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Nothing misses Amul's target
31 Dec, 2013 - 03:41 PM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team
MUMBAI: Indeed, the pony-tailed and polka-dotted li'l girl of Amul fame has come to be an iconic part of the country's socio-political and economic landscape, courtesy her cheeky yet responsible comments on issues ranging from IPL spot fixing to the more recent prosecution of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade in USA.
When Amul approached Sylvester Da Cunha in 1966 to design a campaign for Amul Butter, little did the company imagine the ads would go on to become somewhat of a national tradition.
With Sylvester's son Rahul now in charge of all Amul ads, we ask him to reveal the secret behind such brilliant, pun-intended ideas week after week?
"If I tell you, then I have to kill you," laughs Rahul, attributing all the enthusiasm and creativity to the 'raw material' available in the country currently.
"From Bollywood to politics to issues, there is so much happening in this country. I don't think we would have been able to do what we are doing here in any other country. It is all because of the colorful characters we have," he says.
Rahul is part of a three-strong core team that works on the witty, topical ads. And while the trio is unafraid to take a stance on anything under the sun, there's one topic it steers clear of - religion.
"It's dicey and too sensitive a topic to indulge in and we try to avoid it unless and until it has got to do with someone like Asaram Bapu," says Rahul.
At a time when most brands do not believe in commenting on 'sensitive' issues, Rahul prides himself on being part of a company that has never shied away from taking a stance. "It is our USP and others doing it is a rare case," he adds.
Not that all their ads have met with bouquets; there have been the occasional brickbats too, for example, Amul's recent commentary on the Tehelka scandal, which didn't go down well with a majority of the people. But that doesn't deter the team from keeping up the good work. As Rahul puts it, "We don't look back as we feel it is all part and parcel of the industry and we cannot make everyone happy."
As the year comes to a close, indiantelevision.com brings you some of its pioneering ads of 2013:
The year began with Kashmir's top clergyman issuing a fatwa against an all-girls rock band, reasoning music is banned in Islam and girls should imbibe 'better values' instead of vices.
The IOC's decision to drop wrestling from the Olympics came as a huge setback for fans and practitioners of the game. The only saving grace being it would be included in the 2016 Olympics.
Around mid-year, the Madras High Court passed a judgment saying that an unmarried couple of the right legal age "indulging in sexual gratification" would be considered married and could be called "husband and wife". An entire nation was shell-shocked by the forward-thinking pronouncement.
Escalating prices and economic slowdown notwithstanding, some politicians were brazen enough to say food is cheap in this country. Congress spokesperson Raj Babbar went to the extent of saying it is possible to have a full meal for just Rs 12 in Mumbai even today. And the junta didn't know whether to laugh or cry at this cruel joke...
In a body blow to the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) community, the Supreme Court recently turned back the clock on Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalizes any kind of sexual activity "against the order of nature" including homosexual acts. In a 2009 judgment, the Delhi High Court had decriminalized all such activity, leading many such people to live together.
Meanwhile, at least one other Supreme Court judgment did not disappoint. The apex court ruled that persons in lawful custody – whether convicted in a criminal case or otherwise – cannot contest elections. The common man rejoiced even though the ruling does not apply to those on bail.
When a colleague claimed founder-editor of Tehelka Magazine Tarun Tejpal had sexually assaulted her in an elevator during a fest organized by the publication in Goa, it went on to become the mother of all scandals. However Amul's take on the matter attracted a lot of criticism, possibly because rape doesn't lend itself to humor.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was just that… till the unlikely hero of the Delhi Assembly Elections decided to take Congress support to form the government in the national capital.
Amulsocio-politicalEconomicdiplomatDevyani KhobragadeIPLSylvester da CunhaAsaram BapuUSP .
Mumbai: Homegrown jobs and professional networking platform apna has announced the appointment of Shantanu Preetam as its first chief technology officer (CTO).
Parle Hide & Seek plays cupid for adolescent love in new campaign

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Alexander Grothendieck (Berlim,  — Saint-Girons, ) foi um matemático nascido na Alemanha e naturalizado francês em 1971. Foi o fundador de uma escola própria sobre geometria algébrica, cujo desenvolvimento influenciou profundamente na década de 1960. Em 1966 recebeu a Medalha Fields, que recusou. Foi célebre por suas firmes posições pacifistas e ecologistas.

Biografia
Desconhecido para o grande público e considerado por muitos de seus colegas um dos matemáticos mais importantes do século XX, Grothendieck era filho de uma jornalista socialista revolucionária e de um fotógrafo anarquista judeu russo, que emigrou para a Alemanha após ser condenado primeiro pelo regime czarista e depois pelos comunistas. Seus pais também tiveram que abandonar a Alemanha em 1933 após a ascensão dos nazistas ao poder e partiram para a França, antes de seguir para a Espanha para se somarem à causa republicana.

O pequeno Alexander ficou aos cuidados de um amigo da família em Hamburgo até que a família voltou a se reunir em Nîmes ao término da guerra civil espanhola, em 1939, mas os Grothendieck passaram pouco tempo juntos. Meses depois, o pai foi enviado a Auschwitz, onde morreu em 1942. A mãe e ele terminaram no campo de concentração de Rieucros, nos Pirenéus, onde Alexander começou a se interessar pela matemática. Formou-se e foi estudar matemática em Montpellier, onde um professor detetou no jovem formado algumas aptidões extraordinárias.

Influenciado pelas ideias políticas do maio de 1968, afastou-se por volta de 1970 de sua posição central na vida matemática de Paris e, por exemplo, procurou auxiliar os matemáticos norte-vietnamistas que padeciam sob a Guerra do Vietnã, mediante manifestações pessoais, desaparecendo completamente do contato público em 1991. Residiu nos Pirenéus, em local conhecido apenas por poucos amigos.

Mas o mito sobre sua genialidade não surgiu até que os grandes matemáticos Laurent Schwartz e Jean Dieudonné entregaram a ele, quando tinha 20 anos, uma lista com 14 problemas sobre os quais trabalhar nos próximos anos e pediram que elegesse um. Meses mais tarde Alexander Grothendieck voltou a se encontrar com seus professores e entregou os 14 problemas resolvidos. Nos meses posteriores redigiu o equivalente a seis teses, trabalho que um aluno aplicado teria levado entre três e quatro anos. Nos anos seguintes, o jovem prodígio dedicou-se à análise funcional, um trabalho revolucionário, mas menos transcendente que seus estudos posteriores, onde se destacou por sua capacidade para generalizar e criar novos pontos de vista.

Com o passaporte Nansen que a ONU dava aos refugiados sem pátria, já que se recusava a assumir a nacionalidade francesa, Grothendieck trabalhou a partir de 1953 durante dois anos como professor no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos antes de se alistar no Instituto de Altos Estudos Científicos (IHES), ao sul de Paris e financiado pelo empresário Léon Motchane. Foi nessa instituição que dirigiu um seminário de geometria algébrica que trouxe uma nova visão sobre a geometria inspirada em sua obsessão por repensar o espaço com noções sobre as quais os matemáticos ainda hoje trabalham.

