it seems very light and small so should easily fit in to my PDF pocket it's not bigger then an old school mobile phone really.
As I mainly sail alone should provide a bit of back up in case things go pear shaped.
Can anyone point me to a website that goes over the relevant procedure in using VHF it years since i did this sort of thing!
some trainers offer a course inclusive of licence fee from about £80 - not sure who offers this in your area.
Yeah, I should of said, I have all that, a certificate of competence in radio telephony (as if) from years ago as part of a coastal skipper course and a ship portable radio licence I got today online from ofcom. What I really want to clarify is this:They issued me with a 'T' number so in any communication with officaldom or god forbid a distress call do I use that number rather then the name of my vessel?
This page on UKRGB is a good resource for all things VHF and relevant to paddlers.
It sounds like you want to register your vessel on the CG66 scheme. You can fill in the form online.
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I bought this book and found it to be pretty good.
It doesn't really answer the main question you posed, what to do with the T number in calls. I always figure I'd just use the model name of my canoe.
Thankfully I've never needed to test it out to date.
Shameful question to ask but what happens if you use one of these radios in an emergency but don't have the necessary license? Would you be rescued (if need be) and then fined afterwards?
Cheers just ordered that on Amazon!
Yes, you would be rescued and you may get procecuted afterwards but I guess the authorities may find this a little harsh way of dealing with you.
The whole point of complying with the requirements, such as using recognised identification is so that the relevant authorities can easily find out who you are. Which I would suggest is quite important in a rescue situation.
Those wanting to engage in Coastal Canoeing should consider adding their craft to Small Ships Register (Part III): this "provides an inexpensive, simple registration which proves the ships nationality (a kind of passport)".
In UK waters, the CG66 scheme should be sufficient (though the SSR wouldn't hurt)... but CG66 allows you to enter your craft's Small Ships Registration Number: the two systems are complimentary. Advantages to the SSR might emerge if coastal canoeing elsewhere: I'm not aware of any BCU guidance, but the RYA has a very helpful page.
The guidance notes say the new SSR application costs £25, with the registration being valid for 5 years: three months before your registration is due to expire, RSS will apparently send a renewal notice to the address you registered with them... but that must currently be accompanied by a further £25 fee.
I have (and use) a marine VHF radio. I did the VHF one day course and the test at the end. Well worth a few quid for the training and also it gives you confidence to use the radio without making a complete Muppet of yourself. It also means you are legal!
I have (and use) a marine VHF radio. I did the VHF one day course [....] Well worth a few quid for the training and also it gives you confidence to use the radio without making a complete Muppet of yourself. It also means you are legal!
If you read the books you'll get the idea... but the course is short enough and harmless enough: probably worth anyone's time. It's not just VHF though: the course covers the "Global Maritime Distress and Safety System" (aka GMDSS).
Given that's it's a one-off training and allows practise on training units.... I'd suggest it's generally pretty good value for money!
I'd suggest it's generally pretty good value for money!
UK regulations permit you to monitor the radio for safety purposes or to use it to request assistance in an emergency without a Certificate of Competence and Authority to Operate.
I wouldn't bank on it being waterproof! In fact, I'd say that it's water resistant at it very best!
There is only one off the shelf product that IS waterproof and that's a Rolex watch!
These don't seem very versatile though, you either activate them and send out a distress signal... or you don't.
As it is a portable radio and not a ship radio you use the 'T' number as your call sign, then inform the coastguard of the type of craft you are.
After all it may be someone else in need of help that you come across but can not physically do due the size of your canoe/kayak or situation.
Getting a refresher on how to use it and a licence would help with your actions should something go pear shaped, it needs to be almost instinctive an action to be an efficient call. The RYA run courses all over and the ones I have done under their banner have all been worthwhile and fun to do.
Do not rely on the radio alone, pack flares if going to sea and keep an eye on their expiry dates.
Epirbs are great but do not allow for a listening watch, coastguard updates and admonishing the skipper of the fishing boat who was too preoccupied with his super strength lager to see you ahead ( the last one may come back and bite you legally if you do not have a licence though).
Its the icom m33 that has the battery terminal issue. However, I have had my m33 for nearly two years and its as good as new, reason being I slip it into an aquapac whilst on the water as a secondary defence against the alleged 'waterproof' claim!
If doing a course on VHF radios means that you don't use "over and out", it's money well spent!
Good to know Steve, thanks. I'm hoping to buy a VHF and do the course this winter and that raises the inevitable question of which radio to get. The icom ones seem to have the best reputation amongst yachties/dinghy sailers but the m33 seems to have tarnished this a little amongst sea kayakers. It seems that other models (such as the m71) are still rated though. The complaints seem to relate solely to the corrosion problem on the m33 so an aquapac could be the answer for that model.
the m23 has a sealed jack point next to the antenna at the top of the radio, (it looks like a volume knob) you undo that in dry conditions and connect the charge cable. Time will tell how reliable it is but I can't find any problems reported on the internets on this model.
the VHF is good to have , but its range can be limiting , a PLB is the beter for emergancies as its satalite driven , cariying both is what I do, for sea kayaking , I only cary the PLB on river/walking trips.
Can I ask if it is possible to use a VHF radio for general chatting to other sailors while out together or must the band width be kept free for genuine emergencies?
The reason I ask is that I feel that it would be useful to communicate freely with other canoe sailors with stuff like: "I'm heading over to the other more sheltered side of the water, you coming with me?" or "Can we head back now, I'm taking on a little too much water" or "Lets not go out too far before lunch and head back this way later when there are more of us" or "I'm struggling to keep up with you guys, can we stay together please" etc. etc.
As apposed to stuff like: "God that curry we last night has gone right through me, so try and stay upwind of me, lol!" or "What was that joke he told us last night?" or "What's your favourite sail colour?" etc. etc.
It would be a shame if the only thing you can use VHF radios for is: "Help, I'm in trouble, call 999 someone please!"
Are there seperate channels like CB radio where everyone going out can choose a chat channel for whatever they want to chat about, with an emergency channel that everyone will hear if there is a major problem?
Anyone done the courses or have experience of VHF radios know what is allowed?
Yes you can use it to communicate with fellow boaters but if that's all you wanted it for then a couple of cheapo PMR walkie talkies that are readily available would be a more financially viable option (i.e. cheap to buy, could be easily waterproofed in an aquapac and no course/licence required). We sometimes use PMR radios when backcountry snowboarding to communicate about safe lines to ride, where to meet up etc, they're quite handy and have decent range within line of sight (it's not unusual to be able to talk to people a couple of miles away as the crow flies).
Marine VHF is used by Coastguard, shipping, Marine Police etc as well as leisure boaters so is altogether more "formal".
or alternatively you can just nominate a chanel to be on , depending on your location diferant chanels are alocated to diferant youses , comershal fishing , sport and rec youses ports and harbours ect..
