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Registration to attend The Alden's Foreign Film series—2022-23
Tickets are free, but attendees are asked to register in advance. Masks are optional in all Fairfax County facilities.
All films begin at 1 p.m.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email Sarah at: Sarah.SchallernTreff@fairfaxcounty.gov.
* Your Name (First & Last)
* Your Email (This is the email that we will send registration confirmation to. Please double check spelling!)
* Approximately how many people will be accompanying you to each film?
* Which movies would you like to attend?
"The Dead Lands" (R, New Zealand) (TV-14, 1 hour 24 mins.)
Shown in the original Māori with English subtitles
Thursday, Nov. 3, 1 p.m.
"Au Hasard Balthazar" (NR, France, 1h 35m )
Shown in the original French with English subtitles
Thursday, Dec. 1, 1 p.m.
"Fanny and Alexander" (R; Sweden; 3 hours 8 minutes)
Shown in the original Swedish with English subtitles
Oscar winner. Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Thursday, Jan. 5, 1 p.m.
Black History Month film
"Rafiki" (NR; Kenya; 1 hour 23 minutes)
Shown in the original Swahili with English subtitles
Thursday, Feb. 2, 1 p.m.
"Pan's Labyrinth" (R; Spain and Mexico; 2 hours)
Shown in the original Spanish with English subtitles
Oscar winner. Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Thursday, March 2, 1 p.m.
"The Lunchbox" (PG; India; 1 hour 44 minutes)
Shown in the original Hindi with English subtitles
Thursday, April 6, 1 p.m.
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month film
"Tampopo" (NR; Japan; 1 hour 54 minutes)
Shown in the original Japanese with English subtitles
Thursday, May 4, 1 p.m.
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Сергеевка () — упразднённая в 2005 году деревня Каменского сельсовета Бижбулякского района Республики Башкортостан.

География
Находился на автодороге из д.Дубровка, у реки Седяк.

Географическое положение
Расстояние до (на 1 января 1969):

 районного центра (Бижбуляк): 30 км,
 центра сельсовета (Каменка): 5 км,
 ближайшей ж/д станции (Абдулино): 35 км.

История

Закон «О внесении изменений в административно-территориальное устройство Республики Башкортостан в связи с образованием, объединением, упразднением и изменением статуса населённых пунктов, переносом административных центров» от 20 июля 2005 года № 211-з., ст.1 гласил:

4. Упразднить следующие населённые пункты:
….
11) в Бижбулякском районе:

а) поселок Сандалак Михайловского сельсовета;

б) деревню Веселая Роща Кенгер-Менеузовского сельсовета;

в) поселок Озеровка Сухореченского сельсовета;

г) поселок Сергеевка Каменского сельсовета;

д) поселок Тумашелга  Калининского сельсовета

Население
На 1 января 1969 года проживали 132 человека; преимущественно мордва.

Литература
 Башкирская АССР : административно-территориальное деление на 1 января 1969 года : [справочник / ред. А. И. Захаров]. — Изд. 5-е. — Уфа : Башкирское книжное издательство, 1969. с. 348—430. С. 94.

Примечания

Исчезнувшие населённые пункты Бижбулякского района
Населённые пункты, упразднённые в 2005 году

