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Norm and Kris are at the Nanaimo boatshow shaking hands and kissing babies and passing out copies of Ship to Shore West Coast Living. On Monday they kick off 150+ photoshoot sover 5 weeks in prep for this year editions. Pop by and say hi!
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Have you managed to watch episode 72 of Astonishing Glasgow that went live last night?
If you have, you will know that Luma tower and the Royal observer corps bunker feature in this one and I thought I would share a few of the pictures I took while making the video.
Do you agree it looks like Elvis' microphone or do you think it looks like something else?
Dave
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The Postcard
A postcard that was published by Alexander D. Henderson of 90, High Street, Maybole, South Ayrshire, Scotland. The card was posted in Prestwick, Ayrshire using a 2d. stamp on Monday the 21st. August 1944. It was sent to:
Miss Heather Pope,
57, East Avenue,
Bournemouth,
Hants.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"21st. Aug. '44.
Lovely to be north again -
the air is so bracing.
Had my first battle for a
year y'day and played 12
holes of golf.
I'm feeling a lot better
than when I woke up.
With love,
David."
The Battle of the Falaise Pocket
So what else happened on the day that David posted the card?
Well, on the 21st. August 1944, the Battle of the Falaise Pocket ended in an Allied victory.
A Sinking in the English Channel
Also on that day, the Canadian corvette Alberni was torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel by German submarine U-480.
The Scuttling of a U-Boat
Also on the 21st. August 1944, German submarine U-230 ran aground at Toulon and was scuttled.
A Canterbury Tale
Also on that day, the British comedy-drama film A Canterbury Tale starring Eric Portman, Sheila Sim and Dennis Price premiered in the United Kingdom.
Eric Portman
Eric Harold Portman, who was born on the 13th. July 1901, was an English stage and film actor. He is probably best remembered for his roles in three films for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger during the 1940's.
-- Eric Portman - The Early Years
Born in Halifax, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Portman was the second son of Matthew Portman (1868–1939), a wool merchant, and his wife, Alice, née Harrison (1870–1918). His birth was registered with the middle name of Harold, but he later adopted his mother's maiden name as his middle name.
Eric was educated at Rishworth School in Yorkshire and, in 1922, started work as a salesman in the menswear department at the Marshall & Snelgrove department store in Leeds.
-- Eric Portman's Acting Career
While working in Leeds Eric performed with the amateur Halifax Light Opera Society.
He made his professional stage debut in 1924 with Henry Baynton's company. In 1924, when Robert Courtneidge's Shakespearian company arrived in Halifax, Portman joined the company as a 'passenger,' and appeared in their production of Richard II at the Victoria Hall, Sunderland. This led to Courtneidge giving him a contract.
Portman made his West End debut at the Savoy Theatre in September 1924, as Antipholous of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors.
He was engaged by Lilian Baylis for the Old Vic Company. In 1928, Portman played Romeo at the rebuilt Old Vic. He became a successful theatre actor. In 1933, Portman was in Diplomacy at the Prince's Theatre with Gerald du Maurier and Basil Rathbone.
In the 1930's, Eric began appearing in films, starting with an uncredited bit in The Girl from Maxim's (1933) directed by Alexander Korda. In 1935, he appeared in four films, including Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn with Tod Slaughter.
He also made Hyde Park Corner with Gordon Harker and directed by Sinclair Hill; Old Roses and Abdul the Damned.
In 1936 Portman had a stage hit playing Lord Byron in Bitter Harvest. After Hearts of Humanity (1936), he played Giuliano de' Medici in Hill's The Cardinal (1936).
Portman made another film with Tod Slaughter, The Crimes of Stephen Hawke (1936), and was in Moonlight Sonata (1937).
Eric went to the US and played in Madame Bovary on Broadway for the Theatre Guild of America. He also had a small role in The Prince and the Pauper (1937), but disliked Hollywood, and did not stay long.
He was back on Broadway in I Have Been Here Before by J. B. Priestley. Portman's last London stage show was Jeannie.
