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The Italian football team has denied their opponent, Belgium, an opportunity of progressing into the semi-final stage of Euro 2020 after edging an exhilarating tie with the Belgians, winning 2-1 during the encounter.
Italy's victory over the Belgians has squared them against Spain that edged out the Switzerland team during a penalty shootout after both teams played 1-1 at end of 90 minutes.
The Italian national team popularly called the Azzurri, scored two goals against their opponent during the first half and conceded a penalty that was scored by Inter Milan striker, Romalu Lukaku, to end the game played at the Allianz Arena in Munich at 2-1.
Following this win against Belgium on Friday, the Italians took their overall victory to 13 consecutive wins and 32 games without defeat, a feat that had been described by soccer pundits as the highest quality that any national team had achieved.
The game may not have been a goal feast like some of the last-16 ties but it was an intense battle between two excellent teams playing fantastic football.
At the 31st minute of the game, Nicolo Barella wriggled through three defenders before drilling in the opener, to ensure the Italian to lead after Leonardo Bonucci's goal was ruled offside by Video Assistant Referee (VAR).
And 13 minutes after, particularly when the Belgians had begun to put their men forward in other to get an early equaliser, Italian forward, Lorenzo Insigne, ran from the halfway line and curled in one of the goals of the tournament, leaving Real Madrid goalkeeper, Thibaut Courtois, with no option that to pick the ball after dropping down in the net.
Meanwhile, considering the number of stars paraded by the Belgians, they picked themselves up and pressured the Azzurri defence to commit errors. The errors resulted in Giovanni di Lorenzo foul of 19-year-old Jeremy Doku in the box and Lukaku scored the penalty.
Both sides had chances to score again in a breathless second half but with no goals, and the score aided the Azzurri to progress into the next stage of the competition that was delayed due to Coronavirus outbreak.
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For Hames Sharley, 2017 has been a year marked by a number of exciting projects in our Public & Culture portfolio. In particular, the team – led by our Executive Chairman, William Hames – has undertaken several museum commissions, from strategic masterplan investigations for the housing of thousands of priceless artefacts to the design of smaller, boutique museums that are no less important to their local communities. No matter the size of the project, however, we have applied the same set of guidelines in our approach to designing these buildings and spaces.
Here we present a list of 12 considerations when planning and designing galleries and museums.
As a multi-disciplinary design practice, our primary mandate is clear: produce a set of plans from which the buildings and places are created. However, we understand that we also must play a key role in generating a buzz about the project if it is to open its doors to long queues of expectant patrons. The marketing of public and cultural buildings always begins on day one of the planning processes.
Museums and galleries are often funded by a number of different sources including public and private investment that may not be fully in place from the outset. Designers must collaborate to engage with potential investors and philanthropists through the use of technology such as virtual and augmented reality. These techniques can better illustrate the vision for the project by being more visually engaging than traditional drawings and plans.
Every project, across every sector, can benefit from a program of stakeholder engagement. This is never more important than in public and cultural projects that hold an emotional investment for the whole community. Key decisions should be run past various community groups, but more than that, these groups should be given an active role in making those decisions.
The very nature of museums and galleries is that visitors should experience them by following a meandering pathway through the buildings. As they do so, they embark on a journey of emotive engagement, and the architecture and design of the space must enhance this. The place must respond to human behaviour in all of its facets.
The modern world has more and more ways for people to spend their precious leisure time. Many of the newest and most exciting are based on the very latest technology, yet museums and galleries often rely on ancient objects and curios as their main attractions. Therefore, technology must be used sensitively to shine a light on the stars of the show, and the designers of the space must put in place the technological infrastructure to evolve as new innovations are introduced.
Just as they must use technology to compete with modern-day entertainment, museums must also have a wide appeal to all ages and demographics in order to remain relevant and profitable. Engagement through interactive exhibits that appeal to both young and old is an absolute necessity in a modern cultural building. The designer must accommodate the small and intimate alongside larger statement pieces such as gigantic blue whales and dinosaur skeletons!
Museums are prized parts of their regions and engender a sense of pride in local communities. They are flag bearers for their town or city and often a location's most visible representation to the wider world. Furthermore, the permanent exhibits may tell the story of the history and heritage of the place in which they are located; the buildings and spaces that make up the museum itself should be no different. Materiality, form and the outward-facing vistas from the museum should be designed to accentuate this.
While museums and galleries are major attractions for tourists, they should also act as a grand form of community centre for locals. Open spaces in which it is appropriate for groups to gather and interact should maintain year-round activity – even outside of tourist seasons.
Few modern buildings and places are as subject to such regular change as museums and galleries. With each new major exhibit comes the potential for repurposing spaces and in some cases completely altering the shapes and sizes of rooms within the building and its surroundings. Flexibility must be a major consideration in the design of the place from the outset.
Signage is an essential element, and with careful consideration wayfinding methods can add aesthetic value and become exhibits in their own right. The architectural design itself should allow for sight lines that draw focus to the key exhibits and promote a natural flow through the space, while minimising the need for purely directional signage that may take up valuable room. The flow of the visitor's journey should be intuitive and the design of the space should always take this into consideration.
As technology advances, more and more museum exhibits employ sound installations, necessitating the careful planning of acoustics. When people move from room to room it is vital that their focus remains on the displays in front of them. Each exhibit should remain a part of the flowing narrative, but the design of the space should allow them to stand alone. Galleries and museums also require resting points at carefully planned intervals through the visitors' journey.
All the world's major cities have dozens of museums and galleries to choose from. Often they have a single dominant, centrepiece, a cultural building that stands as a grand edifice and draws more attention than its neighbours. If constraints of budget dictate that any new or redeveloped project can't compete in terms of scale or grandeur, then it is the role of the designer or architect to offer a different approach that positions the place as an interesting and appealing alternative.
Most people's spare time is taken up with what can be described as 'entertainment pursuits'. Museums and galleries are, at their core, places people go to learn and be culturally fulfilled. The design of the space must allow for both enlightenment and engagement in equal measure.


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Revitalizing Organizations: Change Process and Emergent Model
Beer, Michael
Academy of Management Executive (08963789);Feb1987, Vol. 1 Issue 1, p51
The summary and conclusions part of these symposium presentations is provided by Beer. He believes that these three cases, although from different industries, represent nevertheless very similar stories. What emerges is a new organizational form--fewer people and fewer layers of management--and a new pattern of management--more participative. To quote Beer: "It is the adaptive organization whose structures, systems, style, staff, skills, and shared values are geared for flexibility, not stability. Information is pushed down to the lowest Level and people are all empowered … to make decisions based on information they previously were not allowed to see." Beer points out that a wide array of change tools, e.g., education and training, attitude surveys, pay system changes, etc., are used in these three cultural transformations, but it is not clear which ones "are the most powerful or how they might be sequenced more effectively." Beer believes, however, that changes in structure and roles are the most powerful. Also unclear is how the internal political dynamics affected these change efforts. Like any set of cases that have the substance of these three, we gain valuable ins sights about managing large, organizational change, while at the same time many questions are raised--some old and familiar, some new and provocative.

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5 Romance Novels for Non-Romance Readers
Don't think you're a romance reader? Try these sexy titles—all decidedly not bodice rippers.
