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Open Thread: It Happened to You
This is your place to talk about the funny, sad, outrageous things that are happening in your life -- whenever you're ready.
I never didn't know I was gay. As an overweight sixth grader with an unfortunate perm, I made my best friend a card that said "I love you" for Valentine's Day. She made a similar one for me. But she made her boyfriend a poster-size cardboard heart with glitter glue letters that spelled out "I HEART you." I wanted to be hearted.
As soon as I got to college, I came running out of the closet. At Brown University, I shaved my head, joined the ultimate Frisbee team, and sewed a rainbow flag patch on my backpack. I kissed some girls, and I fell in love for the first time—with a soft-spoken ultimate Frisbee player who didn't shave her legs. I watched movies like "Go Fish" and read the Alison Bechdel comic "Dykes to Watch Out For" and was thrilled to have stumbled into a culture where my poor fashion sense and bad haircuts weren't just ignored; they were rewarded.
I was the BDOC—the big dyke on campus—and when I hosted a viewing party to watch Ellen Degeneres come out on television, I had to borrow three television sets to accommodate the underclassmen who came from all over campus to watch.
As much as I understood and even commanded attention from gay girls, I had no clout in a straight world. Male friends talked to me as if I were one of the guys. Invariably, they crushed out on Heather, and she'd court their attention effortlessly. This intrigued me because I felt it eluded me. And though I had had sex by 22, I felt myself to be inexperienced in the world—somehow still a virgin of a sort—because I had not slept with a man. This was a secret thought I did not say even to Heather; it was not politically correct.
On one trip to Asia, all of this changed. For one, three weeks of intense physical labor after months of traveling had thinned me out. My collarbone protruded and the skirts I'd begun to wear fell off my frame. My hair had grown in silky and blonder than I'd remembered, and I'd replaced my glasses with contacts so I could wear sunglasses all day.
I noticed these differences from the outside in. Men on the street began to look at me. Fellow travelers hit on me. And I found myself hypnotized by a boy named Brian on a bus to Kathmandu.
When I was 22, I fell for Brian. I was a first-order lesbian fresh out of college and backpacking through Asia with my best friend. Brian was a 28 year-old Floridian schoolteacher who kept trying to catch my eye when I glanced up from my novel. I doubt I would have noticed him but for the fact that he was working circular knitting needles to form the perfect mouth of a woolen sock. A boy who knit.
I didn't know very much about boys back then. I had never so much as kissed one. But I understood desire in many incarnations. I sat very still without looking up, and absorbed Brian's gaze. It burned into the exposed flesh of my legs. I stole a glance at the maroon yarn tangled around his left leg. He had a hairy leg, a boyish leg, the leg of someone who—like me—had spent three weeks climbing a mountain without a hot shower. I followed his leg to the edge of his natty shorts and up to a bristling brown goatee above which I found his eyes. He met my smile.
We had just completed a 21-day Himalayan trek that took us over an 18,000-foot mountain pass. Before this trip, I had never been hiking. The world looks different when you get that high. The skies are a clearer blue, unpierced by airplanes and electric lights. The white snowy mountain peaks that seem so imposing from the ground become companions, a feathery softness belying occasional rumbling avalanches. On the hike up, I had perched myself on a slab of rock and a large bird swept down over me, its wings spread wider than the full expanse of my arms. I had seen none of this before.
I thought that if I could climb a mountain, surely I could talk to this guy. Next to me on the bus, Heather scribbled in her journal, occasionally flipping the tape in her plastic yellow Sony Walkman. Two rows behind me, Brian knit. I weighed my options for a moment, then moved across the aisle to plop myself down in the seat next to him. "What are you knitting?" I asked him. We inched toward each other making small talk as the hair on his leg brushed against my own.
It wasn't hard to fall for Brian. He was a boy with heart. He told me he was the sixth of seven kids in an Irish family from Miami, and he rattled off their names—five brothers and a sister. He had been working abroad as a teacher for many years, first in Korea and then in Saudi Arabia, and he told me about the little Korean girl he taught to speak English. He had knit her a hat in the shape of a strawberry with a green yarn stem sprouting from the top.
The ride was long, and we stopped for a meal in a mountain town where farmers had recently shorn their herds of sheep that wandered the stepped fields. The wool had been spun into yarn and then dyed bright hues of purple and teal and red to become, eventually, those sweaters you buy in hippy stores in towns like Northampton and Asheville. In one of the only photographs I have of Brian from that time, he stands back in awe, his mouth open, gazing at the skeins. In my loopy adolescent handwriting, I've labeled it: "Brian looks longingly."
Hours later, Brian offered to show me the strawberry cap he'd knitted. He pulled my elbow gently toward his room, and then knocked the door closed behind us with his foot. The brush of his heel on the door: that was how I knew what was coming. My stomach danced up and down. I leaned into him and before the hat ever materialized, we'd sunk on to his rickety twin bed.
At long last, my first boy kiss. It was clumsy and uncertain and then easy and then interesting. Brian was lumbering and gentle. We ventured awkwardly into sex. He pulled a condom from a drawer, and after a bit of fumbling we resumed position. Eventually, Brian fell asleep, but I did not. Instead, I turned the action over in my mind. I thought about the on-again-off-again girlfriend I'd left behind in the US. I remember there was a hole in the curtain above Brian's bed. I settled my head into the crook of his shoulder and watched a spider crawl back and forth through it a dozen times.
Sometime after the sun came up, I slipped out of bed and made my way down to the front desk. A sign advertised phone calls to the United States for $4 a minute, half the price of a night's lodging. I decided to call my girlfriend, who had moved to New York City when I left college to travel. It would be dinnertime in Manhattan, where she worked at a charter school. I let the phone ring six times. When the answering machine picked up, I listened to her voice telling me she wasn't available. I don't remember if I left a message.