we never cary out a convisation on 16 , always cal up and nominate another chanel to go to , then ther are the repeter chanels , and the coast gard also youse VHF for wether forcasts, thay brordcast that ther will be a forcast , and which chanel it will be on .then you change chanel to lisen , ater words you go back to 16 to lisen . 16 is also wher you hear/ brordcast your destress calls.
Then the risk is that everyone else that turns up, will have a different radio on different frequencies and the only person that can hear you is the other person with exactly the same model radio!
If it is possible to pick a channel on the VHF system for everyone to chat to their hearts content and it has the added safety feature of an emergency channel monitored by the coast guard and the Wessex helicoptor that flies over to help later, then this is the system to go for I think.
Your conclusion is very much what I would recommend. Although constant inane chat is not really what any VHF channel should be used for, the kind of group communications you mention above is absolutely what one of the ship-to-ship channels is for. We in the OCSG have adopted 08 as our standard, but if someone else is using it then you need to change to another.
The license-free PMR radios all use the same channels so even if you have different brands/models that is not a problem - but they are not as robust or waterproof, generally (you can get "professional" ones but they are just as costly as marine VHF ones so no point).
Also VHFs have dual monitoring so you can have it set to your working channel (eg 08) but still be able to hear Ch16 for other calls, emergencies. The coastguard broadcasts the weather every 3 hours as well.
Last edited by windorpaddle; 17th-October-2011 at 09:47 AM.
I still intend to get a VHF and qualification this winter but that's because I aspire to do more sailing on the sea. If I was confining myself to inland water I wouldn't bother.
The reason I would still go for a VHF radio then, even if I had no intention of going out to sea is that you would only have a VHF radio when we meet up at a meet somewhere inland. If I went for a cheaper radio, I would have no one to communicate with.
On the basis that some people would only have a VHF radio, isn't it better to say to everyone thinking of buying a radio, buy VHF because that's what most people will have.
Just to say that Tony & myself took the VHF Radio (DSC) course yesterday at Rutland Water and both passed. Licences now applied for.
If I was confining myself to inland water I wouldn't bother.
BTW, we were talking to the safety boat team and they are encouraging all sailors to get a handheld VHF radio and the training. While they will get 3 or 4 ribs on the water, at times there are hundreds of boats on the water at the same time and they can't see everyone all of the time. Being able to call for help is better than hoping someone has seen you and has a radio to report it.
Last edited by Steamerpoint; 23rd-April-2012 at 11:27 AM.
Well done Chris - and Tony! Good to know that Rutland Safety are keen for VHF to be used - makes sense and good practice/familiarity for us.
By the way, I forgot to mention that I took Gavin's idea of a laminated card and made something up that would help me remember the VHF course and is smaller (Double sided) which I can easily take with me in a pocket/ drybag.
The OCSG sheet I will leave in the car as a checklist before I set off as it is great memory jogger and does cover the Mayday procedure and the standard radio procedure, but I made this sheet to help remind me of things like the Pan Pan Urgency Alert procedure, the Mayday Relay procedure, Important Terms like Seelonce & Prudonce etc. plus the standard channel allocations like port operations, marina operations, sailing clubs, coastguard and spare channels we can use. I just figured that I should capture the things I should try to remember while it is still fresh in my mind.
That's a good idea and one I was planning to do myself. It'd be handy for briefing anyone who went out for a sail in the canoe with you as well in case something happened to you, a kind of idiots guide to how to make an emergency call. My friend whose yacht I've sometimes crewed on has something similar by the vhf on the boat in case he takes a header over the side and one of the crew has to make the call.
I love the way your meant to pronounce the numbers in the phonetic alphabet, WUN, TREE, FOWER, NINER !
In fact some of the letters are pronounced oddly, HOH TELL, KEH BECK!!
Looks like we're all thinking along the same lines re a reminder card. I did one a few weeks ago and shared it with some group members for their suggestions but hadn't got round to production yet. My plan is for pocket size and double-sided. I can print and laminate them at work for group members needing one.
The only problem now with the older vhf radios i.e the ones without dsc is that the coastguard no longer listen in to channel 16.
I thought they still did, but just not with a dedicated radio operator, they listen in an open environment in the ops room.
Yeah they still monitor 16. There are very few handheld radios with DSC still (just two afaik) and they suffer from poor battery life. DSC handhelds will probably be great in about five years time.
Roy, the coast guard very much use channel 16. I'm not sure if handheld radios have DSC if I'm honest. Some may have, but we weren't shown any.
The course must teach DSC now, but I doubt I'll be using it again for many years to come.
I found DSC a little too fiddly if I'm honest. While you can just hit the "Distress" button and it will transmit your MMSI number saying who you are and your location if it has GPS in it/ connected to GPS, you still need to send a distress message on channel 16 to advise of your mayday call. Sure you can go into the menu settings to state an indication of your emergency (I.e. Fire, sinking etc.) before you hit the red "Distress" button, but I'm not sure you will have time.
I like the way that you can page a friend and take him to another channel for a chat, but if your radio has "Dual Watch" as ours does, you can call them on 16 or a spare channel anyway as long as to pre-agree to communicate on the two channels at some point.
DSC is good, but I'm not sure is solves everything. A kind of simple pager that can tell people you know to go to another channel and no one else knows you have done it.
I'm not sure if handheld radios have DSC if I'm honest. Some may have, but we weren't shown any.
This has been an option in the US and elsewhere for some time... but up until recently, such sets were not legal over here. Now the rules have changed... so the world can finally move on!
I got my Icom M71 under the misconception that DSC on handhelds was many years away. Had I known the rule change was imminent, I'd have waited. DSC is VERY well established on fixed devices: I'm pretty sure that before long, it will also be ubiquitous in the handheld market.
Ps. That said... I've also seen the concerns about battery life that Chris has highlighted. One to watch.
I've just bought a Standard Horizon HX851. It has DSC with GPS.
It's incredibly easy to use and is a great step forward in marine safety.
I'm getting 9 hours plus of battery life which is enough for a day trip.
I have no doubts that DSC is the future and I was tempted by the HX851 but it was the fact that I could expect almost double the battery life with a non DSC model that swayed me against them. As I understand it the Mayday signal is sent as a data burst when you push the button on the DSC radios and as such has a better chance of getting through than a voice transmission (which is why the spoken Mayday is sent as a follow up). The DSC signal also gives your location as a GPS fix automatically which is great. One of the big draw backs with a handheld is the limited range when the aerial is down at sea level so anything that effectively increases that range (such as the DSC transmission) has to be a good thing. You can get a similar effect with a mobile phone which will send a text message perfectly with a very weak signal but won't allow you to make a voice call.
I decided to go with a non DSC radio for now (due to the battery issue) but I'll look again in a few years time. In the meantime I intend to buy a PLB as another line of defence when I can afford it (I could have bought an HX851 for less than the combined cost of a non DSC radio and a PLB so my decision wasn't budget led).
I registered my radio with Ofcom yesterday (https://services.ofcom.org.uk/), it's a very simple and quick process and means I'm fully legal to use my radio.
I wasn't going to bother with the ship portable radio licence as it is no longer policed and I don't need an MMSI number for a non-DSC radio, but not having to look into where I should get one, you made it too easy Chris and decided to just do it!
If for nothing else, they have my Next Of Kin details on record.


