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Survey of London
Survey of London: Volume 38, South Kensington Museums Area
Estates and houses before 1851: The Harrington-Villars Estate
Survey of London: Volume 38, South Kensington Museums Area. Originally published by London County Council, London, 1975.
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The Harrington-Villars Estate
Hale House
Methwold's Almshouses
Brompton Park House
Gloucester Lodge
The Partition of the Estate
In 1850 some eighty-seven acres of the area covered by this volume were owned jointly by two aristocratic families, one of English and the other of Swiss and French extraction. One moiety was then in the possession of the fourth Earl of Harrington and the other in the ownership of the Baron and Baroness de Graffenried Villars. Additionally they owned a detached eight-acre piece of land between Old Brompton Road and Fulham Road to the west of Brompton Hospital. This joint estate was divided into two separate portions in 1850, and the partition was confirmed by the Inclosure Commissioners in the following year.
The core of the Harrington-Villars estate was the much smaller holding which had originally been attached to Hale House (or Cromwell House as it was later known) in the early seventeenth century. This house, which is described in greater detail below, stood on a site now occupied by the roadway of Queen's Gate, immediately south of the intersection with Cromwell Road. In 1606 the house and some adjoining copyhold land was acquired by (Sir) William Blake, citizen and vintner of London, (fn. 1) who later obtained further property in the area and at his death was the owner of an extensive estate in Brompton and Knightsbridge. (fn. 2) When Sir Walter Cope purchased the manor of Earl's Court in 1610, Hale House and up to thirty acres were specifically excluded from the lands which passed into Cope's possession. (fn. 3) Within a month of the sale of the manor the fee simple (in effect the enfranchisement) of this property was sold for £80 to four men who were presumably acting as trustees for Blake. (fn. 4)
Blake died in 1630 (fn. 5) and, after the death of his widow several years later, the Hale House property was purchased in 1645 for £841 by William Methwold, a City merchant and director of the East India Company. The acreage involved was not specified in the conveyance. (fn. 6) Methwold had been president of the East India Company's factory at Surat from 1633 to 1638 at the handsome salary of £500 per annum, and from 1643 until his death in 1653 he was Deputy Governor of the Company. (fn. 7) Methwold's second wife was a sister of Sir William Blake, (fn. 8) and during his ownership, and later during that of his widow, the Hale House estate was evidently extended by the acquisition of copyhold land, chiefly from the Blake family. (fn. 9) Shortly before his death Methwold built a group of almshouses on his land (see below), and by his will he charged the upkeep of these on sixteen acres of freehold land which he had purchased from John Grant. (fn. 10) It is possible that these sixteen acres were included in the conveyance of 1645, for Grant was not only a party to the sale of Hale House, but also received the bulk of the purchase money, perhaps as a mortgagee of the Blakes. (fn. 6)
When in 1754 William Methwold's great-grandson, Thomas Methwold, sold the estate the acreages specified in the deed amounted to fifty-two acres of freehold and twenty-two acres of copyhold land. (fn. 11) The purchaser was (Sir) John Fleming of St. George's, Hanover Square, who came from a military family and had himself served as a captain a short while previously. (fn. 12) His commanding officer had been a mortgagee of Thomas Methwold and in his will had bequeathed the mortgage interest to Fleming, who later contracted with Methwold to buy the estate. The purchase price was £8,312, but Methwold secured only £2,500 after the mortgage debt had been deducted. (fn. 11)
In January 1763 Fleming bought an adjoining twenty-eight acres to the north. This land, for which he paid £3,640, consists in modern topographical terms of the northern part of Queen's Gate, Queen's Gate Terrace and Elvaston Place. It was then in the ownership of a William Lloyd of Beaconsfield, who had inherited it from a cousin, John Milner. (fn. 13) In the early seventeenth century it had formed part of the holdings of the Muschamp family and had passed through various hands before being purchased by John Milner's uncle in 1699. (fn. 14)
Fleming was created a baronet in April 1763, but he died in November of the same year. He had no male heirs and under his will his property passed into the joint ownership of his four daughters. (fn. 15) Two of these died in childhood, however, and the two surviving daughters, Seymour Dorothy and Jane, acquired a moiety each. (fn. 16) After a survey made in 1772 the extent of their lands was found to be approximately ninety-five acres. (fn. 17)
In 1775 Seymour Dorothy Fleming married Sir Richard Worsley, baronet, a Member of Parliament, Privy Councillor, and from 1793 until 1797 Minister to the Republic of Venice. (fn. 18) Worsley died in August 1805, apparently without leaving any surviving children, and within two months Seymour Dorothy, who had been separated from her husband for some time, had married again. Her second husband was Jean Louis Cuchet, a native of Geneva who had long been living in England. (fn. 19) Both husband and wife changed their names to Fleming, Cuchet becoming known as John Lewis Fleming. He also acquired British nationality in order to enable him to own property in England. (fn. 16)
In 1818 Seymour Dorothy Fleming died in Paris, (fn. 20) and under the terms of their marriage settlement her moiety passed to her second husband. (fn. 16) Although the couple had occupied a house on the estate since shortly after their marriage, (fn. 21) they may, in fact, have made Paris their principal home after the Bourbon Restoration, and in 1821 Fleming was created a baron by Louis XVIII. (fn. 20) In the previous year he had married the daughter of a French count, and he died in Paris in 1836. (fn. 22)
By his will John Lewis Fleming left his English property to the daughter of his second marriage, Césarine Amable Louise Fleming, who, in 1841, married Denis Bernard Frédéric, Baron de Graffenried Villars of Switzerland. (fn. 23) It was thus by this complex series of marriages and settlements that one moiety of Sir John Fleming's estate passed to Continental aristocrats living in Paris who were not related to him by kinship.
The descent of the other moiety was quite straightforward. In 1779 Jane Fleming married Charles Stanhope, third Earl of Harrington, and her share of the estate afterwards passed to successive Earls. (fn. 24)
In 1835, while the estate was in the joint ownership of the fourth Earl of Harrington and John Lewis Fleming, the twenty-two acres of copyhold land were enfranchised for £1,600 by Lord Kensington, who was lord of the manor of Earl's Court. (fn. 25) Thus when the land was eventually divided in 1850–1 it was held in fee simple in its entirety.
For over a century and a half before 1850 the estate had been occupied chiefly by nurseries and market gardens, including the famous Brompton Park Nursery, described in 1715 as 'the noblest Nursery of the World'. (fn. 26) It was founded in 1681 by four prominent gardeners, of whom George London became the best known. (fn. 27) Within a few years Henry Wise, one of the most famous of English gardeners, had become associated with the nursery, and by 1692 he was London's sole partner. (fn. 28) During the reigns of William and Mary, William III, and Anne Brompton Park Nursery was the principal supplier of plants, shrubs and trees, as well as expertise in planning, for the royal gardens, and for the outstanding private gardens laid out or remodelled during these years, including that at Blenheim. (fn. 29) London died in 1714 and in the same year Wise sold the nursery for £6,000 to two of his assistants, Joseph Carpenter and William Smith. (fn. 30) He remained overseer for the royal parks, however, until 1728. He died in 1738. (fn. 31) Although the main part of the nursery was on the estate belonging to the Methwold family and was held under long lease, (fn. 28) other lands around were added to it from time to time and at its greatest extent its size was estimated to be over one hundred acres. (fn. 32)
Of the various buildings on the estate at the time of its partition in 1850–1 four are particularly worthy of note.
Also known as Cromwell House. Demolished
Hale House, which was demolished c. 1853 for the laying out of Queen's Gate, when its site was wholly swallowed up by the roadway immediately south of the intersection with Cromwell Road, can be identified with a tenement referred to as Haull House, with two yards and one acre of land attached, to which a Basil Turbevyle or Troblefield was admitted copyhold tenant in 1579. (fn. 33) A drawing made shortly before the demolition of the building shows what was apparently the garden front. It was a symmertrical composition of three storeys in height with a flat roof. The projecting centre bay contained a glazed doorway flanked by Doric columns supporting a broken pediment, with a Palladian window above. This elevation evidently dated from the eighteenth century, but there are indications on the drawing of an earlier gabled building incorporated into the structure and Faulkner noted a seventeenth-century doorcase surmounted by a bust of Charles II on the principal front. (fn. 34) The name Cromwell House, which has been perpetuated in street names in the area, owes its origin to a tradition that Oliver Cromwell lived there. No evidence has been found to support this tradition, although the Protector's fourth son, Henry, was married in Kensington in 1653. (fn. 35)
Both Sir William Blake, who acquired the house in 1606, and William Methwold, who purchased it from Blake's son, apparently lived in Hale House, but later owners generally let the house to tenants. In the 1680's it was occupied by Francis, fifth Lord Howard of Effingham, whose sons Thomas and Francis, later sixth and seventh Barons, were born there. (fn. 36) A later tenant was not only required to pay a rent of £50 per annum, but also to provide one fat goose, two fowls and twelve quarts of best French or Portuguese wine at Christmas each year. (fn. 37) In 1794 Edmund Burke, the philosopher and statesman, rented the house because he thought the air of Kensington might cure his ailing son, who nevertheless died there in that year. (fn. 38)
Plate 77b, 77c. Demolished
By his will, proved in 1597, Thomas Goodfellow, who had owned Hale House and its adjacent lands, bequeathed to the poor of Kensington twenty shillings per annum, to be paid out of his copyhold lands. (fn. 39) Shortly after acquiring the Hale House estate William Methwold improved on this charitable bequest by building, in c. 1650, almshouses for six poor women, to each of whom he paid an annual pension of £4. (fn. 40) The almshouses were ranged around an open courtyard facing north on to Cromwell Lane at a point which now forms the south-east corner of Harrington Road and Queen's Gate. They were of a common seventeenth-century type with their upper storey partly contained within the roof space and lit by four symmetrically placed gabled windows. The gable ends of both return wings were decorated with a blank arch, that on the west wing incorporating a plaque which no doubt commemorated the foundation and the donor.
