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Since debuting at a Kroger grocery store in 1967, barcodes have become pervasive. With few exceptions, they are found on the products that are consumed by the economies of all industrial nations of the world. They simplify purchasing, selling, and yes, they simplify inventory.
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Pakistan's relationship with the United States has hit a new low. Judging by the mistrust and anger on both sides, it will take considerable effort to repair it. This festering acrimony can have serious consequences. Public messaging has overtaken bilateral engagement and bravado has trumped diplomacy.
Earlier this week, Pakistan was placed a on special watch list of countries that violate religious freedom. Heather Nauert, the US State Department spokeswoman, announced suspension of most security assistance — roughly $1.1 billion including Coalition Support Funds — to Pakistan until Islamabad "takes decisive action" against militant groups. This suspension was in addition to the $255 million in military aid already withheld by the US. In any case, security aid to Pakistan has been dwindling. It has fallen from $1.6 billion in 2003, to $319.7 million by 2017.
President Donald Trump's tweet on January 1 sparked an array of furious reactions in Pakistan while in American policy circles the old trope of Pakistan's perfidy returned with a vengeance. For Pakistan's establishment to think that it's support for Afghan Taliban will somehow be overshadowed by selective counterterrorism measures is 'self deception' in the words of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. And for the US officials and experts there is little introspection as to what went wrong in Afghanistan beyond Pakistan's 'deception'. In an asymmetric relationship, the more powerful sets the narrative. The American view is therefore global barring exceptions like China.
The foreign minister and the military spokesperson in Pakistan have reacted with misplaced aggression. The minister has even declared perhaps a little too early that the alliance is over. The military has reiterated that Pakistan's army is a capable force even without US assistance. Other than placating the domestic constituencies where anti-Americanism has been a long standing trend, this was also broader global public messaging. But there is more to Pakistan's strong reaction than just appeasing the domestic constituencies. Unlike the previous low-points in Pak-US relations, Pakistan has some advantages this time. First, Chinese alliance is growing and deepening and the country is part, albeit small, of the Chinese long-term vision for global economic dominance. Secondly, Pakistan's establishment knows that for logistics, the route through Pakistan is least expensive and may not be abandoned anytime soon. Thirdly, the future settlement in Afghanistan at least for now is not possible without Pakistan's assent and close involvement. Fourthly, the US administration's anathema to Iran helps Pakistan secure a better collaboration in the future.
Fifthly, Russia has already emerged as a defence partner and its interest in what happens in Afghanistan is at variance with the US. Pakistan views itself as part of the future Sino-Russian axis emerging as a counter-weight to US-India strategic alliance in Asia. Lastly, President Trump's interest in foreign wars, which he vociferously shunned during his electoral campaign, is driven more by the national security apparatus than his conviction. And the assessment that informed Pakistan's strategic circles — and continues to do so — was that sooner or later, the US will disengage from Afghanistan.
However, if the relationship nosedives further and the US chooses to use alternative supply routes as it did after the Salala incident, then we have a wholly different scenario ahead. The Indo-US duo on eastern and western borders will enable the worst of conspiracy theories come true. In that case will China come in aid of Pakistan? To the extent of securing its investments and reducing the tensions, China will play a role but to expect the latter to directly intervene for Pakistan, as drummed into public narratives, is a miscalculation at best. China has strong economic ties with the US as well as India. Economics triumphs grandiose notions of power and security.
This is time for some hard choices, and sombre reflection. The last thing we want is so-called defence analysts advocating for teaching the US a lesson on national television. Even more urgent is the need for civilian input into the foreign-security policy combine. Of finding new partners in Afghanistan and of thinking about the unthinkable ie, working on some degree of normalisation with India even if that means letting go of some tactics and assets.
The US at its end has to enable the State Department take this process forward. Generals should not be driving the policy towards Pakistan and Afghanistan. This is time for diplomatic engagement and redefining the parameters of an alliance that runs the risk of breakdown.
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[Aiptek GVS - AHD Z700] I can't read firmware version.
Hi and thanks for this very useful forum.
I would like to see firmware version of my Aiptek GVS but I can do it. May be, in my opinion, I do something wrong... but what ?
In the official Aiptek documentation, they says :
How to check FW version:
1.Turn on DV
2.switch to MODE by pressing mode key
3.press the joystick-down for 3 seconds and hold it
4.press snapshot key
I try but nothing happened
May be I don't understand very well... Which key is Snapshot key (is it Shutter key ?) . May I always joystick-down hold before press this mysterious "Snaphot key".
Thanks for your answers. If you have a video to show how to do this....
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Maybe you don't push the "resolution switch" on the joystick?
Here's how I do it (after turning it on of course).
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To read the fw it is easy. follwed the instructions, the snapshot (3) button fully pressed in. if it goes back to live feed, you have the joystick off center and need to do aover, hold it a lil more to the left. takes a feel.
will not work the first time, and takes more then a few it will show. avideo wasmade . and may need updating.
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Thank a lot
Thank you so much Caprice and fishycomics.
In fact I did'nt press fully the snapshot button.