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H.R.2210 - To designate the community living center of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Butler Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, as the "Sergeant Joseph George Kusick VA Community Living Center".115th Congress (2017-2018)
Rep. Kelly, Mike [R-PA-3] (Introduced 04/27/2017)
08/16/2017 Became Public Law No: 115-47. (TXT | PDF) (All Actions)
There are 5 versions: Public Law (08/16/2017)Enrolled BillReceived in Senate (07/18/2017)Engrossed in House (07/17/2017)Introduced in House (04/27/2017)
Public Law No: 115-47 (08/16/2017)
[115th Congress Public Law 47]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[[Page 131 STAT. 971]]
Public Law 115-47
To designate the community living center of the Department of Veterans
Affairs in Butler Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, as the
``Sergeant Joseph George Kusick VA Community Living
Center''. <<NOTE: Aug. 16, 2017 -  [H.R. 2210]>>
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) Sergeant Joseph George Kusick of Bruin, Pennsylvania,
was assigned to the command and control detachment of the 5th
Special Forces Group (Airborne) of the Army during the Vietnam
War.
(2) On November 8, 1967, Kusick distinguished himself by
exceptionally valorous actions while serving as a radio operator
of a special forces reconnaissance team on a combat mission deep
in hostile territory.
(3) During an enemy ambush, Kusick, though seriously
wounded, refused aid and radioed the forward air controller to
advise him of the critical situation.
(4) While the team leader led a withdrawal to a landing
zone, Kusick maintained contact with the controller and
requested emergency extraction.
(5) Realizing the importance of having a radio operator on
the ground to direct landings, Kusick refused evacuation by the
first helicopter.
(6) After the second helicopter was shot down, and in the
midst of enemy fire, Kusick continued to maintain radio contact
and called for a hoist extraction of the men still remaining on
the ground.
(7) The last helicopter, which Kusick boarded, was shot down
by intense Viet Cong fire and crashed in flames, resulting in
Kusick's death.
(8) On December 22, 1967, Kusick was posthumously awarded
the Silver Star Medal for gallantry in action.
(9) The citation to accompany the award of the Silver Star
Medal stated that ``Kusick's gallantry in action, at the cost of
his life, was in keeping with the highest traditions of the
military service and reflects great credit upon himself, his
unit, and the United States Army''.
SEC. 2. SERGEANT JOSEPH GEORGE KUSICK VA COMMUNITY LIVING CENTER.
(a) Designation.--The community living center of the Department of
Veterans Affairs in Butler Township, Butler County,
Pennsylvania, shall after the date of the enactment of this Act be known
and designated as the ``Sergeant Joseph George Kusick VA Community
Living Center''.
(b) References.--Any reference in any law, regulation, map,
document, paper, or other record of the United States to the community
living center referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a
reference to the ``Sergeant Joseph George Kusick VA Community Living
Center''.
Approved August 16, 2017.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 2210:
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 163 (2017):
July 17, considered and passed House.
Aug. 1, considered and passed Senate.
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"Are his lips even moving?" my wife asked.
I adjusted my glasses, squinted a bit. The stage was in the distance, packed with about 80 high school juniors.
"I don't think so," I replied, as the chorus of voices on the stage recited the pledge for the National Honor Society during last night's dedication ceremony for incoming honor society members. Our son is one of those on the stage.
Years ago, our older son was in the middle school chorus, rather reluctantly but we worried about him spending idle time in the Study Hall period. During concerts, he would not sing. He would just stand there, sometimes moving his lips. Never singing. Not even humming. Just … there. We laugh about it, as a family.
Now it was our middle son who had his own lips locked on stage, even as everyone around him was pledging to uphold good citizenship, academic performance and honesty.
He had somewhat been reluctant to agree to be accepted into the Honor Society (students are nominated by teachers), although he is solid student and fine athlete, and he does help others in the community. He has a big heart. We, his parents, shallowly like that being in the National Honor Society doesn't hurt for his college applications and, not so shallowly, that it will provide more ways for him to do community service over the next year.
Later, he admitted to us that he didn't say the pledge. He told us this with a grin on his face.
"I knew it!" my wife said, tapping him on the chest. He's about a foot taller than she is.
What he meant is the strange vibe of geeky academic kids pledging in one voice to uphold rules and regulations in a sort of robotic recitation. The past members light four candles in honor of the "four pillars" of the society.
On one hand, I was proud of him for his individual spirit and sense of resistance. He's going to need it in the Trump years ahead. On the other hand … come on, kid. It's the National Honor Society! They do good in the world.
This one will be a bit difficult to explain to an outside audience, but as part of the Networked Narratives course (I am an open participant, which means I can come and go as I choose – the course is about digital storytelling – there are folks in a real Graduate Level course at Kean University, too), there has been hints of secret codes, hidden within video frames and inside course messages. For a long time, weeks actually, I figured, I'll let someone else crack the secret codes.
And then, this sort of gently taunting tweet came along the other day from two mysterious recurring Twittery characters (who are part of the larger story of the course being "hacked" by outsiders), and I decided, OK, time to get cracking.
Hmmm @MProphetissima We thought #netnarr people were clever. None has broken code? https://t.co/gbvJCX8hra We are depending on them….
I had to stop and start the online video Youtube conversation with instructors Mia Zamora and Alan Levine a number of times, and use a screenshot grab to get the secret code embedded in the video. I stared at it for a long time, and then began to see a pattern, and worked from there.
I tackled this simple code by hand, determining it was based on an alphabetic shift of letters, but later realized there are plenty of online sites that will do it for you, too. Still, I was glad my initial foray was on paper. There was a certain level of satisfaction that I did not require technology to crack the code.
Now, there are all sorts of other strange codes coming into the NetNarr stream, too, with numbers and letters and I have no idea how to even begin to figure those out … any ideas?
It might have been one of the last sledding days of Winter. A few days after the blizzard, and with rain coming, and with Spring just around the corner, my son readily agreed to an invitation yesterday to join a group of friends at the hill at his middle school for sledding (and King of the Mountain, and snowball fights, and all the things you can expect a group of adolescent boys to do with snow).
We arrived on time, but no one else was around yet (everyone else was late to the sledding party), so my son began the walk up the hill, and I let our dog, Duke, go free from his leash so that he could join him on the journey. As my son zoomed down the hill, Duke ran alongside him, tail wagging hard, as they both barreled down the steep slope, joy on both of their faces.
Yesterday, our normal Friday schedule was all messed up. We had a visit from the guidance counselor at the regional middle school, where nearly all of my sixth graders will go next year, and along with getting information, they filled out some paperwork. It's a sign that the end of the year is on the horizon (well, in a few months). The other sign was that we gave out report cards for our second trimester yesterday, too.
We are now in the last trimester of the school year. How'd that happen?
Since the day was already broken up, we decided to allocate a stretch of time for students to begin making posters for the Quidditch teams. Each team (each sixth grade class) has to have five huge posters for our upcoming Quidditch Tournament — three run-through posters and two posters to hang on the wall to decorate the gym. So they did sketching in the morning and then some painting in the afternoon.
Oh boy. These kids are messy with paint, particularly when you have 70 kids painting in the same space — the cafeteria. The teachers were wandering around with paper towels and wipes, reminding kids to clean up any drips and dribbles. At one point, a student hopped all the way across the cafeteria floor to me, asking for a wipe. He pointed to his shoe.
"I stepped on a glop of paint," he chuckled, and indeed, the entire bottom of his show was now coated in black paint. Sigh. I handed him some wipes and watched him one-foot hop his way all the way across the cafeteria floor.
Clean-up was crazy and chaotic, and the end of the day was a mess of motion — moving posters to classrooms to dry, washing paint brushes, wiping the floor, handing out report cards, keeping track of everyone. I was happy for the quiet of the empty classroom.
Still, the posters are looking pretty darned good.
There's a single line in the short Quidditch video that I shared with my sixth grade students yesterday that sparked an interesting reaction in all four classes that I teach. I was sharing a clip from the first Harry Potter movie, where Oliver Wood explains the game of Quidditch to a very young Harry.
The two videos set the stage for an activity in which students design and explain in writing how to play the play. It's a lesson around different kinds of literacy — how a sports play diagram can be "read" and "written" — as well as reinforcing expository writing.
Anyway … in the movie video clip, Harry looks down at a box of Quidditch supplies.
"What are those?" Harry asks (at the 34 second mark, in case you are curious), pointing to a bludger bustling to burst out of the box.
I had heard this phrase before, but not recently, and I never followed up with any research as to where it had gone viral, and why. Of course, yesterday afternoon, intrigued, I did some research, going to Know Your Meme site (bookmark that site, teachers) to find out what is up with what are those … I knew it had to do with shoes and a sweeping hand movement towards the feet. I had seen students doing that, and crowd giggling.
On October 2nd, 2011, Urban Dictionary user JOHNxRYAN95 created an entry for "What Are Those?", defining it as a question yelled at someone wearing unkempt or off-brand footwear. On June 14th, 2015, Instagram user Brandon Moore (a.k.a. Young Busco) uploaded a video in which he confronts a police officer by loudly asking "What are those?" before panning to his black shoes (shown below). Within three weeks, the video gained over 2,300 likes and 1,200 comments.
And the What Are Those? meme became a hit on Vine, I guess, and I suspect this is where my students found the meme.
It looks like the meme peaked about a year ago (according to Google Trends graph) but I guess some viral sayings just stick with you.
Since it was a day of the Blizzard of 2017, I figured a slice of many pieces might be a better indication of the day behind us now.
First, the snow arrived, and came down hard, and we were out shoveling quite a bit. Yes, I was not happy to see snow in March. But sitting by the window with my book during a respite of shoveling, I could not help but notice how beautiful the snowflakes were, stuck to our large window. On a plus side, we never lost our power, which was a worry all day long.
Earlier in the morning, I had spent some time finishing up a collaborative project for Networked Narratives with my friend, Wendy, using an app. We had invited three other collaborative friends, but the complexity of the app, and the strange barriers to collaboration in collaboration mode (or so it seemed to us) had us throwing our hands up, and finishing the piece on our own. It would have been more powerful with more voices, though. What we were trying for was a piece of quilted parts, told as a network of folks, in a single screen, so that all of our parts would be woven together. The app didn't quite live up to the vision.
Have any of you been doing the DoodleaDay Challenge? It's, well, a doodle shared every day, via Twitter with the #doodleaday hashtag. I've been popping in and out of it, but the prompt yesterday was to use images to make letters, and I could not resist a CLMOOC (Connected Learning MOOC) icon.
As I mentioned, I spent part of the day, reading. The book I had started and finished was the new one by Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology. Like most Gaiman, it is excellent. Although it is strange to have both Gaiman and Rick Riordan exploring the same mythological terrain (Riordan with the Magnus Chase series), it was also an intriguing companion piece. And well, Norse mythology has some pretty wacky and strange stuff going on, and that is right up Gaiman's alley.
Finally, the day off from school gave the boys and I, and our dog, a chance to fill out our NCAA men's brackets. Our dog's (Duke is his name) bracket gets filled out by pushing his nose into one hand or the other of our son, who hides kibble and asks "this team" or "that team"? It's pretty amusing. He chose Florida to win it all. It might happen. You never know.
This morning, my back aches a bit, but I know I have at least one more shoveling job to do before the sun comes out, and makes ice from the snow in the Blizzard '17 aftermath.
So much for the optimism of Spring. These little green tiger lily buds were pushing themselves up through the soil and leaves, no doubt hoping for a change in the weather.
What's coming is a blizzard, bearing down on us today with high winds, possible 4 inches falling per hour, and up to two feet of snow, not to mention worries of power outages. In fact, I just walked the dog and the storm has started.


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Q: how to get value of field in jquery jtable I have a drop-down in j-table and I want to extract the selected value from it. Is there any way to get the selected option values from j-table.
sections_template_id: {
  title: 'Template',
  inputTitle: "Template*",
  options: web_sections,
  create: true,
  edit: true,
  list: true
}
, sec_hidden: {
type: 'hidden'
  , inputTitle: "Template*"
  , create: true
  , edit: false
  , list: false
  , defaultValue: web_sections
   }

i want to set the value of sections_template_id in sec_hidden
this is my route on which i am calling a function
 Route::post('cms-web-section-templates',['as' => 'cms-web-section-templates', 'uses' => 'CmsController@Main_sections']);

and here is my function
public function Main_sections(Request $request)
    {
        $types = SectionType::getTypes();

      $web_section = WebTemplate::all();

     //dd($web_section);

        $rows[] = array("DisplayText"=>"", "Value"=>"");

        foreach ($web_section as $key => $web_sections) {
            $rows[] = array(
                'DisplayText' => $web_sections->name,
                'Value' => $web_sections->id,
            );
        }

        $this->response['Options'] = $rows;
        $this->response['Result'] = "OK";
        return json_encode($this->response);
    }

A: I used jquery/javascript to grab data from jtable. I cant find in the jtable documentation how to grab the selected value. If you inspect element, once you select the row, a class is added in that row which is "jtable-row-selected".
<script>
        var all_rows = [];
        $('tr.jtable-row-selected').each(function(){
            var len = $(this).children().length;
            var row = [];
            for(let i = 0;i < len; i+=1){
                row.push($(this).children()[i].innerText)
            }
            all_rows.push(row);
        })
        //console.log(all_rows);
    </script>

A: Try the jtable selectedRows method to get a jquery object of the selected rows.
The documentation https://jtable.org/ApiReference/Methods#met-selectedRows has short worked example how to get the record and fields for each selected row.

