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May 16, 2014
CHICAGO—It is 10:30 a.m. on Friday morning and the energy is a combination of nervous and confident among the Perspectives middle and high school students. They are about to debut a collaborative theatrical performance on the Classic Theatre stage as part of the Columbia College Chicago Manifest Urban Arts Festival.
Three years ago, it was almost impossible to envision two groups of students from independent Perspectives schools performing their own works in public and on stage.
Theater instruction was introduced to Perspectives/IIT Math & Science Academy (MSA) about three years ago through the Center for Community Arts Partnerships (CCAP) at Columbia College. Demetria Kedrowski, 6th grade art and English teacher at MSA, welcomed teacher artist students from CCAP to co-teach the arts during her 8th period English composition class. The after school program is now available at Perspectives Rodney D. Joslin Campus.
“We have created an amazing partnership between Perspectives and Columbia College Chicago that has fostered a very positive environment for both our students and the teaching artist students at Columbia,” said Kedrowski.
From in-class instruction of the arts, CCAP teacher artist resident Lydia Ellis-Curry started the first-ever after school Drama Club at MSA as a means to foster the arts with middle and high school students outside of the classroom.
“I began the Drama Club with very little resources and was assisted by Deja Anderson, also a teaching assistant at Columbia,” said Ellis-Curry. “We teach basic acting skills, and improvise our way into final scenes for school performances because these 7th-10th graders have very little to no experience with theater.”
In Drama Club students learn how to think on their feet and use their creativity to build confidence and pride in working together toward a final production. “They are working on their very own show,” said Ellis Curry.
The club partnered with Steppenwolf Theater by hosting students at their plays for youth. “Most of my students had never seen a play before,” said Ellis-Curry. “These kinds of field trips to plays, events, and Columbia College awaken their minds to the possibilities that the arts and theater can provide.”
Ellis-Curry worked with a stable of 15 students to produce original theater. “Lydia was a wonderful drama teacher and advocate for our students,” said MSA principal Julie Puzon. “She opened up new worlds of learning for many of our students by taking them to the Steppenwolf Theater and to Columbia College while helping them develop individually as artists and people.”
“We are so proud of the partnership between Columbia College and the two campuses at Perspectives Charter Schools,” said project manager at Columbia College Chicago Center for Community Arts Partnerships Alyssa Sorresso. “It was so lovely to work with such talented students.”
CCAP provides facilitators who work with the students at MSA and Joslin to create performances for Columbia's Manifest event (an all-day, school-wide showcase). “They come in as guest artists, and create a theatre lesson to help enhance the after-school curriculum,” said Sorresso. “It is a cool cross-school experience that exposes high school students to a college campus and performances.
The students from both Columbia College and Perspectives finished their performances with big and bright smiles.
Photo credit: David Terry
"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy." ~Norman Vincent Peale
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May 16, 2014
CHICAGO—It is 10:30 a.m. on Friday morning and the energy is a combination of nervous and confident among the Perspectives middle and high school students. They are about to debut a collaborative theatrical performance on the Classic Theatre stage as part of the Columbia College Chicago Manifest Urban Arts Festival.
Three years ago, it was almost impossible to envision two groups of students from independent Perspectives schools performing their own works in public and on stage.
Theater instruction was introduced to Perspectives/IIT Math & Science Academy (MSA) about three years ago through the Center for Community Arts Partnerships (CCAP) at Columbia College. Demetria Kedrowski, 6th grade art and English teacher at MSA, welcomed teacher artist students from CCAP to co-teach the arts during her 8th period English composition class. The after school program is now available at Perspectives Rodney D. Joslin Campus.
“We have created an amazing partnership between Perspectives and Columbia College Chicago that has fostered a very positive environment for both our students and the teaching artist students at Columbia,” said Kedrowski.
From in-class instruction of the arts, CCAP teacher artist resident Lydia Ellis-Curry started the first-ever after school Drama Club at MSA as a means to foster the arts with middle and high school students outside of the classroom.
“I began the Drama Club with very little resources and was assisted by Deja Anderson, also a teaching assistant at Columbia,” said Ellis-Curry. “We teach basic acting skills, and improvise our way into final scenes for school performances because these 7th-10th graders have very little to no experience with theater.”
In Drama Club students learn how to think on their feet and use their creativity to build confidence and pride in working together toward a final production. “They are working on their very own show,” said Ellis Curry.