In the semi-autobiographical play Dinner with Ribbentrop by screenwriter Norman Hudis, a former personal assistant to Portman, Hudis relates a claim made often by Portman that in 1937, before the start of the Second World War, he had had dinner in London with Joachim von Ribbentrop (then the German Ambassador to Britain).
Portman claimed that Ribbentrop had told him that:
"When Germany wins the war, you will
be installed as the greatest English star
in the New Europe at a purpose-built
film studio in Berlin."
In 1941 he had his first important film role playing Lieutenant Hirth, a Nazi on the run, in Powell and Pressburger's 49th. Parallel, which was a big hit in the US and Great Britain. Portman was established as a star, and signed a long-term contract with Gainsborough Pictures.
Portman was in Powell and Pressburger's follow up, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942), which reworked the story of The 49th. Parallel to be about Allied pilots in occupied Holland.
Eric played a Belgian resistance leader in Uncensored (1942) from director Anthony Asquith, and a German pilot in Squadron Leader X (1943) with director Lance Comfort.
Portman was a sailor in Asquith's We Dive at Dawn (1943) and a factory supervisor in Millions Like Us (1943) from Launder and Gilliat.
He was in another war story in Comfort's Escape to Danger (1943), then was back with Powell and Pressburger for A Canterbury Tale (1944). Portman had the lead in Great Day (1945) with Flora Robson and in the expensive colonial epic Men of Two Worlds (1946).
In 1945, exhibitors voted him the 10th. most popular star at the British box office. He maintained that ranking the following year.
Eric made some thrillers – Wanted for Murder (1947), Dear Murderer (1947), and The Mark of Cain (1947). He was a hangman in Daybreak (1948), then made Corridor of Mirrors (1948) and The Blind Goddess (1948).
He made two films for the new producing team of Maxwell Setton and Aubrey Baring, The Spider and the Fly (1949) and Cairo Road (1950).
Portman was one of many names in The Magic Box (1951) before making an Ealing comedy, His Excellency (1952), playing a trade unionist who becomes Governor of a British colony.
For Baring and Setton, he made South of Algiers (1953) then had a big hit on stage in Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables and on film in The Colditz Story (1955).
Portman had a supporting part in The Deep Blue Sea (1955) and Child in the House (1956). He had the lead in The Good Companions (1957).
He played the bogus Major in Terence Rattigan's play Separate Tables in 1956–57 on Broadway. For this performance, he was nominated for a Tony Award (Best Actor (Dramatic)). In 1958 he appeared on Broadway in a short-lived production of Jane Eyre as Rochester.
Portman had better luck the following year in a production of Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet, which had a long run. In contrast, Flowering Cherry by Robert Bolt, with Portman in the title role, only lasted five performances on Broadway.
Later film roles included in The Naked Edge (1961), Freud: The Secret Passion (1962), West 11 (1963), The Man Who Finally Died (1963), The Bedford Incident (1965), and The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966).
In 1962 Portman was in a stage adaptation of A Passage to India that ran for 109 performances on Broadway.
Near the end of his life Eric played character roles, including Number Two in the TV series The Prisoner, appearing in the episode "Free For All" (1967), as well as films including The Whisperers (1967) and Deadfall (1968), both for director Bryan Forbes. His final film was Assignment to Kill (1968).
-- Eric Portman's Personal Life
In the early 1920's Portman was an amateur in Halifax Light Opera. While there he was romantically involved with Eliza Jane Thornton, his leading lady.
After appearing in The Silver Box together, they both went to London to work professionally, though eventually Thornton returned to Halifax.
Decades after Portman's death in 1969, it was suggested that he was homosexual, and that assistant director Knox Laing (1913 - 1974) was his partner.
Portman died at the age of 68 at his home in St. Veep, Cornwall on the 7th. December 1969 from heart disease. He was laid to rest in St. Veep parish church.
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Join JNUSUs Mass Deputation to the Chief Justice of India .
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It was in the year 2003 that the battle for campus democracy in India took a significant turn with the .
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12.11.2013 .
