William Attwood MP laid the groundwork for the First Reform Act of 1832 and was responsible for the setting up of the first Trade Unions at the time of The Tolpuddle Martyrs who were transported for Trade Union activity with his '#Birmingham Political Union. Attwood held a political meeting of the Birmingham Union on Newhall Hill overlooking Birmingham in 1832 which was attended by over 30000 people. The Government of the day feared that 'Revolution was in the air' and decided to allow limited reform and the abolition of 'Rotton Boroughs' thanks to the words and political action of Birmingham MP William Attwood whose statue once reclined next to the Chamberlain Memorial in Chamberlain Square.
John Bright MP who was instrumental in both the Abolition of Slavery and the 1867 Reform Act which gave the working man the vote......his statue is at the top of the stairs on the first floor of #Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. Bright's bust was once on display in The White House of President Bill Clinton as Hillary Clinton found a dusty old statue in a store cupboard. Bright had written to his friend and fellow Abolitionist President Abraham Lincoln when Lincoln was wavering about continuing the American Civil War against slavery. This letter was found in the pocket of Lincoln when he was assassinated in 1865 it had meant that much to him to have the support of his friend. The Clinton's researched the bust and found its great importance to a previous President. Imagine a Birmingham MP in The White House.
Joseph Chamberlain: The 'Modern Municipal Father of Birmingham' The first of the Chamberlain family to become an MP. Former Colonial Secretary and the man behind the University of Birmingham when Mason College was transformed to create the first of the 'Redbrick' Universities. The Clock Tower, the tallest free-standing campanile in the world at 350 metres is named after Chamberlain and called 'Old Joe'. At his funeral in 1913 over 30000 Brummies lined the streets to pay tribute to 'The Father of Birmingham'.
Sir Austen Chamberlain MP Birmingham's first Nobel Peace Prize Laureate for his work on the 1920's Locarno Pact and Joseph Chamberlain's son and Neville's brother. He held the post of Foreign Secretary. His brother Neville Chamberlain MP held the post of Chancellor of The Exchequer and helped set up the Birmingham Municipal Bank, whose headquarters stands at 301 Broad Street. He is probably better remembered for returning from Berlin with his ' little piece of paper' after meeting Herr Hitler and proclaiming 'Peace in our time'. The result was the Second World War.
Denis Howell MP, the 'Minister for Drought' in 1976 & the first proper Sports Minister as a former FA Cup Final referee. Howell was MP for Small Heath and a Minister in Harold Wilson's 1974 government. In the summer of 1976 there was a long drought after one of the best summers of the twentieth century. Denis Howell was brought into the Cabinet as 'Minister for Drought' and advocated the sharing of baths to save water.....soon after he was appointed the summer broke and it started to rain.......and Denis was credited with the change in the weather by the Wilson government. Who says 'spin' is new...? Denis Howell's real impact was as the first proper Sports Minister as befits a former FA Cup Final referee. He also led Birmingham's Olympic bid for the 1988 Olympics which were eventually held in Barcelona.
Chamberlain clocks: Welcome home 'Little Joe'!
Birmingham has a number of Chamberlain Clocks and possibly the most famous and prominent of these is in the Jewellery Quarter at its junction of Vyse Street and Warstone Lane signposting the way into Birmingham's famous Jewellery Quarter where approximately 40% of the UK's jewellery is still made.
There is another of these Chamberlain Clocks at Five Ways at the junction of Calthorpe Road and Harborne Road in Edgbaston.
Chamberlain was a prominent local Birmingham business man who made his money from the great Birmingham screw and bolt maker Guest Keen and Nettlefold in Heath Street in Smethwick which still exists today as the giant engineering business GKN whose headquarters is still in the West Midlands in Redditch. Chamberlain's business success led him to pursue a political career and he reached high political office without quite making it to Prime Minister, which his son Neville did achieve.
These clocks were built to commemorate the contribution to the city of Birmingham of one of its greatest sons and a man dubbed 'The Father of Birmingham' Joseph Chamberlain MP who created the modern Municipal Birmingham with the Elan Valley Scheme to pipe fresh water from Mid-Wales to Birmingham and the creation of the first of the 'Redbrick' Universities the University of Birmingham He also built Highbury Hall in Moseley as the result of his success.
One of these Chamberlain Clocks stood in Bearwood for many years until being moved to High Street in Birmingham, about 30 years ago and standing outside Marks & Spencer's for a number of years.
On Saturday 24th October, this particular Chamberlain Clock is returning to its original home in Bearwood and will stand at the junction of Bearwood Road and Adkins Lane, near to the soon to be refurbished Lightwoods House, built by local Smethwick Soap magnate William Adkins after whom Adkins Lane where Lightwoods House (1793) stands is named.
There will be an opening ceremony at 10am at the Adkins Lane site to welcome one of the remaining Chamberlain Clocks home to Bearwood after being renovated by Smiths in Derby.
NB The original 'Old Joe' is the Clock Tower at the University of Birmingham....so it is nice for 'Little Joe' to be returning home, not too far from the University!
Mainly regarded as a city of commerce and industry rather than culture, there is actually a very good reason why Birmingham's coat of arms offsets the man with hammer, anvil and crucible with a lady carrying a pallet and a book. Over the years, it has been the birthplace, home and inspiration to many well-known and hugely successful poets, playwrights and novelists.
Am I a Brummie Born?
Here's the story: my mother moved from Scotland to Birmingham, with her parents, aged 18, and married my father 10 years later (in a church in Sparkbrook). My dad was from Cambridgeshire. He took his bride to Coventry, where they lived out the rest of their lives. So why would I label myself as a confused Brummie then?!
Well, I was born in a Brummie hospital - Marston Green Maternity. That's where mum's Doctor was, so that is who she went back to and trusted to bring me into, or is that out into the world?
Someone told me years later, that this same gynaecologist - Dr Steve Lester, delivered 10% of Birmingham's population at that same hospital. He must have been a busy man!
When the news reached my Nanna (mother's mother), she hopped on to the bus from her flat, on the Stratford Road, to Marston Green Hospital to see her new grand-daughter for the first time. And from then on, I was taken to visit her in her dark little attic abode, on Sunday afternoons. I remember chomping on Bournville Chocolate and trying not to knock off the anti-macassars perched on her worn out sofa. So, I was a Brummie born, living in Coventry, taken to Birmingham to see a Scottish expatriate… Does that make me a weekend / part-time / one part Brummie, or none of the above???
There was the journey into Brum on the train… The one that stopped everywhere you could possibly think of between Coventry and Birmingham centres, including Marston Green, where I was born. I could never pass by without waving and thinking that 'X marks the spot'.
I was quietly surprised when I heard that Marston Green Hospital had been knocked down, and is now covered with a housing estate. Where is 'X marks the spot' now?
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In the past, I've extolled the virtues of the lovely Aston Hall, and now I'd like to talk about the park and gardens.
Aston Hall sits in approximately 50 acres of parkland - that's approximately 28 football pitches if you, like me, need something to visualise. So, there's plenty of space to enjoy the greenery. Whether you want to walk the dog, kick around a ball with the kids, or, in the summer, picnic under the shade of some of the gorgeous large old oak trees, there's plenty of space in which to do so. There are a couple of benches dotted around too.