I never used my Aiptek to take still pictures, so I never used this snapshot button like I must did it...
So, everything works now and my firmware version is 2302 (Jan 7 2009).
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FW 2302 is the ideal one , it has thefield ofdepth so you do not have to step further back, you up the mouse to macro, andagain back to infiniy, you'll notice that in macro the cam sets further back, andstays in that position, once you up to 2503, 2901 you lose this.
I believe istick with 2302, you can go up/downgrade. your choice enjoy.
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In a medium that so heavily relies on visuals, blind characters make for interesting plot points. It can be easy to show the audience something that other characters don't get to see, even if they aren't blind. However, when the audience sees the events unfolding around a blind person, they'll want to shout out, knowing that the character cannot see what's happening. Often, this is used for comedic effect, since the oblivious character has no idea how close to destruction they have come. On the flip side, the audience is impressed if a blind person can avoid danger, but even more impressed if they can fight it off. We are often inspired by those who can overcome their handicaps, and blindness is just such an example. This week's two films examine some characters who are affected by blindness.
City Lights
Year: 1931
Rating: G
Length: 87 minutes / 1.45 hours
There have been a few blind people who have become famous for being able to overcome their blindness. For instance, Helen Keller was not only blind but deaf as well. She still managed to live an inspiring life. Fortunately for the world of music, Ray Charles wasn't deaf. However, he made it a point to not let his handicap hinder his life. He may have been blind, but he never let it stop him from changing the musical landscape into what we hear today. Still, even though many people can live normal lives with blindness, those of us who can see will often give them charity. Blindness does limit a person's life somewhat, so we are more than willing to help those who cannot see. When it comes down to it, the kindness of strangers can be brought out through the simple acts of helping those who need help.
On a day like any other, a blind girl (Virginia Cherrill) was selling flowers on a street corner when a man came by and bought one of her wares. She tried to give him his change, but he had already left. The next day, the man continued his generosity by buying out the girl's entire supply. He then drove her home in a very fancy car, which contrasted the small apartment where she lived with her grandmother (Florence Lee). The man reads a letter to her, which informs them that the two women will be evicted from their apartment soon if they don't pay up. Feeling moved by their plight, the man promises to help obtain the money. Furthermore, he has learned of an operation that could restore the girl's sight, which is also expensive. When the girl receives the money, the man disappears. Now that she can see, she keeps watch at her flower shop for a wealthy benefactor, only to find the man is not who she thought he was.
The Book of Eli
Year: 2010
Rating: R
Length: 118 minutes / 1.97 hours
Blindness can be caused in many ways. Sometimes it's a medical abnormality that steals someone's sight. Other times, it's caused by external forces. Your mother always told you to never look directly at the sun and to not sit too close to the television because she didn't want you to go blind. However, what if your eyes were damaged from something else? In the case of the superhero known as Daredevil, he was blinded by chemicals but soon finds his other senses heightened to the point that his blindness is actually a superpower. In these instances, fighting in conditions like darkened rooms and heavy fog can actually be an advantage to the blind. But, what if the world enters a post-apocalyptic era where the sun could easily blind someone, even if they don't look directly at it? Will it become a case of the blind leading the blind?
For 30 years, the world has been reeling from a nuclear apocalypse which has caused the sun to shine a much harsher light on the land. A traveler by the name of Eli (Denzel Washington) makes his way into a town run by Carnegie (Gary Oldman). It turns out that both men can read, which is a rare skill after the apocalypse destroyed most of the literature in the world. When Carnegie learns Eli has a particular book in his possession, he sets out to get that book. Unfortunately, Eli is skilled at fighting and can fend off wave after wave of attackers. SPOILER ALERT Eventually, Carnegie gets the book Eli was holding: a copy of the Bible. With this book in hand, Carnegie had plans to control the region but soon realizes this won't be possible because the book is written in braille. Freed from Carnegie's pursuit, Eli arrives in San Francisco, where he recites the whole Bible from memory. Now it can be printed again.
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Every morning, a dream means you have to convince yourself to chase it. Something forces us back to sleep; other than the weekend we spent completely in bed, because the sky was pouring in, the roads were flooded, and the electric cables were floating to nowhere. What are we actually scared of when our heads are full of ideas and our hands are itching so badly? Death? End of the World? Or is death and the end of the world as much a part of life like these seconds we spend breathing?
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*The following is an excerpt from I Write What I Like (Steve Biko 1946-77), a selection of his writings edited by Aelred Stubbs C.R.
On Death
These words, extracted from an interview with an American businessman given some months before Steve's final detention and death, but not printed in The New Republic until 7 January 1978, need no further comment.
You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway. And your method of death can itself be a politicizing thing. So you die in the riots. For a hell of a lot of them, in fact, there's really nothing to lose – almost literally, given the kind of situations that they come from. So if you can overcome the personal fear for death, which is a highly irrational thing, you know then you're on the way.
