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Major Australian musicals cancel shows as more than 90 performers contract Covid
Hamilton, Come From Away, Jagged Little Pill, A Chorus Line, Frozen the Musical and Opera Australia disrupted by major outbreaks as Sydney festival show Qween Lear cancels entire run
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Sydney performances of Hamilton, which were suspended on 22 December due to a Covid outbreak, are scheduled to recommence on 5 January. Photograph: Daniel Boud
Elissa Blake
Thu 30 Dec 2021 01.33 EST
First published on Wed 29 Dec 2021 00.04 EST
Covid is sweeping through the casts of musical theatre shows in Sydney and Melbourne, with major live productions forced to cancel performances.
At least 90 performers have tested positive to the highly infectious virus and whole companies have been forced into isolation.
The Sydney festival production of Qween Lear, a musical adaptation of King Lear that was meant to open at the Hordern Pavilion on 7 January, has been cancelled due to a Covid outbreak among the cast.
Frozen the Musical at Her Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne announced Covid-positive cases on Wednesday and cancelled some performances.
Opera Australia, which this week cancelled performances of Great Opera Hits and its much-loved New Year's Eve performance of La Bohème at the Sydney Opera House, confirmed "more than 20 [Covid] cases across the performing company".
In a statement on Thursday, Opera Australia's CEO Fiona Allan said: "I don't think any of us could have foreseen just how fast Omicron would spread and the effects it would have on the industry". She committed the company to "opening the summer season on Tuesday 4 January".
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The Sydney productions of Come From Away and Hamilton have already cancelled several performances leading up to New Year.
Many more casts who were in rehearsals in Sydney this week – including the Sydney festival production of A Chorus Line – are now experiencing Covid outbreaks or being forced into isolation as close contacts.
"It's grim," a Sydney-based musical theatre performer told Guardian Australia on Tuesday. The performer, who wanted to remain anonymous, painted a sobering picture of the scale of the issue, saying more than a dozen members of the Hamilton cast had been stricken with Covid as well as significant proportions of the cast of Come From Away and the Alanis Morissette musical Jagged Little Pill.
On Wednesday three other prominent musical theatre insiders confirmed to Guardian Australia specific numbers of infected cast members in each production.
One producer, who asked not to be named, said there had also been multiple cases among the casts of A Chorus Line and Qween Lear.
A Chorus Line on Thursday rescheduled its dates at Sydney's Riverside Theatre from 6-16 January to 13-22 January.
Opera Australia's New Year's Eve performance of La Bohème at the Sydney Opera House has been cancelled. Opera Australia is contacting ticket-holders, who have paid upwards of $269 a seat, to offer credit vouchers and full refunds. Photograph: Prudence Upton/Opera Australia
A performer who tested positive in Sydney this week, and also preferred not to be named, told Guardian Australia: "Nearly all the performers I know who are positive only have mild symptoms and we are feeling optimistic about getting back on stage. We will have antibodies so hopefully this won't happen again. It's frustrating because we were so strict. We were wearing masks right up until the moment we go on stage but it's so contagious."
Hamilton ticket holders are being contacted with offers of a full refund or to rebook their seats. Performances of Hamilton, which were suspended on 22 December, are scheduled to recommence on 5 January.
"We certainly intend to reopen the show as soon as we can," said a spokesperson for the show's producer, Michael Cassel.
Guardian Australia contacted producers for Jagged Little Pill, Hamilton, Come From Away, A Chorus Line and Sydney festival for comment and all of them declined to give specific details about the number of positive Covid cases, citing privacy concerns.
The Sydney festival production of A Chorus Line has been affected by a Covid outbreak. Photograph: Daniel Shipp/Sydney festival
'We need to minimise risk'
Meanwhile, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, another Michael Cassel production – which is currently playing in Melbourne – is "business as usual".
The producers of Jagged Little Pill, which finished its Sydney run on 19 December, were meeting on Wednesday ahead of the show's scheduled Melbourne opening on 4 January. "We'll see where things are at and how performances will proceed," said a company spokesperson.
Frozen the Musical at Melbourne's Her Majesty's Theatre confirmed in an Instagram post on Wednesday that performances on 29 and 30 December were cancelled due to Covid cases in the company.
Also in Melbourne, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is proceeding as advertised.
Covid is also hitting the independent theatre sector. In Sydney, an outdoor production of Shakespeare's As You Like It has its Orlando in isolation as a close contact of a positive case. The show is proceeding with a new actor in the role.
The 2022 Sydney festival, which opens on 6 January, said it planned to proceed despite the cancellation of Qween Lear as well as the "unforeseen disruption" to the musical theatre show 宿 (stay), the latter which has had two performances cancelled but is now expected to go ahead from 12 January.
"Given the evolving nature of the current Covid-19 outbreak, changes to some performance schedules are expected," festival organisers said in a statement. "Covid remains an ongoing challenge. However, it's one that the festival is prepared for, and the safety of audiences, staff and performers is, and always will be, our number one priority.
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"Any changes to the program will be actioned and announced as required. We'll be monitoring the situation, working closely with government, and will follow any advice or orders should these change."
Festival producers are taking extra measures to ensure their shows will go on. Actors are living in bubbles – in single rooms in the same facility where possible. Casts are being bolstered with extra understudies to cover sudden absences.
The State Theatre Company of South Australia is presenting its Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Sydney Opera House from 13 January and is co-presenting the musical Girl from the North Country at the Theatre Royal from 5 January.
"We have understudies for every role in Girl From the North Country and we are bringing in understudies for Virginia Woolf. This is an extra cost of around $60,000 to $100,000 for theatre companies," said the company's artistic director, Mitchell Butel.
"We have all cast members in a bubble in company accommodation in Adelaide and Sydney so they are not staying with family or friends. No one is mingling and they are doing rapid antigen tests."
Butel said theatre audiences were still relatively safe compared with many other venues, adding that most theatres still require audiences to check in, prove their double vaccination status and wear masks throughout the show.
"A theatre audience isn't there to converse or mingle with as many people as possible, they are there to witness a show," he said.
"As far as we know, there hasn't been a single instance of transmission inside a theatre in Australia. But we do need to minimise risk. People are taking their masks off to drink in the foyer. The industry may need to bring back rules that prevent drinking or eating in foyers to keep everyone safe."
Covid outbreaks are affecting musical theatre productions around the world. On Wednesday Australian performer Hugh Jackman, currently starring in the Broadway revival of The Music Man, announced he had tested positive for Covid in New York.
In a video posted to social media the 53-year-old Hollywood star announced he had mild symptoms "like a cold … a scratchy throat and a bit of a runny nose, but I'm fine … As soon as I'm clear, I'll be back on stage."
Just wanted you to hear it from me. I tested positive for covid. Mild symptoms and as soon as I'm cleared … looking forward to getting back to The Winter Garden! @MusicManBway pic.twitter.com/q1oEAzXX02
— Hugh Jackman (@RealHughJackman) December 28, 2021
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Former airport Manston Airport is being used as a lorry park for a trial run in the UK leaves the European Union with no-deal.
The trial was organised by the Department of Transport and Kent County Council to deal with traffic queuing for border checks at Dover, which could stretch back 29 miles when the UK leaves on 29 March.
Nearly 90 HGVs set off at 08.00h in batches of 25, with the HGVs supposed to use the emergency exit by Jentex on Canterbury Road West but instead left at the other end of the site on to the A299, according the Isle of Thanet News.
The trial will test how the A256 copes with increased lorry traffic, with HGVs travelling 20 miles from Manston to the Port of Dover.
Operation Brock is an updated version of lorry queuing system Operation Stack to deal with a backlog of HGVs.
Phase 1 uses the A20 and Dover and Eurotunnel buffer zones, phase 2 uses the M20 motorway, phase 3 uses the A256 and sends up to 6,000 lorries to Manston, while phase 4 uses the M26 and phase 5 takes traffic out of the country.
The move has been criticised by Rod McKenzie, managing director of policy and public affairs at the Road Haulage Association, who questioned why it had not been done sooner.
On Twitter, he wrote: "As an exercise – fine – but should have been done 9 months ago and repeatedly stress tested – too little too late – window dressing".
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FOR THE HATE OF BUHARI (1)
Their adversity among themselves is very high. You would think they were united, but their hearts are divided: that is because they are a folk who have no sense. ( al-Hahr: 14)
Caution: Haters of Buhari based on his religion and tribe are advised not to read this article. It is sure to increase the contumacy and hatred in their hearts; they will not be jubilant after reading its contents.
Is this article a follow-up or an antonym to FOR THE LOVE OF ATIKU which was published (February 29th) on these pages sometime after the 2019 general elections? No, it is not. It will neither entertain the Presidential Election Tribunal's dismissal of Atiku's petition, in its entirety, against Buhari, nor discuss Buhari's triumph in same. The army of counsellors at his disposal, spiritual and temporal, have apparently advised him to proceed to the Supreme Court, just as they goaded him into exercising his rights to challenge the results of the elections at the Tribunal in the first place; the expenditure in terms of time and resources is indeed ample. Legal minds at work and their client is equal to the task. And is President Buhari having a taste of his own medicine in Atiku's rejection of the results, the judgement and heading to the Supreme Court? Concurrence. Sadly, Buhari's extension "of a hand of fellowship to those who had felt aggrieved at the outcome of the election" met deleteriously clenched fist of Atiku Abubakar. The opportunity of being the second Nigerian to accept defeat at the polls and congratulate the opponent is lost forever. Atiku is just like Buhari: a Fulani Muslim, a Northerner, and a fighter to the finish!