As well as the wide open green spaces, there are also beautiful formal gardens at the rear of the hall, which are accessible all year round, and even now, in February, are full of colour. The pathways through these gardens lead from the park itself, so you can easily do a round route, and admire the hall as you pass.
There are occasionally outdoor events held in the grounds, details of which are posted on the website.
As for facilities and access, well, the park, and gardens are accessible to wheelchair users, and there are also toilets and a cafe which are open during main season (this starts again on 12 April 2014).
As for getting there, you have lots of options. Being midway between Aston and Witton train stations, it is just 10-15 minutes' walk from each. There are also a number of bus routes including the 65, 67, 46, 7 and 11A/11C. Finally, there is a car park, which is open all year round (closing at dusk and, on Aston Villa FC match days).
The official address is Trinity Road, Aston, Birmingham B6 6JD.
Still the largest jewellery quarter in Europe where 40% of the UK's jewellery is made, the area is one of the city's proud heritage neighbourhoods. Situated just a few minutes' walk from the city centre, in fact you can pick up the pavement trail down Newhall Street from the Great Charles Queensway (take a look at Milan's on route, still serving an Indian lunch buffet for £4.95!), the JQ is awash with restaurants and cafes among the traditional and modern jewellers.
Starting right at the edge with St. Paul's, Birmingham's last Georgian square, there's the Jam House and just around the corner, the Actress & Bishop for your live music mix. The JQ residents are lucky to have a choice of restaurants including the long-standing Pasta Di Piazza and Henry's Cantonese.also the award winning Lasan or you can enjoy the private booths of the Vaults. Further into the heart of the quarter, Big Nanny's give you a warm Caribbean welcome and the Blue Nile is worth eating at just for the stunning Ethiopian coffee ceremony.
There are a couple of traditional watering holes in St Paul's Square or at the other end of the quarter, there is the smart casual Drop Forge, great for private parties. Around the corner on the Hockley side, The Lord Clifden, with its garden, seemingly larger than the pub itself and with focus on music and food. A few steps down The Church Inn opened in 2013.
At the heel of the clock outside the Big Peg which marks the centre of the area, there's a diner menu available from Rose Villa Tavern, the 100 year old pub to restored to some of its former glory in 2011, complete with an array of global beers, real ales and cocktails. Beyond the RVT the traditional Red Lion not to be confused with the recently re-opened Brown Lion.
For a long time, Saints Caffe was the lone warrior of independent coffee shops in the city centre. That itself has recently changed hands to end a superb era but in recent years It has been joined by version two of Urban Coffee Co, Brewsmiths, the fantastic old school café just by the back entrance of Snow Hill, and Pomegranate, the gift shop/tea shop. Coffee can also be partaken in Fredericks which turns into a sleek bar in the evening.
The Quarter has more heritage than I can fit in a cluster ring but highlights are the RBSA which displays and sells affordable local crafts and jewellery and St Paul's Gallery which is famous for its album cover and pop artwork. There is JQ's own theatre, the Blue Orange, the Newman Brothers Coffin Works is currently being restored plus the must-see Pen Museum run brilliantly by volunteers. Finally if you're going to the Jewellery Quarter Museum pop into the delightful Vee's Deli.
Oh, and there are over 100 jewellery shops and makers that get very busy on a Saturday as visitors come from all around the Midlands to buy quality jewellery at a good price.
All of this is just touching the solid shiny surface of this nugget in Birmingham's history. You can find out more here or by booking on a tour with the wonderful IABTours. Or pop along to the residents social every third Tuesday of the month in the Drop Forge run by @MyJQ or Likemind on the third Friday of the month, which is open to all at the aforementioned Brewsmiths, who serve bottomless coffee. Get it while it's hot!
By JQ dweller, Rickie, founder of Birmingham Favourites, who can be reached on @BrumFaves or @RickieWrites or add your comments below.
The Ladypool Road Trail uniquely takes participants back in time and tells the story of this area through role play bringing history live!
The historical guided tour is performed by The Birmingham History Theatre Company and The Balsall Heath Historical Society.
I was fortunate to be on this tour as a Still Walking volunteer and I'm amused and enthralled by the commitment and knowledge of those acting, especially as this was a particularly warm day!
Travelling through time from the 1800s through to 2005, I met Anthony Pratt, the inventor of Cluedo and Mrs Charley whose husband William Charley built the Brighton hotel in c1900. Motorcycle champion, Howard Davies was born on the Ladypool Road in 1925 and I was entertained with his exploits too! We also were brought back to the First World War and introduced to the landlord of the Clifton Pub in 1914. Coming up to date, the current significance of the Ladypool Road as the Balti Triangle is also recognised.
Anyone interested in local history would love to be on this tour with a difference. There is a rumour that they may be taking this to the stage. I can't wait!
More info about The Balsall Heath Historical Society can be found here or on Facebook.
By Debra Jane Tucked away in a quiet corner of Aston, and just a stone's throw from Aston Villa Football Stadium, sits the stunning Jacobean property of Aston Hall. Now part of Birmingham Museums Trust, it's land once covered many acres of rolling countryside and farmland. As the city grew, what remains is now a beautiful area of parkland, with large open spaces and shaded tree lined paths.
Perhaps you've noticed it's stately towers, or the spire of the neighbouring church, whilst driving up or down the A38(M)? Maybe, like me, you went as a child and experienced the spooky, candle flickering 'Aston Hall by Candlelight' tour, and the memory has stayed with you.
In the heat we've been having recently, Aston Hall is certainly the place to be. Enjoy an hour or more of cool and shade as it's thick stone walls provide the perfect protection from the throbbing summer heat. You can also enjoy the Victorian gardens, or partake of some lunch or cake from the Aston Hall Cafe in the Stables Range. The filter coffee is rather good too!
For the moderate fee of £4.00 (£3 concessions and free entry for all on the first Sunday of each month), you can take your time browsing through it's beautiful rooms; explore the intricacy of the Jacobean ceilings upstairs, browse through the long gallery, come face to face with a huge tiger in one of the side rooms downstairs, and get to know the founding Holt family, via their portraits and family tree.
On the 13th July, I took part in a free poetry workshop as part of Art in the Heart and though I've visited the hall numerous times, it was fascinating to learn more about its previous inhabitants, and especially of the woman whose portrait has stuck in my memory since my eleventh Birthday.
Built between 1618-1635 by Sir Thomas Holt, Aston Hall remained in the family until the late 18th century when it passed out of the family due to the lack of a male heir, prior to being sold off. Exploring the rooms, you can learn more about the Holt family and their many stories; from disinherited sons to suddenly inherited impoverished older brothers, and bickering wives and mother-in-laws.
The portrait that entranced me as a child is of Lady Barbara Holt, the extravagant and despised wife of the fourth Baronet, Sir Clobery. We may never know the full extent of what caused Sir Clobery to hand his two sons (Sir Lister and Sir Charles) over to the care of his mother upon his death, but today, Lady Barbara's portrait remains defiant as it dominates the great staircase, her dark eyes ever watchful over her beloved Aston Hall, whilst his mother, cast in shadow, looks on.
Find out more about how to visit Aston Hall here.