Join us for the last autocross of the Spring. We have a fantastic venue to drive at Arizona Motorsports Park. Gates open at 7am, sound testing around 8 and first car out around 9am. Pat the Hot Dog Lady will be serving lunch to pre-registered drivers. We have instructors for first timers and loaner helmets. Cost is $60 if you pre-register and $75 if you register at the gate. Reminder that your car must have a valid AMP sound sticker or pass sound prior to running on track. See you there!


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I have had my G0454 from a little over a month now. I have put thru a couple of hundred board feet. I did have a problem with the pressure bar being bowed which grizzly promptly sent out a replacement. Take your time setting it up and review the videos and it will leave a nice finish. I have no visible snipe, it did take some trial and error on some of the adjustments though. I am really happy with this machine from grizzly.
love the planer. The down side, it took over 6 months to get.
I have been a long time "Grizzly" supporter. This purchase took almost a year to receive from back-order status, very disappointing. The product works well as for planning large lumber but the dust collection shoot constantly gets clogged even with 2 HP dust collection system. Poor design on this front. I have to rate as average.
I bought this item on a presale and it took months to arrive. Well worth the wait! So far I've run about 1K bd. ft. of pine through it and couldn't be more satisfied.
Yes I am happy with my new planner. It was worth waiting 11 months for.
I finally received my planer after waiting 10 months. I will give a review later. I just got it off the two pallets and it appears to be no damage. The problem was getting it off the pallets as I am a one man shop. I built a 4 foot ramp and us my cars hitch and come along to guide planer. I am excited to use it and will let you know.
im soo glad i got this planer !!!! Thank you so much !!!!
Waited for this item for 6 months, arrived with damage blades which Grizzly furnished and I replaced. I now have chatter marks and some problems with end snipe. The adjustments are not what you would call precision. It has definitely not been plug and play.
I have used it a few times now and my old one will gather dust, Don't know how I worked with out it.
Bought this planer to replace my aging 12" planer. So glad I did. I love the power, extra features (movable base, top rollers, locking spindles) and the ease of setting it up. Most likely the last planer I'll ever have to buy. Nice machine.
The first one that was sent was damaged by UPS and it cost me time away from work. The second one showed up a week or so later. Put it together and found nothing out of place. I milled some beetle kill later and what would take hours in the past just took 20 minutes. My neighbor stopped by and is now ready to purchase one for himself. Great machine.
Machine arrived in good shape and the setup directions were clear and complete.
Planer worked well right from the start.
My past experience with Grizzly tools has been that they have poor an non functional on-off switches, this planer on- off is proving to be the same old thing ; did not work at all out of the crate.Took the cover off and bent the linkage and it worked a couple times now it won't turn on, at least it didn't start on fire like my Grizzly wood lathe did. Took three months to get it waiting on back order. So far not a great purchase, just ok.
Great planer set up wasn't bad it was really close right out of the crate. I had a issue with the switch but customer service took care of it with no hassle and sent me a replacement with no issues.
Wow, what more can I say about this awesome monster.
This is a great planer and I highly recommend it.
I purchased in 2008, This planer is great. The only thing i would change is the dust collection port is left handed only, not a huge deal but should offer in both directions.


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Q: Moving values up in nested hierarchy until key is no longer named '_ignore' Given an object as shown below, how would I approach moving all values up in the hierarchy until their parent no longer is named _ignore?
In an attempt to transform Excel CSV data to a nested object, I ended up with something that looks like the following:
// Old structure:
var obj = {
    _root: {},
    _top1: {
        "_ignore": {
            "_ignore": [
                "I can no longer traverse down",
                "so the list that contains this",
                "text should be placed under the",
                "_top1 node, which is the first",
                "parent not named _ignore. It should",
                "be the only child to '_top1'."
            ]
        }
    },

    _top2: {}
}

_root and _top2 should not be touched, but the top1 should have the lowest-level list as its value in the final structure. I'd like the object to look like this:
// Desired structure:
var obj = {
    _root: {},
    _top1: [
            "I can no longer traverse down",
            "so the list that contains this",
            "text should be placed under the",
            "_top1 node, which is the first",
            "parent not named _ignore"
            ],

    _top2: {}
}

I know I'm in the recursive domain, just haven't been able to apply it in a proper manner.
Help/direction is greatly appreciated.

A: Maybe this function can help you:
const removeIgnore = (obj) => {

    let newObj = Object.assign({}, obj);

    const findStructure = (obj) => {
        const keys = Object.keys(obj)
        if (keys.length == 0) return obj
        return (keys[0] === '_ignore') ? findStructure(obj[keys[0]]) : obj
    }

    for (k in newObj) newObj[k] = findStructure(newObj[k])

    return newObj
}

It will iterate over all root keys, and search for the deepest structure that is not part of a _ignore key. Will return a new object with the modified data.
Demo:
/* 3 deeps _ignore */
var obj = {
    _root: {},
    _top1: {
        "_ignore": {
            "_ignore": {
                "_ignore": [
                    "I can no longer traverse down",
                    "so the list that contains this",
                    "text should be placed under the",
                    "_top1 node, which is the first",
                    "parent not named _ignore. It should",
                    "be the only child to '_top1'."
                ]
            }
        }
    },

    _top2: {}
}

const newObj = removeIgnore(obj);

console.log(newObj);

/*
{ _root: {},
  _top1:
   [ 'I can no longer traverse down',
     'so the list that contains this',
     'text should be placed under the',
     '_top1 node, which is the first',
     'parent not named _ignore. It should',
     'be the only child to \'_top1\'.' ],
  _top2: {} }

*/

A: You will need to do a depth first search down the tree to replace the ignores

var obj = {
    _root: {},
    _top1: {
        "_ignore": {
            "_ignore": [
                "I can no longer traverse down",
                "so the list that contains this",
                "text should be placed under the",
                "_top1 node, which is the first",
                "parent not named _ignore. It should",
                "be the only child to '_top1'."
            ]
        }
    },

    _top2: {}
}
function hoistIgnore(item, parent, parent_key){
  if(Array.isArray(item) || !(typeof item === "object")) {
    parent[parent_key] = item;
    return item
  }
  for(var key in item){
    if(key === "_ignore"){
      hoistIgnore(item[key], parent, parent_key);
    } else {
      hoistIgnore(item[key], item, key);
    }
  }
  return item
}

console.log(hoistIgnore(obj))

A: Indeed you basically just want the contents of the deepest _ignore. Since you're also converting all ancestor objects (except for obj itself) to arrays, it's safe to say that any other properties can be destroyed. In other words, an object has either an _ignore property or is the actual content we're looking for.
In one sentence you could say; give me the contents of _ignore if is there, and recurse that.
In pseudo code:
function findContents (level) {
    if (i have an ignored level)
        return findContents (ignored level)
    else
        return level
}

In Javascript code:
const findContents = obj => obj._ignore
    ? findContents(obj._ignore)
    : obj;

And to apply that to your structure:
obj._top1 = findContents(obj._top1);

Have fun

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Polsko-Turecka Izba Gospodarcza (tur. Polonya-Türkiye Ticaret Odasi) której celem jest wsparcie firm członkowskich, a także innych zainteresowanych firm w podejmowaniu wzajemnie korzystnej współpracy z partnerami z obydwu krajów, a w rezultacie wspomaganie rozwoju stosunków gospodarczych i handlowych pomiędzy Polską i Turcją, a także między regionami polskimi i tureckimi.