Sojan Francis case, born out of the attempt by the management of St. Thomas College, Pala (Kottayam, Kerala) to trample upon the democratic rights of students. Sojan Francis, an SFI activist in the college, was denied permission by the college management to sit for a university exam in spite of the direction from the Controller of Examinations of the Mahatma Gandhi University for him to be allowed to take the exam. When the matter reached the Kerala High Court, the court gave a verdict which effectively allowed the college managements to prohibit political activism in campuses. This draconian order was challenged in the Supreme Court by the Kerala University and the Kerala University Students Union, and the Supreme Court issued an order on 12 December 2005 directing the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to constitute a committee to frame guidelines on students union elections in colleges/universities. The committee thus set up, with J M Lyngdoh as Chair, submitted its report on 23 May 2006. .
The Lyngdoh Committee Recommendations (LCR) upheld the need for students union elections in all colleges and universities in the country, including private colleges and universities. Since the vast majority of colleges and universities in India do not allow students unions to function or to have union elections, and since the legal battle was largely about the right of students to engage in political activism, the recommendations were seen by many as a step forward for campuses without students unions and union elections. But it was immediately recognised that for campuses which already have unions, the LCR, with its one-size-fits-all model, would have damaging implications. .
The experience of the students movement across the country in the years since the submission of the Lyngdoh report shows that LCRs stated objective of ensuring students union election in all colleges and universities remain unfulfilled. On the contrary, students union elections were banned in several states as per the whims and fancies of the parties that are in power in those states (e.g. in West Bengal by the Trinamool Congress government). A brute majority of private colleges and universities still do not have unions or elections. Universities like Allahabad University, Aligarh Muslim University, Banaras Hindu University, Jamia Millia Islamia, Utkal University and numerous others continue to flout norms by not having elections or by allowing the scourges of money-power and muscle power to mar the democratic process. In Rajasthan, the previous BJP government had banned students union elections and subsequently, the students movement led by SFI waged a relentless struggle for campus democracy throughout the state. The struggle continued during the period of Congress rule as well. Finally the government was forced to restore elections as thousands of students gheraoed the Assembly while the Left MLAs argued for it inside the Assembly. Such advances have been made in spite of Lyngdoh, and NOT because of Lyngdoh. While the courts of the country do not take notice of such violations as mentioned above, the students union elections in places like JNU and HCU which the Lyngdoh Committee held up as models have been targeted, precisely because the students movement in such places have challenged the unbridled march of neoliberal policies in education and in other spheres. .
The objective of the Lyngdoh Committee Recommendations (LCR), contrary to all pious statements, is to weaken the students movement so as to pave the way for fee hikes, commercialisation, privatisation and centralisation of higher education a process that is already underway. LCR has put in place restrictions that are fundamentally undemocratic and exclusionary (particularly adversely affecting students from deprived sections). For instance, the clause that stipulates an age barrier of 22 years for BA students, 25 years for PG students and 28 years for M.Phil./Ph.D. students (30 years for JNU as per the relaxation granted), militates against students from deprived backgrounds who are often forced to enter higher education at a later age. The clause that prevents candidates from contesting more than once in the central panel and twice for councillor posts defies logic even as it serves to constrain the development of a mature leadership for the union. The eligibility criteria which prevents students who have been tried/convicted for any criminal offence and those who have been subjected to any disciplinary action by the University authorities only aids the college/university administrations to victimise student activists who have participated or led any kind of protests against unjust measures by the authorities. In short, the overarching framework of Lyngdoh curtails students rights and has been damaging to our fight against anti-student college and university administrations and the neoliberal policies of the ruling classes. .
Among the important stated objectives of LCR were the curbing of criminalisation in student politics and ensuring financial transparency. But money-power and muscle power continue to be used unashamedly by right-wing organisations across the country during students union elections to subvert students will and to intimidate and even to eliminate political opponents. In our own campus, the blatant use of money power by the NSUI was on brazen display in the run up to the JNUSU Elections 2013 and even during the election days. .
The JNUSU is mandated by UGBMs in the past to continue the legal and political battle against LCR. While the Supreme Court had referred our case to a constitution bench on 11.11.2009, the said constitution bench has not been formed till date. SFI appeals to the students of JNU to participate in large numbers in tomorrows Mass Deputation to the Chief Justice of India so as to build pressure to expedite the consideration of our case. .