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Last year was the big "First Day", the very first day of school ever ever ever for Kitty, and the very first day for us to re-enter academia on the other side of the fence as parents. It was a very friendly baptism of fire. Kitty stepped out and away from us as a family, and we got our heads around school runs, producing costumes at short notice, and the gauntlet of PTA cake sales. There was a lot that she loved about that year, and we've all made some wonderful friends, but for some very excellent reasons that are Kitty's, and therefore not mine to share, we've done a bit of academic reshuffling and moved Kitty to the school where Elma is starting nursery.
Elma has been going to the parents and toddler group there for the last year and a bit and as that's all set within the same early years department she knows her way around, and so many of the friends she plays with on her three mornings a week are friends she's known from toddler group (and parents that we know) and for the last term her toddler group leader has been taking her down to nursery for a few minutes, just to have a little look around and say hi.
We had no worries about how she'd settle in and sure enough, on the first day she bounded in with the most enormous smiles, dancing around in her new slippers and rushing over to give a huge hug to her new teacher. It's all lovely and familiar and if there's anything that disappoints her it's that she only does three days and she has to come home at lunchtime.
Yep, I'm the parent in the hall with the child who's crying because it's home time.
For Kitty it's a new school, a new class and a new teacher. New everything.
She was excited right up until we reached her classroom door. She'd been up to visit the school both on a tour and just to hang out at the summer and winter fairs and we'd done everything we could to make it less daunting, but as she reached the doorway the enormity of what was coming suddenly hit her. Even last year, though she'd not been in the pre-school she knew two of the children in her class (one from her old nursery and one from spending vast amounts of time at the playpark in the winter), but this time she was going in alone.
There were no tears, no wailing, no pleading with us not to go, but she wrapped her arms around me as if she wished she could curl up in them and be carried back to babyhood and never need step out into the world. In that minute this new adventure was just too big and too daunting.
I am proud of her for so many reasons in the everyday, and there have been moments in the last year that made me almost well up with love of who she is and who she is becoming, but it would be hard to top watching her in that moment, She gathered all of her courage up, held it tight, and allowed me to unwrap her from my arms, and give her to her teacher.
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DUSTY RICKETTS / Daily News
The leaders of the Florida Legislature have big plans to improve the state.
FORT WALTON BEACH � The leaders of the Florida Legislature have big plans to improve the state.
Senate President Don Gaetz and House Speaker Will Weatherford are touring Florida this summer to discuss what they accomplished during this year�s legislative session and their goals for next year. They spent Wednesday traveling throughNorthwest Florida.
Weatherford told the Fort Walton Beach Rotary Club he was concerned about the country, but that he couldn�t do much about it as the speaker of the Florida House.
�I can�t control what happens in Eastern Europe or make sure Greece pays its bills,� Weatherford said. �Don Gaetz and I have no control over whether or not these folks get their act together in Washington, D.C., but what we do control is the destiny of this state and where we�re going.
�So what I�ve decided to do and what the Senate president has decided to do, instead of sitting around waiting for them to solve our problems, we�re going to solve our own, and there�s a lot of problems to be solved,� he added.
Weatherford said parts of Ayn Rand�s novel �Atlas Shrugged,� about a government that grows so large that job creators and innovators pack up and move elsewhere, is starting to become a reality.
�We�re not that far away from that in this country, in my opinion, but what we can do as states is create pockets of freedom all over the United States,� he said.
Weatherford said his goal is for Florida to become the No. 1 place in the country for economic freedom.
Before coming to the Rotary luncheon, Weatherford and Gaetz visited the corporate office of iSorona, a medical technology firm in Panama City. They were told the company wanted to hire people but was having trouble finding employees who had the right training and education.
Weatherford said the Legislature passed an education reform plan this year with the goal of making Florida�s school system the best in the country for meeting the needs of employers.
�Having a high school diploma is nice, but it won�t get you a job because it doesn�t guarantee you that you have a skill,� he said.
�There�s a disconnect between what businesses need and what our education system is offering, so what we worked on this year was to close that gap,� he added.
Weatherford said the Legislature passed a bill that creates an online partnership between the University of Florida and the University of West Florida that will allow students to take online classes and receive a four-year degree for about $12,000. He described the program as competency-based education; if students master the content they can move on rather than stay in a class for an entire semester.
�I think it�s going to revolutionize and change our education system and make it affordable and allow people to get an education in things they really care about,� Weatherford said.
Gaetz, who let Weatherford do most of the talking at the Rotary Club luncheon, said he respected his colleague and sees big things in his future. He said Weatherford is a friend of Northwest Florida who wants Florida to be better and is willing to make the hard decisions to do so.
�He�s somebody who is the face of the future of Florida,� Gaetz said. �You will see him as the governor of Florida, as a United States senator and maybe as something more. He�s somebody we can trust and believe in.�
Contact Daily News Business Editor Dusty Ricketts at 850-315-4448 or dricketts@nwfdailynews.com. Follow him on Twitter @DustyRnwfdn.