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Allow me to introduce you to this theme called Divi, by Elegant Themes.
Is there also such an app for Linux?
Harry, good question! The Creative Cloud version should work in any browser, which is obviously OS-agnostic.
If you're looking for something locally installed, check out this piece containing some viable alternatives – https://uxplanet.org/open-design-freeware-tools-for-designers-f7bdde99f2e0.
Looking forward to trying this out. Have been looking for a good mock-up tool.
Let us know how you get on, Terri!
I typically use Adobe Illustrator as my mock-up tool. I didn't know about Adobe XD being so versatile.
Thanks for this. I have been looking for a simple way to create design mockups.
Is this really much faster than dragging and styling elements on a blank page in Divi?
I am also curious in the answer to this question. John could you tell us please?
Hum… building a page directly as a mock-up with DIVI will save you more time than using a mock-up software.
Divi is build to do this already, so why would you want to do this 2 times ? Mock-up than building the actual page.
I do mock-up directly in Divi, client see the page already in desktop, mobile, tablet. They see changes Live really fast, no need to send files. And if it's accepted, I only have to change the actual images.
Since I do that, I almost doubled my production time and reduced my interaction with the client. I also cut the problem that in the end, you can't exactly do the mock-up because of how web is. Never work perfectly. Being already in the right builder. There is no surprise.
Also, with the new layout injection they added recently, (thank you Divi for adding this), it's so much quicker.
Totally agree. I've been doing this since 1999 and when tools like Divi started to appear it was a game changer because you could say goodbye to mock-ups! Separate mock-ups now are only really done for very large corporate websites because they have the budget and the web design company can change for the extra time. They very likely will also not be using Divi as it makes the process to quick and unprofitable. I can imagine tools like this are good if you don't know CSS but you'll spend just as long learning the mock-up software as you would learning CSS.
Adobe are just trying to drag you into paying for ever, and ever (and ever) for their subscription service. Divi has completely sidestepped this process – design live, and present – job done.
Agree with you guys – I don't see the point of mocking up a small-to-midsize site in a separate application if you're going to use WYSIWYG methods to build the site anyway. I remember buying NetObjects Fusion, back in the day, to create mockups – then finding that those mockups served just fine as fully-functioning sites. Divi can be used the same way.
That said, this article could be good for people who are making very large, complex, and / or high-budget sites, as was already pointed out here in the comments.
Adobe XD is free (as in beer). There are many prototyping tools cropping up in the design industry, so this is their "in". I find it useful all on its own, but of course having a vector editing program such as Illustrator or Sketch is extremely helpful in tandem.
I was thinking the exact same thing as I was reading this. Would be interested in seeing something about using XD for this process that I may be overlooking.
excellent post, I always keep the emails that arrive to dedicate one or two days of reading per month.
I personally think the Sketch App is a much better mockup tool, (if you are on a Mac) if you must use a mockup tool. But, Divi itself (in my opinion) is a great mockup tool, and allows the client to see the changes between desktop/tablet/mobile in a live setting. Changes are easier, and it saves a ton of time once the mockup is approved. I once tested this time-wise, and save much more time using Divi itself. I'm not a big fan of Adobe, and it is worth noting that XD has a "free version". Adobe also has a paid version, which isn't limited to one active mockup, and is a monthly subscription, just like their other apps. Like some other software Adobe has offered in the past, I anticipate that once this catches on, the free version will either be extremely limited, or eliminated altogether. I will stick with Divi for my mockups for 90% of my clients, and for those who necessitate using a mockup tool, I will use Sketch.
Thanks for your insight, Kathy!
Great article! I didn't realize you didn't need a paid account to use Adobe XD I will be trying it out! I've always just used Illustrator to create mockups but this may be faster!
In my experience, the real benefit of using Adobe XD is the prototyping tools. There are many tools out there that allow you to mock up a design (Sketch, Illustrator, Affinity, Axure, the list goes on), but only a few actually allow you to set clickable "zones" that progress from one screen to another. In this way, our agency is able to help our clients envision not only the base visuals, but also how users will interact with the app. Even better, some of these tools (XD included) allow you to navigate the "app" using an actual device.
I believe some tools are better than others at going from "design" to "code", but that's assuming you're building a custom theme.
Good insight, Chris. We're glad you've enjoyed what Adobe have to offer!
So cool…I have a CC subscription and never noticed this app was there. I just did the tutorial in 5 minutes. Nifty!
Harold, they have lots of other tools lurking within your account too! I'm glad we've introduced you to XD!
It's definitely Adobe trying to compete with Sketch, but from what I've seen everything is manual. There should be a library of buttons or presets to choose from. Have to draw out every element, etc. is no more cumberson than AI or PS. Both have artboards and these capabilities. Its Adobe wanting to offer something for free to get you in to their paid CC. If you already have CC I think it's just another app taking up space. Agreeing that it can save time with imagery, fonts, wireframing, etc You still have to replicate this in in WP/Divi. And you really have to know the limitations, because you can layout something so simple in XD, that it would be really hard without a lot of CSS and customization in Divi.
Thanks for the insight Matt. I wonder how XD will evolve, especially with so much competition. It will be interesting to see!
Call me old school, wait I am, I'll stick with pencil and paper.
Looks great, We should try it on the next project.


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Football NewsMohamed Salah's agent 'jets into England for talks with Liverpool over a new £500k-per-week deal'
Mohamed Salah's agent 'jets into England for talks with Liverpool over a new £500k-per-week deal'
Mo Salah's agent Ramy Abbas Issa flew into England on Saturday morning to watch Liverpool's Premier League clash with Watford later that day.
The Egyptian forward put in a show-stopping performance to help Liverpool win 5-0 and even scored his 10th goal of the season with a remarkable solo effort.
Following Salah's impressive display, it is believed that his Colombian agent will continue to negotiate a new £500,000-a-week deal for the forward – who is widely regarded as one of the most important players in Jurgen Klopp's squad.
Drawing from reports, Salah's agent and the club have begun initial talks over a new deal for the Egyptian – who is currently on a £200,000-a-week contract that runs until the summer of 2023.
However, it seems likely that Salah will be handed a significant pay rise after the Liverpool manager said the forward was currently on better form than Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Klopp's remarks came after Salah scored a wonder goal against Watford.
He collected a pass from Roberto Firmino, who finished with a hat-trick, on the edge of the box and beat Juan Hernandez, Juraj Kucka and Craig Cathcart to find the back of the net.
Speaking of Salah's performance, Klopp said, 'His performance was massive today. The pass for the first goal was great and the second goal was special.
'He is top. We all see it. Who is better than him? We don't have to talk about what Messi and Ronaldo have done for world football and their dominance. But right now, he is the best.'
The Liverpool manager went on to suggest there is more to come from his Egyptian star. He added: 'Salah is in his age where you can still improve, and he's doing that constantly.
'You saw the first goal that he set up for Sadio today, that is an outstanding pass. He brought that, I don't know, from the summer break. After that, he started doing these kinds of things.
'How I said, we don't have hours and hours and hours to train different things. But the boys improve their game by themselves.
'The consistency he delivers, all this kind of stuff, maybe people just now start seeing it – it was always there. He plays for us for five years now but it's absolutely incredible the way he performs since he's here.
'He's in the top, top five since he is at Liverpool pretty much. And now he is the best in that moment.
'The big thing between Cristiano and Messi was that nobody had a doubt about it for years, but Mo is already on the top level for years as well and there's still a lot to come from him because of his desire. He just wants to perform on a top-class level.'
Salah was also hailed as the 'best in the world at the moment' by Steve McManaman. The former Liverpool player placed Salah above Kylian Mbappe, Neymar, Robert Lewandowski and others based on his current form.
McManaman said: 'He is the best in the world at the moment. I've seen Mbappe, Neymar, Messi – who hasn't played enough.
'Lewandowski has carried on scoring for Bayern but not these types of goals. I can't think of anyone who is playing better football than Mo Salah at the moment.'
Fellow pundit Joe Cole continued: 'There is a massive argument for it (being the best player in the world). Certainly, the best player in this country. He is in the form of his life. He was a pleasure to watch. The pass for the first goal was outstanding as well.
'He's such a top, top player. you don't appreciate it until you see all the little stuff off the ball. He's so strong as well. Technically he is unbelievable. He reminds me of Ronaldinho, he was freakishly strong.'
As a result, the Reds sporting director Michael Edwards will be eager to tie Salah down with a contract extension – having recently agreed terms with Virgil van Dijk, Alisson Becker and Trent Alexander-Arnold.
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LA BOTTEGA DEL TEMPO A VAPORE – launch new Lyric Video: Tempo Inverso PT.1 Il Viaggio – Music World!
Italian ProgRock band La Bottega del Tempo a Vapore just released a brand new Lyric video for their song Tempo Inverso PT.1 Il Viaggio taken from the last album Viaggi InVersi (released by Revalve records April 27, 2018)!
The Time never passes in vain.
Hardly and constantly, as a solid master, ticks in the Workshop of the Universe.
Sometimes it wastes no time, sometimes it doesn't. But when everything goes in the right way, the time chain rings link each other, as they are made for, and its action become a myth.
La Bottega del Tempo a Vapore is the link among 6 different experiences.
The kind of music is not a random choice. In fact, in last years, music has become simple in order to gain as many as followers all around the world. We try to go upside down this line, where music, rhythm, and riffs are very articulated to let the listener live inside the story events and to see what we want to share.
In our works, the plot of the story become, then, the main element.
In the " Il Guerriero Errante " we spoke about a love story between a strong warrior of a King and the Lady, who should marry the Prince.
In "Viaggi Inversi " we try to trace a temporal line from the future to our days, which includes events from our first work, detailed news about each character like the King, the Witch, and the Lady.
ONYDIA – launch "The Unknown" (Official Lyric Video) and album pre-order!


