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Funny what you find when you're looking for something else. Today I found this. My transcription of an unpublished interview with Long John Baldry and Geoff Bradford from June 26th 2002 on the birth of British blues. The interview took place in a pub at the Angel, Islington. The interviewer was Dave Laing, with me chipping in from time to time. Long John was resplendent in a cape and carried a silver topped cane.
INTERVIEW WITH GEOFF BRADFORD AND LONG JOHN BALDRY, by DAVE LAING and ADAM BLAKE – June 26th 2002.
D.L: What was your first guitar? When did you get it?
LJB: The first one I ever got was a pre-war Harmony f-hole carved top, but oddly enough without much poke. I used it for a while, a couple of years, it was about '55 I got that. Then Grimshaw made me the now famous D soundhole, sharp right hand, almost like a Maccaferri except with a much more jangly body. That was '57.
DL: What were you doing in '55?
LJB: I was at school.
DL: What led you into guitar?
LJB: There were people at school who were also interested in blues and jazz.
DL: Where was this?
LJB: Downer Grammar school, which is Queensbury, North London. And of course Monday nights I used to go to the Kingsbury swimming pool baths jazz club which was in the café there. Sonny, um, what was his name? The Crane River Jazz band. Sonny…trumpet player, oh, can't remember. Colyer, and of course Cyril, although I didn't know it at the time, had some involvement with the Crane River Jazz Band.
GB: I think he's still playing, Colin Kingwell (?).
LJB: Oh yeah. Anyway that's where I first met Charlie Watts, we were both 12 year olds going into the Crane River Jazz club on a Monday night.
(pause on tape) – discussing the death of Brian Knight and touring with the Manfreds.
Discussing Leadbelly's last session ("the best version of Gallow's Pole you ever heard")
DL: Coming back to Kingsbury Baths, your introduction to all this was the Crane River Jazz Band, were there some records as well?
LJB: There were some records, yeah. I got turned on to Bill Broonzy. What had happened, Lonnie came out with "The Rock Island Line" and "John Henry" back to back as a hit, and then a neighbour of mine, just two doors down, Graham Bradbury – who later went on to become one of England's leading painters and horse breeders, which is an odd combination, he lives in Cheltenham now – but anyway I was all knocked out by this Lonnie Donegan thing which, I guess, was '54 I think, and I go oh! and went running out and bought it – on 78! Everything was 78 then. And then Bradbury said, ach, that's all very well and good but come and listen to THIS man. And it was Graham Bradbury who had the first Bill Broonzy records I ever heard which was Blues In 1890 (?), with HIS version of John Henry on the back, with the (sings riff). That was the first ever lick that I learned on the guitar. I'd go and sit in the woods in Cannon's Park and practice that you know (sings riff again). So I wouldn't drive everyone nuts at home. And it was odd because Cannon's park was the very woods and property that George Frederick Handel would have trodden back in the 18th C. so, er, I'm thinking of calling my biography 'From Handel To Howling Wolf'. Simply because it was local to me. The Duke of Chandos (?) had engaged Handel for awhile as kappelmeister. Now you know how very often the aristocracy would employ the musicians based on their abilities to milk cows or polish the furniture or other domestic chores, they were not engaged just on their abilities as a musician. So, apparently the orchestra that he had at this place was heavy on the recorders and all that and low on the fiddles, but he did write a lot of the music there and played the organ at St. Lawrence's church in Edgware where I sang as a 9 or 10 year old. Just so that you get a bit of the background there. Anyway, so that's me learning Big Bill Broonzy (sings). Then, my regular Saturday morning thing to go to Harrow-On-The- Hill market where they have a second-hand record stall and they had, lo and behold, Big Bill Broonzy records in there. But it was like trying to find gold nuggets and then I eventually came across a Leadbelly record on, I think, Vocalion, although I don't think he ever officially recorded for Vocalion. So that's how I first got into… and then I started buying things simply because it said Vogue Records on there, so there'd be Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan, which I was into at an early age. They were put out by Vogue here. Or Wynonie Harris, "Don't Roll Those Bloodshot Eyes At Me". That was also on that record. Then I found all these other… oh, there was, one of my favourite, EP's were just creeping out, my favourite, the first EP I got actually was, oh no, there was a Bill Broonzy one, there was a Muddy Waters EP, with "Morgan's Shuffle" and "Honey Bee".
GB: I remember that, yeah.
LJB: It was an EP. And Mahalia Jackson's "In The Upper Room Pts 1 & 2", and a couple of other tunes, and my favourite Chris Barber EP of all time was Chris playing all Ellington stuff, with "Creole Love Call" and "East St.Louis Toodle-O" and a couple of others. So, that's the kind of stuff I was buying as a 13 – 14 year old. And trying to make it happen on the guitar. And of course there was nobody around, that I knew of, to teach me so I literally had to learn on my own. But I learned to play more peculiarly, so instead like, thumb at the back, hands over the top which is the proper way of playing, I would allow the neck to be in the middle of my palm and using my thumb as a… with the result that I've often dislocated it! Mind you I've slowed down in recent years, I've got a bit of arthritis in there as you can see. Funnily enough, the more I play guitar the easier the arthritis is to combat, the less drugs one needs. So you can certainly say that guitar playing is great therapy, especially that style of guitar playing.
DL: So you didn't know anyone who played guitar at that stage?
LJB: Not at all, not at all. It wasn't until I started hanging around in Soho when I was about 16 that I realised that there were other people around. That's when I first met Davy Graham. And we kind of did a double act in the folk clubs and coffee houses for a couple of years before Davy went on his own exploratory way. I mean he was a great guitarist, still is. So all the fancy bits that I couldn't do he was great to fill in, and of course he was never much of a singer so we made a fairly decent double act.
DL: So you were singing the stuff, by now…
DL: But how did you develop your singing? In the woods, so to speak?
LJB: More or less, yeah.
DL: And in the bedroom singing along to…
LJB: That's right, yeah.
DL: And who were the singers you first tried to emulate?
LJB: Well I think Bill was my first influence and I think everybody's. Not only were we listening to him on record, we actually had him here.
GB: D'you remember the first film? Broonzy with the cigarette smoke?
LJB: Yeah, I have that on video at home somewhere I think. I think that might have been recorded in Paris wasn't it?
GB: And there was an album recorded at the same time. In Paris. He got progressively more smashed as the album goes on.
DL: But it was shown on television that little clip, wasn't it?
AB: They had an evening of jazz and blues films on Channel 4, some years ago, and they showed it then. With an existentialist Beatnik looking girl.
LJB: Yeah.
DL: If you were going to Soho at 16 did you venture there on your own? You didn't have a pal to go with?
LJB: I came across this coffee bar near to Charing X station, just off Viliers St, a place called the Gyre and Gimble.
GB: Remember it well.
DL: Yes, we heard about that.
LJB: From Alice In wonderland, isn't it? Or Through The Looking Glass.
DL: Interesting place, by the sound of it.
LJB: A lot of the singers and players went down there.
DL: But you must have been the youngest of them.
LJB: Oh yeah. Even Davy was a little bit older than me I think. But people like Red Sullivan used to hang out there. A guy called Jean Van Der Bosch (?) who was the original member of the Vipers skiffle band. John pilgrim, d'you remember? Who used to sell books on Charing X Rd by Dobells?
GB: Is that the same John Pilgrim on Three Cameras (?) radio?