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Walsh Jennings, Ross remain undefeated in beach volleyball
By Raphielle JohnsonAug 10, 2016, 9:25 PM EDT
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In her storied Olympic beach volleyball career, American Kerri Walsh Jennings lost just one set in winning three gold medals. Not matches, sets. That number increased to two Wednesday night, but she and partner April Ross rebounded to beat Switzerland's Isabelle Forrer and Anouk Verge-Depre in three sets, 21-13, 22-24, 15-12.
Walsh Jennings, who won those three gold medals playing alongside Misty May-Treanor in 2004, 2008 and 2012, is now 46-2 in sets in her Olympic career. After a commanding showing in the first set the Americans found it difficult to put away the Swiss, with Forrer and Verge-Depre playing much better volleyball during the second set. Things remained tight in the third set until a hard fall required Forrer to take a five-minute injury timeout.
Leading 10-9 at that point in the set, Walsh Jennings and Ross took care of business to remain undefeated in group play.
Now having won Group C on six points, Walsh Jennings and Ross will be back in action Saturday against an opponent yet to be determined.


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Warner Home Video releases four Jazz fan favorites - Bird, Pete Kelly's Blues, Blues in the Night, Round Midnight on July 22 on DVD. No word on a Blu-ray release at this time. For Jazz fans out there these releases on DVD have been a long time coming. Bird, directed and produced by Academy Award®--winning director Clint Eastwood and starring Academy Award® winner Forest Whitaker, earned Clint Eastwood a Golden Globe® for Best Director and took home the Oscar® for Best Sound in 1988. The Bird DVD will include a 6-track bonus CD. Round Midnight stars another Academy-Award winning director, Martin Scorsese, and jazz legend Dexter Gordon who captured an Academy Award nomination as an African American expatriate musician in 1959 Paris. The superb musical score won Herbie Hancock an Oscar®.
Also included are two new-to-DVD titles -- Pete Kelly's Blues starring Peggy Lee in her Oscar-nominated (Best Supporting Actress) portrayal of an inebriated songbird. Pete Kelly's Blues has been digitally remastered for 16x9 anamorphic presentation in its 2.55:1 original aspect ratio, and has a new 5.1 Dolby digital soundtrack derived from the original 4-track theatrical mix. Rounding out this group is Blues in the Night, starring actor-turned-directors Richard Whorf (TV's "Beverly Hillbillies," "Gunsmoke") and Elia Kazan (Academy Award® Best Director winner for On the Waterfront and Gentleman's Agreement). Included are special features, the Oscar®-Nominated Musical Short Jammin' the Blues and classic cartoons Kitty Kornered, My Favorite Duck and Swooner Crooner.
The year: 1946. The event: Oakland's "Jazz at the Philharmonic." The music streaked into the unknown, daring listeners to grab hold and fly there, too. On stage was the creator of those new sounds: Charles "Yardbird" Parker. In the crowd was the 16-year-old who would someday bring Parker's extraordinary story to the screen: Clint Eastwood. "Americans don't have any original art except Western movies and jazz," observes Eastwood. Movie fans, of course, know that few heroes sit as tall as Eastwood. Now the legendary American icon, whose Dirty Harry films have been praised for their jazz scores, ventures deeper into that other original American art.
in on Kelly's heart; Lee Marvin and Martin Milner are Pete's hot-headed sidemen who keep the tempo torrid; Andy Devine goes dramatic as an ice-cold cop; Ella Fitzgerald brings her inimitable jazz alchemy to Hard Hearted Hannah and Pete Kelly's Blues. And Peggy Lee proves as masterful acting the blues as singing them, earning a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award® nomination for her portrayal of a boozy songbird.
Another night, another club. Jigger Pine's quintet is sockin' 'em solid before hopping a boxcar to the next gig. There's not much money in this life; but plenty of tumult involving a criminal (Lloyd Nolan), a songbird (Priscilla Lane), a siren (Betty Field) and those Blues in the Night. The famed title tune and other songs are by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer. Anatole Litvak (The Snake Pit) directs this work packed with future filmmakers. In addition to Whorf and Kazan (see above), other contributors included Robert Rossen (The Hustler) and Don Siegel (Dirty Harry), who provides the film's montages.
Bertrand Tavernier's loving ode to jazz and its creators, set in 1950s' Paris, stars real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon as Dale Turner, an African American tenor saxophone player who is befriended by a Frenchman obsessed with his music. Gordon captured an Academy Award® nomination as the expatriate musician battling alcoholism. A supporting cast of real jazz musicians playing live music throughout the film gives Round Midnight an authentic feel of the Jazz scene of that time. Herbie Hancock's superb music score won an Oscar®.


McDowell is a Bush appointee, and was speaking to the conservative Heritage Foundation. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, what exactly is the principled defense of the Fairness Doctrine?
Thank you for posting this so that I may state the obvious, Chairman McDowell was rallying the conservative Heritage Foundation with pure fiction.
There is no legal basis for the FCC to be positioned as an approver of private statements made on web sites. He's unable to explain how that would happen, or to manufacture a connection to the net neutrality debate.
The FCC regulates public communication infrastructure, not every microphone, press or flat screen display. This is simply a lame attempt to worry people around a manufactured issue. Yes, I'm sad to say that after watching the video again, "lame" is exactly the right word. He's just not that good at it.
There's also no legal basis for the Fairness Doctrine, Dave… until there is one. It wasn't that long ago that bloggers were sweating over the application of McCain Feingold to blogs, and the submission of blogs to the authority of the Federal Election Commission. Why is it unthinkable that if the Fairness Doctrine were mandated by statute — which it would have been twice if not vetoed by Presidents Reagan and G.W. Bush — that it would once again be put under the aegis of the agency that invented it, the FCC, with new responsibility for all media which require government intervention to insure content "fairness"?
If I were to assay a principled defense of the Fairness Doctrine, I would approach it from the "duty" angle, rather than a "freedom" angle.
Essentially, the Fairness Doctrine rests on the idea that a publisher has a duty to provide information that is as unbiased as possible. Where differences of opinion exist, that publisher has a duty to provide a fair hearing to those differences of opinion. This duty, in turn, springs from the publisher's duty to his audience.
An addendum … Did I actually defend the Fairness Doctrine? I feel soiled.