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Q: How to display html element and php string in the same line? Hope someone can help me with this.
This is my code:
function swh_woocommerce_store_credit_shortcode() {
    $store_credits = swh_woocommerce_get_store_credits();
    echo "Remaining Credit:";
    return wc_price($store_credits);

}
add_shortcode( 'swh_store_credit_total_value', 'swh_woocommerce_store_credit_shortcode' );

I'm trying to display echo and return in the same line.
i. e. Remaning Credit: $80 and not
Remaining Credit:

$80

Thanks!

A: function swh_woocommerce_store_credit_shortcode() {
    $store_credits = swh_woocommerce_get_store_credits();
    $price = wc_price($store_credits);
    echo "Remaining Credit: {$price}";
    return $price;

}
add_shortcode( 'swh_store_credit_total_value', 'swh_woocommerce_store_credit_shortcode' );

But be careful what you want to return, wp_price or a HTML :)

A: You must not use use echo or print in a shortcode function. The echoed string will be printed out immediately when the content is processed, which is almost always too early.
So in your function you should just return the string without using echo:
function swh_woocommerce_store_credit_shortcode() {
    $store_credits = swh_woocommerce_get_store_credits();
    return "Remaining Credit:" . wc_price($store_credits);
}


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Home Nigeria Metro British High Commission Urges Restraint as Nigerian Army Intensifies Internal Security
British High Commission Urges Restraint as Nigerian Army Intensifies Internal Security
File Photo: Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Buratai
The British High Commission (BHC) has expressed concern over the continued looting of private and public properties, including pockets of violence in some parts of the country.
In its statement of concern, which was posted on twitter, the BHC said: "We remain concerned by acts of looting and violence in Nigeria and urge security services use restraint as order is restored. Working with all stakeholders, judicial panel of inquiry must investigate all incidents, including #Lekki and ensure accountability for crimes. #EndPoliceBrutality"
Meanwhile, in an effort to bring back normalcy and stop continued looting in some part of the country, men of Nigerian army have deployed more soldiers on the streets.
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The Army High Command decided on Monday stating that troops will prevent the continued looting of public and private properties by miscreants and criminals across the country, a situation that was a fallout of the #EndSARS protest hijacked by hoodlums.
The decision was taken during a meeting between the Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai and principal staff officers, General Officers Commanding and field Commanders at the Army headquarters on Monday.
In a chat with newsmen after the meeting, Acting Director of Army Public Relations Col. Sagir Musa, disclosed that Gen. Buratai recalled that "the events of the past few days in our dear nation have shown the determination of some unscrupulous individuals and groups to destabilise Nigeria by all means having hijacked the peaceful #EndSARS protest marches resulting to widespread violence, acts of wanton destruction and looting of public and private properties in many parts of the country. These acts led to the imposition of curfew in many states".
Musa stated further that Gen. Buratai directed its men and officers to respond "quickly and decisively" to any attempt by "elements or destabilising agents" to cause a breach of the law and order.
In a charge, the Army attempted to disabuse its personnel not to fear being reported to the International Criminal Court (ICC) as they are performing their constitutionally-assigned duty of defending the nation and its citizens.
For the avoidance of doubt, the army gave assurance that it remains committed to democratic governance "as the only panacea for development and progress."
Gen. Buratai said the military had lost 10 AK-47 rifles and personnel to the violence, adding that the Army was aware of efforts to drag it into the protests with a view to "discredit" it and the government.
Abuja Palliative Warehouse: Three Women Feared Dead in Looting Spree Stampede
The Chief of Army staff was said to have also warned that troops on internal security or on guard duties outside the barracks to know that they must be at maximum alert at all times in order to be able to "deal decisively with any attack on their duty locations."
"Any act of arson or attempt to kill or maim any military or security personnel and other law-abiding civilians must be responded to quickly and decisively,"
He alerted them of potential security threats resulting from the burgling of security armouries by the hoodlums, adding that"the recent activities of the "unscrupulous elements have shown their desire to acquire arms and ammunition at all cost from security personnel."
"No less than 10 AK-47 rifles have been lost to these miscreants in the past two weeks across the country with attendant loss of lives of personnel," the COAS warned.
"Right from the onset of the #EndSARS protests, the NA has been aware of the grand design by the sponsors of the protests to draw it into the crisis.
"The plan was to embark on massive propaganda to discredit the military and the government so as to set the people against the NA once it is called out to aid the civil authorities.
"The NA being aware of the devilish plan was careful not to be dragged in and issued the initial warning through a press release on October 14, 2020 of our resolve to secure and safeguard a united Nigeria.
"Now, the detractors alongside their local and international collaborators have mischievously and deliberately misrepresented troops' efforts to ensure compliance with the curfew imposed by legitimate civil authorities in Lagos and other states.
"These agitators are falsely accusing the NA of being responsible for the activities of the miscreants despite glaring evidence to the contrary. They have continually threatened to report the NA to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and also threatened various forms of sanctions against personnel and their families."
Buratai said: "despite all these, the NA has continued to exercise restraint by applying all the Principles of Internal Security Operations and fully abided by the internationally recognised rules of engagements….
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"The Nigerian Army is determined to ensure democratic stability in Nigeria. The best system of governance is democracy and we must all ensure that Nigeria's democracy remains stable and steady. We will not allow any force, elements or destabilising agents in or outside our country to set our beloved country on fire.
"We remain resolute in doing everything possible to ensure that subversive elements, detractors and other enemies of this great nation do not achieve their aims and objectives of destabilisation."
"There is no choice between a democratically united, strong and prosperous Nigeria and a nation disunited in a state of anarchy and retrogression."
"We must all strive for a united, strong, stable and progressive Nigeria," he admonished.
Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai
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Timber M. Goelling, 28, of Gallipolis, one count of Complicity to Theft, a felony of the Fifth-Degree. Randall A. Ashworth Jr., 29, of Gallipolis, one count of Theft, a felony of the Fifth-Degree. Cole Bartrum, 46, of Gallipolis, one count of Receiving Stolen Property, a felony of the Fifth-Degree. Michael L. Bender, 41, of Thurman, one count of Tampering with Evidence, a felony of the Third-Degree. Christine A. Gates, 50, of Thurman, one count of Aggravated Robbery, a felony of the First-Degree. Aaron O. Moseley, 39, of Reynoldsburg, one count of Receiving Stolen Property, a felony of the Fifth-Degree. Jeaneen L. Casey, 49, of Bidwell, one count of Burglary, a felony of the Fourth-Degree.
Christopher T. Dray, 34, of Gallipolis, three counts of Aggravated Possession of Drugs, felonies of the Fifth-Degree. Robert M. Waugh, 29, of Gallipolis, two counts of Forgery, felonies of the Fifth-Degree. Sarah Jane Ramey, 37, of Gallipolis, one count of Burglary, a felony of the Second-Degree; and two counts of Breaking and Entering, felonies of the Fifth-Degree. Melissa I. Sibley, 29, of Vinton, one count of Aggravated Possession of Drugs, a felony of the Fifth-Degree; and two counts of Possession of Drugs, felonies of the Fifth-Degree. Joseph E. Williams, 39, of Dayton, one count of Failure to Appear, a felony of the Fourth-Degree. Christopher S. McAvena, 21, of Gallipolis, one count of Failure to Appear, a felony of the Fourth-Degree. Thomas L. Ball, 37, of Rio Grande, one count of Failure to Appear, a felony of the Fourth-Degree.
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Benton County part of federal disaster aid declaration
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Benton County is among 19 in Iowa that were declared eligible for federal disaster aid, the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Tuesday, Nov. 1.
The aid will supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area affected by severe storms and flooding during the period of Sept. 21 to Oct. 3. More than 10 inches of rain fell in those storms, in some instances coming in a few short hours. Vinton, Benton County's seat, was among the hardest-hit areas.
The President's action makes federal funding available to state and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by severe storms and flooding.
Also part of the disaster declaration were Allamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clayton, Delaware, Des Moines, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Howard, Linn, Mitchell, Winneshiek, and Wright counties.
Federal funding is also available on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures statewide.
James N. Russo has been named as the Federal Coordinating Officer for federal recovery operations in the affected area. Russo said that additional designations may be made at a later date if requested by the state and warranted by the results of further damage assessments.