The club partnered with Steppenwolf Theater by hosting students at their plays for youth. “Most of my students had never seen a play before,” said Ellis-Curry. “These kinds of field trips to plays, events, and Columbia College awaken their minds to the possibilities that the arts and theater can provide.”
Ellis-Curry worked with a stable of 15 students to produce original theater. “Lydia was a wonderful drama teacher and advocate for our students,” said MSA principal Julie Puzon. “She opened up new worlds of learning for many of our students by taking them to the Steppenwolf Theater and to Columbia College while helping them develop individually as artists and people.”
“We are so proud of the partnership between Columbia College and the two campuses at Perspectives Charter Schools,” said project manager at Columbia College Chicago Center for Community Arts Partnerships Alyssa Sorresso. “It was so lovely to work with such talented students.”
CCAP provides facilitators who work with the students at MSA and Joslin to create performances for Columbia's Manifest event (an all-day, school-wide showcase). “They come in as guest artists, and create a theatre lesson to help enhance the after-school curriculum,” said Sorresso. “It is a cool cross-school experience that exposes high school students to a college campus and performances.
The students from both Columbia College and Perspectives finished their performances with big and bright smiles.
Photo credit: David Terry
One of a collection of photos from HMS Battler 1942-1945. More photos and information can be found at www.hmsbattler.com
CAPTAIN'S SPEECH TO SHIP'S COMPANY OF H.M.S. "BATTLER" PRIOR TO LANDING AT SALERNO BAY, ITALY.
"I expect you have heard enough of my speeches by now. This is my final speech before the great operation timed to commence at 0330 tomorrow morning. That is the time when the first assault craft touch the sands in Salerno Bay - just south of Naples. Our first operation commences at 20 minutes before sunrise tomorrow when our first four aircraft are taking off for fighter protection for the landings. We shall continue throughout the day until sunset - a strenuous day but I know everyone will make it.
As I promised to you before, we are the Actors, with our young Fighter pilots the Stars, and the rest of us the Chorus. The stage is now set, all preliminaries are now over, and the curtain is about to go up. The audience is the world, and chief pride of place there goes undoubtedly to our Majesty King George VI, he sits in No.2 box. But in No.1 Box there sits the Greatest, and only God there is, and He will judge us on our performance tomorrow and the days to follow. He only expects each man to do his best - nothing more, and I feel completely confident that not a single one of us will be found wanting at this supreme moment of our lives.
I can do no better finally than quote the signal of the greatest sailor of all times - "ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN THIS DAY TO DO HIS DUTY" and I might add to that "WITH GOD'S HELP".
Good luck to us all and may we all meet again to celebrate a glorious victory in which "Battler" played her part.
We shall probably be slipping the two K.G.V. Battleships in the despatches, and then Force V (that is us) will proceed through the straits of Messina to our operating theatre, which is a square some 30 by 30 and some 30 to 40 miles off shore south of Naples. How long we remain there I cannot say, but it all depends on how long our Airborne Troops take to capture a very important aerodrome from which the Allies will then operate shore based Fisher patrols.
I believe we proceed to Gibraltar via Algiers on completion of the operation, but I cannot possibly tell you when that will be. That is all."-
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how cute is this little fella!
this is a eider duckling - such striking birds!
these little chaps were so confident they were walking right up to our feet and we had to watch we didn’t stand on them!
(PLEASE NO AWARDS OR PICTURES OR FLASHY BADGES)
You can almost see Jaybee thinking "Yeah, this'll definitely work". The object he's holding is a disposable camera with a magnifying lens glued on a barrel made out of a toilet paper carton, his entry for one of the Hacktivity sessions.
I should have photographed the look on his face when I asked him if he had remembered to paint the inside of the barrel black.
Last autumn, we felt confident enough to start arranging things in the new year. One of these was a show by Chinese acrobats that Jools wanted to see. She got Jen, Sylv and a friend to go. And yesterday was the day of the show. I made it clear it wasn't for me, but I would go up to rephotograph some City churches and we would meet up afterwards for a meal before coming home.
When we arrange things, we don't know what slings and arrows fate might throw at us. In Tuesday's case, it was a Tube drivers strike, and no last minute talks fixed that. I could arrange my trip to avoind using public transport other than the train up and back home, which were unaffected. Jools thought they would be OK, as their tickets were for the Odeon, which she thought was in Leicester Square, but it turned out was the old Hammersmith Apollo. Now, usually this would not have been a problem, but on Tuesday it was.
They arranged to leave an hour earlier than planned and try to get a taxi, which they did after waiting in line for an hour, getting to the theatre just half an hour before showtime, leaving them only time to get a snack.