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When did the colonialists start 'winning' the American Revolution?
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Tulius said:
My English fails me often, but don't you mean "loosing"? Or "colonials" instead of "colonialists"? After all the "colonialists" were the British while the "colonials" were the ones on the side of the future USA. Or is my English failing me again?
Ha! No, in this case it was MY English that failed me. I didn't even catch that I wrote 'colonialists' instead of 'colonists.' This will teach me to proofread more closely...
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We could kindly ask one of the mods, if one of them can find a bit of time and change the "colonialists" into "colonists"?
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From what I gathered a long time ago when I was reading about the Revolutionary War is that England had other engagements to worry about. They did not seek to commit the necessary troops to the American colonies, when they were conquering India about the same time. India was looked upon as a more profitable colonial cause.
Ad Honorem
In the larger scheme of things Saratoga seems to be considered a major turning point. But I can't help but agree with another poster that the Battle of Trenton gave hope when there was none. It certainly helped to sustain the American's moral.
Edric Streona
Britain deployed 50 000 troops during the course of the war, and considering the pre war size of the entire army was only 48 000, I think we can call that a significant commitment to the cause.
India, there was more reliance on locally raised troops, I don't think the HM forces in India were ever more than 4-6 000 during this time.
So I would not say they prioritized India.
They fought, in the misguided belief that they could win, though with hindsight I'm convinced once the shooting had started it was almost inevitable that American independence would be the outcome. Britain's key to "winning" would have been through diplomacy, listening to the concerns of colonials and assuring them they were not vassals but free and equal Englishmen and acquiescing to some of their concerns.
On paper the Americans look weak. Bad and amateurish forces vs an Empire. But in reality they had pretty much everything stacked in their favour and the British position was very difficult. If America was a small island or archipelago then Britain's real strength could have been brought to bear. As good as the British army was it was small and not big enough to conquer America... big enough to help the settler police the natives, sure, big enough to fight other small professional forces in small bush wars but it was never going to be big enough to suppress a landmass of that size and population spread with out the consent of its people.
Once the fighting started, the sheer size of the place, the smallness of the army and the inability of the British to foster and harness loyalism meant defeat was inevitable. Perhaps a crushing victory that kills or captures Washington would be enough to end the rebellion temporarily... but I'm sure once he had been shot or hung for treason and the American cause gifted some famous martyrs it would flare up again in the 1790s or 1800s.
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What the British should have done is appease their worries.
First give commissioned American Militia officers equal standing to regulars.
Then they needed to either find some way to incorporate elected American officials into parliament... either by allowing them to come to GB and take seats there, though logistically a bit of a pain, so they are represented and can vote on issues OR establish a local parliament that had powers over local issues and taxes.
That would be enough to nip any nonsense about tryanny in the bud for a few extra decades... maybe until the 1830-40s... though I'm wandering into speculative history there.
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betgo
The British had a chance early on, but not after they moved to the south, figuring they had more support there.
The British raised 19,000 loyalist troops, maybe more like 10,000 if you exclude militia. Plus they had native American allies. So I wouldn't say the population was totally against the British.
Representation in parliament was not the real issue. IMO the most important issues were the Proclamation of 1763 banning settlement beyond the Appalachians and the Quebec Act of 1774, which gave what would become the Northwest Territory to Quebec. Washington, Franklin, and others had investments in some of that land. There was also the fear based on the provisions of the Quebec Act that the Roman Catholic religion would be established in those areas and that court proceedings would be in French with no jury.
betgo said:
Saratoga.
Yep. This. After all, didn't the US victory in this battle cause the French to decide to militarily support the US?
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Saratoga, including Bennington is my answer.
But... I've read, and I think it has some merit, that Bunker Hill was the key to victory. Because Bunker hill led to high British losses in a fight they though was going to be an easy win, the British command changed their tactics. They were very weary of taking on farmers who could dig more in a night than their troops could in a week. British commanders looked to outflank (and they did on many occasions) the rebels. They did not want to fight against intrenched colonials. That caution showed at Brooklyn heights and led to Washington's escape. At Brandywine Washington was outflanked but managed to escape. Cornwallis and Gray were the few commanders who did not fear a direct engagement and both had easy wins at Camden and Paoli. Although, the direct assault at Guilford Courthouse was a pyrrhic victory for Cornwallis and led to his defeat at Yorktown.
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The major turning point for the war in the United states was the French declaration of war which prompted Britain to nominally adopt a blue water strategy which would have involved only holding onto coastal ports and engaging in attacks on French possessions. This is key because it essentially left Britain without an army large enough for offensive operations in the Northern colonies. Following the evacuation of Philadelphia, most of Clinton's army was deployed to defend the Caribbean or to Britain itself. By 1779 there were only significant British land forces in New York and Canada, whilst nearly 100,000 army and militia had been mobilised in Great Britain and Ireland. However the failure of Keppel's fleet to knock out the French fleet at Ushant, led Britain to adopt a far more defensive version of the "blue water" strategy then initially envisioned by Amherst or George Germain. In hindsight the resources used by Cornwallis in the southern colonies might have been better used attacking French economic targets because France quickly came under economic pressure, almost immediately after entering the conflict;
Incredibly it is not mentioned in popular history that due to this economic pressure in 1779 France secretly attempted to obtain peace with Britain. The French finance minister Jacquoes Necker had realised the high costs of the war and crippling loans were leading to disaster. He convinced Louis XVI that immediate peace with Britain was necessary and arranged secret meetings with a British banker in Paris named Thomas Walpole who was in contact with the British ministry. In 1780 Necker contacted Lord North and offered peace on the basis of uti possidetis. Britain saw the the peace overtures as a sign of weakness and broke off negotiations.
After 1780 Britain adopted the so called southern strategy in the colonies which they had long toyed with. The idea that they could essentially deploy a small professional force to back up a large loyalist army (which never materialised). With only limited loyalist support Cornwallis' force which was the size of a corps (much smaller than anything Howe or Clinton had in the Northern colonies) could never maintain effective offensive operations for long and was destined to be defeated or evacuated. Whilst there was a huge base of Loyalism, the British underestimated the level of brutality of the southern colonial civil war which had been ongoing since 1775 and left left loyalists deeply in fear of openly supporting the crown. Cornwallis' token force couldn't protect their homes if they joined him.
And whilst British ministers in London poured over maps of South Carolina and Southern India, by 1780 the European public interest in the war was not captivated by the drama in the colonies, but by the titanic showdown at Gibraltar. Both sides invested enormous resources into this microcosm, the British in various desperate attempts to relieve and resupply the garrison, and the French and Spanish who's combined fleet and army at Gibraltar was at least three times larger than any of the forces they fielded in North America.
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Genio e Impresa
Palazzo Lombardia, Milano
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Exhibitions, Interaction design, Video installations
30 enterprise stories are portrayed in the multimedial exhibition "Genio e Impresa. From Leonardo and Ludovico to the big innovation stories of our age", which is open to the public from July 9th to September 15th in Palazzo Lombardia.
The exhibition is curated by NEO (Narrative Environments Operas) and explores how innovation can be born from the meeting of two people. Through a staging that is innovative and immersive, it delves into the relation between a "genius" – someone with technical expertise – and an entrepreneur, a person with management skills. An imaginary interview with Leonardo and Ludovico, created by Pietro Marani and Paola Cordera, opens the exhibition and is followed by innovation stories, such as the ones from Bracco Group with Ernst Felder and Fulvio Bracco, Pirelli Group with Maurizio Boiocchi and Marco Tronchetti Provera, Ferrari Giovanni Industria Casearia with Luciano Piergiovanni and Giovanni Ferrari, STMicroelectronics with Bruno Murari and Benedetto Vigna, Fili Pari with Alice Zantedeschi and Francesca Pievani.
The exhibit highlights the role of Milan and Lombardy. The region is presented as a "Garden of Wonders" as it provides the right ground for innovation, but also manages to get very different elements together, thanks to data provided by Assolombarda Study Centre. According to Globalization and World Cities Research Network, Milan takes 11th place in the ranking of global cities and, in spite of the growth of Africa and Asia, will still be among the top 50 in 2025 (source: McKinsey). Milan is the chief town in Lombardy and the core of its cultural and creative system, with 350,000 professionals in the field and more than 24 billion euros generated every year – that's a quarter of the total for Italy. The city is full of young talents, with 210,000 students in Milan, 18,000 of which are foreigners; 70,000 more (23,000 foreigners) study in other cities in Lombardy. Milan ranks as the 36th best city for students, according to QS Best Student Cities. Lombardy includes just the 8% of Italy territory and 17% of the population, but counts 32% of all patents and 33% of all workers employed in advanced manufacturing.
Palazzo Lombardia will also host a work by James Rosenquist, one of the top american pop artists, created for illycaffè.
The corporate image of the exhibit is curated by Reflektor.
For further information go to: https://www.assolombarda.it/genio-e-impresa/la-mostra-multimediale
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WATCH: Feter Hendel – "Call Out"
Feter Hendel· July 25, 2016 ·3 min read
Emanuel radiated light. He had a mystical quality about him, a kind of otherworldliness. In his presence, you felt like you were in a whole other dimension of reality. Never a dull moment, always an adventure. Every day was Purim. Every night, Simchat Torah.
Tragically, Emanuel's life was cut short. He is survived by his loving wife and four beautiful children.
Shortly after Emanuel's passing, I shared his story — and this song — with a videographer friend in Melbourne. I wanted to shoot a music video as a memorial of sorts for Emanuel. The story and project resonated deeply with my friend, and he generously took on the project as a pro bono job. We chose our location, a beautiful bushland property near Dalyesford, Victoria, where I'd gone camping with my bandmate Zev Gelber. We had an amazing full afternoon on set, drinking l'chaims, learning Torah inside a teepee, playing music in the winter rain. As the sun set, we built a massive bonfire and jammed out the outro niggun while jumping over and through the fire. It was all captured in stunning slow-motion HD at 2000 frames per second. It was nothing short of epic.