And in interrogation the same sort of thing applies. I was talking to this policeman, and I told him, "If you want us to make any progress, the best thing is for us to talk. Don't try any form of rough stuff, because it just won't work." And this is absolutely true also. For I just couldn't see what they could do to me which would make me all of a sudden soften to them. If they talk to me, well I'm bound to be affected by them as human beings. But at the moment they adopt rough stuff, they are imprinting in my mind that they are police. And I only understand one form of dealing with police, and that's to be as unhelpful as possible. So I button up. And I told them this: "It's up to you." We had a boxing match the first day I was arrested. Some guy tried to clout me with a club. I went into him like a bull. I think he was under instructions to take it so far and no further, and using open hands so that he doesn't leave any marks on the face. And of course he said exactly what you were saying just now: "I will kill you." He meant to intimidate. And my answer was: "How long is it going to take you?" Now of course they were observing my reaction. And they could see I was completely unbothered. If they beat me up, it's to my advantage. I can use it. They just killed somebody in jail – a friend of mine – about ten days before I was arrested. Now it would have been bloody useful evidence for them to assault me. At least it would indicate what kind of possibilities were there, leading to this guy's death. So I wanted them to go ahead and do what they could do, so that I could use it. I wasn't really afraid that their violence might lead me to make revelations I didn't want to make, because I had nothing to reveal on this particular issue. I was operating from a very good position, and they were in a very weak position. My attitude is, I'm not going to allow them to carry out their program faithfully. If they want to beat me five times, they can only do so on condition that I allow them to beat me five times. If I react sharply, equally and oppositely, to the first clap, they are not going to be able to systematically count the next four claps, you see. It's a fight. So if they had meant to give me so much of a beating, and not more, my idea is to make them go beyond what they wanted to give me and to give back as much as I can give so that it becomes an uncontrollable thing. You see the one problem this guy had with me: he couldn't really fight with me because it meant he must be hit back, like a man. But he was given instructions, you see, on how to hit, and now these instructions were no longer applying because it was a fight. So he had to withdraw and get more instructions. So I said to them, "Listen, if you guys want to this your way, you have got to handcuff me and bind my feet together, so that I can't respond. If you allow me to respond, I'm certainly going to respond. And I'm afraid you may have to kill me in the process even if it's not your intention."
Stephen Biko (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977 was a noted anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. A student leader, he later founded the Black Consciousness Movement which would empower and mobilize much of the urban black population. On the 18th of August, 1977, Biko was arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 and interrogated by officers of the Port Elizabeth security police including Harold Snyman and Gideon Nieuwoudt. This interrogation took place in the Police Room 619. The interrogation lasted twenty-two hours and included torture and beatings resulting in a coma. He suffered a major head injury while in police custody, and was chained to a window grille for a day. On 11 September 1977, police loaded him in the back of a Land Rover, naked and restrained in manacles, and began the 1100 km drive to Pretoria to take him to a prison with hospital facilities. However, he was nearly dead owing to the previous injuries. He died shortly after arrival at the Pretoria prison, on 12 September. Read more on Wikipedia.
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Sunday the 10th August saw F.A. Cup holders Arsenal take on Premier league winners Manchester City at Wembley Stadium to battle it out over the season's first piece of silverware – the Comunity Shield. Arguably the least important cup of the year, the Shield nonetheless sets the tone for the season with no less than 5 of the last 10 winners going on to win the league.
After a great start to the 2013/14 premiership and a long run in 1st position Arsenal looked like they had a real possibility of lifting the league cup last year as we approached Christmas and the midway point of the season. Things weren't to go to plan as Arsene Wenger and his team hoped however, and with some weak performances against the big teams Arsenal came out 4th while Man City maintained composure, remained strong and overtook Liverpool right at the end to record their second Premiership title in 3 years.
Arsenal come into this year's Premiership season sporting a new look team with some expensive signings to silence the critics who say Arsenal are only a selling club. Most notable amongst these is Chilean International Alexis Sanchez, along with Mathieu Debuchy and Calum Chambers. Wenger will also have been keen to put to bed last season's bad memories of defeat at the hands of the likes of Manchester City and prove that his squad can take on all comers.
Manchester City may not have felt so much pressure going into this match but they never really turned up to the game. The Arsenal came out firing on all cylinders and were rewarded with an early goal in the 21st minute as Santi Carzola effortlessly steered the ball past City keeper Willy Caballero into the bottom right corner. Manchester City continued having problems maintaining possession and after another 21 minutes Aaron Ramsey scored in the 42nd after a beautiful move in the box to make himself some space and a quality finish allowing him to watch the ball hit the back of the net, this time bottom left corner. Ramsey claims he's been learning to 'feel more composed in front of goal' and I believe him!
After half time there was a little more spark from the City team and a few good aerial opportunities, none of which quite turned into goals but the nail was hammered into the coffin for a damp and dejected Manchester City team as Arsenal striker and Man of the Match Oliver Giroud scored a spectacular goal from outside the box catching Caballero just off his line with a perfectly placed lob. Some people say the Community Shield is just a glorified friendly but Arsenal will come out of that game eager to get their teeth stuck into Crystal Palace next week with a newfound confidence while Manuel Pellegrini may be asking himself a few questions about his squad for the next season. A return to first team for Joe Hart is almost a definite now and the first real test will be away to Newcastle next Saturday.