As a business owner or someone on the marketing team, you know that you want to start a customer loyalty program for your organization, but where do you start? The task can seem daunting, and if you're looking for something a little more efficient than a simple punch card, there are a ton of questions you have to ask yourself. What will I reward customers with, and what will it look like? A great way to receive a starting clue or at least a foundation on what you would like to build your program on would be to observe other successful programs within your market or vertical. In this post, we've examined a couple of programs that you may view in order to get an idea of where to begin.
The Starbucks loyalty program is one of the most talked about customer loyalty programs in the United States as of recently as they've switched from a 1 point per purchase system to a dollar to point conversion rate. This has caused a major uproar with Starbucks loyalty members who were benefiting from the program by purchasing cheap drinks, however, the change benefits customers who buy more expensive drinks. The move was a great way to incentivize customers to buy more, however, it's risky to make changes once your program had already been established. One of the great features, that is technically a gamified feature, are the Starbucks status levels. With a gold status level, which you achieve by spending a certain amount of money with Starbucks, you receive certain benefits that people who aren't of that status level otherwise wouldn't receive.
Papa John's of Russia uses a customer loyalty program that is both viable for their in-store and eCommerce platforms. Since their system feeds into both channels customers have the ability to benefit from purchases they make from whichever way they decide to purchase their pizza. One of the great things about the Papa John's program is that they make it easy for customers to gain extra points by sharing their purchases on Social Media or inviting friends to the program during the actual ordering process. This makes it easier to incentivize customers and benefit both parties. Papa John's of Russia's program is a great example of gamification being utilized.
Gilt is another great example of a customer loyalty program as they are solely an eCommerce shop. Gilt's program is labeled as the "Gilt Insider" program. One of the great things about giving customers the illusion that they're an "Insider" by being part of the program is that it gives customers the feeling that they're part of an "exclusive" club. The Gilt program allows customers to receive points based on dollars spent, and in turn, they can exchange their points for discounts on purchases.
Walgreens is one of the loyalty programs that I use the most, even though my interaction with it is primarily through Duane Reade, which is popular in the New York City area. This program is a great example of a loyalty program simply because of how little it requires for the customer to do. I walk up to the counter, input my phone number into the credit card reader, purchase my products, receive my points, and after I reach a certain number of points I receive a discount on the items I'm purchasing. There is very little thought and action that is required from the customer in order for them to benefit from the program.
The Best Buy Reward Zone program is another great program to view due to their use of both the dollar to point conversion rate and multiple tiered status systems. For example, if you spend over a certain amount a year with Best Buy then you can become an "elite" member. The "elite" member status level includes benefits such as free standard shipping on all purchases. This is a benefit that does make a difference for the customer but isn't extremely costly for the business. As shown with some of the other programs mentioned above, Best Buy makes the program as easy as possible for customers to participate by automatically associating points achieved to the customer's account by prompting customers for their phone number at the point of purchase.
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package com.mapbox.api.staticmap.v1.models;