That day, we made our way to the Boudhanath Stupa, a white circular temple that looms 118 feet in the air. Visitors—a few maroon-robed monks and a slew of westerners—circle it clockwise, massaging strings of wooden beads to release prayers as they stroll. We walked in silence. I tried to clear my mind, to meditate, but it was scratchy full. My pelvis ached. No one had told me sex with men hurt. It was the physical reminder that something had changed about me.
My lonely middle-of-the-night thoughts had vanished; in their place, I began nursing fantasies of a life I could make with Brian. I could have a boyfriend! We could play house and make curried chicken together and knit cosies for all of our kitchen appliances. Maybe even have a kid someday. My fingers worked their way through the beads on my string, and with each rotation around the stupa, my fantasies billowed larger.
Later in the afternoon, Brian showed up at my guesthouse. We were preparing to leave Kathmandu. We would follow the typical backpacker's route south to the Indian border, check our passports to make sure our visas were up-to-date, and then head east. Our final destination was the tiny Northern town of Rishikesh. (After the Beatles dropped by to visit an ashram there long ago, the city became known as the World Capital of Yoga.)
In a rash move, I invited Brian to join us. He had plans to go south, but he agreed that in a week he'd jump a train by himself for the 17-hour journey to Rishikesh. It was a thinly laid plan—there was a lot that could go wrong. This was 1998, a time before cell phones and email. We both agreed we'd aim for a guesthouse that we'd read about in our Lonely Planet guidebook. I anticipated we'd have trouble finding each other. I didn't anticipate my coming ambivalence.
India can make you tired. It is an assault on the senses. By the time we got to Rishikesh, I had contracted the infamous Delhi belly that results in permanent diarrhea. We'd spent hours shelved in sleeper train bunkbeds, clutching our backpacks to our chests so the porters wouldn't steal them while we slept. I'd been overwhelmed by the smell of a dog throwing up in a cobble-stone Varanasi alley around the corner from the palm reader who told me I would marry at 27, make little money, and die at 80. On one ominous bus ride, I'd felt a poking sensation on my bum and looked behind me to see a man's fingers wedged through the tiny crack in the upholstery.
Built along the green banks of the Ganges at the spot where it first emerges from the Himalayas, Rishikesh was to be our final destination before we headed back to the United States. By the time we reached the placid river pools, I had given up the idea of a love affair; I craved peanut butter sandwiches, Crest toothpaste, and the on-again-off-again girlfriend I'd left behind.
As it happened, we arrived a day before His Holiness the Dali Lama was scheduled to hold an audience at the local Ashram. The guesthouses were packed with sarong-clad westerners amassing for the event, and pop-up gift shops sold copies of "The Art of Happiness" for 37 cents. Our agreed upon guesthouse was full, but Heather and I settled nearby and hoped to run into Brian at the Ashram. Early the next morning, we headed up the hill to join the growing crowd.
It was far larger than I had imagined—a sea of white and brown faces wrapped in brightly colored cloth. After searching out Brian for some time, we gave up and settled in a sunny spot two-thirds of the way through the throngs and turned to our Buddhism primers to pass the time. I couldn't focus. I couldn't tell if the queasy feeling in my belly was relief or disappointment. As I pondered this, a ball of maroon yarn hit my knee and bounced sideways, beginning to unravel. I followed the string to its source: Brian sat two rows behind me, working his needles to fashion another sock. Catching my eyes, he picked up a second ball of yarn and lobbed it straight at my head.
I don't remember what the Dalai Lama talked about that afternoon, but I do remember that Brian smelled like Dr. Bronner's peppermint soap as he settled onto the blanket beside me. Even today, when I catch a whiff of it, I'm momentarily happy without thinking.
For the rest of our Rishikesh sojourn, Brian hung out with us. We did yoga and took hikes and read books in the sun. Sometimes, I felt so attracted to him that I wanted to wrap myself up in him to see if I could make the lines between our bodies blur; but when he tried to make a move, I rebuffed him. I blamed—or credited—my newly discovered Buddhism and yoga.
Instead of having the crazy passionate affair I'd envisioned, Brian and I spent long hours knitting. He taught me how. Sure, I knew how to hold the needles, but Brian showed me the difference between using wooden and aluminum ones. He explained the purl stitch, and showed me how to use a round needle to make the mouth of a sock. And when I invariably messed up, adding stitches to my rows, he told me not to fake it. I unraveled most of what I knit, beginning again and again.
Privately, I wrestled with my own competing desires; I longed for a simple affair that wouldn't threaten my notions of my own sexuality, the bedrock of my identity. Instead, things felt complicated. I remember one particular afternoon. We'd just eaten our meal and been for a dip in the river, and we hiked into the woods to sit and enjoy the day. The pine needles felt itchy against the back of my bare legs as I settled against a tree. Brian was a few feet in front of me. My mind shot forward, and I tried to imagine Brian in New York. Could the life I left accommodate a knitting Floridian guy? And would this guy ever even consider coming along with me for the journey?
Memory can be highly uncertain and undependable, but I remember this thought with a great deal of clarity because it catapulted me into the next chapter of my life. I wanted to go home then. I missed the New York City subway and milky white deli coffee. I missed the girl I'd left.
Until this point, I had been purposefully vague with Brian about when Heather and I intended to leave. We discussed extending our trip, but I knew I didn't want to do this. I couldn't stay with him—and I didn't want to tell him I was leaving him. Not just leaving him in India, of course, but leaving him. So I didn't.
