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Classification Program
The classification program is designed to ensure that the skill level required and the responsibilities assigned to employees are accurately reflected in position descriptions and that positions are appropriately classified in accordance with the Classification and Qualification Standards issued by the Trustees of The California State University (CSU) as implemented at Fresno State.
A classification and/or skill level review may be initiated by the employee, Chair, Dean/Director or the Human Resources Department.
Classification and/or skill level reviews are normally conducted in response to a change in skill level requirements or position responsibilities, a reorganization/structural change or the establishment of a new position. The supervisor is responsible for preparing position descriptions and ensuring that each employee has a position description which reflects the responsibilities assigned and skills required. Determination of the appropriate classification is based on the skills required to perform the job and nature of work assigned. Factors such as independence, autonomy, innovation, creativity, decision making, judgment, complexity, supervision given and received may also be considered.
The effective date of employee-initiated classification and skill-level changes will be the first of the month following receipt by human resources of the Request for a Job Review and supporting documentation. Management initiated reviews may be effective upon completion of the review and approval unless an alternate date is requested by the appropriate administrator.
The salary of an employee moving to a classification or skill level with a higher salary range shall be set according to the appropriate provisions of the collective bargaining agreement.
The Classification Program shall apply to all employees in temporary, probationary and permanent non-faculty positions including confidential and administrator positions covered by the Management Personnel Plan.
Employees not covered by these guidelines include Instructional Faculty, Auxiliary employees, Teaching Associates, Graduate Assistants, Special Consultants, Casual Workers, Student Assistant/Work Study and Volunteer employees.
Where the provisions of this policy and procedure are in conflict with the collective bargaining agreements reached pursuant to Chapter 12, (commencing with Section 3560) of Division 4 of Title I of the Government Code, the Collective Bargaining Agreements shall take precedence.
MANAGEMENT INITIATED REVIEWS: The supervisor shall prepare and forward to the appropriate dean/director a memo (the dean/director must sign the memo to authorize the program manager to conduct the review). The memo shall identify the reasons for change in assignments, e.g. legislation, reorganization, new functions. A current and revised position description, including organization charts shall be forwarded with the memo.
EMPLOYEE INITIATED REVIEWS: An employee may request a classification review provided the request is made in accordance with the appropriate collective bargaining agreement (e.g. Units 2.5.7.& 9 employees shall not submit subsequent request prior to eighteen (18) months after completion of a previous classification review). An employee's Request for Job Review shall be submitted in writing to the employee's supervisor and must include an updated Job Description.
The supervisor shall forward the employee request as soon as possible to the supervisor/dean/director for endorsement and submission to human resources for review. The supervisor/dean/director shall indicate their agreement/disagreement with the accuracy, performance or need for continued performance of the duties described by the job description. In addition, the supervisor/dean/director must submit a current Position Description and organizational chart.
Classification Review
The review process may include one or more of the following:
- Analysis of materials associated with the position including the position description and job description. In most cases, this step will be sufficient to make a determination. Therefore, it is important to be thorough in description of the duties and organization.
- Interviews with the incumbent, supervisor, and/or manager individually or in groups.
- Comparison with other positions on/off campus for similarities and differences in skill level, difficulty, responsibility and qualification requirements.
The program manager shall formulate a classification recommendation, review the recommendation with the dean/director and obtain approval, communicate in writing the classification determination, including the reasons for the decision, within 180 calendar days after initiation of the request.
Classification Appeal
Where authorized by the collective bargaining agreement, an employee may appeal a classification and/or skill level determination to the director of human resources no later than fifteen (15) calendar days after receiving written notification of the decision. The appeal shall include the specific reasons for disagreement with the classification determination. The process for an appeal review shall be similar to the initial classification review process. The classification and/or skill level decision resulting from the appeal shall be final and not subject to grievance procedures.


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Would you poison the planet for $100,000?
According to a recent article, filmmaker Josh Fox faced this question when he received a $100,000 offer in exchange for the natural gas drilling rights to his property in the Delaware River Basin. Instead of taking the money and keeping quiet, he decided to use his talents to make a film that exposes the harsh reality of America's natural gas drilling campaign. Touring 24 states across the country, Fox, in his Sundance award-winning documentary, GASLAND, reveals some horrific truths about how the natural gas industry is poisoning our water and air, causing chronic illnesses in residents near drilling areas, and contributing to a crisis that could affect millions more, long-term. What does this crisis look like in real life? Here's what's happening in several major cities:
- In Dimock, Pennsylvania, close to the New York City watershed, animals began losing their hair after the drilling started, most likely from the toxic water they ingested.
- In DISH, Texas, emissions from natural gas wells and pipelines measure way above the public health standard for cancer-causing benzene and the neurotoxin carbon disulfide. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, the emissions are greater than the air pollution caused by all the cars and trucks combined.
- In Wyoming, a water well erupted with a geyser of natural gas for three days.
If that's not enough to make you think twice, watch this video:
CAN YOU DO THIS WITH YOUR TAP WATER? from JOSHFOX on Vimeo.
Flammable tap water is not the most disturbing of Fox's findings, however. The drilling process, called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which leads to all of this contamination, was exempted in 2005 by the Bush-Cheney Energy Policy Act from United States environmental regulations, including the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Clean Air Act. What's more, the fight has now moved to Congress, where lobbyists are trying to prevent legislation that would reverse the exemption, making chemicals used in the process subject to the Safe Drinking Water Act, once again.
I repeat: lobbyists are trying to PREVENT legislation that would reverse the exemption…
Pardon me while I try to make sense of this. Instead of preventing accidents like the recent BP oil spill, our very own leaders are ignoring the problem while we scramble to find ways to clean up the mess? – (i.e. Kevin Costner's Oil Spill Machines; oil booms and mats made of pantyhose and hair)
Innocents like Fox, who accept a monetary offer in exchange for drilling rights must sign non-disclosure forms forcing them to keep quiet about their experience with natural gas drilling and preventing them from bringing any lawsuits. Perhaps this is the reason why Fox refused the $100,000 offer. After all, why would anyone want to put a price tag on his health and risk death in the process? Besides, since the film won the Documentary Special Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, I'm sure Fox has gained a worthier source of income.
The film makes its debut on Monday, June 21, at 9 p.m. ET/PT., exclusively on HBO. Watch it. Tell your friends. And please do us all a favor, and share this post.
In the meantime, check out our list of some of our other favorite must-watch water movies..

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Tosha Yvette Hicks and Tamico Antonio Clark, both of New Bernwere united in marriage on Aug. 3, 2013, at Knights of Columbus with the Rev. Angela Gooden officiating.
Tosha Yvette Hicks and Tamico Antonio Clark, both of New Bernwere united in marriage on Aug. 3, 2013, at Knights of Columbus with the Rev. Angela Gooden officiating.
The bride is the daughter of Earnest Hicks of New Bern and Larry Dean Sr. of Vanceboro and the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Daniel and Irene Hicks Sr.
The bridegroom is the son of Evergene Clark and Theodore Loftin of New Bernand the grandson of Evelyn Clark of New Bern.
The bride was given in marriage by her father.
Nuptial music was provided by vocalists Bonita Simmons and Titus Warren, who also was the organist, and other musicians Danzele Boomer and Tasha Bryant.
The matron of honor was Reva Clark Cox of New Bern.
Maid of honor was Venola Hicks-Dillahunt of Norfolk, Va., sister of the bride.
Bridesmaids were Qushanna Hicks and Melody Hicks, both of New Bern, Chandelier Gatling of Cove City, Kaneka Moore of Aurora, and Melissa Thioube of Graham.