Liverpool also took on Borussia Dortmund in a genuine friendly at Anfield on Sunday and recorded a very convincing 4-0 victory with goals coming from Sturridge, new boy Lovren, Coutinho and Henderson in an effort to prove that they can score without Suarez. It certainly looked like they can but Dortmund may be more interested in their Super Cup clash with arch-rivals Bayern Munich this Wednesday so again the true test starts next week as the Premiership race begins.
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Until the middle of the last century, the dominant feature of London's social calendar was 'the Season', and central to this was the phenomenon of the debutante. As the privileged classes descended on the capital to embark on a four-month whirlwind of key social events and smart parties, the daughters of the aristocracy and the wealthy prepared to make their 'debut' into society. From the preparations and rituals involved in court presentation to the exhausting round of parties, this book will look at the details of what it meant to be a debutante; exploring a lost world that incongruously blended glamour and privilege with archaic tradition.
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Lucinda Gosling studied history at the University of Liverpool and has worked in the picture library industry since 1993, currently at historical specialist, Mary Evans Picture Library, and formerly as manager of the Illustrated London News archive. Her interests and areas of specialisation include illustration, royalty and World War I. She has written articles on a wide range of subjects for magazines such as History Today, Illustration, Handmade Living and BBC News Online and is a regular contributor of features on royal history to Majesty magazine. She recently authored the successful Illustrated Royal Weddings by Haymarket and ILN Ltd and is currently working on a Diamond Jubilee title for the same publishers. Her book, Brushes & Bayonets, an exploration of the First World War through the cartoons and drawings in the Illustrated London News archive was published by Osprey in 2008.
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Each spring, from the mid-nineteenth century through to the beginning of the Second World War, as the blossom on the trees in London's exclusive squares unfurled, the well bred and well-heeled left their country estates and headed for the capital. Ahead of them travelled servants to prepare houses in readiness for their family's arrival. Across Mayfair, dustsheets were removed from heirloom furniture and windows were flung open to air fusty rooms. This flurry of activity prompted hotels, florists, hairdressers and caterers to place advertisements in society magazines, and to wait for their order books to fill up as invitations and RSVPs to endless balls, parties, evening receptions and events criss-crossed the city. This seasonal migration, these fevered preparations, heralded the start of what was known as the London Season; an intensive three-month social whirl participated in by those whose breeding, wealth and status marked them out as the so-called cream of British society.
'Society' once described the country's uppermost social ranks, a handful of ducal families sometimes described as the 'ton'. But an expanding population in the early nineteenth century led to an expansion of Society itself. Marital links were forged further down the chain, between the aristocracy and the landed gentry, and, in turn, the middle class, as younger sons of larger families cast their net wider in order to find a wife. In addition, increasing industrialisation created a growing contingent whose fortunes were made rather than inherited. These were 'new money' families; those who had the wealth but not, necessarily, the connections to gain admittance to Society.
H. V. Horton, writing a history of Mayfair in 1927 claimed that the origins of the Season lay in Mayfair's gentrification in the early eighteenth century, with the Season then lasting from December to the end of May. It did not follow the same rigid pattern as later centuries; Society followed the court and gravitated towards the great houses of political leaders but found entertainment at public spaces such as Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens or in Covent Garden theatres. A commentator in 1871 wrote of a previous generation 'that they (the very great) should partake of these pleasures in company that was always mixed and sometimes more than dubious as to its quality, supping, dancing, and playing at cards and hazard … and yet to the best of our knowledge no special harm or annoyance appears to have resulted from this singular comingling of the classes.' Advertising one's rank and station through segregation did not seem to occur to the eighteenth-century nobleman.
In the following century, socialising began increasingly to take on a more private form, centred on parties in grand houses, meaning only those wealthy enough to own such residences, and only those who knew them, or knew someone who could introduce them, could take part. The grandest house of all, Buckingham Palace, operated the same system and only those who were introduced by someone who already had the 'entrée' could gain admittance. In many ways, the Season represented networking at the highest level, sub-consciously developed to filter out any undesirables and, in time, to bring together, under supervision, Society's unmarried daughters with potential husbands from the same elite stock.
The Season's timing shifted around before finally settling in spring and early summer. Roughly coinciding with the Parliamentary year, at first, when Parliament sat in February, gentlemen would bring their families with them to London, and in time, it occupied the more concentrated period during the Parliamentary recess, which ran from spring to August. The timing provided a convenient period for this annual pilgrimage when a temporary easing of political obligation happily converged with social expediency. For the 120 years that followed Queen Victoria's accession, it became the way that Britain's upper classes spent May, June and July each year. In May 1886, an anonymous writer in Harper's New Monthly Magazine ran a feature on 'The London Season', introducing its readers to the giddy world of a high society summer. It began with the conundrum of finding a satisfactory definition for what was a vague and changeable phenomenon:
To give a definition of the London season that would satisfy a West End lady and inform an inquiring Oriental is not an easy task. The difficulty arises from the fact that the 'season' is not, like other seasons, limited by fixed dates, nor is it the season of any one thing in particular… It is not especially the dancing season, the riding-in-the-Row season, the Parliamentary season, the drum season, the bazaar season, or the garden-party season, but the season of all combined.