The congratulation came from unlikely quarters; from Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, Governor of the Christian State. He "congratulated President Muhammad Buhari on the validation of his election by the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal." The Governor "urged President Muhammadu Buhari to use his victory to work for all Nigerians, irrespective of their political leanings"; he also "called on the president to work towards the unity of the country, noting that the country is divided." Indeed!
So, what is happening here? At a time when his party is issuing a proclamation about going to the Supreme Court, rejecting the judgement and "describing it as provocative, barefaced subversion of justice and direct assault on the integrity of our nation's justice system", Wike is congratulating President Muhammadu Buhari. Politics is indeed dirty.
If you marvelled at Wike's message to Buhari, he has an explanation for his action. He spoke at the Funeral Service in honour of Late Madam Blessing Awuse, Mother of Onha Sargent Chidi Awuse, at the St Luke's Anglican Church, Emohua on Thursday, September 12th, 2019. "I am sure," he said, "all of you are surprised that I congratulated Buhari. Is it not good for me to congratulate him than to go to his house in the night?
"So many PDP Governors go to see him in his house in the night. I have never gone and I will not go. I won't go." He also said: "Politics is a game of interest. And my only is Rivers State. Anything that is against the interest of Rivers State, I will not agree."
So, by the time that we are deep in heated political wrangling, those who rule over us will have nocturnal meetings in the spirit of deep fraternalism.
Another congratulatory message came from a group that calls itself IGBO BUHARISTS GENERAL ASSEMBLY which felicitates "with President Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR) on his resounding victory at the Presidential Election Tribunal." The Igbo group further states: "We BUHARISTS never entertained any fear over the ruling because we know you defeated your opponent squarely with a very large margin.
"We equally congratulate all BUHARISTS and well-meaning Nigerians worldwide. This is a victory for democracy, Nigeria and Nigerians."
What! Now! When hitherto you have rebelled and did mischief (and violence)? (Qur'an, Yunus 10:91)
When will I start discussing the main topic? So many diversions and digressions, but I think they are pertinent. My concern is not the politics, but the region and religion of the President. Whatever I mention afterwards is not blanket support of Buhari; it is stating the obvious and bringing to the fore the sordid employment of violence by some vile interest groups for their aggrandisement.
I concede that things are not as they should be in the area of security and standards of living in Nigeria. The pandemonium at train stations shows how desperate people are in trying to avoid road travel for fear of kidnapping. Bandits are growing more audaciously bold in their plunder and pillage of villages and towns, killing, raping and taking hostages for hours on end without any response from the security agencies. I heard one of the imams of a border-town mosque, in Katsina state, in a WhatsApp message, lamenting the security situation in the area and the free rein that bandits have to rape women in front of their husbands and even girls in the very sight of their parents. He decried the preferment of maintaining closed borders and seizure of imported rice over the security of lives and protection of property. The imam wondered why the munitions used by security personnel in raiding warehouses and confiscating illegal cargoes would not be turned against the bandits who are so relaxed during their operations that they spend endless hours in the same place, committing various forms of atrocities against defenceless citizens. Travellers are still susceptible to kidnapping on the Kaduna-Abuja highway. In Kaduna, many have been kidnapped around or in their places of residence with only two options: payment of heavy ransom or death in captivity. Abuja has experienced many cases of abductions including, recently, that of a lecturer kidnapped metres away from his university campus.
Therefore, I am not unaware of the above and more problems. Whatever the government is doing on these challenges, including upping living standards, the economy, we believe it could do more, as the impact is felt not by many Nigerians.
But what is this hatred against Buhari, his religion, and region? If you do not want the sight of the man's face, what has his religion got to do with that? Oh! His aim is to Islamise Nigeria. It is an agenda of Islamisation. Nonsense. If you hate Buhari, why will Hausa-Fulani suffer humiliation, expulsion from their dwellings and destruction of their properties because you are not happy with one of their own? Why will one bear the sin of another because they profess the same religion or speak the same language? Why will people bedizen themselves with Fulani outfits, commit crimes so that they will be blamed on the innocents? Why is every move by the government towards solving the farmers/herders crisis viewed with suspicion and rejected as landgrab? Why is Buhari's government so irresponsive to a region that gave it much-needed votes, and is so docile to the whims of another region that spares no effort to hamper it?
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When a Killer Wants to Die
Death-row volunteers press for their own speedy executions. Should states oblige them?
By Nathan Thornburgh Monday, Apr. 18, 2005
For someone who killed with such ease, Michael Ross is finding it very hard to die. The bespectacled insurance salesman from Connecticut who murdered eight young women a generation ago has languished on death row since 1987. For much of that time, he has been begging the state to execute him. But in a region that hasn't put anyone to death in almost 45 years, Ross can't seem to prevail.
A sentence of death and a killer ready to die would seem a perfect partnership. With condemned inmates around the country spending an average of 10 years wading through appeals, both...


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Four Parties That Make Entertaining Easy
By Tish Durkin
The Skip-Dinner Party
But what if you want tons of people, tons of food, and tons of time?
The problem with a dinner is, unless you have a dining area of baronial proportions, it's very hard to seat more than six or eight people, or organize a buffet for more than ten or 12.
The problem with a larger, stand-up-and-scarf-finger-food cocktail party is, it's only supposed to last about two hours. Apart from the one or two super-tipplers who can be counted on to be licking the salt out of the nut dishes while crooning "My Way" into the wee hours, everyone will clear out in time to go to dinner elsewhere—and that can be a real letdown for the hosts, who will have gone to tremendous effort getting ready, only to spend the night taking people's coats and then handing them back again.
The problem with a late-evening all-dessert party, which starts after dinner and at which numerous luscious sweets, coffees, and liqueurs are laid out on tables from which guests serve themselves, is...wait a minute, what was the problem with that one? Oh, I remember. It's at a weird time, it's only truly fabulous for the truly sweet of tooth, and nobody who's not Viennese will get it.
The solution: the Skip-Dinner Party. Lots of drinks, lots of hors d'oeuvres, and lots of desserts...all made ahead of time and strategically placed everywhere, along with any necessary forks, plates, or glasses. Granted, the host will still need to do some passing and replenishing of food, but that's intermittently over the course of a nice long party, not feverishly for two hours straight.
As for the guests, they will have great choice, in terms of tastes and timing: Those who want to come and go before dinner may do so. Those who want to come after dinner may do so. And those who want to keep talking and drinking for hours on end can do so while continually filling their stomachs—on savories, on sweets, or on both.
At least that's how it's supposed to go. I won't tell you everything that went wrong at my last Skip-Dinner Party. Let's just say it involved small pieces of bread, small pieces of meat, and timing. It turns out that, although the recipe may say it takes just 30 seconds to flay the filet, one should allow considerably longer to flay enough of it for 50 people, lest one find oneself frantically plastering bits of meat to rounds of frantically buttered baguette and damning the Merlot glaze while the doorbell rings...and rings...but I will get it right the next time. Or the time after that.
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Thornes Park 7093
Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England
Thornes Park is a public park consisting of three historically distinct areas of landscaping, the earliest dating from the later 18th century. Features include the earthwork remains of a former motte and bailey castle, a rose garden within the old kitchen garden, gate lodges and two drinking fountains.
The area of Clarence Park remained in agricultural use until 1890. In that year, the owner of the Thornes estate, C.G. Milnes Gaskell, offered land to form a public park. The park was opened in 1893. The Thornes Park estate was developed from 1778, with a new house being built from 1779-81. In 1920 the Wakefield Corporation acquired the entire Thornes estate, with 92 acres added to the public park in 1924, and the house itself with 20 acres becoming a grammar school. The Holme Field estate was established in 1807. The house was built in 1833 and the estate built up gradually. In 1919 Wakefield Corporation acquired this estate and it was incorporated into the public park.
Visitor Facilities
This is a municipal park, open daily for public use.
Thornes Park is a public park consisting of three historically distinct areas of landscaping, the earliest dating from the later C18. The public park was opened in 1891, with additions in 1919 and 1924.
LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, SETTING
Thornes Park is located c.1.3 km south-west of the centre of Wakefield on land that slopes gently in all directions from Lowe Hill near the centre of the park. It is approximately 60 hectares in area and is roughly rectangular in shape. The B6475 Thornes Road forms the southern boundary and the A636 Denby Dale Road the eastern. Much of the southern boundary is defined by a high brick wall with stone coping, part of the estate wall of the Thornes estate, interrupted near the eastern end by the grounds of a private house, to the east of which the wall is much lower and topped by a hedge. The south-eastern corner and east boundary are largely open with some hedging. To the north smaller roads edge the park which is bounded by a hedge and trees on the northern edge of Clarence Park and by a low brick wall with stone copings on the boundary of Thornes Park, the remains of the boundary of the Thornes estate. To the west this wall continues, separating the park from the Gill Syke Road and the A642 Horbury Road.
