentoring journey."
Kelsey Boyle, a graduate student working in the lab of Jacqueline K. Barton, the John G. Kirkwood and Arthur A. Noyes Professor of Chemistry and Norman Davidson Leadership Chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, hosted a workshop on how to translate and apply teaching pedagogies to mentoring situations. She said the day was a good reminder to mentors that the start of summer research programs is approaching quickly.
"It's nice to get us thinking about who we're going to mentor," she says. "It gets people thinking about these programs before Day One."
Following the workshops, the 80-or-so attendees gathered for a keynote lecture by Becky Wai-Ling Packard, a professor of psychology and education and director of the Weissman Center for Leadership at Mount Holyoke College. Wai-Ling Packard, who is responsible for mentoring new faculty at Mount Holyoke, stressed the importance of creating an environment where mentored students can thrive.
In the afternoon, participants attended breakout sessions with panels of undergraduate students who shared their personal experiences of being mentored in a research setting.
Stefan Baldet, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Erik Winfree, professor of computer science, computation and neural systems, and bioengineering, attended the breakout session for the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering. Baldet says he understands how difficult school can be for undergraduate students at times.
"I have been a student for a long time. I know myself. I struggled with things. My colleagues have struggled," he says.
He said that much of the information shared is something he has already learned through the years, but that mentoring conferences are valuable for keeping mentors up-to-date.
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SIW Windows & Doors, a premier manufacturer of hurricane resistant impact windows and doors, announces the launch of their newly redesigned website. The new website will further cement SIW's reputation as an innovative and service driven stalwart within the impact product industry. The new website is consumer-orientated and user-friendly, enabling potential clients to easily browse SIW's products by category, learn about the testing process that SIW uses to ensure their product's viability and view detailed comparative analysis of SIW's products against other leading manufacturers.
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Manchurian Legends Chinese restaurant reviews
Manchurian Legends - Winner of Time Out's Best Cheap Eat Awards 2011
Guy Diamond, Time Out, 1, Aug 2011
"Dongbei food is a blast of fresh air from north-eastern China, a surprise even if you think you know Chinese food.
The bite of this spaghetti-shaped pasta (Braised Pork Belly with Glass Noodles) is surprising, and the rich, warming flavours transport you to Dongbei with its long winters.
Fay Maschler, Evening Standard, 11 Aug 2011
"The menu at Manchurian Legends is, indeed, a thing apart. There were so many dishes that tempted and intrigued that I went for dinner twice.
Chicken on the bone in ginger sauce was fragrant and in possession of the elusive sweetness that bones can bestow. Cold sliced pig's ear is a beautiful object, the cartilage embedded in the mahogany skin like ivory marquetry in a polished table. Served in chilli oil, it also has a most satisfactory crunch."
Giles Coren, the Times, 24 Aug 2011
"In amongst the red, dry and fiery carnage was a redeeming skewer of delicious chicken hearts, though, which pleased me enormously. Sweating heavily from the spice, I enjoyed bang bang king prawns served in their own weight of rough chopped red and green chillis, fiery green beans with minced pork and more shovelfuls from the tip of the European chilli mountain, a much milder dish of braised pork belly (the deep fat full of good barnyard stinkiness) on glass noodles and a sauce of staggering brownness, and a wonderful, wonderful plate of small chicken schnitzels lightly battered in a pale agrodolce sauce ..."
Jay Rayner, the Guardian, 28 Aug 2011
"Best of the lot was the Xinjiang-style Fried Lamb ... This is food you will recall for a long time afterwards because your body won't shut up about it."
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Chinatown's New Food Affair with Dongbei Cuisine at Manchurian Legends
Manchuria, more commonly known as Dongbei (literally 'Northeast' in Chinese), is the region stretching up from Beijing toward Siberia. Once violently fought between empires and warlords as a flourishing industrial region, Dongbei's turbulent history has made it a culinary melting pot for centuries, and the Dongbei cooking resembles influences from neighbouring areas, such as the Shandong province and nomadic flavours from Inner Mongolia. The 'crossroad' nature of Dongbei cuisine has rendered itself a special culinary gem that is rich in colours, aromas, and flavours. The newly-opened Manchurian Legends, located in the heart of Chinatown, is one of London's very few restaurants dedicated to authentic Dongbei cooking.