The Season was basically a series of events forming the backbone of a society summer allowing members of the aristocracy to mix, mingle, reinforce connections, keep out the riff raff and show off, sometimes a little, often a lot. For the wealthy newcomers to Victorian Society – the industrialists, financiers and manufacturers – the Season's activities helped them to adhere to a set of rules of behaviour which in time would assimilate them with aristocracy of old. Laborious rituals such as 'card-calling' and other forms of etiquette ensured that those not necessarily born into Society, at least were accepted into it on prescribed terms.
In time, the qualifications for belonging to Society were eroded. As entry into politics and the diplomatic service became elective and civil service appointments subject to competitive examination, both originally preserves of the upper classes, the fundamental power base on which Society rested was weakened. Instead, the Season took on a glamorous, almost theatrical mantle, with the wealthy and well-born welcoming artists, writers, sporting figures and actors into its ranks to form a cosmopolitan milieu in the years following the First World War. By the 1920s, the pages of society magazines such as The Tatler and The Bystander show theatrical types or Hollywood stars rubbing shoulders at nightclubs and balls with titled peers and members of the royal family. In the late 1930s, the American ambassador Joseph Kennedy brought some transatlantic allure to the Season with his unstuffy, charming family including Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy, who married William Cavendish, heir to the Devonshire dukedom. At a ball in 1932, the Prince of Wales danced with the aviator Amelia Earhart.
Many events that made up the old London season are still celebrated today, but many once-integral activities of the Season have come and gone. The Ranelagh Club, Society's playground and polo venue in Barnes, south-west London closed its gates in 1939 and was finally demolished after a fire in 1954. Riders may still be occasionally seen today in Hyde Park's Rotten Row but back in the nineteenth century, smartly turned out horsemen and women would nod and bow to acquaintances from their steeds in front of gawping crowds. The weekly church parade, where members of society would promenade around the Stanhope Gate at Hyde Park, might be likened to a red-carpet film premiere today. Glittering parties were thrown by aristocratic hostesses in some of the great mansions of London but most of the houses were either pulled down decades ago and built over, or else are no longer private residences. These places and pastimes are now part of the history of the Season. Most significantly, the Royal Courts, or Court Presentations, once the pinnacle of the London Season and the most exclusive invite in town, were finally dispensed with by Buckingham Palace in 1958.
The right of entry to the Sovereign was a very ancient privilege which had gradually become more restricted over the centuries. Queen Elizabeth I allowed the public access to the long Galleries of Greenwich Palace when she progressed to church and King Charles II ate his dinner in public. In 1673, Dryden refers to a 'Levee held in a Drawing Room' (the term 'levee' deriving from when the King would arise and dress in front of his advisors) and Queen Anne refers to ladies being presented at Drawing Rooms in her letters. At first, presentations did not necessarily focus on young girls, but instead on both men and women, usually after marriage or some form of social or professional advancement. The first record of a number of young girls at Court is during the reign of George III (1760–1820) at Queen Charlotte's birthday ball, held every year at St James's Palace.
By the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), young and newly married women from noble or diplomatic families were expected to be 'presented' to the monarch before making their debut in Society. The ritual came to be seen as the official passport into society, a Certificate of Presentation, first issued in 1854, proof of a well-born young lady's credentials. Following their curtsey in front of the Queen, at the age of 17 or 18, these 'debutantes', as they came to be known, would, quite literally, graduate from the schoolroom to the ballroom in a matter of weeks. Margaret Haig Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda (1883–1958), described in her autobiography, This Was My World how, 'I had left school at the end of the April term. In London in May I Came Out.'
This first taste of adulthood was an exhausting round of afternoon teas, receptions, cocktail parties and balls in some of London's most luxurious venues, shoe-horned in and around the main events of the season. Not only was this ritual, known as 'coming out', intended to introduce girls into a sophisticated grown-up world (albeit a tightly controlled and chaperoned one), it also covertly signalled her availability on the marriage market. Lord Byron was famously to call the Regency Season, 'The Marriage Mart' and so it remained for the next century and a half.
Even as late as the 1950s, girls from a certain background were not expected to be academic, or career-driven. Marriage and family were, unsurprisingly, the end goal for many a debutante. The Season was in fact, an enjoyable way for the upper classes to continue to forge dynastic unions.
But marriage was by no means the sole point of the Season for a debutante. It was, more than anything, a rite of passage and for many it was a memorable and magical period between childhood and adulthood when pleasure and fun were a passport to acceptance. Not everyone enjoyed it, nor saw the point of it, but like many traditions, it was done because it simply always had been. As Lady Pamela Smith, a debutante of 1931 put it in an interview in The Queen the following year:
I certainly think a girl ought to be presented, not for any snobbish reason, but because it is one of the few old-time traditions that are left that seem worthwhile. In a sense it is a kind of hall-mark, and, after all, if you are going to be presented you might just as well have all the fun at least of one season. If a girl has the opportunity she is silly to miss it.