Residents of Lackawanna County will once again be able to relax on Courthouse Square and watch a variety of free, family-oriented films on a giant inflatable screen along North Washington Avenue as Scranton Tomorrow's downtown movie series kicks off its eighth season this Thursday, July 26.
The movies, which begin after dusk at approximately 8:45 p.m., are "Sing" on July 26; "Despicable Me 3" on Thursday, Aug. 9, and Disney/Pixar's "Coco" on Thursday, Aug. 16. Rain dates will be announced if inclement weather occurs.
Bring blankets, have a bite to eat at a local restaurant, or grab take-out and snack during the show. Free popcorn will be provided by Elm Park United Methodist Church, and kids activities by the Lackawanna County Library System and the Book Mobile start at 8 p.m.
"Sing" (2016) synopsis: Dapper Koala Buster Moon presides over a once-grand theater that has fallen on hard times. An eternal optimist and a bit of a scoundrel, he loves his theater above all and will do anything to preserve it. Facing the crumbling of his life's ambition, he takes one final chance to restore his fading jewel to its former glory by producing the world's greatest singing competition. Five contestants emerge: a mouse, a timid elephant, a pig, a gorilla, and a punk rock porcupine.
"Despicable Me 3" (2017) synopsis: The mischievous Minions hope that Gru will return to a life of crime after the new boss of the Anti-Villain League fires him. Instead, Gru decides to remain retired and travel to Freedonia to meet his long-lost twin brother for the first time. The reunited siblings soon find themselves in an uneasy alliance to take down the elusive Balthazar Bratt, a former 1980s child star who seeks revenge against the world.
"Coco" (2017) synopsis: Despite his family's generations-old ban on music, young Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead. After meeting a charming trickster named Héctor, the two new friends embark on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.
The downtown movie series is made possible by the Lackawanna County Arts and Culture Department and Scranton Tomorrow.
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Scranton Tomorrow is a volunteer-based organization whose members are as diverse as the greater Scranton community. Volunteers and supporters include business leaders, public officials, entrepreneurs, property owners, developers, educators, artists, and community partners – all united in a love for the city and a commitment to reach its greatest potential.
The mission of Scranton Tomorrow is to mobilize resources to enhance a vibrant environment for Scranton residents, businesses, and visitors, working diligently to establish, manage, and accomplish the city's shared goals and objectives. Through collaborative efforts, they strive to foster economic development in the downtown business district and downtown Scranton, serve as the voice of the downtown business community, preserve and promote Scranton's history and architectural landmarks, improve the aesthetic appearance of downtown buildings and streetscapes, and cultivate partnerships among like-minded organizations and individuals.


MIAMI-- Authorities say a Florida man bidding to reach Bermuda in an inflatable bubble has been rescued again by the U.S. Coast Guard.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Mark Barney said that long-distance runner Reza Baluchi was picked up Sunday off Florida and his "hydropod" was being towed to shore.
Barney says the man set out from Pompano Beach on Saturday despite receiving an April 15 letter from the Coast Guard warning him not to depart. The Coast Guard said it had reviewed Baluchi's plan and determined it to be unsafe.
The letter was posed by the Coast Guard on Twitter.
Baluchi tried to make a similar attempt to reach Bermuda in 2014 and had to be rescued. He was picked up that time about 70 nautical miles east of St. Augustine.
In 2014, after two days at sea with little more than protein bars and bottled water, a Coast Guard cutter located Baluchi. Disoriented, he was making little progress and asked fishermen and boaters for directions to Bermuda.
Despite repeated warnings about possible dangers, he told a Coast Guard captain in 2014 he was not about to give up.
"I think you're going to have a very hard time punching through the Gulf Stream and heading east to make Bermuda," the captain warned Baluchi.
Baluchi responded that he had been practicing two years for the journey.
"So you are declining to stop your voyage at this time and embark the Coast Guard cutter?" the captain asked.
"I am continuing to go," Baluchi said.
But Baluchi's locator beacon was activated, prompting a Coast Guard rescue operation. He was plucked from his bubble and brought ashore.
Baluchi said in 2014 that he never needed to be rescued and the beacon went off by accident. He was treated and released.
"I see some helicopter coming," Baluchi said. "Some person come in front of my bubble and kick my bubble. 'You ok? You need emergency doctor?' I say, 'no.'"
Baluchi was granted asylum in America in 2003 after being exiled from his native Iran for having pro-Western sympathies.
He's since set endurance records for running around the perimeter of the United States.


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Shared on Facebook hope it gets found soon along with the scum bags who stole it.
there you go Please can everyone circulate this photo and help my friend get his camper back? Thieves stole it from his house in Chester on Saturday and it has sentimental value. YJ60 DSY & quite noticeable not being white. Let's make it too hot to handle! Any sightings, please inbox me or contact the police as it is recorded. Thank you!
It is pretty distinctive and I would recognise it again even on false plates, unlike all the white boxes we seem to get now. If it goes passed me in Dover I would be on to the dock police pretty quick. It has probably gone over the Irish Sea from Chester. Straight up the A5 to Holyhead. I think I might be camped out there watching if it were mine.
Shared North East and hope they get it back soon thieving scum!!
There is a stolen motorhome database on facebook (have shared on there ) and a few more.
chances are its not too far away from where its been stolen ,hidden down a track or parked up in a quiet area . as many thieves now assume it may have a tracker fitted . they then return a while after if it looks safe or clean they then drive the vehicle away mabey some 24 hours or so afterwards basically safe in the knowledge that the van is clean and no police interest is shown , unfortunately now if a tracker is fitted for them that is the vehicle can be under surveillance and as soon as its driven away ,bingo there nabbed .
Let us know how it was stolen - alarm details - tracker details - location etc... I'd like to think that mine is quite safe but if it was stolen, I wouldn't want it back. Much prefer the insurance payout than a mistreated van.