DL: Yes he is, he lives in Suffolk or somewhere. Because Pete Emory was telling me we ought to talk to him. Dave Peabody knows
him quite well as well.
GB: He put out a really good EP of Davy – an after gig session at a college. Might have been Hull.
DL: Yes it was, it's that one yeah. Same guy. And he's a washboard player.
GB: His daughter is also a presenter.
DL: So what was your repertoire with Davy? Broonzy stuff and Leadbelly stuff?
LJB: It would have all been Broonzy stuff. I didn't really start getting into the Leadbelly thing until a) I'd met Cyril, and I think that was '57, Cyril and Alex, and b) Tony Zemaitis made my first ever 12 string guitar, in fact the first guitar he'd ever made. Which he made for me for £15.
DL: So how did that come about? Was he a guitar repairer before that?
LJB: No, no, he was a furniture, cabinet maker, Tony Zemaitis, and he used to hang out at the Gyre and Gimble and he said "I'm thinking of making a 12 string guitar", he said, "if I make one, will you buy it off me for whatever it costs me to make and sort of try it out and do things with it?" Yes, sure! It was actually quite a small one as 12 strings go, but it was a beautiful instrument. Sadly I had it pinched, together with another one he made for me. I must have been one of the very few people who actually had two 12 strings, there was this small one, the original one, and a bigger one. Ruddy pinched when…I think 1960 when… I think March or thereabouts after the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa. A whole load of us had gone to picket South Africa house and both the two Zemaitis guitars got pinched. So who knows, they may still be alive and living somewhere in this world.
DL: With some anti-apartheid person. I think somebody told me on one of our tapes that you were the first person they'd seen playing a 12 string in London. Were there other 12 strings around?
LJB: There weren't that many.
GB: Cyril.
LJB: There was Cyril. Rory McEwan of course. But before that, I think the first man playing 12 string guitar in London was a guy called John Hasted (?) who ran the Forty Four club in Gerrard Street. And I never ever saw him play but apparently he was quite…he was some kind of university don.
DL: He was, I think he was a physicist or something. And involved in CND.
LJB: And he was quite an amazing player, but I never…
GB: I couldn't believe Cyril when I first saw him. I thought he was an Australian or a New Zealander. He had this buff coloured coat you always associate with a colonial type. First time I ever saw him play - a massive thing.
DL: So had you left the education system by this time?
LJB: By then, because I'd already realised, early on, although I had a promising academic career ahead of me, I knew what I wanted to do was go out and sing the blues. Very romantic and silly notion, but here I am!
GB: Still doing it.
DL: Was your family supportive? Or was there a problem there?
LJB: Well when they first actually saw me doing it, then my mum and dad used to show up everywhere and they were very supportive. Because I used to play quite regularly at a folk club that was being run at the White Hart in St Albans by a man called Ken Lindsay.
GB: Where have I heard of Ken Lindsay before, apart from that?
LJB: Well he ran jazz clubs around London as well.
DL: So the St Albans folk club, is that where your parents would turn up to see you?
LJB: Yeah. And anywhere else that was sort of like driveable. And of course every Thursday I used to go, eventually end up going to Alex and Cyril's do at the Roundhouse. And on Saturday's I used to do the Ewan and Peggy show in Soho Square.
LJB: That's right, yeah. Which was kind of odd because Ewan was so down on British people playing American folk music but he made an exception in my case. And we remained very good friends over the years, right up to his death. I don't know why he singled me out for any special favours, and allowed me to be on the same stage as him, I'll never know. Because I know he was notorious for saying "no English people singing American folk music here! Not allowed!"
DL: So you never sang any English folk songs?
LJB: No, I mean, from time to time as a joke. (laughs) I think it was round about that time that I first met Geoff too. Very late 50s.
DL: Would you too have met at the Roundhouse?
LJB: Yeah probably. That was the meeting place.
GB: Yeah that would have been.
LJB: It was Cyril and Alex's gig but a lot of regular people used to be there like Keith Scott, the piano player, umm, oddly enough Andy Hoogenboom who later was their bass player in the very first ever Blues Incorporated. But it was so funny, Cyril never remembered that he had actually thrown Andy out, down the stairs at the Roundhouse, years before, and he didn't remember him when later he became the very first stand-up bass for Blues Inc. I mean it was so odd, so ironic, that Cyril would throw anybody out for anything. This guy was, um…
GB: Threw a flasher out once.
LJB: Yeah. I think that might have been the same incident because a girl was giving him um, er, masturbating underneath a coat. Cyril was in the middle of a song and he didn't take that kindly to…
GB: Is that what it was, I never did find out what it was.
LJB: That was the ironic thing because I remembered who the guy was but Cyril had completely forgotten it.
DL: So you and Cyril obviously got on very well then, did you work with him for a long time?
LJB: Yeah, he was a kind of scary guy, his fits of violent aggressive behaviour could be quite overwhelming at times, but there were some softer sides to him, some kindnesses that he showed people. Me included.
AB: Did he buy you a guitar Geoff? I read that.
LJB: You've got all that down, haven't you?
DL: Adam hasn't heard it.
GB: He bought me that Telecaster.
LJB: I used to play that from time to time, Geoff's Telecaster, and Geoff'd play harmonica. And it was one of the easiest guitars ever to play and it was so light on the shoulder. Electric guitars normally I don't have anything to do with, a) because I've had shocks from them, and b) because they tend to be so damned heavy on the shoulder. But it was light as a feather that one, and the sound that came out of it was just amazing.
AB: It must have been quite unusual to find American solid-body guitars at that time.
LJB: It was one of the first Tele's that came into the country. I mean we'd had the Stratocaster's here and all that but the Telecaster was almost brand new in '61-'62.
GB: They were known as a rhythm – you know the way people think, they'd go "oh you don't want that, that's a rhythm guitar. You want a Strat, that's a lead guitar." I knew that Willie Johnson played a Telecaster and that was good enough for me. And so I stuck with it.
LJB: Well because it was such a delicate instrument, comparatively speaking to a lot of other electric guitars, it leaned itself very well to Geoff's style which was more or less total fingerstyle, as opposed to bashing away with a pick. Geoff was, always has been, the leader in that area of fingerstyle electrical work. I notice in recent times Jeff Beck's been getting the fingers out, as it were. I always associated him purely with a flat pick but Jeff's been experimenting with thumb and fingers now.
DL: One of the other things that comes up when we're talking to people about that era is the point when – 'cos it was all acoustic playing obviously in the 1950s, in that world anyway, obviously there was electric playing going on elsewhere – but at a certain point it kind of seems that people took the plunge and decided to go amplified. Didn't it feel like that at the time?
LJB: It seemed like a natural progression. I remember Alex and Cyril saying to me: We're going to put a band together with amplifiers and microphones. You've got to be reminded that at the Roundhouse there were no amplifiers at all and not even a microphone to sing through was there?
GB: No, no.
LJB: Totally acoustic, you had to rely on the room's acoustics. So it was either very late '61 or very early '62 they said: We're going to put together this band and make it Chicago, NOW sound, and we'd like you to be part of this project. So I said OK fine. So I was down there for the very first ever one in the Ealing club, which was March '62 I think. But like a lot of things Alex did, he wanted Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all to be part of it and he wasn't happy unless he had a cast of thousands on the stage there so… I mean, I enjoyed meeting new people and all that but I didn't want to share the limelight with 20 other singers, not really.
DL: The whippersnappers like Paul Jones.