import static androidx.annotation.RestrictTo.Scope.LIBRARY;
import static com.mapbox.core.utils.ColorUtils.toHexString;

import androidx.annotation.Nullable;
import androidx.annotation.RestrictTo;
import com.google.auto.value.AutoValue;
import com.mapbox.api.staticmap.v1.StaticMapCriteria;
import com.mapbox.api.staticmap.v1.StaticMapCriteria.MarkerCriteria;
import com.mapbox.core.exceptions.ServicesException;
import com.mapbox.core.utils.TextUtils;
import com.mapbox.geojson.Point;

import java.util.Locale;

/**
 * Mapbox Static Image API marker overlay. Building this object allows you to place a marker on top
 * or within your static image. The marker can either use the default marker (though you can change
 * it's color and size) or you have the option to also pass in a custom marker icon using it's url.
 *
 * @since 2.1.0
 */
@AutoValue
public abstract class StaticMarkerAnnotation {

  /**
   * Build a new {@link StaticMarkerAnnotation} object with the initial values set for the
   * {@link #name()} to {@link StaticMapCriteria#MEDIUM_PIN}.
   *
   * @return a {@link StaticMarkerAnnotation.Builder} object for creating this object
   * @since 3.0.0
   */
  public static Builder builder() {
    return new AutoValue_StaticMarkerAnnotation.Builder()
      .name(StaticMapCriteria.MEDIUM_PIN);
  }

  /**
   * Used Internally.
   *
   * @return a String representing the marker part of the URL
   * @since 2.1.0
   */
  @RestrictTo(LIBRARY)
  public String url() {
    String url;
    if (iconUrl() != null) {
      return String.format(
        Locale.US, "url-%s(%f,%f)", iconUrl(), lnglat().longitude(), lnglat().latitude());
    }

    if (color() != null && !TextUtils.isEmpty(label())) {
      url = String.format(Locale.US, "%s-%s+%s", name(), label(), color());
    } else if (!TextUtils.isEmpty(label())) {
      url = String.format(Locale.US, "%s-%s", name(), label());
    } else if (color() != null) {
      url = String.format(Locale.US, "%s+%s", name(), color());
    } else {
      url = name();
    }

    return String.format(Locale.US, "%s(%f,%f)", url, lnglat().longitude(), lnglat().latitude());
  }

  @Nullable
  abstract String name();

  @Nullable
  abstract String label();

  @Nullable
  abstract String color();

  @Nullable
  abstract Point lnglat();

  @Nullable
  abstract String iconUrl();

  /**
   * Convert the current {@link StaticMarkerAnnotation} to its builder holding the currently
   * assigned values. This allows you to modify a single variable and then rebuild the object
   * resulting in an updated and modified {@link StaticMarkerAnnotation}.
   *
   * @return a {@link StaticMarkerAnnotation.Builder} with the same values set to match the ones
   *   defined in this {@link StaticMarkerAnnotation}
   * @since 3.1.0
   */
  public abstract Builder toBuilder();

  /**
   * This builder is used to create a new request to the Mapbox Static Map API. At a bare minimum,
   * your request must include a name and {@link StaticMarkerAnnotation.Builder#lnglat(Point)}.
   * All other fields can be left alone inorder to use the default behaviour of the API.
   *
   * @since 2.1.0
   */
  @AutoValue.Builder
  public abstract static class Builder {

    /**
     * Modify the markers scale factor using one of the pre defined
     * {@link StaticMapCriteria#SMALL_PIN}, {@link StaticMapCriteria#MEDIUM_PIN}, or
     * {@link StaticMapCriteria#LARGE_PIN}.
     *
     * @param name one of the three string sizes provided in this methods summary
     * @return this builder for chaining options together
     * @since 2.1.0
     */
    public abstract Builder name(@MarkerCriteria String name);

    /**
     * Marker symbol. Options are an alphanumeric label "a" through "z", "0" through  "99", or a
     * valid Maki icon. If a letter is requested, it will be rendered uppercase only.
     *
     * @param label a valid alphanumeric value
     * @return this builder for chaining options together
     * @since 2.1.0
     */
    public abstract Builder label(String label);

    /**
     * A hex representation of the markers color.
     *
     * @param color  hex reppresentation of the marker icon color
     * @return this builder for chaining options together
     * @since 3.1.0
     */
    public abstract Builder color(@Nullable String color);

    /**
     * A hex representation of the markers color.
     *
     * @param red the value of the marker icon color
     * @param green the value of the marker icon color
     * @param blue the value of the marker icon color
     * @return this builder for chaining options together
     * @since 3.1.0
     */
    public Builder color(int red, int green, int blue) {
      return color(toHexString(red, green, blue));
    }

    /**
     * Represents where the marker should be shown on the map.
     *
     * @param lnglat a GeoJSON Point which denotes where the marker will be placed on the static
     *               map image. Altitude value, if given, will be ignored
     * @return this builder for chaining options together
     * @since 2.1.0
     */
    public abstract Builder lnglat(Point lnglat);

    /**
     * a percent-encoded URL for the marker image. Can be of type PNG or JPG.
     *
     * @param url an encoded URL for the marker image
     * @return this builder for chaining options together
     * @since 2.1.0
     */
    public abstract Builder iconUrl(@Nullable String url);

    abstract StaticMarkerAnnotation autoBuild();

    /**
     * Build a new marker instance and pass it into
     * {@link com.mapbox.api.staticmap.v1.MapboxStaticMap} in order to use it during your Static Map
     * API request.
     *
     * @return a new instance of {@link StaticMarkerAnnotation}
     * @since 2.1.0
     */
    public StaticMarkerAnnotation build() {
      StaticMarkerAnnotation marker = autoBuild();
      if (marker.lnglat() == null) {
        throw new ServicesException("A Static map marker requires a defined longitude and latitude"
          + " coordinate.");
      }
      return marker;
    }
  }
}