Dasani Harkley was the flower girl.
Best man was Cedric Clark of Pamlico.
Groomsmen were Fred Hicks, Jimmy Lathon, and Kevin Hall, all of New Bern, Ricky Hall of Pollocksville, and Franklin Bryant of CoveCity.
Zaquan Hicks was the ringbearer.
Assisting with the wedding were Lois Credle and Dr. Wanda Dawson, wedding coordinators; Dicie Smith, Daisy Cooper, coordinator assisters; Charlene Jackson and Daijahnae Gatlin, both of Cove City, Nichole Fenner, Michelle Wright, and Kayla Ingram, all of New Bern, hostesses.
A reception, hosted by the bride and groom, was held at Knights of Columbus.
Assisting with the reception were Lois Credle, Wanda Dawson, Dicie Smith, Daisy Cooper and Bertha Smith, Charlene Jackson, Nichole Fenner, Kayla Ingram, Daejahnae Gatling and Michelle Wright.
The couple took a honeymoon trip.
The bride graduated from CravenCommunity Collegeand MountOliveCollegeand is currently attending LibertyUniversity. She is employed by Pamlico County School System as a teacher assistant.
The bridegroom is currently attending PamlicoCommunity College.
They will live in New Bern.


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When students enroll in Jonathan Dattelbaum's biochemistry course at the University of Richmond, they expect to learn about the basics of the field. But Dattelbaum's course is about the unexpected, and that's on purpose. Community-based learning extends the learning experience for students outside the classroom through interactions with the public. Here, Dattelbaum, an associate professor of chemistry and co-director of the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Interdisciplinary Program at the University of Richmond, reflects on how sending students out into the world has proved to be a valuable teaching pedagogy.
Biochemistry students, from left, Caroline O'Rourke, Tran Doan and Miles Johnson participated in the community-based learning module established by University of Richmond associate professor Jonathan Dattelbaum.
Community-based learning experiences take many forms, including bringing in speakers from the community, producing documentaries, teaching course materials in primary and secondary schools, or conducting field work. I chose service learning, because it provides an excellent umbrella for student exploration of the connections between textbook concepts and real-world applications, particularly for medical and biotechnological fields.
Many science faculty members believe that science is learned by doing. Refining what it means to be actively engaged in teaching science is important for our students as they move through the curriculum and into the workforce.
In the sciences, one of the most common formats for active teaching is the lab-based science class, in which students learn important hands-on skills and applications. More recently, many schools have invested in undergraduate research programs that enhance experiential collaborations between students and faculty. While learning laboratory skills is an important part of science education, many science majors will not become research laboratory scientists. I believe that finding ways to develop life skills, such as studying the application of science in society, learning more about community and working with different population sectors, requires creating learning opportunities outside of traditional laboratory-based courses.
The process for developing a community-based learning experience began as part of a biochemistry laboratory section I was teaching as a first-year faculty member. The goal was to provide a complementary learning experience for students and not to replace specific laboratory material.
This teaching module was developed in consultation with the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement at the University of Richmond. I wanted to challenge the biochemistry lab students to take part in community-based service where biochemistry plays a role. The pilot project asked students to complete at least three hours of service in the Richmond community at one of four selected organizations: the American Lung Association of Virginia, the CrossOver Clinic, the March of Dimes' Central Virginia Division and the National Kidney Foundation of the Virginias.
While the students participated in a variety of activities depending on the needs of the organizations, the connecting force was the interaction students had with clients at each site, allowing for personal observations of diseases, conditions and situations.
Student evaluations consistently showed that about two-thirds of students were serving in the community for the first time and that many students worked more hours than the course required. About two-thirds also said that they learned more in the course because of the community-based project.
Fall 2008: 24 studentsSpring 2009: 21 studentsFall 2009: 15 studentsSpring 2010: 26 students
86 students x 15 hours =1,290 hours total
For their efforts, students received the equivalent of one problem set toward the laboratory grade in the course. To assess this activity, I designed a report sheet that asked each student to provide a short paragraph describing his or her experience and to reflect on how biochemistry was involved.
This lab module became a pilot project that ran for three semesters.
I later expanded the community-based learning experience into the lecture component to show students how the course material relates to society. The number of topics covered in lecture is greater, which allows the inclusion of more community organizations in the program. In the end, more than 40 students participated per year in the CBL project.
My students chose from selected sites in the Richmond community and worked for a minimum of 15 hours. While the selected sites were preferred because of the network of contacts I developed at them, students were allowed to work at different locations with prior approval. They also were required to keep well-written blog journals summarizing their activities within 24 hours of each visit.
Here's one excerpt from an entry:
"I have come to learn that some days are better than others in the nursing home, both for the patients and the staff. The patient I visit was congested and had to get a chest X-ray but turned out to be fine and returned to the nursing home the next day. Since, she has been much less talkative (compared to the minimal amount she did). It is hard assessing how someone is doing/feeling when you can't really communicate with them, and incredibly frustrating on both ends, whether patient or nurse."
And here's another:
"A student working at a local facility to transition drug addicts back into society observed the detoxification process and connected this with some of what we know about the biochemical processes in the brain that favor addiction and bring about pain during withdrawal."
"I am TB negative! My skin test had a bump that was 1mm off of unacceptable size for being in a hospital setting. They injected me with tuberculosis antigen, (and) the size of my inflammatory response is dictated by the amount of TB antibodies I have. A person who has been exposed to TB in the past (and thus has a large AB count) will have a larger inflammatory response, hence a larger bump. If I had failed the size test, they would then have taken an X-ray to check for nodules in my lungs."
At the end of the term, each student wrote a literature-based paper with a reflective component focused on some biochemical aspect related to the mission of his or her work site and experiences working with individuals there.
The students also completed an evaluation form that provided some quantitative feedback. After the first year of this project, the most important critique I received was that the service hours felt like extra work that was not really a part of the course. I, therefore, turned my attention to integrating the experience throughout the entire semester. I did this by explaining on the first day of class why I thought this project has value for learning biochemistry.
Additionally, I used class time every other week to let students present information about their experiences and explain how those experiences related to biochemistry.
For example, a student who volunteered with a local rescue squad described the treatment of a 19-year-old girl experiencing a possible sleeping pill or heroin overdose. Narcan, a potent narcotic antagonist that works by blocking opiate receptors, was administered, and a violent reaction ensued, suggesting heroin overdose. The student presented this example in the context of a recent lecture on protein-ligand binding. Additionally, the age of the patient helped students see the significance of the concept of small-molecule binding and affinity, which is a difficult topic for some students.
A second student working at a local facility to transition drug addicts back into society observed the detoxification process and connected this with some of what we know about the biochemical processes in the brain that favor addiction and bring about pain during withdrawal. Additionally, she went even further to describe the socioeconomic diversity present in the facility, which was something this student had not expected to find.
The student presentations provided the most significant change in student attitudes toward the project. The number of students reporting that they were able to see how biochemistry subject material related to society rose from 67 percent in the first year to 92 percent in the second year. As a result of bringing the student presentations into the lecture, the learning was no longer isolated to individual students who went out into the Richmond community alone and wrote term papers that only I read. This became a powerful mechanism to share learning experiences in the classroom, where connections could be illustrated by students and not just by me.
There are a few barriers to making the most of community-based learning experiences.