In twenty-first century terms, the Season, as it once was, means very little – a series of sporting events perhaps but otherwise, a nebulous, hazy concept wrapped in tradition, nostalgia and romance. Vestiges of the elitism that was once an integral part of the Season remain of course, but these events no longer constitute a strict calendar of social belonging. At the very worst, the Season was based on a snobbish, elitist premise, played to the rules of rigid etiquette and existed to uphold class divisions. But it was also a glamorous, quintessentially British concept, meticulously recorded by contemporary writers, and participants. It is a fascinating record of how the British upper classes operated and an irresistible opportunity to glimpse a lifestyle of luxury, privilege and quaintly archaic tradition.
The London Season
Doing the Season required the stamina of youth. 'I'm so d_____d tired,' confessed a distinguished but exhausted dowager to The Tatler's correspondent at the end of May 1937, only a third of the way through the busy Coronation Year Season. Though hardly the sort of fatigue experienced by her working-class contemporaries in fields, mines or factories, the Season was nevertheless a gruelling marathon. William Makepeace Thackeray, writing to a friend from Switzerland one July during the mid-nineteenth century remarked, 'Three weeks of London were more than enough for me, and I feel as if I had had enough of it and of pleasure.'
Scores of high-profile events were sandwiched between the Private View at Burlington House in the first week of May and the Season's finale marked by the races at Goodwood at the end of July. The Season of 1913 got off to a good start when, according to The Tatler, 'the usual medley of society and Bohemia were present at the private view on Friday last, busy seeing each other and sparing occasional glances for the crowded pictures whose colours were killing each other all over the walls.' For Lady Mary Clive, formerly Mary Pakenham, a debutante in the mid-1920s, it paid to take note of what was hanging on the walls. In her lively memoirs, Brought Up and Brought Out, she admitted that for the sheltered debutante with no life experience, the Royal Academy Show was practically the only subject anybody could conjure up at the tedious luncheon parties she was invited to. It would no doubt have preoccupied conversation during the 1930 Season as portraits of four recent debutantes – Miss Rosemary Hope-Vere, Lady Mary Lygon, the Honourable Phyllis Astor and Miss Nancy Beaton – were among the pictures exhibited.
The private view was closely followed by the opening of the season at the Royal Opera House and when Glyndebourne Opera Festival in Sussex was launched in the summer of 1934, it was quickly adopted as another fixture of the Season, albeit one away from the capital. Glamorous evenings at the theatre may have been a year-round pleasure, but during the Season in particular it was a rather more egalitarian opportunity to mingle with the smart set. In the 1890 edition of London of To-Day, a handbook to the capital and the Season published annually, its chapter on the theatres estimated that on any given night between seventy and eighty thousand people would visit the theatre. It also observed that 'theatre-parties are becoming a fashion of modern London society … a row of stalls is booked for host and guests; and all drive off to the theatre, after the house-festivities are concluded.' Twenty-three years later, its eighteenth edition commented that, 'Boxes on the grand tier at the Opera House may be bought by any one who will tender a sufficient cheque early enough in advance. To be recognised in a prominent position at Covent Garden Theatre at least once a week in May and June is an object of ambition for many…' adding that, 'Among the functions of the Season may be included the obligation to appear some few times at the theatre in the fullest style of dress you can command.' In other words, the theatre was the ideal backdrop against which to flaunt one's wealth and status.
Proportionally, arts and culture played a small role in the entertainments of the Season in comparison to sporting and social events. Flower shows were popular and during the late nineteenth century a number were held at the Crystal Palace in Sydenham. The Chelsea Flower show, originally the Great Spring Fair based in Kensington, evolved into the Royal Horticultural Show and moved to Temple Gardens by Embankment station. Becoming unpleasantly crowded in the Edwardian period, it found a new home at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea in 1912. At various times, other fashionable sources of amusements during the Season included listening to the military bands in Hyde Park or St James's Park on Sunday evenings, recitals and concerts, fetes and charity bazaars, a May morning in Kew Gardens or at Hampton Court and meetings of the four-in-hand and coaching clubs in Hyde Park, a spectacle that attracted thousands each year.
Hyde Park in particular was a magnet for Society during the Season; Harper's New Monthly Magazine in 1886 commenting that, 'by the state of the Park an experienced person would at once know the period of the year.' It described 'The Park' as a piece of ground about three hundred yards long and fifty wide, between Hyde Park Corner and Albert Gate, containing a carriage drive, three walking paths and the celebrated riding path called Rotten Row, once known as Route de Roi. It was here at proscribed times that riders would meet, usually between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. and then later, in the evening when, 'people wear their smartest clothes and ride their smartest hacks'. Such was the densely packed throng that most riders ended up walking, which made the whole process of salutation and conversation easier anyway. For debutantes, or, 'young ladies not regularly in society,' it was an opportunity to meet potential suitors and, 'consequently, a good deal of matrimony is hatched among walkers and sitters.' The quality of Hyde Park's patrons was clear. In May 1913, The Tatler spotted Lady Airlie in Rotten Row, Lord Stanley, the eldest son of Lady Derby watching the horse brigade and Princess Victoria riding in the Row with her niece Princess Mary.