There are two main vehicular approaches to the park, both relating in origin to the C18 landscape and predating the public park. To the south from Thornes Road a short drive leads past a lodge building on the right (east) to a car park to the left (west). The single storey lodge, dating probably to the late C18, is constructed of coursed dressed sandstone with a deeply overhanging hipped grey slate roof. It is square with a projecting gabled porch entrance to the west facing the drive, and now operates as a tea-room. Beyond the car park the drive continues (closed to vehicular traffic) to sweep northwards, dipping west towards the college buildings in the centre then curving north-west to the north entrance.
The north entrance is flanked by C18 low square piers with later stone caps. To either side are taller walls with cornices blocking courses, pilasters and recessed panels in stone architraves; lower sections curve out to the pavement edge and to the east there is a continuation for a short straight section. To the west, this wall descends in height to ground level at the pavement edge. The entrance is listed at Grade II. Much of the eastern side of the park is open to the road, and another walkway, Chestnut Walk, dating to the creation of Clarence Park in the late C19, enters the park on the eastern side to run diagonally across to a lodge on the north side.
There are separate entrances to the nursery gardens and Gardener's House near the west end of the southern boundary; one is a simple break in the wall while the other, adapted from an original entrance, is set back with modern wrought iron gates and piers flanked by original curved walls.
The main approach to the Wakefield college site in the centre of Thornes is from the north, and a separate car park on the north side of the college buildings serves it. The Holmfield Arms hotel and restaurant has a separate drive running from the east side off Denby Dale Road, and this is not accessible from within the park.
PRINCIPAL STRUCTURES
The principal house that originally stood at the centre of Thornes was lost to fire in 1951 and has been replaced by a group of utilitarian buildings housing a branch of Wakefield College. A main T-shaped block of three and four storeys in red brick, glass and steel is surrounded by lower buildings including a single storey H-shaped block to the north in red brick. Some fragments of walling from the gardens around the original house remain to the south-west of the college buildings.
The house at the centre of the former Holmfield estate is no longer part of the park and is not included.
The former landscape of the Thornes Estate survives in part in the western half of the current park, though the principal house has been lost. Surviving features include a sinuous fishpond, formed from the Gill Syke beck, at the southern end of the park, the Gardener's House and the double walled gardens towards the south-west. The driveway through the park from south to north-west also dates from the late C18, with its lodge at the southern end. Parts of the estate wall survive to the north and south-west. Some elements of the planting scheme from the C18 are visible, including tree belts around the edges of the estate and woodland to the west, south and east of the site of Thornes House defining and surrounding open spaces and sheltering the house and gardens from the home farm area.
The current Thornes Park is composed of three historically separate elements; Thornes Park, Holmfield Park and Clarence Park, each with a distinct history prior to its inclusion in the public park as well as developments since. Although now one park, the elements are still separately discernable, radiating round the core of Lowe Hill, a former motte and bailey castle of which only earthworks remain (Scheduled Monument). Thornes, the largest section, stretches to the west of Lowe Hill, Clarence to the north east and Holmfield to the south east. The Holmfield Arms, situated near the south-east corner of the park, is in separate ownership and is not included in the area of the park.
The predominant character of the park is that of gardens and pleasure grounds. The main structural elements are the driveway through Thornes Park from south to north-west which curves in towards the site of Thornes House, now Wakefield College, and Chestnut Walk through Clarence Park from south-east to north, as well as Lowe Hill near the centre. A broad path leads from the south entrance around the perimeter east to the Clarence walkway and west to the Rose Garden. At the northern extent of Clarence Park is a small red brick lodge, erected between 1893 and 1907 as part of the landscaping of the new Park. It has one and a half storeys with a steeply pitched roof and a gable facing into the park. The upper floor wall projects and is tile hung with dentils below, and the apex of the gable is timber framed. The building is boarded up and unused.
The bandstand, situated near the eastern boundary of Clarence Park, was constructed in 1926. It has a red brick base with a stone plinth and a stone band separating it from a mock-Tudor timber framed superstructure with a deeply overhanging, red tiled hipped roof. It has an open front with a wide arch framed by half-timbered pillars under a hipped roof with a shaped blind gablet in the centre. The sides have half-timbered gables and blocked windows in the brick basement level. To the rear are two doorways with stone architraves. In the front (west) is a rectangular hardstanding of concrete. Two small open fronted shelters on the eastern boundary of Clarence Park are of similar date and in similar style: they stand at either end of a walkway that runs parallel to the road to the east.
Near the entrance to the driveway running across Clarence Park are two drinking fountains, both listed at Grade II. One is dated to 1893 and is dedicated to Major Barker by the workers of Thornes Mill; it is in sandstone and granite and is an octagonal structure in classical style. The other is a raised red granite trough dedicated by the RSPCA to Anne Clarkson in 1888.
Open ground is interspersed with areas of woodland, with more scattered tree planting in some parts. Most of the woodland is in the south and east of the park, though most of the boundaries have tree belts. Formal flower beds and shrubberies are almost entirely confined to the southern part of the park. The area of Clarence Park, and much of Thornes, contains a number of White Chestnut trees, adding to the tree planted by the Duke of Clarence at the park's opening. Trees line both the main drive through Thornes and the walkway through Clarence which is known as Chestnut Walk. A tree belt divides open space to the north of Wakefield College from the skate park, sports centre and running track in the north-west corner of the park.
The south-west quadrant of the park is occupied by nursery gardens, not open to the public, and the former walled gardens of Thornes House, bounded by high red brick walls with stone copings. The northern walled garden is filled with modern greenhouses, while the southern is laid out as a Rose Garden with a fountain feature at the centre. A row of modern greenhouses occupies most of the south facing wall at the north end, but traces of former buildings and heating systems are visible on this wall. The gates to the Rose Garden on its southern side are modern wrought iron. To the south, in front of Gardener's House, are formal flower beds with annual planting.
The 'Gardener's House' also probably dates to the late C18. It is situated towards the south-west corner of the park, adjacent to the former kitchen gardens of Thornes House and is said to have been the home farm house. It is constructed of red brick with a grey slate hipped roof and stacks at each side (one rebuilt) and one to the rear. The three bay symmetrical front elevation has a central six-panel door with a six-light overlight and flat gauged brick arch. To either side are six-over-six hornless vertical sash windows with stone cills and flat gauged brick arches, and above are three six-light windows. A small extension to the right (north) is single storey with two windows and a lean-to roof. A high brick wall runs north from the house to form the west side of the rose garden and enclosed greenhouse area (former walled gardens).
Open space to the centre north of the park, east of the main drive, is laid out as sports pitches, and the north-west quadrant is occupied by a large sports stadium and running track with a skate park and children's play area to the east and a miniature railway track running through woodland to the north-east. The north-east corner of the park is a slightly sunken area functioning as an arena for outdoor events, with terraced stone seating on its south-west side. To the south of this, and ranged along the eastern and southern sides of the park, are the bandstand with its hardstanding, two crown bowling greens, a putting green, a mini-golf course and six tennis courts. These facilities are situated off a path running parallel to the road with borders of perennial and annual planting schemes, shrubs and privet hedges. Wooden bench seating is provided at intervals. The mini-golf course has scattered trees, mainly smaller varieties, throughout its extent which runs from the main drive in the west to the boundary of the Holmfield Arms in the east, and north towards Lowe Hill.
Reasons for Designation
Thornes Park, Wakefield, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Survival: It is a good example of an urban municipal park of the late C19 and early C20 where the layout survives almost intact
* Historic Interest: it has added interest in the incorporation of a late C18 landscape possibly designed by John Carr, as well as a scheduled medieval motte and bailey castle earthwork
OS 1:10560 published 1854
OS 1:2500 published 1893
Selected Sources
Website Reference - Title: Clarence Holmfield and Thornes Park - Date: 07.06.2010 - URL: http://www.chatparks.org.uk
Unpublished Title Reference - Author: J. Goodchild - Title: Wakefield Parks - Date: n.d.
Boundary Wall
Description: Much of the southern boundary is defined by a high brick wall with stone coping.
Description: To the north is a low brick wall with stone copings on the boundary of Thornes Park.
Description: There are two main vehicular approaches to the park, both relating in origin to the 18th-century landscape.
Gate Lodge
Description: The single storey lodge, dating probably to the late-18th century, is constructed of coursed dressed sandstone with a deeply overhanging hipped grey slate roof.
Description: The north entrance is flanked by 18th-century low square piers with later stone caps.
Description: Chestnut Walk.
Earliest Date: 01 Jan 1867
Latest Date: 01 Jan 1899
Description: A sinuous fishpond, formed from the Gill Syke beck, at the southern end of the park.