Sd/-Sd/-Deepanjan K, President, SFI JNU Unit Viswanathan V, Jt. Secretary, SFI JNU Unit .
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To mark Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation, the Legislative Assembly extend celebrations with a special Canada 150 Countdown, featuring 10 days of entertainment from June 21 until June 30.
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In Memory
of
Jack Wilton Charker Lees
(28-Oct-1908 to 4-Apr-2010)
"You're a good bloke," the voice said over the phone. He was tickled pink at the time. His cousin had just sent him a letter congratulating him on his recent achievement.
The circumstances leading to that conversation started nearly a year earlier. In fact, it started much earlier than that. Jack loved to tell a story and if he told it once, he may well have told it a 100 times over the years. During family gatherings back when I was a child, Jack would often come out with the statement "Of course, you know I'm related to royalty." Well, I was impressed and was quick to point out that I was related to royalty as well! I figured if he was, then I had to be, given he was my uncle. It struck me that this counter statement may have surprised him and that if he indeed was related to royalty, then perhaps so were most of the others present as well. Jack often referred to "my ancestors" in family gatherings, not necessarily making the connection that they were our ancestors as well. It was one of Jack's characteristics that we all adored.
Perhaps it was these first proclamations regarding family history that years later sent me down the road of family history exploration. There were definitely other more interesting stories to come out such as Grandpa's cousin, known as 'Big Tom' Lees, who was once the heavyweight champion of Australia but alas, no such evidence of royalty. But Jack still held on to that thought. It was at his younger sister Nancye's funeral, as he pondered upon his age, when he quietly mentioned to me that he figured he might be getting a letter from his cousin soon, even though he did not seem to think it was a big deal, or at least did not want to make out that he did. Never-the-less, the wheels were already being placed into motion.
Upon my return back to Melbourne I contacted my local member, Jenny Macklin, to initiate the process. I applied to obtain a copy of Jack's birth certificate from the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages, explaining why I needed it and was informed that because it was less than 100 years, it could not be issued. I again explained that was the very point and in fact had to get Jenny Macklin's office to confirm this with them. The certificate duly arrived and a copy dispatched to Jenny Macklin.
A few months down the track Jack called me in a great fluster as he could not find his birth certificate. Turns out that someone must have mentioned to him that special letters had to be requested. He wanted to know if I had his birth certificate. Had he given it to me? He and Grace could not find it. It was supposed to be a surprise but I could not let this dear old man panic over this affair. I assured him that I did not have his birth certificate but I did indeed have a copy and would send it to him. I also assured him that he should not worry as it was all taken care of. A sense of calm seemed to prevail and we never heard another thing about it.
A couple of months further on, I was in a design meeting at work and my phone rang. Because I was in a meeting, I redirected the call to voicemail. Soon afterwards, I received a message to urgently go and see our administration assistant. Apparently an elderly man had rung the main switch and they had put him through to her as I could not be reached. He did not want to leave a message but she said he sounded very short of breath. She was so concerned that he might be having a heart attack that she dialed the number from the caller ID, upon which Grace answered the phone and assured her he was OK and that he had simply wanted to say hello to me.
I rang Jack back. He had just received the letter, a week ahead of time. He was absolutely delighted, tickled pink. We had a nice yarn and that's when he said to me, "You're a good bloke." Coming from Uncle Jack, it was one of my prouder moments that this great and generous man would pay me such a compliment.
As Jack approached that centenary, I guess I grew even more in awe of him. It was 2008 and I had had enough of work and its stresses. I desperately needed a change and yet it would still be some months more before I would even be able to say I was half his age.
Jack Wilton Charker Lees was born October 28, 1908, the second son of Alfred Edward Lees and Florence Sarah Charker. Alfie had arrived as a 16 year old from England in 1888. He took on the profession of a painter and paper hanger and later settled in Bowral. Florence came from a longer line of Australian stock, stemming back as far as 1801 to the convict Jane Camm. Alfie and Flo met in Bowral and married there in 1905. His siblings were Dudley (1905), Dorothy (1916), Arthur (1917) and Nancye (1920).