Their journey up was done outside rush hour, the show ened at five, and they had to get back to St Pancras. Which would prove to be an adventure.
For me, however, it was a walk in the park. And to add to the pleasure of the day, I would meet up with my good friend, Simon, owner of the Churches of East Anglia website, just about every word and picture done by his own hand. His website also covers the City of LOndon churches, so I asked if he wanted to meet up; he did, so a plan was hatched to meet and visit a few churches, one of which, King Edmund, he had not been inside. He wouldn't arrive until jsut after ten to get the offpeak ticket prices, I would get up early as a couple of the churches would be open before nine.
A plan was made, and I had a list of chuches and a rough order in which to visit them.
The alarm went off at five, and we were both up. I having a coffee after getting dressed and Jools was to drop me off at the station, and as we drove in the heavy fog that had settled, I realised there was a direct train to Cannon Street just after seven, could I make it to avoid a half hour layover at Ashford?
Yes I could.
Jools dropped me off outside Priory station, I went in and got my ticket, and was on the train settled into a forward facing seat with three whole minutes to spare.
The train rattled it's way out of the station and through the tunnel under Western Heights, outside it was still dark. So I put my mask on and rested my eyes as we went through Folkestone to Ashford, an towards Pluckley, Headcorn, Marden to Tonbridge, Sevenoaks and so onto south east London. The train filled up slowly, until we got to Tonbridge which left few seats remaining, and at Sevenoaks, it was standing room only, but by then its a twenty minute run to London Bridge.
After leaving London Bridge station, the train took the sharp turn above Borough Market and over the river into Cannon Street. I was in no hurry, so enoyed the peace and space of an empty carriage before making my way off the train then along the platform and out onto the street in front. A heavy drizzle was falling, so I decided to get some breakfast and another coffee. Just up Walbrook there was an independent sandwich place, so I went in and asked what I wanted: faced with dozens of choices, all made to order, I had no idea.
I decided on a simple sausage sandwich and a coffee and watched people hurrying to work outside. I had all the time I wanted.
I check my phone and find that opening times were a little different, but St Mary Aldermary was open from half eight, so I check the directions and head there.
It was open, mainly because there is a small cafe inside. I ask if I could go in, they say yes, so I snap it well with the 50mm lens fitted, and decide that something sweet was called for. They recommended the carrot cake, so I had a slice of that and a pot of breakfast tea sitting and admiring the details of the church. Once I had finished, I put on the wide angle lens and finished the job.
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The tower of St Mary Aldermary is one of the great Wren moments, one of the three great eyecatcher towers in the City along with St Bride to the west along Fleet Street and St Dunstan in the East by the Tower of London. It was clearly intended as a foil to the cathedral when viewed from south of the river, with its great rabbit-eared parapet as if it were visiting the city on a day out from Suffolk. The gothic style of the church is popularly believed to have been a demand of the patron, Henry Rogers, but it seems just as likely that it was simply a copying of the features of the medieval church which had been rebuilt on a grand scale just 150 years before. That project was bankrolled by Sir Henry Keeble, and in fact the roof and tower were not completed until the 1620s, forty years before the great fire.
Internally, this church is a great sugar confection, the plaster-fan vaulting of the nave and aisles full of joy, like being inside a giant wedding cake. This is like nothing medieval in London or elsewhere, but as Pevsner points out, perhaps Wren was copying the work of the 1620s, not that of the medieval period. The arcades that support it look at first medieval, but during the 1935 repairs they were found to be standing on reused medieval rubble. Many of the furnishings are long after Wren, although the 17th Century font survives, as does a very attractive sword rest. Pevsner had no kind words to say for Lawrence Lee's glass, although to my mind its simplicity is a perfect foil for the architectural grandeur. In any case, John Crawford's west window is better.
This church is epic in scale, without the intimacy familiar from its near neighbours. The great tower is seen perfectly from the viewing platform of the Tate Modern gallery across the river, its significance to the City's urban landscape immediately apparent.
Simon Knott, December 2015
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Photographer: Christian Agha
Model: Tyler Ray Johnson
Canon 70-200mm F2.8 Vii
Canon 5D
Altrincham Kersal opened their season as they ended the last with a confident win over Carlisle. It was the visitors who made the early pressing and scuffed an early penalty chance; and they were made to rue the missed chance as Kersal pressed on the Carlisle defence. Their pressure paid off as as Harry Luscombe scored two penalties to give Kersal a 6-0 lead. Carlisle got back into the game immediately through the boot of Barry Earl. Kersal’s best scoring chance came late into the half as Dave Coleman kicked a through ball but he failed to make the first touch.