Garden Building
Description: The 'Gardener's House' also probably dates to the late-18th century. It is constructed of red brick with a grey slate hipped roof and stacks at each side (one rebuilt) and one to the rear.
Description: The southern kitchen garden is laid out as a Rose Garden with a fountain feature at the centre.
Description: The driveway through the park from south to north-west also dates from the late-18th century.
Earthwork
Description: Lowe Hill, a former motte and bailey castle of which only earthworks remain.
Description: At the northern extent of Clarence Park is a small red brick lodge. It has one and a half storeys with a steeply pitched roof and a gable facing into the park.
Bandstand
Description: This has a red brick base with a stone plinth and a stone band separating it from a mock-Tudor timber framed superstructure with a deeply overhanging, red tiled hipped roof.
Description: Two small open fronted shelters on the eastern boundary of Clarence Park, dating from around 1926.
Description: The fountain is dedicated to Major Barker by the workers of Thornes Mill; it is in sandstone and granite and is an octagonal structure in classical style.
Description: This is a raised red granite trough dedicated by the RSPCA to Anne Clarkson in 1888.
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Description: Formal flower beds and shrubberies are almost entirely confined to the southern part of the park.
Description: The northern walled garden is filled with modern greenhouses.
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Thornes Park: James Milnes, a Wakefield cloth merchant, bought land at Thornes in 1778 and in the subsequent year work began on Thornes House. The house was designed by John Carr and built in 1779-81, and stood on a ridge with views to north and south. It seems probable that emparkment took place alongside the construction of the house, encompassing the area subsequently known as Thornes Park and covering over 100 acres. The areas to the east, which would later form the core of the current park area, were then farmland.
The Thornes House estate included a stable block, a lake with island, constructed and fed from the Gill Syke Beck, home farm, hothouse, entrance lodges and tree planting to provide vistas. According to information supplied with the application, it was described in the 1790s as "backed by a pretty declining lawn, bordering on each side with the greatest variety of flowering shrubs perhaps ever collected in one spot. A fine view extends into the country from a bow window, executed in the modern taste by Mr Carr of York; and the greenhouses and other buildings combine to make this one of the completest town-houses in this county". In 1920 the Wakefield Corporation acquired the entire Thornes estate, with 92 acres added to the public park in 1924, and the house itself with 20 acres becoming a grammar school.
Clarence Park: The area of Clarence Park remained in agricultural use until 1890. In that year, the owner of the Thornes estate, C.G. Milnes Gaskell, offered land including Lowe Hill, site of a motte and bailey castle, to form a public park. Initially in the hands of trustees, the project was formally inaugurated by the Duke of Clarence in 1891 and the park opened in 1893. The designer is unknown, but the Duke of Clarence is said to have planted the first tree, a white chestnut. Early landscaping included the erection of a bandstand on Lowe Hill and the creation of a duckpond in the moat. A formal walkway lined with 108 chestnut trees, Chestnut Walk, was laid out across the park, echoing a similar path through the Thornes estate, and lodges were built at opposing ends with formal iron gates at the southern end. A fountain (listed Grade II) dedicated to Joseph Barker was erected in Clarence Park near the entrance to Holmfield.
Holmfield Park: The Holme Field estate was established in 1807 by Thomas Foljambe, a Wakefield lawyer and speculator. The house was built in 1833 and the estate built up gradually. House and estate were bought in 1864 by Joseph Barker, worsted manufacturer, who enlarged the house in the 1870s, adding stable block, entrance lodge and boundary wall, and created gardens and parkland. In 1919 Wakefield Corporation acquired the 14 acre Holme Field estate from its then owner, Alderman W H Kingswell, and it was incorporated into the public park. The house became a museum upstairs and tea-room downstairs.
The combined Park: The inclusion of the Thornes estate gave the Park its current outline and subsequent developments extended across the three elements. By 1932, the OS 1:2500 map shows a crown bowling green at the southern end of Holmfield park and another in the south-east corner of Thornes, with tennis courts and a putting green also at the southern end of Thornes. Lavatories had been built at the edge of Holmfield, and the Lowe Hill bandstand was replaced in 1926 by a building near the eastern edge of Clarence Park. A meteorological station at the northern end of Clarence Park was later moved to the nursery gardens at Thornes. Further landscaping included the formation of a formal rose garden in the former kitchen garden of Thornes, to the west of the house, in 1934.
In 1951 the school housed in Thornes House burnt down and the original house was destroyed apart from part of a wall and some balustrade. The school was housed temporarily in Holme Field, and new buildings constructed on the site, now part of Wakefield College.
Later changes have included the sale of Holme Field House in the 1990s, now a private hotel and restaurant, the Holmfield Arms. The lodge and gates at the southern end of Chestnut Walk have gone. A children's play area, Sports Centre with running track, miniature railway and a skate park, have all been added at the northern end of Thornes.
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Yobi woke up with a small piece of opal in her hand, crying. It happened all the time these days – she was in a fragile state. As she became aware of her tight grip on the rock, she released it and let it rest on her chest for a while. It was warm, having absorbed and stored the heat of her body. Taking a few deep breaths, she slowly raised herself up. She softly told herself something gentle and placed the piece of crystallised earth on the pillow next to her.
Letting her eyes adjust to the light, she looked out the window; the sky over the Andevoranto coast was clear, the sun about to rise. Some sea birds hovered over the horizon, making her want to get up. The floor was cold, summer had not quite arrived, so she put on her woollen toffles. She warmed up the kettle for tea, brushed her teeth, scraped her tongue and splashed some icy water in her face to prevent the swelling of her eyes. It rinsed the salt from her cheekbones. She'd been decrystallising a lot lately, though she felt as if she was slowly coming to the end of this period's grief. She poured herself a tea, sliced some cornbread, toasted it, and ate it with coconut butter.
She'd surprisingly quickly become accustomed to this - in many ways - less complicated existence. She mainly ate food that was sourced on the land behind the wall. Stews and soups, breads and butters, that were simple to make and easy to digest. The daily walks on the rocky shorelines with her hybrid half bred, half-manufactured companion. It definitely wasn't as bad as she'd thought it would be when she was in the city still.
Even these days, she still occasionally translated transcripts for government officials and offshore NGO's but her main occupation was related to the actual restoration, after the pandemics and resource wars of the '20s had unexpectedly been followed by a global recalibration. The distribution of certain predictive texts had preceded the event and the authors had - of course - been seeking attribution. The most pivotal and historical moment had however been the public tears of the 7 Qings, after they'd, simultaneously, woken up to see the havoc they'd wreaked on their countries.
All the Qings spoke, later, about a similar dream. A seemingly mushroom infused hallucination which, as afterwards leaked through the intranets of the palaces, and out into the digital webs of the people, had contained an androgynous yet motherly figure which spoke in many tongues. "You are made of the earth", they'd said, "your veins contain the water of the oceans, your minds the fire of our common source, your bones the minerals that serve you. What are you thinking, selling your limbs to gain more gold?" The vision had shown the leaders two possible futures, one including dismemberment. This woke most of them up.
After visiting the Qings, the vision spread quite rapidly to other earthly inhabitants, infusing villages and corporations alike.
As often happens during collective leaps of development, Dream Day 1 was followed by a paradigmatic shift, but not without some time of complete chaos and then, resolutely, a structural reorganisation of worldly affairs. Inequality was first to be abolished. The killing of animals no longer seemed interesting, and the agricultural focus in general shifted towards an attitude of appreciation and acceptance of what the land had to give, as opposed to an artificial boosting of production to meet consumer demand. Funnily enough, the land, perhaps as a gesture of thankfulness or relief, responded with unprecedented abundance.
The seismic mental shift eventually led to the inauguration of the restoration period. Every day was earth day. And with so many, so many (!), wanting to give back, new organisations had to be called into existence. The Knowing Crystal Collective was one - brought to life by the association of mourning miners - remarkably including a number of VP's and CEO's. "Mourning" as they had also realised, just after Dream Day 2, 3 and 27 - what they'd collectively been doing to their planetary home.
One of the Collective's missions was to return commercial gemstones to the earth, especially the ones that had been extracted from the planet under the most ethically challenging circumstances. The Big Return Plan, as it was called, had quickly caught on with celebrities and their following. Paying to have your healing crystals put back into the soil, had quickly become one of the most fashionable types of value signalling. It was said to enhance your karmic qualities, too. People paid good money for it.
Some crystals, often the ones considered to be most precious, were equipped with a small surveillance appendix; a microphone or camera. This was to serve as a guarantee to their previous owners that, really, their rocks were earthbound and safe. Yobi ran a small start-up, "On the rocks", attaching the little appendices. She usually did this between 8 and 11 am, right after her morning walk in the small studio-space adjoining the beach house.
In the afternoons, taking with her some rocks for re-placement, she joined the reforestation team in the center of the island to continue the work on their mycorrhizal symbiosis programme. They worked with a mushroom and mycelium expert known for making strong brews. By populating the harsh landscapes, depleted after years of intensive mining, with specific types of mycelium, they helped regenerate the barren strips of extensively exhausted earth. Part of the programme was to utilise the naturally occurring nurse effect - the ability and willingness of plants to help each other grow.