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Interview James Wilkinson
Feb 11, 2019 | Interview |
Chelmsford-based Artist James Wilkinson is well-known through his portraits of celebrities, mostly famous singers and rock stars. Not to mention he is also a unique example of a British artist whose sole inspiration came from Russia. In 52 and with 5 kids Wilkinson is bursting with energy and is full of plans.
Russian Chelmsford: James, please tell me about your professional way, about your family
James Wilkinson: I'm 52 years old now. So I've got 5 children. I've got 7 grandchildren. 2 sisters. 1 is a long way away in Wales and 1 lives a long way away. They went as far away from me as possible. My eldest daughter is 36, my youngest is 6 years. .
RC: Wow) Is it children from different women?
James Wilkinson: The thing is I played in a band when I was young (laughing).
RC: So I suppose that all your kids are from different women?
James Wilkinson: Some of them. There were many back-vocalists in our band. (laughing)
foto8(James is second from the left, blond, Bambi group, 1982)
RC: How often are you all together with children to sit down and talk?
James Wilkinson: Yeah I see my children. I love them and they love me. I have a great relationship. Where I live at the moment I've got a huge amount of space in the garden, it's like a park. So I put on a music concert in the garden and everyone came for that. We all had fun and it was great. We did that not Saturday gone but the Saturday before.
RC: How do you feel as a father now? I mean your youngest daughter
James Wilkinson: It was a huge thing for My other half was breastfed and everything for 8 months and then she would express and say bottles and stuff. I would fed my daughter here, in studio. She had her own little bed and cup that used to be here. I would work and there's no difference between being in at home in my studio. She could've been working from home. She grew up here before she went to school. The day that she went to school everyone here was so sad because she was like part of this, she grew up here, she knew everybody, and everyone knew her. So Alannah going to school was like a sad day and also a happy day because Alannah grew up with adults. So seeing little people was amazing and being with little people was amazing for her. But she never ever spoke in like children's language. She always spoke like adult because she grew up with adults. I don't think that's a bad thing because I think she can communicate with everyone.
RC: Very interesting speak about your childhood. How was your first experience with painting?
Tell me, please about your parents, maybe they are also artists
James Wilkinson: My dad used to draw. My dad died when he was 48, I was 24 when he died. It was a huge thing for me because he was my best friend. I loved him very much. So it was a big thing his death.
But he really was the first inspiration for drawing because he was quite good at drawing. I started to draw. I found I was interested in portraits, I wanted to draw people. Funny enough, 1 of the first lots of portraits I did were Russian cosmonauts because my father was really interested in man spaceflight. So he had this book on the Russian cosmonaut and the pictures of them were very black and white and very stern, they all looked very stern military guys. I drew them all : Yuri Gagarin, German Titov, Valentina Tereshkova. I drew them all because I loved those pictures. The way the Russian photographers took pictures of the cosmonauts was almost a Caravaggio away. It was all about light and dark the way that it took place. I loved that and Caravaggio was 1 of my favorite artists. I think funnily enough the Russians were my only inspiration for art. German Titov I painted, all of the cosmonauts.
RC: How was your first experience, do you remember? Was it just interesting for you or your father showed you?
James Wilkinson: No he didn't. No one ever taught me how to draw. I just wanted to do it so much. I found one of my schoolbooks from when I was like 8 or 9 the other day and in there it's like an English book. But the whole book I would draw, I wouldn't just write I would draw as well. I would draw a picture of what I was talking about. I just always did it. Then the first real portraits that I did where I thought oh I need to be good at this were of my father's work. He bought some photographs and he said would you do some? I must have been about 11. He said would you do some pictures of them? I did them all in watercolour, just little tiny head portraits. He took it to work and they loved them and that was it that, kind of like when I realized I could do that
RC: Who was your art teacher later on?
James Wilkinson: A teacher Mr. Wilson who was a brilliant teacher. I think it's important you get good teachers.
RC: Can you speak about him?
James Wilkinson: He only had one arm, he lost his arm I believe and it was originally the arm he used to use. This is what I think I was told. Then he retaught himself to use the other arm. He was brilliant. He was like a huge inspiration to me. He would amaze me. I would sit there and he would draw a portrait and I would be like oh how does he do that? I used to paint over and over again paintings. I used to do paintings of Elvis Presley over and over. It would drive him crazy. He would be like you're never going to get anywhere by painting rock stuff. But he was a great teacher.
RC: You remember your first painting and you spoke about this. It was watercolour, acrylic
James Wilkinson: The first stuff I did was in the pencil of the Russian cosmonaut. I still have 1 of the watercolour I did – Yuri Gagarin. I was 16 years old.
When I was in school my teacher said I was always painting rock stars, Elvis Presley, rock stars in general. I carried on doing. Then I started to meet them I worked as a commercial artist and the studio I worked out was next to TV am Channel 4. They were 1 of the first.
RC: In London right?
James Wilkinson: Yeah in London. So all the celebrity people would be on the Breakfast Show. So what I would do if I knew he was going to be there the next day that night I would draw him and on my way to work I would see him coming out and I would get him to sign it, I did that for a long time and I had loads and loads them, hundreds of them. Then I worked in the city a bond trader for Marilyn Lynch and I became an associate director. After I finished as a commercial artist I didn't want to do art anymore because it really bore the life out of me. I did it for about 3 years
RC: How was it?
James Wilkinson: No it was like an advertising agency when I was doing that. I was having to do advertisement for like screwdrivers and watches and that was awful. I would create those adverts but it wasn't what I wanted to do. Like I say to you, you always draw something or you paint something so much better if you if you like it. I was doing stuff all day every day that I didn't like and it didn't make me want to come home and paint anymore
RC: Is creative freedom important to you?
James Wilkinson: Yeah absolutely yes.
I can do whatever I want. That's the thing, I paint that stuff better because I want to do it.
I was a commercial artist for a firm for 3 years. But then I stopped and I didn't paint anything. Then I went into banking because I wanted some money. So I went into banking and made loads of money. While I was doing it it was so stressful so I started painting again to stop the stress. Then I had this London exhibition in 1999 in Leicester Square and it was a huge success. I had 80 portraits and they were all written on and signed by the people that I painted from the Spice, Rolling Stone, David Bowie. It was a big success and it ran for about 3 months in a place called Voodoo Square. Then I thought this is what I want to do full time so I came here. I'd been invited out on tour with Oasis the band and they had commissioned me to do portraits and they all loved my work. I went out with them.
Then I got to meet Ronnie Wood who's a great artist from the Rolling Stones. Then I got invited out on the 40 Licks tour in 2002 with the Rolling Stones. I was in New York and Chicago
RC: How was it in the portrait, did you meet some real stars?
James Wilkinson: Yeah like Oasis the band. First I went on tour with them, then I was invited out to the Rolling Stones concerts in America and I was backstage with them just hanging, not painting. But it was because of the painting that they knew who I was.
RC: It was a real moment in real life. How was it? You can explain to the people that don't understand how it works
James Wilkinson: It was just because I was painting. Ronnie had a club in London and he lent me that club to do one of my exhibitions in. Then they were like do you want to come home and hang out on tour and I did. I met Keith Richards for the first time as one of my heroes. It was just that, I wasn't doing any painting. When I was with Oasis I did some paintings in the hotel room. I didn't do any with the Rolling Stones. When I decided not to work in the city anymore and I came here. There was a studio. So I went to the studio here. The V Festival was. So because of what I've done in the past, this was kind of a good fit. Yeah. So I spoke to people at V festival and they wanted me to be their artist.
RC: What about V festival? How was the first time you were in this professional area and what about the portraits?
James Wilkinson: So in 2012 I became the first person ever to be the V festival artist. Then I thought well if I'm going to do this I'm going to do these exhibitions of the stuff I do anyway so I might as well try and raise some money for some charity. So first of all I started raising money for cancer charity Helen Rosen cancer charity. Then because I got kids and I love kids, I felt there's only one Hospice in your whole of Essex that looks on kids that die or they've got life limiting illnesses and that's Little Haven's Hospice.
RC: Tell please about your exhibitions
James Wilkinson: Yeah, they did a big sale of my work at Madame Tussaud's and everything sold. It's all signed like this.
The first exhibition was in Lester Square in 1999. These were all in there. That was the one at Rodney Woods Club. These ones were in Mayfair, Madame Toussaint. Then we started and I came to and put these down. These are the V festival exhibitions in 2016
(James shows a catalogue with pictures)
RC: Some pictures, portraits did you draw from different pictures from the photo?
James Wilkinson: Yeah like when they're dead and stuff
RC: Who sat down near to you?
James Wilkinson: Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith …
James Wilkinson: quick sketches and then a do a photograph because they can't sit down forever. But then I do the quick sketches on stage that are done like this because I only have 30 minutes to quickly get something together
RC: How long does it take to do a portrait from the picture, photographers?
James Wilkinson: I always get asked that question. The answer is it's different and it depends on what mood I'm in and whether I want to do it or not. If you said to me I need a picture, you need to paint me, I've got to do a tenuous portrait and I've got to have it ready by Friday, I'll have it by Friday. If you said to me I've got to paint a picture of your dog I'd be like it's going to take me a month because I don't want to do it. That's the thing. If I want to do it, I'll do it and it'll be good because I'll want to work on it. But when I don't want to do it
RC: Do you work in the night sometimes?
James Wilkinson: Whatever it takes. When I did this exhibition, the first exhibition. That painting in my studio is huge. It took me about 3 hours because working as quickly as I could because I had this exhibition. I was just knocking paintings out, some were taking me an hour because I just had to keep getting stuff done. I had all these people who had signed all this stuff and it was just like I need to get all this done
RC: Is it important how you feel when you paint?
James Wilkinson: I always listen to music when I paint. If I'm painting this spice girls I'll have to listen to their music.
RC: You try to feel yes?