My life returned to something I recognized after that. I joined Teach for America and moved to New York. It was a crappy year. I lived in an apartment that had no bedroom window. I had 38 fourth-graders in my Harlem classroom. And I broke up with my girlfriend for a final time.
Sometimes I thought about Brian. I wanted to apologize. I considered trying to find him, but Google and Facebook did not yet exist. I'd written his parents' mailing address down in my journal. But even if I were to write him a letter, what could I possibly say?
The following June, I decided to move to the Bay Area. My younger sister and I packed up my Honda Civic and we drove across the country together, taking two weeks to camp and hike and go white-water rafting. We arrived in San Francisco on a Tuesday evening and found a parking spot with a provident amount of ease right in front of a tacqueria in the Haight. The air smelled fresh and crisp as we unfolded our tired bodies from the front seat of the car.
In San Francisco you can get a burrito for just $3.99 that will feed you for two meals—more if you're a light eater. I was explaining this to my sister as we walked into the joint and came face-to-face with the restaurant's only other patron, Brian.
For a third time, we locked eyes. There were long moments of silence. Then he spoke: "Where the hell did you go?"
I could tell he wanted to be mad at me, but that same gentleness that won me over on a bus in Nepal emanated from him. I was speechless.
Much later, I would apologize. He would invite me to dinner at the apartment where he settled after he returned to the states. It was just a few miles from the place where I would settle. I would explain everything I'd wanted to tell him about my sexuality and about how much I had liked him.
Instead, on Tuesdays, I'd come to his knitting circle and we'd get drunk on boxed Chardonnay while he showed the other members—all women—how to work the difficult part of the thumb on a mitten.
This story is adapted from "Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting."


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|RE: Re: [doc] What should be improved in DRLVM Doxygen documentation?
|Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:41:36 GMT
Alexei, I think we're talking about different things here :) I fully support your idea and I know about the Doxygen config options you have mentioned. I was just curious to know: is there interest to produce/evaluate produce Doxygen-style comments. My case was that, say, a function can have a line of text, we consider it documented, etc. however, the function comment is only a draft that does not produce meaningful documentation. A sign of better comment is @param and/or @return tag included in the function comment. Never mind, I think this type of info is not necessary at this stage:) Thank you, Nadya Morozova -----Original Message----- From: Fedotov, Alexei A [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 7:36 PM To: email@example.com Subject: RE: Re: [doc] What should be improved in DRLVM Doxygen documentation? Nadya wrote, > we could check for required Doxygen tags in certain elements. I wasn't asked, but cannot resist, sorry. You may achieve this right now without additional coding. Doxygen warns about many problems you describe, when you have the following option set. # If WARN_IF_UNDOCUMENTED is set to YES, then doxygen will generate warnings # for undocumented members. If EXTRACT_ALL is set to YES then this flag will # automatically be disabled. WARN_IF_UNDOCUMENTED = YES The resulting log consists of warning messages about different problems. My DoxygenDrlvmLog.txt, for example, contains the following one: drlvm/trunk/vm/MMTk/ext/vm/HarmonyDRLVM/org/apache/HarmonyDRLVM/mm/mmtk/ Scanning.java:47: Warning: The following parameters of org::apache::HarmonyDRLVM::mm::mmtk::Scanning::precopyChildren(TraceLoca l trace, ObjectReference object) are not documented: parameter trace With best regards, Alexei Fedotov, Intel Java & XML Engineering >-----Original Message----- >From: Morozova, Nadezhda [mailto:email@example.com] >Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 6:26 PM >To: email@example.com >Subject: RE: Re: [doc] What should be improved in DRLVM Doxygen >documentation? > >Egor, >I agree with you on the idea of simplicity: documented vs. >non-documented. >An additional point: do you think we need/want to evaluate quality of >comments? we could check for required Doxygen tags in certain elements. >For example, a function is almost certain to include @param and @return. >Surely, this is heuristics and does not solve all our problems. But the >Doxygen quality check sometimes shows that the file does have comments, >but they are not processed properly by Doxygen - which results in a low >rating for an html file. Maybe this is a crazy idea - I'd be glad to >know your opinion. > >Thank you, >Nadya Morozova > > >-----Original Message----- >From: news [mailto:email@example.com] On Behalf Of Egor Pasko >Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 12:18 PM >To: firstname.lastname@example.com >Subject: Re: [doc] What should be improved in DRLVM Doxygen >documentation? > >On the 0x216 day of Apache Harmony Alexei Fedotov wrote: >> Egor, >> >> Thank you for your interest. > >We definitely need to improve our documentation. Necessity is not a >real interest :) > >> Here is an algorithm: >> >> 1. Create a list of words from HTML files. >> 2. Merge a dictionary of all words used in documentation. >> 3. Remove a half of the most frequently used words from the dictionary >> - I believe they do not add much sense. >> 4. Remove misspelled words (including identifiers) from the >dictionary. >> 5. Give a page +1 for each rare, correctly spelled word according to >> the dictionary. >> 6. Divide to the total number of words on the page. > >hm, strange heuristic. More unique correctly spelled words is >beneficial. It does not give a clue on the overall quality of >documentation, which is rather confusing.. > >I thought of something more natural. Number of documented items >vs. number of non-documented. Plus a penalty to the relative number of >misspelled words. > >> I've collected nice RFEs from your letter. Most of them make me think >> and I like them. >> a. Update an ASF block comment >> b. Improve readability. Some things are really easy - like removing >> awk and rewriting most things in perl. Others are a bit more complex - >> I targeted script performance when created auto-generated perl script. >> Also, initial algorithm was a bit more complex - different words had a >> different cost based on their popularity. >> c. Use junit test output format to integrate with >> http://harmonytest.org. I believe I need a feature