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Schreiner and Ford Tussle in Question Period
Published on Sep 18, 2018 Mar 2, 2019 by Adam A. Donaldson
As the debate about using the notwithstanding clause to force changes to Toronto's city council raged on Monday, a verbal tête-à-tête between Premier Doug Ford and Guelph MPP Mike Schreiner veered into some unanticipated local territory.
During Question Period Monday, Schreiner got one of the occasional opportunities he gets to ask a query of the government.
Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Premier. Early this morning during debate on Bill 31. The Premier said that he wanted to reduce the power of government. But Bill 31 does exactly the opposite. It places an unprecedented amount of power in the government's hands. Invoking the notwithstanding clause is a government using big power to suspend people's Charter rights. So how can the Premier say he is reducing power when he's using the heavy hand of government power to suspend people's Charter rights?
Premier Ford answered with something of a rambling response that was an answer to some question, but not the one that Schreiner was asking necessarily.
Through you Mr. Speaker, there won't be any rights taken away. This should be very clear: Every person in Toronto will be able to elect their elected councillor. Every single person in Toronto should be able to pick up the phone when they have an issue and call their councillor, and every councillor should go to their door and answer their request. My friends, I did it for four years, and I took care of more than one word. I took care of a dozen wards. You know why I took care of a dozen wards? Because the existing councillors were ignoring the phone calls, they weren't calling people back, and through you Mr. Speaker, I still take municipal calls every single day on trains, on housing, on infrastructure, because the average constituent needs help.
Schreiner tried again.
Mr. Speaker, through you back to the Premier. Invoking the notwithstanding clause is the very definition of suspending people's Charter rights. That is a huge big power grab. That's exactly why people like former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said "I don't like the notwithstanding clause"; it's exactly why former Progressive Conservative Premier Bill Davis has condemned the Premier's use of the notwithstanding clause. Using big government power to change the rules in the middle of an election campaign has never happened in Canadian history. Mr. Speaker, the legal costs are mounting. How many taxpayer dollars is the Premier prepared to waste on his scheme to interfere in local Toronto elections?
Now here's where we get to the Guelph connection, as Premier Ford again offered an answer, but not to the question that Schreiner was asking.
Through you, Mr. Speaker and to my friend and member from Guelph, we should start focusing on jobs. I'll have to tell you a quick story. We had a company come to us, a company from China that wants to employ 400 people, a window manufacturer, and guess what Mr. Speaker, they wanted to go to Guelph, but Guelph refused them! Who refuses 400 jobs? I don't understand it, but I'm sure there are jurisdictions all around Ontario that would love a glass company to come to their riding. Come to Etobicoke! Come to Scarborough! Come to any or our MPPs areas, we'd be happy to take 400 jobs! But the member from Guelph didn't want 400 jobs over there, he'd rather come down here and argue.
1) The "company from China" is Xinyi, and they applied to build a glass manufacturing plant in Township of Guelph-Eramosa, and not Guelph.
2) Mike Schreiner is not the MPP for Guelph-Eramosa, that would be Ted Arnott, a Progressive Conservative politician who is also the Speaker of the House.
3) Even if Schreiner was the MPP for Guelph-Eramosa, the decision to not allow Xinyi to build its plant was made by the Township council in a vote of 4-to-1.
4) Xinyi has so far chosen not to appeal the decision, and have made no announcement about their intentions to build elsewhere.
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Santa Pola to exhibit gastronomy, water sports and best beaches at International Tourism Fair (FITUR)
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Santa Pola to exhibit gastronomy, water sports and best beaches at International Tourism Fair (FITUR). Image: Santa Pola City Council.
The Tourism Fair, hosted in Madrid, is set to run from January 18 until January 22.
The Councillor for Tourism, Julio Baeza, confirmed: "We have laid the foundations and we will soon see the result of the progress made in our town. Thanks to good management we have obtained €2.4M of European funds for tourism infrastructure."
"One of the first things we will see is the protection and enhancement of our archaeological heritage, which is also an extremely important tourist resource. At this Fair we will once again show the world all the good things Santa Pola has to offer, the councillor added.
The 2022 FITFUR exceeded all expectations with a total of 111,193 attendees; 81,193 professionals from 127 countries over its first three professional days and 30,000 on its two days open to the public.
The fair was attended by 600 exhibitors and official representatives from 70 countries (including tourism ministers from 21 countries) and it is estimated that the number of arrivals at FITUR has generated an impact on the Madrid economy of more than €150M, confirming its place as the second most important tourism fair in the world.
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'Bakuman' Feature Taps Fusion Studio for Main-On-End Titles
Blackmagic Design's Fusion Studio helps deliver action-packed main-on-end title sequence for Japanese live-action feature based on the hit manga series by Tsugumi Ohba and Ken Obata.
By AWN Staff Editor | Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 6:46pm
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FREMONT, CA -- Blackmagic Design announced that Fusion Studio was used for creating the pivotal ending sequence of the hit Japanese feature film Bakuman. The popular manga series Bakuman is the second collaboration of Tsugumi Ohba, the author, and Ken Obata, the manga artist, who once created the huge hit manga series Death Note.
Bakuman serialized in the popular comic magazine, Shonen Jump, depicted two high school students pursuing their dream to become manga artists and was hugely popular. This led the story to become a TV anime series and a video game, as well as major film starring young popular actors, Takeru Sato and Ryunosuke Kamiki.
Bakuman has three unique ending scenes. One of them shows the two leading actors drawing manga on a black board in a class room. By deleting the artwork on the blackboard and then reversing the scene, it looks like the two boys are drawing on the blackboard.
Hideki Inoue, VFX artist, commented, "I used a shot of the blackboard without any drawings, another shot of actors drawing on the blackboard and a shot of Obata's artwork on a blackboard, all shot separately to make the scene. I used Fusion to extract the drawing line by multiple keyers. Then I used Fusion's Grid Warp to adjust distortion and used Tracker so that the drawing would perfectly match to the plain blackboard as if it were being drawn on."
The ending sequence also includes the title scene, where Fusion was also used. The film's title is superimposed on the shot of a desk typically used by manga artists.
"The desk with papers, rulers, pens and bottles of ink scattered on it was shot from above, mounting the camera on a crane. However, it is not completely shot above the desk, so it was skewed a bit," Inoue continued. "I used the Perspective tool in Fusion to remove the distortion and make it as if it were shot precisely above the desk. It was a challenge as the crane gradually pulled the camera so the whole desk would be revealed from a close up of the desk. It was very difficult to make the camera move steady, causing the distortion angle to be inconsistent. I created an animation for the move to make the shot steady all way through. Also, I imported tracking data and stabilized it to make the camera move more smooth.
"If you stabilize the image, the center of the image moves over. So I adjusted to keep the center point consistent. I used many transform type tools for the shot. A great point of Fusion is you can work on projects while keeping the original data all the time. For example, if I zoom a shot, the image which is now off the screen and not seen is still there. So I can adjust the position and don't need to worry about whether the picture is already rendered and there are missing parts of the image, allowing me to add as many functions as I want."
The ending credits for the film also included a difficult and unique set of shots. The camera dollies the workroom of the two lead roles and then it shows a bookshelf, which contains many manga comics. The design of those comics were a spoof of real Shonen Jump comics. Staff credits are on spine of each comic, which anyone who has read Shonen Jump comics would instantly recognize by the design. The book shelf and comic books were created using CG, and composited with the photo of the workroom.
"When the CG of the bookshelf was made, we did not consider mixing it with real video image. So the lighting condition of the bookshelf in the foreground and the workplace in the background were different. I imported a FBX file of side panel of the bookshelf and mapped the reflection material onto it using Fusion's Sphere Map tool. This way, I could create the feeling of the lighting in the workplace reflected on the bookshelf, matching the foreground and background more naturally. If I do this kind adjustment in CG, it took so much time for re-rendering, so I could save a lot of time by using Fusion," added Inoue.
Inoue commented about the advantage of using Fusion, "Fusion is very flexible tool for any circumstance. Even there is some issue that I may have to go back to 3GCG software and fix it, Fusion can solve the problem in many cases. Also It can work with many kinds of 3DCG software and tracking software, allowing me to work very effectively."
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Is Change Possible?
This week, Brooke and Byron discuss the window of possibility for change and the need to build something new.
The following is an edited excerpt from a recorded conversation between Common Grace CEO Brooke Prentis and Christian ecological ethicist Dr Byron Smith, facilitated by Common Grace's Creative and Communications Director, Brigitta Ryan. It is titled 2020, the Year of Disruption: COVID-19, Black Lives Matter and the Climate CrisisListen to the full conversation here
When asked if change is possible:
DR BYRON SMITH: So one of the things the pandemic has done is reveal that the window of possibility [for climate action] is wider than perhaps we thought. And that, I think, is one of the key lessons. Change is possible. And it goes back to what I said before, that at the heart of human freedom is the freedom to repent. That's both personally but also collectively. Things don't need to be this way. Another world is possible. And, you know, that cuts both ways. Things can actually get worse, faster than we think as well. Things can get better, faster than we dare to dream. The question is, will we allow ourselves to be defined by the stories of the past and the stories that have shaped and governed our lives, stories of capitalism and technologism and individualism and stories in which the profits of the few, are placed ahead of the health of the many and the health of the planet, or how are we going to live out new life-giving stories grounded in ancient wisdom from First Peoples and in the scriptures but creatively applied to our new context? And that really is the challenge of today.