Dorothy, Arthur and Nancye were much younger and their big brothers, Dud and Jack, would look out for them. Their mother only had one hand as a result of a childhood accident so Dud and Jack would have become quite familiar with helping care for their younger siblings. After completing 5 years of high school, Jack obtained his Leaving Certificate with a solid record of 'A' grades. At family gatherings over the years he would often break into reciting verses he learnt during those early years. He would also tell the story of how he once bowled out a fellow in the class ahead of him, a boy by the name of Don Bradman. It was a story that he initially would feign hesitance at telling but was easily convinced. It clearly gave him a good chuckle.
By the mid 1920s, Dud and Jack were determined to move out to seek work and help their parents by sending money home. On 24th March 1926 Jack was appointed to his first position as a junior clerk at Goulburn Court in the Petty Sessions branch of the Attorney General's department. The standard working week had just been reduced from 48 hours to 44 hours.
Within 3 years, he and Dud would both find themselves in Sydney where they boarded in Croydon with a relative of their grandfather, William Charker, who owned the hotel in Bowral. Just last year Jack regaled us with a memory he had from when he was about 8 years of age, of sneaking Ginger Beer straight from the barrel by turning the tap on and just lapping it up. In early 1929, the family moved from Bowral to Strathfield where Alfie had purchased a home at 21 Beresford Road and Jack moved back home. He has lived there ever since for 81 years except for when his work required him to travel and reside in various country towns as part of the magistrate circuit. Places such as Goulburn, Queanbeyan, Cobar, Bourke, Narrabri in 1943 and Nyngan in 1954.
He did not go to university to qualify as a lawyer, rather he obtained his qualifications on the job and completing the relevant examinations conducted by the Solictor's Admission Board. He would study at night going to bed at 4am and getting up 2 hours later to pass his exams. He did not claim to be a brilliant fellow, just an ordinary bloke. Study was a long haul intermixed with being posted to nearly every country town in NSW whilst on the magistrate circuit. In March 1934 he passed the First Law exams and he passed Section 1 of the Final examinations in March 1937 and Section 3 in November 1939. War had just broken out again. Jack and his brother Dudley were both employed in what were declared to be "protected industries" and as such were unable to enlist or be conscripted unlike their younger brother, Arthur.
In 1947 Jack was appointed as Clerk of Petty Sessions to the Industrial Magistrate with a salary of £801 and in 1957 he was appointed Stipendiary Magistrate, a position he held for 17 years until his retirement. In conjunction with this role, he also held appointments as a Mining Warden, Industrial Magistrate, Coroner for the State, and Special Magistrate under the Child Welfare Act. He would liken life on the magistrate circuit to one much like a commercial traveler. And if the government would not put up for a sleeper berth for him to come home on holidays then he would simply sit up all night on the train.
As the years passed and his siblings married and moved out, Jack remained single and at home caring for his parents. In 1963 his mother Flo died at 81 years of age. He continued to care for his father until Alfie's death in 1968 just shy of his 97th birthday. Jack arranged to purchase his siblings shares in the Beresford Road property and made it his permanent home. I imagine it must have felt an empty house after having been the centre of the family's lives for the previous 40 years. Even though he was approaching his retiring years he continued to direct his energy towards his career and in helping other family members but alas no signs of 'settling down' himself. My mother informs me that there was at least one significant girlfriend in Jack's earlier years but there was never enough money and life on the circuit was too demanding to consider marriage. It was looking like he would remain single. In 1970 his brother Dudley died of lung cancer. Jack never smoked again.
Towards the end of his career he contracted diverticulitis. He was hospitalised and under went an operation to rectify the condition, which meant that the traditional fare of figs and nuts at Christmas were no longer allowed, along with any other source of seeds such as strawberries and tomatoes. Ultimately he made an excellent recovery. But there was a silver lining in this cloud, which happened to come in the form of a kindly nurse by the name of Grace Burke, nee Brown. Grace was a war veteran's widow whose husband had died a few years earlier. Jack, always a charmer and a joker caught her attention and a match was made. On March 24, 1973 Jack married Grace here at St Anne's, just across the road from the family home; the scene of many happy family weddings before them and now it seems in recent times, the sad passage of funerals for those same characters. Next month represents the 125th anniversary of this beautiful church. The Lees family has shared an association with St Anne's for 81 of those years.