request for that >> site as well - we need some way to import performance-like rankings to >> the site. > >Yes, I thought of the RFE to harmonytest. At least, put the doc items >on a separate page from the build items. > >> d. I will think of parsing sources. But I don't think we need to >> maintain both scripts. The generic rule is simple - improve your .h >> and .java files - .cpp files don't count. I suggest better to link >> .html files to contributors. > >can you calculate a list of relevant filenames from a doc page? give >filename +1 for each documented item, give a -1 for each undocumented, >divide on the number of items. Is it easy to implement? Maybe doxygen >has some features to assist this? > >> Thank you for ideas. I will certainly update the script. I just want >> to wait a bit - many scripts die just because people are not >> interested to run them a second time. Also, if anyone suggest any >> changes in algorithm or any other RFEs, I want to implement them all >> at once. >> >> Nadya, could you please point us a good documentation file so we can >> use it as a pattern? > >-- >Egor Pasko
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The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (TV series)
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|The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
|Directed by
|Jean Sacha
|Robert Hoffmann
|Narrated by
|Lee Payant
|Theme music composer
|Robert Mellin, Gian-Piero Reverberi
|Country of origin
|No. of episodes
|Executive producer(s)
|Claire Monis
|Running time
|25 min
|Original network
|Picture format
|35mm film
|First shown in
|Original release
|12 October 1965 – 4 January 1966
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (French: Les Aventures de Robinson Crusoë) was a French children's television drama series made by Franco London Films (a.k.a. FLF Television Paris). The show was first aired in Germany in October 1964 under the title Robinson Crusoe as four 90-minute episodes by co-producers ZDF television, and syndicated in the USA the same year. It was first aired in the UK in 1965 as a 13-part serial. This English dubbed version produced by Henry Deutschmeister also had a new musical soundtrack composed by Robert Mellin and P. Reverberi which gave the serial a more strident and appealing theme tune than the music composed by Georges Van Parys for the French/German original. The production concentrated not only on events on the island but included Crusoe's other adventures, told in flashback.
The series was based on the first of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe novels, but is perhaps best remembered for the haunting theme music composed for the English-language version, recreated since by bands such as The Art of Noise. According to the radio commentator Glenn Mitchell, "The theme tune, with its rumbling introductory notes suggesting the rolling waves of the on-screen title sequence remains distinctive, as does the full incidental score, comprising numerous cues that in each case represent some part of Crusoe's existence. The score combines the maritime idiom of the late 17th and early 18th centuries with some very 1960s influences—(later, composer Gian Piero Reverberi's Rondò Veneziano re-imagined Vivaldi for the 20th century, a recognisably similar project.)"[1]
For at least three generations of UK children, this was the definitive TV version of Daniel Defoe's classic novel. After its debut in 1965, it soon became a staple part of the BBC's school summer holiday schedules. Often shown Mondays to Fridays, in the mid '70s, it was last screened in the early 1980s, after which the BBC's contract for repeat screenings expired. It is the story of a young Englishman's struggle for survival on an unknown desert island, and his recollections of his adventures prior to the shipwreck that brought him there, in particular his involvement with slave traders. He has his pet dog Dick, a parrot and a goat for company. In the latter half of the story a group of cannibals arrive on his island; he repels them by means of explosives, and in the process rescues a man from becoming their next meal; he names him Friday. In the end he comes to terms with his less than exemplary past, and becomes a better man thanks to his experiences on the island, befriending Friday and putting his life in order.
The serial was filmed on Gran Canaria, the 3rd largest of the Canary Islands, off the coast of Morocco. Robinson's Island locations were shot at Playa del Ingles on the southern tip of Gran Canaria; the Moroccan scenes were filmed further along the coast at Playa de Maspalomas and the Dunes of Maspalomas; the small village of Tejeda located inland at the notional centre of Gran Canaria was used as the location for Robinson's Plantation in Brazil. Most of this footage was shot mute because of the lack of dialogue and the time it saved on location, the sound being dubbed on later. The English locations (York/Hull) were shot in Normandy, France. The filming took four months to complete. For the Gran Canaria footage a small 11 man film crew was used, all of whom also played small parts in the serial, such as assistant director Luc Andrieux who took the part of Kasir the fishmonger. This was Austrian, Salzburg-born,[2] actor Robert Hoffmann's first professional acting job after leaving the French actors school in Paris in 1964. (In Defoe's novel Crusoe is only 27, and his father a German émigré from Bremen, surnamed Kreutznaer, so that Crusoe is an anglicization of this name.)
Franco London Film made three different cuts of the show available (four-part, six-part and thirteen-part versions) to accommodate the broadcasting requirements of countries buying the serial. The success of this production led to a series of 16 French/German co-production adaptations of classic adventure and children's novels between 1964 and 1983, for ZDF and ORTF in France. These serials are known by German fans as the ZDF four parters. The man behind these mini epics was German producer/writer Walter Ulbrich. Franco London Film, in association with Deropa Films (Germany), were involved in the next four serials: Don Quixote the Man of La Mancha, produced by Walter Ulbrich and Henry Deutschmeister in 1965 (the last to be made in monochrome); Die Schatzinsel/L'ile au Tresor in 1966, an adaptation of Treasure Island that starred English actor Ivor Dean as Long John Silver; Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer in 1968 (broadcast in 13 parts on BBC1 from 1970 to 1974); and finally Die Lederstrumpf Erzahlungen an adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's novels featuring Natty Bumppo, collectively known as The Leatherstocking Tales, (including The Last of the Mohicans) in 1969.