By CHRISTINA LAUREN • 4 years ago
The two of us (Christina and Lauren) met in 2009 when we were writing fanfiction. We'd both been fans of the romance genre our entire lives—Christina used to sneak-read her mom's Harlequins, and Lauren dipped a toe into the romance world with Danielle Steele as a teenager and never turned back. But because we had other careers for many years before we became writers, when we started publishing romance, we were often asked for recommendations from people from our previous world, who didn't think they were romance readers. So many people come into the genre thinking that romance is Fifty Shades of Grey or bodice rippers—and while romance is a lot of that, and those books are a ton of fun— romance is also so much more. Enjoy our list of romance novels for non-romance readers (listed, of course, in no particular order).
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This book is unlike anything you'll read elsewhere; it's a story about the love of family, and the anguish of loss, and how you find love in the least expected places. It will tear your heart out and dance on it, but you won't regret a single second of it.
Paperback$9.99
Whenever we get asked what our favorite book is—and we get asked that a lot—we answer without hesitation. The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson was one of the first books we read together when we became co-authors, but it isn't only that sentimental link that makes it special. This is the story of Lennie, a girl who has just lost her sister, and how she struggles to find her way forward. It is an absolutely stunning, uplifting, and unforgettable book.
C. S. Pacat
I kid you not, we read these books so fast we did ZERO real work for a few days. The first book throws you in unprepared and expects you to keep up as you are sent through a wild storm of battling princes, politics, starkly different sexual culture and a queer romance to knock you over. Want your romance hero with a side of Another Romance Hero? Start here. You won't be able to help loving Laurent, just trust us.
Graffiti Moon
Cath Crowley
It's just one night—one night of walking, and talking, and trying to find the elusive graffiti artist Shadow—but it is enough to make you obsessively love Lucy and Ed and remember those days of high school wandering and sweet, young infatuation.
Loud is How I Love You
Mercy Brown
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The first page of this book opens and you're smacked in the face with the almighty VOICE—that sharp, singular style we authors try to wrestle out of every character (with varied success). Here, Mercy Brown nails voice—reminiscent somehow both of John Hughes and mid-nineties indie rock—and she does it while writing a compelling, smart, and sexy as hell romance.
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About CHRISTINA LAUREN
CHRISTINA LAUREN is the combined pen name of long-time writing partners/besties/soulmates and brain-twins Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, the New York Times, USA Today, and #1 international bestselling authors of the Beautiful Bastard and Wild Seasons series, Sublime, and The House. Their new book Dating You / Hating You will be released in June 2017 from Gallery Books. You can find them online at christinalaurenbooks.com, Facebook.com/ChristinaLaurenBooks, or at @ChristinaLauren on Twitter.


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Avengers: Endgame Is Headed Back to Theaters With All-New Footage and More Surprises
Avengers: Endgame Returning to Theaters June 2019
June 29, 2019 by Mekishana Pierre First Published: June 19, 2019
Listen up, Marvel fans: if you were feeling bummed about Avengers: Endgame capping off the adventures of our original six Avengers with no postcredits scene, we've got some amazing news for you. According to ScreenRant, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige revealed that Endgame would be released back into theaters with new footage!
Before you get too excited, the new footage won't be added into the actual events of the film, so everything that happened within the film will remain the same. The new bits that will be added will be additional postcredit surprises, which audiences missed out on during the film's first run in theaters.
"Not an extended cut, but there will be a version going into theaters with a bit of a marketing push with a few new things at the end of the movie," Feige told ScreenRant. "If you stay and watch the movie, after the credits, there'll be a deleted scene, a little tribute, and a few surprises."
Chris Hemsworth's Never-Before-Seen Avengers: Endgame Clip Will Make You Say, "Aw, Thor!"
If you're wondering what's up with the rerelease, it's actually a pretty clever way for Endgame to maximize on its previous record-breaking run, while also giving fans a refresher before the July 5 premiere of the Marvel film truly meant to close out Phase 3, Spider-Man: Far From Home.
When Endgame originally premiered in late April, it debuted with an estimated $350 million domestically and $1.2 billion worldwide, becoming the first film to ever exceed the $1 billion mark in its first weekend. It's currently the second highest-grossing movie globally and domestically and could actually beat Avatar's all-time worldwide record of $2.788 billion with its rerelease on June 28.
Obviously, diehard Marvel fans will definitely see the film again — some have already seen it enough times for all of us, really. Who knows what the new footage could be? We could get to see more of our favorites in surprise cameos, maybe get a peek into Steve's life with Peggy, or even see the deleted scene between Tony and teenager Morgan. So many possibilities!
According to CNBC, tickets for the re-release will go on sale late Monday, June 24, so fans can grab their seats (along with their trusty Depends) and check out Endgame once more, on June 28.
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Investigation into an allegation of forcible confinement has resulted in charges against three Regina males. The forcible confinement is alleged to have occurred sometime around February 24, 2017.
On April 2, 2017, Regina Police Service investigators learned of an incident in which a 22 year-old male was held against his will by other males, armed at times with a firearm and bats. This incident is said to have occurred over a period of days, on or around the 24th of February, 2017. The victim said he felt he would be killed if he attempted to leave. The victim was finally allowed to go after he acquired some money to pay a debt owed to one of the alleged suspects. It's believed the victim and suspects are known to each other. Investigation into these allegations led police to identify and then locate the suspects. One of these individuals: a 29 year-old male, was arrested on April 6, 2017, without incident, in the 1300 block of Garnet Street. During this arrest, police seized two sawed-off rifles (one of which was loaded), some ammunition, a quantity of methamphetamine, marihuana, scales and Canadian currency. On April 7, 2017, officers continued their investigation, culminating in the arrests of two other male suspects: ages 27 and 31. Each of the accused faces charges in connection with the forcible confinement. One of the accused also faces weapons and drug-related charges.
– 2 x Carrying a Concealed Weapon, s. 88 CC.
BIRD made his first court appearance on these charges in Provincial Court at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, April 7, 2017.
Twenty-seven year-old Joshua Lewis DANIELS, also now as Joshua Lewis BEAUDRY, DOB: 1989-04-21, of Regina, and 31 year-old Dexter Curtis MILLER, DOB; 1986-02-11, of Regina, are both facing a charges of Forcible Confinement, s. 279(2) CC. DANIELS is also charged with a Breach of Undertaking, s. 145(3) CC.
Both MILLER and DANIELS will make their first court appearance on these charges in Provincial Court at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, April 10, 2017.


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H. C. G. Moule, Bishop of Durham: correspondence and papers
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9581
Letters of John Clare
Includes offprints of articles on John Clare by Mark Stoney.
Dates: 1820-1849 (Circa)
Poems by Siegfried Sassoon
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10193
Scope and Contents Notebook comprising fair copies, with some revisions, of poems by Siegfried Sassoon, together with illustrations and decorations. Some of the poems bear the date of their composition. Sassoon presented the notebook to Lady Ottoline Morrell in January 1917 and made additions to it in subsequent years. Contents:Preliminary matter:• [1r]. 'To victory' (newspaper cutting from The Times, 15 Jan. 1916) • [1v]. Feather • [2r]. Title page • [2v]. 'Edition' statement and...
Dates: 1916-[1930s]
Conditions Governing Access: The volume is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Poems, chiefly on Philip O'Reilly
Some notes are in the hand of W. B. Kane of Edmund House, Cambridge.
Poems of John Donne
A collection of poems of John Donne. Also includes other poems by Francis Bacon, Thomas Carew, Francis Beaumont and Sir Henry Wotton transcribed at a similar date. The manuscript is sometimes referred to as the 'Cambridge Balam' manuscript.