I waited eagerly to see the first draft of the edit, but my videographer friend had gone cold. I heard nothing. A few weeks later he called me, devastated. The entire footage had became corrupted. It was impossible to recover. He even paid out of pocket for a team of people to work on the hard drive remotely from a lab in Europe. There was nothing that could be done.
He is a high-end wedding videographer, and this had never ever happened to him before. He was heartbroken. And so was I.
Then I realized that Emanuel, somewhere out there in the universe, was pulling the strings. I really felt his presence in the footage being unusable. The band and film crew had a magical day, as close to perfect as you could get. I felt we could never have a day with that kind of energy again. At the same time, I was getting the sense that Emanuel wanted us to have the day in our memory etched as a moment in time, not recorded on film, but lived in our conciseness.
Two weeks before making aliyah, we reshot the music video at another location. This time it was summer. The bushfire danger was high so we couldn't light a fire. Instead we took a different direction with the video. Nature shots, trees, warm light. For the outro niggun that closed the song, we jumped into a creek.
In this chain of events too, I felt Emanuel. It occurred to me that maybe he wanted to be remembered differently than what we had planned on, the footage we had shot. Rather than the cold of winter and a raging fire, he chose to be remembered in the light of summer and the calm of water. It's just a thought, I'll never know.
I will forever regret not being closer with Emanuel toward the end of his life. Sure, we lived in different states, so we didn't really have a chance to see each other, but I could have called him more often. Our last conversation remains vivid in my memory. He went on one of his legendary stream-of-conciousness monologues and told me an very elaborate parable by the Baal Shem Tov. I don't remember all the details. It was about kings and queens, suffering and melancholy, about love and divorce. The parable was hard to follow, and seemed to defy logic, but at the end of the parable everything became clear. It was once of those stories that only make sense in retrospect.
That was the last time I spoke with Emanuel. It was a mystical moment, a taste of prohpecy. In his last words to me, it was as if he knew that his time was running out. The parable was more like a prayer than a story. Perhaps one of the deepest prayers a human being is capable of making:
"Master of the world, promise me that one day, I will be able to make sense of everything you have made me endure."
This song and video are dedicated to Emanuel Krassenstein. May his memory be for a blessing.
I'm just hanging on
By the loosest thread
If you let me go, I'll fall down low,
fall down low, my friend
Am I the only one who still believes in you
Lift up your hands and hold me
Tell me that you're here
and if you're out there, show me
give me a sign
'Cause I'm feeling alone, my friend
feeling alone, my friend
It doesn't matter where you are
I feel your presence from afar
you comfort me when I'm in pain
I call out softly to your name
I call out
to you, to you, to you
Lightning crashes on my hill
burning out my deepest will
tears are streaming down my face
searching for some sacred space
I call out to you, to you, to you
NIGGUN
Feter Hendel
Feter Hendel is an indie-folk band fronted by Moshe Hendel, singer/songwriter & social worker who has just relocated from his hometown Melbourne, Australia to Israel. Feter Hendel is a delicate blend of heartfelt lyrics, chassidic niggunim & folk ballads.
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The Guyana Police Force (GPF) is investigating the deaths of two persons who lost their lives yesterday in separate incidents.
The victims have been identified as 54-year-old Timothy Hunter, a pitman of Jawalla Reservation, Upper Mazaruni River, who died when a mining pit collapsed on him; and 31-year-old Godfrey Wayne Gomes, of "C' Field Sophia who was killed in an accident.
In the first case, Hunter along with other workers were working inside a mining pit at Ominaik Village, Upper Mazaruni around 16:30 hrs yesterday when a section of the wall collapsed and covered him. He was unresponsive by the time he was removed.
Hunter's death is the first mining pit accident for 2019.
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According to information revealed, the Lorry was proceeding north along the western carriageway of the road when according to the driver; the pedestrian suddenly ran from east to west, into the vehicle's path.
Gomes was rushed to the Skeldon Public Hospital where he received treatment and was transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital. There, he succumbed to his injuries. The driver who passed a Breathalyzer test, is in custody assisting with the investigation.
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PRINCE The Rainbow Children [2020] 2LP reissue on CLEAR vinyl w/slipmat, download card SEALED, NEW
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One of the most rare Prince LPs (originally released November 20, 2001), reissued on double clear vinyl in a gatefold sleeve, with a new exclusive Prince rainbow slipmat. Sealed & new.
The Rainbow Children is the twenty-fourth studio album by Prince. As the world greeted the promise of a new millennium, even Prince was experiencing a great sense of transformation. In 2000, he announced the reclamation of his birth name after seven years as an unpronounceable symbol. In 2001, after a period of study and debate with his friend and mentor Larry Graham (former bassist for Sly and The Family Stone), Prince converted to the Jehovah's Witness faith. Then the release of The Rainbow Children at the end of 2001.
Billed as "controversial" in its press materials due to its openly spiritual message, the jazz-inspired record was Prince's first fully independent release, issued without any major label backing. The CD has long been out of print and the original vinyl was incredibly limited (copies currently fetch hundreds of dollars). This new double LP vinyl edition comes on limited edition crystal clear vinyl packaged in gatefold packaging along with an exclusive Prince rainbow slipmat.
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Troy Parrott and Nathan Collins given first Republic of Ireland call-ups
Mick McCarthy has named provisional 40-man Republic of Ireland squad for next month's UEFA Euro 2020 qualifier with Switzerland and the friendly with Bulgaria.
There's a first call-up for Tottenham's 17-year old forward Troy Parrott, and Stoke City's defender Nathan Collins.
Doncaster's former Cork City winger Kieran Sadlier also gets a maiden inclusion in the panel.
Following his move from Everton to Crystal Palace, James McCarthy is included in a McCarthy squad for the first time and could make a first Republic of Ireland appearance since October of 2016.
McCarthy told FAI TV his reasons for naming such an engorged squad, "I don't know what's going to happen between now and the next couple of games.
"We've got Saturday games, Tuesday games, Saturday and then the Saturday before me meet up. Players could get injured before we meet up."
There's no room for Caoimhín Kelleher among the four goalkeepers named by McCarthy, despite the fact the Cork stopper could make his Liverpool debut at the weekend.
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Republic of Ireland squad to play Switzerland and Bulgaria
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Defenders: Seamus Coleman (Everton), Matt Doherty (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Shane Duffy (Brighton and Hove Albion), Richard Keogh (Derby County), John Egan (Sheffield United), Kevin Long (Burnley), Nathan Collins (Stoke City), Enda Stevens (Sheffield United), Greg Cunningham (Blackburn Rovers, on loan from Cardiff City), Cyrus Christie (Fulham), Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers), Derrick Williams (Blackburn Rovers). Ciaran Clark (Newcastle United)
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Asian markets closed mixed on Thursday after the Federal Reserve raised rates by 25 basis points, as had been widely expected.
The central bank indicated that it still expected two more hikes this year, but upgraded its projection to 2.9 percent for the benchmark rate in 2019.
Energy stocks in the region rose after oil prices held onto overnight gains.
The dollar was on the back foot against a basket of currencies.
Asian markets closed mixed Thursday in what proved to be a choppy session after the U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time this year.
Japan's Nikkei 225 rose 0.99 percent, or 211.02 points, to close at 24,591.99 and the broader Topix edged up by 0.65 percent, with the mining and oil sectors climbing 4.56 percent and 3.06 percent, respectively.
Elsewhere, South Korea's benchmark Kospi advanced 0.44 percent to close at 2,496.02, a seven-week high. The manufacturing sector closed mostly lower, but brokerages and oil-related stocks climbed, contributing to overall gains.
Index heavyweight Samsung Electronics also contributed to the move higher, closing up 1.41 percent.
Greater China markets gave up early gains, with the Hang Seng Index easing 0.61 percent by 3:00 p.m. HK/SIN. Most sectors fell, with technology names dragging on the index, although oil producers firmed.
Over on the mainland, the Shanghai composite lost 0.52 percent to close at 3,263.83 and the Shenzhen composite edged lower by 0.49 percent to end at 1,849.60. The large-cap CSI 300 index finished the day down 1 percent.
Losses on the mainland also came after Reuters reported the People's Bank of China raised the interest rate on seven-day reverse repurchase agreements, referred to as reverse repos, by 5 basis points. That move came after the Federal Reserve raised rates overnight.
In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 slipped 0.22 percent in choppy trade to close at 5,937.20 as declines were seen in all sectors except energy, materials and gold producers.
Mining majors closed firmly in positive territory, while oil producers gained as oil prices steadied after soaring overnight. Woodside Petroleum gained 2.22 percent and Beach Energy advanced 2.78 percent.
The Federal Reserve raised rates by 25 basis points to a range of 1.5 percent to 1.75 percent at the end of its policy meeting on Wednesday, as was widely expected.
The central bank indicated that it still expected two more hikes this year, but upgraded its projection for the benchmark rate in 2019 to 2.9 percent. Growth forecasts for this year and the next were also raised.
Those moves showed that the FOMC was seeking "to strike a balance between showing a need for more rate hikes in the long term ... but not rocking market sentiment too much with the median for 2018 staying at three hikes," Tai Hui, chief market strategist for Asia Pacific at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, said in a note.
He added that the lack of surprises on Wednesday meant that stock markets in the region would likely be relatively muted.
U.S. stocks whipsawed in the last session, touching session highs shortly after the Fed made its announcement, but ultimately closed slightly below the flat line.
Following the hike stateside, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority on Thursday also raised its base rate by 25 basis points due to the Hong Kong dollar's peg to the greenback.
Meanwhile, concerns over trade tensions were also in focus in the region, with President Donald Trump expected to announce tariffs against China during U.S. hours, Reuters said, citing a White House official.
In corporate news, tech giant Tencent Holdings fell 3.8 percent by 3:00 p.m. HK/SIN after signaling more investments were in the works. It had announced that net profit for the quarter ending Dec. 31 rose 98 percent to 20.8 billion yuan ($3.3 billion) on Wednesday, topping expectations.
In currencies, the dollar remained on the back foot after its overnight fall. Analysts indicated that one reason for the decline was due to some investors having expected the Fed's "dot plot" to reflect four rate hikes instead of the three that it maintained for this year.
The dollar index, which tracks the greenback against six rival currencies, stood at 89.602 at 2:57 p.m. HK/SIN. Against the yen, the dollar slipped further below the 106 handle to trade at 105.84.
Meanwhile, the Hong Kong dollar slid to a fresh 33-year low during the session.
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With her 25+ years of managerial experience with Fortune 500 companies and small business consulting, Elizabeth set up the organizational and financial structure, as well as the business administration of CMTL to better address client needs with skilled staff, excellent training, and the best tools available. CMTL, Inc. was just awarded Women Owned Business status from the State of Connecticut. More certifications to come.
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The Fann Street Foundry was a type foundry (a company that designs or distributes typefaces) that was located on Fann Street, City of London.