In his will, made in 1653, Methwold settled sixteen acres of land for the maintenance of the almshouses, and appointed the owner for the time being of Hale House to be the guardian of the hospital. (fn. 41)
In the mid eighteenth century disputes about the obligation to pay the pensions were ultimately resolved in 1758 by a Chancery decree. The duty of the owner of the estate, then (Sir) John Fleming, to pay the pensions, now slightly reduced, was confirmed, and the Kensington Vestry was ordered to fill the vacancies which had arisen in the almshouses during the dispute. Through their purchase of the Villars' portion of the HarringtonVillars estate in 1853, the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 became responsible for the payment of the pensions. (fn. 42)
In the mid 1860's part of the site of the almshouses lay along the course chosen for the Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railways, and by an Act of 1867 the Metropolitan Railway Company was required to pay £3,750 to the Kensington Vestry for possession of the buildings. No new almshouses were to be built, but the Vestry was required to establish a scheme for the use of the compensation money, the income of which now provides for the payment of small stipends to poor women resident in Kensington. The Commissioners were discharged from all further liabilities. (fn. 43)
In the event the almshouses did not have to be demolished for the construction of the railways but they were vacated in October 1873 and pulled down shortly afterwards. In 1874 the site was sold by the railway companies as part of their surplus lands to the builder, William Douglas. (fn. 44)
Plates 4a, 4b, 4c, 22c. Demolished
This house, which was situated near the southwest corner of the site now occupied by the Victoria and Albert Museum, was the London home of Henry Wise, the famous gardener, for over forty years before his death in 1738. From here he superintended the business of the surrounding Brompton Park Nursery which he owned in partnership with George London, and when he sold the nursery in 1714 he retained the house as his own residence. A plan attached to the conveyance of 1714 (but not itself necessarily of that date) (fn. 45) shows the house, which apparently already existed when the nursery was founded in 1681, (fn. 46) as half-H shaped in plan with the main block facing south and short return wings to the north. In a photograph taken in c. 1872 (Plate 4c) showing the back or north side of the complex of buildings into which Brompton Park House had by then been transformed the original house can still be discerned amid later additions. The most important of these additions was a large block on the west side which can also be seen in the foreground of Plate 4a, and which on stylistic grounds probably dates from Wise's occupancy of the house. It does not, however, appear on the plan referred to above, on which only a small addition to the west is shown.
In 1784 a lease was granted to three 'architects and copartners', Joseph Andrews, William Horsfall and John Johnson the younger (probably the son of John Johnson, the architect of the County Hall, Chelmsford (fn. 47) ), who converted the extended mansion and an adjoining building on its east side into an irregular terrace of three houses. (fn. 48) The large western addition and the west wing of the old house made one house, the remainder of the original house another, and the adjoining building to the east a third (see fig. 1). The effect of this division can be seen in Plate 4a, where the centre house and the easternmost house (by then partially demolished) have conventional mid-Georgian fronts no doubt added at the time of conversion.
Seymour Dorothy Fleming and her second husband John Lewis Fleming lived in the westernmost house for several years shortly after their marriage in 1805, and during their occupancy it was known as Fleming Villa. (fn. 49) Other ratepaying occupants of this house were the Dowager Countess of Warwick from 1785 to 1790 and Sir Cresswell Cresswell, a judge, from 1834 until 1850, while the third Earl Talbot (later eighteenth Earl of Shrewsbury) lived in the easternmost house from 1845 to 1852. (fn. 50) The third Lord Holland was living 'at BromptonPark' with his future wife, Lady Elizabeth Vassall, when their illegitimate son, Charles Richard, was born in 1796, but at which house is not known. (fn. 51) Shortly after the 1851 Commissioners acquired the freehold, the buildings were turned over to the Science and Art Department for use in connexion with the South Kensington Museum. They were demolished in 1899.
From the surviving graphic evidence the most interesting part of Brompton Park House architecturally was the large western addition which appears stylistically to date from the early eighteenth century. Its principal elevation which faced south and extended over part of the old house (Plate 4a, foreground) had simple segmental arched windows and a plain bandcourse in place of a cornice. The continuous iron balcony supported on consoles was doubtless added at a later date and the upper-storey windows lengthened at the same time. The dominant feature of this elevation was a bold frontispiece consisting of a tall arch embracing the central entrance and the first-floor window above and capped by a broken pediment which framed the keystone of the arch. The same motif was repeated on the west front although here the arch was wider and apparently served the functional purpose of carrying the flues from two fireplaces to a common chimneystack which was placed rather uncomfortably astride the pediment. The use of a giant arch with a broken pediment was a characteristic feature of many of the early buildings of the English Baroque style of Hawksmoor and Vanbrugh. It was employed by Hawksmoor for the north front of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, of the late 1690's, and for the unexecuted tower proposed for the centre of the street front of the Queen's College, Oxford, in 1708–9, (fn. 52) and Vanbrugh used it in a more elaborate form for the entrance to the Model Room at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, built in 1719. There is no documentary evidence to associate either Hawksmoor or Vanbrugh with Brompton Park House, however, and, despite a general resemblance to Hawksmoor's Kensington Charity School of 1711, (fn. 53) certain inconsistencies in the design, such as a change in the roof line of the south front where the new addition joined the old house and the chimneystack on the west front make a stylistic attribution doubtful. Certainly Wise was acquainted with Hawksmoor and Vanbrugh and had worked with them at Blenheim and elsewhere, but he was also associated with other less accomplished men who moved in their circle. His father-in-law was Matthew Banckes, a master carpenter in the Office of Works and one of a family of builders, (fn. 54) while the appointment of the young Henry Joynes as clerk of works at Blenheim was on Wise's recommendation, (fn. 55) and Joynes continued to enjoy Wise's confidence for many years. (fn. 56)
Plate 78d.
Also known as Villa Maria, Orford Lodge and Canning Villa. Demolished
Gloucester Lodge, which was demolished shortly after 1851, was situated on the east side of Gloucester Road approximately opposite the present underground railway station. It was built for Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, George III's sister-in-law, at the end of the eighteenth century and occupied part of the site of a pleasure garden called Florida Gardens. This had been managed by a German gardener, Rudolph Heim, who, according to Faulkner, introduced the Grafton cherry into England. (fn. 57) Heim's venture failed, however, and his lease was procured in 1797 on behalf of the Duchess. (fn. 58) The architect of the house was William Tyler, who exhibited his design at the Royal Academy in 1800. On the death of the Duchess in 1807, her daughter Princess Sophia Matilda lived there for a short while, but by 1809 she had sold the villa to George Canning, the statesman, who retained it until 1825. (fn. 59)
The house was of an unusual design, consisting of two blocks which were both four bays wide and two storeys high, linked by a single-storey connecting unit, with a conservatory attached to the east end of the easternmost block. The architectural decoration was concentrated on the single-storey range, which had a colonnade of eight Ionic columns surmounted by a balustrade on its south or principal front.
The use of the name Gloucester Road instead of Hogmore or Hogmire Lane was suggested by the Kensington Turnpike Trustees at the time of the Duchess's death and became current shortly afterwards. (fn. 60)
By the mid 1840's several speculative building developments were taking place around the nurseries and market gardens of the HarringtonVillars estate. Thurloe Square on the south, Hereford Square on the west and Hyde Park Gate on the north were all in process of erection at that time. Although the estate yielded a relatively high rental of over £2,600 per annum (fn. 61) (equivalent to almost £28 per acre), its owners no doubt considered that this could be much improved by taking advantage of the current building boom. The fact that the land was in joint ownership posed difficulties for the granting of long-term building leases, however, and it was decided to divide it into two separate estates. In 1846 a friendly suit was brought in Chancery by the Baroness de Graffenried Villars against the fourth Earl of Harrington in order to obtain the Court's authority for the proposed partition. (fn. 16) An auditor, John Gaunt Lye, valued and divided the land, and then (according to Charles James Richardson, surveyor to the fifth Earl of Harrington) cards representing each portion were drawn from a hat. (fn. 62) An agreement confirming the arrangement was presented in 1850 to the Court of Chancery, which gave leave for an order of partition to be made by the Inclosure Commissioners. (fn. 63) The formal order, dividing the estate, was granted on 24 September 1851. (fn. 64) By this time Leicester Fitzgerald Charles Stanhope had succeeded his brother Charles as fifth Earl of Harrington. (fn. 65)
The actual division of the property was complex, the lands of each new estate being interspersed with those of the other. In the event this had very little effect on the subsequent street layout because the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 purchased the whole of the Villars' portion and all of the Earl of Harrington's portion to the east of Queen's Gate.