Dongbei food is known to be rich and warming, and carries an unpretentiously pleasant rustic feel characteristic of any lovely homemade cooking. Beef/lamb Skewers crusted with cumin seeds and crushed chillies are the most popular street food found in the Dongbei region and they are now freshly made to order for only £1.50 each at Manchurian Legends. Juicy Pork Patties (£3.50) encased in a thin, crunchy golden crust, and delectable handmade dumplings stuffed with beef and minced carrot or pork and pickled cabbage (£5 for 8 pieces) are staple Dongbei small eats one must try. Signature Dongbei dishes also include Braised Pork Belly with Glass Noodles Stew (£8.50), Pork Slices and Pickled Cabbage Stew (£8.50), Wok-fried Lotus Root Slices with Dried Chilli and Pepper (£9.80), Sea-spiced 'Three-Vegetables' (£7.50), and Mixed Stew of Spare Ribs, Chicken and Vegetables (£12.80). All dishes are reasonably-priced and made with freshest ingredients – it is a friendly and relaxed eatery that offers the rare-to-find, authentic Dongbei food made by well-seasoned chefs natively trained in Manchuria, The restaurant's decently- yet non-overwhelmingly-sized menu provides enticing entry points to the beauty of Dongbei cooking.
Further equipped with five private function rooms (of different sizes) with top-of-range karaoke facility installed, Manchurian Legends also provide a large, popular selection of latest magazines for customers to enjoy. A delicious range of bubble milk tea in various flavours is also available - the trendiest cold drink that has recently taken London by storm!
Manchurian, or Dongbei, cuisine is Chinatown's latest food trend – this special regional cooking of Northeast China is no longer a hidden gem after the opening of Manchurian Legends in the heart of London Chinatown as the new, fascinating branch of Chinese regional cuisine!


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'The foulest war crime that this country has ever perpetrated," declares an impassioned George MacDonald Fraser, the octogenarian author of the marvellously funny, if politically incorrect, Flashman novels. He's not referring to one of the many 19th-century campaigns in which Harry Flashman fought, but a more recent war of aggression: Iraq. "When I think of the cost and the damage that has been done, all based on lies," he adds, "it makes me very angry."
Anger is not an emotion I'd normally associate with Fraser, a former journalist who in the 1960s hit on the brilliant idea of hijacking the fictional character of Flashman from Thomas Hughes's bestselling Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857). But any mention of the Iraq war, it seems, is guaranteed to bring Fraser to boiling point. He could not resist a swipe in the foreword to his latest book, Flashman on the March, set during the Abyssinian Campaign of 1868. That was a war, he writes pointedly, that "served no politician's vanity or interest. It went without messianic rhetoric. There were no false excuses, no deceits, no cover-ups or lies, just a decent resolve to do a government's first duty: to protect its people, whatever the cost."
Fraser is making a rare public appearance at the Bath Literary Festival and I've arranged to meet him at his hotel. I'm nervous. He's my literary hero, and if I hadn't read his Flashman novels as a boy I probably wouldn't have become a historian. I certainly wouldn't have written four books on the wars of the Victorian period. But admiring an author is one thing, getting to know him quite another.
We don't get off to the smoothest start. I'm on time but Fraser himself has only just arrived, thanks to a delayed flight from the Isle of Man (where he has been in tax exile since the early 1970s), and needs an hour to freshen up. He reappears to the minute, smart in a blazer and open-necked shirt, with a wide friendly face and a hearty laugh.
He still retains his Scottish lilt, and looks incredibly well for his 80 years. As well he might. Flashman on the March, the 12th instalment in the adventures of the notorious Victorian soldier-cad, has sold more hardbacks than any of its predecessors. Fraser says his publishers did a "terrific job" and thinks the high sales might have something to do with the two books - Flashman at the Charge and Flash for Freedom - that he recently adapted for Radio 4.
The book is a welcome return to form, with Flashman as unrepentantly caddish as ever during his perilous mission into deepest Abyssinia to rescue Britons held hostage by mad King Theodore. En route he grapples (in both senses of the word) with "leather-clad nymphs" and "warriors who decorate their lances with the courting-tackle of their enemies". He only narrowly keeps his own courting-tackle.
No scene better illustrates his ruthless sense of self-preservation than when, suspended over a waterfall, he sacrifices his Abyssinian lover to save his own skin. "Better one should go than two, and greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down someone else's life for his own."