Establishment
In 1794, Robert Thorne (1754-1820) acquired the type foundry of the late Thomas Cottrell based in Nevil's Court, and moved it to 11 Barbican, and then in 1802 to a former brewery in Fann Street, and renamed it the Fann Street Foundry. On his death in 1820, the business was bought by William Thorowgood with the help of money he had won in a lottery. Thorowgood was the first to use the term "Grotesque" to describe a Sans-Serif typeface and the first to design one in lower case with his Seven Line Grotesque.

Nineteenth-century heyday
In 1838, the typographer Robert Besley was taken into partnership by William Thorowgood at the Fann Street Foundry. He created Clarendon in 1845, the first typeface to be registered under the Ornamental Designs Act of 1842, and retired from the business in 1861, becoming Lord Mayor of London in 1869.

In 1842, Charles Reed co-founded the firm of Tyler & Reed, printers and typefounders. He became a partner in the Fann Street Foundry in 1861 (which thereafter became known as Reed & Fox). The Fann Street business formed the basis for his own typefounding business, Sir Charles Reed & Sons, which had an office at 33 Aldersgate Street.

In 1881, following his father's death, the author and typefounder, Talbot Baines Reed became head of the Fann Street Foundry. By then he had begun his monumental History of the Old English Letter Foundries, published in 1887, which was hailed as the standard work on the subject. Talbot Baines Reed died in 1893, aged only 41.

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Closure
Fann Street Foundry closed in 1906, after which its designs passed to the Sheffield-based Stephenson Blake. Founded in 1818, Stephenson Blake was the last active type foundry in the UK at the time of its closure in 2005.

References

Further reading
Selections from the Specimen Book of the Fann Street Foundry. Reed & Fox, London, 1873.
Anthony Camp, On the City's Edge: a history of Fann Street, London (2016) .