One important factor to consider is that, as the course instructor, you must give up a certain level of control over the amount of learning that occurs at the sites. Some will be better than others, and that must be accepted and communicated to students in advance. Developing relationships with volunteer coordinators is invaluable for finding projects that align well with course objectives. However, such organizations have high turnover and require constant re-evaluation. This extra time is an important factor to consider at the onset.
There is also a risk that not all students will be interested in participating for any number of reasons, and issues are likely to arise, including problems with transportation, with nonresponsive organizations and with extra time for the assignment. Student frustration comes out in course evaluations. If one has unsupportive departmental or administrative colleagues, this may be a particular concern for untenured faculty.
Over the four semesters that I taught this community-based learning course, my students contributed more than 1,290 hours of service to the Richmond community. As research scientists, we can have a very positive impact on the training of a small number of laboratory students, but, as teachers providing opportunities like this one, there can be a multiplier effect in that our students take ownership of their learning to enhance the community in a meaningful way.
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A slew of TV ads directed at David Dewhurst and Ted Cruz fired onto the airwaves Monday, each directing accusations against the personal integrity of the other.
The day started out fairly docile with the Dewhurst campaign's "Full Repeal," a reiteration of the Lt. Governor's stump speech of being a businessman who is willing to take Texas's model for "reduced taxes" and "balanced budgets" to Washington, where he wants to end "Obamacare".
An ad from the Texas Conservatives Fund, which supports Dewhurst, aimed at Cruz. In "Ted Cruz should be ashamed", the TCF links Cruz to the death of the son of Sandy Fonzo, who was part of the Pennsylvania "kids for cash" scheme involving Robert Mericle. Children like Fronzo's son were sent to a for-profit correctional facility in exchange for "kick backs" to the judges who sentenced them. Cruz was listed on a contract case involving Mericle and a private insurance provider and says he had no involvement in the criminal proceedings.
Cruz fired back with "At It Again." In it, the Cruz campaign accuses Dewhurst of lying about supporting "amnesty" and "payroll taxes", then being "caught". The ad continues by saying Dewhurst is using "false character attacks to distract you from the truth". You can expect plenty of ads to continue through the week, especially considering that Club for Growth announced monday that it is giving $574,000 to more airtime for Cruz.


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Microsoft announced today that its latest mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango," is now available for download for select customers. Nearly all existing Windows Phone users will be able to download the OS update soon, though the company says it plans to roll out the software update "gradually" over the next few weeks, so some customers will have to wait a significant period of time for the upgrade.
As you might have noticed, Microsoft is somewhat vague about which customers will receive the update when. According to the Windows Phone blog, the roll-out is a "simultaneous, coordinated, global update that cuts across carriers, phone models and countries." Then, about two sentences down, they say that they're "not making Mango available to everyone at once. So it could be a few weeks before an update message for Windows Phone 7.5 appears on your phone." Uh, okay…. we're totally confused.
Guessing as much, Microsoft has set up a "Where's My Phone Update?" website, which is supposed to tell users approximately when their update is coming. But a quick look at the website has a message telling users to wait for an alert on their phone to appear. Great, thanks for that.
Regardless of the nonsensical gibberish about the roll-out timing, a gradual software release makes perfect sense, as it lowers the risk of things going awry. Besides, it worked for Android, so it must be good.
The wait for Mango, whatever that may be, should be worth it. Included in the features updates are visual voicemail, Twitter integration and an impressive IE9-based mobile browser. Microsoft will also launch a web-based Marketplace for app downloads, with a current total of about 30,000 apps to choose from. And we'll see some third-party apps for Mango, as well.
All-in-all, the Mango update is a highly-anticipated one. As soon as we get an update notice, we'll have an in-depth hand-on for you to chew on. Until then, we wait.


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Waterloo Road (TV series)
Waterloo Road (2006–2015) is a BBC television drama series set in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England about a troubled comprehensive school. It focuses on its teachers and students, and confronts social issues, including affairs, abortion, divorce and suicide.
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- 1 Series 1
- 2 Season 2
- 3 Series 3
- 3.1 Episode 1
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- 3.11 Episode 11
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- 3.15 Episode 15
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- 3.19 Episode 19
- 3.20 Episode 20
- 4 Series 4
- 5 Season 5
- 5.1 Episode 1
- 5.2 Episode 2
- 5.3 Episode 3
- 5.4 Episode 4
- 5.5 Episode 5
- 5.6 Episode 6
- 5.7 Episode 7
- 5.8 Episode 8
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- 5.12 Episode 12
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- 6 Season 6
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- 6.7 Episode 7
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- 6.13 Episode 13
- 6.14 Episode 14
- 6.15 Episode 15
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- 6.18 Episode 18
- 6.19 Episode 19
- 6.20 Episode 20
- 7 Season 7
- 8 External links
Series 1[edit]
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- Jack: You say you're up for a challenge, almost all of our kids leave school with an ASBO or a bun in the oven.
- Lorna: Settle down (Slams books down on desk) I SAID SETTLE DOWN!
- Chlo: Are you trying to take advantage of me cause I'm drunk.
- Tom: Izzy, I thought you quit the fags.
- Izzy: Yeah, well, I lied didn't i?
- Tom: What's up?
- Izzy: Just the usual
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- Andrew: It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.
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- Kim: That takes us up to five mums to be. We could start our own antenatal classes.
Episode 4[edit]
- Jack: Kids, eh? They turn everything on its head, don't they? You give them a system and their first instinct is to cheat it.
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- Mika: Chlo,you heard the news, Danielle just told me Holly's woken up, She's out of the coma she's going to live.
- Chlo: That's brilliant. I mean it.
- Mika: Course you mean it. Right, See ya later then.
- Chlo: Yeah, See ya.
- Mika: Chlo, Are you bunking off?
- Chlo: There's nothing to bunk off from is there?
(They both walk outside)
- Chlo: I'm going to see holly if you must know.
- Mika: What in hospital?
- Chlo: Mika, I have to know what she can remember, I can't wait untill the court case. It's driving me mad.
- Mika: What you so worried about, She's gonna tell the truth about what happened.
- Chlo: Yeah, I know but... What if she can't remember anything, then it's just my word against donte's
- Mika: Well, Do you want me to come with ya?
- Chlo: No, no i'll be fine. Just cover for me will ya?
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Andrew Treneman: I can't believe I turned Lorna's memorial service into a bloody university debate! Kim Campbell: Wasn't really much of a debate, Andrew Andrew Treneman: No, I suppose not. Kim Campbell: Do you know it was though? Andrew Treneman: What? Kim Campbell: It was amazing
- Kim and Andrew kiss*
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Maxine Barlow: "I love ya.
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- Rachel Mason: Oh good morning!
- Eddie Lawson: Can I have a word?
- Rachel Mason: You can go mad and have several, if you like. Come on!
[Eddie follows Rachel into her office]
- Rachel Mason: What is it?
- Eddie Lawson: I don't want to worry or panic you, ok...
- Rachel Mason: Oh! I knew this day was too good to be true, you're going to spoil it, aren't you?
- Eddie Lawson: What?
- Rachel Mason: I know its as rare as hens teeth but you are looking at a happy headmistress.
- Eddie Lawson: Why so happy?
- Rachel Mason: Well, erm... its the end of term and er... we're going to thrash Forest Mount at the spelling bee and the football and you what? I think this school is finally working out! And! This is the first morning that I've come in and not been greated by doom, disaster and destruction. So what is it?
- Eddie Lawson: You know what? I can wait.
- Rachel Mason: No, no, no, no, no, tell me, what is it?
- Eddie Lawson: What are you doing tonight?
- Rachel Mason: Er, tonight? I don't know, why?