Given the huge popularity of the Flashman novels, it seems odd that only one, Royal Flash (a send-up of Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda), has been made into a film. Fraser is, after all, an experienced screenwriter whose credits include The Three Musketeers (1973), the James Bond film Octopussy (1983) and the aforementioned Royal Flash (1975), starring Malcolm McDowell. That expertise, it seems, is part of the problem. "I will not let anyone else have control of the script," he explains, "and that simply does not happen in Hollywood."
There's also another reason, he thinks, for the dearth of Flashman films: no suitable British actor. I suggest Daniel Day-Lewis. He's not entirely convinced. "He's probably getting on a bit," he says (Day-Lewis is 48), before conceding: "He's probably the best around. I was very impressed with his Gangs of New York."
At his festival talk that evening he is more taken with the idea. "Someone suggested today that Daniel Day-Lewis might make a Flashman - and on reflection I think he would. He's big, he's got presence and he's got style." Fraser's all-time favourite for the role, however, is Errol Flynn. "It wasn't just his looks and his style. He had that shifty quality."
Fraser read Tom Brown's Schooldays as a boy and immediately saw the drunk bully Flashman as the unacknowledged "star" of the book. Tiring of journalism in the mid-1960s (he was assistant editor of the Glasgow Herald), he decided to use Hughes's creation as the anti-hero in his own Victorian adventure story.
The timing was perfect. Flashman is expelled from Rugby at about the same time that Queen Victoria comes to the throne and the ill-fated First Afghan War begins. Hence, the first book, Flashman (1969), is set in Afghanistan, with our cowardly hero emerging from the disastrous Retreat from Kabul with his reputation enhanced.
Does Fraser share any traits with his fictional creation, an inveterate womaniser who, more by luck than judgment, always ends up smelling of roses? "No - but I do share his general philosophy. I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity."
Yet even Flashman is not all bad and seems to have a genuine affection for many of his lovers. "Yes," agrees Fraser, "he falls for a lot of them - temporarily at any rate. He really loves Elspeth [his wife], there's no question about it. But the thing about Flashman's women, and I think this is what appeals to female readers, is that they invariably get the better of him."
There's no better example of this than the diabolical revenge that the ex-slave Cleonie takes on Flashman for callously selling her to the Apaches almost 30 years earlier. She lures him into Indian country and arranges his kidnap by Sioux braves. He survives of course, but only just, and not without suffering a partial scalping at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Fraser chose to write about the Victorian era because, in his view, its wars are the most interesting. "The Empire is at its height and no other country has got that kind of background, that century of adventure and glamour. I'm always asked why I haven't written about the American Civil War. One reason is that, by comparison, it's deadly dull."
He is an unashamed fan of the British Empire, and is delighted that revisionist historians such as Niall Ferguson (and myself) now feel able to write about it in a more objective way. "With all its faults, it's just about the best thing that's happened to an undeserving world. If there's an idea of fair play and honest government and what Bush calls 'deemacracy' today, then it's because of Britain."
It would have been a "good thing", he adds, if the Empire hadn't ended when it did. Fraser was in Bangalore training to be an officer in 1946, the year before Indian independence, and remembers that the "great majority" of Indian cadets were keen for the British to stay "because they knew that under the Raj they would get a fair shake in the army". But the Labour government was determined to "get rid of India", rushed independence and "two million people died".
Fraser has no more time for the current Labour government, not least because of its support of US policy in Iraq. "For the first time in my life," he says, "I was ashamed of Britain - or at least of its government." He regards Tony Blair as the "worst" prime minister in history and the recent decision to send troops to Afghanistan as "sheer stupidity". He reminds me of one newspaper's comment: "Have they not read Flashman?"
In a recent poll of prominent historians, Fraser was voted the historical novelist most likely to get it right. So exhaustively researched are the Flashman novels that when the first one appeared in 1969 almost a third of American reviewers, academics among them, were taken in by Fraser's conceit that the story was based on a newly discovered manuscript.
"One guy said it was the most extraordinary discovery since the Boswell Papers," he laughs. "And he was a professor of either history or English." As recently as three years ago he received a letter from an American PhD student asking to see the Flashman Papers. "People want to believe it," he says, "that's the thing."
Yet Fraser is adamant that historical novelists should never tamper with the facts. Of the many real-life people who have appeared in the Flashman novels - from Disraeli to Queen Victoria, General Sir Colin Campbell to Lola Montez - he has taken liberties with only two: the Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck ("but he was such a swine anyway that I figured that was all right") and Count Nicholas Ignatieff, the "gotch-eyed" Russian secret agent who tries repeatedly to murder Flashman.