LJB: Yeah, exactly. I still don't want to share the limelight with him! (laughs)
DL: I understand that.
LJB: I don't think Cyril really approved of that, having an open stage for whoever came along, but that was part of Alex's thing wasn't it: Oh, we'll have him up! Now what was behind that, whether Alex wanted to piss off and have a drink or a joint, I don't know, or whether he truly wanted to nurture all the talent that was out there in London I'll never know.
GB: He used to do his Mayfair family bit, and go down to Ealing, then he'd bugger off and he'd be leading a band somewhere in Putney, so he's have 4 or 5 Alexis Korner bands all going on the same night.
LJB: Yes.
GB: I'd dep for him on 2 or 3 occasions.
DL: You mean you'd have to pretend to be Alexis Korner?
GB: No, not really, no, but to be there as part of the band. We did a gig at Hampton Court Palace once. Big society thing.
LJB: That's right, Alex Korner's mark in all that.
GB: I remember Art Themen being on it, I can't remember who else was on it, got down there, no Alex. I think he did turn up at one stage.
DL: One of the things people often say though is when the split occurred between Alexis and Cyril came it was a musical policy thing as well. Art Themen gave me this thought you know…
GB: Well he was heavily into Charlie Mingus at the time and he wanted to try and get a few things together and Cyril didn't want to.
LJB: I think if it had been his just carrying on with the one sax player, Heckstall-Smith, I think Cyril would have gone with it, 'cos he and Heckstall-Smith got on very well.
GB: Yeah.
LJB: I think it was Alex – and I must admit that I was at fault for doing this very often, I'd load the stage up with saxophone players thinking I was Count Basie or something (laughs) – and The Hoochie Coochie Men, I tell you the talent that used to be up on that stage from Bruce Turner to Don Rendell, I mean there were some amazing players that we had up there – but that was Alex's thing, he wanted to load the stage up with saxophone players and I think that got up Cyril's nose.
GB: Yeah.
LJB: Quite why Cyril chose a rock'n'roll oriented band to go with kind of amazed me. 'Cos I'd been away in Germany and came back and they were both ringing me frantically: Oh, will you join my band, will you join my band. That's Alex and so on. And I literally joined Cyril's band on the toss of a half-crown. I was on the phone to one of them, no actually I was on the phone to Malcolm Mixen (?) the agent, he's going: So which band do you want to perform with? Was it Malcolm Mixen or was it Cyril? So I toss up and anyway…It's such a long time ago, 40 years ago.
GB: I think you're doing very well, better than me.
LJB: It came down on Cyril's side anyway so I rang up and I said I'm sorry Alex, Cyril's won and actually in some books it's said that it was kind of unfair on Alex that Baldry went with Cyril because Alex had paid Baldry's airfare home from Germany which was not true at all.
AB: I've seen that.
LJB: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Alex hadn't paid any airfare at all I came back from Stuttgart on the train. Alex hadn't paid for that so I don't know where that myth comes from. But anyway, so I joined up with Cyril and I go down to this, the first ever gig was at that place which used to be the Cy Laurie club – the Scene.
GB: Matt's (?) rehearsal room.
LJB: No, no an actual gig. I came straight in off the train to do a gig, it wasn't even rehearsed or anything.
GB: No, no they called it Matt's rehearsal room.
LJB: Oh I see, OK.
DL: That's what it was originally.
GB: There was a salt beef shop opposite, remember?
LJB: Yeah, yeah. But no the yard behind the salt beef place was a club that later became called The Scene. Anyway, that was the first gig I did with Cyril and I was kind of amazed that all these kids who would have been more at home accompanying someone like Billy Fury or something like that, I thought: Ooh dear, what has the toss of a half-crown landed me in here?
AB: A bunch of rock'n'rollers?
LJB: Yeah, yeah. Mind you, they were enthusiastic. It was a kind of odd combination and to this day I can't tell you why Cyril would have chosen them other than that they were all close neighbours, weren't they?
GB: Most of them were local to that area, weren't they? Sutch and all them.
DL: They used to play with Sutch, or that's what I've read anyway. They were Sutch's backing band.
GB: That's true, yeah.
LJB: And Neil Christian and the Crusaders.
GB: Carlo still had the leopard skin on his drum kit. (laughs)
LJB: And then the band started to become more of a bluesy outfit when Bernie left, and Geoff came in and Nicky Hopkins got sick and in fact nearly died that time, didn't he?
GB: Yeah, he was sick for years.
LJB: And then the beanhead came in, Keith Scott.
GB: (laughs) yes!
LJB: We called him beanhead not for being rude but his head was shaped like a bean. If anything, if you ever see pictures of Reinhardt Heidrich – the Reich's protector of Moravia, the one who got assassinated in Czechoslovakia – the beanhead looked exactly like him: blond hair and, like, elongated cranium, and a fairly sharp longish nose, that was Keith Scott. But actually a great piano player, and not a bad singer too.
GB: No, he was alright.
DL: I didn't know he sang.
LJB: I don't think he ever recorded which was a shame because he knew the Big Maceo Merriweather catalog inside out.
AB: We were talking about that just before you came.
GB: I've got Mike and Keith doing some Maceo kind of stuff.
LJB: He knew that inside out, and the Leroy Carr stuff, what else did you need to know?
GB: We did it, Keith and myself, when I had the National. I used to do a Scrapper Blackwell to his Leroy Carr. Or an imitation Scrapper Blackwell.
LJB: And then gradually people started getting replaced, there was, um, dear Cliff came in, that was a shame we lost him, Cliff Barton (?) Actually it was very embarrassing, just recently on tour there was some old family friend of his who said: ooh, I wonder if you could tell me how my dear old friend Cliff Barton is. And I haven't had the heart to reply to this man and say well he died, like 30 years ago. Over 30 years ago. 'Cos one of the funniest things with Cliff was, when he was in the band there, I think it was Graham Bond who got him into heavy drugs and whatnot, and I'm not speaking ill of the dead, Graham did what he did in life, but thing is Cliff was a person who was easily led.
GB: Thing is everybody, without exception everyone had a go at him, to try and stop him. 'Cos we all knew what was going on.
LJB: Oh yeah. We knew how it would end up, which it eventually did. But it was so funny, 'cos it has a funnier side too, 'cos I remember I said to Cliff, you gotta ease up man, half of London is talking about this ,which they were, and he said, who's Arthur Plunden? He says, do I know 'im? (laughs)
GB: I remember coming out of a hotel, we were loading up to go to the next gig, it was up north somewhere, and him getting in the car to go to the next gig, I remember that so well.
LJB: So we did an instrumental: "Who Is Arthur Plunden And Why Is He Talking About Me Blues". (laughs)
GB: Oh yeah, I remember that very well.
LJB: But I mean he was an amazing bass player, probably, I think he was better than Jack Bruce, quite honestly.
GB: He would have been. Since then I've played with a young guy, like Jaco Pastorius, and I've never heard of him since, late 70's early 80s. A guy who was as good as Pastorius.
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LJB: … man had a tremendous row and suddenly Carlo was not there anymore.
GB: So Micky Waller did…
LJB: In came Micky, yeah.
GB: … the second single, I was on that one.
DL: Yes.
LJB: Yes, in came Micky. And then of course there were the Bell Dell (?)
GB: D'you remember that row in the bus?
LJB: Oh yes. These women used to fight each other, punch each other out, like, real dukin' it, y'know.
DL: But they've ended up in London as part of a theatrical show.