Em 1966 recebeu a medalha Fields, considerada o Nobel da matemática, um prêmio que não foi receber por motivos políticos e que depois leiloou para financiar os norte-vietnamitas na guerra contra os Estados Unidos. Não foi a única distinção – e dotações econômicas – que Grothendieck recusou. Ele dizia que seus trabalhos deveriam ser julgados pelo tempo e não pelos homens. Paulatinamente foi se afastando da comunidade científica e se aproximando de movimentos ecologistas radicais. Nesses anos recusou também seu posto no prestigiado Colégio da França para se transformar em professor da Universidade de Montpellier e, entre 1984 e 1988, no Centro Nacional de Pesquisas Científicas da França (CNRS).

Em 1990 retirou-se para os Pirenéus franceses, passando a viver discretamente num local que era conhecido somente por poucos amigos e exigiu que seus escritos não publicados fossem destruídos.

Obras
Suas publicações matemáticas abrangem as áreas da topologia, geometria algébrica e análise funcional. Posteriormente publicou nas áreas da ecologia, filosofia, religião e principalmente esoterismo.

Devido a ter passado a maior parte de sua vida na França, seu nome é habitualmente citado como Alexandre (e não Alexander) Grothendieck, enquanto ele mesmo afirmava ter mantido seu nome original.

Bibliografia
Serre (Ed.): Grothendieck-Serre correspondence, AMS 2003
Cartier, Illusie, Katz (Ed.): Grothendieck Festschrift, 3 Bde., Birkhäuser 1998 (Bibliografia de seus escritos )
Pierre Cartier: A mad days work - from Grothendieck to Connes and Kontsevich, Bulletin AMS 2001, online
ders. Grothendieck et les motifs, IHES 2000 preprint, online
Leila Schneps, Lochak (Ed.): Geometric Galois actions- around Grothendiecks Esquisse d'un programme, Londres Math.Society Lecture Notes, Cambridge 1997 (com Grothendiecks Esquisse)
Pragacz: The life and work of Alexander Grothendieck, American Mathematical Monthly, Novembro de 2006
Robin Hartshorne: Algebraic geometry, Springer 1997

Ligações externas

, dort auch links zu online Arbeiten (z.B. EGA, SGA, Esquisse, Recoltes et semailles)
Comme Appelé du Néant – As If Summoned from the Void: The Life of Alexandre Grothendieck, de Allyn Jackson http://www.ams.org/notices/200409/fea-grothendieck-part1.pdf und http://www.ams.org/notices/200410/fea-grothendieck-part2.pdf

 Die Zeit, 27 de Março de 2008

Nicolas Bourbaki
Medalha Fields
Topólogos do século XX
Algebristas do século XX
Matemáticos da Alemanha
Matemáticos da França
Matemáticos da França do século XX
Naturais de Berlim