"I made him an arch-villain," says Fraser. "He wasn't. But he was a hard man." The trick, he says, is to be true to the spirit of the person. Which is why, in Flashman and the Great Game, he includes an editorial footnote questioning Flashman's claim that he slept with the otherwise "respectable" Rani of Jhansi, the Indian Joan of Arc.
He admits to the odd clanger, such as Flashman referring to the "worst mess" he's been in since the battle of Chilianwalla in the Sikh wars. It took an American reader to point out that on the day of the battle - January 13, 1849 - Flashman was evading slave-owners on the Mississippi river. "It was very careless of me," admits Fraser, "but I can blame that on Flashman. Poor old fool meant Isandlwana, but his memory was fading."
So why, given his obvious love of historical research, has he written only one work of conventional history, a book about the Border Reivers called Steel Bonnets? He says, "Writing straight history isn't as much fun… I tend to see the funny side of things."
His novels can indeed be extremely funny; in Flashman at the Charge (1973), when our hero catches Lord Cardigan in his wife Elspeth's bedroom: "Halfway between the foot of the door and the bed stood the 7th Earl of Cardigan. His elegant Cherrypicker pants were about his knees, and the front tail of his shirt was clutched up before him in both hands. He was in the act of advancing towards my wife, and from the expression on his face - which was that of a starving, apoplectic glutton faced with a crackling roast - and from other visible signs, his intention was not simply to compare birthmarks."
Fraser tends not to read today's historians, preferring the narrative élan of 19th-century practitioners such as Alexander Kinglake and Sir John Kaye. His favourite novelists are Walter Scott ("I've just finished The Betrothed ") and Rafael Sabatini (whose Captain Blood, published in 1922, "made me realise that history was one helluva story"). What about his contemporaries? "I don't read modern novelists, apart from my daughter [Caro Fraser]." Not even Patrick O'Brian? "I'm a Hornblower man, so I don't know whether I'd like O'Brian or not."
Fraser dedicates most of his books to his wife Kath, who encouraged him not to give up when the original Flashman was rejected by "at least a dozen publishers". I think back to the late 1990s when, despairing of my ability to make a living as a historian, I had a go at writing a historical novel with Flashman's nephew as the central character. My agent read the first two chapters and told me not to give up the day job.
I relate the above to Fraser, who is quick to point out that Flashman was an only child and had no nephews. What about a son? "Yes, but he became a bishop." Damn, just as well the book was never published. But if it had been, would Fraser have minded? His reply is non-committal. "Lots of people have said they'd like to do this, they'd like to do that with Flashman. My agent has just warned them off."
Sounds ominous. So what does he think about the breach of copyright action that Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, are bringing against the British publishers of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code? "They've got to lose that case," he says. "If they win it's going to make writing historical fiction very difficult. Anyway, as I understand it, there's no copyright in ideas."
He also thinks it's "very difficult not to plagiarise" and has had some close shaves himself. Like the time he discovered that a P C Wren book called Worth Wile, published in 1937, had a scene in which the hero is "held in a dungeon by a nasty Russian with a split eye". Fraser wrote just such a scene in Flashman and the Great Game (1975) before he was even aware of the Wren book. He got the idea for the Russian Ignatieff's split eye from a boy at his school with an eye that was half blue, half brown. "Would Wren, had he still been alive, have believed that this was just coincidence?" he wonders. "But it was."
- 'Flashman on the March' by George MacDonald Fraser is published by HarperCollins at £6.99. 'Victoria's Wars: the Rise of Empire' by Saul David (Viking, £25) will be published on May 4


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Microsoft is working on its own Windows-in-the-car concept, aimed at taking on Apple's recently revealed CarPlay tool. The plans were revealed during its Build developers' conference in San Francisco.
The service operates on a similar basis, bringing the user interface of your smartphone to your car's dashboard.
That means you'll be able to control music, handle calls and sense texts via Microsoft's Cortana voice assistant without having to fumble around for your handset.
The concept uses a standard called Mirrorlink. This already works with old–school Nokia Symbian devices, as well as the Sony Xperia Z. A string of top car makers, including Honda and Citroen, are also adding in–car support.
There's no word yet on when Windows in the car will launch. But as CarPlay looks set to take off in a slew of motors later this year, don't expect Microsoft to hang around and let Apple corner the market in the meantime.