Within a short time of the division plans had been drawn up for building on the land. In June 1852 the fifth Earl of Harrington entered into an agreement with William Jackson, a builder with an address in Parliament Street, Westminster, and a wharf in Pimlico, to develop the whole of his share, amounting to forty-six acres, at a ground rent rising from £1,200 in the first year to £4,600 in the tenth and subsequent years (equivalent to £100 per acre). (fn. 24) This was a high ground rent for such a large amount of land, and the interest being shown by builders in the locality made negotiations for the purchase of land by the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 considerably more difficult. In the event seventeen of the fortysix acres agreed to be leased to Jackson were sold to the Commissioners, and another four acres adjoining Fulham Road (outside the area described in this volume) to the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, but Jackson's ground rent for the remaining land was still calculated at the rate of £100 per acre. (fn. 24)
Building development was also projected for the land belonging to the de Graffenried Villars, and William Jackson appears to have been one of the speculators involved. (fn. 66) Before any agreement had been formulated, however, arrangements were made by the Commissioners to purchase the whole of the Villars estate. In 1853 they concluded the purchase for £153,793, and in the same year they agreed to pay £54,716 for the seventeen acres required from the Earl of Harrington, some £8,000 also being paid to Jackson as compensation for the loss of part of his building land. (fn. 67)
Of the twenty-five or so acres remaining in the ownership of the fifth Earl of Harrington after these various transactions, slightly under half, chiefly in the vicinity of Stanhope Gardens, are still owned by his descendants today (1973).
1. Minet Library, Surrey Collection, Cl. VI/237, p. 29.
2. Extra-illustrated Faulkner in B.M. (press mark L.R. 27I.c.3), between pp. 440 and 441.
3. P.R.O., C66/1851, no. 19.
4. P.R.O., C54/2057, Argyll et al. to Weddell et al.
5. Harleian Society, Registers, vol. XVI (Kensington 1539–1675), 1890, p. III.
7. Relations of Golconda in the Early Seventeenth Century, ed. W. H. Moreland, 1931 (Hakluyt Society Publications, 2nd series, no. lxvi), pp. xxiii–xxxvi: A. R. Ingram, The Gateway to India, 1938, passim.
8. Survey of London, vol. XVII, 1936, p. 148.
9. K.P.L., Court Rolls of Earl's Court, box III, m.4.
10. P.R.O., PROB 11/231, f. 321.
11. K.P.L., MS. 2694.
12. Complete Baronetage, ed. G.E.C., vol. v, 1906, p. 127: K.P.L., MS. 2729.
13. K.P.L., MSS. 2790–2.
14. Ibid., MSS. 2778, 2799–2800.
15. Complete Baronetage, loc. cit.: K.P.L., MS. 2737.
16. P.R.O., C14/612/6.
17. G.L.C. Map Collection, JK 1861.
18. P.R.O., C14/612/6: Complete Baronetage, vol. I, 1900, p. 67.
19. P.R.O., C13/1175/17: The Gentleman's Magazine, vol. LXXV, Sept. 1805, p. 874.
20. Vicomte A. Révérend, Titres, Anoblissements et Pairies de la Restauration 1814–1830, vol. 3, 1903, pp. 60–1.
21. R.B.: K.P.L., MS. 2847.
22. Révérend, op. et loc. cit.: P.R.O., C14/612/6; C13/1175/17.
23. P.R.O., C14/612/6: 16 and 17 Vict., c. 5, private.
24. 17 and 18 Vict., c. 25, private.
26. Stephen Switzer, The Nobleman, Gentleman and Gardener's Recreation, 1715, index.
27. Ibid., p. 58: David Green, Gardener to Queen Anne, 1956, p. 4: K.P.L., MS. 63/1379 (Great Church Book), p. 5; MS. 2749.
29. Green, op. cit., passim.
30. K.P.L., MS. 86.
31. D.N.B.
32. Faulkner, p. 441.
33. K.P.L., Court Rolls of Earl's Court, box I, m.3.
34. Ibid., Pic. 440: Faulkner, p. 440.
35. Harleian Society, Registers, ut supra, p. 74.
36. Faulkner, pp. 261, 272, 273: G.E.C.
38. Peter Burke, The Public and Domestic Life of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, 1853, pp. 277–80.
39. P.R.O., PROB II/90, f. 90.
41. Endowed Charities (London), vol. IV, 1901, p. 431: P.R.O., PROB 11/231, f. 321.
43. Ibid.: Endowed Charities (London), vol. IV, p. 460: Charity Commissioners, file 237938.
44. K.P.L., MS. 3900: M.L.R. 1874/21/215.
45. K.P.L., MS. 86; cf. MSS. 2265–6.
46. Green, op. cit., p. 5: Notes and Queries, 11th series, vol. 11, 1910, p. 204.
47. Colvin.
49. R.B.: K.P.L., MSS. 2834, 2848.
50. R.B.: G.E.C.: D.N.B.
51. 37 Geo. III, c. 132, private.
52. K. Downes, Hawksmoor, 1969, p. 73.
53. Survey of London, vol. XXXVII, 1973, p. 36.
54. Green, op. cit., p. 97: Colvin.
55. B.M., Add. MS. 19613, f. 93.
56. Green, op. cit., p. 156.
57. K.P.L., MS. 2819: Faulkner, p. 438.
58. M.L.R. 1798/3/95–7.
59. R.B.: M.L.R. 1826/6/555.
60. K.P.L., Kensington and Chelsea Street Names, 1968.
61. P.R.O., C13/1175/17.
62. C. J. Richardson, Picturesque Designs for Mansions, Villas, Lodges. . ., 1870, p. 112.
63. P.R.O., C33/993, p. 798.
65. G.E.C.
66. 1851 Comm., W.A. x, 47, 49: K.P.L., 711.5 Exh.
67. Richardson, op. et loc. cit.: 17 and 18 Vict., c. 25, private.


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What Is a Railroad Apartment? Tracking the Pros and Cons
By Cathie Ericson | Realtor.com
All aboard! If you're looking for an apartment that's spacious yet affordable, you can't go wrong with a railroad apartment. You've heard about them for years. But what exactly is a railroad apartment?
A railroad apartment is essentially laid out as one long stretch of rooms, much like railroad cars on trains. So just as you would traipse from the dining car to the sleeping car to (everyone's favorite!) the bar car, in a railroad apartment you're moving from the living room to the kitchen to the bedroom with no hallway guiding your flow. The rooms where you spend the most time with friends and family—such as the kitchen and living room—are nearer to the entry while the bedroom is at the end. Railroad apartments are typically smaller units, usually no more than one bedroom.
"The advantage is that there is literally no wasted space," says David Dubin with Douglas Elliman Real Estate. "Without hallways, every inch of the apartment is usable."
The downside of this layout, of course, is that you have to walk through one room to get to another. It can be awkward if one of those rooms is someone's bedroom.
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You can't beat the cost
More often than not, the price of a railroad apartment is very reasonable.
"For the most part, they are less expensive," says Dubin. "If you can't find a traditional layout in your price range, you must compromise, especially if you're looking to move into an expensive area like Manhattan. Since this layout may be more affordable, it can be perfect for a first-time home buyer," he says.
They're common in big cities
The layout might seem slightly inconvenient, but there's a reason why apartments are built this way. You're most likely to find them in urban areas and cities where apartment premiums are steep and building lots are narrow and deep. With that configuration, the railroad apartment is a highly efficient way to maximize the available space.
In certain buildings, railroad apartments are the result of subdividing a house that used to be a multilevel home; each floor is divided into its own apartment.
Railroad apartments are also found in tenement buildings that were built in the late 19th and early 20th century to help with overcrowding in places like New York City.
Curtail the clutter to maximize space
A narrow floor plan doesn't mean you have limited interior decor choices. As Dubin points out, railroad apartments can be quite charming and desirable.
"If I were buying one, I would make it very contemporary, very white, with great lighting and simple window treatments, preferably solar shades," he says. Because space is limited, Dubin recommends avoiding any clutter and keeping it minimal in design to make it appear larger.
"The cleaner the better," he advises.
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The shamrock is a three-leafed old white clover. It is known as a symbol of Ireland. The name shamrock is derived from Irish seamróg, which is the diminutive version of the Irish word for clover (seamair).
It is sometimes of the variety Trifolium repens (white clover, Irish: seamair bhán) but today usually Trifolium dubium (lesser clover, Irish: seamair bhuí). However, other three-leafed plants — such as Medicago lupulina, Trifolium pratense, and Oxalis — are sometimes designated as shamrocks. The shamrock was traditionally used for its medical properties and was a popular motif in Victorian times.
According to what the Oxford English Dictionary calls "a late tradition" (first recorded in 1726), the plant was used by Saint Patrick to illustrate the Christian doctrine of the Trinity. However, the posthumous timing of this legend (coming some 1,200 years after his death), and the lack of supporting evidence found in St. Patrick's writings have caused some to question its authenticity. In the 19th Century the shamrock became a symbol of rebellion against the English. Anyone wearing it risked death by hanging.
The shamrock has been registered as a trademark by the Government of Ireland. It is also informally used as an emblem for sports teams and state organisations within Ireland: the IRFU, Shamrock Rovers F.C., IDA Ireland, University College Dublin and Fáilte Ireland use it as part of their identity.
In Northern Ireland, it is also used by the Northern Ireland Tourist Board and is included on the Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom. Additionally, former Formula 1 racing driver Eddie Irvine included a shamrock on the back of his helmet and the shamrock is part of the uniform of the Royal Irish Regiment. The shamrock forms a major constituent of the team badge for football team Cliftonville F.C., similar to the badge of Celtic F.C.. The shamrock, and variously the Flax plant, is also a symbol of Northern Ireland.