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Board index World Tours 2008-2010 & 2012-2013 THE SPRING 2013 TOUR IN NORTH AMERICA
CONCERT REPORT: Atlanta, GA - March 22, 2013
Everything about the first leg of Leonard Cohen's World Tour 2013
sturgess66
Post by sturgess66 » Fri Mar 22, 2013 5:16 am
A pre-concert article in ArtsTL.com -
http://www.artsatl.com/2013/03/preview- ... x-theatre/
"As Cohen passes through Atlanta, he'll bring all that he is, and all that others have proclaimed him to be, along with a suitcase full of vintage elegies and bluesy ballads."
Preview: Leonard Cohen's Third Act Bringing "Old Ideas" And New Rewards to Fox Theatre
By Tommy Housworth
Leonard Cohen has enjoyed a career resurgence.
Leonard Cohen wouldn't make it past the first round of "American Idol." His droning baritone displeases the ears of an autotune culture, and the uninitiated might write him off in the sex appeal category the minute they discover that he's pushing 80 years old. He's the unlikeliest of 21st-century showmen, a methodical poet in an industry dominated by pop tarts and Lady Gaga-ism.
But little of this matters to the Cohen fans who will fill the Fox Theatre to see him Friday night or to the legion of Cohen devotees around the world.
If the Canadian novelist and poet turned musician has been relegated to the role of "cult legend," he seems as comfortable with it as he is with the black fedora that adorns his graying brow. In fact, it was as his career was experiencing a sort of second-act renaissance, with a pair of highly praised albums (1988's "I'm Your Man" and 1992's "The Future") and an extensive world tour, that Cohen went off the grid, taking five years off to live in retreat at California's Mount Baldy Zen Center.
Unfortunately, when he re-entered the outside world, he learned that his longtime manager had taken advantage of the singer's time in isolation to bilk him of upwards of $5 million, leaving Cohen nearly destitute. Whether from inspiration or necessity, the last few years have put Cohen back in the studio and on the road, with a new album (2012's "Old Ideas") and a series of major tours. And though he probably wishes the circumstances were different, he told The New York Times that being forced to go back on the road was "a most fortunate happenstance because I was able to connect … with living musicians. And I think it warmed some part of my heart that had taken on a chill."
That warmth has certainly been rekindled, and a man who has acknowledged battles with depression seems simply euphoric to share his verse with what are now multigenerational audiences. Even with the spectral theme of facing one's mortality recurring throughout "Old Ideas," Cohen approaches his shows with fortitude and even, dare I say, a sense of buoyant joy.
His shows clock in at close to three hours long, with set lists nearing 30 songs. The repertoire is vast, covering the breadth of his career, from the early years ("Suzanne," "Bird on a Wire," "Who by Fire") to more current fare ("Anthem," "A Thousand Kisses Deep" and a handful of songs from "Old Ideas").
Cohen has long laughed at his reputation as a ladies' man, even as he has been associated with several stunningly beautiful women and once wrote a song called "Death of a Ladies' Man." But it is his commingling of the sacred and the sensual that has earned him a reputation as both an existential troubadour and "the Byron of rock 'n' roll." As Tom Robbins once remarked, "Nobody can say the word 'naked' as nakedly as Cohen."
He's one of the handful of musical artists who can rightly be anointed a poet rather than a mere songwriter, his writing more apt to be compared with Baudelaire's or Rimbaud's than Woody Guthrie's or Bob Dylan's. Those attending his Fox concert can expect audible sighs from women in the audience and the defeated cries of pedestrian poets muttering "why do I even bother?" as Cohen guides his guests through his majestic tower of song.
Leonard CohenHe's one of the most recorded songwriters in modern music, with everyone from Beck and Bono to Emmylou Harris and k.d. laing attempting to do justice to his estimable canon. Judy Collins, the first other artist to record his songs, and Jennifer Warnes have devoted entire albums to the Cohen songbook. One of his most enduring anthems, "Hallelujah," has been recorded so often, and been the object of such speculation and scrutiny by fans and critics, that an entire book about the song, Alan Light's The Holy or the Broken, was recently published.
In concert, Cohen's songs shine through with crystalline detail, his well-suited baritone a perfect vessel to deliver such apocalyptic anthems as "The Future" as well as the darkly mystic "Take This Waltz" and the prayerful "If It Be Your Will." His tours have devout followers, a subculture of devotees who travel great distances to see him. But, unlike others with such committed fans (the Grateful Dead and Bruce Springsteen come to mind), Cohen's shows are not improvised jams with malleable set lists and rock hall admission prices. They are symphonic suites of pristine precision, with tickets topping out at nearly $300. If Springsteen's shows are like an evangelical church revival, a Cohen concert is more akin to a Zen retreat. It's a glimpse into a sacred cathedral, but by way of a lingering pass through a Parisian boudoir and perhaps an overnighter at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City.
At 78, Leonard Cohen has stumbled, by fate or loss of fortune, upon a hard-earned iconic plateau that he almost certainly neither anticipated nor dared hope for. For a man who once famously remarked that "success is survival," he has exceeded his own expectations with an abiding sense of gratitude and his wicked wit well intact.
As Cohen passes through Atlanta, he'll bring all that he is, and all that others have proclaimed him to be, along with a suitcase full of vintage elegies and bluesy ballads. For those willing to listen, and those who'll enter the shrine of his showmanship, the rewards are as enlightening as the truths Cohen sought at the Zen Center that inadvertently put this third act into motion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY2XYRL9pQk
Re: CONCERT REPORT: Atlanta, GA - March 22, 2013
The venue - the Fox Theatre is another one of those gorgeous old theatres - dating back to 1920's. Seating capacity is 4,678.
Located in the middle of the city - on Peachtree Street.
http://www.foxtheatre.org/foxhistory.aspx
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Post by DrM » Fri Mar 22, 2013 5:58 am
What 'new' or 'improved' songs will He perform?
My precise & exacting wife missed 'Gypsy Wife' in Montreal, but she thought 'Show Me the Place' was a delight which will play well in the Deep South, and she is also counting on 'Dance Me to the End of Love'.
I hope for 'Anthem' & 'If It Be Your Will', but also 'The Guests'; I would beg for 'The Window' if it was on the set list, but I would really like to explain to my Georgia & North Carolina children the importance of Leonard Cohen's & the Unified Heart Touring Company's 'Passing Through'.
Watching from the first row of the balcony,
vickiwoodyard
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Post by vickiwoodyard » Fri Mar 22, 2013 4:22 pm
I am hoping for I Tried To Leave You as one of the encores. He has not been doing that one lately.
Location: Atlanta, GA, USA
Post by Chelle » Fri Mar 22, 2013 7:21 pm
We are REALLY hoping to hear that one too, Vicki.
With the exception of Miami, here are the songs played so far on this tour, along with their counts: http://www.setlist.fm/stats/leonard-coh ... ?year=2013
Post by vickiwoodyard » Fri Mar 22, 2013 10:03 pm