LJB: King Kong. All of the cast asked for political asylum after the run of that show and no wonder because it was not long after Sharpeville and conditions for black people in South Africa were atrocious.
GB: Johnny Parker married her, that woman. Yeah they were… d'you remember that, coming back in the coach and one of them thought she was dying, d'you remember that?
LJB: (laughs) Yes. We had to take her to the hospital in Middlesborough. Johnny McCoy still talks about all that. I saw him just recently, Johnny and Jo, d'you remember his attractive wife Jo? She's still a good looker, yeah. So he's doing well up there on Teeside.
GB: I think they were running a club.
LJB: Well the club, the Purple Onion, he knocked that on the head, but he's doing all kinds of other, y'know, posh upscale restauranting and all that, as is all his brothers.
GB: I'd forgot all about him.
LJB: Johnny, he was great. I mean all of those people…
GB: Even Stringfellow was, wasn't he, in those days…he used to work for Henry Mann (?) in…
LJB: …in Sheffield, yeah, at the Mojo Club.
DL: I was going to ask about working outside London because presumably in the earlier days no-one really got any gigs further than St Albans or somewhere like that.
LJB: Surprisingly, I went up to Liverpool as long ago as 1958, went up to do gigs with the Spinners. On Samson and Marlow's Grill on the London Road. And then I went up with Jack Elliott to Bradford to do… and I was billed as the world's greatest white 12 string guitar player! That wasn't my idea, I guess they'd never heard of anybody else playing 12 string.
DL: That'd be that famous folk club in Bradford that was going.
LJB: Yeah. It was actually a theatre show that was going, The Mechanics Institute.
DL: Not the topic Folk Club?
LJB: Ooh gosh, remember that? The Topic Folk Club? That was run by a guy who was a friend of Davy Graham's.
DL: I can't remember the name now but he was well known in the folk world, on the sort of Ewan McColl circuit. But when Blues Incorporated started touring more?
LJB: Well there were all kinds of clubs that opened up it seemed in the '62-'63 period, Eel Pie Island went over from totally trad jazz to what we called r'n'b at that time – I don't know how it all ended up being called r'n'b – um, there was Eel Pie Island then there were all the Ricky Tick clubs that were run by a man called Philip Hedley who sadly passed away in recent times, only a young man still. Then there were all the gigs that Giorgiou Gomelsky ran, there was another man called Leo de Klerk who operated sort of south-west at the time.
GB: Ron Lesley?
LJB: Ron and Nanda (?) Lesley, they had the clubs in Ipswich, what were their places called? Blue something or other.
GB: They had one in Aylesbury.
LJB: They were the people who nicknamed Rod Rod the Mod, they started putting it on posters, Rod the Mod Stewart, Ron and Nanda Lesley, they had the Manor House ballroom, um, who else was there? I mean there was no shortage of gigs, Jesus Christ no, within the space of a couple of years, you could go everywhere.
GB: D'you remember the Slipper in Nottingham?
LJB: The Dancing Slipper, for Bill Kinell.
DL: So the time that Cyril formed the band, it sort of coincided with all that happening?
LJB: Yes, all over.
GB: I remember the first gig with Cyril, it was in Guildford.
LJB: The Wooden Bridge?
GB: Yeah.
LJB: That was another one-armed man in there wasn't there?
GB: They were queueing right round the block. I couldn't believe it.
LJB: What was that man's name, Jack? With a red beard, and one hand, or one arm.
GB: See your recall is so much better than mine! I must have been stoned as a hog. I know I was there. I know how long the queue
was. I couldn't believe it.
LJB: We actually, we were the first out of the box to start travelling about, and in fact Cyril always laid on a Timson's coach for us so it was comfortable.
GB: Oh yeah.
LJB: But back then there were not the motorways that we have now so we'd end up leaving at 5:30 or 6 in the morning to get up north because it was a whole day's safari.
GB: Once you got to the Blue Boar that was it, no more motorway.
LJB: But we did Middlesborough, we did, um, did we ever do Scotland with Cyril?
GB: With Cyril?
LJB: With the Hoochie Coochie Men we certainly did.
GB: Yeah, we did Scotland.
LJB: But, er, we went all over so we were already well travelled compared to, say, Alexis who tended to stick around in the London area at that time. Well he was getting all the society gigs, Alex.
DL: And I don't know if he was getting his radio things then but he had his other… What about recording? I mean Cyril did get a recording contract. When was the first recording you made?
LJB: Well actually the first thing I ever did was for John R T Davies, a thing with Red Sullivan, it was called 6 out of 4, which was an ep – 6 out of 4 meaning 6 tunes out of 4 people – and it's very much a collector's item.
DL: Sounds like it, I've never heard of it.
LJB: It was on Dobell's 99 records - it meant 99 records were ever pressed so it meant we didn't have to pay any taxes because it was only 99 records.
DL: It's only after 100 copies!
AB: So there were only 99 copies in existence?
LJB: Yeah. And I had two at one time, they've disappeared now, they'd probably be worth more to you now. That was with Red Sullivan and Marion Gray and all that. That was in '59 or '60 and then the first band thing I did was with Alex and Cyril, the R'n'B At The Marquee which is still selling by the bloody barrel full! I mean they even put it on a Japanese Audiophile thing now, gold-plated and all that. You know it's been digitally enhanced, sonically this, and the other, and I'm saying it was only a mono record in the first place!
GB: D'you remember once we did a session at the Marquee? And Buddy Guy came down, and it was all recorded by the guy with the club foot?
LJB: Oh, John, um, John – he was a friend of Giorgiou Gomelsky…
GB: They just had at the back of the Marquee, they had a small studio.
DL: They used to record everything without getting permission.
GB: That's right. Exactly. And that was all recorded.
LJB: Buddy, and Jimmy Cotton was over as well.
AB: I've got some photos of a Blues Incorporated recording session.
LJB: I'll have to get my glasses.
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I hope you missed me. I didn't write a post in the last 2 weeks cuz I had so many ideas but so less time and I finally decided to do this post first in which I'm showing you a little selection of a few dresses that I fell in love with instantly on instagram.
I love this purple playsuit with pink flowers :D sooooo pretty and my colors.
I'm still into plaid and this is not too much. It's cut very nicely, just a bit too short for my taste.
I saw a similar skirt at Zara but the lace on this one is bigger and that's why I like it better :)
I haven't ordered yet from this online store but I guess it's one of these many australian online stores like lookbookstore. They have amazing dresses and playsuits :D I could like buy everything there and I might give it a try and order something soon. If you feel the same about their stuff, I suggest you to take one size bigger since australian sizes are not the same as european and american sizes.
And another lovely playsuit! This is also an australian brand. Same goes for this as for all the other dresses, order one size bigger. Delivery might take some time.
as seen on Luisa Lion from style-roulette.com
click >>HERE<< if you wanna see more pictures of her outfit!
I feel like this might look on me as good as on Luisa cuz I have a larger bust size too and this dress still suits her great.
This is a similar dress as the blue one above but then again different. It's also available in blue and I think a few online stores are selling this one but I haven't seen it cheaper yet than on this one. And since I heard like 2-3 good reviews on CHICWISH I would feel more save ordering it from them.
These two dresses are also made in China so order one size bigger. Delivery how ever might take some time thought.