Dates: 1630 (circa)
Repository: Cambridge University Library X
Subject: Poetry X
Christian theology 1
Doctrinal theology 1
Religious beliefs 1
Clare, John, 1793-1864 (poet, farm labourer and naturalist) 1
Donne, John, 1572-1631 (poet and Church of England clergyman) 1
Keynes, Sir Geoffrey Langdon, 1887-1982 (Knight, surgeon and bibliophile) 1
Morrell, Lady Ottoline Violet Anne, 1873-1938 (née Cavendish-Bentinck, hostess and literary patron) 1
Moule, Handley Carr Glyn, 1841-1920 (Bishop) 1
Sassoon, Siegfried Loraine, 1886-1967 (poet and author) 1


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Launching to steady yet unsubstantial sales figures, the used Hyundai Tucson is currently in its third generation, having seen moderate success in the UK. Therefore, the used marketplace isn't awash with these compact 4x4s, but there are plenty of bargains if you look in the right places. It's often called a 'sensible' purchase, as the brand is known for its high-quality vehicles.
You're sure to appreciate the well-designed interior in all models, as the seats fold down flat for more space if required. Numerous safety features are available, while every inch of space is utilised. Storage nooks, hooks and luggage nets are prominent throughout the vehicle too. Weirdly, the entry-level models seem to be the hardest to find on the used marketplace, so keep an eye out if that's the model you're after.
Don't buy this car if you're looking for an off-road vehicle, as it's not suited for those conditions. You'll receive better-than-average fuel economy for the best-selling diesel engine variant, and the 2.7-litre petrol engine is recommended if you're looking for better performance, though keep an eye on the fuel gauge. On smoother roads, the Used Hyundai Tucson tackles corners with ease, and it's great if you make regular trips in a city-based environment.


Perhaps you've driven by the Paris Landing State Park and witnessed a gathering of large white boats? Well, that fleet belongs to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and is part of their efforts to prepare some of their newer members for what they might expect to find on the states' lakes, rivers and other waterways.
TWRA agents from around the state have been gathering at the park recently to undergo a series of training exercises designed to get them ready for a wide range of activities ranging from rescuing victims from the water and enforcing boating regulations.
Veteran TRWA boating officers say that the event is a great way to transmit their knowledge to younger officers. The newer members are put through a rigorous series of scenarios that resemble things they may soon have to deal with in a real-world situation. For example, learning how to maneuver some of the larger vehicles in a crowded marina or getting the feel of what it's like to approach another boat at speed at the helm of one of the agency's faster interdiction-type vessels.
Here in the Volunteer State, there are over 200,000 boats registered statewide. That means that on any given weekend, TWRA officers have to be ready to deal with everything from warning motorists about wearing their flotation devices or retrieving boaters who ran out of fuel while in the middle of a lake to chasing down boaters impaired by drugs or alcohol. That's why the training is so diverse and extensive: to get agents ready for whatever situation comes their way.
This time of year always brings a good number of Tennessee residents out to area lakes, rivers and other waterways. Some are looking to try their hand at fishing, while others are looking forward to cutting up the waves on their jet skis. Regardless of the type of water-related recreation you are into, the potential exists that you or another member of your family will be injured by an inattentive or impaired boat operator.
Boat accidents can cause serious injuries that can require expensive medical treatments. Depending on the circumstances, you may be able to file a civil lawsuit to recover any out-of-pocket medical costs associated with preventable types of crashes.


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March 8, 2017 Article / Reviews
a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun), Royal Court Theatre
Posted by Ed Whitfield
Why is the title of debbie tucker green's play just love's definition sans the word? Well, Green, who I capitalise because I demand a certain discipline with language, like the patriarchal pig I am, doesn't like capital letters. Calling the play "Love" would mean the horror of upper case, a masculine take on a universal. Why are we talking about gendered language? Because it's the play's structuring theme; conversations between men and women in which three couples, forming a lineage of relationship failure, fall victim to cyclical forms of misunderstanding – men vying for status and full-spectrum dominance over their circumstances; women complaining they're not listened to, never apologised to, not understood. And this pattern, though repeated in one couple after the other, across a generation, isn't a strict binary. The arguments overlap and intersect, the generations mirror one another. To underline the point, the actors draw overlapping circles and mirrored symbols on the three walls of a peninsular platform.
It's a frustrating evening, not least because one's forced to sit on one of several hard swivel stools lining the studio's corridor. You're forced to choose a side, take a position, with the actors talking across the audience from opposing walls. Only Anthony Head, it seems, had the optimal all-seeing view on press night, so let's call that sweet spot the Head space.
Assuming you only plan to pay once, do you need to see both sides of each argument? Controlling the audience this way compels them to focalise on a single character's perspective, or the lyrical dialogue behind them with its verse-like patter and elisions, or indeed the chalked walls, that offer that symbolic representation of the play's design. This alienation complements the play's level of abstraction. As the title suggests, green's more concerned with how love manifests itself and is defined in situ, rather than reducing it to a thought terminating cliché or concept fart.
One has to approach the piece like the long three stanza poem it is. The meaning's embedded in dense, conspicuously compressed language that's occasionally dotted with the odd undisciplined line of realist dialogue, to vouchsafe its sponsorship from the world outside. It looks better on the page than it does when spoken; it's showboating; but it can also be poignant, harrowing and truthful, when it forgets to dazzle the audience with linguistic pyrotechnics. Consequently, we intuit the themes of loss, breakdown and legacy without having the time or information to linger on the details. You're forced to work for something like melodrama, repackaged as a thing of substance.
The performances are uniformly excellent, not least from Gershwyn Eustache Jnr and Lashana Lynch whose troubled family life is the spur for what follows, but plays like a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun) aggressively hold you at arm's length, forcing you to reflect, while removed, on how complete a work you're witness to. The conclusion here is that we're simply not given the orientation or the depth of characterisation required to gain anything other than a melancholy impression. That's the definition of deficient.
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Heart of Evil Page 1
Author: Heather Graham
Series: Krewe of Hunters #2
Genres: Mystery , Romance
Blood.
She could see it, smell it.
Hear it.
Drip…drip…drip…
The air was heavy with black powder, and the brilliant red color of the blood seemed to form a mist with the powder, and she was surrounded by a haze, a miasma of gray-tinged crimson. The day was dying, becoming red, red like the color of the blood seeping to the ground, making that terrible, distinctive noise. Drip, drip, drip…
Ashley Donegal was there. She wasn't even sure where there was, but she knew that she didn't want to be there.
Suddenly, the mist seemed to swirl in a violent gust, and then settle softly, closer to the ground. It parted as she walked through. She could see her surroundings, and, at that moment, she knew. She was in the cemetery. She had played here so often as a child—respectfully, of course. Her grandfather never would have had it any other way. Those elegant tombs, all constructed with such love, and an eye to the priorities of the day. The finest craftsmen had been hired, artists and artisans, and the place was truly beautiful. Angels and archangels graced the various tombs, winged cherubs, saints and crosses. She had never been afraid.
From a distance, she could hear shouts. Soldiers. Ridiculous. Grown men playing as soldiers. But they did it so well. She might almost have been back in time. The powder came from the howitzer and the Enfield rifles. The shouts sounded as the men played out their roles, edging from the river road to the outbuildings and then the stables, to the final confrontation on the lawn and in the cemetery. The blood would come from stage packets within their uniforms, of course, but…
This was real blood. She knew because it had a distinctive odor, and because, yes, damn it, she could smell it. Nothing smelled like real blood.
She looked at the ground, and she could see the puddle where the blood was falling, but she was afraid to look up. If she looked up, she would see a dead man.