- Eddie Lawson: Its the end of term I thought... I could take you out and celebrate.
- Rachel Mason: Thats really nice of you to ask, erm...
- Eddie Lawson: Yeah just... I thought it'd be nice to talk, you know? Away from this place.
- Rachel Mason: Yeah, what about?
- Eddie Lawson: Everything? Have a drink.
- Rachel Mason: I would love to, thank you [giggles]
- Eddie Lawson: Good. Right. About 8 o'clock?
- Rachel Mason: Fine by me
- Eddie Lawson: Good. [turns to leave but remembers something else] Er... I need to see the budget for the PE department.
- Rachel Mason: Ah, ah. I've got that... somewhere [walks to the filing cabinets and routes for paperwork whilst Eddie takes the letter from Hordley from the pile on her desk] Here we go
- Eddie Lawson: Great. 8 o'clock?
- Rachel Mason: [nods] Yeah!
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- Rachel Mason: Eddie what do you think? Formal at the table or informal on the sofas?
- Eddie Lawson: Er, I'm sorry, what is it your asking me?
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- Ralph Mellor: Coming to something when we've got to protect our kids like this
- Rachel Mason: Not a lot I can do about that, Ralph
- Ralph Mellor: You're right. Just got to be careful who we let in next time
- Clarence Charles: Donte! Chlo!
- Donte Charles: I don't believe it, he's wearing a tie. You are on the pull
- Clarence Charles: I am not on the pull... but you never know
- Security Dave: Nasty things, guns, I'm just trying to keep everybody safe
- Steph Haydock: Yes but I'm hardly likely to have a Uzo machine gun in there, am I?
- Melissa Ryan: First things first, my name is Melissa. You can call me that, or Mel or whatever you feel comfortable with, just not Ms. Ryan please, it makes me sound like a lesbian dominatrix
- Rose Kelly: Guess what my password is?
- Clarence Charles: Yeah, go on...
- Rose Kelly: Rose1
- Clarence Charles: Rose1?
- Rose Kelly: [laughs] They'll have a job cracking that!
- Steph Haydock: Me and Grantly are, well, a bit of an item.
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- Fleur Budgen: You've ruined my life!
- Rob Cleaver: I'm no Fred Flinstone; but I can make your bed rock!
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- Rose Kelly: Are you taking the piss?
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Rachel Mason: "It's Philip! Apparently he's got a better offer. Some gig or something." Eddie Lawson: "Bloody cheek!So much for our night of quality time!" Rachel Mason: "Ok, so it's one on one. And I'm gonna whip your butt!" Eddie Lawson: "ooh! I'd forgotten how competitive you are. I thought it was the taking part that counts?" Rachel Mason: "I'll leave that one for the kids Mr Lawson. Tonight,victory will be mine!" Eddie Lawson: "Mmm...we'll see."
Eddie Lawson: *Bowling ball misses all the pins* Rachel Mason: *laughing* Eddie Lawson: I wanted to go for dinner! No she says, lets go bowling. Phil loves bowling! Well, where's he now! Rachel Mason: "He's out having a good time with his friends while I thrash you! You're rubbish! Eddie Lawson: I don't believe you sometimes! Rachel Mason: Aww, chill. Watch! Eddie Lawson: Go on then!
- Rachel bowls the ball*
Eddie Lawson: Fail! Rachel Mason: My foot was behind that line! Eddie Lawson: No way! Rachel Mason: It was on the line?! Eddie Lawson: Alright, Mcenroe, if that's the way you want to play it. Rachel Mason: Excuse me are you calling me a liar! Eddie Lawson: Oh, I'm far to much of a gentleman to say that!
- Rachel and Eddie share their first kiss*
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- Grantly Bugden: Oi! you out, Staff Room
- Helen Hopewell: Helen Hopewell, new English teacher
- Grantly Bugden: You teach?
- Helen Hopewell: Not quite. Got about 20 miuntes to go. Its my first day teaching.
- Steph Haydock: No!
- Lindsay James: Miss, I need to go to the toilet.
- Helen Hopewell: Not now Lindsay.
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- Helen Hopewell: [About Max] I know he can be a bit severe, but, he is a pretty inspirational leader
- Steph Haydock: Really? so was Mussolini
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- Kim Campbell: Beep Beep
- Tom Clarkson: ah, Chill-Out zone comes to Waterloo Road
- Kim Campbell: it's the Waterloo Road Garden Project
- Tom Clarkson: ah the Blue Peter garden, only we dont want people burying their dogs in it
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Conversation Piece (Portrait of James Grant of Grant, John Mytton, the Honorable Thomas Robinson, and Thomas Wynne)
Three other versions, for the various sitters, are in the collection of the Earl of Seafield, Cullen, Banffshire; the Yale Center for British Art (B1976.7.19); and the collection of Lady Lucas.
Conversation Piece (Portrait of James Grant of Grant, John Mytton, the Honorable Thomas Robinson, and Thomas Wynne)
Three other versions, for the various sitters, are in the collection of the Earl of Seafield, Cullen, Banffshire; the Yale Center for British Art (B1976.7.19); and the collection of Lady Lucas.
Nathaniel Dance, English, 1735 - 1811
Made in Great Britain, Europe
1760 or 1761Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
37 7/8 x 48 1/2 inches (96.2 x 123.2 cm) Framed: 45 x 55 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches (114.3 x 140.3 x 7 cm)Curatorial Department:
European Painting
1946-36-1Credit Line:
Gift of John Howard McFadden, Jr., 1946
Made in Great Britain, Europe
1760 or 1761Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
37 7/8 x 48 1/2 inches (96.2 x 123.2 cm) Framed: 45 x 55 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches (114.3 x 140.3 x 7 cm)Curatorial Department:
European Painting
* Gallery 279, European Art 1500-1850, second floorAccession Number:
1946-36-1Credit Line:
Gift of John Howard McFadden, Jr., 1946
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A conversation piece is an informal group portrait, often depicting friends. This is one of four almost identical canvases painted in 1760–61, one for each of the four sitters. With the ruins of the Colosseum plainly visible in the background, the picture records the young men's trip to Rome. Known as the Grand Tour, such travel was a standard part of the education of eighteenth-century English gentlemen.