This parka is like everything! Such a great color for this new season :D You can also google this dress since a few online stores are selling it. You can even find some of the Madison Square clothes on Teal & Tala. (but not this one)
I don't feel like I could wear crop topped dresses yet but if I make it and loose some more weight I'm totally gonna order this and wear it this summer. I'm not such a girly girl but this dress is so pretty and we girls deserves sometimes something pretty so that we can feel like princesses :P
as seen on Hanadi Beauty (check her out on instagram)
And another playsuit... The last one I swear. I feel like they might be IN this year. Actually you can't do anything wrong with playsuits. Always loved them. ^^
I already ordered on lookbookstore before. It can take from 2 weeks to 4 weeks till you get the delivery. The quality is pretty good you just have to make sure to order one size bigger than you wear usually cuz their stuff runs pretty small.


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1 cup applesauce
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup pureed pumpkin (canned or fresh)
2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ginger
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
3-4 cups dairy free whipped cream, divided or cream cheese icing (recipe below)
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1/2 cup vegan margarine
1 pound powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon maple extract or maple "butter"
2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice (1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, 1/2 teaspoon ginger)
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease a sheet pan. and line with greased parchment. Mix wet ingredients in one bowl, set aside. In another bowl, mix dry ingredients.
2. Mix together the wet ingredients and the dry ingredients. Stir until incorporated. Pour mixture into prepared pan and smooth out. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until cooked through.
3. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely and pull cake out of the pan with the parchment still underneath. If using frosting, mix together frosting ingredients until smooth. Ice the cake with 2-3 cups of the vegan whipped cream (or frosting), and 1/2 the nuts.
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Taste of Genomics: the 70th anniversary of Prof. Radovan Komel and 13th CFGBC Scientific Symposium will take place from June 20th-21st 2018 at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Slovenia.
Systems Medicine Conference in Slovenia: National Awareness Event,12th CFGBC Symposium and "Systems Medicine" Workshop took place from June 8th-9th 2017 at Hotel Slon, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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7 Power Skills that Build Strong Relationships!!
A strong, healthy relationship is one in which the partners show respect and kindness toward each other. The relationship forms a rewarding and enduring bond of trust and support. Here are seven power skills that will help you form stronger alliances and bring more closeness, authenticity and trust to your relationships.
1. Relax Optimistically
If you are comfortable around others, they will feel comfortable around you. If you appear nervous, others will sense it and withdraw. If you are meeting someone for the first time, brighten up as if you've rediscovered a long-lost friend. A smile will always be the most powerful builder of rapport. Communicating with relaxed optimism, energy and enthusiasm will provide a strong foundation for lasting relationships.
2. Listen Deeply
Powerful listening goes beyond hearing words and messages; it connects us emotionally with our communication partner. Listen to what the person is not saying as well as to what he or she is saying. Focus intently and listen to the messages conveyed behind and between words.
Listen also with your eyes and heart. Notice facial expressions and body postures, but see beneath the surface of visible behaviors. Feel the range of emotions conveyed by tone of voice and rhythm of speech. Discern what the person wants you to hear and also what they want you to feel.
3. Feel Empathetically
Empathy is the foundation of good two-way communication. Being empathetic is seeing from another person's perspective regardless of your opinion or belief. Treat their mistakes as you would want them to treat your mistakes. Let the individual know that you are concerned with the mistake, and that you still respect them as a person. Share their excitement in times of victory, and offer encouragement in times of difficulty. Genuine feelings of empathy will strengthen the bond of trust.
4. Respond Carefully
Choose emotions and words wisely. Measure your emotions according to the person's moods and needs. Words can build or destroy trust. They differ in shades of meaning, intensity, and impact. What did you learn when listening deeply to the other individual? Reflect your interpretation of the person's message back to them. Validate your understanding of their message.
Compliment the person for the wisdom and insights they've shared with you. This shows appreciation and encourages further dialogs with the individual. A response can be encouraging or discouraging. If you consider in advance the impact of your emotions and words, you will create a positive impact on your relationships.
5. Synchronize Cooperatively
When people synchronize their watches, they insure that their individual actions will occur on time to produce an intended outcome. Relationships require ongoing cooperative action to survive and thrive.
As relationships mature, the needs and values of the individuals and relationship will change. Career relationships will require the flexibility to meet changing schedules and new project goals. Cooperative actions provide synchrony and build trusting alliances. They are part of the give and take that empowers strong, enduring relationships.
6. Act Authentically
Acting authentically means acting with integrity. It means living in harmony with your values. Be yourself when you are with someone else. Drop acts that create false appearances and false security.
When you act authentically, you are honest with yourself and others. You say what you will do, and do what you say. Ask for what you want in all areas of your relationships. Be clear about what you will tolerate. Find out what your relationship partners want also. Being authentic creates mutual trust and respect.
7. Acknowledge Generously
Look for and accentuate the positive qualities in others. Humbly acknowledge the difference that people make to your life. Validate them by expressing your appreciation for their life and their contributions. If you let someone know that they are valuable and special, they will not forget you. Showing gratitude and encouragement by words and actions will strengthen the bonds of any relationship.
Don't forget to acknowledge your most important relationship: the relationship with yourself. Acknowledge your own qualities, and put those qualities into action. You cannot form a stronger relationship with others than you have with yourself. You will attract the qualities in others that are already within you.
Ask yourself: What thoughts and behaviors will attract the kind of relationships I desire? What is one action I could take today that would empower my current relationships?
Write down all the qualities or behaviors that you desire for your relationships. Select the power skills that will attract those qualities. Keep a journal of the actions you take and the progress you make. By turning these skills into lifelong habits, you will build relationships that are healthy, strong and mutually rewarding
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My heart paused when I heard it, and I began to pray that it was just a limb or branch that tend to fall to the road from time to time. I slowly went to the arbor gate and peeked on the road, hoping to see a piece of wood.
But it was not.....it was a beautiful gray kitty, laying there.
I asked Emma Sage to quickly get a towel from the bathroom and to call her brother Otto to come help.
I scooped Gracie up and brought her to the front porch, where we held her and cried as she took her last breathes.
Emma Sage and I sat there for a long time. Talking to her and telling her how much we loved her and that she was the bestest kitty in the whole world [which she was]. The Cicada's were singing their summer song as we sat and mourned this loss.
Emma Sage told me that she could still feel her heart beeping and that she was just sleeping. I tried explaining death to her again, and she told me that 'she knows, Gracie is in heaven with Nana' but she continued to tell me she was just asleep, and I hugged her and let her know that it was a beautiful, eternal sleep.
We buried her under the Cherry tree.
Emma Sage and I made a cross out of sticks and placed flowers from the garden on sweet Gracie's grave.
A friend of mine had posted a thought that resonated exactly what we experienced yesterday and wanted to share it here.
"The Cicada Chorus and the Katydid Cantata remind me that as the ocean waves count the pulse of the earth and the passage of time......all things change and all things stay the same. Hello and goodbye really DO mean the same thing. Love is what remains........."Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam ~~ Rest in Peace sweet kitty


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Saturday, May 21, 2005
Triage for environmental awareness
But when the competing idea is that everything will turn out fine for the indefinite future, it is hard to compete. If you are told that you can go on living the way you do now only more so, it's much more appealing than having to change everything. Still, there are many people who feel unease. They believe something is wrong. They want to find out what it is, and they want to do something about it.