But she did so anyway. She saw him. There was a hat pulled low over his face, but soon he would lift his head.
He did. And she saw a man in his prime, handsome, with strength of purpose in the sculpture of his face. But there was weariness in his eyes.
Weariness and death. Yet they were just playacting; that past was so, so long ago now….
She didn't speak. Neither did he. Because his face began to rot. It blackened, and while she watched, the scabrous decaying flesh began to peel away. Soon she was staring into the empty eye sockets of a skull.
She started to scream.
Above that sound, she could hear someone calling to her. Someone calling her name. The sound was deep, rich and masculine, and she knew it….
It was Jake! He would help…. Surely he would help.
But she could only stare at the skeletal mask in front of her.
Smell the blood.
And scream.
A strange sound in the middle of the night awoke Ashley. She sat up with a start and realized she was doing the screaming. She clamped her own hand quickly over her mouth, embarrassed and praying that she hadn't roused the household. She waited in silence; nope, no one.
That was pretty pathetic. It must have been a horrifically pathetic scream. If she ever really needed to scream, she'd probably be out of luck.
Lord, that had been some nightmare.
She didn't have nightmares. She was the most grounded human being she knew; hell, she had grown up next to a bayou full of alligators and cottonmouths, and she had lived in a downtrodden area of New York City near Chinatown in order to afford NYU. She knew all about real monsters—ghosts were creations to reel tourists in.
With a groan, she threw her head back on her pillow and glanced at the clock. She needed to sleep. In a week's time, they'd be celebrating Donegal Plantation's biggest annual event: the reenactment of the skirmish here that had cost her ancestor his life.
Ah, yes, and she had been dreaming about the skirmish—or the reenactment?
That was it, she thought, grinning. She was dreaming about the events at Donegal Plantation because they were preparing for the day.
History was always alive at Donegal. The plantation house was furnished with antiques, most of which had been in the family forever. There was an attic room that contained more artifacts from the Civil War than many a museum, down to letters, mess kits, knapsacks, pistols, rifles and bayonets. Still, the reenactment remained a major undertaking.
But they'd been running it since before she had even been born. It was rote by now. All the same, there was still plenty of bustle and confusion, along with everything that had to happen before the event could take place, including a mound of paperwork on her desk that had to do with the "sutler's tent," the pop-up shop where period clothing and curios and other paraphernalia, such as weapons and antiques, were sold. Which meant registrations and taxes. Then there was the insurance they needed for the day, and the officers to direct traffic and so on.
That was it. She just had a lot on her mind.
And the reenactment always reminded her of Jake. He'd never been a soldier, North or South. But he'd dressed up, and he'd played his guitar and sang music from the era. And sometimes she had played with him, and he'd always known how to make it just right, to bring back the past, with the light of truth.
She eased down in her covers, determined to forget both her anxiety and Jake.
Not so easy, even though it had been a long time since Jake had been in her life.
Finally, she started to drift again. She was comfortable; she loved her bed and her room, even if she had lived here her whole life other than college. Though she loved to learn about new people and new places, she also loved to be home.
She started again, certain that she had felt a touch; something soft and gentle, smoothing her hair, stroking her cheek.
She sat up. Moonlight streamed into the room, and there was no one else here; with so many guests around, she had locked her bedroom door. She looked at her pillow and decided that she had merely rubbed against a side of the pillowcase.
As she did so, she glanced at her dresser.
There was something different about it. She studied it for a moment, wondering what it was.
Then she knew.
She kept a picture of her parents there, on her dresser. It had been taken almost twenty years ago. They were together, holding her between them, when she had been five. It had been developed in sepia tone, and they'd had it done when one of the guests at a reenactment had found a way of making nice money by pretending to be Matthew Brady, the famed Civil War photographer. Throughout the day, he had answered historical questions about photography and its place in the Civil War.
As was the custom of the day, none of them was smiling, but there was still something exceptionally charming about the picture. There was a light in her father's eyes, and just the hint of a curl at her mother's lips. Her father's arm was around her, his hand coming to rest tenderly on her mother's shoulder. She was sandwiched close between them, and in her mind, the picture had been filled with love. It had become an even greater treasure when she had lost them.
It usually faced at a slight angle toward her bed.
The picture was turned away, as if someone had been looking at it from a different angle. It was such a little thing, but…
Maybe someone had wandered into her room. Cliff ran the property and she ran the house, but they employed extra housekeepers in the main house when they had guests. They hadn't had guests in the house in the last few weeks, but the house was usually open, and her grandfather loved to walk anyone staying on the property through it. Depending on his mood, a tour could get long.
And the picture…
She turned over, groaning. It was just the angle of the picture.
Jake Mallory should have slept well, with a hard case finally settled.
But he didn't.
The odd thing about his nightmares was that they were a recent phenomenon. When he had begun to realize and make use of this gift or curse—those things he somehow knew—there had been no dreams.
During the summer of the storms, during Katrina and the flooding, they had all been so busy. While it had been happening, he'd never explained to his coworkers that he was so good at finding the remains of the deceased because they called out to him; they spoke to him. It was heartbreaking; it was agony. But the dead needed their loved ones to know, and so he listened. And he didn't dream those nights.
Later, the dreams had come, and they were always the same.
He was alone in his small, flat-bottomed boat, though he'd never been alone during any of the searches.
He was alone, and the heat of the day had cranked down to the lesser heat of the night, and he was searching specifically for someone, though he didn't know who. As the boat moved through the water that should have been a street, he began to see people on the rooftops, clinging to branches here and there, and even floating in the water.
They saw him; they reached out to him. And he felt like weeping. They weren't living people. They were those who had lost the fight.
As he drifted along, he looked back at them all, men and women, old and young, black and white and all colors in between. He wanted to ease their suffering, but he could no longer save them. Their faces had an ashen cast, and the bone structure was sucked in and hollow; they didn't seem to know that there was nothing he could do for them anymore. In the dream, he knew that he, like many law-enforcement officers, scent dogs and volunteers, would be called upon to find the dead in the future.
But now he was seeking the living.
They called out to him; they were trying to tell him something. Bit by bit, he saw they were trying to show him the way. He thought that there should have been sound, but there was none. He didn't hear his passage through the water, and nothing emitted from the mouths of the corpses he passed.
Then he saw the figure on the roof far ahead. He thought it was a woman. She seemed to be in something flowing, which was not unusual. Many victims, living and dead, had been found in nightgowns or boxers or flannel pajamas. What was strange was that she seemed to be the only one alive. She was in tremendous peril as the water rose all around her. He felt that there was something familiar about her, but he didn't understand what it was that seemed to touch him. The light of the full moon turned her hair golden and gleaming, her white gown flowed in the breeze. Amidst the destruction, she was a beautiful survivor.
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Elizabeth Debicki Joins the Cast
An original action espionage film releasing in IMAX on July 17, 2020.
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That's too bad, I was hoping she would be able to do both. Lovecraft Country is a great book and I am really looking forward to HBO's adaptation.
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Discussing Film - Elizabeth Debicki Leaves HBO's 'Lovecraft Country' Due To Scheduling Conflicts (EXCLUSIVE) (May 13, 2019)
'Lovecraft Country' is a upcoming HBO drama/horror television series which is based on Matt Ruff's book of the same. It's easy to say when looking at the talent behind the screen on this HBO series, audiences are in for a treat. This is because behind the camera, an all-star executive producer team has been assembled featuring J.J. Abrams, Jordan Peele, Yann Demange, Ben Stephenson and Misha Green. Two names that may be of peak interest are Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams. This is Jordan Peele's next project following the success of 'Us' and his reboot of 'The Twilight Zone' for CBS All Access, as for J.J. Abrams, his production company Bad Robot is one of three production companies behind the series alongside Warner Bros Television and Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw Productions.