The ceiling in the photo above is not of the Fox in Atlanta; must be the one in Detroit. Thank you for the set list info. The Partisan...I vote for that one as well.
Post by sturgess66 » Fri Mar 22, 2013 10:53 pm
vickiwoodyard wrote: The ceiling in the photo above is not of the Fox in Atlanta; must be the one in Detroit. Thank you for the set list info. The Partisan...I vote for that one as well.
Thanks Vicki - I have replaced that picture with another that I found at the Fox Theatre's facebook site - so should be accurate.
The other picture - a number of sites I looked at attribute it to The Fox in Atlanta - and my guess is that they are taking the information from Google Images that attributes it to the Fox. And so it can go ...
Post by sturgess66 » Sat Mar 23, 2013 1:27 am
Keep Calm Atlanta
Stay'n Foxy at the Fox
http://leonardcohen.tumblr.com/post/460 ... lm-atlanta
FROM TWITTER -
@ADR_Rocks 45m Did I mention I am from Montana? @TheFoxTheater is stunning! @LeonardOnTour #SoExciting! https://twitter.com/ADR_Rocks/status/31 ... 26/photo/1
@markwofford Ready for Leonard Cohen @TheFoxTheatre with my better half. pic.twitter.com/3vGPJLhv9x
@mypalmike Leonard Cohen in town again. pic.twitter.com/qwhLF8yTKd
@lancehirsh Leonard Cohen! pic.twitter.com/FHUR39jGkp
@Aucado Life affirming performance by the master! #leonardcohen
@lorigami True gentleman #leonardcohen http://instagram.com/p/XLp9tXzAC-/
@SamCandler Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water, And he spent a long time watching from a lonely wooden tower. http://campl.us/onvB
@SamCandler Show me the place where the word became a man, Show me the place where the suffering began. - Leonard Cohen. http://campl.us/onwp
@mwaldman56 Mitch Watkins and Rafael Gayol rocking out w/ Leonard Cohen. Brings back memories of some awesome Bob shows of days past!
@jeffthein Leonard Cohen. Filling the Fox Theater in ATL @ age 79 @ The Fox Theatre http://instagram.com/p/XL1hYzmVg1/
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Post by Chelle » Sat Mar 23, 2013 9:18 am
A few of my pics.
Post by Chelle » Sat Mar 23, 2013 10:05 am
Mabeanie1
Post by Mabeanie1 » Sat Mar 23, 2013 5:22 pm
I LOVE the shot of Leonard kneeling in the spotlight Chelle!
Post by vickiwoodyard » Sat Mar 23, 2013 9:22 pm
Leonard Cohen at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, Georgia, 2013
"Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you're tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty." ~Leonard Cohen, Death of a Lady's Man.
What I witnessed for over three and a half hours was a man and his touring company hard at work to deliver the goods impeccably.
We sat close enough that we could see the guys waiting in the wings to hand off instruments, etc. to the musicians. As I follow the online journey of Leif Bodnarchuk, a backline tech, that was interesting to see.
Leonard himself has gone beyond the need of reviews. The man is a legend. He is, in a sense, a blue-collar worker. Just like a delivery man might come into a bar with a box of 24 glasses and say, "Here's your delivery," —thus did Leonard take center stage and humbly deliver his body of work. He's your man. He's Everyman.
Some were seeing Leonard for the first time. Others follow him as often as they can. No one could fault one moment of this show. When they took their last bows, they were well-deserved.
The crew begin tearing down and loading out the equipment as if in a race against time. My son and I stood at the stage door for ten minutes or so. We saw Javier Mas talking to Rafael Gayol, who was holding a styrofoam box of food. Shortly, Alexandru Bublitchi could be seen joining them. Then it began to rain and we scurried hurriedly back to our car.
Our night on the town finished, I sat in my own kitchen again. We are all alike, folks. As Leonard says we are "the brief elaboration of a tube." And so to bed, having had a cup of hot chocolate and a cookie or two. The Master had held class and I was privileged to be one of his students for "one night only." Leonard fed us on the loaves and fishes with baskets left over. Now that is a miracle...no waiting required.
Vicki Woodyard
Author, Life With A Hole In It: That's How The Light Gets In
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Odds are you haven't heard of the Hotchkis and Wiley Small Cap Value Fund, (800-796-5606). It's a small fund, $97 million in assets, that can be purchased only through a financial advisor or broker and has a long-term performance record worth looking at. According to Morningstar, the fund's 3-year average annualized return, ending June 30, was 14.32 percent; it's 10-year return, 12.96 percent; and year-to-date through June 30, the fund was up 10.5 percent.
James Miles has been the fund's portfolio manager since 1996. He says one of the reasons for its positive performance is current market conditions. "People are appreciating that if you pay a low price for sustainable earnings or cash flow that that ultimately is the best way to protect yourself in a market that's' going down."
Q: What kind of companies do you like to invest in?
Miles: There are two types of stocks that we search for in the small-cap market. One is that undiscovered or thinly researched one where not a lot of people know about the company. The other is out-of-favor or unloved stocks. Here the industry might be out-of-favor or there is some short-term issue that's generally caused the stock price to be depressed.
Miles: At one point home builders was an industry that was very depressed and people were worrying about what would happen to the economy and those stocks. Our view was that if you looked at a recession scenario, the stocks were priced for that. So, even if a recession occurred, they still seemed to be undervalued.
We still own some home builders today, not at the same size---they've come up in price and valuation---but there still is a case to be made that they are a reasonable valuation. But, not as cheap as they used to be.
Q: What about an undiscovered industry or company.
Miles: Oil tankers and TeeKay Shipping. Not a lot of guys cover the shipping industry and these guys (TeeKay) ship crude oil from places like the Middle East into the Western hemisphere. It's a very basic business and you can count how many oil tankers there are in the world.
When oil prices are low, the price that people pay to charter these boats goes down and there is not a lot of earnings visibility. But the business tends to be cyclical and short-term in nature so if you do your homework you can find some very good investment opportunities.
Q: What are the top three holdings in the fund right now?
Miles: Ventas, Lonestar Steakhouse and LNR Property.
Q: How about taxes and portfolio turnover.
Miles: We manage the portfolio for performance, target about 50 percent turnover, but we've been as high as 100 percent.
Q: With all the bad news about corporate accounting practices, can you trust what you read in a company's balance sheet?
Miles: That's where fundamental managers, like us, come into play. Our job is to research the companies and look at their balance sheets. We can't protect against absolute outright fraud, but a lot of the signs of fraud show up pretty readily in the financial statement.
For example, if you see a company that's reporting a lot of net income but they don't have a lot of cash flow from operation, it means that for some reason this company is recognizing profits but it's not generating the cash that you would expect it to generate.
Q: And that's a red flag?
Miles: It's a huge red flag. So you say, okay, many times companies are growing so they consume cash in order to grow and that makes sense. But sometimes you find companies that really aren't growing very fast yet they are consuming an awful loft of cash, Generally that's an indicator of revenue recognition problems.