BRIGITTA RYAN: We're talking about the resources for change and how we could go about creating change to care more deeply for God's Earth. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, who's been described as one of the world's leading Marine Biologists, said in Time magazine that "we can't solve the climate crisis without people of colour but we could probably solve it without racists." That's really a frank way of putting what you're saying there Byron, that the interests of a few are really being placed ahead of the interests of many.
DR BYRON SMITH: If I could jump in there, it's not just the interests of the few being ahead of the interests of the many. It's the interests of the few and the preferences and whims of the few put ahead of the needs of the many. What the rich have to lose is their opulent riches, unnecessary riches, and their immense, unaccountable power. What the poor have to lose and are currently losing are their lives.
BROOKE PRENTIS: When you go back to the original question about 'is change possible?' I was like, 'why don't I have an answer to come to mind immediately like Byron did?' Because really my answer was, of course, it's possible, but I realise my lived experience of injustice as an Aboriginal person in these lands now called Australia. We are exhausting ourselves, trying to make the possible possible, but we actually need the rest of the Australian population to come on board to actually change the systems and the structure, the systemic racism, the systemic injustice in so many of the structures built in these lands now called Australia. And so it's not just about fixing them. We actually have to, well, I would like to knock them down, or we might 'dismantle', that might be a nicer word for people. And then we've actually got to build something new.
Take time this week to read Luke 19:1-10 and reflect on Brooke and Byron's discussion that life-giving change is possible when we deeply examine and challenge the stories that shape and govern our lives.
He entered Jericho and was passing through it. A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich. He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way. When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today." So he hurried down and was happy to welcome him. All who saw it began to grumble and said, "He has gone to be the guest of one who is a sinner." Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, "Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor; and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much." Then Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost."
How is the repentant heart of Zacchaeus reflected in our own discipleship today?
Are our lives defined by stories of capitalism, technologism and individualism or are we bearing witness to the life-giving salvation we have received in Christ?
How do we need to repent both individually and collectively for prioritising our preferences and whims over the needs of many?
Pray that as we seek to live out new life-giving stories that we speak and act as God's good news in his world. That we would faithfully seek God's wisdom and spend time listening to our First Peoples as we pursue justice and build change.
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Wednesday 14 July 2004, by xanderbnd
AOL(R) Television, the premier online destination for TV fans, today revealed the nominees for the 2004 TV's Top 5 Viewer Awards at a press conference held at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles. Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson, judges in FOX's hit series "American Idol," presided.
The TV's Top 5 Viewer Awards honor the best television moments of the past year in entertaining and unusual categories such as Best Farewell Moment, Most Memorable TV Moment, Most Teary Eyed Moment, Best Talk Show Moment, Revlon's Sexiest Kiss, and more. The nominated selections have all been featured on TV's Top 5, AOL Television's daily recap of the best five moments of the previous day based on feedback from AOL members, overnight data from TiVo and input from AOL Television's editors. Members can view these moments and then rate them on a scale of one to five.
"American Idol" led the list with five nominations including Most Memorable Music Moment, Most Memorable Reality TV Moment, and Revlon's Sexiest Kiss Award. "Friends" came in second with four nominations, including Best Farewell Moment and Most Surprising Moment. Other shows leading the list of nominees included "The O.C." and "The Late Show with David Letterman." Overall, NBC led with 13 nominations, followed by FOX with 11 nominations, CBS with 9 nominations, ABC with 6 nominations and HBO and MTV with 3 nominations each.
Beginning today, AOL(R) and AOL(R) for Broadband members across the country can cast their votes at AOL Keyword: TV Awards for their favorites in each category. Voting ends on September 10 and the winners will be announced on September 15, just days before the Primetime Emmy Awards on September 19.
"It's a thrill to announce the nominees of the TV's Top 5 Viewer Awards and be part of a forum that gives TV fans a voice to determine the winners and be heard. I know first-hand how important it is to make your vote count, so I encourage AOL members to cast their votes for these unique awards," said Paula Abdul.
"Since introducing TV's Top 5 on AOL last year, millions of television fans have logged on to relive the best television moments from the day before. It's an addictive feature—especially among those on AOL for Broadband who can enjoy a higher quality of video to watch these moments over and over," said Patricia Karpas, Vice President and General Manager, AOL Television. "The TV's Top 5 Viewer Awards give fans the opportunity to honor and celebrate the moments that we all talked about around the watercooler this past television season."
The following are the nominated moments for 2004:
The nominees for BEST INTRO MOMENT are:
— Ryan is welcomed to town by Luke on FOX's "The O.C." — Paris and Nicole arrive on the farm on FOX's "The Simple Life" — Alan Shore approaches Ellenor about a job on ABC's "The Practice" — Danny is caught with the boss's daughter on NBC's "Las Vegas" — Sydney's steamed when she sees Vaughn and his bride on ABC's "Alias"
The nominees for BEST FAREWELL MOMENT are:
— The friends turn in their keys on NBC's "Friends" — Big tells Carrie she's the one on HBO's "Sex & the City" — Frasier says good night to Seattle on NBC's "Frasier" — Ryan and Marissa's last dance on FOX's "The O.C." — Adriana gets whacked on HBO's "The Sopranos"
The nominees for REVLON'S SEXIEST KISS are:
— Britney and Madonna on the MTV Video Music Awards — Ross and Rachel on NBC's "Friends" — Seth and Summer on FOX's "The O.C." — Garry Shandling and Brad Garrett on the "Primetime Emmy Awards" on FOX — Simon and Paula on FOX's "American Idol"
The nominees for the BEST ANIMAL MOMENT are:
— Paris and Nicole get close to cows on FOX's "The Simple Life" — David Letterman receives a monkey bombshell on CBS's "Late Show" — Jay Leno drops a baby ape on NBC's "Tonight Show" — Bob Costas is dogged by Triumph's insults on HBO's "On the Record" — Sheep nose in on a swimsuit model on SpikeTV's "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Special"
The nominees for the MOST TEARY EYED MOMENT are:
— Britney Spears breaks down on ABC's "Primetime" — Backstreet Boy Nick Carter cries foul on MTV's "Punk'd" — Rupert reunites with his wife on CBS's "Survivor: All-Stars" — NFL quarterback Trent Dilfer talks about losing his son on NBC's "Today Show" — Jennifer Aniston gets choked up about friend Matthew Perry on ABC's "Primetime"
The nominees for BEST TALK SHOW MOMENT are:
— Regis lets Kelly's baby take a fall on "Live with Regis and Kelly" — Howard Stern makes David Letterman get personal on CBS's "Late Show" — Arnold Schwarzenegger governs over Jay Leno on NBC's "Tonight Show" — Steve Martin has problems being beautiful on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" — Jerry Seinfeld gets the best of Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's "Daily Show"
The nominees for the MOST SURPRISING MOMENT are:
— Paul Shaffer reports David Letterman's big baby news on CBS's "Late Show" — A helicopter crashes into Dr. Romano on NBC's "E.R." — Rachel kisses Ross before her trip to Paris on NBC's "Friends" — La Toya London gets voted off on Fox's "American Idol" — Boston Rob proposes to Amber on CBS's "Survivor: All-Stars Reunion"
The nominees for the MOST MEMORABLE MUSIC MOMENT are:
— William Hung auditions for the judges on FOX's "American Idol" — Prince duets with Beyonce Knowles on the GRAMMY(R) Awards on CBS — Fantasia's final performance on FOX's "American Idol" — The Fab Five rock out with Vince Neil on Bravo's "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" — Vanilla Ice heats up a karaoke bar on The WB's "The Surreal Life"
The nominees for the FUNNIEST MOMENT are:
— Jessica Simpson needs a vocabulary lesson on MTV's "Newlyweds" — Bill Murray's victory speech on the Golden Globe Awards on NBC — Dave Chappelle portrays Rick James on Comedy Central's "Chappelle's Show" — Ben Affleck is warned about "Gigli" on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" — Joey stars in a Japanese TV commercial on NBC's "Friends"
The nominees for the MOST MEMORABLE REALITY TV MOMENT are:
— Fantasia is voted the ultimate winner on FOX's "American Idol" — Donald Trump tells Bill that he's hired on NBC's "The Apprentice" — America votes to awards one million dollars to Rupert on CBS's "Survivor: All-Stars" — Trista ties the knot with Ryan on ABC's "Trista and Ryan's Wedding" — Jon lies about his grandmother's death on CBS's "Survivor: Pearl Islands"
This is the third year that AOL Television has celebrated the fans' favorites with a special awards presentation. Last year's Viewer Awards honored television's hottest shows and actors including "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," "The Bachelorette," Jennifer Aniston, Matt LeBlanc, and Sharon Osbourne.