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Fast Food Workers Need a Real Break Today
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A couple of generations of school kids have grown up on the catchy McDonald's advertising jingle, "You deserve a break today." But during every working moment of those years McDonald's workers have gotten anything but a break when it comes to working hours and worse, their wages for those hours. The Bureau of Labor Statistics in a wage survey found that hands down a fast food worker is the poorest paid of any worker in the country. The average pay for fast food workers is barely 9 bucks an hour. Many, however, make closer to the obscenely low $7.25 hourly minimum wage. This averages out to about $15, 000 a year. That's below the federal poverty level for a family of two.
The stock argument from the National Restaurant Association and legions of other business groups is that slinging burgers at McDonalds or Burger King is mostly for kids, immigrants, or unskilled workers, and for them it's a boon since it's their first entrance into the labor force. This is a myth. According to the BLS the average age of fast food workers is now closer to 30 than the teeny bopper age. The wholesale shrink of jobs in manufacturing and the financial industries, the economic downturn, and outsourcing have driven thousands of adults, many of them once middle class and with skills, with few other job options into fast food jobs. Many of them have families, mortgages, and ballooning health and child care expenses. Fast food jobs are hardly just the proverbial soda pop and pocket change money once commonly thought of as for teens. And there's not much chance that most fast food workers can ramp up their pay since fast food eateries are loathe to pay workers for overtime.
Fast food worker organizing groups are demanding a pay hike to $15. But whether it's that amount or a raise to anything that remotely approaches a living wage, the biggest obstacle to a hike is an outlandish myth and the perception of who a minimum wage hike will help. That's especially the case with fast food workers. The GOP and many business groups have sold the false notion that a hike in the minimum wage is a huge job killer. It has been so effective in its hard sell that President Obama and Congressional Democrats have repeatedly been stymied and frustrated in every effort they've made to boost the minimum wage nationally. You'd have to go back more than four decades, to 1968, to find the last year that the minimum wage actually kept pace with inflation for workers.
House Speaker John Boehner in a pithy, horribly simplistic, but effectual retort to the cry for a minimum wage increase, said, "When you raise the price of employment, you get less of it." Boehner and Congressional Republicans cherry pick a few dated studies and some anecdotal employment figures in some low wage, low unemployment states such as North Dakota to make the case that the minimum wage hurts the economy. At first glance, that seems compelling enough. But it ignores other low wage states that have boosted the minimum wage and where there's been no plunge in employment, or wholesale flight of employers from those states to low wage states that won't boost their minimum wage a penny higher than the federal minimum wage.
Then there's the perception that a boost in the minimum wage for workers, especially fast food workers, will solely benefit the chronically poor. This muddles the issue and it becomes a political flash point. With few exceptions, in years past, talk of poverty was not just missing from the nation's political plate, but was a dirty word. The existence of millions of poor in America flew in the face of the embedded laissez faire notion that the poor aren't poor because of the hyper concentration of wealth, or worse, any failing of the system, but because of their personal failings. Surveys bore this out. Even many among the poor were as apt as many of those in the middle-class, and the well-to-do, to self-debase themselves for their poverty. They blame it on their misfortune, bad luck, lack of education and skills, or alcohol, and drug problems. These are certainly reasons why some fall into poverty or remain chronically poor. They, however, are at best peripheral to the real cause of the poverty rise, and that's the control by a relatively handful of the bulk of the nation's income, resources and productive wealth.
Giving fast food workers a decent living wage would not in and of itself reverse the gargantuan income inequality that's become a national embarrassment. And it certainly wouldn't cause a company such as McDonalds that racked up over $5 billion in profits in 2013 to come crashing down. But it would give hope, incentive, a meaningful financial boost to thousands of workers in that industry, and an overall gain for the economy through their increased spending. This is the real break that fast food workers need.
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A Mile or Two outside WorthingRichard Jenkyns
Vol. 20 No. 23 · 26 November 1998
A Mile or Two outside Worthing
Richard Jenkyns
Lord Byron's Jackal: A Life of Trelawny
by David Crane.
HarperCollins, 398 pp., £19.99, July 1998, 0 00 255631 6Show More
And shall Trelawny die? It seems not, since David Crane's book is the fourth life of him to have been published in the last sixty years. Yet it is an odd sort of immortality which leaves a man with someone else's name in the title of his biography. It was Joseph Severn, the amiable artist whose kindness sweetened Keats's last months, who referred to Trelawny as 'Lord Byron's jackal'. The phrase was less harsh than it may seem to a modern ear, since a jackal, in the parlance of the time, was someone who busied himself on another's behalf; but for Crane the metaphor has both a keener and a darker edge. He calls his first chapter 'The Wolf Cub', and finds in Trelawny a variety of lupine characteristics: courage, fierceness, savagery and a prowling restlessness; both loyalty and ingratitude; the passion to attach himself to a leader and the readiness to turn on that leader should he faint or fail.
'But tell me who is this odd fish?' Severn also asked, and Crane's book is an attempt to answer that question. Edward John Trelawny was born in 1792 and died in 1881. In his later years he was a legendary figure, farouche and craggy, a solitary survivor from an epoch which already seemed fabulously remote: here, living on deep into the later Victorian age was a man who had once seen Shelley plain, and Byron, too, and who had looked on both their corpses. But on Crane's account, almost the whole of his long life was disappointing, and disappointed: its brilliant or crucial moments were intense but brief. For some months, from January 1822, he was part of the circle of exiles around Byron and Shelley in Pisa, which had formed in 1820 and broke up after the tatter's death in July 1822. He wrote Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (1858), revised and augmented twenty years later as Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author, which Crane judges 'perhaps one of the two finest literary memoirs in the language' (no prizes for naming the other). In between, he went to fight in the Greek War of Independence, an adventure which culminated in the extraordinary months he spent in the Mavre Troupa, or Black Hole, a cave high on the northern flanks of Mount Parnassus. This episode, remarkable though it was, would have been forgotten but for Trelawny's later celebrity as the friend of poets, but for Crane it is the central moment of his life.
Trelawny's childhood seems to have been unhappy and unloved, a misfortune to which Crane attributes much of his later character. An angry failure at school, he was put into the Navy at the age of 13, joining up just too late to take part in the Battle of Trafalgar. Baulked of this opportunity for heroic warfare, he spent several frustrating years as a midshipman, finally seeing action in Mauritius and Java. Then, on his own account, he deserted, joined up with a mysterious Dutchman who spoke most European languages and ail the native tongues from Malay to Hindustani faultlessly, became a pirate, and married the fair Zela, shy and lovely as a fawn, only to see her expire in his arms after being attacked by a shark. Or rather, he didn't For this history comes from his other book, Adventures of a Younger Son, not wholly fiction, but notorious for its fantasy and self-aggrandisement. Had Trelawny been nothing but a braggart, his lies would diminish him; ironically, because his real life was to become, for a while, so genuinely romantic and melodramatic, his fabrications seem to add yet more brio to the larger-than-life swagger; the shaggy-dog stories become part of a more general shagginess. He may not have cremated his dusky bride by the shore of a tropic sea, but he was to cremate Shelley on an Italian beach in circumstances hardly less theatrical. He may not have been a brigand in the East, but he was to share the life of brigands in Greece.
The Adventures of a Younger Son, published in 1831, was written some years after his Greek experiences had given him an authentic claim to a ruffianly heroism; why then did he feel the need to embroider his earlier life? Perhaps, as a man who liked to live dangerously, he enjoyed courting the risk of exposure. Crane suggests – what must remain speculation – that he began to develop his fantasy picture of himself as a psychological compensation for the dingy and humiliating years that followed his return to England after his service in the Navy ended in 1812. He married, fathered two daughters, and took lodgings in Bristol, in which shabby-genteel surroundings the supposed buccaneer and lover of Zela was repeatedly cuckolded by a much older captain in the 98th of Foot. Eventually his wife eloped, and he managed to obtain a divorce, at the cost of having the whole sordid farce of dropped pantaloons and hasty concealments in bedrooms dragged for almost two years through the civil and ecclesiastical courts. Crane quotes at some length from the landlady's deposition, which offers a glimpse into what he well describes as 'a world poised between a Rowlandesque' – presumably Rowlandsonesque – 'coarseness and an encroaching moral censoriousness'.