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British Painting in the Philadelphia Museum of ArtA conversation piece is an informal group portrait in which the sitters are show full length to a scale much smaller than life. A direct outgrowth of Dutch seventeenth-century domestic portraiture, and particularly the interiors of Metsu (1629-1667) and ter Borch (1617-1681), the genre became fashionable in England in the late 1720s and 1730s.1 Dance was in part responsible for its revival in the 1760s, but with the difference that he specialized in showing English gentlemen at ease on the Grand Tour in Rome.2 Although Dance's name was soon to become identified with this kind of souvenir of Italy, the present painting was his first attempt at the genre. A slightly later example with which this picture might be compared shows Charles, Lord Hope, and His Brother James, Later 3rd Earl of Hopetoun, with Their Tutor William Rouett (1762, 38 x 28 1/2", Hopetoun House).3 After his return to England in 1766, Dance never painted another conversation piece. This picture is one of four almost identical canvases (Nathaniel Dance, A Conversation Piece, 1760, oil on canvas, 38 x 48 1/2" {96.5 x 123.2 cm.} Cullen, Banffshire, the Earl of Seafield Collection and Nathaniel Dance, A Conversation Piece, 1760, oil on canvas, 38 1/4 x 48 1/2" {97.2 x 123.2 cm.}, New Haven, Yale Center for British Art)4 painted in 1760-61 for each of the four sitters. They are, from left to right, James Grant of Grant (1738-1811) dressed in a blue suit with silver trim; John Mytton (d. 1784) in a red coat with gold trim and black trousers; Hon.Thomas Robinson (1738-1786) in mauve with gold trim; and Thomas Wynn (1736-1807) in a green coat with gold trim and red trousers. They are shown in an imaginary landscape, with the ruins of the Colosseum behind them at the left, and at the right a large classical urn decorated with dancing female figures derived from a Hellenistic relief known as the Borghese Dancers (marble, 28 x 74", Paris, Louvre). Just as the four dancers visible to the viewer on this urn are frozen in their sinuous frieze, so the four sitters are artfully arranged into a subtle and rhythmic composition. Only Grant looks out at us; Mytton turns his head toward Grant but gestures with both hands toward the seated Robinson who, in turn, shows Wynn an elevation of the Temple of Jupiter Stator (Plate 51 of Giacomo Leoni's edition of The Architecture of A.Palladio, vol. 4 {London, 1721}, showing the elevation discussed by the sitters). We are thus invited to enter the picture at the left, but our eyes are drawn by Mytton's gesture forward again by the diagonal of his left arm to the engraving of the Temple of Jupiter. Wynn closes off the composition at the right. That the men should be seen to be discussing this particular building is hardly fortuitous, since its columns were in the process of being restored the year the portraits were painted, as mentioned in a letter from Nathaniel's younger brother, the architect George Dance the Younger (1741-1825), who also studied in Rome, to their father on October 4, 1760: "The three famous Columns of the Temple of Jupiter in the Campo Vaccino being in a very ruinous condition, The Campidoglio have employed Workmen to repair & preserve them, to perform which they have raised a Scaffold quite up to the Architrave. I have not let slip this opportunity of measuring them, & have sav'd up money to get them modelled.''5 Thomas Robinson was a keen amateur architect and later a member of the Society of Dilettanti (elected 1763), as were Wynn (elected 1764) and Mytton (elected 1764), but we do not know for certain whether they availed themselves of the opportunity to climb the scaffolding. One resident of Rome who did so was Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), who in that year drew and measured the columns in order to correct inaccuracies in Antoine Desgodetz's Les Edifices antiques de Rome (Paris, 1682, pp. 126-32).6 But in this painting we are a long way from Piranesi's obsessions with the antique. Although two of the poses distantly echo famous classical statues--the Apollo Belvedere pose struck by Mytton and a rather drowsy Farnese Hercules by Wynn--Dance has used antiquity as a prop and a backdrop against which to paste his visiting English noblemen. Far from responding to antiquity either with a sense of passionate moral earnestness, as Reynolds (1723-1792) had done, or awe, as Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) was soon to do, Dance and his patrons here trivialize the classical past. David Goodreau has pointed out that the whole right half of the composition is derived from Francis Hayman's pretty rococo portrait group Margaret Tyers and Her Husband (1750s, oil on canvas, 30 5/8 x 27 5/8" {90.5 x 70.3 cm.} New Haven, Yale Center for British Art),7 which at this date Dance could only have utilized from memory. Still, the picture has great charm and is an important document of the Grand Tour, serving, as it might, to symbolize generations of eighteenth-century English travelers to Rome. Fortunately, a great deal is known about the movements of all four sitters on their tour, the circumstances of their meeting, traveling to Rome, and commissioning their portraits. Robinson set out for Italy on October 20, 1758, arriving in Turin on November 21. There he settled down for a year's study, of the Italian language under the guidance of a Signor Borra, who ''for near Eight months...never hardly missed spending two or three hours in the afternoon with me."8 In his frequent correspondence with his father, Sir Thomas Robinson, later 1st Lord Grantham, Robinson did not mention his future traveling companions until a letter from Turin dated March 30, 1759: "Mr. Grant is perhaps the only person...I should like to undertake the journey thro' Italy with. Mr. Mytton & a younger son of Sir John Wynne's are just arrived."9 These three were spending the winter in Geneva, and since Robinson had been to Westminster School with Grant and Mytton,10 it was natural for him to travel to Switzerland in June of 1759 to meet them." As a result of this trip, he modified his traveling plans. This he explained to his father in a letter from Turin of August 18, 1759:
I have now settled something in regard to my progress into Italy & my manner of taking it. Nothing was fixed upon that head in Switzerland, as Mr. Wynne & Mr. Grant were of different Sentiments; the former being desirous of spending his Winter at Venice & the latter preferring Rome. I therefore thought proper on my return to this place to provide against all cases & make sure of an agreeable companion as far as Rome, & finding that my old Acquaintance Mr. Mytton was in the same Case, made Overtures to him & settled that we should go to Rome together at all Events; if our Geneva friends should separate, we agreed to take in the one that was to go our way, and if they intended both to go to Rome we determined to let them go some time before or after us as might be most agreeable to us all, for we propose meeting at last & being pretty much of the same turn in regard to our Love of Virtue, hope our Society at Rome will not be disagreeable. I heard the other day that Mr.Wynne was come over to our Plan. Mr. Mytton was my School-fellow at Westminster & was afterwards at Clare Hall [Cambridge] & at both these places was always one of my intimate Friends. I could not have met with a man more agreeable to my Choice, as he is of a most worthy Character, a good Scholar & has a cultivated understanding.12Robinson's father replied with his approval of the plan (and of Mytton), and by October 14 the four friends were reunited in Turin.13 By October 30, decisions had been reached. Robinson wrote from Turin: "I shall set out with Mr. Mytton only, as ye other Gentlemen propose going another Road; it would besides be very impossible for so large a party to travel together with Ease or Convenience."14 So these two left Turin and traveled to Rome, stopping at Parma on November 6 and arriving in Rome on November 25. They lost no time in establishing themselves there, hiring a cicerone to show them the city. Wynn and Grant were expected any day. Thus, Robinson wrote to his father in December 1759, "I have ye happiness to be attended by ye best antiquarian in Rome, the Abbate Venuti, who as soon as Mr. Grant & Mr. Wynn arrive will begin to go about with us, which will be in a very few days."15 After leaving Turin around November 1, Grant and Wynn visited Parma, Bologna, and Florence on their way south, but whether they stopped in Rome in December to rejoin their friends as planned or continued directly to Naples we do not know. The next certain sighting of the pair is on January 1, as they entered Naples.16 Grant's slightly dry account of this stay survives; in it he described their ascent of Mount Vesuvius and a collection of Priapuses at Portici. They remained in Naples until February 1760, arriving (or returning) to Rome on the tenth.17 These dates are relevant because