One name that was included on the cast was Elizabeth Debicki who is known for her roles in 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2' and 'The Cloverfield Paradox', she will also star in Christopher Nolan's upcoming film. She was once attached to 'Lovecraft Country' in the role of Christina Braithwhite however we were told that unfortunately, she had to depart the HBO series due to scheduling conflicts. We reached out to HBO and below is their statement regarding Elizabeth Debicki's exit from the series.
Due to scheduling conflicts that arose before the start of production, Elizabeth Debicki is no longer in the cast of HBO's drama series 'Lovecraft Country.' The role of Christina Braithwhite is being recast.
It is currently unknown when 'Lovecraft Country' will begin airing on HBO however, we will likely see the series sometime between 2019 and 2020.
The London-based Australian actress is currently staying in L.A. as she preps for "Tenet," her film with Nolan, the director behind 2000's "Memento," 2010's "Inception" and 2017's "Dunkirk." Like most Nolan films, little is known about "Tenet," which stars Debicki, John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kenneth Branagh and Michael Caine. According to a Hollywood Reporter story, the film is "a globe-trotting adventure" that involves "the time continuum." However, Debicki remained mum about her role and the film's subject.
"I can tell you absolutely nothing," she said. "Literally nothing."
But has she met her cast mates? Seen a script? And does she know anything about the production schedule? "Yes, yes and yes," she said. "I'm sort of pinching myself on a daily basis, but I am entirely sworn to secrecy — now and forever."
Debicki was more forthcoming while discussing Nolan.
"The thing I'm most looking forward to is being in proximity with his mind," she said. "I have been a huge fan of his work since I can remember. His contribution to film is seminal. … He is a genius so to be able to work with him is a total privilege."
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Apparently Elizabeth Debicki arrived at Tallinn
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Production is really ramping up now
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If you're planning to have a party and you're thinking what foods to serve your guests, why not add party ham rolls on your list? These are very quick and easy to make and the taste will surely please your guests. You can also prepare these several days before the actual party so you'll definitely have ample time to do these. These are also great for snacks or just anytime you feel hungry and you want to eat light.
Here are the steps on how to make party ham rolls.
Prepare the things that you will need in making party ham rolls. These are cutting board, knives, spatula, bowl, party rolls (2 packs), Worcestershire sauce (1 teaspoon), butter (1 stick), onion (2 tablespoon, minced), Swiss cheese (2 ounce, grated), deli ham (12 ounce, boiled), poppy seed (2 tablespoon) and mustard. Before making the ham rolls, make sure to soften the butter in a small bowl so that it will be easier to mix with the ingredients then set aside.
Mix ingredients. Cut the ham into small fine pieces. Get a large mixing bowl and put the minced ham. Get the small bowl that contains the butter that you softened earlier. Add this to the ham on the large bowl. The next thing you need to add is grated cheese followed by minced onion then poppy seed. Add Worcestershire sauce on the bowl and stir the ingredients to mix properly. Lastly, add mustard according to your preference. You can also add mustard until the mixture turns light yellow in color.
Prepare the rolls. Get a pack of party rolls and remove the rolls from the package. Put these on top of the chopping board. Get a bread knife and use this to cut the rolls in the middle so that you will have the top and bottom part. These should be equal to each other. Don't cut the rolls into smaller pieces yet. Carefully remove the top layer so that you can put the ham mixture on the bottom part of the rolls. Get some of the ham mixture on the large bowl and spread this on the bottom part of the roll. Make sure to spread this evenly. Once done spreading the ham mixture, you can now put the top part of the rolls back. Get another pack of party rolls and repeat the steps to make more party ham rolls.
Wrap and fridge party ham rolls. Now that you're done making your party ham rolls, you can store this to use for the party. If the party will be held on the next day, you can wrap the party ham rolls and put these on the fridge. If you will be using these within three months, you need to tightly wrap these to put on the freezer. If you will be serving these immediately, you can cut the rolls to smaller pieces and heat using microwave. This will only be quick because you will only be melting the cheese. After a few seconds, remove these from the microwave and serve to your guests.
If you have leftover for the parties, you can always wrap these and put on the freezer so you can eat these for the next few months. If you feel hungry, get some of the rolls and heat using microwave.


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Topic Subject: New Death and Battle Animations??
So i was wondering if it would be possibly to add or create new battle and death animations. Like some new ones like in rome2 total war or medieval 2 total war such as when a soldier is flipped over with a shield or when a soldier is stabbed and he falls to his knees and is then decapitated. Would it be possible to import some from M2TW or. . .
I know that the model skeletons in RTW are different from M2TW, so you can't just copy-paste and tweak a few directories in text files. They'll be even more different in Rome II.
Oh too bad. I'm not an experienced modder myself so i cant do it and im not willing to pay for any softwares. Well at least i know. Thanks.
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The World's Largest Lesson is back for another year. We are starting on the 18th September and encouraging lessons to take place during a wider window leading up to the 20th November and World Children's Day. This year there has been a huge surge of interest amongst educators in introducing students across the world to the SDGs, using the Goals as a framework for Global Citizenship learning and action. You just have to follow @theworldslesson and #TeachSDGs on Twitter to see this happening.
Our ambition is to make the SDGs, or Global Goals as they are more popularly known to the general public, as relevant as possible in children's lives and encourage them to take action in support of the Goals.
Last year we asked children and young people to take part in a project to measure Gender Equality where they live, over 50,000 did so. This year we are asking them to use some "Global Goals vision" and consider the impact of their food choices on the Goals.
There is a simple project for them to complete and we invite them to develop and share a pledge based on their investigations and commit to making a change in support of a Goal or Goals. We are supporting this project with a series of lesson plans and ideas to engage students in how Food choices impact on Poverty, Equality and Climate change.
A simple, free, online training course to explain the Goals, answering any questions educators may have about the Goals and equipping them to use the World's Largest Lesson materials.
As well as new lesson plans on human rights and physical games to play that introduce the Global Goals.
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President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi inaugurates the first stage of the 100,000 acres of greenhouses project in Matrouh on February 8, 2018.
CAIRO – 8 February 2018: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi ordered a price adjustment of greenhouse products in order to be affordable for all citizens, during his speech at the inauguration ceremony of the first phase of the greenhouse project in the Matrouh governorarte.
"Greenhouses products will be offered through the Ministry of Supply's ports and movable ports to control the prices," one of the officials of the greenhouses project said.
President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi arrived on Thursday at Mohamed Naguib military base in el-Hamam area at Alexandria's north coast to inaugurate the first phase of the greenhouses project on an area of 100,000 feddans.
During the inauguration ceremony, Sisi stated that these greenhouse projects are not "luxurious," but important projects that should be taken seriously by the government and citizens.
The project aims at developing the economy by increasing the production of planted crops and the exploited area across the nation. Greenhouses consume about 70 percent less water than the current production process in traditional agriculture areas, it also produces high quality agricultural crops out of season.
The greenhouse's structure made of transparent walls and roof, is beneficial for the growth of crops as the greenhouse provides regulated climate conditions.


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Symetra Reshuffles Org. Structure
Symetra Life Insurance Company has announced a new organizational structure and new leadership.