I have worked in political campaigns, and informing people about critical environmental issues resembles nothing so much as a campaign. That work has taught me a very simple but important lesson in strategy. There are three groups in any campaign: 1) those who are already going to vote for you, 2) those who will never vote for you, and 3) those who can be persuaded to vote for you. Group 1 needs to be launched with the necessary materials and talking points toward Group 3. Group 2 needs to be assiduously ignored.
In other words, don't waste a moment on the spoilers and cranks in the opposition. There are plenty of people out there who can be persuaded. Focus on them.
(Comments are open to all. See the list of environmental blogs on my sidebar.)
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- Big Gav said...
The problem with the spoilers and the cranks is that they tend to infest forums that people who could be persuaded are reading.
So you find yourself reading an article on, say, the effects of global warming, and then some mass of noise in the comments below on how global warming is just a conspiracy theory created by environmentalists / greedy climate scientists / communists or other such nonsense.
In these (all too common) instances you have an unpleasant choice to make - argue with the lunatics (which gets very tiring and frustrating after a while, believe me) or ignore them. But ignoring them means that a lot of people who are undecided eventually get brainwashed by the lunatic fringe (especially the ones who are paid to do this sort of thing).
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
- Kurt Cobb said...
Big Gav makes a good point. But as tempted as I am to respond to the lunatics, I restrain myself.
Comments sections and forums might be analogous to a party at which people are constantly coming and going. You may know some of them, but most you don't. You may not even know the host. Then, someone makes an outlandish remark very loudly to many people and you are there to hear it. It is a comment so egregious that you are reminded that you promised yourself the last time something like this happened that you would not remain silent again in similar circumstances.
The problem is that on the Internet, you are not confronting people in person as part of a group. So inflicting public shame on them doesn't work. These people remain anonymous.
I think the best thing to do is to ignore them. But, if you must, then don't respond directly to them. Simply point to actual, honest evidence and restate your case. Since you cannot refute every insane point made by these tireless jackasses, you must content yourself with differentiating your comments by tone. The more measured and reasoned we sound, the more lunatic they will sound. They are trying to draw you into an emotional catfight that you cannot win.
I'm afraid that on the Internet it's difficult to go beyond this. Nevertheless, I'm open to ideas since I agree that the naysayers present a serious challenge.
There is a clue in what Big Gav says that might be room for an opening. Right now so many forums on the Internet seem the province of unthinking right-wing nuts and conspiracy theorists that perhaps the only way to overwhelm them is to get more sensible people on those forums. That would change the relative "mass of noise" as Big Gav puts it. Often, people judge the truth of something by how many people believe it. This is frequently referred to as "social truth." But given that fact, I see no other way to proceed.
Everyone who has done any advocacy work knows that sheer numbers usually triumph regardless of where the truth lies.
- WHT said...
A very recent post of yours got linked in a thread started by one of these lunatics that you speak of (and I have done battles with). Go to this link --if you dare/care-- to see how it plays out.


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Sorry, Drunkards, our fair leader seems to be missing today. Vinnie must not be taking the Casey Anthony verdict very well. Poor guy, he just loves justice.
As it is pretty common with American movie distribution, Paramount and Marvel Studios knew that some countries wouldn't be too keen on showing a movie that has such an America-friendly title, such as Captain America. But that didn't stop them from putting their collective foot down and flexing some muscle against the rest of the world, telling them that they have a choice – they could call it Captain America: The First Avenger, just The First Avenger, or they could plant their lips on our red, white and blue butts and kiss the movie goodbye.
And wouldn't you know it… all of the countries were pretty much cool with Captain America: The First Avenger. However, there were three countries that decided that they would rather not support us capitalist pigs.
Interestingly, most international distributors believed the franchise name was so identifiable that not using "Captain America" in the title could risk losing ticket sales.
Spokespeople for Marvel and Paramount declined to comment on why Russia, Ukraine and South Korea opted for The First Avenger. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Russia, I can understand. They're still bitter about that whole cold war thing. Ukraine? Eh, they've always been Russia's lap dog, following them around and sniffing Moscow's butt for favors. But South Korea? I am just shocked. Have we not always been there for you, South Korea? We make fun of Kim Jong-Il and protect you from his craziness all the time. And this is how you repay us? Next you're going to act like you didn't learn to appreciate breakdancing from Channing Tatum and Vin Diesel. You've changed, South Korea. You've changed.


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A look into my life these days...
I've been spending as much of the day as I can inside sewing working hard for the Stranger Fashion Show coming up next month. I still have a lot to do. I'm trying to find time to cook more so at the moment I'm roasting pepper and onions for black bean soup tonight!
I'll have some party pictures from a Factory themed event I attended the other night. Early seventies drag and tin foil everywhere!
I'm designing the packaging for the doodle earrings this week and they'll be available in a limited quantity soon!
1. Early 1970s drag makeup inspired by Little Nell and The Cockettes. 2. Lots of delicious blank vintage earrings awaiting doodles. 3. Some dumb kid doing whippits. Is that how you spell that? Whippits? Super gross. 4. Freshly dyed velvet. 5. My retardedly cute cat. 6. Uncovered hats for the fashion show. 7. Homemade fresh rolls with cilantro and thai basil. 8. My hat lovers hat.


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The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty. -Proverbs 10:14
The rich man's strong city above is his inner wisdom. The destruction of the poor occurs because they haven't sought wisdom first. Without models to improve their worlds, the poor of spirit are continually stuck in self-destructive cycles.
Religion as a Model of Accepted Irrationality
It's become very popular to hate on religion, to blame religion for all sorts of atrocities, from terrorism to the crusades.
The rationale goes, that religion is a fundamentally irrational, hateful set of ideas. If we simply cut out the irrationality of religion from our collective experience, we'd eliminate war and hate forever.
I won't disprove that here, but let's just assume that some power structures benefit by convincing people of evils which weren't there. And they sell their own perverted version of "religion" to do it.
That being said, it does make sense to use a model of irrationality to shape your life.
Acquire Wisdom First
So what is wisdom?
Wisdom is the ability to optimally (effectively and efficiently) apply perceptions and knowledge and so produce the desired results.
– Wikipedia
So wisdom is a model for the way the world works. But it's also a model for how we work best within the world. Religiously speaking, we use wisdom to get the results which give us the fullest life possible.
Incline thine ear unto wisdom and apply thine heart to understanding.
– Proverbs 2:2
So really, the quote above is telling us to acquire working models for the world and ourselves first. These models must improve both ourselves and our worlds in their application.
Admit the Limits to Your Intelligence
The world is a big place. There is a lot to know.
Admitting the limits to your intelligence means focusing on building and testing models, above acquiring facts. It also means being aware of irrational ideas, and using them as necessary.
Religion and Science Are Supposed to Work Together
Religion gives us wisdom presented as the religious metaphor, and science gives us the methods to test which models work and which don't.
There is no great battle between irrational religious people who want to murder everyone, and the upright scientists who drudge on, facing pure rationality in a world of irrationality.
We test models by putting them to work, and measuring their results. The religious models of wisdom which work we can keep for ourselves. The others we let go of.
Negation of A Model for Wisdom Isn't Wisdom
Understand, dismissing a religious model just because it's irrational gets you nowhere. The world we live within is irrational. There are predictable models, yes, and reason takes us very far, but reason alone is an insufficient tool to understand the world.
It's insufficient because it gives us nothing new, only what's already there.
Which new models will you begin testing today? Which models have worked in the past?