The goal of Modal Jazz Composition & Harmony, Volume 2 is to continue the dissemination of information that presents a path of study for the aspiring jazz composer. Where Volume 1 of the book emphasized the preparation of a modal harmonic foundation, this volume will introduce concepts of melody writing and a study of the styles of jazz compositions that are an intrinsic addition to the contemporary jazz composer's repertoire. Also included are chapters on harmonization and reharmonization techniques---as many of the concepts presented reflect an influence of Gil Evans, Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus as well as those of Herbie Hancock---and on pentatonic tunes that are harmonized with a modal harmonic foundation. As with Volume 1, an appendix with additional peripheral information is included for the student desiring theoretical explanation and additional examples.
Titles: Chapter I: Melody * Chapter II: Reharmonization * Chapter III: Pentatonics * Appendices.


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This year, let's parent like it's 1989
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By Chantal Panozzo
What happens when your parenting style doesn't change, but the continent you're parenting on does?
If you've recently repatriated to the United States from Europe, as I have, you might start wondering if how you are mothering will get you arrested. I speak from experience. See, my 7-year-old Swiss-born daughter walks to school in our upscale Chicago suburb. Alone.
Stop the press. Hold the camera. Aim it at something most Americans in the 21st century have apparently never seen before: a first-grader with enough independence to call walking to school alone "pretty great." In Switzerland, where I became a parent, children as young as 5 walk or ride the public bus to school unaccompanied. There are no parents hovering — or driving their children four blocks to school in a minivan. It's a culture of free-range parenting — not that a Swiss would ever call it that. Helicopter parenting doesn't exist in the alpine nation, but rational parenting decisions that teach personal responsibility do.
Even on playgrounds, children resolve problems themselves while parents sit on benches and drink coffee — if the parents are even there. There are no shouts of "Be careful!" or "Let that other boy have a turn." The only shouts you hear are from children enjoying something many American children will never know: freedom.
We call our country "the land of the free," yet most children — at least if our suburb is representative — have no freedom at all. Their parents (or nannies) walk or drive them to school, pick them up, and drive them to scheduled activities. There may be the development of piano skills, soccer skills or freestyle strokes (and for some of these kids, it's all in an evening's work) — but time for free play and time to develop independence, there is not.
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Somehow, when I moved away more than a decade ago, a culture of fear and overprotection moved in while I was gone. Because growing up in a western Chicago suburb in the '80s, I knew the wonders of roaming without supervision — as a child I built treehouses (with hammers and nails, oh my!) with the neighborhood kids for hours in the woods near our house. I walked to the bus stop alone. I even walked to Kmart on missions to buy a pound of popcorn, a full mile from our house, with friends.
My husband, who grew up in the suburb we live in now, also waxes poetic about his grade-school days, when he and his fellow grade-school neighbors walked the 0.7 mile to elementary school together every day, in any weather. Naturally, with visions of both 21st-century Switzerland and 1980s America in my head, I imagined my daughter walking to first grade with throngs of children from our block and others. On our street alone, there are seven children who attend her school, and I looked forward to my daughter developing a camaraderie with them, especially since due to the lack of anyone ever playing outdoors, this seemed to be her best opportunity to do so.
So why, every time I wave goodbye to my daughter from my front door, do I find myself wondering, Will I be arrested? Could I be arrested? Because when I look out, all I see is the father who escorts his sixth-grader to class. All I see is the endless line of parents in minivans driving their children four blocks to school. And all I see are the crossing guards, still doing their jobs, even though the swarms of parents escorting their children render them mostly useless, relics of a forgotten American past.
Today's news, filled with stories of mothers (and it's always mothers) being investigated for allowing their 8-year-old to walk the dog alone or being arrested after leaving their child in a car alone for five minutes, weigh on my mind, no matter how ridiculous they seem. So when my daughter runs, unaccompanied, to the neighbor's house, two houses down, to play with her first-grader, I can't help but cringe. After all, this mother drives her kids the four blocks to school. She allows her children to ride their bikes only on her driveway — not down the sidewalk as my daughter does. And she always escorts my daughter home from her house, making me feel both utterly dismissive of my daughter's safety and completely guilty for not going over there to walk her home the 100 yards myself.
Like this mother, most American parents seem to have forgotten the world we grew up in. In the local hardware store the other day, I ran into another one of our neighbors. He has four kids — two my daughter's age and two older ones that all go to her school.
"Hey," he said. "I noticed your daughter is walking to school alone. That's like a European thing, right?"
"I guess," I said.
"Well, if she ever wants to walk with us, she's welcome," he said. "Except since it's so cold now, we're driving the kids."
"Thanks, I appreciate that," I said.
But inside, I sighed. Inside I thought, well, along with a coat, make your kids wear snow pants and boots and gloves and a hat, and the weather's fine. Inside, I lie in bed at night and dream of parades of children walking to school unaccompanied by parents. I dream that rather than being known as the "crazy European mom," I become a model for how to teach our children to be independent, strong and weather-appropriate. It's my new American Dream, one I never imagined I'd have.
As well-meaning and kind as these fellow parents are, I refuse to give in to their ongoing offers of overprotection. Instead, I continue to parent in the way that teaches my child to be personally responsible — and I wish more American parents, especially those of us who grew up freely roaming our neighborhoods in the 1980s, would parent like it's 1989 instead of 2019.
Even though culture is hard to change, our determination to hold on to our American tradition of freedom and independence shouldn't be. So the last time my daughter ran over to our neighbor's house, two houses down, I texted the mother: "You can let her walk home alone this time, it's fine."
"Okay," she wrote. Victory! I thought. But then she added, "I'll text you when she leaves."
I shook my head, because by the time I saw the text that my daughter was on her way home, she was already home — a first-grader can run 100 yards faster than a parent can text, "She's on her way." But I replied, "Great, thank you!" because that seemed like the proper American parent thing to do.
But then the parent who I really was took over: "Before you take off your coat and shoes, go walk the dog," I told my daughter. "Okay, Mommy," she replied. And then she skipped down the sidewalk with the dog, the tassels on her Swiss-made knit hat bouncing freely.
Chantal Panozzo is the author of "Swiss Life: 30 Things I Wish I'd Known" and is at work on the sequel, "American Life: 30 Things I Wish I'd Known."
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The Hollow Crown – Shakespeare's Richard II
Paul: The BBC has a history of adapting Shakespeare, almost as a public trust, but not always to the greatest ends. There have been some dodgy productions over the years, particularly during their attempt to cover all of Shakespeare's works from 1978 through 1985.
Those were television adaptations, however, keeping the productions theatrical and more in line with tradition. Now, the BBC has commissioned a four part adaptation of Shakespeare's Henriad, Richard II, Henry IV part one, Henry IV part two, and Henry V, to be produced as film projects.
The first, Richard II, directed by Rupert Goold and starring Ben Whishaw as King Richard premiered last week, and I have to say I was fairly impressed.
Kelvin: Me too. I have a passing familiarity with Henry IV and I'm very fond of Henry V, but I'd not read or seen Richard II before, so I didn't know what to expect.
Paul: I had read the play in college, but it wasn't one that I was very familiar with either.
Kelvin: I think what I liked most about it — apart from the performances, which I'm sure we'll get to in a bit — was how it looked. It kept Shakespeare's text intact, more or less, but it didn't look in the slightest bit stagey. For a TV movie, it looked very filmic.
I shouldn't be surprised though. The director, Rupert Goold, also did an adaptation of Macbeth for the BBC in 2010, and that looked stunning.