By PLANADVISER Staff
news release said the new structure reflects Symetra's three core businesses — retirement solutions, life insurance, and group insurance – with an executive vice president to lead each of the three units.
According to the company, heading the Retirement Division is Dan Guilbert, who will join the company on November 1, 2010. In this role, he will have profit-and-loss responsibility for all annuity, 403(b), and structured settlement products; oversee the Retirement Services and Income Annuities departments; and lead the division's strategy work, product design and innovation, product marketing, market research, service, and operations. He will report to Tom Marra, Symetra president and chief executive officer.
Guilbert currently serves as chief risk officer for Aviva North America. He previously spent 14 years at The Hartford Life Insurance Company, where he held a variety of senior risk management, product development, and actuarial roles. Guilbert earned a bachelor's degree in applied actuarial science from Bryant College.
Marra also announced the promotion of Michael Fry to executive vice president of Symetra's Group Division, a provider of medical stop-loss insurance.
The company is conducting a search for an executive to lead its Life Division, according to the announcement.
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The formation of what became the Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service was discussed as early as May 1941, but it was not until approximately a year later on the 11 April 1942 that approval was given by the War Cabinet to form the Service. On the 18th May 1942 Miss Ruth Herrick was appointed Director of the newly formed Women's Royal Navy Service (New Zealand) later to be renamed as the Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service (WRNZNS).
Ruth was required to build at short notice a force capable of playing a fully effective part in the war effort of the RNZN. Ruth, a member of a prominent Hastings family brought her experiences as a schoolteacher and also as the Chief Commissioner of the Girl Guides in NZ to the fore and the standards she laid down continued throughout the war and were adopted again when the WRNZNS were re-formed in 1947. Miss F H (Helen) Fenwick was appointed as Ruth's Deputy, and the work of organising the new Service began in earnest.
Officially the WRNZNS was just 13 months younger than the Royal New Zealand Navy having become a Navy in its own right on the 1 October 1941. Due to the pressures of war a number of sailors had already been replaced by women in the offices of the Naval Officers in Charge at Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, and in the Auckland naval establishment HMNZS PHILOMEL. Many civilian female employees took over a number of positions particularly in the supply and secretariat branch which were previously filled by naval ratings who had to be released for active service. Many of these civilian employees joined the WRNZNS as Wrens, on a voluntary basis, and those who did, although first entered in the rank of Wren, were given an antedated seniority which made them eligible for earlier promotion. Those civilians who did not become Wrens were moved to other branches, after Wrens had been trained to replace them, in accordance with the principle that uniformed and civilian employees should not be mingled in any branch of the naval service and administration. The general principle in operation was that the female employees in Navy Office and in such establishments as the Naval Dockyard, Auckland, remained civilians, while those women who worked specifically in naval establishments were Wrens. It should be mentioned here that some highly responsible duties were carried out in Navy Office by civilians, many of them women.
There was considerable discussion on the conditions and status of Wrens in the Royal New Zealand Navy during late 1941 and early 1942. In practice a close imitation of the British model was adopted, with the exception that in New Zealand only a few commissions were granted on entry: most officers in the WRNZNS were promoted Wrens. The main question of principle involved in the preliminaries was whether women could be asked to work at night. It soon became obvious that a fighting service could not accept a limitation on the times of duty of its women members if they were to be of any real value. At first the members of the WRNZNS were mostly employed near their own homes, but early in 1943 it was established that Wrens must be 'mobile', that is, prepared to serve anywhere in New Zealand. Once the formation of the Wrens became public there was no shortage of recruits. The wartime Wrens were in every sense pioneers who created a Service from nothing.
At first recruitment was carried out through the Women's War Service Auxiliary (WWSA) and later through local manpower officers. The WRNZNS was never wholly satisfied with an arrangement which prevented direct contact between applicants and the Service itself and which was for many reasons cumbersome, even though the other Services were in the same position. It was unfortunate that, when in April 1945, Great Britain asked for 200 Wrens to serve at the British Pacific Fleet's Australian bases, the request could not be complied with; the strength of the WRNZNS was at that time approximately 500, that is 200 below the establishment of 700, and male ratings had already replaced Wrens in some jobs simply because not enough Wrens were available.
A factor which had always made it difficult to supply the Service with all the women it required was the high standard of selection. Of the first 870 applications received up to January 1943, 350 were declined because the applicants were unsuitable, insufficiently qualified, or below the medical standard. Throughout the whole period of its wartime existence the WRNZNS were below complement and eager for more recruits than were available, although the difficulty of providing living accommodation had on some occasions hampered expansion. The 'peak' strength of the Wrens was 519 and approximately 700 women altogether served in this branch of the Royal New Zealand Navy during the Second World War at various stations around New Zealand.
"The introduction of women into sacred masculine preserves may have been accepted as a grim necessity and one of the inconveniences of wartime conditions, but the way the Navy has received the WRNZNS has given each one of us a sense of being wanted as an essential cog in the machine, however small, which if it fails, upsets the working of the whole. This recognition and appreciation goes a long way towards achieving results and gives us a pride in belonging to the service".
Finding accommodation for the first twenty-four women of Wrens that joined by the end of 1942 proved an arduous battle. Initially, some were quartered in the Wardroom at HMNZS Philomel to the great interest of the sailors on duty. Those who had family in Auckland were given permission to live at home and travel to the naval base for their duties. Later on, barracks were made available on Mount Victoria in Devonport.
Because of the increase in numbers serving in Auckland by late 1943 it was clear to Ruth Herrick, the Director of the WRNZNS that suitable accommodation needed to be found in the Devonport Area. In 1944, the Ventnor Private Hotel was taken over under wartime legislation by the RNZN and made into the Accommodation for the WRNZNS based in Auckland working at HMNZS Philomel. When compared to the Spartan accommodation at Mount Victoria, the private hotel was an enjoyable luxury. At the conclusion of the war it returned to civilian control.
In 1946 the WRNZNS was disbanded by the government. However, in April 1947 following the sailors' strike, a large number of men left the service creating a severe shortage of personnel. It was decided to reform the WRNZNS in May 1947. The director was First Officer Lorelle Corbin who stayed until late 1963 and was the longest serving director. By 1949 there were ten officers and 120 ratings serving as Wrens.
In 1951 they were reformed permanently and continued to serve in shore duties until 1977. At that time the WRNZNS were absorbed into the RNZN, on the same basis as their male counterparts.
The first location for the accommodation of the WRNZNS was at 99 Calliope Road, Devonport which subsequently became the HQ for the Commodore Auckland. They were then moved down to HMNZS Philomel which required a range of precautionary measures to prevent curious sailors looking in. However, this was a temporary measure and something more permanent needed to be found.
In July 1951, the Ventor Hotel was purchased by the RNZN to be the barracks for the WRNZNS. A year was taken up with refurbishment and the first group of 71 Wrens arrived in July 1952. This was christened as Elizabeth House. The need for further accommodation meant that in 1952 a two-storey building in Calliope Road was purchased and given the name Margaret House. This remained in use until the early 1970s when it was handed over to the Army as mess for senior NCOs. In 1951 they were reformed permanently and continued to serve in shore duties until 1977. At that time the WRNZNS were absorbed into the RNZN on the same basis as their male counterparts.
In 1977 the RNZN conformed to Defence Policy in the wake of the Human Rights Commission Act by disbanding the Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service (WRNZNS) and commencing the integration of females into the RNZN. The final parade was held on 29 July 1977. The first intake of combined male and female trainees took place in September 1979. During this time of transition Elizabeth House remained in use but by the late 1980s it had served its purpose. When HMNZS Tamaki, the training establishment for the RNZN was relocated to the North Yard in 1993, Elizabeth House was sold off as part of the rationalisation of property.