James Wilkinson: Yes because it just gets me in the mood for that. I take pieces out of their music. I painted a musician and listening to his music and then I made him write some lyrics because that's what I was listening to that. I get them to do that a lot. There's not many examples in here.
This microphone is what Jhon Lenon used when he recorded Imagine. You can see the microphone lead here, that was done in my studio. There was 7 microphone leads that he used when he recorded the song. You know the song Imagine?
RC: Yeah, it's a favourite song
James Wilkinson: That's the microphone that he used. I bought all of them. This one's got from the guitarist checking right there. It's like that from the guitar. That was Amy Winehouse's guitar and I got Mark Robinson her producer and manager to write on it and stuff.
RC: All these singers are your favourite, you like this
James Wilkinson: I do because they inspire me
RC: It's your generation
James Wilkinson: The thing is they are part of popular culture, they are the new art. 100, 200 years ago these kinds of guys weren't here. We have classical musicians but we didn't have the medium to create art with them or about them. Now we do so this is popular culture, what they do. I'm combining their culture, what they do, the new art in what I do. These people are all interested in art too. James Bay, he drew all these. I made him do drawing for me and he made this portrait of himself. Sam Smith did these portraits. I get them all to do portraits of themselves and then we raise money for charity by selling them. Ed Sheeran's self-portrait we sold that for 2,000 like a stick man. It doesn't matter, the point is we're getting them to do it.
The money was transferred to the hospice Little Haven's foto
RC: why do you do charity? Because not all people think about charity in your life
James Wilkinson: It's only because I have kids. I imagine my children like you probably do when you hear about a child being hurt, you imagine your own child in that position and what you'd feel. I find that completely unbearable that I'd be in the situation. What I'd hope is that if I was someone would help me. right now these poor people have no one to help them. So they're trying to raise money and we're trying to help them. but I don't think you should have to. Why should you have to wait to save a child's life? You should just do it.
RC: Do you have a very high emotional IQ? Is it emotional IQ because you feel in ways, different people?
James Wilkinson: The thick is that we can all just turn away and worry about ourselves. But maybe I'm being selfish because I'm thinking about my children. I don't want them to be in that position. It's not totally unselfish act, it's because I don't want to be there. I hope someone is going to help me if I get in that position. So I want to help other people who are already there
RC: Thank you that you do it because not all people think about this.
James Wilkinson: I think a lot of people change when they have children. You suddenly realize it's not all about you, you have to give out so much for your children. I think that changes people, it changes your perception. I remember when I was reading the story about a little boy called Jamie Bolger who was killed in his country. I've been standing with tears reading that story. I was trying to explain it to somebody who didn't have children. I said when you have children you will completely understand this, you'll feel all of that.
RC: Yes. Because you remember all small things in your life.
James Wilkinson: Exactly. And now that now that person has children she's like I completely get it. It was impossible to feel it before, you sympathize but you don't have that emotional component. So I think that's really what it's about. I think we all have it in us. We all have sympathy and empathy and we want to help. I just think people don't think they can. This goes back to the school I was telling you earlier about the school for kids that are underprivileged. They don't think they can. Everyone can you just have to start, put the first foot down and say I might not get there but even if I get half way we've achieved something. That's what I'm going to do, try and do something.
We raised about 20000 pounds for those charities and now we are raising money for individual children who need emergency operations. They need to go somewhere but the NHS won't fund it. Now I want to take that further.
So when I do the exhibition in Chelmsford for the museum I'm asking companies to sponsor each painting. There's a little girl that can't walk at the moment called Isabella, she lives in Chelmsford, she's a twin. Her sister's fine but she's not been able to walk. There's an operation that will allow her to walk but the NHS won't fund it. So she has to go to USA, it cost 75000. I think the parents have managed to raise about 30000 so far. So I thought well let's just do this because I'm going to do the exhibition anyway. I have to do anything. People just keep money and they never paid for them. (The interview was recorded in spring 2018, to date, all the necessary funds have been collected and Isabella is learning to walk)
It's easy money for them to help this child because the exhibition is going to happen anyway. But now I'm thinking you know we can do more. So I'm actually going to talk to the politicians and see if I get a huge amount of money. So every year we can say this money here if you need to do that, you just go do it now. Don't be worrying about trying to raise money for the next 2 years you go and do it now. When I leave here I'm going to go and have a meeting with a couple of people about that and I want to try and do it. I need about 12 million pounds but you know what if you don't ask you don't get. So I'm going to ask the politicians to give me a fund every year which is a small drop. If you think about what the foreign aid budget is and that is a tiny amount. But that could say I believe could save 120 children's lives every year. So why not do it?
RC: You're very open, positive. How do you feel about your life?
James Wilkinson: I feel like I need more hours in the day because there's so much to do. I'm running out of time, I feel that all the time. I feel I've got so much to do and I haven't got enough time to do it. City museum and going to do an exhibition about my work, a 5 year retrospective of my work at the V Festival. So I've got to prepare all that. I'm doing lessons here for children and adults. I'm teaching in 2 different schools in Essex at the moment as a kind of feature.
It's just getting the kids interested in art and just pushing them a little bit further than their normal art lesson. Getting them to do stuff they wouldn't normally do and just trying to improve and make them realize that they can create new art and something different. Try to make them do stuff like that, introduce them to new techniques or things so that they feel they can create not just learn stuff out of books but actually create it.
RC: It's very important. How do you motivate the children?
James Wilkinson: It's very important to motivate them. The thing is you've got to love doing it. Otherwise, why would you do it? If you don't want to do art, you don't want to sit and create something if you don't like it or you're bored. You've got to be loving it while you're doing it. I think the problem is with a lot of the school curriculum, and it's the same for everybody whether it's geography or whether it's art, there are bits that are gonna bore you that you're not gonna be interested in. That's natural. Let's come away from the curriculum and let's find something that you're interested in in art. If you had the choice of painting anything you wanted to paint what would it be? Because I know that when you start with that you're going to love doing it because you want to do it so much so it's going to be better and then that's when they give you confidence. When you've got that confidence you can do other things. That's what I teach people, it's about giving them confidence in themselves so that they can go and do it. I believe everyone can paint. I don't believe you can teach people art because everyone can paint. All you have to do is develop that confidence so they can develop their own art.
James Wilkinson: The only people they know that have got a job are the teachers. They don't know anybody who works. This is what their background is. So they wanted me to go and tell them about all the things I've done and how they do that to motivate them. So yesterday I did 4 classes back to back yeah of 25 children. Before I went in they said to me they won't talk to you, they'll just get their phones out, ignore you, won't speak. That didn't happen. All of them were putting their hands wanting to talk. I was really surprised and really pleased as well. I was saying to them you can do what I'm doing, you just have to want it
RC: One successful director in the Russian company told me once: a little bit more, little better. If you will do the same thing your whole life in the professional you will be number 1, the best
James Wilkinson: That's what I was saying. I'm going to be with them for 6 weeks now I'm going to teach them about pop art and how pop art said art is not for the elites. It's for everyone, you can all do this, you can all get involved in it. You can create it. So that's what I'm doing with them, I'm finding out what's interesting in their lives and we're going to create something about them. Like on a commercial, they all love their phones. So instead of soup cans let's do something about your phones so that they're all interested. Some want to do basketball. But they were all telling me and that was a huge step. The teachers were like oh my god they're talking to you. So that's good.
RC: What I think about this one same but very important the child looks at parents and adults who make some interesting. Because the children are like sponges. But I think not all your children will do painting.
James Wilkinson: I think they're all quite creative. One of my daughters is very good at singing. My oldest daughter was an art support teacher. Another one of my daughters she is 3D design. My son in marketing, business. He wants to get involved in promotion like putting on concerts and stuff like that. So all of them are involved in art.
RC: It is very important that some music is taught, in the last two days ago that not every child who's teaching music will be a musician. But it`s foundation skills human to be
James Wilkinson: Absolutely right. It lays the foundation, like a teacher.
We are all influenced by everything around us and it doesn't have to be your parents. It could be another relation or a good friend of the family. We all kind of take that in, I'm not sure it's hereditary. If you've got that around you, it doesn't even have to be a person. If you're at home all day and all you're watching is art, you're looking at art books if they're left for you, you're watching the TV, music. It's going to influence what you do. It's going to be. Like you were saying about the games that you play when your children, all of these things influential your later life and determine
RC: What was your favorite childhood game? What was the housing like? General game? What was more interesting
James Wilkinson: It was playing with my friends, we would play board games. Early 1970s, there was a TV program, you won't remember this you were way too young. But there was program in America and it was on television called Starsky and Hutch and it was about 3 detectives in America. So we used to pretend we were Starsky and Hutch, we had these little guns and everything and we would go out. They fired these little pellets. So we would be on the streets pretending to be Starsky and Hutch.
It was about 4 of us, my sisters and my friend Tony. Then I remember once they used guns called and they fired these little round plastic balls. I remember I was a really good show off. Tony put his head around the door once and I shot him in the eye. I was worried I'd hurt him but he was ok. We used to play.
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Yeah I think you know we really believed that we were Stotsky not to really go into that. We weren't we were playing the streets of Los Angeles. So that's in our head. Maybe it was that kind of creativity. But then again at the end of the day I would sit inside and then I would draw Starsky and Hutch, like heroes.