the first version of this conversation piece was probably commissioned about this time, with the sittings commencing sometime in the following two months, when the four were together in Rome. This is likely because by April 15, Robinson and Mytton had left for Naples, not to return until June 20, and by the beginning of July, Grant had departed for home. Nowhere in their letters do Robinson or Grant refer to the conversation piece by Dance, but on the day after his return from Naples, June 21, 1760, Robinson, in a letter to his father, brought up the subject of having his portrait painted. Here he compared the merits of the two leading portrait painters of the city, Batoni (1708-1787) and Mengs ("Mr. Menx") (1728-1779).18 By August of that year he had decided on Mengs (that portrait is today at Newby Hall, North Yorkshire), but added: "It is with pleasure also I can inform you that many students of our own Nation give great hopes of their future skill, & will some day be the means of justifying us against the Reproach of having produced no Great Painters, the true reason of which I find to be, that till twenty years ago we never sent any to study here.''19 And although he did not mention him by name, Dance must have been one of the promising artists referred to, as he was painting Robinson's portrait at just that time. Even before this letter was written, the four friends had begun to disperse. Grant had left Rome by July 12, 1760, when the Scottish Catholic agent in Rome, Abbé Peter Grant (d. 1784), wrote to him in Munich.20 Grant returned with Wynn to England by November of the same year. We do not know when Mytton left Rome, but Robinson had departed by September 1760 for a nine-month return journey that included visits to Florence, Turin, Venice, and Munich. On June 13, 1761, almost four years after he had left London, Robinson was able to write to his father from their house in Whitehall, "I arrived two hours ago." As we have seen, the commission to paint this work must have been given before July 1760. We can assume that the first version of the picture is that which belonged to James Grant of Grant and is today in the collection of the Earl of Seatfield (Nathaniel Dance, A Conversation Piece, 1760, oil on canvas, 38 x 48 1/2" {96.5 x 123.2 cm.} Cullen, Banffshire, the Earl of Seafield Collection). The artist and dealer in antiquities Thomas Jenkins (1722-1798), writing from Rome to James Grant in England on November 19, 1760, noted that "according to your directions left with me...the Conversation Picture by Mr. Dance I have now by me and I have paid for....All your other things shall be forwarded as soon as possible."21 This means that by November 1760, a second version was far enough advanced for a third version to be copied from it, as the first version had already left the studio. The next month, on December 17, 1760, Nathaniel Dance wrote to his father:
I have not yet quite freed myself from the disagreeable task of copying the Conversation Picture, tho' I believe it will not now be long before I shall. It has taken me up a good deal of time, as I was obliged to make 4 Copies, & tho I shall not acquire any great improvement from it or be paid much for my trouble yet I cou'd not refuse doing it, as it was the means of making me acquainted with my LORD GREY [George Henry, 5th Earl of Stamford, whose portrait Dance painted, together with that of Sir Henry Mainwaring, 4th Bart., in 1760; 35 x 28", England, private collection] and the other Gentlemen who have given me Commissions for Pictures besides....I am convinc'd these gentlemen will do me all the service that lyes in their power; I hear already that Mr. Robinson has recommended me to the DUKE of MARLBOROUGH, and other gentlemen who are coming to ROME, & he has me very much at heart. My good friend Mr. Crispin introduc'd one to the acquaintance of these Gentlemen.22But the commission dragged on. Almost a year later, on October 14, 1761, he wrote to his father that he was delayed in finishing his "Aeneas Discovering Venus" because ''I have been interrupted by those four copies of the Conversation Piece."23 Dance's hope that this dull commission would lead to better things was justified, for Robinson recommended him to his cousin William Weddell, whose portrait (with his servant Janson and Rev. William Palgrave) Dance painted on Weddell's Grand Tour in 1765 (38 1/4 x 52 3/4", Upton House, Bearsted Collection, National Trust); Grant commissioned a history picture (Nisus and Euryalus; location unknown) from him; and Sir Henry Mainwaring commissioned his portrait in addition to the history painting The Meeting of Aeneas and Achates with Venus (c. 1761, location unknown). With the exception of Mytton, who remains a shadowy figure, it is possible to say something about the characters and personalities of each of the men in Dance's Conversation Piece. The one who comes most vividly to life is Robinson, not only because of his interesting and affectionate letters home, but because his acquaintance Mr. Crispin, writing to a Mr. Porter from Rome on July 3, 1760, described the twenty-two year old in glowing terms:
Mr. Robinson, after making the most of Rome, followed the several Branches of Virtu, but without neglecting the much more essential knowledge that conversation & the best acquaintance here could help him to gather....His person is rather tall, & tho' there may be some perhaps of a genteeler make, will not pass unnoticed, his colour has the freshness of Sir Thomas's [his father], he is short sighted, without any blemish or other defect in his Eyes, his Voice is remarkably good, but to rise now to better things, he has a most uncommon Elocution, a command in speaking that belongs not to his years, while his manner is made to convince not to offend....The learned esteem him a good Scholar, & Cardinal Passionier who shews him uncommon attention & Civility, has confessed himself very much flattered by a Sapphick Ode that Mr. Robinson lately presented him with....He is quick at an Essay of Humour, Capable of any longer work, rises above Mediocrity as a Poet, remarkable for strength of Memory, listened to already at Rome on matters of Taste, understanding well Architecture, drawing himself very neatly, making a daily progress in Musick....The men seek his Company & the Ladies like it, his heart seems to be most happily tempered, there's warmth of feeling in it.24It is interesting, in the light of this description, to notice how the portrait group is composed around Robinson and how the poses and gestures of the others seem to defer to him. Then, too, his poor eyesight (and possibly, despite Crispin's disclaimer, slightly crossed eyes) may be responsible for his apparently spontaneous glance up toward Wynn. He certainly fulfilled Crispin's expectations for a distinguished life, serving as ambassador to the court of Spain between 1771 and 1779, and secretary of state for foreign affairs in the administration of Lord Shelburne (1737-1805). In 1780 he married Lady Mary Jemima Yorke (1756-1830), whose portrait by Romney (1734-1802) is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Lady Grantham, Philadelphia Museum of Art, M1928-1-36). The personality of the lanky Scotsman James Grant of Grant emerges in a volume containing his diary and accounts while on the Grand Tour, which is preserved among the Seafield manuscripts in the Scottish Record Office.25 Here he methodically collected his letters of introduction and credit, a list of currency exchanges from scots to sterling, a carefully laid-out itinerary, and an elaborate compilation of the names and birth and death dates of major artists and architects together with their principal achievements. This is followed by a long (and dull) compilation of the principal events in the histories of the towns through which he was to pass and a daily diary in which he jotted down bare facts about the sights and pictures he had seen each day or the inns in which he had dined. Most of this is straightforward reporting: if he liked a picture it was "very fine," if he enjoyed his stay, the city was "excessively agreeable.'' In short, he was a methodical and conscientious sightseer. Grant returned to England and married Jane Duff at Bath on January 4, 1763. He became Member of Parliament for Elgin and Florres from 1761 to 1776 and succeeded his father as 7th Baronet and chief of the Clan Grant in 1773, residing mainly at Castle Grant until his death in 1811. He had seven sons and seven daughters.26 In some ways the most colorful of the four sitters is the man standing at the right. He has been correctly identified by John Fleming (Robert Adam and His Circle in Edinburgh and Rome. London, 1962, p. 370) as Thomas Wynn, who succeeded as 3rd Baronet in 1773 and was created Baron Newborough in 1776 in recognition of his work as a colonel of the Caernarvon militia and a builder of military defenses in Wales. He served as Member of Parliament for county Caernarvon from 1761-1774, and in 1766, at age thirty, he married as his first wife a daughter