In October 1973 with 6 months of marriage under the belt, Jack retired from a lifetime of public service. He had rendered 47 ½ years as a Public Servant, 17 of them as a Stipendiary Magistrate. The Under Secretary of Justice congratulated him for the length and quality of his service and wished him good health to enable a lengthy period of retirement with his wife. Little did he realise just how long a retirement Jack would enjoy!
On the occasion of his 100th birthday Jack received a letter from the Attorney General in which he notes that Jack served the State of New South Wales with distinction, that he exhibited, through his conduct as a Magistrate, all of the worthy characteristics that the title implies. The Attorney General also noted that Jack was the first Judicial Officer in NSW and perhaps Australia to reach the significant milestone of 100 years of age.
Throughout his 37 years of marriage and retirement, Grace has proven to be a marvellous and constant companion for Jack. He was very appreciative of her company and her qualities. He certainly felt blessed to have met and indeed lucky to have married her. As it turned out for the rest of the family, Grace is also a superb cook, baker of cakes and master decorator as well. Family gatherings at Beresford Road became just that much more special with Grace's touches partnered with Jack's joviality and yarns. Together they put on many special family celebrations such as my own 21st birthday. On these occasions nothing but the best was warranted and the finest china, silverware, prawn cocktails, cold meats, roasts and professionally decorated cakes all conducted by Grace were laid on, aided by the new kitchen renovations undertaken and project managed by Jack.
Many members of the family have been recipients of Jack's generosity over the years, both financially and in respect of his time. And he never asked for anything in return. He was a handy bloke too. I recall when he helped my father completely replace the water pipes in our home at Northwood with all new copper pipes. He was also great with financial advice, especially regarding shares; what to buy and what not to buy and would always provide guidance to the family in these matters. He was certainly not a high risk investor preferring solid blue chip stocks. He was particularly fond of that iconic Australian company, BHP. In fact he was passionate about it. As a teenager, I was perhaps not so passionate and when Jack got in your ear, he was there for quite a while. He would ensure the message got through. If he said it once, he said it over and over. On several occasions I was captive to his discourse on the telephone and on one occasion he virtually had me writhing on the floor in frustration wondering how to bring the discussion to a close.
On several occasions as a young boy I stayed at No. 21 for holidays. There were was always something of interest for me - a cast iron money box in the form of a Negro bust on which you put a coin in its hand and push a lever and it would swallow the money. Silver expanding shirt sleeve bands adorned the dressing table. I was amazed with his roll top desk and how the lid glided open and shut through its curved track. And I had a particular fascination with the old family photos, especially one of him as a young boy with long flowing curls. I remember him and Dudley giving each other haircuts on the back verandah with clippers and using candles to singe the short hairs and shaves with the old cutthroat razor, sharpened on the leather strap. Privet hedges clipped straight as a die and mowing the lawn with the old push mower.
He caught the home improvement bug when Grace came along. As I mentioned earlier, the kitchen was remodeled and an entrance to the dining room knocked through the wall. The verandah was enclosed, an extension added out back and the old garage replaced with a new brick one.
Jack told me as he was approaching his 100th birthday that he never expected to live that long but clearly as he got closer he began to look forward to it. On the day he received his letter he was so happy he told me he figured he had another 2 or 3 years left in him and even on his 101st birthday he felt the same. I guess he was so convinced of such mindset that during this final hospital stay he was adamant that he was 103. In a letter to my mother last year he wrote of the upset he felt when the baby of the family, Nancye died on New Year's Day in 2008, just shy of her 88th birthday. I'm sure that he would never have expected to outlive his youngest sister. And then to lose his younger brother last year, it was all going backwards for him. As a young boy he saw them come in to the world and then as an old man he was seeing them depart. After so many years of looking out for them, there was nothing more he could do. It must have affected him deeply. My mother Dorothy is now the last of their family.