From its launching in April 1942 until its paying off in July 1977 the Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service admitted 1655 recruits to its ranks.
The following are excerpts taken from NZ Naval Board Reports from 1945 to 1980 which highlight the role they played during that time.
1. Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service numbers rose to 518 ratings in July 1945, with 20 officers in August 1945. Owing to demobilization and discharges for marriage and compassionate grounds, the strength of the Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service as at 31 March 1946 was 12 officers and 297 ratings and as WRNZNS personnel are in the process of being totally demobilized, no entries were approved after VE Day.
2. Members of the WRNZNS have been mostly employed on demobilization work in Navy Office and establishments as they became available for duties no longer required after the cessation of hostilities. Thus the main category now needed is that of writer, with cooks and stewards and communications branch forming the balance.
3. In response to a questionnaire to WRNZNS personnel asking for volunteers to serve a further period of 6 months, 38 percent expressed themselves willing to continue in the service, but marriage and compassionate releases have since somewhat reduced that figure.
12. Naval W/T Station, Waiouru.-The Royal New Zealand Navy has in Waiouru W/T Station a wireless station equipped with the most modern apparatus and designed on the best technical lines, and of a size far beyond anything that was contemplated pre-war.
13. On the cessation of hostilities the question of the retention of the station was in doubt, but it has now been declared a permanent establishment of the Royal New Zealand Navy. The complement borne during the period of hostilities was 80 WRNZNS personnel and 70 ratings. This number was continued until October 1945, when a gradual reduction in the WRNZNS complement was made, the last WRNZNS personnel leaving in mid-December of that year. For the next few months the station carried a complement of approximately 105, consisting of continuous service and" hostilities only" ratings. The volume of traffic at this time was still fairly high, and it was not until June 1946, that the W/T commitments were sufficiently reduced to allow the last of the "hostilities only" ratings to return to civilian life. The present authorized complement of the station is 3 officers and 70 ratings.
14. The activities of the station consist mainly of working adjacent commands, Whitehall W/T, and, in addition, taking part in the long-distance ship-shore wireless organization. The total number of groups handled on all circuits over the last twelve months was 1,250,000.
23. The Naval Control Service Organization, which functioned at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin during the war, was finally closed down in September 1946. Many expressions of appreciation for the work performed were received from the shipping companies. The demobilization of the WRNZNS personnel was completed towards the end of October 1946.
Housing – work has commenced on the construction of twenty-three housing units for naval personnel at Narrow Neck Camp.
A block of the Naval Barracks is being altered to provide suitable accommodation for WRNZNS personnel.
20. Elizabeth House and Margaret House were completed and commissioned as Women's Royal New Zealand Naval service hostels during the year. These two establishments can now provide accommodation of a high standard for 91 WRNZNS ratings. This greatly relieved the overcrowding in HMNZS PHILOMEL barracks where one block was previously occupied by members of the Women's Service.
43. The Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service has continued to give exemplary service. The authorized complement is at present 8 officers and 123 ratings, the majority of these being employed in Auckland. The over-all numbers could be increased to the advantage of the Royal New Zealand Navy, but the present accommodation, although of a very good standard, is only just sufficient for the present complement and cannot provide for any increase in numbers without further additions to the existing buildings.
44. Recruiting has been conducted with very little advertisement, although it has been necessary at times to resort to spasmodic advertising to make good the temporary deficiencies in certain branches. It is considered that a slightly wider programme for publicity envisaged for the next twelve months will assist materially in eliminating this fluctuating problem.
45. The percentage of re-engagements for the year just completed was approximately 60 per cent, a very encouraging number, and, of those discharged upon expiry of engagement, about 60 per cent planned to marry shortly after discharge.
46. The over-all training programme for WRNZNS personnel has been stepped up over the past years and the results obtained there from have been more than satisfactory.
47. Typical of the work undertaken by the WRNZNS is chart correcting, signals, sick berth attendants, and stores assistants.
48. The high standard of discipline has been maintained and the morale of this Service is excellent.
70. Until 1954 it had been customary for the Sick Berth Branch to provide the necessary nursing services (e.g., dental chair assistants, recorders, etc.) for the naval dental surgeons. During the period under review a Dental Assistants Branch was instituted. Ratings of this branch are required to have basic nursing training and to undergo a special course in their dental duties. It is considered that this step will do much to improve the standard of dental recording in the Royal New Zealand Navy, an already onerous task in a Service which demands virtually no dental standard of its recruits.
79. The Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service has continued to maintain its high standard of service during the year under review. The present complement is 7 officers and 92 ratings. There has been a small improvement in recruiting in certain branches but there is a serious shortage of trained officers.
80. Re-engagement figures continue to maintain a very high percentage. Of those released from the service, the majority were discharged upon marriage or upon impending marriage. Several of those discharged qualified for gratuity.
81. The intensified training programme has continued to be successful and the resulting higher efficiency has been gratifying.
82. Organised days at sea in H.M.N.Z. Ships and visits to overseas naval ships have afforded officers and ratings interesting and instructional opportunities to widen their knowledge of the service.
111. Interest in sport among the WRNZNS has again been lively. Both teams and individuals have met with success in inter-Service and civilian competitions and contributed their share to the success of the Navy as a whole.
119. Four deaths occurred, two being caused by cancer, one by acute inflammation of the brain, and the fourth was caused by a parachute failing to open when a rating, not on duty, was practising jumping.
120. Four hundred and ninety-two male recruits were examined, of whom 411 were passed as fit, an almost identical percentage with that of last year. Forty-three were cadet candidates and of these 36 satisfied the medical examiners. General poor physique accompanying congenital or acquired disabilities, defective vision or colour vision accounted for most of the rejections.
121. Fifty-six WRNZNS were presented for medical examination and 49 were passed as fit.
123. Two ratings of the WRNZNS were discharged medically, both for psychiatric reasons.
The complement of the Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service at 31 March 1959 totalled six officers and 86 ratings, the lowest it has been for several years. There is difficulty in meeting commitments in some branches of the Service.
Recruiting was slightly below normal but the general standard of candidate has remained at a good level. The percentage of re-engagements of time-expired personnel has shown an improvement.
Initial and advanced training has been firmly established and good progress has been made.
The WRNZNS have increased their already keen interest in women's sporting activities, having competed successfully with service and civilian teams.
A high standard of discipline has been maintained and morale is on a high plane.
Sixty-one WRNZNS were examined and 54 were passed medically fit. Forty male ratings were invalided during the year. This represents a rate of 15.02 per 1,000 serving, the lowest figure since 1954 but a figure still considerably in excess of pre-war rates.
Almost half the total invalided came from the neuro-psychiatric group and within this group the anxiety reaction states were responsible for over half the total.
Four WRNZNS ratings were also invalided, all being in the neuro psychiatric group.
The WRNZNS indoor basketball team won both the Auckland league championship and the knockout.
Although there has been a slight increase in the number of WRNZNS officers, who now total seven, the complement of WRNZNS ratings has shown a decrease in numbers and, at 31 March 1960, totalled only 81. The vacancies in this latter complement cover most categories.
Recruiting was below normal during the year under review and there have been insufficient candidates entered to offset the shortages. The general standard of candidates coming forward has, however, been good.
Interest in sporting activities has been retained although reduced numbers of ratings and consequent increased working requirements did not permit as regular participation in certain spheres of sport as in previous years.