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A complex and intense film
Reviewer score
Director Joe Wright
Starring James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Romola Garai, Saoirse Ronan, Brenda Blethyn and Vanessa Redgrave.
'Atonement' arrives to cinema screens with an impeccable pedigree. Adapted by Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher Hampton from Ian McEwan's bestselling, Booker-nominated novel, it reunites actress Keira Knightley and director Joe Wright, who previously worked together on the Academy Award-nominated 'Pride & Prejudice'. Knightley and James McAvoy are the star-crossed lovers, the couple at the centre of the story, whose lives are changed forever by a child's lie.
Opening at an English country house in 1935 on a swelteringly hot summer's day, the priggish, self-important 13-year-old Briony Tallis (Ronan) is trying to interest the household in a play that she has written. Meanwhile, her older sister Cecilia (Knightley), just returned from college, is struggling to understand her feelings for the housekeeper's son, Robbie (McAvoy). The heat is the catalyst, stirring both Cecilia and Robbie up and firing Briony's already overheated imagination so that, by day's end, she has accused Robbie of a crime that he did not commit.
Five years later, Briony's childish misinterpretations still haunt the characters, now caught up in the Second World War. Robbie was sent to prison, from which he joined the army and is caught up in the British rout at Dunkirk. Cecilia has shunned her family and become a ward sister. Briony (now played by Garai) is in training as a nurse, seemingly as an act of contrition for her actions.
In the final act of the film, we see Briony (Redgrave) in her third age, now a successful author, being interviewed about the book that she wrote about the events of her childhood.
'Atonement' has a bold and epic sweep in Joe Wright's capable directorial hands, from the 1930s luxury of the Tallis' home to wartime London and France. Christopher Hampton's script is true to the book and, most importantly, maintains the brilliantly realised unreliable narrator. Seamus McGarvey's ('Charlotte's Web', 'The Hours') cinematography is outstanding, depicting the pre-war summer in suitably heat-laden, languid brushstrokes, to the staccato of the wartime scenes. In particular, a long tracking shot of the mayhem on the beach at Dunkirk is truly awe-inspiring.
While the emotional pacing may not be entirely even, all three incidences of Briony - Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai and Vanessa Redgrave - are well delineated and brilliantly acted. James McAvoy is good, both as a lover and a soldier, but full kudos have to go to Keira Knightley, a brittle, edgy and truly fierce heroine.
A book adaptation that doesn't disappoint, 'Atonement' is a complex and intense film. These are characters that live in the memory long after you leave the cinema. Ian McEwan should be proud.
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To understand where we are & where we need to go, we first need to understand where we come from. And where we come from is a relationship with the car that has fragmented cities & damaged lives.
We have never been as connected.
We have never been as spatially segregated.
We need to integrate planning (too diagrammatic) and architecture (too specific).
We need to integrate spatial planning and transport planning.
– agree the foreground grid.
4. protected villages – possibly a premium for non-essential residential or a subsidy for protected employment.
If we can't measure it, it doesn't exist.
– design at the heart of them: value of design industry. Need to recognise this and should want to be part of it.
Need design training: double diamond – bold/analytic, imaginative/decisive.
What are the questions that we are trying to answer in the pursuit of autonomous vehicle technologies?
Notes for keynote at UK Green Building Council Annual City Summit, Birmingham.
2. A massive shift needed in transport + land use planning, urban + landscape design, architecture. Professional inertia. Turning the supertanker.
3. A massive opportunity. Reason to turn.
4. Lessons from the past eg Pompeii, Brindley Place.
5. Examples from the present eg Darwin, London SkyCycle, Birmingham Charette.
6. UK government: Smart & Future cities agenda is a sustainability agenda.
7. Social inequalities dimension of sustainability.
8. Need to act at all scales simultaneously ie there's work for all of us to do.
11. Challenge for practice: design, development & real estate investment.
12. Already being acted on. The supertanker is turning.
Notes from a response to questions from the Strelka Institute.
How would you describe the situation with the permeability and connectivity of city spaces today?
There is no single state of permeability and connectivity in the contemporary city. Instead we find two main types of urban layout: first, the finely grained, continuously connected street network in the historic city and second, the system of largely impermeable housing estates separated by fast-moving roads in the 20th century city.
In the historic city, space is well used. Most space use is movement and most movement is through movement. Movement supports commercial activities, which locate themselves on the principal streets where footfall is greatest. Movement brings people to places of opportunity – to buy, sell, exchange and interact. Effective exchange and interaction drives urban economies, social networks, cultures and innovations.
In the 20th century city, the large, impermeable blocks of the housing estates do not encourage through movement. People move around the estates rather than through them. As a result, commercial activity is undermined, with its market divided between people moving locally inside the estate and those moving globally around it. Commercial activities are more likely to fail, especially inside estates where the marketplace is too weak. Instead, shops form at the entrances to the estates and on the surrounding roads. Since these roads have often been designed to favour the car, the shops are likely to be car-based, with large parking lots that further separate local people from them.
A further, social consequence of this is that local people do not see people from outside the estate on the regular basis that people in traditional streets take for granted. The effect of this is to create social isolation and fear of strangers in estates.
The irony is that the inward-looking urban block was created purposefully to foster a stronger community spirit. Traditional streets were considered to be noisy, dirty and dangerous. 20th century town planning's idea was that, if life could be created away from streets then people would be cleaner, happier and safer.
It is the greatest tragedy of 20th century international planning that its well-intended model of urban living has failed. Indeed it has done the opposite: creating highly negative social and economic outcomes for all people with perhaps the exception of the super rich for whom social and economic relations are formed in different spatial contexts.
Connectivity is closely connected with the structure of property ownership, how will it change in the next 5 years? Will it shift towards privatisation of public spaces? And what will be the case 20 years from now?
Undoubtedly the next decade will see more private spaces set within gated communities. Such forms of urbanism are still favoured by developers and aspirational residents for whom the idea of living in a cleaner and supposedly safer environment is expected to make them happier. The history of 20th century failure may not be considered to be relevant, perhaps because of a belief that it happened somewhere else, or in a different socio-political era, or because new digital communications technologies can effectively span the spatial divide between such places and their urban settings.
At the same time, the resurgence of traditional street design will see more places created that look more like the continuously connected form of the historic city. This trend can be seen in cities as diverse as Beijing, London and Dubai, where permeable street networks have been created by commercial property developers as well as public municipalities precisely because they are seen to deliver places that are popular with people. The social and economic benefits of a street-based approach have been witnessed with a combination of satisfaction and surprise.
Perhaps the most significant impact on the form of urbanism in the future city will come from the digital technologies that will record and analyse the outcomes of both approaches – the gated community and the open street network – and demonstrate with evidence how each performs.
My clear view is that the continuously connected street network will outperform the gated community in terms of Urban GVA, making a greater contribution to the overall social and economic value of the city. The emerging Science of Cities, in which my company Space Syntax has been a pioneer, is one of the key areas of future urban practice that will cut through the inaccurate claims that have been made about the benefits of estates – claims that have been promoted by architects and urban planners throughout the 20th century, based on the passion of their beliefs rather than on the evidence of facts. Urban analytics will transform urban practice over the next 20 years, shaping a new, evidence-rich approach to architecture and town planning and, crucially, returning a highly effective, street-based form of urbanism to the position it had held for centuries before professionalised town planning imagined it could do better.
During our work for the classification of Moscow streets we highlighted three different zones of the city: centre (inside the Garden Ring), middle zone (between the Garden and the Third Transport Rings), and periphery (outside the Third Ring). The pattern is completely different in these zones. Could you comment on the implication of global trends of connectivity in the city on different zones in Moscow?
No city is the same from its centre to its edge. Or, more precisely, from its centres to the edges of those centres because cities are formed of multiple centres that create a system of connected urban quarters. The quality of the connections between centres is a fundamental determinant of overall urban performance, having a strong bearing on whether people are more likely to walk and cycle between neighbourhoods and whether those links will be effective places for social and economic activity. When centres are continuously connected to each other through a set of connections with a regular grain then it is likely that many, if not all of these will be suitable for walking and cycling as well as driving along.
Cities like London and Paris are composed of multiple centres that have distinct centres of differing characters yet are continuously connected to each other. Indeed it is the magic of such cities that it is possible to move from one centre to the other in such a subtle way that you are uncertain exactly when you have left one centre and entered another. The connective "tissue" between centres is typically comprised of residential streets, which therefore link to – and carry movement belonging to – multiple centres. People may identify more with one centre than others but they are provided with a choice of more than one. And,min doing so, they interface with people from more than one centre. The benefits of this arrangement are simultaneously social and economic.
Such choice is denied by the 20th century city of separated estates. People living in one estate have limited, if any direct access to the centres of other estates. Increasingly, the roads that connect between estates are hostile to pedestrians and cyclists. Social and economic life is suppressed.
All cities are systems of linked centres that each work in individualistic, local ways but that also form an overall city system. Within this city system, the centres have a hierarchy with more central centres typically supporting greater economic activity than centres at the edge. This is not only because more central centres are larger but also because these centres are surrounded by a larger number of other centres than are peripheral centres.
In the case of Moscow, Space Syntax analysis would be used to examine the hierarchy of centres, the quality of the connections between them and the degree to which spatial connectivity is directly related to social and economic performance. Data on economic performance – such as land value, property transactions, commercial performance, retail sales – would be correlated with measures of spatial connectivity – such as spatial centrality (choice) and betweenness (integration) at a range of spatial scales. These Big Data sets would be interrogated in order to form a diagnosis of the current spatial conditions. On the basis of this diagnosis, a set of spatial planning principles would be created that would lead to the production of a spatial vision for the city. We anticipate that this form of data-rich, evidence-informed planning will become normal in the next 20 years.
While improving and redeveloping city streetscape how should trends in the connectivity and permeability of city space be taken into account?
Future urban plans should therefore be created with a special emphasis on the design of the spatial layout of the city. Opportunities should be identified to strengthen the network of streets and open spaces, pursuing an overall objective to create a city of continuously connected centres. Constraints should equally be identified so that reasonable plans can be made.
"Spatial geometry" standards should be set for the number and frequency of connections as well as for the geometrical means by which centres can be most effectively connected ie first, a small set of longer, more direct connections (the "foreground grid" of boulevards and high streets) that will carry larger volumes of people and therefore be suitable for commercial uses and second, a large set of smaller, less direct connections (the "background grid" of local streets) that will carry smaller volumes of principally residential movement.
Once these spatial geometry standards have been established then further standards of urban design quality should be set – but not before. High quality urban design in the form of green landscape, seating, signage me surface treatment will not create high quality urban performance if the spatial layout geometry is weak.
The living city is built on human interaction. Without this, the city is dead. Human interaction relies on effective movement corridors and effective places of human transaction. Effective street connectivity is a critical determinant of the living city.
Cargo bikes are an urban game-changer. The combination of online retail and out-of-town mega-distribution centres means that town centre retail must transform. Shops don't need so much storage space because goods can be sent straight from depot to home. That storage space can be repurposed as retail or office space, bringing new life back to town centres.
Trucks can interchange with cargo-bikes at the edge of town.
Town centres don't need large swept curves at traffic junctions, making it easier for pedestrians and cyclists to move.
Towns can be designed for slow but effective movement, with all the opportunities for socially and economically beneficial interaction that slow movement supports.
people: in cars, on public transport, on bicycles and on foot.
Each of these flows is impacted by urban development: how much of which land uses are placed where, and how they are then connected to each other. Flows impact on other flows.
Sometimes these impacts are positive, sometimes negative. They have enormous social and economic implications.
Urban planning is as much about designing flows as it is designing buildings.
We live in an age of unprecedented computing power – this gives us the ability to better predict the nature of these impacts.
This is especially important to avoid the unwanted effects of urban development: congestion, air pollution, social isolation and unsustainable stresses on natural resources.
The last decade has seen the emergence of Integrated Urban Modelling. My company, Space Syntax, is a leader in the field: one of the UK companies referred to by the Chancellor as contributing to China's growth and development. Working, for example, with the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design across China in Suzhou and Beijing.
Integrated Urban Models link the data generated by the multiple flows and reveal the interactions that help architects and urban planners create sustainable plans. Space Syntax has identified the essential role of spatial layout as the principal influence on urban performance. Spatial analytics are at the heart of our approach to Integrated Urban Modelling and we have made our discovery open source and openly available so that others can benefit too.
The Space Syntax Online Training Platform is a freely available, web-based resource through which urban practitioners, policymakers and local residents can equip themselves with information and skills to create more sustainable urban futures.
I'm pleased to announce that this platform is currently being translated into Chinese so that the Space Syntax's discoveries and experiences can be more readily disseminated here in China.
In many ways, urban planning is the integration and balancing of multiple flows. Integration needs glue and balance needs a pivot. Spatial layout provides both.
In looking forwards it is important to learn the lessons of history.
Look at Pompei. A city built for efficient mobility.
A model of the 1st century with lessons for the 21st century.
The grid – no cul de sacs. Built for mobility. Built for commerce.
More or less rectilinear – not labyrinthine. A layout that brains like. Easy to wayfind. Hard to get lost in.
A Main Street with shops – no inward-looking shopping malls. Active frontages. About as much surface for pedestrians as for vehicles – the right balance for then. Perhaps also for now?
And shopkeepers of great wealth! It was not a compromise to open onto a Main Street. It was a sound commercial investment. Who would turn their back on the flow of the street?
Pedestrian crossings! The deep kerbs channel water when it rains, flushing the dirt from the road and keeping it clean. Integrated infrastructure.
Pedestrian crossings that are aligned with pedestrian desire lines – not following the convenience of traffic engineers' vehicle turning arrangements. Pedestrians first because its the pedestrians that carried the money, not the vehicles.
…unambiguously signed that this is where you have to get out of your chariot and onto your feet.
Pompei: a city of great streets – great street sense.
But in recent times we lost our street-sense.
And now. What happened to our street sense?
And Birmingham was not alone.
What they were…only 60 years ago – recognisably like Pompei: simple, rectilinear grids.
We became entrapped by traffic models.
And a love-affair with the car.
We need to regain our street-sense.
At the Elephant & Castle, this design puts the pedestrian crossings on the pedestrian desire lines – just like those crossings in Pompei. We've talen pedestrians out of subways and given them their proper place at street level, next to the shopfronts. We've made the humble crossing an object of beauty, spending many different budgets (landscape, planting, pedestrian, cycling, highways) on one project so that each budget gets more than if it had been spent separately.
This new approach – a rediscovery of street sense – has been made possible through advances in science that have made us see the errors of previous ways.
The more we look into this the more we find of value: for example, how connected street grids create higher property values in the long run.
Brindley Place – the bridge on the straight east-west route – a lesson from Pompeii! It may seem obvious today – because it's a natural solution – but it wasn't obvious to some people at the time, who wanted the bridge to be hidden round the corner because, they said, there would be a greater sense of surprise and delight! What nonsense. We had to model the alternatives and show just how powerful the straight alignment was.
We still have to do so today. Many urban designers and transport planners have been slow on the uptake. The average pedestrian gets it immediately. What does that say for our professions?
Now cities all over the world are recovering their street sense, creating plans for their expansion that are street-based, not mall-based.
In time to accommodate a new, two-wheeled chariot: the bicycle.
SkyCycle – a new approach to urban mobility. Creating space for over half a billion cycle journeys every year. Constructed above the tracks, allowing smooth, predictable, junction-free movement between edge and centre. Developed by a consortium of Exterior Architecture, Foster + Partners and Space Syntax.
Adding to cycling at street level – not taking it away.
Recently, at the Birmingham Health City workshop,a discussion about the location of healthcare facilities quickly became one focused less on hospitals and wards and more on streets and public spaces. On "free", preventative public health rather than expensive, clinical curative care. Free in that it comes as the byproduct of good urban development.
…an idea to turn the Inner Ring Road into an active street.
2. Mixed mode movement – not separated by tunnels and walkways.
3. Active streets ie lined with street shops not mall shops.
4. Pedestrian crossings on desire lines, not where it's most convenient for traffic turnings.
5. Limited pedestrianisation of the most important civic areas.
A thought – yes Pompeii was a city of commerce but the houses of the city are filled with references to literature, poetry, music: the arts.
After all, this is the important, aspirational aspect of living in cities that comes with the efficient mobility that results from pragmatic planning: the grid, mixed modes, active frontages on main streets and special, limited, high intensity, pedestrian only places.
When we get this right we have time to truly enjoy ourselves in the arts and sciences. In culture. That is truly great urbanism.