Outside Ireland, various organisations, businesses and places use the symbol to advertise a connection with the island. Basketball team Boston Celtics in the USA incorporate the shamrock in their logos and the US cereal Lucky Charms uses it on the product's mascot and as a shape in the cereal itself.
Traditionally in Ireland, and in many places throughout the world, the shamrock is worn on the lapel on St. Patrick's Day.
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1. The shamrock is a symbol of Ireland.
2. Nowadays, it's usually called Trifolium repens.
3. It was used for its medical properties.
4. It was a popular motif in Victorian times.
5. It was used by Saint Patrick to represent the Holy Trinity.


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The new student housing project at The University of Southern Denmark in Odense, designed by C.F. Møller for the A.P. Møller Foundation, receives one of this year's Civic Trust Awards.
247 projects around the world were in line for this year's prestigious Civic Trust Award. Twenty different projects that 'make an outstanding contribution to the quality and appearance of the built environment', and where 'award level schemes demonstrate excellence in architecture or design, whilst being sustainable, accessible and provide a positive civic contribution' received this year's prizes.
The Campus Hall, designed by C.F. Møller and C.F. Møller Landscape, was completed at the end of 2015 and is the only European project outside the United Kingdom which will be awarded in 2017.
- The distinctive building shape makes it easily recognizable on the campus, and clearly advertises its distinct residential content, reads the motivation on why the jury behind the Civic Trust Awards has chosen to award C.F. Møller's Campus Hall.
A strong community spirit
The design of the new student housing for the University of Southern Denmark in Odense is based on a strong community spirit. The 250 student residences are located in three interconnected 15-storey buildings. This means that the residence has no front or back, but appears attractive from a 360-degree perspective. The building's distinctive shape makes it easily recognizable on the campus.
- It is a great recognition for the work we, together with the developer, has completed, says Julian Weyer, project manager and partner at C.F. Møller
- The new Campus Hall is both traditional and innovative. It stands as an example of exciting architecture executed with a high level of quality. A building that will both inspire and influence its residents through the buildings high-level design and beautiful arrangement – which also reflects the values of the A. P. Møller Foundation, he elaborates.
C.F. Møller received the award at this year's Civic Trust Awards in London March 10, 2017. Associate Partner Rolf Østerbæk Nielsen received the award on behalf of the entire organization.
C.F. Møller is behind a range of projects that have been awarded Civic Trust Awards through the years. Amongst these are the housing project in Athlete's Village for the London 2012 Olympics, the National Maritime Museum, Hospice Djursland, Darwin Centre Phase II, Sogn & Fjordane Museum and Aalborg Waterfront.


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21 die in train crash in India as rear carriage full of women and disabled crushed
By metsfan, October 21, 2009 in World Transit Systems
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A passenger train crashed into another train's rear carriage reserved for women and disabled passengers, killing 21 people and injuring 17 who remained trapped for hours Wednesday near the Taj Mahal in northern India, police said.
Rescuers used gas cutters to open the wrecked compartment to free trapped passengers following the crash near Agra, the site of the famed white-marble monument about 130 miles (210 kilometers) southeast of New Delhi, said Rajesh Bajpai, a railway spokesman.
Rescuers recovered 19 bodies during a rescue operation that lasted nearly seven hours, said Rajesh Dikshit, a police spokesman. Two of the 19 injured people died in hospital, Dikshit told The Associated Press.
No foreigners were among the victims, he said.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2009/10/21/2009-10-21_21_die_in_train_crash_in_india_as_rear_carriage_full_of_women_and_disabled_crush.html
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Seriously Who ever runs that rail network in India really needs to be let go.This is a often occurence.Maybe needs to send some of their best engineers out there to educate them on proper maintenance.
They run trains so slow in some spots because of track issues, that people often get off, go to the bathroom, grab a bite to eat, a haircut or shave, and climb back on. You'd think with this many people & this large of a network, upkeep would be a higher priority.
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The representative's name is really Dikshit? The story is tragic, but so is that name!
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You know what, I wanted to ask that question as well, but I don't know if it would be appropriate to ask...


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Going from in-person to virtual won't stop Shannon Rohrer-Phillips from sticking to her big-picture goal: crafting an event with impact.
by: Grier Ferguson Sarasota-Manatee Editor
In early 2020, Shannon Rohrer-Phillips hosted a women's summit that brought big-name speakers to Sarasota, including soccer star Abby Wambach and former Telemundo President of Entertainment Nely Galán.
After the summit, Rohrer-Phillips, through her Sarasota-based company Shannon Rohrer-Phillips LLC, started planning another event, to be held in February 2021. The Voice + Visibility Women's Summit is part of a broader initiative to create speaker events and trainings that elevate women and diversity.
Then COVID-19 happened.
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Outlook: Hopeful. After a successful first-time Voice + Visibility Women's Summit in early 2020, Founder Shannon Rohrer-Phillips is shifting to a virtual summit for 2021. She's working to differentiats it from other virtual events by using a digital experience platform and keeping laser focused on the value she can bring to her customers.
So when it became clear she couldn't have an in-person summit with hundreds of attendees in early 2021 due to the pandemic, Rohrer-Phillips didn't give up. She shifted course, determining how she could craft a virtual event with just as much impact. "Coming off about the first two or three weeks after the summit, we were riding high," says Rohrer-Phillips. "We were excited about feedback from guests and speakers and had already secured the date for summit two. Then March hit, and everything obviously went upside down with COVID."
Between March and June, she canceled mid-size in-person events she had planned. To keep the mission alive, she hosted free virtual talks.
Also during that time, tensions following the death of George Floyd prompted a national conversation about racism. Rohrer-Phillips, who has a background in social work, is married to a Black man and is raising biracial children, wanted to do something. "I'm looking at all of these elements thinking, 'I'm a social entrepreneur,'" says Rohrer-Phillips. "'What can I offer but also monetize?' What came to me quickly was a vision for Bridge Builders diversity, equity and inclusion training."
In June, she and her team launched its first virtual course on white racial identity and responsibility. "There was clearly a demand," she says, from both the corporate and nonprofit sides. The classes, hosted about two or three times a month, have kept Rohrer-Phillips and her team busy — and helped resuscitate the firm's revenue.
During the summer, Rohrer-Phillips turned again to planning the summit. She knew Zoom fatigue was a real concern, and she didn't want the event to be like just any virtual gathering.
She researched other platforms and discovered NexTech AR Solutions, a Toronto-based company that creates digital experiences with video keynote presentations and interactive vendor booths. To work with the platform, keynotes will be filmed and edited ahead of time. "The production piece is taking a lot of our time," says Rohrer-Phillips. "It's a competitive marketplace now. We want the productions to be polished and refined."
'It forced me, because of the financial pinch, to get laser-focused on what value I can bring to my customers, and that was necessary. That's critical for anyone in business to only think about the customer.' — Shannon Rohrer-Phillips, Voice + Visibility Women's Summit
The NexTech platform will also provide data she can share with sponsors to quantify visitors to vendor booths. Sponsors so far include Bank of America, Cox Communications, Williams Parker, Twinkle Toes Nanny Agency, Star Financial Solutions and others. "Companies and sponsors recognize that investing in diversity, equity and inclusion is important, and it's the future of corporate responsibility," says Rohrer-Phillips. "This is a new market opportunity for companies to show up in spaces where diverse women convene. Diverse women have a lot of purchasing power."
NexTech CEO and Founder Evan Gappelberg says beyond the features the summit will tap into, his company also offers augmented reality and human holograms. For NexTech, the pandemic has meant booming business. "In the third quarter, we reported $6.7 million in bookings, which was more than we did in all of 2019," says Gappelberg. "Business has gone through the roof."
Hosting the summit virtually means Rohrer-Phillips can target potential attendees beyond Sarasota. She's focusing on certain areas, including Orlando, Tampa, the New York City area and Washington, D.C. "This will be a trial this year to see how well we can attract new markets of women," she says.
Tickets are $99, down from $299 for the 2020 in-person summit. To make sure guests get more for their money, the event will incorporate financial and mental health tips. Attendees can also engage in virtual networking. "It forced me, because of the financial pinch, to get laser-focused on what value I can bring to my customers, and that was necessary," says Rohrer-Phillips. "That's critical for anyone in business to only think about the customer."
Speakers announced for the 2021 summit so far include professional soccer player Jessica McDonald; producer and co-author of "Earn It!" Daniela Pierre-Bravo; co-founder of Stanford VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab Lori Mackenzie; and founder of Unshrinkit and "Shark Tank" winner Desirée Stolar.
Rohrer-Phillips hopes their personal stories and messages of women rising together will be a big draw for attendees. "Our goal this year is to sell 1,000 tickets on that platform," she says. "We're on track."
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Summer Reading Challenge: The Book is Better
higgy88	Summer Reading Challenge 2019	 June 8, 2019 3 Minutes
Well it is back to planning my books for the reading challenge. I have decided I'm going to try not to read books I have read before but go for all new reads.
I have chosen The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling for the first prompt Good as Gold.
The prompt I have to work with next is The Book is Better: Read a book that is being adapted for film or TV this year.