To conclude, in case you did not know, Jack had a weakness for sweet sherry. McWilliams sweet sherry in fact, which he would purchase by the flagon. In his final days the doctors allowed him to have some in hospital as a final comfort. So perhaps afterwards, that is if there's any left, we could all charge a glass and toast him. And just as Jack would so often sign-off his letters, I also now bid him a farewell
CHEERIO.
-Peter Pidgeon, 9th April 2010
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To launch the 2010-2011 Community Cinema series, Madison Public Library presented Copyright Criminals, a film that examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law and money. Film showing was September 18, 2010. For more information, see the Library's Community Cinema page. Photos by Peter Patau.
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Random shots taken on Canon 5DII near the finish of the 2009 City to Surf, 14km fun run. This race is one of the biggest races in the world attracting over 60,000 participants Sunday 9th August 2009, shots taken from 10.30-11.30 or so. Some post HDR processing most taken on Canon 70-300mm IS lens
Ein Flusspferd oder Nilpferd in einem Wasserbecken der Wilhelma in Stuttgart. Könnte auch sein, das Tier träumt nur.
April 2011.
June 25, 2010 - Today U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill held a forum in Troy, MO to discuss the need for broadband internet access in rural Missouri and to review ongoing efforts to expand access. McCaskill was joined by Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski, who attended at McCaskill's invitation to gather input from community leaders for whom broadband access is particularly important, including members of the education, emergency response and economic development communities. Those organizations that have applied for federal broadband grants to assist Missouri in expanding access were also invited to join the conversation.
McCaskill is committed to making broadband internet access available to all Missourians, by providing the necessary resources, particularly to those in currently underserved rural areas. As a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, she believes that the expansion of broadband can strengthen Missouri communities, create economic opportunities, and improve standard of living across the state. In the past, she has fought to reform the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Broadband Loan and Loan Guarantee Program to better serve Missourians, and worked to include the expansion of broadband in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
They tried to cull all the Grey Squirrels but this one had the day off .... Well done because I love all squirrels red or grey. If there aren't any red ones lets keep our grey ones... All animals have a right to live ..... Oooops went on a bit there..
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1. Melancholic Barcelona [2], 2. Brotzeit, 3. Autumn Morning at Schwabacher, 4. day of coffee [030/365], 5. Herbstlicher Wall, 6. butterfly valley,
7. autumn leaf, 8. Moon and dune, 9. Camel train, 10. Camel tracks, 11. grilled feta cheese, 12. King Trumpet Mushrooms,
13. Húsavíkurkirkja, 14. dede, 15. peppers and melons, 16. Orang-Utan, 17. A Stormy Morning at Moraine Lake, 18. der auswanderer,
19. busy-night, 20. Hope, 21. Untitled, 22. cheese from Gouda, 23. before you put on a frown, 24. Delicious...,
25. aufgetaucht, 26. How to loose your shadow, 27. erst eins..., 28. A Magic Moment at the Bow Valley Summit, 29. Ice and ash, 30. Ammi visnaga / Bischofskraut,
31. _l--o-o--kin_thru, 32. Herbstfarben, 33. national park plitvicka jezera, 34. Nature Dream, 35. Night, 36. Untitled
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I was simply stunned to see the wide range of color in the native Paint Brushes in the Churchill area. All colors of pink and magenta from an almost white form to a dark pink form. They are much unlike the red species we have in the Carolinas. They seemed to light up the tundra in almost every location we visited.
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To mark World Environment Day, 5 June, the United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (UNRIC), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Fabrica (Benetton’s communication research centre), teamed up with a powerful video in support of the global campaign, “Think Eat Save: Reduce your Footprint”. The video is being broadcast throughout the month of June on mega-screens in Times Square, New York, and Piccadilly Circus, London. It will also be shown on the Live Windows of the main Benetton flagship stores worldwide, as well as on UN|UNEP and partner websites and social media networks. (Photo credit: UNRIC Brussels)