It's been nearly four years since we last polled our readers all about the best umbrellas, and April showers are just around the corner (or have started early...I feel like I haven't seen the sun in two weeks). So this week, we're ready for a fresh downpour of nominations to see if anything has changed. Check out the rules below, then head down to the comments to nominate your favorite, or stand behind under someone else's pick.
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What if I have a drink?
It's not unusual for people who successfully changed their drinking habits to say that it took them a few tries.
Having a slip up doesn't mean you can't do it or won't succeed in the end.
Were you in a high-risk situation before you were ready?
Did your emotions get the better of you?
Did you convince yourself that you could have just one drink?
Did you need some support?
Remind yourself why it's important - Look over your reasons for changing again.
Set a new date to change and make a new plan.
Think about what was difficult for you last time and how you will handle it next time. You have learned something that will help you to succeed next time.
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NEDBANK expanded their wings on the 13th March 2013, when they opened their second branch in Mahikeng. The Municipality was represented by MMC Lomo and MMC Mphengesi on behalf of the Executive Mayor, Lena Miga. In addition to the Launch, Nedbank also made donations to Madiba Combined School and Tau primary school, as part of its Corporate Social Investment initiatives. "Today, we are humbled by the heartrending gesture that Nedbank has made by choosing to partner with Mahikeng Local Municipality in delivering these much needed donations to Madiba Combined School and Tau primary school, as a build up towards the launch of the Mahikeng branch", said MMC Lomo.
He further added that the landscape of the Mahikeng area is largely rural, with levels of poverty being relatively high – and whilst the cost of living is also appreciating, making life eminently tough to get by for those people who are living within the lower income brackets. Moreover, we as government are trying to put together systems and mechanisms in order to alleviate poverty, through social grants and housing. Be that as it may, Nedbank has proven once again that it is not only the government's responsibility to assist in making a better life for all South Africans – but a joint effort. The principle – "Umuntu, ngumuntu ngabantu" comes into play in initiatives and acts of kindness such as this. This principle of Ubuntu works practically in our lives because we are Africans, where a child does not only belong to a family, but to a whole community.
Today Nedbank has made the recipients of these gifts better people today, than what they were yesterday. Therefore, this speaks to the power that is in partnerships. It is so disheartening to see that there are still children who walk to school barefooted. Some don't even know the pleasure and comfort of wearing a shoe, some go to school during the heart of winter, yet they have never experienced the warmth of a jersey As a result, i am so thankful to Nedbank for considering us in thier social responsibility programmes.
MMC Lomo, encouraged the recipients of the donations to take special care and control of the items that they received because Nedbank has contributed towards making you leaders of tomorrow. He also urged the teachers to assist in the preservation of these gifts, so that others can benefit from them.


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