So I have been having a little look around and have come up with a few options to mull over. They are as follows:-
The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook
Hamburg, 1946. Thousands remain displaced in what is now the British Occupied Zone. Charged with overseeing the rebuilding of this devastated city and the de-Nazification of its defeated people, Colonel Lewis Morgan is requisitioned a fine house on the banks of the Elbe, where he will be joined by his grieving wife, Rachael, and only remaining son, Edmund.
But rather than force its owners, a German widower and his traumatized daughter, to leave their home, Lewis insists that the two families live together. In this charged and claustrophobic atmosphere all must confront their true selves as enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal.
Where's You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
When her daughter Bee claims a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for perfect grades, Bernadette, a fiercely intelligent shut-in, throws herself into preparations for the trip. But worn down by years of trying to live the Seattle life she never wanted, Ms. Fox is on the brink of a meltdown. And after a school fundraiser goes disastrously awry at her hands, she disappears, leaving her family to pick up the pieces–which is exactly what Bee does, weaving together an elaborate web of emails, invoices, and school memos that reveals a secret past Bernadette has been hiding for decades. Where'd You Go Bernadette is an ingenious and unabashedly entertaining novel about a family coming to terms with who they are and the power of a daughter's love for her mother.
It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.
As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love-and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.
The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle
Roy is a conman living in a small English town, about to pull off his final con. He is going to meet and woo a beautiful woman and slip away with her life savings. But who is the man behind the con? What has he had to do to survive a life of lies? And who has had to pay the price?
When Roy meets a wealthy widow online, he can hardly believe his luck. Just like Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley, Roy is a man who lives to deceive—and everything about Betty suggests she's an easy mark. He's confident that his scheme to swindle her will be a success. After all, he's done this before.
Sure enough, Betty soon lets Roy move into her beautiful home, seemingly blind to the web of lies he's woven around her. But who is Roy, really? Spanning almost a century, this stunning and suspenseful feat of storytelling interweaves the present with the past. As the clock turns back and the years fall away, long-hidden secrets are forced into the light. Some things can never be forgotten. Or forgiven.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The novel is set during World War II, from 1942 to 1944. It mainly follows the life of Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th Squadron is based on the island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea, west of Italy. The novel looks into the experiences of Yossarian and the other airmen in the camp, who attempt to maintain their sanity while fulfilling their service requirements so that they may return home.
So these are my options to mull over and decide what I would like to choose, to be honest I want to read them all and have put them on my TBR list but I need to choose one for my challenge.
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Formula team preps for more competition
By Victoria Teresko
Imagine creating something with a group of students and then shipping the end result halfway around the world to compete against upwards of 100 other teams. This is exactly what Zips Racing, the Formula SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) team does at The University of Akron.
"Formula is a student design team where we design and race a formula style car every year and compete against other schools from around the world," said Kevin Musial, a senior mechanical engineering student and the engine team leader.
Zips Racing has competed in Michigan, Germany and Finland, and a competition in Toronto is scheduled for October. Their most recent races were in Germany and Finland.
The ZR13, Akron's 2013 car, competed in four dynamic events: acceleration, skid-pad, autocross and endurance. Dynamic events measure the car's on-track performance.
In addition to these events there were three static events (mark
eting, cost and design), which analyze the car from a business venture standpoint.
In past years the formula car came in 12th, but in Germany, the team came in sixth overall, an improvement that can be attributed to the new design. This included the addition of an "aero" package and changes to wheel size and engine selection.
The formula team's work week, which sometimes reached 80 hours, paid off this year. After their finish, the team was ranked seventh in the world and third in the United States.
There are already plans for improvement on the car. Some of the areas of focus are to cut vehicle weight and to make the car more fuel efficient. Every component on the car is analyzed and students work long into the night.
"It's a labor of love," said Preston Davis, a mechanical engineering student and the team's composite manufacturer. "If we didn't love this then we wouldn't be here."
The team is excited for their upcoming race in Toronto, which they won last year. The formula team meets weekly to design, manufacture and test the car.
"The formula team is open to any majors and prior experience is not necessary," said Ryan Kruse, senior mechanical engineering student and team captain. "We are specifically looking for electrical engineer majors."
Interested students can email Kruse at [email protected] for more information about the team.


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The Rabbit, The Pig, and The Droog in promo teaser for slasher III
quietearth [Celluloid 01.10.12] horror slasher
Described as a hybrid of a slasher film and a creature feature twist in the vein of HP Lovecraft, III is slated for part of the 3d movement craze but will also get a 2-D version as well. Currently filming in South Carolina, the film promises a visual style in the vein of the late 70s and 80s but with strong female leads. Based on this teaser alone, I'm in love.
I love the music on this. It starts with a tune banged on a My First Organ from Fischer Price then segues into some modernist-retro-70s-cop-show.
The film is directed by Trey Howell who also produces besides Braxton Williams who wrote the screenplay. To boot, there's a long list of people (mostly students), some producers, some actors, from the Savannah College of Art and Design, Trident Technical College, Charleston School of the Arts, and the Art Institute of Charleston.
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Tingle: More or Less?
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So Tingle suddenly crossed my mind as i finished Majora's Mask for the first time. I recall him in mainly toon link adventures and I was wondering everyone else's opinion on him. Personally I love the guy, while he is strange and a bit of a pedophile, he adds comedy. I wish Zelda would tell more about him cuz i mean who doesn't like a little "Tingle - Tingle - Kooloo-Limpah!" in their lives?
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MOAR PLZ
I find him entertaining, even though he's really weird. I do know that he has his fair share of haters, though...
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I find the abhorrence with Tingle to completely unwarranted. This is the result of clear cultural differences between the East and the West. What Japanese players perceive as normal, Westerners find a bit weird. One of those things is Tingle. His aesthetic in and of itself is very Japanesey (I know not a word lol) with his rosy cheeks and tiny, scrunched up eyes. On the inside, however, he's a friendly little guy (although a very greedy one ) and should be appreciated for his role in games like Majora's Mask, The Wind Waker, and even Skyward Sword
And one more thing I need to reiterate from your opening post.
Tingle - Tingle - Kooloo-Limpah!
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Personally, I Find him weird. But I wouldn't mind seeing him reoccur in a game as Long as he isn't trying to beat me to the rupees/force gems.
I kind of like that He is a cartographer and can decipher ancient charts. It proves that he is skilled in a trade and not just a weird 35 yr old man in spandex who wishes to be a fairy.
The only think that makes me not like him was his over charging on sea charts in WW and His stealing force gems in FSA.
As long as He isn't physically trying to beat me to the money, I wouldn't mind having him return.
Mariley
Unfortunately, I am one of the people who find Tingle more creepy than humorous. I don't dislike him really; but if Tingle was never featured in another Zelda game ever again I wouldn't bat an eyelash personally. Probably just one of those things that had trouble crossing the cultural barrier for me.
i completely forgot about his thefts in FSA! I remember cursing under my breath because he always goes for the biggest ones. Still, I find him useful in deciphering maps as well, save his ludicrous prices. I also remember playing WW w/ my brother and he would use the tingle tuner. It was a fun little co-op, but nothing significant, except in pricing. I just wish he was in it more because he really did provide, at least to me, some comical relief from a hard days of adventuring.
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I think he's hilarious and although he's freaking weird, he's usually somewhat useful. (Aside from Wind Waker where you paid him 598 rupees to translate maps...
MAZZ0Murder
Like him or not it was fun to pop his balloon and leave him wondering what happened in Majora's Mask!
triq267
Just a relatable ghost trying to spook it up
lol idk XD Meme Hell
I don't DISLIKE him, but he's a weirdo. I just don't know how to feel about him. He's helpful, but, he's a murderer. How else do you explain all the skulls in his cave in WW? But beyond that he's an okay guy. Just a little weird...
I loved him in MM, one of the best characters in the series.
He was creepy as can be in WW though, I did not like him in that game.
I am glad they don't use him constantly but I would enjoy seeing him pop up every now and then.
ZeldaFan80
I always thought Tingle was the first ever homosexual in a Zelda game.
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I don't think there has been anything in-game to ever hint at his sexuality besides people's own stereotypes of homosexuals that they project on him.
I guess saying he wants to be a fairy is a tad awkward...but HE is the embodiment of awkwardness in the series!
Cfrock
Keep it strong
Liverpool, England
Definately more Tingle. He's one of my favourite characters from the franchise
phantomclock
I really liked Tingle in Majora's Mask, but not so much in Wind Waker (probably because he made you pay him so much for those darn maps!), and I definately think that Nintendo should have more Tingle in future Zelda games. Although I can understand why a lot of people hate him.


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Did a Small Plane Makes Emergency Landing on Ulster County Road?
CJ McIntyre Published: August 8, 2022
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Reports are saying that a small plane went down early Sunday in Ulster County.
Just about every day depending on where you live in the Hudson Valley, if you look up the odds say that it's likely you will see a small plane flying over. Living in Dutchess County and driving to Wappinger Falls from Poughkeepsie often, I can say I see one almost every day. Thankfully I can say that I've never witnessed one having to make an emergency landing, but that's not the case for some folks in Ellenville.
Plane Crash in Ellenville
A small plane had to make an emergency landing on Park Street on Sunday morning according to the Daily Freeman. The cause of the emergency landing is unclear at this time but reports are saying that the small airplane just missed several houses and vehicles and came to rest after it crashed into an embankment.
Ellenville Mayor Jeff Kaplan told the Freeman that the emergency landing happened around 9 a.m. when the plane, for unknown reasons skidded down the length of Park Street. Kaplan said the street where the plane touched down is normally a busy residential street where kids can often be seen out playing. Kaplan also said that the plane narrowly missed pulling overhanging wires down onto the street.