The new moralism was alien to Trelawny's temperament, the Rowlandsonian comedy injurious to his pride; and not long after his divorce was finally obtained he left England for the Continent. Bobbing like a bottle cast on the waters, he was carried by seemingly random currents towards his destined place in Italy and literary history, drifting from England to Paris and from Paris to Geneva and the Alps, where he made some new friends, among them Shelley's cousin, Thomas Medwin. Shelley and his dependants had themselves been floating from one Italian town to another, from Milan to Bagni di Lucca, Venice, Naples, Rome, Leghorn and Florence, reaching Pisa early in 1820. Two years later, Trelawny joined them there.
For Trelawny, obscure, aimless and uneducated, this was an unlikely introduction to genius. To his new acquaintance, though, he was the Byronic hero made flesh, a Corsair or Lara who had lived the adventures which poets had only written about Broadly built, magnetic and personable, he could play billiards with Byron and talk sentiment with the ladies. Here he founded the friendships and enmities which were to mark the rest of his life. He was to become the keeper of Shelley's flame. His devotion to Byron was to curdle into jealousy and hatred. He was to maintain a friendship with Mary Shelley until a bitter estrangement many years later. With Claire Clairmont, the mistress whom Byron discarded, he formed in these Italian months what was at least an amitié amoureuse; it was, Crane thinks, 'probably the most honest relationship of his life', but for half a century, through the long, bleak years of her exile (she became a governess in Russia), it was conducted entirely by correspondence. Claire Clairmont suffered many vicissitudes; but throughout them all, until her death in Italy, lonely and religious, she maintained an implacable hatred of the man who had loved and abandoned her, the father of her child; and in this Trelawny abetted her.
Trelawny's short Julian period certainly changed his own life; but did he himself make a difference? 'It is given to few men to kill two major poets,' Crane remarks. The epigram was too good to resist but like Trelawny himself, it goes beyond the strict truth. It is hard to see that Trelawny killed Byron in any sense at all (Crane mutters something about Byron turning to him for his doctors but does not explain further); perhaps there is a better case for saying that Trelawny saved Shelley from becoming a Victorian. It was to Trelawny, as the former Naval man, that Shelley turned when he wanted to commission a boat, and it was Trelawny who wrote the letter reducing the original specifications by almost half, ensuring that the Don Juan (as the craft was perhaps apdy called) would not survive that fatal storm in the Gulf of Spezia. It was Trelawny, too, who led the expedition which disinterred the poet's body from its shallow grave on the sands where it had been washed ashore. In this lonely place, they poured oil and wine on the corpse and set it alight. Trelawny watched Shelley's brains seethe and bubble, but he snatched the heart from the flames, burning his hand severely. In old age, when he had become the ancient priest of Shelley's cult, he would show the burns to visiting pilgrims like stigmata. There were even relics: he used to display the poet's jawbone, and presented W.M. Rossetti with a fragment of his forehead.
A month after meeting him, Mary Shelley was comparing him to Anastasius, the hero of Thomas Hope's romantic novel of adventures in the East. His is indeed a story in which fact and fiction become curiously intermingled. His correspondence sometimes recalls the letter-writers in Jane Austen's Love and Friendship. To Claire Clairmont he wrote: 'Why have you thus plunged me into excruciating misery by deserting him that would – but bleed on in silence my heart – let not the cold and heartless mock thee with their triumphs.' It was to her again that he explained what drew him to Greece: 'My ardent love of freedom spurs me on to assist in the struggle for freedom. When was there so glorious a banner flying as that unfurled in Greece? – who would not fight under it?'
He was not present at Byron's death, but arrived at the scene a few days later. In the most famous act of his life – or what would be the most famous act, but for the likelihood that it never actually happened – he uncovered the corpse to learn the secret of the poet's lameness. 'Both his feet were clubbed,' he wrote later, 'and his legs withered to the knee – the form and features of an Apollo, with the feet of a sylvan satyr.' Curiously enough, Byron had, according to Thomas Medwin, described Sheridan in similar terms: 'The upper part was that of a god ... but below he showed the satyr.' Is it possible that Trelawny derived at least the terms of his description from Byron himself?
Crane gives a strong and vivid account of the forces at work in the Greek War of Independence: that strange collection of idealists and misfits known now as the Philhellenes, some of whom were to meet hideous ends, captured and impaled by the Turks; the ghastly atrocities committed by both Turks and Greeks; the conflicts between the educated Constantinopolitan Greeks and the klephts in the mountains; the bitter enmities between one klepht and another. Trelawny attached himself to one of these guerrillas, Odysseus Androutses, the last of the hero figures in his life. Under attack from his (Greek) enemies, Odysseus took refuge in his cave on Parnassus, and opened negotiations with the Turks. Trelawny stayed loyal to him; despite his 'ardent love of freedom', he had effectively changed sides.
And so to the Mavre Troupa, towards which Crane sees all Trelawny's life, past and future, being sucked: 'For the early part of his life he had lived through his fantasies: from now on, he would live off them It was as if ... with his exit from the cave his life was "complete".' It was a cave out of grand opera, furnished with carpets, fabrics and loot plundered from churches, richly supplied with sumptuous food and barrels of brandy; and its inhabitants included Tersitza, Odysseus' 13-year-old half-sister, whom Trelawny 'married'. Dressed in the costume of a native brigand, here at last he found his zest for adventure fulfilled. Landor was to include among his Imaginary Conversations a high-flown dialogue between Trelawny, Odysseus and Tersitza, but for once the reality outdid fiction. Odysseus rashly gave himself up to his enemies; he was taken to Athens, imprisoned on the Acropolis, tortured and murdered (officially, he fell to his death while trying to escape). Trelawny continued to live in the cave. Here he was joined by a Captain Fenton, apparently a spy planted by his enemies, and then by a weak-willed young man named William Whitcombe. Fenton somehow persuaded Whitcombe to attempt Trelawny's assassination. Whitcombe shot and wounded Trelawny; Fenton was killed by one of Trelawny's henchmen; and Whitcombe was seized and held in chains, gibbering with fear, in the recesses of the cave. After a while, in a gesture of romantic magnanimity, Trelawny, though badly hurt, released him. Trelawny himself was eventually rescued by a British officer, who brought him to the ship that carried him to safety. Whitcombe later wrote an account of his experiences in the form of a novel modelled on Anastasius. This time, though, it was fact that took the disguise of fiction.
Crane walks a tricky tightrope: on the one hand, he wants to insist on how much of the man's life must remain unknowable; on the other, he is ready to speculate pretty freely on his psychology. He brings it off. It is a fault in British culture to place too high a value on biography, the easiest form of history; but this is an excellent biography. Crane inhabits Trelawny's various worlds – the Regency lodging house, the Victorian drawing-room, the bandit cave – with perfect ease; his narrative is enlivened with many flashes of often cynical wit but also with evocative descriptions of place and an unforced feeling for the past.
He concedes – or rather, he insists – that the second half of Trelawny's life was an anticlimax. Life, Trelawny mused in his old age, is not worth much after thirty. In 1833, he attempted to swim the river below the Niagara Falls (which Crane oddly believes to be the Hudson) and almost drowned; among the chaos of his impressions at that moment he recognised a hope that he might die in the pride of his strength, before the humiliations of age overtook him. It was not to be. He joined that group of reformers known as the Philosophic Radicals, but in the group portrait reproduced in Crane's book he looks almost ludicrously out of place – hairy and open-necked among so much sleek highmindedness, like a tramp who has intruded on Matins in Surrey. He married again – for the second or the fourth time, depending on who iscounting – and lived a bohemian life for some years with his new family in the Welsh border country near Usk. They would bathe naked in the river, sometimes joined by Zella, his daughter by Tersitza, as a splash of exotic colour. But this marriage, too, broke up. Trelawny's final years were spent a mile or two outside Worthing, though his remains were taken to Rome to be buried at Shelley's side. His last recorded words were 'lies, lies, lies.'.
Richard Jenkyns, Professor of the Classical Tradition at Oxford, is the author of The Victorians and Ancient Greece, and, most recently, of Virgil's Experience.
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