The serial is known to have been dubbed into German, English, French and Italian. Currently no official copies of the Italian dub are known to exist.
- Robert Hoffmann as Robinson Crusoe
- Lee Payant as Voice of Robinson Crusoe (English dub)
- Fabian Cevallos as Friday
- Jacques Berthier as Robinson's father
- Phillipe Ogouz as Rodney
- Jacques Gougin as Robinson's friends in York
- Francis Chares as Robinson's friends in York
- Phillipe Bruneau as Robinson's friends in York
- Guy Mairesse as Captain of the Guard
- Alain Nobis as J.B.Wooseley, the lawyer (part 2)
- Robert Dalban as Captain Darrick (parts 4/5)
- Jacques Dynam as Bush, second mate on Darrick's ship (part 5)
- Peter Miles as Sailor on Darrick's ship (part 5)
- Jean Paul Bernard as Aga Asan, the Emir (part 5)
- Jaqueline Chotard as the Emir's woman (part 5)
- Luc Andrieux as Kasir, the fishmonger (part 6)
- Roland Rodier as Portuguese captain (part 7)
- Robert Luchaire as Aitkins, leader of the mutineers/pirates (parts 12/13)
- Gilbert Robin as Captain (part 13)
Additional Cast of German Cut:
- Erich Bludau as Robinson's father
- Jane Marken as Jenny, the Crusoe's housekeeper
- Oskar von Schab as Jeremias B. Wooseley, the lawyer
- Claudia Berg as Wooseley's niece
- Paul Chevalier as Blind man
- Michael Chevalier as Voice of Robinson Crusoe
Note: Certain scenes were shot with different actors for the German cut of Robinson Crusoe, and some extra scenes were filmed, as an example Wooseley's niece, the blind man and Jenny do not appear in the French/English version. Stills from the German scenes can be seen in the photo gallery on the Network DVD of the series.
Also, Lee Payant although born in the USA had been living in Paris since the late 1940s.
Apart from Payant as Robinson Crusoe, the voice artists used for the English dub for other characters, such as Robinson's father or Captain Darrick etc., remain uncredited and unknown.
Renzo Palmer was the Italian voice of Robinson Crusoe. The Italian dub also used the Robert Mellin/P.Reverberi musical score. (According to the Italian Wikipedia entry.) It was first transmitted in Italy by RAI in the Winter 1964-1965 (from December 13, 1964), and the last Italian repeat was in the summer of 1978.
Episode list - 13 part English dub[edit]
Episodes shown at 1:00 on BBC1.
- Part 1 (12 October 1965)
While travelling on a ship from Brazil to Africa, a violent storm casts Robinson onto a deserted island off the coast of South America. He spends his solitude in remembering his youthful escapades in York.
- Part 2 (19 October 1965)
Alone on his island, Robinson solves the problem of food and meets his first companion.
- Part 3 (26 October 1965)
Robinson recalls leaving home and travelling to Hull to seek a ship. The remains of the Esmeralda are washed near the shore, and he busies himself salvaging as much as possible before it sinks.
- Part 4 (2 November 1965)
Robinson recalls his first sea voyages and finds a cave which becomes his new home.
- Part 5 (9 November 1965)
In the intervals of building a shelter and making furniture, Robinson recalls how he was assumed to be dead by his friends and was sold into slavery.
- Part 6 (16 November 1965)
A fire in his cave destroys all he has created. While rebuilding his home he recalls how he escaped from slavery and the events that led him to become owner of a Brazilian banana plantation.
- Part 7 (23 November 1965)
Robinson relates how he came to be involved in the wreck of the Esmerelda.
- Part 8 (30 November 1965)
Robinson discovers an abandoned ship and pirate's treasure hoard.
- Part 9 (7 December 1965)
Having drifted with the pirate ship Robinson lands on another part of the island.
- Part 10 (14 December 1965)
Robinson encounters the cannibals and rescues Friday.
- Part 11 (21 December 1965)
Robinson tries to teach Friday how to become civilised, but Friday runs away.
- Part 12 (28 December 1965)
Friday returns, and other unwelcome visitors arrive on the island.
- Part 13 (4 January 1966)
Friday and Robinson defeat the mutineers and escape from the island.
The first German broadcast took place from 3 October 1964 – 24 October 1964, at 8.00 pm on ZDF and repeated: (27 November 1966 - 18 December 1966), (16 April 1973 - 19 April 1973) and (9 September 1979 - 30 September 1979).[citation needed]
The East German channel DDR1 screened the 6 part version twice in 1973.[citation needed]
The last German broadcast was on Tele 5 (5 June 1992 - 8 June 1992).[citation needed]
German digital channel ZDF Neo repeated all four episodes in a marathon screening from 12.55pm to 6.40pm on Monday 5 April 2010, and again on Thursday 30 December 2010 from 3.00pm to 8.15pm.[citation needed]
The first French broadcast started on 10 September 1965.[citation needed]
The first BBC repeats began at 5.20 pm from 13 February 1967, then, beginning between BBC coverage of the Apollo 11 moon landing, 21 June – 15 September 1969 at 5.20 pm and in the Summer of 1972 at 9.30 am before coverage of the Olympics, and one last evening repeat (3 May 1973 - 26 July 1973) at 5.15 pm. The BBC also stripped the serial during school summer holiday morning schedules during 1974 and 1975. The next run was on Saturdays (5 March 1977 - 28 May 1977) at 9.35 am. The last BBC repeats began on Saturday 3 April 1982 on BBC1 at 10.00 am (from part 3 the serial was incorporated into the programme Get Set for Summer hosted by Mark Curry), concluding on Saturday 26 June 1982.[citation needed]
- Director - Jean Sacha
- Assistant Director - Luc Andrieux
- Director of Photography - Quinto Albicocco
- Cameraman - Jean Malaussena
- Camera Assistant - Oliver Benoist
- Art Director - Robert Luchaire
- Film Editors - Helene Plemiannikov and Borys Lewin
- Sound Engineer - George Mardiguian
- Make-up - Roger Chanteau
- Adaptation - Jean Paul Carriere and Pierre Reynal
- Dialogue - Jacques Sommet
- Narration - Jean Marsan
- Script Editor - Denise Gaillard
- Producer - Henry Deutschmeister
- Executive Producer - Claire Monis
- Music composed by George Van Parys (original French/German version)
- Music composed by Robert Mellin and P.Reverberi (English version)
- The Franco London Orchestra conducted by P.Reverberi
- Production Manager/Script Editor - Walter Ulbrich (under the pseudonym Eugen von Metz) (German version)
- German dub by Berliner Synchron GmbH-Wenzel Ludecke
- Italian print co-production credit: F.L.F. - Ultra Film
Notes: Jean-Paul Carriere is the credit on the English/French film prints but other sources state his name as Jean-Claude Carrière.