No Serious Injuries Were Reported
Mayor Kaplan said the unidentified pilot and passenger on the plane did get themselves out of the plane and were taken to the nearest hospital for treatment for injuries that did not appear to be serious.
Kaplan had nothing but praise for the pilot saying, "They did a massive landing job"! As far as where the plane was coming from, or where it was going, Kaplen said, "I assume he was trying to land or had taken off from Resnick Airport." Resnick Airport is close by in the town of Wawarsing.
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Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management
Special Issue on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Tourism
Recently research on entrepreneurial ecosystems has taken on speed. The response to the concept in tourism, however, is still limited. The purpose of this special issue is to expand and boost entrepreneurial ecosystem research by merging two recently adopted approaches for addressing such issues: Smart Tourism Destination and Digital Business Ecosystems. Both concepts seem to be close to entrepreneurial ecosystems, since both of them focus on interaction of interdependent elements within a dynamically changing environment. However, there are differences, too. In this vein, this special issue aims to extend tourism research on Smart Tourism Destinations and Digital Business Ecosystems to the broader context of entrepreneurial ecosystems research. This can result in a better understanding of how tourism entrepreneurial ecosystems can be conceptualized, how they can be managed and how they can better contribute to entrepreneurship and innovation in tourism. Paper contributions to this special issue should aim to bridge issues of innovation, governance, co-creation processes and entrepreneurships well as the influence of institutional, social and physical contexts on entrepreneurial action. The special issue also places a major emphasis on the life cycle of tourism entrepreneurial systems as a dynamic concept.
The special issue also aims to attract and publish research examining the most striking characteristics of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. As regards entrepreneurial ecosystems, Stam (2014) recognized that there are at least two characteristics to take into account. First, as they contain a life-cycle approach, entrepreneurial ecosystems are thoroughly dynamic in nature. They are about the formation and decline of ideas, products and services or the ecosystem itself. Issues like resilience and sustainability therefore seem to be essential (Roundy et al. 2017). Secondly, entrepreneurial ecosystems focus as well on entrepreneurial activities as on the institutional, social and physical context, which may promote or inhibit entrepreneurial action or vice versa is shaped by entrepreneurial action (Acs et al. 2017).
The special issue also invites papers aiming to offer a better understanding of entrepreneurial ecosystems in tourism from Smart Tourism Destination (Boes et al 2016) and Digital Business Ecosystem (Baggio & Chiappa 2013) approaches. Smart Tourism Destinations are value co-creation ecosystems, in which economic, social and technical actors interact with one another to co-create value. The context of their interaction is shaped by leadership (eg Governance Policies, Regulations), ICT (Big Data, Internet of Things) and people (eg social capital, human capital). The outcome of the interaction is smart innovations that may relate to smart mobility, smart environment or smart living and so on (Boes et al. 2016). The concept exhibits overlaps to the approach of Smart Tourism Ecosystem (Gretzel et al. 2015). Secondly, Digital Business Ecosystems may be conceived as open, flexible, demand-driven and interactive environments in which real and virtual components interact with each other (Baggio & Chiappa 2013). A core element of destinations as Digital Business Ecosystems is the integration of ICT in physical infrastructures (smart destination) and in tourism experiences (smart experiences). Thus, Digital Business Ecosystems enable tourists to interact not only with local businesses, but also with residents, local government and city attractions (Gretzel et al. 2015).
In this vein, this special issue invites papers addressing issues related to the following but not limited issues:
Which characteristics do tourism entrepreneurial ecosystem have? How do elements differ in their importance or content from the model configuration? How can the network structure of a tourism destination form an entrepreneurial ecosystem by itself?
Entrepreneurship – Innovation: How do entrepreneurial ecosystems support innovation processes in tourism? What contexts for entrepreneurial innovation have the greatest impact on firm growth?
Business Models – Orchestration: which actors take the role of orchestrators in entrepreneurial ecosystems and what tasks do these actors have? What role does public administration, research and DMOs play?
Governance – Leadership: What kind of leadership do we find in entrepreneurial ecosystems and what are the characteristics? What are the requirements for governing entrepreneurial ecosystems? How do they differ from older governance arrangements? What about information governance?
Service Chain Elements – Sustainability: How may entrepreneurial ecosystems contribute to green and social sustainability in tourism? How does this look like with regards to single elements of the tourism service chain? How may concepts like hotel ecosystems, mobility ecosystems come into play?
Dynamic Capabilities – Resilience of entrepreneurial ecosystems: Which processes or elements can be identified as triggers of resilience in EE? How can the life-cycle-approach be linked to entrepreneurial ecosystems in tourism destinations?
Emerging Bibliography
Acs, Z.J., Stam, E., Audretsch, D.B. O'Connor, A. (2017): The lineages of the entrepreneurial ecosystem approach, Small Bussiness Economics, Vol 49 Issue, pp. 1-10, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-017-9864-8.
Baggio, R., & Chiappa, G. D. (2013). Tourism Destinations as Digital Business Ecosystems. In L. Cantoni & Z. (Phil) Xiang (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2013 (pp. 183–194). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Boes, K., Buhalis, D. & Inversini, A. (2016) Smart tourism destinations: ecosystems for tourism destination competitiveness, International Journal of Tourism Cities, Vol. 2 Issue: 2, pp.108-124, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJTC-12-2015-0032.
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Last updated 5:37 PM, Tuesday November 12 2019 GMT
A woman who lost a whopping 57kg (9st) in a year says she had to ditch her negative pals criticised her transformation and has since become a personal trainer to help others.
Nicole Caperilla, 31, admits that she would make 'bad food choices' and tucked into pizzas, burgers and junk foods, which caused her weight to creep up to 120.6kg (19st) and saw her wearing a UK size 24.
Nicole, from Connecticut in the US, says that being overweight left her struggling physically, emotionally and mentally, but that she still found it hard to change her ways.
In 2017, she decided enough was enough and underwent surgery known as 'vertical sleeve gastrectomy' (VSG) which restricts how much someone can eat by removing a part of the stomach.
Just two weeks later, Nicole started working out with weights, walking and switched up her diet. She worked her way up to spending five or six days a week exercising and swapped her junk food for healthy protein-rich meals with plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.
A year later, in June 2018, Nicole weighed a healthy 63.5kg (10st) and fit into a UK size 8, which she has been able to maintain.
Nicole before her incredible weight loss. Credit: Media Drum World
Nicole said: "I've struggled with my weight since I was a child but got rid of it. It wasn't until my first pregnancy I put on so much weight and couldn't lose it. I tried every diet and supplement to lose it and it wasn't budging.
"I also didn't make the best food choices either and wasn't consistent. I'd eat a lot of things like burgers and pizzas and processed junk foods that were really high in carbs. I ate so many carbs.
"I think I'd let it go on because I wasn't putting my health first. Working night shifts meant terrible sleeping patterns and it was hard to make good choices. I became a stay at home mom and then it just got even worse putting myself on the back burner.
"I just kept going even though I was struggling physically, mentally and emotionally with being morbidly obese.
"I never had any energy and I was always out of breath. I got winded by the smallest things and was borderline diabetic, borderline sleep apnoea and had high blood pressure. One of the scariest times for me were when I was waking myself up in a panic gasping for breath because I'd stopped breathing in my sleep.
Nicole lost nine stone. Credit: Media Drum World
"By January 2017 I'd had enough. I'd seen pictures of myself that friends had taken and was surprised. I jumped onto the scales and I felt really disappointed and upset with myself when I saw the reading of 19st.
"I knew I had to make some changes to my habits and I decided to have VSG weight loss surgery in June 2017.
"I changed my diet right away and started eating a high protein diet. I get my protein from things such as lean meats, beans and protein supplements.
"I'll have oatmeal for breakfast, sweet potatoes and veggies for lunch and protein and veggies for dinner. I also eat a lot of fruit now which I rarely did before.
"As soon as I was given the go ahead by my doctor two weeks after my surgery, I started working out five to six days a week doing weights and cardio.
"By June 2018 all my hard work paid off and I am pleased to say I'd lost 9st and now weigh 10st."
Nicole says her husband Charlie has offered her amazing support throughout her weight loss journey, but that not everyone was so kind.
She said: "Although I never received any nasty comments to my face, I did receive rude comments after my weight loss success from some of the people closest to me. I'm talking about friends I'd had all my life.
"They were not supportive at all. They would criticise everything about me and put me down not realising their jokes hurt. They'd judge or joke about what I was wearing and tell me I wasn't perfect. They were very negative.
Credit: Media Drum World
"It took me a long time to come to realise they were just jealous with the help of some friends and my husband Charlie. I realised that I didn't need to have people like that in my life.
"My husband and other friends have been incredible and I've made so many new supportive friends too."
Nicole is now keen to help her others in a similar situation, so she undertook training and is now a personal trainer and class instructor.
She continued: "I'm so proud of myself for losing weight and my internal transformation too. I'm more positive, I empower others, I make goals and I chase them and achieve them.
"If you want to lose weight then my advice would be to start today. Don't even wait for Monday to come around. Do it now, and absolutely do it just for you.
"I had so much self-doubt. I think we all do... never in a million years would I have ever have imagined I'd be where I am today. I changed my life around and even became a personal trainer because I want to help others to do the same.