The standard of discipline has remained at a high level and the morale of the Service very good indeed.
Chief Wren Lorna Evelyn Coles was awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM). Sadly Lorna passed away in Auckland, 4 April 2009.
A small epidemic of German measles was experienced coincidentally with the civil epidemic. The majority of cases were reported from HMNZ Ships PHILOMEL and ROYALIST, while the new-entry training establishment, where a high incidence was expected, escaped with only six cases.
Six deaths during the year under review are recorded with regret. Four hundred and six male recruits were examined, of whom 64 were found unfit for service, mainly due to failure to reach the minimum physical standard required and failure to reach the visual standard required far seaman candidates.
Forty-eight candidates for the WRNZN Service were referred for medical examination and 40 of these were passed as medically fit.
A deterioration in sick berth staff manning which has been evidenced far same years has not been arrested, and further consideration has been given to obtaining authority to recruit ex-RN sick berth ratings from the United Kingdom. Attempts are also being made to increase the establishment of nursing sisters and of WRNZNS sick berth ratings. These two measures, as a short-term policy, will assist the manning of the Royal New Zealand Naval Hospital but they will not solve the long-term problem of suitable trained male ratings far the sea-going ships.
The WRNZNS complement at 31 March 1962 totalled nine officers and 69 ratings. Although the officer complement is up to strength the number of ratings is below requirements, and has shown a decrease on last year. Mainly because of a reduction in the entry age to 17 1/2 years recruiting has shown a slight improvement. However, once again this year the total entry did not offset the total discharges and shortages exist in most categories.
The standard of discipline and the morale of the Service have remained at a high level.
Two deaths are recorded – a member of the WRNZNS being drowned whilst on leave and a male rating killed in a motorcycle accident.
The rejection rate for male recruits was the lowest for many years. Failure to reach the minimum Naval visual standard, asthma, and chronic skin diseases were the principal causes for rejection. The rejection rate for WRNZNS was approximately the same as last year.
47. The WRNZNS plays a very useful part in manning shore establishments of the RNZN. The WRNZNS strength on 31 March was eight officers and 101 ratings, an increase on the previous year. Recruiting was satisfactory.
The Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service continues to play a most useful part in manning shore establishments of the RNZN.
On 31 March the total strength was nine officers and 95 ratings, with a trainee class of 14 awaiting entry. These 14 were expected to bring the WRNZNS to the maximum number able to be accommodated. Recruiting continued to be most satisfactory.
The strength of the RNZN on 31 March 1965 was 2,976, comprising 314 officers, 2,551 ratings, 10 RN officers and 2 RN ratings on loan, 10 WRNZNS officers, and 89 WRNZNS ratings. Four naval personnel were serving with the Defence Office at that date, giving a strength of 2,972 carried on the Navy subdivision of the Defence vote.
These figures represent an increase of 17 in the officer strength since 31 March 1964 and a decrease of 76 ratings.
Recruitment for both the RNZN and WRNZNS during the year was generally satisfactory, although there is a continuing need for improved officer recruiting.
The strength of the Navy on 31 March 1966 was 2,922, comprising 305 officers, 2,506 ratings (including 66 General Duty servicemen), nine British officers and two British ratings on loan, 11 WRNZNS officers, and 89 WRNZNS ratings. This total includes naval personnel serving with the Defence Office or in liaison appointments overseas.
Recruitment for the Navy, including the WRNZNS, during the year was at a satisfactory rate, although there is still a need for improved officer recruitment. It is not yet possible to determine any trend in re-engagements reflecting the improved pay scales introduced by the 1965 pay review.
The strength of the Navy at 31 March 1967 was 2,934, comprising 317 officers (including 5 British officers on loan), 2,518 ratings, 11 WRNZNS officers, and 88 WRNZNS ratings. This total includes naval personnel serving with Defence Office and in liaison postings overseas. The Navy's strength is 856 under the regular establishment ceiling.
The strength of the RNZN at 31 March 1968 was 2,912 comprising 316 officers (including 4 Royal Navy Officers on loan), 2,492 ratings, 10 WRNZNS officers, and 94 WRNZNS ratings. This total includes naval personnel serving overseas and in Defence Office posts. The Navy's authorised ceiling strength was 3,018.
During the year 723 personnel received basic training; of this total a significant number of women (109) completed their basic training, reflecting the increasing interest of women in a career in the Navy.
As at 31 March 1980 the strength of the RNZNVR divisions stood at 371, a slight decrease from 384 a year earlier. Although the manpower ceiling was raised from 400 to 500 during the year, further increases in the ceiling will be necessary before the Reserve is able to carry out fully its new function of supplementing the RNZN particularly in the resource protection role. Recruiting to fill these new positions is proceeding satisfactorily and a number of former regular naval personnel are now joining the Reserve. During the year the first female recruits joined the RNZNVR.
With the approval of the New Zealand Governor-General and the Chief of Navy, our new title has been granted. We are proud to be able to use the word "Royal" in our new name.
Our fine history began in 1942 with the establishment of the Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service. Its inception allowed women to do the jobs of the men, so that they could be released to serve at sea.
War Wrens served with distinction in many arenas of WWII, some so secret it stayed that way for 40 years. Since the war Wrens continued to serve overseas and in various parts of New Zealand, ashore and afloat. By the time the Wrens amalgamated with the Royal New Zealand Navy in 1977, 1655 women had been in the WRNZNS.
Today women in the Navy serve alongside the men at sea and ashore. We would like to encourage these women to join our Association. Our members live all over New Zealand and in other parts of the world.
Our core goals are to foster the comradeship and close ties we all gained from serving in the WRNZNS and the Royal New Zealand Navy and to support our members in many different ways. We achieve this by holding meetings, special events, Combined Services Luncheons, our Annual Church Service, newsletters and reunions. The next reunion will be held in 2012 in Auckland to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the establishment of a Women's Royal Naval Service for New Zealand.
The Royal New Zealand Naval Women's Association Inc, is open to all women who have served in the WRNZNS, RNZN, RNZNVR or any Commonwealth Navy. We welcome new members. For further information, contact the National Secretary, so that you too, can rekindle the camaraderie and friendship of days gone by.
I am a member of the RNZN ex communicators group but am not sure if i am a member of ex WRNZNS (daft I know). I served February 1963 until October 1968 in signals branch. I am now Teaching Deputy Principal at an intermediate school – not a a lot changes in the workplace though.
it was very nice to read all this, and some of the other stuff on the website too.
Jan, Great to hear from you. The Ex Wrens Assn is run by Jill Thompson so I will forward your request on to her and she can confirm your membership of that association. As you would have seen from the history section of the Blog, we are putting together the history of the Signal Wrens. I am sure that Sandy Watson who is a committee member responsible for this Chapter will soon be in touch as much is unknown of the era which you served. Kind Regards.
I am trying to make contact with BEVERLEY MARGARET PURCELL (maiden name) who served as a WREN in the late 1940s. If anyone has any information about Beverley I would love to make contact so that I can complete a link in the family tree I am working on.
I may be able help with your family tree, having researched the Purcells of Australasia the past 30 years. Email me at gerryp66@hotmail.com.
Jan [ Kips] just seen this dit from you only a couple of years after the fact. Are you still living in Tokoroa. Blue.
My Mother Norma(Rowe) Duncan aged 94yrs has just died .She was the first Wren chosen from the Waikato Region during WW2.She was a signaler at Bigan ( spelling ) Hill Wellington.


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