It should be noted that the BBC requested the change of music before they would buy the serial, as they had done the previous year with The Magic Roundabout.
- In 1965, Petit Menestrel Records released in France a record of the music of George van Parys' original score (ALB 405).[citation needed]
- In February 1966, Philips Records released a seven-inch single of the theme tune by the Franco London Orchestra (BF 1470). There were two further re-releases in March 1967 (BF1562) and August 1969 (BF1806).[citation needed]
- In 1990, Silver Screen Records released on CD the music from the English dub of the series by Robert Mellin and P. Reverberi. The tracks were taken from tapes kept by Robert Mellin in Italy.[citation needed]
- In 1997, Silva Screen Records released an extended version was released, engineered by Mark Ayres, since more tapes had been found at Franco London Film in France. This version also featured Silva Screen's new recording of a suite of music from the series.[citation needed]
- In November 2011, Silva Screen Records released 300 copies a special limited edition seven-inch vinyl single of the theme tune. Side 1 contains the "Opening Title Theme" and "The Main Theme"; side 2 contains "Catching Dinner" and "Adrift" (SIL7 1376). Technically, this was an E.P. (Extended Player) which played at 33rpm, not the standard seven-inch single speed of 45rpm. Unlike the original 1966 release, which credits the recording to the Franco London Orchestra, this release credits the recording to the Robert Mellin Orchestra.[citation needed]
VHS and DVD releases[edit]
- In 1997, the complete series was released on VHS video by Network in four volumes. This was thanks to the work of Tim Beddows who tracked down the only known English language prints in a French film vault. However, these were 16mm prints, since the original 35mm prints used by the BBC between 1965 and 1982 had been junked, and no other 35mm prints could be found.[citation needed]
- In 2006, the four-part German version was released on DVD, dubbed in German by Concorde Home Entertainment and restored from 35mm prints.[citation needed]
- In 2007, Network released the series on DVD. Once again these were the recovered 16mm prints; these also included a French print of part one with burnt in Portuguese subtitles and an interview with Robert Hoffman from TV show V.I.P. (1997).[citation needed]
External links[edit]
- Network DVD release (including interview with Robert Hoffman, 2007).
- BFI online(UK repeat dates 1967/73)
- TV Wunschliste (German repeat dates 1966–1992/2010)
- German Robinson Crusoe website
- And other various German websites (including-ZDF Abenteur Vierteiler website).


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WORK will finally start today on a new Tesco store in Little Lever — more than 18 months after planning permission was granted.
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Plans for the store were first unveiled in May, 2011.
The proposals split the community with those for and against staging campaigns. Public meetings were also called. The plans were given the go ahead on August 27, 2012.
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It will employ about 150 staff, 49 of which will come from the existing Tesco Metro in Market Street, meaning an extra 100 jobs will be created.
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Now that I'm back mentally from my big bubble project, I wanted to dive into the Phoenix real estate market.
Most of the price action that happens with metro Phoenix home prices happens in the first half of the year, the high season.
Home sales are a bit slower the second half of the year and home prices have a strong tendency to move sideways in the second half.
My Phoenix Real Estate Market at a Glance graph is always great but let's look at some other graphs from The Cromford Report (available to licensed real estate agents who are paid subscribers).
For metro Phoenix, the price per square foot is up 6% in mid-June compared to a year earlier.
That's nice but the story this year isn't about good appreciation.
The story this year is two stories;
- Some less expensive zip codes are appreciating fast, but
- Prices in some of the most expensive zip codes are actually falling.
Northeast Valley
It looks like Scottsdale home prices have been moving sideways for a couple of years but that's misleading.
Northeast Valley: Mar-May 2016 vs 2015, $/SF
- 85266 (Carefree) -10%
- 85251 (Old Town Scottsdale) +12%
It looks like Glendale has seen good appreciation but it all depends on the zip code.
Glendale: Mar-May 2016 vs 2015, $/SF
- 85310 (Farthest North) -6%
- 85301 (Historic Downtown) +20%
Luxury Stagnation
The multi-year run of huge increases in luxury home prices is long over.
The luxury home market is sensitive to the stock market. Luxury home buyers tend to own a lot of stocks so when the stock market goes up, they feel good and buy luxury homes.
The stock market has been moving sideways, however, for a year and a half now and most of the recent stock market news has been blah, so it looks like luxury home prices will continue to mark time for awhile.