Paul: I've heard good things about that production, but haven't seen it.
You're right though. This was a beautiful film.
I was particularly taken with the way the colors and settings took a turn darker as the story progressed. The contrast between Richard lounging about in the forest with his cousins to having ash and dirt rain down upon him in the end was stunning.
Kelvin: Yes, the imagery was well chosen throughout, although the bit towards the end where his signature in the sand is washed away by the tide was a bit much for me.
Still, one dodgy moment in a two and a half hour film is not a bad result.
Paul: Well, they laid on the symbolism fairly thick throughout. I wasn't bothered by that, but thought the Saint Sebastian imagery was a bit much.
Kelvin: I didn't have as much of a problem with that, although in hindsight I can see how it might have been a bit too cute.
Paul: It's a bit overdone in film when going for homoerotic imagery. And I would have preferred his death to be the traditional stabbing instead of recreating Sebastian's death by arrows.
Kelvin: Yes, at the time I thought that was quite neat, but I understand how it might be a bit strained.
Paul: I seem to remember some scholars saying that the murder of Richard was a sort of tribute to the memory of Marlowe, who was also stabbed to death just two years prior to the play's debut. As the play was inspired (some would say too closely inspired) by Marlowe's Edward II, I always thought that was a nice way to allow the scene to play.
But I'm an English Lit Nerd.
Kelvin: Ha!
It's not something that would have occurred to me, but it wouldn't be a surprise.
Paul: I'm not surprised that the director decided to focus more on the historical arguments the play poses. And Sebastian's symbolic acceptance of his fate and "heroism born of weakness" concept is very appropriate for what they're doing here.
It just seemed a bit cliché to me. Or easy, maybe, rather than cliché.
Kelvin: Perhaps it's because I didn't come to it with the same background, but I didn't have a problem with that aspect.
Paul: One thing I was very impressed with (although a little put off by a the same time) was the way Goold and the performers played up the ambiguity of the story.
The central conflict here is between the concept of the Divine Right of Kings and the people's right to choose (or something to that effect), and the conflict between Richard and Bolingbroke is presented with a fairly even hand.
Kelvin: Yes indeed. I believe that Richard tends to be portrayed as more villainous in most adaptations and Bolingbroke as more of a schemer. Here, Richard seemed more naive and Bolingbroke seemed caught up in something larger than himself.
Paul: I know the text itself leaves it open to interpretation. The performances can lean the play one way or the other with just the use of inflection and body language, but here, you're right. Richard just seems naive and Bolingbroke really seems to be innocent of any larger scheming.
Kelvin: Yes, a lot of it is down to the performances. Ben Whishaw's Richard was fascinating.
Paul: I still have a hard time believing he played Pingu in Nathan Barley. That entertains me to no end!
Kelvin: Yes, it's a bit of a jump!
Paul: I was completely unaware that he was one of the most acclaimed Hamlets of the last decade!
Kelvin: I did not know that. People bang on about David Tennant's Hamlet all the time, but I'd not heard about Whishaw. I can believe it though.
His Richard was so, well, weird. He was so detached that he seemed almost like some sort of alien; he didn't understand this world of bearded, angry men, and so was ill-equipped to deal with it. Yet, at the same time, they did this thing where Whishaw was watching everything around him with this impish little smile.
It was a very interesting portrayal.
Paul: Yes. Very subtle. And I say that after I thought he was going to be playing it a bit more camp in the start.
Kelvin: Yes, they were hinting at camp and effeminate, but there was more going on there.
Paul: That's another example of how the performance of the text influences the meaning. Richard's dialogue is very flowery and filled with poetic metaphor, whereas the rest of the cast's language is much more down to earth.
That's something Shakespeare was experimenting with here, when normally, all of the upper class would have spoken in poetry, with plain language and prose reserved for the lower classes. Which also says something about the themes of the play itself, really.
You're right. He does comes off as alien, almost.
Kelvin: Sort of The Man Who Fell To Earth.
Paul: Exactly!
What other performances stood out for you?
Kelvin: Oddly enough, I thought James Purefoy was very good, and so I was disappointed — not knowing the play — that he didn't get much screen time.
Paul: That was my biggest disappointment. I was really
hoping for more.
I have a bit of a man-crush on Purefoy. He is great in everything he does.
Kelvin: He was excellent here, snarling his lines and glaring at everyone.
I loved the training scene right at the beginning too, like something out of a Rocky movie!
Paul: Loved that!
Kelvin: Somewhere out there there is a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead type side-story in which Purefoy's Mowbray is running about kicking ass.
In the rain.
Paul: The real Thomas de Mowbray eventually died of the Plague in Venice in 1399, just a year after his actual banishment. So that's disappointing. Unless it was a ruse!
Kelvin: Of course, he faked his death so he could strike at his enemies without warning!
Paul: Ha!
This is a whole new level of nerd-dom, you realize?
Kelvin: "Venetians are a cowardly and superstitious lot"
I have no idea what you mean.
Paul: LOL! And then we're back around to Marlowe (in a manner). Purefoy as secret spy Marlowe, writing Shakespeare's plays and having adventures. That would be amazing!
Kelvin: Write it!
Paul: What with the whole faking his death rumors and whatnot.
Kelvin: Brilliant!
Paul: You've gotta be careful when you suggest Marlowe wrote Shakespeare's plays. People get pissed.
Kelvin: Yeah, but who could argue with an action hero Marlowe? Fools, that's who.
Anyway… I also thought Patrick Stewart did an excellent job — in fact I smiled as soon as I saw him in the crowd in that first scene — and I was impressed at how David Morrissey — who has such a likeable screen presence — became such a hissable Northumberland.
Paul: YES! I was just about to say the same thing about Stewart. And Morrissey was also surprisingly threatening.
Kelvin: Stewart was Macbeth in the production I mentioned earlier. He was, of course, excellent.
Paul: David Suchet's Duke of York took me by surprise. Not his performance, but the turns his character took. He played two-sided with ease, and his eventual almost manic support for Bolingbroke was kind of disturbing.
Kelvin: Yes, a case of overcompensating perhaps. Showing his loyalty through a rabid desire to have his own son executed for treason.
Paul: A rabid excess passed on to his son.
Kelvin: I'm going to be a bit of a snob here, but one of the things I like about these BBC productions — and you don't get this with other British TV channels — is that they can stack a programme like this with actors who are so good that when you ask "which other performances impressed you?" I could go on for ages.
Paul: Oh I agree. I loved the short appearance of David Bradley as The Gardner, for example.
Kelvin: Yep! My thoughts exactly.
A minor role, but let's stick a real heavyweight in there, because we can.
Paul: Or Lindsay Duncan as the Dutchess of York. Amazing work in a very small role.
Kelvin: Quite so. I suppose this is a bit of what Game of Thrones has, although in this case, the script is better!
Paul: Ha! It also has Game of Thrones' Lucian Msamati as the Bishop of Carlisle (in another walking along the beach scene, no less!). Again, smaller parts, but outstanding performances.
Kelvin: I've heard actors say that Shakespeare brings the best out of them, and it seems to be true on the basis of this evidence.
Paul: Maybe the only performance that didn't really hit me like it should have, though, was Rory Kinnear as Bolingbroke.
Kelvin: Yes, I wasn't sure about Kinnear myself.
Paul: The performance was solid enough, but as we've already mentioned, he played the character in a more reactive than proactive way. It kind of leeched a strong sense of purpose from the role.
Kelvin: Again, I'm not familiar with the original text, so I don't know if it's true of that, but yes, he seemed to fade into the background for much of the film.
Paul: There's a school of thought that Shakespeare was possibly influenced by Machiavelli's The Prince when writing Bolingbroke and he was manipulating appearances to get himself on the throne – at least from the time of his banishment on.
Culminating in the murder of Richard being ordered "accidentally" as a "misunderstanding."
Kelvin: And then the very public pilgrimage to Jerusalem to beg forgiveness for his "accidental" part in the murder.
It's good PR.
Paul: Exactly. Kinnear plays the character so sincerely that it's hard to really think anything bad about him. Bolingbroke, I mean. Not Kinnear himself.
Kelvin: Yes, he doesn't play him as a schemer as far as I could tell.