Half-Time Score: Altrincham Kersal 6-3 Carlisle
Kersal started the second half strongly and they scored the only try of the game as James Coulson found space out wide and run through to score, the try converted by Luscombe. Carlisle scored a penalty to give them a fighting chance. The second half was end to end however it was marred by an injury to a Carlisle player which delayed the game 30 minutes. The game was moved to an adjacent pitch and an Ambulance was called. When play resumed Luscombe scored another penalty to open Kersal’s league account with a win.
Full-Time Score: Altrincham Kersal 17-6
When was the world's first railway laid? No one is quite confident on a precise date but simple rails have been used to guide vehicles for centuries, definitely as far back as the middle ages and possibly even in ancient Greece.
What is certain is that in the early 1600s a Nottinghamshire businessman called Huntingdon Beaumont came to Northumberland and laid rails from collieries near Blyth to a shipping point on the coast.
His waggonway used horses hauling wooden waggons on wooden wheels on wooden rails, however this was not a financial success. It did though provide the spark of progression from primitive wooden rails over short distances, to a railway network which would change Britain and the world forever.
Tyneside Roads
From the mid 1600 onwards waggonways and the Tyneside coal industry became linked so closely that they were known throughout the rest of Britain as 'Tyneside Roads'. A network of lines linked collieries on both sides of the Tyne to the river.
It is no coincidence that the North East was the area where waggonways took greatest hold, because canal building was impossible due to deep valleys and steep hills. What set the rail systems of Tyneside apart from all others was its use of the flanged wheel - a key element of the modern railway as we know it.
A revelation
When the Tanfield Railway - or waggonway as it was known at the time - was built in 1725, it was a revelation. Its massive engineering was unlike anything else in its era, or even since the Roman Empire. It was a triumph of engineering over nature, a clear signal that a new industrial age was upon the world, and that railways would play a massive part.
First laid down more than a quarter of a century before the first railway officially sanctioned by government, over 75 years before the first steam locomotive and a whole 100 years earlier than the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the Tanfield Railway is the world's oldest railway. We will be the first railway to celebrate our tricentenary in 2025.
Longridge won this game having dominated possession , and creating enough early chances to win 3 games, against a very well organised and hardworking Whitehaven side.
Town started strongly and should have scored at least the opening goal as the Whitehaven keeper saved well from Brad Carsley, McDonald crashed a volley against the bar, Carsley hit the post and McKenna was denied what looked a clear penalty by the referee on 20 minutes.
Chances came and went, as Longridge played their best football for several weeks without getting the breakthrough they deserved and the inconsistency of the referee, bizarrely chosen for this game despite his performance in Towns recent defeat to Garstang, hindered both sides.
Half time came at 0-0, but the Town faithful remained confident as Asheys side were dominating the game, and the vital first goal would surely come in the second half.
Carsley had a free kick well saved 10 minutes into the half, and Ged Smith had a decent penalty shout waved away a minute later.
Ashcroft then replaced Ryan McKenna on the hour as the Manager looked for the vital 3 points, going straight up front with Carsley, and Longridge looked more threatening immediately.
Dovey in the Town goal was having a quiet day, and remained untroubled, as Whitehaven sat deep and were quite content to defend their clean sheet, albeit they were doing it very well.
The goal came on 70 minutes as an inswinging Ged Smith corner looked destined to go straight in, before Carsley made sure with a deft flick of the head, to make it 1-0 to Longridge. No more than 'The Ridge' deserved and the feeling now amongst a celebrating home crowd of 108 was that Town would go on to add to their lead.
Jordan Bowen and Luke McKenna were having excellent games for Longridge, and kept the ball at will before finding Carsley wide right with just 5 minutes remaining. The powerful striker drove at the visiting defence before being brought down for Towns 3rd penalty shout of the game. He got himself to his feet to take the kick, but was thwarted as the young Whitehaven keeper made an excellent save diving to his right. Stil 1-0 to Longridge.
Both Jack Preston and youngster Elliot Breakell were brought on for cameo appearances, before the referee added six additional minutes to the dismay of the players, crowd, team Managers and Linesmen, the last of his bewildering decisions of the day.
The result was never put in doubt however, as Town kept possession and played out time to take the 3 points that keeps them at the top of the West Lancashire League Premier Division with just two games remaining.