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Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Christmas in the Kitchen part II
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Your kitchen looks wintery enough to enjoy a cup of hot chocolate, even in Florida. My favorite touch is the stockings hanging from the shelf. They're just kinda "there" but give the whole thing a "hung by the chimney" feel.ReplyDelete
I loved the stockings when I saw them in Michaels, I believe, in the middle of the summer. They were not intended for Christmas, but I immediately thought of that use.ReplyDelete
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I love all your decorations!! SO cute.
Your corner of the kitchen looks like a shop.
Darling wire tree, and love the jingle bells.
What ever do you do with the regular decorations that you have in that corner?
I try to put away my everyday things, in order to put up seasonal décor, and then somehow.. I misplace some things.
Warm wishes..
Thanks, Kerin. I pack the "regular" things in the plastic bins that the Christmas came out of and pile them back in closets. I do seasonal decorating that way in a few areas of my little house. Next to come out will be a more winter look and then before Easter -spring, and then summer. Just keep rotating.ReplyDelete
Such a darling and cheery kitchen you have for Christmas! A delight to see!ReplyDelete


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A mothers advice is the best advice, after God, you could receive. She knows you from the second you were born so it's obvious that she knows so much about you. From the things, you love to the things that bother you. She will help your faith stay strong by reminding you every day about the great things God has done for you.
When you are going through a rough time she will be the first person to listen to you. We thank God that we have loving mothers by our sides today. And even the mothers in heaven are constantly watching us every step of the way. Even when you feel alone u have got to remember that Jesus is with you and your mum is thinking about you.
Thank you, mums, for staying so strong and helping us even when you were going through troubles yourself, but knew that you had to put us first and make sure we were feeling okay.
We hope that God blesses you with as many blessing as possible because you all deserve them. The things you have done for us and the things you have had to sacrifice just to make sure we have an amazing life is brave, but you know that there will be a time when it will all be worth it because God will make it possible.
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Ethiopian Airlines has decided to take Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines and long-term TotalCare support worth $500m to power six Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft.
The decision marks a significant vote of confidence in the Trent 1000, Ethiopian having previously selected engines from another provider to power 13 Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
Tewolde Gebremariam, Ethiopian Airlines, Chief Executive Officer, said: "We are pleased that the Trent 1000 will power this latest round of aircraft. We have confidence that it will deliver outstanding lifetime fuel burn, performance and reliability."
Dominic Horwood, Rolls-Royce, Chief Customer Officer – Civil Large Engines, said: "This is a significant selection by a valued customer that continues the Trent 1000 success story. We have real momentum in the marketplace – in the last five years the Trent 1000 has been selected in more than 60 per cent of engine competitions."
Rolls-Royce powered the very first Boeing 787 test flight in December 2009, the first 787-8 to enter service in October 2011, and the first 787-9 to enter service, in 2014.
Ethiopian has ordered Trent XWB engines to power 12 Airbus A350 XWB aircraft and has three RB211-powered Boeing 757 aircraft in service.
Source: Rolls-Royce.


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Traveling in America is like being through a carnival which can gives a most sparkle in your life. And personally, New Orleans is definitely this destination suitable for having much fine tourism during vacation.
WWII Museum is museum with strong interactive. There are a lot of physical objects and the veterans, nurse, all staff of the video data, video, images and voice. Even young children will fall with relish. A part of Europe, especially various detailed information of Normandy, also has the Japanese aggression against China/southeast Asia zone, which will take about 3-4 hours if you read it carefully. If you don't finish first day watching, you are only charged 5 dollars with the tickets of previous day in the second day. That is quite valuable.
Garden District is rich and has kept early rich mansion in New Orleans, so these old houses are being maintenance and preserved very well. Some homes are still retained the original garden, the whole yard to a quarter of the size of the block. Almost every garden is carefully managed. Some of them still retain its first master of vegetation. Visitors are available see many ancient old oak trees in the entire district. Little white flowers permeated the whole street light faint scent. A walking tour is offered for travelers, and guide will introduce each house from a history of all previous dynasties master gossip to the architectural features of different period in each season of the flowers and plants, which is very interesting.
Bayou/swamp is not only refers to the bay near wetlands, but also the natural habitat of the crocodile. At the same time, there are all kinds of birds, especially in winter, because there are migratory birds to fly north, bird varieties more. The trees in the wetland have a sense of Jurassic park.


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Photonic crystals are peculiar structures that show periodic variations in refractive index on a length scale comparable to the wavelength of light. This periodicity means that, for certain ranges of energies and wave vectors, light is not allowed to propagate through the medium.1 Such disallowed groups of wavelengths are called photonic band gaps. The coloration thereby imparted to photonic structures is called structural color, since it is not due to the presence of a dye or pigment, but rather to the conformation of the material itself. Photonic crystals are found in nature, e.g. in beetle scales, butterfly wings and parrot feathers, and can also be fabricated using a wide range of techniques, with dielectric periodicity in one, two, or three dimensions.
Periodicity in one dimension can be visualized as a stack of planar layers, typically with an alternation of two materials that transmit light differently. One-dimensional photonic crystals (1DPCs) are of great practical interest because they are easy to fabricate by various methods, and their optical properties can be predicted using simple but powerful theoretical tools. This theoretical computation of the crystal's optical behavior remains reliable even for structures more complicated than the standard alternation of two materials.
With thin-film deposition processes such as spin coating, it is possible, in principle, to obtain a monolithic photonic stack composed of layers of multiple materials. Such multilayer systems have not been extensively investigated, so it would be beneficial to better understand their optical behavior. To this end, we have recently conducted a theoretical study of the light transmission properties of 1DPCs composed of four materials.2 We investigated these properties using the transfer matrix method, a general technique widely used in optics for the description of stacked layers. Compared to a conventional 1DPC (composed of two alternating layers), the four-material system features an additional photonic band gap at longer wavelengths. This new gap could be ascribed to a longer-order periodicity that does not occur in conventional 1DPCs. Another interesting feature of the four-material system is that the intensity and shape of the photonic band gaps are strongly dependent on how the four materials are sequentially arranged within the unit cell (i.e., the simplest repeating unit) of the photonic lattice. This could prove to be a useful property for applications such as optical cryptography, where an optical measure (in this case, the transmission spectrum) is associated with a particular unit cell sequence.2
Other types of photonic crystals made with more than two materials are infiltrated porous 1DPCs. These porous multilayer structures have gaps between their constituent nanoparticles, which can, in principle, be infiltrated by any compound. By infiltrating into these pores a material possessing optical gain, it is possible to obtain distributed feedback lasers in which the optical gain material is embedded in the photonic structure.3 If the porous photonic crystal, coupled with a titanium dioxide photo-anode, is infiltrated with a dye, the result is an efficient dye-sensitized solar cell with improved light harvesting.4
To experimentally verify the behavior of these systems, we recently investigated the fabrication and optical characterization of a photonic crystal made up of metal oxide nanoparticles (silicon dioxide and titanium dioxide) infiltrated with a nematic liquid crystal.5 The photonic crystal was deposited by spin coating on indium tin oxide (ITO)-coated glass, starting from a colloidal dispersions of the metal oxide nanoparticles. The structure was then infiltrated with the E7 commercial liquid crystal mixture simply by drop casting (at a temperature of 60°C to facilitate the process). We observed that infiltrating the liquid crystal into the porous structure produced a red shift in the photonic band gap due to an increase in the effective refractive index of the multilayer system.