Lower Price Boom Continues?
This market is harder to forecast but since it's been moving up so strongly, I'm expecting it to continue up unless the economy softens.
If interest rates ever increased significantly it could really change the real estate market for years.
Current homeowners with low-rate mortgages – which is pretty much everyone now – would be less enthusiastic about trading up (or down), if that would mean they would lose the great mortgage rates they have on their current homes.
But right now it looks like interest rates may not increase significantly for several years.
A recession is far more likely than significantly higher mortgage rates.
Recessions, however, tend to hurt the lower end of the market the most. So a recession would take the wind out of lower price home sales and price increases.
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We had an oops and went through about 20 strips of a new bottle of blood glucose strips before I realized that the new bottle had a different calibration than the previous one. I felt horrible that this happened as I am usually overly careful. How much can that affect the reliability of the test?
You could try to experiment and test twice in a row (on the correct code and on the wrong code) and see how much of a difference there is. At least you figured it out!
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MAC is known for their affordable, yet high-quality makeup. Although it's more affordable than many brands, I still find it quite expensive. A couple of months ago, I decided to finally purchase the MAC Rebel Lipstick....best decision ever. Rebel is a blue-based berry shade that is unbelievably flattering. Not only does it work perfectly for the Fall and Winter months....it makes your teeth look extremely white! Because it is a satin finish, the application is quite smooth - and much smoother than the matte finish lipsticks, which tend to leave your lips chalky. Rebel is long-lasting and is perfect for wearing all day long. Since it is such a deep cranberry shade, it stains your lips for quite some time, which is great if you don't have a lot of time to reapply during the long work day.
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noun: One of Canada's best up and coming metal bands. Some of their influences include Protest the Hero and Between The Buried And Me. All of the members are only 16! Basically, you will get raped by this band cuz they are that fucking good! They have gained much popularity thanks to their guitarist SJP or "Chin" becoming a youtube guitar phenom. Of course people wanted more Chin, and now they have more than they can handle.
Typical Noob: "I'm sick of listening to the Jonas Brother's and Miley Cyrus...do you know any good bands?"
Wise Owl: No sorry. But I do know a great band, "Closed For Tonight".
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Last night, roughly 120 people packed into the cozy showroom above Dinosaur BBQ to witness another piece of Syracuse music history. The Syracuse Area Music Awards Hall of Fame welcomed six newcomers, and presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to legendary composer Jimmy Van Heusen.
Along with Van Heusen, this year's inductees included Jim Spadafore (Music Educator of the Year), Skip Murphy, Scott Sterling, John Dancks, Willie "Taters" Mavins and The Seven.
The gala at Dino was a who's who of local music. Among the crowd were former Hall of Fame inductees like Todd Hobin, Dave Novak, Mike Davis, Joe Riposo and more, as well as scores of local musicians, producers and supporters of the scene. Also in attendance: Sen. John Defrancisco, a supporter of the Syracuse Music Awards.
At 9 p.m., after more than two hours of cocktails, conversation and barbeque, the program got underway. Emcee Dave Frisina--program director and DJ at 105.9 The Rebel--welcomed the full house and began introducing the presenters.
"We're on musicians' time," Frisina quipped.
Joe Riposo first presented Jim Spadafore with the Music Educator of the Year Award. Riposo--a music educator himself--taught Spadafore throughout most of his academic career, before hiring him for his first teaching job. In his remarks, Spadafore gave a shoutout to fellow inductees The Seven.
"I used to sneak into [bars] and watch The Seven play when I was a kid," Spadafore said.
In his signature Indiana Jones' fedora, Colin Aberdeen of Los Blancos next introduced Willie "Taters" Mavins, a South Carolina transplant who moved to Syracuse in 1959. After a lengthy introduction by Aberdeen, Mavins was brief with his remarks.
"It's hard for me to stand up here without tears," he said. "So thank you."
Next Dave Novak presented bassist John "JD" Dancks with his Hall of Fame SAMMY. As a bassist, Novak said, Dancks was rarely in the spotlight. "But now," he continued, "He's finally front and center."
The Seven, the evening's fourth inductee, took the stage wearing matching "The Seven" t-shirts as local music historian Ron Wray presented the rock squad with their SAMMY.
"I didn't think there would be this many of you still alive," Chuck Sgroi of The Seven said to his fans as the band accepted the award.
Next it was Scott Sterling's turn to accept his SAMMY, presented by Jeff Jones of The Dracula Jones. And what a turn Sterling took. In a 22-minute acceptance speech, Sterling rattled off the highlights of a career spanning nearly 40 years.
"We're going to talk about rock n roll," he began. "We're going to talk about music."
"When I was a kid, monsters made me play guitar," Sterling closed. "They still do."
The final Hall of Fame award went to Skip Murphy, presented by fellow Hall of Famer and Syracuse New Times photographer Mike Davis. Murphy, formerly of Out of the Blue, emphatically thanked his family and friends.
"This award goes to the spouses," Murphy said. "For us to get the award is cool, but it really belongs to them."
The evening wrapped with New Times publisher Bill Brod presenting the Lifetime Achievement Award to Jimmy Van Heusen. Brook Babcock, Van Heusen's grand nephew, accepted the award on behalf of the Syracuse songwriter.
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Galax drew to within one match of a perfect run through its Mountain Empire District volleyball schedule, bouncing back from a first-set loss to knock off Narrows 22-25, 25-15, 25-8, 25-19 last Thursday in Galax. "We would love to finish the season 8-0 in the district," said Maroon Tide coach Rose Houk after her team improved to 14-4 overall, 7-0 in the district.