There were the silent nods here and there, but they came across less as subtle string-pulling, and more a decent man who's found himself out of his depth.
Paul: I would have liked a little more duplicity in the performance, if only to make it stand out a bit more. Imagine Purefoy in that role! He'd have been hard to restrain.
Kelvin: Oh yes indeed.
Paul: That may have gone too far in the other direction!
Kelvin: The scenes where he did take charge — the beach at the beginning of his exile, and the execution by the moat — showed that Kinnear does have the acting chops, so I must assume that it was a deliberate move to play Bolingbroke as a more passive sort.
Paul: It had to come down to the direction. It's almost as though Goold was directing this during its original run, shortly after Queen Elizabeth took the throne, and didn't want to upset her supporters or those allying against her.
Kelvin: Ha! Yes, excellent point.
It's funny, but I was thinking something along similar lines as I was watching it.
This will get a bit involved and possibly a bit tinfoil-hat, so be warned.
Paul: I'm buckled in.
Kelvin: The BBC commissioned these four films — bizarre as it seems — as part of their Olympics coverage, to celebrate Britishness.
Yet what they've delivered — in this first film at least — is a story of an ineffective ruler and an England that's almost bankrupt.
That's not really very Olympic.
Given who's in charge right now, and how they've not been a friend of the BBC, I did find myself wondering if there was a deliberate political point being made in not only the choice of play to adapt, but the way it was adapted.
Which, of course, would be in keeping with Shakespeare's plays being used for political gain, as you suggest with Elizabeth above.
Okay, tinfoil hat off now.
Paul: That's bloody brilliant right there.
And it ties right in the historical record, where in 1601 the Earl of Essex paid the Globe Theatre to perform Richard II on the eve of their attempted insurrection.
Kelvin: Boom!
Paul: There it is!
Kelvin: I am probably wrong, but while the 2012 BBC adaptation of Richard II says a lot about Britain in 2012, I'm not sure it's got anything to do with celebration.
Paul: Well it will be leading up to Henry V right before the beginning of the games.
Kelvin: Yes, Henry V is about as ENGLAND! WOO! as it gets, so we'll see.
I was wondering if there will be any continuity of characterisation in these films, and if Jeremy Irons' Henry IV will share Kinnear's odd passivity.
That would be interesting.
Paul: That's one of the things I'm really looking forward to. I want to see how all of these plays work together as performances. I've read them, but never seen them played out like this.
Kelvin: I have to admit, as a comics geek, when I first discovered that some of Shakespeare's plays had actual continuity, I got a bit excited!
Paul: Me too.
Kelvin: The BBC plays of the 70's and 80's kept the same cast and sets for Henry IV and V, which is an interesting approach. I'd like to see those too. I suspect they may not be as impressive as this current crop, however.
Paul: I don't know. I'd love to see Jon Finch playing King Henry!
Kelvin: We have them in our DVD library at work. I should really make the time to watch them one of these days.
Paul: Since he played Jerry Cornelius in The Final Programme, I'd watch him in anything.
Kelvin: Ha! King Henry, Eternal Champion!
Paul: Especially alongside Jacobi and Gielgud in Richard II.
Kelvin: Oh gosh yes.
Paul: So, any final thoughts?
Kelvin: Only that I am quite proud to be a licence fee payer. When people moan about paying a £145 "tax" each year, I'll point to stuff like this and hope they realise how it's so worth it.
I was very impressed .
Paul: You make me feel bad about stealing it!
It was co-financed by NBC, so it'll turn up somewhere there, I assume. And WNET, so you'll get it for free.
Paul: I was also very impressed. Aside from one or two minor issues, this was exactly what I was hoping for. I suppose if I have to give it a rating (and the software setup here does make it necessary) I'd give it a
. Almost perfect.
Kelvin: I'd agree. The only niggles I had were minor, so I'll go with
On the basis of this one, I can't wait for the next three films.
Paul: Next week (or tonight, rather): Jeremy Irons and Loki himself, Tom Hiddleston! I can't wait!
Kelvin: Amazing!
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April 21st, 2010 - Finally! The update I thought I was never going to make! Bequest in Audio is finally available at Audible.com! I have to admit, after all of the work and the hype I put into this, I was getting a bit worried that this release was not going to happen, but it's online now! You can link to it here! Enjoy!
May 9th, 2009 - Audio Recording Complete! All of the audio recording has been completed, and only post production effects and music are left. Bequest is almost Audible-ready! Carle Brisson of Dragon's Lair Studios in Porcupine and myself have been very busy recording the book all winter long - quite a feat in the face of both job and family demands on all sides! Finally, we are putting together the music and the effects, and the final production mix is in sight! It has been a lot of work, but very fun and rewarding work! Thanks to my husband, a.k.a. PS-RagE, for the in-studio photos, and stay tuned for the audio release!
January 24th, 2009 - Inquest makes Preditors and Editors Readers' Poll List! This is slightly late, but a nasty bout with the flu over the last couple of weeks had brought everything to a standstill on all fronts. Life has now resumed whatever façade of normalcy it ever had, and a brief surf of the web revealed that Inquest was on the list for the Preditors and Editors Readers' Poll for 2008! What shocking and amazing news! It's still too early to tell if it will place at all (the results are posted in February), but the mere fact that it is present on this list is a great honour for me. My deepest and most sincere thanks to anyone and everyone who nominated Inquest!
December 1st, 2008 - Bequest in Audio! After a wonderfully relaxing summer, and a rather frantic fall, production has finally begun on an audio version of Bequest. The book is currently being recorded by the author, and will tentatively be released in early 2009. The aforementioned YouTube Video will also be released for this promotion. Stay tuned for more updates on this exciting development!
June 19th, 2008 - Second and Final Short Story posted! The second of the two Inquest-related Short Stories is in my 'Short Stories' section! Have a peek at Coup!
May 22nd, 2008 - Hello, and I hope that everyone in Canada had a great Victoria Day long weekend (or May Run, as those of us here in Timmins call it). My book is now at Fictionwise and eReader, and the lulu.com paperback should be available soon. The cover art should also soon be available as a print (anyone interested could go to Deron Douglas' site to order). And finally... to celebrate the Inquest release, I posted the first of a couple of related Short Stories I wrote. Give The Stable Boy a read and enjoy!
May 9th, 2008 - Inquest is online!! Want to know what happens after Bequest? Well, why be curious? The answer is here! Inquest is now available at Double Dragon E-Books! Once again, Deron Douglas' cover art is fantastic! Enjoy the book, check out the updates to my Bio and Links sections, and stay tuned for updates concerning the Bequest Book Trailer, coming soon to the YouTube!
January 29th, 2008 - Paperback now available!! You can now purchase Bequest in paperback through lulu.com - just click on the "Paperback" icon from the Double-Dragon page!
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Dambuster John Pulford's crash site remembered
August 28, 2009 April 9, 2013 dambusters24 Comments
Guy Gibson's relationship with the crew who flew with him on the Dams Raid is one of the interesting sub-plots of the whole Dambusters story. In contrast to the scene in the 1955 film where his old crew discuss his posting to a new squadron on his own and then unanimously decide to go with him, only one, wireless operator Robert Hutchison, had actually flown with Gibson in 106 Squadron. Hutchison is thought to have recommended navigator Harlo Taerum, who in turn recommended bomb aimer Fred (Spam) Spafford. Both of these had been in 50 Squadron, as had rear gunner Richard Trevor-Roper. These four were all officers, which meant that Gibson would see something of them socially at Scampton, but the final pair, front gunner George Deering and flight engineer John Pulford were both NCOs.
This may be why Gibson had a rather low opinion of both. In his biography of Gibson, Richard Morris writes how in the first draft of Enemy Coast Ahead he described Deering as:
'pretty dumb' (tactfully changed to 'pretty green' in the published version) 'and not too good at his guns and it was a bit of a risk taking him'. This was rubbish, as Deering had flown thirty-five operations.
Morris goes on to cite Gibson's opinion of Pulford, who he described as a 'sincere and plodding' Londoner:
Gibson had a low opinion of Pulford, thinking him dull and incapable of independent thought. This may say more about Gibson than Pulford, for Gibson never listened to him long enough to notice that he came from Yorkshire rather than London. In the cockpit of Gibson's Lancaster there was a distinct air of master and servant. In the fuselage as a whole his crew represented Britain's class structure in microcosm and the pattern of the Empire beyond. (Richard Morris, Guy Gibson, Penguin, 1995, p.152.)