To tune the photonic band gap with an electric field, we constructed a device by placing a second ITO-coated glass on the sample and applying electrical contacts: see Figure 1 (top). We found that an 8nm shift toward shorter wavelengths could be achieved at the relatively low voltage of 8V, corresponding to an electric field of approximately 3.4V/μm. This is one order of magnitude smaller than the previously reported values for tunable liquid-crystal infiltrated photonic crystals. By further increasing the applied voltage, we obtained an additional blue shift that reached a saturation level of 10nm at 32V: see Figure 1 (bottom).
The performance of this device could be further improved by optimizing the photonic structure and by selecting the most suitable liquid crystals for low-voltage operation, and this is something we plan to pursue in future work. We intend to corroborate this experimental optimization with theoretical analysis by the transfer matrix method, also taking scattering losses into account. These results could have very interesting applications in optoelectronic switches and low-cost displays. The tunability of structural color by means of a low applied electric voltage could be an important step toward achieving electrically-driven color changing devices that can also run on portable batteries.
Francesco Scotognella is an assistant professor of physics in the Physics Department. He has a degree in materials science from the University of Parma (2004) and the University of Milan-Bicocca (2006). His research is focused on the photophysics of nanostructures and the optical properties of photonic structures.
Luigino Criante is a senior postdoc. He has a cum laude degree in electronic engineering from Marche Polytechnic University. His research is focused on the physics of liquid crystals, solid-state organic lasers, and optical tweezers.


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James 3:9-12 (NIV)With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God's likeness. 10 Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be. 11 Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? 12 My brothers and sisters, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
I live near Chicago and when people tell me that they can be both a Cubs fan and a fan of my Chicago White Sox, I look at them like they have a third eye growing out of their head. What are you saying?!? That is impossible! It just cannot be!
The tongues of humans are capable of such great beauty. We get together on a Sunday morning and we sing praises to our Lord Jesus. Whether it is a classic hymn from the past that we know by heart or a new song of praise from the present we are learning, we praise God with our tongues in wonderful ways.
Then, when the service is over, we walk out of the worship center and our tongues do a 180. We'll gossip about the person down the row from us. We'll whisper insults about the way someone was dressed. We'll say horrible things about the people with whom we just worshiped the Lord. James says that this should not be! We're awful, aren't we? We love to sing songs of praise and to utter inspiring prayers that reach the throne room of Heaven, but then we turn around and curse, insult and gossip about God's people.
Our tongues are capable of such beauty in one moment and such terrible things in the next. The problem is that we don't watch what we're saying. We're not guarding our hearts. What comes out of our mouths is a direct reflection of what is in our hearts. Jealous words come from a jealous heart. Insecure words flow from an insecure heart. Gossip comes from a tongue fueled by a heart that is focused on the wrong things.
Think about what you're saying today. Keep praising the Lord who is worthy of all glory and honor, but do not allow your tongue to curse those made in His image.
PRAYER: Father God, You are great and awesome. Your name is holy. I praise and thank You today for all that You have done, all that you're doing and for all You have promised to do. Help me to keep a tight rein on my tongue. Help me to see the best in people and to love them with my heart and not curse them with my tongue. I cannot do this without You and Your grace. I ask this all in the name of Jesus, my Lord. Amen.


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The Commission on Climate and Tropical Forests, co-chaired by John Podesta and Senator Lincoln Chaffee, is a bipartisan group of leaders from business, government, advocacy, conservation, global development, science and national security developing recommendations on the best means to address tropical forest conservation as a part of broader U.S. climate change policies. Tropical deforestation accounts for 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and protecting tropical forests is integral to combating climate change. The Commission will release recommendations designed to help ensure U.S. climate policies provide the most effective response to this issue and are aligned with global solutions.
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Tropical deforestation accounts for almost 20 percent of global emissions – a share larger than all the automobiles, planes, trains and ships in the world combined. It is the largest source of emissions in many developing countries and represents the lion's share of emissions in two of the world's largest climate polluting countries – Brazil and Indonesia.
Momentum is building in the United States for action on climate change, with both President Barack Obama and congressional leaders committed to regulating greenhouse gases. At the same time, the United States is working with other nations to negotiate a global climate agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. These negotiations will come to a head in December 2009 at global climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark. In that context, reducing emissions from deforestation could prove critically important: forest conservation may be among the most cost-effective climate solutions since it requires no major new technologies.
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And I'm sure now that I've proudly stated that fact, I'm bound to wake up tomorrow morning to a house full of wet bunkbeds (and it wouldn't be the first time, I can assure you of that.)
Here's the link to my previous post on laundry - complete with cutting-edge pictures of my family's amazing, individually labeled, (white, plastic) laundry bins. After you read that post, be sure not to miss the sequel. Because just like everything else in a large family, we needed more than one (booths in a restaurant, pews in a church, carts in a grocery store, refrigerators in a kitchen. It always takes two.)
I'd write a new laundry post but why should I? Don't need to. My system is still working like a charm. Seriously. The only time it gets slightly out of control is after a Boy Scout campout, when my 5 Scouts come home stinkin' to high heaven. (And if that's what high heaven smells like, I'll be completely happy to stay in the lower part, thank you very much.)
Maybe I should start a new blog called Pioneer Woman Washes
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Mitt Romney strapping his dog to the roof of the car when the family drove for 12 hours from Boston to a vacation spot in Canada. Other writers, pundits and personalities, from New York Times columnist Gail Collins to TV's David Letterman, just can't leave it alone, either.
But while comedians continue to have a field day with the story, it took this photo to bring home the true horror of what it must have been like for Seamus, the Romney's Irish setter, to have been on the roof of a car on the highway all day.
On Tuesday in Littleton, Colorado, where Romney was campaigning, a member of the group Dogs Against Romney strapped a crate to the roof of a car and drove around town. Labeled the "Seamus Express," the stunt attracted attention from Littleton Police, who pulled the car over.
The driver/protester, who didn't give his name in later interviews, said the police officer had stopped him "for suspected animal abuse."
A spokesperson for the city of Littleton confirmed the traffic stop happened because of canine concerns.
"Our 911 center received a call from a motorist who saw the car in the photo drive past, and she said the door to the animal carrier was open and a large white dog was in it," Littleton city spokeswoman Kelli Narde said. (In fact, there was no live dog – just a stuffed toy.)
When he interviewed Romney on Fox News last December, Chris Wallace told him that Massachusetts law prohibits carrying animals on top of cars, Romney, the former governor of that state, said, "I wasn't familiar with that."
Imagine being Seamus on the roof of the car like that – at highway speeds for 12 hours. We can assume, from the fact that the dog had severe diarrhea during the journey, that he was plainly terrified – not to mention in danger himself and a danger to others.


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The body of a Utah man was found in Pitkin County on Wednesday morning after family members called authorities to report he had not returned from climbing in the Colorado mountains.
The Pitkin County Sheriff's Office took a call about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday and the body of the 53-year-old man was found about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Mount Daly Basin, above Moon Lake, at about 11,000 feet in elevation, said Deputy Alex Burchetta, a Pitkin County Sheriff's Office spokesman.
The victim's identity was not immediately released.
The sheriff's office described the man as an experienced climber and outdoor enthusiast.
His car was found Tuesday night at the trailhead of Capitol Peak.
On Wednesday morning members of Mountain Rescue Aspen (MRA) and the Colorado National Guard's High Altitude Aviation Training Site (HAATS), based in Gypsum, searched the Capitol Peak area.
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