INDEPENDENCE -- Having ended one streak, Grayson County would like nothing better than to start a new one, this time one of a different sort. Coming off a bye week that followed the end of a 17-game slide, the Blue Devils will look for their second straight win this week when they return to action with a Mountain Empire District game Friday at Bland County.
HILLSVILLE -- Grundy is capable of beating Carroll County.
MIDLOTHIAN -- Galax put forth great effort in trying to defend its 2008 Group A golf championship but fell just short at Independence Golf Club on Tuesday. The Maroon Tide shot a second-round 313 to put the pressure on Giles, but the Spartans held on for their first team championship since 2002 with a score of 622, followed by Galax (636) in second and Chatham (643) in third. Radford H
Now and then, a school will purposely schedule a key game for homecoming week in hopes of having a little added motivation. Normally, though, homecoming games are scheduled against the downtrodden, the 0-fers, the patsies. Other than an expected win, the opponent often has little to offer as far as the big picture is concerned.
Welcome to the 2009 playoffs, Galax. Your first-round opponent is Covington. Galax entered the season with every expectation of cruising into the playoffs and giving frontrunners EastMont, Holston and Bath County a run for their money in the Region C Division 1 title chase. The Maroon Tide just didn't expect the playoffs to begin in October.
Galax remained winless in the Mountain Empire District after another tough loss at home Friday night, falling to Fort Chiswell 31-8. The game began promising for Galax (1-6 overall, 0-2 MED), after the Maroon Tide put up eight quick points on its opening drive. Galax's offense netted a loss of 1 yard on its first two plays before quarterback Terrance Mazon found Deion George on a
MARION -- Upon delivering the Marion homecoming court to the Carroll County side of Hurricane Stadium, a stretch limousine stood mired in the muck in front of the Cavalier bench until a small gang of Carroll students climbed in the back for ballast and another one crawled in behind the wheel.
RADFORD -- Brent Bell of Galax claimed his second straight class championship at Motor Mile Speedway with a pair of top-two finishes in the season-ending Adams Construction 150 on Sept. 12.
HILLSVILLE -- Those planning on making the trip to Marion for Carroll County's Southwest District matchup with the Scarlet Hurricane on Friday may want to make sure they get there on time. This one may be over in a hurry. Not that anybody is expecting a blowout. On the contrary, these two teams appear very evenly-matched, much more so than anyone may have expected at the beginning of the season.
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In A Christians Guide to Investing, Fontana has a riches-to-rags story that relates his fall from the penthouse to the outhouse. He eventually made it back on top, and in the process learned a lot about the stock market, insurance products, bonds, mutual funds, and proper handling of discretionary funds. Today, he teaches college classes on financial management, has a television show dedicated to investment strategies, and works as a financial advisor to a select clientele. He became a Christian after exploring many avenues of worship and faith, and he believes the wisdom of Christs teachings has a direct application to the success a person has in life--including financial success.
Chapter two is the most useful section of Fontanas book. It is titled, How Could I Be That Stupid? and it points out the seven worst mistakes people make in managing their money. He lists each mistake, explains why people do it, what the consequences are, and how either to avoid it or get out of it if youve already made such a mistake. The information is pragmatic, easy to follow, and gut honest.
Chapters three through seven then bog down. It isnt that the information isnt true or valuable; its just that it is far more than the average person wants to know. Its like asking someone what time it is and having that person tell you how to build a clock. Fontana talks about investment cycles, investor psychology, historical trends in the stock market, national debt problems, and even the function of the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Personally, I found it intriguing, but then, Ive written two best-selling books on financial management. However, any Joe or Jill on the street would probably start yawning and asking, But, specifically, what should I do right now with my money?
Fortunately, the book turns its attention to answering that question in the eighth and ninth chapters when Fontana talks about reducing taxes, creating a solid retirement plan and well organized estate, and learning to get into investments that will match a persons temperament, goals, and emotions. At various points in the book there are self-analysis questionnaires, side questions, and thought provokers. There are also some occasional direct ties to scriptural teachings, such as not being greedy and learning to yield to God what is already His. The book is not preachy, however, and, in reality, it is more of a college text than a biblical study guide. Still, it is ethical and solid. I recommend this to folks who have already been managing their money fairly well and wish to learn more about how to improve earnings. Beginners should probably stick to chapters one, two, eight and nine. -- Dr. Dennis E. Hensley, Christian Book Previews.com
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Dimensions: 42" long x 8" tall x 2" thick. Weighs 7 pounds.
Furniture maker, Marc Deloach, handmade this three-and-a-half-foot long shark from wood he salvaged in the Mississippi Delta. I, Christine Schultz, handpainted it in acrylics. It's a great addition to any room of your home or office. No two are the same. This black shark has a gold eye and stripe. He's got a white belly, red lips, gills and tail markings. His two teeth are square nails painted white. He's made of salvaged cypress. I painted the two-inch thick edges to create a multi-dimensional effect. He's a real catch, ready to ship.
Hang this fish anywhere--in a dining room, kitchen, kids' room, over a doorway or stairway, in a bathroom or bedroom, covered porch, lakehouse, or wherever you'd like a pop of color and whimsy. One is great. Groupings are even better.
On the back: My husband nailed a notched metal piece over a drilled, inletted circle, so that the fish will balance from a single nail or screw head. If you turn the fish over, you can see the original reclaimed cypress on back. My signature, Christine Schultz, is there, as well.
Care and handling: While these fish are fun and durable, they're not meant as playthings for kids or to last outside directly in the weather. However, a covered porch is fine. We're happy to custom make fish. Just ask.