There was polo at Hurlingham, Roehampton or Ranelagh. Ranelagh in particular, which had the novel distinction of holding a polo match lit by electric light in 1880, offered far more to its visitors, including tea on the lawns, amusements for children, gymkhanas and golf. The club was once such an integral part of the Season that magazines regularly ran fashion features suggesting 'Outfits for Ranelagh'.
In any given year, those who frequented Ranelagh were likely to mingle with the same acquaintances at the Eton–Harrow and Oxford–Cambridge cricket matches, the all England Tennis Championships at Wimbledon and the picturesque Henley Royal Regatta. Families with sons at Eton would enjoy the Fourth of June, instituted to commemorate a visit of George III to the school. After speeches – given in Greek and Latin, there would be a luncheon ('excellent', remarked a correspondent of The Lady in 1930, 'consisting of cold salmon, galantine, quails in aspic, strawberry ice and hock cup') and the day would always be rounded off by the Procession of Boats on the river and a firework display.
Another highlight of the Season was the Royal Tournament, first staged at the Agricultural Hall, Islington in 1880 and announced in The Times as 'a military tournament and Assault-at-Arms'. It was held in aid of the Royal Cambridge Asylum for Soldiers' Widows and brought together volunteers from across the Army in a series of competitions from swordsmanship to tug 'o' war. In 1903, London of To-Day declared it 'one of the most interesting of all London's annual shows… It would be a mistake to miss it when in Town.' The show moved to Olympia after the First World War, where it continued to enjoy popularity. Usually attended by the royal family, the young Princess Elizabeth visited the Tournament in the 1930s and delighted in the riding displays.
Equestrianism of one sort or another was usually a guaranteed draw for royalty, particularly horseracing, a sport that found an enthusiastic supporter in Edward VII. Of the Season's major racing fixtures, the Derby, was the festival of the people. Ascot, conversely, was the festival of the aristocracy and Society's prime opportunity to shine. To gain access to the hallowed Royal Enclosure, a lady would apply to the Lord Chamberlain's office in the same way she would be required to do so for presentation at Court. 'A pass to the Royal enclosure is eagerly sought after and not readily obtained; still, the enterprise might be attempted by ladies of influence,' advised London of To-Day in 1903, adding that it 'is filled with elegantly dressed ladies, whose chief object would seem to be to rival each other in the richness and splendour of their costumes.'
Studying form was a fairly low priority for ladies at Ascot. During the Season, Ascot dresses were given as much priority as debutante dance frocks and Court gowns in women's magazines. Only the best would do for Ascot and over the years, names such as Molyneux, Digby Morton, Isobel, Rahvis, Victor Stiebel, Ella James and Dior were called on for show-stopping attire. Beside Court functions (and perhaps the Fourth of June celebrations at Eton), Ascot emphasised class divisions more than anywhere. 'Being in the Royal Enclosure at Ascot is being on the inside looking out,' explained Vogue in 1935, 'every one wears his badge conspicuously pinned to his coat lapel or wrap. Impressive-looking attendants in green plush liveries stand at the various entrances to the Royal Enclosure to watch with hawk-like eyes and prevent anyone without a badge from passing the iron railings.' This safe haven of exclusivity had the added cache of the annual attendance of royalty and its own small display of pageantry, the traditional carriage drive down the course, is still carried out today.
The royal presence at functions through the Season was what set it apart from those in other countries. The Tatler in 1913 admitted that 'Royalty still "makes a difference" even in these democratic days, and charity shows, social functions, the Opera, scintillate with a distinctly brighter brilliance when to their other attractions the chance of the presence of the King or Queen is added.' Forty-five years later, the same magazine proudly declared, 'nowhere else offers a combination of attractions so varied as those of the London Season and nowhere else can provide that essential ingredient – the British monarchy. For it is the Queen – and the spectacle and ceremony that go with her presence – who lifts the London Season above all competition.'
It was perhaps, with a sense of relief that the Season drew to close at the end of July. Livelier supporters of the Season would go on to Cowes on the Isle of Wight for the regatta, but after that, there was one direction in which Society headed, and that was North, to the moors of Berwick and beyond for the start of the shooting season. Whereas it was essential to be seen in London during May, June and July, suddenly, it was just as important not to be seen there in August. Christopher Petherick, joint managing director of Searcy's, caterers to Society claimed that people would get in a month's supply of food, close the windows and shutters and fake their own disappearance from the capital.
August brought discernible changes to the capital. Cabmen and waiters underwent a transformation from haughty to humble once their bountiful sources of income had departed and it was, for the ordinary mortal, 'delightful … to dress as he likes, walk where he likes (even within the sacred boundaries of the "Row"), eat and drink what, and at the time, and how he likes … without loss of caste, or danger of being outlawed.' For the author of London of To-Day, the exodus of the capital's 'quality' guests meant a welcome return to normality.