of the Earl of Egmont, Lady Catherine Perceval (d. 1782), whose half-brother, the Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, was assassinated in the House of Parliament in 1812. Very little is known about Wynn's life and personality during the years he was on the Grand Tour, for no papers from this period survive. It is therefore irresistible, although perhaps unfair, to infer something about his character as a young man from the events of his later life, for he is known to us principally as the first husband of the notorious Maria Stella, Lady Newborough (1773-1843), whose autobiography catalogued, with what degree of accuracy we cannot say, his more flamboyant shortcomings. Chief of these, in the eyes of his wife, was the manner in which he secured her hand--by purchasing her, when he was fifty years old and she but thirteen, from her father, the former jailer of the town of Faenza in Italy, for fifteen thousand francesconi (four thousand pounds). Maria Stella Chiappini, the teen-age Lady Newborough, was brought to Wales and accepted by English society as the mistress of her husband's great house Glynllivon; there she lived with Lord Newborough for twenty-one years until his death in 1807. Nevertheless, when she came to write her life story, she described him as a man with offensive breath, discolored teeth, frightful fits of anger, befuddled by "the fumes of wine [which] upset his weak mind." She also described their first meeting when, "at the sight of him I gave a wild cry, and, falling at his knees, with sobs implored him...to think of my youth...[but] He did nothing but laugh at my pitiful simplicity."27 If we know rather too much about Wynn, the opposite is true of Mytton. He married Rebecca Pigot and lived at Halston in Shropshire until 1784 and possessed "a small but excellent collection of pictures."28 This collection was sold to pay for his grandson "Mad Jack" Mytton's debts by the auctioneer Mr. Gimblett beginning April 13, 1831.29 Earl de Grey, son of another sitter, Thomas Robinson, went to that sale and recorded the following anecdote: "One year when I was upon duty with my regiment at York, a collection of pictures was upon sale which I believe had belonged to a Mr. Mitten [Mytton], the person dressed in red in this picture. The auctioneer sent me a catalogue as my family name was in it, and I went to see it. As far as I could judge without having the two pictures together, it was a precise duplicate of this. It was advertised as a work of Hogarth, and the name of my father and Mr. Mitten were the same as we have always believed them to be, the others were different, though I do not recollect who they were."30 Earl de Grey's description suggests that the Mytton version was inscribed with the names of the sitters and, as one of the four versions (version 3) is so inscribed, we may presume that this was the one that belonged to Mytton. The Philadelphia version was sold in 1923 with the contents of Brocket Hall, a house that came into the possession of the descendants of Thomas Robinson upon the marriage of the de Grey heiress Anne Robinson, a direct descendant of Thomas Robinson, to the 6th Lord Cowper. It is therefore probable that the Philadelphia picture is the version originally owned by Thomas Robinson. However, a version of the picture believed by the family to descend from Robinson is still in the possession of Lady Lucas, who is also Robinson's direct descendant; but as this is the inscribed version, we can only conclude that the Robinson family acquired Mytton's version and sold Robinson's version. Richard Dorment, from British Painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: From the Seventeenth through the Nineteenth Century (1986), pp. 90-96. 1. Ralph Edwards. "Georgian Conversation Pictures." Apollo, n.s., vol. 105 (April 1977), p. 252.
2. Kenwood, The Iveagh Bequest. Nathaniel Dance, 1735-1811, June 25-September 4, 1977 (by David Goodreau), introduction.
3. Brinsley Ford. "A Portrait Group by Gavin Hamilton with Some Notes on Portraits of Englishmen in Rome." The Burlington Magazine, vol. 97, no. 633 (December 1955), p. 376; Kenwood, The Iveagh Bequest.Nathaniel Dance, 1735-1811, June 25-September 4, 1977 (by David Goodreau), fig. l.
4. In each of the four versions the turning of the dancers on the urn is different. In the Seafield and the Yale versions (Nathaniel Dance, A Conversation Piece, 1760, oil on canvas, 38 x 48 1/2" {96.5 x 123.2 cm.} Cullen, Banffshire, the Earl of Seafield Collection and Nathaniel Dance, A Conversation Piece, 1760, oil on canvas, 38 1/4 x 48 1/2" {97.2 x 123.2 cm.}, New Haven, Yale Center for British Art), the seated Robinson wears a ring on the little finger of his left hand.
5. Dance Family MS., box 1, MS.72.034 (42).8/.88:92D, Royal Institute of British Architects, London.
6. Dorothy Stroud, George Dance, Architect, 1741-1825 (London, 1971), p. 65.
7. Kenwood, The Iveagh Bequest. Nathaniel Dance, 1735-1811, June 25-September 4, 1977 (by David Goodreau), no. 5.
8. Thomas Robinson to his father, Turin, September 26, 1759, Lucas MS. 12305, Bedfordshire County Record Office, Bedford.
9. Lucas MS. 12361.
10. Thomas Robinson to his brother Fritz Robinson, Turin, October 15, 1759, Lucas MS. 12307.
11. Thomas Robinson to his father, Bern, June 30, 1759, Lucas MS. 12299.
12. Lucas MS. 12303.
13.Thomas Robinson to his father, Turin, October 14, 1759, Lucas MS. 12306.
14. Lucas MS. 12308.
15. Lucas MS. 12311.
16. Volume containing James Grant of Grant's diary and accounts while on the Grand Tour, Seafield MS. GD248/39/1, Scottish Record Office, Edinburgh.
17. Thomas Robinson to his father, February 10, 1760, Lucas MS. 12318: ''I expect Mr. Grant and Wynne home today."
18. Thomas Robinson to his father, Rome, June 21, 1760, Lucas MS. 12318; and August 9, 1760, Lucas MS. 12325.
19. Thomas Robinson to his father, Rome, August 9, 1760, Lucas MS. 12325.
20. Edinburgh, Scottish Record Office, Seafield MS. GD 248/99/3.
21. Seafield MS. GD 48/177/1/83.
22. London, Royal Institute of British Architects, Dance family MS., box 1, MS. 72.034 (42).8/.88:92D.
23. Ibid.
24. Lucas MS. 12347.
25. Seafield MS. GD 248/39/1.
26. For the life of Sir James Grant of Grant, see Archibald Kennedy [the Earl of Cassillis], The Rulers of Strathspey: A History of the Lairds of Grant and Earls of Seafield (lnverness, 1911 ), pp. 147-50.
27. Maria Stella Wynn [Baroness Newborough], The Memoirs of Maria Stella (Lady Newborough), trans. Harriet M. Capes (London, 1914), pp. 60-97. See also Ralph Payne-Gallwey, The Mystery of Maria Stella Lady Newborough ( London, 1907).
28. Charles James Apperley [ Nimrod], Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire, 2nd ed. (London, 1837), p. 7.
29. Salopian Journal, April 13, 1831, p. 1.
30. Earl de Grey, "History of the Rebuilding of Wrest House," April 1846, typescript, Lucas MS. CRT 190/45 2, Bedfordshire Record Office, Bedford. Earl de Grey believed that the version in his collection (the Philadelphia version) was by Batoni.
"In the Sale Room--Brocket Hall Sale," The Connoisseur; vol. 66 (May 1923), p. 40; Sacheverell Sitwell, Conversation Pieces: A Survey of English Domestic Portraits and Their Painters (London, 1936 ), pp. 74, 105, pl. 88 (notes by Michael Sevier); Brinsley Ford, ''A Portrait Group by Gavin Hamilton: With Some Notes on Portraits of Englishmen in Rome," The Burlington Magazine, vol. 97, no. 633 (December 1955), p. 375; Basil C. Skinner, "A Note on Four British Artists in Rome," The Burlington Magazine, vol. 99, no. 652 (July 1957), p. 238; Basil Skinner, "Some Aspects of the Work of Nathaniel Dance in Rome," The Burlington Magazine, vol. 101, nos. 678/9 (September/October 1959), p. 349; David Sellin, "Nathaniel Dance, A Conversation Piece," Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. 56, no. 268 (winter 1961), pp. 61-63; Robert C. Smith, "The Ruins of Rome," Expedition: The Bulletin of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, vol. 3, no. 2 (winter 1961), pp. 29-30; John Fleming, Robert Adam and His Circle in Edinburgh and Rome. London, 1962, p. 370; Andrea Busiri Vici, "Ritratti di N. Dance tra Ruderi e Salotti," Capitolium, vol. 40 (July/August 1965), repro. p. 387; Mario Praz, Conversation Pieces: A Survey of the Informal Group Portrait in Europe and America (London, 1971), p. 254, pl. 294 (version 1); Kenwood, The Iveagh Bequest. Lady Hamilton in Relation to the Art of Her Time, July 18-October 1972 (by Patricia Jaffé) 1972, introduction; David Goodreau, "Pictorial Sources of the Neo-Classical Style: London or Rome?," Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture, vol. 4 (1975), pp. 247-70; Ralph Edwards. "Georgian Conversation Pictures." Apollo, n.s., vol. 105 (April 1977), p. 261, pl. IV p. 256; Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500-1900. New Haven and London, 1981, p. 195; New Haven, Yale Center for British Art. Classic Ground: British Artists and the Landscape of Italy, 1740-1830, July-September, 1981 (by Duncan Bull, Linda Cabe, and Peter Nisbet), p. 45.