AOL Television is one of the most comprehensive online resources for TV fans who want to be informed, engaged and entertained. Its newest feature, TV's Top 5, lets AOL and especially AOL for Broadband members, relive, rate and talk about the top TV moments from the previous day. Other AOL Television offerings include extensive, personalized listings; the ability for TiVo(R) home networking members to record programs directly to their TiVo units through AOL; sneak peeks and exclusive video from today's most popular shows; polls, message boards and chats where TV fans can voice their opinions; and AOL(R) Alerts and Reminders to help ensure members don't miss their favorite programs.
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Grow multicultural leaders with coaching, not just business English
CLO Magazine
As workforces continue to grow more diverse, human resources and learning and development teams have embraced language training programs, such as Business English and ESL, for multicultural employees. As they advance in their careers and seek roles requiring leadership and higher-level communications skills, their development needs will likely not be met by ESL or Business English programs. Conflicting working styles across diverse teams. MORE
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Microlearning: Fab or Fad?
Tom Spiglanin
Microlearning itself is not a product, which will be important to keep in mind as more vendors enter the microlearning space and increasingly offer to to sell microlearning (rather than a microlearning suite, library, videos, or other products). Microlearning fits modern work styles. That makes them able to fit into hectic schedules and busy lives without a need to pause, hoping to resume at a later time. Based on a work at tom.spiglanin.com. MORE
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Sexual Harassment Prevention Starts With Leadership
Eighty-five percent of women have reported some form of sexual harassment at work, and seemingly even more than that have experienced it, as evidenced by the #MeToo movement sweeping social media. As we begin 2018, leaders will have to decide whether they want to make preventing sexual harassment in the workplace a C-suite priority. NCHRA CEO Greg Morton said that intent has probably been voiced in the halls of many companies during the past year. MORE
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Business Suite Voice Work Styles
As workforces continue to grow more diverse, human resources and learning and development teams have embraced language training programs, such as Business English and ESL, for multicultural employees. As they advance in their careers and seek roles requiring leadership and higher-level communications skills, their development needs will likely not be met by ESL or Business English programs. Conflicting working styles across diverse teams.
Microlearning itself is not a product, which will be important to keep in mind as more vendors enter the microlearning space and increasingly offer to to sell microlearning (rather than a microlearning suite, library, videos, or other products). Microlearning fits modern work styles. That makes them able to fit into hectic schedules and busy lives without a need to pause, hoping to resume at a later time. Based on a work at tom.spiglanin.com.
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Eighty-five percent of women have reported some form of sexual harassment at work, and seemingly even more than that have experienced it, as evidenced by the #MeToo movement sweeping social media. As we begin 2018, leaders will have to decide whether they want to make preventing sexual harassment in the workplace a C-suite priority. NCHRA CEO Greg Morton said that intent has probably been voiced in the halls of many companies during the past year.


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The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - Volume 23, Issue 3, 1974
Clinical Correlates of C1q-Precipitating Substances in the Sera of Patients with Leprosy *
Robert H. Gelber, David J. Drutz, Wallace V. Epstein and Paul Fasal
https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1974.23.471
Erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL) is often interpreted as a manifestation of immune-complex deposition in patients with lepromatous leprosy. We used a C1q precipitin assay technique to demonstrate directly the presence of immune complexes in sera from patients with leprosy. Seven of 15 patients with ENL had serum C1q precipitin activity; serial tests often showed continued C1q precipitin activity. Only 3 of 27 lepromatous patients without ENL had positive tests; multiple positive tests were not seen in these patients. Single positive tests were encountered in patients with borderline (dimorphous) leprosy, especially those with downgrading reactions. There was no relationship between C1q precipitin activity and serum levels of C3, CH50, or cryoglobulins. Single positive C1q precipitin tests may occur sporadically in patients with leprosy, but repeatedly positive tests are closely associated with occurrence of ENL, supporting the concept that ENL is a complication related to the presence of circulating immune complexes.
Immunological Reactions in Kuru
R. J. Benfante, R. D. Traub, K. A. Lim, J. Hooks, C. J. Gibbs Jr. and D. C. Gajdusek
A total of 201 kuru patients and 49 chimpanzees affected with experimental kuru have been screened for antibody against 65 infectious agents in the search for high antibody titers and high frequencies of positive reactions with the purpose of discovering an antigen which might be serologically related to the virus of kuru. None of the agents studied gave an antibody response or pattern of positive reactivity that was significantly different from those encountered in surrounding kuru-free populations or in normal chimpanzees. This suggests that none of the infectious agents studied has an association with the pathology of kuru.
The Occurrence of Hepatitis B Antigen and Antibody in some Population Groups in the Southwest Pacific Region *
F. J. Austin, T. Maguire and J. A. R. Miles
In a survey of 4,220 human sera from five populations in the Southwest Pacific region, hepatitis B antigen (HB Ag) was detected in 362 (8.6%) and HB antibody in 19 (0.45%). The incidence of HB Ag varied significantly between geographic regions, and it occurred more frequently in males than in females. In the two populations from which the largest samples were obtained the proportion of positive sera increased with age to reach a maximum in the 2nd decade of life, and then declined.
Fatal Hemorrhagic Disease and Shock Associated with Primary Dengue Infection on a Pacific Island *
Winton J. S. Barnes and Leon Rosen
An epidemic of dengue type 2 which occurred on Niue Island during the first half of 1972 involved approximately 90% of the population of 4,600 persons and affected all age groups equally. Serologic data indicated that this was the first occurrence of any dengue virus on the island for at least 25 years. Many persons had minor hemorrhages associated with febrile illnesses during the outbreak and a few had severe hemorrhages or shock. Twelve deaths occurred which may have been caused by dengue. The clinical features of the fatal illnesses among children were very similar to those described previously for dengue hemorrhagic fever or dengue shock syndrome. It is concluded that at least some deaths among children were caused by dengue virus and were, consequently, the result of primary infection with that virus.
Human Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus Infection in Florida *
Arnoldo K. Ventura, Elsie E. Buff and N. Joel Ehrenkranz
Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) virus infection of man was studied at two enzootic sites of virus activity in south Florida between 1969 and 1972. Of 181 persons bled, 20 (9%) were found to have hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) antibody ≥1/10. Antibody was found more frequently in residents than in transients (P < .02), and somewhat more frequently in males (difference not significant; P > .05). Five persons had rises in HI antibody titers during the study period. Only one of these persons had had a recent mild illness with generalized symptoms. Seven new arrivals were found to have HI antibody within 2 to 8 months of residence at an enzootic site, but were all asymptomatic. These individuals are contrasted to three previously reported persons infected outside the enzootic area who developed classic encephalitis and required hospitalization. Whether the difference in clinical response to VEE virus infection is due to variation in host susceptibility or in virulence of infecting virus strain, or both, is not known.
Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis in Florida: Endemic Virus Circulation in Native Rodent Populations of Everglades Hammocks
William J. Bigler, Arnoldo K. Ventura, Arthur L. Lewis, Flora M. Wellings and N. Joel Ehrenkranz
Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (VEE) virus activity was monitored in rodent populations in the everglades community of Pinecrest. Florida. Tagged cotton mice (Peromyscus gossypinus) and cotton rats (Sigmodon hispidus) were periodically trapped on study grids in two hammocks and bled serially for up to 17 months. Serum samples were surveyed for virus and tested for antibody in hemagglutination-inhibition and neutralization tests. Serologic conversion of marked rodents indicated the virus circulated at low levels in the spring and early summer when the rodent populations were at their highest density with a peak of activity between July and October when the declining populations were composed mostly of mature breeding individuals. Turnover rates of cotton mice indicated that 70% to 80% seropositivity in a population could fall via the intrinsic rate of increase and dispersal to less than 20% the following spring. This area then has the potential for annual reintroduction, circulation and amplification of VEE virus. Various species of mammals and water birds, latent infection in small mammals, water levels, and relative mosquito density are discussed as mechanisms contributing to the dissemination of virus.
Infection and Transmission of Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis Virus with Colonized Culiseta Melanura (Coquillett) *
John J. Howard and Robert C. Wallis
Colonized Culiseta melanura were infected with eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus by feeding on viremic 1-day-old chicks. The approximate minimal mosquito infective dose was 104 baby mouse LD50/0.02 ml of blood, the approximate 50% dose was 105, and the approximate 90% dose was 106 LD50/0.02 ml. Over 85% of infected mosquitoes transmitted EEE virus to baby chicks after a 2-week extrinsic incubation.
New Aspects of Laboratory Techniques for Studies of Colorado Tick Fever
S. Ya. Gaidamovich, G. A. Klisenko and N. K. Shanoyan
The possibility was explored of employing the indirect hemagglutination (IHA) test for the detection and identification of Colorado tick fever (CTF) virus as well as for the detection of antibodies to this virus. For this purpose, sheep erythrocytes fixed with acrolein or glutaraldehyde were sensitized with immune gamma-globulin isolated from ascitic fluid of mice immunized with CTF virus. IHA reaction employing antibody-coated erythrocytes was found to be highly specific and simple to perform, and permitted reading of the results after 1.5 to 2 hours. Preliminary fixation of erythrocytes made it possible to obtain a stable preparation that could be stored without any appreciable loss of activity during an observation period of 3 to 4 months. The IHA test can be applied for the laboratory diagnosis of Colorado tick fever.