Society of course still followed its own timetable. Country-house weekends, particularly in the Edwardian era, lasted from Saturday to Monday and the shooting season overlapped with the hunting season, which in itself generated a series of balls and parties ensuring a continuous supply of photographs to the society columns. There was, in certain eras, a 'mini Season' from September to November – a sort of warm-up for the real thing – but by the 1920s and 30s, the smartest began to seek out warmer climes during the winter months.
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I'm just hoping I can fit that editing basket for the raffle into my little VW Golf! ;D I'm looking forward to meeting everyone and checking out the bookstore. Have packed lots of sweaters as we're due for some chilly weather over the weekend according to the weather report. Rain and snowshowers and highs around 40. But, it's supposed to be sunny and nearly 60 degrees for the excursions to Garden of the Gods, Old Colorado City, and the Pioneers Museum on Friday. Hooray! I just read on the list that the construction has now moved into the hotel lobby! Ann Parker and I will be reporting more as the conference progresses and hopefully we'll figure out how to post some pictures, too! More to come ~ Dani
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I'm well aware of what a MkI VW Golf GTI looks like, but when presented with one IRL, I stop in my tracks and stare, mouth agape. They're a rare sight these days, which is a shame, as in the metal the hot hatch originator comes close to visual automotive perfection.
It's compact, boxy, cute, yet sporty and purposeful-looking. It does just enough to let you know it isn't an ordinary Golf, with some red lipstick for that flat, slatted grille, some small plastic wheel arch extensions and a surprisingly chunky front splitter.
Inside, the Clark 'tartan' plaid seats and the golf ball-like gear knob subtly make you aware of the car's intentions, rather than shout at you. This is the recipe VW has stuck with right up until today with the seventh-generation car, and, we sincerely hope, the eighth-gen. A Golf GTI is not and should not be brash.
The quiet brilliance continues when you start to drive one quickly. Progress may not seem all that dramatic compared to the new 286bhp GTI TCR, but the 110bhp MkI is happy to move on at a swift pace, its unremarkable 1.6-litre inline-four letting out a pleasantly raspy tune from the tailpipe in the process. The rev limiter cuts in around 6000rpm, requiring a quick shift from the four-speed manual-box, which demands some effort and care to get right. Not that I mind - you actually feel some sort of mechanical connection with what's going on underneath, unlike modern GTI manuals.
The true fun begins as you tackle anything remotely resembling a bend, or perhaps a roundabout. There's a real fluidity to the body, which just seems to want to playfully move around all the time. The front wheels give up fairly easily, but just as they do so, a throttle lift sees the back end start to swing forward in a way that's never, ever unpredictable. Body roll is at times considerable, but given the relatively low speeds you'll be doing, that's not really an issue.
It's good, clean, simple fun, and although VW seems to be claiming it's recaptured this magic with the new Up GTI, I'm just not sure this is the case. I've certainly never gotten out of an Up GTI wanting one as much as I now want a MkI GTI, which is a problem - you're looking at around £10,000 for a good one these days, with some lower-mileage examples even going for over £20,000. Damn.
With an equally mint Mk2 sitting just next to the MkI's parking spot upon my return, it seemed rude not to continue my journey through the GTI back-catalogue. And my word, what a leap forward it is. I was expecting only incremental changes, but the reality is very different.
The MkII feels so much more tied down. Grip and traction at the front end increase exponentially, and body roll is far more contained.
It's more serious. More capable. And yet, it still knows how to have fun - it'll still happily cock a rear wheel and indulge some lift-off oversteer. It may be over 30 years old, but in a lot of ways, it feels a lot like a modern hot hatchback, the only true giveaway being the steering - like the MkI's, it's reasonably sluggish.
The big surprise, however, is the engine. I thought this car was going to be all about the chassis, but the 16-valve 1.8-litre N/A inline-four is a rev-hungry hero. It'll keep going to 7000rpm, letting out a glorious induction bark during the final 1000rpm before the redline. It reminds me of the four-pot in the Mercedes 190E 2.3 16, which remains just about the best-sounding inline-four-powered road car I've ever heard. 139bhp may not seem like much, but don't forget, although weight did increase quite a bit over its 810kg predecessor, this is still a light car. And unlike the MkI, the II does actually feel quick.
As an object of desire the more handsome, neater-looking MkI has it comprehensively beaten, but when it comes to the driving experience, the MkII eclipses its predecessor to a much greater extent than I'd anticipated.
Considering what was achieved all the way back in the 1980s, the MkIII really should have been epic, but as I found out via a drive in one just after my MkII encounter, this is where VW seemed to really lose its way with the GTI.
It'd take them until 2005 and the arrival of the MkV to make a car that truly deserved those three letters on the grille, having made a step in the right direction with some versions of the MkIV.
The Mk1 is rightfully revered not just as the machine that kicked off VW's GTI dynasty, but also a machine that spawned a whole genre of affordable performance cars. But it's not the starting point that wins my heart - nope, it's the car that refined the recipe to perfection. It's the MkII.


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