* Works in the collection are moved off view for many different reasons. Although gallery locations on the website are updated regularly, there is no guarantee that this object will be on display on the day of your visit.


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Google Is To Pink Slime As Apples Are To Airplanes
from the they're-nothing-alike deptCopyright maximalist operation "The Copyright Alliance," purveyors of ridiculous copyright propaganda, has really topped itself with a recent blog post. It is trying to compare Google to "pink slime." You know pink slime -- the stuff that got all sorts of attention a few months ago as being a somewhat disgusting looking output of excess beef products all mashed up together and then reused in other foodstuffs. What does one have to do with the other? Well, according to the absolute geniuses at The Copyright Alliance:
Among the reasons I believe companies like Google are so hostile not only to copyright but to other regulations, is that their revenue and aspirations are anathema to distinguishing value (prime meat) from muck (MSM). To the contrary, their business models are literally based on grinding up all content into a homogenous slurry in order to turn billions of clicks into billions of dollars. To companies like Google, torrent sites, and many aggregators, everything goes into the big, digital grinder — a John Irving novel, some bits of junk journalism, a few stupid cat videos, Lawrence of Arabia, several thousand mail-order brides, a hard-news report from Central Africa, trafficked children, an episode of Downton Abbey, counterfeit pharmaceuticals, The White Album, years of scientific research, and of course several jiggling pounds of college chicks shaking their booties at webcams. It's all just ones and zeroes, right? It's digital pink slime.I've now read this paragraph a dozen times. And my only conclusion is the person who wrote it has never used Google or, perhaps, any search engine. Because it gets the story exactly, 100%, completely backwards. It's not reality. It's the opposite of reality. Up is down, black is white, day is night kind of backwards.
The whole point of any search engine is to distinguish the value from the muck. The reason Google became such a huge phenomenon when it first came out (long after people had declared the search engine wars "dead") was that Google did a much better job finding what you wanted. How does it do that? By properly finding the value and surfacing it at the top while pushing down the muck. A search engine that doesn't distinguish the value from the muck is no search engine at all. It's a random website generator.
Search engines care deeply about finding the best value. Hell, just a week or so ago, Google explained how it had made 39 changes to its search in May alone, with the goal of helping people better find value out of muck. There may be all sorts of reasons to dislike or distrust Google. The company is very big, and has lots of info on you, which raises plenty of privacy concerns. But to claim that it wants to homogenize all content and that it's against their best interest to distinguish value from muck makes zero sense. If it were true, we'd immediately see tons of other search engines and do the exact opposite: provide more value and take over the market (just like Google did a decade ago).
I'm all for discussions about copyright issues, but can we at least keep them in the realm of reality, rather than fantasyland?
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Jerry Sandusky Scandal
Prosecutors blast Penn State leaders for inaction on Jerry Sandusky allegations
A prosecutor who was instrumental in the grand jury investigation and conviction of Jerry Sandusky blasted three ex-Penn State administrators, saying in an interview broadcast Wednesday that the men covered up abuse allegations against the former coach.
"They absolutely, premeditatedly, I believe, didn't report this and hid it," said Frank Fina, a former prosecutor from the Attorney General's Office who spoke on the show "60 Minutes Sports" on Showtime about the Sandusky case as well as the cases involving Penn State administrators Graham Spanier, Tim Curley and Gary Schultz.
"I don't think there's any question that that's what Spanier, Schultz and Curley did."
The program, which also featured fellow Sandusky case prosecutor Joseph E. McGettigan III, was the first time the two lawyers had spoken about the high-profile trial that played out at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte.
Comments released on Tuesday, to promote the show, drew the ire of the lawyers for Schultz and Curley, who filed a request for an emergency injunction with a judge in Dauphin County to stop the show from airing, saying it would taint the possible jury pool and that Fina violated a lawyer's professional code of conduct by giving a personal opinion about a defendant's guilt.
The judge's decision was not known, and the show aired as planned.
The snippets from Tuesday also revealed that Fina said in the interview that he found no evidence during the investigation that coach Joe Paterno was involved in the alleged cover-up. "I'm viewing this strictly on the evidence, not any kind of fealty to anybody," Fina said.
Fina was particularly critical of the former Penn State administrators, who are facing charges they conspired to cover up separate abuse allegations in 1998 and 2001. The men's lawyers have maintained that their clients are innocent and vow to fight the charges at trial.
"It's offensive. I mean, I just don't understand how you separate any of this — any of this from the context, which is children were being raped," Fina told journalist Armen Keteyian during the interview. "I mean this isn't hard. This isn't — you know, this isn't a difficult concept. This isn't a wishy-washy issue."
Fina also defended Mike McQueary, who saw Sandusky in a shower with a young boy in February 2001 and reported it to coach Joe Paterno, who reported the incident to his superior, Curley. Fina said the criticism of McQueary for not beating up Sandusky on the spot or immediately calling the police is "grossly unfair."
"You gotta put yourself in this guy's shoes," Fina said. "Could he have done all those things? Yes. But in that time and space, in those handful of seconds, he sees that, he is so shocked. His entire universe is just being shattered to its core. And I don't think it's unbelievable. I don't think it's even strange that he would panic and run out the door, and seek his father. And then he immediately reports it. He immediately reports to Paterno."
Fina called McQueary's testimony at the trial a "knockout punch" that followed two victims' testimony.
McGettigan and Fina never got to cross-examine Sandusky because he did not take the stand in his own defense. If he had, McGettigan's first question would have cut right to the chase, he said.
"Mr. Sandusky, when did it first occur to you that it might be a good idea to be naked in a shower with an 8-year-old boy who you met that day, to pick him up, to hug him, to cover him with soap," McGettigan said. "When's the first time you did that?
"It would have been pathetic. I wish we had had the opportunity."
McGettigan said the most telling moment of the trial came when he got to cross-examine Sandusky's wife, Dottie.
"I said, 'You've heard the testimony what all these young — young men have said about what happened to them when they were boys,' Fina said. " 'Can you tell me one good reason why they'd lie?' She had no answer."
Fina weighed in on that moment, too:
"I thought it was one of the most poignant moments of the trial because you could literally hear time going by, because she just sat there," Fina said. "And she looked over at Sandusky, and they locked eyes. And then she, her head dropped down, and she said, 'I don't know.'
"I just thought it was unbelievably powerful."
McGettigan also said in the interview that there were "dozens" more of Sandusky's victims who were not witnesses in the criminal proceedings, and Fina confirmed it.
This story has been updated to add a reference and link to the story in Tuesday's CDT about Fina's comments about Paterno.


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