Persistence of Colorado Tick Fever Virus in Red Blood Cells
Lyndahl E. Hughes, Elizabeth A. Casper and Carleton M. Clifford
Previous studies have indicated that Colorado tick fever (CTF) virus persists in erythrocytes of man and experimental animals for long periods. In this study, blood samples were obtained from nine patients at various intervals during and after clinical illness with CTF. Virus was isolated from erythrocytes of some patients as early as 1 day and as late as 120 days after onset of symptoms. Similar studies performed on experimentally infected Swiss mice and laboratory rats demonstrated that CTF virus persisted in their red blood cells for 60 and 50 days after inoculation, respectively. A single treatment with trypsin proved more efficient and rapid than multiple saline washes for removing neutralizing antibody from erythrocytes to allow the detection of CTF virus and viral antigens during any stage of illness or convalescence.
Wide-Mesh Netting, an Improved Method of Protection Against Blood-Feeding Diptera *
R. H. Grothaus, H. K. Gouck, D. E. Weidhaas and S. C. Jackson
Recent awareness of chemical contamination of the world's environment, combined with pesticide resistance in insect disease vectors, has caused an increase in nonchemical control research. The use of "space repellents" on wide-mesh netting (0.635 cm mesh) for the protection of humans against mosquito disease vectors holds much promise. Wide-mesh netting is economical, easy to utilize, and provides for good ventilation when used to cover windows and doors, or as protective shirts and bed nets. In this study, bed nets were used to evaluate three new repellents: o-ethoxy-N,N-diethylbenzamide; o-ethoxy-N,N-dipropylbenzamide; and 2-[(p-methoxybenzyl)oxy]-N,N-dipropylacetamide. Protection times ranged from 83 to 236 days. Considering availability and toxicity, 2-[(p-methoxybenzyl)oxy]-N,N-dipropylacetamide appears to hold promise as a space repellent for wide-mesh netting.
A Case of Intra-Abdominal Sparganosis in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Chirasak Khamboonruang, Dilok Premasathian and M. D. Little
A sparganum was found free in the abdominal cavity of a 23-year-old Thai female during surgery, apparently the first such case to be reported. This is the twelfth case of sparganosis in Thailand and the first from Chiang Mai.
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A.G. Becerra Sues Charities For Falsely Claiming to Help Veterans
Wednesday, Apr 19, 2017
Attorney General Xavier Becerra today filed a civil lawsuit seeking to recover hundreds of thousands of dollars from two California charities claiming to support veterans. The lawsuit alleges that the operators of Wounded Warriors Support Group (WWSG) and Central Coast Equine Rescue and Retirement (CCERR)...
Knight Fights For Funds For Veteran Homes
Rep. Steve Knight Representative Steve Knight (CA-25) led an effort to provide much-needed federal funds for California's State Veterans Home program. There are 8 State Veterans Homes in California that provide California's aged and disabled veterans with rehabilitative, residential, and medical...
Homicide Bureau Open House Event Offers Photos, Reunions
Celebrating 96 years in operation, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Homicide Bureau hosted an open house in their new offices at 1 Cupania Circle in the city of Monterey Park. The public was given a rare look inside of a 24-hour microcosm where some of the most heinous murders in Los Angeles...
LIMS 'VET 200' Program Provides Vets a Golden Ticket to New Career
Hollywood wants 200 good veterans now! Post-9/11 United States military veterans can now sign up at http://bit.ly/vet200jan for free training at the LIMS Movie Studios in Castaic for well-paying jobs and careers in the Hollywood movie and TV industry. LIMS (the Lifton Institute of Media Arts & Sciences)...
GoFundMe Created for Veteran Killed in Crash on Sierra Highway
Thursday, Jan 5, 2017
A GoFundMe page has been created to help support the memorial expenses for the family of a Lancaster man killed in a three-car crash that occurred on Sierra Highway in December. Daniel Cherry, 53, a disabled veteran, was the only one killed in a three-car collision that left three other people injured...
Local Veteran, Family Have a Home for the Holidays
Habitat for Humanity, Home for Families and ReStore recently helped a Santa Clarita veteran and his family have a home for the holidays. Young Marine Veteran Fernando, and his wife Tatiana, planned a wonderful future. He served his country proudly, both in Afghanistan and Iraq with a remarkable spirit,...
COC SBDC Receives Wells Fargo Grant to Assist Veterans
The Small Business Development Center, or SBDC, hosted by College of the Canyons has received a $25,000 grant from Wells Fargo Bank, which will allow the SBDC to provide entrepreneurial training and comprehensive one-on-one technical assistance to military veterans and their family members. The 2016...
Saugus HS 'Wall of Honor' Pays Tribute to Alumni Veterans
Over 500 people watched as Saugus High School students, faculty, and alumni unveiled the newest feature of its campus: a 20 foot long and 16 foot high "Wall of Honor" that pays tribute to the 225 veterans from Saugus High School and the three graduates who died during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The...
October 7: Rappel to Help Give Army Veterans a Home
Wednesday, Aug 10, 2016
Habitat for Humanity for the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys is calling for its daring donors to rappel down from the roof of the 25 story Hilton Universal City building to help raise funds to give military veterans a safe place to call home. Two of those veterans who will receive homes from...
Knight Introduces Veterans Legislation
Tuesday, Jun 28, 2016
U.S. Rep. Steve Knight introduced a bill Tuesday that would help veterans recover from post traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, military sexual trauma, chronic pain, and opiate addiction. The "No Hero Left Untreated Act" would establish a pilot program with the Department...


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Home US Homeland Security How the New START Treaty Has Strengthened Putin—and Hurt America
How the New START Treaty Has Strengthened Putin—and Hurt America
Four years ago today, U.S. and Russia signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). An examination of the past four
years reveals that critics' early assessments of the flawed treaty have proven frighteningly accurate: Putin gets his way with little to no cost to himself, while the U.S. pays a high price.
Critics of New START warned that loopholes in the treaty would result in Russia's circumvention of nuclear and missile reductions and that New START lacks a sufficient verification process, which would ultimately allow the Russians to build up their nuclear and missile arsenals without detection. Critics of New START also pointed out the futility of engaging Russia in another arms treaty in light of their ongoing violations of past treaties such as the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
The critics of New START were right.
These disadvantages are compounded by Russia's inclusion of language in New START that limits U.S. defense options, as well as the Russians attempt to use the treaty to inhibit U.S. missile sites in Europe. The administration has already cancelled Phase Four of the European Phased Adaptive Approach, its missile defense plan in Europe. Phase Four was supposed to protect the U.S. homeland from long-range ballistic missiles; it was also the phase to which the Russians objected the most.
In order to counter the damages inflicted by New START, the U.S. must withdraw from the treaty and invest in upgrading its aged nuclear weapons infrastructure. The U.S. must also increase its missile defense capabilities—Iran and North Korea have been steadily improving their respective ballistic missile capabilities.
However, the Obama Administration has failed to prioritize missile defense and nuclear modernization. In fact, the administration has slashed missile defense funding and relied instead upon a failed "reset" policy with Russia. The Nuclear Posture Review Implementation Study released by the White House in 2013 advocated for a 33 percent unilateral reduction below New START level of U.S. nuclear weapons—a dangerous policy in the face of a Russian nuclear build-up.
In order to protect the U.S. homeland and the nation's interests abroad, the administration must reassess its missile and nuclear policy. As the events in Crimea have shown, Putin has once again affirmed his untrustworthy and devious nature. The U.S. must develop its nuclear forces to defend against a variety of threats in an increasingly hostile world, regardless of Russia's nuclear modernization or actions in Ukraine.
Source: Heritage Foundation
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Welcome to St John's
St. John's is a friendly and inclusive, Church of England primary school for children aged 4-11 years. We have 4 classes and the current number of children on the school roll is 91 (September 2018).
We provide a caring and stimulating environment in which pupils and staff are happy, successful and prepared for life as a citizen of the modern world. We encourage positive social skills, self-respect and a caring attitude towards all others in the school and wider community.
Our dedicated and committed staff team and Governing Body are very proud of the education we offer. We believe that our emphasis on a family atmosphere, together with the expectation of high standards, provides children with an ideal beginning to their school lives. Our strong links with the parish Church, St Helen's, help ensure that the education we offer is rooted in a distinctively Christian ethos.
The children at St John's abide by the school's motto, which is to be the BEST. The letters of the word 'BEST' are formed by our key values:
The pupils are proud of the school and its history; the school was built in 1837 and we remain in the original, beautiful Grade II listed Victorian building which is full of character and charm.
I hope that you find this website useful and it gives you an insight into school life here at St John's. Please come and have a look around to get a feel for what makes our school special: our wonderful children.
I very much look forward to meeting you.
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