"It is possible and guess what? It feels so good to be healthy."
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Mississippi Judge Throws Out Record $322 Million Lawsuit Verdict
Faith Franz
Written By: Faith Franz,
The largest single-plaintiff asbestos verdict in U.S. history was erased when a Mississippi judge tossed the jury's decision because of a conflict of interest by the judge who presided in the case.
Judge William Coleman vacated the $322 million verdict from May 2011, ruling that Circuit Judge Eddie Bowen should have disclosed that his parents previously were involved in an asbestos related lawsuit against one of the defending companies.
A jury from Smith County, Mississippi, awarded Thomas Brown $22 million in actual damages and $300 million in punitive damages. Brown alleged he inhaled asbestos dust when he mixed oil drilling mud manufactured and sold by Chevron Phillips Chemical Co and Union Carbide Corporation.
Bowen revealed his parents asbestos litigation history after the verdict, and Union Carbide asked him to vacate the verdict and also to remove himself from the case. When Bowen did not, the company asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to act.
The Supreme Court took Bowen off the case in October. Coleman was appointed.
"Union Carbide is gratified by Judge Coleman's decision to vacate in its entirety the jury verdict in the Brown asbestos case," Union Carbide spokesman Scot Wheeler said in a statement. "As indicated at the time, the $322 million verdict awarded Mr. Brown by a jury in Smith County, Mississippi, was outrageous and completely unsupported by the facts and applicable law."
Most asbestos lawsuits are settled and never reach the courtroom. But Union Carbide also vows to fight vigorously any asbestos-related litigation aimed at the company.
One of Brown's attorneys, Eugene Tullos, told the Jackson Clarion-Ledger he had not seen Coleman's decision and wasn't comfortable commenting on it until after reading it.
In his decision, Coleman wiped out "the judgment, the underlying jury verdict, and all rulings and orders of the former trial judge."
Union Carbide said Bowen was an attorney when his parents sued Union Carbide for $1 million, claiming emotional distress related to a diagnosis of asbestosis. Bowen's father filed two asbestos lawsuits, one of which is pending, the second of which was settled by Union Carbide and other companies.
A new trial is scheduled for April.
In his claim, Brown says he breathed in asbestos dust while working in the oil fields, and that dust led to a medical diagnosis of asbestosis. He developed the disease at age 30, quite you for someone to develop and asbestos-related disease unless the amount of contact with asbestos is exceedingly consistent and heavy.
Brown is on oxygen 24 hours a day, his attorneys said.
Asbestosis is caused by scarring of the lungs. The scarring develops when asbestos fibers are breathed in and lodge in the pleural surrounding the lungs.
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LIT Lighting Design Awards 2021 - The Winners And Special Prizes Recipients Have Been Announced
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Astrid Hebert
LIT Lighting Design Awards 2021
The renowned Farmani Group, along with 3C Awards, is pleased to formally announce the winners of the 5th Edition of the LIT Lighting Design Awards, the Lifetime Achievement prize and spotlight recipients.
The LIT Lighting Design Awards was created five years ago to recognize the efforts of talented international lighting product designers and lighting implementers. The LIT Awards was envisioned to celebrate creativity and innovation in the fields of lighting products and applications.
The jury panel composed of 38 talented and experienced professionals, Architects, Interior Designers, Academics and media representatives in the lighting industry have selected the winners of the LIT Awards 2021.
"We have received a collection of incredible works with over 500 applications from 33 countries, making this program a global reference in the lighting industry," said Astrid Hébert, Program Director. "At the LIT Design Awards, we strive to support and promote not only inspired projects and innovation by professional designers but also fresh and stimulating work by emerging designers and students. This program will continue to define the future of excellence in the lighting industry."
Since 2018, the Lifetime Achievement Awards recognize Lighting Designers, Lighting Product Designers and other professionals in the Lighting Industry, whose contributions are inspirational. Every year, the LIT Awards receive nominations either directly or via the jury members, we are delighted to have two recipients this year.
Tony Lawrence, celebrating over 50 years at Concord Lighting is receiving the LIT Lifetime Achievement Awards for his contribution to Lighting Product Design. While, Craig A. Bernecker, Professor of Lighting Design at Parsons School of Design and Founder of The Lighting Education Institute, is awarded the LIT Lifetime Achievement prize for his tremendous work in Lighting Education for more than four decades.
The Spotlight Prize has been introduced in 2020 to reward and put the "spotlight" on an organization, association, project, or initiative that carries out remarkable work for its community and has a major contribution to the Lighting Industry. The LIT Design Awards is thrilled to announce that LUCI Association is receiving the 2021 "Spotlight" prize. Created in 2002 at the initiative of the City of Lyon (France), LUCI is a non-profit organization bringing together over 70 member towns and cities worldwide that use light as a tool for social, cultural and economic development. It also includes over 50 associated members from the lighting industry, design agencies and research institutes.
LIT LIGHTING DESIGN AWARDS – 2021 WINNERS:
LIGHTING DESIGN OF THE YEAR
Acropolis of Athens and Monuments
Company: Eleftheria Deko & Associates
Lead Designer: Eleftheria Deko
Location: Athens, Greece
LIGHTING PRODUCT DESIGN OF THE YEAR
Opteris Chandelier
Company: R3 Consulting Engineers
Lead Designer: Charles Prograce
Location: Santa Cruz, CA, USA
EMERGING LIGHTING DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
Immersive Gestures
Lead Designer: Congrui Gao
University: California College of The Arts
Location: San Francisco, USA
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Lead Designer: Jay Burnett
University: Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Tony Lawrence
Lighting Product Director
Concord Lighting part of the Feilo Sylvania Group
With a career of over 50 years in Lighting Product Design, Tony Lawrence has been working since April 1969 at Concord Lighting part of the Sylvania Lighting group. He has been designing products that brought accent lighting to the high streets, art galleries, museums, hotels, and more... He has also set design briefs and evaluated projects for degree students of St Martins School of Art London's students and at the University of Sussex.
Craig A. Bernecker
Professor of Lighting Design Parsons School of Design
Craig A. Bernecker's lighting career now spans nearly four decades and during that time he has had the opportunity to play a significant role in the development of two highly regarded lighting education programs, one at Penn State University and one at Parsons School of Design, The New School.
LUCI Association
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Created in 2002 at the initiative of the City of Lyon (France), today, LUCI is a non-profit organisation bringing together over 70 member towns and cities worldwide that use light as a tool for social, cultural and economic development. It also includes over 50 associated members from the lighting industry, design agencies and research institutes.
Through the organisation of international events and conferences, and by piloting lighting projects and research initiatives, LUCI helps cities harness the potential of light to create sustainable and people-focused urban spaces.
To view all winners: https://litawards.com/winners/
About LIT Lighting Design Awards
LIT Design Awards was assembled by the Farmani Group as the sister initiative of the IDA International Design Awards, which has been recognizing and celebrating smart and sustainable multidisciplinary design since 2007.
The LIT Lighting Design Award (LIT) is now managed by 3C Awards as a sibling program of the BLT Built Design Awards (BLT), SIT Furniture Design Awards (SIT) and LIV Hospitality Design Awards (LIV); all focusing on Architecture, Interior and Lighting design, which have emerged as some of the most well-known Design Prize today.
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The Art of Arabic Calligraphy
The Kufic Styles
© Mamoun Sakkal 1993
The city of Kufah was established in Iraq in the year 641 A.D. It flourished in a short time from a soldiers' camp into an urban center with vital cultural activities. Among these activities was the refinement of the Arabic script into an elegant and rather uniform script, which came to be known as Kufic or Kufi. It had a combination of square and angular lines on one hand, and compact bold circular forms on the other hand. The vertical strokes were short, while the horizontal strokes were long and extended. As Kufic reached perfection in the second half of the 8 th century, it superseded other earlier attempts of improvement of Arabic calligraphy, and became the only script used for copying the Holy Quran for the next three hundred years (Fig. 6).
When the cursive styles were becoming popular and refined in the 10 th century, Kufic responded by overemphasizing many qualities of the cursive scripts in a geometrical style called 'Eastern Kufic,' where slender vertical strokes and oblique strokes animate the more rigid early Kufic. This style was mainly a book calligraphy rather than architectural calligraphy style, but was very popular on ceramics.
On architectural monuments, serifs were added to simple early Kufic since the 8 th century, and leaf-like vegetal ornaments appear as early as 866 at the ends of vertical strokes. These ornaments were later added to round strokes, and the Foliate Kufic became the most popular style for architectural inscriptions since the 10th century.
In the 11th century the letters themselves started to be modified and used as ornaments, and new geometric elements started to appear in the form of plaiting, knotting, and braiding2. The exaggerated use of such ornaments created complex compositions, which were difficult to decipher at times.
During the 13th and 14th centuries, Square Kufic developed out of the use of calligraphy in buildings. Its simple forms contrast with the trend to develop more complex calligraphic compositions. It was the only calligraphic style used to cover entire buildings, a practice unique to Islamic architecture.
An example of the Maghribi (western) style which retains much of the qualities of Kufic but with more flowing and cursive lines and delicate, rather than heavy proportions and forms, is shown in the next section which deals with cursive styles.
Article and figures © copyright 1993 by Mamoun Sakkal, updated 12/27/2016
Fig. 6. Samples of Kufi Styles of Arabic calligraphy. From top to bottom: Early Kufi, Eastern Kufi, Foliate Kufi, Knotted Kufi, and Square Kufi.