RC: Something about your friends in your circle. It's not artificial?
James Wilkinson: I have friends that are artists. But I have friends everywhere, all walks of life.
RC: Who was coming to your home when the children were small maybe?
James Wilkinson: It's mainly family and their children. We've become friends. My little girl went to dance classes in Chelsea. So she made friends there, they come to our house.
RC: What's your favorite food?
James Wilkinson: Anything with chilly in it, I love chilly con carne. I never used. I remember having my first Indian food when I was about 18 19. I was like why would anyone eat this? It's blowing my head off, it's not comfortable, it's horrible. I couldn't understand it. Now I just want to eat the really hot stuff. I love to eat steak. It's funny, the only way I can do it by not thinking of what it is. That's what supermarkets do, they package it do that it's not an animal it's just produce. I have to do that in my own head too because the minute I think of what it actually is I'm not sure. Also about the way that the animals are treated as well. So to eat it I can't think about that. I just have to enjoy the taste.
RC: Your favorite place in the world
James Wilkinson: My favorite place I'd say is Florida because of the weather
RC: You love the sunshine?
James Wilkinson: I love the sunshine but it's not just that. I don't stay in hotels with lots of people. I like to rent a house that's away from everyone. That peace with the sunshine and knowing that I can go somewhere beautiful. I've always had happy times there. I guess that's what it is. Holiday places are always happy places because you associate them happiness.
RC: Sometimes when we are older we think of the dream place maybe. My dream place, I don't know why has been Spain for a long time.
James Wilkinson: Spain is quite like Florida. Have you seen the film Sexy Beast?
RC: No
James Wilkinson: It's a great film, like a gangster film. It's got someone called Ray Winston in it. If you get a chance to see it. See if you can see it. He's like a retired bank robber and he goes and lives in a villa in Spain with his wife and they're really happy. Then his old life comes back to spite him. That villa that he lives in on the top of the mountain there that's where I want to live in Spain. He can see anyone who's coming. He lives in this beautiful, calm, peaceful home.
RC: Spain or Florida for you?
James Wilkinson: They're the same kind of thing. It's that isolation, peace, calmness. Knowing that in the evening you can drive a short way and go for a nice meal or some entertainment. That's what I like about it. Whereas here it's a much smaller place. Everybody's on top of each other. where I live at the moment I'm very lucky because I live and I've got lots of space. But there's too many people in this country, too crowded and you can't get away and it's raining all the time.
RC: what did you think about the Russian community in Chelmsford?
James Wilkinson: I love the fact that you're here. I think it's brilliant because it gets us to just to talk to each other and to understand where we come from and realize that actually that we are all exactly the same. We are all exactly the same, we all want the same things, we all care about the same things. The only people that screw it up are the politicians, it's true. The people of the same whether they're in Russia, probably North Korea or England. We are all the same. We care about families we care about children. We worry about our health. We hope we've got a roof over our head and that we're comfortable. Everybody wants the same thing and nobody wants war. So how we ever get into the position where we have war, I don't know. Well, I do know because it's not the people, it's never the people, it's only the people at the top. There's an old saying about it's young men fighting old men's wars. And that is so true. So we kill the young people on the basis of what? Old men saying. It's ridiculous. The Russian community here is fantastic. You're interested in it. You're giving something back to it. I think the fact that you know you want to get involved and you want to be part of our society is fantastic. I hope because I've never been Russia that if I go there I'll be treated the same and that people would welcome us to Russia.
RC: We'll try to develop, try to develop this area, this project to try to do something interesting together and maybe it will be not only for children, for adults too.
James Wilkinson: We should talk about those because I think there's an opportunity for us to get the local authorities involved in letting people know. Maybe even here with Russia people who do something in the square like a Russia day. That would be fantastic, get all the people that can do something. Get them to make Russian food for everyone. I would love that! I think everybody would come because it will be interesting.
RC: We need more active people in our group. Not too many people are active because every family has problems, children, very busy with work. I'm expected all the time to do something interesting.
RC: James, thank you for the interesting interview
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Three-piece dream-pop rockers, The Joy Formidable, will play Think Tank, Riverside in Newcastle as part of their international tour which kicked off in February.
Receiving critical acclamation for past albums, the Welsh-born band have become well-known on the gig scene for bringing a powerhouse of melodic choruses, thunderous climaxes and even some distortion.
Rock god Dave Grohl has gushed about them in the past, so it isn't hard to see why the trio are steadily becoming a permanent fixture in the music industry.
With third studio album Hitch being their most energetic yet, the Newcastle show is set to be an explosive one, and they tend to be a hit with the Geordie crowds.
They are often keen to showcase new music along with old favourites including A Heavy Abacus, Cradle and Whirring, and frontwoman Ritzy Bryan can always be relied on to get the crowd hyped up.
The Joy Formidable play at Riverside on 07/05/2016. Doors open at 7:00PM. Tickets are available now here.
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Soft robots could be the factory workers of the future
Killer robots are already among us. Not weaponised drones, but industrial robots working alongside humans in factories that can cause significant injuries and occasionally deaths if an accident occurs
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In 2015, an employee at a Volkswagen factory in Germany was killed when a robot picked up and crushed him.
Factory workers are typically separated from robots by a physical barrier to minimise accidents. But this prevents all except the most basic of cooperation. A simple way of trying to make robots less dangerous is to coat them in foam to absorb the impact of any collision. But this method has had only limited success. An alternative that could be much more effective is to make the robots themselves soft and squishy, so they're more like a fleshy animal than a cold, hard machine.
These soft robots would be made from lightweight and deformable materials such as plastic and rubber. If they collided with someone the effect would be like bumping into another person – annoying but unlikely to cause injury. So there would be no need for safety barriers and robots and humans could work more closely together. A robot might do the hard work of supporting a heavy component while the human performs a complex assembly task on it. The machine provides the brawn and the person provides the brains, significantly improving what human-robot collaboration currently can achieve.
Some efforts have already been made to reduce the impact of collisions by placing springs between the motors and mechanical links. But robots that are springy instead of stiff are much more difficult to control accurately. Imagine trying to hit a target with the end of a long, flexible fishing rod. Other systems have been developed that can switch from being very springy to being stiff when more precise control is needed. But these kind of robots still tend to be heavy so can cause significant injury if they do collide with people.
Animal-inspired robots
Instead, the latest research is focusing on flexible robots inspired by animals that do not have skeletons, such as caterpillars, worms, octopuses or an elephant's trunk. These would have some unique abilities such as grasping delicate objects without damaging them or wrapping themselves around obstacles. And because they would be lightweight, the force of impact if there were a collision would be low. Plus a soft robot would deform on impact, spreading the force over a larger area and reducing the chance of injury.
So far, soft robots have generally been small and unable to carry large amounts of weight. Without a rigid skeleton larger robots, and indeed animals, would not have enough strength to support their own weight. This has limited the application of soft robotics to devices such as grippers and hands.
My colleagues and I at the University of Salford's Centre for Autonomous Systems and Robotics have built a variable stiffness robot arm that we hope will make progress towards larger soft robots. This new arm weighs around 1kg but can lift and move a 5kg load. This is a much higher power-to-weight ratio than traditional stiff industrial robots.
How the new robot might operate. University of Salford
Whereas traditional robots are built around a skeleton with joints that enable it to move, our device uses a series of pneumatic muscles made from lightweight rubber and plastic sacs that contract when filled with air – essentially an inflatable robot. Its shape and size are determined by which muscles are inflated, and it can bend, flex and stiffen like an elephant's trunk.
Just like in our bodies, some of the robot's muscles act in the opposite direction to others. If the robot increases the output force of all the muscles, the robot becomes more stiff. We can see the same effect in our own bodies, if we tense our triceps and biceps our elbow stays in the same position but the joint becomes more rigid.
This isn't the only way to make larger soft robots. For example, another approach involves using artificial tendons to transmit forces from heavy and rigid motors (located well away from people) to a soft arm. Different approaches are likely to be needed for different kinds of robots.
Despite this research, developing large and useful soft robots remains a challenge. The larger a robot gets, the heavier it will likely be and the more dangerous it will become. But new materials may be able to help here. For example, the two-dimensional form of carbon known as graphene is very strong but lightweight and flexible. So perhaps we could one day see large graphene-based soft robots. With these kind of advances, factory workers could soon see the barriers lifted and find themselves working side by side with their robotic colleagues.
Steve Davis, University of Salford
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Vacation, stay-cation, getaway-cation, one-day-cation. The great days of summer are here . . . and they are the best!!
There's sun time to spare to boat and fish and swim. And water ski!
There's a snappiness in the air for the big hike, the long bike, the all-day waterway adventure or the yard work that could lead to an award, or a good night's sleep.
There's warm rain for anglers and golfers and people who like to walk through the umbrella-ed woods and dreamers.
There's blustery winds and downpours for catching up on movies, browsing, back-to-school shopping and all those postponed visits to libraries and seasonal museums and historical societies.
There's evenings still long enough for lingering and mornings still bright enough for breakfast outings.
And with a little bit of magic and a lot of Maine's fast weather changes, there comes a day or two or more when all of the above are possible. The great days of summer are here.


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