Whatever their relationship, the crew were not together for very long, flying just the one operation as a complete crew, the Dams Raid itself. Hutchison, Taerum, Spafford and Deering transferred to George Holden's crew when he took over command of 617 Squadron, and died with him on the Dortmund Ems Raid on 16 September 1943.
None of the other three survived the war. Trevor-Roper and Gibson died later in 1944, both on operations with other squadrons, but Pulford was still in 617 Squadron when he flew on the operation to bomb the Antheor viaduct in southern France in February 1944. His pilot, Bill Suggitt, landed the aircraft successfully at Ford in Sussex, which they had used as a staging post, but in the short hop home from Ford to Woodhall Spa, they crashed into a hill on the Sussex Downs, near the village of Upwaltham.
For some years local people have been collecting for a proper memorial to Suggitt's crew, and it was unveiled on 22 August:
Today, 65 years on, the crew of DV382 KC J-Jug will be honoured in a tiny parish church just below the crash site at Upwaltham, West Sussex, after the hamlet of 25 inhabitants raised £10,500 for a memorial.
Relatives of the British, Canadian and Australian victims will attend, along with air attaches from all three nations and 617 Squadron's current commanding officer.
The white Italian stone 'Four Nations Memorial' also remembers seven Americans whose Dakota aircraft crashed across the valley a year later in February 1945.
A Lancaster from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight will complete three circuits overhead at the ceremony, which will also be attended by relatives of the farm workers who were honoured by King George VI for braving flames and exploding ammunition to try to rescue the Lancaster crew.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1208300/Villages-10-000-salute-lost-Lancaster-crew.html#ixzz0PUPhAEGu
There is a nice tribute page to the crew on the Roll of Honour website. John Pulford's body was recovered and he was buried in Hull.
Dams Raid crews, John Pulford, Memorials, Operation Chastise
New German film shows Eder Dam after raid
August 27, 2009 August 28, 2009 dambustersLeave a comment
Thomas Schindler, a correspondent from a German TV station, has sent me this link to the recent broadcast of some hitherto unseen film of the aftermath of the destruction of the Eder Dam on 17 May 1943. During the war, secret filming by German citizens was forbidden, with the threat of the death penalty for anyone caught. However a soldier naval officer on leave shot this film, and it has recently been given to the TV station.
My German isn't up to much, so if anyone can translate what the interviewees say and the voiceover material I'd be very grateful. Please leave a comment below or send me an email.
UPDATE: Dave, a poster on the Lancaster-Archive Forum, has kindly provided the gist of a translation:
Hermann Hauschild was a naval officer from Bergheim home on leave when he secretly filmed the aftermath of the attack on the Eder dam on May 17th 1943. Secretly, because if caught, the death penalty would apply. He specified that the film may only be made public after his death. The ruins shown are of Affolden, where both the church and the school were destroyed and 10 people died.The RAF asked for a copy after the war, but otherwise the film was almost forgotten. Karl Schaefer was asked to repair the camera and was given the film as payment. The camera still works well after 80 years, and the film is regarded by the family as an heirloom. Hermann Hauschild died twenty years ago.
Contemporary reports, Operation Chastise
Jackson shows Dambusters clips to press
August 25, 2009 dambusters2 Comments
More news from the Great One on the remake of the Dambusters film. At a recent briefing for the press, Peter Jackson told the assembled hacks that the movie was likely to be shot in 3D, and also showed some clips. However, he's still working on the script, so shooting may still be a way off…
He also showed us short bits from the remake of The Dam Busters he's working on. The original film came out in 1955, and takes place in a WWII setting. It's based on the true story of the RAF's 617th Squadron that would bomb Germany's dams in an effort to hinder the Reich's war machine. Jackson is just waiting to finish another draft of the script before that moves forward. He's thinking about shooting it in 3-D, which is why he's been playing with the technology.
The phrase "617th Squadron" is a bit of a giveaway that this appeared on a US-based website!
Dambusters remake, Peter Jackson
Time Magazine: report on Dams Raid from May 1943
August 23, 2009 August 23, 2009 dambusters1 Comment
An interesting report from May 1943 on the Dams Raid from Time Magazine's online archive. It contains a number of inaccuracies, due to the restrictions imposed by the censor, but nevertheless has a certain breathy contemporaneity:
It was a matter of seconds now. The bomb bay doors were open; the flak had begun, pin points of yellow blossoming slowly upward, then sliding by with a rush into the sky above. Now the planes were roaring 50 feet above the water; now the target was dead ahead. Now the bombardiers pushed their buttons, and now the big, dark mines, each weighing 1,500 pounds, tumbled from the planes. Some landed with a splash in the water; some hit the dams fair & square. When the roar of their explosions had subsided, the sustained, deeper roar of pent-up waters, suddenly released, struck terror into the hearts of those below.
Hat tip to poster Brndirt at World War 2 Talk
Contemporary reports
I bet he drinks…
The chief of the agency responsible for one of the most famous ever TV ads has revealed that its punchline started life as one for milk.
'The "I bet he drinks a lot of milk" slogan we pitched to Milk morphed into the famous Carling line. "Dambusters" was the lucky bounce; the BACC objected to risking upsetting the pilots' widows, it was saved by the 617 Squadron Society giving us their permission.'
The silly thing is, the ad would have worked just as well for milk, as it actually says nothing at all about lager, other than implying that you gain some sort of superhuman power as a result of consuming it. (Or, perhaps this is true? Thankyou squire, mine's a pint.)
Britishness, Carling Black Label, Oddities
David and Ann Shannon's headstones
Although David Shannon was an Australian, he stayed on in England after the war, joining Shell as an executive. He spent some time in both Colombia and Kenya before returning to the UK. He died on 8 April 1993, shortly before the planned 50th anniversary reunion of those who took part in the Dams Raid.
Shannon's romance with Ann Fowler, a WAAF officer serving with 617 Squadron, and their subsequent marriage is a recurring theme in Paul Brickhill's book, The Dam Busters. Ann Shannon died a couple of years before her husband and they are both commemorated with stones in the churchyard of St Michael and All Angels in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. The size of the stones would indicate that they were both probably cremated.
Shannon's obituary in The Times can be read here.
Pictures kindly sent to me by reader Paul Hilton.
David Shannon, Memorials, Uncategorized
AV Roe and 100 years of British flying
August 5, 2009 August 7, 2009 dambustersLeave a comment
In the rush of dealing with a major computer problem and getting away on holiday (in which I completed the Coast to Coast walk, 192 miles from St Bees Head to Robin Hood Bay — more on this later) I failed to notice that the centenary of the first British powered flight had taken place. This was undertaken by none other than Alliott Verdon Roe in a triplane of his own design, on Walthamstow Marshes in London, on 13 July 1909. The wonderful Diamond Geezer has reported on this event in his own indomitable way, and provided his usual eclectic list of links to further information about the famous aviation pioneer. From this I learnt that Roe himself developed some rather unsavoury political views, and was a supporter of Oswald Moseley, who was of course interned during the Second World War.
Ironic, then, that the company Roe founded would go on to make the War's most famous British heavy bomber, the Avro Lancaster, and play a huge part in defeating the fascist war machine.
In the rush of dealing with a major computer problem and getting away on holiday (in which I completed the Coast to Coast walk, 192 miles from St Bees Head to Robin Hood Bay — more on this later) I failed to notice that the centenary of the first British powered flight had taken place. This was undertaken by none other than Alliott Verdon Roe in a triplane of his own design, on Walthamstow Marshes in London, on 13 July 1909. The wonderful Diamond Geezer has reported on this event in his own indomitable way, and provided his usual eclectic list of links to further information about the famous aviation pioneer. From this I learnt that Roe himself developed some rather unsavoury political views, and was a supporter of Oswald Mosley, who was of course interned during the Second World War.
Anniversaries, Avro Lancaster
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