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One million recyclable bottles 'lost' daily in B.C., foundation says
387 million beverage containers didn't make it back into the province's regulated deposit refund system in 2017
An environmental organization based in Vancouver says one million recyclable bottles and cans "go missing" every day in British Columbia and it's calling for higher deposits to discourage consumers from littering or throwing them away.
Chloe Dubois, of the Ocean Legacy Foundation, says her organization analysed data from the Brewers Recycled Container Collection Council and Encorp Pacific, the corporation in charge of container management, to compare bottles and cans sold with the number that are returned.
The foundation says about 387 million beverage containers, including items like plastic drink bottles and beer cans, didn't make it back into the province's regulated deposit refund system in 2017.
The group is recommending the province increase the deposit rate, add containers like milk cartons to the deposit refund system and enforce those targets in a meaningful way, like requiring producers to pay to clean up ocean plastics equal to the amount they fail to recycle.
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It says an addition 2.3 million beverage container caps go missing every day and it recommends that producers also be required to collect and report on bottle-cap recycling.
In a statement, the B.C. Ministry of Environment says it is reviewing the report, adding the recommendations are generally in keeping with the province's goal of reducing the use of plastics and other single-use items.
The ministry says more than one billion containers are recycled under the Encorp program alone each year.
Stewardship plans at both Encorp and the Brewers council's are due for renewal this year and the ministry says it's encouraging the public to give feedback during consultations over the next few months.
Dubois says she and other members of the foundation regularly volunteer to clean beaches in British Columbia and they're shocked by the amount of recyclable litter they find.
"We need this to change. We can't keep going out on the shorelines collecting thousands of bottles and caps."
Dubois says that although B.C. was the first jurisdiction in the world to adopt a regulated beverage container refund system, it's time for revitalization.
B.C. has a 5-cent minimum deposit return rate. Dubois says other countries and provinces have achieved better recycling and return rates in line with higher deposit rates.
Alberta and Saskatchewan both have a minimum regulated deposit of 10 cents per bottle and saw 86 per cent and 82 per cent of their bottles returned, respectively. Encorp's bottle-return rate in 2017 was 76 per cent.
Germany and the Netherlands, which both charge the equivalent of 37 cents per container, return rates are 98 per cent and 95 per cent, respectively.
Setting the rate is up to the provincial government but Dubois says Ocean Legacy is recommending deposits of at least 10 cents per container.
"This system was implemented 50 years ago, it hasn't been updated in 15 years, and it's age is showing," she says.
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Mt. Diablo still talk of the town
PUBLISHED: October 23, 2007 at 4:01 a.m. | UPDATED: August 15, 2016 at 7:21 p.m.
Shocking. Unbelievable. Surprising.
Pick any adjective of that ilk and that's what coaches in the Diablo Foothill Athletic League had to be thinking when they saw the score of the Mt. Diablo-Acalanes high school game Friday night.
The Red Devils' 53-9 win wasn't surprising in the sense that they won. Coaches who have seen Mt. Diablo (2-5 overall, 1-5 DFAL) knew that the Red Devils were capable of getting a win.
But a 53-9 drubbing of a team that was, at that point, in second place in the DFAL? What gives?
"They didn't make mistakes and we did. They didn't turn the ball over and we did," Acalanes coach Randy Takahashi said. "They had a minimal amount of penalties and we didn't."
That's not an understatement. The Dons turned the ball over five times and Mt. Diablo never gave it back. The Red Devils intercepted Acalanes quarterback Robbie Pestal three times, and Chris Reece returned one of them 27 yards for a touchdown.
Reece was, as usual, all over the field for Mt. Diablo. In addition to scoring a defensive touchdown, he rushed four times for 84 yards, including three touchdowns, and caught two passes for 29 yards.
"If you look at all the games they've played, they put points up," Takahashi said. "They jumped on us quickly and we never rebounded."
Even with the offense firing on all cylinders, the Mt. Diablo defense made the real difference. The Red Devils limited Pestal, the East Bay's leading passer, to just 11 completions on 33 attempts. They also kept the clamps on receiver Brooks Baker as he had just three catches for 54 yards.
Even if everything broke the right way for Mt. Diablo, it was still surprising to see the Dons' high-powered offense limited to just nine points.
"I was a little surprised," College Park coach Bill Kepler said. "I thought (the score) was backwards when I first heard it. I was surprised (Acalanes) got shut down."
The win doesn't stamp Mt. Diablo as a sudden contender in the DFAL but it does severely weaken the Dons' chances to get back in the race. The Dons are 4-2 in league play, good for third at the moment. They won't play league-leading Las Lomas until the final week of the season.
CLASS A LOVE: There's a storm brewing in Vallejo these days and it has nothing to do with the city's new favorite son, Cleveland Indians pitcher C.C. Sabathia. St. Patrick-St. Vincent's football team is quickly establishing itself as a Class A powerhouse and the Bruins look ready to defend their North Coast Section championship of a year ago.
Last week, the Bruins (7-0) dismantled Albany 56-7 and did so without completing a pass. Daniel Wyatt led the way, rushing for 122 yards and a touchdown. He also returned an interception 35 yards for a score.
Who might be waiting for the Bruins when the Class A playoffs roll around? Not surprisingly it's their foe of a year ago, Salesian, which is also 7-0. The Bruins beat the Pride 43-28 in last year's title game.
RARE PICK: Liberty defensive back A.J. Winn was on the receiving end of a rarity Friday night. The Lions cornerback intercepted the second pass of the game by De La Salle's Mike MacGillivray, ending the quarterback's streak of eight games without throwing an interception.
MacGillivray's last interception came against College Park in the first round of the North Coast Section 4A playoffs last season. During his eight-game stretch without an interception, MacGillivray completed 49 of 71 passes for 979 yards and 10 touchdowns.
BEAR OF A DEFENSE: Scoring might appear to be down in the East Bay Athletic League this season, and a lot of it has to do with the California defense. The Grizzlies (6-1) have yet to allow more than 14 points in a game this season.
No EBAL team in the last 10 years has finished out the regular season and held all ten of its opponents to 14 points or less. Foothill has come close twice, doing so in nine of its ten games in both 1998 and 2006.
California's final three opponents and their scoring averages are Granada (23.5 points per game), Amador Valley (35.0) and Kennedy-Fremont (21.2).
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Laugh Track
By SandyG,
April 11, 2014 in The Show
SandyG
Can't stand hearing the fake laugh track while watching the show. No one has to tell me when to laugh. The show would be much better without it.
This has been discussed here several times. It's not a fake laugh track, it's the audience's recorded reaction. There have been quite a few people here and at other forums who have been at the tapings, and have verified it. And the are not telling the audience to laugh, the do tell them to hold it down, in certain situations.
god, not this again, lol
it's not fake, it's recorded in front of a live audience.
Tripper
A relevant tweet from Wil Wheaton yesterday:
https://twitter.com/wilw/status/454375492653547521
BlackWhiteRose
Thank you Wil Wheaton & Tripper.
Z-007
Look, pretty much all sitcoms use a laugh track. It's the extent at which it is used. The friends behind the scenes explained that sometimes they replace the actual laugh with a shorter laugh to cut time. Other times the laugh might be too loud. If I were to guess 90% of the laughs are real and 10% are just replaced while editing.
It's a common editing practice. the same thing as foley, reproducing the sound effects to enhance audio quality.
Im sure they use it at times during post-production to improve the overall quality of the episode, but not to trick people into thinking there were laughs when there wasn't.
TBBT doesn't. . Laugh track is adding "laughter" with a box, on it's own "track", laugh track. Single camera comedies used the method, as the setup and recording times prohibit having a live audience. These days, single cams go without a laugh track. Multiple camera sitcoms don't have this restriction, with multiple cameras, the setup and recording time is reduced, allowing a live audience.
The audio and the audience reactions, when the audience is present, are recorded on the same audio track . When a pre recorded clip is shown, the audience reaction is added to the audio track, as the audience watches. Of course, when the show is edited, parts are cut, that includes both audio and video.
There is a process called sweetening, where tracks of laughter are added to the audience reaction. Bill Prady has specifically said they have never used sweetening. There are occasions, during a serious part, or something cute, where the audience will be asked to keep their reactions down. The are several documented instances, in the. Taping reports, where they did retakes because the audience was too loud. Not replacing a too loud laugh with a mechanical one.
I'm new to this forum thing so I apologize in advance if I'm breaking some basic rules or something, but I spent an hour searching for the right topic for my question and I kind of lost between the pages so given that the name of this topic contains the word "laugh" , makes it to be the closest compared to the the other 100 I just went through. So sorry again, if this question shouldn't be asked here or it falls to the category of "What were you thinking???" or anything like that, however any guideline will be appreciated. Here's the question: In which episode does sheldon play the game when they are sitting in the canteen at the table and he's asking some random questions, writes down the answer, reads the result loudly and starts to laugh?
Actually, since you are asking a question about the show, it belongs in this section. However, since it is a question about a specific episode, it should have been in it's own thread, which you should have created. That said, it's not a problem since you are new to the forum and you did ask what you should have done.
BTW, welcome. Stop by the Welcome Wagon and say hi to everyone.
As to your question, the episode is 5.16 The Vacation Solution. It's the cold opening for that episode and after that scene, President Siebert comes in and tells Sheldon he has to take his vacation. He then goes on to spend it with Amy.